In northern Burma, 60 kilometers west of Lao Cai, in the thick rain, a group of shirtless men were digging trenches and building fortifications, and the independent battalion of Tang Bao's family relied on this not too high mountainous and hilly area to arrange defenses.

Most of Myanmar is south of the Tropic of Capricorn, and there are four seasons in the country throughout the year, and there are only three seasons a year here, a hot season, a rainy season, and a cool season.

May is the tail end of the hot season, the trenches are dug under the jungle, there are big trees to shade the sun, the heat is still hot, but it is not so difficult to endure compared to being exposed to the sun.

The most unbearable thing is also the mosquitoes and ants in the jungle, although the three mosquitoes on a plate are exaggerated, they are not far behind.

Even the ants here are surprisingly beaten, the size of peanuts and rice ants are densely packed as soon as they appear, and their scalps are numb when they look at it, and they will bite people, which is really unbearable.

Of course, with the passage of time, if it enters June, it is estimated that it will be more difficult to enter the rainy season, after all, people who are soaked in the rain all day will not be able to stand it, and the attrition will definitely be more severe.

Tang Baojia wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the sun hanging high in the sky, and scolded secretly: "Ghost weather." ”

Cheer up the comrades in the trench and say: "Cheer up, keep an eye on it, don't touch the monkey on the other side." ”

The surrounding comrades-in-arms shouted in unison: "Yes." ”

Looking at the comrades-in-arms wearing brand-new army green uniforms around him, Tang Baojia shook his head, in fact, the morale is actually very high, first of all, in a sense, it is to protect his homeland, and secondly, Chairman Peng Jiasheng's promise before the war also has a large part to do with it.

When his own village was poor, when Tang Jianguo was in good health, there was a team system at the peak of the village, and when he was recruited by the Kokang Alliance Army this time, he was only given the number of a battalion.

said that it was a battalion, but in fact there were only three hundred or dozens of people, and they must have been dissatisfied with the formation, but thinking about the situation in their own village, they had mixed feelings in their hearts.

If it weren't for this battle, the uniforms and weapons supported by the Kokang Army would not have been available.

In addition to a few red flags, Tangjiazhai lacks everything, lacks weapons and ammunition, lacks military uniforms, and doctors and medicines are even more scarce.

In the past, Tang Jianguo was here, and he could still occupy a county seat, collect taxes, and several surrounding forces engaged in trade, plus collect protection fees from smugglers and traffickers passing by, barely maintaining the scale, and life was still passable.

Only from the beginning of the large-scale cultivation of opium, the surrounding area began to engage in a large-scale white powder trade, other forces have money, recruit troops every day, Tang Jianguo's life is not easy, the Tang army banned drug cultivation, and the power plummeted.

The territory controlled by Tang Jianguo was not enough to grow grain and rations, and the days were getting poorer and poorer, and the county seat under his command could not be defended, so he was driven to the mountains to set up a village.

If it weren't for the Tang family's army daring to fight, the tiger would still be there, and it would be possible for the village to be destroyed.

After the death of Tang Jianguo, although the village is still surnamed Tang, in fact, the control is not as good as before, the hearts of the people in the village are floating, everyone can see that the local natives are thinking about a way out, and the descendants of the educated youth have already gone back.

Most of the rest are unthinkable messes, so this time Peng Jiasheng promised that Tangjiazhai would be merged into the Kokang Alliance Army after the war, and most of the people in the village basically agreed, and everyone wanted to live a better life.

Maybe this is the only way out, Tang Baojia actually understands, but there is also a lot of unwillingness in his heart, as Tang Jianguo's adopted son, he knows very well in his heart that the village is the brainchild of his godfather Tang Jianguo, and he is not without the idea of making a name for himself through this foundation, and he also has the dream of turning the nickname of Huzi into a tiger master or tiger king.

Tang Bao's parents are both educated youth, as a few orphans in northern Myanmar, after the death of his parents, Tang Bao's family wandered everywhere until he met Tang Jianguo.

I have been wandering for too long, and I don't remember my name anymore, it was Tang Jianguo who adopted him and named him Tang Baojia, and Xu Weiguo, who was three years younger than him, also suffered the same thing, at that time he only knew his surname Xu, and Weiguo's name was taken by Tang Jianguo.

