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Chapter 1763 No need to endure it

At the same time as the attack on the Santaguan Pass, beacon fires were also lit everywhere along the more than 1,000-kilometer border line controlled by the Siamese army. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There are thousands of kilometres of borders between South China and Myanmar, most of which are mountainous and inaccessible. However, between the mountains and the dense forests, there are many elephant paths, that is, roads left by herds of elephants or herds of wild beasts during migration, although not conducive to the passage of large troops, but if it is only a small infiltration force of a few dozen people, it is not too restrictive.

Commander-in-Chief of the Siamese Army Phibun. Song Kan sent two divisions, broken into pieces, crossed the border line, and attacked the border posts in Nanhua, trying to disrupt the judgment of the defenders and create conditions for the troops to enter Kanchanaburi.

As the main direction of attack, Santa Pass, seeing the failure of the sneak attack, the commander of the Fifth Division of the Siamese Army, Song Wen. Lieutenant General Tana was anxious and angry, and loudly scolded the chief of staff, Major General Supan, for the poor planning of the staff department, which led to the failure of the attack. At this time, the military headquarters in the town of Kronwa called to inquire about the situation at the front. Tana did not dare to slack off, and promised to take the three towers before dawn, and then he woke up like a dream and immediately ordered the artillery regiment to go forward for reinforcements.

An hour later, the artillery regiment was in position, and the Siamese army, whose attack had stalled, was looking forward to much-needed artillery support.

Orange-red bullet marks broke through the thick air, carrying a heart-chilling roar, and pounced on the defensive position of Santaguan. With a burst of heart-rending huge explosions, brilliant flames bloomed on the entire Guanqian position.

The Siamese concentrated all six 75-mm field guns and twenty-four 70-mm Type 92 infantry guns, shelling intermittently, and dense shell groups bombarded the two ring trenches outside the Three Towers Pass back and forth.

Hail of grenades smashed down, the earth was beaten like a drum, and the whole position was ploughed over. During the explosion, large clumps of mud were lifted into the air, leaving only dense craters.

As early as the flares were lit and it was discovered that the enemy had withdrawn the troops in the first line, the experienced non-commissioned officers immediately ordered the troops to quickly hide and hide in the anti-artillery holes.

Therefore, when the sound of artillery explosions came, most of the officers and men sat in the anti-artillery holes made of reinforced concrete, silently listening to the incessant sound of explosions. From time to time, a grenade pounced into a communication ditch and burst into a brilliant fireball, and the clods of dirt were flipped into the air, shattered by sharp shrapnel, and scattered into a sky of fine sand and scattered to the ground.

At this time, Songwen. Tana personally rushed to the front and gathered more than 4,000 officers and soldiers who were in reserve to give lectures in person.

"Warriors of the Siamese tribe, the Three Towers Pass is in front of you, and beyond the Three Towers Pass, it is our homeland. We have lived and multiplied there for thousands of years, but now, our land is ruled by aliens, and even the name Siam is almost gone, because our enemies have renamed it Ho Dong Province and Son Nam Province, and the sacred Bangkok has been renamed Jingnan City, and the enemy is trying to erase the imprint of Siam as an independent country at its root!

"As a Siamese warrior, each of us has a great responsibility to restore our country and national independence, can we allow this to happen? Now the opportunity has come, our allies, the *** army, have declared war on the United States, and our enemies have also foolishly declared war on the great *** empire, and we are honored to stand with the strong! The Three Towers Pass lies ahead of us, and we must conquer it to show our people that we are back, that the great Siamese army has set foot on the territory of the Motherland, and that we will fight to restore the glory of our ancestors!

"Just two and a half hours ago, all four regiments of our division had been thrown into the battlefield, but due to the fierce resistance of the enemy, we still had no way to tear through the opponent's defense! And you will be the last hope of our division! If your attack fails, the mission undertaken by our division will be declared a failure, and we will be a miserable lonely ghost in a foreign land. I now ask you, you must not sacrifice, go forward bravely, and resolutely poke a hole in the enemy's line with your bayonet, do you have confidence? ”

"Have faith!"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

"Early death and early transcendence, sacrifice on the battlefield, we just met to go to the Buddha country and bathe in the glory of the Buddha!"

