Chapter 827: Marshall Returns Home
After the devils in Nay Pyi Duo City found that Li Qinwei's troops had cut off their retreat outside, the local soldiers in the entire city began to flee.
Now the Japanese officers can no longer suppress the local recruits, at the beginning, those Japanese devils still wanted to prevent the local soldiers from leaving, but after causing several firefights, the Japanese devil officers did not dare to stop them.
They also knew that if they stopped too much, the local soldiers would immediately have a large-scale riot, and the local soldiers would be able to kill them without the need for Chinese troops to kill them.
As soon as the local soldiers came out, they surrendered to the Chinese troops with their weapons, and those who resisted were killed, and only some of the lucky local soldiers were able to escape!
"Report, the urgent telegram from Li Qinwei's side, there was a large-scale escape from Naypyidaw, they are all local soldiers, and now our troops are arresting those soldiers everywhere!" A senior staff officer took a telegram to Hu Bin's side and reported.
"Flee? Only local recruits? Didn't you find the Japanese devils running away? Hu Bin heard it, stood up and asked.
"They didn't report this!" The staff officer looked at the telegram and said to Hu Bin.
"Order Xiang Feng's armored troops, Ding Wanzhong and Wang Changhe's armored troops, and in addition, let them use the existing vehicles to carry our infantry towards Naypyida, and don't let those local soldiers run away, they bring weapons, once they fall into the forest, they can become bandits. When the time comes, it will be very troublesome for us to suppress the bandits, and I will capture them all! Hu Bin said to the staff officer.
"Yes!" The staff officer left immediately.
"Just run, it seems that the devils can't stop them, it is estimated that those local soldiers fought with those devils before they came out!" Hu Bin said with a smile.
"So, Naypyitol wasn't as hard to fight as we thought? After we start the bombing tomorrow, it is estimated that those troops in the city will not survive! Li Dalong said.
"I don't care about that, I will start bombing tomorrow morning, and at the same time let Li Qinwei take the 2nd Armored Division, as well as the 101st Infantry Division, the 251st Infantry Division, the 244th Infantry Division, and the 3rd Artillery Brigade to march to India immediately!" Hu Bin said to Li Dalong.
"The battle order has been drawn up, and now we will send it when we take Naypyida!" Li Dalong said.
"That's good!" Hu Bin nodded.
"Report, report of the Air Force reconnaissance aircraft unit, found that a large number of troops are retreating from the port on the other side of Yangon, and now they are all boarding!" At this time, a senior staff officer who was in charge of liaising with the Air Force came over and reported to Hu Bin.
"Sure enough, it's a retreat, Okamura Ningji is really going to give up Burma, and now the devil in Naypyida, Okamura Ningji has no intention of saving! Contact the Air Force to see if they can still send fighters and bombers, and if they can, send fighters and bombers right away to bomb the port of Rangoon and the ships! ”
Hu Bin heard the words of the senior staff officer, and had already determined that Okamura Ningji didn't want to fight now and was going to retreat, as for where to retreat, Hu Bin didn't know!
"Yes!" The senior staff officer heard Hu Bin's words and immediately went out.
About 10 minutes later, at the airfield outside Mandalay, hundreds of fighters and bombers immediately took off and began to fly towards Yangon, the reason why they did not bomb during the day was because the Naypyida Line needed a lot of air support, and at night, the Naypyida Line no longer needed air support, so now they could go to Yangon to carry out large-scale bombing!
However, after receiving a telegram from Major General Stilwell, who had just landed in the United States, he slapped the table and said: "Damn, this is simply impossible, Hu Bin will not win so soon."
Naypyidaw and Yangon, there are 670,000 Japanese troops, and on Wei Lihuang's side, there are also 670,000 troops, Hu Bin can beat the Japanese troops and retreat on all fronts in one day, how is this possible? ”
Marshall saw Stilwell's report, and the first one didn't believe it, he had just left China on the front foot, and there was a report on the back foot that Hu Bin had won, isn't it ironic?
At the beginning, their staff also deduced it, thinking that Hu Bin had no chance of victory, but now that Stilwell sent the news, he couldn't believe it.
"Commander, it can't be true, maybe it's fake news released by China!" A senior staff officer in the back, who is also a general with the rank of major general, spoke.
