Stilwell arrived in India on May 20, and he was not idle, and put forward a plan for a counterattack on Burma, the main points of which were: 3 divisions of the British Army, 1 division of the American Army, and 2 divisions of the Chinese Army crossed the Qintun River from Assam, India, and entered Burma to attack Ripple and Mandalay; Then ordered 12 Chinese divisions to attack Lashio from western Yunnan and join forces with the Chinese-American-British coalition forces entering Burma from India, open up the Yunnan-Burma highway, and open up the Sino-Indian kilometers by American engineers, planning to start from the Indo-Burmese border town of Lido, cross the Indo-Burma border, first occupy Xinpingyang and other areas east of the Tanai River, and establish offensive starting positions and logistics supply bases; Then, he climbed the cross-country mountains, broke through the Hukang River Valley and the Menggong River Valley with powerful firepower and outflanking tactics, seized Myitkyina, a key place in northern Myanmar, and finally connected to the Yunnan-Burma Highway in Yunnan.

This is the first phase of the plan, only China and the United States need to attack together, the British army is after the completion of the first phase before joining, their main task is that after the Chinese and American troops have completed the first phase of the mission, they will move south to Yangon, and the British Navy and Air Force will attack the Andaman Islands and land in Rangoon.

The third phase is to drive all the Japanese out of Burma, and if the first two phases go well, this will be very good.

Stilwell's plan had already been approved by Roosevelt, and now the key was to look at the opinions of both China and Britain.

And Stilwell didn't care about the reaction of the British, as long as they agreed to use India as a front-line base for counteroffensives, the main force in the first stage was the Chinese army, a division of the American army, mainly engineers and other technical troops, and they would directly participate in the war with a pitiful number of troops.

However, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese government thought differently, and he hoped that Britain and the United States would be able to put their main military forces into the Asia-Pacific theater and mobilize more British and American troops to fight against Japan, so that the War of Resistance against Japan could be ended at an early date. In his heart, Britain and the United States should take the lead in the counteroffensive against the Japanese army invading Burma, and the Chinese army could not risk a second defeat.

Of course, if it were to be as the Chinese commander-in-chief thought, the Japanese would certainly not be able to stop it, but the main strategic interests of Britain and the United States were in Europe, and it was impossible to concentrate their forces on fighting against Japan at that time.

The Americans' counterattack was very simple, they directly sacrificed their nirvana, that is, to aid China, and they threatened the volume and type of materials on the Hump route to force the Chinese government to make concessions and agree to this counteroffensive plan.

"Niang Xipi, the Americans think well! The expeditionary force entered the Burma troops, the 200th division was disabled, the combat effectiveness was not restored, and the new 38th division entered India, and they still want the new 22nd division? ”

The commander was angry again, but he couldn't refuse, because China now needs this air route to maintain the route.

At the beginning of July, the newly formed 22nd Division, which had just arrived in Kunming, had just finished catching its breath and hurriedly boarded the plane on the Hump route, which had no cargo when it returned, and the transport plane could be used to transport soldiers to replenish the Chinese army in India.

On July 15, the new 38th Division in Imphal, India, went to the Lambgarh Barracks for training, and on the same day, Stilwell felt the operational characteristics of the 56th Division of the Japanese Jungle Tigers, and decided to add special training for jungle troops at the Lamgara Training Camp, and submitted the report to the United States again, because he wanted to train an elite force, which was best in his hands, and for this, he needed a large number of junior officers of the US army, of course, another reason was that he wanted to test the commando tactics in his mind.

"Bench, Stilwell's telegram."

In the camp in Chongqing, the attendant handed over a telegram from India.

"Niang Xipi, I'll go find so many veterans for him, there are so many veterans, we can all expand a division."

In the thick Fenghua accent, the commander sent the thunder, the Americans were too insatiable, and they were just about to leave the strongest existing combat force of the expeditionary force, and now they need 3,000 veterans to form a so-called commando.

"I don't think that's a bad thing; Look! ”

The head of the chamberlain pointed to the explanation at the bottom of the telegram, in which Stilwell gave the intention of forming and training this unit.

"The main task is to engage in intelligence work and guerrilla activities behind enemy lines, and at the same time to take on the tasks of the special forces of the army, to destroy strong reserves in the fortified defensive positions of the enemy's rear; Attract the enemy's attention for a frontal attack. ”

These are Stilwell's exact words, in fact, this is the origin of modern American special forces.

"Commission, President Roosevelt promised to increase the capacity of the Hump route to 7,500 tons per month, and to equip the Hump route with the most advanced transport aircraft C-109 by the end of the year, which, according to intelligence, was converted from the B-24 bomber in service, and the US military itself is not currently equipped much; Moreover, the new generation of American transport aircraft C-46 has already passed the tests, and by the beginning of next spring at the latest, it will also enter the stage of mass production......"

The head of the chamberlain reminded the commander that it was the Americans who were speaking now, so naturally they could make conditions.

"Hmm!"

The commander fell into deep thought, if he really wanted so many benefits, it was not impossible to give 3,000 veterans, besides, as long as qualified officers were dispatched, these 3,000 people would still be his, and when they were trained, wouldn't they take advantage of themselves at that time? I can just use it for ......

"It is very difficult for the embassy in the United States to communicate with the United States, 3,000 veterans, for China now; But the U.S. allies need it, and we will work hard to pull it out of the elite troops, but it will take time; In addition, in addition to increasing the capacity of the Hump route, we need at least 500 fighter jets......"

The commander finally relented, but the conditions he offered surprised the director of the chamberlain.

But the Americans are not wronged, they don't care about supplies, but to increase the capacity of the Hump route, they will lose a large number of pilots, because every day there are planes shot down by the Japanese or accidents on the Hump.

The negotiations between the two sides and anti-dumping countries are not just the talks of embassies abroad, and the daily situation is summarized to the chamber of the chamber through transatlantic telegrams, and then reported to the Supreme Commander.

Not to mention Feng Ye at this level, even Du Yuming did not know that they were now repairing in Kunming, and the initial task was to allow the soldiers to undergo recovery training, and the officers were summing up and discussing the gains and losses of the Burma operation every day.

In Kunming, Feng Ye received greetings from his family, and his parents' thoughts, concerns, and Zhiyun's thoughts were all turned into letters one after another, and there were even a few photos of children in them; The child in the photo has obviously grown up, white and chubby, and it seems that the family takes good care of him.

"Father, in this expedition, more than sixty percent of the casualties of the Qijiang soldiers have been sent back to Qijiang, in addition to the government's pension, our family's factory in Qijiang should try to use military ......"

In addition to replying to Zhiyun, he had a headache of how to reply to his father, during which the soldiers followed him to Burma, nearly 6,000 people, and only more than 2,200 people came back alive; After the Anti-Japanese War for so long, it was the first time that he had a strong sense of apology for a place, and he only hoped that he could use his own methods to make up for a little of Qijiang's fathers and villagers.