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Chapter 1686: The Last Battle Against Siam (II)

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An Yi stood in front of the bedroom window, a cold wind blew, and he couldn't help but shiver.

The temperature difference between morning and evening in Mongolia is very large, and on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, you only need to wear a coat during the day, but the temperature often drops steeply to about zero degrees at night, and no one will laugh at even wearing a woolen or fur coat.

This spirit made An Yi make up his mind, closed the window with his hand, walked out of the door, and shouted loudly: "Old Shen, call Liu Qing, Bao Fang, Le Ping, Shan Pu, and Deng Bin and the two chiefs of staff together, I have some immature ideas, and I want to discuss them well...... By the way, let the kitchen prepare a mutton soup pot, just match it according to our Sichuan taste, this weather is a little cold, eat some mutton, eat some mutton soup, just warm up. ”

"Okay!"

Shen Fengdao answered, walked out of the next room, and left briskly in good spirits.

An Yi asked the staff officer to bring a map of Indochina, hang it on the wall on the right side of the room, and then tilt his head to look at it carefully.

Yang Jie, the deputy chief of the general staff, who was pondering the changes in the Japanese army in the room, was the first to arrive, and when he saw An Yi looking at the map, he also stepped forward, looked at it for a while, and asked with a smile: "Chairman, this map is no different from what we have seen in the past, what are you looking at?" ”

An Yi turned his head, nodded to Yang Jie, and then picked up the baton from the board, pointed to Mawlamyine on the east side of Intama Bay on the south coast of Myanmar, and said:

"Geng Guang, it would be nice if this port city was in our hands...... Located at the confluence of the Salween, Khanna and Zami rivers, to the west of the Bilu barrier, this port is the second largest natural deep-water port in Myanmar after Yangon, and is far superior to our Phuket port in the western part of the Malay Peninsula. If we take control of it, it will greatly shorten our trade routes to Europe. ”

Yang Jie said: "Phuket Port naturally cannot be compared with Mawlamyine Port, Phuket Port is shallow and has a beach, and sea vessels cannot enter, so they can only operate at anchorage. From November to March, deep-draft ocean-going vessels anchor at about 1 nautical mile to the west of Yao Yai Island at a depth of about 16 metres, and from April to October, at about half a nautical mile near Cape Maipai. The port has difficulties in the supply of fresh water and fuel oil, and the cargo loading and unloading relies on small cargo ships, which is very troublesome, and the port of Mawlamyine is unique, and the ocean-going giant ships can directly enter the port, and the efficiency can be described as a world of difference! ”

An Yi's baton crossed the map: "Originally, there was a railway from Bangkok to Thongpaphorn, but it was demolished by the Siamese army, but the foundation cannot be destroyed, we only need to re-pave the steel rails to put it into operation." If we build more than 100 kilometers of railway from Yeh Cheng in Myanmar to Ton Phapong, our goods can be directly transported to the port of Mawlamyine and loaded onto ships, which is too beneficial for us to export goods! ”

Yang Jie's eyes shot a gleam: "If you really want to win Mawlamyine, you may not have a chance...... According to intelligence, isn't there an army of Siamese people who have entered Burma now? And four or five hundred thousand people have migrated, if you say Phibun. Song Kan has no ambitions for Myanmar, and no one will believe it...... At present, there are more than 100,000 troops under the control of the Siamese military government, and if they are ruthless, it will definitely not be a problem to gather another 100,000 from the coerced people.

"This army has left Siam proper, and it is very difficult to maintain it without taking a large city. Looking at the British army deployed in Burma, the strength was already stretched and it was already too much to deal with the rebels, and now with the formally trained Siamese army, it would be very difficult to hold Mawlamyine. If the Siamese occupy Mawlamyine, they will have Longwangshu, and Rangoon is estimated to be unsafe, and the British will definitely not be able to bear such a combination of punches, and who else can they find except for us for help? Then it would be logical for us to have the outlet to the sea! ”

An Yi smiled bitterly: "I used to think the same way, but judging from the current situation, I'm afraid don't count on it in the short term...... When the air force raided the eastern airport of Sankaraburi in the evening, it killed and wounded 68 devil pilots and ground service personnel at the airport, plus the Japanese advisers stationed in the Siamese army who had been killed earlier, it was basically confirmed that the Siamese army and the Japanese army were colluding together.

