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

That morning, Zhang Chi simply reorganized his troops on the open space of the airport. He temporarily organized more than 100 of his men into an independent guerrilla battalion.

Although more than 100 people are only enough for a company, considering that a large number of defeated soldiers will be recruited to strengthen the troops later, Zhang Chi still prepared for the future and set up the framework of a battalion.

Zhang Chi temporarily appointed himself as the battalion commander, and in addition to himself, the battalion headquarters was under the command of a Sherman Organ tank.

As a loyal follower of the dragon, Xiao Dongbei is still responsible for leading the reconnaissance squad. This squad uses a full set of American equipment exchanged by the system. It is the most elite infantry spearhead squad in Zhang Chi's team except for the tanks.

Second Lieutenant Hao Yi of the 66th Regiment, who was injured in his left forearm, formed the first company with the remaining remnants of the 66th Regiment.

Captain Qi Quan of the 64th Regiment, who was rescued, formed the second company with the rescued remnants of the 64th Regiment.

The LVTA-1 amphibious tank and its driver, Kang Huojian, a veteran from the former Jin Province and from the 17th Division's transport battalion, formed a transport platoon.

Zhang Chi managed to organize a team of more than 100 people into a camp.

Although these more than 100 people were not die-hard White Party members, and the only direct descendant from Whampoa was himself, Zhang Chi still emphasized that this organization was only temporary, and once they returned to China, everyone would return to their respective units.

Of course, Zhang Chi believed that after these soldiers ate his own food, wore his own clothes, used his own things, and won a few more battles with him, few of them would think about returning to their base.

As for whether or not to seize the opportunity now to break away from the National Army and raise the banner of an independent force?

After some thought, Zhang Chi decided to wait until he had more people before raising his own flag and claiming power. After all, using the White Party as a cover would make it much easier to recruit other defeated soldiers, negotiate with allies like John and the White Eagles, and contact overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia.

By the time he had a strong army and had become familiar with the wealthy White Eagle United States, all the advanced tanks, planes, and warships in the system were unlocked.

Then his subordinates would naturally tell him: "Sir, it's getting cold, you should put on more clothes."

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After the reorganization was completed, Zhang Chi took the two company commanders Qi Quan and Hao Yi and several soldiers and followed Sergeant Dawson to the airport warehouse, where the light weapons that Zhang Chi urgently needed after the reorganization were stored.

The silver lion coins in his system had to be kept for purchasing vehicles and scarce materials. John had plenty of common light weapons, so Zhang Chi felt there was no need to waste silver lion coins on them.

"Ahem, ahem, have you done regular inventory and sorting of the supplies in this warehouse? The dust is too heavy." Inside the warehouse, Zhang Chi had to wave his hand to sweep away the dust in front of his nose before he could breathe again.

"Well, there has never been any danger near the airport except for the occasional local rebels. This weapons warehouse has not been used for many years. After all, it is full of sealed supplies." Sergeant Dawson replied embarrassedly.

"Later, the Fuso army broke through too quickly, and our superiors were ready to abandon the area. Sir Spencer argued for his own survival and decided to stay and defend the airport, showing the Fuso the courage and perseverance of our noble John. Unexpectedly, he soon contracted malaria and collapsed. After Major Wentworth took command, he planned to simply pack up the entire airport and surrender it to the Fuso in exchange for their preferential treatment. This made opening this warehouse unnecessary."

Zhang Chi shook his head after hearing this. In his opinion, the choices made by these two British commanders were wrong.

The overall situation in Pegu has collapsed. The main army needs to go to Sindhu for reorganization before launching another regular attack. Small units should go to the northern mountainous areas to carry out guerrilla warfare. It is undoubtedly a foolish decision for Sir Spencer to simply hold on to such an isolated field airport.

As for Major Wentworth's choice to surrender without firing a shot, it was undoubtedly handing his life over to the devil, and then begging for mercy. And after the devil obtained the weapons and ammunition here, who knows how many more Chinese men would be sacrificed.

"Forget it, let me take these weapons directly. At least I can make a contribution to the fight against the Japanese."

Zhang Chi took the warehouse inventory statistics table handed to him by Sergeant Dawson, and ran his finger over the names and quantities of the weapons in stock, and said:

"Qi Quan, Hao Yi, take note. Take away all the weapons I mentioned later. 500 British Type 77 rifles, 8 Bren light machine guns, 4 Vickers water-cooled heavy machine guns, and 100,000 rounds of Type 77 ammunition."

