Chapter VIII: The Jewish Legion

There are more than 800 mercenaries who followed Zhao Zhi to Burma by boat, and half of them were pilots and ground crews recruited from the United States. Zhao Zhi did not restrain them, he stayed in Britain to help Salen's mercenaries have about 200 people, once the second wave of German landing troops enters Britain, those mercenaries will seize a British airfield with the cooperation of Krim gangs, this airfield built in a remote mountainous area has long been scouted by mercenaries several times, there are more than 30 fighters and three transport planes.

The elder Rhodes in the United States also used the strength of the Lockman family to purchase bombers and fighter planes from the Boeing Company and the Bell Company, and because the United States did not allow the export of aircraft, the old Rhodes directly dismantled the bombers and fighter planes into parts and sent them directly to Burma by ocean freighters. As long as Zhao Zhi waits for another month, after a month, Zhao Zhi's flying team will have its own planes, at least three bombers and more than five fighters, and if everything goes well in the British war, Zhao Zhi's flying team will double the number of aircraft.

"Hans, those Jews are left to you, be sure to teach them to shoot and simple tactics within a week, I don't want them all to die in the deep mountains and old forests to feed the beasts" The mercenaries were divided into small groups to train the 20,000 Jews who had just been recruited, and Hans became their chief instructor. Zhao Zhi brought back more than 20,000 weapons from England, and he just didn't want to recruit too many Jews into the army at once. In order to prevent leakage of news, those large equipment unloaded from the ship need to be carried up and down by manpower, and the relevant equipment for tank manufacturing is transported to Kunming one day earlier, and Zhao Zhi can see the tank leave the factory one day earlier.

"Honey, are we in too much of a hurry?" Looking at the mess of Jews on the training ground, Rowling was a little worried, she was worried about whether these Jews could be as capable as the mercenaries recruited in the previous batches, but not because they spent a lot of money, and in the end they were trained to faint at the sight of blood. Rowling's brother Andrew at West Point was also sent to Myanmar by the elder Rhodes, and on the ocean freighter transporting aircraft parts, for the glory and future of the family, the elder Rhodes almost pressed the entire Lockman family.

Zhao Zhi smiled and played Rowling a chestnut, "Don't worry, I just want them to guard the road, and I don't want them to go to the battlefield to fight immediately, as long as Capone looks at ease" Zhao Zhi's arrangement didn't even tell Rowling, the 20,000 people who followed Hans in the training camp were just Zhao Zhi's appearance in order to stabilize Capone, Zhao Zhi still needs Capone's help, in order to stabilize Capone, a coward, Zhao Zhi must get a force that looks like that as soon as possible.

The Jewish soldiers that Zhao Zhi really cared about were in an abandoned barracks about 100 kilometers southwest of Mandalay, and the 20 Tiger tanks that came with the ship were transferred to the dock early after changing their appearance, and after having enough fuel, Hans selected 2,000 Jews to be sent to the barracks with the tanks. A piece of equity was given away by a group of Jewish engineers who would do data tests on the Tiger tanks so that there would be no problems of one kind or another when they were being built.

The Panzer Corps has always been a dream of Zhao Zhi, especially after seeing the power of the German Panzer Corps in Poland, Zhao Zhi is even more fascinated and eagerly looking forward to the birth of the Thunder Panzer Corps. The powerful Tiger tank alone cannot turn the tide of the battle at all, but once the tanks form a cluster to launch an offensive, it will no longer be a dream to turn the tide of the war, and no matter how many human bombs the Japanese army has, it will not help, not to mention that Zhao Zhi also equipped the tank with a large number of covering infantry, and Zhao Zhi has already put all the bets on the tank.

Hans's process of training Jews was actually much faster and simpler than Rowling imagined, according to Zhao Zhi's intention and arrangement, Hans only taught these Jews how to shoot and how to maintain firearms, and there were some simple tactical coordination and battlefield experience. As for how much chance these Jews have of surviving against the Japanese army, it depends on whether they are suitable for holding guns, unremitting training and experience in the battlefield against the enemy are the guarantee of their lives, of course, they also need some luck, the luck of surviving on the battlefield.

Zhao Zhi gave Hans a week, but it only took Hans 5 days to finish the training of the 20,000 Jews, and after the Jews who finished the training changed into thunderous military uniforms, the Jews neatly arranged on the training ground actually had a bit of a military taste, and Capone, who came to inspect, greatly admired Hans's training methods. Looking at the 20,000 Jews standing upright, Zhao Zhi secretly gave Hans a thumbs up, such a military appearance is enough to scare those Burmese locals, as for whether the Japanese army can be fooled, only God knows.

