The war in Burma has been going on for a whole year.

A large area east of the Salween River was seized by Siamese forces, and the Chinese fleet operating in the southern sea frontier of Burma sent the entire Burmese sea force to the bottom of the sea, and frequently launched attacks on the coastal towns of Sunshine, Pak Sang, and Bago, and its marines even attacked outside the city of Yangon.

This forced the central Burmese dynasty to continuously transfer a limited number of troops to the south, and at the same time, the current Burmese king Zang Kok Ka Ya also established a governor of Yangon, headed by Prince Meng Mang, to hold the mouth of the Irrawaddy River.

He was the fourth king of Burma, the son of the previous Burmese king Meng Ti, and the grandson of Yong Ji Ya, the founding king of the Gongbang Dynasty of Burma. Far from being as capable and courageous as his father, he was mediocre and incompetent, and devoted himself to court and religious affairs, which caused a lot of discontent within Myanmar. However, the Gongbang Dynasty is not without talents, Yongjiya was not yet fifty years old when he died, and he was very young. Don't look at the Gongbang Dynasty has been passed down for several generations of kings, but in fact there are not many years.

The second king of the Gongbang Dynasty was Mang Jijue, the eldest son of Yongjiya, who died of illness after only three years on the throne, and then the second son Meng Jie, who died very early, and he was already the fourth king of Burma, but his fourth uncle Meng Yun and cousin Meng Mang, these figures who had already emerged when Yongjiya fought the world are now in the prime of life.

Meng Yun led the Burmese army to fight one battle after another with the Siamese army led by Zheng Xin, although it was inevitably inferior in weapons, but it was able to resist the offensive of the Siamese army.

This is also a major reason for Zheng Xin's sudden shift to the battlefield. Why did he want to partner with China to find trouble in Yangon, it was because he couldn't move along the Salween River.

In this era, Myanmar was full of dense forests, mountains and rivers, Meng Yun was not an incompetent figure, he knew that the Myanmar army's combat ability on the frontal battlefield was weaker than that of the Siamese who were heavily funded by the Chinese, so he built forts along the Salween River, using fortresses to block the Siamese army in front, and then sent elite troops to attack the rear of Siam non-stop, although the Burmese army lost almost the entire eastern part of the Salween River, but also firmly blocked the Siamese on the line of the Salween River.

No one will surrender to an opponent for no reason, especially Siam, an old Burmese adversary. A few years ago, the Burmese were still flaunting their might on Siamese soil, and in the blink of an eye, the Siamese turned into ducks, and they were about to attack Burma in turn. Can the Burmese people be convinced?

Under strong external pressure, many contradictions within the Gongbang Dynasty of Myanmar also temporarily abandoned their previous suspicions and united, which to a certain extent stabilized the disputes within the Gongbang Dynasty and stabilized the throne of the Jiaoya.

Zheng Xin saw that the Salween River was about to reach a stalemate, and the Siamese army was a little caught in the sea of people in the area east of the Salween River, so he was ready to shift the spearhead and start from the coastal areas of Lower Burma, with the cooperation of the Chinese naval division, to launch an attack on Rangoon.

Yangon is the central city of Lower Burma, and its influence and power have been increasing ever since the Yong conquered Lower Burma by razing the walls of the two ancient cities of Sand Curtain and Bago and making Yangon the administrative and military center of the Irrawaddy Delta.

Zheng Xin planned to open a gap in Yangon, and then the Siamese army would deploy troops on the Salween River to contain the main force of the Burmese army, so that he could lead the army directly north. This is like opening up the Allied forces to make the Normandy landings in the first place, which is engaged in a second battlefield, and is determined to make Burma difficult to take care of. At the same time, the Southwest Military Region in the north also sent some men and horses to attack Burma from the north to the south, which also contained part of Burma's troops and provided convenience for Zheng Xin's Battle of Rangoon.

