Chapter 827 Marshall Returns
After the Japanese in Naipido City discovered that Li Qinwei's troops had cut off their retreat outside, the local soldiers in the city began to flee.
Now the Japanese officers can no longer suppress the local recruits. At the beginning, the Japanese devils wanted to stop the local soldiers from leaving, but after several battles, the Japanese devils did not dare to stop them.
They also knew that once the stop was too much, there would be a large-scale riot in the local soldiers, and then the Chinese troops would not be able to kill them.
As soon as the local soldiers came out, they took their weapons to the Chinese troops and surrendered. Some of them resisted would be shot dead. Only some local soldiers with good luck could escape!
"Report, the emergency telegram from Li Qinwei, and Naibido had a large-scale escape. They were all local soldiers. Now our troops are catching those soldiers everywhere!" A senior staff officer took the telegram to Hu Bin and reported.
"Feither the local recruits were found to have escaped?" 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 let them use their existing vehicles to carry our infantry to Naipido, so that the local soldiers cannot run away. They bring weapons and once they fall into the forest, they can become bandits. It will be troublesome for us to suppress bandits at that time, so I will capture them all!" Hu Bin said to the staff officer.
"Yes!" The staff officer left immediately.
"You can run away when you say it. It seems that the Japanese can't stop them anymore. I guess the local soldiers fought with the Japanese before they came out!" Hu Bin said with a smile.
"So, Nabido is not as difficult as we imagined? After we launch the bombing tomorrow, the troops in the city will probably not survive!" Li Dalong said.
"I don't care about that, and launch a bomb tomorrow morning. At the same time, Li Qinwei will bring the 2nd Armored Division, the 101st Infantry Division, the 251st Infantry Division, the 244th Infantry Division, and the 3rd Artillery Brigade of the Artillery, and immediately march towards India!" Hu Bin said to Li Dalong.
"The combat order has been drawn up. Now we will send it to you when we take down Naipido!" Li Dalong said.
"That's good!" Hu Bin nodded.
"Report, the report of the Air Force reconnaissance aircraft unit found that there were a large number of troops retreating at the port in Yangon, and now they are all boarding the ship!" At this time, a senior staff officer who was specifically responsible for contacting the Air Force came over and reported to Hu Bin.
"It's true that he's retreating. Okamura Niji really wants to give up Myanmar. Now the devils in Naipido, Okamura Niji has no plans to rescue them! Contact the Air Force to see if they can still dispatch fighters and bombers. If they can dispatch them, immediately dispatch fighters and bombers to bomb Yangon's ports and those ships!"
When Hu Bin heard the words of the senior staff officer, he had already confirmed that Okamura Yanji didn't want to fight anymore and wanted to retreat. As for where he wanted 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 airport outside Mandalay City, hundreds of fighter jets and bombers immediately took off and began to fly towards Yangon. The reason why they did not bomb during the day was that the Nabido defense line needed a lot of air support. At night, the Nabido defense line no longer needed the support of the Air Force, so now they can go to Yangon to launch a large-scale bombing!
However, after receiving a telegram from Major General Stilwell, who had just landed in the United States, Marshall, who had just landed in the United States, slapped the table and said, "Damn it, this is impossible. Hu Bin won't win so quickly.
Naipido and Yangon have 600,000 Japanese troops, and on Wei Lihuang, there are 600,000 troops. Hu Bin can retreat the entire line in one day. How is this possible?”
When Marshall saw Stilwell's report, he was the first to not believe it. He had just left China and had a report saying that Hu Bin won. Isn't this irony?
Their General Staff also deduced it and believed that Hu Bin had no chance of victory, but now he could not believe the news sent by Stilwell.
"Commander, it cannot be true. Maybe it is fake news released by China!" A senior staff officer behind, the general with the rank of major general, spoke.
"Our General has already deduced it, and it is impossible to win!" Another major general also started.
