Chapter 14 The Wind Rises in Indochina
Don't think that when the Chinese army arrives in Indochina, it will occupy it in a big way.
Here, the situation is similar to that of pre-liberation China, where the countryside is overwhelming.
The various teams of the Caiyun Military Region and the Shenlong mercenaries are all conscientiously implementing the classic case created by Taizu and them to encircle the city with the countryside. Of course, remote mountainous areas and places bordering China have long been in the pockets of Chinese troops.
Those Chinese who were killed in the past were all weak. The powerful Chinese are enough to compete with the local armed forces, and the indigenous government is naturally afraid of these forces.
Shan and Siam were disturbed internally, and warlords and warlords were fighting. Their battle was still during the Xinhai Revolution in China.
The transportation is inconvenient and the information is not available. These indigenous nations, even within their own borders, are like blind people.
Some of the larger armed forces eliminated by the Chinese military were replaced by what these countries considered to be emerging warlords.
Taoism blossomed everywhere in rural areas and remote county towns, and gradually moved southward.
The Shan Northern Military Region Headquarters is located in Mandalay. Su Miao, who had just taken office last year, was curled up in a bamboo chair exhausted. He was motionless and looked like a dead man.
September is the most attractive time of year in the Inle Lake area. Performances are performed throughout the Lake District, where boats are decorated as "Callaways" (a mythical bird) that weave through the water. Paddlers who paddle on a single oars are frequented here.
The spectacle is spectacular and attracts people from all over the world. In the small towns near Lake Inlay, an orchid market is also held at this time.
Orchid is a rich man's game, many flower farmers who hope to get rich overnight, eager for every local tyrant to join the shopping industry.
As the leader of the supreme army in northern Shan, Su Maung was naturally invited over.
He has an inexplicable affection for China.
The Shan State was once the territory of China, and the entire country has the footprints of Han Chinese everywhere. is Su Maung himself, and he is not a pure Shan, and his ancestors have Chinese blood.
At heart, he was a nationalist.
On the surface, Su Maung didn't dare to show it at all.
The British occupied it, and now the British themselves are not able to protect themselves and cannot get their help.
The once noisy Shan Communist Party in northern Shan has always colluded with the big powers in the north.
Now, those riots and all that stuff seem to have disappeared, where did these people go?
And more mainly. In Inle Lake, there are Chinese characters everywhere, and the Chinese are wandering around, is it possible that the Chinese have taken control?
"Commander, there's a guest coming." The adjutant and butler Chachai had a soft footstep. Or leave a string of creaks in the bamboo building.
"I'm tired, didn't I tell you?" Su Maung was furious. Open your eyes. Immediately, he was no longer calm: "Who are you and how did you get here?" ”
"We thought, what do you really think your guards here can do?" A few of the personal bodyguards he had personally trained cowered behind the tall white man, with a blue nose and swollen face, and it seemed that he had suffered a lot.
"Soviets?" Su Maung asked tentatively.
"General Su Maung is so smart. We like to talk to smart people. "There were three white men in the group, and now this one looks like their head.
"Oh?" Su Maung gave a look, and almost guessed that he took the guards out of the palace and guarded outside.
"Introduce yourself. I am Nikolai. Niankov, with the same rank as you, is a colonel, specially to help the general out of the current predicament. The man looked condescending.
"I'm sorry, please be seated." Su Maung stood up and personally made tea for them.
"I don't know what kind of price we need to pay for the road," Su Maung sat down: "I remember that there is a famous saying in China that there is no free lunch in the world." ”
Nikolai sat down too, but the Shan bamboo chair was cramped under his broad frame. Two white men who came with him stood behind him without leaving an inch.
"No, no, no," Nikolai took out a cigar, and the person next to him lit a fire for him, and he smoked it to himself: "We, the Soviet Union, regard General Su Maung as a friend and help him for free." ”
"I wonder how many people Mr. Nicolas has found in Shan?" Su Maung is not confused.
"Please call me Mr. Niankov, or Senior Colonel Niankov." Nikolai took out a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and put them on, looking polite.
Outwardly, who wouldn't associate this suit-and-leather-footed white man with the formidable KGB.
He exhaled a puff of smoke and said slowly, "We only need those who are worthy of training, and if they are not worthy, let's go to God for all." Our friends can only be wise and resolute people like General Su Maung. ”
Niankov laughed in his heart, a small native, an army of less than 10,000 people, dare to be called a commander?
"Isn't there any strings attached?" Su Maung kept cursing in his heart, I hate cigars. But under the watchful eyes of a few white people, they couldn't even show a look of disgust, and their faces were full of humble smiles.
"A little," Nikolai glanced at the diminutive native, "you and your army must fight." He pointed the tip of his right index finger to the north.
"We are facing a lot of difficulties now," Su Maung was clear in his heart, and people were using his troops as cannon fodder.
But get the benefits first, and as for fighting with China, don't joke, you yourself have repeatedly ended in failure.
