readx; In Tonkon, the French Indochina Peninsula, later known as northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese Reading Front, secretly supported by China, had amassed a large number of guerrilla forces and was preparing to attack Hanoi, the core city of Visi France in northern Vietnam. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hanoi, formerly known as Jiaozhou, Thang Long, Tokyo. After the French occupied the northern part of Vietnam, they directly referred to the entire northern region of Vietnam by the old name of Hanoi, Tokyo. Therefore, the Vietnamese Tokyo in this era does not refer to the city of Hanoi, but refers to the Tokyo District, which belongs to the jurisdiction of French Indochina, and its status is equivalent to Annam in the central region of Vietnam, and the cochin in the southern region of Vietnam.

Vietnam in this era was actually forcibly divided into three pieces by the French, and Chen Jingyun did not intend to change this situation, even if he wanted to support the Vietnamese reading force but did not say that he wanted to unify Vietnam, but in these three places supported the Vietnamese national reading power army, the northern region of Vietnam, that is, the Tokyo area is the Vietnamese reading power front, this reading force is also the most active and powerful guerrilla force in the entire southern peninsula of India, and even the entire Southeast Asian region.

The main reason for the strength of this guerrilla force is naturally that the area in which they are active is in northern Vietnam, and they can obtain a large amount of ordnance and supplies from China in a steady stream near the Chinese border, and even some of the training of officers is carried out in China. Or they were very active throughout the thirties, often attacking the small strongholds of the French colonial authorities, and after entering 1939, Hitler provoked the war in Europe, and Poland quickly perished was nothing, but the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway and Denmark were all captured by Germany one by one, and more importantly, France was taken, this situation greatly encouraged the readers of the Asian colonies, thinking that this was the best time to obtain national reading power, so from the second half of 1939In early 1940, the Vietnamese Reading Front led by Nguyen An Dong had already stepped up its actions, and in early 1940, it took control of a part of the territory in northern Vietnam near the Chinese border, thus gaining a vast area of control for the first time.

After the surrender of France, Nguyen An Dong led the guerrillas to attack the major French colonial strongholds in northern Vietnam, and even defeated the French colonial forces several times in a row.

In contrast to the situation in northern Vietnam, the other two regions of Vietnam are moving to a lesser extent.

In central Vietnam, that is, the Kingdom of Annam, Tran King Yun had secretly established ties with the Annam royal family during the thirties, and secretly sent military instructors to assist the Annam royal family in establishing a small secret army, of course, this force also operated in the name of guerrillas, and ostensibly had no connection with the Annam royal family.

This guerrilla force was smaller and not strong enough to launch a large-scale offensive against the French colonial forces in the area.

The situation is similar in southern Vietnam, where the local ethnic reading force is more active, but the overall effect is not great.

If the Vietnamese were not very big, the Thai side was much bigger, and Thailand was historically seized by the French to seize a large number of territories, although in 1906 they recovered a part of the concession, but only a small part. Now that France has been defeated by Germany, France is busy setting up the Vessie puppet axe, and at this time Thailand is also thinking of recovering its territory.

Of course, although the current Weixi political axe is so weak that it can be ignored, Thailand still has many scruples, and they still have to look at the face of the British, and they also need to look at the face of "China and Ben".

If Thailand wants to subdue these lost territories, it must obtain the support of China or Ben, and according to the secret agreement reached between China and China in the first half of 1940, it is said that "China has special interests in the Indochina Peninsula, so when the Thais approached him, although he very much wants to unite with Thailand and draw Thailand into his camp, but considering the attitude of the Chinese side, he still refused further contact. Regardless of whether Thailand attacks French Cambodia or not, China should be responsible for all these things.

Now that Ben has already fallen out with Britain and the United States by attacking Indonesia, he said that Ben did not want to further provoke Britain, lest the British would really go crazy and declare war on Ben.

When Thai people seek support from the outside world, they will naturally not just look for the "own family", in fact, the Thai people have always placed their hopes on China.

Thailand is caught between Britain and France, and since the rise of China, it has been trying to deepen relations with China, hoping to find a big foreign aid for itself.

For Thailand, Chen Jingyun is also in line with the attitude of winning over, during the thirties of the Asian business reciprocal agreement, is to join Thailand, these years Thailand and China economic ties are very close, Thailand production of natural rubber is basically exported to China, and China also imports a large amount of rice from Thailand every year.

If these trades are considered normal trade, then the large amount of weapons and equipment that Thailand imports to China every year shows that the relationship between the two countries is not just an economic and trading country.

During the thirties, there was a military dictatorship in Thailand, and the approval of the then Minister of National Defense praised the control of power in Thailand, put forward the slogan of learning from China, and formed the Youth Party, which was almost a copy of the Chinese National Socialist Party, highly advocating nationalism and a very radical attitude, dreaming of recovering the lost territories, very similar to the Chinese National Socialist Party at the beginning of its establishment.

