Chapter 82 The Turbulent International Situation

"Chief Zhao, take me with you, I have been here for many years and am very familiar with the terrain here, I can be your guide" Wang Mantang, the second head of Erhu Mountain, pestered Zhao Zhi with a dead face and asked to join the rescue team. Yu Dazhi's disappearance made Wang Mantang sleepless, since Zhao Zhi wanted to take someone to rescue Yu Dazhi, how could he, as the second leader, miss this opportunity.

"Mantang, we are fast in and fast out this time, everyone must carry enough ammunition to supply the operation, and the people I brought are usually used to cooperating together, our tactical play is not suitable for you, you still give me the periphery of Erhu Mountain to guard, even if it helps me a lot" Wang Mantang, who has a bald head on his face, is very interested in Zhao Zhi's appetite, this seemingly fierce and vicious guy didn't expect to be a lover, Zhao Zhi is not good at ordering him, so he can only politely refuse Wang Mantang's request.

Only brought Laiyuan over with 20 mercenaries, that is because they were the first to contact those new equipment, there are many mercenaries in Erhushan, but Zhao Zhi has a more important task to hand over to them, and the task of rescuing Yu Dazhi is not too many, only fast. Wang Mantang still didn't want to give up, and when he saw the equipment on Zhao Zhi and them, he finally dispelled the idea of wanting to follow secretly, most of the objects on Zhao Zhi's body, Wang Mantang had only seen and fiddled with them, if the action to rescue the big boss Yu Dazhi failed because of his own recklessness, Wang Mantang would probably blame himself for the rest of his life.

For the sake of Yu Dazhi and his mercenaries, Zhao Zhi spared no expense this time, and the new equipment of the mercenaries who had just arrived in Laiyuan was brought to Erhu Mountain by him. 5 sniper rifles that can be equipped with silencers, new offensive grenades, white light shock bombs, pull-hair white phosphorus incendiary bombs, small steel crossbows with a range of 60 meters, and triangular steel crossbow arrows, in addition to these melee weapons, Zhao Zhi and they also brought mortars and Bazooka, the firepower of this small force of 25 people is not weaker than that of a Japanese squadron.

"Sir, the telegram from Laiyuan, it is urgent" The radio soldiers of Erhushan rushed over with three telegrams from Laiyuan, and there were three telegrams, one was sent by Zhao Zhi's old employer, the German High Command, which was the latest Soviet-German war report, and the other was sent by Yan Wudao from the Caucasus, a report on when those White Russian troops would start an incident, and the last one was from the United States, which was some intelligence analysis of the war situation between the United States and Japan that Hunter had learned from the CIA.

After the greedy Slavs crossed the demarcation line of the Polish condominium with the greedy Slavs, the old boss Germany first showed weakness and retreated according to the plan that Zhao Zhi had already made, and hid a large number of German elite troops and heavy equipment to find opportunities. In April, when Zhao Zhi ordered the launch of the Heavenly Punishment Operation to rectify the Japanese, the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, which had been a small friction, broke out.

During the preparation period of almost a year, Germany integrated the industrial bases of Germany, France and Britain, built a large number of aircraft, ships and heavy equipment, and the German high command conscripted a large number of young men from France and Britain in accordance with the decision made after Zhao Zhi and Hitler's conspiracy.

This generation of Germany had not yet begun mass murder and imprisonment of the Jews, and in the occupied territories it was also vigorously promoting friendly management, and after more than a year of assimilation of the French, who liked to be used to the wind and grass, most French people even thought that the Germans were more concerned about the public than the previous French government. Except for the fact that the British could not accept in their hearts that the empire of the sun never set was invaded by the Germans, Britain and France under German control were thriving.

As with the original promise to the Polish Legion, the German army also adopted a carrot stick policy of interest and deterrence when recruiting young men from Britain and France, and all British and French citizens who joined the servant army were given preferential treatment to work in factories, and those who had skills even received higher wages than the Germans. The servant army also had a military salary, the same salary as the soldiers of the regular German army, the wounded were treated by military doctors, and the dead were buried, and the German army promised the servant army that in the campaign against the Soviet Union, the servant army units would take 20% of their booty as a reward.

It was with Germany's soft policy and carrot stick strategy that the German army successfully recruited more than 500,000 servants from Britain and France, and if it were not for the fact that the British and French arsenals still needed young men to maintain, the German army could still recruit no less than 600,000 servants from these two places. The German High Command also raised objections to the number of servants, most of which focused on security, but Hitler insisted on doing so despite public opinion, and in Zhao Zhi's words, it was a one-and-done thing.