"That's why I'm here today." Nikolai's attitude softened a little: "Weapons, ammunition, money, we can give you." ”
"Then thank you very much, Mr. Xie Niankov." Su Maung's heart was alive, this was an opportunity: "With all due respect, right now, you are supporting Annan. This country has occupied Laos. It's a pity that it was driven away by the Chinese army. If one day in the future, my team grows stronger, and I will directly face the threat from the Annanites. ”
"At least you can't have a border at the moment." Niankov spread his hands elegantly: "Annan is attacking Jinla." What's more, there is a Siam between you. ”
"Mr. Niankov," Su Maung's eyes rolled, "You have come to me, and you must have been connected with many big warlords in Siam." When the time came, Annan came from the east. Whether you support the Siamese local armed forces or the Shan local armed forces, they are all scattered. After so many years of Annan's reunification, there is only one voice to the outside world. ”
Su Maung shook his head: "With Annan's advantage." It is not so difficult to wipe us all out. ”
"What you're saying isn't very true." Niankov shook his head: "Do you think the Annan people are stupid?" Why do all the armies need to border China? Even if Annan's troops rush to attack first. China's territory is vast, and the Annan people are put into a pocket array, and the entire Annam army directly faces the Chinese soldiers in various places. ”
The poisonous cat barked: "Guess, come in." ”
The adjutant and butler came in a flash like a shadow. Su Maung commanded in his ear for a long time, almost guessing that his mouth was wide open, and he kept nodding his head.
However, he didn't dare to question any of Su Maung's decisions.
Those former colleagues, one by one, are gone, that is, with their toes. I also know that Lu Dao must have an inevitable connection with the Taoist commander in front of him.
In October, the 15th day of the month of Deding is the "Deding Death" Lantern Festival, on this day, the houses and parks are decorated with lights to welcome the Buddha's return from heaven.
Near Mandalay, there is a colorful elephant dance at this time. October also marks the end of Ramadan. Now it's time to get married and move.
Indo, more than 100 miles southeast of Mandalay.
On the outskirts of the city, at the foot of the bald hills, there is a beautiful manor. The owner of the manor is surnamed Chen. It's called Chen Jianzhong. The people around me don't remember how many years the old Chen family has been here. It's just passed down from generation to generation. When the people of the Chen family came to settle here. An old servant came with a little master. In the blink of an eye, they bloomed and scattered in the vicinity of Indo, and became a well-known family.
In the study, Chen Jianzhong silently offered incense to the portrait of the painting handed down by his ancestors, and the housekeeper Ade stood solemnly beside him.
"Master, the second young master is back." The two walked out of the ancestral hall. Ade said cautiously.
"Ade," Chen Jianzhong, who was usually serious, laughed: "Am I so strict that my own son doesn't dare to talk to me?" Even when you talk to me, you accompany me to be careful. We're a family. Why is the diaphragm so unfamiliar? ”
Seeing that Ade wanted to explain, Chen Jianzhong waved his hand: "You don't have to plead, I don't have any worries about Ping'er going to join the army." ”
"So, sir, you support the Communist Party?" The housekeeper was overjoyed.
Chen Jianzhong couldn't help but laugh and said, "When did I say I didn't support it?" The ancestors of our old Chen family came from Xiangxi, so let's go back and see it in two years. Ade, you don't remember where your hometown is? ”
"Master," Ade came to the Chen family when he was a child begging for food, and the old owner was still alive at that time, and was taken in by the Chen family and named Chen De: "I really don't remember, I just remember that there is a mountain in front of the house, and there is a land temple on the mountain." ”
As they spoke, the two of them had already arrived at home.
"Dad, I'm back!" Chen Xiuping stood there with his eyebrows lowered and pleasing to his eyes.
"Yo, is our Platoon Leader Chen back?" Chen Jianzhong laughed: "Do you think your father is such an unreasonable person?" Okay, do it, Daddy is proud of you. ”
"Daddy!" Chen Xiuping couldn't hold back, and suddenly cried out and pounced on his father.
Lou Zhu's own son, Chen Jianzhong kept patting his back: "Okay, second boy." In the past, Dad didn't let you mix with those people, because they didn't pay attention to it and only shouted slogans. The current Kuomintang troops are very regular, and my father knows everything. ”
Chen Xiuping's grievances over the years suddenly came to naught.
The two of them talked and laughed, and everyone in the family was shocked, why did the father and son, who were not on the right path, suddenly become so close?
"Master, master," a bloodied family member ran in breathlessly: "Army, army in?" ”
"Chinese troops?" Chen Xiuping was shocked, there are so many Chinese troops in this vicinity, so they are fighting the Chinese? .
"No, Shan people!" As soon as the family finished speaking, he collapsed on the ground and fell straight down.
"Dad, you go quickly." Chen Xiuping roared: "Hurry up, take your mother and sister and go to our troops." ”
"Good!" Chen Jianzhong also knew that now was not the time to be polite: "You take your family to fight and intercept here." ”
Chen Xiuping took out his binoculars and looked at it for a long time, but there were no cannons in the enemy's ranks.
"Little Liu," Chen Xiuping called his family's strong man: "Let everyone be in their places and quickly hide." ”
Before the Shan army came over, the Li family manor immediately entered battle mode. Although the family members and the training of the army cannot be compared. Everyone is hidden in the corner.
As long as the enemy dares to come, ten thousand guns are fired at once, and there is always a bullet that can threaten the enemy's vital parts.
Chen Xiuping held the telescope in one hand and instructed the family. When the time came, they only heard the sound of gunfire here, and they all rushed out to fight.
"Yes, Second Young Master!" After Xiao Liu finished speaking, he immediately contacted the other people of the Li family who had not heard the news.
Nothing that kills life or death, Chen Xiuping spit out a soak of saliva.
These Shan people really don't know whether they are alive or dead, some are riding motorcycles, some are standing in military vehicles, swaggering and moving from a distance little by little.
In the eyes of the natives, the Chinese people here are guarding their estates to protect their property. Don't talk about reinforcements, what if they really come? Therefore, this Shan armed force did not hesitate at all, and arrived at the door of the Li family's manor step by step.
"Hit!" Chen Xiuping shouted, and then, people from all walks of life shot one after another.
On this night, the northern part of Shan was full of blood, and the local garrisons rushed to the homes of the Chinese. (To be continued......)