"Captain John, I have already asked clearly, these Japanese soldiers are Japanese soldiers who crossed the border from Thailand, and they belong to the Fourth Division of the 25th Army of the Japanese Army." Another mercenary team, who arrived in a hurry, pulled out snipers to help John's team clear the remnants of the Japanese army under the cliff, and interrogated the captured Japanese prisoners, but the results of the interrogation surprised the mercenaries. These Japanese troops who tried to climb over the cliff belonged to the 4th Division of the 25th Army, and they were only a forward squadron, and the Japanese army had already set out from Thailand to take Jingdong in northern Burma, and was preparing to attack northern Burma with Jingdong as an outpost.

The commander of the 25th Army was the famous Yamashita Fengfumi, who was known as the Tiger of the Malays, who once commanded his 30,000 soldiers to march 800 kilometers on bicycles in a week, forcing 130,000 British, Indian, and Australian troops to surrender and capture 130,000 British Indian and Australian troops, which is probably one of the reasons why the British government that fled overseas chose to ally with the Japanese army. However, when Zhao Zhisan entered Shanxi, in June of the 42nd year, Yamashita Fengfumi, who had great achievements, was relegated to the Kwantung Army by Tojo Hideki, if it wasn't for the thunder in Burma, Tojo Hideki would never have transferred Yamashita Fengfu back to the Nanyang battlefield to take charge of the 25th Army.

The original 25th Army was formed with the backbone of the 5th Division, the 2nd Guards Division, and the 18th Division, the most elite of the Japanese Army, with a total of about 110,000 people. At present, the 25th Army still retains most of the Fifth Division, the Second Guards Division, and the Eighteenth Division, and when Yamashita Fengwen shouted that the troops were insufficient, I don't know whether it was the intentional arrangement of the Japanese base camp or for what reason, the Fourth Division of the Japanese Army, which had successfully completed its mission at the Corregidor Fortress in the Philippines, was also transferred to the 25th Army.

The Fourth Division, which the Japanese army itself called a wreck, was a strange unit in the Japanese army, whether it was fighting against the Soviet army at Nomenkan, or fighting with the national army troops in China, they were the lowest casualty rate among the Japanese army, the smallest material loss, and the southward march to the Philippine battlefield was also extremely smooth. It's not that the combat power of the Fourth Division is so strong, the reason why they have such a performance is mainly that the Fourth Division is famous for its greed for life and fear of death, not only the Japanese army itself knows, but even the national army that has had experience in firefighting with them also knows, counting this time, Yamashita Fengfumi is already in charge of the Fourth Division for the second time.

If it weren't for the Japanese base camp's repeated emphasis on the lack of troops to send and the suppression of some high-level leaders, Yamashita would rather have the Thai army that worships Buddha all day than the Fourth Division to join his 25th Army. Like Zhao Zhi, Yamashita Fengwen is also a commander who is proficient in blitzkrieg, when he captured Singapore, didn't Yamashita Fengwen once command his troops to run long distances and force a large number of Anglo-Australian troops to surrender, and he was also ready to use blitzkrieg to attack northern Myanmar this time.

The capture of Jingdong was only the first step of Yamashita Fengwen, who was located in the Shan State Mountains and was the most remote town in Burma, and Yamashita Fengwen planned to use this place as a springboard for the 25th Army to attack northern Burma, and take the opportunity to attack northern Burma with a large superior force when other Japanese divisions were attracting the attention of Thunder in southern Burma, and complete the attempt to encircle Thunder in northern Burma. Yamashita Fengwen's battle plan can be described as extremely thorough, but he didn't want to be hit by a mercenary who was hiding in the downwind to, and Yamashita Fengwen actually sent troops of the Fourth Division to climb over this cliff, otherwise John and they would not have obtained the relevant information so easily.

"Captain, the Japanese army below is waving a white flag." The sniper's shout interrupted Little John's continued daze, neither of their two mercenary teams had any experience in fighting with the Fourth Division, and naturally they didn't understand why the Japanese troops under the cliff would take the initiative to raise their flags and surrender, these guys were really different from the Japanese soldiers they had encountered. Pressing the doubts in his heart, Little John led his team to slide down the cliff along the rope, and the remnants of dozens of Japanese soldiers had already consciously stacked their weapons together, sitting cross-legged on the ground with their hands raised and waiting for the mercenaries to come down and surrender, that sincere attitude made Little John wonder if these guys were Japanese soldiers after all.

"Use the radio to transmit the interrogation back, and ask for support by the way, we don't have enough people at all." John Jr., who had returned to the cliff, summoned the radio soldiers, and while ordering the prisoners of the Fourth Division to be kept under strict guard, he ordered the headquarters to be contacted by radio. The 25th Army that crossed the Thai-Burmese border had more than 100,000 troops, and even if you count several other mercenary squads active in this area, Little John and his team only had more than 200 mercenaries, and if they wanted to deal with 100,000 Japanese soldiers, they couldn't do it alone.

