The war of words between Thunder and the Japanese army in the newspapers has left a curtain, and with the final blow of Thunder, the Japanese army began to keep silent, and more and more literati began to denounce the Japanese army in the newspapers. The news published in the newspapers on the last day of the Thunder was a shot in the arm to reinvigorate those who had already lost faith in the war, and more and more people had begun to move south to Kunming, and these people would cross the Sino-Burmese border into Burma through the Southwest Associated Congress.

Zhao Zhi and the thunder he commanded were undoubtedly the beneficiaries of this public opinion war, although the Guotong region has once again set off a wave of remnants joining the army, but it is not worth mentioning at all compared to the thunder that receives more than 10,000 Chinese every day. Within a week of the end of the public opinion war, more than 80,000 Chinese had entered Myanmar through the town, including students and craftsmen that Zhao Zhi was interested in, and Molun, who was back in charge of logistics, even recruited thousands of craftsmen from them, and the tools needed to open up the wasteland would come from these craftsmen.

"If there are more people, if there are no people, it is not interesting for us to occupy Myanmar, if we want to develop Myanmar, we must have enough manpower and technology, don't care about that bit of food and materials, these people will give us a hundred times the return in the future." Compared with Mo Lun and the others, who were entangled in the supply of materials, Zhao Zhi, who was like a shopkeeper, looked indifferent. The Jewish gathering place in Kunming has a bumper grain harvest, and they can't eat it all, so they can't just buy it with money, and Zhao Zhi now has gold and jewelry in his hands, as long as he can keep these Chinese who have come to join the thunder, the development of Myanmar will no longer be an empty word.

In the face of Zhao Zhi's indifference, Mo Lun and the others, who were full of entanglement, had no choice but to comply, that is, relying on Thunder's family background was quite solid, otherwise they would have to feed so many people, and they would have to eat Thunder and go bankrupt. It is precisely because of the thunder that the purchase of a large amount of grain has pushed the price of grain in Kunming by as much as 20%, but Zhao Zhi feels that he has taken advantage of it, and those gold and jewelry cannot be eaten in his hands.

"Sir, there's new news from Shanxi." Luo Ying quickly pushed the door and walked in, "The Burmese mercenary army's eastward advance headquarters broke through the Japanese army's defense line at dawn yesterday, and is now heading towards Anyang, and is expected to join Yao Laoyu's guerrilla army tomorrow." Luo Yingnian's speed is not very fast, but this is definitely the best news Zhao Zhi heard today.

"Okay" Zhao Zhi put down the official document in his hand and walked quickly to the map, "Call back, after the Anyang guerrilla army converges, the Burmese mercenaries will immediately return to the army and march westward, striving to completely annihilate the Japanese puppet army in Shanxi." "In Zhao Zhi's overall plan, there is no attempt to cross Henan and take Shandong directly, the only troops sent by Thunder in Shanxi are the 150,000 Burmese mercenaries and a part of the fighter troops.

The clerk in charge of recording handed over the recorded order to the operational staff officer for review, and before the order just now was sent out of Zhao Zhi's headquarters, Zhao Zhi's second order had already been issued, "Order, the Jewish troops will send the First Army south to the Donghu defense line to guard, the Second Army will move west to Ringanqiang, the Third Army will be transferred to Dongggyi, and the rest of the troops will stay in Mandalay as mobile troops to keep an eye on the Japanese counterattack." ”

After Lei Ting announced in the newspaper that he would send Burmese mercenaries to help the domestic war of resistance, Zhao Zhi has been paying attention to the movements of the Japanese army. Orders were issued one after another, all the troops in Burma under Thunder moved, the clouds of war reappeared over Burma, and some refugees who did not know what was going on began to speculate whether this was about to be a big war again.

Zhao Zhi's guess was right, under the impetus of the Japanese base camp, the Japanese army, which had already occupied the advantage of the South Asian battlefield, once again dispatched a large number of troops to Burma in a vigorous manner, in addition, the Japanese army occupying the southern coast of China also sent no less than 3 divisions of troops to cross the ocean to the port of Thailand at night.

"Come on, I'm going to see if your heads are harder or if my shells are harder?" After receiving the information that the Japanese army began to gather troops, Zhao Zhi did not appear surprised, all this seemed to be expected by him, only Yan Wudao and a few people close to them knew that this was the first step in the implementation of the extermination plan. Zhao Zhi's tuntian plan was implemented from Mandalay, but it is not difficult for those who are interested to see the mystery, north of Mandalay is mostly Shanxi jungle or hilly terrain, Zhao Zhi abandoned the beautiful plain terrain in southern Myanmar instead of reclamation, but instructed the refugees to open up the wasteland in northern Myanmar, which must be hidden in the middle of some mystery.

