Chapter 734: Stilwell

As soon as March begins, the fields are sprinkled with people in many places, especially in areas like Yunnan, where the climate is warm.

Yunnan's subsistence allowance policy has been fully implemented. With their own land, the farmers are particularly motivated. I worked until three poles in the morning, and then rested and had breakfast on the ground.

While resting in the fields, a few farmers looked at the newly cultivated land, and after festivities, they habitually chatted about the news from the loudspeaker in the village early in the morning. The words of one of the old men in his fifties brandishing a hookah made Stilwell's feet go limp, and he almost fell: "What is this called, this is called a bitter meat trick!" This trick is often found in the Three Kingdoms! ”

"Washington's trick is so clumsy that even the farmers in Huaxia can see through it!" Stilwell, who was about to inquire about the nearby road, was speechless, and the farmers not far away paused when they saw the foreigner.

However, a young man in his twenties immediately muttered: "A foreign devil, what are you afraid of!" Foreign devils are nothing remarkable. Our Huaxia beat Little Japan to the bottom of the water, and Little Japan turned its head to the South Seas, which is not the same as beating the foreign devils to cry and call their mothers! ”

"That's right! Those foreign devils made a fuss, and they only lost more than a thousand people with a bitter trick, and there were not as many people starving to death in our county as there was the great drought a few years ago! A man in his thirties raised his voice and glanced at Stilwell, who was standing on his feet.

Poor Lieutenant General Stilwell, commander-in-chief of the US forces in the China-Burma-India theater, was ignored and bullied for his pro-people and non-disturbing actions. There are no more than a dozen people around, showing the official authority, which is a smile that makes the farmers who don't know much about it afraid of it.

Stilwell apparently didn't think much of it at this time, just listened to the farmer's conversation and had a bruise on his forehead.

"I heard that there are few people in the country of those foreign devils, and they can't afford to die! The death of one hundred and eighty people is a big deal, and this time more than a thousand people died, can you not be in a hurry? ”

"Doesn't the war kill more people? In previous years, when the army was fighting, didn't it bring out countless dead bodies this time? ”

"Dead people are dead people, anyway, they are all foreign devils, let's just live our lives. After so many years of turmoil, now it's okay, and finally met the year of peace! We've come to an end of hard life! ”

"That's right! Feng Shui takes turns, and this time it's the turn of the foreign devils to suffer! ”

The peasants' voices grew louder and louder, and they didn't know that Stilwell was listening to them and wanted to vomit blood. The words of these farmers have subverted the image of the honest and wooden Chinese farmer who came to China in 20 years.

There was a rush of footsteps, and Stilwell's guards and Du Yuming, who was accompanying him from Chongqing, saw Stilwell's strange appearance in the distance, and hurried to interrupt the farmers' fields.

Several guards with guns frightened them for a moment. But then when they found out that these soldiers in American military uniforms were not pioneers, their eyes couldn't help but wander in the face of Du Yuming's inquiry.

Du Yuming seemed to have been treated by the little devils when he asked for directions, and he was also very annoyed by the non-violent non-cooperation of these upside-down and fragmented farmers, until a lieutenant colonel of the vanguard army who accompanied the coordination arrived, and the siege was successfully resolved.

"Our pre-exploration has been done. We have also carefully consulted the people in the surrounding villages to get first-hand information. It is completely possible to build a bridge to pass through it directly, which is more than ten kilometers closer than a detour. Li Wenping, the commander-in-chief of the China-India Highway, who followed later, also spread out the map on the front of the jeep and explained to Stilwell, who was still depressed.

Stilwell had recently been entrusted with the task of liaising with Huaxia.

As the United States shifted its strength toward a more critical Europe, and the U.S. military was still training, it was necessary to have a force that could slow down the Japanese offensive in Asia.

It is a pity that the vanguard army has not been interested in the proposal of the Americans to unite against the Japanese. Without the cooperation of the vanguard army, it would be difficult for Chongqing to send troops. Even the 100,000-strong expeditionary force, which was blocked by the Japanese in Mandalay, hesitated to take a defensive position.

Stilwell is shouldering the heavy responsibility of opening up the relationship between the vanguard army this time. Even if the vanguard army does not make a move, it will involve the army in Chongqing.

Meng Xiang is still very interested in the old man Stilwell, after all, Stilwell is also a well-known figure in China in later generations. However, this was not the best time for the vanguard army to make a move, and Yan Xishan was still sent to fool him away. However, Stilwell also had some gains, and the Chang'an government agreed to Stilwell's plan to build a road from Kunming in China to the town of Leido in northeastern India.

After the Japanese captured many territories south of Burma, they had blocked the British and American support for the Chongqing Expeditionary Force. On the Yunnan side, the vanguard army only supported food and other daily necessities, but did not open up arms trading channels.