Shen Shiying was one of the operational staff officers appointed by the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and he had just arrived in Chengdu. The troops to attack Burma were also finalized a year ago, that is, a newly established mountain infantry brigade, led by Huang Zicong himself. The follow-up transportation support force is a border defense division with as many as one integrated division - the 19th Division under the southern Yunnan border defense army.

The predecessor of this division was the Kangding Frontier Corps, which fought in the rainforest and in the mountains, and they were all experts. Even this division is the first plateau combat unit prepared by the Dadu Governor, but the Tibetan land is too tame, and the Dadu Governor's Mansion has made a big killing weapon, but there is no place for it.

Chen Ming is now eager for when the Gurkha further west will be able to go crazy and beat the crying father and mother in Tibet, so that this big killer can be useful. Those big manor owners and serf owners had no reason to refuse Chen Han to build the road to the plateau, and to build military stations along the road for thousands of miles.

Chen Ding and the other Gurkha flowers are all gone.

Even though Lao Ying in the last plane of time and space had planted a big heel in the Gurkha War, Chen Ming was still full of confidence in taking the Gurkha.

After all, the Qing army of that plane had 6,000 people outside the city of Kathmandu, although Fukangan was finally defeated for a while because of arrogance and weak troops, but the Gurkha surrendered in the end. Then it doesn't make sense that the Wehrmacht in this era will be worse than the 6,000 Qing soldiers led by Fukangan.

After the Gurkha beast became a Chinese thug, Chen Han could really enter the Himalayas. At that time, he can not only support the three Tibetan vassal states of Ladakh, Bhutan, and Sikkim [which can also be regarded as China's vassal states] to expand their land to the South Asian subcontinent, but also support the Gurkha behind his back and release this beast into the South Asian subcontinent to spread wild.

He could even contact the Sikhs through the Gurkhas, support the establishment of the Sikh state, and support the Sikh wars against the British and the Indian maharajas.

By that time, Chen Ming had too many ways to fiddle with the South Asian subcontinent.

The Gurkha is very fierce, but the Gurkha has been beaten down by the Manchus, that place is not a ghost place like Afghanistan, the latter Chen Ming will consider carefully, and he has not taken the former in his eyes.

Now, of course, the most important task of the South-Western Military District is the offensive on Burma.

It was the icy and snowy season in the north before the New Year, but in Burma it was the driest time of the year, and it was the most convenient time for Chen Han to march into battle.

The Fifth Mountain Infantry Brigade, with about 10,000 soldiers, is ready to go. However, after more than 20,000 horses were attached to the army, in addition to a regular logistics unit with 50,000 or 60,000 horses and cattle as supplies, the entire 19th Division defended the rear road for them.

"Your Majesty. At this time, the 5th Mountain Infantry Brigade had already set off from Wanding. "Wanding is a place relatively close to the Burmese capital of Ava, and Awa is near Mandalay in later Burma.

Liu Wu held a lamp and illuminated the map in front of him even brighter. Although only a few lines were drawn with red and blue pens on this map, in Liu Wu's eyes, it was also murderous, and thousands of horses and thousands of troops were galloping vertically and horizontally.

Chen Ming was silent.

In this war against Burma, the National Defense Forces followed the old path of Mingrui. It's just that they didn't divide their troops to fight the iron wall and enter Burma. Instead, a whole brigade went directly out of Wanding, and advanced towards Mubang City, which was only a hundred and ten miles away in a straight line, but the actual distance was five or six hundred places, and then continued south from there to Lashio. After capturing Lashio, there is only one Nandu River left in front of you, and after passing is the Tianwei Tiansheng Bridge in Burma, and then it is all the way to Ava.

In the plan, the 5th Mountain Infantry Brigade would hardly cross the Tiansheng Bridge and go further south. The Metropolitan Governor's Office trusted the judgment of the General Staff, and by the time the troops of the Fifth Mountain Infantry Brigade crossed the river to the south and reached the Tiansheng Bridge, Ava would have panicked.

