After occupying Burma, Zhang Wei flew back to Beijing on September 8. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Now Zhang Wei is most concerned about the battle in Thailand.

From 30 August, the 8th Division of the 1st Army landed at Teluk Intan and then began to advance in the direction of Penang.

On the afternoon of September 3, after traveling more than 200 kilometers, the soldiers of the 8th Army finally arrived in Penang, but the Anglo-Indian troops stationed there had already withdrawn to the direction of Burma.

On 4 September, the remaining officers and men of the 8th Army began landing at the North Harbour of Penang.

The commander of the 8th Army ordered the cavalry to land first, and then send a cavalry brigade to chase the fleeing British army, and be sure to destroy it in Thailand, and on September 6, the cavalry brigade caught up with the fleeing British army in Songkhla, Thailand, and began to harvest the lives of the British and Indian troops with sabers; After fleeing for many days, exhausted, and hungry, the British army had no strength to fight, and in front of the imposing cavalry, as long as they were slaughtered; They just want to escape, how can they run past a four-legged war horse? In the end, the Anglo-Indian army laid down its arms and surrendered in desperation.

After a short break, on September 7, the officers and soldiers of the 8th Army began to enter the territory of Thailand, with mercenaries in front and the National Defense Forces behind, all the way through, and by September 12, the cavalry and mercenaries of the 8th Army had reached Pebri Province, and all Thai territory in the Malay Peninsula was occupied, all local officials were killed, and all property was confiscated.

At the beginning, the Thai government did not feel afraid, they simply thought that the 8th Army entered Thailand to chase the fleeing British army, but later the Xia Empire's army entered Thailand one after another, and it was swept all the way, and all the local power was eliminated, at this time Thailand felt afraid.

Zhang Wei has long had the idea of annexing Thailand, so he has never established formal diplomatic relations with Thailand, and now the Thai government can't do it even if it wants to talk to the Xia Empire.

King Rama V Chulalongkorn of Thailand finally thought of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire and the Xia Empire are both Chinese regimes, and the relationship between them is very good, which is a well-known thing, and the Chinese Empire has a consulate in Thailand, so the King of Thailand immediately summoned the consul of the Chinese Empire in Thailand and asked him to contact the Chinese Empire to help mediate the relationship with the Xia Empire.

On the 11th, Cao Rulin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire, forwarded the request of the King of Thailand to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Xia Empire, and Feng Guohua asked Zhang Wei how to reply.

Zhang Wei said: "Thailand's current royal family is to rob the Chinese Zheng Xin of the throne, King Rama I of Thailand killed Zheng Xin, to the Qing court deceived that he was Zheng Xin's son Zheng Hua, they are a group of liars, this throne was deceived by them, we are all Chinese, is to help Zheng Xin take revenge, since they can rob other people's thrones, then we can rob their thrones, just reply like this, treat Thailand, don't pay attention to any diplomatic etiquette, they are not worthy." ”

After the king of Thailand got the reply of the Chinese Empire, he sat on the ground in fright, and he still had to come, it turned out that this was the reason why the Xia Empire had not established diplomatic relations with Thailand, and they had long had the idea of destroying Thailand.

At this time, Thailand followed the example of Western countries and set up 6 infantry divisions in the country, although the strength was not very good, but all of them were to imitate the British, hired British army instructors, and purchased British rifles and artillery.

After the shock, the king of Thailand decided to give it a go and must not sit still, so he mobilized 5 infantry divisions to set up fortifications on the road of the Xia Empire's march to defend against the attack of the Xia Emperor's ** team, leaving only 1 infantry division to protect the safety of the Bangkok royal family.

The intelligence officers in Bangkok quickly sent the news back to the Xia Empire, and when the information was transmitted to Ma Zhaonian, the commander of the 8th Army, Commander Ma laughed happily and finally came to the food.

Commander Ma immediately made arrangements, and the cavalry division sent small units to reconnoiter the enemy's situation; The divisional artillery battalions of the Praetorian Guard Division accelerated forward, with mercenaries as the main attack in the middle, two defense divisions on both flanks, and the Praetorian Guard and cavalry as reserves.

The Thai ** team was deployed along the east bank of the Macaron River, wanting to guard the road leading to Bangkok for the Xia Di ** team. 2 divisions were arranged in Safu Songkan Province as the southern front; 2 divisions were deployed in Ratchabunri province as the northern front; Deploy 1 division on the east bank of the Na Chin River in Lung Tsai Kuk Province as the second echelon.

The 8th Army slowed down, hoping that the Thai army would be in place, and that it would be much easier to fight a field battle than a street battle, and that it would not scare the Thai army away; The march was slow and leisurely, and it was not until the 14th that they reached Safu Songkanfu.

The cavalry came back and reported that there were only 2 divisions on the other side of the Macaron River in front, with a maximum of 20,000 people, and the opposing front was more than 5 miles wide, and the bridge over the river had been blown up, and if you wanted to cross the river, you had to go more than 10 kilometers upstream and have 1 small bridge, or make a raft to build a pontoon bridge, the width of the river was about 150 meters, the river was not deep, and it was not difficult to build a pontoon bridge.

Commander Ma felt that no matter how small the fly was, it was still meat, so let's eliminate these 20,000 people first; And let the cavalry expand the reconnaissance area to find out the whereabouts of the remaining Thai troops, and in the absence of the remaining Thai troops, the 8th Army first advanced in the direction of Bangkok.

