freenovelworld Chapter 814: 2 Attack Routes
Chapter 814: 2 Attack Routes
814 Two Offensive Routes
“Commander, a message from General Stilwell.
Let you and I go over for the meeting."
Ye Qingshan had just received the news that the American Pacific Fleet had won the naval battle with the Japanese at Midway Island.
Luo Zhuoying ran over and said to Ye Qingshan.
Ye Qingshan laughed and looked at Luo Zhuoying: "Chief of Staff, guess.
General Stilwell called us over for a meeting this time. Is he going to discuss the attack on the Japanese in Southeast Asia?"
"Commander, is there anything else to say?
Of course it is.
Now, General Stilwell is highly respected in the Allied Command.
Half a year ago, General Stilwell began planning to open up a new direction of attack against the Japanese on the front line in Southeast Asia.
If you hadn't been in the country, you would have launched a counterattack against the Japanese invaders who occupied Guangdong Province.
The 86th Army was recalled, disrupting Stilwell's plan.
Otherwise, he might have already sent troops to attack the devils in Siam and Singapore."
Luo Zhuoying answered with a smile.
Ye Qingshan also agreed with this.
Soon, the two men drove to Stilwell's command post.
When approaching Stilwell's command headquarters, Ye Qingshan saw a large number of British soldiers from the military vehicle.
Some US troops can also be seen.
Some of them were training, some were transporting weapons and ammunition, and they seemed very busy.
Luo Zhuoying, who was standing nearby, said to Ye Qingshan, "I don't know how the Americans convinced the British.
This made the British, who were originally not very enthusiastic about attacking the Japanese eastwards and occupying Siam.
In the past few months, I have suddenly become more active.
Not only did they send over a troop of 300,000 people from their Imphal base, but also a large amount of weapons and equipment.
At the same time, even the U.S. Army under Stilwell already had five divisions.”
"We will wait for the 42 troops of our nd Army to return from China.
The Southeast Asia Allied Command under Stilwell had nearly 700,000 troops.
This force may not be too much in Europe and our country.
However, for the Japanese invaders, who only had 200,000 people in Southeast Asia, this was definitely an overwhelming advantage.
No wonder General Stilwell was so eager to attack."
After hearing this, Ye Qingshan couldn't help but laugh.
In history, the Allied forces under Stilwell were not so strong.
The current situation is naturally inseparable from his contribution.
By the time Ye Qingshan and Luo Zhuoying arrived, all the American generals on Stilwell's side and the British commander had already arrived.
"Ye, Luo, you are finally here.
The meeting can begin.”
Stilwell smiled and asked the two to take their seats as soon as possible.
The commander of the British army on the opposite side was also replaced by a guy Ye Qingshan did not recognize.
“You should have known the good news.
Our Pacific Fleet defeated the Japanese Combined Fleet at Midway Island.
Destroy most of their main forces of the Combined Fleet.
Now, they no longer have any advantage at sea.
Therefore, according to the order given by the Allied General Headquarters to our Southeast Asia Theater, we immediately organized a counterattack on the Southeast Asian front.
Among them, I prepared two offensive routes. ”
Excited Stilwell asked his adjutant to open a large map.
The map was marked with densely packed attack arrows by Stilwell's staff.
After reading this offensive situation map, Ye Qingshan instantly understood Stilwell's offensive strategy.
It was basically the same as what Ye Qingshan and Luo Zhuoying had discussed before.
The attack was divided into two directions by Stilwell.
One direction of land attack would naturally be from the eastern part of Myanmar, attacking the main force of the Japanese 25th Army in Siam at that time.
Another one is the attack at sea.
They boarded ships from southern Myanmar ports, took American landing ships south, and landed near the Malay Peninsula.
The target is naturally Singapore, an important port in the Strait of Malacca.
"Commander Ye, how long will it take for your troops to arrive?"
Stilwell asked Ye Qingshan.
“About a month later.
But even if our expeditionary force returns, we still need to rest after the long journey.
It will take at least two months to fully launch the war."
"Can.
I have set the time for the general offensive at the beginning of January next year.
There are still three months left, which is enough time for your expeditionary force to return and rest."
After listening to this, Ye Qingshan said that there was no problem.
The new commander on the British side also said that there was no problem and that he would follow Stilwell's arrangements.
Ye Qingshan couldn't help but look at the new British commander opposite him.
Perhaps it was because the little mustache guy in Europe put too much pressure on the British.
The British are now extremely dependent on the support of the Americans on their home soil.
Therefore, their actions in Asia are forced to completely obey the arrangements of the Americans.
No longer as rebellious as before.
In addition, the division of territory in Myanmar at this time.
It was mainly the expeditionary force and the British who participated, as there were not many American troops to begin with.
Except for the Allied headquarters in Mandalay, other places were previously occupied by the British Army and the Expeditionary Force respectively.
It is almost like taking Mandalay as the central axis, drawing a line from the Savage Mountain in the north all the way to Yangon.
West of this line is the British territory.
Edom was the territory of the expeditionary force.
Among them, the expeditionary force’s base camp was in Lashio.
Even later, when the other three expeditionary armies all withdrew, Ye Qingshan's 86th Army also withdrew.
Due to Stilwell's interference, the British did not dare to take back the territory here.
Now, when Ye Qingshan’s 42nd Army comes back, these territories will still be theirs.
In fact, both Ye Qingshan and the British were dissatisfied with this way of distributing territory.
The British felt that this was originally their colony and that all the land should belong to them.
The generals on Ye Qingshan's side felt that the British had contributed too little in the previous battle to defeat the Japanese.
Letting them occupy half of the territory is a bargain for them.
That is, now, with Stilwell mediating in the middle, both sides are forced to accept this result.
According to Ye Qingshan’s next plan, they will go east to Siam, all the way to Annan in the east.
That was the territory he had chosen.
Therefore, among the two attack routes, Ye Qingshan still plans to focus on the attack towards East Siam first.
After all, most of his soldiers had never experienced large-scale landing operations.
Ye Qingshan was not very reassured about letting them rashly go south and land in the Malay Peninsula.
If an accident occurs, the soldiers under his command will suffer heavy losses.
But Ye Qingshan was unwilling to give up Singapore and hand it over to the British and Americans.