Yan'an, Wayaobao.

Mr. Zhu and Mr. Zhou were invited to Chairman Mao’s cave dwelling again.

Chairman Mao did not dare to make a decision on such a big matter as the 39th Army's expedition to Burma on his own. Before replying to Yue Weihan, he wanted to hear the opinions of Mr. Zhu and Duke Zhou.

After reading the secret message, Duke Zhou pondered for a moment and then said: "Chairman, I think what Yue Weihan said is reasonable. Our party should strengthen its ties with the United States, Britain and other Western countries, and take the initiative to win their favor. After all, we are all anti-fascist allies.

Well, ideological differences can be put aside for now."

"I'm not worried about anything else. I'm just worried about whether the 39th Group Army will be able to gain a foothold after it goes to Myanmar, and whether it will be able to open up the situation in time after it establishes a foothold?" Mr. Zhu said with concern, "After all, Myanmar is not a country, and there is no broad masses of the people.

As a back-up, I’m afraid this battle won’t be easy to fight.”

When Duke Zhou and Mr. Zhu said this, they immediately strengthened Chairman Mao's confidence.

At that moment, Chairman Mao put out the cigarette butt vigorously, and then said in a thick Hunan accent: "The boss's concern is very necessary, but it needs to be noted that after the 39th Group Army expedition to Burma, although it did not get the support of the Burmese people, it could get the support of the British

Especially with the strong support of the American people, I am now worried that Chairman Chiang may not agree."

Chongqing, General Staff Headquarters of the Central Military Commission.

Chairman Chiang had a gloomy face, and walked into the war room surrounded by General He, Vice General Bai and other senior generals. The senior counselors who were busy in the war room quickly stood up and saluted Chairman Chiang. As the senior counselors

Everyone stood up one after another, and a huge map of Myanmar appeared in front of Chairman Chiang.

The three blue arrows on the map are particularly eye-catching.

The blue arrow on the far right has been pointing directly to Wanding along the Burma Highway!

At this time, among all the people present, I am afraid that no one was in a more depressed mood than Chairman Chiang. He never thought that the 100,000 elite soldiers who went on an expedition to Burma would end up in such a situation. Chairman Chiang originally thought that he had betrayed

Relying on the United States and Britain, it is easy to enjoy the shade under the big tree, and it is easy to win. I never expected that what awaited me in the end would be such a miserable result.

Vice President Bai sighed, took the command stick from a staff officer and began to explain.

"Yesterday, the tank regiment of the Japanese 56th Division has attacked Myitkyina. In addition to the three divisions of the 66th Army of our expeditionary force, which were able to withdraw into the country along the Burma Road, the Fifth Army, the Sixth Army and the

The eastward retreat route of the New 38th Division belonging to the 66th Army has been cut off by the Japanese army, and if you want to return home, you can only go north over the Foreigner Mountains."

"What, Savage Mountain?" Chairman Jiang was horrified when he heard this.

"It is an uninhabited mountainous area north of the Hukang River Valley in northern Myanmar, with a radius of several hundred miles. Because there are savages in the mountains, the local indigenous people call it Savage Mountain." Vice President Bai nodded and said, "If the expeditionary force

It's hard to predict whether we're going this route, but I'm afraid all the heavy equipment won't be saved."

"The equipment doesn't matter," Chairman Chiang said solemnly, "but the troops must return home!"

Generalissimo Chiang had a special affection for the army. At the beginning, he was just a little-known little player in the Communist Party. He could not be compared with Wang Jingwei, Hu Hanmin and other big men. However, when Generalissimo Chiang became Huangpu

After becoming the principal of the military academy and actually taking control of the Huangpu Student Army, his status immediately soared.

In his understanding of the truth that "power comes from the barrel of a gun," Chairman Chiang is by no means inferior to Chairman Mao!

Therefore, for the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army, these two well-trained elite troops, Chairman Chiang would never trust them to leave them abroad, let alone leave them to Stilwell to command.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has always been reluctant to deal with Wei, the Chief of General Staff of the China Theater appointed by the Supreme Allied Command.

At this moment, Wang Shihe suddenly walked in in a hurry and whispered: "Commitment, Yue Weihan is calling urgently!"

Chairman Chiang's face suddenly became more and more ugly. It's true that good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. How did the news of the expeditionary force's setback in Burma reach Yue Weihan's ears so quickly? At that moment, Chairman Chiang followed Wang Shihe.

In the small conference room next to it, he asked: "What did Yue Weihan say?"

Wang Shihe said: "Yue Weihan said that the expeditionary force must not go through the Savage Mountain, saying that it is a road of no return!"

Chairman Chiang snorted: "I don't believe it. An army of 100,000 people can't climb a mere savage mountain!"

Wang Shihe added: "Yue Weihan also said that if necessary, he is willing to fly to Myanmar immediately, take over the command of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and make every effort to bring this elite force back home from a desperate situation!"

"Hmph, he is quite scheming!" Chairman Chiang said coldly, "I would rather the expeditionary force be defeated and go to Savage Mountain than give him this opportunity to seize the command of my fifth and sixth armies. What a dream!

"

Wang Shihe silently thought in his heart that although Yue Weihan was arrogant by nature and had repeatedly disobeyed orders and was very close to the CCP, it was undeniable that his military command ability was indeed unmatched by anyone except Yue Weihan.

, I am afraid that no one can turn the tide and reverse the decline of the expeditionary force.

However, Chairman Jiang was still angry and said to Wang Shihe: "Tell Yue Weihan to let him die as soon as possible!"

Jingxing County, 39th Army Headquarters.

The replies from Yan'an and Chongqing were delivered almost simultaneously, and the results were within Yue Weihan's expectations.

