After saying this, Sun Liren's eyes inadvertently looked at Liao Mingyu, and the latter's eyes also narrowed to a dangerous extent, because that was where their 88th Army was stationed.

As early as two months ago, the 54th Division of the Japanese Army wanted to open up Lashio, which was occupied by the Third Division, to aid Myitkyina, and the first main regiment of Long Wen was almost wiped out that time.

In order to block this opening and prevent the little devils from coming north, Liao Mingyu did not hesitate to send the 200th Division and two artillery battalions over, plus Ah Yi's combat engineer regiment, Lashio gathered a team of 20,000 people.

The 54th Division of the Japanese Army was also eyeing the other side, and the two sides had fought countless battles over the past two months, both large and small, and it could only be said that each had its own wins and losses, and no one could help anyone.

But the Japanese didn't know that such a result was actually specially done by Liao Mingyu for Long Wenwen, because at that time, the Myitkyina side was about to fight, and the other battlefields could only be put aside first, otherwise they would directly concentrate on a wave of land and air coordination, and the little devil's dissatisfied division was really not enough to plug the gaps.

However, now the situation has undergone earth-shaking changes, the battle of Myitkyina is over, the remnants of the Japanese army have fully retreated, and the little devils are afraid that the expeditionary force will take advantage of the situation to go south and directly push the important Burmese town of Mandalay, so they immediately gathered three divisions to go north, and re-established the defensive line south of Lashio while gathering the remnants.

If you look at the map, Xib, Mon Ya and Lashio are basically on the same line from west to east, but Lashio is in the middle and further north, and the other two places are like a pair of pincers sandwiching it in the middle, and their position is still more dangerous if the battle resumes.

After all, a battle of more than 100,000 people has just ended, not to mention the expeditionary force and the army stationed in India, even Liao Mingyu, a science and technology guy, has to take a breath, right? Even if the soldiers are not tired, the logistics and materials must be redeployed, how can they say that they will fight.

The Japanese army also looked at this reason, and wanted to grit their teeth and kill a horse pistol, at least retaking Lashio would also give the enemy one less bridgehead.

At present, the Third Division as a whole is following the principle of elite heavy firepower, and its path is getting closer and closer to the American-style routine, and the troops are also becoming more and more logistical.

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"At present, the 112th and 113th regiments of my new 38th Division have rushed to Mengya first, preparing to cooperate with the brothers of the 88th Army to defend the Lashio area, the situation is basically like this, General Stilwell?"

Sun Liren carried the instructor's stick behind his back, stood in a standard straddle position, and looked at Stilwell quietly.

"Gentlemen, I propose that the offensive should be continued, and the Chinese side should send more troops to join the battlefield, cooperate with the allied forces to advance to central Burma with superior forces, capture Mandalay and counterattack Ringanqiang, and drive the Japanese to the Indian Ocean to feed the fish!"

Stilwell took over the conversation and put forward a counteroffensive plan with great interest, the failure of the first invasion of Burma has been haunting him, and the opportunity to wash away the shame has finally come, how can he not firmly grasp it?

The occupation of Burma can not only be a shame, but also allow the US military to obtain a logistics base in Southeast Asia, which will play an excellent role in the Pacific theater, and even the navy and air force can directly threaten the Japanese mainland, not to mention the British army, this is their colony, and it is better to get it back as soon as possible than anything else.

"So what, gentlemen? What are your thoughts on the current situation? ”

In response to Stilwell's question, everyone whispered some discussions, but no one stood up to speak for a long time.

Chinese people have a not very good habit, that is, they are ranked by seniority, enterprising step by step, and care too much about respect and order.

Although most of them were commanders at the army and division level, there were still group army commanders and even commanders-in-chief sitting next to them, and the commanders did not say how they could steal the limelight first.

So the division commanders present looked at the army commander, and the army commander looked at the commanders of the two group armies, and finally all eyes were focused on Wei Lihuang.

Wei Lihuang don't look over and pretend not to see it, can Lao Tzu's words work now? Can't you see a military minister sitting next to you? I'm looking for him.

It can be seen that Chen Cheng was once again arranged to western Yunnan, and his position as commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force is almost over, Lao Jiang is like this, as long as it is not his lineage, he basically maintains the principle of discarding when he runs out, and the routine of rising and descending is used very well, and he will never let you occupy military power for a long time.

"General Stilwell, I admire your courage, but for the next movement of troops... Our Führer had other arrangements. ”

Chen Cheng stepped forward and replied with a smile.

“what！？ What does he want to do? Do you want to overstep your authority and blindly command? ”

Stilwell was furious, when the first expeditionary force entered Burma, if it weren't for the "peanut rice" operation in the air, 100,000 people would not have been crushed into the Savage Mountain by the little devils.

And his nominal commander-in-chief was completely hollowed out, resulting in a regiment on the battlefield not being able to command, and in the face of the erosive battle situation in the later period, Stilwell gave up in a fit of anger and ran back to India, so this is also the reason why he exploded as soon as he heard Lao Chiang's order.

If Sun Liren hadn't followed him to India at that time, but chose to follow the order to enter Savage Mountain, perhaps there would not have been an army stationed in India today.

"First of all, from a strategic point of view, the situation in northern Myanmar has been opened, and the international aid communication line has been basically opened, this huge victory is worthy of recognition, but at the same time, the price paid is also quite high!"

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately resonated with most of the people present, taking the western Yunnan expeditionary force as an example, although the Japanese were driven out of China, the casualties of the two group armies reached more than 40,000 people, which is not counting non-combat attrition, and the materials consumed are even more numerous.

Chen Cheng smiled without a trace, and now the reaction of the officers made him feel that he had regained some face, so he continued to speak:

"And our army has invested too much manpower and material resources in western Yunnan, which has completely exceeded the initial expectations, and now the Guangxi front is tight, and the Führer's intention is to give priority to the domestic side."

Stilwell's brows furrowed, is Lao Jiang going to "withdraw capital and shares", and asked in an unkind tone: "You Chinese people like to go around, what does it mean to make it clear directly!" ”

Chen Cheng nodded, took out a document from his briefcase, and read it unhurriedly: "According to the joint discussion of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the State Government Committee, it has been decided to recall all the troops in western Yunnan, including the army stationed in India, and set up the Army Headquarters of the Huaxia Theater in Kunming to regroup and face the next battle in the country." ”

"The 11th Group Army will be transferred to the Fourth Theater to cooperate in operations, the 20th Group Army will be transferred to the Ninth Theater, the new 1st Army, the New 6th Army, and the New 88th Army will be moved to Kunming for reorganization, and the mechanized units of the 5th Army will be reorganized."

Liao Mingyu's face changed greatly, Nima! Isn't this the end of the calf!?

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