Commander Ma made two preparations, first arranged for the baggage soldiers to cut down trees to make rafts, and the best time to use them was then; At the same time, 1 regiment of Wehrmacht was sent upstream to occupy the bridge and defend it; After dark at night, send one national defense division to dig trenches, and be sure to dig a distance of about 200 meters from the river bank, so that they cannot be discovered by the opposing army.

At 6 o'clock in the morning of the 15th, the general offensive began, the divisional artillery battalion as a reserve firepower, the first to fire were the artillery battalions of each regiment and the artillery battalion of the national defense division, a total of 6 artillery battalions were arranged to participate in the battle, each artillery battalion had 18 rapid-fire guns, and the rate of fire of the artillery was 15 to 20 rounds per minute, that is to say, each artillery battalion could fire 300 shells per minute.

Commander Ma ordered a rapid fire in 3 minutes, and each cannon had to finish at least 60 shells.

More than 100 artillery pieces fired at once, and the scene was very spectacular, more brilliant than fireworks.

Dense shells exploded on the position of the Thai ** team, and the unprepared Thai ** team was immediately blown up on their backs, and the Thai ** team, which had never fought in a war, had no battlefield experience at all, and they were scared to run around, in this state, the lethality of the shells was greater, if it was an experienced veteran, they quickly lay down, or lay on the ground, or find a crater to hide, and the lethality of the artillery fire would be reduced a lot, but these Thai ** people have never been to the battlefield, and the British instructors will not explain to them these secret methods of saving their lives, so, They are tragic.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

The entire battlefield was filled with deafening explosions, flying shrapnel and flying flesh, stumps and severed arms everywhere, and the entire battlefield became a slaughterhouse of the end of the world.

With every explosion, several, or even a dozen, Thai ** people will fall.

The Thai ** team had just arrived at the position, and they had no time to build strong fortifications, and they were suddenly bombarded so fiercely, not to mention the soldiers, even the officers were not psychologically prepared, they were desperate.

Three minutes is a short time, but it is longer than a century for the Thai ** team under fire.

After more than 6,000 shells were fired, the position of the entire Thai ** team became a hell on earth.

After the artillery of the Thai ** team was bombed, they had not yet organized a counterattack, and the overwhelming shells poured in, so frightened that the artillery scattered and ran away, and the artillery of the division of the Praetorian Guard Division had no chance to counterattack.

After the artillery stopped, the heavy machine guns in the front-line trenches were erected and began to fire at the opposite bank, and all the survivors who were still standing were beaten into a sieve.

The baggage soldiers who had been prepared long ago carried the raft forward to prepare to build a pontoon bridge, laid a wooden stake on the shore, bolted a cable, put the raft on the water, and then went to the raft to drive a wooden stake into the river, fixed the raft, and went down side by side according to the same steps, and a proposed pontoon bridge was built.

The first pontoon bridge took more than 20 minutes, and in these more than 20 minutes, the Thai ** team did not even dare to fight back.

Mercenaries are the first to pass through the pontoon bridge, and after seizing the position on the opposite bank, they can cover this side and continue to build more pontoon bridges.

It was the mercenaries who were known for their ferocity, and when they arrived on the other side of the river, when they saw the disgusting scene, at least a third of the people began to vomit, and there were stumps and broken arms everywhere, stomach and intestines everywhere, blood marks everywhere, heads with open eyes, and a soldier who had lost his lower limbs was still alive.

The commander of the mercenary regiment who crossed the river ordered: "Don't be stunned, the 1st Battalion will set up a defensive position, and the 2nd and 3rd Battalions will reconnoiter on both sides, and make up for the corpses that are intact, and do not capsize in the gutter." ”

According to the final statistics, of the 20,000 Thai officers and soldiers, nearly 5,000 were directly killed, more than 9,000 were seriously injured, 3,000 were lightly injured, less than 1,000 were intact, and less than 2,000 escaped.

5 intact 75mm guns were captured and equipped to the mercenaries, allowing the mercenaries to form a mountain artillery company.

Commander Ma ordered the mercenaries to cooperate with the interpreter to interrogate the prisoners, where is the rest of the Thai ** team? What kind of equipment are they, etc.?

The mercenaries seized a lot of things, in particular, a direct mountain artillery company, which was on the rise, and received an order from the army commander to carry it out immediately.

Interrogating prisoners is a mercenary's specialty, divided into 3 platoons, each platoon with a Thai interpreter, each platoon captures 10 prisoners from the captives, the interpreter is responsible for questioning, as long as the interpreter is not satisfied, with a wave of his hand, the mercenary soldiers will move forward, with a machete, directly cut off the captive's head, after each platoon has cut off 3 heads in a row, the rest of the things are much more convenient.

Through the comparison of the contents of the three groups of interrogations, it was quickly concluded that 2 divisions were stationed 60 kilometers away in the north and 1 division in the east, each division had 10,000 men, and each division was equipped with 12 75mm mountain guns.

Now that he knew the enemy's strength and heavy weapons, Commander Ma did not take the Thai army in his eyes at all, and the rookie who had not experienced the baptism of artillery fire was not worthy of his attention, so he decided to divide the troops into two ways to eliminate all these Thai ** teams, and the 1st Route Praetorian Division led the cavalry division to outflank the rear of the 2 Thai divisions in the north and wiped them all out on the river beach.

Commander Ma himself led 2 defense divisions and mercenaries to continue eastward and eliminate the 1 Thai division in the east.

The two armies converged in Bangkok after completing the mission of destroying the enemy. (To be continued.) )