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

Bai Minghui, the commander of the Third Battalion of the Independent Regiment, complained, "It's not easy to be a gold-digger, Commander. Let's just dig for gold."

He shook off his sweat-soaked military cap and leaned back tiredly on the chair in the office.

Ever since he led his men to intercept the Japanese expedition team and got a golden Buddha, Bai Minghui discovered a new way to make a fortune during wartime - going to tombs.

Anyway, the mountains of Kejianbang are full of temples and tombs of the ancient kingdom, and Bai Minghui, a Qian man, has no guilt about digging up the temples of foreigners, so he led the third battalion to do the work of tomb raiders in his spare time.

Unfortunately, this rich young man had never read any Feng Shui books about finding dragons and locating acupoints, and he had no knowledge of geology. So apart from digging out a few bat caves, Bai Minghui's trip to the tomb was unsuccessful.

Zhang Chi just smiled when he heard this, with a hint of ridicule in his eyes: "Captain Bai, you are also destined to be a rich young man, but you choose to go down this path."

He patted Bai Minghui on the shoulder, his tone a bit helpless and persuasive: "Alright, that job is originally for professionals to do, you should focus on military affairs."

Bai Minghui also knew that he had been a little over the top recently. Although the robbing of gold did make him itchy, the reality was that his efforts were in vain time and time again.

He smiled wryly and nodded, "True. When it comes to divination, feng shui, and finding dragon points, luck alone isn't enough. If I had known, I wouldn't have killed that little Japanese guy with glasses last time. I would have kept him to find a grave for me."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chi thought, "It's a shame the Zhang family I come from is the Cantonese Zhang family and the Nanyang Zhang family, not the tomb-robbing Zhang family. How about I help Lao Bai find the Wu family, the local thieves from Hunan Province? I wonder if this parallel world even exists?"

Shaking his head, throwing out the messy thoughts unique to time travelers, Zhang Chi put on his military cap and pulled Bai Minghui to the training ground.

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Zhang Chi pointed to a corner of the training ground where wooden boxes were piled up like a small mountain, with a hint of satisfaction in his eyes.

"Old White, look, these are the 100 tons of supplies that Stevenson promised to airdrop every month. The first batch has arrived." As he spoke, he casually opened one of the boxes, revealing neatly arranged weapons.

"The first and second battalions have completed their re-equipment. Now all that's missing is your third battalion."

Bai Minghui curiously stepped forward to take a look at the so-called new weapon. Zhang Chi, like welcoming an old friend, opened his arms and jokingly said, "Welcome to Winchester's Grocery Store. Come and see what we have."

Bai Minghui was certainly familiar with the name Winchester; it sounded like an old brand reserved for cowboys roaming the West. It reminded him of a series of Winchester lever-fire rifles.

However, Zhang Chi, the time traveler, knew that the old Winchester factory had declined during World War II.

They completely lost the favor of the White Eagle military. Both the Springfield M1903 and the Garand M1, these two consecutive generations of army standard rifles had nothing to do with the old Winchester factory.

However, Zhang Chi still sent a telegram to Stevenson, asking him to provide three types of firearms produced by Winchester.

Since the three types of firearms he requested were not the standard firearms urgently needed by the expanding White Eagle Army, Stevenson could easily transfer these weapons from the country.

Zhang Chi first took out a rifle with a slender barrel and a scope from the box and introduced it:

"This is a hunting rifle sold by White Eagle on the civilian market. It features a rotating bolt action and a hand-carved walnut frame. The manufacturing process is even more refined than military-grade rifles."

After saying that, he threw the Winchester M70 hunting rifle (pictured) with a 4x scope in his hand to Bai Minghui.

(The White Eagle Army's standard sniper rifle is a Springfield with a scope, but with the Army's expansion, it is impossible to get one in the Asian battlefield, so Zhang Chi instead requested a civilian product.)

"7.62 caliber, accurate but expensive. With the matching 4x scope, North American hunters can use it to accurately shoot stags at 800 meters. There are 12 in total, all for your battalion. Give them to your battalion's best marksmen to use in wartime, targeting Japanese machine gunners and high-ranking officers."

Zhang Chi had only a vague understanding of special sniper tactics, so he was unable to systematically guide the sniper training. He could only hand over this batch of sniper rifles and the booklet he wrote to the battalion commanders, allowing them to explore the application of sniper tactics in actual combat.

Bai Minghui picked up the rifle in his hand, looked at it lovingly, then put his glasses on the sight and took aim at the target in the distance on the training ground.

Then, Zhang Chi took out a shotgun that had been cleared of oil and was ready to fire at any time.

"Winchester Model 1897 pump-action shotgun (pictured), chambered for 12-gauge shells, a vintage from the last war, nicknamed the Trench Cleaner. I think we'll need it in close combat with the Japanese in the rainforest and in towns. There are 60 of them here, just enough for one per squad."

As he spoke, Zhang Chi skillfully stuffed 12-gauge shotgun shells into the magazine one after another. After loading the gun, he aimed at a row of scarecrow targets nearby and pulled the trigger, shooting several scarecrows into pieces.

"Next time the Japs try to engage our soldiers in a bayonet fight, we'll just treat them to a few dozen steel balls."

He also casually tossed the shotgun to Bai Minghui, and then Zhang Chi took out the last gun:

“M1卡宾枪（图），使用7.62x33毫米短弹（M1加兰德用的.30-06弹尺寸为7.62x63mm），15发弹匣供弹，可以半自动射击。之前只有警卫排侦察排和各营的军官才能装备，现在这里一共400把，你们三营有不喜欢用英七七的士兵可以换这个了。”

For close-quarters combat in the rainforest, the M1 carbine, with its larger magazine capacity and semi-automatic firing capabilities, is far superior to the Lee-Enfield rifle, which requires a bolt action.

On the contrary, the only shortcoming of the M1 Carbine - "short range" is not considered a disadvantage in close combat in the rainforest where the distance between the enemy and our side is generally several tens of meters, not more than 200 meters.

Bai Minghui held these new weapons with excitement in his eyes.

Zhang Chi patted his shoulder and said, "Alright, let's change our uniforms quickly, but there are still tens of thousands of devils in Pegu waiting for us to eliminate."

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On August 8, the independent regiment, which had been fully equipped and rested and trained for more than a month, set out in full force.

After leaving nearly a thousand recruits and a company of veterans to guard the house, the army of nearly 3200 people marched in secret along the muddy dirt road and the Mailikai River land and water routes towards the Maukalefeng Coal Mine 40 kilometers north of Myitkyina.

In order to avoid the Japanese aerial reconnaissance, the army hid during the day and moved at night.

All civilians encountered on the road, whether they were Qian people or natives, were controlled under Zhang Chi's orders to prevent them from leaking the news.

Zhang Chi's old partner, the Sherman Organ Tank and six Matilda II infantry tanks, formed a tank company and drove in the middle of the team. He, the regimental commander, controlled the march of the entire army by radio in the car.

Zhang Chi has three purposes for this attack.

One is to eliminate more Japanese troops in the coal mine, and by the way, surround and attack the reinforcements to increase the research and development value of the [M4A3 (105) medium tank].

Secondly, according to intelligence, a group of Allied prisoners of war and a large number of overseas Chinese refugees were captured and forced to work in coal mines. Zhang Chi wanted to rescue them and fill the population of his base.

Third, there are a large number of industrial equipment in this coal mine left by the John people. Zhang Chi plans to use the system space to pack up and transport all of this equipment to mine gems, gold, coal, iron and other minerals in his base.