"If the Siamese really won successive victories in Burma, it would have tempted the Japanese army to accelerate their westward advance, conquer British Malaya and Burma in one fell swoop, and then engulf India. According to the current situation, Mawlamyine is a place that the Japanese army must defend, and once we confront it, it will be a never-ending end. At least until the Japanese invade India, I am not prepared to disturb the dreams of the Japanese, so that the importance of our South China can be revealed. ”

At this time, Yang Fei, Deng Bin, Liu Qing, Chang Baofang, Le Ping and Jing Shanpu arrived one after another, and the hot mutton soup pot was also placed on the table under Shen Fengdao Zhang Luo.

Smelling the rich aroma of mutton, An Yi's index finger moved, and hurriedly beckoned everyone to sit down, first put a bowl on everyone, and saw that everyone was drinking and smiling, so he served it to himself, and after drinking a bowl of Sichuan Jianyang-style mutton soup, he felt that his body was much warmer, and then he said:

"I originally expected that the Japanese army would have to decide on its own actions as early as May or June next year, when the situation in Europe became clear, but judging from the current situation, it is becoming more and more likely that the Japanese army will move against Britain in advance. There are several reasons for this:

"First, the intelligence department determined that the outbreak in the American Philippines, the Dutch Lanyin Islands, and the colonies of British Malaya, Burma, Borneo, and India were simply instigated by the Japanese. From the end of last year to the present, although the United States has quelled the rebellion in the Philippines, the price has been to withdraw from Southeast Asia, and the Japanese army has occupied the Dutch Lanyin Islands under the pretext of the invasion of the overseas Chinese, and expelled the Dutch power from Asia.

"Britain, the old empire, has no skills to deal with the rebels, once lost all its colonies, causing the world to laugh, although it seems that the situation is now under control, but the deep-seated contradictions are intensifying, especially the war in Europe, resulting in Britain having to be distracted by other uses, once Japan intervenes, with the cooperation of the rebels, the defeat of the British is almost inevitable. Japan's intelligence services had estimated that if the Japanese army attacked with all its might, all British colonies in Asia would fall within a year;

Second, with the end of the Polish-German War, the United States was full of fear of centralized countries such as Germany, Japan, Italy, and the Soviet Union. In the middle of last month, President Roosevelt declared that the United States was in a "limited state of emergency", and on this occasion, the US government finally had an excuse to get rid of congressional constraints and strengthen the naval and army forces. In addition, the US Government is considering amending the neutrality legislation so that war materiel can be legally transported to its allies on a cash-and-carry basis.

"There is no doubt that the outbreak of war in Europe will stimulate a rapid recovery of the American economy, and from then on, the United States will repeat the role it played in the last European war - the arms depot of the Allies. Once given a year or two for its development, Japan will face a serious threat from the United States, armed to the teeth.

"Therefore, just to bring each other's military strength closer, the Japanese army must move in advance! Launching an attack on the British colonies in Asia now, in one fell swoop, could monopolize the rubber of Southeast Asia, the oil of Burma, and the steel of India, greatly increasing its war potential. If we take possession of Australia, which is rich in iron, copper, and oil, Japan will be able to fight even in the face of a fully armed United States.

"After all, the population of the United States is only 130 million, and because the economy has just recovered, there are no stocks of strategic materials such as rubber, steel, and oil, and after the Japanese army occupies India, not only will the industrial strength increase exponentially, but counting the population of the colonies, the number of personnel who can only be used for combat will reach an unprecedented hundreds of millions.