The radio waves that crossed the sky transmitted the information back at the first time, and the appearance of this information finally made Zhao Zhi's heart relax, and Zhao Zhi had been guessing where the main force of the Japanese army had gone. After receiving the information that the Japanese army was about to attack for the second time, among all the thunderous defense lines, only the Donghu defense line and the Japanese army exchanged fire, and the intensity of the battle was not very large, this person Zhao Zhi's heart was full of doubts. The appearance of the 25th Army allowed Zhao Zhi to seize the flaws of the Japanese army, and their target this time was still northern Burma, but the route they chose this time was to enter northern Burma by Jingdong instead of following Moltke north into northern Burma.

It is good to know the deployment and purpose of the Japanese army, Zhao Zhicai no matter what is in command of the battle, whether it is Yamashita Fengwen or Yamagami Fengwen, Thunder is building a road network in northern Burma and so on to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army here, and Thunder, which has a large number of means of transportation, can move more than 20,000 troops to any point in northern Burma in one day. Zhao Zhi didn't care whether the 25th Army had more than 100,000 troops, and the 25th Army under the mountain would inevitably not carry a large number of motor vehicles, so in terms of the speed of movement of the troops, Thunder had the upper hand.

Zhao Zhi's mercenary force is expanding at the same time, the sweeping team that has made great achievements has also increased a lot of manpower, and there are many skilled people among the refugees recruited by Thunder to Myanmar, and now the cleaning team has expanded to 4,000 people, Zhao Zhi believes that the 4,000 sweepers plus 2,000 elite mercenaries will leave a lifelong memory for the 25th Army. Mountain warfare is what the sweeping team is best at, ambush warfare and rush are what mercenaries are good at, as long as these two forces can cooperate well with each other, Yamashita Fengwen's 25th Army is bound to pay a heavy price before seeing the road network in northern Burma.

"Contact the military commander and collect all the information about Yamashita Fengwen, quickly." Lei Ting is not good at intelligence gathering, but Zhao Zhi still has the support of the military commander behind him, and within 2 hours of the telegram being sent, the military commander replied. Due to the large amount of information, Lei Ting organized more than a dozen radio soldiers to receive it, and when Zhao Zhi saw the information, what appeared in front of him was a translation message with a thickness of more than ten pages.

"Hey, this old boy has a lot of information." Zhao Zhi, who had already ordered the cleaning team and the follow-up mercenaries to come forward to support, felt very relaxed, but when he saw the relevant information of Yamashita Fengwen, he still couldn't help but secretly cry out for a headache, because there were too many materials about Yamashita Fengwen. "Yezi, this guy also studied military affairs in Germany, have you seen this guy?" Zhao Zhi handed the piece of paper he had finished reading to Ye Kong, who was drinking coffee on the side, and his words were full of jokes, Yamashita Fengwen went to Germany to study in 1916, and Ye Kong probably didn't say anything at that time.

Ye Kong, who came back from being injured and recuperating, squinted at the piece of paper on the table, and pursed his lips with disdain, "He went to an ordinary officer school, I went to a German junior military academy, he studied infantry command, I studied sniper course, there is no comparison between us." Ye Kong's words had a sour taste, although Yamashita Fengwen did not go to a famous military academy, the infantry command course he studied also contained a lot of things, Ye Kong only studied a single sniper course, and they naturally had no comparison.

When he saw the second piece of paper again, Ye Kong's eyebrows jumped uncontrollably, which was a habit of Ye Kong before he found the target. "This guy is still a lieutenant general, sir, you said that if I give him a shot, will the 25th Army withdraw to Thailand?" Ye Kong's highest military rank in his record is only a Japanese army lieutenant, if he really kills this Yamashita Fengwen, it is not in vain that he has studied sniper tactics courses in Germany for so long.

"I said that you are stupid or the Japanese army is stupid, Yamashita Fengwen is just a lieutenant general of the Japanese army, you just kill him now, the Japanese army will change at most one commander to continue to command the 25th Army, it is not of much use to this battle, you still stay in Mandalay to take care of your injuries, don't worry about other things." After listening to Ye Kong's words, Zhao Zhi, who was carefully reading the information, poured a basin of cold water on Ye Kong without raising his head. It's good to have a fighting spirit, but you can't fight blindly, Ye Kong is the best sniper of Thunder, and he is also one of Zhao Zhi's closest people, Zhao Zhi will never allow Ye Kong to do anything like traveling alone.

Zhao Zhi read the information of Yamashita Fengwen twice in a row, and only then did he have a general understanding of this 58-year-old Japanese lieutenant general. Not only has he experienced ups and downs in Japan, but he has also experienced the dilemma of being degraded to the Northeast on the Chinese battlefield, but whether this person is in charge of the Kwantung Army in the Northeast to clean up the Anti-Japanese Union or fight against the Eighth Route Army in North China, he has not lost the demeanor of a famous general, Zhao Zhi suddenly looked forward to the battle with Yamashita Fengwen.

Wealth and power are nothing to Zhao Zhi at all, what he needs is victory after victory, using thunder and strong combat power to defend the fruits of his victory from being spied on by others, this Yamashita Fengwen is undoubtedly another goal for Zhao Zhi to prove himself.