After the Japanese army has been trained and a batch of Japanese-style weapons and equipment has been replenished, the Thai army should be regarded as a strong army in South Asia. In the face of the Burmese servant army looting everywhere, the Thai army naturally pursued closely, trying to encircle and annihilate this group of Burmese bandits who killed people and set fires everywhere in Thailand in one fell swoop. It's just that what the Thai army didn't expect was that the Burmese servant army also used Japanese-style weapons and equipment, although the Burmese servant army did not have the armored vehicles and artillery of the Thai army, but other light weapons were also not bad.

The Burmese servant army is not equipped with the so-called heavy weapons, and can only be chased and beaten by the menacing Thai army, if it were not for the Burmese servant army, which is also familiar with jungle warfare, it may have been dumpled by the Thai army. Without heavy weapons, neither the Burmese Servant Army nor the Independent Army commanded by Yan Xiguang is a good thing. Fortunately, the Independence Army still has Zhuo Fei, the big boss behind the scenes, and when the Forward Regiment of the Independent Army commanded by Yan Xiguang lost the means of communication with the headquarters and looked forward to opening the passage with Pasang as soon as possible to restore contact, the reconnaissance plane that took off urgently from Donghu finally found the traces of Yan Xiguang and his gang.

The reconnaissance plane was not only looking for Yan Xiguang and them, but also dropped a radio station and a new code book for Yan Xiguang, and they were overjoyed when they got the radio, and the resumption of contact with the headquarters of the Independent Army meant that they were no longer a lonely army. Determining the airdrop site and waiting for the opportunity to build a temporary airfield is Zhuo Fei's new order to Yan Xiguang. Yan Xiguang, who was about to face the Thai army, didn't know why the big boss gave such an order, but he just found an open field as an airborne field according to Zhuo Fei's requirements, but he didn't realize the importance of the airborne field

The group of planes that had transferred from Lashio to Donghu had already been prepared, and after receiving the order to take off, they took advantage of the night to take off and fly eastward. The number of transport planes of the umbrella company is not very large, counting the transport planes that Zhuo Fei flickered from the hands of the British army in India a few days ago, Zhuo Fei can only mobilize 12 transport planes at present. Including the necessary escort fighters, the number of fighters taking off from the temporary airfield in Donghu has exceeded 30, and almost all of these planes are retired pilots recruited from Europe by the umbrella company.

At the scheduled time, Yan Xiguang's Jewish soldiers lit the pyre in the airborne field, and the raging flames instantly pierced the night sky, providing guidance for the group of planes in the air that had lowered their altitude. The use of airdrops to provide material supplies and resources for the forward troops is still a very new matter for Yan Xiguang, who was born in the national army. Yan Xiguang was fascinated by the rain of umbrella flowers that bloomed and slowly fell in the air like snow in front of him, and he had no idea that even big guys like heavy machine guns and mortars could be transported by airdrop.

The materials dropped by the 12 transport planes were not too much, and even less for a forward regiment with more than 1,000 people, but it had already made Yan Xiguang and them excited and cheered. Zhuo Fei originally wanted to disassemble the 75 mountain cannon and drop it to Yan Xiguang, but even if the 75 mountain cannon was completely dismantled, it still took up too much space and space. The place and space in the engine room to place a 75 mountain gun is enough to place several heavy machine guns or mortars, and it is the first time for the fighter unit of the umbrella company to have such a scale of airdrop, and Zhuo Fei does not want to use the 75 mountain gun for experiments.

More than 30 Browning heavy machine guns and 50 mortars were airdropped, and the remaining airdropped boxes were all ammunition supplies for the forward regiment. Moreover, the success of this airdrop also indicates that Yan Xiguang's forward regiment will receive other supplies from Donghu in the coming days.

"You now know why I'm making a lot of emphasis on keeping the road behind me clear, right? After the end of the era of cold weapons, the actual battle of the war was logistics supply. Without timely and adequate logistical supplies, even the German army, which claims to be the strongest in the world, will be helpless. The Japanese army can occupy the whole of South Asia, but they do not have an ammunition production base in South Asia, but we have this advantage, and our arsenal base in Ruili can produce the weapons and ammunition we need day and night, and this is the advantage. ”

"It is not enough to have an arsenal base that can produce day and night, we also need to ensure the smooth passage of the rear, otherwise the weapons and ammunition produced in the rear will not be able to be smoothly sent to the front." Zhuo Fei looked around at the officers present, especially the few who had been adamantly opposed to the expansion of the road by his own immigrants and Burmese natives in advance. "The indigenous people of Myanmar are not our people, we don't have to have pity on them, and the immigrants can't enjoy everything we have in vain, they have to pay for it with their own labor. It is a matter of course to work and get money, and it makes sense to go anywhere. ”

Several officers from the Eighth Route Army secretly lowered their heads, it was a few of them who opposed it the most, if it weren't for Chen Geng's final remarks and mud, Zhuo Fei's decision to transfer immigrants to build roads would probably not have been passed. Now, when the facts were laid out in front of them, they knew that they were wrong, and if it had not been for the expansion of the road from Mandalay to Taungoo in advance, the large amount of ammunition and supplies piled up in the rear would not have been sent to the Taungoo front so quickly.

