Chapter 312 312 Pingkun Sha
The CPM's successive victories on the Irrawaddy River Plain and the retreat of the government forces headed by Ne Win and Sheng Llun seemed to be the belief that the CPM would succeed in overthrowing the program regime and establishing a new state with either its own dictatorship or federalism, but at this time, something went wrong in the rear of the CPM.
Since the Burmese Communist Party took action, the Burmese military junta has not planned to rely on its own strength to put an end to this scourge, and the military government sent a special envoy to the eastern Shan State that is not controlled by the Burmese Communist Party, and found another local separatist boss, the famous Golden Triangle drug lord, Khun Sa.
It's a bit of a shame to call Khun Sa just a drug lord, in addition to being a big drug lord, Khun Sa is also a warlord leader on the border between Myanmar and Thailand. In 1985, he united the three Shan State armies and formed a force of as many as 2. The 50,000-strong Montai army and 20,000 local militia were under his command.
Naturally, it is not only the strength of the armed forces, but also the encouragement of the cultivation of drugs in his own territory, the construction of heroin processing and purification plants, the smuggling of jadeite, precious stones, and munitions, and the imposition of high protection taxes on local residents.
But even the Burmese army hates Khun Sa's presence, but the government's biggest enemy now is the democratic forces in the Republic of Burma. The junta sent a message to Khun Sha, granting him amnesty and promising autonomy and a host of other powers for the areas under his control.
Originally, Khun Sa would not have attacked his neighbor the Burmese Communist Party because of such empty promises from the Burmese government, but Khun Sa had just formed a feud with the Burmese Communist Party not long ago.
After Qi Yiming infiltrated into the CPM, he began to fight drugs in the area controlled by the CPM, and all the poppy fields were bulldozed and processing plants were destroyed. But it's not just the Communist Party of Myanmar itself that grows drugs, but also Khun Sa in the Golden Triangle. The Burmese Communist Party sent people to contact Khun Sa and invited him to join the ranks of the Burmese Communist Party and jointly carry out a counter-attack on the junta, which may have some benefits for him. Khun Sa was naturally very impressed, but a quid pro quo offered by the CPM made him immediately reject the CPM's invitation.
Because the Burmese Communist Party wants him to ban drugs on his territory!
When Yu Shenji first arrived on the territory of the Burmese Communist Party, many cadres of the Burmese Communist Party rejected his arrival, and were even more reluctant to stop this business of making money every day. And Khun Sha's drug business in the Golden Triangle is not much bigger than that of the Burmese Communist Party, and it is even more brutal under Khun Sha's rule, and the oppression of local residents is very serious, and this Khun Sha has gathered a lot of wealth. Now the Burmese Communist Party actually asked him not to make any more money, and Khun Sa naturally could not agree.
Because of the arrival of the 8888 Movement, Qi Yiming couldn't care about dealing with the small role of Khun Sha, and directly ordered the Burmese Communist Party to send troops to fight the government army. But the government army was beaten to the end, but at this time, it could not forget that there was such a scourge hidden behind the Communist Party of Burma.
Khun Sa originally listened to the request of the Burmese military government, but he was still relatively hesitant, and the Burmese Communist People's Army has won successive battles and has begun to show its glory, but the government army has been beaten to the ground, and mixing with the government army is not necessarily a good way. But at this time, his adviser Zhang Suquan suggested to him: "Although the Communist Party of Burma is powerful now, the Communist Party of Burma has not had a good reputation in the country for a long time, and it is not easy to win more power in one fell swoop." Coupled with the fact that the opposition itself is not on the right path with Myanmar, it is more likely that the two sides will struggle and entangle. Moreover, if we want to maintain the drug business, we must not join the Burmese Communist Party, and the military junta is the only ally we can choose. If we succeed in helping the junta break the siege, then our status in Myanmar will be even higher in the future. ”
Kun Sha nodded approvingly, rubbed his hands and said: "That's right, and the Communist Party of Burma has suddenly expanded recently, and it is said that they also have a lot of property on their territory now, if we can grab it to enrich our team, it may be us who will force the government to come down in the future!" ”
He was excited for a while, then showed some worries, and said: "However, the Communist Party of Burma now has a lot of soldiers and food, and it is still unknown whether we will win or lose against the Communist Party of Burma." ”
Zhang Suquan instigated again: "Now the main force of the Communist Party of Burma has gone to Wacheng (Mandalay), but a large amount of their baggage and equipment must still be on their original territory in Shan State, we will rob a vote, and then hide in the mountains and forests, even if the Communist Party of Burma wants to deal with us now, it will not exert all its strength, because their main enemy is the military government." In this way, if the Burmese Communist Party is fighting on two fronts, then the situation is even more worrying, and we can discuss with the government army to slowly encroach on the power of the Burmese Communist Party, and if we can swallow the Shan State entirely, then it will no longer be a dream to establish a state within a state. ”
Khun Sa was moved by Zhang Suquan's words, and just when the People's Army broke through Dong Dun Chi and Rangoon was in sight, he mobilized his main force of more than 10,000 people to attack the rear of the Burmese Communist Party in Shan State. Because of the suddenness of the offensive, the Mongol army seized an important town in the rear base area of the Burmese Communist Party, and brought up some of the military supplies that the Burmese Communist Party had placed there, including thousands of rifles and a small number of mortars.
