In the past few days, Zhou Weiguo has obviously felt the atmosphere of the expeditionary force headquarters, which is different.
The remnants of the expeditionary force had bypassed Lashio and were ready to return home.
The Japanese army had no time to take care of it.
On the Mandalay side, the situation is tense, and war is on the verge of breaking out.
However, only the British army was in Mandalay.
"Listen, Du, we can only counterattack now if we hold Mandalay."
Stilwell kept persuading Du Yuming to let the expeditionary soldiers go to Mandalay to support.
Du Yuming didn't raise his head, nor did he answer, some people, some things are too much, he doesn't want to pay attention, not to mention, although there are still tens of thousands of people left in the expeditionary force, but there are also a lot of gains against Japan, but this harvest is the expeditionary force soldiers in exchange for their lives "Du, I know you have grievances, but the overall situation is current, can you take it into account a little."
As an American general who has been in China for a long time, Stilwell's Chinese is very good, but somewhat, it is still a little weird.
Du Yuming stood up, took the papers, and walked out of the office, completely ignoring Stilwell.
No matter what Stilwell said, he would not let the remaining brothers go to Mandalay, and if they went to Mandalay, maybe the main force would become an expeditionary force again, and the British might have to trap them again.
Du Yuming didn't want to see this consequence, so Du Yuming simply chose to ignore it.
Stilwell's orders alone didn't work, even though he was the chief of staff of the coalition forces.
Watching Du Yuming go out, Stilwell knew that the expeditionary force would definitely not support Mandalay, and there was bitterness in his eyes.
To tell the truth, after several battles in Burma, the Chinese army played its own prestige, but the British army really made him helpless.
Scold, scold.
React to your superiors, even if Churchill understood and ordered the British army to be obedient and hold Burma, but the people below listened to and did were completely different things.
Chongqing "Headmaster, the remaining soldiers of the expeditionary force have bypassed Lashio, and the Japanese are not pursuing, but are preparing to attack Mandalay."
Dai Li stood beside Lao Jiang and spoke.
The chairman nodded, "Huh." ” "The so-called allies are really bullshit" "Really, my Chinese soldier's life is not a life, dirty work, tired work, what should we do?"
"Europe first, then Asia" "It's not practical at all, the air force that was said to be good to support before, and now there is no air force of the independent division, I'm afraid that Myanmar's air supremacy would have fallen into the hands of the Japanese long ago."
Dai Li was silent, listening to Lao Jiang's scolding, the Allied army was established, and it was agreed with the British army that there would be a hundred fighters to support it, but as a result, there was nothing.
The importance of air supremacy, everyone has a clear understanding, without air supremacy, then the war will be extremely difficult Originally, in history, the air supremacy of the Burmese battlefield was completely Japanese.
Although there was an aviation volunteer team led by Chennault, the number of Japanese planes far exceeded theirs.
"If it weren't for this group of stupid things, how could Rangoon be lost" Chairman Jiang continued to scold, the Burmese battlefield was like this, and he didn't expect it, Stilwell wanted to take command, but if he wanted the command of the expeditionary force, what was the use of the British army to wear a big-tailed wolf, and it was strange that there was such an allied army and such an allied army, and it was strange that he could win It took a long time for the chairman to calm down, "Let the rest of the expeditionary force guard the border, and the supplies and everything will be transported over quickly, as for Mandalay, we don't care." ” "Yes" In a certain western-style building, two middle-aged men are sitting.
"Sir, I'm afraid the battlefield in Burma is coming to an end."
"Hmm."
"When the time comes, Zhou Weiguo will definitely be ready to return to Shandong."
"What do you mean?"
"At this time, it is the weakest time for Zhou Weiguo's guards."
"Very well, you can do it."
"Yes."
On April 3, dense planes flew to Mandalay and began a full day of bombing.
Since the beginning of the Southeast Asian War, the Japanese army has been relatively well replenished in terms of equipment and materials.
The Southeast Asian theater was the rear of the Japanese army's resources.
All kinds of resources were shipped back to Japan, processed and produced, turned into airplanes, tanks, guns, artillery, and constantly shipped to Southeast Asia or China.
The huge explosion terrified the Burmese people in Mandalay, and the British army in the area was also angry, because many of them were Burmese.
And this bombardment is nothing more than an appetizer.
Over the next few days, the Japanese army began to advance towards Mandalay.
On 13 April, tens of thousands of troops surrounded Mandalay, but the Japanese did not attack first.
In fact, the Japanese army has fought so many wars, and they are also tired, and they also need to rest and rectify.
They didn't care about the British, but it would have been easier for them if they could retreat on their own, or surrender.
So, they were going to put pressure on the British.
Daily artillery attacks, aircraft bombing.
In Mandalay, people have long been panicked.
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Alexander looked at the demoralized soldier and felt very uncomfortable.
This morale was even lower than the morale of the Dunkirk escape he had commanded before.
As the commander-in-chief of the British army, he knew what he had to do, either by fighting a battle, to restore the morale of the soldiers and maintain the dignity of the British Empire; Or, retreat, in this case, retreat can bring the army back together and preserve its strength.
In desperation, Alexander could only send a telegram again to ask His Excellency the Prime Minister whether to hold or withdraw.
Mandalay has become almost an isolated city, and it is an isolated city with only British soldiers.
When Churchill received Alexander's telegram, his face became ugly.
Recently, he has not paid much attention to the battlefield in Burma, and in the first place, Myanmar is not too important to them.
What's more, the German army these days, the offensive has also been fierce.
The daily bombardment caused more and more casualties among the citizens of London.
He told Alexander more than once that he should obey the command and obey the command, but Alexander behaved badly.
If it weren't for the fact that he wasn't available now, Alexander would have been replaced long ago, because Roosevelt had complained to him more than once.
It is very difficult for the United States, as an intermediary, to do.
Clearly, there is no need for Mandalay to defend.
But he can't give this order to retreat, they are British, and they still have to save face Therefore, he could only order Alexander to continue to hold on Alexander, who received the telegram, sighed slightly, "Since you want to defend it, then defend it, our warriors of the British Empire, who will not be so vulnerable, will let China and the world take a good look at us, it is not inferior to the Japanese":