Chapter 724 Must Fight
When Jiang Tongshuai saw Wei Lihuang's telegram, he was immediately out of order. He knew that things were in trouble and the difficulty of hitting Mandalay was far beyond his imagination.∈◆
According to Wei Lihuang's estimate, the entire attacking force must prepare more than 500,000, and the subsequent troops must prepare more than 300,000, and at the same time, they must prepare for the cost of 300,000 or 500,000 casualties to complete the curb of Japan's development in Southeast Asia. Without this preparation, Mandalay will not be able to be defeated at all.
"Xipi, why did Japan have such a big change?" Jiang Zhengshuai sat there with a telegram and said irritably.
The other generals didn't know what was going on, but they knew that the telegram was sent from Wei Lihuang. Now that they heard the commander say this, they knew that something might be wrong with Mandalay.
"Commander?" Chen Cheng looked at the commander and asked.
"You can see it yourself. Huishan sent it, and it's troublesome!" Jiang Tongshuai handed it over with a telegram, then stood up and walked towards the window.
After Chen Cheng and the generals saw this telegram, they were shocked. They realized now that Japan was no longer as easy to deal with as they thought before.
"Will this battle be fought? You all tell me. Huishan dare not make decisions by himself. I guess Hu Bin dare not make decisions either. He also sent a telegram to Yan'an. According to what Wei Lihuang said, Hu Bin was also asking Yan'an to mobilize more troops. He wanted to fight, but he didn't dare to make decisions. With such a large casualty and so many troops, the war in our country would be delayed, Mom Xipi!" Commander Jiang said it later and cursed again. When the people heard it, they all fell silent.
This matter is too serious. If so many troops are to be used, it is simply to transfer all the elite troops in the country. With so many troops being called, the domestic recovery war cannot be fought because there is insufficient military source.
Don’t think that Chongqing and Yan’an have so many troops in total, but there are so many places to defend. If there is no good defense, it is troublesome to let the Japanese fight over. The troops in Guangxi and Yunnan cannot move at all. Those two places were set up as the second line of defense, and troops cannot be dispatched.
Sichuan's troops cannot move now. This is to guard Sichuan. The troops from Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Shanxi, Shaanxi and the northwest provinces! If hundreds of thousands of troops were to be dispatched to Southeast Asia, the troops from other provinces could not gather together to attack.
"I can only fight the commander-in-chief. If I don't fight, it will be even more troublesome. After fighting Southeast Asia, I think if the Japanese really come from the northwest, it is still possible for us to guard the other side. The terrain conditions over there are suitable for defense." Chen Cheng said to the commander-in-chief.
"Well, commander, you can't stop fighting now. I used to think that the United States' planes were very powerful. As long as they came to support us, I think we could win in Southeast Asia, and there was no need to send more troops. Now it seems that it is impossible for us to not send troops, so we must fight!" Li Zongren also said firmly.
"The fight is to fight, and we have to fight quickly! However, we have to draw 500,000 troops from Hubei, Hunan, and Henan to move south. Hu Bin from Hubei said that he would draw 12 divisions of troops, so the rest is the troops we are going to use!" Commander Jiang thought for a while, nodded and said.
"Hu Bin doesn't have that many staff in Hubei at all. How did they draw troops from 12 divisions over?" Li Zongren asked immediately.
"This is what Yan'an does. Do you think they will honestly recruit soldiers according to the organization!" Commander Jiang said helplessly, and Li Zongren heard it and stopped talking.
"Send a telegram to Yan'an, asking Hubei to draw 200,000 troops from 12 divisions to go south to Hu Bin. We will set out in the next few days, draw 4 divisions from Henan, 5 divisions from Hunan, 5 divisions from Anhui and Jiangxi, and in addition, draw 3 divisions from Guizhou and go to Southeast Asia immediately. Let's set off now and send telegrams to Wei Lihuang and fight!" The commander stood there and spoke.
"Yes!" When the generals heard this, they all stood attentively.
"My mom, I don't believe it anymore. Until now, our China is still there. The Japanese can really destroy our China. If he can't destroy us, we will destroy them!" Commander Jiang stood there and looked outside and said.
Commander Mao in Yan'an also quickly received a telegram. After discussing with the Commander-in-Chief and some senior cadres, he also agreed to fight. After receiving a telegram from Chongqing, Commander Mao sent a telegram to Commander Jiang, saying that the troops of the 12 divisions would soon assemble and set off to Southeast Asia. Hu Bin and Wei Lihuang also received a telegram from Commander Jiang, just one word, typing!
