Chapter 1226: Changes in Myanmar!
The Allied engineer battalion and a large number of machinery were not vegetarians, and what was originally a barren field has now become a large number of camps, and the camp of the Sino-American mixed commando team is just to the north.
"Repeated training, what movements are not familiar with what to practice? Let all the brothers who come in form a reflex so that they can hold out on to the battlefield for a little longer. ”
On the training ground, not only the recruits are training, but even the soldiers who have returned from injuries are training.
"Commander, we all understand."
Several company commanders nodded at the same time, of course they knew the importance of training, in fact, whether it was for recruits or veterans, in the encounter with the enemy suddenly, they could survive the first wave of bullets, even if they got out of the ghost gate, as long as their luck was not too bad, they could survive the encounter.
But no one can predict the first wave of bullet rain, which requires their first reaction under extreme conditions, and this reaction does not form a conditioned reflex, which will make them chaotic in that environment.
"Regiment commander, these recruits are real recruits, I'm afraid they haven't even practiced much in the supplementary training department."
Wang Ning walked over, picked up the kettle and poured himself a sip.
"Then give them devilish training, except for the eight hours of eating and sleeping every day, the training will not stop, we will not lack bullets, guns, medicine, food, so that they can form combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time."
Feng Ye squinted his eyes, more than 800 recruits made the commando camp lively again, but the number of recruits also made the combat effectiveness of each company drop a lot, approaching them A large number of wounded have not yet returned to the team, and in three months, only the lightly wounded have reached the conditions for returning.
"Chief of Staff, is the intelligence accurate?"
At this time, in the Allied front headquarters, Stilwell and Paterno did not stay in the busy headquarters, they took a piece of information and entered Stilwell's office with two officers in British uniforms.
"General, there is no problem with the intelligence, this is the information we got from the Burmese Defense Forces at a great cost, and the accuracy of the information has been confirmed by the personnel of the Kachin commando."
A major officer nodded, their intelligence came from the Burmese, and such important information, even if it was only half true, was worth the risk.
"Burmese? Their credibility is not high! ”
Stilwell lit a cigar, and the Burmese had behaved completely as accomplices to the Japanese in the war a year earlier, with many Chinese and British soldiers dying at their hands.
"General, the situation is different now; Since the Japanese occupied Burma, they did not regard the Burmese as their allies at all, and now that the Burmese Defence Forces have existed in name only, they have reinstated the name of the Burmese Independence Volunteers, and our intelligence officers are in contact with them, and this information is a testament to their sincerity......"
At the signal of the major officer, one of the lieutenant officers who followed opened the bag of papers he was carrying and handed Stilwell a thick copy of the papers.
In this information, the official "grain requisition" order from the Japanese Burma Front completely released the wildness of the devil; In the past, the Japanese army, who had to pretend to be friendly to Japan and Burma, was not lazy at all, and directly requisitioned whatever he saw, punching and kicking it lightly, and it was not good to reap the lives of the Burmese without bayonets and bullets.
Of course, this kind of situation only happens in rural areas and smaller towns, and the Japanese army does not dare to do too much in the city, after all, the Japanese also have to live in the city, turning the city into a ghost town, and they do not have so many people to fill it, the key is that it is not conducive to the long-term garrison of the Japanese army, after all, they need locals to provide them with some services.
The Burmese Independence Volunteer Army has become the Burmese Defense Force, and the top leaders of the Burmese Defense Force and the elders of various ethnic groups seem to have no backbone, and they dare not speak out.
Why do they dare to be angry and dare not speak, because in the first few battles with the Japanese army, the losses were too great, and the regular army of three divisions was disabled, and this kind of remnant cannot be recovered in a short period of time, not because of the lack of soldiers, but because the officers and backbones cannot be replenished.
Out of this, the Japanese limited their weapons replenishment, because all the supplies of the Japanese themselves now have to be tilted to the Imphal line, and the weapons and equipment left by the British army have been almost destroyed by the Burmese Hoho, which is the disadvantage of the lack of independent production capacity, and they have no way to produce ammunition on their own.
Especially after the First Battle of Yu Bang, the two divisions of the remaining regular army of the Burmese Defense Force were sent to the Thai border, compared to the British, the Burmese hated Thailand more, because of the border of the country, they formed a feud in the long-term fighting, and it was also the kind of irreconcilable hatred, even the Japanese could not reconcile with the alliance.
Aung San and some of the top brass are now in Yangon, nodding to the top officials of the Japanese Burmese Front in order to get equipment replenishment, while on the other hand, they are recruiting young men from various ethnic groups in an attempt to rebuild their armed forces.
Rangoon pretended to be grandsons, but the Thais raised their eyebrows once on the border, they used their elephant division to defeat the Chinese army on their own, and now they became arrogant, feeling that they were now second in the Japanese army's combat strength, and the Burmese should not be taken seriously in their eyes at all.
As a result, the Thais crossed the border and went to the Burmese side to rob, and they dealt with the Burmese even more ruthlessly than the Japanese, not only robbing things, as long as they passed through the place, it was basically three lights, looting everything, killing people, and burning houses; As a result, the two divisions on the border were provoked at once, and the division commander did not have to report to General Aung San, and directly pulled the troops up to fight with the Thais, not to mention, the real combat effectiveness of the Thais really could not beat the Burmese, after a fierce battle, not only the Thai army suffered heavy casualties, but more importantly, several Japanese officers in the Thai army also died, which provoked the Japanese high-ranking of the Burmese front.
Shozo Riverside is still unwilling to completely fall out with the Burmese, after all, the Burmese still have a role in the current situation, and his original plan was to ask Aung San to hand over the officers of this conflict, but he miscalculated the form, that is, those two divisions are already two complete divisions in the current Burmese Defense Force, and if the officers are handed over to the Japanese to deal with, then their armament will be completely finished.
The top brass on both sides were arguing, but the young Zhuang faction of the Japanese army stopped doing it, and they began to arrest the officers of the Burmese Defense Forces, and in the process, because of the resistance of the Burmese Defense Forces, they also killed the entire families of several officers.
In the past, I had only heard that the brutal Japanese defense officers in the village and town looked at the tragic situation that happened in front of their eyes and around them, and they ran away, yes, they just ran, and the squad leader, squadron leader and even the captain of the brigade returned to the jungle with their cronies, and the entire Burmese defense army was only left with 3,000 people loyal to General Aung San.