Chapter Twenty-Four: Initial Suspicions

"Do you know what happens when a cow doesn't drink water and presses its head?" Jin Kai, who was in the carriage, looked at the Mandalay train station that was gradually moving away, and asked his companion who kept complaining with a depressed face. For Zhao Zhi's refusal, Jin Kai had actually been prepared in his heart, he just didn't expect Zhao Zhi to refuse so simply. The young people who came with them were a little unaccustomed to Zhao Zhi's attitude, and clamored to give Zhao Zhi a good look, but they knew Zhao Zhi's skills, and when dealing with them like this, Zhao Zhi could beat more than a dozen of them alone.

"I don't know" The grumbling young man shook his head in the face of Jin Kai's question, he didn't even understand the meaning of Jin Kai's question.

"The cow does not drink water and presses its head, and the final result is nothing more than two kinds, the cow that is pressed down on the head honestly drinks water or the cow desperately resists, resulting in two injuries. Which kind do you think Zhao Zhi belongs to? Do you think our threats are useful to him? This is Myanmar, it is the territory of thunder, there will be guns aimed at our heads where we can't see, if we dare to do anything inauthentic to Zhao Zhi, none of us want to leave here, this is not alarmist, Zhao Zhi's people have this ability. Jin Kai, who was leaning in his seat, turned his head to look at the scenery outside the window, and no longer paid attention to the young people.

Jin Kai was right, during their stay in Burma, at least more than 20 snipers were watching them in the dark, and the slightest movement would kill them all in the first place. Most of Thunder's snipers have been honed in actual combat, and their psychological quality and marksmanship are all first-class, and it is effortless to deal with a group of so-called intelligence elites who have never been on the battlefield.

Seeing off Jin Kai and his men, Zhao Zhi did not stay too long in Mandalay, and hurried to Myitkyina without stopping. The 20,000 Jewish militia troops transferred by Zhao Zhi from Kunming were stationed in Myitkyina, training here and serving as the guards of the arsenal. Since the withdrawal of the Japanese army in Myitkyina, Yan Wudao has dispatched more than 2,000 mercenaries to conduct a dragnet search in this area, and all the Burmese natives who lived here in all eras have been forcibly relocated to Mandalay and Taungoo, and now Myitkyina is no longer populated except for the troops of Thunder.

Using Jewish troops to garrison the perimeter of the arsenal was one of Zhao Zhi's methods of guarding against Japanese agents, and the pervasive Japanese agents were quite fearful of Zhao Zhi. In order to pretend to be Burmese natives, the strong-willed Japanese agents would even live in the jungle for months before infiltrating the target location, and the months-long jungle life would make the Japanese agents look no different from the Burmese natives, wearing animal skin clothes barefoot, and carrying bows and arrows and guns to carry the prey down the mountain.

Fortunately, Zhao Zhi had a large number of Jews in his hands, and as long as he issued weapons to these trained Jews to arm them, Zhao Zhi would immediately be able to pull out another Jewish army with more than 100,000 people. The Jews with big noses and colored eyes obviously looked different from the Burmese, and even if those Japanese agents could disguise themselves, they would not be able to pretend to be Jews, and they could not cross the defensive line of the Jewish troops, and Zhao Zhi's arsenal in Myitkyina would be as impeccable as gold.

"The steel mill has started, but the output is not good? At the current pace, three days of production will be enough for us to produce a tracked armored vehicle. And at the time of the production of armored vehicles, all our projects involving the use of steel had to be stopped, otherwise the production of armored vehicles would be greatly affected. Zhao Zhi's arsenal has been able to successfully produce light stalker armored vehicles, but due to the constraints of steel production, the output of armored vehicles has never exceeded 5 per month, so the Jewish engineer in charge of the arsenal base complained frequently when he saw Zhao Zhi.

Zhao Zhi turned his head and whispered to the logistics for a while, and then called the person in charge of the steel mill and instructed, "From today on, all the steel produced by the steel mill will be given priority to the light weapons production line, our armored weapons are enough, there is no need to make so much steel into armored vehicles, the Garand rifle is the leader of the arsenal, and the rifle production line brought back from the United States cannot be idle." ”

Zhao Zhi had already learned that after Hitler's death, the US Congress had passed a draft of aid to China, and before the US troops began to land in France, the US government hoped that China would contain the Japanese ground forces living in Asia. According to the elder Rhodes, the amount of aid to China this time is as high as $1 billion, of which light weapons account for more than half, and Zhao Zhi, who happens to have a Garand production line at hand, plans to get a piece of the pie and directly sell the Garand produced by his arsenal to the Nationalist Government under the brand name of Florida Arsenal.