Chairman Mao really agreed, but Chairman Chiang rejected him without hesitation. However, two days ago, the German army had officially launched a blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union. The Second World War had fully broken out, and the United States had also fully intervened in China and Japan.

In the war, some matters may not be left to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese theater.

Times Square, New York, USA.

As night fell, a huge screen had been set up at the north end of the square. Several staff members were busy working nervously in front of the projector behind the screen. Helen, with blond hair and a tight denim outfit, was also standing next to the projector.

On the small table in front of her was a reel of film.

This is a propaganda film about China's Anti-Japanese War carefully produced by Helen.

In order not to disappoint her lover Yue Weihan, Helen invested great enthusiasm. In order to produce this promotional video, Helen used all the connections of the Morgan family and spent huge sums of money to obtain what she wanted from various channels in a very short period of time.

All information, including a large number of precious photos she took on the battlefield in China.

The sky had completely darkened, and no less than a thousand people had gathered in the square.

Helen looked back at the staff and nodded, saying, "Let's get started."

The staff immediately put the tape on the projector, and immediately the projector's projection light came on, and a huge white box appeared on the large screen.

After a brief period of confusion, a horrific scene of the end of the world suddenly appeared on the screen.

Less than a hundred meters away from the camera, two warships moored in the harbor were on fire. Thick smoke billowed into the sky, forming a strange "Satan's Smile" pattern in the sky. Farther away, a larger ship was on fire.

The giant ship has been broken into two pieces at the waist, half of it is lifted up in the air, and the other half has obviously sunk to the bottom of the sea...

Suddenly there was a sound of inhalation in the square, and in the distance, more citizens were swarming in.

Seeing more and more citizens gathering in the square, Helen finally breathed a sigh of relief. She spent half a million dollars to buy this five-minute film from a small director. ***The Navy Combined Fleet Bombing

During Pearl Harbor, this young director happened to be filming a melodrama not far from the military port, and the result was this five-minute tragic scene.

Five minutes later, the picture on the screen suddenly froze, and then lines of subtitles slowly rose from the bottom of the screen, and at the same time, a deep and deep voice-over sounded: On July 12, 1941, the Imperial Navy of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. Navy in the Pacific

The fleet was severely damaged, all warships were destroyed, and the fleet officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties... The war has begun!

The scene changed, and a half-Earth pattern with the Pacific Ocean as the background suddenly appeared on the screen.

The background color of the ocean is dark blue, and the background color of the surrounding countries is light gray. Only the color of the four islands is eye-catching red. Immediately, red arrows centered on the four islands began to slowly move in all directions.

It expanded slowly, gradually sweeping across the Southwest Pacific, the entire Southeast Asia, and most of China.

Finally, all the red arrows formed a huge *** flag pattern!

The subtitles rose again, and the voice-over sounded again: Japan is an evil imperial country. The emperor's soldiers, with the belief that they will die, attack from all sides. They try to conquer the entire world. As the voice-over pauses, the red arrow that was originally stagnant moves forward again.

Extending, it soon covered the entire North American continent.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in Times Square, New York.

"Don't even think about conquering the United States, killing these arrogant *** bastards!"

"America will never surrender. We must arm ourselves immediately to defend our country!"

"Damn it, I'm going to sign up for the Army tomorrow, I'm going to join the Marines, I'm going to the Pacific."

The deep and deep voice-over sounded again: For the American people, the war has just begun. However, in the far east, there is an ancient country that has been resisting alone for ten years. This country's national strength is not even as strong as Japan's 20

One percent, and her army was far less powerful than the Emperor's army.

The scene turned and a Chinese mulberry leaf pattern appeared on the screen.

The voice-over sounded again: This country is China, a close neighbor of Japan.

Immediately, the red arrow representing the Japanese army started from the main island, followed the Korean Peninsula, and slowly penetrated into the hinterland of China along the East China Sea. In the end, most of China was covered with the Japanese flag pattern.

The voice-over sounded again: China has sacrificed two million heroic soldiers in ten years of resistance!

A big bloody Arab "2" appeared on the screen, followed by a long series of "0"s.

The New York citizens in the square were in an uproar, and everyone's faces showed extremely shocked expressions. Two million, this is almost the total population of the United States when it was first revolutionized!

As soon as the scene turned, a close-up photo of a Sichuan Army soldier appeared on the screen. The Sichuan Army soldier in the photo was wearing a single coat and wearing straw sandals. He was short and thin. The rifle in his hand was dilapidated. The barrel and butt of the gun were actually tied up with straw ropes.

However, the Sichuan soldiers still smiled slightly in front of the camera lens.

Voice-over: This is the most typical Chinese soldier. He has been hungry for two days. In the severe cold of minus ten degrees Celsius, he is still wearing only a thin single coat. The rifle in his hand is a product of the last century. After taking the photo

He went to the battlefield and never came back. He died fighting! For his motherland!

The scene turned again, and two photos appeared on the screen. The left was a city in ruins, and the right was a burning village.

Voice-over: Ten years of resistance, two hundred Chinese cities were reduced to rubble, 20,000 Chinese villages were burned, parents lost their children, young children lost their parents, five million families were torn apart, 20 million people died due to criticism, 200 million

People were displaced... As the voice-over narrated, a series of blood-red numbers began to jump on the screen.

There was another violent commotion in the square, and the reaction was even stronger than when I saw the movie about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the beginning, because the picture on the screen changed again.

On the left side of the screen, a child aged at most three years old is sitting on the railway track. Next to the child lies a young man and woman. Not far away, there are scattered luggage. Obviously, this is a Chinese family on the way to escape, but the young man
To be continued...