Yan Xiguang guessed correctly, after the first batch of materials was successfully airborne, 10 hours later, the second batch of materials was also airdropped, this time from Donghu airlifted several disassembled 75 mountain guns and 92 infantry guns. "Now it's okay, I want to see if the bullshit war elephants of the Thai army can continue to go on." Before the 20 or so artillerymen parachuted down with the supplies came back to their senses, Yan Xiguang was like a baby, and the 20 or so pale artillerymen were directly under the command of the regiment headquarters.

With artillery and long-range firepower, Yan Xiguang's next step was to send the Burmese servant army to take the initiative to provoke the Thai army and lure the Thai army's proud war elephant troops to appear. Unlike the Burmese servant soldiers who were afraid of war elephants, northerners like Yan Xiguang had never seen troops using elephants as a means of warfare, so they naturally lost the fear of war elephants. Elephants are afraid of fire and loud noises, and these, 75 mountain guns or 92 infantry guns are all available, and Yan Xiguang, who is full of confidence, has even prepared to annihilate the war elephant troops of the Thai army.

Fighting between the forward forces of the Independence Army and the Thai army seemed to have erupted too suddenly, and the Burmese servants, who had been tasked with the decoy, dispersed after the Thai army sent war elephant troops and armoured vehicles. Originally, according to Yan Xiguang's plan, these Burmese servant soldiers who acted as bait should lure the Thai army's war elephant troops into the encirclement, but out of fear of war elephants, these Burmese servant soldiers who scattered in a hurry inadvertently led the Thai army's war elephant troops to the flank of the independence army's position.

The angry Yan Xiguang no longer cared about scolding the Burmese servant troops who had done bad things, but directly ordered the artillery behind the position to adjust the gun distance and cover the Thai war elephant troops who were heading straight to the flank of the position. The still fierce Thai army war elephant troops did not expect that the other side still had artillery support, although the sudden artillery fire coverage was not very strong, but it also completely caused the Thai army's war elephant herd to be chaotic, coupled with the Browning large-caliber heavy machine gun fire, the Thai army's war elephant troops had to retreat immediately.

The retreat of the war elephant troops exposed the Thai army's armored units directly in front of the Independence Army's positions, and how could such light tanks and armored vehicles, which were disliked by the Japanese themselves, be the opponent of artillery fire and Browning heavy machine guns. Amid the happy roars of the Independence Army machine gunners, the Thai tanks and armored vehicles in front of the position were blown up one after another, and the remaining tanks and armored vehicles that had not yet been affected by the bullets immediately turned around and left, but they had been forcibly surrounded by the tentative Independence Army troops.

The Thai armored forces surrounded by regiments seem to have only one way to choose, and if they don't want to be killed, they can only surrender to the soldiers of the independent army who surrounded them. If it was the Japanese army who was surrounded, they would most likely choose to commit suicide, but the Thai soldiers chose to surrender one by one, because they knew that at least they could save their lives.

originally thought it would be a tough battle, but what Yan Xiguang didn't expect at all was that the battle only lasted less than 2 hours before it came to an end. More than 1,000 soldiers of the Independent Army under his command, with the cooperation of more than 3,000 Burmese servants, defeated the Thai army of more than 7,000 in one fell swoop, and finally killed about 1,000 Thai soldiers and captured more than 4,000 prisoners of war. Nearly 2,000 Thai soldiers abandoned their weapons and fled into the mountains and forests or rivers, Yan Xiguang only sent some Burmese servants to pursue these Thai routs, but sent more than 4,000 prisoners of war into the forest to build roads.

After receiving a telegram from Yan Xiguang, Zhuo Fei convened the senior officers of the Independence Army to discuss whether to send follow-up troops to Thailand as soon as possible. Although Yan Xiguang repeatedly said in the telegram that he could sweep the whole of Thailand with only his forward regiment and those Burmese servants, Zhuo Fei didn't think so, after all, there was still a wing-level Japanese army in Thailand.

Yan Xiguang said that he already has the certainty of sweeping the whole of Thailand, and the premise is that our material airdrop cannot be stopped. The combat effectiveness of the Thai army is comparable to that of the Imperial Cooperative Army in China, and I very much agree with this. But Yan Xiguang's big words, I am a little worried, after all, there is still a Japanese army at the wing level in Thailand, and the Japanese troops who are blocked by us on the front line of Yangon may escape to Thailand at any time through Pabon and Gemamun. Zhuo Fei didn't make it clear, in fact, he could force the Japanese troops on the front line of Yangon to Thailand, which was exactly what he thought in his heart.