In just half a year, starting from the Sichuan Army's attack on Nantianmen, the counteroffensive in western Yunnan was also a great victory, which made the head of Chongqing unexpected.

In addition to handwriting a few high-performance generals, the Führer's customary medal commendation order arrived in western Yunnan like snowflakes, and a large number of silver dollars were distributed to reward those officers of various ministries who had made great contributions.

In particular, Liao Mingyu's first division played a vital role in the entire battle situation, if it were not for the three divisions marching westward all the way to fight the Japanese to lose their armor, I don't know how long the counterattack in western Yunnan would last.

Now that the first phase of the counteroffensive in Burma has been completed, and the Allied forces have completed the clearing of the Indo-Burmese border, Stilwell immediately began to prepare for the next combat operation, but the answer he received when he contacted Chongqing made him indignant.

The government responded that the Western Yunnan Expeditionary Force had suffered a lot of losses due to the continuous fighting, and should be repaired and replenished for a period of time, and would not use troops against Burma for the time being, and the Chinese Army in India could continue to fight against Japan, which would be arranged by Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang themselves.

Stilwell was angry, he and Chongqing couldn't get used to each other, but now that the conflict continues to escalate, Chahua pointed at the other party's nose and scolded his mother.

In fact, at this time, the bald head of state did not make up his mind to fight back against western Yunnan.

For one, the Führer had always been wary of the British. As early as the first time the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma to fight, the British repeatedly showed their lack of cooperation, and the chain fell at critical moments, resulting in many defeats for the expeditionary force.

It can be said that the first battle was completely covering the retreat of these pig teammates, and it was a bloody road paved by countless Chinese soldiers with their lives for the British.

Therefore, in the past year and a half, although Britain and the United States have repeatedly urged the government to organize a counteroffensive, the bald Führer was afraid that the British would once again be untrustworthy and uncooperative, resulting in the expeditionary force facing the Japanese army alone, so he has not moved.

If it weren't for Liao Mingyu's birth, the counteroffensive in western Yunnan would not have been carried out until May next year.

Second, the Führer is prepared to preserve his strength, and his center is more on the domestic battlefield than in Burma.

At present, the Japanese are eyeing Hunan, seeing that the Battle of Hengyang is about to begin, and the Ninth Theater has no absolute certainty of blocking the Japanese attack, and there are now two group armies in western Yunnan with nearly 150,000 people. If the war is unfavorable, the Führer is very likely to transfer these more than 100,000 people to the domestic battlefield to relieve the pressure on the Ninth Theater.

Stilwell, who did not give up, continued to negotiate with the Führer, and even did not hesitate to threaten the suspension of international military aid to force the bald head into the palace. Roosevelt was also contacted to get their president to put pressure on the bald head.

After all, the Cairo Conference had just ended, and in order to win over Chiang to continue to resist Japan and reduce the pressure on the US military in the Pacific, Roosevelt openly declared that Chiang was "one of the leaders of the four powers" in addition to promising huge aid to China.

At this point, China can be regarded as one of the four major powers in the world, and many places in the future will have to rely on the Yankees, coupled with the importance of India's international aid line, because of these reasons, the bald head has no choice but to make concessions.

However, the shrewd Führer did not know about hypocrisy and wrongdoing, so he only transferred the 71st Army and the 2nd Army as representatives to continue to advance westward, and cooperated with the Indian army to pose a threat to Myitkyina from the east, while most of the Western Yunnan Expeditionary Force stayed in place and waited for the next order.

On the other hand, due to the great victory of the 3rd Division in Burma, the Führer decided to form a new 88th Army, the main body of which was composed of the Honorary 3rd Division and the 200th Division, and the 7th Division was temporarily transferred to the rear under his command.

Anyway, the honorable 3rd Division is famous for being able to fight, and now it has been strengthened, and their role in staying in Burma is comparable to that of half an army group.

In this way, it not only solved the problem of entering Burma, but also retained the main force of the Western Yunnan Expeditionary Force to the greatest extent, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Originally, the best candidate was naturally Liao in Nankan Kentian, but the opposition in the army was not ordinarily loud, and the faction headed by Minister He was the most intense.

For a time, rumors were flying all over Chongqing, and all kinds of slanderous language against Liao Mingyu emerged one after another, saying that he had a tyrannical personality and was not suitable for holding a high position, or citing examples of mavericks and disobeying commands to deliberately blacken him.

Minister He also recommended Zhang Lingfu under his close confidant General Wang Yaowu as the candidate for the commander of the new 88th Army, who was born in the fourth phase of Huangpu and had sufficient qualifications and abilities to be the commander of any army.

However, Chief Chen of the Civil Engineering Department couldn't sit still at this time, he was already at odds with Minister He, how could he not intervene in this opportunity to go against him?