In that year, Ming Rui also supervised the army to take the Nandu River, and the results of a barbarian battle were brilliant, which made Emperor Qianlong ecstatic. Chen Ming's expectations for the Fifth Mountain Infantry Brigade were no worse than Qianlong's expectations for Mingrui. Although Huang Zicong, who is the representative, rarely has the opportunity to be alone, Chen Ming also believes that he will not be negligent and rash the enemy.

The regiment of the First Regiment of the Fifth Mountain Infantry Brigade is called Wang Lian, which is a very common name, and Chen Ming has no impression at all. But in the original Mingrui Army, Wang Lian was as dazzling as a big star.

At the beginning, he was just an ordinary Guizhou green battalion soldier, during the battle of the barbarian knot, after Mingrui repeatedly failed to challenge, he decided to attack the camp directly, and judged that the western Burmese soldiers who took the initiative to attack were where the strong troops were, and the strong soldiers were broken, and the other camps were not difficult to break, so he decided to concentrate his forces to attack here. Mingrui immediately left 2,000 soldiers to stay in the camp, and attacked the Burmese soldiers' camp with 10,000 soldiers in 12 teams. The Burmese soldiers are good at guarding, the wooden fence in the camp is the wet wood buried deep in the ground, the exposed ground is still two feet high, there are deep ditches inside and outside, and sharp bamboo and wood are buried next to the ditch, the Burmese soldiers have the protection of the wooden fence, the guns are difficult to hurt, and from the gap of the fence with muskets, it hits extremely high. The Qing soldiers rushed down from the mountain beam near the Burmese camp, and the first camp was near the mountain beam, which was quickly broken by the Qing army. When attacking the second one, it was more difficult, at that time it was still a Guizhou rattan soldier Wang Lian saw some wood near the wooden fence, easy to climb, climbed through the fence from there, one person rushed to kill in hundreds of Burmese troops, followed by more than ten Qing soldiers to climb and enter, under this cover, Wang Lian killed more than 10 enemies and then pulled out the wooden fence, the Qing soldiers swarmed in, and won a camp again. The two camps obtained were relatively high, and Mingrui divided his troops to cooperate with other roads to capture the two battalions. The Burmese soldiers continued to counterattack until the second watch in the evening, and when they saw that the counterattack was hopeless, they retreated one after another, and the Qing soldiers pursued them with all their might, and did not withdraw their troops until dawn on the second day. The battle was a brutal battle, in which the Qing soldiers killed more than 2,000 enemies, captured 34 prisoners, and captured a lot of guns, grain, cattle and horses. Emperor Qianlong was overjoyed when he heard the news, and named Mingrui a first-class duke, and Wang Lian, who was still a small soldier before the war, was directly promoted to guerrilla, which can be described as a myth in the army.

But the good times did not last long, Mingrui lightly advanced the enemy, the Qing army was trapped, and when Mingrui was defeated, he led the army to die after being broken, and Wang Lian, who fled back to Yunnan with the large army, became nameless and insignificant. He did not follow Changqing and other old generals of Mingrui to advance into Lianghu to fight with the original Fu Han army, but was sent back to Guizhou, and when the Fu Han army entered Guizhou, Wang Lian chose to surrender. He has neither a big background nor the worst history, and he is still a person who obediently surrenders, and of course the Fu Han army will not kill him, even if his guerrilla title was personally rewarded by Qianlong. After that, Wang Lian became a member of the Fu Han Army, first when he was formed the mountain infantry, and then with the growth of seniority, when the mountain division became a mountain infantry brigade, and then when a new mountain infantry brigade was formed, he also became a regimental commander of the Wehrmacht.

"Mubang City, Mubang City is Mubang City again......" Just when Chen Ming in Nanjing was looking at the map of Myanmar by the light, the first regiment, as the vanguard of the whole army, had approached outside Mubang City.

