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The base area of the Northeast Military Region is mainly the Guogen area, which is close to the national border on the right, the turbulent Salween River on the left, and the Nanding River originating from Cangyuan City in the south to the south.

The entire base area is sandwiched between the national border and the Salween River, in an S-shape.

In this S-shaped area, the point at the bottom left is particularly important. Because of the protection of the Salween River on the left and the Nanding River at the bottom, the enemy must cross these two obstacles before attacking, and the transportation of troops and the supply of materials and logistics will be blocked by the moat, making it difficult to support.

The defenders, on the other hand, can rely on the hill defense and repel the enemy's attack with relative ease.

But in fact, this S-shaped lower left corner, with Rolling City as the center, an area of more than 10 kilometers, was occupied by the government army, and became a bridgehead for the other side to advance the Northeast Military Region.

In the early 70s, in order to pull out this nail and ensure the safety of Guogen, the People's Army launched the Rolling Campaign under the command of the domestic military advisory group just after capturing Guogen.

However, at that time, the domestic military advisory group had too much appetite, and it did not understand the combat effectiveness of the People's Army, second, it did not understand the enemy's determination to hold on to Rollang, and third, it did not have sufficient support, so it concentrated all its forces and blindly formulated a campaign plan for advancing simultaneously on the eastern and western fronts, capturing the important western town of Lashio and capturing Rolling on the eastern front.

The plan was the same as the main strategy of the early days of the revolution in the country, when the armed forces were not yet complete, and the main strategy of trying to capture the major cities. Most of the more than 10,000 people's troops who participated in the battle came from China, and educated youths who had just picked up their guns and had not even completed their basic training were ordered by their superiors to plunge into this bloody battle.

The results speak for themselves.

The troops on the Western Front, who were preparing to cross the mountains, got lost in the mountains, were trapped in the primeval forests and trudged without a fight. A large number of intellectuals were separated, and more than half of them never returned, and it is not known whether they died in the jungle or were captured.

However, the battle of the Eastern Front to attack Rolling Lane was still impressive, and it successively seized several commanding heights of the lower left corner of the main hill in the shape of Daming Mountain and Mangka Mountain, and approached the flank of Rolling Lane from the northwest. The enemy was caught off guard, several important commanding heights were lost, and in the early stages of the battle, there was even a plan to blow up the Rolling Bridge and escape.

However, at that time, the 77th Division, which was stationed in Rolling Lane, was directly under the military government, and under the compulsory orders from the highest levels, they had to fight desperately with the People's Army and not retreat.

In order to keep the roll, the Burmese government sent additional reinforcements and supplies on the one hand, and sent fighter jets and bombers to support on the other.

When the enemy showed a firm determination to fight and reinforcements poured in, the KPA revealed the shortcomings of insufficient troops, poor combat effectiveness of hastily organized troops, and almost no air defense capability.

After 42 days of fierce fighting between the two sides, the total number of additional troops sent by the Weiding side had reached 10,000, and in addition to the lack of air defense capability, the KPA suffered too much sacrifice and had no choice but to retreat and abandon the battle plan of seizing the rolling lane.

This small battle, which lasted for more than 40 days and did not exceed 20,000 troops on both sides, was hyped up by both sides. On the one hand, it was said that it was a great victory and eliminated the main force of the People's Army; On the other hand, it is said that the team has been tempered through long-term intensive operations.

In short, they all consider themselves winners.

But judging by the facts, the real winners are the government forces, who have kept this vital bridgehead. The reason why the defense line was shrunk instead of expanding the results after the war was actually because of the fear of China, which was behind it. With this nail firmly nailed to the soft underbelly of Guogen, as long as the situation changes, they can wave their troops north at any time, capture the Qingshui River Basin, and directly attack Guogen County.

It was also after this battle that the domestic side recognized the fact that the People's Army was not in a climate, and believed that the People's Party did not have the strength to liberate the whole country. In addition, the military junta took the initiative to make a foreign visit to show goodwill, and the country gradually reduced its support for the BJP, and eventually withdrew from the military advisory group, completely abandoning it.

A few years can make people forget a lot of things.

For example, the bloody battles that once took place on the top of the 10-kilometer mountain around them, and the white bones that can be seen among the grass and trees.

