"As of February 28, it has been fully verified that the troops marching from Gunlong to Daluo are the 6th, 7th, and 11th divisions of the Myanmar Army. Each division has artillery equipped with 36 artillery pieces.
The regiment has about nine thousand officers and soldiers..."
"The British cavalry brigade that entered Lashio the day before yesterday numbered about 7,450 people."
"The enemy troops quickly built fortifications along the border and recruited tens of thousands of Burmese migrant workers to expand the roads along the border. There is still no sign of attack..."
"The people of the five border counties have been relocated and have retreated an average of 20 kilometers. Our army's three main divisions have been prepared as planned. The second and fourth brigades of the garrison headquarters and the five engineering regiments have all been transferred to reserve groups...
"
An Yi put down the stack of messages in his hand, lit a cigarette and walked out into the sunshine outside the command room. He looked at the new buds sprouting from the big trees in the Military Commission compound and thought carefully.
Yesterday afternoon, An Yi was ordered to return to the Nanjing General Staff Headquarters to take charge of daily affairs. However, all affairs were handed over to the directors of various departments by An Yi, so that while paying attention to changes in international silver prices, he could go all out to deal with the increasingly severe situation.
The situation on the China-Myanmar border.
In the past four days, great changes have taken place on the Burmese side of the China-Myanmar border. A British infantry brigade took the lead in advancing into Lashio, followed by three Burmese army divisions. They were stationed on the south side of the China-Myanmar border from Gunon to Daluo, and were ready.
The 26th Army did not find any cross-border attack attempts by the British and Burmese troops. Only the 4th Air Regiment stationed in Simao had three encounters with the British reconnaissance aircraft formation. In the end, the enemy aircraft took the initiative to withdraw into the Burmese airspace. This did not happen.
Any firefight.
The sudden deployment of forces by the British and Burmese troops still made An Yi unable to judge - while the British and Burmese troops were oppressing the southern Yunnan border with heavy troops, only the fifth division of the Burmese army arrived in western Yunnan, plus the British troops stationed in Myitkyina.
Army "Cleveland Lancers Honorary Regiment",
The total strength of the troops is less than 15,000, and so far, there is no sign of increasing troops in western Yunnan. This abnormal phenomenon made An Yi and his staff deeply puzzled and confused, and they were unable to judge the British-Burmese army for a while.
The intention and main direction of such mobilization.
Zhan hurried up to the temporary headquarters in the conference room on the second floor. At Shen Fengdao's signal, he walked out of the balcony and came to An Yi:
"Commander, according to the commission's instructions, President Wang has arranged a meeting between the Commander and British Ambassador Gardigan at the reception hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Central Government at three o'clock in the afternoon."
"Have the people from all walks of life who have been surrounding the British Embassy in recent days dispersed?" An Yi asked.
"Dispersed. A battalion of the Military Police Headquarters and more than a thousand people from the police station forcibly dispersed. Otherwise, the British would not have agreed to hold the meeting." Zhan Zao said with a helpless smile.
An Yi said unhappily: "It's a joke, I don't plan to meet that Jiadegan at all. He called the committee three times and asked to meet me, but he delayed the meeting with one or other excuses. If it weren't for the British and Burmese troops,
If there is any unusual movement, I really suspect that this guy is deliberately confusing us, or using a strategy to delay the attack. Is there any news from Liu Qing?"
"It's still the same. Liu Qing called from Kunming early in the morning and said that Huanqi and General Lu Han were also puzzled. The border in western Yunnan was quiet. It seemed that the British and Burmese troops did not plan to launch any military operations from the west of Yunnan.
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An Yi said "hmm", looked at his watch and went back indoors, walked to the map of the Yunnan-Myanmar border, and took the long test again.
After a while, a steaming cup of fragrant tea was handed to An Yi. An Yi took it and took a sip before remembering to look at the young lieutenant standing behind him solemnly:
"Bohan, have you graduated from the military academy?"
