Sang Luobing sat on a high chair by the stage, sipping the cocktail in his glass while swaying to the beat of the music.

"Why didn't your brother come with you? Aren't you two always inseparable?" Sang Luobing put the wine glass on the stage and asked an American soldier.

"He can't come tonight. He has a mission." The American soldier replied.

Sang Luobing looked around the entire hall. She noticed that in the entire hall, there was not a single staff member from the combat department who came here for leisure.

"It seems that the Americans are really going to do something unusual." Sang Luobing thought as he quietly picked up the wine glass, took another sip, then put the wine glass on the stage and stood up gracefully.

Come on, extend an arm to that American soldier.

"Tom, won't you ask me to dance?"

…

The war room of the Fourteenth Air Force was brightly lit. There was a huge map in the middle of the war room. The map was surrounded by staff officers. Some of them were carefully moving red and blue tiles that symbolized the strength of both sides.

Flags, and some are busy calculating on the side. A large-scale war game is in progress.

"General, the estimated results for the first week are out." A staff officer walked up to Chennault, who was sitting aside, and handed him each sheet.

Chennault looked down and handed the paper to Ron, who was sitting next to him.

"Look, the losses of the transport aircraft in the first week were not small." Chennault glanced at Ron, "The losses increased by forty percent."

Ron carefully looked at the statistics of the simulated battle results. In the first week, the US military had a clear advantage in the exchange ratio between fighter jets, but the losses of transport aircraft were indeed serious. However, after seeing the loss figures of Japanese fighter jets, Ron

Well, I feel like I have a clue in my heart.

"Our losses were indeed huge in the first week, but seeing that Japan's own losses were also huge, I guess they won't be able to hold on by the second week. In three weeks at most, they will completely lose their air superiority. General, let's

We will wait for the results of the second and third weeks of the deduction."

A few hours later, the staff officer handed a piece of paper to Chennault again. Chennault looked at it and handed the paper to Ron.

"The results of this week's deduction are not consistent with your expectations - in fact, the tasks you expected to complete in the third week have been completed in the second week. The loss of transport aircraft has also dropped a lot, well, Ri's own

The air power has been exhausted and the route has been threatened by force."

"So, do we have to continue with the third week of deductions?" Ron asked.

"Of course, why not. But that's it for today. We're all tired, aren't we? Go back to bed."

Following General Chennault's order, the staff immediately got busy again, taking notes and collecting maps. After a while of fussing, everyone opened the thick curtains and opened the door to the war room.

At this time, a faint purple color appeared in the distant sky.

…

"Tom, are you hanging out here alone again? Where are your gay friends? Are you having a conflict?"

"Who said that? Huck has been busy all night and is sleeping now. He has completely turned into a cat now and sleeps exclusively during the day..."

"I heard that you suffered a big loss on the Camelback route?"

"Who are you listening to?"

"Don't lie to me. I know that your Flying Tigers always like to add water to your battle reports. But you know that this kind of activity will cause price fluctuations in the black market. If I were you, if something really happened, I would definitely hoard a batch first.

The cigarette is in my hand."

…

"Ron, after these several deductions, I think our plan has withstood scrutiny. But to turn this plan into a combat order, we still need to discuss it with Stilwell."

Stilwell is the chief of staff of the China Theater and the commander-in-chief of the US military in the China-Burma-India Theater. He directly controls the distribution of US aid supplies to China. An air campaign of this scale will inevitably involve the distribution of various combat supplies. Without Stilwell

Without Wei's support, the campaign concept could not be implemented.

"We'll go meet General Stilwell later. He happens to be in Kunming right now, but he has never paid much attention to the role of air combat... You have to try your best to persuade him to support this plan." Chennault paused, "This

It's up to you to explain the plan to him. After all, you are one of the best air combat tactics experts in the United States."

…

"Huang Chu, the Americans seem to be preparing for a big move. The staff team of the Fourteenth Air Force is extremely busy. In addition, some American soldiers have obviously begun to hoard cigarettes. I am worried that their actions may interfere with the distribution of US aid supplies.

We should probably stock up a little ahead of time."

"Luo Bing, you are really my daughter Zhuge."

A fat Japanese officer sitting on the sofa smiled and put out the cigarette on his hand in the ashtray, then pulled Sang Luobing into his arms, and put one hand through the seam of her clothes.

Poke in.

"Huang Chu, you are so bad...this is in the office...oh..."

…

Kunming, where Stilwell stayed.