The withdrawal of aid at home has come as a sigh of relief to the besieging BJP government forces. The only military sub-district still on the west bank of the Salween River declared that it would focus on economic construction, and it had actually built a large number of fortresses, put on the posture of a turtle not showing its head, and carried out the construction of new cities with great fanfare, and was committed to a better life for all the masses, as if they were not interested in armed revolution.

However, the People's Party Headquarters and the Northeast Military Region were abolished in China, especially after the fiasco of Mutengura, it seems that the spirit has collapsed all of a sudden, and the situation is getting worse day by day. Not to mention regrouping, not even a quarter of its heyday.

Although it is very disturbing to send people to attack the checkpoints every day, I don't know what China's attitude is. But this is only a scabies, which cannot be cured temporarily but is not fatal.

Those who are strong have no intention of carrying out revolution, and those who cause trouble every day have no strength.

As a result, although the security side still maintained a high degree of vigilance, the front-line troops inevitably gradually became tired in the long-term peaceful environment. In the south, it is necessary to be on guard against the KPA coming to visit the sentry at any time, and the north side is completely in a state of no war on the northern front.

"Chu", a soldier of the 5th Battalion of the 77th Division, was bored with an M16A1 automatic rifle, leaning on the top of the bamboo tower at the checkpoint, staring blankly at the mountains in the distance.

The orthodox people do not have a surname, they only have a name, and the number of words in the name is more than one, and there are several of them.

Then the specific name of this person depends on the person who is called and his age and status, for example, this person has a higher status than himself, then add a "Wu" in front of the name. If the other party is younger than you and is a man, then add a "look", which means little brother.

Therefore, when other commanders and veterans call him Chu, they all call him Maung Chu, and only those recruits will respectfully call him Wu Chu.

Chu has been a soldier here for three years, and when he first came, he was still a little excited and a little scared. The excitement is due to the fact that the 77th Division, after the baptism of the Rolling Campaign, has become the most effective unit in the whole country, and a large number of generals are from this division, and serving in this division has a much greater chance of getting ahead.

If you are afraid that the People's Army will come and be killed by a shell, it will be miserable.

However, after actually serving as a soldier here for a few years, he has long since washed away his fear of the People's Army. Give them three the courage to not dare to fight, this is the consensus of all officers and soldiers of the 77th Division.

It's good not to have to fight, but you also lose the opportunity to win military merits, so you can only improve your qualifications step by step.

Chu has been a soldier for three years, but he has only mixed up with the top soldier, it is difficult to say whether he can be a squad leader in this life, and it is estimated that there is no hope if he wants to be promoted to a lieutenant.

After staying on the roof of the bamboo building for a long time, he felt cold hands and feet, and the cold wind was also pouring into his neck in bursts.

It's not cold in winter, but it depends on what altitude it is.

The outpost is built on the top of Daming Mountain, where the altitude is more than 1,600 meters, the bamboo building is erected high, the surrounding is unobstructed, and it is blown back and forth by the wind, even if it is wearing cotton clothes, it will be cold and shivering.

Chu was wearing a military uniform, still a single coat, and after standing on it for a long time, he felt that his whole body was frozen into a popsicle. Don't blame the superiors for not giving them cotton clothes, they are really ashamed of being sanctioned by the West, they are so poor that they belong to one of the poorest countries in the world. If it weren't for the important strategic location, the United States would still give some assistance from time to time, and he wouldn't even be able to afford the M16 in his hand, where would he have the money to give a group of cannon fodder what cotton clothes.

"Maung Gang, bring me a cigarette!" He shuddered his hands and asked his companion for a cigarette, trying to use the little heat of the cigarette to dispel the bone-chilling air.

Maung Gang was silent, took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket, carefully shook one out, handed it to him reluctantly, and then carefully put the cigarette back in his pocket. The soldiers are all poor ghosts, and the monthly income is converted into RMB, less than ten yuan a month, what can this money do, and they can't even afford to smoke cigarettes with filters. Just this one bag is also a week's worth of food for him, and it hurts his heart to let one out.

But he is "good-looking" and strong, and he is "Wu" Chu, and he didn't dare not give it to the other party when he reached out to ask for cigarettes.

"It's damn weather! The chiefs were cooking a fire and drinking hot soup in the room, but they sent us out to stand guard. In fact, there is no need to stand on any post at all, and the People's Army will definitely not come to touch the sentry in this ghost weather. On such a cold day, they wear less clothes than us, and the cold can freeze them to death! ”

Chu complained.

