Chapter 264: Turmoil in Burma, Sino-British Rivalry
After the 3rd Division of the Kokang Defense Army launched a charge, the British army had no possibility of escaping, and the British soldiers were already very tired, and they could not outrun the 06th Brigade of the 3rd Division, even the 05th Brigade still had the energy to pursue.
The British were captured as they fled, and there were very few who resisted, and most of the native soldiers surrendered on their knees.
Those British native soldiers would not have the will to fight to the death, and they surrendered obediently one by one when they were caught up.
Charlie fled with a company first, because he was on a horse, so he was not tired at all, but Charlie ran for more than an hour, ran about 20 kilometers, and directly ran into the 1st Division of the Kokang Wehrmacht who was repairing trenches, and when he saw the muzzle of the heavy machine gun in the black hole, he suddenly felt that the whole bright sky was darkened, and it was covered with dense dark clouds.
"Huh? What's the matter, isn't that guy ......" Zhou Zhanpeng, commander of the First Division of the Kokang Defense Army, was stunned, and then shouted: "Chief of Staff, do you see if that guy is the commander of the British Army......
Wang Jinming, chief of staff of the First Division, hurriedly flipped out a photo and looked at it, pointed to Charlie in the distance and said, "That's that guy, what is Charlie's name." ”
"Haha! So the big fish crashed into the door by itself? Zhou Zhanpeng was overjoyed, waved his hand and ordered: "Capture this for me." ”
"Yes!"
Facing the muzzle of the black hole, Charlie raised his hands without tears and surrendered!
The rebels in the distance, although they didn't have any regular uniforms, but the weapons and equipment in their hands were excellent, and Charlie realized that he had completely fallen into the trap of these rebels.
Stupid Charlie!
This name may follow him for the rest of his life.
The 1st Division captured Charlie and immediately dragged him down for interrogation.
After asking, the 1st Division learned that the British army had been defeated, and this Charlie just fled first.
When the First Division sent a telegram to inquire about the Third Division, the Third Division sent a telegram back, claiming that the British army had been annihilated by them, and there were only a few fish that slipped through the net, but there was no need for the First Division to block it, because those British troops did not have the physical strength to run far, and the middle twenty miles ran down and were already captured by the Third Division.
According to the plan, the first division is the main force! How did the Third Division kill the British army, and I knew that the First Division would not have to go south.
However, there was really nowhere to get back this boredom, so Zhou Zhanpeng could only order to move forward and capture the prisoners in a depressed manner.
I don't know how many I can catch.
…… The end of the 23,000 British troops heralded that the British army in Burma was completely unavailable, and the 8,000 native soldiers had lost 6,000, and now only 2,000 were left to defend the city.
These two thousand British troops are really unusable, and once they use the Burmese, they can't be suppressed.
However, the empty Myanmar is definitely an excellent training ground for the Kokang National Defense Force.
The 1st and 3rd Divisions of the Kokang National Defense Forces each began to recruit indigenous soldiers, then raided homes and houses, and distributed the looted food to the poor Burmese.
It's called robbing the rich and giving to the poor!
Unite the majority and slaughter the wealthy minority.
The 1st Division of the Kokang National Defense Army marched south along the Lijiang River, specializing in plundering commercial cities, and after breaking through those commercial cities, they gathered the Chinese merchants in the city to protect them, and then started to rob.
Except for the 1st and 3rd Divisions of Yangon, which were well fortified, they were not disturbed, and the other commercial towns along the river in the south were all disturbed by the 1st and 3rd Divisions.
The whole of Myanmar was in chaos, social order was disrupted by the Kokang Defense Forces, and all communications, communications, and commerce were paralyzed.
British reinforcements could not arrive for a while, and the Burmese governor was so anxious that he jumped up and down on Rangoon, but there was nothing he could do.
The administration of the Kokang Kingdom was also temporarily extended to the south, but considering that the British reinforcements would definitely launch a counteroffensive when they arrived, the administrators only went to the south of Burma to recruit troops and propagandize.
Thus was formed the Burmese Revolutionary Party, which recruited Burmese intellectuals who had rebelled against the British colonizers, and whose purpose was to swear allegiance to the Kokang royal family.
The Burmese people have never regarded the Kokang as the royal family, but the Burmese Revolutionary Party vigorously publicized the victory in the battle against the British, and preached that only under the leadership of the Kokang royal family could the Burmese people be liberated and the Burmese people live a happy life.
Due to the long-term predatory rule of the British, the Burmese hated the British, and once they turned over, they immediately resolutely supported the Kokang Kingdom.
The Kokang Kingdom first received domestic arms and ammunition support, and secondly, captured the guns and artillery of the British, so that it could organize a relatively large indigenous army.
These natives didn't say that they could send them to the battlefield if they were given weapons, that would be too much of a rabble, so they still had to train in the rear for certain events before being sent to the front line to fight.
A number of instructors were also sent from home, and these instructors were mainly responsible for directing the battle with the British army.
