The annihilation of the 15th Division immediately shocked the Allied Southeast Asia Theater Command.

This is not in the distant land of Jin, where the news of anything else loses its freshness.

But now, for the first time under the nose of the Allied Command, they have killed a reorganized division in Xiaori, even if it is a garrison division, and that is a big thing that they rarely encounter.

"Joe, your vision is indeed good, and this cluster of expeditionary forces in the second theater that you have brought in is indeed worthy of the elite." Commander-in-Chief of the Theater of Operations Louis. General Lemonbarton said with some sourness.

There was no way, when he was commanding the troops, he was defeated in consecutive battles, and almost lost the entire territory of Southeast Asia to Xiao Ri.

Now the deputy commander, General Qiao, is trying to get an expeditionary force cluster from the mainland.

Only then did the war begin and it achieved such a brilliant victory as the annihilation of a division.

General Louis naturally tasted a little sour.

"Luiz, this is our victory. I want it won't be long before I can get my little day out of here. Isn't that the outcome you want? General Joe said to him with a pipe in his mouth and a smile.

Gao Jianwu's expeditionary force cluster had such an outstanding performance, which really surprised him, but it was an unexpected surprise.

After listening to Colonel Smith's report, the expeditionary force cluster was able to completely wipe out the 15th Division.

For General Qiao, this was not too unexpected, after all, they had already killed two little devils' divisions in Jindi.

But it is surprising that he was able to take out the 15th Division so quickly, and he did not suffer many casualties.

Colonel Smith reported to him the course of the battle, and in this battle, Smith saw that Gao Jianwu commanded Ruoding, and almost did not take much effort to kill the 15th Division.

In particular, Gao Jianwu could use the precise artillery attack like surgery, knock out the enemy's artillery position at the beginning, and then strike at the enemy's permanent defensive fortress at a fixed point, this kind of artillery command talent is simply appalling.

But for General Joe, it's a very cool thing.

He even wanted to go directly to the front line to observe a battle personally commanded by Gao Jianwu.

In Colonel Smith's mouth, watching such a fight was simply a pleasure.

However, the affairs of the Allied Theater Command are complicated, not only the battles on the southern front, but also on the northern front, which require them to coordinate and command in a timely manner, and General Qiao can't spare time to come here for the time being.

General Joe returned his thoughts to General Louis and continued.

"Luis, things on the southern front don't need much attention from us these days, and here they can handle it themselves. We see that the expeditionary force on the northern front is not going too well, they need reinforcements, when will your troops be ready to go into battle and flank the little devils? ”

General Louis looked at General Joe and made sure he wasn't joking.

"Joe, you know that my troops, which are mainly from South Asia, don't have much combat capability. We have no way to fight the main division of the little devils, we only have the ability to undertake the task of guarding. ”

General Louis opened directly, these are open secrets, and he has nothing to hide.

But General Qiao wanted him to do this, otherwise he wouldn't know how to speak next.

"General Louis, since the situation on the northern front seems to be no other way at present.

Fortunately, our southern route is going well, which is also good news.

Since this is the case, let's continue to strengthen our troops on the southern front in terms of resource allocation, and their offensive should be able to pull some of the enemy on the northern front over.

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It is equivalent to reducing the pressure on the northern line in disguise. ”

General Joe looked at General Louis, although he didn't say it explicitly, but it was obvious that he was already a little dissatisfied with General Louis's subordinates for occupying the pit and not.

Since your troops can't fight, then stay aside and give up your resources to those who can.

General Qiao's words may have added hundreds or thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition to the expeditionary force cluster.

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It's just that Gao Jianwu doesn't know about these high-level exchange tricks.

He still had a big thing to do, but he wasn't too sure about his thoughts, so he secretly pulled Ding Wei aside to discuss.

"Lao Ding, I want to occupy this place, what method should we use to sum it up?"

Ding Wei was a little dumbfounded when he heard this.

Is this Gao Jianwu already so floating?

Now I dare to think about expanding the territory, this is the territory of the Allies with the British. Isn't this forcing the other party to turn their faces?

"Lao Ding, don't get me wrong, what I want to say is that according to the information provided by my people, there may be a huge copper mine here, and there is a nickel mine not far north of Mandalay, if we want to solve the shortage of domestic copper and nickel strategic resources, we must control here, even if it is not nominally controlled, but in fact it can be controlled secretly."

