Chapter 22 Conscription Again

Dai Li, who has made a lot of gains, has been living a very comfortable life these days, but Zhao Zhi, who is far away in Yangon, is living like a year, not only is the arrival of the Black Lady fleet that should have arrived in Hong Kong yesterday delayed its arrival in Hong Kong, but Zhao Zhi is now in big trouble, the Jewish high priests and patriarchs do not agree with Zhao Zhi to continue to recruit Jews into the army, and Zhao Zhi is trying to persuade those Jewish patriarchs and high priests to allow him to continue to recruit young Jews to join his mercenary army. Based on Nomura's confession, Zhao Zhi came to an inference that the Japanese would soon attack Burma, but Zhao Zhi was not ready, he had too few soldiers at his disposal, and he needed to recruit again.

The Second Jewish Regiment has been in the training camp for more than a month, and the sufficient food supply has made the 20,000 Jewish soldiers stronger. A large number of weapons shipped from the port of Marseille were repaired, and before Zhao Zhi had the production capacity of weapons, these weapons from France were enough for Zhao Zhi to arm another Jewish army, so Zhao Zhi put the matter of re-conscription on the agenda, but it was opposed by the high priests and patriarchs.

"No, you have already conscripted more than 40,000 young people into your army, and fighting is a death, do you want to get all our young people into your army to fight the Japanese?" The Levi patriarch glared at Zhao Zhi with very dissatisfied eyes, although the contract they signed stated the number of Jews that Zhao Zhi would recruit into the army, although it was not yet the upper limit of the number of people to be conscripted, but Levi and they did not want Zhao Zhi to conscript Jews endlessly. It has only been two months since he arrived in Burma, and Zhao Zhi has already recruited more than 40,000 of them in a row, and God knows if he will integrate all Jewish men into his army.

"You all think wrong, the Jewish regiment that is going to be conscripted now will be transferred to the Kunming region of China, they will be the defense force of the arsenal, I don't want them to go to the front line to fight the Japanese army" The intricate factional battles in China forced Zhao Zhi to use his own men to defend the arsenal established in Kunming. The supporting power plants and steel mills that he brought back from Germany were Zhao Zhi's reliance, and he relied on to defeat the Japanese Kwantung Army and the Soviet Army to seize those geological and mineral resources in Siberia, so Zhao Zhi could not let them do anything.

"Do you all know the current international situation? The Germans had occupied most of France, more than 50 percent of the steel of the British coastal defense line fell into the hands of the Germans, and the once powerful British Royal Navy had to stay away from the English Channel, because the Germans' submarines were more powerful than their warships" Zhao Zhi had a newspaper that he had just brought back from France, although the newspaper had published the news of the previous week, but this did not prevent Zhao Zhi from seeing the imminent demise of France from these news.

"Some time ago, we captured several spies sent by the Japanese army to Burma at the port, and according to their confessions, the Japanese army has secretly bribed a large number of Burmese Tusi and tribal leaders, and once the Japanese army begins to attack Burma, they will become the internal response of the Japanese army. Do you think the British will be able to hold off the Japanese offensive? News from my CIA friends indicates that the Japanese naval fleet had just left their port of Yokohama earlier, and I suspect that the Japanese will launch another offensive in Southeast Asia, do you think the Japanese will consider Burma as their next target? ”

The high priests and patriarchs were shocked by Zhao Zhi's words, the Jews living here are all outcasts from Europe, and they thought that they should be able to live a few days of peace and stability by hiding in such a distant place, but now it is good, the butt has not yet been hot, and the Japanese have started the idea of Burma again. "So what do you think we should do? What if you go to China? Aren't you all in China beaten by the Japanese? Levi turned to Zhao Zhi with a Chinese idiom he had just learned.

"Good question, Patriarch Levy, this is exactly what we need to deal with, there are still a large number of Jews stranded in the port of Marseille, and the ships I hired will continue to bring them here, but you also know that Burma is a small place, there is not enough space here for all your compatriots, we need a bigger place, obviously, China is the best option"

"I can understand your worries about the situation, the Nationalist Government is actively resisting the Japanese offensive, and Germany has dissolved its alliance with Japan, do you think that their island nation can really defeat China?" Zhao Zhi's fingers tapped on the table, as if they were tapping on the hearts of the high priests and patriarchs, "When I was still in Suez, I told you about my plan, whether you return to Jerusalem or not, you people need a place to live before the end of the war, if you can still find a suitable place to live on the map, I will immediately organize people to send you there."

