Chapter Twenty-Six: Add a Fire

Mercenaries are living by picking chestnuts from the fire, and now that the times are in turmoil, Zhuo Fei has even more reason to make some layouts in advance to lay a good foundation for the future of the umbrella. The plot to seize Somalia was only an unformed plan in Zhuo Fei's mind, but the Chinese army suddenly moved north at this time, especially the new first army that confronted the Japanese army on the Chengde front line fired the first shot, and the Japanese army's fierce offensive shocked the Japanese army.

Artillery of various calibers spat projectiles at the Japanese positions without stopping, and the New First Army, equipped with a large number of Soviet-style artillery, gave full play to the advantages of strong firepower. "Artillery fire extends to fire, armored units attack." Under Dai Anlan's order, the armored troops that had already been assembled lined up to kill the Japanese positions under the cover of extended artillery fire, and the tide of infantry followed closely behind the armored forces.

The tactics of the new army have long been different from the old model, and the new army units equipped with a large number of artillery pieces and proven armored vehicles have been training according to the new tactics provided by Zhuo Fei since the Ruili training camp. The tactics of coordinating the maneuver of the mechanized troops with the output of firepower have long been brought into full play by the units of the new army, and how can the Japanese army, which is still looking at the Chinese army with the old eyes, not suffer losses. In the first battle, the Japanese army retreated, and the new army did not let go of the opponent, but pursued closely.

North China and even Northeast China are plain terrain, this kind of terrain is very suitable for the march of armored forces and large-scale operations, most of the Japanese armored units have been transferred to the Far East to fight against the Soviet army, but now, it is the armored forces of the new army that dominate. Most of Dai Anlan's armored forces are equipped with light or medium tanks, and the heavy tanks provided by the Soviets are not absent, but Dai Anlan does not like the turtle speed of Soviet-style heavy tanks, so the armored units of the New First Army are not equipped with Soviet-style heavy tanks.

Lowering the defense of the tanks was thought to increase the movement speed of the armored troops, so the armored troops of the new First Army under the command of Dai Anlan could chase the Japanese all the way. The New First Army made a good start, but the New Second Army and the New Third Army, which were advancing hand in hand, were greatly agitated, and the Japanese troops who confronted them just took a look at each other and slipped away, and they were in a hurry to make a contribution, and they were not able to kill many Japanese soldiers at all. Fortunately, in the following battle, the New Second Army successfully took Chifeng, while the New Third Army advanced eastward to Jinzhou.

In just four days, the three units of the New Army succeeded in clearing out almost all the Japanese puppet army units in the Rehe territory, and before the Japanese troops entrenched in Jinzhou moved south to engage in the battle, the troops of the Eighth Route Army had already moved north from Shanxi and Shandong, putting on a posture of defending the rear roads of the New Army. China and Japan exchanged fire again, this is what the Allied forces want to see, and it is also what Zhuo Fei wants to see, as long as the Kuomintang and the Communist Party sincerely join forces, it is not difficult to drive the Japanese out of China.

Zhuo Fei, who was far away in Australia, always paid attention to the situation and changes in the country, and learned that the new army troops had beaten the Japanese army on the battlefield, and Zhuo Fei also planned to sit on something to support the domestic war of resistance. Although in the naval battle, the US-Australian coalition suffered a loss, but in the ground war, the US-Australian coalition with superior strength took advantage of it.

When the forward troops of the 300,000 US-Australian coalition forces went deep into the hinterland of Kalimantan Island to fight the Japanese army, MacArthur once again dispatched 200,000 follow-up troops to land on Kalimantan Island to complete the reinforcement of Kalimantan Island. MacArthur had a million-strong army, half of which was divided into the menacing Yamashita Hobun, and the remaining half was also victorious in the battle for the island.

Thanks to Zhuo Fei's guidance and tips, the arsenal of the umbrella company has successively developed and produced new weapons and equipment for tackling tough battles, and it is precisely because of these new weapons and equipment newly developed by the umbrella that the offensive of the US-Australian coalition will be as invincible as it is now. When the Japanese camp was detected, there was no need to wait for the follow-up troops to arrive, and only needed to call the flying team to fight, and only a few incendiary bombs or white phosphorus bombs could easily solve the Japanese camp.

When encountering a large-scale Japanese army, you can call the rocket artillery unit to provide covering firepower, and the powerful covering firepower of the rocket artillery unit is basically the nemesis of the large-scale march or assembly of Japanese troops. Coupled with the kind of air-explosive bombs developed by the Umbrella Company, and all kinds of means such as this were used together, the southward advance army commanded by Yamashita Fengwen was destined to meet their fierce opponents.

