815 Attack on Bangkok

Terauchi Shouichi's most ideal plan was to wait for the base camp to transfer one division each from the 11th Army and the 23rd Army in Guangxi and Hunan to Vietnam, and then transfer the 2nd Guards Division from the mainland to help. In addition, the return of the 5th and 6th Divisions of Australia, coupled with the fact that the remnants of Burma can be withdrawn to the Malay Peninsula, and they can also threaten Chu Tingchang from the flank, if all the above four points are achieved, the strength may be enough. He pinned his hopes on Chief Chu's troops to stay in Kanchanaburi for at least two weeks to repair, so that his troops could be transferred in time. From the perspective of common sense, the enemy has penetrated so deeply, the sharp edge has been frustrated, and the supply is insufficient, so it should also stop, the question is, how long will Chu Tingchang stop? The South African authorities have not been able to give a definite answer to this point.

Just worried, the southern organ finally got the news, someone saw that Chu Tingchang's several troops were preparing to worship Guan Yu, this was a routine action before they launched the attack, it can be considered that the enemy has a high probability and is about to attack.

The temple was taken aback, he wanted to believe that this was true, but he didn't dare not believe it, Chu Tingchang has always been known for his surprise, and he was careful to occupy several bridges on the long railway line, just focusing on fighting fast and slow, otherwise he could wait for half a year, and launch an attack with a safe, step-by-step approach.

Shouichi Terauchi knew that the danger at the moment was that although there was depth, there were no troops. Southeast Asia has always been a "semi-fortified" region. A large part of the reason why the Japanese army was able to quickly occupy large territories a year ago is this, which is why the army is struggling in the mountains of the mainland and invincible in Southeast Asia, and if you consider it, he has reason to be afraid. He decided to immediately invite Makino and Kagesa Zhenaki to discuss it.

Huang Tianyang on the west bank of the River Kwai, led all his officers and soldiers to worship the Guandi Temple, he grew up under the influence of traditional culture, although the family is mainly dedicated to the god of literature and wealth, but this set of rituals is still understood, he himself and later studied in the United Kingdom, these mysterious things will be suspicious, but he has been to the Allied training camp in northern Myanmar several times, and found that the Americans there are also talking about the power of the Chinese god of war, and even many American and British soldiers also went to the Chinese temple to pray, and even to the statue of the god to repent.

In any case, in order to boost the morale of the army, he found the most famous Taoist priest from northern Burma, and this Taoist priest did the magic during the counterattack. In order to show his sincerity to Guan Yu, his sacrifice not only included the three nephews of cattle, sheep and pigs, but he also specially bought an elephant for sacrifice, hoping that Master Guan could take more time to carry his team, and of course the money was paid by himself.

Having done all this, he felt comfortable enough to sweep Thailand. At noon, his 203rd Division, crossing the bridge and the 202nd Division's defense zone, began to enter the enemy-occupied zone. He faced 200,000 enemies, but only one-tenth of them were Japanese, and the main opponents were Thai troops. His main regiment was advancing almost directly along the road where the enemy's 4th Division had retreated, the closest road he could find to Bangkok.

The last reconnaissance before the departure of 419 showed that the enemy had deployed troops in their respective defense areas, and the distribution of forces was very even, and there was no focus, probably because he was worried that Zhou Youfu's army was good at detours, so he did not dare to deploy heavy troops in one place, in addition, the enemy planned a minefield, but the Japanese ships transporting * had just arrived in the Gulf of Siam, and it was too late to transport them to the front line. Therefore, Chu Tingchang decided to let Huang Tianyang fight blindly, the so-called indiscriminate punch to kill the master, Huang Tianyang's actions, the southern organs must not be accurate according to common sense.

Sure enough, as he guessed, under the pressure of the Southern Army Headquarters, the Southern Organs submitted a forecast of the enemy situation, predicting that the attack of the 203rd Division could only be a feint, and that it should pay close attention to the movements of its main forces, the 202nd Division and the 201st Division.

The Southern Army made a judgment based on this, left the 4th Division in the rear to continue repairs, and replenished troops and weapons, and only let the 58th Brigade cooperate with the Thai army to defend the 203rd Division.

On the same day, the US B17 bomber took off from the Mandalay Airport, which had just been taken over, and flew directly to Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, dropping hundreds of thousands of leaflets. The leaflet was the second public statement by the Thai royal family, who had fled to Europe, condemning the Thai government for betraying the will of the people and siding with the Axis powers. Call on the Thai people to rise up against the junta and welcome the arrival of the Allied forces.

The Allies did not list Thailand as a member of the Axis powers, but in the occupied zone, and all offensive operations must not harm its people, which is why Huang Tianyang had to pay for an elephant himself. Although everyone knows that there are inextricable links between the Thai royal family and the "rebels", the royal family's flight to Europe is to some extent only an expedient measure for the extension of the wall-riding policy.

Huang Tianyang's offensive strategy was to attack directly with motorized troops, with his forwards riding American-made jeeps and sidecars, followed by trucks of artillery and infantry. His own command, consisting of dozens of jeeps and trucks, was in an erratic position, often appearing near the forward battalion to take command.