Gao Jianwu saw Ding Wei's expression and knew that he had misunderstood what he meant, so he hurriedly added an explanation.

"That's right, you scared me, I thought you wanted to take this place as your own territory."

Ding Wei smiled and said.

"If it's just secretly controlled, I have an idea.

You see that there are many local armed forces that have emerged here, and the little devils control the big cities here, and the local government can't actually control it.

We might as well secretly fund a local army to our advantage and increase their strength, so that we can effectively control this place, but nominally it is still Allied territory. ”

Ding Wei is worthy of being the most strategic person in the Iron Triangle, and within a few days of coming, he has already seen some of the future conditions of this place.

Gao Jianwu nodded, which also coincided with his thoughts. Sure enough, it's good to talk to smart people, and you can talk together soon.

And it's not something he can do alone.

"Lao Ding, I think so too.

In this way, you leave a main battalion here to do this first, nominally to protect the security of our rear, but in fact you let them find someone from the local area who can cooperate with them to support, and we want to make this place a place that our own people can control.

I have sent a telegram to the Nanyang Working Group, asking them to send prospecting experts to prospect here.

At the same time, I also asked them to contact the businessmen who are interested in mining in Nanyang as soon as possible to cooperate, and it is not appropriate for us to intervene directly in the future, but we must ensure that the mining of this copper mine is controlled and the materials are sent to China.

Not only here, but also in Mandalay and other places in the future, we will also take this approach to actual control.

This time, we have been opening up the sea to the south, and the resources we have obtained will be returned as much as possible through sea transportation in the future.

By land through the rear, not only is there a serious problem with traffic, but it is also difficult for our cargo to pass safely for well-known reasons.

As it stands, there is no way to change this situation in the short term. ”

Ding Wei nodded, knowing that what Gao Jianwu said was indeed the current difficulty.

If you go by sea, it is risky, but it is still safer than land.

Because the sea is vast, even if the little devil now controls this part of Southeast Asia, it is still impossible to have the strength to block all the shipping, and there are hundreds of tons of copper hidden on a ship, which is not conspicuous at all, but these hundreds of tons you have to transport by land, over the mountains and mountains, so you can't send thousands of horses?

"Lao Ding, the trick of raising self-respect is okay in the short term, but it won't work in the long term, if we want to make this place our long-term resource supply place, then we try to turn this place into a local government controlled by various independent armed forces.

I heard that there have been many forces seeking independence here. One of them also controls a lot of places with Xiao Ri, and they are also enemies of the Allies, so we are taking this opportunity to support some forces, fight against them, and replace them.

It's just that now we have some difficulties, that is, we can't know that those people are inclined to us, and if we choose the white-eyed wolf, then everything is in vain. Gao Jianwu then voiced his concerns.

"Lao Gao, what you said is indeed a big problem, but we can't do it overnight, maybe we can understand it according to some overseas Chinese contacted by the Nanyang Working Group, and now we are in a dark eye, and it is still a little too early to say this." Ding Wei thought for a while and said.

In fact, this is a big problem that will never be answered.

"Well, Lao Ding, you're right. At present, our Nanyang working group has contacted a lot of overseas Chinese here. When the time comes, we will meet with the people you have left behind, take a look at the local situation first, and when our comrades from the Nanyang Working Group arrive with the overseas Chinese who have worked together, we will immediately take action.

Strive to get the basics done before the Allies arrive and take control of the place.

Especially in the case of weapons and ammunition, we must now secretly hide some of the seized weapons, so that Smith and others do not know, and even our own people do not tell us.

In addition to the limited manpower of this operation, the less people know about it, the better, this job is not easy to do, and it takes fine people to do this thing well. I don't think there's any hope on Zhang Dabiao's side. Xu Shida, I'm not too familiar with him, and I can only count on you for this matter. ”

Gao Jianwu's descendants did not bring anything other except for the commando, and the Ping An cluster brought the main force of the independent regiment, of course, there is no problem with these old foundations in terms of loyalty, but this army adheres to Li Yunlong's character, fighting and screaming, and doing some fine private work is not their specialty.

The group of commandos is similar, it's okay to fight, but they don't have the ability to do fine work.

So Gao Jianwu found Ding Wei and asked him to do this, because Ding Wei's personality and overall situation are naturally different from Zhang Dabiao.