On June 10 and 11, Chiang sent people to Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, Australia and other countries in China to contact and negotiate, and finally on the 15th, Roosevelt sent a telegram suggesting that Chiang Intermediary convene a joint military conference in Chongqing, and after Roosevelt's support, other countries also agreed, and Chiang finally had the feeling of a great power head of state for the first time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

-- Chongqing

Song Meiling helped Jiang intermediary tidy up her clothes for the last time and said, "Darling, it's okay, today's meeting should go well." ”

Jiang Zhong nodded with a smile and said, "China finally has its due status as a great power, and now that the Japanese army is attacking in the South Seas, Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States all hope that our China can increase the containment of the Japanese army, and even hope that we will send troops to help them. ”

Song Meiling nodded, took a step back and said, "Okay, Darling, you can go." ”

Jiang intermediary picked up the scepter, Chen Bui held the bag behind him, and the group came to the conference room in a car, the conference room was already full of people, looking at these people, Jiang intermediary nodded, and came to the main seat with his head held high.

The U.S. representative, Dwight D. Eisenhower, looked at the crowd and said, "So are we going to start?" How about we introduce ourselves? ”

Jiang intermediary nodded and said, "It's okay." ”

Song Meiling said with a smile, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mr. Jiang Jie, Chairman of the Military Commission of the Republic of China, and the only leader of our Republic of China. The two beside him were General He Yingqin and Mr. Chen Bui. ”

Eisenhower stood up and said, "I am Eisenhower, head of the US military delegation to China, and next to me is General Britt, a major general of the Chinese Air Force. ”

A white man with a look of pride in his eyes said, "Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in India, Wavell." ”

Another white man said, "Dutch Ambassador Paus." ”

Representatives of the USSR did not participate this time, after all, the USSR had nothing to do with the war in Southeast Asia.

Jiang Zhong opened his mouth and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the theme of our meeting this time is very simple, that is, how to resist the Japanese attack and then defeat them. ”

"I think the Chinese should have no useful experience in this matter, right?" Wavell interrupted unceremoniously, "You have one-third of your land under the sword of the Japanese, do you want to tell us how to do this?" ”

Song Meiling's brows furrowed, and she tried her best to translate to Jiang Intermediate in a calm tone.

"What did you say?" He Yingqin slapped the table on the spot, after all, he couldn't let Jiang Intermediary slap the table.

Jiang looked at him and asked, "I don't know what General Wavell thinks?" ”

Wavell looked at the crowd and said, "The reason why the Japanese army is attacking smoothly now is mainly because of their sneak attack, our army is completely unprepared, it is definitely not that our army is not the opponent of the Japanese army, our British army is ready to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Burma, Malaysia and other places, of course, if the Chinese side is willing, China can assist us in defending Burma, for example, I know that the United States has some air forces stationed in Kunming before, we hope that these air forces can be transferred to Yangon, and finally, we also hope that according to the Lend-Lease Act The materials that the United States had transported to Myanmar and planned to assist China were transferred to China for protection and use by China. ”

Wavell was a one-eyed dragon who had been beaten by Rommel in Africa before being transferred to Asia and stationed in India as commander-in-chief, an experience that made him extremely arrogant in the face of non-European people. Especially since the experience of almost defeating the Axis armies made him extremely confident militarily .... Who calls the current British generals, there are only a few people who can fight with the Axis forces. As for the big victory, it has not yet appeared.

Although Jiang was scolded by Waver, he still tried his best to calm down and said: "In the matter of war against Japan, China and Britain must not lose one country, if your country needs, our country can send more than three troops into Burma within a month, if necessary, we can transfer more than 300,000 troops into Burma within half a year to fight together, these troops are elite troops with experience in fighting against Japan." ”

The reason why Wavell just said that the Chinese army would assist in the war was entirely because China and Britain had this defense plan before, and he also knew that the Americans had always had such ideas, but he actually did not want a Chinese soldier to appear in the British colony at all. In his heart, he knew very well that Burma was lost to the Japanese, and Britain could still take it back, and if it was occupied by the Chinese, then Britain would be in danger, don't forget, sixty years ago, Burma was still a vassal state of China! Those Burmese people living under the rule of the Chinese are not dead yet!

