"I'm not prepared at all, how can I enter, are the adults in Sajiao Mansion crazy?" Captain Depan stomped on the cigarette butt on the ground.

"I remember that Kun Nai Bu Feng told me before going to Paris that the situation in Bangkok now worries him, the world situation is no longer the same as half a year ago, Siam has lost the opportunity, and only a fool would choose to go to war with France at this time." The deputy company commander, Lieutenant Tribunaisi, looked up from the map and looked at the company commander with a worried face.

"We are now the Kingdom of Thailand, be careful to be heard by the magistrates, otherwise it will be another trouble." Captain Depan pulled out a cigarette case from his pocket and pulled out another cigarette.

The Royal Siamese Army, now known as the Royal Thai Army, deployed two infantry regiments along the border between Siam and French Indochina, one being the Eastern Army stationed on the Thai-Cambodian border, with five infantry divisions. The other is the Northeast Army Corps, which is deployed in the salient between Siam and Cambodia and Laos, with three infantry divisions. In addition, there is a basic corps directly under the Central Command, about two brigades and five battalions, which serves as the general reserve to protect the capital.

In the armed deterrence operation that began last month, the main force of the Siamese Army's Eastern Army was almost entirely deployed, and a front was launched along the Thai-Cambodian border, with a total strength of 15 battalions and about 63,000 troops and troops. In addition to the ten standard infantry battalions, the regiment also dispatched two cavalry battalions at the bottom of the box and the only armored battalion, and also took out two battalions of artillery to provide the firepower needed to cover the above troops.

To tell the truth, if it were according to the original development of history, these troops would indeed give the French a headache, both in terms of quantity and quality, and Siam's Eastern Army had a clear upper hand in this area.

French Indochina had only 60,000 troops deployed in Cambodia at that time, of which 48,000 were local armies composed of Khmers, that is, urban security forces, using pre-World War I weapons, and training and morale were basically negligible.

So in fact, it was only the 12,000-strong French colonial army that really resisted the attack of the Siamese army, and the historical colonial French army can be said to lack everything that would allow them to win, they lacked material supplies, heavy equipment, modern training, and the courage to fight the enemy to the death.

Moreover, there was a lack of intelligence support on the part of French Indochina, and even after the start of the war, the command remained ignorant of the situation of the enemy in front of it.

The gap between the two sides may seem like a lot, but in fact the land battle in this war is quite speechless.

Because the Siamese officers received a French military education, and almost all of the high-ranking generals had diplomas from military academies such as Saint-Cyr, the two armies used the same tactics, and even the soldiers received the same training.

You must know that the tactics of the French Army have not changed for more than 20 years, and they are still the same old tricks at the end of World War I, so two units using the same tactics and using light weapons with similar performance, fought a dull field offensive and defensive war between the vast plains and bushes of central Cambodia.

Neither side had the time to build positions, and in fact they did not have the resources to prepare them, so the balance of war quickly tilted in favor of the Siamese army, which had heavy firepower and armored forces.

Historically, the French commander found that it was impossible to stop the opponent's advance by relying on the existing firepower and troops, so he chose to retreat to avoid the front for a while, waiting for the rear to gather troops and fight another defensive counterattack battle, as a result, this battle quickly became a march training of one advance and one retreat, the Siamese pushed forward in great strides, and the French quickly withdrew after a little resistance, until the two sides ceased, the two armies were killed, wounded, missing and captured in a total of less than 2,000 people, so that in the mouth of a certain head of state who had not yet crossed, Call it a tedious war like rookies pecking at each other.

But now the situation has changed dramatically, and the French have deployed a full 50,000 troops in Cambodia, 30,000 of which are regular troops from the mainland. These were not the untrained colonial troops who had fought in the European campaign and learned how to fight a modern war from the Germans, all of whom had actual combat experience and who wanted from the bottom of their hearts to fight a decent victory to soothe their psychological wounds.

Now the blood of these French soldiers has been completely ignited, and they can't wait to use the blood of enemy soldiers to dye the French flag red, use the heads of enemy soldiers to prove their worth and strength, and use the wine after victory to wash away the smell of potatoes on their hands.

It's a pity that Captain Depan won't know this, and he is worried about how to complete the tasks assigned by his superiors. He commanded a cavalry company, the second company of the 12th Cavalry Battalion of the Royal Thai Army, which actually had not a single horse in its establishment, and the whole company was the most fashionable mechanized infantry at the moment.

