Beiyang reactionaries

"The influence is not very small. Among many young people, the Viet Cong has a great appeal. Among the many Vietnamese students who went to school in our country in the past few years, the Viet Cong's activities are very frequent. But that's it, the Viet Cong itself Not much strength. Because of the lack of funds in the hands of the Viet Cong supporters, there is no army in their hands. In addition to the Viet Cong, there are two powerful sects in Vietnam, one is Catholicism and the other is Buddhism. Catholics are mainly distributed in North Vietnam In the area, Buddhists are mainly concentrated in South Vietnam. In Vietnam’s political system, Buddhists don’t participate very much, but Catholics have great influence. Therefore, some Catholic families have great influence in Vietnam’s political field. The powerful Catholic families in Vietnam Among them, the Wu family is the most influential. Now the representative of the Wu family is the former Minister of the Ministry of Officials Ngo Dinh Diem. Their family is the most powerful Catholic family in Vietnam and has a history of [-] years in Vietnamese politics."

"What about his politics?"

"Because he was born in a Catholic family, he admired Catholicism very much and disliked Buddhism. When he was in power, he suppressed Buddhism a lot, and his relationship with Buddhists was very tense. Not only that, he was also anti-French colonialists, anti- Communist radical. He has the support of many powerful families in Vietnam."

Since solving the problems in the north, China has begun to pay more attention to surrounding countries.

The Foreign Office is the easiest place to gather intelligence.Among China's neighbors, the Vietnam issue is also a very important issue, because Vietnam is not a small country in Southeast Asia and has a large population.Therefore, we attach great importance to the situation in Vietnam.Wang Jingwei is also very familiar with their domestic political situation.

"Vice Chairman Wang, you and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Strategic Research Office, should analyze it. Let's see if the establishment of a new government by the Vietnamese royal family is beneficial to us, or the Viet Cong, or the establishment of a new government by the Wu family. It is beneficial to us. The establishment of the new government in Vietnam, we must support one side. Don’t just focus on immediate interests, but also see future interests. Functions give us short-term interests, but political factions with no future should not be in the We are considering it."

"Yes."

Among these political factions in Vietnam, choosing a political faction that is most beneficial to China's interests to come to power is what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should do.But Duan Xun couldn't fully judge which faction would be beneficial to China for a while.

Because history has completely changed.

At this stage, Duan Xun still needs to listen to everyone's opinions on how to choose.Working together, the government has so many experienced diplomats and has so many experts who study international strategy. If you don't work hard at this time, when will you do it.

"Chairman, Vice Chairman Li (Li Jishen) and Chief of Staff Xu (Xu Yongchang) have urgent matters to see."

"understood."

Duan Xun told Wang Jingwei: "Japan is very likely to support Vietnam's Emperor Bao Dai to form a new government, so a detailed plan must be made for Vietnam's affairs."

"Yes."

"Then you are busy first."

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"Chairman."

"Sit down, what happened?"

After talking with Wang Jingwei, Duan Xun went to see Li Jishen and Xu Yongchang.One of them is the vice chairman of the Supreme Council, and the other is the chief of the general staff of the Military Council.The two came hand in hand and said that there was something important. Duan Xun was also very curious.The Supreme Council is a very complete institution. Although it is only a temporary wartime institution, it has all the necessary departments.

The Supreme Council and various departments have docking agencies.

In fact, it is a huge secretarial organization. Their job is to contact various departments and sort out the documents submitted by each department.It has a similar function to the attendant room of the Chairman of the Military Committee of Chiang Kai-shek in history.

The Supreme Council has an office dedicated to discussing military issues, where Li Jishen and Xu Yongchang are waiting for Duan Xun.Seeing Duan Xun come in, both Li Jishen and Xu Yongchang stood up.

Duan Xun asked them to sit down.

After the three sat down, Xu Yongchang immediately began to talk: "Information from Myitkyina. In Myitkyina early this morning, the Japanese army once again assembled a large army to attack the British and Indian positions. About four hours later, the No.14 Army of the British and Indian Army The subordinate 33rd Corps was completely defeated, directly exposing the right wing of the Myitkyina defense line. The news we got before we came here was that the 12th Division, 14th Division, 62nd Brigade, 6th Armored Brigade, and 9th Armored Brigade of the British and Indian Army were killed Surrounded by the Japanese army, the 36th and 49th Divisions of the British and Indian Army were routed and pursued by the Japanese army all the way, causing heavy casualties."

"The right-wing defense line of Myitkyina was breached by the Japanese army?"

"Yes."

Duan Xun was dumbfounded.

Duan Xun's life is inseparable from military struggle.Duan Xun started to study in the military academy when he was very young, from the kindergarten class to the Japanese non-commissioned officer academy.After leaving the military academy, he began to lead troops. Starting from the suppression of bandits in western Henan, the War of Protecting the Country, the War of Protecting the Law, the First War of Directing Anhui, and the Second War of Directing Anhui, he entered Beijing entirely by winning on the battlefield.Although Duan Xun may not be on the front line in every war, the grand strategies of these wars are all formulated by Duan Xun.

Later, Duan Xun came to Beijing, and he also never went to the front line to command the war.However, although there is no front-line command of the war, Duan Xun and the war have never been separated.After taking over Beijing, a war was fought to unify the country and eliminate warlords. Later, there were Sino-Japanese wars and Sino-Soviet wars.In any war, Duan Xun, as the commander-in-chief, made grand strategic deployments.

It can be said that Duan Xun has never left the war in his life, so he is very familiar with the battlefield.

Duan Xun has studied the Battle of Myitkyina.Not only Duan Xun, but also the Chinese military, including many military academies in China, have carefully studied the Myitkyina Battle.The General Staff Headquarters even conducted a lot of deduction on the Battle of Myitkyina.Many of those research reports and deduction reports came to Duan Xun, which gave Duan Xun a deeper understanding of the Myitkyina Battle.