The changes in the domestic battlefield and the Southeast Asian battlefield have given Zhuo Fei a fresh idea in his mind, and if this idea is realized, it may play a role in promoting the war in Asia. "Immediately inform us in the five countries of South Asia that we can try the bounty program, and if all goes well, we can fully implement the bounty program." The bounty plan that Zhuo Fei said was originally just a joke between him and Angela, but he didn't expect that the original joke had been firmly remembered by Zhuo Fei.

Inspired by Zhuo Fei's recruitment of local natives to form a servant army, Angela believed that there was no need to form a servant army at all, and only needed to give a bounty to the locals to solve the problem of the lack of servant troops in the independent army. Angela thinks it is necessary to hire those local natives, as long as a specific bounty is offered, those local natives who are eager to live a good life will naturally rush to kill the Japanese army in exchange for money.

Zhuo Fei has always laughed at Angela's whimsy, but now, Zhuo Fei thinks that Angela's bounty plan is also a clever plan, after all, it can effectively reduce the indigenous population of South Asia, and at the same time pose a threat to the Japanese army in Southeast Asia. Myanmar, which has become a key recruitment area for the Servant Army, has many indigenous people living a miserable life without food, and those who have joined the Servant Army and fought with the Independence Army are the envy of everyone.

In particular, the affluent life of the families of the soldiers of the servant army is the envy of a large number of Burmese natives, and if it was placed in the past, the life of the head man would not be much more than that. With the servant army fighting everywhere, a large amount of loot was transported back to Burma every week, and it was precisely because of the envy and jealousy in everyone's hearts that when Zhuo Fei ordered the start of the bounty plan, there were more than one million Burmese indigenous young people in Myanmar who asked to enter the servant army.

Millions of young people, this is almost all young adults in Myanmar, Zhuo Fei has no interest in thinking about what to do with the next generation in Myanmar, what he has to think about now is how to solve the funds required for the bounty program. Kill a Japanese soldier and get back their rank marker, and once confirmed, you will receive a bounty of the ocean. Participants in the bounty program can be individuals or groups, and there is no limit to the share of the bounty that can be received.

Once the Umbrella Company's bounty program was launched, it was a blessing for the indigenous people of Myanmar, and countless young Burmese aborigines who were eager to make a lot of money flocked south to Yangon, the place of departure. After a brief training on Sumatra, the Burmese natives, who dreamed of making a fortune, were sent to Kalimantan to become a new force to contain the Japanese army.

Kalimantan Island was already home to more than 400,000 U.S.-Australian troops and Japanese soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of Burmese natives who dreamed of wealth and life-changing. The sound of gunfire resounded across the land, the screams and wails continued as the battle took place, and every day hundreds of enemy and enemy soldiers became unconscious corpses or wailing wounded, but the fighting continued without the slightest intention of stopping.

"See, this is the tactics of the sea of people, Yamashita Fengwen can be regarded as a famous general, when he commanded the Southern Advance Corps to seize Southeast Asia, it can be described as majestic. As long as we continue to transport militia troops into the war, the Japanese army can only switch from active offensive to passive defense, otherwise they can only fall into a bitter battle until the whole army is annihilated on this island of Kalimantan. Zhuo Fei, who got the latest battle report, was full of spirits, and there was a bit of strategizing in it.

Zhuo Fei misinterpreted the crowd tactics according to his own ideas, but for Angela and others, Zhuo Fei's bounty plan was a success, not to mention whether the indigenous militia sent to Kalimantan Island could kill and beat the Japanese army, at least to some extent, those Burmese natives consumed a lot of Japanese ammunition for the US-Australian coalition forces. The bounty plan was like a stroke of genius, adding a certain degree of instability to the war in Southeast Asia, so that Yamashita Fumi's battle plan was forced to be constantly revised.

Yamashita Fumi's battle plan was forced to be constantly revised, but the United States and Australia still implemented the plan step by step, and the coalition forces' steady tactics made it difficult for the Japanese to deal with them. As Zhuo Fei had previously speculated, MacArthur did not think about conquering the whole of Indonesia at all, he just regarded Kalimantan Island as a fixed battlefield to drain the Japanese army. A few days later, Yamashita Fumi, who had suffered losses, immediately adjusted his tactics and began to shrink the defensive line and the coalition forces once again formed a state of confrontation.

"Nani? The Southern Advance Corps is in a hurry? Yamashita Fumi, while shrinking the defensive line and forming a confrontation with the coalition forces, asked for help from the mainland, and the Japanese cabinet could not help but be shocked when they learned of this. In order to ensure the expansion of the war in the Americas, to attack the Soviet army in the Far East in the north, and to guard against the counteroffensive of the Chinese army, there are not many available troops in the Japanese mainland, especially Yamashita Fengwen's request to send reinforcements from two divisions to support the Indonesian battlefield, which makes the Japanese cabinet even more overstretched and very difficult.