Coupled with the somewhat appreciative and desire to win over Liao Mingyu, Chief Chen immediately confessed to him and strongly recommended it to the head of state, why didn't such a tiger general give him a bigger stage?

As a result, the two groups of people quarreled over this issue, which also reflected the serious factional disputes within the national government.

Seeing that the situation was tense, the head of state couldn't make up his mind for a while, and Director Dai, who was well versed in it, did not stand up and mention Liao Mingyu this time, but chose to protect himself, which was also to make the head of state less suspicious of the latter.

Perhaps for the sake of balance, or perhaps because of suspicion, it is surprising that the head of state did not support Liao Mingyu again this time, but he did not pay attention to Minister He's recommendation, and finally appointed Fan Shaozeng, who had been idle in Chongqing for half a year, as the commander of the 88th Army.

Speaking of this, Fan Shaozeng is also a strange person, originally a general under the Sichuan warlord Yang Sen, and a representative figure in the Sichuan army who actively advocated anti-Japanese resistance.

He was born in a large family in Sichuan, he didn't like to read since he was a child, he often went to the teahouse to listen to books, and longed for the heroes of the rivers and lakes to rob the rich and help the poor. At the age of 13, he entered the robe brother, wandering outside all day long, to put it bluntly, he is a rich second generation in a mixed society

When he was a child, in order to avoid studying, he often pretended to be crazy and stupid in front of Mr. Teaching and his father, and Fan's father was angry and called him "Ha'er" (the meaning of fool in Sichuan dialect) because of his upright and hot personality, free and easy, and was nicknamed "Commander Ha'er" after becoming a general

During the warlord melee period, Sichuan was not peaceful, Yang Sen tried to unify Sichuan by force, but after the defeat, he had no choice but to go into the field, and most of the army was handed over to Fan Shaozeng, who was also adapted by Liu Xiang, and was also secretly lowered by Mingsheng to empty the troops.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Sichuan Army accepted the reorganization of the Sichuan Army to resist the Japanese, Fan Shaozeng took the initiative to kill the enemy due to discord with Liu Xiang, and rushed to the front line in Shanghai alone, then serving as the deputy commander of the 11th Corps. Then Shanghai fell, and the army retreated to Hankow.

The following year, Liu Xiang, Han Fuqu and others conspired to overthrow Chiang, and this guy immediately told the bald head the secret, and was trusted and rewarded by the bald head, and was appointed as the commander of the 88th Army, and recruited soldiers to resist the Japanese.

Fan Shaozeng, who had once again gained military power, was soon organized into four regiments in Sichuan, but the weapons were dilapidated, and the soldiers were even better. He took out more than half of his belongings and raised his own equipment. He also told the officers and soldiers: In the past, civil wars were fought to the detriment of the common people. This time to resist Japanese aggression, I am bankrupt, and I will desperately work with you to drive the Japanese away!

From leaving Sichuan in 39 to returning to Chongqing in 43, Fan Shaozeng fought in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Hubei, fought dozens of battles with the Japanese army, large and small, and won many victories. He has won dozens of medals and medals at all levels issued by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Military Commission, and has been upgraded to a first-class army with three divisions.

Especially in May 42, Fan Shaozeng led his troops to kill a Japanese lieutenant general and wound a major general in two days. The two generals who were defeated by Fan Shaozeng were Lieutenant General Naoji Sakai, commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, and Major General Kono, commander of the 40th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

In these two setbacks against the Japanese army, the death of Naoji Sakai is definitely a thing that the Chinese people should be thankful for, because he was the Japanese officer who actively promoted the "three lights" policy, insulted women, and committed all kinds of evil. His death also caused an uproar in the Japanese army, because he was the first division commander to die in the history of the Japanese army.

However, there were many factions within the national army, and the combat effectiveness of the 88th Army and Fan Shaozeng's exploits also aroused the jealousy of some people. Soon after, Lao Chiang also used the technique of rising and descending secretly, transferring Fan Shaozeng out of the 88th Army, and only gave him the title of deputy commander-in-chief of the 10th Army.

Obviously made a great contribution, but was transferred out of the team he brought up, this incident also made Fan Shaozeng feel very cold, he was hot and reckless, he left the stall in a fit of anger, and returned to Chongqing at the beginning of 43 years, and has been idle until now.

As the saying goes, eat a trench, grow a wisdom, this old Jianghu from a robe brother has not been idle after returning to Chongqing, after knowing the rules of officialdom, he began to make friends left and right, actively participated in the entertainment between the powerful, and maintained a good relationship with Minister He, Director Dai, and Chief Gu.

When the appointment of the commander of the new 88th Army fell to him, the two groups of people surprisingly stopped arguing and instead expressed the "wisdom" of the Führer.

In this way, Fan Shaozeng embarked on the road to western Yunnan with a letter of appointment, and Liao Mingyu, who was in Nankan, did not know that the head of state had parachuted a top boss for him......

