"Building roads? Is the boss saying that these surrendered Thai troops will build a road from Chiang Mai Province to Tangoo? The sunset had already appeared on the horizon, and Joey, who was still outside Chiang Mai, finally received Zhao Zhi's order. The heavily besieged city of Chiang Mai is like a huge magnet, whether it is the Japanese troops in Chiang Mai Province, or those weak Thai troops are constantly advancing here, Joey can defeat them one by one as long as he stays here, typical waiting for the rabbit.

"The boss said that it was not only the road from Taungoo to Chiang Mai Province, but also the road in Myanmar, and said that a few professors at the university had made a road plan, and the boss had agreed, and all our captured prisoners of war should be sent to repair the road in batches." Replacing the refugees with prisoners of war to build roads is something that Rowling's think tank has been thinking about for a long time. Most of the refugees from China are farmers, they are good at grain planting rather than infrastructure construction, the thunderous troops are expanding their troops like a blowout, and food supply has become a problem that needs to be solved urgently behind the weapons and ammunition, and replacing the farmers who grow crops with prisoners of war is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone, and Zhao Zhi naturally raised his hands in favor.

The U.S. military regained control of the Pacific Ocean, which heralded the reopening of the Nationalist Government's access to military aid, and the importance of the Yunnan-Burma Highway was once again magnified. Several professors at Central South University took the opportunity to put forward a proposal to plan Myanmar's road network, and with Rowling's help, a new Myanmar road plan was submitted to Zhao Zhi. With Rowling's participation in the proposal, which is obviously American, or it can be said that it is completely borrowed from the American strategy of the large highway network, with arterial main roads running through Myanmar's cities, and vein-like secondary roads attached to the main roads, the whole plan looks good.

In his mind, Myanmar should be a place for vacation and leisure with clear air, just like Australia and Canada, the great resources should be kept and consumed slowly, rather than blindly exploiting and Lang fees. Southwest University's road network plan is exactly in line with Zhao Zhi's vision, connecting all parts of the country while avoiding unnecessary development and Lang fees.

It doesn't matter if you don't have money, it doesn't matter if you don't have materials to build roads, the professors of Southwest Associated University and Rowling's staff have found an alternative way, "Don't we still have mines waiting for laborers to mine?" Transfer the prisoners of war and organize them to smash stones while mining the mining site. The output of the cement plant can be slowly accumulated, we first use stones to beat out the roadbed, first widen and repair several important trunk roads, as long as the cement is enough, we will immediately lay a hard pavement, or we can also start to dry the materials section by section, as long as the manpower and food can keep up, there is absolutely no problem in building roads. The professor of the Southwest United team who planned this matter patted his chest with Zhao Zhi and promised it.

Zhao Zhi is now the most important thing is labor, most of the young people in Myanmar were recruited into the army by him to fight with the Japanese army, the rest of the Burmese natives have no great ability, let them go to smash stones or okay, under the temptation of food and living materials, I believe there will be many people who like this job. But Zhao Zhi is worried about food, Thunder is now using troops against Thailand, although this battle is not fought in Burma, but those troops are going to eat, the food and drink of hundreds of thousands of troops has made Mo Lun about to go crazy, if you add the food consumption of hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war, Zhao Zhi doesn't know if Mo Lun will resign and quit.

The Jewish ghetto in Kunming had a bumper grain harvest last year, and Lei Ting still had some grain in stock, but Zhao Zhi made a resettlement plan, and a large number of grain stocks were used to help the refugees, if it weren't for the first batch of harvested sweet potatoes, the refugees who immigrated to Myanmar in the early stage did not know how much they would starve to death. The refugees who were fooled into Burma by the thunder are now happy and miserable, living in small European-style villas where the landlord and old fortune have never lived, and several families get together to make a small farm, but they don't eat well, and they see sweet potatoes and cornmeal, and if they don't look at it, they can still eat their stomachs, some of them would have turned around and returned to China a long time ago.

Mo Lun and Zhang Lan had already organized the refugees to plant a large area of rice, and the harvested rice was enough for everyone in Myanmar to eat for a year, but it was not the harvest season, and Zhao Zhi still had to worry about food. "Boss, we don't have enough food, but Thailand has food? Moreover, Thailand's grain production is much higher than that of Burma, and if we rob Thailand's grain, to some extent, we are cutting off the food supply of the Japanese army, and I think the National Assembly will give you a medal. "Rowling's staff rushed to Zhao Zhi to grab food from Thailand, anyway, they are already fighting, what's wrong with getting some food.