The six adopted sons adopted by Tang Jianguo that year were also six slogans, namely: poverty alleviation, getting rich, aiding Burma, construction, protecting the family, defending the country, known as the six tigers of the Tang family, and now only Tang Baojia Xu Weiguo is left, two died of disease, and two died in battle.

Among these people, Tang Bao's family is the largest, and he is actually only twenty-five years old in a few years, and he also had the idea of making contributions at the peak of the village.

After Tang Jianguo's illness, Tang Bao's family took over the military power, and they did not have the idea of breaking into a great name, and at that time, if they wanted weapons, they either wanted to do it at home, or they relied on smuggling and other forces, or they had to attack the supply team of the government army and rob it.

At the beginning, the attention of the government army was actually quite smooth, and it was a few successes, until the back was ambushed, and the battle was fought before it was a trap, if it weren't for the third construction with a team of people to fight to the death, it is estimated that no one in the village could not come back, and the Tang family army suffered heavy losses in that battle, and the heavy weapons accumulated before were almost lost.

Every time he closed his eyes, Li Jianjian's voice echoed in his mind: "Brother Huzi, give me the grenade, you take the rest of the brothers and leave quickly, let's go, help me take care of Yuanyuan, take care of my godfather, take her out of here at the first opportunity, don't come back." ”

Li Jianshe likes Tang Yuan, maybe no one except Tang Yuan doesn't know.

Li Jianshe shouted: "The first and second classes will go with me." ”

Most of these two classes are the descendants of educated youth, and they are the real backbone of the Tang Army, they are all good, and no one surrendered in the end.

Li Jianshe is the same, the two squads in charge of the break never came back, and Li Jianjian, who ran out of bullets, also did not come back, he tied the grenade all over his body, and when he was surrounded, he sounded the strings, and at that moment both the Burmese and the Chinese were reduced to pieces, and there was no difference.

Li Jianshe is a descendant of educated youth from JS, who is also an orphan, but he has no idea of ganging up the world, but what he shouts the most is that he has the opportunity to go back to JS's hometown and see where his father once lived.

Li Jianshe did not have such a chance until he died, and Tang Bao's family couldn't even pick up Li Jianjian's body, and what was buried next to the village was just a well-dressed mound.

Tang Baojia looked at some of Xu Weiguo's positions behind, kicked the arms box under his feet, and clenched the Type 81 rifle in his hand, after the split of the Communist Party of Burma in 89, most of the forces could not get assistance, and only Chairman Peng Jiasheng was the only one who could get arms from the country.

Although the Tang Bao family no longer has the idea of turning the tiger into the tiger king, he still has complicated thoughts about Chairman Peng, who is Kokang.

After breaking away from the armed forces of the Communist Party of Myanmar and establishing himself on his own, President Peng put forward the idea of "stopping the civil war, realizing national autonomy, and building a peaceful, democratic, free and equal Republic of the Union of Myanmar", and vigorously developed the local economy while striving for peaceful coexistence with the central government of Myanmar.

Because Peng Jiasheng played an extremely important role in the process of dismantling the Communist Party of Burma, the Burmese government attached great importance to him in a historical period, and also provided more or less attention.

Peng Jiasheng's rule in Kokang was very stable for a time, and he also did everything possible to purchase weapons from China through various illegal channels, secretly recruited soldiers in the country, recruited a considerable number of medical, accounting, and other professionals, and the overall strength rose rapidly.

If it weren't for the split in the army last year, and the surrender of Kunsha this year, whether the government army dared to do it or not is a question, and looking at the 81 rifles equipped in the army and the Russian-inspired AK47, we also know that the relationship is complicated.

Although one of the most important decisions of the Allies last year was the introduction of an anti-drug policy at home.

In fact, since the beginning of the 90s, the annual production of opium in the area under the jurisdiction of the Kokang Allied Army has reached 200 to 250 tons, and the army controls more than 10 heroin processing points, and these drugs are mainly sold in China. In 1995, that is, last year, Kokang put forward a five-year anti-narcotics plan, proposing to eradicate drug cultivation within five years, and formulating more than 30 projects to replace drug cultivation with agriculture, service industry, commerce, and mining.

Immediately after the announcement of this decision, the country of the same culture and species provided various kinds of support to Kokang, and a large number of Chinese companies moved in to assist in the development of the town and to help implement alternative cultivation.

