Although it was a plan that he had planned and implemented as early as the beginning of the year to allow the Japanese army to enter Siam in advance and publicly break up with the United States and Britain as early as possible in order to be more proactive in seeking American aid for the Anti-Japanese Alliance. But Yang Zhen
I don't know if the Japanese army's move was based on my original plan.
Because so far, he has not received any relevant reports from the intelligence department. You must know that although the action plan has been issued, the initiation of the Anti-League mole operation in the Japanese army must be approved by Yang Zhen personally. If the Japanese army does this
It was really his plan that was successfully implemented, and Yang Zhen would definitely not know about it.
Before receiving a similar report from the Intelligence Department, Yang Zhen was not sure whether the Japanese army's move was related to his plan. He was even less sure that the mole he had placed in the army, which had been transferred to the Southern Army,
What role did it play in it?
However, although he was a little surprised, for Yang Zhen, no matter what the Japanese army did in Southeast Asia, how the British would react to the aggressive posture of the Japanese army was not what Yang Zhen wanted to consider. For him, the British
How many colonies will be lost and how many British people will die have nothing to do with him and have nothing to do with the resistance.
On the contrary, the more the Japanese army makes troubles in Southeast Asia, the greater the pressure it will bring to the United States and Britain, and the more beneficial it will be to the Anti-Japanese Alliance and even the entire Chinese War of Resistance. The more the Japanese army makes troubles in Southeast Asia, the more the Americans and British need the Chinese.
As the Resistance Alliance has contained the largest heavily armed group of the Japanese army at present, there will be more opportunities for pattern fish among them.
However, there was another negative impact of the Japanese army's move that he could not consider. The Japanese army's entry into Siam and Laos certainly posed a great threat to British Burma and even British India. But for the Burma Road, this
The threat to China's only material import and export artery, as well as the subsequent impact of this threat, made him very worried.
Although he also knew the fragility of the Burma Road and its importance to China as a whole to persist in the war of resistance, and even had a decisive impact on whether China could persist in the war against Japan, he was destined to be defeated after the Japanese publicly broke up with the British.
It will be the key target of the first wave.
Not only for Myanmar's oil and mineral products, but also to cut off China's only lifeline to the outside world, it will also cause the Japanese army to attack British Myanmar as soon as the Pacific War starts. This Britain is not stable in the first place. Most of the residents except those
All non-Europeans hate the British with gnashing teeth.
Yang Zhen thinks that at least it is not his turn to worry about how the British will be beaten. In fact, Yang Zhen has no good impression of the British who have always been selfish and greedy, neither now nor in future generations. They are in Japan
Yang Zhen didn't care at all how much he lost under the attack of the British. Even the greater the British losses, the happier Yang Zhen would be.
But for Yang Zhen, what he is more worried about is that once the Japanese army launches an attack on British Burma, the British will definitely ask them to send troops. They have actually mentioned this suggestion. The National Government in Chongqing will never agree.
But what happens after the failure of the first expeditionary force into Burma? Will the Nationalist Government, which is eager to open up a lifeline, agree to this damaging idea proposed by the British?
If Chongqing could not withstand the combined pressure of the United States and Britain and asked the central government to send troops to the Anti-Japanese War, what would the central government do? During the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, after repeatedly asking for cooperation from the North China troops to no avail, Chongqing ignored the actual combat capabilities of the internal troops and
It is widely publicized that the central government will not save the people. In terms of public opinion, it has caused considerable passivity to the central government.
This war over Yunnan and Burma is related to the fate of China, especially when it is related to whether China can guarantee the last external channel. Will Chongqing, which is in a rage, agree to the suggestions of the United States and Britain, and join forces with the United States and Britain to
The central government is exerting tremendous pressure. Will the central government finally agree to send troops in order to calm the pressure from domestic public opinion?
Once the central government agrees to send troops, how much impact it will have on his future strategy is a question that Yang Zhen has to consider. If he was still too far away from Chongqing before, then the situation in Southeast Asia has undergone extremely adverse changes.
Today, Yang Zhen felt that the distance was suddenly drawn closer.
Yang Zhen knew very well that the British delegation's request for the Anti-Japanese Alliance to send troops to help defend its Southeast Asian colonies when necessary was definitely not an isolated one. It was not just the wishful thinking of the British, and it must have been mixed with it.
It’s a mixture of American ideas. It’s even possible that this idea came from Americans at all.
Maybe the United States and Britain have reached a certain secret agreement in private, behind the backs of the Chinese. Using aid supplies as a bargaining chip, they will force themselves to send troops to Southeast Asia at their request when necessary to defend their so-called crown.
, the various colonies of that gem.
Although this suggestion from the United States and Britain is certain to encounter firm opposition from the Chongqing side, not only are the two sides at odds with each other, but they are almost unable to maintain their appearance on the surface. But now, under the pressure of a powerful enemy, both sides
They all still have some scruples, and they still barely manage to avoid openly breaking their faces, but after defeating Japan, they will definitely become their opponents' armies, and no one in their core control areas will be willing to do this.
And in terms of political propaganda, Chongqing will not agree easily. Now it is no longer the past three or seven years when they exaggerated and publicized each other's achievements in order to stabilize people's hearts and show unity within China despite repeated defeats.
, three or eight years ago. Now Chongqing has begun to suppress Yan'an in various ways.
