Chapter 1060 Southeast Asia

The negotiations in northern Burma ended in failure, and the British sent a small character, and a very arrogant guy who did not know the height of the sky, the governor of Burma sent to the consul of northern Burma, Lord George, was a greedy and stupid guy who did not take the Chinese seriously.

For such a person, although Tang Qiuli didn't take it to heart, in his heart, he still had a feeling of being insulted, his identity was equivalent to the deputy head of the Republic of China, the second person, even if it was out of the basic principle of diplomacy of equal status, the British should at least be the Marquis Ebson, the governor of Burma.

Instead of a small role like George, the British contempt for the Chinese from the bottom of their hearts, so that Tang Qiu centrifugal acid, very angry, poor and weak, a hundred years of stormy China, in the eyes of the great powers, is a piece of fat slaughtered at will, Tang Qiuli transferred five corps of reconnaissance troops, together with the special operations detachment, to form an overseas combat group, crossing the border to fight against the Japanese, British, and puppet armies, in principle, based on strategic considerations, from the heart, is not a kind of revenge psychology.

This kind of retaliation was fierce and direct, and the elite units of each corps with more than 40,000 people, a special operations detachment, led a reconnaissance unit of regimental size to carry out fierce strikes on all targets in Southeast Asia, and the scale of the battle was comparable to that of a medium-sized campaign, but it was scattered along the border of several thousand kilometers, and it was not as powerful as the concentration of troops.

In early October 1939, an interesting phenomenon appeared in southern China: On the Southeast Asian side of the southern and southwestern borders, artillery fire and gunpowder smoke were permeating, while on the Chinese side of the country, the wind was calm and the people's lives were stable, and they were not affected by the war abroad at all.

According to the agreement reached between the commander of the 97th Division of the Japanese Army, Shuichi Kobayashi, and the commander-in-chief of the British Army in Burma, General Alexander, the British-Japanese-Canadian puppet army formed against the squadron was not the opponent of the independent division at all.

Several hard-fought battles knocked the soul of the coalition army, the British first could not support it, retreated deep into Southeast Asia, saw the strength of the independent division troops, and the Japanese army that had been beaten many times, but even more into pieces, rushed into the primeval forest, in order to avoid the fate of being wiped out, as for those puppet troops, the local ones, the resistance realized that it was more tenacious than the British army and the Japanese army.

However, with the equipment and training level of the puppet army, the soldiers' plain zhì could not even go for a round in front of the elite troops drawn from the independent division, and by mid-October, the Japanese troops who frequently harassed the garrisons of the various corps, after several devastating blows, the remnants of more than 2,000 people had already run into the primeval forest, and they did not even dare to show their faces, and they could probably only be a lonely ghost and wander in a strange land in a foreign land.

In fact, the participating units of the independent division have already controlled the area dozens of kilometers deep on the border between China and Southeast Asia, and the British are aware of the severity of the problem in the face of such a passive situation that is blooming everywhere, and Tang Qiuli's troops, although they did not officially start a war against the British Imperial Army, the fact is that the British Army can no longer resist the attack of the Squadron on the border.

The British troops stationed in Vietnam and Laos have mobilized more than half of their troops, but they can't stop the attack of the squadron, which is an outpost battle of the Southeast Asian campaign without a declaration of war, although the target of the attack is the Japanese army, but the British who do not know the current affairs and are arrogant and arrogant have also tasted the bitterness.

In desperation, the British raised the banner of protest again, and protest books flew to the Chongqing government like snowflakes, including the British mainland, and the British colonial institutions in Southeast Asia all sent fierce protest letters.

"The Nationalist Government has appointed General Tang Qiuli, vice chairman of the Military Commission, as a plenipotentiary negotiator to deal with border disputes, and asks all countries to negotiate with Vice Chairman Tang," this is the reply of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government to the British.

