Chapter 120: See Cannon Fodder Again

"Bring all the Burmese people in the village back to Mandalay, and tell them that the Japanese army is coming to slaughter the village, if they don't leave now, when the Japanese army comes, they won't be able to leave" On the way back to Mandalay, Zhao Zhi commanded those Jewish soldiers to coerce all the people in the Burmese villages along the way to Mandalay, and Yang Middin alone was taken away by Zhao Zhi more than 2,000 Burmese natives.

"Sir, aren't we going to take down Ringanqiang? Why not deploy in Yangmidin? Not far from Yang Midin, Xiao Ziyun had a question in his heart. Zhao Zhi's behavior of coercing the Burmese natives along the way made Xiao Ziyun a little puzzled, even if he was for those Burmese young people to be tired and used as cannon fodder, he didn't need to bring their families, looking at the old and weak Burmese people who were crowded on the tank armored car, Xiao Ziyun's head hurt.

"It's not time to fight Ren'anqiang now, after we consume half of the Japanese army, it's time to take Ren'anqiang, it's still too early" Zhao Zhi hit the steel helmet on Xiao Ziyun's head with the small stick in his hand, and continued with a bit of hatred for iron and steel, "There are more than 150,000 Japanese troops coming at us, and we only have 30,000, a ratio of 1 to 5 people, do you think we still have the possibility of dividing troops to garrison key points?" Plains warfare is not what we are good at, we have to lure the Japanese army to northern Burma, use the mountains and jungles to eat them little by little, and if necessary, I plan to throw Mandalay to the Japanese army."

Rumbling armoured detachments and captured trucks carried thousands of Burmese natives to Mandalay, and the population of Mandalay was largely lost after days of fighting, and Zhao Zhi had a place to house these Burmese people who were being held hostage by him. The transport convoy from Kunming will transport a large amount of grain from Kunming into Myanmar every day, which is the Burmese rice that Zhao Zhi exchanged for cheap Yunnan native cloth, salt, and daily necessities, but now it has become the ration of these Burmese people.

Those who received guns to participate in the training could eat the standard rations of the mercenaries, and those who did not want to carry guns could only eat the rice balls captured from the Japanese army. The temptation of food was put to the maximum at this time, and the Burmese young man, who was eager to eat his stomach, only had those tempting cans in his eyes, and the others had long been forgotten. Thunder's standard combat rations were distributed, along with bloodstained 38 rifles, ammunition and equipment, and on the way back to Mandalay, Am Long and his sweepers assembled an 800-strong Burmese force.

The 800 selected Burmese youths were just the beginning, and when the Burmese who were coerced to Mandalay received the rice distributed by the thunder, the number of Burmese youths under the temporary control of Yanlong increased to 3,000. Xiao Ziyun and they were completely impressed by Zhao Zhi's methods, what is the most in northern Myanmar, and there are the most Burmese mountain people who live in the mountains and roads, as long as these people can adapt to Japanese weapons, they will be a qualified mountain jungle warrior in a few days, and when they think that Thunder can get more Burmese cannon fodder, Xiao Ziyun and they can't help but feel itchy for a while.

According to the plan formulated by Yan Long, every 50 Burmese young men were organized into a team, and a full 60 such Burmese natives were sent to the outskirts of Taunggyi to face the Japanese army. Before leaving, Zhao Zhi made a promise that every time the Burmese natives who went to war brought back a Japanese army's identity badge, they would be able to get 30 catties of husked rice provided by Thunder free of charge, and every time the officers were promoted to a higher rank, the amount of rice they obtained would also increase accordingly.

The disguised bounty made the Burmese natives scream, killing a Japanese second lieutenant can get 100 catties of husked rice, which is a month's ration for a family of three, if you add some wild vegetables or something, these grains are enough for a family of three to eat for two months. In order to make a living and keep their families alive, the Burmese cannon fodder, who had received weapons and ammunition, left Mandalay with the sweeping team after a brief training and headed straight for Taunggyi, which is full of dangers and uncertainties.

Zhao Zhi's arm is not small, on the same day that 3,000 Burmese regretted leaving, another 1,000 Burmese were sent to the Taungoo defense line, due to the gathering of a large number of Japanese troops, the Burmese guerrillas active in the Taungoo line had a very difficult time. The mercenary troops scattered by Zhao Zhi have their own tasks, and before the final war comes, the arsenals that Zhao Zhi has arranged in Myanmar cannot be opened, if they are really forced to do so, the contents of the arsenal can only be used by the mercenary troops, and the Burmese guerrillas are not eligible to enjoy this treatment.

"Duolong, we have agreed in advance, the rifle and bullets are yours, the Japanese cannons and grenadiers are ours, and you won't fiddle with those things anyway" The smell of gunpowder in the forest has not yet dissipated, the fog is mixed with the smell of blood, a 12-person infiltrator team is rummaging through the pile of corpses for grenades and grenade grenades, and more than 30 Burmese people in black are busy loading rifle bullets into their hanging bags.