"Report! Tuanzheng. Our division has completely surrounded the headquarters of Zarafeng! The 1st Battalion is located in Monsi Bay and the 2nd Battalion is located in Bangsang. Artillery groups are all in place. Tan Yifei, a reconnaissance staff officer of the Fifth Brigade, ran to Wang Lian and reported.

Tan Yifei was the nephew of Tan Wuge, the governor of Yunnan in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. At that time, Tan Wuge, who was the governor of Yunnan, and Erdeng, the commander of the Northern Route Army, also suffered a major crime after Mingrui's defeat and death, and Erdeng's failure to save the troops touched the urine spot of the Qianlong Emperor, and he was arrested and sentenced to death in Beijing, and Tan Sange, the deputy general of the Northern Route Army, was also executed, and his relatives were all sentenced to death. So Tan Yifei didn't have the slightest loyalty to the Manchus, and only had endless hatred.

Many members of the Tan family joined the Han Army, and today, Tan Yifei not only made a little famous, but also happened to be sent to Myanmar again, which really made him very excited.

With a sense of revenge and the excitement of recovering the name of his ancestors, Tan Yifei left a suicide note early, intending to die and try his best to bite Myanmar.

"Can Zarafonbe be all covered? What is the situation of the remnants of the Qing army? Is there a commotion? Wang Liancong raised his head from the picture, looked at Tan Yifei, who was dressed in dust, and asked.

Myanmar will not touch the edge of the National Defense Forces in vain, the latter has just entered Burma, it can be said that the morale is high, and it is definitely not a good idea to touch the National Defense Forces at this time. So what does the Burmese do about it? Take the Qing army in the southwest that they took in at the beginning to the top cylinder. Although Zhangbao, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, had already gone to London, the latter became a gathering place for many Manchu officials who fled to Europe. Many of the Qing troops who had retreated into Burma had also disappeared. But there are always a few funerary goods at the end of any dynasty, and one of them was Zarafong, who was then the lieutenant general of the Governor, and was one of the most active Qing troops in recent years on the border between Burma, Siam, and the Shan State Plateau. The total strength was one or two thousand, armed with muskets and artillery, and the Burmese valued the other troops.

Bilassi's Zhangbao and others, Zarafon is completely a doer, and this is the person Myanmar needs.

"Yes, of course there was commotion." Tan Yifei said with certainty. Such an affirmative tone was very unexpected by Wang Lian. "Then tell me quickly, what is the morale of the Qing soldiers, and what evidence is there?"

"Wang Tuanzheng, the Qing soldiers didn't expect us to come so soon. They were strong on the road, but they also cut off their own access to news. When we appeared, Zalafon didn't have time to react, and we blocked him on the mountain.

"Didn't we seize the clothes of Burmese soldiers before, I picked two Shan soldiers and mixed them up the mountain, and walked around from beginning to end, but they were not noticed, this is the defense layout of the mountain." The drawings are not very complete, and Tan Yifei did not visit all the places, but the existence of this drawing is enough to show how chaotic the garrison and military spirit on the mountain are. If people's hearts are stable, then the precautions are naturally tight, and it is impossible for Tan Yifei to blend into the Qing army position.

Tan Yifei grinned while speaking.

"Wang Tuanzheng. I think I'm ready to attack right away! The Qing army on the mountain is very chaotic, and now it is not the same, at this time, it is time to strike while the iron is hot, and the Qing soldiers in other provinces regain their composure. "After all, these Qing soldiers have been holding out in Myanmar for so many years, and their current appearance is likely to be a moment of panic after being suddenly blocked, but this cannot be regarded as their normal state.

"Okay, you're bold, you're really bold enough." Wang Lian smashed his fist on Tan Yifei's shoulder, and he became excited. He never thought that Tan Yifei would actually blend into the enemy's position, what a bold thing it was. Sure enough, he lived up to his nickname, and he really deserved to be the first man in the Fifth Brigade to write a suicide note.

Tan Daring, he is really bold.