More than 4,000 people replied in a mess, so that Song Wen. Tana was slightly disappointed, but relieved when she thought of the identities of these people.

The vast majority of these soldiers come from logistics, engineering units and supplementary regiments, and have not received much military training. The position they were about to attack, which had consumed the lives of thousands of their comrades, was a remarkable step forward in their emotions instead of showing fear, and their eyes were bloodshot and red from the impending tear-up.

The Siamese silently watched the flaming position in the distance, and when the shelling was over, they would follow behind the troops in front of them and launch a decisive assault, which would not achieve its goal and never return.

.......

Gu Changfeng, who was sitting in Jingnan City, was called up from his lover's bed by the guards, and immediately summoned his colleagues in the headquarters to discuss how to deal with the enemy's sudden attack.

Major General Bai Feiping, chief of the intelligence department of the front army, took a document and reported in detail:

"According to the feedback from various places, it can basically be confirmed that it was not the Japanese army that sent troops to attack us this time, but the Siamese Army, which was reorganized with the help of the Japanese army. After the Siamese retreated to Burma, they were not reconciled to their defeat, and not only set up a national radio station in Mawlamyine specifically for us, but also frequently sent agents into our territory, printed reactionary newspapers and leaflets, and tried to disturb our military morale and morale, especially to provoke civil strife among the Siamese, but they were met with our radio signals***, and because of the joint defense system that spread to the villages and neighborhood committees, those agents had nothing to hide, and all efforts failed!

"Up to now, our government has been initially recognized by the Siamese people, and due to the continuous immigration policy, the proportion of Chinese in the counties and cities has exceeded that of Siamese, and by the end of this year, the ratio of the population can be achieved to 2 to 1, ensuring the dominant position of the Chinese in the two provinces of Ha Dong and Shannan and the cities of Chiang Mai and Jingnan. The teams that went deep into the villages and towns adopted a combination of song and dance, drama and film to publicize that the Siamese people were actually the Dai people in China, and that the Dai compatriots in southern Yunnan were doing work for the Siamese villagers, and achieved very good results.

"At present, most of the Siamese people are starting to follow our propaganda and start calling themselves Dai, considering themselves a branch of the Chinese. Thanks to policies such as equal land tenure, compulsory education, free medical care, and freedom of religious belief, we now have a very solid foundation for our rule. Under such circumstances, it is inevitable and necessary for the Siamese government and army in Myanmar to stand up and express their sense of existence, otherwise one day they will be abandoned by the Siamese people!

"Based on the above circumstances, we have reason to infer that the Siamese army did it itself behind the back of the Japanese army, and the purpose was to drag the Japanese army into the water and help them regain power!"

Gu Changfeng nodded, turned his head, looked at the large map of the Indochina Peninsula on the wall on the side, thought calmly for a while, and then asked:

"So, do you deduce the focus of the Siamese army's attack? From the time it was attacked to the present, there have been hundreds of warning messages from the outposts, which makes people dazzled and at a loss! ”

Bai Feiping stood up, walked to the front of the map, picked up the baton, and the tip of the stick roamed around the map:

"Our border with Burma is extremely long, and it stands to reason that any place where we are attacked tonight could be the main point of the Siamese army's attack. However, we must realize that for nearly 100 years, the British have used the land transportation between Siam and Burma, and if the dignitaries of the two places need to travel, they must travel by sea from Yangon or Bangkok, via Sin Chau. This kind of policy can not only develop maritime transportation and prosper the harbor, but also ban smuggling, and it is a policy to kill two birds with one stone.

However, after generously losing the territory of the Malay Peninsula, the successive kings of Siam had great ambitions for the territory of Burma, and they used the ancient elephant road to quietly open up the four major passes of the Three Pagoda Pass, the Yesu Pass, the Mengai Pass and the Mae Sai Pass. In particular, Siam did not have an ideal port in the Indian Ocean, so the King of Siam set his sights on the two natural deep-water ports of Dawei and Mawlamyine, so he vigorously developed the railway traffic in Kanchanaburi Province, and before we fully owned Siam, the railway had been built to Kanchanaburi Province, and then we built the railway to Sam Ta Pass.

