Chapter 299 The lion opens his mouth
Boss Yang did not wait too long. After just one week, the Japanese army, under the command of Lieutenant General Fengwen of the Yamashita, relied on the advantages of the navy and air force, forcibly landed in Trivandrum with a Japanese division, two Indian puppet military advisors, and a Vietnamese puppet military advisor. He was welcomed by the Sans and the others to treat the liberators. Then everyone happily slaughtered all the British in the city, and at least 5,000 people were killed.
The docile Chihuahuas of those days suddenly became mad dogs. This terrifying change made the new British Prime Minister Churchill finally lower his noble head.
"Mr. Ambassador, don't worry, just look at the medal on my chest. I will never be able to sit idly by your country's predicament in India. But you should also understand that it is useless to be willing alone. This is not a war to defend your own country. I cannot order my troops to defend a group of strangers thousands of miles away from home to defend a group of strangers." Yang Feng covered his big cross with his hand and said to Sir Carl, the British Ambassador to China, who came to China, with a look of embarrassment.
Sir Carl is not stupid, so he naturally understands that this guy is going to make a fortune. This is understandable, and he has to make a fortune if he changes.
"Mr. Yang, please rest assured that the British Empire will not treat any friends who have helped her unfairly. If you have any specific requests, you might as well say it." He said with a smile.
"First of all, the military expenditures we go to India to participate in the war must be borne by the British government." Since this is the case, Yang Feng was not polite, he thought about it and said.
"This is OK." Sir Carl nodded without hesitation.
"Secondly, the pensions after soldiers' casualties must also be held responsible by the UK."
"Can."
"Third, Chinese soldiers who go to India to participate in the war must pay the same salary as those of the same British volunteer soldiers according to their military ranks."
"Yes." Carl said. In fact, Churchill had already instructed him that as long as it was a matter of money, don't worry too much about Yang Feng. Anyway, the pound thing is printed.
"Fourth, the Hong Kong issue and the southern Tibet issue must be solved." Yang Feng said next is not money.
"Mr. Yang, according to the above conditions, your army is participating in the war as a mercenary, so there is no need to get involved in matters other than money, right?" Sir Carl said carefully. In his opinion, it is best to avoid this issue.
"Sir, you must understand that although I am full of affection for the British Empire, my soldiers are different. Because many of them even have hostility towards your country in these two places. In this case, it is difficult to agree to help your country fight. After all, they are not very short of money now." Yang Feng said earnestly.
"Well, the Hong Kong issue needs to be approved by the parliament. As for the Arunachal Pradesh issue, this can be resolved by negotiations between India and your country." Sir Carl said. Anyway, the British Empire has lost enough places now. I don't care about two more small places, let alone Hong Kong is still in the hands of the Japanese. As for southern Tibet, Marquis Hope, as the governor and deputy king of India, in these cases, he would not hesitate to even divest all the land at the foot of the Himalayas to China.
You should know that from the tragedy of Trivandrum, it can be seen that the Indians who are as obedient as rabbits on weekdays can be bloody once they get the chance to turn over. They tussed 5,000 British people in Trivandrum. If they get the whole of India, then the millions of British citizens on this land will not be killed.
This result made Boss Yang very satisfied. Of course, the opportunity for Lion to speak loudly is here, so he only needs these things. That would be too sorry for himself.
"We have another serious problem, which is how to enter India." The guy said seriously.
"Mr. Yang, you can ask your subordinates and the expeditionary forces to launch a counterattack in Myanmar, and attack our troops from the north of India from east to west. First, destroy the Japanese troops east of Myanmar and Brahmaputra River, so that the Indian-Myanmar passage can be opened, and then go south to drive the Japanese troops out of the sea." Sir Carl said. This is what Marquis Wavere and Hope most hope to see.
"No, no, it's too late. When I think of the peace-loving British people. I'm suffering from a slaughter in India, I can say that I can't sleep or eat. It's probably not a year before the counterattack from Myanmar. I don't know how many people will be killed in such a long time, so I decided to take the fastest way.
First, I will build a large airport in Lhasa and then airlift the soldiers. I now have 100 Hercules transport planes in my hand, which can airlift 5,000 fully armed soldiers at a time. However, if I fly directly from Kunming to India, I will be intercepted by Japanese planes in the middle, and from Chengdu to India, I will be blocked by Himalayas. You also know that it is impossible for the plane to fly over these mountains at an altitude of 6,700 meters after the plane is fully loaded.
Therefore, we can only send it to Lhasa first, and then go out of Asia East to India by land. In addition, the future material supply must be passed through Lhasa, and even the future supply of your army can be handled by us.