Indeed, the Kokang government has created an extremely relaxed investment environment for foreign investors who come to invest and do business in the Special Economic Zone.

But after all, the profits of drugs are far greater than those of alternative industries, and the Tang Baojia in northern Myanmar knows best that the Kokang allies are not willing to completely ban drugs, and their long-term anti-drug plans are largely only for the outside world to see. Kokang local alternative industries, such as gambling, which emerged in recent years, were eventually combined with the local drug industry.

Just like the peasants in their own village said: "The damp, hot and rainy Kokang land is not suitable for growing crops", and the tobacco farmers who became farmers within the Allied Army are better than Tangjiazhai, and their lives are not as good as before. Throughout the anti-drug campaign, the drug processing plant at the Kokang Allied Forces headquarters was never closed, and drugs were never completely eradicated in Kokang.

Although it is said that we are of the same culture, the general attitude towards drugs in the Kokang Chinese society is completely different from that of the domestic society. Against the backdrop that a considerable number of local people do not understand that the fruit drugs are mainly sold in China, the local people generally believe that the production of narcotics is a matter related to the general interests of the nation, and that the cultivation of opium poppies and the processing of methamphetamine is "for the purpose of harming the West" and is regarded as "resisting the invaders", which does not cause any moral damage.

In fact, in Tang Baojia's view, none of the four major armed forces in northern Myanmar are really pro-China people, but warlords who take advantage of the contradictions between various forces to profit from them.

In the long run, I don't know if this war can be passed, and in the long run, Tang Baojia never dared to think about it, but many times my thoughts would involuntarily fly over the Salween River.

"I don't know how Tang Yuan, who crossed the river with her ashes, is doing, this is a kind and strong girl, and she always has to be able to spend the afternoon well. The only thing that made Tang Bao's family happy was that Tang Yuan went to Jiang's side, and it was considered to have fulfilled the wish of his father-in-law and the third child, and it was considered to be going back, and Tang Baojia comforted himself.

didn't know that Tang Yuan almost returned to this purgatory-like land, and he didn't know that a letter from Tang Yuan soon after had a earth-shaking change in the fate of the only remaining descendant of educated youth in the village.

At this time, there was a sharp and piercing whistling sound in the sky, Tang Baojia fell down violently, it was the sound of a cannonball tearing the air, realizing this, Tang Baojia fiercely shouted loudly: "There is a cannon, lie down, pay attention, the monkey on the opposite side has touched it." ”

With the sound of a loud explosion, dust flew on the ground, leaving a not so small crater more than a dozen meters in front of the position.

Infantry and artillery coordination, the standard tactics of the Burmese regular army, the artillery is not a heavy artillery, but it is much stronger than the team of Tang Baojia, who is just a few bazookas, and there are not many shells.

The cannon sounded, which means that the war has really started, and the shelling must be very threatening, but Tang Baojia is not particularly worried, once he has built a trench on his side, the relative loss will not be too big, the most important thing is that the guy on the opposite side is actually so poor that there are few shells, and the probability of a large area of artillery covering is very rare.

Sure enough, after a few rounds of shelling, the shadow of the Burmese soldier wearing an army-green uniform slowly began to appear in the field of vision.

A series of rifle loading sounds sounded beside Tang Baojia, Tang Baojia waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, let it in and fight." "Tang Bao has a small family, and if he doesn't hurt the other party once, it is estimated that he will soon be overwhelmed by the other party's sea of people.

Crates of grenades were taken out and placed within reach, spare magazines filled with clear yellow bullets were kept at hand, all veterans, and each man's rifle was loaded with a modified version of the two magazines tied together with duct tape, just to increase the speed of reloading.

The machine gunners were already in position in the bunkers, and the few snipers were starting to look for worthy targets.

The Tang family army came with all the old soldiers, and there was no such thing as the enemy shooting without being in range.

And the war really started.

At the same time, Chen Dakuan borrowed a car, and even Xia Donghai's driver Xiaowen also drove a car, and came to the hospital to pick up Chen Kun from the hospital.

Chen Kun walked out of the hospital, suddenly as if he was in a different world, at this time the sun was scorching, there were some dazzling eyes, Chen Kun was in a trance and remembered that it had already been summer.