"Brother, I'm going to fight!" Wei Lihuang looked at Hu Bin and said.
"Yeah, I'm going to fight!" Hu Bin nodded as well.
"Come on, let's discuss how to fight!" Wei Lihuang said to Hu Bin.
The two soon arrived in the conference room. Then, the whole meeting lasted for two days. Finally, it was decided that Hu Bin's troops would attack Mandalay as the main force, while Wei Lihuang's troops began to move south, restraining troops from other directions, and at the same time, blocking the troops coming from Southeast Asia as much as possible.
At the beginning, Wei Lihuang was worried about whether Hu Bin could defeat Mandalay's troops. Hu Bin directly guaranteed Wei Lihuang. As long as he could last for 3 months, Hu Bin would have the confidence to take Mandalay and kill the 400,000 Japanese troops in Mandalay.
Seeing that Hu Bin was so confident, Wei Lihuang handed over Mandalay to Hu Bin. His target was the key cities defended by the Thai and Vietnamese devils. His purpose was not to occupy those cities, but to kill the troops in the recruit training camp.
Now the Japanese are training millions of troops in these places. If they do not stop them, those troops will start to reinforce Mandalay, so there will be no need to fight this battle. At that time, it will be consumed in Mandalay. Japan can consume it, but China cannot.
Therefore, Hu Bin's troops were targeted by Mandalay and the Japanese troops north of Mandalay. Wei Lihuang was a Japanese troops south of Mandalay. After discussion, Hu Bin and Wei Lihuang separated and began to rush to their respective command centers. While on the way, Hu Bin asked the engineer troops to start building simple airports in Indo and Banmao.
Hu Bin returned to the command center and ordered his troops from several divisions to start rushing to Yinduo. At the same time, he arranged troops to march towards Wenduo and Ma Ben and repaired simple fortifications there first, but tried not to be discovered by the Japanese, and all this was soon discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance plane.
"What did you say? Hu Bin's troops started to march towards Indo, and they also built an airport on Indo and Banmao's side? Where did they get the plane?" After hearing the staff's report, Okamura Nishi stood up in surprise and walked to the front of the map.
He received intelligence reports from the base camp in the past two days, saying that Chinese troops are now moving southwest. According to their speculation, it may be coming to Southeast Asia to fight. Okamura Yasuji heard it and strengthened the monitoring of Hu Bin's troops.
"Commander, the latest information, Wei Lihuang's troops have also moved and are marching towards the Mengyang area!" At this time, a staff officer came over and said to Okamura Yanji.
"Baga, Hu Bin, you are still going to fight!" Okamura Yanji cursed very calmly when he heard this, but he was not angry, because the current situation was very beneficial to him.
The attack on India was far beyond expectations. They originally planned to take half a year to defeat the troops on the first line of defense of Britain. Unexpectedly, from 3 and a half months, they broke through the second line of defense of Britain and began to attack India. The advancement was very fast and they could conquer an Indian state in a few days.
This speed made the entire base camp very satisfied, so now Okamura Yanji also wants to deal with the Chinese troops. Even if Hu Bin doesn't come to attack him now, he will probably have to attack Hu Bin's troops in a month.
"Commander, Hu Bin has not done his business according to the agreement at all. Can we announce it? Let the people from Chongqing and the United States suspect Hu Bin?" said the Chief of Staff.
"Baga! Are you trying to smear the empire? Is it because Hu Bin cheated, we still have to promote it everywhere! Sending this agreement will only make people all over the world laugh at it!" Okamura Nishi heard it and cursed at the Chief of Staff.
"Hi!" The Chief of Staff was scolded so much that he dared not speak, so he could only bow his head.
"I knew that Hu Bin would not abide by the agreement, and I didn't expect him to abide by it! Now I have given us more than three months, which is already very good. The value of this money we spend is worth. The gold we seized from India is 10 times that of this money, hum!
Besides, if it is announced, they will think it is Hu Bin's credit and will laugh at our empire! In addition, if Hu Bin's troops did not attack us for a day, he would not breach the contract." Okamura Nishi said coldly.
"Hi!" The Chief of Staff could only continue to nod.
"It's not his turn to breach the contract. Order the bomber to start bombing the airport built by Hu Bin in Banmao and Indo tomorrow, and I'll blow it up!" Okamura Nishi said proudly.
"Hi! But where did they get the plane?" asked the Chief of Staff.
"China does not have it, is it not the United States yet?" Okamura Yanji said with dissatisfaction.
"Hi, I'll do it right away!" The Chief of Staff heard this and immediately turned around and left.
Chapter completed!