Chapter 63 Engineer Corps
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The "General" saw Alexander coming in in a hurry, and Stilwell, who was discussing war with Luo Zhuoying and others around the map, asked: "Are you here to discuss with me how many tanks to send to fight against the Japanese army?"
Stilwell was deliberately sarcastic about Alexander. In fact, he had already learned from other channels that the British army was surrounded in Ren'anqiang. Search for "Lanshu Book Hand" to read the new chapter of Zuiji.
"I'm sorry, Your Excellency." Because of the request, Alexander had to lower his posture: "I'm here to ask you and General Du for help. The Japanese army has penetrated into our defense line. We are surrounded in Ren'anqiang."
Stilwell's face instantly became very ugly: "How can you betray this way, don't you know that doing so will make the British and even the UK a laughing stock? We will send tanks and armored vehicles to you, not for you to escape." Note: The tanks and armored vehicles of the British Seventh Armored Brigade come from the aid of the US Lease Act
"I don't think so, Your Excellency," Alexander argued: "We have arranged the defense line on the Western Front as planned, but did not expect that the Japanese army would bypass our defense line under the leadership of the Burmese. The Japanese are too cunning."
Stilwell snorted coldly. He would not be deceived by Alexander's words. He retreated the 7th Armored Brigade to Ren'anqiang before the war even started. Anyone with a little military knowledge knew that it was not defense but running away.
But Stilwell couldn't say anything else, because at this time he had already sensitively noticed that the situation in Myanmar was deteriorating in his uncontrollable direction: the British army completely disobeyed command and only knew how to use the Chinese to retreat. His control over the squadron was also limited. Although Luo Zhuoying could influence and command the squadron to a certain extent, he was very troubled by the squadron's command system.
On the surface, Luo Zhuoying was the commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force. He commanded the entire Expeditionary Force. In fact, it was Du Yuming who commanded the entire Expeditionary Force. However, Du Yuming had to obey Stilwell, Luo Zhuoying, Lin Wei, and Chiang Kai-shek at the same time. How could such an army fight? This would undoubtedly cause a confusion in command, because sometimes the same army would receive two completely different orders that could not be executed at the same time. At this time, they had to weigh who should listen to the orders. If they heard it wrong, they might be punished for disobeying the military order.
So the squadron can almost be said to be an uncontrollable piece of sand. When you command the troops to the north, you will never know whether this troops will actually go south under the command of another person.
Note: After the Tonggu Battle, Stilwell was dissatisfied with Du Yuming's disobeying his order to withdraw 200 divisions from Tonggu and flew to Chongqing to file a lawsuit. In order to appease Stilwell, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Luo Zhuoying as the commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force, and used Luo Zhuoying to suppress Du Yuming. Lin Wei was the head of the staff group, headquartered in Lashio, and was a command organization directly responsible for Chiang Kai-shek's command on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek.
Thinking of this, Stilwell couldn't help but sigh. Although all the Chinese soldiers were good, the Chinese officers were almost incompetent. Such officers and such command systems would only make the squadron defeat on the battlefield.
Of course, Stilwell didn't know that the reason for such a command system was actually a helpless move. The reason was that although it was an army at this time, it was a warlord and had many factions. It was impossible to tell when an army would set up another mountain. In order to firmly grasp the military power, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to be able to directly command every soldier.
In this case, Stilwell must make long-term plans: if the Battle of Myanmar fails, where will he go to China? He doesn't want to fall into this chaotic command system anymore, and he also understands one thing that he can never really command the squadron with Chiang Kai-shek.
Then he had to go to India, which was the territory of the British, so in order to have more bargaining chips in the future, he needed to cater to Alexander.
"Well" Thinking of this, Stilwell suppressed the anger in his heart and swallowed back the sarcastic words he had originally wanted to say to Alexander. He turned to Luo Zhuoying in Chinese and said: "Since that's the case, I think we can only choose to reinforce Ren'anqiang."
"Of course" Luo Zhuoying replied without thinking: "The British army is our ally. When the Allies are in trouble, our army should be obliged."
Luo Zhuoying is a person who is very obsessed with the United States and other industrial powers. He would agree so simply. On the one hand, he admires Britain and the United States as if it were surging rivers. On the other hand, he had to do so from the perspective of the overall situation.
Among them, only Du Yuming snorted dissatisfiedly.
He was not against rescuing Ren'an-Kang, but he felt that at least he should teach the British some lesson or use this matter to make some promise, rather than taking it for granted by the Chinese as he is now so naturally sacrificing the interests of the Chinese to protect the interests of the British.
Otherwise, the British would take it for granted to harm the interests of their allies. This time the Chinese saved them without grudges, and the British would do this next time.
History has also proved that Du Yuming was right. Later, in the Battle of Mandalay, the British team, which had just been rescued by the Chinese, once again and even worsened, using the squadron, causing the squadron to eventually fall into a complete defeat.
But what can Du Yuming say? The ones present are either the general or his superiors. To a certain extent, they can command themselves. If one is not good enough, they will be labeled as a result of taking the blame, regardless of the overall situation.
Therefore, there is no need to say how depressed Du Yuming is. It doesn’t matter if he leads troops to fight and sacrifices his blood. The problem is that a lot of people above him are in charge of him, and these people still have different purposes or even consider the interests of different countries. This makes Du Yuming feel like he is tied up to fight the Japanese army. The most hateful thing is that Du Yuming clearly knows how to fight this battle, but he has to obey a group of people who only know how to talk about war on paper or have ulterior motives.
"So which army should we send to reinforce Ren'anqiang?" Stilwell raised a question and turned his attention to Luo Zhuoying.
Luo Zhuoying turned his eyes to Du Yuming again and asked, "Talk Du Yuming's words, tell me what you think."
When it comes to real use of troops, we naturally have to ask Du Yuming, the only one who really knows how to use troops.
Du Yuming thought about it, then frowned and said, "For the current situation, Pingmanna's right wing has been exposed to the vanguard of the Japanese 33rd Division. Our Fifth Army is at risk of being surrounded at any time. Pingmanna really cannot mobilize the excess force to reinforce, and the 66th Army located in Mandalay is a reserve force, so it should not be used easily."
Du Yuming's consideration was of course correct. In history, it was precisely because the only combat-capable New 38th Division in the 66th Army was transferred to the western front to reinforce Ren'anqiang that the Japanese 56th Division could drive straight into the expeditionary army's retreat on the eastern front as if they were entering an unmanned land.
At this time, the number of an army appeared in Du Yuming's mind: "Engineering Regiment" Baidu read the latest chapter of "The Chinese Expeditionary Forces of the War of Resistance" for free as soon as possible.
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