On May 21, the 200th Division and the New 22nd Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Mula took the lead in completing the refurbishment and rearmament, and the replaced British weapons and equipment took two days to fill three trains and send them to Lashio......

As for the source of the American-style weapons and equipment replaced by the two divisions, Li Junhao simply did not explain - it couldn't be explained anyway!

He asked Luo Zhuoying and Du Yuming to communicate with Chairman Chiang, and reached an unwritten agreement - to deliver 10 divisions of British-style equipment to the Chinese theater within three months, and then deliver military aid worth 25 million US dollars in the next three months, in exchange for the full command of 140,000 people of the Chinese Expeditionary Force's three armies and ten divisions fighting in Burma, and to keep the scale unchanged and give sufficient personnel replenishment, and the required armaments and materials will be provided by the United States.

For this agreement, Luo and Du both felt embarrassed, but Li Junhao didn't care, because he knew very well the mentality of Chairman Jiang during this period, the other party wanted arms, weapons, and military aid, and he wanted the whole of Burma and a large number of Japanese soldiers! As for the large amount of military aid, he took advantage of the asymmetry of information between the two sides and made it a favor for what the United States was ready to come up with!

During this time, the construction of the expressway from Delai to Makui was very smooth, and the method of multi-section construction and parallel progress was adopted, which greatly accelerated the progress of the project, and most of it has been completed.

On the 28th, the first batch of two American fast transport ships arrived at Port Delai, which had been renovated in advance, and began to unload 9,000 tons of weapons, equipment, and supplies.

On the 30th, the Dema Highway was opened, and the armaments and materials of Port Delai began to be loaded and transported eastward, and this new channel for US military aid officially began to operate! ——

On June 8, the rainy season in Myanmar began, with two small rains a day and a big one in three days, which made the Chinese officers and soldiers who spent the rainy season in Myanmar for the first time feel a different baptism!

On July 10, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States and Britain agreed that the British and Burmese Army Command and its subordinate 1st Division of the British and Burmese Army, the 17th Division of the British and Indian Army, and the 36th Indian Infantry Division withdrew west to India and separated from the Indo-Burma Theater of Operations.

Of course, the two British units that had been reorganized into the Allied 105th and 106th Tank Brigades could not be taken with them, because they had already been reorganized into the 101st Army in the Far East under the direct command of General Pansen.

The weapons and equipment left behind by the evacuated British army were immediately sent to the Chinese theater by Li Junhao, in exchange for 65,000 recruits, one-third of whom had a primary school education or above!

This time, Li Junhao did not disperse these recruits to various units, but personally came forward to receive them, using the officers and soldiers of his New England battalion as instructors, and organized these recruits into ten infantry brigades of the Allied Army, including 111-120, and incorporated them into the sequence of the 101st Group Army under his command.

As a result of this toss, the strength of the Indo-Burma Theater has increased from 185,000 to 230,000, and the entire theater has been divided into two parts, one is 145,000 from the 10th Division of the Third Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the other is 85,000 from the 101st Group Army of the Allied Forces, not counting the 1,000-strong New England Battalion under Li Junhao.

Subsequently, during the four months of the rainy season, when US military transport ships continued to arrive at Port Delai and the troops in the Indo-Burma Theater were busy changing their equipment for training, the Japanese army invading Burma, which had suffered a disastrous defeat in the Tonggu Campaign, was also constantly transporting new troops to land in southern Burma, and the 31st, 49th, 53rd, and 54th Divisions, the 72nd Mixed Brigade, and the 3rd Air Corps were drawn from the country and other battlefields to arrive in southern Burma, Thailand, and Laos, with a total strength of 140,000 troops.

Both armies are preparing for the upcoming cool season operations, and everyone understands that this will be a crucial battle that will determine the situation of the South Asian war and even the Far East! ——

During this period of time, because of the calm of the war situation, in addition to arranging the affairs of the Indo-Burma theater, Li Junhao also had spare energy to care about the situation in the United States, and the CIA operated normally under the responsibility of Donovan and Wen Qiang, and the scale was expanding day by day, and the intelligence collection and analysis capabilities were also continuously strengthened, which strongly supported the United States' war response.

On the FBI's side, Wang has done an excellent job, effectively controlling most of the FBI's powers, and has become an indispensable and important figure in the domestic judicial field.

Vicky Case, Li Xiaoyu, and Zheng Pingru from the Office of the Principal Assistant to the National Security Adviser, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Office of the Assistant Attorney General also reported that all work was carried out in an orderly manner, and Li Junhao's domestic political status was not reduced in the slightest!

Li Junhao doesn't attach much importance to political power or anything, but because of such a status, he can protect many people around him, so he is still very happy about the current situation.

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The rainy season in Myanmar was long and annoying, and it was not until the end of October that the rain gradually stopped, and the situation in the whole Myanmar was like a powder keg about to detonate.

On October 31, Li Junhao once again held a military meeting in Mula, and the theme was the cool season offensive plan!

Seeing the generals in the conference room full of US Army summer combat uniforms, Li Junhao smiled and said: "Generals, it's 'winter' in Myanmar now, and everyone is still wearing short-sleeved military uniforms, isn't it cold?" ”

"Haha......" Everyone laughed, and Liao Yaoxiang, the commander of the new 22nd Division, who was outspoken, said: "General Pan Sen, there are still twenty-seven or eight degrees at noon, and twenty-three or four degrees in the morning and evening, this is really not cold!" ”

Major General Li Zhipeng, commander of the 36th Division on the side, was also a straightforward person, and also said: "Commander Pan Sen, I think this time and climate are suitable for combat, are we going to launch a major counteroffensive?" ”

"Yes, today's meeting is to discuss this." Li Junhao said with a smile, "In a while, General Liao and General Li will not hesitate to speak!" ”

For the generals of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, this American general, who speaks fluent Chinese, is now definitely his own! During this period of time, everyone has seen very clearly how General Pan Sen personally took charge of how he turned the troops of the three armies and ten divisions of the Chinese Expeditionary Force into a modern unit with all-American equipment and fully mechanized operations.

Next, Chief of Staff Luo Zhuoying introduced the current situation in Burma, the focus of which is to introduce the current deployment of the Japanese army, as for the next battle plan of the Indo-Burma theater, it is still necessary for Li Junhao to explain it personally, before that, no one knows the details of the plan!

(End of chapter)