956. The Indo-Burmese Crisis

"Your Excellency, Commander, I didn't expect to be so young, I'm really happy to see you!"

For Major General Suthers's smiling and pretending to be enthusiastic, Bai Shujie was very disgusted.

Especially when he saw this middle-aged man with fine skin and tender meat, Bai Shujie was even more disgusted: Lao Tzu is tanned, why the hell are you so white? Isn't it possible to come here specifically to show Lao Tzu's foreign appearance?

Although he was a little unimpressed, Bai Shujie's mouth was very enthusiastic: "Mr. Chief of Staff deigned to visit, Bai is really lucky." I would like to express my admiration for your ministry's attack on the Japanese devils on the front line of Kuah Island! ”

Major General Suthers did come here for something, so he didn't talk nonsense: "Your Excellency Commander, in order to support China's anti-Japanese battlefield, the India-Burma Joint Command has decided to rebuild the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and it has officially broken ground on December 10. ”

"However, the Japanese monkeys seemed to go crazy and attacked the line of Imphal in India, and the British could no longer support it. There is no doubt that if the road and rail transportation lines between Calcutta and Assam and Ledo were cut off by Japanese monkeys, the British troops in India would be in a desperate situation again. ”

Bai Shujie just nodded slightly, and did not make a clear statement: "Mr. Chief of Staff, even if what you say is true, I believe that the Japanese devils will definitely do this in order to obtain more strategic resources." But what does this qiΔ“ have to do with me? Mr. Chief of Staff should know that I am now taking care of myself. ”

"Less than 300 kilometers to the west of me is the 100,000-strong army of Fengwen under the mountain. The Palau Islands, east of Mindanao, were Ozawa's Third Fleet. To the northeast of me is the island of Taiwan, which is occupied by the Japanese devils, and the remnants of the 48th Division above it are eyeing each other. ”

"To tell you the truth, don't say that I don't have extra troops now, and even if I do, I will never reach out to rescue the British army who has betrayed my allies and only cares about my own escape. The inferiority of the British is destined to be impossible to be friends, and will only shoot black guns behind you. ”

Major General Suthers waved his hand: "Your Excellency, Commander, I didn't mean that. Not only do you have no energy to care about them now, but even our Allied Command in the southwest doesn't have the energy to care about them. We don't have the ability to send troops to help them, but that doesn't mean we can't do something. ”

"The situation is like this, our joint meeting of the chiefs of staff made a decision last week that we want to provide as much material assistance as possible to the Indian side. After research, General Nimitz and General MacArthur believed that these things could still be done. ”

Bai Shujie's brows suddenly furrowed: "If you can help, you see that everyone is a member of the international anti-fascist camp, of course you should be." But now that I have a problem eating, where can I help others? ”

"It's not for His Excellency the Commander's help, but for us, the United States, to help." Major General Suthers smiled rarely: "Your Excellency, Commander, a considerable part of these aid materials are to be sent to the Chinese theater of operations. It was too far to go through the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, so I wanted to build a transit point in Borneo and transfer it from Pearl Harbor. ”

"Your Excellency Commander, you have always been well-informed, and you should know that we Americans are setting up a training camp in the Indian town of Ramgarh, and the training targets are 40,000 people from China. That is, China's Burma Expeditionary Force, Zheng Dongguo served as the commander, Sun Liren was the deputy commander and commander of the new 38th Division, and Liao Yaoxiang was the commander of the new 22nd Division. ”

Of course, Bai Shujie knew that the first time he retreated, Du Yuming blindly commanded what Savage Mountain must take, and as a result, he lost 15,000 people in the battle and 40,000 in the Savage Mountain.

Fortunately, General Sun Liren disobeyed the order, and finally withdrew the new 38th Division to India, and it was the only unit that remained intact.

Otherwise, Chiang would definitely not have replenished 23,000 men, and there would have been no second expedition to Burma at all.

Thinking of this, Bai Shujie's heart moved, unusually, and he looked very happy: "Establish a material transfer station, Mr. Chief of Staff?" We are all part of the international anti-fascist camp, and it is of course my duty to do so. Where I need my cooperation, just say that I will do my best. It's justβ€”"

Rear Admiral Suthers understood: "Your Excellency Commander, rest assured, if a material transfer station can be established here, the three aircraft carriers we have built will be transported with the first batch of supplies." It is precisely because of these three aircraft carriers that the Chiefs of Staff Liaison Conference decided to build a transit station here. ”

"Because according to the request of His Excellency the Commander, although these three aircraft carriers look peculiar, they are not outfitted at the moment, and they are simply empty shells. So General Stilwell proposed a building that would be used to transport the first supplies. Haha-"

Bai Shujie waved his hand: "Mr. Chief of Staff, what I mean is that if the US government can send over a batch of drilling equipment and oil refining equipment, I will have crude oil here that can be extracted and refined." If calculated in this way, the cost of fuel to support the Chinese battlefield will drop a lot. ”

"If we want to defeat the Japanese devils, it will definitely not happen overnight, we need to think long-term. Reducing the cost of war as much as possible and reducing the economic pressure on the people at home is also one of the things that our decision-makers on the battlefield should consider. Isn't it, Mr. Chief? ”

Major General Suthers, although a clever chief of staff, was not an oil expert, nor a chemical expert, and his concern was to reduce the cost of war.