"Our staff has already deduced, and it is impossible to win the battle at all!" Another major general also spoke.
"Let's go, go back to the General Staff, now Your Excellency the President is still waiting for my news, if Your Excellency the President receives Stilwell's message, it is estimated that we will be reproached by His Excellency the President, this trip to China, not only did we not achieve any results, but also offended China!" Marshall said a little frustratedly. He didn't expect it to be like this.
About half an hour later, Marshall's motorcade arrived at the presidential palace, the White House.
After getting out of the car, Marshall walked briskly to the president's office, and when he arrived at the office, he found that Roosevelt's main think tank and several senior generals in the General Staff were already waiting for him.
"Your Excellency, Good afternoon!" Marshall said to Roosevelt.
"Well, hard work, please take a seat!" Roosevelt nodded, without any happy expression on his face, because it was a misjudgment of their country that caused Marshall's trip to China to be fruitless.
"Your Excellency, I'm sorry that this incident happened so unexpectedly! We didn't expect that I had just landed in China, and Japan had completed the encirclement of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and after I came back, I received a telegram that now the Japanese troops were in a big defeat and retreating, and I really couldn't understand the affairs of China! Marshall said a little frustrated.
"I don't blame you for this, it is impossible for our staff to deduce them successfully, and our think tank has also found that China may not be able to win the battle in Southeast Asia, and now we have not received a specific notification from China, but I estimate that it will be soon.
According to the intelligence of our intelligence services, the Japanese forces in Southeast Asia have been completely defeated, and at the same time, Okamura Ninji in Rangoon is also retreating. In other words, China will be able to control at least Myanmar completely, and Thailand will be able to control part of it!
What interests me now is, are the Chinese troops really better able to fight than our US troops? And their equipment, we also purchased a lot of Chinese Bayi rifles, as well as bazookas, I have to say, those weapons have made a lot of credit to us on the front line, but we still can't win in Canada!
Not only can the army not win, but also the air force, and we can't win now, and so far, we have sacrificed more than 2,200 excellent pilots, and more than 5,000 planes have fallen.
I heard that China's fighter jets are completely victorious in the face of devil's zero aircraft, and it seems that we are going to purchase China's new aircraft again. Roosevelt sat there and said in a very calm tone.
"Yes, I also received this news, the previous air battle on the front line of Wei Lihuang, many observers of our country have seen it, it is indeed a complete victory, originally I wanted to go to Yan'an this time, but because we did not reach any effective agreement with Chongqing, Yan'an directly rejected us!" Marshall nodded and said.
"Well, there are definitely not many planes in China now, if there are more, they would have been equipped on a large scale a long time ago, this is the direct reason why they rejected us, and another reason, I feel that China needs our assistance on a larger scale.
Your Excellency the President, General Marshall, our country is already in great difficulty, if we continue to aid China, it may drag down the economy of our country, and now we have purchased a lot of materials from China, and China is also purchasing materials from our side, mainly medicines!
Therefore, in our trade with China, we have a large deficit, and in the long run, we cannot afford it at home. A think tank said to Roosevelt and Marshall.
"But without China's help, it would be even more difficult for us in the American theater, the Soviet Union is not helping now, we reminded Stalin that Germany and Japan may attack them next spring, but Stalin did not believe it at all, he knew that Germany would fight the Soviet Union, but he did not believe that Germany would fight the Soviet Union so quickly!" Another thinker also spoke.
Now they can't leave China's help.
"Stalin will regret it, when the time comes, they will come to us, the top priority is to stabilize our defense line, not to let the Japanese troops continue to attack our side, as long as the defense line is stabilized, our hope of victory is very great.
Our domestic production of all kinds of materials has also increased a lot, and we are fully able to cope with this war, and now we need to block the Japanese attack! Roosevelt looked at the generals and said.
"We will try our best to stabilize the battle line and resolutely not let the flames of war burn to our homeland!" Marshall immediately said.
"Send a telegram to Stilwell later, ask him to meet Hu Bin first, I think Hu Bin still has a lot of say in Yan'an, let Stilwell persuade Hu Bin to agree to sell some fighters to our country, so that we can quickly obtain air supremacy in Canada, and obtain air supremacy, and our battle line can be stabilized quickly!" Roosevelt continued to look at Marshall and said. (To be continued.) )