Of course, this will not happen again, because Zhang Chi told this information to Mutaguchi Ryoya through Dengshi.

Mutaguchi Ryoya couldn't help but be overjoyed when he learned the news...... Although he had been emphasizing to the Japanese soldiers on the surface that he could capture Imphal without supplies, he only needed spirit and will, but he actually knew in his heart that spirit and will could not be eaten, and people would always have a limit, so he was actually worried that there would be problems in supply and eventually lead to the rout of the whole battle. At this time, as soon as I heard that there was such a good thing, a large number of supplies of the British army were being stored in the barracks waiting for the Japanese army to "receive", so where did they dare to slack off, they immediately changed the original battle plan, and changed the interspersed troops from one brigade to the entire 33rd Division, and the number of troops increased by dozens of times.

The results of the 33rd Division's interspersed were overjoyed by Mutaguchi Ryoya and many Japanese generals...... The British troops stationed at those two military stations did not expect the Japanese army to appear suddenly, and they were caught off guard and dispersed before they could burn the supplies, so the Japanese army obtained a large number of materials stored in these two military stations very smoothly.

When he heard the news, Mu Taguchi Lian couldn't help laughing wildly: "It seems that the British have run out of gas, and the day when the sun flag will announce our victory in India is not far off!" ”

"Zhang ......" Stilwell said excitedly to Zhang Chi on the phone: "Well done, the Japanese have really launched an attack on Imphal, and now the British are in trouble!" ”

Stilwell gloated a little, because the British had always had an attitude of preserving their strength, and Stilwell knew that the British hoped that the Sino-American coalition could consume the main Japanese force in northern Burma, and then they could "recover" Burma without much effort.

Therefore, no matter how much Stilwell tried to ask the British to send troops to cooperate with the attack of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the British replied with only one sentence: "The time is not ripe!" ”

Now it's good that the British are once again in trouble because of their short-sightedness...... Of course, the British would not have known that Zhang Chi had caused this trouble.

"General!" Zhang Chi replied: "I'm a little worried...... If we help the British too soon......"

"Of course!" Stilwell laughed and said, "I'm going to make the British suffer." And then I'd love to see the English guys bow their noble heads and beg me! ”

This is exactly what Zhang Chi wants. Stilwell's personality is that if you think of a plan in front of him, then he will never accept it, but if you guide him to think of it, then he will not hesitate to use it.

In fact, just as Zhang Chi thought, Stilwell did not immediately extend an olive branch to the British, and even sometimes found various excuses to make things difficult for the British, which made Stilwell feel very happy, because the British used India as a logistics supply base in northern Myanmar to make things difficult for Stilwell from time to time. Now it was Stilwell's turn to make things difficult for the British.

However, Stilwell did not dare to go too far, after all, the place of Imphal is also closely related to the Chinese Expeditionary Force stationed in northern Burma...... If Imphal is lost, then the next thing is the logistics supply base of the Chinese Expeditionary Army, Leido, if Leido falls into the hands of the Japanese army, then the Chinese Expeditionary Force will only have to rely on air transport to get supplies like China.

With this in mind, a few days later Stilwell gave the British a big gift, and he transferred 45 transport planes that were originally responsible for transporting supplies to China for the British army.

It was these transport planes that were urgently transported back by the 15 th Army, which had been transferred to Chittagong by the Japanese army...... At this time, the 15th Army was already more than 300 kilometers away from Imphal, and the road was full of jungle, and it would take three weeks to return to Imphal if it was marched by ground. But it only takes a few days for the transport plane to go back and forth. Otherwise, Imphal only had two Anglo-Indian divisions that were not fully staffed, where would they be able to block the pincer attack of the two divisions of the Japanese army.

But this is only part of the story, and the British are completely panicked...... India is a populous country. Moreover, there is a large amount of arable land (note: although India does not have as much land as China, it has more arable land than China), so India can be said to be the most important of the British colonies, and is called the crown jewel of the British Empire by the British.

The reason for this may also be that Indians are better managed. Under the long-term influence of Hinduism, Indians have long formed a mentality of recognizing the destiny of heaven, which is also known as the caste system, and Indians believe that people are born into different ranks. People of all caste were expected to do their own thing, and colonizers like the British, not only were they not regarded as enemies by the Indians, but were taken for granted by the high-caste people, and even the Indians were proud to speak English or look as white as the British.

Therefore, the British in India can be said to be windy and rainy, and even very easily established a very large and loyal Anglo-Indian army.

Such a colony is rare, and it is no wonder that when Mountbatten later supported the independence of Gandhi's India, his friend and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not forgive him until his death...... It is true that Britain has been in a state of flux since losing the colony of India, and has never relented.

When Mountbatten took over Imphal's defenses, the first thing he did was not to deploy Imphal's defenses, but to fly to Burma to congratulate Stilwell.

But in the name of Zhu Jie, in fact, everyone knew that Mountbatten was borrowing troops from Stilwell and the Chinese army.

Stilwell looked at Mountbatten as he stepped off the plane...... He was very dissatisfied with Mountbatten's pomp and circumstance, and brought 12 fighter planes to escort the escort, which consumed enough fuel for the US Air Force to fight a small battle over Burma.

Looking at Mountbatten's neat military uniform and full of medals, Stilwell was even more unhappy, and when Stilwell recalled the incident afterwards, he complained to his subordinates with dissatisfaction: I saw a well-dressed beggar holding a golden bowl to borrow money from me.

It should be said that this is the difference in the personalities of the two.

Mountbatten pays attention to pomp and vanity, and Stilwell has always been a single person and a single machine when he travels between China and Burma and India, Mountbatten has a military rank and a medal, while Stilwell never wears a medal, not even a military rank, often carries a carbine on his shoulder, and he is sixty years old, which makes him like a bad old man who does not leave the army.

But these two men with very different personalities and ways of doing things represent the two great powers in this part of Burma...... Great Britain and the United States. (To be continued.) )