The patriarchs could not answer Zhao Zhi's rhetorical question, the world is full of wars, and it is impossible for countless countries that are not involved in the war to open their doors to the Jews. Zhao Zhi took out his world map and spread it out on the table, and drew a big arrow on the map with a pencil, the starting point of the arrow was Burma, and the front point from Myanmar was Yunnan, then Shanxi, then Inner Mongolia, and finally the northeast.

"This will be our final destination," Zhao Zhi drew a large circle on the map with the pencil in his hand, including Soviet Siberia and the whole of Korea. "I said that Siberia is very rich in minerals, my arsenal needs these resources, Korea is now a Japanese occupation zone, once Japan's military power is contained in China and Southeast Asia, our offensive against Korea will be much less resistant."

"Why do we want North Korea?" A patriarch interjected.

"Because we need the coast, we need access to the sea, don't you think it's a good option to get to Europe by sea from these places?" Zhao Zhi's pencil traces a long dotted line along North Korea's coastline.

"Since there are so many big ships in the port of Yangon, why don't we just take a boat to North Korea to live in Siberia, isn't it much easier than taking the land route?" The unrelenting patriarch continued to ask, but his question this time attracted everyone's eyes, especially Patriarch Levy, who almost rolled his eyeballs out. Everyone knows that it is the fastest way to go to Siberia by sea, but whether it is Siberian Haihua North Korea, the ports there are all controlled by the other side, and those ships in Yangon Port are just merchant ships, and it is simply a fool's dream to use merchant ships with no offensive power to seize the other side's ports.

"It's not a good idea to take the sea route, the Japanese warships are not decorations, and it is impossible for them to let a fleet full of soldiers cross the South China Sea and go all the way north" Zhao Zhi put down the pencil in his hand and rubbed his chin with his fingers, "Although the Japanese regard Korea as their rear, according to my estimates, the troops they have deployed in Korea are more than 100,000 at least, even if those third-rate troops in North Korea are removed, there are at least tens of thousands of troops belonging to the Japanese lineage, so I need to continue to recruit soldiers, This is also for your sake, do you want to watch your descendants stay in Myanmar like this and be slaughtered? ”

"I have weapons, all that is needed now is soldiers, and I promised you that once the war is over or my base settles down, I will respect your choice and arrange for you to return to Jerusalem, and the Jewish Legion will follow you. You can think about it, whether to return to Jerusalem with a group of unarmed compatriots safely, or to bring 100,000 tigers and wolves to be safe" Zhao Zhi's big cake was thrown out as if he didn't want money, and the high priest and patriarch fell silent.

The Jews yearn for a free life, but they also know that freedom must be backed by sufficient force, if they really want to do what Zhao Zhi said, even if they return to Jerusalem, they still have to live according to the eyes of others, the kind of life in the refugee camp is the pain of their lives, and they don't want to experience that kind of life again. The patriarchs played the usual shrewdness of the Jews, and bargained over the number of Zhao Zhi's conscription again, and after a whole afternoon, the high priest and the patriarchs finally agreed that the number of Zhao Zhi's conscription should be controlled within 40,000 people, and if the war really developed as Zhao Zhi said, then Zhao Zhi still had the right to continue to recruit 50,000 soldiers.

The Jewish patriarchs made such a decision to tie themselves to Zhao Zhi's chariot, if Zhao Zhi's plan failed, they would also be spurned by the Jews, which is why they finally gave Zhao Zhi such a chance to recruit 50,000 soldiers again, because they could not lose, they would die if they lost. "Please rest assured, as long as they enter my training camp, their life and death will be taken care of by me, I will not let my soldiers die in vain, but the war must kill people, so you must be prepared to lose your compatriots at any time" Zhao Zhi nodded slightly to the high priests and patriarchs, and then took Yu Dazhi away, he didn't have time to accompany these old guys to soak mushrooms, he was going to start recruiting now, time waited for no one.

Zhao Zhi's re-conscription plan went unbelievably well, but in just four days, the three training camps on the outskirts of Yangon were already overcrowded, and more than 60,000 young Jews were put into the training camps by Zhao Zhi, and all Zhao Zhi had to do now was to select 40,000 people from among them to form two Jewish legions. A large number of mercenaries were sent by Zhao Zhi to the training camp as instructors for the recruits, and the simple use of firearms and tactical coordination were the main things they taught, and Zhao Zhi planned to leave the two newly formed Jewish regiments in Yangon before the Japanese army launched an attack on Burma.