Chapter Seventy-Eight: Military Aid
Zhao Zhi, who had just arrived in Chiang Mai province, was delighted by the smooth advance of the armored division, which was accompanied by 30,000 Jewish militia troops tasked with receiving prisoners of war and supervising the construction of Thailand's new road to northern Burma. If there is no cement, the stone road will be built first, and as long as there are enough manpower, Zhao Zhi also plans to make this road go straight to Donghu.
Standing on the runway of Chiang Mai Airport, looking at the fighters that were taking off and landing one after another, Zhao Zhi's heart rose with pride, there have been more than 40 fighters in the field, as long as the expansion of the airport can be completed on time, there will be as many as 50 fighters to transfer to Chiang Mai. At that time, even if the Japanese army mobilized heavy troops to come to the battle, Zhao Zhi would not frown, just the new incendiary bombs of the bomber formation were enough for the Japanese army to deal with, not to mention that he now had heavy bombs supported by the United States in hand.
Everything is going on as Zhao Zhi expected, the Japanese army in Burma has disappeared, the Burmese mercenary troops supporting the Nationalist Government have also fought well, Shanxi has been recovered, and the troops are now gathering in Shandong and Henan. Once the troops of the national army are assembled, the fourth step of the Spark plan will be launched, and then Hebei. There will be a war between Henan and Henan, and in the plains of Hebei and Henan, the armored vehicles that thunder to support the Burmese mercenaries can come in handy, and at least they will cause headaches for the Japanese army.
The weakness of the Japanese army's logistical supply has been fully revealed, and after Japan was abandoned by the British government-in-exile, it was only supported by the local industrial base, and many Japanese troops had already appeared in many Japanese troops to limit the amount of ammunition allocated by soldiers. Only the Japanese units fighting on the front line were given priority to be supplied with ammunition and supplies, and the supply rights of the second-line troops and garrison troops were often not guaranteed, and those servant troops had even begun to use weapons and ammunition captured from the enemy, and Joy had found British weapons and equipment from the weapons captured from the Thai army.
The war is a war of attrition, and the first side that cannot bear the attrition is doomed to be the loser, and after the successive attacks of the Thunder Infiltrator troops, the industrial base of the Japanese mainland has weakened to the lowest point. Not to mention the ports and wharves, even the arsenals that processed weapons and ammunition for the Japanese army were also attacked continuously, a large number of production equipment were destroyed, skilled craftsmen were killed or disappeared, and from June 42, the ability of the entire Japanese mainland to produce military materials decreased by as much as 5%.
The attackers hiding among the population are like poisonous snakes lurking in the dark places, and the guards in Japan have almost all of the Japanese people, and all those they suspect have been imprisoned or interrogated and executed. The commanders of the home guard units have been changed three times in a row, the chief of defense of the National Police Agency has also apologized for two crimes, and patrols have patrolled some key areas 24 hours a day.
The Chinese were happy, the Japanese were depressed, and they couldn't think of how the attackers had escaped interrogation, even if they had been interrogated from house to house, and the attacks that should have occurred continued uninterrupted, even in the so-called safe areas they had just excluded. Military enterprises, hospitals, police stations, and power plants were all targets of their attacks, and after several bait operations by the local defense forces, the attackers changed their targets, and now schools have become their new targets, and in the second half of 42 years alone, there were no less than 30 bomb attacks on schools in Japan, and the second chief of the defense agency who was disemboweled.
All the lurkers already think of themselves as dead people the moment they enter the training camp, their only mission is to make the Japanese mainland uneasy, Thunder provides them with training, conditions, weapons and opportunities, all they have to do is to give their lives to Thunder, and drag more Japanese to hell while avenging their relatives and friends.
The lurker plan has always been a secret operation of Thunder, and those who know about it are all people who can be trusted by Zhao Zhi, Yu Dazhi and Tang Lei are in charge of this matter, and the instructors of the training camp are also the most trusted mercenaries under the two, as for those Japanese prisoners of war who provide services with the remuneration paid by Zhao Zhi, they have already been buried deep in the ground when the training camp was withdrawn. The Japanese merchant ships that helped transport these lurkers were all Japanese merchant ships, and the Nationalist troops who sent supplies for training and operation were also transferred to the front line by Chiang Kai-shek in the name of the Ministry of Military Affairs and fought with the Japanese army to fight for casualties.
The lack of materials and the inability of military production to keep up with the Japanese army is the killer weapon to restrain the Japanese army, and it has been three years since the Lurker operation was formulated from the beginning to the present, and it is not until now that Chiang Kai-shek and Zhao Zhi have seen the results, and the effective destruction of the Lurkers has caused problems with the logistics supply of the Japanese army, and at this time it is not the best time for a major counteroffensive, and the US army has not yet entered the South Asian theater in large quantities for ground warfare. Historically, Germany was defeated, not only because Hitler miscalculated the strength of the Soviet Union, but also because the German army had dispersed its forces and lengthened the supply lines due to the two-front battle, which gave the enemy a chance to take advantage of it.
