Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Li Yunlong looked at Wang Meng with disdain. Why did the conversation change so drastically? Is it useful to keep the Japanese? What's the use?

"Mengzi, what use would the Japanese have for a few ounces of rotten meat? Would they use it as fertilizer?"

"Hmm? To make fertilizer? That would dirty our land. Doesn't Chu Yunfei always say that he doesn't have enough fun? Let's give him a chance. Let him lead his mountain troops into the mountains and have a good fight with the Japanese. Then drive them to Vietnam or southern Myanmar!"

Li Yunlong was lost in thought, and finally came to his senses half a minute later.

"Mengzi, I get it. Asking Chu Yunfei to drive the Japanese to southern Myanmar or Vietnam is to put pressure on Country M, right?"

"That's right! A few days ago, Chen Shaokuan sent a telegram saying that our aircraft carrier formation has completed sea trials, and we can return home after a live-fire exercise in Country M. But we haven't found a military port yet!

Therefore, I want to let 30,000 or 40,000 Japanese go to Vietnam or southern Myanmar to stir up trouble, and ask Country M to give us a port, which we can use as our overseas military port at that time!"

Li Yunlong nodded. He had fought in North China for a long time and did not realize the importance of warships. However, since the independent column entered the Yangtze River Basin, he realized that a modern army would be trapped in this small space without a navy.

Therefore, developing the navy is the only way for China to become stronger.

However, China's coast is still in the hands of the Japanese. Although their warships are pinned down in the Pacific Ocean by the M Army, there are still many warships cruising along China's coast.

It is impossible to resist by relying on aircraft carrier formations that have no combat experience or newly recruited gunboats.

Therefore, the newly born independent column navy still has to develop under the "protection" of Country M.

"Okay, then let Chu Yunfei take it easy. Don't let him get so angry that he kills all the Japanese in the Shiwan Mountains."

Wang Meng sent a telegram to Chu Yunfei, who immediately organized his troops and took a train to Liuzhou.

Then they sent the three mountain divisions to follow the Japanese in the left, right and center routes, just like herding sheep, from Liuzhou all the way to southern Yunnan, and finally were forced into the jungle in the northern part of southern Myanmar.

On August 1944, 8, after two months, Yokoyama Isamu finally walked into the Southern Burma Front Army camp in northern Burma with an unshaven beard.

"Damn it, I didn't expect the independent column to actually follow us all the way. I always feel like they drove us here on purpose, like shepherds."

"Commander, don't think too much. Even so, didn't we successfully reach southern Myanmar? It can be considered a successful breakout!"

Yokoyama Isamu was very disdainful of the military's claim that the troop deployment in the Southeast Asian theater was completed in another form, saying that this was completely self-deception.

Of the total troop strength of more than 200,000, only more than 20,000 were left when they arrived in northern Myanmar. The casualty rate was as high as 90%, and a large number of weapons and equipment were discarded. What kind of troop deployment is this?

“Have the troops drawn from the Kwantung Army arrived in northern Burma?”

The failure of the Henan-Hunan-Guangxi Campaign shattered the Japanese's fantasy of opening up land transportation lines, so they were forced to find another way.

The Kwantung Army was transported to Peking by rail, then transported along the coastline by troop transports or by land marches to Guangzhou Bay, and then shipped to Southeast Asia by sea.

Although the Japanese troop transport ships were occasionally sunk by the M Army, most of the troops were still deployed to the target area.

Two hundred thousand elite troops of the Kwantung Army were drawn to supplement the eight divisions and three brigades that were retreating southwards, and another two hundred thousand soldiers were forcibly conscripted from the overseas Chinese in the Northeast to supplement the Kwantung Army.

According to the plan of the Japanese main island's General Staff Headquarters, China's Northeast and Southeast Asia must be firmly under control, and supplies must be continuously delivered to the front line.

As for the coasts of North China, East China, and South China, let them be and just maintain the coastal transportation lines.

These 200,000 elite Kwantung Army were like a heavy hammer, hitting the head of the M Army, and Stilwell felt unprecedented pressure.

Country M was short of troops in Southeast Asia, while the Japanese were further strengthening their forces there, which made Stilwell feel vaguely uneasy.

Because he suspected that the Japanese were preparing to drive all of their landed M troops into the sea.

Therefore, Stilwell could no longer sit still and immediately asked Changzhou to order the troops on the east bank of the Nujiang River to cross the Nujiang River immediately, enter southern Burma from the north, and encircle the Japanese southern Burma front army.

At this time, Chang Guangzhou was upset about the "loss" of a large tract of land. Of course, this large tract of land was not occupied by the Japanese, but stolen by the independent column.

Although the central government now controls nearly half of the country, it also controls large tracts of land in Xinjiang and Tibet. These two areas are vast and sparsely populated, and provide little help to Guangzhou in seizing political discourse power.

Therefore, since he could not obtain more resources internally, he could only turn his attention to his allies again.

However, the performance of the Central Army in the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi was really unsatisfactory. Senior officials of the United States, including Johnson and Stilwell, expressed concerns about the combat effectiveness of the Central Army.

Supporting a force whose army has no combat effectiveness and whose government has no credibility will have a bleak future. If it fails to support itself in the future, all the money spent will be wasted, and the friendship of the new government will be lost.

However, now the United States and Stilwell do not have many choices.

Although they had expressed goodwill to the Independent Column through Nicholas and Chen Shaokuan in Country M, and had taken all the benefits, they still maintained an ambiguous attitude towards substantive cooperation.

In response to Stilwell's "request", Chang Guangzhou readily agreed and promised to launch an attack on the east bank of the Nujiang River and cross the river within half a month.

This order was passed on to Yu Xiaoqing on the east bank of the Nujiang River, and was also issued to the Independent Column, because the condition for ceding Baoshan Airport to the Welfare Corps was that the Independent Column must send air force support for the operation.

"Mengzi, is he impatient? Launching an attack within fifteen days? As far as I know, the Central Army on the east bank of the Nujiang River seems to have been fighting for the M Army's equipment these days, and has not conducted any reconnaissance on the west bank of the Nujiang River. How can they win such an unprepared battle?"

"There's nothing I can do. I've asked Long Wenjian to remind Yu Xiaoqing repeatedly to step up investigations, but to no avail."

Li Yunlong opened his eyes wide, as if he couldn't believe his ears.

"What? They really don't want to investigate? Are they so stubborn?"

"Not really. They just conducted a reconnaissance of the first line of defense of Nujiang River, and they believe that as long as the firepower is strong enough, they can directly push through under the suppression of artillery fire!"