We know that since Japan launched the Pearl Harbor sneak attack, its army has been pointing at Southeast Asia, leaving Southeast Asian countries in the ravages of endless war. Not long after, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and other countries fell one after another, and several countries in the Indochina Peninsula did not flee the doom of being invaded.
However, throughout world war II, although Japan went to war with China, the Soviet Union, and Southeast Asian countries, it did not invade a small country. This small country, which later became an accomplice of Japan, attacked China with Japan, but after Japan's defeat in the war, it harvested Japan's 12 billion yen in reparations as an Allied country. What's going on here?
The story takes place in Asia after 1941. On that day, the weather was overcast, and the fog of war hung over the entire eastern part of Asia. But while "dark clouds" cover almost the whole of Southeast Asia, there is one country where "the weather is sunny"... Well, don't pull that anymore. Here, the second dog grandfather first told everyone that this magical country is Thailand, a well-known neighbor of China who believes that his ancestors are Chinese.
So, the question arises: Thailand does not seem to be able to fight with China's eight rods, at most it has been a vassal state of China for hundreds of years, where does it come from to claim that its ancestors are Chinese?
It turned out that in the long river of China's history of more than 5,000 years, before the Mongols annexed the entire land of China, the Yunnan region of our country had actually been a small local separatist regime. From the ancient Dian kingdom of the Han Dynasty to the Dali kingdom, which was later known as the Dali kingdom because of Jin Yong's novels, the Yunnan region has been living in its own small world, unaffected by external interference for nearly a thousand years.
However, in the past thousand years, Yunnan has not always been unified and stable, and it has also been divided and warlike. One of the more striking is the internal division after the fall of the Tang Dynasty. Before that, there was a name in the Yunnan region that sounded like a feeling, called Nanzhao. But since the division of the Nanzhao state, the Central Plains forces have begun to intervene in Yunnan. During those decades of division, some Of the Nanzhao forces fled abroad to avoid war, but they did not know where they went.
This period of history gives Thais a reason to "recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors". They believe that the Nanzhao people who fled abroad for refuge were actually the earliest ancestors of Thailand.
But if this is the case, during World War II, Thailand should theoretically help China fight against Japan, so why did it help Japan invade China later?
Originally, because Thailand was located in the middle of Burma and Vietnam, and Burma and Vietnam were colonies of Britain and France at that time, it had always wanted to find a way out to preserve its territory and sovereignty in the face of the two sides of the attack between Britain and the United States. After Japan invaded Southeast Asia in the south, Japan of course also attacked Burma and Vietnam. Therefore, in order to avoid aggression like Burma and Vietnam, and for its own sovereignty, Thailand adopted the method of cooperating with Japan to survive.
Naturally, this way of bending the knee to the fascist forces is very disgraceful, but Thailand is still beginning to gain inches. As mentioned earlier, in the eyes of the Thais, they are the descendants of the Nanzhao people, so they naturally hope that one day they can fight in Yunnan and recover their homeland to comfort the ancestors of the dead. Therefore, when they became the younger brothers of Japan, they have been encouraging Japan to attack Yunnan. Later, when the Japanese really got the idea of Yunnan and the Burma Highway, they actually sent troops to assist Japan!
Therefore, after the outbreak of the Burma Campaign, Thailand can almost be said to have poured all its strength into sending 200,000 troops to attack Yunnan. At the same time, he also frequently contacted Japan, thinking about how to divide China's Yunnan region with Japan.
However, we know that the Battle of Burma began in 1943, when Japan had begun to show defeat in the Pacific Theater, and it is estimated that defeat was inevitable. Therefore, Thailand saw that the "big tree" japan was hopeless, and began to think about how to get rid of itself.
Later, Thailand really thought of a way to make people "excite": they used their brains to contribute to the Japanese attack on Yunnan burma during the day, but at night they turned into spies for the Allies, providing the Allies with first-hand information on the movements of the Japanese army. At that time, the Japanese army was still in the dark, wondering why the plan was well kept secret, and often the army was bombarded by all kinds of precision by the Allies as soon as the army arrived on the 2nd day. As a result, they put a lot of effort into finding answers, but they couldn't imagine that the real problem was actually with their only ally.
In the end, the Japanese army could not do it on the Burmese side. When two american atomic bombs exploded on the mainland and a million Soviet troops entered northeast China in a big way, Japan finally ushered in the day of its surrender.
Shortly before Japan surrendered, there was a political turmoil in Thailand. When the new cabinet came to power, the first thing he said was, "We are also an anti-fascist ally who are determined to fight against the dark forces." And the allies at that time did not think so much, and they let Thailand add an alliance. Thus, after Japan, the name of Thailand was printed on the Japanese reparations list, and japan received a compensation of 12 billion yen.