The headquarters of the British army was set up in a valley two miles west of Pianma. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The Info Valley runs about east-west, and the offices and quarters of Colonel Sanfro and his staff, officers, and enlisted men are built in the foothills on either side of the valley.

The valley barracks area was naturally marked on the operational map by Li Huaiping and Ouyang Yi as the first target.

The ancients said: Strike at its emptiness, attack its slackness. The trick of fighting a war is to surprise the enemy and attack it unprepared, and Cai Ye is indeed a person who is good at using soldiers. The Southwest Army did choose to fire at the time when the British army was most unprepared, and the timing of the suddenness could be described as just right.

It stands to reason that such a valley camp should be within the blind spot of artillery fire. However, actual combat has shown that the 155 howitzers of the Southwest Army in the direction of Luzhang and Wamadi can actually climb over the mountains and fall vertically at a very small angle. So, after ten o'clock, the camp in the valley, which had a pleasant scenery and a pleasant environment, became a slaughterhouse in an instant.

The sky of Pianma was high with the hot sun, and Colonel Yamafuro after breakfast, drinking black tea leisurely, looked at the soldiers walking in the distance, looking extremely comfortable. Colonel Shanfro was very satisfied with the events of the previous two days, but it was a little regrettable that he could not completely annihilate the patrol detachment and teach the Chinese a greater lesson. Of course, he had heard the news of the southwest's statement as early as last night, but he really didn't take the statement as a matter for a while, he thought it was just a political task to attract the attention of the people. He was convinced that there was no such thing as a force in the Far East that would dare to wage war against the British Empire, not even Japan, the emerging power in Asia.

Just as Colonel Sanfro was in his infinite reverie, a series of high-pitched, piercing, soul-stirring cannonballs suddenly sounded in the distance, like a downpour, and the falling cannonballs exploded around him. And Colonel Shanfro, who had not yet reacted, was swept out by a heat wave before he could even make the posture of lying on the spot.

The fifteen-minute bombardment made Sandfro feel like it was longer than a century. After the sound of the cannon fell silent, Colonel Shanfro, who brushed the dirt on his face, tried to get up, but his body no longer obeyed his command. Dizzy, he felt the pain, and when he looked back, he saw that the blood on his left arm was gushing out like a spring, although he quickly tore off a piece of clothing and bandaged it, but it still couldn't stop the bleeding.

At this time, in the barracks at the bottom of the valley, it was like a boiling pot of boiling water, and the smoke and dust from the shells were like water vapor rising from the water pot, quickly filling the sky that was so clear ten minutes ago. The earth was a blur, and at this time, Colonel Shanfro, the first pain was worse than a bout, and he was groggy and couldn't distinguish the direction, but driven by the hope of survival, he still climbed as far forward as he could, hoping that someone would find him as a commander. But he was disappointed, the British officers and soldiers in the camp at this time were not much better than him, they had never experienced heavy artillery bombardment, and their performance at this time was not much better than that of the new recruits who had just entered the battlefield. After the shelling, there were wailing wounded everywhere, and burning flames and ruins, and by this time Sanfro had no energy to be angry. He gritted his teeth with the greatest patience and continued to crawl forward, but he was unable to do so, and finally lost consciousness in front of him・・・・・・

"Surprise and attack unprepared", the British troops along the line were unaware and unguarded, and the "suddenness" of the artillery bombardment of the southwestern army was completely realized and quite successful.

July 25, 1912, 10:15 a.m.

After the shelling ceased for 15 minutes, the infantry of the three divisions and nine regiments, who had long been ordered to lurk at the front of the front line and wait for the day, suppressed their inner fluctuation, excitement, and agitation under the leadership of their officers at all levels. With inexplicable tension, even fear, they crossed the border line and rushed to the positions of the British troops.

In the face of the offensive of the Chinese southwest army, which was full of morale, after a little resistance, these British troops began to retreat south like a flood that broke the embankment. The British soldiers who had been frightened, whether they were the native army or the Anglo-Indian army, were no different from each other at this time, they had completely lost their rifles and pistols, there was no order, no weapons, no leadership, and they looked like they were completely defeated. They had only one thought, and that was to flee, and the farther away from the Chinese army the better.