In addition to forming the Al-Shabaab, Thailand has also begun to vigorously develop its armaments, and the object of study has also changed from the 20s to China, and the combat effectiveness of the Chinese [***] team has proved this to the world with victory.

Thailand not only learns from China in an all-round way to form troops, but also asks China to send military instructors to Thailand, and Thailand is also the third country in China to officially send active military instructors, the first is the Republic of Russia, the second is the Republic of Korea, and then Thailand, as for Finland and Iran, it is not an official act, in the name of civilian volunteers.

The establishment of Thailand's troops is almost a copy of that of the Chinese Army, not only is the establishment identical, but even the weapons used are the same.

Thailand began to vigorously develop armaments in the late thirties, and began to import a large number of military equipment from China, part of which was simply to try to prevent, such as the most common rifles, the rifles that the Thai army is now equipped with are to protect against the Chinese Army's 1916 rifles, machine guns and artillery are also trying to prevent them.

As one of the few reading countries in Asia, one of the only three reading countries before the Republic of Russia and the Republic of Korea, Thailand's industry is extremely weak, but it still has a certain defense industry, too advanced weapons they will definitely not be able to handle, but some simple weapons are still not too much of a problem, rifles, machine guns and artillery These basic things can be prevented, and even light tanks can be imitated, such as a small number of light tanks equipped in their country, The main force is China's T8 tank, and some of them are T8 tanks that are copied by themselves after importing core components such as engines from China.

In these years, even if it is necessary to import engines, there are really not many countries that can copy tanks, and in this respect, Thailand's defense industry is okay.

Equipped with decent weaponry, the Thai Army had 600,000 men in 1940, heavily armed with machine guns and artillery, in addition to more than 100 tanks. Of course, this is only the surface, the specific combat effectiveness is still slightly inferior, and some of the equipment is relatively backward and outdated, but this size of the army is still enough for the French colonial army.

The Air Force is smaller, and the main aircraft equipped are F4 fighters imported from China, and some F3 fighters were imported from China in the early years.

In addition, Thailand also has a pocket-sized Royal Navy, and the Thai Navy and Air Force large-scale use of Chinese weapons is different, the Royal Thai Navy seems to be a bit of a universal brand, this is mainly because the construction cycle of the Navy is very long, the Thai Navy in the twenties and even in the early thirties is mostly imported naval equipment from various countries, Italy, Britain, said 'Ben have, these old and small ships are actually not many, the current main force of the Thai Navy is almost all imported from China.

The Chinese Navy declared in the Second Sino-Chinese War that the Chinese Navy has officially become a first-class naval power, and Chinese shipyards in order to sell warships to foreign countries without word of mouth, to Iran, Thailand, Argentina, Chile and other countries to build warships are generally cheaper, this is not to say that the surname can not pass, but the trade of warship countries is actually very important to word of mouth, the British [***] ship is the undisputed first choice, can buy from the British to buy from the United Kingdom, If they can't buy it or it's too expensive to afford it, they will consider it in the three countries of Germany, France, and Italy, and they say, 'The warships of Ben and the United States are third-class goods, and as for the warships exported by China, they can only be regarded as fourth-class goods.'

This has nothing to do with the country's industrial strength, nor does it have to do with the country's naval strength, which is caused by the concept and tradition of the world.

In order to gain a position in such an international warship trade, China's shipbuilding industry should not only use the Chinese Navy's victories in the two Sino-Japanese wars for propaganda, but more importantly, adopt the mode of low-price competition. In fact, the cost of China's shipbuilding industry is much lower than that of other countries, most of the industry in these years is actually a labor-intensive industry, except for a very small number of high-precision products, the cost price of most products is greatly limited by labor costs, and China has not many others, that is, there are many people, among the world's major industrial countries, China's worker cost is the lowest, which has led to China and the United States to build the same surname of the capital ship, aside from the cost of high-tech research and development, In terms of construction costs, China's is much cheaper, and the range of cheapness is very large, reaching about 20 to 30 percent.

Based on various circumstances, the Thai Navy began to purchase a large number of warships from China in the mid-thirties, at first naturally some small speedboats, shallow water gunboats, and then although Thailand's expansion process accelerated, the Thai Navy ordered four submarines and one destroyer from the Chinese Navy in 1936. The four submarines are newly built and are currently the only four submarines in the Thai Navy. The two destroyers are second-hand, the swastika-class destroyers built and commissioned in the early twenties of the Chinese Navy, and together with a second-hand destroyer that they ordered from the United Kingdom, also built in the early twenties, constitute the main destroyers in the Thai Navy.

However, in 1937, the Thai Navy felt that the 10,000-class destroyer in its hand was not bad, and the Chinese Navy was in a period of replacing new destroyers in large quantities, so it purchased a 10,000-class destroyer at a low price, and also asked the Chinese side to upgrade the fire control and anti-aircraft fire systems for their two destroyers.

In 1938, the Thai Navy once again allocated funds to expand its navy, this time with a big determination to order two brand-new cruisers from China at a large price, in addition to the small warships.

