Chapter 265: The British Army Counterattacks
The British can imagine with the soles of their feet that these weapons were brought to Burma by the Chinese political axe, but because there is no evidence, there is no way to deal with the Chinese political axe.
At the same time, the British do not know that the Kokang tribe is the Burmese Han Chinese, and the fundamental motive of the Chinese political axe is still unknown.
The rife was fruitless, and Britain had little to do to retaliate, after all, if it retaliated against China, China could also retaliate against Britain by increasing its support for the Burmese indigenous rebels.
For Britain, which is fighting in Europe, there is not much energy to deal with China for the sake of Burma for the time being.
After the Sino-British dispute broke out, Xia Jun immediately called the Ministry of National Defense to report on the construction of the highway in Tibet Province, and the construction of the Ministry of National Defense was managed by Duan Qirui.
Duan Qirui has only taken over the construction of national defense projects for more than a month, and there are no major problems under his takeover, and according to the report below, Duan Qirui has extremely strict requirements for the project.
"Report to the Führer, nearly half of our road to Tibetan province has been repaired, and half of it has not been repaired." Duan Qirui made a phone call to Xia Jun's office to report.
Xia Jun instructed Duan Qirui: "Let the following step up the construction of the road, and strive to repair the road to the Sino-Indian border before the end of the first half of next year." ”
Duan Qirui was shocked in his heart and asked, "Is the Führer going to use force against Britain?" ”
"As soon as our road is cleared, we can threaten India, we can take the initiative on the Burmese side, but it may only be a matter of time before we use force." Xia Jun said to Duan Qirui.
India is known as the jewel in the crown of the United Kingdom, and if the jewel of the British is threatened, it will naturally not be able to speak.
Duan Qirui hung up the phone, picked up a pile of engineering documents in front of the desk and looked at it, many national defense projects of the Ministry of Defense are now under construction.
Generally speaking, they are mainly concentrated in the northern, southern, and western regions, mainly transportation facilities, military airports, and fortification groups, of which the northern part has the most national defense projects, and there are simply as many national defense projects as a cow on the line from the northeast to the northwest.
It can be seen from the distribution of these national defense projects that the enemies that the imperial [***] ministry will guard against in the future are mainly Tsarist Russia and Yuben. In the southwest, the empire had to deal with Britain and France, while in the south and southeast of China, it was the United States that had to be guarded against.
Basically, with the exception of Germany, China was already under the encirclement formed by Britain, France, Russia, Vietnam, and the United States.
Four of these five countries were members of the Entente.
The United States, like China, is in a state of neutrality, but recent U.S. movements have shown a lot of hostility toward China.
He said that he would definitely be an enemy of China, and his hatred of China was so high that he had become a mortal enemy of China.
Judging from the current situation, Britain and France are actively expanding into the British and French colonies of Indochina, and there will inevitably be conflicts in the future.
As for Tsarist Russia, there seems to be no conflict at present, but Duan Qirui knows that most of these national defense projects under construction are aimed at Tsarist Russia, and their scale is far greater than that of Tsarist Russia.
In other words, in the future, China may have to take on the five major powers alone.
Thinking of this, Duan Qirui couldn't help but gasp, and at the same time had to admire Xia Jun's courage, it was his kind of courage that made people feel crazy that allowed today's China to defeat Yueben, recover lost territory, and seize the Dutch colony and establish the Nanyang Republic.
Now that Myanmar is in chaos again, I heard that the Kokang people of the Kokang Kingdom are Han Chinese, and the Kokang King has been named the 'King of Burma' by the empire, and the three major military regions in the south have sent 3,000 soldiers to the Kokang Kingdom.
According to the news from Burma, the Burmese British army organized two raids, but both raids were completely annihilated, and Burma was extremely empty at this time.
Taking advantage of the British to acquire their colonies during the European war was indeed a good tool, but the problem of post-war counterattack was a headache.
When Duan Qirui didn't know how to deal with it in the future, Xia Jun called him to speed up the construction of the Tibetan Provincial Highway, obviously wanting to threaten Britain to compromise by attacking India.
…… When the situation in Burma continued to deteriorate, the 100,000 British troops sent by the British from India finally arrived at the mouth of the Lijiang River in Burma.
This unit was supposed to be put into the European theater, but when the fire broke out in Burma, it had to be sent to Burma to extinguish the fire.
The arrival of this British army was already the end of December, and by this time Burma was already in chaos, and the northern kingdom of Kokang was almost disturbed to Rangoon.
Rangoon was the administrative-military center of the British in Burma, and due to the strong fortifications, the Kokang kingdom did not harass Rangoon due to its lack of various heavy weapons.
On 26 December, the commander-in-chief of the Kokang National Defense Forces, Liu Bochen, issued a rally order, and a rabble of nearly 300,000 indigenous soldiers hastily trained by the Kokang National Defense Forces began to assemble in the central and northern parts of the Burmese River Valley.
Eight divisions of indigenous soldiers with 120,000 troops were assembled in the central region, and eleven divisions with 180,000 troops were assembled in the north.
