When it was one o'clock in the afternoon in the United States, it was already midnight in Guangzhou. At this time, in a small conference room of the General Headquarters of the Guangzhou Cadet Army, Ouyang Yun, Ji Xingwen, Li Tieshu, Jiang Guangnai, Ye Zhao, He Zhengchuan, Stern and Guo Kui, Shan Renxiong, Tie Linfei, Chen Ce, and Chang Gen were sitting around a coffee table, discussing topics related to Chen Shichang's return.

When Ouyang Yun decided to go on an expedition to Southeast Asia, he was opposed by many people, and now, in view of the considerable achievements made in this expedition, especially in solving the potential threat of Thailand, he did a really good job, which can be called a model of surrendering soldiers without a fight, so not only within the Cadet Army, but also the Jews and the CGD and the Chongqing government have not hesitated to praise, thinking that Ouyang Yun's contribution to this trip is no less than Zhuge Liang's seven captures of Meng, and for a long time, the Japanese army does not want to open up a western front to China from Vietnam and Laos.

At the request of the British and the "retention" of the French, Ouyang Yun left a total of four divisions in Thailand and the Federation of Indochina. They were Xu Zhi's Second Expeditionary Division, Feng Lanshan's Third Expeditionary Division, Baojun's Second Mountain Division, and Bian Jiansheng's Third Mountain Division. In addition, Guo Kui's jungle special operations brigade and Huang Hua's special artillery brigade each left a regiment, of which the jungle special operations regiment was commanded by Wang Changlong, and the commander of the special artillery regiment was Meng Xiao, a battalion commander of the former special operations section under Huang Hua. These troops were all integrated into Chu Tiange's First Expeditionary Army, of which Xu Zhishi was to help the Thais to help defend Bangkok, Bao Jun Division was to help the French to help defend Hanoi, and Feng Lanshan Division and Bian Jiansheng Division and about one division of troops directly under Chu Tiange were to sail for Nay Pyi Duo in Burma, where they would help the British establish a new defensive line.

According to the tacit agreement reached between the three parties when the expeditionary force was established at that time, the Northeast Expeditionary Force should have been responsible for helping the British to assist in the defense of Burma. However, because the Chongqing government withheld all the British government's economic aid, but did not guarantee that the Northeast Expeditionary Force would be given sufficient military pay and logistical supplies, Liu Duoquan's 49th Army helped the British to fight with the little devils on the Denver defense line and then withdrew to eastern Burma.

At the end of July, after more than a month of planning, the Japanese expeditionary fleet launched an all-out offensive against the British Mawlamyine's defensive line. At this time, Wavell was using the "Lanluga POW Death Squad" to reorganize the British army in India in the Manipur area, and the Mawlamyin defense line was only arranged with one division of the British army and three divisions of the Indian Hu army plus one division of the Burmese Hu army. However, the Japanese army's Yatsushiro Yukichi Regiment had one division of the Japanese army and about ten divisions of the Indonesian National Independence Army. There was already a huge disparity in ground forces, and the Japanese Kisarazu Air Force had an overwhelming advantage in air combat after being equipped with Zeros, so the British army was completely defeated after only five days of resistance.

As soon as the Mawlamyine defense line was lost, the depth of Burma's interior was equivalent to opening the door to the Japanese iron cavalry, and Wavell had no choice but to put pressure on the Chongqing government, asking the Northeast Expeditionary Force to enter the battle as soon as possible, and at the same time asking for help from the Cadet Army, asking Ouyang Yun to fulfill the consensus reached in the "Bangkok Talks" and send a certain number of Cadet Corps westward as soon as possible to help the British Army hold the strategic point of Naypyidaw.

This time, Ouyang Yun didn't play any tricks, and immediately asked Chu Tiange to lead a total of three divisions of troops to Nay Pyi Do. In a telegram to Chu Tiange, he wrote: "Of course, I do not want our soldiers to sacrifice for the interests of other countries, but I am even more unwilling to see the Japanese army smoothly open up the western front against China. In contrast, the General Command decided that rather than let the flames of war burn into our land, it would be better to help the British army contain the Japanese army on the southwestern line of Burma...... Tiange, no matter what others do, since the original intention of the establishment of our Xuebing Army is to fight against the Japanese invaders and defend the country, then even if there is no request from the British, this opportunity cannot be missed...... One thing to keep in mind is that you can only rely on yourself for this westward expansion, so don't get caught up in the Japanese encirclement......

Why did the Xuebing Army march west when Fujian and Yueqiong were still threatened by the Japanese army? Some people may think that Ouyang Yun is a great achievement, but he himself and the high-level leaders of the Cadet Army have a clear understanding of this, and their fundamental starting point is not to want the Japanese army to open up the western front against China, so that the Japanese army will form a situation of encirclement on China on three sides.

What exactly happened between the Chongqing government and the Northeast Expeditionary Force, Ouyang Yun knew some secrets through the intelligence collected by the fox pupil. However, because some unpleasant things happened in the process of his "unconscious", Guo Kui took the initiative and unilaterally cut off the communication between the general headquarters of the two armies. As a result, there was a gap between the two armies, and when Zhang Shaomaro decided to shrink his forces to the Sino-Burmese border, he did not inform the Xuebing Army, and it seemed that the friendly relations between the two armies had come to an end.

When the Northeast Expeditionary Force assembled on the Sino-Burmese border, Ouyang Yun was busy solving the Bangkok problem and had no mood or energy to take the initiative to pay attention to it. After returning to Guangzhou, he wanted to have a good discussion with Zhang Shaoshuai on relevant issues, but he did not have this opportunity.

Since the Japanese army adjusted its strategy toward China at the beginning of this year, there have been two major battles in China. After the Japanese army established the so-called "Greater East Asia Co-Glory Army" with a new concept, the Korean puppet army and the Chinese puppet army shared a considerable proportion of combat and garrison tasks, and were able to assemble heavy troops to fight a decisive battle against the Central Army and other factions of the anti-Japanese armed forces in central and northern China, and achieved a great advantage. In the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, under the command of the new commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, Nishio Shouzo, the Japanese army in Central China gathered 300,000 troops and fought a decisive battle with Li Zongren's troops in Wuhan and then with Xue Yue's troops in Changsha. In North China, Okamura Ninji led about 50,000 Japanese troops and about 100,000 Korean puppet troops to carry out a policy of encroachment on the Japanese base areas, and a number of "co-prosperity demonstration areas" have been established.

In stark contrast, although the Scholar Army confronted the Japanese army and the Korean puppet army in many directions, because the Japanese army and the Korean puppet army were on the defensive, the situation appeared relatively calm, and the people of Fujian, Guangdong, and Qiong were as if they were in a foreign country.

Regarding Chen Shichang, the topic was provoked by Ouyang Yun first. Because there were still a few people in the meeting who did not know that the Lu Dao Scholar Army had developed such a large ocean-going fleet in the United States, when he took the secret telegram sent back by Chen Shichang from Pan Meiren and read it out to the public, everyone looked shocked one by one, as if they were listening to a book from heaven.