The sun is rising in the east, the sun is shining all over the ground, it is a rare good weather, and the greenery in the distance is pleasing to the eye. There is not a trace of haze in the clear sky, the morning exercise has ended, and the chirping soldiers are holding lunch boxes
While waiting in line for food, almost everyone was smiling, except for a few people of course.
Tang Cheng, who had woken up late again, rubbed the dark circles under his eyes. He lowered his head to take a sip of porridge and then raised his head and yawned. His listless face was full of sleepiness. After taking a few sips of the porridge in his lunch box, Tang Cheng dropped his lunch box and turned around.
After leaving, he had to go back to his room to continue sleeping. It was so noisy last night that he almost didn't sleep all night, and he didn't even participate in the morning exercises.
There was also George who had an appearance similar to that of Tang Cheng. His blond hair, which had been neatly combed all day long, was already fluffy. George, who was pulled out of the bed by Hou San, was sitting on the slope basking in the sun. He had missed a meal anyway.
Breakfast is not a bad thing, and George doesn’t like to drink porridge in the morning. No one bothered Tangcheng’s sleep in the cage and George’s daze in the sun, because everyone had received a warning from Hou San and others. In the past few days,
Don't disturb Tang Cheng and George. Although they don't know what happened to their commanders, the soldiers can't ignore Hou San's warning.
Tang Cheng, who was wrapped in a military blanket again, tossed and turned on the simple bed, but he just couldn't fall asleep normally. With no choice, Tang Cheng had no choice but to call in George, who was sitting outside in a daze. "Tell me, are the people at the headquarters stupid?
Lost it? We have finally determined that there are no Japanese troops within a radius of 50 kilometers. Why do we have to walk through the Savage Mountain from the direction of Magao and back to Lieduo? Do they really think that the Savage Mountain is like
You can leave whenever you want in your own back garden?" Tang Cheng's roar left George speechless. In fact, even he didn't know how the headquarters could make such a decision.
Since receiving Mike's telegram the day before yesterday, Tang Cheng has been unable to sleep at night, and so has George. Crossing the Stranger Mountain twice in a row has almost exhausted all Tang Cheng's enthusiasm. Now Mike said that there is actually someone in the headquarters.
He wanted them to walk through Savage Mountain again and return to Lieduo. Regardless of whether the command's intention was to guide the engineering troops who were about to arrive in Lieduo, Tang Cheng felt that such an order was too cruel.
Tang Cheng even thought about lying about saying that his radio station was broken and that he could not receive orders from the headquarters, but in the blink of an eye, he thought that this was a reason that no one would believe, because the headquarters could airdrop his favorite radio station at any time.
Come to me. "Don, don't worry first. Didn't Mike say that this is just an intention? Since it's not a real order, there might be a turn for the better. We can't mess up our situation." George choked.
After a while, I finally found a reason to persuade Tang Cheng.
"Bullshit, even you wouldn't believe what I said just now, and you actually used it to try to prevaricate me?" Tang Cheng glanced at George angrily. No matter how long he got along with this ghost guy, he would never change his attitude towards him.
Just as stupid. Tang Cheng and George didn't have a good sleep for several days because of this. Mike, who was staying in Liduo, also went to Ramgarh personally for this matter. He was the initiator of the plan to let Tangcheng's team return to Liduo.
But I never thought that this matter would become such a big deal.
After returning to Lambgar, Mike went directly to Stilwell, the nominal commander of the coalition forces. Although Stilwell was an American, he was known for being acrimonious in the American military circles and was nicknamed "Acid Joe".
". Now after Stilwell drove away the strong-willed Du Yuming of the Chinese military, the new national army commander Luo Zhuoying did not obey his command, so Stilwell also included Luo Zhuoying among the "peanuts".
Within the scope, the conflict with Luo Zhuoying became increasingly acute.
As a bystander, Mike understood that Stilwell's willfulness was undoubtedly provoking all Chinese generals. However, his identity was not enough to directly advise Stilwell, so this meeting with Stilwell was just between him and Stilwell.
Stilwell seemed very happy to see Mike. He shook hands with Mike warmly as soon as they met and said, "Mike, welcome back!"
Stilwell's mood somewhat led to a slightly cold atmosphere between the two. Mike held Stilwell's thin but strong palm and responded to Stilwell's enthusiasm. Stilwell probably also reacted to Mike's reaction.
Satisfied, he picked up the wine glass and glanced at Mike hesitantly, "Today is a good day, let us celebrate your arrival together." Seeing that Stilwell was in such a good mood, Mike had no choice but to reach out and take the wine glass handed over by Stilwell.
Clink glasses with each other.
However, Mike did not drink it all in one gulp. Instead, he touched the wine glass to his lips symbolically, and simply did not bother to deal with it. He folded his hands in front of his chest and looked at the wine glass on the table without saying anything. Stilwell looked at Mike
With an expression on his face and a disapproving smile on his face, he filled himself up with another glass of wine and began to taste it slowly. Stilwell naturally knew why Mike came to him and had agreed to Mike's formation of the Sino-US joint force.
