Of course, the Japanese were also afraid of annoying the Burmese, because they now needed the Burmese to help them build fortifications, provide rice and other supplies, and all the Japanese occupation forces gave a time for Burma to become independent in August 1943.

Of course, the Japanese will not really let Myanmar become so independent, they changed the name of the Burmese Independence Volunteer Army to the Burmese Defense Force under the guise of elite standardization, and the establishment was directly reduced to more than 3,000 people, and the leading brother of Myanmar, Aung San, became Captain Aung San overnight.

At the same time, they went on to construct the so-called "Outline for the Establishment of the Burmese Defense Forces," which provided that the commander of the Burmese Army was subordinate to the commander of the Japanese army. In addition, there must be a guidance department within the Burmese military headquarters, and all kinds of orders of the Burmese army need to be signed by the guidance department to take effect.

Myanmar is a multi-ethnic country, and the Burmese are the main ethnic group, accounting for nearly seventy percent of the country, but the other ethnic groups are very mixed and numerous; Aung San was able to win over other nationalities in the name of independence, but what the Japanese did after the occupation of the area quickly disappointed them, and they realized that the Japanese, like the British, were not there to help them become independent.

Daw Aung San had not been able to sustain the fate of the ethnic dispersion, and the dismissed members of the Burmese Independence Volunteer Army were no longer willing to accept Daw Aung San's orders, and they returned to their tribes with disappointment and weapons.

Similarly, Aung San was not completely abandoned by the Japanese, who are now appointed by the Japanese as commander-in-chief of the Burmese Self-Defense Forces and awarded the rank of Dazuo; At the same time, the Japanese promised him the post of defense minister of the Burmese government.

In this way, Aung San did not completely give up the independence of Burma with the support of Japan, he still held out hope, and tried his best to raise manpower and material resources to help the Japanese army build various fortifications.

In December 1942, the Anglo-Indian army began to swell because their troops on the Indian border were unable to advance against the Japanese, and after the victory in the North African theater, the generals in India began to plan a counteroffensive against southwestern Burma, so the first Battle of Rakhine began, and the original intention of the British army was to occupy Achab in southern Burma.

The British army dispatched more than a dozen infantry battalions from all over the world to advance between the Meiyu Mountains.

The British army began to attack, and at the Ramgar training base, a steady stream of recruits began to train, and gradually began to compress the training grounds of the commandos.

Fortunately, the commandos are made up of veterans, and during this time, each of them has been training hard, at least in Stilwell's opinion, their training results are now very good.

"How's their skydiving training?"

In the afternoon, Stilwell casually asked, in his mind, that this commando force had taken shape, and that it was time to send it to Burma to make trouble for the Japanese.

"General, their results on the training ground are good enough, but whether they can fight or not, I can't guarantee it."

The lieutenant colonel officer behind him was not as optimistic as Stilwell, and he commented as the chief instructor.

"Why?"

Stilwell was obviously surprised, they were veterans, and they had undergone such rigorous training on the training ground, shouldn't they be an invincible army?

"General, this unit is special; But their opponents were fierce Japanese troops, and they had the help of the Burmese; Yes, I have to admit that they were on the training ground, the best unit I had ever seen, and they were commanded by good officers; But things on the battlefield are not simply superimposed; If that were the case, the Axis would not have to fight, and they would not be able to compare with the Allies in terms of equipment, manpower, and material resources. ”

The lieutenant colonel officer shrugged his shoulders and said something very impressive.

"You don't seem to be bullish on them? Why? ”

Stilwell asked.

"After all, I haven't trained such a unit before!"

The chief instructor nodded.

"Go on."

Stilwell clearly wanted to know more, and the head instructor in front of him clearly had a bigger say.

"They are Chinese!"

The chief instructor answered without thinking about it.

"Although they have performed well on the battlefield before, and now they are equipped with American-style equipment, and on the surface their combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, I think it is better not to have too much hope for them...... Because for a few months, it is impossible to really change their combat thinking! What elite soldiers need is not only combat skills and equipment, but also changes in soldiers' operational thinking and officers' command art; I don't think they'll be able to make the most of our firepower and will fight the same way they did now. ”

The American instructor was clearly aware of the battles Feng had experienced, and he felt that Stilwell had made a mistake in training these men to elite soldiers, and that the best thing to do was to let them learn to shoot and then let them trade their lives for the Japanese.

"They're veterans! Moreover, their officers have a wealth of combat experience, and he also graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, the greatest military academy in modern China. ”

Stilwell was a little annoyed by the instructor's words.

"Say whatever you want, I can see it...... Many of them are dismissive of our coordinated tactics, they are just putting on a show and simply not accepting our tactical ideas, they are still carrying out their set! ”

Chief Instructor Hill shrugged his shoulders, he knew about their careful thoughts.

In fact, Stilwell also knew these things, after all, the people here would report to him; In the past few months, no matter how tired the training is, Feng Ye will continue to take the brothers to continue to refine the tactics they have formed, and the German-style offensive tactics used by Liang Hao's commandos in the past have become more and more abundant with the blessing of American-style automatic weapons.

"Then, let the actual battle test them!"

Stilwell let out a sigh of relief, he didn't actually want to send this unit to the battlefield so quickly, his intention now may just be to make these people understand that their tactical thinking is wrong, and it is right to use the tactics of the American army, and under the strong firepower, let the enemy be wiped out.

The time for a counter-offensive against Burma has not yet come, and they still have time to revert to American tactics, and once these men understand their mistakes on the battlefield, he believes that they will all change themselves, even if it will be very costly.

"Let's test it with actual combat!"

The chief instructor agreed.

But now that the Burmese battlefield has not yet entered the counteroffensive stage, the only fighting may be a skirmish on the India-Burma border; But that kind of conflict is too simple to test them; Then Stilwell remembered that the British were engaged in the Battle of Rakhine, in which the British threw many small troops into Burma and even used paratroopers; Why don't you pull them over there and test them out.