Kokang is located in the southwestern border region of China's Yunnan Province, not too far from Myitkyina, and the Myitkyina region is located in the south.

Having picked up the attacking British forces, the Kokang Defense Forces launched an expansion offensive at the end of November, and the 1st Division of the Kokang Defense Forces was under the city of Myitkyina.

The walls of the small city were not very high, and the Kokang National Defense Army easily blasted the walls with backward mountain artillery, and then captured the Myitkyina region.

At the same time, the Kokang Defence Force continued to mobilize the natives in the rear, and after a brief training, they were put into battle and attacked in various places.

Those captured British natives were soon also specially pulled to do ideological work, but once they did ideological work, they found a problem, that is, they did not understand the language.

The dialects of northern Myanmar are completely different from those in the south, and most of these indigenous people are from the south.

"It's not easy to do now, if we go to the south, the ideological work will not be carried out, and then we will not be able to agitate those natives!" The Kokang Defense Force Education Committee lamented.

"Yes! How good is that? Yang Lianxing said depressedly.

"And our mountainous area is inconvenient, and there are too many domestic materials, so we can't transport them in a short time. We're going to expand south, and the obstacles are very big. ”

"It looks like we're going to change our strategy and swallow the north and northeast of Myanmar first, and then think about the river valleys." Liu Bochen thought for a while and said.

…… The Kokang region soon sent back a report referring to the problems encountered by the Kokang Defence Forces in expanding to the south.

That is, the Kokang Kingdom has not been established for a long time, and it is not very familiar with the language and geography of southern Burma, and the main problem is that it lacks talents to incite the indigenous people of southern Burma, and it takes time to cultivate.

At the same time, there is also a problem that the roads are not usual, the transportation of materials is not convenient, and if you stretch your hand too long, it is not easy to hold the ground.

After reading this report, Xia Jun thought about it for a while, and felt that it really made sense, at this time, the foundation of the Kokang Kingdom was still very weak, and it was indeed a big fat man who couldn't eat it in one bite.

There must be time to train the demagogues, that is, to train the lackeys of Burma, and at the same time to strengthen the internal infrastructure and the administrative system so that the next step of expansion can be carried out.

So Xia Jun sent a telegram, asking the Kokang Defense Force to decide the extent of its expansion.

After receiving the telegram, Liu Bochen decisively gave up his expansion into the valley of Burma, and chose to swallow the mountainous areas of northern and northeastern Burma first, using the mountains as a barrier to resist the British colonizers.

However, Liu Bochen did not take the British army to heart, in his opinion, these British troops would not fight at all, and the will to fight on the battlefield was very poor.

This reminded him that Westerners rely on weapons and machines to fight wars, while Easterners often emphasize ** and willpower when they fight.

But at this time, the Chinese [***] team has weapons and machines that are not inferior to Westerners, and even the most advanced weapons and machines are in China.

However, the battlefields in Europe were different from those in the colonies, and most of the Westerners had no will in the colonies, as if Britain was beaten by the Germans in Africa.

The British defenses in northern Burma were very weak, and very weak, and the Kokang Defense Army, with its backward mountain artillery, conquered the towns in the north and northeast one after another.

A large number of Burmese natives were armed, and with the slogan of liberating the Burmese people, the local Burmese natives joined the ranks of the rebels against the British colonizers in each conquered place.

In an instant, the momentum became huge, like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, conquering one place and rushing to another.

The Governor of Burma suddenly panicked, but he did not expect that there would suddenly be a large-scale chaos in the north, and the 15,000 soldiers they had excluded had not been accounted for and responded to, as if they had disappeared.

According to the report, the Governor of Burma found that the natives in the north had good weapons and equipment, which could be imagined from the soles of their feet, and these weapons were imported from China.

However, at this time, it was not clear to the British that the core power in the mighty indigenous rebellion was actually controlled by the Han Chinese.

Just when the Kokang National Defense Force was expanding, it encountered another problem, that is, although the northern part of Burma is easy to capture, if you want to go to the northeast of Burma, there is a plateau in between, and the environment on the plateau is very harsh, and the dense jungle plateau is difficult to cross.

The strategy was changed from the northeast to the south, and the Kokang Defense Forces (Kokang) launched attacks along the Lijiang River (the Irrawaddy River in the Burmese part) into the more affluent hilly valleys.

Along the Lijiang all the way south, the Kokang Defense Force reached the Miadam area, and the actual control of the local area ended, and the future of the administrative division was also on this line, because further south was the plains and valley area, which was difficult to defend.

However, the Kokang Defence Forces did not stop and continued to attack the valley area. At this time, the defense of the British was extremely empty, and it was natural to go and get a handful.