However, this makes the aircraft's capacity seem a bit insufficient. After all, my aircraft cannot be responsible for the Indian battlefield only, so I hope your country will provide a batch of transport aircraft, and it must be at the Hercules level, with a number of no less than 200." Yang Feng said.
Only then did Sir Carl understand the real purpose of this product. What is the best Hercules level? At this time, can you take five tons of goods directly from Xi'an to Lhasa. Are there any other planes besides Hercules? In other words, if you want him to send troops, the British zhengfu must first go to his Lockheed company and order at least 200 Hercules transport aircraft. It costs more than 300,000 US dollars to export one of these items, which means that you will have to pay him 60 million US dollars in labor fees.
However, Sir Carl had no choice. Yang Feng would be wiped out in a few months without sending troops. Then the entire India would be gone. What else would you talk about? Besides, with these transport planes joining, even the supply of the Indian British army would be available.
In this way, the helpless British quickly agreed to Yang Feng's request, but even so, the British Indian army had to hold on for more than a month, because there was no airport at Lhasa and had to repair the airport first, even if they had to take a field airport for emergency response.
In addition, the legal procedures for sending troops need to be solved. This is of course easy to deal with. When I heard that the British voluntarily returned Hong Kong, and also canceled the McMahon line and returned southern Tibet to China, the bald man was naturally in a happy mood. While sending people to solve the legal procedures in these two places, he waved his pen and ordered the First War Zone to form a war army to India. As for whom to go, you can do it yourself.
In addition, the logistics supply office of the army to participate in India was established in Xi'an and Lhasa to be fully responsible for the transportation of materials. Xi'an is naturally easy to talk about. Now Xi'an is Zhu Shaoliang's 10th War Zone Command, and the military is mainly responsible for Hu Zongnan's 34th Army. Of course, his army is not a fight against the Japanese. The two sides are not at all. No matter how tight the fighting in the south is, the bald man is not willing to transfer his first disciple of the emperor away and is here to look at Yan'an.
Since it was the bald man's order and this kind of major event that would promote our country's power, these two people naturally cooperated completely. People from Peking do whatever they say, expand the airport, repair the roads leading to Yan'an, build large oil storage warehouses, and material warehouses are all essential.
But it is difficult to deal with Lhasa because the 14th Dalai Lingtong was still on his way to Tibet. Now the person in charge of Lhasa's government affairs is Rezhen Hutuktu. He firmly disagrees with zhongyang regarding Lhasa as the rear base for the army to participate in the war in India. It doesn't matter to the bald man. Anyway, he has done what Yang Feng asked, and if he doesn't agree, you can do it yourself!
"Does he still have the qualifications to disagree?" Yang Feng said with a grim smile: "Let Liu Wenhui send troops to Tibet with two divisions, and let Chongqing airdrop all supplies for him.
In addition, let Fu Zuoyi tell the living Buddha of Bailing Temple that if he is willing to return to Tibet at this time, then I will send a plane to pick him up and then follow Liu Wenhui's troops to Tibet."
He has been raising the living Buddha in Bailing Temple for many years. Anyway, he can't spend a lot of money, but he can get respected by Buddhists. Why not do it? The living Buddha, who was originally worried and angry for 307 years, is still alive and it's time for him to repay him.
"They are all too slow. Even if they enter Tibet, it will probably take a month later. I think it would be better to drop the airborne brigade and control Lhasa first. If not, circle the Potala Palace." Huang Baitao said.
"No, no, our people are not adapted to plateau activities, and they will have severe altitude sickness. If they are not good, many people will die. Liu Wenhui's people don't have to worry about these things. The environment in Xikang and Tibetan areas are not much different, so they have adapted a long time ago.
But I remembered that this altitude sickness is indeed a big problem. It seems that some anti-altitude sickness drugs, such as Codonopsis tablets, etc.." Yang Feng only thought of this serious problem at this time, but it was no big deal. It was just to get some medicine from modern times, and let Chongqing produce some oxygen pillows or something.
"There is another point. Isn't Wu Zhongxin preparing to escort the 14th Dalai spiritual child to Lhasa to hold a bed ceremony? We just let the Panchen Lama Living Buddha be with them. He and Wu Zhongxin are co-hosting the bed ceremony. A living Buddha and a reincarnated spiritual child are not brave enough to stop Hutuktu.
Even if he dares to stop him, the Tibetans will not be able to listen to him. After all, he is just Rezhen. Now that the master has arrived, he can only get out of the way. After Lhasa, we will still let them follow the old rules, one stationed in the Potala Palace and the other stationed in the Silunbu Monastery to restrain each other." Sun Liren said.
PS: My wife has low progesterone, which makes me nervous
Chapter completed!