"Let's go back to the General Staff. Your Excellency the President is still waiting for my news. If Your Excellency the President receives the news from Stilwell, we will probably be blamed by Your Excellency the President. This trip to China, we not only did not achieve any results, but also offended China!" Marshall said a little depressedly. He did not expect it to be like this.
About half an hour later, Marshall's convoy arrived at the Presidential Palace, the White House.
After getting off the car, Marshall walked quickly to the president's office. When he arrived at the office, he found that Roosevelt's main think tank and several senior generals from the General Staff were already waiting for him.
"Good afternoon, Your Excellency President!" Marshall said to Roosevelt.
"Well, thank you for your hard work, please sit down!" Roosevelt nodded, without any happy expression on his face, because it was their mistake in the United States that caused this trip to Marshall to China without any results.
"His Excellency President, I'm sorry, 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. After I came back, I received a telegram. Now that the Japanese troops are retreating, I really don't understand what China is going on!" Marshall said a little discouraged.
"It's not your fault. Our General Staff will not succeed in deducing them. Moreover, our think tank has also found that China may not be able to win the battle in Southeast Asia. We have not received any specific notification from China yet, but I guess it's going to be soon.
According to the intelligence of our intelligence department, Japan's troops in Southeast Asia have been completely defeated, and at the same time, Okamura Yanji in Yangon is also retreating. In other words, China can at least fully control Myanmar, and Thailand can also control part of it!
What interests me now is that Chinese troops are really better than our American troops? As well as their equipment, we have also purchased a lot of Chinese Type 81 rifles and rocket launchers. I have to say that those weapons have made great contributions to us on the front line, but we still can't win in Canada!
Not only can the army not win, but we can’t win now. So far, we have sacrificed more than 2,200 excellent pilots, and more than 5,000 aircraft have fallen.
I heard that Chinese fighter jets were completely victorious in the face of the Japanese Zero aircraft. It seems that we are going to purchase new Chinese aircraft again. I heard that they are called J-1, right?" Roosevelt sat there, speaking in a very calm tone.
"Yes, I also received this news. Many of our American observers have seen the air battles on the front line of Wei Lihuang. They have indeed won the game. I originally 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, China definitely doesn't have many planes now. If there were too many, they would have been equipped on a large scale long ago. This is the direct reason why they rejected us. There is another reason. I feel that China needs our larger-scale assistance.
His Excellency President, General Marshall, our United States is in a difficult situation now. If we continue to aid China, it may drag down our American economy. Now we have purchased a large amount of materials from China, and China is also purchasing materials from our country, mainly medicines!
Therefore, in our trade with China, we have a large deficit, which will last for a long time that our country cannot bear.” A think tank said to Roosevelt and Marshall.
"But without China's help, it would be even more difficult for us to go on the American battlefield. The Soviet Union will not help at all. We remind Stalin that Germany and Japan may attack them next spring, but Stalin did not believe it at all. He knew that Germany would attack the Soviet Union, but he did not believe that Germany would attack the Soviet Union so quickly!" Another think tank also spoke.
Now the United States cannot leave China's help.
"Stalin will regret it. At that time, they will come to ask us. The most urgent task is to stabilize our defense line and not allow Japanese troops to continue to attack us from the United States. As long as we stabilize the defense line, our hope for victory will be very great.
Our domestic production of various materials has also increased a lot. Those who can handle this war now need to block Japan's attack!" Roosevelt said to the generals.
"We will try our best to stabilize the front and resolutely not let the war burn to our American mainland!" Marshall immediately stated.
"I'll send a telegram to Stilwell to see Hu Bin first. I think Hu Bin has a lot of say in Yan'an. Let Stilwell convince Hu Bin to agree to sell some fighter jets to us in the United States, so that we can quickly obtain air supremacy in Canada and obtain air supremacy, and our front line can be stabilized quickly!" Roosevelt continued to look at Marshall and said.
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Chapter completed!