"Phibun. Song Kan was driven by us to southern Burma, and he was not willing to fail like this, and he was thinking of counterattacking Siam mainland at any time. The attack of a large army required a steady stream of logistical supplies, so they also vigorously developed transportation, building a 100-kilometer railway from Le Mai, which connects the Burma coastal railway, to the border town of Kronwa. In order to build this 100-kilometer railway, Phibun. Song Kan can be said to be smashing pots and selling iron, spending a lot of money on the gold brought to Myanmar. With such a large stake placed by the enemy, there is no reason not to use superior railway transport forces to ease the logistical pressure.

Therefore, we can basically judge that no matter how powerful the feints are in various parts of the border, the enemy's ultimate goal is still at the Three Towers Pass. Once the Three Towers Pass is captured, the enemy's follow-up forces will continue to enter our Kanchanaburi Province. The mountains and forests in the Kanchanaburi region are dense, which is not conducive to the operation of the mechanized corps, from the Japanese army launched the Malaya, Burma and India offensives, *** people are very good at jungle warfare and mountain warfare, under the training of the Japanese army, presumably the progress of the Siamese army will not be small, and the confidence of Phibun will be greatly increased. Song Kan thought he had the capital to compete with us.

"If the attack is successful, the Siamese military can use Kanchanaburi as a base for development, mobilize troops by rail, continue to encroach on our territory, and approach Bangkok step by step...... By the way, it is mentioned here that for the Siamese government, the attack on the Santa Pass, which is the closest to Jingnan, caused the greatest sensational effect, and once a decisive victory is achieved, it will make many Siamese compatriots have illusions, and it is easy to impress their masters, and obtain direct support from the Japanese army! ”

"Good!"

Gu Changfeng slapped the table suddenly: "Since we have confirmed the direction of the enemy's main attack, we will simply attack decisively with the momentum of thunder, and beat these Siamese people who have forgotten their ancestors to the point that they can't even recognize them!" Lao Xie, do you think the Third Army stationed in Thongpampong can move? If we don't fight, we will take down southern Myanmar and truly occupy the two natural deep-water harbors of Dawei and Mawlamyine.

"If these two ports were connected to us by rail, it would be much easier to launch an offensive against Burma in the future, and that kind of underwater transport could also come in handy for the delivery of supplies to the West Indies and the Persian Gulf!"

"The above may not agree with us attacking!"

Lieutenant General Xie Chi, political commissar of the front army, frowned slightly, and analyzed carefully: "The previous meaning of the General Staff was to launch a decisive offensive in the Persian Gulf region, and India and the Indochina Peninsula took a defensive position, boiling frogs in warm water, slowly expelling the vicious dog ***, and going to fight the Americans!"

"When the Pearl Harbor incident broke out, our wish to bring disaster to the east was finally achieved, but now there is no news from Hawaii, the Philippines, and Australia, and if we fight too hard, we will attract all the attention of the Japanese army to the Indochina Peninsula at once, and destroy the overall war situation, we cannot afford this kind of responsibility."

Lieutenant General Gao Guodong, Chief of Staff, carefully looked at the map for a while, and said with a slight smile: "It should be fine!" Even if we occupy southern Myanmar, it will not have much impact on the overall situation. Previously, we had already penetrated our tentacles deep into the Malay Peninsula, with the territory between the Kra Isthmus and Malaysia, and now even with the addition of southern Myanmar, the overall pattern has not changed much. Therefore, I think that not only the Third Army stationed in Thongpapong, but also the Second Army stationed in Tak Province should move appropriately, and we will cross the border line with lightning speed and completely solve the big cancer of the Siamese government! ”

Gu Changfeng's eyes lit up, he savored it, and immediately instructed Major General Duan Mo, the chief of the Operations Division:

"Director Duan, immediately make relevant plans for the mobilization of the Second and Third Group Armies and report to the General Staff Headquarters! I guess at this time, the boss has also received a battle report from the front line and is discussing countermeasures...... I hope the boss can make up his mind, otherwise he will be suffocating people crazy if he always endures and endures like this! ”

Duan Mo, who was taking minutes of the meeting, hurriedly stood up, and turned to leave after saluting.

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In the South China General Staff, An Yi was convening generals to discuss the battle situation, and received a telegram from Gu Changfeng's department, and immediately started to argue about it.

