The Burmese were very depressed to find themselves kicked on the iron plate. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info originally more than 40,000 Burmese troops entered the Chiang Mai Plateau from the East Burma Plateau, and faced the Siamese Tusi with repeated victories and sieged the city. But who knew that the Tang Army's Yamato Corps had marched all the way from Laixing, and in the Nanben area, the Burmese army launched a surprise attack on the flat ground with its back from the mountains. In this battle, the Burmese vanguard lost hundreds of men and retreated, and then the Tang army crossed the river into Chiang Mai, where they engaged in a fierce battle with the Burmese army. Due to the lack of preparation of the Burmese army and the superior firepower of the Tang army, the Burmese army had to abandon Chiang Mai after occupying Chiang Mai for several days and continue to retreat north.

Another regiment of the Japanese Tang Army also went well in Phayao and Chiang Rai, and after hastily resisting, the Burmese army hastily withdrew north, ceding large swaths of territory to the Tang again. The Burmese army originally thought very highly of itself, and King Meng Yun was also full of confidence, but in the face of the Tang army, it was basically crushed at the touch of a button, and it could not fight the majesty that destroyed Ayutthaya and the Qing-Burma War.

Although the northwestern part of Siam is also mountainous, there are many flat terrains, and most of the population settlements are distributed in these areas, which is also the main goal of the Burmese, but the Burmese are quite poor at fighting on flat terrain. The Japanese Tang army not only requisitioned a large number of mules and horses from Siam and Chenla, but even had full-time elephant slaves to drive elephants to load supplies. And they were able to build trench positions and use them to carry out attacks on the enemy, and the Burmese could not break through this tactic. Once the Yamato Corps charged, it was also very combative, especially for the terrain, the Japanese Tang Army carried a lot of 60mm caliber mortars, and a round of artillery bombardment before the charge caused a lot of damage to the Burmese.

What really brought the war into a state of see-saw. It was Meng Yun who recognized the situation. Move the Burmese army to the northwestern part of Chiang Mai and the wooded areas of Mae Hong Son. This made the progress of the Tang Army slowly slow down.

However, there is not much population in these areas, and the economy is also primitive, even if the Tang Dynasty controls these mountain and forest areas, it is impossible to transform these primitive villages much, I am afraid that it is still the local Tusi and the head people to govern. Of course, this did not mean that the Tang army could abandon this area, and the Yamato Corps sent troops into the mountains, step by step, carefully searching for traces of the Burmese army. Hope is to carry out a siege and annihilation battle and inflict heavy losses on the Burmese army.

In fact, Meng Yun had already retreated, but he was not reconciled to this matter, and after he ascended the throne, he sent 40,000 troops into Siam, hoping to capture this area, but he didn't expect the Tang people to react very quickly, and immediately sent troops to fight back. The all-firearms Tang army was a great shock to the Burmese, who had seen the British troops before, but did not expect such power. If Meng Yun stops here, he will negotiate peace with the Tang people. Then his position in the country will be challenged, and such a war will be launched. The loss of troops will come to an end, and those who have different intentions will inevitably make a big fuss about it.

Therefore, Meng Yun's best choice is to maintain control of the mountainous areas around Ye Hong Son and Chiang Mai, and then seek to make peace with the Tang Dynasty. In fact, Meng Yun originally sent troops to consider that the Tang people should pay attention to the Chao Phraya River area of Siam and Chenla, and did not pay much attention to the Chiang Mai Plateau area, and the best case was that the two sides carved up Siam. However, it is clear that the Tang people did not intend to give the Burmese a penny of land, and the strength of the Tang army surprised the Burmese.

On the other hand, the Tang people were prepared to continue to fight the Burmese in the mountains and forests, and even from the beginning of the planning of Pak Nam, this war was not a purely defensive operation, so he continued to increase troops to Indochina. That is, the other four brigades of the Yamato Corps have not yet arrived, otherwise Chang Bin will directly wave his army and go straight to Shan State, instead of playing hide and seek with the Burmese army in the mountains of Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son.

It is also troublesome for the Burmese army to enter the mountains, even if they are natural mountain troops. It was more difficult to get supplies into the mountains, and although they could do so by looting local villages, the Burmese army itself was large and could not really spread out as far as guerrilla warfare, so they would always choose some places to set up camp.

At this time, the Navy SEALs of the Don Army Marine Corps again came in handy.

Wang Tao's team haunted the dense forest, fighting insects and snakes, and it can be said that this was the most difficult combat environment they had faced since joining the army. The whole team slept in the woods at night, always on the lookout for the Burmese army's scouts and the highly poisonous creatures. The tropical climate is irritating, and humidity is the worst enemy of human comfort. Their uniforms are attached to their bodies, and even if they are breathable, they can be uncomfortable.

But the SEALs are SEALs after all, and no one will complain that they have also trained in tropical jungles and mountain warfare in Hawaii. In an unfamiliar environment, vigilant special operations elites carefully search for traces of the enemy.