To earn money from the government of the United States, Zhao Zhi will not show mercy at all, this is what he deserves, attacking Hitler, Zhao Zhi obtained the right to use Siberia from the Soviets for 100 years, but the United States did not pull out a dime. The North Korean Jeju Island is still just a bubble, and if Zhao Zhi wants to get Jeju Island, it depends on whether the United States is happy or not, and instead of fighting with those politicians, it is better to start earning their money now.

"Sir, Pa Dang is here, saying he wants to see you." As soon as the convoy left the arsenal, the jeep in front of it slowly stopped, and the footsteps of the footmen on it ran over. The sudden appearance of Pa Kang made Zhao Zhi a little unpredictable what this cunning Burmese wanted to do, but Zhao Zhi had more than 60 mercenary guards around him, and it was not far from the heavily guarded arsenal, so he was not afraid that Pa Kang would be able to use the above tricks.

"Mr. Zhao, your people have recruited troops in Burma, and they have driven all the Burmese natives here in Myitkyina to live in Mandalay and Taungoo, and my guerrilla army has no soldiers, and the weapons you sent me are almost useless, do I want to watch them pile up in the warehouse and rust?" Pa Dang showed a resentful face and kept complaining to Zhao Zhi, and Luo Ying, who was sitting in the passenger seat, couldn't help but laugh.

"Nonsense, if it weren't for the fact that I had already taken root in the Burmese, why would Lao Tzu go to great lengths to move those Burmese to Mandalay and Dongoo." Looking at Pa Kang's low and small appearance, Zhao Zhi couldn't help but muttered in his heart. Thinking like this, Zhao Zhi still couldn't reveal the slightest rumor on his lips, "This is a problem, the situation in Myitkyina is a bit special, I want to build an arsenal here, so all the residents living here have to move forward and go south, but forget that your activity area is in Myitkyina." Zhao Zhi looked at Pa Kang with an embarrassed expression.

"Otherwise, you might as well take your troops south and garrison Rangoon with General William, where the conditions are better than Myitkyina." Hpakant's territory is in Myitkyina, and going south to Yangon seems to be beautiful but has no power, Zhao Zhi seems to be kind, but in fact he wants to completely empty Hpakant. William is not a good person, he still has thousands of British soldiers under his command, the British army is not good at fighting the Japanese army, but it is safe to clean up the Burmese guerrillas under Hpakant.

There were mercenary guards standing beside Zhao Zhi, even if Pa Dang saw Zhao Zhi's intentions, he didn't dare to say it to his face, so he had to say a few perfunctory words to Zhao Zhi and left. "Inform our nail, as long as this Pa dares to play tricks, kill him." Looking at the back of Pa Kang leaving, Zhao Zhi ordered Luo Ying with a cold face. When Thunder first evacuated from Burma, he secretly sowed a lot of shadows in Burma, and after Thunder made a comeback to cross the river to fight, most of the shadows joined the various Burmese guerrilla armies according to Zhao Zhi's orders, and there were such shadows around Hpakant, and there was more than one.

Zhao Zhi had already seen that this Pa Kang had different intentions, and Luo Ying naturally followed to see that Pa Kang was not pleasing to the eye, and there was already a look of looking at the dead man in his eyes when he looked at Pa Kang's back. "Sir, we have our own people by his side, wouldn't it be easier to kill him now? Why waste that effort staring at him, wouldn't it be better to replace him? After following Xiao Ziyun and the others for a long time, Luo Ying's level of speaking has also increased, and there is a bit of a taste of chewing words in his words, and Zhao Zhi, who listened to it, couldn't help laughing.

"You stupid boy, our people are going to come in handy, and besides, it's still useful for me to keep these Burmese guerrillas, and now is not the time to uproot them, wait until the Japanese really stop." Zhao Zhi grabbed the steel helmet from the seat and buckled it on Luo Ying's bald head, with a hint of longing in his words. When Japan surrenders, there will be no need for these Burmese guerrillas to exist, and then it will be the time for those shadows to appear.

"I don't understand" Luo Ying held his steel helmet with one hand, turned his head and asked the mercenary who was driving, "Do you understand?" The latter naturally shook his head and replied, I don't know what Zhao Zhi meant. Luo Ying, who didn't get an answer, didn't dare to turn around and ask Zhao Zhi, so he had to make a grimace at the rearview mirror to show his dissatisfaction.

"You're just a fool, our husband doesn't say it directly, naturally he has his reason, you know so much to do at a young age? Just remember to listen to your husband and do things, don't just worry about not doing business all day. After returning to Mandalay, the depressed Luo Ying was still thinking about Zhao Zhi's words. After dinner, Luo Ying secretly went to find Yan Wudao, but he didn't want to be reprimanded by Yan Wudao. As a person close to Zhao Zhi, Yan Wudao could naturally understand what Zhao Zhi meant by his words, but Luo Ying's age was still too young, and he was not yet the age to come into contact with these things, and Zhao Zhi's layout made in advance could be explained in one or two sentences.