First of all, these natives were the natives of the north, who were more brave and ruthless, and secondly, under the dual service of the joint sitting system and ideological education, these natives fought fiercely and were not afraid of death, and the third division did not lose many northern aboriginal soldiers when fighting against the British army.
Recruiting Aboriginal soldiers to fight the British was a viable option.
At the same time, the Kokang Kingdom was mobilizing the indigenous people to overhaul roads, and the traffic environment in the north was not good, and Chinese supplies were not good to transport to Burma.
The Kokang Kingdom has requisitioned at least nearly 200,000 people to build roads, anyway, the roads are repaired and the food is full, and the Kokang is now not short of food, and some wages will be paid.
No matter how difficult the road is, as long as there is the spirit of Yugong moving mountains, it is nothing to build a road.
Under the rush of more than 200,000 people, the road was quickly cleared, and a large number of supplies were transported from China to the Kokang Kingdom.
In order to fight this war, Xia Jun personally approved 50 million yuan, which was specially used to support the Kokang Kingdom, and it was not enough to approve it again.
This time, even if it can't conquer the whole of Burma, it is tantamount to planting a big nail in Burma to let the Kokang Kingdom compete with the British and demarcate the border in Burma.
The Kokang Kingdom is in such a state of war, and the efficiency of the administration is very efficient, anyway, everything is for the war, and everything else is ignored, and everything can be done regardless of the cost, and the military itself is to defeat the enemy regardless of the cost.
A large number of natives were armed, and there was a wave of training everywhere.
However, it cannot be ignored that the family background of the Kokang Kingdom at this time is very thin, and there are basically not too many talents, even if it pulls up a lot of indigenous soldiers, these indigenous soldiers do not have many officers with war experience.
It doesn't matter, people who die in wars will have experience.
Experience is learned in the process of constant struggle.
However, in terms of jungle guerrilla warfare, the Kokang Kingdom is already relatively mature, which requires the British army to drill into the mountains, and basically there is no suspense to defeat the enemy.
…… At the same time, in China, it is still immersed in a hot construction, the golden age of the First World War, it is simply a flourishing industry.
Through the integration of the national capitalists in the country, a stronger group has been formed, the cohesion has been strengthened, and the cooperative surname of capital has also been strengthened.
For those non-boiled capitalists, it is not so easy to live.
The competition in the market began to become very fierce, and these open-boiled capitalists began to encounter more and more powerful competitors, many of whom had advanced technology.
Although they were able to survive during this golden age, their increase in strength was curbed. At the same time, they are also choked by the banks in terms of loans, and the domestic banks basically do not lend to them, and the international capital supports them, but they lack a group to communicate.
At the same time, even if international capital is willing to lend them money, it will not be easy for these open-boiled capitalists to survive in the future, and these loans will easily be repaid.
On the contrary, the merchants of the Huaxia Society are getting better and better, and the capital strength has begun to increase steadily under mutual cooperation, although international capital is actively infiltrating China, but at this time, the establishment of the Huaxia Society has made China's nationalist capital begin to hold together, which is similar to the national capital grouping of Britain, France, Germany and other countries after World War II, all in order to counter international capital.
However, the United States does not dominate the international arena at present, and China has not fully opened the threshold for international capital to enter China.
Therefore, it is obvious that international capital cannot be eaten in China.
At this time, China's capital is far behind international capital in finance, and China's financial talents are very scarce.
In terms of industrial technology, China's light industry technology has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and various advanced technologies have appeared one after another, and these technologies are all in the hands of those national capitalists.
In terms of heavy industry, Xia Jun once again strengthened his investment in machinery manufacturing, and Feng Ru submitted a machinery manufacturing equipment and technology that needed to be updated at Xia Jun's request.
Xia Jun spent 2 billion yuan on machinery manufacturing for this purpose, and the technology has risen from the ground, and now there is only a shortage of technicians, and there is no shortage of technology and equipment.
In terms of machinery manufacturing, Xia Jun has successively smashed so many points, so China's machinery manufacturing technology can be said to be the world's top.
Under such circumstances, the machinery manufacturing company under the East China Group began to invest money in the research and development of new technologies, which is also Xia Jun's behavior of seeking the machinery manufacturing industry to get rid of the exchange platform.
Now the machinery manufacturing technology is already the most advanced, as long as it can maintain the leading technology by research, then China's machinery manufacturing technology does not need to be exchanged with the exchange platform.
At this time, China's light industry is gradually becoming developed, while heavy industry is restricted by talent factors, and the scale is checked and balanced, but the heavy industry technology is not bad.
However, many heavy industry technologies are on par with those of the West, among which machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing, aircraft manufacturing, chemical manufacturing and other industries are the most powerful, and these heavy industries are related to the military.
In a stable environment, the outbreak of the war in Burma caused Britain to submit a letter of protest to China, protesting the flow of Chinese arms into northern Burma.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry immediately responded to the UK: "China does not know the origin of those weapons, and it may be personal smuggling, but it is definitely the act of the Chinese political axe." ”
This is the beginning of the tussle between China and the UK.
(To be continued)