Xiguan is a complete hardliner, three years ago he wanted to organize an armed uprising and echo the Yongji rice in the north, but he was stopped by Master Hu Poduo, without the support of the master, he could not succeed with the status of Xiguan. It was only during these three years that he recruited many like-minded Buddhists, who became the backbone of the YMCA, and he also secretly sent more than 300 monks to the north to join the Free Army to train soldiers.

Before meeting Master Hu Poduo, Tin Guan connected with a secret organization, and the people sent by this organization offered to provide 200 spears and 20,000 rounds of ammunition, and they would be delivered immediately. Tin Crown did not investigate the origin of this organization, nor the origin of the weapons, nor the purpose of the mysterious organization, because the organization was accompanied by a Free Army leader, which is enough to prove that the mysterious organization is an enemy of the British.

The enemy of the enemy is the friend, so the tin crown received the weapons and ammunition and distributed them to the two hundred monks and warriors who had gathered, and blessed them to hide the weapons and ammunition in the cotton cloth behind their backs, and if there was a problem during the procession, they waited for their own orders to launch an armed riot, and the signal of the order was the sound of gunfire!

Monks in red robes with one shoulder baring and civilians dressed in ordinary clothes mingled in the procession, with the monks moving relatively far forward to indicate that it was a procession initiated by monks. Hundreds of thousands of people crowded the streets of Yangon, and the procession was slow to move forward, only to meet the barricades set up by the British around eleven a.m.

"During the martial law period in the whole city, the city of Yangon is taken over by the military, and the procession must return immediately to disband, otherwise it will be hit by the powerful firepower of the British Empire!" A British officer with a loudspeaker shouted to the procession in front of him, but to no avail, and the marchers continued to move slowly.

Even if the monks at the front tried to stop, the crowd behind them would spontaneously crowd forward. If you don't want to be trampled underfoot, you can only move forward.

The blackened crowd made the British officer nervous, and behind him a battalion of Indian infantry soldiers and three heavy machine guns gave him some relief. The order received in advance was to stop the march of the marchers at all costs and force them to disband. The most annoying thing is this kind of order, and it doesn't say whether to shoot or not, how can you stop them if you don't shoot? It's obvious. The above is to make your own decisions, and once something happens, you will use yourself as a scapegoat.

Secretly scolding his boss and Admiral Kitchener, the British officer saw that the procession was less than a hundred meters away from the barricade, and decisively handed over the horn in his hand to his deputy, an Indian deputy battalion commander, and after giving the deputy battalion commander full command, he turned around and walked through the ranks of soldiers and walked to a nearby bar to rest.

This is not an escape, at most he is cowardly and afraid. It was not a heavy punishment and the wisest choice compared to a scapegoat after the shot, and the British officer could not help but be proud of his ingenuity.

The Indian deputy battalion commander was dumbfounded, and after shouting two words with a loudspeaker, he found that something was wrong, and the parade could not stop at all as if he had eaten Xuanmai. But he knew that the order was to stop the procession at all costs, and the officer of the main country left stupidly, leaving the power to himself. Isn't this an obvious attempt to make meritorious contributions! As long as you let your subordinates fire the small guns, the petty officials will be promoted at that time. Maybe he will get rid of his status as an inferior person, although he will not be able to rise to Kshatriya or Brahmin, but after being appreciated by the British, the benefits will be great, and maybe those who are high up will have to bow to him at that time!

Indian soldiers under turbans are able to burst out with unparalleled combat effectiveness against unarmed monks and civilians alike, as evidenced by the Indian police stationed throughout the colonies and leased territories. At this time, the soldiers of this Indian battalion could also prove their abilities. The Indian deputy battalion commander was much more decisive than the British officer, waved his big hand, and shouted: "Fire!" ”

The armament of the Indian battalion was far inferior to that of the British native army, but there was not much difference in individual weapons, and the firepower of the rear-loading repeating rifle and three heavy machine guns was good even in other countries. When the gunshots rang out. The dozen or so Bureau of Investigation agents who were mixed in with the parade knew that the time had come to play their part, and they immediately fell to the side of the road to dodge the bloody bullets that came through the crowd.

The screams of terror and the fallen crowd, the sound of gunfire and the smell of blood completely confused the procession, and most of the procession that crowded the streets ran in both directions, at this point the agents leaned on the buildings on both sides of the street and began to return fire, less than a hundred meters away, the agents' pistols may not pose much of a threat to the Indian soldiers, but the shouts that accompanied the gunfire made the situation out of control.

