。 Tradition is hard to shake, and the soldiers who received the rifled guns in Funan Eagle Harbor reluctantly watched the smoothbore guns get farther and farther away, and many officers and soldiers were clamoring for a bloody petition to return their muskets. Although the smoothbore gun is not as far as the rifled gun, in that ghost place in Burma, the farthest distance of the battle is only 200 paces, and the smoothbore gun is enough to deal with it. What made them even more dissatisfied was that with a rifled gun, they became skirmishers, and they no longer had the qualifications to show off their might in the queue, which was an honor that officers and soldiers valued the most.

Compared with the Anglo-Chinese redcoats, there are still people whose traditions are facing great challenges.

"No, the control Kaka, the armor and the flag are the identities of the Japanese samurai, let them take them off and wear the same clothes as the average ashigaru, this is a great insult."

"Our iron artillery team is enough to complete the mission, and the bravery of the Satsuma samurai is looking forward to showing it to the country."

Takahashi Yoshiren led a thousand Satsuma people and joined the Burma battlefield as a servant army. Shimazu Yoshitoyo is looking forward to dedicating more loyalty to the Anglo-Chinese army and learning from the Anglo-Chinese army. The leader of the team, Takahashi Yoshiryo, also understood that it was almost impossible to make the samurai and ashigaru selected in the domain completely change their clothes and accept new weapons and new tactics.

"Well, whatever, just don't get in the way when the time comes......"

Gui Zhen, the commander of the new Sixth Division, shrugged his shoulders indifferently, in fact, he doubted whether there was a chance for his division to fight in the battle of Burma.

The deputy governor of Burma, Fang Tangheng, led the elite of the Eagle Yang Army from Yunnan into Burma, Zhan Wenda led a new division from the east to Lan, and Wu Ya led the new division and a large number of servant troops from the south to the north. The three-way army, with nearly 200,000 people, I am afraid that the front team won the war. The rear team hasn't set off yet.

Why do you want to be overwhelmed by an army of 200,000 people? This is a lesson learned in previous years by supporting countries such as Siam, Lanna and Cochin in their proxy wars with Burma.

The terrain of Myanmar is complex, and this time is also the period of decline of the Mang Tungoo Dynasty. If there is a unified and strong center of power, the attack on Burma should be a matter of a few major wars.

But the problem lies in the festering of the Donhu Dynasty, not only the British East India Company supported the princes, but also wishful thinking. Hoping to use this war to divide Burma, the French also made these small moves. The Dutch even used the trading post they had set up in Burma to supply weapons to Burma. pulled the high-ranking officials of the Donghu Dynasty and organized their own army.

The Burmese king of this generation, Daning, was incompetent and unable to hold power and military power. can only let the people below collude with foreigners to do nonsense.

As a result, the battlefield in Myanmar is extremely fragmented. In addition to fighting against the British, French, and Dutch armies, the Burmese army everywhere also acted on its own. In order to completely subdue Burma, it is more necessary to measure it by the idea of law and order warfare, and military strength has become the most important condition.

The grasp of important places and the guarantee of transportation lines all require troops, which will be crushed by 200,000 troops, and then set up key points to defend them for a long time. Military objectives can be achieved. Then he contacted the Mon and Shan people and turned them into "Burmese traitor forces", so that they had a stable backer.

"No, no. That's impossible! China may be able to send 200,000 troops, but they can't fight this war! 200,000 people. How much steel is needed? How many commanders, how many ambitions? ”

"It should be the same as before, just hoping to get the confession of the king of Burma, hey! Why should we fight hard with the Chinese and let the king of Burma write a letter of surrender, let's govern Burma together with the Chinese! ”

"No, we Dutch don't agree, Chinese if we occupy Burma, the whole of Asia...... Only we Dutch were left to resist in Java. I heard that the ** squadron also has activities in Pattani, and the red clothes of the Chinese soldiers will soon be dyed in Malacca! ”

Salem Burma, a city first occupied by the Portuguese and later recovered by the Burmese king, was once again reduced to a "paradise" for the Europa people in Myanmar due to the corruption of the Burmese dynasty. The heads of the Burmese branches of the British, French and Dutch East India Companies are urgently negotiating countermeasures here. …,

"Based on tradition, and the fact that China has invaded Burma through Siam, Lanna and Cochin in recent years, we at the British East India Company believe that we can continue to maintain a unique trading position in Burma, and that we are well equipped to maintain it."

"We at the British East India Company have always maintained friendly relations with this South China, and even have Army instructors instructing their troops, and we believe that even if China rules Burma, we must maintain our British's trading privileges in Burma."

"So, we, the British East India Company, have recruited 30,000 troops in Bengal. We don't want to completely crush that Anglo-Chinese offensive against Burma, but we will show them that Burma is not their Myanmar, it is everyone's Myanmar! ”

James, the head of the Burmese branch of the British East India Company, said lightly, and he felt that this was a statement of fact.

