Chapter 1155: Ignore him

General MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the Southeast Asia and South Pacific region of the United States, immediately assumed the post of deputy commander-in-chief and front-line commander-in-chief of the Allied China and Southeast Asia theaters, and he did not even know the current situation in Burma.

The content of this order is so arrogant and ridiculous: "The Allied China and Southeast Asia Theater Front Command has ordered that all units of the North China Independent Division of the Chinese Tang Dynasty must launch an attack on the entire front of the Japanese troops entrenched in Libao and Mandalay in central Burma after 0:00 on August 20, and the specific attack plan will be reported to the theater front command before 11 o'clock on August 19, and this order will not be delayed or changed without authorization. Commander MacArthur. ”

At the end of the order, MacArthur signed in English, this guy took office on August 16, and on August 17, he gave such a ridiculous order to the independent division, hundreds of thousands of troops, only more than two days of preparation, probably arrogant MacArthur thought that as soon as this order was issued, Tang Qiuli had to start acting.

As for whether the Chinese are fully prepared, that is not a matter of concern to him, he only cares, the Chinese and the Japanese, fighting as much as possible in Burma, when MacArthur signed the order, General Stilwell was by his side, glanced at the content of the order, and secretly shook his head, from the final end of the British, and all the deployments of Tang Qiuli in Burma, Stilwell is not optimistic about this order, and can even foresee the result, Tang Qiuli will not have a wordless response.

At this time, Tang Qiuli had already left the Wubin front line and returned to Myitkyina, the border area between Burma and eastern India, and the Hukang River Valley.

This is not to blame the Japanese soldiers, who were beaten by the 9th and 1st Brigades of the Corps directly under the Independent Division, and fled into the uninhabited deep mountains and old forests in eastern India.

On the establishment table of the General Staff of the Japanese army base camp, the 18th Division has been completely broken and loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, and even the establishment has been revoked, in other words, these thousands of Japanese remnants have been defeated and have become outcasts of the Japanese Empire, and have been forgotten by the bigwigs in the base camp.

Later, the remnants of the Japanese army were too fierce, and the British commander mobilized the main force to carry out a large-scale clean-up, killing more than half of the Japanese army, and the rest, seeing that the situation was not good, ran to hide at the junction of India and Myanmar in the Hukang River Valley.

The British did not think about it, waved their troops directly across the border, entered the area of Homarin in northwestern Burma, continued to pursue the remnants of the Japanese army, and waited for the patrol of the Ninth Brigade to guard the northwestern border of Burma, when the British army was discovered, the British army had penetrated more than 30 kilometers into Burma, and the commander of the Ninth Brigade, Li Haijiang, immediately mobilized troops and surrounded a British brigade of more than 6,000 people in the area of Homalin.

The British commander mobilized a large force with his teeth and claws, and Chen Bing had a great posture of counterattacking Burma on the northwestern border of India and Burma, and the British also sent a diplomatic note to Tang Qiuli through the embassy in China, claiming that "Burma is the inherent overseas territory of the British Empire, and the royal army entered to defend its own territory, and there was no need to greet anyone, but the behavior of the squadron was a naked invasion." ”

Tang Qiuli had just arrived at Myitkyina, when he received a diplomatic note from the British, and before he could take a closer look, Chen Feng, the director of communications, knocked on the door and came in, handed him a telegram, and said: "Division commander, the Allied China Theater Front Command has an urgent order," Tang Qiuli opened it and looked at it, and said that the Americans and the British are a pair of good brothers who are difficult brothers and die-hards.

He put MacArthur's telegram aside, picked up the note from the British, read it carefully, and shook his head while reading it, the British have a really bad memory, they were beaten by the Japanese in Burma and lost their armor, and only tens of thousands of remnants of the army who fled to India were defeated, so they still laid Myitkyina himself and opened the door to eastern India for the British, otherwise, the British would be completely wiped out in Burma.

