After receiving Li Junhao's telegram, US Ambassador to China Jensen carefully read and analyzed it.

Li Junhao said in the telegram that it was a request, but for him it was an order, after all, he had friends and colleagues in China, and he was very aware of the other party's current status in the domestic political arena; Moreover, the other side's request is in the interests of the United States, and he knows that it must be carried out without consulting the State Department.

In addition to General Pansen's telegrams, Ambassador Jensen's desk also contained four important telegrams received in succession today, which let him know that General Pansen's plan had already begun......

In addition, although he hadn't seen Stilwell during this time, from these telegrams, he seemed to see that this lieutenant general with a somewhat witty personality seemed to be smiling secretly in the back!

Some time before, Jensen had received several telegrams from Stilwell, saying that he could not understand why the British and Burmese troops were so low in combat effectiveness, and had no morale and fighting spirit, and had no strong equipment, but they did not dare to face the Japanese army head-on, so they easily abandoned Rangoon and evacuated southern Burma. If possible, he takes severe measures to punish such behavior.

Combined with several telegrams from General Panson and Stilwell, he basically sorted out what happened.

The first telegram was sent by Stilwell in the afternoon to all units of the United States and the Allied forces in the Far East, indicating that Major General Pan Sen, deputy chief of the general staff of the Allied Far East Theater and deputy commander of the Indo-Burma Theater, had officially taken up his post.

The second, almost immediately following telegram, was that Stilwell claimed that he was unwell and needed to return to Lashio to recuperate, and that the Allied Indo-Burma Theater Command was headed by the deputy commander, Major General Pan Sen, and appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the front, and that all of Major General Pan Sen's orders would be signed by Stilwell by default until the order was canceled.

The third telegram was sent by Major General Pan Sen in the name of the Allied Indo-Burma Theater Command, demanding that all Allied forces in Burma must stick to their current defense areas, and that any unauthorized withdrawal without a clear order from the Theater Command would be regarded as disobedience and would be severely punished as desertion.

The fourth telegram was a telegram just received from Lord Wavell, the commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Indian Army, claiming that the 17th and 36th Indian Infantry Divisions of the Anglo-Indian Army in Burma were blocked by the troops of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and could not carry out the order of the Anglo-Burmese Army Headquarters to move the defense, which seriously damaged the relations between the Allied forces! It is hoped that the US side will come forward and join the British ambassador to China in protesting to the Kuomintang government and immediately correct this behavior.

It is already clear that Vice Admiral Stilwell, representing the U.S. Army, and Rear Admiral Pan Sen, representing the U.S. Navy, intelligence community, and the president's staff, have reached close cooperation with the Chinese Expeditionary Force and have taken military measures against the British troops who are bent on using the Chinese Expeditionary Force to evacuate Burma themselves.

In this case, not to mention that there was a telegram from General Panson before, that is, no, and Jensen is not stupid, how can he be on the side of the British!

At this time, someone came to inform that the British ambassador to China, Xue Mu, and the military attache, Major General Dennis, were visiting, and of course Jensen knew what they were doing, but he could not refuse to meet each other, so he could only get up and greet them.

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During the communication between the ambassadors of the two countries, Jensen refused Xue Mu's request for help on the grounds that he was a diplomat and did not have the authority to change the orders of the American military, and expressed his dissatisfaction with the British army's actions on the battlefield in Burma.

Xue Mu and Dennis expressed regret for this, but they still offered to hope that Jensen would accompany them to meet the top official of the Kuomintang government to discuss the matter and resolve the matter.

Jensen's immediate refusal is not tantamount to saying that the United States supports Britain's Burma policy? How could it be, he wouldn't and wouldn't dare to demolish General Pan Sen's platform!

Disillusioned, Xue Mu and Dennis had no choice but to leave the U.S. Embassy and go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kuomintang government to convey the protest of Lord Waveville, the commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Indian army, and ask the Kuomintang government to intervene in the behavior of the Chinese expeditionary force.

What the British didn't know was that at this time, several bigwigs of the Kuomintang government already knew what was happening on the Burma front, and Du Yuming, deputy commander of the First Route Army of the Expeditionary Force and commander of the Fifth Army, also brought back a handwritten letter from General Stilwell, not only explaining the reason for the incident, but also explicitly asking the Kuomintang government not to interfere in this matter. In this case, of course, the big guy knows what to do, after all, the United States is the real big boss!

Xue Mu and Dennis had already expected such a result, and after the two received the protest letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kuomintang government, they also got up and said goodbye and went back, and then called back to Lord Wavell to inform them of the situation in Chongqing, and suggested that the other party contact Stilwell and Li Junhao themselves to communicate the situation.

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Wavell, who received this telegram, frowned so much that he couldn't dissolve, he knew that this matter was in trouble!

Judging from the current situation, the United States and China have reached a consensus that the United States will provide political and military aid guarantees, while the Chinese side will send a huge number of troops, and the power of the combination of the two is not something that more than 40,000 British and Burmese troops can withstand!

Now he has no choice, he can't send troops from India to "rescue" the British and Burmese troops! Although Wavell believes that the United States will not turn its face with Britain for the sake of China, Britain's break with China is absolute!

This is obviously not in line with the current situation of the world anti-fascist front, and Britain's reputation will be completely ruined, and even India, the "jewel in the crown", will not be able to preserve.

After thinking about it for a while, Wavell sighed, but still sent a long telegram back to China, truthfully reported the situation here to Prime Minister Churchill, and handed over the difficult problem.

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When Churchill was woken up by his attendants and saw the telegram from Asia, he was so angry that the irascible prime minister smashed his favorite set of Chinese tea sets!

After calming down, Churchill re-read the contents of the telegram several times, and combined with the information sent by the intelligence department, he understood what was happening on the battlefield in Burma.

Although the fat prime minister is stubborn and tenacious, he is not stupid, and he knows very well that the unity of the Allies must not be undermined now.

If it were only China, he believed that as long as Britain remained tough, it would be possible to finally subdue the Kuomintang government and make it back down and compromise. But now the United States has shown a firm attitude, and it is obvious that it is seriously dissatisfied with Britain's policy in Southeast Asia! This is not good news at this critical moment in the current European theater.

Moreover, among them, the little guy of the Stuart family is also involved, and he is still leading the Indo-Burmese theater of operations in the United States, I have to say that the Americans played a good hand!

(End of chapter)