"Third, according to intelligence, due to the serious defeat of the army in the western Siberian region, the Japanese base camp has been widely criticized inside and outside the army, and in order to justify itself, the Japanese military top brass will inevitably launch a new wave of offensive in the near future, and Britain, which cannot even handle such a simple matter as suppressing the rebellion, is bound to become the primary target."

His eyes wandered over everyone's faces, and seeing that everyone was contemplative, An Yi continued:

"As the strategy of the Japanese army changes, our plans will inevitably change with it. Originally, I planned to vigorously develop large-tonnage submarines, large-capacity aircraft and high-load airships, relying on air and sea transportation to break through the Japanese army's first and continue our business.

"But judging from the current situation, once the Japanese army started in advance, the defeat of the British was almost doomed, and the orders we had won with great difficulty, even if they were completed, could not transport the finished products, let alone strive for follow-up orders.

When everyone heard this, they were all anxious, and Jing Shanpu, who temporarily took the position of general manager of Chuannan Group, said urgently: "Chairman, if we can't profit from foreign trade, then why should we bother with the central government?" The trade route is not passable, even if something is produced, we can't digest it in time, but instead add a lot of triangular debts out of thin air, and the gains outweigh the losses! ”

Logistics Minister Chang Baofang is like a mourner: "Now military enterprises are working overtime to complete orders from France and Britain, before that, we have expanded six tank and aircraft production workshops in a row, and the production lines of other guns and ammunition have also increased by twelve, if it will not be long before it will be idle, then we will not lose a lot?" ”

Le Cheng, Minister of Commerce of South China, said with a sad face: "Previously, there were only four large textile factories in South China, but with the outbreak of war in Europe, under the condition that we provided free technology and low-interest loans to purchase machinery, private capital was actively invested, and 14 textile factories were added at once. Similar to textile factories, the construction of other munitions factories has increased significantly, and if we lose orders all of a sudden, we will definitely not be able to rely on our army to digest it by ourselves! ”

An Yi nodded solemnly, and said to Liu Qing, Minister of Intelligence: "Liu Qing, you can briefly introduce to the brothers how the Huaqing Society is now operating the export of materials to Germany. With that, he picked up his chopsticks, picked up a slice of mutton, and chewed it slowly.

Liu Qing was stunned, then came back to his senses, and hurriedly explained in detail how Huaqing Society registered a trading company in the Netherlands, and then took advantage of the fact that the Netherlands was a neutral country to send the goods to the port of Amsterdam, and then carried out entrepot trade through the Dutch company, and sent the goods to Germany to obtain three times the profit.

Seeing that everyone looked confused, An Yi smiled slightly and said:

"I think so, since we can open a trading company in the Netherlands, why don't we register a large shipping company in the Netherlands? According to our information from the German leadership, Hitler's plan was originally an important area that had to be annexed to Germany. Under Heydrich's persuasion, Hitler finally realized that Germany had to leave a window for foreign trade, and the Netherlands could play such a bridge, so he decided to keep the Netherlands.

"In this way, the status of the Netherlands as a neutral country will be effectively guaranteed, and if we register a shipping company in the Netherlands, then Germany will have to negotiate with Japan to ensure the safety of the Dutch ships in order to secure its own shipping routes. We can transport our weapons directly to France and England through a large number of Dutch merchant ships, so that after tasting the sweetness, even if Britain and France know that we supply supplies to Germany through the Dutch fleet, they will not tear their faces, after all, they themselves need to get the materials we produce through the Dutch fleet to maintain the war attrition. In this way, our sea lanes will be unimpeded. ”

Deng Bin applauded loudly: "This plan is good." It's like a person who takes drugs and becomes addicted over time, so he will naturally not take the initiative to give up because of the great harm, so that we can not only trade with the Allies, but even directly supply supplies to Germany through trading companies. If the plan is a little more thorough, we can simply use the Netherlands as an entrepot trading country, whether it is sent to Britain or Germany, through the Netherlands, so that the British will not know whether the goods transported are for themselves or to Germany, so they will not be able to stop them. ”

At this time, others also reacted and said that it was wonderful.