"Lucy, although we are mercenaries, we are not robbers, how can we rob other countries' food?" Rowling, who smiled like a smile, stretched out her hand and knocked Lucy's head, "It's compensation, compensation knows, the Japanese army invaded us from Thailand, although we repelled the Japanese army, but we consumed a large amount of ammunition and supplies, Thailand colluded with the Japanese army, so they have to pay the price, to compensate for our losses." And the soldiers they were captured, they can be exchanged for food, and our Thunder is not a shelter, so we will support them in vain. ”

Lucy, who was knocked on the head, looked at Rowling with disdain and Zhao Zhi, who nodded yes, this male and female are really a family, obviously they led the troops to rob people in Thailand, and they have to say what compensation, there is no such shameless person in the world. "Whether it's grabbing food or compensation, as long as Thailand is willing to give us food, the armored troops going south can stop for a while." Zhao Zhi said that the troops stopped moving south, not to make any gestures, but that the follow-up troops entering Thailand could not keep up with the speed of the armored forces, and what Zhao Zhi needed was to advance on the whole front, not to be the only armored force.

"Can the Thais give us food? Didn't it mean that all their food was taken by the Japanese to feed their troops? "Some of Zhao Zhi's operational staff officers didn't understand what Zhao Zhi's intentions were, the intelligence officers of the military commanders lurking in Thailand had already sent information, and the Japanese army had been transporting grain from Thailand back to the mainland and the Philippine battlefield, and Thailand and Japan were now allies, and it was no less difficult to ask them for food than to drive the Japanese army out of Thailand.

Zhao Zhi glanced at him angrily, "Time, what we need now is time, although Joey's armored division attacked Chiang Mai very smoothly and the speed of going south is not slow, but our follow-up troops can't keep up with the rhythm of the armored division, so we need to confuse the Japanese army now and buy time for the follow-up troops." The baton in Zhao Zhi's hand drew a circle on the map, enclosing the entire Chiang Mai Province, "This will be our battlefield, and it is also our main battlefield to contain the Japanese army, as long as we have enough time to complete the assembly of troops, no matter how many Japanese troops enter Chiang Mai Province, they can only come to die." ”

"But what Lucy said is right, we have to ask the Thais for food, the troops need enough food to fight in Thailand, they don't give it to us, we will rob it, there should be no shortage of food in Chiang Mai Province, this time Mo Lun should be the happiest, and his transport team can also take a breath." Joey had already sent a telegram to Zhao Zhi to expand the occupation area in the south, and the troops had sealed several Thai grain depots in Chiang Mai Province, and as far as the current situation was concerned, these grains were only enough to feed the Thai troops for less than three months.

"Order the airborne troops in Kunming to assemble immediately, and the airborne operation in Lamphun Province must be completed within 24 hours." The telegraph room brought the latest battle report from the armored division, and more than 2,000 Japanese troops were marching towards Chiang Mai Province, and more than 20,000 Thai troops were fighting with them. The Japanese army, armed with large-caliber artillery, with the cooperation of the Thai army, used the terrain to block the armored division in a mountainous area less than 40 kilometers south of Lamphun Province.

Most of the troops that followed Thunder's follow-up into Thailand were still marching on foot in the area north of Chiang Mai, and the 2,000 Jewish troops besieging Chiang Mai were temporarily unable to support the armored division, and the only force that Zhao Zhi could quickly support the armored division was the airborne troops. The airborne division that went north to the Far East had already returned to Kunming, and they had been repairing according to the training outline given by Zhao Zhi, and the airborne operation on the Chanbang Plateau had only used the airborne troops of Thunder in Mandalay, and now it was the turn of the airborne division stationed in Kunming for training.

Zhao Zhi's order made his headquarters busy again, and one after another orders were sent out from here, and the second-line troops assembled on the Taunggyi line also moved towards the Burma-Thailand border one after another. The entire northern Myanmar is in full swing according to Zhao Zhi's plan, and Zhao Zhi does not want to bring the war back to northern Myanmar and go to Thailand to fight the Japanese army, which is the best thing to do.

"I know you're a Thais with status, so I'll trouble you with something." Wangchai, who was shot in the leg, was brought to Joey, and the proud and invincible Wangchai of the past is now an unkempt prisoner, "You Thai and Japanese troops colluded to open the border and let them attack us, now is the time to make compensation, you go and tell you the Thai royal family, as long as you come up with enough food to compensate us, my troops will immediately retreat." ”

The dazed Wangchai was just let go, and when the crutched Wangchai was carried back by the Thai soldiers opposite, he still didn't believe it was true. However, he swore a poisonous oath in front of the big-nosed commander in the name of his ancestors that he would definitely bring the so-called compensation back to the royal family, so Wangchai just ate a few mouthfuls of food and left for Bangkok in a hurry.