Yang Youguang held a saber and chopped some vines, walked to the front, observed it, and turned back to Wang Tao and said: "There are traces of a large army passing here, and it seems that there is indeed a Burmese army unit nearby." ”

Wang Tao had a serious face and said: "The key is how many people they have, if it is only a force of more than 100 people, we can try to sneak attack them, it is not worth calling the group of Japanese in the rear." ”

Killing and wounding the Burmese army and hurting the Burmese army is the Tang army's operational program, and the Tang army cannot accept a long-term garrison in the jungle, and only by killing and wounding the Burmese army to the extent that they cannot afford it, the Burmese will automatically withdraw their troops, which is a very sober and profound understanding. When the seals find the enemy in the dense forest, they will immediately radio the Yamato Corps in the rear to move closer to this side, and then fight a battle of annihilation against the enemy. In such a terrain, there is no need to completely annihilate it, as long as the enemy is scattered, there is basically no possibility for the Burmese army to regroup.

In fact, compared to the Tang people, the Burmese people could not fight a long war, and they could not afford to consume it. Unlike the Qing-Burma War more than a decade ago, the Burmese were able to survive in that war, first, with the support of the border Tusi, and second, the Qing army was too, so that the Burmese army did not suffer any unbearable losses from the beginning to the end. And now in this conflict, the Tang army took the Burmese by surprise as soon as they came up, and wiped out thousands of Burmese troops in several battlefields, forcing the Burmese army to retreat into the dense forest area. Although the Burmese army had the advantage in numbers, it did not dare to launch an offensive against the Yamato Corps easily. If it is attrition at a relatively stable rate, then the losses of the Burmese army will be greater and greater, even if the military strength of the Gongbang Dynasty is by no means more than 40,000 troops, but Myanmar is a rather complex country with many ethnic groups. Take, for example, Lower Burma in Yangon, which was occupied by the Burmese for a short time, and was previously Mon territory. Other ethnic groups, the Kachin, Kayah, Karen and even the Thai people in Shan State, are more than happy to bite the Burmese when they lose ground.

Now that Meng Yun has not yet fought and has to stop the loss, Chang Bin predicts that as long as he wins a few more battles and annihilate thousands to 10,000 Burmese troops, Meng Yun will cry and shout to sue for peace with the Tang people. But the heart of the Tang people is not just as simple as driving the Burmese out of Siam, the Tang people also covet Burma.

In Bai Nam's plan, the Tang would cut off the entire Shan State from Burma and merge it with Siam and Laos to form a larger Dai Thai overseas territory. Of course, this overseas territory is not small, and the actual population of the Thai people should be 5 million, such as the East Burma Plateau, which is a typical vast and sparsely populated area. At the same time, Pak Nam also plans to give Siam the Tanintharyi region of Burma, a strip on the western side of the peninsula, which has changed hands between Siam and Burma many times in history. Siam, on the other hand, will transfer the southern peninsula and the area south of Chumphon to another Tang overseas territory, Sriwijayaya, for easy development and management.

This idea has also caused some people to worry in China, Bai Nan is tantamount to personally crafting an overseas territory dominated by the Dai and Tai ethnic groups, and the local people have the same language, blood and religious culture, and it is likely to develop with strong racial tendencies and seek independence in the future. This consideration is not unrealistic, and Paik Nam admits that this could happen. However, as long as Datang is strong enough, this kind of thing will not happen. And Datang is weak, even if Datang cuts out hundreds of countries in the Indochina Peninsula, they will eventually become independent. Moreover, from the perspective of another Thai tendency, the Thai people are also a country that knows how to do big things and has a certain amount of political wisdom, and the Thai people do not exclude the Han people too much, which is also conducive to the establishment of rule by the Tang Dynasty there.

Later in the evening, a team of eight people led by Wang Tao found a Burmese army in a mountain stream, which was obviously not the main force of the Burmese army, with a strength of about 2,000 to 3,000. The main reason why the Tatmadaw has divided its forces into smaller units and spread them apart is mainly due to logistical pressures, and these Tatmadaw troops will constantly harass and loot all the villages in the area and loot all kinds of supplies. And the movement of a large force is obviously inconvenient for "fighting grass valley".

Yang Youguang was on the mountain beam, looked down with a telescope, and said, "There are so many people, we can't eat it, so let's call those group of stalkers." ”

Zhou Junbao complained: "How can you say that those are also our allies, it seems that you are very tall." ”

Yang Youguang was the shortest soldier in the team, this time it stabbed him, and he just wanted to raise his voice, but he was held down by Wang Tao, "Don't talk loudly, it alarmed this group of Burmese soldiers." ”

Wang Tao immediately used a radio transmitter to send a message to the first section of the Yamato Corps, which was about a few tens of kilometers away, asking them to come and strike at this enemy force. Until then, they need to carefully hide on this ridge until friendly forces appear. (To be continued.) )