At that time, Fan Shaozeng took the 88th Army all the way from Sichuan to Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, and he did not ask Lao Jiang for a penny on the way, and even if he did, he would not give it.

Back then, like all the Sichuan army brothers who went out of Sichuan, the 88th Army was also a straw hat and straw shoes, a big sword and a red tassel gun, the whole army had less than 10,000 people in 4 regiments, half of them had no guns in their hands, and the number of machine guns in an infantry battalion of several hundred people was less than two.

Even so, the soldiers of the Sichuan Army are still not afraid of death, and they can be seen spilling blood on major battlefields in China, and the 88th Army is the best among them, which also benefits from Fan Shaozeng's flexible and spicy command.

Some people seem to be born with rare talents, and Fan Shaozeng is like this. Although this guy has never read any books or military school, he is like a fish in water when he fights.

Don't look at him who is usually stunned, but he is as cunning as a fox on the battlefield. He also lost a division commander and wounded the commander of a brigade, and the prestige of General "Har" shocked China and Japan, and at the same time enhanced the status of the Sichuan army in the major battlefields.

In this battle, the 88th Army was upgraded from the original miscellaneous army to a type A army with 3 divisions, and it was also a smash hit in the Chinese army at that time.

The 88th Army won the battle, and the people of the original country should be proud of it. But someone is guilty of red eye disease and wants to annex this heroic army. This person was He Yingqin, who was the commander-in-chief of the army of the Nationalist Government at the time.

Minister He promoted him to deputy commander-in-chief of the 32nd Army without smiling, and let his nephew He Shaozhou fill the gap of commander of the 88th Army. Poor Fan Shaozeng almost went bankrupt, recruited his own soldiers, and worked hard to pull up an army, and just after a little improvement, he was robbed by the uncles and nephews of the He family.

This incident caused Fan Shaozeng to become disheartened with the Kuomintang, so he quit in a fit of anger and returned to Chongqing to live in Chongqing.

Although the guy in the back is trying to win over the relationship everywhere, and he pretends to be stupid and rebuilds the relationship with Minister He, he has not forgotten the shame and unwillingness at the beginning for a moment, and he is also disappointed in Lao Jiang's inaction.

In fact, Fan Shaozeng paid attention to Liao Mingyu as early as half a year ago, because the latter's killing of He Shao caused a lot of uproar, which also made Lao Fan addicted and indirectly gave himself a bad breath.

The key is that Liao Mingyu killed a military commander but didn't do anything in the end, which made Fan Shaozeng impressed, and since then he has begun to pay attention to him.

Coincidentally, this time the formation of the new 88th Army actually let Fan Shaozeng, the commander of the old 88th Army, take office, and before leaving, the head of state specially explained that he wanted to firmly grasp the military power, and Liao Mingyu would be slowly transferred from the honorary third division later. Minister He was even more ruthless, and directly approached him and said that he had to find a way to kill someone...

Liao Mingyu is facing a situation that is very similar to himself at the beginning, they all belong to the behavior of unloading the mill and killing the donkey to seize the fruits of victory, Fan Shaozeng is the most shameful to do such a thing, and he has long been unaccustomed to Lao Jiang's style and the face of the dogs in the Ministry of Military Affairs, so before he came, he decided that he would never listen to anyone's instructions when he came to Myanmar, how happy he came.

After listening to everything Fan Shaozeng said, Liao Mingyu smiled bitterly and shook his head, Lao Jiang's mind is really unpredictable, and those dogs in the national government are more insidious than the other, if you want to survive in this environment, you must either go along with the dirt, or you will be more ruthless and yin than them.

With the strength of the wine, Fan Shaozeng shook his head and said frankly: "Brother Liao, I also said what I should say, this bullshit country is like that, I dare to pack a ticket, and when I drive away little Japan, Huaxia will not be too peaceful, and it will be strange if all forces will not come to the Central Plains War... None of us are fuel-efficient lamps. ”

"Let's talk about that later, for now, we still have to put our minds on the little devil's side." Liao Mingyu coped softly.

I didn't expect Fan Shaozeng to have such a far-sighted vision, and he could actually see some clues of the post-war situation in China, but he definitely didn't expect who would win in the end.

"In my opinion, it's not interesting to go back, it's better to get up here with the Americans and mix him up with a strong soldier, what about the deputy of this army commander? I'll say this, you will be in charge of major events in the future, brother, I can just mix the door, I will send it to the government, and you can develop with peace of mind..."

Fan Haer, who has been crawling around, inevitably looks like a warlord, obviously constantly wooing Liao Mingyu, or trying to take refuge in the latter

"Regardless of the fucking domestic fight to the death, it is better to manage this acre of land than anything else, even if one side wins, we will have the capital to express our position... You say, don't you? ”

His idea is the most correct, but Liao Mingyu's heart is bigger than him.

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