The war in Europe is a good time to earn war dividends, no one wants to throw away this piece of fat to the mouth, even if there is a slim hope, you have to work hard, not to mention that An Yi's method is still very operable, and naturally he will not give up.

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Sankara Buri Seongdong Airport.

Before midnight, the Air Force urgently transferred a paratrooper regiment to the front line, and the follow-up troops were still being rushed. In order to deter the Siamese army on the northern and southern fronts, force it to withdraw on its own initiative, give up the dangerous communication passes, and reduce the casualties of the troops, Ling Xing, commander of the 1st Airborne Division, who served as the commander-in-chief of the operation, decisively issued the order to attack the city of Sankaraburi overnight.

The first to vent their anger on the enemy was, of course, the artillery of the An Jiajun.

Because the 105mm mountain howitzer and the 107mm mountain rocket launcher are unusually light, after being disassembled, each part is only more than 10 kilograms, and only need to add some shock-absorbing and shock-proof equipment to the transported box, which can be airdropped by parachute, so these two weapons have become the first choice for heavy firepower of paratroopers.

This time, a part of the 105mm mountain howitzers and 107mm mountain rocket launchers were airdropped in advance, and then the Air Force Headquarters transported some of them overnight, and after the assembly of the paratrooper artillery, Ling Xing already had 36 105mm mountain howitzers and 24 107mm mountain rocket launchers in his hands at this moment.

After the shelling began, the entire city of Sankaraburi was quickly enveloped in flames and smoke.

A large number of mortars and rocket launchers quickly moved forward to make up for the gap in the shelling of 105mm mountain howitzers and 107mm mountain rocket artillery, bringing huge casualties to the Siamese army.

The Siamese soldiers, who were crying wolf and hurriedly evading under the intense artillery fire, had to bite the bullet and enter the defensive position again under the expulsion of the guns of the commanders.

The sound of the cannon gradually thinned out, and the vast majority of Siamese soldiers subconsciously clenched the Type 38 rifles in their hands and prepared for white-knuckle combat. Under the guidance of Japanese instructors, most Siamese soldiers felt good about themselves and felt that their fighting skills were excellent, saying that they might not be able to get a head start in hand-to-hand combat.

The two forces collided, and a brief pause was followed by short, intense gunfire and flying bullets.

The Siamese soldiers were short in stature, and their arm strength was far inferior to that of the An Jia army paratroopers. The paratroopers were all elite members drawn from the An Army, each of whom had several years of stabbing training at the bottom, and in the first wave of contact, the Siamese soldiers' spears were blocked aside, and then they were poured into the chest with bayonets that came straight to them, and they fell to the ground bleeding from the mouth and nose.

Just as the other Siamese soldiers withdrew their bullets and howled and pressed towards the paratrooper soldiers, the paratroopers quickly drew their guns and fired them at the approaching Siamese soldiers.

Not a single paratrooper fired casually, and not a single paratrooper fired in long bursts. Going deep behind enemy lines without backup, the enemy is outnumbered, this is the fate of paratroopers. In such a harsh combat environment, the only thing you can rely on is your own weapons and ammunition, so they are extremely precious.

In the bayonet fight, the Siamese soldiers fell to the ground one after another under the precise short point shots of the paratroopers. They don't understand until they die, why the opponent's fighting skills are so good, and the opponent is so despicable, he actually shoots in the fight, and the bullets are endless. The Type I automatic rifle had thirty rounds in its magazine, and the paratroopers were still able to deal with five or six Siamese soldiers at a time.

The unprecedented onslaught and firepower left the Siamese in a hurry. Phibun. Song Kan originally thought that the An Jiajun would not attack until the early morning of the next day at the earliest, so he sent all the reserves to rush to transport supplies, leaving only two regiments and bluffing to defend, so that the two divisions stationed in Bantatona could return in time early tomorrow morning, and the trouble of his henchmen could be solved at that time.

However, he didn't expect that An Jiajun would attack in the middle of the night, which completely broke Phibun. Songkan's plan. In order to hold the city, he did not hesitate to send out a single emergency force consisting of an armed mob to reinforce outside the east gate.

