After discussing it, the two men immediately decided to gather the main army from around Mandalay and use this golden opportunity to destroy the Free Army, including a British, an Indian and Burmese division, plus an Indian division near the concentration camp, Kitchener had a total of nearly 60,000 troops.

The war was developing in the direction that Yong Jimi wanted, Mandalay and the rear were empty, and the main force of 2,000 Free Army, which had been prepared for a long time, bypassed Mandalay and approached the British army's material storage base - Langwa from the south by a small road. The Burmese division, which had been stationed earlier, left an infantry regiment to guard the supplies.

On the night of November 7, 1904, the platoon commander of the second lieutenant of the British Burmese Infantry Regiment, Somchai was leading a squad of soldiers on patrol, and he looked up at the residence of the British regiment commander not far away, which was brightly lit, several British officers were partying, and the prostitutes who came from nearby towns to do business found their best customers, and despite the language barrier, several British officers were still intoxicated by the tenderness of women.

Somchai sneered, these evil Britons should all be put to death, and Burma should be owned by the Burmese themselves! He had studied English and British culture since he was a child, and he was full of yearning for Western civilization, thinking that after accepting British culture, he should be an Englishman, not an inferior Burmese. Unexpectedly, as he grew older, he found that even though he had the heart of an Englishman, they still made judgments based on their appearance, discrimination was everywhere, and he had never changed his position as an inferior person in the hearts of the British.

Until in Yangon, through a casual opportunity, Somchai met the big boss Yongjimi, what kind of person is that, tall and majestic, full of charm, Somchai feels that if he is a woman, he will definitely fall in love with him. Of course. What attracted Song Guess was more Yongjimi's freedom theory. Since then, Somchai has become a staunch member of the Free Army, and Yong Jimi asks him to temporarily lurk in the army and wait for future orders.

Now that the order had finally arrived, he remembered what a vendor had said to him the other day. I thought it was so easy! The soldiers who followed him on patrol were all Somchai's henchmen, and they would not suspect what they did, and there were three other squads in the entire warehouse barracks in addition to their own squad, but each was responsible for different areas, which also provided conditions for Somchai's actions.

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, just as Somchai was about to end his patrol, and it was the agreed time, Somchai took a few people to a camp wall and walked up to chat with a few guards. His own men planted explosives underneath. Ten minutes later, Somchai and the others left, only to hear a loud "boom", the camp wall was destroyed by a strong explosion, and the free army waiting a few hundred meters outside quickly rushed in.

The information had already been sent out, the Indian soldiers and British officers were in a clear place, the layout of the camp, the soldiers of the Free Army ran to different places according to the division of labor, resistance occurred from time to time, but listening to the sound of gunfire, the battle was not fierce.

Several British officers had not yet recovered from the alcohol and the woman. The Free Army fighters rushed in and fired their guns. Several British officers died. The sleeping Indian soldiers also lost their will to resist, and the battle soon ended, and the Free Army took control of the entire warehouse barracks.

More than 1,000 Indian prisoners were placed in centralized custody, and then countless Burmese civilians poured in, tasked with transshipment as many supplies as possible from the warehouses. The Free Army mobilized 15,000 civilians for the operation, promising a large reward for each of them after completing the mission. This includes money and food. Stimulated by the reward, the civilians burst out with tremendous energy, first munitions, then food and medicine, which were continuously transported out of the warehouses and then moved along the established route to the southeast. The supplies pass through five stations. After more than 200 kilometers, it was finally transported to the base of the Free Army.

Five hours later, with all the civilians in charge of the transport leaving the area, and nearly half of the supplies in the warehouse could not be transported, the Free Army drove the Indian soldiers into the warehouse, sealed it off, planted the explosives with the warehouse, and then retreated.

It was not until about 10 o'clock in the morning of the 8th that the transport team from Mandalay discovered the tragic situation here and quickly reported it to the direction of Mandalay. The lack of long-distance communication meant that Kitchener received the news at noon, and at the same time Haig arrived at Kitchener with the news of the widespread retreat of the Free Army.

