Chapter 337: Farewell, Zhu Erdian (1)

After reaching an agreement with Qiao Yu, the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang secretly rushed back to Yuben, and at this time the battle in northern Burma also reached the most fierce moment, after a week of fierce attacks, all the outlying positions in Myitkyina were conquered by the Chinese, Hamilton led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to the city, relying on the streets and alleys of the city for the last stubborn resistance.

The fiercest battle was Ba Mo, three divisions of the British and Indian armies took turns attacking the Chinese positions, both sides had already killed the red eyes, the British tanks were almost all destroyed, most of the Chinese tanks were also damaged, and the battlefield became a test of the will to fight between the infantry.

The Scottish division commanded by Jacob lost more than 700 men in the first day of the attack, but the Chinese position was intact, and the corpses of the British army were piled up more and more in front of Ba Mo, and the smoke and blood, stumps and broken legs decorated the ordinary town of Ba Mo like hell.

Jacob knows very well that with the passage of time, Myitkyina has reached the last moment, his own reinforcements can not arrive, waiting for the British army in Myitkyina can only be the fate of surrender, although the British do not consider surrender a shame, but surrendering to the Chinese is definitely an unbearable insult, the British and Indian top level absolutely do not want to see this scene, so the pressure on Jacob is increasing.

The soldiers of the Scottish division once again rushed towards the Chinese position under the cover of artillery fire, they bent their bodies, and their movements were very fast, but even if they were fast, they could not outspeed the bullet, a rifle bullet of 6.8 mm caliber accurately passed through the chest of the British soldier who was running in the front, and the bullet entered only a small hole, but behind him there was a fist-sized hideous wound, blood, muscles, and internal organ fragments were all brought out, and the young body fell silently on the battlefield.

The British had no time to care about sacrifice, they frantically rushed to the Chinese position, and at this time the Chinese soldiers' ammunition consumption was also very serious, the mortars had a few shells, and they could not stop the British attack, but the Chinese soldiers still had grenades, bayonets, and fists in their hands.

More than a dozen grenades were thrown, and suddenly a deafening sound came, and more than two dozen British soldiers were blown to pieces, and some were lucky not to die, but the shrapnel had left terrible wounds on the body, and the gurgling blood announced that this life would not last long.

The remaining British troops finally rushed to the front of the trenches of the Chinese soldiers, and the more brutal and bloody white-knuckle battle immediately began, the Chinese soldiers formed a battle group one by one, and the British fought to the death, and the war became the most primitive fight, the British soldiers were tall and strong, and they looked very advantageous, but the Chinese troops trained harder, and they were more death-oriented, and when a person did not take his life seriously, the combat effectiveness that broke out was absolutely super.

Britain faced such a group of madmen, and the offensive was once again withdrawn like a tide, and Jacob, who was at a loss, suddenly got the news like a thunderbolt from the blue, the Chinese bomber formation blew up the British airfield, and more than a dozen camel fighters were blown to pieces.

Without air aid, although the British and Indian troops still occupied a numerical advantage, the balance of victory had been reversed, without the interference of British aircraft, Chinese bombers, fighters could fly to the heads of the British unscrupulously, bombs fell on the heads of the British like hail, and the more daring pilots began to use the machine guns on the planes to strafe the British troops, and a large number of casualties were lost.

Jacob had to temporarily stop the offensive, and at this time even worse news came, the Chinese reinforcements were only a few dozen kilometers away from Bamo, and what was even worse was that there were still a large number of tanks in the Chinese reinforcements this time, there was no air support, and there was no armor, the situation of his three divisions was extremely dangerous, and he had changed from the attacking side to the defensive side, and what was the point of waiting here any longer?

Immediately after Jacob decided to put the two Indian divisions in charge of the palace, he led the Scottish rapid withdrawal to Mandalay, and the war situation in northern Burma was irretrievable, and now the only question was whether the Chinese would attack Mandalay.

Lu Han has been in a high degree of tension these days, after all, his own side of the force is not comparable to the British, and it has been consumed, it must be the British who have the advantage, so he can only count on the air force to break the deadlock, just yesterday Myitkyina transferred two bomber squadrons, with this sharp weapon, Lu Han's confidence suddenly came, and now the war feels that it cannot be without the support of the air force, especially the British army.

After the correction, the dragon made a decisive move, smashed the British airport in one fell swoop, turned a dozen camels into rags, and killed a lot of air crew.

After the British and Indian troops saw the Chinese tanks, they did not have any will to resist at all, and they ran away completely, but the two legs could not run the tracks, even if they used war horses, they were also a fate, and Lu Han successfully rushed in from the junction of the two Indian divisions and the Scottish division.