Adam, the nephew of the Levy patriarch, was the commander of this Jewish infantry regiment, and Zhao Zhi's original intention of forming the road guard had already been informed to the high priest and the Levy patriarch, so Adam, who had served as a Polish infantryman, did not dislike his subordinates at all. Before being captured by the Germans and put in the Jewish concentration camp, the 32-year-old Adam was only a second lieutenant in a Polish infantry regiment, and in just 5 days, he went from a Jewish refugee to a commander who could command 20,000 infantry.

As the boss of Thunder Defense, Zhao Zhi naturally wants to lecture his employees, today is also the day when the Jewish Infantry Corps is awarded the flag, and tomorrow these Jewish soldiers equipped with weapons will escort the second batch of supplies to Wan Town. In order to shorten the time between the transportation of materials from Yangon to Kunming, Zhao Zhi took advantage of Capone's relationship to set up material transfer stations in Tonggu, Mandalay, and Lashio along the Yunnan-Burma Highway. Zhao Zhi's small number of trucks did not have to work hard all the way from Yangon to Wan Town, which not only avoided the labor of the driver, but also accelerated the speed of transporting materials from Yangon.

In order to ensure the implementation of this plan, the newly formed Jewish Infantry Corps was divided into standing armies stationed at material transit points and mobile units patrolling along their respective defense areas, with Adam's Jewish 1st Infantry Corps being only the forefront. After their departure, there will be 20,000 soldiers belonging to the Jewish Second Infantry Regiment who will enter the training camp for training, and these Jewish soldiers will spend three long months in the training camp and then drive directly to Kunming to serve as the defense force of the tank factory, which is also the result of Zhao Zhi's contact with Chongqing, if the Nationalist government cannot agree to Zhao Zhi's request, Zhao Zhi can only establish a tank factory in Burma.

For today's flag ceremony, a temporary ceremonial platform was set up in the training camp, and Capone, who was invited, sat on the ceremonial platform with some officials, and Zhao Zhi was also dressed as a mercenary today. Dressed in a black military uniform, black high-top military boots, a Thomson submachine gun hanging on the triangular gun belt on his chest, and a pistol pinned to the gun belt on his two thighs, Zhao Zhi just lacked a German-style steel helmet with a thunder logo and black visor on his head than the mercenaries around him.

Looking at the 20,000 Jewish soldiers standing straight in the audience, Zhao Zhi, who was standing in front of the microphone, took a deep breath, "You will be the first unit of Thunder Defense to have a legion number and flag, Thunder Defense is a mercenary company, the purpose of mercenaries is not for world peace, mercenaries are only for themselves, just to survive" Zhao Zhi's words made the Jewish soldiers in the audience stunned, Zhao Zhi who was standing on the stage also stopped his words, and after the riots in the audience subsided, Zhao Zhi continued, "We are mercenaries, It is a mercenary who accepts the employment of the employer to provide services, and there is only one way for us to serve, and that is to kill, not for right or wrong, not for morality, not for faith, but for the mercenary's creed, that is, profit, whoever hires us to let us get benefits, we will serve whomever we serve"

Zhao Zhi's words fluttered through the microphone over the training camp, and his deep voice fascinated Rowling standing in the audience, and also made the high priest and the Jewish patriarchs who were also standing in the audience weak. Didn't you say that the Jews were recruited just to fight with the Japanese, how to listen to the meaning of Zhao Zhi's words, these young people who were recruited by Zhao Zhi became killing machines specializing in war, and they were also war brokers who fought for whoever gave money, which seemed to be in violation of the contract signed with Zhao Zhi at the beginning. The anxious patriarch wanted to question Zhao Zhi on the stage, but looking at the mercenaries and the muzzles of the black holes around them, he still swallowed back the words that came to his lips.

"Some of you will die in battle, others will be injured or even crippled, and this is the life of a mercenary. From the moment you pick up the gun, your future fate has been linked to the gun in your hand, so please be kind to your weapon, it is not only your weapon to kill the enemy, but also your close comrade-in-arms, it will stay with you even longer than you spend with your lover, it will become your second life"

The 20,000 stunned Jewish soldiers who were fanned by Zhao Zhi's words walked away with their regimental flags, and when they left, everyone's heads were held high, and Rowling covered her mouth and said bluntly that Zhao Zhi's ability to fan people was good. Zhao Zhi's heart was not as relaxed as Rowling's, if it was really as he deduced, how much these 20,000 Jewish soldiers with no battlefield experience could survive once they encountered the Japanese army really depended on their luck.