Chapter 679: Churchill's Troubles
Slim is very anxious now, he knows that now Japanese motorcycles are faster than their cars, once they are chased by those devils, then the 20,000 people here are estimated to all be killed, even if they insist on tonight, tomorrow the devil's bombers will come, and then they still have nowhere to escape!
At this time, the generals who were with him were also quite depressed and angry, and they had persuaded Slim before that he would take his troops to the Chinese side, and then return to the Chinese side under the escort of the Chinese troops.
If they had asked for help from the Chinese side on the Indo side, instead of going to India insistically, maybe their original more than 80,000 people would not have died, and along the way, there were corpses of their British soldiers everywhere, and now there are so many people left, and the British have also broken off diplomatic relations with the Chinese side, which makes those British soldiers all down, they all know that once they are chased by those Japanese troops, it is a dead end.
"Commander, we should send another telegram to the country, asking them to let the Chinese troops come over to assist us, the soldiers are already very tired, they can't stop the attack of the Japanese troops at all, Commander, no matter what, we have to send another telegram back, we can't run far at this speed, if we defend here, we can't stop tomorrow, please send another telegram!" A major general looked at Slim and spoke.
When the other major generals heard this, they all looked at this Slim, and now they all know that life and death depend on tonight, if the Chinese troops come to save them tonight, then they may not have to die, if China does not save them, they will not survive tomorrow, the Japanese troops have already chased after them!
"Okay, I'll send a telegram and ask. However, there is not much hope, our country has just severed diplomatic relations with China, and now it is impossible to let them save us! Slim nodded,
He didn't want to die. He didn't want to see his troops wiped out, he was followed by 5 divisions of troops, and now there is only one division of troops left, most of whom have already died.
Soon, Slim sent a telegram to the British side.
"Damn, for such a long time, why can't you run back, what the hell is going on. Do we still have to ask for help from China? Churchill saw the telegram from Slim and said quite angrily.
Originally, when they retreated from Ban Mao yesterday, they still had more than 40,000 people, but now there are less than 20,000 left, and more than 10,000 wounded.
"It's impossible for us to ask for support from China, and even if we ask for support, China won't help us!" A staff member looked at Churchill and said.
"Damn, send a telegram to Slim and tell him to continue retreating north with his troops. Gotta retreat to the Indian side, damn it! "Churchill said 2 damn things in a row.
He really didn't expect that his troops had retreated, and the Japanese troops were still chasing them, and now he was asked to ask for help from the Chinese side, which he couldn't do, he would rather Slim's side think of a way again. See if you can escape, if you can escape, that's the best, if you can't escape, he can't do anything!
"What. Let's continue to retreat, damn it, I'm going to protest, we have more than 100,000 people, and now, there are only 20,000 people left, it's all them, they want us to retreat to the Indian side, are they stupid to be Japanese troops? Will they allow us to make a successful retreat to India?
Mistakes have been made again and again, if we had retreated to the Chinese side, how could we have saved the lives of the soldiers, but now, we will not survive at all, what do they think, who will bear the responsibility for such a large casualty! When a major general saw the telegram from Slim's side, he shouted angrily, he knew that there was no one to save the British troops!
"Let's surrender, now we can only surrender, surrender to the Japanese side, or we will be dead!" A major general raised his head and looked at everyone and said,
When they heard this, they all looked up at the major general, and then turned to look at Slim. Slim sat there and didn't speak, in front of them were the troops they were marching, although there were vehicles, but they all ran away with wounded, and now those soldiers who were able to walk, they were all walking, and the speed was very slow, and the Japanese troops would soon be able to catch up!
"If we don't escape, we will surrender, but I hope that this matter will be borne by the old men in our country, if they agreed to let us go to China, maybe our casualties will not be so big, if our country and China cooperate, maybe, we can leave and go back now,
The Chinese troops are very capable of fighting, and on the Banmao side, you can also see that they are fighting with the Japanese troops, and the Japanese troops are not the opponents of China's troops at all! Slim sat there and said sadly, now he also regretted that if he had not carried out the orders of the headquarters, but had persuaded them to take his troops to the Chinese side, maybe there would not have been such a big casualty here.