"Only 2-inch mortars? No 3-inch ones? Damn it, then we'll just hold our noses and take four of these crappy 2-inch MKIIs. For ammunition, we'll just take 400 smoke grenades. Also, take 1000 gas masks, two mine sweepers, and two flamethrowers."

"Sir, shouldn't we take the John people's submachine guns?" asked Qi Quan, a knowledgeable officer student.

"A Sten submachine gun with no safety? If you want to be killed by accidental discharge, take it. I can get an M3 submachine gun. It uses the same .45 bullet as the Thompson submachine gun that Bald Eagle provided to the expeditionary force. You will like it."

Zhang Chi, who was a systematic person, really looked down on emergency supplies like Sten. He planned to equip every officer above the rank of squad leader with an M3 submachine gun or M1A1 carbine to strengthen the close combat firepower of the infantry squad in the jungle.

"Okay, take the people and move."

Zhang Chi took the British supplies lavishly without any guilt. Previously, John Pegu Army's 1st Division retreated from Yenangyaung ahead of schedule, exposing the expeditionary force's flank to the Japanese, causing the great victory of Yenangyaung to turn into a defeat and killing countless good Chinese men. He could just treat his supplies as interest.

He even planned to wait until all John's people had evacuated or surrendered to the Japanese army before entering the warehouse alone and taking all the weapons away with him.

The British had stockpiled at least enough light weapons here to arm a regiment of 3000 men, enough for him to use for the next period of time.

Zhang Chi looked at the warehouse overflowing with weapons and couldn't understand why these colonial troops in Pegu, despite having no shortage of weapons or supplies, always collapsed at the first sign of trouble.

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Zhang Chi distributed all the John weapons he had obtained for free. The soldiers of the two infantry companies were all equipped with Lee-Enfield rifles. Squad leaders, deputy squad leaders and officers above them were equipped with M3 submachine guns, and each 12-man infantry squad was equipped with a Bren light machine gun.

Every three squads form a platoon, every three platoons form a company (there are not enough people, currently each company has only one platoon of 37 infantrymen), and each company is equipped with two additional heavy machine guns to form a machine gun platoon (there are not enough people, so one machine gun is missing).

Now they have infantry units, support fire units have Sherman organs, logistics transport units have LVTA-1 amphibious tanks, and reconnaissance units have reconnaissance squads with all semi-automatic and automatic firepower. The ideal combined battalion in Zhang Chi's mind is only missing air defense units and medical units.

"The M13 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun requires 2900 research points and 700 Silver Lions to purchase. It seems our air defense will depend on it in the short term."

Zhang Chi looked at the research and development progress bar [1960/2900] in the War Thunder system interface and could only pray that the Japanese would not launch an air attack next.

If you have a premium account and are driving the gold vehicle T34 Sherman Organ (the US military's designation for this vehicle is T34 multiple rocket launcher, not the Russian T-34 tank), Zhang Chi will get 40 research and development points for killing a Japanese soldier, and 600 research and development points for destroying a most basic "bean tank".

Zhang Chi expected that after another battle, he would be able to develop the M13 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, an anti-aircraft vehicle modified from the M3 half-track vehicle.

"Xiao Dongbei, go ask if there are any veterans who have operated heavy machine guns before? Preferably one with anti-aircraft shooting experience. Mount those water-cooled Vickers on anti-aircraft tripods. If the Japanese planes come in a short time, we'll rely entirely on the heavy machine guns to protect us."

(Note 1: At this time, the soldiers of the newly formed 22nd Division were either veterans who had been disbanded and re-incorporated with deep hatred for the Japanese, or captured young men. There were not many die-hard White Party members. After the 9000 people went through the Wild Man Mountain, only 2000 survived. When Sindhu was rebuilt, a large number of educated young people were airlifted there. Most of them were die-hard White Party members.)

(Note 2: The Johns retreated directly after leaving Yenangyaung without destroying their weapons and supplies because destroying their supplies would have allowed the Japanese to pursue them relentlessly, preventing their escape. However, the Japanese, having obtained the heavy artillery, tanks, and supplies left behind by the Johns, held Yenangyaung and cut off the expeditionary force's retreat.)