"We also have weapons, let's go forward and kill these shameless invaders, rush!" The agents shouted, and then they saw dozens of monks bravely rushing forward with rifles, although all of them were hit by bullets, but they aroused the anger of the marchers, and seeing that their side had weapons to fight back, the admirable monks fearlessly rushed forward, and then think about the looting of their homes by the invaders last night, their own women were ruined, adrenaline was rushing, and the crowd changed from panic to charge.

Several agents slowly approached the barricade in front of them from the buildings on both sides, and threw grenades at a distance of about twenty meters, and the grenades accurately hit the barricades, causing the enemy's fire to stagnate.

After dozens of dead and wounded, the monks managed to storm the barricade, the three heavy machine guns were dumbfounded by an inexplicable explosion, and the enemy rushed into the barricade again, and the Indian soldiers could not hold it anymore, and finally showed their true combat effectiveness - they threw away their weapons and turned to run, and the British officers hiding in the bar fled together when they saw that the situation was not good, and the barricade was captured!

Although Hu Poduo is a Buddhist master and has a unique reputation, he has no experience in organization, and the monks also eat fasting and chant Buddha every day, so they have no experience in organization. Therefore, the previous parade was very chaotic, so when there was an emergency, no leader came out to give orders, so it was used by the Investigation Bureau and the YMCA.

The crowd began to follow blindly, and under the fanning of the agents, the crowd picked up the rifles discarded by the Indian soldiers, and several monk fighters were quite skilled in handling two heavy machine guns that were not damaged. Death and blood made the marchers lose their minds, and they only knew how to follow the movement of the large army, but they did not know what would greet them.

In a similar situation at the other two barricades, Indian soldiers led by relatively respectful British officers did not shoot first, but were provoked into a fight by the agents, and the Indian soldiers in those two places also did not justify themselves when the crowd suffered more casualties, and the crowd was given a large amount of weapons and ammunition after running away.

Soldiers from three Indian infantry battalions abandoned more than a thousand rifles, and the procession was initially armed and orderly under the core of the YMCA led by Tin Guan. More than 5,000 armed troops armed with rifles, kitchen knives and other weapons launched an attack on the British military barracks, arsenal stations, telegraph offices, banks, administrative buildings and other places, and the rest of the people attacked the British houses and other places, the whole of Yangon was full of gunfire and fire, and the preliminary estimate was that more than 70,000 people participated in the riot, and the people of Yangon, who originally believed in Buddhism and were honest and kind, fell into complete madness.

Master Hu Poduo sat in the Ruida Light Tower, his face was full of pain, there was already news of a riot from his subordinates, this was not his wish, it can be imagined how many people would die because of this riot, how many families would be broken. The British will not allow Rangoon to get out of control, tough repression is inevitable, they are sinners! This march started on its own, and now it can no longer be reversed.

Admiral Kitchener felt extremely bitter about the consequences, and he did not expect that the march that he had not taken to heart would turn into such a violent riot, and his own barracks were attacked. I am afraid that after this incident, I will also be questioned and punished by the London side, and I just gloated at the sad Natal, and in the blink of an eye, I also suffered this kind of blow.

What is even more frustrating is that the troops in Yangon are now tight, except for three Indian infantry battalions and one British infantry regiment, the rest of the troops have been sent by Kitchener to carry out the blockade mission on the periphery, and the farthest troops are more than 50 kilometers away, and there is no way to transfer them back. I heard that the radio station of the Chinese army has been popularized to the platoon, and only one British infantry brigade is equipped with one, which leads to the lack of smooth information communication, and some units still have to rely on cavalry to transmit news, so they can't wait!

By one o'clock in the afternoon, the riots showed no sign of abating, but intensified, and the rioters had captured the weakly defended telegraph offices, banks, and other non-military institutions, with the exception of the British Burmese Administration Building and the barracks of the 3rd Infantry Brigade. Admiral Kitchener, who was guarding the barracks, did not fear for his own safety, and the barracks guarded by 700 soldiers was impregnable, and the attacks of the rioters were so damaging that it was impossible to break the barracks defended by the professional soldiers.

It's just that the telegram for help from Commissioner Pan of the Administration Building gives me a headache, Commissioner Pan has a lot of power, it is said that he is a popular candidate for the next Viceroy of India, and he is very powerful in political circles, and he cannot ignore Pan's request as a military general. Besides, if Pan was killed by the rioters, he would be guilty of a great crime, after all, it was the time of military rule, and the power belonged to Kitchener, and the responsibility belonged to him. (To be continued.) )