Not to mention that the CCP troops, which have always accumulated small amounts to expand their achievements, are still using outdated weapons to fight against the Japanese army, even the national army units, which are regarded as the mainstay by the people, are also far behind the Japanese army in terms of weapons and equipment. The main reason why Thunder will win many battles with the Japanese army is in terms of weapons and equipment, even if the mercenaries have received tactical training that is decades ahead of this era, but if they are allowed to engage the Japanese army with bolt-action rifles, they can only end up killing 1,000 enemies and injuring 800 themselves.
If the U.S. military does not want to face a large number of Japanese troops coming to watch, they will inevitably have to rely on the anti-Japanese forces on the Chinese battlefield to contain the Japanese army. Among the anti-Japanese forces facing the Japanese army on the battlefield in China, the national army and the thunder are undoubtedly the two largest of them, one is a government army that deserves its name, and the other is a thunder mercenary who has repeatedly won battles and created the myth of invincibility, just prevaricating with empty words will not work, and it will not work if the US military wants the Nationalist government and Thunder to make efforts without showing some practical benefits, and this is exactly what Chiang Kai-shek and Zhao Zhi have secretly conspired about.
Military aid is Chiang Kai-shek's greatest concern at present, and when he fights with Japan, the so-called international adjustment can no longer be counted on at all, and all that can be counted on is to rely on himself to get the Japanese army out of China. The Japanese are the masters who bully the weak and fear the hard, and they are beaten by Zhao Zhi's thunderous mercenaries with blood all over their heads, and they dare to fight hard, I Chiang Kai-shek now understands the truth that the fist is big, as long as the fist is big enough and hard enough, everything is reasonable, otherwise it will only be a bullied character.
All the examples of the battle between the Thunder and the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek's subordinates have made a detailed analysis, and the conclusions they have drawn are also confirmed in the weapons and equipment, if it were not for the fact that the Thunder is equipped with weapons and equipment that are more advanced than the Japanese army, the so-called undefeated record may not appear, and the Burmese mercenary army commanded by Xiao Ziyun has a national army with all-American equipment, which is Chiang Kai-shek's experimental unit, and almost all the soldiers in it are student veterans recruited from various units, and the officers are also from the 74th Army.
Xiao Ziyun's all-American National Army was still a little uncomfortable at the beginning of its formation, but as the soldiers' familiarity with weapons increased, they became more and more courageous in the subsequent battles with the Japanese army, and in Henan Province, only one company of infantry fought against a Japanese brigade for 4 hours, and in the end, if it was not for the Japanese reinforcements coming quickly, the Japanese brigade that was with them might have been completely wiped out. The achievements of the U.S. armament unit made Chiang Kai-shek attach great importance to American equipment, and the Thunder Garand rifle factory in Kunming had already received a large number of orders from the Nationalist government, and if it were not for the fact that the Thunder was in urgent need of weapons for the recent expansion of the army, Chiang Kai-shek might have formed a second U.S. armament unit.
In any case, it is necessary to get military aid from the United States, not only Soong Meiling's recent successive visits to the United States, but Chiang Kai-shek also sent a telegram to Zhao Zhi, with only one meaning, to help the Nationalist Government get military aid from the United States. Zhao Zhi will not refuse Chiang Kai-shek's request for both public and private affairs, and it is precisely for this reason that Zhao Zhi will take the initiative to attack Thailand, while occupying Thai territory, it will also send a signal to the United States, Thunder has not taken your benefits in vain, and is helping you to contain the Japanese army as much as possible.
Before Zhao Zhi married Rowling, Thunder and the Rockman family had no connection, so if the United States wanted to use the Rockman family to put pressure on Zhao Zhi, the best way was to convince Zhao Zhi with practical benefits. What the United States values is the combat power of the Thunder, while Zhao Zhi and Chiang Kai-shek value the military aid of the United States, which is simply a standard exchange of interests, and the United States cannot play any tricks, which annoys Zhao Zhi to order the Thunder to retreat to Burma, which will only cause the US troops landing in South Asia to suffer unnecessary casualties, "Sir, the special envoy of the US military is here, can you see you?" A combat staff officer under Zhao Zhi came in and whispered a few words, saying that Cao Cao and Cao Cao had arrived, and Zhao Zhi was still brewing a call back to Chiang Kai-shek, and the Americans who had been talked about by the two of them came, Zhao Zhi couldn't help but smile and squint, the slaughtered goods are coming, how can they not see. Joey's armored division has entered the territory of Sukhothai Province, and the follow-up airborne troops are also following up, and the entire Thunder front looks chaotic, full of small units and transport teams that are mothballing supplies, just giving Zhao Zhi the opportunity to call the Americans poor, the materials needed to support such a big battle are not a small amount, it is time for the Americans to bleed.