Li Junhao didn't wait for him to think about answering the question, and continued: "Now affected by technical conditions, heavy equipment is still unable to be safely airdropped, and the paratroopers need to fight with light weapons in their hands after landing. Don't forget, this is the jungle landscape of Southeast Asia, walkie-talkies, individual radios have a limited range of use, and they are very susceptible to moisture! ”

Li Qiwei was completely stunned when he heard this, thought for a long time, and said a little dejectedly: "Sorry, sir, my plan is too taken for granted, and there is no possibility of implementation......

Seeing Li Qiwei, who was somewhat hit, Li Junhao smiled and said: "Matthew, your idea is good, but this matter is still coming step by step!" For example, the original intention of your plan this time is good, but under the current technical conditions, the distance is too long, and the airdrop operation across half the world cannot ensure the combat state of the soldiers at all, but will cause great danger, and this training method will not outweigh the losses!

"Matthew, I'm also interested in airborne operations, and I'd love to communicate with you and your subordinates! However, this time the 82nd Division came to Burma, so let the soldiers bring all the equipment and come by boat! When your troops are ready, I'd love to talk to you about effective airborne tactics......"

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On January 18, Li Junhao received information from the Japanese army that the Japanese base camp had reorganized the Burmese Front, and Yamashita Fumi, who had just been successfully promoted to general for his attack on the Malay Peninsula, was appointed commander.

In order to defeat the Allied Indo-Burma Theater in one fell swoop and occupy Burma, the Japanese base camp invested heavily in the 48th Division from the 14th Army attacking the Philippines, the 38th Division from the 16th Army attacking the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), the 5th Division from the 25th Army attacking the Malay Peninsula, the 21st Division and the 21st Independent Flying Team from the troops directly under the Southern Army, the 20th, 27th, and 110th Divisions from the North China Front on the Chinese battlefield, and the 28th, 29th, 30 divisions and other units;

In addition, the 418th, 431st, and 433rd mixed brigades were formed with the left-behind personnel of the 18th, 31st, and 33rd divisions on the mainland, and the 19th Air Force was newly formed, which was ready to be sent to the Burma battlefield together.

However, in this way, there are too many troops to integrate, marshall, and form, and it will take a long time, and it is unlikely that they will re-attack Burma in three or four months, which gives the Allied Indo-Burma theater time to train new troops!

After reading the information, Li Junhao knew that Japan had begun to go downhill, and this was actually the sorrow of a small country that tried to "swallow an elephant" in vain - the heart is bigger than the sky, and the conditions are extremely poor!

Like the United States, which is the first industrial power in this era, with a population of nearly 180 million, after fully switching to war mode, it can raise tens of millions of troops, not to mention, but also supply tens of millions of troops of various allies.

Like the Soviet Union, after being occupied by the Germans for half of its country, it turned to a wartime state on its own, and with the military assistance of the United States, it was able to quickly organize tens of millions of troops.

Like China, half of the country also occupied by the Japanese army, the military production capacity is not much stronger than almost nothing, but after receiving the military aid support of the United States, after the opening of the national anti-Japanese war mode, the number of troops immediately increased sharply, five million, seven million, and it seems that it will also go to 10 million!

Regardless of other countries, it is these three great powers that stand on the united front, and the defeat of the German, Japanese, and Italian Axis powers is already visible soon!

Just like the troops that the Japanese army is going to assemble this time, it seems that there are 10 divisions, 3 brigades, plus an aviation corps, and a flying team, but just look at its number, except for the 5th Division, which is a permanent division with a scale of 25,000 people, the others are ad hoc or garrison divisions, with more than 15,000 and less than 12,000, and the three newly built mixed brigades add up to 14,000 people.

In other words, the military strength gathered by the Japanese army this time is not even as large as the strength of the 8 divisions and regiments that were wiped out in the 1st and 2nd Burma Campaigns, and there are not even 180,000 people, and they still want to take revenge?

Look at his side, the 50,000-strong New First Army, 50,000 recruits from northern Shaanxi, the 90,000-strong 101st Group Army, and more than 800 fighters of the 10th and 14th Air Forces, all the U.S. weapons and equipment, what will little Japan win?

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Beginning on the 20th, the recruits from northern Shaanxi assembled from Xi'an were transported to Mandalay in northern Myanmar by transport planes from the 10th and 14th Air Forces of the US Army and the 82nd Airborne Division Aviation Brigade, which had just been transferred from Honolulu.

In order to save space, these recruits ignored the cold, wore tank tops and shorts, and did not bring any other equipment, and squeezed 80 people on a C-47 transport plane, if it were not for the pressurized heating equipment in the cabin, I am afraid that there would be a big problem.

Speaking of which, the organizational ability of the underground party in northern Shaanxi is really strong, and there is a company-level cadre on each plane who is in charge of the whole team, and everything is neat and orderly from boarding to disembarkation, which makes all the US military pilots full of praise.

Yang Shixiong, chief of staff of the Indo-Burma Theater, rushed to Mandalay two days ago to personally take charge of receiving new recruits, and 13,000 officers and men of the 119th and 120th Mechanized Infantry Brigades were specially transferred to serve and make orderly work arrangements. The senior officers of the newly formed 121st Army, who arrived early, were very moved by this.

With Chief of Staff Yang out of the horse, Li Junhao was relieved, and only a week later moved to Mandalay with the theater command, and gave up the Tonggu barracks and airfield to the 82nd Airborne Division that was about to arrive, and General Li Qiwei happened to stay there to sit in the town! ——

On January 28, when the train of the last batch of troops of the Fifth Army who withdrew and returned to China stopped in Mandalay, the army commander Du Yuming, the commander of the 200th Division Dai Anlan, the commander of the new 22nd Division Liao Yaoxiang and other generals got off the train and saluted and said goodbye to Li Junhao and others who were traitors at the platform - in this war years, no one knows if there will be a goodbye day, remembering the time when they fought side by side before, everyone is sighing!

At the time of parting, Li Junhao just whispered to these "own people": do what you should do in normal times, just don't fight in the same room after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, if something can't be solved, send a telegram to yourself!

The Fifth Army has withdrawn to China, followed by the Sixth Army and the Sixty-sixth Army, but they will have loyalty to him in their hearts, which will play a huge role at the critical moment in the future, and I believe that the time will surprise that Commissar Chiang!

On the 29th, it was the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, a small year in southern China, and Li Junhao ordered all the Chinese soldiers to have a day off and rest, and asked the logistics department to improve their lives, including the new recruits from northern Shaanxi!

Lieutenant General Peng Xuefeng, the commander of the Northern Shaanxi Recruits, came to thank him for this, but he smiled and said: "General Peng, I like the Chinese New Year!" ”

(End of chapter)