In the eyes of the Americans, the help of the copycat company to Huaxia has already determined that the copycat company may enjoy the exclusive right of arms in China, and it is normal to not allow the passage of British and American arms. It is only necessary to support the Chongqing Expeditionary Force in Burma with arms and strategic materials, and the airlift capacity that has not yet been fully deployed is still somewhat insufficient.

And the construction of a road through Myanmar to India and China will undoubtedly solve many problems.

In the future, a large amount of supplies can enter Myanmar from India to communicate with India and Myanmar and facilitate the mobilization and deployment of the army. Even in the future crisis in India, it may also receive help from China. Roads were built to facilitate U.S. penetration into the surrounding areas.

Therefore, Stilwell's plan was approved by Washington, and at this time, it was supported by the vanguard army, and his confidence could not help but be greatly increased, and he hurriedly ran to the places along the line to inspect. But I don't want to encounter an embarrassment brought by a Chinese farmer who has just been turned on by the loudspeaker.

However, he then sensed the vanguard army's intention to take precautions for the southern situation from Li Wenping's full preparations, and although he did not take into account Meng Xiang's ambitions for India, he also had more confidence in persuading the vanguard army to cooperate.

Besides, he needed to test the attitude of the vanguard army towards the declaration of war by the United States against Germany, so he hurried back to Kunming that day, and flew directly from Kunming to Chang'an overnight.

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"China and Germany are still friends!" Meng Xiang had just finished talking to Lao Xi on the phone when he received the news of Stilwell's arrival.

Since the United States declared war on Germany, there has been an endless stream of people from all walks of life who have come to test the news of China.

Everyone knows that China and Germany are invisible allies, and this time the Americans attacked Germany, Huaxia's opinion naturally influenced a major aspect of the next world pattern.

Military strength, the world has listed China as the fifth in the world, second only to Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, higher than Japan and France, China's words and deeds have attracted more and more attention from the world.

"What we urgently need is to complete the reunification of the country, and if our rights and interests are not threatened, we will not consider foreign wars for the time being." Meng Xiang once again politely declined Stilwell's invitation to join forces against Japan.

Lao Chiang once again became his shield, and the news that the Japanese got anyway was the same.

In some domestic newspapers, the slogan calling for reunification is also directed at Lao Chiang.

Although the Japanese also understood that the disparity in strength between the vanguard army and Lao Chiang was too large, it did take a while to clean up Chongqing and complete reunification, and they relaxed a little. I didn't know that the infiltration of the vanguard army could be turned over at any time, and it would be decided overnight.

Stilwell said regret in his mouth, but he knew in his heart that Washington would not give the vanguard army much chance of unification. His old friend Marshall had told him that a united and uncontrollable China inclined towards Germany was extremely dangerous. The United States would rather let the Japanese wreak havoc for a while longer than allow China to expand its influence to Southeast Asia to pick fruits.

The ideal of the United States would be to send troops to Southeast Asia to Chongqing, while the direction of the vanguard attack would be the puppet Manchurians in the north and the Japanese mainland.

"There are not enough benefits for Huaxia to fight against Soviet Russia, and it is difficult to fight on two fronts and deal with the Japanese army in the northeast at the same time." Stilwell's issue of sending troops once again hit a wall and he couldn't help but regret in his heart, "It's a pity that our Pacific Fleet has suffered heavy losses and can't provide enough naval support to Huaxia." Otherwise, taking advantage of the Chinese people's eagerness to recover Taiwan and Hainan, they would be able to persuade Chang'an to send troops. ”

"The Central Army lacks relevant training, and there have been more casualties in the past, so we still need to rely on our team at critical moments!" After Stilwell left, Fan Chong couldn't help but laugh.

Now the 100,000 expeditionary force is in a dilemma.

The Expeditionary Force, which had been stationed in Mandalay and Myitkyina, had brought in the supplies from the country, as well as the transporters and even the British, to feel the strength of the Vanguard Army. The brainwashing and ideological isolation of Chongqing were obviously extremely rudimentary, far inferior to Sovietism, and under the deliberate infiltration of the vanguard army, the soldiers and middle- and lower-level officers below had already turned their hearts to the vanguard army.

The top brass of the expeditionary force had no choice but to pin their hopes on peace talks between Chongqing and the vanguard army.

It is a pity that the peace talks between Chongqing and the vanguard army have been dragging on, and there is no intention of negotiating together. This also made it not very smooth for the vanguard army to win over Dai Anlan and other high-level officials of the expeditionary force. Fan Chong has this to say.

Because in the Yunnan region, Sun Liren has already led a 100,000-strong army on standby, ready to attack at any time. Fan Chong believed that with these 100,000 troops, it was enough.

"We need to do something else! The combination of Zhengqi is the king! Meng Xiang also smiled.

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