This 12-man infiltrator team is probably the most advanced unit in the current Thunder sequence, it is only less than 50 miles away from the Ringanqiang oil field in Burma, and before the army crossed the river, Colonel William, who was in the British army in the Burmese army, had asked Henry of the Fort London Company to bring a message to Zhao Zhi. He and his 5,000 British soldiers were disarmed and imprisoned in a concentration camp by the Japanese, and William hoped that Zhao Zhi would help them get out of the camp and the Japanese army's control, and in return, William would tell Zhao Zhi about several places where the British army had stockpiled supplies in Burma before the war.

Zhao Zhi doesn't look down on British-caliber weapons for the time being, but weapons are better than no weapons, and Henry also said that there were more than 200 trucks in the hands of the British army that were also hidden in those material hoarding points, Zhao Zhi didn't need the weapons of the British army, but he needed those trucks. The infiltrator team commanded by Jiang Jianbo had two missions, the first was to find a safe passage from Mandalay to Ringanchang, and the second was to try to contact William, who was being held by the Japanese army.

The closer you get to Ringanqiang, the more likely you are to encounter Japanese patrols and scouts, and this is already the third group of Japanese patrols that Jiang Jianbo and his gang have strangled, and before that, they have cooperated with the Burmese guerrillas to kill two groups of Japanese scouts. The traces of the fighting were cleared, the Burmese guerrillas had backpacks filled with captured ammunition and useful items, and Jiang Jianbo had three light machine guns and three 50 grenadiers on their shoulders.

"Shhhh For 5 minutes, everyone squatted in place and remained motionless, there was no abnormal sound in their ears, only the sound of the wind blowing through the bushes, but the mercenary who acted as the vanguard was still engrossed in staring at the bushes in front of him, and the muzzle of the gun did not move in the slightest.

"Whoa" The other side finally couldn't hold his breath and made a sound, Jiang Jianbo made a gesture to the mercenary beside him to prepare for an attack, his wrist flipped back, and he took out a grenade from his waist and held it in his hand. "Don't shoot, it seems to be our people" Duolong, who came from Mandalay to cooperate with the battle, suddenly reached out and grabbed Jiang Jianbo, revealing a touch of black in the bushes opposite, which is the black homespun cloth that the Burmese mountain people like to wear, and they are the only ones in the whole of Myanmar who wear clothes of this color.

Duolong covered his mouth with his hand, and he didn't know how to get it, and a pleasant birdsong came out of his mouth, and the melodious birdsong was quite rhythmic, and the bushes on the opposite side that showed black homespun cloth suddenly stopped moving. The same birdsong came from the bushes of the other side, and a Burmese boy who looked as a teenager emerged from the bushes. "Come out and speak, or I'll shoot" The 38 rifle in the hand of the Burmese-speaking boy was flat-ended, and with the sound of pulling the bolt, the bullet was already loaded.

"Yo, this doesn't look like a big person, but it's not a small temper" Jiang Jianbo and the others were amused by the young man's serious tone, and even Duolong, who followed them, laughed. Jiang Jianbo waved his hand, Duolong, who had two empty hands, stood up, and the Burmese boy on the opposite side was startled by the sudden appearance of Duolong, and the muzzle of the black hole instantly turned to Duolong.

"Hey, don't shoot, I'm Burmese," Duolong smiled at the boy with a mouthful of big white teeth, and slowly moved forward under his feet. The two stood 2 meters apart, talking in Burmese, Jiang Jianbo and they could understand Burmese, and learned from the conversation between the two that this Burmese teenager was a herald who belonged to the Burmese guerrilla army, and this time he followed General Pachai, who was the first to raise the name of the Burmese guerrilla army, to come to Ren'anqiang to recruit troops.

"He said that the guy named Pachai has recruited 2,000 people and is active in this generation, as if he is preparing to fight the Japanese army of Ren'anqiang, I estimate that the Japanese scouts and patrols we met along the way are coming for them, and it is just a coincidence that we met" Looking at the back of the Burmese boy leaving, Duolong was a little puzzled why Jiang Jianbo was reluctant to show his figure, but he got a lot of information from the Burmese boy's mouth.

"Pachai?" Jiang Jianbo found this person named Pachai in his memory, this guy should be the first Burmese Tusi to respond to the thunder to form a Burmese guerrilla army, I heard that this person is still a Chinese-Burmese mixed race, can speak fluent Chinese. "Let's go, go up and take a look at this Pachai general, there are few birdmen under the dog thing who dare to call themselves generals, and if you want to call the general, it should be our husband" Jiang Jianbo's words revealed a hint of jokes, his real purpose is to take a fancy to Pachai's current strength, if he can persuade this person to cooperate with him, maybe Ren Anqiang can fight down, after all, the Japanese army only has a third-rate infantry wing of more than 2,000 people in this place.