However, these troops who fled were lucky, you must know that the Gurkha regiment, which was usually blown by the British, had already been surrounded by the Chinese army on the front line of Xidong and Jiangao Mountain before they had time to react. It's not that the officers and soldiers of the Gurkha regiment don't want to retreat and escape, after all, no matter how brave a person is, it is difficult for the flesh and blood to fight against steel and gunpowder, and they still understand this. It was really because the offensive of the Chinese army was too fierce, and after the 18th Regiment of the Sixth Division broke through into Burma from the first line of the Monkey Bridge, the 2nd Battalion under its command boldly used a strategy of interspersing and detouring to cut off the inevitable retreat of the Gurkha Regiment stationed in Xidong, and together with the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the regiment, the Gurkha Regiment surrounded most of the 2,000 people of the Gurkha Regiment. At about two o'clock in the afternoon of that year, the troops of the 18th Regiment finally annihilated the besieged enemy and captured more than 1,800 guns of various kinds. After that, after a short rest, the soldiers of the regiment, whose morale was like a rainbow, strode forward in the direction of Myitkyina.

After the Chinese southwestern army quickly broke through the British army's established positions, after several hours of attack, all three divisions of troops crossed the border and broke into the depths of Burma, the deepest of which had reached more than 20 kilometers, and there was news of the appearance of Chinese scouts on the periphery of Myitkyina, which was soon detected by Colonel Hertz, who was stationed in Myitkyina. Hertz, after making an urgent report to the Indian governor Harding, had no choice but to abandon Myitkyina and retreat to Monhong in the rear, given the fact that there were no troops at his disposal.

At this moment, after receiving Hertz's telegram, Hatting, the Indian governor who was still roaming around New Delhi and was proud of the Tibet incident he had planned, was finally no longer calm. He was dumbfounded, he thought that the victory was in his hands and that there was such a big change. When did the Empire's army become so vulnerable? Instead of being invaded by the southwestern Chinese army across the border? It's even funnier than an April Fool's joke. But Governor Harding also understood that it was not April Fool's Day, and Colonel Hertz did not dare to make such a joke with him, the Governor. At this time, Harding finally panicked, the Chinese army invaded Burma, and the first to be affected was India, if there was turmoil on the Indian continent, the impact on the British Empire, which was preparing for the European war was obviously self-evident, then he Harding was really a historical sinner.

After making an urgent report back home and calling Zhu Erdian to put pressure on the Chinese government, the only thing Harding could do was wait. As for the transfer of troops? Is India still going to garrison? You must know that Indians have not been so peaceful in recent years.

The appearance of the Chinese troops from the southwest across the border on the territory of Burma was completely unexpected by the British authorities. The government of the British Empire only believes that they are the hegemon of the world, only believes that they can claim hegemony in the world by relying on advanced weapons and equipment, does not believe that anyone dares to break ground on the "head of Tai Sui", and does not believe that the barbaric and backward Chinese dare to launch a military attack on the British Empire. They did not believe the fact that the southwestern Chinese army had invaded Burma, and then they did not dare to believe it or did not want to believe it, until the British native army, the British Indian army, and the British and Burmese troops stationed on the Sino-Burmese border were severely attacked by the Chinese army, and later lost Myitkyina, Lashio and other places in Burma, and on the 26th, they were convinced that this local power had started a war against the British Empire.

On July 26, the southwestern government authorized Xinhua News Agency to officially and publicly report on the Chinese army's fighting in Burma. China's cross-border operations have caused a lot of shock to the British government and Buckingham Palace.

This move by the southwest government stunned the Governor of India, Harding, the British government authorities, and also shook the world. It is incomprehensible that China, which is so poor and backward and faces so many difficulties, should dare to send troops to compete with the British Empire, the global hegemon. If you don't understand, you don't understand, but some people and some countries still feel very happy about this, including both Beiyang and Kuomintang. Of course, countries like the United States and Germany are not excluded.