Wavell immediately said, "If you rely on your soldiers to protect Burma, it will be the greatest humiliation for the British, and your country only needs to agree to lend supplies." ”

Jiang Intermediary immediately understood that what Wavell had just said was just talking, and he immediately said angrily, "We Chinese have a saying, which is called "People do not stand without faith!" At this time of great distress, China and Britain should help and understand each other, and as for the matter of materials, I think we can discuss it with our country slowly. ”

Eisenhower, who already had some knowledge of Chinese culture, laughed next to him, which was obviously a slap in the face of Wavell and accused the British of turning their backs on the Sino-British joint defense plan.

Where did Wavell receive such words, and suddenly snorted and said, "I think I made a wrong decision to come here, the Japanese, our British army can deal with it alone, okay, farewell!" ”

With that, Wavell got up and left.

Eisenhower saw that this was not good, and quickly stood up to stop him, but Wavell looked at him with disdain and said, "Mr. Colonel, please pay attention to your identity?" You actually want to stop a general? As he spoke, he glanced at Britt, who was not speaking next to him.

Eisenhower opened his mouth, he didn't let go for a while, but his voice was a little cold, "I hope that Your Excellency the General will seriously consider the matter of cooperation with the Chinese army, this is the attitude of our US government, the Japanese attack is extremely premeditated, what we should do at this time is unity." ”

Wavell seemed to be moved by this sentence, he paused for a moment and said, "Mr. Colonel, I have to say that your words are very reasonable, but what I must tell you is that in the face of the German attack, we in Britain have persevered until now, and in the face of the Japanese attack, we can also hold on, what we lack is not the army, but the materials, as long as your country can help in terms of materials, the situation in Southeast Asia will be in danger." With that, he nodded to Eisenhower and left.

Chiang also got up and said to Eisenhower: "Mr. Eisenhower, I don't think the British seem to have realized the urgency of the current situation. ”

Eisenhower sighed and said, "I will contact the White House as soon as possible, let Washington and London contact, Burma only has tens of thousands of British troops, I don't think they can hold off the Japanese attack." ”

Jiang said with a gloomy face: "Then wait and see." ”

Back in the office, Jiang finally vented his anger, and he kept waving his scepter and smashing it through the air, as if he wanted to break something.

"Report! Commission... Telegram from the United States. Chen Bui came in and saw Jiang Intermediary like this, and he didn't know what kind of expression to show.

Jiang Zhong took a breath, and when he turned around, he had regained his composure, and he asked, "What news?" ”

Chen Bui said directly, "It was sent by Ziwen, Churchill went to Washington to see Roosevelt, it is said that he went by plane, it seems that Churchill is extremely anxious, the two are said to have talked well, and will determine the overall strategy of the United States in this meeting, in addition... Britain and the United States said that in order to strengthen military cooperation and unified command and operation between the two countries, various major theaters will be set up around the world, and we have the China Theater and the Southeast Asian Theater in Asia, of which the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Theater will entrust you with the Southeast Asian theater..."

"Who is it?" Jiang asked with squinted eyes.

Chen Bui lowered his head and said, "It's General Wavell, the British commander-in-chief in India. ”

Jiang was stunned for a moment, and then felt that this news was so natural, he thought for a while and said, "In this case, at today's meeting, Weber's statement can be regarded as the Southeast Asian theater of operations and does not need the help of the Chinese theater, right?" You go and tell Ziwen that people don't want us, and we don't want to stick to their butts so enthusiastically, and when the British suffer, they will naturally find us and tell the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the supplies given to us by the United States cannot be given to Britain by a single bullet shell! ”

Chen Bui said helplessly, "It's just that those materials are on British territory, if the British forcibly seize them..."

Jiang Intermediary thought about it and felt puzzled, shook his hand and said, "At least don't let them get these things justifiably." ”

After Jiang Intermediary finished speaking, he saw that Chen Bui was still not leaving, and asked strangely, "Is there anything else?" ”

Chen Bui snorted and said, "In addition, they also proposed the deputy commander-in-chief of the Chinese theater, which is Zhu Daizhen. ”

Jiang took the telegram in disbelief, he read it desperately several times, and then said extremely angrily, "Japanese! Soviets! American! None of them are good people! They all want to interfere in China's internal affairs, tell Washington, I don't agree, although Zhu Daizhen is a general, but he is..."