It's only been more than two months, and the British have forgotten about it, and they are still clamoring that Burma is their overseas territory, and what is the problem with rusty melon seeds in their heads? Tang Qiuli raised his head and said to Chen Feng: "Director Chen, give an order to Li Haijiang, the commander of the Ninth Brigade, to disarm on the spot in eight words, otherwise it will be annihilated, and the 10th Brigade will be ordered to strengthen the elimination of the remnants of the Japanese army that has invaded the territory and drive them back to India." ”

After Chen Feng finished recording the order, he asked, "Division commander, how do we reply to the order of the Allied China and Southeast Asia Theater Front Command?" Tang Qiuli looked at Chen Feng strangely and said, "Is it still necessary to reply?" Who is this MacArthur? Ignore him, and don't have time to waste words with them. ”

Chen Feng thought about it and smiled, it was redundant to ask what he said, what kind of bullshit is the Allied China and Southeast Asia Theater Frontline Command, it can't control the head of our independent division, Chen Feng turned around to leave, Tang Qiuli said again: "In the future, all the telegrams sent by this American named MacArthur will be delivered to me in time, and as for whether to call back, listen to my orders." ”

Tang Qiuli is no stranger to this MacArthur general, he is just an attitude to Chen Feng, in the memory of his later generations, this most powerful American general in Asia, but a well-known figure, for the United States to run Southeast Asia and the South Pacific region for many years, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, was beaten by the Japanese and fled, ran to Australia to avoid the limelight.

Later, the Americans relied on their strong national strength to gradually consume the Japanese, MacArthur re-landed in the Philippines, commanded the US ** team, in the South Pacific, beat the Japanese army that was declining, and in the battle for the islands in the South Pacific, he used the superior naval and air forces of the United States to create the frog jumping tactic, and many famous Japanese generals were cut off by him, thus becoming famous.

After the end of World War II, when the Korean War broke out, MacArthur repeated his old tricks, commanding four divisions of the US Tenth Army to land at Incheon, a port in South Korea, and in one fell swoop the offensive like a tide, almost occupying the entire Korean Peninsula Kim Il Sung's troops, cutting off the waist, thus turning the tide of the Korean War in one fell swoop, and MacArthur himself also reached the pinnacle of military honor.

However, Tang Qiuli was reborn in this era, and he was destined to lose MacArthur's future glory, and he ignored MacArthur's orders, and it was with this attitude that he told this arrogant American general, put away your set, in my place, it's not good! At the same time, he also saw through the intentions of this American, and impatiently used the blood and lives of Chinese soldiers to remove hidden dangers for the Americans.

MacArthur was worried that the Japanese would give them a blow as they did with the British, so no matter the battle with the Japanese army under Ito, the Americans would be able to reap the benefits if they won or lost, thinking of this, Tang Qiuli snorted from his nose, with a look of contempt, and Yang Ketian, the chief of staff who was burying his head in sorting out all aspects of information, glanced at the division commander strangely, and secretly wondered, "Who is the division commander thinking about?" ”

On the morning of 19 August, seeing that the clock had reached 11 o'clock at noon, the old god was in the office, sipping coffee with taste, while waiting for the Chinese Tang Qiuli to leave, and MacArthur, who obediently reported the battle plan, could not sit still, stretched his neck from time to time, and looked in the direction of the confidential room, his face full of anxiety.

After 11 o'clock, in the direction of the confidential room, the radio "tick-tock" chirped, as usual, not a single confidential officer was seen walking in the direction of his office, MacArthur could no longer sit still, and went around the office, constantly comforting himself, "After all, it is a large-scale operation of hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers, and I have only given more than two days, maybe I am in a hurry, if the US military has such an operation, without a month of preparation time, it will not be possible to do it at all." ”

"Perhaps, a little later, the battle plan will be reported, moreover, the intelligence of the Chinese is not as smart as they imagined, and it is normal to be late, God will forgive the imbeciles," Thinking of this, MacArthur was a little proud of his idea of putting himself in the shoes of the Chinese and being empathetic.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, MacArthur could no longer hold his breath, he ran to the confidential room, ordered the radio, and immediately contacted Colonel Whitney, the Allied field supervisor sent to Burma to Tang Qiuli troops to supervise military operations, and asked what was going on and what the Chinese were doing.

Colonel Whitney set off five days ago, and according to the time calculation, at this time, he should have arrived at Ubin, Burma, and Tang Qiu left the headquarters of the troops, but to MacArthur's disappointment, Colonel Whitney had lost contact with him mysteriously, and the radio station he carried with him was always turned off.

At midnight on 20 August, this was an extremely important day for General MacArthur to exercise power, as calm as ever, without a single wave, and the Chinese Tang Qiuli did not send a word to him, which was equivalent to directly ignoring this ambitious, new Allied front-line commander, as if it were air.

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