"We need the country to know about this situation, we can't let the country misunderstand that our troops here are useless, it was their command error, they shouldn't let us come out alone!" A major general spoke.
"Yes, we have to let the people in the country know that it's not that we don't fight, it's not that we want to retreat, it's that the top doesn't let us fight, we have to make it clear to the people in the country, so that our soldiers' families can know what's going on here, we really can't look at these children and continue to sacrifice, we don't have many people anymore!" Another major general followed suit.
"Okay!" Slim nodded, he doesn't want to take this responsibility on himself now, more than 80,000 people died, if he surrenders, then how will the country see himself, how his family can survive in the country, this is a big problem, and the responsibility for this matter is limited, or is it a command mistake and a strategic mistake on the domestic side.
"Send a telegram to the country!" A major general spoke.
"Good!" Slim nodded,
Soon, they drafted a telegram in which they wanted to order their troops to surrender now, and the reasons for surrendering, as well as how their troops had been fighting here in the past few months, and how the domestic command had commanded indiscriminately if they missed the opportunity to be rescued, leaving them in a desperate situation.
Soon after, the telegram was sent to China, and the families of those soldiers and the local newspapers knew about it, and they were ready to report it, and the local people saw the reports, especially when the families of the fighting in Southeast Asia saw that the casualties were so large, and now they did not know whether their relatives were dead or alive, they began to protest.
"What, who told them to send such a telegram, who made them surrender, they want to be treasonous and can't?" When Churchill saw the contents of the telegram, he shouted angrily, and the meaning of the telegram was very clear, and the people pointed the blame directly at him.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, now that many people in the country know the contents of this telegram, some soldiers' families have begun to come to our side, and they want to protest!" A staff officer came over to remind him.
"No, you mean to say that this telegram has been seen by other ordinary people?" Churchill looked at the staff officer in shock.
"Yes, many domestic newspapers are estimated to publish it immediately, and more people will know about it by then!" The staff officer nodded and said.
"No, you can't let them log out, you can't let them log out!" Churchill roared loudly, if this telegram is published, let's not say whether what is said in this telegram is true or false,
Those people saw it, but they didn't think it was fake, this was sent out by a commander in Southeast Asia, it was definitely not fake, it was the domestic command that had a problem, they saw those children go to death, how could the families of these soldiers not be angry, and now, there are so many young people in Britain who are serving as soldiers, they are resisting the German invasion here, they know it, and it is estimated that they will not let Churchill go.
"It's late, there are too many people who know!" The staff officer spoke, and at this time, the staff members sitting in Churchill's office saw this situation and didn't know how to deal with it, and now it was no longer something they could handle!
Soon, hundreds of people gathered outside their cabinet building, holding signs protesting against the entire cabinet, which had buried more than 80,000 people on the battlefield in Southeast Asia. Slowly, more and more, and after two hours, tens of thousands of people were gathered here, all protesting and needing Churchill to stand up and explain.
"What are we going to do now, what are we going to do now?" Churchill looked at the staff in his office and asked loudly,
Because just now, many commanders on the front line have sent telegrams, asking what is going on, whether it is really a mistake in the decision-making of the command, and not letting those soldiers retreat to the Chinese side, nor letting them surrender.
All this was immediately picked up by the Japanese intelligence agencies and the German intelligence agencies, and they sent the telegram back to China, and Okamura Ninji soon saw the telegram.
"Yo Xi, it's good to surrender, with these people in our hands, I think, we will be more handy in fighting India!" After Okamura Ninji saw the information, he said with a smile.
"Hey, now that Slim's people haven't gone back, the Indian side of the army is definitely not enough, we can quickly attack India!" The staff officer was also quite happy to speak.
"No, no, there's one more thing that hasn't been resolved!" Okamura Ninji shook his head and said.
・・・・・I'm sorry, the update is late, and it's still 3 more today. I want to save the manuscript! Originally, today's update could be early.,I forgot to update the code code.,I'm sorry! ・・・・・・ (To be continued.) )