At that time, I just wanted to have a relationship with the domestic consortium. Unexpectedly, Mike succeeded. A small force he sent had quietly penetrated deep into northern Myanmar and surveyed a place suitable for building an advance airport.
The U.S. military has shed too much blood in the Pacific Theater. Congress and some consortiums hope to open a battlefield in Burma as soon as possible. They hope to use Chinese troops in Burma to attract more Japanese troops' attention, and preferably force the Japanese troops to move from the Pacific Theater.
The Congress did not hope to force the Japanese army to surrender through the Burmese battlefield. They just wanted to disrupt the Japanese army's deployment in South Asia and the Pacific battlefield, so that the American troops in the Pacific battlefield would shed less blood.
Thinking of this, Stilwell couldn't help but sigh inwardly. He had started working in China as early as the early 1920s and was well versed in the Chinese military system and its characteristics. Stilwell spoke highly of the soldiers of the Chinese army and believed that as long as there were
With the right people to lead the way, it can be comparable to any army in the world. However, he has a low evaluation of most officers. He believes that except for a few generals such as Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang who have received Western military training, most of the Chinese officers are useless.
They are bureaucrats with rigid ideas and low abilities.
Stilwell even gave China's top military commander Chiang Kai-shek the nickname "Peanut" to mock his bald head, and used this to promote the inclusion of many civilian and military generals in the category of "Peanuts". On the Burmese battlefield, China
The non-cooperation of the previous commander of the army, Du Yuming, made Stilwell extremely annoyed that he could not directly control the army. Stilwell always believed that the only way to completely change this situation was to only need Chinese soldiers, not Chinese
Officers. Therefore, he suggested that the U.S. Department of War send a large number of middle- and lower-level officers to Indian bases in order to achieve the goal of fully controlling this army.
As a large number of cutting-edge soldiers came to India via the Hump Route, the strength of the expeditionary force continued to increase, and the competition for the command of the army became more and more intense. As the top general of China appointed by Chiang Kai-shek, Luo Zhuoying knew the bottom line of the Chinese military very well.
So although he dealt with it as flexibly as possible in other aspects, he refused to give in on the issue of command authority. Of course, from a strategic perspective, it is understandable that Stilwell, the top commander of the expeditionary force, wanted to have full control of the army, but the problem was this
This in itself touches the bottom line of the Chinese military. Chongqing will never allow the command of its elite troops to be handed over to the Americans.
Stilwell's attempt to control the command of all national army troops was not only opposed by senior generals such as Luo Zhuoying and Liao Yaoxiang, but also aroused strong resentment among many middle- and lower-level officers. It was precisely because of this that Stilwell turned his attention to
It was transferred to the Sino-US joint force formed by Mike. If a military general wants to control the army, he must have corresponding merits and power. Stilwell did not find out his own mistakes, but believed that the confrontation between Luo Zhuoying and the others was because of himself.
There are no direct troops that can be controlled.
The detachment that mobilized Tangcheng to return to Lieduo seemed to be the advice of a staff officer in the headquarters, but it was actually the instruction of Stilwell, because for now, Mike's combined force may be the only force that Stilwell can control.
"General, I want to know why?" Seeing that Stilwell was just tasting the wine but not talking, Mike, who couldn't wait any longer, took the initiative to start the conversation, but he never thought that the proposal to transfer Tangcheng and the others back to Lieduo was
Stilwell's instructions.
When Mike went out to ask about this matter, Stilwell naturally could no longer pretend to be confused. He shrugged seemingly relaxedly. Stilwell put down the wine glass in his hand and said with a smile, "Mike, you have to know that any order I make is just to be able to
Defeat the damn Japanese. Among all the expeditionary forces, only your small unit has walked through Savage Mountain twice. I need them to provide route guidance for the engineering troops that are about to set off to Lieduo. As long as we are in Savage Mountain
By opening up a new road in the mountains, our army will be able to continuously move into northern Myanmar when we counterattack Burma, and the mechanization assigned to the army will not get stuck in the quagmire."
Stilwell has already brought out his big hat to try to persuade Mike, but Mike, who has the support of the American consortium behind him, does not accept his trick. Even though Stilwell is the nominal commander of the expeditionary force, if he confronts the people behind Mike,
The American consortium and Stilwell, a commander with no real power, really couldn't do anything to Mike. Mike thought about it carefully and decided to make a last-ditch effort. If Stilwell still didn't agree to revoke the order, he would have no choice but to destroy the US military.
Observation group.
"General, I object to this order. There are only more than 300 people in my small army, and their route this time does not coincide with the route of the army going south. Forcing them to return will only force them to fight with the Japanese army. They only have
With more than 300 people, they are no match for the Japanese army in northern Burma."