Shadow Spy

Chapter 420 A rare buffer time

On May 5, the 21th Division and the New 200nd Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Muula took the lead in completing the renovation and replacement. The replaced British weapons and equipment took two days to be loaded into three trains and sent to Lashio…

As for the source of the American weapons and equipment replaced by the two divisions, Li Junhao simply did not explain - it could not be explained anyway!
He asked Luo Zhuoying and Du Yuming to communicate with Chairman Chiang and reached an unwritten agreement - to deliver ten divisions of British equipment to the Chinese theater within three months, and to deliver valuable equipment within the next three months. US$2500 million in military aid supplies will be exchanged for full command of the 14-strong Chinese Expeditionary Force's three armies and ten divisions operating in Myanmar. The scale will remain unchanged and sufficient personnel will be provided. All required military supplies will be provided by the United States.

Both Luo and Du felt embarrassed about this agreement, but Li Junhao didn't care, because he knew Chairman Chiang's mentality at this time. What the other party wanted was arms and military aid, while what he wanted was the entire Myanmar and Killing and injuring Japanese troops in large numbers!As for the large amount of military aid, he took advantage of the information asymmetry between the two sides and made a favor out of what the United States was originally prepared to provide!

During this period, the construction of the express highway from Terai to Magui was very smooth. The method of multi-stage construction and parallel progress was adopted, which greatly accelerated the progress of the project. Currently, most of it has been completed.

On the 28th, the first two U.S. fast transport ships arrived at the Tarai Port, which had been renovated in advance, and began to unload 9000 tons of weapons, equipment and supplies.

On the 30th, the German-Malaysian Highway was completed, and armaments and supplies at Delai Port began to be loaded and transported eastward. This new channel for U.S. military aid officially began to operate! ——
On June 6, the rainy season in Myanmar began, with two light rains a day and one heavy rain every three days. The Chinese officers and soldiers who spent the rainy season in Myanmar for the first time experienced a different baptism!

On July 7, the US-UK Joint Chiefs of Staff agreed that the British-Burmese Army Headquarters and the 10st British-Burmese Army Division, the 1th British-Indian Army Division, and the 17th Indian Infantry Division under its jurisdiction would withdraw westward from India and break away from the India-Burma theater sequence. For this reason, the heavy equipment of the three British divisions and the military supplies in the entire northern Myanmar region were all delivered to the theater headquarters!

Of course, they cannot take away the two British troops that have been reorganized into the 105th and 106th Allied Tank Brigades, because they have been organized into the 101st Far East Army under the direct command of General Panson.

The weapons and equipment left behind by the evacuated British troops were immediately sent to the Chinese war zone by Li Junhao, in exchange for 6.5 recruits, one-third of whom had primary school education or above!
This time, Li Junhao did not disperse these recruits to various units. Instead, he personally accepted them and used his New England Battalion officers and soldiers as instructors to organize these recruits into ten Allied infantry brigades including 111-120. It was also included in the sequence of the 101st Army under his command.

After all this trouble, the strength of the India-Burma theater increased instead of falling, from the previous 18.5 to 23. The entire theater force was divided into two parts, one was 14.5 from the 101th Division of the Third Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the other was Part of it is the 8.5 men of the Allied 1000st Army, not counting the [-]-man New England Battalion around Li Junhao.

Later, during the entire four months of the rainy season, while U.S. military transport ships continued to arrive at Terai Port and troops in the Indo-Burmese theater were busy redressing and training, the Japanese invaders of Burma, which had suffered a disastrous defeat in the Tonggu Battle, were also constantly transporting new troops. troops landed in southern Myanmar. The 31st, 49th, 53rd, and 54th Divisions, the 72nd Mixed Brigade, the 3rd Air Force and other troops drawn from domestic and other battlefields successively arrived in southern Myanmar, Thailand, and Lao areas. The number of troops reached 14.Both armies are preparing for the upcoming cold season battle. Everyone understands that this will be a key battle that will determine the situation in South Asia and even the Far East! ——
During this period, due to the calmness of the war situation, apart from arranging the affairs of the India-Burma war zone, Li Junhao also had the time to care about the domestic situation in the United States. The CIA was operating normally under the responsibility of Donovan and Wen Qiang. It is expanding day by day, and its intelligence collection and analysis capabilities have also been continuously strengthened, strongly supporting the United States' war response.

Regarding the FBI, Wang Renqiang has done an extremely good job. He has actually controlled most of the powers of the FBI and has become an indispensable and important figure in the domestic judicial field.

Vicki Case, Li Xiaoyu, and Zheng Pingru who stayed in the Office of the Principal Assistant to the National Security Adviser, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Office of the Assistant Attorney General also reported that all work was carried out in an orderly manner, and Li Junhao's domestic political status has not been reduced in the slightest. !
Li Junhao himself doesn't value political power very much, but because of his position, he can protect many people around him, so he is still very happy with the current situation.
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The rainy season in Myanmar is long and annoying. It was not until the end of October that the rain gradually stopped. The situation in Myanmar was already like a powder keg about to detonate. The Allied and Japanese forces, which were divided into northern and southern Burma, and were confronting each other in central Burma. We are gathering momentum, just one spark away!

On October 10, Li Junhao once again held a military meeting in Mu La, and the theme was the Liangji Offensive Plan!

Seeing the generals in the US Army's summer combat uniforms in the conference room, Li Junhao smiled and said: "Generals, it is already winter in Myanmar. Everyone is still wearing short-sleeved military uniforms. Isn't it cold?"

"Haha..." Everyone laughed, and the outspoken commander of the new 22nd Division Liao Yaoxiang said: "General Pan Sen, it's still 27 or 23 degrees at noon, and it's [-] or [-] degrees in the morning and evening. It's really not cold!"

Major General Li Zhipeng, the commander of the 36th Division on the side, was also a straightforward person. He also said: "Sir Pan Sen, I think this time and climate are suitable for fighting. Are we about to launch a major counterattack?"

"Yes, today's meeting is to discuss this matter." Li Junhao said with a smile, "General Liao and General Li will not hesitate to speak in a while!"

For the generals of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, this American general who speaks fluent Chinese is definitely one of their own now!During this period of time, everyone has clearly seen how General Pan Sen personally worked hard to build the troops of the three armies and ten divisions of the Chinese Expeditionary Force into a modern force with fully equipped weapons and fully mechanized operations. When I heard that the plan to counterattack the Japanese army was about to begin, everyone was very excited!

Next, Chief of Staff Luo Zhuoying introduced the current situation in Myanmar to everyone, with the focus being on the current troop configuration of the Japanese army. As for the next combat plan in the India-Myanmar theater, it still needs to be explained by Li Junhao himself. Before that, who I don’t know the details of the plan!
(End of this chapter)