Jiang Zheng wanted to say that Zhu Daizhen was a Red Party, but the Soviet Union was now the object of US support, and the Red Party would definitely not work if he said it, and then he wanted to say that Zhu Daizhen had no experience in large-scale positional warfare, but Shanxi and Suiyuan were both recovered by the Eighth Route Army, and he couldn't say it himself, Jiang Zheng hesitated for a long time, and finally said hatefully, "Americans can't be trusted!" Sooner or later, they will regret it! ”

Wavell on the other side also got the news, and after he snorted, he said to the people around him, "Your Excellency the Prime Minister understands very well that in Asia, only I have the means to resist the Japanese attack, and it is a waste of time for us to come here." ”

As he spoke, Wavell began to order in the car: "Order Major General Hu Dun, Chief of Staff of the British Empire in India, to immediately go to Rangoon to take over the post of commander-in-chief of the Burmese army, and the Burmese army should do a good job of preparing for war against Japan, and in addition, the Chinese army must not be allowed to enter Burma!" Order the Malay defenders, General Percival, to hold on step by step, and make sure that the Singapore fortress is not lost! ”

When the news of the unhappy dissolution of the joint military conference in Chongqing reached Washington, Roosevelt immediately smiled bitterly and said to Hull: "It seems that our British friends are no different from 1900 in their confronting of China." ”

Hull nodded and said, "But the British do have a lot of troops in Southeast Asia, and maybe they can defeat the Japanese attack by relying on them." ”

Roosevelt glanced at Hull with great concern, and then said, "I hope everything will be in time." ”

-- Malaysia

Yamashita looked at the map in the headquarters and pondered, when an officer came in and said, "Report!" Your Excellency, good news came from the front, the Indian 11th Division had been defeated by our army, it was really simple, there was hardly any sense of unity between their officers and soldiers, and they were not as good as the Chinese in training. ”

Yamashita Fengwen said unexpectedly, "The British army here is not an elite one, so we must speed up the attack!" As he spoke, he waved his hand and said, "The German army's blitzkrieg is to attack the enemy position from the middle and outflank it from both flanks, we don't engage in blitzkrieg, we want to engage in electric drill warfare!" We have to drill all the way down the road like an electric drill, all the way to Johor Bahru, to the southernmost tip of Malaysia, and tell the 5th and 18th Divisions not to have any entanglement with the enemy on the road, and to be fast! Hand over the remnants of the enemy to the follow-up troops to deal with, just rush forward, and throw the car aside when it breaks down, lose one if it is bad, lose two if it is bad, and lose two when it is broken, and the soldiers are very fast!! ”

The Japanese soldiers were divided into two routes, under the cover of light tanks and aircraft, braved the scorching sun to advance rapidly, and arrived at the British Army's Jitra Defense Line that night, where the British Army's 90 tanks and 9 infantry battalions defended, and there were concrete fortifications as the main body, and the British Army once told reporters that it could resist the Japanese Army for three months.

The Japanese army began to attack overnight, it happened to be a sudden rainstorm that night, the visibility was very poor, the Japanese army took the tank as the vanguard, the infantry as a cover to attack, the British army at the beginning of the fight was also presentable, but these Japanese troops who had experienced actual combat in China broke out as soon as they got close to the British army completely different combat power, extremely dare to fight, especially what made the British army feel frightened was that these Japanese troops actually tied a body of explosives at every turn to the fire point or the pile of people to blow themselves up to open the way, I don't know who to learn from, scared these subjects are Malays or Indians, The officers fled wildly for the British troops, and by daybreak the line had all been planted with the Rising Sun Flag.

The Japanese army pursued the victory, because the British infrastructure was good, most of them were roads, most of the Japanese infantry rode bicycles, and the speed of maneuvering was extremely fast, these troops captured Ahab, Seburi, Meunong, Anshun and other places all the way, due to the hot weather, so that the bicycles of the Fengwen soldiers under the mountain burst tires, these Japanese soldiers stripped off the rubber tires, and rode only with steel rings, and the sound of thousands of such bicycles sounded in the distance as if countless tanks were in action, and the British army, which had no fighting spirit, was defeated all the way, The Japanese army was armed with lost supplies, and in the later period, the Japanese tanks were able to use the captured materials without carrying any fuel to sustain the offensive.

Yamashita was not too proud, he still had two important targets that he did not take, Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaya, and the British army's fortress of Gibraltar in the East - Singapore!