With the widening and repair of railways and kilometers, the transportation capacity of Thunder in northern Myanmar has been greatly improved, and a large number of motor vehicles can allow Zhao Zhi to send tens of thousands of troops from Wan Town to Mandalay or Taungoo in one day and night, plus the newly repaired railway, it has greatly increased the speed of Zhao Zhi's mobilization of troops, and even the armored division commanded by Joy can be quickly transported by rail to the place he designated to assemble, which not only saves fuel consumption, but also facilitates the concealment of the troops' march.

"However, this is far from enough, and the engineer unit was ordered to build at least three more airfields for me in northern Myanmar to ensure that the combat radius of the fighter unit was shortened to within 300 kilometers." In order to meet the Japanese army's imminent counterattack, Zhao Zhi spared no effort to build northern Burma into a war fortress, not only the ground troops and armored troops, but also the fighter planes, because Zhao Zhi believed that as long as he withstood this round of Japanese attacks, Burma would no longer be the target of the Japanese army's random attack.

"Shells, I want a lot of shells, explosives, mines, bullets, I want them, order the arsenal to produce 24 hours a day, pay the workers double the wages, improve their food treatment, anyway, I don't care what method you use, before the Japanese army attacks, I want to get enough ammunition for our thunder to consume for half a year." Zhao Zhi's order made the people up and down of the arsenal break into a cold sweat, arms production is not as simple as the production of civilian materials, the supply of raw materials is a very important link, and what Thunder lacks most now is these raw materials.

"Go and buy it, find the national government to buy it, we will support their troops to help fight the war, it should be no problem to buy some raw materials from them." Zhao Zhi gave an order, Mo Lun took a large group of people to Chongqing to find the Nationalist Government, and brought a large amount of gold to the ocean, and all the materials related to the production of military war reports were in their purchase catalog. As for how Mo Lun bargained with the Nationalist Government, it was not Zhao Zhi's concern, he just needed to make sure that there were enough raw materials to supply to the arsenal.

Things in the world are sometimes unexpected, the agreement between the Jews and Zhao Zhi is only five years in the world, and now three years have passed, and Zhao Zhi has lost confidence in the stubbornness and conservatism of the Jews. But at this time, Zhao Zhi received a good news, after the discussion of the Jewish patriarchal meeting, the Jews decided to respond to Thunder's conscription order and send 200,000 young Jews into the army, as Zhao Zhi's reward for them, when Thunder entered Siberia, Thunder must allow the Jewish merchant group to participate in it.

The 200,000 Jewish militia were transferred to regular troops, which made Zhao Zhi, who seemed to be a little stretched, quite happy, counting the 100,000 Jewish troops in the early stage and the 20,000 Chinese mercenaries under Yan Wudao's original and newly recruited troops, Zhao Zhi had nearly 320,000 troops in his hands. According to the Thunder's weapon configuration and firepower intensity, these 320,000 troops can withstand at least more than 400,000 Japanese troops besieging the siege, but the premise is that the 400,000 Japanese troops must be assembled together in front of the Thunder's defensive line.

Incendiary bombs and rocket artillery vehicles have always been the killer weapon of Thunder, the last time he repelled the Japanese army in Burma, Zhao Zhi only pulled them out to try his hand, in the face of the upcoming large number of Japanese troops, Zhao Zhi decided to leave the Japanese army with a good training that he will never forget. With the sufficient guarantee of fuel supply, the arsenal will produce rockets and incendiary bombs at full capacity, and the current hoarding quantity is enough to thunder the Japanese army to carry out more than a dozen super-intensive attacks, which Zhao Zhi personally looks forward to.

The whole thunder has been set off like a war machine, and compared with the tense preparations for war in northern Myanmar, the southern part of Myanmar, where a large number of indigenous people from Myanmar live, is still a scene of peace and contentment. All the Burmese guerrillas were sent by Zhao Zhi to Shanxi to fight against the Japanese army, and in addition to the thunder, a large number of young and middle-aged people were recruited from among them to join the mercenary army, and the old and weak women and children who stayed behind were basically free of food and clothing with the large pile of food given by the thunder, as for whether the Japanese army would call, it seemed that it had nothing to do with them, Zhao Zhi spent so much food and materials to have this effect, otherwise his extermination plan was really not easy to complete, and the 5,000 British troops commanded by William were destined to become Zhao Zhi's outcasts. With their presence in Yangon, those Burmese aborigines will honestly live in southern Myanmar with deep conviction, once the Japanese army lands in Burma from the sea, the first thing they will do is to attack these Burmese aborigines, when Zhao Zhizai adds a little more to the fire, his extermination plan can be perfectly concluded, and those Burmese who died under the guns and bayonets of the Japanese army will not think that it is the thunder that pushed them to a dead end.

Things seem to be progressing step by step towards Zhao Zhi's expectations, Thunder has opened a large net in northern Myanmar and is waiting for the arrival of the Japanese army, as the intelligence is gathered little by little, the troops on the Donghu defense line are ready to deal with it, and now they are waiting for the Japanese army to crash headlong and send them to death.