A force of 5,000 men went down the river, conquering cities along the way, taking all useful things, and in the southern valleys, because they would not be included in the administration in the near future, it was purely to rob and buy people's hearts.

As for those Burmese indigenous soldiers, although they said that they shouted that they wanted to liberate the Burmese people, they were very happy to rob at this time.

Looting was also famous, under the banner of 'fighting the colonizers' lackeys, and every time a town was breached, the food looted in the town would inevitably be distributed to the poor Burmese people, and the goods would be taken for themselves.

Part of it was robbed, and part of it was benefited.

The robbers are all those rich families and merchants, and the group itself is not too big, and those poor Burmese people can be brought in as cannon fodder in the future, and they are given food at this time, and they are still looking forward to the Kokang National Defense Force in the future!

In the north, you don't usually get anything, but the further south you go, the more you enter the valley plains of Burma, the richer the towns you conquer.

The Burmese natives who had received the food also happily took up some weapons and followed the army all the way to conquer the city, and this snowball rolled bigger and bigger in the river valley area.

The Governor of Burma urgently dispatched 3,000 British troops and 20,000 indigenous soldiers to suppress them, and basically sent out everything that could be dispatched, while asking for help from the mainland.

The British political axe has not come to its senses for the time being, and I don't know why Myanmar has suddenly become chaotic.

After carefully analyzing the situation in Burma, the British understood that the weapons in the hands of these natives were imported from China, and the Chinese political axe must have done something behind it.

However, the British political axe has no excuse to attack China, after all, arms sales are nothing.

In order to pacify Burma, the British political axe immediately asked the Indian side to send 100,000 Indian soldiers into Burma to fight, 100,000 is already the limit, and now that the war situation in Europe is tight, it is very good to be able to draw 100,000.

The British still did not defeat the German army in Africa, and the German army in Africa went around in circles with the British army, dragging nearly 400,000 British troops on the African savannah, but the size of the German army in Africa has also been sharply reduced.

Britain mobilized the entire overseas colonies, but there were fires everywhere.

…… When the 23,000 British troops assembled and set out to attack, the indigenous army drawn up by the Kokang Wehrmacht had already reached the Sarin area.

The area is in central Myanmar and has become more densely populated.

The British army attacked very quickly, because the British army took a steamer, and it only took two days to reach the Sarin area, and the indigenous army in the Sarin area was led by Zhang Daoyi, the commander of the second division of the Kokang Defense Army, Zhang Daoyi participated in the Shandong Zhongyue War and was originally the commander of the East China Army.

The Southwest Military Region could not make any war to fight in the short term, so Zhang Daoyi applied to join the Kokang National Defense Force.

At this time, in Myanmar, the left and right rushed to the right, rampant, which simply made people's blood boil.

But just as it was cool, the British army came again.

Zhang Daoyi had already received the news of the build-up of the British army, so he sent a company in advance to transport back the looted large sums of property.

However, Zhang Daoyi did not retreat early, but waited for the arrival of the British army.

As soon as the British army arrived in the Sarin area, Zhang Daoyi used the nearly 80,000 natives accumulated in a snowball as cannon fodder, while he hid behind with the third division.

Unaware of the arrival of the British troops, the natives were sent to the riverbank area, and as soon as the British arrived, they dealt a ferocious blow to the mob.

These natives were only coming to fight soy sauce, and they didn't even have many decent weapons, and Nari was able to withstand the ferocious attack of these British troops, and was suddenly beaten everywhere, and the battle immediately turned into a one-sided massacre.

The 23,000 British troops fought smoothly, and they couldn't help but have the heart of underestimating the enemy, and they couldn't help but chase and fight all the way, Zhang Daoyi ran while fighting, and the British troops behind saw that among the indigenous rebels, Zhang Daoyi's third division of the Kokang National Defense Army did not break up, and regardless of those heavy weapons, they went into battle lightly and chased after Zhang Daoyi's third division.

Zhang Daoyi ran with the third division, because Zhang Daoyi had already planned the escape route, ran very smoothly, and constantly created obstacles for the British army on the road, the British army chased down all the way but had a lot of results, because Zhang Daoyi kept releasing some bait to the British army.

Anyway, some indigenous soldiers are not sorry to die, but the core soldiers of the Third Division have not given up a single one.

Zhang Daoyi fled all the way north with the British army hanging in this way, and the British army pursued all the way, and thought that they would soon be able to annihilate this indigenous rebel army, leaving all those artillery and heavy machine guns behind.

The British did not know that the most elite 1st Division of the Kokang Defense Force had reached the Miadam area, and if they continued to pursue it like this, they would run into the 1st Division of the Kokang Defense Army, which was waiting for them.

The German army in Africa also did the same, and this tactic of luring the enemy into the depths was simply tried and tested by the British army.

(To be continued)