General Stilwell, who had just turned 60, put down the plan handed to him by Ron and at the same time took off the glasses on the high bridge of his nose.

"Where was the derivation of this plan conducted?" he asked.

"General, the war game of the plan was conducted in the war room of the Fourteenth Air Force." Ron replied.

"The deduction was done by the Fourteenth Air Force." Stilwell smiled. After getting this answer, in his mind, the persuasiveness of this document was immediately reduced. Because in Stilwell's eyes, the first

The Fourteenth Air Force was an army composed of a group of mercenaries. When they were still called the Flying Tigers, for every Japanese plane they shot down, the national government would pay them a bonus of US$100. (In

In those days, 100 U.S. dollars was almost equivalent to 3 ounces, or 85 grams of gold.) In order to get more bonuses, the Flying Tigers would often report some exaggerated results statistics intentionally or unintentionally. As a result, they claimed to have shot down

The number of Japanese aircraft is even greater than the total number of various aircraft owned by Japan in this area. According to Stilwell, the true nature of the battle report of the Fourteenth Air Force must be multiplied by a coefficient.

And this coefficient is basically never higher than half.

What's even more hateful is that the mercenary leader also likes to brag about these obviously unreliable battle reports in a serious manner, and even makes such claims as giving me a thousand fighter planes, and I can destroy the entire Japanese army.

Strategic Concept. Now that the Fourteenth Air Force had come up with something like this again, Stilwell knew without thinking that Chennault must be trying to defraud him of more supplies.

"Well, according to his request, in the past month, the supply quantity of other materials must be reduced by about 20%, so as to free up transportation capacity to provide them with the fuel and ammunition needed for combat. Well, does Chennault think that

Am I as stupid as Peanut?" Stilwell thought silently.

Although he thought he had seen through Chennault's little calculation, Stilwell did not intend to refute them face to face. After all, he still had to work with Chennault, and it would not be good to make the relationship too tense.

"I will let my staff study this document carefully. This is a very complex combat concept, and it will take some time to study it. So I can't give you an answer right away." Stilwell said after thinking for a while.

"So, how long will it take for the General to give us an answer?" Chennault asked.

Originally, Chennault did not intend to speak out, but Stilwell's doubts about the Fourteenth Air Force were still heard in his words, which made Chennault feel very unhappy.

"About a week?" Stilwell replied patiently.

"Why does it take so long? In the Fourteenth Air Force, the relevant deductions were completed in less than 48 hours." Ron also asked.

This issue made Stilwell very embarrassed. In fact, Stilwell originally planned to take this plan back to India and let the staff of the Tenth Air Force conduct a rehearsal. But now Chennault is here, saying it in front of him

Giving such a reason may only lead to disagreements and conflicts.

So he paused, looked at Chennault and Ron, and then said, "Who first proposed this idea?"

"It's Colonel Ron."

"Oh, Colonel Ron, you know, I am an amateur in air combat. If you are free, can you stay and explain this plan to me and my staff in detail?" Stilwell quickly found a

Excuse.

"Okay General," Ron replied.

Chennault looked at Stilwell, and he knew that this was just Stilwell's excuse. He knew that, in essence, Stilwell and he were the same type of people - they had high self-esteem but were thrown into such a low position.

The unlucky man who came to the battlefield. Like him, Stilwell hoped to seize the opportunity of the war to make contributions. However, due to the limitations of transportation capacity, and of course, because of strategic priorities, the manpower and material resources that could be allocated to this battlefield were all

Very limited. Chennault was short of supplies, and Stilwell was even worse, not even having soldiers. Moreover, Chennault could only command air combat, and Stilwell could only command ground combat, but the supplies given to them could not meet their needs at the same time. Among them,

Any one person's chance almost means that the other person will lose the material foundation necessary to achieve success. Therefore, Stilwell will instinctively oppose any plan for large-scale air operations.

Chennault didn't want to fall out with Stilwell directly, but this plan was very important to him. Ron told him yesterday that this operation was actually a rehearsal, a rehearsal for the European air war. Once successful, this tactic would

It will become a classic and remain in the annals of history forever. As the first general to practice this method of warfare, Chennault will also leave a mark in history.

So Chennault plans to make a concession to that damn stubborn old man - as long as that guy supports him this time, he is willing to reduce the initiative of the Fourteenth Air Force by one-third in the next three months, four months at most.

Attack, save transportation power to repay this stubborn old man, and I am also willing to express my support for him to reopen the China-Myanmar Highway.
Chapter completed!