The swiftness of the paratroopers' swiftness and the sharpness of their attacks far exceeded the psychological capacity of the Siamese, and in the face of the Anjia army, which had heavy firepower, the Siamese army's front-line commanders tried to establish defensive positions on the edge of the city, using street fighting to delay the opponent's attack.

However, the speed of the rout of the troops and the resolute assault of the paratroopers of the An Jia Army exceeded the imagination of the front-line commanders. The regimental commanders of the Siamese army were able to stabilize the defeated army after being joined by armed mobs, but the pursuers were already rolling in amid the rumbling of artillery.

Bazookas, automatic rifles and mortars can be called sharp weapons in street fighting, and the houses held by the Siamese army were lost one by one under the fierce blows, and the rapid advance of the Anjia army was unacceptable.

In the face of falling shells, in the face of bazooka firing at close range, in the face of the continuous spewing of tongues of fire from automatic rifles, the kind of tremendous shock to people's psychology is unimaginable to those who have not experienced such a scene in any way.

Fear, except for fear or fear.

Once fear sprouts in the bottom of people's hearts, it will be quickly amplified and superimposed by various external factors.

The rumbling explosions, the whistling shells, the terrible sound of bullets, the wails before death, the *** sound after being wounded, all these sounds constantly hit the fragile hearts and minds of the Siamese people.

The first to flee were the improvised armed mob, the ones who had committed a lot of blood debts in Bangkok, who had been broken down by the brutal fighting and fled in panic, which greatly reduced the morale of the Siamese army.

Phibun. Song Kan was in the West Gate Headquarters, pacing back and forth, and kept chanting: "What a hell, obviously the enemy's main force is still fifty kilometers away from here, where did the enemy outside the city come from?" Will they not be able to fly? Yesterday the enemy army had struck him from the mountains of Ta Than, where it was impossible to pass through a large army, and threatened the towns of Kaken and Hui, and now they were like this again...... Although the heavens and the earth are great, where is the place for us? ”

Wiji, who served as the head of the guard regiment. Wata said anxiously: "Prime Minister, listening to this cannon sound, it is not an effect that can be achieved by a small force, it must be the main force of the enemy." We have seen the overwhelming paratroopers of the An Jiajun falling from the sky in the city of Bangkok, and it is estimated that this time it is the same, in the evening, didn't a *** group fly over the east? It is estimated that it was airdropped at that moment! We need to get out of here, or it's dangerous! ”

It turned out that the Japanese adviser at the airport who said that he would report back to the city, frightened, forced the driver with a pistol, fled directly to the Three Pagoda Passes, and slipped into Burma. Song Kan knew that the airport was attacked, but he didn't know how he lost it, and he was always suspicious. Listen to Weiji. Watha so analyzed, Phibun. Song Kan felt that it made sense, and was about to say a few words, when suddenly a major covered in blood rushed in and said loudly: "Prime Minister, I can't stand it, the enemy is attacking too fiercely, and I am almost in the center of the city at this time, less than a thousand meters away from here......"

Phibun. Song Kan and Wei Ji. Watha glanced at each other, and they both saw a hint of surprise in the other's eyes.

This time Phibun. Song Kan could no longer hold on, and hurriedly issued an order to the front-line troops to retreat to Burma, and then slipped away from the west gate with the guard regiment.

After receiving the order to retreat, the Siamese soldiers who were wandering at the Ghost Gate Pass threw off their legs and fled for their lives as if they had received an amnesty order.

To the great delight of the Siamese, the An Jiajun did not catch up with them, except for a brief send-off with cannonballs.

The Siamese who were struggling to flee for their lives did not know that if they held on a little longer, the fate of the two sides would be reversed.

