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Zhang Chi knew why it was because of an American...... Stilwell.

At this time, there were mainly two people in the supreme command structure of the expeditionary force, one was Du Yuming and the other was Stilwell.

Needless to say, Du Yuming is the commander of the Fifth Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the deputy commander of the expeditionary force, and the acting commander.

Looking at this title, you can know that Du Yuming is the most direct and actual commander of the expeditionary force.

Since he is the actual commander, why not simply let Du Yuming be the commander and "act commander"? The reason for this is that Du Yuming came up by talent and war, and such people often only know how to fight wars and do not understand politics or communication, so in this kind of situation where there is no one in the court, ...... Du Yuming often holds a deputy position, but what he does is a regular job.

The result of this is that "victory is useless, defeat is overcome...... If the battle is won, all the credit goes to the person who is hanging on the main post, and the defeat is due to Du Yuming's ineffective command.

The same was true during the Burma Campaign, before Wei Lihuang and then Luo Zhuoying, but in fact, Du Yuming did all the work.

As for this Stilwell, he is the chief of staff of the Chinese theater of operations, the commander-in-chief of the US forces in the China-Burma-India theater and a series of titles.

Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek also let him unify the command of the Chinese and British ** teams in the Burma campaign...... On the surface, this decision is correct, considering that Burma has two different armies, China and the United Kingdom, and if a unified command system is not established, it is likely that the Japanese will fight separately.

On the other hand, Chiang Kai-shek knew very well that with the arrogance of the British, it was impossible to hand over the British army to Chinese to command, and Chiang Kai-shek was unwilling to hand over the Chinese expeditionary force to the command of the British army, so he had this calculation in his heart...... Let Stilwell take command, and then the British will give the Americans a headache, you must know that Stilwell represents the United States, and use the Americans to pressure you, and the British will see if you can hand over this command.

But here's the problem: Chiang Kai-shek couldn't really put the military power in Stilwell's hands, and the British army was also disobedient to Stilwell.

As a result, a strange phenomenon appeared in the command of the expeditionary force: the Chinese and British armies were nominally commanded by Stilwell, but Stilwell was actually under the command of no one.

This was the case with the retreat of the Tonggu 200 Division.

The 200th Division had run out of ammunition and food in Tonggu, and the British army had retreated, and the Chinese reinforcements could not go up, but the Japanese army had one more division of reinforcements...... Clear-eyed people don't need to look to know that this battle will no longer have any effect.

Therefore, Du Yuming advocated retreat, but Stilwell firmly disagreed, and instead of agreeing, he ordered the 200 divisions to attack the Japanese army......

Is Stilwell a fool? Doesn't he know how to fight? Don't know how to save the strength?

Stilwell, of course, is not a fool, he understands this, and the reason why he did the opposite is because Stilwell is an American, he represents the United States, and he thinks about American interests.

At this time, the United States was in the stage when Pearl Harbor was attacked and various islands in the Pacific Ocean were caught off guard and retreated, and what the United States hoped most was that the squadron could fight the Japanese army on the Burma battlefield, so that it could consume the kinetic energy of the Japanese attack, relieve the pressure on the US army, and give them time to breathe a sigh of relief.

As for whether the Chinese are dead or alive, or whether it is worth dying, it is not within Stilwell's consideration.

And just when Stilwell and Du Yuming were arguing about whether the 200th Division should withdraw or not, the 200th Division had already missed the best period to withdraw from Tonggu.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but sigh: This chaotic command structure, as well as the different dreams of China, the United States and Britain, can be said to be the most fundamental reason for the defeat of the expeditionary force and the retreat to Savage Mountain.

Zhang Chi wasn't sure if he could change the final outcome, because he found ...... The two things he did when he came to this plane were to recapture the airfield, and second, to repel the vanguard of the 56th Division and grab a batch of equipment, which seemed to be a victory on the surface, but it didn't change anything.

At this time, the life and death of the 200th Division was still decided by the dispute between Stilwell and Du Yuming.

If Stilwell had won, the 200th Division would have been wiped out.

If Du Yuming wins, the 200th division will have a way to live.

Of course, in history, it was Du Yuming who won, and he directly bypassed Stilwell to send a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, who personally ordered the withdrawal of the 200 divisions from Tonggu.

Has Zhang Chi changed anything?

No! If anything, it might be that there is one more airport and more equipment.

Zhang Chi felt that he was like a pebble thrown into the river for this time and space, although it could stir up ripples on the surface of the river, but the river did not turn because of this.

At this time, Zhang Chi couldn't help but think of the "butterfly effect", which is the theory that a butterfly may cause a storm if it occasionally flappes its lower wings.

This theory may be true, but the point is that it is "possible".

Anything is possible, but the probability of some things being "possible" is too little and too little, and it is almost close to "impossible".

For example, the wings of a butterfly flapping, it should be hundreds of millions of butterflies, flapping billions, tens of billions or even more times, only one of the wings flapped by a butterfly is lucky to produce a chain reaction and cause a storm.

Obviously, Zhang Chi was not so lucky, everything he did in this time and space failed to cause a chain reaction, history is still developing in its established direction, and even Zhang Chi is still doubting that history still has the function of "self-correction" - it is like a small river, you push a boulder into the river to block its way, but it bypasses the boulder and continues to go in its original direction, nothing changes, if there is a change, it is an extra stone in the middle of the river.

However, if history can't be changed, Zhang Chi can only follow the 200th Division into Savage Mountain. And the primeval forest of Savage Mountain is almost a dead end for Zhang Chi, a modern person.

How can we cause a ripple effect and change history?

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi felt that the level of his influence was too low...... He only affects the fate of the engineer regiment below the division, in other words, it is just to save a few more people or win a battle, and it always stays at the tactical level.

Yes, if you want to change history, you should affect the top, and it will be different at the strategic level.

But...... As a platoon commander of an engineer regiment, how could he influence the top management to change the strategic direction of the entire campaign?

Thinking about it, Zhang Chi never came up with a satisfactory answer, and he fell asleep in a daze after a while.