In terms of the current number and distribution of German troops, it is difficult to have the spare strength to control Britain and France in the event of a war with the Soviet Union. Rather than sending a large number of troops to defend it to the death, it is better to directly send the young and strong men of these two countries to the battlefield, relieve their worries, and achieve the goal of killing the enemy and consuming themselves. Driven by profits, the three servant armies of Poland, France, and Britain actively cooperated with the German counteroffensive, repelling the Soviet attack in only one week, and encircling and annihilating at least 50,000 Soviet troops.

The war situation was very good, Hitler naturally wanted to show off to Zhao Zhi, it was for this reason that Hitler took the trouble to send a telegram to Zhao Zhi from thousands of miles away, and at the same time to show off, he also wanted to get some inspiration from Zhao Zhi. Yan Wudao, who was sent by Zhao Zhi to contact Belarus, was sent a telegram to verify the time and steps of the attack after receiving the news of the start of the war between the German army and the Soviet Union, with the help of Eugene and others, the operation to contact Belarus went very smoothly, and there were many people in Belarus who were dissatisfied with Stalin, and Eugene already had about 30,000 White Russian troops around him, and one-third of them had the standard armament of the Soviet army.

After staying in the mountains for a long time, not only Eugene they couldn't help it, even Yan Wudao, who has always been heavy, is a little restless, 30,000 people are a great consumption for food, weapons can be purchased from those Soviet generals who sympathize with Belarus, but food is a big problem, the Caucasus area where Belarus is concentrated is a food-scarce area, even if you can't buy food with money, Yan Wudao They can hold out in the mountains for such a long time, it is also an outlier, but their recent situation is very worrying.

The two telegrams from Germany and the Soviet Union, one reporting good news and one bad news, made Zhao Zhi's heart a little manic, and the action that had been planned for so long must not go wrong before the hole cards were about to be revealed, otherwise his entire plan might go down the drain. "Call back to the German high command, concentrate resources to start a war with the Soviet Union, further expand the advantages and scale of the war situation, and squeeze the living space of the Soviet people" Zhao Zhi hopes that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union will be further expanded, and mercenaries can only gain benefits in war, which is an immutable law of survival, and Zhao Zhi does not want to destroy it.

The telegram sent to Yan Wudao was only two words, "wait" Zhao Zhi could not tell Hitler at this time that he had arranged a secret hand behind the Soviets, and Yan Wudao had to see the right time to attack in order to get the greatest benefit from Germany. The size of the 30,000-person army is not small, but in the face of the Soviet Union, which has millions of troops, it is not even qualified to plug the gaps, and the interests do not have to be exchanged for life, although Zhao Zhi is a mercenary, but he is not very in favor of the mercenary law of exchanging life for money, he believes that it is the right way to exchange the greatest benefit with the smallest sacrifice.

It seems that it is imperative to take Taiyuan, Zhao Zhi slowly closed the telegram sent by Yan Wudao, taking Taiyuan is the most important link in the jumping operation, only by controlling Taiyuan, Thunder has the possibility of marching into Suiyuan to build an airport, with the airport, Thunder can transport weapons and equipment to Yan Wudao in a timely manner. "Departure" Zhao Zhiyue got on his horse and left Erhu Mountain with the mercenaries dressed in new equipment.

Hunter's telegram from the United States has almost nothing new, or some situations in which the US Navy and the Japanese Combined Fleet are at war, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Combined Fleet and the US Navy have been connected to fight a few battles, while the US Fleet has suffered serious losses, the Japanese Combined Fleet has also suffered heavy losses, but the US Army relies on the strong industrial base on the West Coast to replenish ships in time, and the Japanese military ports have been destroyed in the Heavenly Punishment Operation, if it were not for their alliance with the British government-in-exile who fled to Australia, I'm afraid I don't even have the ability to repair ships, let alone replenish them.

"Occupy Burma" was the only novelty in Khanty's telegram, Burma had been in a relatively chaotic situation since Thunder withdrew from Burma, and it was the British troops who had been stationed there who were now in control, and the Brigadier General was the master of the troops of less than 10,000 people. The handful of British troops, who had no way forward and no way back, had been abandoned by their government, and they had no choice but to accept Thunder's conditions and continue to export grain, iron ore, oil and other materials that Thunder could use to Kunming, but Thunder paid them counterfeit pound bills printed by Molun.

At this time, the Japanese army mobilized troops from Southeast Asia to occupy Burma, which was clearly to cut off the back road of Thunder, especially when Thunder was preparing to launch a large-scale operation, Zhao Zhi's heart was burning, and he just wanted to look up to the sky and roar.