You must know that the brand-new cruisers are not those small warships, let alone second-hand destroyers, the price is very expensive, one down costs nearly 40 million Chinese dollars, two down plus other auxiliary ships, enough to make the Thai Navy shy for several years. But they gritted their teeth and placed the order.

The two light cruisers have now been launched and are currently undergoing final outfitting work and will be able to return to service in the Thai Navy by the end of the year.

At present, although the Thai Navy is still a Wanguo model, the capital ships are all ordered from China.

At this time, I have to say that Thailand is sensitive to the world situation, their expansion of armaments began in 1935, and entered the ** stage in 1938, and almost all of this happened on the eve of the world war, it is not an exaggeration to say that there is an unpredictable prophet, you must know that in 1938, not many people would think that a world war on a global scale was about to break out.

Thailand has spent a lot of money to expand its armaments in recent years, and naturally it is not to spend money to buy military equipment, but to have its own plan, which is naturally to recover those lost territories.

And before there can be formal action, Thailand must also have the support of China.

"Now the situation in Europe is very clear, the rise of Germany has become a foregone conclusion, France is defeated, Britain is busy guarding the homeland, and now Thailand has chosen a very good time, I am afraid that the fight is also the same as saying, 'Ben pays attention to expand interests while Europe is in turmoil!'" Zuo Yugang said: "And they have an advantage over the attack on Indonesia, that is, they are preparing to go to war against France in Visy, not against Britain or the Netherlands!"

Now that Vissi France is already a puppet regime of Germany, the British only recognize Free France, and if Thailand enters the colony of Vessie France, then it will be very difficult for the British to intervene! ”

Chen Jingyun said: "In this way, their actions will not cause too much disgust in the British?" ”

As for Thailand's expansion, Chen Jingyun supported Thailand's action in the consideration that the situation was as chaotic as possible, otherwise he would have helped Thailand build a modern army and help them expand their navy throughout the thirties, and now he said, "I have already attacked Indonesia, and if Thailand goes to war with Visy France again, then the situation in Asia will be completely chaotic, and it will be very beneficial to China at that time."

If the Asian region has been safe and sound, how can Chen Jingyun carry out all-round expansion, if he says, "Ben and Thailand do not take the lead, Chen Jingyun will have to take the initiative to provoke an Asian war, and this is very unfavorable to China's strategic interests."

To some extent, the attack on Ben and Thailand can basically be regarded as a proxy war, with Chen Jingyun standing behind them to support them in the fight against British and American forces in Asia.

Sometimes, expanding interests does not necessarily require oneself to go into battle, and sometimes it is not necessarily how many territories you have to occupy, at least Chen Jingyun is not interested in occupying the territory of other countries, and the interests of the country in these years are not reflected in how much territory you occupy, but how many resources and markets you can obtain.

Historically, the United States has not occupied much territory of other countries, but it still reaps the greatest benefits, and its military power is almost all over the world. Who dares to say it's not a winner?

After occupying Korea, Chen Jingyun did not directly annex North Korea as Ben, but supported the establishment of a pro-China regime, and signed a military alliance agreement to garrison troops to ensure that North Korea became a dumping market for China's resources and industrial products, which led to China gaining huge benefits in North Korea, but there was no need to think about dealing with North Korea's internal affairs, and whether North Koreans starved to death was none of his business.

In Chen Jingyun's view, those remarks about how many enemy territories he wants to occupy are basically the vanity of the leader, and a qualified leader thinks about reaping the maximum benefits with the least or even no cost.

For example, "Ben's attack on Indonesia and Thailand's attack on France, in addition to making the situation in Asia turbulent, so that China can fish in troubled waters, it can also allow China to obtain a large number of markets and sources of raw materials."

When Ben attacked Indonesia, it needed to import a lot of materials from China, and after taking Indonesia, China, as a merchant with which he had some reciprocal trade agreements, could enter Indonesia with Ben and obtain a lot of benefits, and Thailand's expansion generally had this effect.

Under such circumstances, China will be able to make a lot of war money, and he will not have to suffer a single soldier or a single soldier, and he will be able to obtain huge benefits without having to go to an all-out war with Britain and the United States, and Chen Jingyun is naturally very willing to do this kind of thing.

Based on these considerations, Chen Jingyun supported Thailand's expansion, and in order to strengthen Thailand's determination to start a war, Chen Jingyun personally ordered to speed up the construction progress of those warships ordered by Thailand and deliver them to Thailand as soon as possible, and also agreed to Thailand's new round of large-scale military weapons orders.

This order includes a large number of military consumables, mainly bullets, shells and other things, although Thailand has a certain national defense industry base, but a small country is a small country after all, their production capacity is not able to support a large-scale war, the material reserves are just so little, a few battles will be consumed, and these military orders can make China make a lot of money, why not.

At the end of September 1940, Thailand formally demanded the recovery of the old territory to the Vissi France, which naturally refused, and on October 1, Thailand formally declared war on the Visi France, and then the army, which had been preparing for several months, was divided into several directions to launch an attack on the French Rajna.

Asia is now in complete chaos.