Roosevelt and others fell silent after receiving the telegram sent by Chen Feng, and Chen Feng's meaning was very clear, he himself was very dissatisfied with the strategic deployment of the United States and Britain and other countries before Europe and Asia, or he was dissatisfied with the behavior of the United States and Britain and other countries in letting the Chinese act as a containment of Japan, and he needed to be respected.

The United States can say that after all, the United States has very limited interests in China, there are no colonies, no reparations, etc., and in addition to the series of agreements signed with Lao Chiang to abolish unequal treaties, the United States does not care about agreeing to Chen Feng's conditions at that time. But the British are a little troublesome, because the British interests in China are still very considerable, although under the influence of the Japanese, British interests in China have been seriously threatened, but with the pride of the British gentlemen, they may not bow to the Chinese.

With the experience of the Soviets, the Chinese still have a great appetite, they not only want to recover the territory that was forcibly occupied, but even to recover the land of the subject country, if this is the case, the British-controlled Burma and the French-controlled French Indochina are all Chinese territory, plus Britain, France and other countries have plundered a large number of cultural relics from China in the past hundred years, if they really want to return it, it is tantamount to tearing off a piece of meat from the British.

Sure enough, when Roosevelt sent Chen Feng's conditions to Churchill, the Prime Minister was furious and resolutely disagreed with Chen Feng's conditions, believing that this was a threat and humiliation to the British Empire and an unforgivable provocation.

Roosevelt was very helpless, from their point of view, Chen Feng's request was indeed a bit excessive, after all, he was only going to save a person, and it was not necessarily successful. Such conditions are indeed a bit harsh.

But Roosevelt also knew that Chen Feng was now the only one who could save MacArthur, and MacArthur was the only hope for the United States in the South Pacific, and the Americans could not afford to lose the best students and the youngest principal at West Point.

After many maneuvers, the British finally gave in, but put forward their own conditions, they could agree to Chen Feng's conditions, but the premise was that Chen Feng had to save MacArthur, and he was still alive!

Obviously, the British did not believe that Chen Feng could not break through the Japanese encirclement. Get MacArthur out. Because the Japanese had learned that MacArthur was in the Bataan area. The area, including Corregidor Island, has been blockaded by the Japanese, with a Japanese naval fleet at sea, aircraft patrolling in the air, and an army attacking on the ground. Want to rescue. If you get stuck, you have to defeat the Japanese in front of you.

Defeating the Japanese was not an easy task. The warriors of the British Empire proved one thing with their blood and lives, that is, the current Japanese Empire is invincible, and the Chinese and the Japanese have not driven the Japanese out of China for more than four years. Now it is even more impossible to crush the Japanese in a short time, so the British put forward their own conditions.

For the conditions of the British, Chen Feng readily agreed, and at the same time Chen Feng raised the middle finger to the British in his heart, despising this group of Anglos, they really underestimated the Chinese, what the British and Americans can't do, it doesn't mean that the Chinese can't do it.

The Japanese blockade did bring certain difficulties to the rescue, but this difficulty was not insurmountable, and he was completely sure that MacArthur would be rescued from the beginning.

Chen Feng carefully analyzed the situation in the Bataan area, and the Japanese were bound to win MacArthur, because there were a large number of warships cruising on the sea, and a large number of land forces on the ground were constantly attacking the US forces, and there was no airfield in the Bataan area where planes could land, so in the eyes of the United States and Britain and other countries, it was necessary to storm MacArthur and defeat all the Japanese naval and army forces in front of him.

In the current situation, it was impossible to defeat the Japanese army by relying on the Allied armed forces in the South Pacific, so saving Private MacArthur became an impossible task.

But in Chen Feng's view, this matter is actually very simple, a special operations team and a helicopter can be completed, the helicopter is small and exquisite, flexible in operation, can adapt to a variety of terrain, as long as there is a flat place can land. As long as the two sides are in contact, it is not difficult to quietly rescue MacArthur.

However, there is a problem, that is, the range of the helicopter is limited, if it takes off from the South Sea Territory, the helicopter will not be able to reach the island of Corregidor where MacArthur is located, so one or even more warships must be dispatched. It would have been easier if a helicopter had quietly entered the Bataan area to save MacArthur, after all, the Japanese did not install radar and other equipment.

However, if a large-scale warship is dispatched, it will be easy to expose the target, because now only the naval fleet under Chen Feng's command in the South Pacific can still threaten the Japanese Combined Fleet, so the Japanese are very concerned about the fleet under Chen Feng's command.

