The expeditionary force began to dominate Southeast Asia by recruiting defeated soldiers

Chapter 107: Outrageous Base Camp Battle Report (Please recommend the book and give a gift)

带着近30辆九五式轻战车、九七中战车、九七改中战车和二十几门75野炮75山炮翻山越岭的鬼子第 33 师团7000多人的大部队在枯门岭山间艰难的战斗着。

Not only did they have to withstand the bombing of the White Hawk B-24 bombers coming from Sindhu and the low-altitude strafing of the P-40s, but they also had to compete with the concrete bunkers built all over the mountains by Zhang Chi before.

The commander of the 33rd Division, Shozo Sakurai, felt that there were enemies everywhere. Although his troops had captured one hill after another, there would be enough enemy infantry in the next hill to continue blocking his troops in the well-fortified fortifications.

How many enemies are there?

The angry Sakurai Shozo felt that he was trapped in darkness.

The information provided by the intelligence department before the war that "Zhang Chi only has a few thousand troops" was obviously completely wrong.

Wouldn't it take nearly 10,000 people to besiege the 146th Regiment?

Wouldn't it take several thousand men to stop the 114th Regiment of the 18th Division?

There were at least tens of thousands of people blocking the way in the mountains in front of him.

Is it possible that the enemy commander could create an army of tens of thousands of people in just a few months?

Fortunately, Sakurai Shozo no longer needed to be angry.

The 114th Regiment of the 18th Division was completely defeated in the mountains under the open siege, and only a few hundred devils finally escaped back to Myitkyina.

So the three-way siege became a one-way siege. Sakurai Shozo, who had long been troubled by the hidden bunkers in the mountains, the elusive snipers, and the flat anti-aircraft guns, retreated directly back to Xinpingyang.

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Zhang Chi crushed the Japanese's attempt to launch a three-pronged siege, but did not immediately take advantage of the victory to launch a counterattack.

Although he had killed over 7000 Japanese soldiers in this battle and gained a large amount of Silver Lions and R&D experience, he was well aware that the Japanese still had four divisions with nearly 80,000 troops in Pegu (more than 80,000 before the war).

He remained calm and knew that this was not the best time to attack blindly.

Once his 212th Division leaves the north where it has the terrain advantage to attack the big cities, the four Japanese divisions will be quickly mobilized to surround and suppress it at all costs and drain his blood.

On the contrary, he was not a major threat to the Japanese now that he was entrenched in the mountains. As long as Zhang Chi chose to continue to shrink in the north and slowly develop, the Japanese would not come into the mountains to trouble him again in the short term. So, for a while, Pegu once again fell into an eerie calm.

After all, as 42 years came to an end, Zhang Chi, the time traveler, had to start making plans for the world situation 45 years later.

In order to gain a foothold in Pegu and avoid being driven out when the John people return to the colony after the war, developing military power remains Zhang Chi's top priority.

Thanks to the bumper harvest in Zhang Chi's controlled area this year, he had a huge surplus of grain available.

So even though the newly formed 212th Division only had more than 1 infantrymen, Zhang Chi not only organized additional artillery regiments, tank battalions, boat units, and amphibious units.

Taking advantage of the calm situation, he also released news of large-scale recruitment of new soldiers.

Although these new recruits who were not on the regular payroll had no salary and only received food, in this chaotic era, the appeal of filling their stomachs was endless.

As a result, not only the young overseas Chinese from Qianguo under Zhang Chi's control actively signed up to join the army.

A large number of refugees who were half-starved to death in the country actually crossed the Gaoligong Mountains, took the ancient Tea-Horse Road, and fled all the way from Yunnan Province to the north of Pegu, just to ask Zhang Chi to take them in.

After selecting the best, Zhang Chi recruited more than 8000 new recruits, and together with the previous recruits, they were organized into five new recruit regiments of 2000 people each.

This move marked the beginning of Zhang Chi's army's rapid expansion and accumulated valuable human resources and combat power for larger battles in the future.

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In the city of Mandalay, in a luxurious building left behind by the colonists, Colonel Shinichi Kobayashi was sitting in a mahogany armchair, busying himself.

"During this security and pacification operation, our locust army achieved numerous victories, wiping out a total of 5000 enemy guerrillas with only a few hundred casualties. We completely cleared the area north of Pegu and stabilized local security."

On the radio, the female announcer read out the news that the Locust Country had once again achieved a great victory in four languages: Fusang, Pegu, John, and Qianguo.

Hearing that this could not be said to be completely true, but at least it was false news that did not contain any facts, Kobayashi Shinichi almost spit out the tea he had just drunk.

He turned off the radio and looked down at the battle report in his hand, which he was about to submit to headquarters. It read:

"In this battle, 570 of our soldiers were killed and wounded, and 2040 were injured. Colonel Sato Mikichiro died of dysentery due to unfamiliarity with the climate; Colonel Takamoto Takuma was slightly injured by artillery fire and later died from a medical accident; and Major Nakahira Daiki fell off a cliff..."

Finally, after reading this outrageous war report, Kobayashi Shinkou spat out the tea in his mouth.

What kind of army would lose all of its top commanders after only a few hundred casualties?

Although the headquarters battle report is only used to fool the people in the country and those puppets, it shouldn't be so perfunctory, okay?

After a violent coughing fit, Kobayashi Shinichi took out a pen, signed his name on it, and stamped it with the seal of the 15th Army Military Police Department.

As the commander of the military police, Shinichi Kobayashi, who held the rank of colonel but acted as major general, was well aware of the actual results of this operation - almost zero.

On the contrary, the 15th Army itself suffered heavy casualties, losing more than 20 barreled artillery pieces, 8 medium tanks, and nearly 7000 soldiers.

Even though many of these soldiers are students who have recently been drafted into the army and 40-year-old middle-aged office workers who are serving again, the loss is still heavy.

Of course, Kobayashi Shinichi also knew that General Murojima, the supreme commander of the Southern Army in charge of this operation, would not receive any punishment.

This is because he is a member of the nobility, holds the title of earl, is a leader of the "control faction", and has very good relations with all the leaders in the Fuso Army.

Therefore, the entire Fuso army in Pegu kept silent about this disastrous defeat, acting as if nothing had happened.

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On the other hand, the Allied forces naturally touted their victory in this battle.

A small section of the captured flagpole and the remaining flag tassel were urgently airlifted to Sindhu, and it is unknown how many journalists' films were murdered again.

Stevenson, who was in charge of the distribution of eagle aid supplies in the entire Asian battlefield, naturally reciprocated the favor. With a wave of his hand, he allocated a lot of supplies that should have been transported to the White Party via the Hump Route to Zhang Chi's 212th Division.

After all, instead of letting pilots risk their lives to fly over the Himalayas to deliver a bunch of supplies to the White Party that would only be resold, Stevenson would rather distribute these supplies to Zhang Chi, who could win battles and bring him reputation and fame.

Of course, as this victory was reported in major newspapers, the commander of the 212th Division, Zhang Chi, and the commanders of various regiments also became famous.

Different from the previous victories publicized to build momentum for Stevenson, this time Zhang Chi's troops actually annihilated half of the Japanese division, more than 7000 people. The great results of the battle directly shocked the senior officials of the White Party.

We actually have a force with such strong combat effectiveness?

This army is not actually controlled by the Tumu faction, He faction, Hu faction, Tang faction or other direct descendants?

Division Commander Zhang Chi is just a young, marginal figure who graduated from the Fifth Branch of the Whampoa Military Academy?

Thinking of this, some people began to have some ideas.