"As for you France and the Netherlands, do you need us Britons to draw the strings and discuss with the Chinese?"

He also looked at the others with a lonely look, and the harvest was naturally just a blank eye. Everybody's Myanmar? It's you Britons' Burma, right?

"30,000 people...... It's not clear whether he can hold Sha Lian or not. ”

The Dutchman muttered unwillingly, and James slammed the table.

"Even if it's just a mercenary organized by the local natives, they can fight those princely states in Bengal without any defense! The gathering of 30,000 soldiers is already the largest investment of our East India Company in Asia. The clumsy warfare techniques of the Orientals will be revealed in front of this army, which has been trained for two years, and it will fail! All that awaits them is failure! ”

Amid James' rants, the Burmese branch of the East India Company of the Three Kingdoms finally reached an agreement of friendship and mutual assistance.

After sending off the French and the Dutch, James returned to his room, spread out his diary, and wrote down something in a very opposite context to the call sign he had just made.

"Red tides, red tides have spread in Asia, and it is a pity that this is not the red tide of our Britons. Soldiers dressed in red marched towards Malacca and Burma, where they had already swept away the Ryukyus and Japan. ”

"Looking at this map, I have to suspect that the Chinese emperor had a clear strategic vision, and that he had always restrained his military force, not to fight for the richest land in Asia, but to expand first to the south, and now to the west, and it is said that there were signs of an army marching north. This is a king who is unmoved by immediate interests, and I don't know if he sees through the interests of our Britons in Asia. But his movements in the past few years have almost completely overturned the layout of our Europa people in Asia. ”

"Burma and even Bengal were only in the interests of the East India Company, but in my opinion, it was the interests of the British Empire. When our interests in the Americas are at stake, we can still have Asia to back us up. But is it really a path that can last for decades when people are still focusing on the spices of the Caribbean and the tobacco of North America, while pouring the world's goods into the Americas? ”

Looking at the map of Myanmar in his notebook, three red lines were winding, James shook his head, his task was to protect the company's interests in Myanmar as much as possible, the company's upper echelons did not hesitate to choose to fight with force, while he himself had a different opinion.

Knock knock knock......

"Ahhh......hh

The cannon roared, and Takahashi Yoshihari followed his men to crouch in the grass, covering his ears and shouting loudly.

Gui's fears did not materialize, and their division was placed in a flank forward position and rushed deeper into Burma. The first combat mission is now being completed to capture a fortress on a tributary of the Irrawaddy River and secure the flank transport routes. Gui Zhen hugged his arms and observed the battle situation depressedly in the rear of the battlefield, but the Japanese soldiers in front of him were already stunned by the sound of artillery.

"Rush out!"

The Burmese were not willing to be targeted, and were beaten to death, and thousands of people poured out of the fortress. Most were armed with flintlock pistols without bayonets, and a few were armed with bows and spears, which must have been a local force.

"Side-hit! Duck give! Side-hit! ”

Takahashi Yoshiruto's wave of people squatted in the jungle on the side, enduring the bites of mosquitoes and locusts without making a sound, and now with the fighter plane, Takahashi Yoshiruyo's whole person was burning.

Puff puff......

The bombardment of the iron artillery team was imposing, half of the arquebuses were extinguished by the moisture, and everyone jumped to their feet in a hurry, and a samurai pulled out his sword with a loud voice: "Rush forward!" ”

As soon as the charging formation with him as an arrow poured out of the jungle, seeing that it was about to form a perfect flank attack on the Burmese army that was about to counterattack in an all-round way, Peng Phong burst into a burst of gunfire and rushed to the Burmese army thirty or forty paces away, and the samurai with the sword held high fell to the ground with a bang, so frightened that Takahashi Yoshiren and everyone threw themselves on the ground with an uproar.

Click~Click~Click......

The red-clothed soldiers lined up in a horizontal formation slowly pressed up, and even if they were knocked down by sporadic stray bullets, it would not affect the integrity of the entire formation. Gui Zhen was in the center of the horizontal formation, proudly raising his chin, just because this division was a banner division, so the training queue was particularly energetic, whether it was a drill or a battle, he could win with a gorgeous and high-spirited pace.

The horizontal team stood still, the roaring platoon of guns was incessant, and Takahashi Yoshiren and the Japanese soldiers gathered together, their faces ashen, they finally realized that the gap and the backwardness of the old tradition.

"Ignoring the servant army, forty-eight killed and one hundred and eighty-nine wounded, this Gui Zhen, why did you eat the rifled guns that they were replenished first? The first division broke through with rifled guns, and no more than 100 people were killed or wounded! ”

Chiang Mai, the Governor of Burma, his subordinates kept chattering about the resistance of various divisions to rifled guns and new tactics, and the Governor of Burma, Wu Ya, shook his hand.

"There's always an adaptation process for everything, and it's more important for us now to see the results." ()