Time slowly moved forward, and it was already March 1944, which was the beginning of the Chinese New Year. Even the depressed atmosphere of war could not affect the people's joy of celebrating the Spring Festival.

The world pattern has also undergone earth-shaking changes. On the European battlefield, the Soviet army turned to attack in Leningrad and Novgorod. Luo Tengsui held a Pacific Operations Conference to re-plan the deployment and plan for the Japanese operations. In addition, the victory of the Expeditionary Force in Southeast Asia also represents the beginning of the gradual transformation of the anti-*** camp into an offensive.

In order to save the crisis, Japan replaced the two chiefs of the Navy, including the Minister of Land and the Chief of Staff of Tojo, and the Chief of Staff of the Massacre Shimada and the Chief of Military Command, and hoped to quickly implement the "Operation No. 1".

This so-called "Operation No. 1" refers to opening up the transportation line in mainland China. After many meetings and several modifications, the Japanese "China Expeditionary Force" finally issued a notice. The purpose of its combat is to defeat the enemy, occupy and ensure the key points along the southern part of the Hunan-Guangxi, Guangdong-Hanzhou and Beijing-Hanzhou Railway, so as to destroy the main bases of the enemy's air force, stop the enemy's air strikes on the empire's land and destroy maritime traffic.

At the same time, Shouichi Teraunuchi, who was then the commander-in-chief of the Southern Japan, was so angry that he almost suffered a stroke after receiving the news of the Myitkyina defeat. He was so angry that he removed several senior officers in succession. The commander of the 15th Front Army, Yoshiro Iida, who ran away in panic, was sent directly by him to the base camp for arbitration in the military court.

The old Japanese in the temple were also afraid of being held accountable by the base camp, so they quickly dispatched troops to try to retake the northern part of Myanmar. The Lashio front line was ignited again by the war.

On the Pacific battlefield, they still pursued the tactic of "staying in a way" and tried to use various archipelagos in the offshore islands to drag the Americans into the quagmire. On the other hand, they were also trying their best to buy time for the army on the Chinese battlefield.

The dark clouds of war enveloped Hunan, Jiangxi and Guangxi here. Various armies dispatched troops to prepare for the new battle that began in the New Year.

As Chiang Kai-shek hoped, the Chinese army in Myanmar began to withdraw from the country one by one, split the two major armies of the Expeditionary Force, and went to support Hunan, Guangxi and other places respectively.

The more than 80,000 troops stationed in India were regarded as a trump card and placed in Kunming for reorganization. The purpose was to reintegrate the headquarters and increase control over the troops, so that it would play a decisive role in the subsequent operations.

The fourth battle in Changsha is about to begin, but at this time, Chiang Kai-shek was ready for Guizhou's defense. Although Xue Yue repeatedly emphasized that it would be necessary to live and die with Changsha, he was skeptical about whether he could defend Hunan Ren.

If Changsha really cannot defend, then the killer weapon of the Indian army will be pushed forward, striving to regain northern Hunan with superior equipment and super combat power in one fell swoop and save the decline.

In order to appease Sun Liren, Lao Jiang privately promised that he would be the commander-in-chief of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army. When the Ninth War Zone really couldn't stand it, he would then bring the New Army to join the battle.

The reason why Jiang Jiang has his own plans to prevent them from going to the battlefield now is that good steel must be used on the blade. Wait until the Japanese are consumed by the six armies of Xue Yue before going up, wouldn’t it be twice the result with half the effort?

After all, there are more than 300,000 people in the Ninth War Zone, and now Huo Kuizhang's 20th Army has been transferred. If so many troops cannot stop the Japanese's iron hooves, then whether the Indian army is stationed will have little impact on the result. It may be that forced to pass it over, but it will be too large to cause improper command and impairment.

To take a step back, even if the Japanese take Hunan, they will definitely pay a very heavy price. At this time, the Indian army will be able to reverse the situation with absolute firepower advantage like a divine weapon falling from the sky, and may have better unexpected gains.

This is what Lao Jiang thought. The elites in the direct line are treasures. Don’t waste any one who can survive. On the contrary, those miscellaneous soldiers are raised by stepmothers, and they don’t feel sorry for 10,000 deaths.

Anyway, Chiang Kai-shek is not in a hurry now. He dragged Liao Mingyu's blessings so that he could draw nearly 200,000 troops from western Yunnan to support the domestic battlefield. Compared with history, the pressure the Japanese face this time has become unprecedentedly huge.

On the other hand, whether it is the Indian army or Liao Mingyu's troops, they basically use American equipment and fighting styles. The senior officials of the State Government also saw the combat advantages. Compared with the German-armed divisions that were praised as heaven before the war, the gap in the era brought about by American-armed weapons is really tempting.

So while Chiang started training the US armed forces, he reached out to the Americans on the other side of the ocean for guns and cannons.

Liao Mingyu was also thinking the same as him, but the treatment of the two was completely different.

The former kept asking the Indo-Shanghai Allied forces, hoping to get more military support, but responded to him by various reasons. He only had 1.5 tons of transportation per month, and the airline was less than 3 tons. Compared with the improvements obtained before recapturing the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

There are many reasons for slow material transportation. On the one hand, it is because the journey is long. International aid first goes from sea to India, then passes through Myitkyina, walks eight thousand miles above Nankan, then passes through the Yunnan-Burma Highway to western Yunnan and finally arrives at the rear of the country. The difficulty of transportation for thousands of kilometers can be imagined.

On the other hand, the Americans are not fools. Just transfusions of blood to you will be like this, and it will be too much or too much. If you really can't hold on, you will add some more. Anyway, as long as you can't die, you can still listen to me if you are satisfied with everything?

...

Two days later, a C47 transport plane took off from Tengchong Airport and flew slowly south across the sky.

It was not someone else who boarded the plane, but Liao Mingyu, who was riding with him, his "old lover", Colonel Smith, the head of international aid materials.

The front-line army was in a hurry, and Liao Mingyu didn't care about his fear of taking a plane and returned to the Nankan Command as quickly as possible. Meng Fanle was arranged to stay in Chanda to continue to transfer the troops' materials and recruit more civilian workers along the way.

But what Liao Mingyu didn't expect was that before he could get on the plane at Tengchong Airport, the old guy Smith chased after him without stopping and insisted on leaving with him.

"My Colonel Smith, what happened so anxious? I had to squeeze into the same plane as me." Liao Mingyu said loudly at the top of his voice.

The huge noise from the transport plane almost covered up the sound of speaking, and the continuous vibrations from the body made Liao Mingyu, who was extremely sensitive, feel very unhappy. This is also one of the reasons why he is unwilling to fly.
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