The tall and well-built Zhao Bohan was quite shy: "Report to the commander, my subordinate graduated in August last year. After leaving the Central Military Academy, he was returned to the Syrian government headquarters as a staff officer, and was immediately transferred to the Wulong Bandit Suppression Front to serve as a training officer for the local garrison.
Instructor, I just transferred back to the Headquarters Operations Department before the Spring Festival. Last week, I came to follow the commander on the order of Commander Liu Qing."
An Yi smiled kindly: "Look at my memory, life flies by so fast... How is your uncle? Has he been in contact with you recently?"
"Yes, I received a letter from my uncle last week. He took my parents to Baoding for the Spring Festival. My mother likes my uncle's son and Chief Hu's youngest son, and takes the two little guys with her all day long.
I don’t want to let go and let my uncle urge me to find someone to get married as soon as possible. It will probably take a while for the two of us to return to our hometown in Texas." Zhao Bohan replied cheerfully in a low voice.
"Then you have to think about it carefully. I guess your mother is looking forward to holding her own grandson when she sees someone else's son." An Yi was also happy.
"How can it be possible? My subordinate has just turned twenty-four, so it's early! Brother Ziyan is two years older than my subordinate, so isn't he also unmarried?" Zhao Zihan saw An Yi's confidential secretary Liang Ziyan approaching and asked.
He also brought Liang Ziyan in.
An Yi laughed, took the report from Liang Ziyan, walked to the big table, put down his tea cup and read it carefully.
Liang Ziyan patted Zhao Bohan's hand, turned to leave, and was stopped by An Yi after walking a few steps: "Ziyan, come here...you have been with me for almost a year, right?"
"Ten months and twenty-five days."
Liang Ziyan, who graduated from the Special Major of the Military Academy and won first place in the Anjia Army's second military skills competition, realized what.
An Yi nodded: "You are very attentive and have made rapid progress, but you can't always stay with me. Commander Xia is short of people, and the newly formed special agent team is short of a battalion commander. You can go."
"Commander, I really want to work at the grassroots level, but I want to learn more from the commander. Let's talk about it in two years." Liang Ziyan and An Yi had already established a deep relationship, and they really couldn't bear to leave for a while.
An Yi waved his hand: "From Guanshan to Zhangcheng, and then to Changhe, have you seen anyone who has followed me for more than two years? Think about it again, Li Jun, the independent commander who is now under the command of Commander Hu Jialin, and those who are currently
Among the Ye Ziquan and others who studied at Mainland University, which one did not win through tough battles time and time again?
"You already have the corresponding knowledge and practical experience, and your horizons have been broadened a lot. You are still a leader in our special profession. If you don't apply the knowledge and application you have learned to actual combat, wouldn't it be a waste of time? You can't spend your whole life.
Be a confidential advisor?
"Right now, southern Yunnan is the time to recruit people. In the past few years, there are only battles to be fought in southern Yunnan. If you, a major, want to go further, you have to pile up your military exploits in actual combat and review it after this battle.
Try to get admitted to the Army University in the next term, or else directly take the exam for the quota to study in Germany at the end of the year. You will have to take this path to become a general in the future, otherwise you will have to waste your time, let's go!"
An Yi's decision was too sudden. Although Liang Ziyan had a premonition, he couldn't let go for a while. His eyes turned slightly red, his lips under his straight nose trembled a few times, and he couldn't say a word.
"Zhao Bohan?" An Yi shouted loudly.
"arrive!"
Zhao Bohan suppressed the excitement in his heart, jogged a few steps, and came to An Yi's side, standing like a javelin.
"Starting today, you will take over the confidential secretary job from Staff Officer Liang. You will be ready soon and come with me to meet that Jiadegan in the afternoon."
After An Yi gave the order, he took out his pen and signed his name on the report, and handed it to the extremely excited Zhao Bohan for filing.