Liu Bochen submitted the operational strategy to the head of the empire, and the counterattack of 100,000 British troops in Burma, the Kokang Defense Force still adopted the strategy of luring the enemy into the depths.
The whole battle plan is to use 19 indigenous divisions to fight head-on with the British army in the Burma River Valley, and the combat effectiveness of these indigenous divisions is still very poor, but these indigenous divisions have the will to fight because of the existence of spiritual pillars, and under the maintenance of this combat will and military law, they can do not rout and bravely charge forward.
But it was obviously impossible to defeat the British, so the strategy was to fight and retreat, retreating to the northern edge of the mountains with a loss of eight to ten divisions.
During the war and retreat, the Kokang Defence Force mobilized another 200,000 natives to fight and lure the British into the mountains when they reached the edge of the northern mountains.
If you can successfully lure the British into the mountains, then it will be easy to fight.
If the British army did not enter the mountainous area, they would encircle the British army with 400,000 troops, and then besiege the British army with the tactics of crowds, and after the British army's ammunition supply was almost consumed, the regular division of the Kokang Wehrmacht would carry out a surprise attack, so as to destroy the 100,000 British troops.
This tactic was learned by Liu Bochen in a military academy, and at that time it was the mode of warfare that the head of state had taught them, and it was only applicable to wars between backward countries and developed countries.
Moreover, in advance, it is necessary to adopt the tactics of crowds, the soldiers must have spiritual beliefs, and at the same time, they must have the support of other powers in the battle.
This mode of warfare is actually only applicable to some countries in Asia.
At this time, Myanmar happened to meet such a requirement to a certain extent, first of all, in terms of spiritual beliefs, it was the banner of liberation of the Burmese people, and the Burmese natives were willing to fight hard. Moreover, behind the Kokang Kingdom is the powerful backing of the Chinese Empire.
Liu Bochen therefore chose such a strategy, and one of the great advantages of choosing such a strategy is that it can consume the indigenous population of Burma, and make people willing to go to the front, and when China immigrates to Burma, the Han people can achieve demographic dominance.
Moreover, there is basically no possibility of failure in such a strategy, because the enemy army will be carried away by victory under continuous victories, and if the enemy army is constantly lured into the depths, the enemy's supply will have problems, and as long as the enemy's supply is cut off, the enemy's combat effectiveness will drop sharply.
If the British army wanted to break through, the Kokang Wehrmacht had three regular divisions that were enough to resist the British breakout.
Xia Jun couldn't help but smile after reading the operational strategy submitted by Liu Bochen, this kind of operational strategy was used against the US military in the Vietnam War and the Korean War in later generations.
Every time, the US military relied on advanced weapons and equipment to play triumphant songs all the way, but as a result, it was suddenly surrounded by a sea of people, and in the end it could only break through and flee in a hurry.
After the Korean War was fought, there were basically few men left in the whole of North Korea, and North Korean women hid the soldiers of the Chinese volunteers at home to borrow seeds, and many of the North Korean people in later generations were of the Chinese race.
It can be said that the victory of the Korean War was completely based on the sea of corpses and blood. And the defeat of the US army in Vietnam, in addition to the same reasons for the defeat of the Korean War, the terrain of Vietnam was also an important reason for the defeat of the US army.
Moreover, there was one factor in both of these wars that led to the defeat of the US military, and that was the support of the two great powers of China and the Soviet Union for these two countries.
Under these circumstances, it is entirely feasible for the Kokang National Defense Forces to adopt such a strategy, and the only concern is that the development events are too short, and the Burmese indigenous people have not been completely fooled, and they may not necessarily move forward on the battlefield.
But it doesn't matter, anyway, if you can't retreat into the mountains at most, and then slowly build the core, as long as you cultivate a group of talents who incite the indigenous people of Myanmar, then you can make a comeback at any time.
…… The 100,000 British troops supporting Burma were very strong in weaponry, which was completely standard on the Western Front in Europe, and the weapons were the most advanced, and even all kinds of Chinese weapons could be found in them.
As soon as these British troops arrived in Burma, the British Governor of Burma ordered a counteroffensive to retake the northern provinces occupied by the rebels.
The British army then engaged in a fierce battle with the Kokang Wehrmacht in the center, in which the British army quickly defeated the ten indigenous divisions in the center with superior artillery fire and strong equipment.
The Kokang Wehrmacht fought and retreated, and sent troops to harass British supplies and other British-occupied areas.
Soon the 100,000 British troops were divided into four groups, which were on fire in the Burmese provinces, among which the British army that was counterattacked was the strongest, with 50,000 troops.
This group of British troops dragged all kinds of heavy weapons, and the Kokang Wehrmacht could not resist them along the way.
However, the march of these British troops was a bit slow, and the Kokang Defense Forces could retreat calmly, and most of the indigenous soldiers were able to move forward bravely in the battle, but there were also many Burmese indigenous soldiers who were held back, and these unrestrained indigenous soldiers were all disposed of by the warlords.
The other three British forces also fought well, large areas were reclaimed by the British colonial axe, and the chaotic situation in Burma began to see the light of day.
(To be continued)