The news was summarized, and a conspiracy became very clear, the Free Army used the battle on the front line to attract the attention of the British army, and then sent elite forces to attack the warehouse, so that the British army's months of accumulation were all reduced to ashes, and more than a thousand Indian soldiers were killed. There was a sharp contrast between the thunderous Kitchener and the silent Haig, but the mood of the two was about the same, they were in a big situation, there were no supplies, there was no way to carry out military operations, and even the food of the 70,000 soldiers was a problem. The victory on the front line could not be compared with the loss of warehouses, and in three days of fighting, the British army had wiped out more than 3,000 Free Army troops and lost 1,200 of their own, all of which were killed and wounded by the colonial army, and Kitchener did not care at all. At this time, the British army was pursuing the fleeing Free Army, and after calming down, Kitchener immediately ordered the front line to stop the pursuit, and without logistical supplies, the troops could easily fall into collapse.

The materials from Langwa have increased the strength of the Free Army, including 3,000 rifles, ten machine guns, 300,000 rounds of ammunition and countless food and medicine materials have given the Free Army the capital to continue to expand, although more than 3,000 people were lost in the previous battles, but they are all ordinary soldiers who have not been trained, Myanmar's human resources are sufficient, Yong Jimi believes that he can recruit another 3,000 people in half a month, under the training of the instructors, they have guns and will become powerful jungle warriors!

The British army was dealt another blow, and the voices blaming Kitchener and Haig became strong in the British Parliament, and Prime Minister Balfour was under great pressure, because the blame for the generals would ultimately be borne by him. Burma could not afford to be lost, and it was necessary to continue to trust these two experienced generals, after which Britain stepped up its support for Burma, and a large amount of supplies were transported to Burma from the British mainland and India. Kitchener was a firm believer in the concentration camp policy, while Major General Haig was busy mobilizing troops to extinguish the fighting that burned throughout Burma.

The Free Army (FF) rapidly expanded in strength and spread its fighting throughout Burma, where they entered in small teams to incite youth to join the FAS and attack colonial government offices, police stations, and checkpoints. What Haig did not understand was why the Free Army was so proficient in guerrilla warfare, they expanded their influence in the countryside, established a base area and intelligence network, and the British army that carried out encirclement and suppression could not find guerrillas at all, but was often attacked. "The Free Army cannot be defeated unless all the Burmese are driven into the concentration camps," were the words of Haig to Kitchener after a period of fighting against the bandits.

In the process of suppressing banditry, villages were burned down and a large number of civilians were slaughtered, and the colonial soldiers from India played a fine tradition of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and exerted a strong fighting force in the face of the unarmed Burmese civilians.

The fear of death gripped the Burmese and made them hate the British and Indians even more, and the Free Army not weakened in the encirclement, but grew rapidly. Burma was full of battlefields, and the British, who had learned the essence of guerrilla warfare, were sinking deeper and deeper into the quagmire of Burma.

Lü Liang's strategy was successful, and at a very small cost the British in Asia were to devote most of their power to Burma, and over time, the British not only showed no signs of victory, but fell deeper and deeper, and by that time Lü Liang did not believe that the British would have the energy to intervene.

"Continue to increase support for the Free Army, and we must ensure that they have sufficient supplies to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the British army." On December 29, 1904, Lü Liang issued the last order of the year. The transport team from Kunming can be transported by truck to Simao, and in Simao, it is replaced by bicycles, Yunnan horses, donkeys and other mountain camels, crossing the Lancang River through the Western League into Burma, and then handing over with the Free Army in the border area, this is the transportation channel that the British are looking for, and the Free Army calls it "Yongji Rice Trail".

The last obstacle has been basically resolved, and China's preparations for war have also entered the final stage, and submarine groups have also frequently gone to sea to collect hydrological information in the predetermined war area. Due to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the number of ships on the sea surface in the Far East has also decreased considerably, and the rumored Russo-Japanese naval war will soon break out, fewer cargo ships are willing to go to the Far East, which provides good conditions for the naval fleet to go to sea for training.

On the ground battlefield between Japan and Russia, the Japanese army finally conquered Lushun at the end of 1904, and after losing 60,000 Japanese soldiers, the greatest hero Nogi Noshinori was officially praised as the "God of War" by Japan. This god of war only knew that the soldiers were forced to break through the Russian position, and under the strafing of machine guns, the Japanese army suffered great losses, but Nogi Noshinori never cared about the number of casualties, even if the losses were heavy, the Japanese army did not make much progress in Lushun, and finally changed to Kodama Gentaro to command the operation, and finally conquered Lushun. However, for the sake of propaganda, the Japanese government chose Nogi Noshinori as a meritorious general. (To be continued.) )

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