Deng Bin frowned: "Until now, we don't know in which direction the Japanese army will throw their main force - is it North China?" Shandong? Malaya? India? Or maybe it's the territory of the Americans, the British! It would be easy to repel the Siamese attack according to our forces and arrangements, but if the situation of the war changes so much that the Japanese take all their madness out on us, even if we can win the war in the end, what good will it do us if our land is ruined, and our industry and people's livelihood are withered?

"If we help them make up their minds, they can get out of the quagmire in the Middle East and concentrate on the war in the Pacific...... That is to say, the war waged by our army on the front line of the Persian Gulf will not really affect the overall situation.

"Therefore, I still insist that until we get a clear move of the Japanese army, we must not provoke or expand a war with the Japanese army in Burma, India and the Indochina Peninsula!"

Shen Ziling had a different opinion: "However, Chief Gu, they also have a point...... We already had the territory of the Malay Peninsula before, and now even if we add southern Myanmar, it will not have a fundamental impact on the overall strategic situation! Moreover, keeping the Siamese government in southern Myanmar for a long time will not do us any good to stabilize the hearts of our Siamese compatriots! What I mean is that we can let them fight a dozen, and it's a big deal like last time in northern Burma, after destroying the enemy's living forces, let's just retreat! ”

"Hutou has a good idea, but to say that the occupation of southern Myanmar will not affect the overall situation is a bit self-deceptive!" Yang Fei took the initiative to stand up, walked to the map, and pointed to the river north of Mawlamyine:

"To ensure the security of southern Burma, we must occupy the area on the east bank of the Salween River, with the help of natural hazards, to defend against the possible southward attack of the Japanese army, and the Salween River is less than 200 kilometers away from Bago, the gateway to Yangon, and less than 300 kilometers away from Yangon, the essence of Burma is all under the threat of our superior fighters, I don't think that in this case, the Japanese army will give up counterattack!

"According to the information of the comprehensive intelligence department, the next move of the Japanese army is very likely to be Hawaii, the Philippines and Australia, our strategy was originally to make the Americans and the British bleed, and now we are going to provoke mad dogs and prevent disasters for the whites, I think it is extremely unwise!"

Zhao Dongquan added: "There is still something to consider - if we are in southern Burma and fight the Japanese army too painfully, I am worried about the safety of the Chinese in Malaya, Lanyin, and the Philippine Islands!" Although we tried our best, but so far, we have only rescued more than 500,000 Chinese, and in the Nanyang region, after years of immigration, we have more than 20 million Chinese. ”

An Yi saw that everyone was a little passive and avoided the war, and said in his heart, is it affected by my preservation of strength? So he stood up and said, "Actually, all of this is not a problem!" As long as we can determine the direction of the Japanese attack, even Malaya, we can take it in one fell swoop! Too many worries will make us lose our blood, and then lose the courage to fight! We can't tie our hands and feet because we're afraid of this and that, right? My opinion is that southern Myanmar can be fought, but there is no need to fight too quickly, first destroy the Siamese army that invaded our borders, and then advance to southern Myanmar step by step!

"On the first line of the Three Towers Pass, in principle, all the invading enemies should be annihilated, and whether or not to penetrate into the southern border of Burma depends on the movements of the Japanese army! A war in the Persian Gulf is imperative, the scheduled time of the battle will not change, and in addition, if the time is ripe, Malaya should also be within the range of attack! Don't be afraid that hitting will anger *** people, that is a strange people, if you behave stronger, the more afraid they are, on the contrary, he thinks you are weak and can be bullied, you can do evil unscrupulously!

"You might as well think about it, since we announced that if we found out that the Japanese army was using poison gas bombs on our territory, that is, to attack the *** mainland, did the Japanese army use poison gas bombs when fighting us? This shows that our threat works, and the *** people are afraid of our retaliation, so they can only fight with us in a dignified manner. On the contrary, the British enjoyed a handful in India, with countless casualties!

"The better we fight, the more scruples the Japanese have, the more they fear that we will retaliate against them! Our air force has proven that it is possible to bomb from a long distance on the mainland, and the possibility of a desperate attempt is very small. In addition, we are not unprepared in the Lanyin Islands, once the wind is not right, we will pull up the arms, real knives and real guns and small *** work! Anyway, we have 10 million people in Lanyin, and if we really want to do it, we may not be afraid of the little ***!