Regarding this matter, Chairman Chiang has said a few fair words, "The Japanese invaded the five southern provinces of our country, and were repulsed, the North China troops pursued the victory, and the Japanese army retreated into the British sphere of influence, and the British not only took in the defeated Japanese army, but also provided all kinds of conveniences. ”

When Chen Feng, the director of the communications department, presented a large stack of protest letters sent by the British to division commander Tang Qiuli, Tang Qiuli only wrote 16 big characters on the top protest book: "The protest is invalid, the original text is returned, and sincerity can be considered." ”

Looking at the division commander's dozen big characters with teeth and claws, Chen Feng almost laughed out loud, arrogant enough, "Division commander, will you return it to the British like this?" Chen Feng still asked carefully, Tang Qiuli was very surprised, and asked Chen Feng puzzled, "What?" Any questions? Also, tell the British liaison officer, don't bother me with all this frivolous stuff. ”

Chen Feng understood, what is momentum, the division commander's answer is the best explanation, the British are in a hurry, Tang Qiuli is rare and idle, there is no war in the country, Shouichi Terauchi and more than 200,000 Japanese troops were forced into the Savage Mountain, and the battle outside the country did not involve his energy at all, with Chutian presiding over the overall situation, he was relieved!

In order to cope with the upcoming Southeast Asian campaign, all of Guangdong Province, the southern part of Guangxi Province, the southern part of Guizhou Province, all of Yunnan Province, all of Fujian, Songhu, Zhejiang, Hunan, and Hubei were all placed under the jurisdiction of Tang Qiuli's newly established General Headquarters for Southeast Asian Campaigns.

For the original princes of the provinces, the sadness and pain of loss are mixed with complex excitement and expectations, the reason is very simple, Tang Qiuli has invested a lot of money in various places in order to establish a stable rear base, and has established many new military enterprises and machine manufacturing enterprises.

Even so, those local princes, except for not holding military power, did not suffer much loss to their own interests, in their self-deprecating words, "steadily as a rich man," these newly started enterprises, for the local economy, brought great vitality.

The ocean that flows into the pockets of these native emperors is only a lot more, in fact, this is also a means for Tang Qiuli to appease those local bigwigs, he can't kill all these people, and make a lot of trouble in the local area, if their henchmen are against themselves, it will also be a very troublesome thing.

At the same time, the movements of the Japanese in Southeast Asia are somewhat obscure, and the newly formed Japanese Southeast Asian Dispatch Army, in the Indian Ocean, near the important port in southern Burma and the capital Yangon, there is no movement in the near future, and hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops seem to be marching, most of them withdraw to Taiwan and Hainan Island, leaving only a small number of troops to patrol in this generation.

The dark clouds that pressed on the heads of the British seemed to have dispersed, and the British, who had been protesting, weighed the pros and cons after seeing Tang Qiuli's attitude, changed their tactics, actively sought dialogue, and even sent special envoys to Tengchong several times to ask to see Tang Qiuli.

After he was busy, the British seemed to have eased up, their attitude tended to be tough again, and they no longer protested, but demanded that Tang Qiuli's troops must withdraw from Southeast Asia unconditionally and immediately.

Dramatically, not only did he intimidate Tang Qiuli, but also his attitude towards the Japanese changed fundamentally, not only retracting the generous promise of allowing the Japanese army to retreat from the Chinese battlefield and rest in northern Burma, but also repeatedly emphasized that it was okay for the Japanese to retreat into northern Burma, but they had to be disarmed under the surveillance of the British army, giving these samurai of the Great Japanese Empire a new identity, refugees!

For a time, public opinion in Japan was in an uproar, and the crowd was agitated, and the British were still in an embarrassing situation in the savage mountains, with miasma everywhere, death swamps everywhere, all kinds of diseases, and a harsh natural environment.

Tang Qiuli was in Tengchong, after reading the statement of the British, he couldn't help but shake his head again and again, saying that the British are absolute pragmatists, but they don't play people like this, and the Japanese soldiers who climbed out of the Savage Mountain must be like Hanako, before they had time to take a breath and rejoice, they were imprisoned in a refugee camp by the British as refugees, so that His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, who has always been good at himself, how can he be embarrassed?

Perhaps because of this statement, the Southeast Asian campaign that was about to break out, the Japanese soldiers brutally tortured and killed the British prisoners, and found a theoretical basis!

However, the Japanese army is already ready in Southeast Asia, why don't they do it yet, which makes Tang Qiuli make a lot of suspicions, although it is nearly a year away from the Southeast Asian battles that took place in history, but the current historical trend has changed beyond recognition, the Japanese do not do it, are they waiting for Terauchi Shouichi to come out of the Savage Mountain?

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