Chapter 259: The Kingdom of Kokang, the conflict begins

It is said that since the Kokang Han in northern Myanmar and the political axe in eastern China have been connected, the Kokang Han in Myanmar has received very strong support.

In less than a year, the whole of Myanmar has become a military group with all the people in the army.

Due to the support of the motherland, the Kokang Han people do not need to worry about production at all, and all kinds of daily necessities can be transported from Yunnan.

All they had to do was disguise themselves as Burmese and expand into southern Burma. A large number of weapons and ammunition have been delivered from China.

There is no shortage of instructors, and the Kokang region has entered a period of large-scale military training, and in more than half a year, a regular army has been raised.

At the same time, the Kokang Han also incorporated the Burmese natives in the north, those indigenous soldiers did not understand the language, and it was more troublesome to train, but they also had a certain combat effectiveness, and were incorporated into the army by the Kokang Han people, and implemented a cruel system of joint sitting, if they were deserters or cowardice in wartime, they would affect their tribes and families.

But the treatment is also good, at least these indigenous soldiers feel that the food is too good to be a mess, and the material conditions are very good.

At the same time, the Kokang Han people played a banner of Wu and Yue Tongzhou, that is, to drive the British out of Burma, which made those indigenous soldiers hate the same enemy.

Under the threat of the emphasis on ideological education and the brutal system of sitting, these indigenous soldiers were highly motivated to fight.

Although the training was sometimes frustrating for the officers who had been transferred from the East China Army, the situation gradually improved as the Chinese language proficiency of the indigenous soldiers improved.

In peacetime, in addition to training, the Kokang Han people went out to fight, and the targets of the battle were those indigenous tribes.

The strong man is king, this is the supreme law of northern Burma, if you do not obey me, do not accept my administration, do not accept my authority, then the army will fight against each other until you submit.

After being subdued, then the next step is the period of incorporation, for which the Kokang Han has formed a complete process and propaganda system under the guidance of the military and political personnel who support Kokang in the country.

The International Culture Propaganda Department, which was transferred to the Kokang region, gradually formed a sinicization organization in northern Myanmar, specializing in teaching the people of Shanyue to serve the king.

Policies like this, from ancient times to the present, the Han people have been continuously carried out to the south, and once developed to Vietnam, and the degree of sinicization of Vietnam is also very high, at this time Vietnam still maintains a very high degree of sinicization.

Like Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan these regions, early or past, have gradually completed the process of sinicization, among which the sinicization of Guizhou is the latest, and there were continuous rebellions in Guizhou during the Ming Dynasty.

The sinicization of Vietnam began in the Tang Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was once incorporated into Chinese territory, but later it was divided and the process of sinicization was interrupted.

The sinicization of the indigenous people in the south is a process that has been carried out in China for all dynasties, and its policy is relatively soft, and ethnic massacres are rarely carried out, because the indigenous people in the south have basically not formed a national concept, but after the advanced culture of the Han nationality went south, it was automatically integrated into the Han system.

Now the Chinese Empire is restarting this process, with the Kokang Han at the vanguard of expansion into this part of Burma.

The sinicization of the Burmese natives is also an action that needs to be insisted on for a long time, as long as these Burmese natives are sinicized, then Myanmar is also Chinese.

For more than half a year, the Kokang Han in Burma defeated 123 large and small tribes, and due to the continuous dispatch of military and political personnel to Burma by the East China political axe, the Kokang Han formed a systematic management system in northern Burma, and those indigenous tribes were included in the scope of rule.

In this way, the armed forces of the Kokang Han formed an armed regime.

After learning of the establishment of the Chinese Empire, this armed regime elected Yang Lianxing as the 'King of Burma' after deliberation, which was equivalent to the establishment of a vassal state, and the establishment of this vassal state was approved by Xia Jun.

The establishment of the vassal state, as long as the culture is well grasped, the possible surnames of the rebellion are basically equal to zero, and the vassal state is ruled by the Han people, how can it be possible to rebel.

If it is like Vietnam in later generations, they themselves are not Han Chinese, although Vietnam has been sinicized for a long time since ancient times, but after all, it belongs to the category of wolf ambitions.

If it weren't for the Han nationality in the Kokang region as the core, Xia Jun would never agree to the establishment of this vassal state.

Of course, the name of this vassal state was only secret, and nominally China still had no connection with the Han regime in northern Burma.

At the same time, the Kokang Han in Myanmar will not officially disclose their Han identity, but will be called 'Kokang', but as long as they know that they are Han, it is fine, and how to claim it to the outside world is another matter.

The reason why they want to be called the Kokang clan is to prevent the British from pulling the Chinese Empire.

Anyway, China has not violated international rules, so the British can only eat coptis dumbly. Moreover, the majority of the population of this regime is indigenous to Burma, and the British have no way to get involved with China.

Soon, in northern Burma, a regime of the 'Kokang Kingdom' emerged, with Han Chinese as aristocrats and natives as commoners.

The military and political aspects of this regime are basically managed by the instructors sent by the Chinese Empire, but the identity of these instructors is the people of the 'Jungle Tiger Security Company', who have been removed from the political circles of the Chinese Emperor and no longer belong to the regular establishment of the Chinese Empire.

