Chapter 62: The Kachin
The plan would have been fine.
After all, just like the Burmese Independence Volunteer Army thought, Myanmar and Thailand are both allies of the Japanese army, and if there is a conflict between the two allies, then the Japanese will continue to get the support of Myanmar and Thailand in order to calm things down, and at most they will fight 50 boards to let Thailand not participate in the sweep...... This is also the purpose of the Burmese Independent Volunteer Army, and if you can't stop the Japanese, you can stop the Thais, and you can do something good for your fathers and fellow villagers!
The question is...... The ambushed Thai army brought two Japanese officers with them in order to curry favor with the Japanese.
The battle was fought without suspense, and the more than 100 Thai troops armed only with light weapons were no match for the 200-odd well-prepared Burmese Independence Volunteers, but after the battle, the Burmese Independence Volunteers found that something bad happened: they killed a Japanese officer.
Another wounded Japanese officer couldn't help but scold when he found out that the "enemy" was actually the Burmese Independence Volunteers: "Bastard, if you dare to do anything to the imperial army, I will kill your whole family!" ”
This also brought the death of the Japanese officer, and the Burmese Independence Volunteer Army simply did not stop doing it, and killed the surviving Japanese officer with a "bang".
It's just that they fled too hastily...... This is not to blame them, because another Thai army has already heard the gunfire coming from another direction, so the Burmese Independent Volunteer Army did not care about cleaning the battlefield at all, so as many as a dozen of the Thai army pretended to be dead.
Then there is no need to think about it, after these dozen Thai soldiers went back, they tearfully sued the Burmese Independence Volunteers in front of the Japanese, and the most important thing is that the Burmese Independence Volunteers shot them in the same way knowing that it was a Japanese officer.
"Murakami-kun, what do you think about this matter?" When Shozo Kawabe heard about this, he asked the staff officer.
"Your Excellency, General!" The staff officer advised: "Although we have lost two excellent officers, this incident is mostly a mistake. Moreover, from the overall point of view, it is not suitable for us to tear up the face with the Burmese Independence Volunteers, because it is very likely that the Burmese people and the Burmese Independence Volunteers will completely fall to the Chinese, which is obviously not good for us. More importantly, it will chill Indians. I think that if you cooperate with us, you will end up like the Burmese people in the future! ”
"Hmm!" Kawabe Shozo nodded slowly.
In fact, this was not what he wanted, and he ordered the "requisition of grain" as a last resort...... The Japanese army wants to invest more troops in Burma, and more troops need more supplies, and at this time, Japan is in a stage of material shortage, and the only way to raise so many troops is to "collect food" from the Burmese people.
But it's one thing to requisition food, and quite another to turn against the Burmese Independence Volunteers.
After thinking about it, Kawabe Shozo ordered: "Only the Burmese army that committed the crime will be pursued, and the rest of the people will not be held accountable......"
"Yes!" The staff officer answered, and quickly passed on the order.
Then Kawabe Shozo reorganized his military uniform. He was going to talk to General Aung San, the leader of the Burmese Independence Volunteers, in person so that he could appease the Burmese Independence Volunteers.
But what I didn't expect was that before the order from Shosan Riverside was implemented, the Burmese Independence Volunteers everywhere rose up one after another to attack the Japanese army, and then either fled into the jungle or ran in the direction of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
That's understandable.
First, it is because the people of the Burmese Independence Volunteer Army have learned from the past...... The whole family of the 1st Division of the Burma Independent Volunteer Army died tragically at the hands of the Japanese army, so everyone knows the cruel methods of the Japanese, and after hearing about this incident, the first reaction is that it is death anyway, it is better to fight to kill the Chinese, then there may be a way to live.
The other is that many of the Burmese independence volunteers have "ghosts" in their hearts. They had been secretly helping Chinese under the leadership of Nila and Dent, and now they wanted to make a big deal out of it...... Now I can't hide it, so it's better to do it yourself than wait for the Japanese to do it.
As a result, the entire Japanese-occupied area was in chaos, with gunfire and explosions everywhere. The people are also in danger, and they don't know whether tomorrow will be dead or alive.
But the Burmese Independence Volunteers were clearly no match for the Japanese, and the rebellion was quickly crushed.
As a result, 20,000 Burmese independence volunteers were disarmed, leaving only 3,000 who proved to be reliable minions to continue serving as Japanese soldiers, and the rest were sent to concentration camps.
This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to an intelligence network that Zhang Chi had just rolled out in the rear of the Japanese army. However, fortunately, the Dengshi people were able to endure it, and at the last moment, they did not uncover the uprising, but shot several subordinates of the Burmese Independence Army in one go...... Those subordinates were actually people who wanted to go to Japan to inform, and save their lives.
This move was appreciated by the Japanese army. Thinking that Deng Shi and the others did not defect in this situation, it would be enough to prove their loyalty, so he didn't want to let Deng Shi serve as the commander of this Burma independence volunteer army of only 3,000 people.
So the results should be said to be mixed:
Happily, the success of the denshi lurk and the further gain of the trust of the Japanese army may have enabled the Chinese side to obtain more important information.
The worry is that because the Burmese Independence Volunteer Army has been disbanded, if the Chinese army fights in the future, it will not be able to form a situation of internal and external attack.
However, Zhang Chi was wrong about this point, because the Japanese army's approach was to completely let the Burmese people see the true face of the Japanese army, so in the subsequent battles, the Burmese people resolutely stood on the side of the Chinese army.
But the Burmese people do not include the Kachin.
Of course, this is not to say that the Kachin are pro-Japanese...... In fact, the Kachin people were still living in an almost primitive state at this time, they did not understand politics at all, so they were neither pro-Japanese nor pro-Chinese, they only looked at interests, and they would help whoever gave them things.
Originally, it was okay for this primitive tribe to just think that he didn't exist, but the problem is that they have lived in the jungle for many years, are very familiar with the terrain and walk like flying in the jungle, and can often give each other a fatal blow when they are surprised...... For example, the Burmese unit led by Lieutenant Colonel Poso that inflicted heavy casualties on the Chinese army, a considerable part of which were Kachin Burmese.
Therefore, the Kachin people have become the object of contention between China and Japan.
It's just that both China and Japan are a little laughable and crying that the Kachin people in their primitive state only recognize rewards but not people, so they often kill both Chinese and Japanese, and then go to the other camp to receive the reward......
But Zhang Chi thinks this will soon change, partly because a group of Burmese independence volunteers, including Nila, have fled to the Chinese camp, and it is much easier for them to communicate and cooperate with the Kachin.
On the other hand, the Americans have much more in their hands than the Japanese, so the Kachin people, who only recognize people but do not recognize people, will naturally fall to the side of China and the United States. (To be continued.) )