The Anglo-Indian army was completely divided into two parts, Jacob fled frantically with the rest of the Scottish division, and the remaining Indian fourth and sixth divisions could only be captured, and at this time the Chinese reinforcements also arrived at Bamo, and the person in charge of the operation was Wang Mingzhang, this so-called reinforcement army only had a regiment of soldiers, and the main task was to deliver supplies, and the combat effectiveness was not very strong, and only a few of those tanks were real, and the rest were all trucks with wooden artillery.

Some special devices were installed on the tanks in front, which kicked up a large amount of dust during the process, half-covering the trucks behind them, and because of the deliberate widening of the distance between the vehicles, it created the illusion of a large size of the troops, and successfully deceived the intelligence officers of the British army.

When Jacob learned the news that China had a large number of armored troops to help, he was immediately frightened and stupid, and chose to flee without having time to think about it, although the Scottish division successfully escaped, but the two Indian divisions were not so lucky, nearly 20,000 people were all captured by the [***] team.

Facing these captives Lu Han is also a bit of a headache, now there are only 7,000 soldiers in Bamo, plus Wang Mingzhang's regiment is no more than 10,000, and the more than 3,000 people all died in this battle, the war is so cruel, and now the soldiers are also in urgent need of rest, and it is also a little difficult to take care of so many prisoners.

Wang Mingzhang and Lu Han had a brief discussion and found a good idea, that is, to put all the British officers together separately and keep them under strict supervision, as long as there were no these officers, those Indian soldiers would seem to have no brains, and they would not even be able to escape, but would only honestly be prisoners.

At first, Luhan was a little skeptical, but after experimenting, sure enough, only a few people patrolled to see those Indian soldiers, they were all honest, no one dared to resist, and the power of the British colonial training for hundreds of years was really extraordinary.

After Jacob was defeated, Britain could not draw many soldiers in Burma for the time being, and Hamilton of Myitkyina had sent a telegram asking for permission to surrender, the British really couldn't sit still, if Hamilton and his soldiers all surrendered, then the British Empire really had no face left in the international community, Britain on the one hand demanded that Hamilton must insist, on the other hand, let the British Minister Juerdian contact the American Minister Reinsch, asking the United States to mediate.

The United States suffered a loss at the Paris Peace Conference, and Congress did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles at all, but negotiated peace with Germany alone, and did not join the League of Nations; now there is an anti-British sentiment in the United States, and the United States is very happy to see that Britain is unlucky in the Far East, but the United States is also unwilling to make China bigger, and besides, it has to deal with the majority party in Russia and contain the development of the United States, although the United States does not want Britain to lose face too much, so it has decided to come out to mediate the dispute between China and Britain. U.S. President Wilson also personally sent a telegram to Qiao Yu and the British political axe, asking China and Britain to temporarily cease fire and resolve the border dispute between the two sides through negotiations!

The attitude of the United States is still very weighty, and at this time, the United States is also shouting everywhere, agitating China and Britain to continue fighting, Britain sees very clearly, although the United States and the United States have different attitudes, but they are both calculating to reap benefits, the British Empire has played a balancing act for so many years, what can not be seen through, Burma must not fight anymore, if the fight continues, India, Britain's largest colony, will be unstable.

Under the low eaves, they had to bow their heads, who called the decline of the British Empire, Britain announced that it accepted Wilson's proposal and decided to start armistice negotiations with China, and Minister Juerdian became the plenipotentiary of the British side, and the representative of the American side was Minister Richmond.

This border negotiation is of great significance to China, Gu Weijun as the head of the delegation, on behalf of China's Southwest Ministerial Conference to negotiate with the British, the venue of the negotiation was selected in Wuchang, that is, Qiao Yu's territory, the strength of the two sides of China and Britain could not be more obvious, Britain also has the heart to decide, but now the situation in Myitkyina is too critical, China can take Myitkyina at any time, and Britain is not allowed to hesitate at all.

Gu Weijun had even seen the big scene of the Paris Peace Conference, but this time was his most excited, although he tried his best to control his emotions, but the feeling of raising his eyebrows still filled his chest.

The British Empire finally bowed its arrogant head to China, Qiao Yu had already given Gu Weijun the bottom line for negotiations, and the British Concession was revoked; the withdrawal of the Yangtze River Fleet from China; re-demarcate the Sino-Indian border and recognize China's sovereignty over Jiangxinpo, Nankan and other places; In order to protect China's commercial interests, Myitkyina was established as a free city, and Chinese and British merchants could travel freely.

Once upon a time, China was forced to accept all kinds of unequal treaties, and now China can finally justifiably ask for its own power, this huge change as a diplomat feels the strongest, this world is still the era of the law of the jungle in the final analysis, only the fist is strong enough to gain respect, if Britain is not convinced, continue to fight, in the end to see who can't hold on first!

(To be continued)