This, of course, was also learned from the French, replacing horses with armored vehicles and tanks, and they were the modern cuirassiers.

However, the Siamese army was not as wealthy as the French, and the mechanized infantry company was armed with only six Rolls-Royce armoured vehicles and four Cardenroyd tracked machine gun vehicles, or Mark IV ultralight tanks. The company was also equipped with twelve half-ton trucks to carry baggage and regular infantry, making it one of the first class troops in the Siamese Army in terms of equipment and personnel.

The problem is that all the officers and men, including Depan himself, have never actually fought a war, and only in the past few weeks have they carried out some intensive training, such as live ammunition shooting and off-road driving, which were rarely carried out in the past because of concerns about the loss of equipment. On the surface, the officers and men seem to be very tough, but Captain Depan, who has actually been to Europe to see the French Army, knows very well that if he wants to fight the regular French troops, these preparations are far from enough.

But now the moment of concern had come, and the higher authorities suddenly issued an order for the cavalry company to immediately enter the first level of combat readiness, carry all the ammunition and equipment, and advance towards the border line.

The order was clear: the cavalry company was to serve as the spearhead of the right flank of the entire force, penetrate the French lines, and penetrate the Cambodian border town of Sisophon at the highest speed. He was followed by two battalions of elite infantry, who were responsible for covering the flanks of the Depan battalion and were also his rearguards.

As for the overall strategic deployment, there is not much information he can know at his level, except that once the forward troops open a gap in the defensive line, the entire corps will follow from behind, and this will be an offensive operation of unprecedented scale.

In addition, according to the information he received from the internal line of the division headquarters, the trigger for this ground offensive should have been the air force, which had launched a bombardment of the French army without notifying anyone.

However, after discussing with Tribunaisi, Depan felt that the Air Force could not have such courage, and there should be high-level support behind it, and even the General Headquarters in Bangkok might be involved. But this is obviously not something that officers of their rank can speculate, and all they can do now is to do their duty and fulfill their duties.

It's just that now the lack of intelligence support has become the side of the Siamese army, and the Siamese and the Khmer have a feud, and it is almost impossible to send spies to the Khmer, and they can't even buy the inside line, because the Khmer people are happy to use the heads of Siamese spies to exchange some rewards from the French colonizers.

Although the Siam Air Force reconnaissance planes intensified their efforts to reconnoiter the transit, they only detected some military installations on the border and were unable to obtain information on troop movements. The Siamese side is now only informed that the French have deployed at least two battalions of infantry on the border of the province of Scomuvhorn, but it is not clear either the level of equipment of the other side or the situation in the rear of the French army.

The last message that the agents who managed to infiltrate the city before being arrested was that there were only a small number of French troops in the city, and no armored units were found.

"The fuel has been replenished, Mr. Captain." A non-commissioned officer stepped forward to report.

The 1934-style field uniform currently used by the Siamese Army is similar in style to the British Army, with a brown-green single-breasted uniform with a metal service insignia on the stand-up collar, no epaulettes on soldier uniforms, and hard epaulettes for officers and senior non-commissioned officers.

This company was equipped with Type 38 rifles purchased from Japan, so the infantry wore a full set of Japanese-style cowhide ammunition boxes around their waists, but the belt of the equipment was a French backpack strap. Officers and non-commissioned officers also wore French-style officer's belts, and the map bags and water bottles around their waists were also French-style.

Because it was a battle, everyone wore French-style Adriatic steel helmets on their heads, the entire body of the helmet was painted dark green, and the steel helmet had a copper Siamese Army insignia on the front.

Senior non-commissioned officers and officers in the Siamese army could choose to wear long leather boots or short leather shoes, while soldiers wore short leather shoes and leggings, exactly like the French army.

"Go on, a platoon as a spearhead, the company follows, everyone cheers up, we are going to retake the land occupied by the Khmers, this is an extremely glorious task, Marshal Phibun Songkhan is waiting for us in Bangkok with good news, for the king, for the honor, forward!"

Captain Depan climbed into the Rolls-Royce wheeled armored car, which was the command vehicle, stood on the pedal of the door, pulled out the pistol at his waist and pointed to the west.

PS: Caught up, thank you all for your support. (To be continued.) )