As a result, Bai Shujie was fooled, and Major General Suthers quickly agreed to this proposal: "After I return to Australia, I will immediately submit this plan to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and strive to send a batch of port and terminal equipment and oil exploration equipment as much as possible, and of course oil refining equipment must be missing." ”

Things went unexpectedly smoothly, and both sides were happy, and Major General Suthers hurried back by special plane.

Suddenly put forward the need for production equipment, Bai Shujie of course had other considerations.

It's not hard to drill wells and pump crude oil out, but building two refineries isn't that simple. As for refining the fuel and putting it into use, it will take longer.

Now that it has entered 1943, others do not know the direction and outcome of the war, but Bai Shujie is naturally very clear: the little devil will completely collapse if he insists on holding on for two years at most.

That is, by the time the refinery was able to produce, the world war was over, and it was simply impossible to provide assistance to anyone.

Is it offered to some people to fight the civil war? Bai Shujie would not do such a stupid thing.

However, being able to take advantage of such an opportunity to get back tens of millions of dollars of equipment from the Americans, and when the war is over, it can play a huge role, Bai Shujie feels that this business must be done.

Moreover, Bai Shujie proposed to Major General Suthers the need for 240 units of 100-meter drilling equipment and equipment for six oil refineries at one time, and there are still deep-seated considerations, so I can't just say it for the time being.

Since he promised others, he had to do it as a thing, and Bai Shujie made a phone call, and the surroundings of Kuching Port began to operate.

Kuching Port was originally a foreign trade port, which was previously bombed by Japanese devils, and later completely bombed into ruins by Zhao Dayong's artillery division. Besides, but now the whole world is at war, and there is no business to do.

The Americans offered to transport port equipment and a special airport supporting facilities, and Bai Shujie felt that such a good thing should still be agreed.

Just in the more than two years before the end of the war, the port that was about to be abandoned was completely rebuilt, ready for the end of the world war, and laid the foundation for economic take-off.

Thinking that the world war was coming to an end, Bai Shujie's heart felt that time was even tighter.

Because he knew that tomorrow, November 6, 1942, after the liberation of Smolensk, the Soviet Red Army would occupy Kiev.

According to the inherent historical trajectory, half a month later, that is, on November 22, 1942, a trilateral summit meeting of China, the United States, and Britain will be secretly held in Cairo.

Bai Shujie could have imagined that this must be a meeting of Chiang Tseok's betrayal, and a meeting where the lame Roosevelt and the rogue Churchill put on small shoes for the Soviet Union and himself.

No matter what happens next, doing your own things well according to the established policy is the best way to save your life, so Bai Shujie put aside a qiΔ“ and plunged headlong into the Institute of High Energy Physics and never came out.

Two more small-scale nuclear tests were carried out in secret, but they did not meet Bai Shujie's expectations. Because according to the currently designed explosive device, the explosive power of an atomic bomb can barely reach the standard yield of 500,000 tons of TNT.

This kind of atomic bomb is naturally enough to deal with small and medium-sized cities, but it is far from enough for Bai Shujie's inner goal.

For the island of Japan, Bai Shujie needs eight atomic bombs with a yield of 1.5 million tons, and places such as Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo, Mount Fuji, Niigata, Fukushima, and Sapporo have long been outlined on the map.

The only place that is not marked is the location of the Little Devil Navy Headquarters: Kyushu Island and its Saga Military Port, Nagasaki Shipyard and related supporting military enterprises.

This place has been classified as Bai Shujie's bag, and of course it is impossible to create pollution here. Otherwise, it is to shoot yourself in the foot with someone else's stone.

According to the inherent history, Chiang was bent on fighting a civil war, so he refused to station troops in the Japanese archipelago and completely gave up the basic rights of the victorious powers.

Bai Shujie has been planning for more than ten years, that is, to station troops in the Japanese archipelago, no matter who opposes it.

Anyway, those who are barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes, and the big deal is that the war will end two years later, and everyone will just throw off their arms and continue to fight.

It is necessary not only to garrison troops, but also to completely set aside a special zone and permanently garrison it.

It is unreasonable for a defeated country to want five people and six people.

From now on, whoever wants to use the Japanese archipelago to make trouble, Bai Shujie will definitely not agree.

For this reason, Bai Shujie's various preparations are to take Kyushu Island in one fell swoop and turn it into his own overseas base.

Since it already belongs to its own base, everything in it is its own. Whoever wants to bomb can't do it, and if it is blown into a mess, it will have to be rebuilt by themselves.

Of course, it is certain that the state officials of the Americans are not allowed to set fires, but they are just ordinary people, and it is still okay to light lamps.

So Bai Shujie is definitely going to bomb Kyushu Island, but not at this time.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.