In addition, after some British warships were salvaged, the damage was not too large or small, and theoretically could be repaired, but China's current Jishuliliang could not do it, or the economic efficiency and cost ratio was too low, which also caused Hu Weidong, who was in charge of the military industry, quite a headache. However, in a hurry, he came up with two solutions that sounded a little strange at first glance

The first is to sell ships directly, mainly those warships that we don't need ourselves, such as the battleship "Nelson" was bought by Mao Zi for 50 million US dollars, so that while obtaining no less than 100 million US dollars in foreign exchange, it also divided the great powers and isolated Britain; The second is to send some of the ships that we want to keep, but cannot be repaired in China, such as the "Ark Royal" aircraft carrier, to Japan for maintenance, and by the way, send people to Japan to supervise and learn the relevant jishu, Japan is now in urgent need of hard currency, after seeing the strong strength shown by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, it is more and more unwilling to be hostile to China, so it is quite happy to take the order.

The second method is undoubtedly risky, and if Japan detains those warships, won't China lose a lot? However, the Japanese do not have a high opinion of the British aircraft carriers with a small number of aircraft carriers and slow speed, and with the successive completion and commissioning of new aircraft carriers, the number of aircraft carriers that have formed Japan's combat effectiveness has inadvertently soared to 7, ranking first in Shijie, and several have completed at least the first sea trials, so a mere aircraft carrier that is not very good is not enough to arouse their greed

Taizu has always advocated that "if people don't offend me, I won't offend people; If anyone sins against me. I will offend. In his view, the Battle of Zhoushan was only to destroy the invading enemy, and if the British wanted to completely abandon their ambitions of aggression, they must take the initiative to attack and make them afraid, not to mention that the army was originally China's advantage, and it was far more advantageous to deal with the British army than to use the navy and air force. However, in order to avoid the war from expanding too much, he only ordered the three major field armies to march to the three Han states in northern Burma, mainly to eliminate the remnants of the national army. The British army was mainly intimidated. If they resist stubbornly, they will be resolutely eliminated, and if they retreat, they will not pursue them, so as to create conditions for future peace talks.

It is worth mentioning that at this time, Jiang Xinpo had not yet been ceded to Britain by the Chiang government (historically ceded in 1941). Therefore, the PLA offensive has ready-made forward bases available. As a result, logistical supplies can be more secured. At this time, the situation of the remnants of the Northern Burmese Army can only be described as miserable. There were too many of them, and the British masters refused to lower their treatment to raise these lost dogs, and because of the fiasco in the Battle of Zhoushan. The British Chamberlain government quickly collapsed, and the new Prime Minister Churchill was busy forming a cabinet to clean up the mess, so the additional supplies arrived a few days late, under the combined effect of several factors, hundreds of thousands of remnants of the national army and other personnel in northern Myanmar fell into a situation of lack of food, coupled with the general lack of tropical life experience, and the local health conditions were poor, which led to an epidemic of tropical diseases, and thousands of people died of starvation and disease, and even the wife of Lao Chiang, Song Meiling, died of dengue fever in the barracks, Lao Jiang, who was hit by this blow, seemed to have aged ten years overnight, and when the general offensive of the People's Liberation Army was launched, Lao Jiang, who was already quite weak both physically and psychologically, died of palpitations

As soon as Lao Jiang died, the remnants of the country without the backbone of the country suddenly fell apart, and they all abandoned northern Myanmar and fled for their lives in the south, but fortunately, after the PLA occupied northern Myanmar, it did not continue to go deep into Burma, and these remnants of the defeated generals were finally relieved. At this time, the remnants of the national army had completely become an armed force loyal to private individuals, of which there were three main ones in the larger Liliang, one was the remnants of Bai Chongxi's Gui army plus a part of the Dian army willing to follow him, the strength was not much, only more than 20,000 people, but the combat effectiveness was the strongest; the second is Xue Yue's troops, with a strength of 60,000 or 70,000, and their combat effectiveness is not weak, and their comprehensive strength is the strongest; The third is the troops loyal to Chiang Ching-kuo, most of which are the original Chen Cheng's troops, which are inferior to Xue Yue's troops (because the Central Army is the priority target of the PLA, so the losses are the greatest. But Xiao Jiang is the heir of the genuine card, so he is still faintly headed by the three shili.

Due to the big gap in strength, the British army in northern Burma did not dare to fight the enemy, and took the initiative to retreat south, so the PLA did not eliminate many stubborn enemies, which also created conditions for negotiations between the two sides, but just when the always tough Churchill was ready to bow his head, the French government, which had nothing to do with it, was afraid that China would pose a threat to its own Indochina colony after its expansion, so it proposed to cooperate with Britain to fight against the PLA. And since it has been decided to continue the war until the Chinese withdraw from all the land "occupied", Churchill did not do anything, and through coercion and inducement, he pulled the Thai government on this thief ship, ready to join forces with the three countries to deal with China

In this way, the total number of enemy troops on Indochina greatly increased, in addition to the remnants of the Nationalist army of more than 150,000 men, there were also 200,000 British troops (while rebuilding the Far East Fleet, the British government also added 300,000 troops to India and Burma, and all of them were local elite troops, and the colonial forces were also greatly expanded). ), 100,000 Burmese servants, 200,000 French troops (also increased), 100,000 Indochinese (mainly Vietnamese) servants, 200,000 Thai troops (Note 1), a total strength of nearly one million, and Britain and France may continue to increase their troops, and Thailand may also mobilize the whole country, so the pressure on the three major field armies will be great.

Although the central authorities also had a plan for such a situation, it was still tricky after all, so they quickly summoned Hu Weidong to Luoyang and specially sought his opinion as an expert on Western issues. In this regard, Hu Weidong believes that although the strength of the British and French alliance is terrifying, China has the advantage of geography and military strength (referring to the strength of the whole country), at least the defense is not a problem, but leaving more than one million troops on the border to confront the enemy for a long time is undoubtedly very unfavorable to the domestic economic construction, but Britain suddenly received strong reinforcements, and confidence is rising, it is not easy to reach a peace agreement with them that does not suffer too much, what should we do?

Note 1: It is worth mentioning that although the number of Thai troops was not large at that time, the field troops were motorized, really, 5 motorized armies, of course, motorization does not mean that the combat effectiveness must be strong, in fact, except for Vietnam, there is no country in Southeast Asia that has a strong combat effectiveness (to be continued......