After thinking about it, Chen Feng still decided to use the mode of warship + helicopter + special combat team to save MacArthur, but the warship did not enter the sea area controlled by the Japanese army, but waited for the helicopter to return hundreds of nautical miles away from the sea area controlled by the Japanese army.

After finalizing the battle plan, Chen Feng ordered Wang Hansheng to immediately implement the plan and save Private MacArthur.

Wang Hansheng also simply transferred a sharp knife squad in his own guard, and then selected a light cruiser from the navy to participate in this operation, among all the naval ships, there are only three kinds of warships that can carry helicopters, aircraft carriers, heavy cruisers and light cruisers, and it is most suitable to dispatch light cruisers for such a mission.

On September 25, the light cruiser Xilingol with two helicopters on board set off overnight and headed for Bataan.

At the same time, under the frantic attack of the Japanese army, the British finally could not hold on, and Churchill sent a telegram to Chongqing, hoping that the Chinese government could send troops into Burma to fight in accordance with the requirements of the "Sino-British Agreement on the Joint Defense of the Yunnan-Burma Road". In a telegram to the Committee of Chiefs of Staff, Churchill noted: "If Burma is lost, it will be miserable." This would cut us off from the Chinese, who were the most successful of the armies that fought against the Japanese. ”

The British had recognized the negative impact of the Japanese invasion of Burma, a British colony with British India to the west and a strategically important border with China's Tibet and Yunnan to the north and northeast. Japan's attack on Burma also has a lot of significance for itself, not only to cut off the strategic supplies of the United States and Britain to aid China and isolate China in one fell swoop, but also to occupy the military bases of the United States and Britain in Burma, waiting for an opportunity to attack India, and move west to join the German army in the Middle East.

In the face of the powerful Japanese army, the Allied forces in Southeast Asia were defeated one after another: Singapore fell, the combined British, Indian, Dutch, and Australian fleets were defeated in the Battle of Java, and the British Royal Air Force base Magway in Burma was destroyed by Japanese bombing...... The entire Asian continent and even the world are facing unprecedented doom.

After receiving Churchill's telegram, the Chongqing side immediately convened an emergency military meeting to discuss the matter of fighting in Burma, and the old man named Chen Feng to attend the meeting.

Chongqing. Zeng Jiayan official residence.

In the conference room, there are more than a dozen senior officers, each of whom is carrying three stars on his shoulders, which means that everyone here is a general. If the Japanese were to know about it, they would definitely do whatever it took to raze this place.

Due to the urgency of the situation, the old man did not put on a show, and did not make these people in the conference room wait for a long time.

The old man flew back from Washington two days ago, and because he was worried about being intercepted by the Japanese, he deliberately made a detour to the Soviet Union, and then returned from the Soviet Union to Chongqing.

Because of this, the old man also knew that he and the Japanese had no room to return, and that if one side wanted to live and live well, the other side would die, which was an inextricable knot unless he was willing to surrender to the Japanese.

After arriving at the conference room, the old man briefly recounted what had happened, and then asked the senior officers present whether they should send troops south to fight in Burma.

The first to speak was Defense Minister Chen Cheng: "Bench, Burma is very important to the party-state, is the party-state's most important lifeline to win the aid of the United States and Britain, if the Yunnan-Burma road is not secured, foreign aid will not be able to easily enter China, and the war with Japan will also fall into the disadvantage of insufficient supplies, so I think that our side should actively send troops into Burma to fight!" ”

In less than three months, the Japanese army of tigers and wolves went on a rampage in the Pacific War, and in less than three months, they occupied the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Indochina. Southeast Asian countries have fallen into the hands of the enemy one after another, and now the Japanese invaders have driven straight into southern Burma, and then rapidly advanced into northern Burma, and the border provinces such as Yunnan and Guizhou are in danger. Whether it was to meet the demands of the British and American forces, or to defend the rear of Yunnan, the party-state should have sent troops to fight against the Japanese invaders. He Yingqin also responded.

"Commission, it is imperative to enter Burma to fight, otherwise, the British will not be unlucky, and we will not be able to please us, and the mobilization of troops for the Burma operation and the southward operation may not be completed in a few months, so we must make a decision as soon as possible." Li Zongren also spoke.

Seeing that the main officers present agreed to fight in Burma, Lao Jiang was very satisfied, but when he saw Chen Feng, who was sitting under him, did not say a word, as if he was thinking about something, Su Lai Zhilu said that Chen Feng's strategic vision was very unique, Lao Jiang hurriedly asked: "How about the solemn will, is it necessary to enter Burma to fight?" (To be continued......)