After serving as a soldier for a long time, he either became the king of soldiers, or he became a soldier oil. However, Bing Youzi is always several times that of the King of Soldiers, and he has a tendency to develop in the direction of Bing Youzi. As long as there is no chief, he will say a few whining words to vent his dissatisfaction. Especially in front of the recruits, I feel a sense of accomplishment when I say something a little out of the ordinary and see the admiring eyes of the other party, and it seems that I have become a big man who is high up and directs the country.

This time, he also accepted Maung Gang's admiring eyes, and he triumphantly struck a match and lit a cigarette.

The smoke poured into my lungs with heat, and I suddenly felt as if I was getting a lot hotter. He paused vigorously and hid behind the bamboo pole that supported the roof, trying to use the small bamboo pole to block the cold wind raging on the mountain.

Maung Gang didn't dare to be lazy like him, although the cold wind was cold, he still walked around the bamboo building in a daze, looking around responsibly.

Suddenly, he stopped, tilting his neck as if listening to something.

"What's wrong?" Chu was taken aback by his movements, afraid that it was really the People's Army that had come over, so he first squatted on the spot and sat on the ground of the bamboo building. Then he lifted his gun, slowly touched the edge of the bamboo building, carefully poked his head out, and looked in the direction he was listening.

In the distance, the trees are bleak, the grass is yellow, and they sway to and fro with the mountain wind. Snow fell on some of the mountains, mixed with black soil, brownish-yellow grass, and gray rocks.

The cold wind howled, and the fog and north wind rolled up, staining the sky gray.

Nothing!

Chu stared at it with wide eyes for a while, but found nothing. In the mountains, except for the howling wind, not even rabbits and birds can be seen.

"What are you doing? I was so shocked that I thought it was the People's Army calling! ”

Thinking about the gaffe just now, Chu was annoyed and ashamed, jumped up, slapped the back of Xiang Gang's head, and beat him to the ground, almost didn't fall off the bamboo building, and scolded himself in his mouth.

Maung Gang didn't dare to fight back, so he could only turn his head sideways to avoid it, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to point out, justifying: "Sound...... Yin, Wu Chu, I seem to hear something? ”

"Voice?" Chu didn't shoot his head for the second time, and he was still a little dissatisfied, but when he said this, he listened intently, as if there was some sound, and his hand did not fall.

The two of them listened for a long time, and the voice gradually became louder, and they were able to distinguish the source of the sound.

They all raised their heads and looked at the sky.

It is difficult to distinguish objects from the gray sky, and the fog on the mountain drifts and disperses, which hinders observation.

They looked at it for a long time, but they didn't see anything.

Until there was a sudden exclamation from the outpost: "Plane! It was a plane, a KPA plane! "Listening to the voice, it seems like their platoon commander is shouting.

It turned out to be an airplane!

Chu couldn't help but feel relieved, and was no longer afraid that he would be punished by the chief for not calling the police in time.

He continued to look in the direction from which the voice came, but still saw nothing. And the voice gradually weakened, as if it had left.

If this were an airplane, it must have been flying so high that no one could see it.

When did the People's Party also have planes, and the platoon commander was really right?

His question was answered immediately, and the platoon commander's panicked voice calling the company headquarters through the walkie-talkie came from the outpost: "Company, company, I am the main peak outpost of Daming Mountain, and a People's Army plane was found flying overhead!" ”

"That's right! Right! I'm sure, no, not from the Chinese side! I saw the KPA sickle hammer mark on the wing! Yes, definitely from the People's Army! ”

"Height? I don't know, it's very high anyway, I magnified the telescope to ten times the focal length, or I can only see the symbol of the People's Army ...... approximately, no, no, I'm not lying! …… Sir, I swear, I really saw the KPA logo! …… I can explain, really, I can see the sickle hammer sign, but at the same time the plane looks small, so I confirm that it flies high...... No, no, sir, I didn't lie, I really didn't lie...... There is no contradiction at all, yes, you listen to me,...... Well, because the weather was nice today, there were no clouds, yes, the sky was clean, so although the plane flew high, I still saw it! The platoon commander held a walkie-talkie and kept reporting the situation to his superiors, but he just listened to his incoherent words, and the other side didn't seem to believe it at all.

Is it cloudless......

Chu's eyes widened, looking at the sky obscured by the mist, and looked at the sky speechlessly.