The British shamelessly probed the Banhong area, and with 250 regular troops as the vanguard, they opened out from Huban, passed through Mengban, Bankong, and Bangu, and occupied Husuan, Nanda, Jinchang, furnace and other places, built fortifications, and built barracks. Then, the British army of 2,000 men invaded Banhong, forcibly supervised the mining of ore, and transported it to the old silver factory for smelting.

After occupying Banhong, the British army immediately set up checkpoints, drove more than 10 Wa and Dai villages around Banhong, burned most of them, and drove the local people to the Savage Mountain. The British had extremely sinister intentions, and they hoped that these people would be bitten to death by wild beasts and poisonous insects after entering the Savage Mountain, so as to avoid trouble.

However, the British army, which consisted of British soldiers and Indian soldiers, only drove them southward, but the Wa and Dai villagers, who had lived in the 100,000 mountains for generations, soon fled back to Shuangjiang City from small roads and mountain streams to complain. This happened in November last year, and the Banhong area has always been a Tusi system, and the local Tusi and village owners are in charge, so the communication speed is extremely slow.

At this time, the south coincided with the first time in ten years of cold weather, and after the British army sent 2,000 troops a year later, the local Tusi and the owner of the village reported the matter to the Yunnan Provincial officials, who immediately reported to the Seventh Army of the Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region.

Du Baosan, commander of the Seventh Group Army, was not a good man, and he immediately ordered the newly reorganized 3rd Mountain Division Li Shucheng's unit to be led by Xiao Yaonan, deputy chief of staff, to advance to the Banhong area with a total strength of more than 8,000 troops. The 3rd Mountain Division consisted of four regiments: the 257th Regiment, the 258th Regiment, the 259th Regiment, and the 260th Regiment. Later, because some soldiers in northern Shaanxi could not stand the humid and hot climate in the south, coupled with the expansion of the Western Regions Military Region. So some of the northern Shaanxi soldiers applied to go to the Western Regions. In order to meet the needs of operations in the south, the Seventh Army began to recruit local soldiers from Yunnan and Guizhou, and the biggest difference between the local soldiers and the northern Shaanxi soldiers was that they were shorter in stature, but they were more flexible. Since Yungui is not a rich place, serving as a soldier has become an excellent way to make money, especially in the Wehrmacht, where soldiers are more well-paid, so the conscription work went very smoothly.

After the reorganization of the army. The Seventh Group Army was specially assigned a place in a mountain division because it was in the Yunnan-Guizhou Mountains, and Du Baosan dispatched the local soldiers of Yunnan-Guizhou in the army to form this mountain division according to the actual situation, about three-fifths of them were Yunnan-Guizhou locals, and only two-fifths of this army were northern Shaanxi soldiers. Moreover, these soldiers in northern Shaanxi are some soldiers with strong climbing and cross-country ability.

The reorganization of the 3rd Mountain Division was only completed in January, and it has not yet been tested after the reorganization is completed, and Du Baosan also hopes that this unit will conduct a combat test in the Banhong area to see the combat capability of the army after the reform of the military system.

The Mountain Division is the abbreviation of the Mountain Infantry Division, and the individual equipment of the division is: each soldier is equipped with an M9 rifle (Minjiu rifle) and bayonets. Raincoat, rain boots, waterproof sleeping bag. Insect repellent medicine, sealed sulfur kits, first aid kits, and a two-week distribution of compressed biscuit rations in wartime. One kerosene lighter, 4 egg grenades, 120 rounds of 7.7 mm x 45 mm concave edge pointed reduced ammunition, and some soldiers were equipped with 10-meter ropes. Compared to infantry divisions, mountain divisions lacked heavy mortars, large-aperture infantry guns, tanks, automobiles, and, unlike infantry divisions and armored divisions, could not directly order support from the ground aviation. In the individual equipment, the steel helmet is also missing in the individual equipment. The chest armor and military leather boots issued during the war, the mountain division wore rubber-soled cloth shoes, and the steps were lighter.

With the existing financial resources of the military, the mountain division has achieved the most strengthened individual equipment. Because the main combat areas of the 3rd Mountain Division were tropical rainforests such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Burma, and Laos, Du Baosan, commander of the Seventh Group Army, gave priority to the supply of these troops, which also caused protests from other units. At the same time, the Seventh Army was also the first unit to officially arm the mountain division, which also made the 1st Mountain Division of the Third Army and the 2nd Mountain Division of the Sixth Army envious.

The 3rd Mountain Division knew that his unit was the heart and soul of the corps commander Du Baosan, and they all wanted to show it well.

Another reason is that most of the soldiers of the Seventh Army (Phoenix Army) are mainly Shaanxi soldiers and Shanxi soldiers, while only the 3rd Mountain Division is mainly Yunnan soldiers and Guizhou soldiers. In the past, the combat effectiveness of the Yunnan army and the Guizhou army was also very strong, but when facing the national defense army, one by one could not be defeated, not to mention the logistics supply, even the weapons in their hands were not as good as others. The Wehrmacht has 120 bullets per base, while the Yunnan Army and the Guizhou Army have five bullets in peacetime, and they have to check and inspect them, and they can fight a battle with 20 or 30 bullets in battle.

