After a few brief conversations, Thonglai's conversation with Senior General Maung Aye ended.

From the beginning to the end, Senior General Maung Ae did not give any clear attitude on anything, let alone any specific guidance to Thonglai.

In fact, General Maung Ae is not only to his brother-in-law, but to anyone.

Normally, General Maung Ae doesn't talk much, so people can't figure out what he's thinking.

In the eyes of many people, this is the so-called "art of leadership".

If you don't explain a thing clearly, and then let your subordinates do it, if you succeed, you will be able to lead it, and if you fail, it will be the problem of your subordinates.

The more incapable the leader, the more he has to pretend to be mysterious and secretive, giving people an unfathomable and profound feeling.

All the leaders of authoritarian and totalitarian governments have something in common with Senior General Maung Aye in this regard.

The corruption and incompetence of the MD government were beyond many people's imagination, and for a moment Lai felt the smell of the shroud.

According to Hayek, one example of the widespread phenomenon of "bad money driving out good money" in the economic sphere is that in authoritarian and totalitarian governments, it is often the worst who are in power.

Many people may wonder why incompetent people become leaders.

The reason is very simple, although they are inferior animals in terms of intelligence, they have a skill that most people do not have, that is, they are good at wielding power and fighting politics.

In a way, it is not the responsibility of Senior General Maung Ae and his colleagues, and even if more talented and ambitious people are put in their positions, they will become like them over time.

The fundamental problem lies in the system, a system that is in dire need of change.

Now that the conditions have accumulated to a certain extent, the opportunity for change has come, and what is lacking is only the people who can lead the change.

At the same time that Thonglai set off to return to the Kokang area and prepare to mobilize troops, Pang Jindong ordered the Kokang Republican Army to launch an all-out attack on the 77th Division.

Although the 77th Division was ready for battle and had a large number of fortifications, it was vulnerable to the Kokang Republican Army and soon retreated.

By the time Thonglei returned with reinforcements, the 77th Division had already collapsed and withdrawn from the Kokang area.

After the reorganization, the new Kokang Republican Army not only absorbed the original three forces, but also vigorously recruited troops from various ethnic groups.

At present, the Kokang Republican Army has three brigades and six regiments, with a total strength of nearly 6,000 troops.

However, despite this, the Kokang Republican Army was only roughly equal in strength to the 77th Division.

The fundamental reason for the victory was that the morale was high, and the second was that Pang Jindong learned tactical ideas and training methods from the West, all of which were applied to the new Kokang Republican Army.

In contrast, the MD government army was almost stuck in World War II, old and backward to an unimaginable extent.

Pang Jindong's brand-new combat thinking was something they had never heard of or seen, and the defeat was foreseen early.

"What's going on with the Third Brigade?" Pang Jindong looked at the combat map in front of him, and asked the staff officers dissatisfiedly: "Why haven't you taken Dinglun Town until now?"

The staff officers made constant phone calls from all sides, and gathered all the information to form the current battlefield situation.

Although this will delay the timing of the battle on a certain stage, it is already the best course that can be done under such conditions, and this method was established by Pang Jindong.

The conditions in Changqing Mountain were too simple, and Pang Jindong did not have an LCD monitor to pay attention to the battlefield dynamics in real time, so he could only lie on the operational map to analyze and study, and then constantly convey orders to the staff officers.

The map outlines the Kokang Special Zone with red lines, and all important areas and settlements are red-flagped, with the exception of the town of Dinh Llun in the southwest.

Strictly speaking, Dinglun is not even a town, but it is not a large settlement.

The 77th Division did not deploy too strong forces here, and as long as it was captured, the MD government forces in the entire Kokang SAR would be basically wiped out.

The initiative to the southwest was the 2nd Brigade, and a considerable part of the officers and men of this brigade were received from the former 206th Regiment, and the brigade commander was none other than Dechen Badan.

In the past few days, they have been fighting very bravely, but in the town of Dinglun, they have become shrunken turtles.

No one knows why, and Dechen Bataan himself is vague, saying only that he has met with stubborn resistance.

Under Pang Jindong's repeated questioning, Deqin Bataan finally asked to return to Changqing Mountain and report the situation to Pang Jindong in person.

Pang Jindong was helpless, so he could only wait patiently for Deqin Badan, and occasionally complained.

Deqin Bataan soon arrived, and he broke into the war room, glanced at the people around him, and then looked at Pang Jindong with deep meaning.

Pang Jindong understood what Deqin Ba Dan meant, and immediately ordered the others: "You guys go out first!"

After everyone went out, Deqin Bataan unceremoniously sat opposite Pang Jindong and said helplessly: "It's not that I don't want to fight.......

An ominous premonition flashed in Pang Jindong's heart, and his brows immediately twisted together: "What's wrong?"

"Since yesterday, there have been rumors from unknown places that the MD government forces have surrounded the Kokang area and are about to launch a general offensive. And ......" Dechen Bataan took a deep breath and said a little hesitantly: "The rumors are still ...... The MD government forces have already taken control of the rolling...... It turned out that the families of the brothers of the 206th Regiment were all arrested and used to blackmail them...... to blackmail them into surrender......"