Liang Ziyan quietly wiped away his tears, knowing that An Yi's order could not be changed. He took a deep breath and stepped forward: "Commander..."
"Just tell me if you have anything."
An Yi turned around and looked at his beloved general in front of him.
Liang Ziyan could not say a word, and tears flowed down the twenty-six-year-old man's handsome face.
An Yi shook his head, leaned over and wrote a note, folded it and put it gently into Liang Ziyan's chest pocket:
"When you arrive in Xufu, go to the Ordnance Research Institute to find Director Kong. You need to conduct battlefield tests of several new weapons. He will hand over the batch of equipment and various data and requirements to you. If there is not enough manpower, you can go
Ask Chief Li Fuqiang and An Jin for a few. The brigade directly under the headquarters has been
Cooperate with Lao Kong and others to test new weapons. With their people under your control, it will be much smoother. Go ahead. At one o'clock at noon, my plane will send several people from the Central Economic Commission to southern Sichuan for investigation. Just take this plane and don't show this.
You act like a little girl and make your brothers laugh."
"Yes...Commander, please...take care!"
Liang Ziyan solemnly saluted with a military salute, grabbed Zhao Bohan who was extremely moved by all this, turned around and left.
Entering the secretary's office next door, Liang Ziyan immediately explained all the precautions in detail. Zhao Bohan listened very attentively and asked humbly what he didn't understand. Liang Ziyan patiently explained and told An Yi's living habits and even the taste of the food.
He wanted Bohan Zhao to write it down in his notebook before he could feel relieved.
Zhao Bohan's uncle is An Yi's senior brother Lu Yixuan, who is now the Chief of Staff of the 17th Army and the commander of the 17th Huangpu Division. Three and a half years ago, Lu Yixuan sent his nephew Zhao Zihan to An Yi.
Zhao Zihan, who was only twenty years old at the time, admired Zhao Zihan very much.
Zihan has excellent physical fitness, good conduct, dignified appearance, and a solid cultural foundation. Especially his calligraphy skills are quite famous, and he is highly praised by his brothers. He directly recruited Zhao Zihan and the fifteen outstanding students who graduated from his sergeant school.
Recommend to Zhang Zhizhong together.
Zhao Zihan was also very competitive, no worse than the fifteen cadets who had received two years of formal military education. In the end, he ranked seventh and was successfully admitted to the ninth batch of the Central Military Academy together with the 15 cadets. He had excellent results last year.
He graduated from the infantry department of the Central Military Academy, but he was unwilling to return to the north to follow his uncle Lu Yixuan. Instead, he joined the ranks of the Anjia Army. After the talented Liu Qing got along with Lu Yixuan, he happily accepted it.
An Yi admired the down-to-earth nephew of his senior brother Lu Yixuan. Although he had occasionally heard that Zhao Bohan had made remarks that were leaning toward the Communist Party, and he often participated in demonstrations in Jinan universities during his middle school years, An Yi
This was regarded as a manifestation of the patriotic enthusiasm in the heart of a passionate young man. What's more, Zhao Bohan, who was under 20 years old at the time, was like countless patriotic students. He had no clear political consciousness?
Lu Yixuan also asked An Yi twice in his letters to ask An Yi to take good care of his sister's only son. Lu Yixuan explained his nephew's character and experience to An Yi in detail, and frankly said that if he keeps it by his side,
Because he loves him so much, it will affect the strict education he should have, and he is worried about leaving it to others. Another factor is Lu Yixuan's fanaticism for his nephew when he was a student.
Lu Yixuan believed that as long as his nephew Zhao Bohan entered the Anjia Army, everything would be in the interests of the country and the nation.
Being a melting pot that values their own thoughts and has its own ideological system will surely establish a correct outlook on life and morality.
An Yi felt the same way. Out of respect for his senior brother and his love for the young Zhao Bohan, An Yi was determined to cultivate this good seedling. He hoped that every young officer around him could take on his own role and become a soldier who could serve his family and country.