"As for Malaya, there is no need to be afraid, it angers us, so we simply push it to Xingzhou in one go, and then *** people won't even have time to cry, let alone retaliate!"

Yang Fei was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "What does the chairman mean...... Hit it? ”

An Yi nodded heavily:

"You can play, but the score is divided into several steps, step by step! The first step is to let the tiger head send the elite to clean up the Siamese army that is forcing to the door, the sooner the better, to cut off all the thoughts of *** people, let them know how big the gap is with us, so that when making strategic decisions in the future, they will consider more!

"The War Department should improve the plan for the war against Malaya, Burma, and India as soon as possible, make assumptions based on various unfavorable circumstances, and in short, when the time is ripe, the contingent must be pulled up as soon as possible......

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The front line of the Three Towers Pass.

After the artillery suppression ended, the commander of the 5th Division of the Siamese Army, Song Boon, who was in the rear. Tana brandished his sword and shouted: "Light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers suppress enemy fire, all infantry, bayonets!" ”

"Get on the bayonet!"

The order was quickly conveyed to the front, and at the howl of officers of all ranks, the Siamese soldiers drew their bayonets, which flashed in cold light, and with a loud "clucking", the bayonets were installed.

"Siamese warriors, charge!"

Colonel Tobase and Colonel Shahi, who drew their command knives, slashed in the void, and in the cold light, "Kill-" The Siamese soldiers howled and jumped up, and even the Siamese soldiers who had stabbed their feet also limped and rushed towards the position in front.

For a time, the tyrannical shouting and killing filled the entire battlefield.

Seeing that the enemy was charging, the An Jiajun quickly rushed out of the anti-artillery hole.

"Quick!"

Amid the hurried orders of officers, sergeant majors, and non-commissioned officers at all levels, the soldiers skillfully mounted hundreds of general-purpose machine guns on the blood-soaked trench walls.

With a "fire", flares rose into the air, reflecting the heavens and the earth in a blood-red color, and the Siamese attack formation was completely exposed to the defenders.

"Porphyry—"

There was a burst of tearing cloth shooting, and then, almost instantly, the terrifying sound of machine-gun fire became the only sound between heaven and earth.

The Siamese soldiers, who had approached fifty meters in front of the first trench, howled, saw that the position was lonely, and thought that the defenders had collapsed under the heavy shelling, so they exerted their strength under their feet and accelerated the charge again.

At this moment, with the flash of a tongue of fire, several Siamese soldiers splashed with blood had not yet fallen to the ground, and dazzling flames burst out from the position of the An Jia army, which was as silent as death just now.

Before the hundreds of Siamese soldiers at the forefront of the charge could react, an impenetrable wall of wind and fire woven by countless scorching tongues of fire swept towards the front line of the Siamese army.

"Whoosh-"

Tens of thousands of bullets, with a strange scream, crashed headlong into the Siamese army's front, and where the orange bullet marks passed, the Siamese army's front line surged like a frenzied tide, and bursts of flying blood mist erupted in an instant.

Patches of Siamese soldiers, who only screamed miserably, fell to the ground, most of them were killed on the spot, and a few were lucky enough to lie in a pool of blood and struggle in agony.

The commander of the garrison company put on a stool, put on a steel helmet, quietly poked his head out to observe the enemy's movements, and was surprised to find that on the battlefield lit by tongues of fire, a high-speed bullet drilled into the face of a Siamese army major, and then with a trace of flesh and blood, pounced into the body of another Siamese soldier.

The shooters, who were ordered to fire at full speed, kept hooking their index fingers on the board machine, and the yellow bullet casings jumped out and fell like raindrops, and the whistling tongues of fire raged on the Siamese formation.

The last two columns of Siamese troops managed to lie down in a continuous wail, and the rain of bullets like locusts still roared overhead.

The more than 4,000 reserve officers and soldiers who were successfully inspired to follow the main force to launch a charge, after being knocked down by a large area of the violent bullets, could not help but be frightened, and no matter how the overseers behind them scolded, they turned around and ran, quickly tearing a hole in the front formed by the overseers, and also let the commander of the fifth division, Song Wen, who was watching with glasses three kilometers from the rear. Tana was dumbfounded.

At this moment, he finally understood that no matter how powerful the agitation was, in the face of absolute strength, everything was a floating cloud!

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