"What?" Deqin Badan's words came out, and Pang Jindong was stunned for a moment.

Deqin Ba Dan looked at Pang Jindong and said cautiously: "I'm trying to find a way to quell these rumors!"

"I'm afraid it's not a rumor!" Pang Jindong let out a long sigh and shook his head helplessly.

Deqin Badan's words proved that the worst fears had finally happened, and Pang Jindong didn't know how to deal with it.

Threatening the army to surrender at the risk of the lives of ordinary people was a common thing in warfare, but many people disdained or were unwilling to use it.

Although current international law provides for the protection of civilians in war, there is no coercive force to guarantee its implementation, and when people are unwilling to abide by it, it is equivalent to a piece of waste paper.

It is not surprising that some responsible major powers would do similar things, either overtly or covertly, and that a military junta like MD would do so.

Dechen Bataan shook his head and said worriedly, "If it's not a rumor, it's bad......"

Pang Jindong stood up, paced back and forth in the office, and after a long time, told Sù Deqin Badan: "After all, your brigade still has a group of soldiers who can be used, let's take down Dinglun Town first!"

"Okay!" Dechin Badan nodded and asked again, "These...... What should I do with rumors?"

"For a while, I can't think of a countermeasure......" Pang Jindong was about to continue, when the phone suddenly rang.

Pang Jindong picked it up and listened only for a moment, his face suddenly changed, and he sat on the chair weakly.

Dechen Badan wanted to know what the call was about, but he was too interested to ask what others didn't want to say.

He coughed softly and said uncomfortably: "I'll go out first, and call me if there's something!"

"No need. Pang Jindong put down the phone and said with a wry smile on his face: "What should happen will always happen, and you will know sooner or later." ”

Even if Pang Jindong didn't say anything anymore, Deqin Ba Dan guessed a little: "Could it be that the battle situation has changed?"

Pang Jindong nodded weakly: "That's right!"

The rumors came true.

At the same time that Pang Jindong was talking to Dechen Badan, the surrounding area of Kokang, especially Rollong, was already full of MD soldiers, who were none other than the 8th and 32nd Divisions that Thonglai had just taken over the command.

The original 77th Division in Tonglai had eight regiments and a strength of more than 9,000 people at full strength.

Before the full-scale war began, two regiments had been lost along with the annihilation and mutiny, and now they had been completely crippled by the Kokang Republican Army.

Seeing this unit, which had poured his heart and soul into it for many years, became like this, Thonglai's anger was difficult for others to understand.

This anger prompted him to take revenge on the Kokang Republican Army by any means.

Since Tonglai now has two more divisions on hand, revenge can go smoothly.

Just behind Thonglai's troops, General Maung Aye also prepared four divisions as strategic reserves, ready for battle.

In this way, Thonglai, who became emboldened, was determined to achieve the ultimate goal in one fell swoop - the total annihilation of the Kokang Republican Army and the complete annexation of the autonomous Kokang Special Zone.

It was also at this time that Thonglai's ferocious and violent nature flinched, and after the troops surrounded the Kokang Special Zone, they did not directly attack the Kokang Republican Army, but carried out frenzied persecution of the local ethnic minorities, the first to bear the brunt of the Kokang and Shan people.

Although the local villages and towns are backward, the peaceful people and beautiful environment are like a paradise.

However, under the clutches of Thonglai, it instantly became a hell on earth.

In just one place, all the houses of ethnic minorities were burned, property was openly plundered, women were gang-raped, and men and children were slaughtered.

Thick smoke rose from the sky over the town, which was not extinguished all day long, and when it converged, it turned into an even larger cloud of smoke and spread around, like a monstrous monster, devouring a qiē little by little.

In the midst of these atrocities, the MD soldiers gave full play to the chaotic military discipline and inferior qualities, and left behind all the moral principles and laws of war recognized by all human societies, and staged atrocities that shocked the whole world.

Soon, the MD situation, which had gradually faded out of people's field of vision, began to attract attention again.

The two camps of the international community, the East and the West, have found common ground in this matter, and without exception have harshly criticized the MD government.

A force that is not conducive to the MD junta is beginning to gradually converge.

Ironically, the MD government itself did not realize this, but instead felt that this was the moment to truly unify the country.

It is precisely because of this mentality that the MD junta has turned a deaf ear to the increasingly strong criticism of the international community and has issued a very tough statement, saying that the recent series of events are internal affairs and that other countries have no right to interfere.

At the instigation and instigation of the higher-ups, Thonglai's men divided into squads and disguised themselves as civilians to carry out more widespread plundering and massacres.

Civilians can only watch as their homes and long-earned belongings are burned to the ground or looted by MD soldiers.

However, compared to life, people can no longer take care of these things outside the body.

Men wrapped up the softness they could take away, protecting women and children, trying to avoid soldiers and Burmese speakers along the way, looking for a way to escape.

Without exception, women wiped their faces with black ash and wore tattered clothes, lest they show a little bit of their appearance and be noticed.

People are trying their best to get to safety, and the question is where is it safe for MD, who has begun to fall into madness.