The Gongbang dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in Burma. One translation of "Yongjiya Dynasty"; or "Anupaya Dynasty"; or the "Ripple Dynasty". In 1752, it was founded by the Burmese leader Yong Jiya (Burmese name Alang Paya) in Gongbang (now Ruibo), hence the name.

The British launched the first war of aggression against Burma in 1824, forcing Burma to cede land and pay reparations. The First War of Aggression against Burma (1824~1826). As early as 1647, the British East India Company established a trading house in Sirion (also known as Salem) in Burma. In 1687, it again invaded and occupied the island of Neglois in Burma. In 1743, Mon forces destroyed the British merchant house in Surion. In 1759, King Yong of Burma recovered Neglois Island. On the pretext that Burma threatened the security of British India, Britain launched its first war of aggression against Burma on 5 March 1824. In February 1826, British troops occupied Bagan and Yangdabo. On February 24, the Burmese government was forced to sign the Treaty of Yang Dabo. Under the terms of the treaty, Burma paid an indemnity of 10 million rupees, recognized Manipur, Kachar and Jaintia as British territories, and ceded Tanahsalin, Assam and Arakan to the British. This is the first treaty in the history of Myanmar to humiliate the country.

The second war of aggression against Burma was supposed to take place in 1852. However, now that there was a war between the Chinese Empire and the British, the anti-British sentiment of the Burmese people was high (of course, it was done by Jinyiwei), and the Burmese king Mengkeng (1837~1846) announced that he would not recognize the Treaty of Yang Dabo and refused to negotiate a new treaty with the British and Indian colonial authorities, so that the representatives of the East India Company withdrew from Burma in 1840.

But in fact, the Burmese king Meng Hang was not very friendly to the suzerain, because the envoys of the Burmese Nagong and the Imperial Foreign Office signed a "Sino-Burmese East Asia Co-prosperity Treaty", which in his opinion was similar to the British protection treaty, and also treated Burma as a colony. However, Meng Keng wants to reap the benefits of it.

Meng Keng is immersed in the glorious history of his own dynasty, and the Qing-Burma War in history was after the establishment of the Gongbang Dynasty in Burma, with its military strength, it quickly subdued many Tusi on the Sino-Burmese border. After establishing his rule over the former Burmese Shan Tusi, they began to send small units to cooperate with the troops of these Shan Tusi to force the traditional "flower horse ceremony" (i.e., to pay money and grain as tribute, which the Shan Tusi on the border between China and Burma had historically paid to both countries for their own security). Some of these inland toasts succumbed to the Burmese military might, while others did not. These unyielding Tusi sent people to ask the Yunnan local government for military support. However, at that time, the Qianlong Emperor was too busy quelling the civil strife in Xinjiang to look south and did not want to engage in military conflicts with neighboring countries, so the local government in Yunnan had always pursued a policy of appeasement on this matter. When Emperor Qianlong extricated himself from the pacification of Xinjiang, he began to take a tough attitude towards Burma's oppression of China's border ethnic minorities and provocation of China's national prestige, and the situation on the Sino-Burmese border gradually became tense. In the 27th year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1762), the Burmese side again failed to collect tribute from these inland Tusi, so they sent troops to invade China. It officially lit the fuse of the border conflict between China and Myanmar.

In the eighteenth century, the Sino-Burmese war, in general, was lost by China. Emperor Qianlong, who claimed to be a perfect old man, also admitted in his later years, "Eight wars in more than 50 years, and the conquest of Burma is not considered a success." ”

However, this war caused a major change in Southeast Asia, and Siam was restored as a result; Myanmar has also rediscovered China's power and has established good-neighborly relations with China that have lasted for more than 200 years. Again, this was something that the parties did not expect.

But now Meng Keng hopes to let China and Britain lose both, and he can profit from it, so he also sent his own army to join the Chinese coalition army, after the Chinese Foreign Ministry secretly sent a message asking the army to enter, he didn't want the squadron to come in, he wanted Chinese muskets and artillery, but he also hoped to use the hand of China to recover Manipur, Kachar, Jaintia and other places occupied by the British, so he agreed.

But he is not stupid, on the second day after the emperor ** team entered Burma, Meng Keng found his henchman Nu Shan, and asked him to go to the British Governor's Palace in Manipur to inform the whereabouts of the ** squadron, Nu Shan set off in response, but unfortunately the direction he went was not Manipur, but the secret temporary station of the ** squadron in Burma. Nushan is actually one of the Jinyi Guards, whose military talent and talent have led him to infiltrate as a general in Burma. With his own efforts and talents, Nushan became Meng Keng's confidant-

Shao Wen was the commander of the Indian Front of the Chinese Empire, and Lin Hong formed the Indian theater of operations in the south, mobilizing the Chapter 073 junction in Yunnan and the Indian border area, and Shao Wen originally planned to divide the 25th Army from the three armies in Burma and go south to occupy the Burmese colony of LinkedIn, and the remaining two armies went west to cooperate with the two armies in Jidaling to seize Calcutta and occupy the Bengal region at the mouth of the Ganges and the area north of the Ganges.

Just as he was studying the map, staff officer Li Xiucheng walked in.

"Staff Officer Li, what's the matter?" For this top student who graduated from Lu University, he admires both his style of work and tactical thinking.

"Commander, General Nusan from Burma is here? He said he had something important to discuss with you. ”

"Oh? Call him in! Shao Wen felt strange, but he still put on a warm posture and prepared to greet him.

I saw that after Nushan came in, he saluted Shao Wen with a standard emperor: "Jinyiwei, Nushan has seen the general." ”

"This ......" Shao Wen came back with a salute and was stunned, he knew that His Majesty the Emperor had such an intelligence organization, but he didn't expect that this organization with the same name as the Ming Dynasty could actually reach the top of a country, you must know that Nushan's status in Myanmar is equivalent to the defense minister of the empire, and he controls the military movement of the whole country.

"I don't know, well, why is the general here?" Shao Wen didn't know what to call for a while, and finally called him a general.

"Commander, Nushan has come here to report something important this time, and the Burmese king Meng Keng wants me to secretly go to Manipur to inform the British army of the military situation of the empire, so that they can prepare early. The commander might as well let me organize an army to occupy the palace and let my country annex Burma through this, so that the empire will have Burma as a rear base and access to the Indian Ocean. Nushan said excitedly.

"This matter, I want to inform the country first, and see how His Majesty decides!" Shao Wen thought for a while and said.

"Then the commander must be fast! I'm afraid that Meng Keng, then I won't be able to drag it out for long. I'll go back to organize the army first, and wait for the commander's instructions at any time. ”

"Okay, if the general succeeds at this time, you will be a hero of the empire!" ――

Yuanmingyuan, Beijing -- "Your Majesty, Shao Wen, commander of the Indian Theater of Operations, has sent a telegram. Saying that, Major General Wang Qi, chief of staff of the General Staff Headquarters, handed over the telegram.

After reading the telegram, Lin Hong was actually very much in favor of annexing Burma, but he felt that the time for annexation was not suitable now, and that war was about to start against Britain, and the current annexation of Burma was very unfavorable to the negotiations in Britain.

After thinking about it, he said: "Temporarily control the political situation in Myanmar and Meng Keng, and when the war is over, it will officially annex Myanmar, and do it secretly. The Brocade Guard will cooperate with you. ”

"Your Majesty." Jin Yiwei commanded Lin Zhengyingdao-

Given the order, Shao Wen and Nu Shan took control of the officials of the Burmese ministries within three days, secretly placed Mon Keng, and called him ill. However, it aroused suspicion in the British colonies in Burma, and British troops in North India were on increased alert.