If his old rival is allowed to outperform him on the battlefield, it will make it difficult for Chongqing to ignore it, and it will also cause instability in the people's hearts. It will make the people in the Kuomintang-controlled areas think that the Kuomintang government is even more incompetent. Therefore, Yang Zhen believes that when the Japanese invaded Myanmar
In the early days, Chongqing would never allow the Anti-Japanese Alliance to go through the hinterland of the Kuomintang-controlled areas to fight in Myanmar.
But under the pressing situation, especially when the line of life and death is cut off, Chongqing will probably not be able to care about anything by then. Especially once the United States and Britain join forces, there is almost no possibility that Chongqing can withstand the pressure. Once Chongqing's
The first expeditionary force failed, so asking Yan'an to send troops was a very likely and inevitable choice for Chongqing.
From the analysis of the character of the British and the importance of the British in various colonies in Asia, Yang Zhen could hardly see that the outcome of the Chongqing expeditionary force's first entry into Myanmar would be different from the period of history he was familiar with.
What changes? So Yang Zhen had to consider the continuous events that this incident would cause and the subsequent impact on himself.
Although Yang Zhen had never been afraid of the Japanese army, if the central government really agreed to mobilize the Anti-Resistance Alliance to Southeast Asia, Yang Zhen was extremely reluctant. Let’s not talk about geography, climate, and the impact on combat. Just follow his own
From the known history, Yang Zhen was firmly opposed to the fact that the expeditionary force trapped a half-dead British, an extremely unreliable ally.
The British allowed the expeditionary force to enter Burma to fight, not to protect Burma, nor to ensure the smooth flow of China's last external channel so as to provide better and more assistance to the Chinese. Instead, they asked the Chinese to act as scapegoats for them.
They were only buying time to protect British India, Britain's most important colony.
When the expeditionary force first entered Myanmar, the British not only refused to cooperate, but also restricted and disrupted them at every turn. They even openly plundered the supplies of the expeditionary force and shipped them to India for their own use. Not only were the aid given to China by the Americans robbed,
Even the supplies imported by the Chinese and hoarded at the ports of Burma were taken away by the British if they could, and all that could not be taken away were blown up or simply thrown to the Japanese.
Even if the British treat Chongqing like this, they will definitely not treat the Anti-Japanese League any better. Even if it cannot be said that they are secretly disrupting the situation, they are certainly restricting everything. Even if the British really provide full cooperation, but in the light of the British
The army's command level is poor, and Yang Zhen will not let them command his troops.
The most important thing is that the so-called comprehensive cooperation of the British. According to their national characteristics of caring about their own interests and never caring about the life and death of others, no matter how good they say, it is basically impossible. The so-called British Empire among the British people
Its credibility can be said to be worthless in Yang Zhen's eyes.
With such an ally who has different dreams, no one can see any hope of victory. Let alone stopping the Japanese offensive, it will be very good not to be betrayed by these guys. Let Yang Zhen cooperate with the British
In battle, he would rather directly fight the Japanese army with bayonets.
This is not because Yang Zhen has any prejudice against the British, but the countless historical events that have happened have proven countless times that the British are not reliable at all, let alone a trustworthy ally. The guarantee of the British,
In Yang Zhen's opinion, he is not as loyal as a dog.
Regardless of what the British are saying now, the British will be responsible for all the supplies for the Anti-Japanese Alliance in Southeast Asia. I am afraid that by then, in addition to asking the Chinese to work for them, these arrogant but stingy British will be able to implement their previous guarantees
Two out of ten is already pretty good.
It is quite possible that the British will not get rid of anything. Yang Zhen does not believe 200% of these British people. Even if the Americans guarantee it, he will not believe any promises made by these British people. For Yang Zhen, he
We do not want to repeat the mistakes of the National Government.
Moreover, Southeast Asia is almost thousands of miles away from the Northeast, and there is no direct railway line in the middle. The entire supply line is not only long, but also passes through the areas controlled by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. It is not only extremely unreliable, but also unsafe. Under the circumstances of the huge difference in ammunition caliber,
How to ensure logistics when deploying anti-resistance forces to fight in Southeast Asia? Especially how to ensure the largest consumption of light weapons and ammunition?
The most important thing is that the three allies are already scheming against each other and have different dreams. With their own involvement, I am afraid that the situation there will become even more chaotic. Moreover, Chongqing will never let the Communist Party go big in front of its so-called allies.
To show off, they will definitely send troops into Myanmar at the same time.
Just like the tragic Chinese Expeditionary Force that I know, the most elite troops from Chongqing were sent to defend Burma, China's last lifeline. How will the Kuomintang and the Communist Armed Forces cooperate at that time? Will there be constant internal fighting, or will they work together to fight against the outside world?
In Yang Zhen's opinion, the first possibility should be greater.
The time now is not the period when the Anti-Japanese War broke out. The Nationalist Government was almost crazy hungry for all the armed forces that could be brought to the battlefield. It is not the period of 38 years when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated most closely. I am afraid that the two sides are far more wary of each other.
The mentality of cooperating in fighting.
The messy relations between the three countries and the four parties, coupled with the estrangement between them, would actually mean losing the battle if they were not fought. Under such circumstances, there is no need for the Anti-Japanese Alliance to send troops to Southeast Asia. Moreover, the body is not very strong.