What kind of support weapons are the Yunnan army equipped with? Rifles, a battalion of water-cooled Maxim machine guns, as for the guns, they are still breech-loading guns purchased during the former Qing Dynasty - fortunately, they are not breech-loading guns. Compared with the Wehrmacht, a squad with a light machine gun, a howitzer, a platoon can be equipped with a bazooka, a company is equipped with small-caliber mortars and heavy machine guns, and a battalion has infantry artillery, how to fight? The reason why the Yunnan Army and the Guizhou Army chose to join the National Defense Army at the beginning was because Wang Maoru bought the Yunnan Army and the Guizhou Army at the beginning, and on the other hand, they also saw that the fight was really fought, and it was only a matter of how long to resist with the combat effectiveness of the Yunnan Army and the Guizhou Army. In addition, at that time, the voices of the whole country calling for reunification came and went, and the generals of the Yunnan Army and the Guizhou Army also chose to join the National Defense Forces in accordance with the will of the people.

However, the Yunnan soldiers and the Guizhou soldiers were also unconvinced, your northwest soldiers were just borrowing weapons, if we also had the same weapons, we would fight better than you.

So the 3rd Mountain Division held this belief and immediately rushed to the Banhong area.

Xiao Yaonan, deputy chief of staff of the group army, personally led the team and ordered the troops to be divided into two routes, he led the 257th regiment and the 258th regiment from Laobie Mountain, and Li Shucheng, the commander of the 3rd Mountain Division, led the division headquarters, the 259th regiment and the 260th regiment to arrive at Gengma along the Bangma Mountain through Lincang, Fushang and Shuangjiang, and there was a large road between Gengma and Banhong built for the former Qing government, which was also a silver mine transportation route, and was rebuilt at the expense of the people of the Ma Gang in the early Republic of China.

Li Shucheng led the team to advance to Banhong along the main road, while Xiao Yaonan led the team to prepare to go around behind Banhong along the road under the leadership of the villagers and outflank the British.

But who fired the first shot and how to fire it, Du Baosan had to ask his superiors.

After Du Baosan's telegram was sent to the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of National Defense immediately handed it over to the Presidential Palace, and after receiving the emergency, Wang Maoru was furious and said: "China has been reunified, and the British have deceived people too much this time, and ordered the Ministry of Defense to annihilate these British people as much as possible." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs now immediately protests against the British invasion of our Banhong area, and at the same time proposes to take back the Pianma area and the Mengmao Triangle, and we will return the rent to them. ”

"Yes." Secretary Chen Bui said.

Subsequently, Foreign Minister Chen Yi immediately summoned the British ambassador to China, Sir Maclay, to protest against the British invasion of China's Banhong area and the British invasion of China's Pianma area, demanding that it immediately withdraw from the Pianma area and demand the termination of the lease contract between China and Britain on the Mengmao Triangle. The Chinese government was willing to repay the British rental contract in the Mong Mao Triangle at double the price, and the British had paid a total of 27,000 Indian guilders, equivalent to 1,100 silver dollars, in the Mong Mao Triangle from the date of the lease to the present. What is even more excessive is that these payments were actually only paid for 14 years, and after the beginning of the Republic of China, British India did not pay for 13 years, citing the unknown representatives of the Chinese government.

In other words, in the eyes of the British, China is still the image of the Chinese who has braids behind their heads, sees poles cutting wires and dismantling railroad tracks, and refuses to modernize. China was also the country that was forced to sign the various unequal treaties of the Chengxia Alliance.

That's why during the Battle of the Heart of China, Russia and Central Asia, the British Indian army marched to Kashmir, and this Banhong was also a plan made by the British ** team early.

Sir Maclay immediately appealed to the Viceroy of India, Rufus. Isaacs inquired about this, and was answered by a man named Kress. Konstantin's British privates disappeared in the Bankhon area, and the British ** team simply entered the Bankhon area to "find" Konstantin......

Wang Maoru sneered after getting the news, are the British standing up for the 77 incident in Japan? All of them were used as excuses for the disappearance of soldiers to invade China and carry out tentative provocations against China. It's a pity that Rufus. Isaacs arrogantly thought that China would back down.

Actually, it's really Rufus. Isaacs directed and staged a farce, and his China strategy repeatedly hit a wall before the Chinese government, much to the chagrin of the haughty Earl of Reading. Viceroy of India, Rufus. With an area of 5,140,000 square kilometers (including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaysia, etc.) and a population of 388 million (native), Isaacs can be said to be the king of Asia, a king whom no one can disobey.

Rufus. Isaacs was the second Jew to sit in the British Cabinet and was the head of the British delegation to World War I, where he participated in the development of the plan for the liquidation of Germany, known as the Treaty of Versailles. This Jew, who had served as the president of the British Supreme Court and ambassador to the United States, had a hard-line and paranoid personality, and he had just arrived in India as governor-general, he ordered the arrest of two leaders of the Green Rebellion in India, arrested and imprisoned the Hindu revolutionary Gandhi the year before, and then suppressed the Sikh uprisings in Mopra and Punjab last year.