The defensive front of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army was 120 kilometers wide, which of course exceeded the actual ability of the troops, because the southern organs judged that Huang was only a feint, so it was necessary to make such a deployment to prevent the attack of Chu Tingchang's heavy fists.

Chu Tingchang's deployment was indeed as expected by the Southern Organ, and the 202nd Division was heavily punched in the backhand, but Huang Tianyang never regarded himself as a feint force to attract attention, and his goal was to enter Bangkok first. His troops quickly entered the defensive zone of the 3rd Thai Army, and it was simply a lone force in the depths.

The core of the Thai defense consisted of 20 Vickers armored vehicles, and the Thai army, which had almost no tanks, used these cars, armed only with machine guns and 5 mm steel plates, as defensive support.

Before leaving Bangkok, the armoured vehicles that were supposed to defend the palace were blessed by Samba, the famous sorcerer of Pattaya, who painted them like colorful tigers with yellow stripes that symbolized strength, and the warriors also added new tattoos on their faces and necks, which the master claimed would make the opponent engulf in a sea of blood.

The master cursed Chu Tingchang from a distance through the photo provided by the Southern Organ, and since it was beyond the scope of ordinary curses, Master Samba had to reach a compromise with the devil and consume his own mental power, which of course would lead to some increase in costs.

Keiji Suzuki personally visited the master and hoped that the master would provide information about the pavilion chief. After a blind-eyed and foaming psychic session, Samba determined that there was a group of powerful wizards hiding behind Pavilion Chief Chu, but their power was scattering. Their power will regather after the New Moon, so now is an excellent time to deal with them.

The Royal Third Army, reorganized by the Thai Army, which had been defeated several times, drove to the front again after blessing its mana and self-confidence, and they were about to face the weakest unit of Chu Tingchang.

Huang Tianyang's troops immediately launched a counterattack after encountering an ambush, his troops lacked rich tactics, but they were quite experienced in resisting their opponents head-on, and their troops were bombarded by the Thai army.

The Thai artillery fire was scattered and did not pose a great threat. Huang Tianyang's 75-mm howitzer unit immediately launched a counterattack, and what they had to do was to weaken the enemy while waiting for American air support.

Stilwell paid special attention to Chu Ting's attack, and assigned the 10th Air Force, which had just been stationed at Mandalay Airport, to support the attack as a priority. Two hours later, American bombers arrived at the battlefield and carried out low-altitude bombing of the Thai army according to the instructions launched by the Chinese army. The Thai army, which had never experienced a large-scale bombardment, collapsed all at once. Huang Tianyang was able to move on.

After nightfall, he received news from one of his father's seniors from Bangkok: the Thai Army was forming a large reserve force, but the unit was currently incapacitating because it was still waiting for Japanese equipment to come ashore from the Gulf of Siam.

Huang Tianyang decided to adjust the rhythm of the attack, and before the enemy's reserves completed their preparations, the troops approached the city, and if the goal was achieved, he might eventually force Chu Tingchang to modify the predetermined plan of the main attack and feint attack in favor of himself.

Before leaving the Bay of Bengal, 419 conducted a final aerial reconnaissance, and the reconnaissance results showed that Huang Tianyang's plan worked, according to his plan, the capture of Bangkok would be a week faster than the original plan, and of course, it could also be judged that Huang Tianyang may be hiding some exclusive intelligence channels.

419 also detected that one of the Japanese cargo ships on the back of Malacca was going to the Andaman Islands, but there were no troops on the cargo ships, and they were not going to support there, but to evacuate the troops there, that is, after the Japanese army won the victory at sea, it still planned to abandon the Andaman Islands, which are called the keys to the Indian Ocean.

It seems that after a coup d'état, the command of the base camp has shifted from expansion to contraction, and it is not known how much of this is due to Makino's role, but the new trend is clearly more pragmatic.

On the island of Andaman Island, Major General Wingate, with two companies, prepared to attack the last Japanese airfield. What he got was the assumption of the British that the Japanese would take advantage of the victory and support the Andaman with heavy forces, so they had to seize the airfield immediately and keep the runway intact, and then there would be planes to take them back to India.

It was clear that the capture of the airfield would be a battle of life and death, and Wingate decided to take a desperate gamble and throw all his forces into it. However, after the troops assaulted the airfield in two directions, they found that the Japanese had already run first. Not only was the runway not damaged, but even some planes on the side of the runway that had not had time to be repaired were not damaged, which shows how rushed the run.

The soldiers quickly occupied the empty tower and took over the communications equipment, and then it was discovered that under a Type 1 attack aircraft parked on the side of the runway, hung a peculiar *, which looked longer than the usual stubby *, but certainly not*, because * had a small propeller in front of it.

This is a bomber that participated in the naval battle two days ago, launched the Yanlong*, due to a malfunction, it never launched the *, and could not be thrown away, the plane was spared in the war zone for a long time and never succeeded, and finally ran out of battery*, and the plane's fuel consumption was too much to return to Thailand, so it had to land here.