The eastern sky was already white, and the tanlong had withdrawn from the city of South Tatonna. The Navasavat tribe arrived four kilometers south of the city of Sankaraburi, and the sound of gunfire could already be clearly heard coming from the city. However received Phibun. Song Kan retreats to the order, Tanlong. As soon as Nava Shavario groaned, he immediately complied with the order, and instructed his troops to go around the city from the edge of the mountain to the west of the city, and go straight to the Three Towers Pass.

In the faint light of the morning light, watching the Siamese army from the south, retreating from the west of the city to the north, almost all the paratrooper soldiers breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally let go of their hanging hearts.

The attack, as spectacular as it looked, depleted almost all the ammunition of the paratrooper units. The Siamese were in a hurry, but why didn't the paratroopers attack in a hurry?

Ling Xing's gamble was that the Siamese people could not figure out the reality of the paratrooper troops, and used continuous violent attacks to defeat the last courage of the Siamese. The development of the battle situation was really as Ling Xing expected. Song Kan was really scared away.

The Siamese soldiers retreated so thoroughly that a large amount of supplies were left to the An family army before they could be destroyed.

In Phibun. In Songkan's opinion, his troops were seriously short of heavy weapons, especially artillery, and in the face of such a sharp attack, retreat was the only option. We can't win the all-round superior An Army, and we won't suffer a loss against the British, right? As long as the living force can be preserved, it will be fought back with the help of the Japanese in the future, and there is no need to give away all your capital at this time.

On the southern and eastern fronts, he withstood the onslaught of the Anjia army. Kemp, Seli. The two army commanders of Longri were shocked when they received the notice that Sankaraburi had been attacked by the superior army of the An Jia Army, the city was destroyed, the headquarters had to be transferred to Burma, and the various units broke out on their own.

Kun Sha. Camp remained silent, called his henchmen to the military headquarters, made careful arrangements for the retreat, and then, leaving a regiment in front of the empty city plan, all departments covered each other, and evacuated from the foot of Kauai Mountain to the line of Santa Pass. When it finally withdrew to Burmese territory, there was only one and a half divisions left, and the losses were minimal.

And Seli. Longri's performance was too far behind, and this gentleman was at a loss when he heard that the city of Sankaraburi was broken and the back road was cut off. At this moment, in the area east of Huizhen, the mountain troops of the Anjia Army are attacking urgently, and if the news of the loss of Sankaraburi is announced to the front-line troops, it may turn into a rout of the whole army. Longley was not confident that he would survive the chaos.

The so-called dead friends do not die in the poor way, so Seli. At 9 o'clock in the morning, the generals on the front line called the headquarters several times and no one answered, and then sent people to check, and found that the commander had fled without telling him, and he was so angry that he stomped his feet, and the division commanders hurriedly ordered a retreat.

Hearing that he was ruthlessly abandoned by the commander, the morale of the entire Siamese army was completely lost, and it was said that it was a retreat, but how could the front-line troops withdraw under the fierce attack of the An Jia army? So, with the troops behind turning and fleeing, the soldiers at the front decisively gave up resistance and obediently raised the white flag.

Although the surrender of the Siamese army was very strange, at this time, the mountain troops could no longer care so much, shouting loudly and launching a charge, crossing the enemy's position, regardless of the soldiers in the trenches who raised their hands to surrender, and pursued the fleeing enemy in the distance.

From morning to noon, most of the Siamese soldiers could no longer run, one by one, panting, obediently throwing down their guns, kneeling on the ground, their hands raised high, not daring to move, and in the end, only more than 2,000 people from the four divisions fled to Burma territory.

On the evening of 7 October, the paratrooper unit, which had converged with the mountain clusters, under the leadership of Ling Xing, slowly pressed towards the Santa Pass and occupied the pass that the Siamese army voluntarily abandoned.

At this point, the Battle of Siam was over, and with the complete withdrawal of the Siamese military government from Kanchanaburi, the An Jia army finally completed the possession of the entire Siamese land.

Because the war in Europe attracted the attention of the whole world, no one paid attention to the subtle changes in the situation in Siam, let alone how strong the An Jiajun's control over Siam was, which created strong conditions for the Anjia army to act in private.

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