Chapter 267: The Rubber Tree Can Tap

Gao Junshan is in Yunnan, planning the conquest of Burma while raising military rations.

He allocated 80,000 stones of grain and grass from Dali, Heqing, Menghua and other places, and 30,000 stones from Yongchang and Shunning to meet the needs of the front.

The transport team of the logistics department also traveled day and night to deliver supplies to Yunnan, but due to the rugged road, it took a lot of time to wait for their grain and grass.

Gao Junshan led the 201st Division to Dali, and his headquarters was located in Yunlongzhou.

Considering that Myanmar is located in a remote area, the mountains are heavily obstructed, and it is fearful of being harmed by miasma when it goes deep into Myanmar, the Gao Junshan troops are equipped with full-time local doctors.

It was the first time for a high mountain unit to fight in such an environment as Burma, and whether they could defeat the enemy in such an unfamiliar environment was a big test for his army.

Gao Junshan had his troops in Yunlong Prefecture conduct adaptation training, and recruited 3,000 local armed men to join the team to serve as guides and reconnaissance missions.

In addition to the regular army in the high mountains in Yunnan, the Tusi in various places also retain their own arms, which are called Tulian, and there is also a kind of armed force that is also used to protect the mines in the major mines in Yunnan, which is called Mine Lian.

At the end of September, the 305th Division that came to reinforce rushed to Yunlongzhou, and Gao Junshan placed this division in Baoshan, south of Yunlongzhou, and asked the 305th to send a regiment to Nanning to replace a regiment of the 635th Division guarding there.

The 305th Division belonged to the Third Army Corps, and there had been no war since the founding of China, and Gao Junshan only used them as a reserve force, and he had to wait for the arrival of the two main divisions of the First Army Corps before carrying out the attack on Burma.

The First Army has been fighting with the Rakshasa and the Ottoman Empire for many years, and is rich in extremely strong combat effectiveness, and the weapons and equipment are also the most advanced, equipped with the Type 48 Mini gun, the most advanced weapon, which is only equipped with the First Army and the Marine Brigade.

The 201st Division went north to Guilin to pursue the two regiments of Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, and coordinated with the 606th Division to the south, and wiped out the last dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty, only Zhu Youlang escaped with fifty or sixty people, and it has now been ascertained that they fled to Burma and were connected to the city of Ava by the Burmese king.

At this time, the 206th Division led by He Renlong had successfully occupied Guangzhou and moved to Hong Kong, although Hong Kong was still a small fishing village at this time, but He Renlong carried out Gao Junshan's order 100 percent, and after occupying Hong Kong, he left a regiment and went to fight Macao.

At this time, Macao already had a Portuguese garrison, but the number was small, and the 206th Division, with the cooperation of the Second Fleet stationed on Hainan Island, drove the Portuguese out of the sea.

It was not until mid-October that two divisions of the First Army and two divisions of the Seventh Army arrived, so that Gao Junshan had gathered nearly 60,000 men and horses in Yunnan in preparation for a decisive battle with Burma.

At this time, there were seven divisions in Yunnan, including the 101st, 102nd, 201st, 305th, 606th, 705th, and 706th divisions, in addition, there were 10,000 local troops in Yunnan led by Long Zaitian, with a total number of nearly 80,000, and began to attack Burma.

In the name of pursuing and suppressing Guiwang Zhu Youlang, the 5th Regiment of the 201st Division first launched an offensive in Xinjie.

In fact, the Burmese side has already sensed the movement of the Chinese state, and they have also made corresponding defensive measures on the border, mobilizing more than 30,000 troops to deploy defenses in the area of Chingay and Mongun.

With the coordination of artillery fire, the 5th Regiment occupied New Street.

After the victory in the first battle, Gao Junshan did not launch a new offensive, because he knew that the newly arrived 101st and 102nd Divisions could not be put into battle immediately, and these two divisions suddenly came here from the cold north, and there would be many discomforts, and Gao Junshan had to give them time to adapt to the climate here as soon as possible.

After taking Xinjie, Gao Junshan sent the 101st and 102nd Divisions to Xinjie, so that they could conduct all-round training in the closest place to the Burmese environment, waiting for the next winter offensive.

In September, Gao Junshan received a telegram from Hui Dengxiang that the Sixth Army had fully occupied Tibet, and in order to consolidate the situation in Tibet, Gao Junshan ordered the 606th Division to return to the Sixth Army.

So far, the Huaxia Kingdom has successfully completed the task of great unification, but Gao Junshan is not satisfied, he believes that the region of Burma must be recaptured in order for the Huaxia Kingdom to be considered a perfect unification.

In addition, the Irrawaddy River Delta under the jurisdiction of Myanmar has fertile land and abundant rainfall, and Siam and Annam, which are also known as the world's three major rice-producing areas, if you have these places, what is the Xiaoice period?

During the interrogation of the captives, Gao Junshan learned that Burma was now at war with Siam, and he took advantage of this short period of recuperation to send people to Siam to liaise with them and establish an alliance with them to deal with Burma in unison.

While commanding the troops to conduct adaptive training in Yunlong Prefecture, Gao Junshan also formulated a training plan for mountain warfare, and made use of the existing equipment to maximize the ability of individual combat.

Just when Gao Junshan was busy with the training of the troops, a telegram from Hainan Island made him happy.

The telegram was sent by the rubber working group, and the rubber trees planted on Hainan Island were finally ready for rubber tapping after several years of hard work by the rubber working group.

As soon as the first batch of rubber came out, it was immediately transported to the rubber factory for processing.

There are two rubber factories built on Hainan Island, these two rubber factories have been built two years ago, and they have been waiting for the rubber from Hainan Island, and the workers have been learning the skills of processing rubber in the factory, and now the rubber is finally there, and the big chimney of the factory has begun to smoke.

In order to tap the day of the day, Chongwen College is not less effortful, in Chongwen Institute of Technology there is a rubber department, specializing in the application of rubber, of course, their research is indispensable to the guidance of Gao Junshan, after all, Gao Junshan's knowledge is much broader than theirs.

With rubber, it was first applied to the steam engine, and the steam engine became a steam engine in the true sense, and the driving force of the steam engine increased by 300 percent due to the solution of the sealing problem.

With powerful steam engines, shipyards across the country have greatly accelerated the pace of building ocean-going ships.

First of all, the giant battleship of the Zheng He class has passed the experimental stage, and after the installation of modern steam engines, the Zheng He, which could not move before, can also sail normally on the water, and the speed can be as high as 21 knots.

The launch of the Zheng He-class giant battleship was inseparable from the efforts of the shipbuilding engineers, who accepted Gao Junshan's suggestion to reduce the Zheng He-class from the original 10,000-ton to 8,000-ton battleships, and optimized the design of the propellers, making the original furnishings a real battleship.

With the first Zheng He-class battleship as a model, and a steam engine in the modern sense, the country's Fujian shipyards, Shandong shipyards, and Hainan Island shipyards have all been put into the production of Zheng He-class.

Gao Junshan ordered the existing seven Wuchang-class large battleships to return to the shipyard and replace the steam engine, and the major shipyards are also stepping up the construction of Wuchang-class large battleships.

In addition to the application of rubber in the steam engine, it is also applied to the wheel, and it is not difficult for the next car and train to appear.

Wire factories can also be started, with wires, electricity can be used on a larger scale, with wires, telephones can also be manufactured.

In short, a series of products are gradually being developed, these things, Gao Junshan has already told his students when he was teaching, and now he is waiting for the students to implement them.