The rule of the Kokang Kingdom over the indigenous tribes is based on a policy of tenderness and iron-bloodedness, which belongs to the type of beating a stick and giving a sweet date.

There are not many taxes in normal times, which can make those indigenous people live a better life than before, and with the improvement of productivity, those indigenous peoples will live better and better.

In this way, the popular base was first laid, and with political propaganda, the Burmese natives would see the Kokang Kingdom as a just regime that had freed them from British rule.

At the same time, through the evil propaganda of the British, and the vision of a better life under the rule of the Kokang Kingdom, these natives were actively anti-British and promoted. If these natives continue to be sinicized, then the regime against the British colonizers will be very stable.

As soon as the fight starts, you can fool many natives to take weapons and fight without fear of death, there is a basis for using the tactics of the sea of people, and there is also a basis for the tactics of elite soldiers, and the jungle tiger mercenaries and Kokang Han soldiers take the route of elite soldiers, specializing in dealing with jungle warfare.

At the same time, according to the instructions of the head of the empire, it was necessary to fully mobilize the Burmese people's anti-British and vigorously develop the anti-British guerrilla war.

However, these weapons are definitely not weapons used by the Chinese [***] team, and from the looks of it, they are not Chinese-made weapons, in short, there is no handle for the British to catch.

Even the weapons of the Kokang Defense Forces are not the standard weapons used by the regular Chinese army, but they are not bad, and the rifles are Soviet SVT semi-automatic rifles, which are products of the same era as the M1 Garand, and are semi-automatic rifles used in World War II. The submachine gun used the American M3 submachine gun, also known as the Gad submachine gun, and the Yankees had not yet made this kind of gun at this time. The sniper rifle is an SVT-type sniper rifle.

Anyway, in terms of weapons, the weapons of the Kokang Kingdom Defense Forces are absolutely advanced, but they are not the same as the regular Chinese army, and they are massively equipped with submachine guns.

In jungle combat, the two sides often engage in close-range encounters, and the speed at which weapons are fired is compared, and whoever has the most firepower wins.

These weapons were all exchanged by Xia Jun directly from the exchange platform, and they were absolutely useful against the British army with pull-and-pull rifles, while those indigenous troops who walked the crowd tactics were equipped with Mauser rifles, which were large road goods, and also had some submachine gun equipment.

At this time, a large number of Mauser rifles were eliminated in China, mainly used to train the militia in the past, and now the militia training is mainly replaced by the M1 Garand, and now China's economy has developed, and the bandits have been completely exterminated, and the militia training in many areas has even been completely canceled, and most of these weapons have been transported to the Kokang Kingdom.

Because of the strong support of the Chinese Empire, the Kokang Kingdom developed its armed forces extremely rapidly.

The British political axe was caught in the European war and was unable to look eastward, so it turned a blind eye to the development of the Kokang armed forces, but suddenly played the banner of establishing the 'Kokang Kingdom', and the British army in Myanmar could not sit still.

The British Governor of Burma gathered 3,000 British troops, plus nearly 5,000 indigenous soldiers, and slaughtered the Kokang kingdom entrenched in the mountains of northern Burma.

As soon as the British army moved, it was known to the Kokang Kingdom, because the Chinese Emperor's [***] intelligence bureau had established a preliminary intelligence gathering system in Burma.

Burma is a British colony, and the administration and military are concentrated in so many places, it is very easy to spy on them, and the British management of the colony is also relatively extensive, and there are basically no spy war agencies, so that the Chinese Emperor [***] intelligence can easily penetrate.

When the Kokang National Defense Force received the information, Yang Lianxing was a little worried, and hurriedly convened Liu Bochen, the commander of the National Defense Force, to discuss countermeasures, Liu Bochen was originally the head of the Southwest Military Region, and was later transferred to the Jungle Tiger Security Company, and was sent by the Jungle Tiger Security Company to the Kokang area as the commander of the Kokang Kingdom Defense Force.

Liu Bochen said to Yang Lianxing: "Rest assured, the King of Burma has instructed me to annihilate the invading British army, and we will let them have no return." ”

Liu Bochen had already received a call from Xia Jun from China before, Xia Jun instructed him to annihilate the British army, if he couldn't do it, he would do it himself!

In Hangzhou, Xia Jun convened an emergency military meeting to finalize the strategy for Burma.

"Now the strength of the British army in Burma is very empty, the total strength is only 8,000 British troops, plus some indigenous soldiers, and we have 10,000 Kokang Defense Forces in the Kokang area, all of them are Han people, and there are 3,000 jungle tiger mercenaries, and there are more than 20,000 indigenous soldiers, which is enough to compete with the British army. It was not difficult to destroy the invading British army, but the next expansion of the Kokang Kingdom would have to be carefully discussed. Xia Jun said at the meeting.

Chen Xuanyu said: "With such a small number of people, it can't occupy much space, if we want to take the opportunity to occupy a larger territory, we must first expand our military strength, then we must have more weapons to equip Burmese indigenous soldiers, and we have to transfer another batch of weapons to Myanmar." ”

"I also have to transfer some food to buy the hearts of the indigenous people." Liu Wenhong said.

(To be continued)