But no matter how it is deduced, it is very difficult for the Japanese army to win Myitkyina.

The United Kingdom was unable to support the British and Indian troops on a large scale. It could only purchase a large amount of arms and logistical materials from China to guarantee the weapons, equipment and logistics of the British and Indian troops.

But it does not mean that the United Kingdom really did not support the British and Indian troops.

Britain used various methods to send a large number of officers to the British and Indian Army.The expansion of the British and Indian Army was too powerful. When the army first expanded, there was a shortage of officers. Therefore, the United Kingdom sent many officers to the British and Indian Army to form these troops.Coupled with the continuous fighting between the British and Indian troops and the Japanese army in the past two years, the British and Indian troops have been greatly tempered, and their combat effectiveness has risen linearly.The British and Indian troops have occupied Myitkyina for many years, and there are very complete fortifications in Myitkyina.

The Japanese army attacked Myitkyina several times but failed to take it down, because the number and weapons were not superior, and even now the combat effectiveness is not necessarily much higher than that of the British and Indian troops.Facing Myitkyina, which has perfect fortifications, the Japanese army has worked very hard, but still failed to take Myitkyina.

Of course, in order to win Myitkyina, Japan also prepared a lot.

When the Japanese army swept across Southeast Asia, only two or three hundred planes were dispatched in each major battle.For some small-scale battles, dozens of planes were dispatched, which is enough to be used on the battlefield.But for the Battle of Myitkyina, the Japanese army deployed more than 800 fighter jets and bombers in Burma.In order to quickly support the frontline troops, about 1500 transport aircraft were deployed.In the past two years, a quarter of Japan's annual aircraft production has been deployed in Myanmar.

But even so, it was very difficult for the Japanese army to break through Myitkyina in Duan Xun's analysis.Unless there are some low-level mistakes, it is really impossible for the Japanese army to take Myitkyina.But how could this happen? Why was the right-wing defense line of Myitkyina suddenly breached.There are still so many troops surrounded, and so many troops defeated.

Should not be ah.

"What is the specific reason?"

"Japan dropped a large number of gas bombs on the positions of the 33rd Corps of the British and Indian Army. According to the information we received, the number of gas bombs thrown by the Japanese army exceeded 8000, and may reach 10000."

"More than 8000 gas bombs?"

"Yes. According to the analysis of the battlefield situation reported back, the Japanese army made a very careful plan for the gas bomb attack. They studied the positions of the British and Indian troops that are most suitable for using gas bombs, and they must have predicted today's wind direction. Then so many gas bombs were used. The British and Indian troops were not prepared for the gas bombs at all, so the British and Indian troops did not respond at all for a while. As a result, the 12th and 14th divisions of the British and Indian troops fought against the Japanese army. There was no way to fight back under the attack, and the position was quickly captured by the Japanese army. The other troops of the British and Indian troops were slow to increase their numbers, resulting in the breach of the right-wing position."

Because the Battle of Myitkyina is still going on, the information sent back now is only a few words.What Xu Yongchang and the others did was to restore the process of war from these intelligences.

"Hideki Tojo is crazy."

Duan Xun couldn't help shaking his head.

Japan suddenly went crazy.During the First World War, the Germans used a large number of gas bombs, causing heavy casualties to the British and French troops.Therefore, after the end of the First World War, everyone decided to ban the use of such gas bombs and the use of chemical weapons.

After the outbreak of World War II, Japan has fought for so many years, but has never used gas bombs once.

But I didn't expect that there were more than 8000 gas bombs in one shot this time.In fact, poisonous gas bombs are said to be powerful, and they are indeed very powerful.However, the storage and transportation conditions of gas bombs are very strict, and there are many restrictions on their use, so they cannot be used on any battlefield.When attacking, it is very likely to slow down the attack speed, and if used improperly, it is very likely to accidentally injure one's own people.Therefore, in the eyes of many industrial powers, this kind of gas bomb is more suitable for massacring civilians than being used on the battlefield.

Also because of these limitations of gas bombs, many industrial powers do not like to produce gas bombs very much. They think that producing more powerful shells is more useful on the battlefield.

But Japan is different. They have been developing and producing gas bombs.

why?

Because gas bombs are less resource-intensive than mass-producing those shells.Japan is different from the United States, the Soviet Union, China, and Germany. It is impossible for Japan to produce cannons and shells on a large scale like these industrial powers.Like the Soviet Union and Germany on the Soviet-German battlefield, Japan cannot afford the use of shells at the level of the Soviet Union and Germany.Because Japan's industrial scale is limited, industrial output is limited.Where can you use cannons at will like these industrial powers.For example, when the Soviet Union attacked Berlin in history, the Soviet Union fired 10 shells in the first three and 50 minutes. Japan could not even imagine an artillery battle of this scale.

Gas bombs are better than that.

Just like the Battle of Myitkyina.

If there are only more than 8000 shells, they will definitely not have such an effect.Because the British and Indian troops have become accustomed to artillery battles.However, Japan suddenly used poison gas bombs and threw more than 8000 rounds of gas bombs, which caught the British and Indian troops by surprise.They are completely unprepared for this.Although the direct casualties of this gas bomb are not that severe, it can cause large-scale chaos in the troops.The Japanese army took advantage of this chaotic opportunity and raided the British and Indian troops.

It can be said that Japan's use of gas bombs this time was completely unexpected.

But gas bombs?

Japan really dared to use gas bombs on the battlefield, and it used gas bombs against the British.This will cause Japan to be greatly condemned by international public opinion, but Japan still resolutely used gas bombs.