In addition, the materials looted from the territory of the Communist Party of Myanmar also made Khun Sha very angry, the lack of medicines in the dense forests and mountainous areas, as well as the easy-to-carry military rations, a considerable amount of clothing, tents and other items, so that Khun Sha had no time to think about how these materials of the Communist Party of Myanmar came from, and his mind was full of how to grab some more.
Khun Sa not only looted the warehouses and materials of the Burmese Communist Party, but also set up arson to loot the local civilians, arousing great public resentment. Many local people were shot dead by the Mongol army, and some women were also ****, and the atrocities committed in the base area finally aroused the anger of the Burmese Communist Party.
The 815 Brigade of the Communist Party of Burma left behind in the rear was composed of troops from the 815th Military Region of the Communist Party of Burma, and its combat effectiveness was somewhat inferior to that of the Red Police Brigade with the prefix 5, but it has also undergone a lot of training recently, and was considered worthy of a war by the top level of the Communist Party of Burma. In addition, the Red Police Base in Lashio also quickly dispatched a new 516 Brigade that had just been formed to attack from the southern front and directly attack Kun Sha's old nest in the Golden Triangle.
At this time, Khun Sa was still immersed in his dream of defeating the Burmese Communist Party and then plundering supplies, and finally pushing the Burmese Communist Party and seizing the entire Shan State, without knowing that the catastrophe of the Ludao Road was coming. On the third day of the attack on the rear of the Burmese Communist Party in Khun Sha, the commander of the 815th Brigade, Bao Youxiang, led his troops to intercept the Mongol army in Khun Sha near Jingdong.
The two sides broke out in a fierce battle in the mountainous terrain, because the Mongol and Thai army had grabbed a lot of equipment from the Burmese Communist Party before, so there was no too obvious firepower gap between the two sides, but the 815 Brigade was only about 3,000 people, and the Mongol and Thai troops were in a panic after the first encounter with the enemy, and there were large losses, but Kun Sha had many troops in his hands, and sent additional troops to attack Bao Youxiang's 815 Brigade six times in a row.
The 815th Brigade did not fall behind in the slightest under the siege of nearly 10,000 enemies, and Bao Youxiang, with the help of the Red Police Staff Corps, continuously used the powerful terrain to ambush the Kunsha Department in the mountainous and jungle areas many times. Although Kun Sha's subordinates have many soldiers, they know what real military science is, and there is no discipline at all in marching and fighting, and in the eyes of the senior staff officers of the Red Police, there are flaws everywhere.
Seeing this, Kun Sha was furious, gritted his teeth and once again invested thousands of troops to join the battle of besieging Bao Youxiang's department, Bao Youxiang led the 815 Brigade to fight and go, taking advantage of the terrain in this area is more familiar, and the Mengtai army with the guest army Kun Sha began to circle in the 100,000 mountains.
Bao Youxiang's department also mastered a group of military dogs sent by the Red Police Base, when it was found that these military dogs were more powerful than an ordinary soldier against the infantry, Bao Youxiang released hundreds of military dogs in the jungle, and when he caught the opportunity, he sneaked up on these Mengtai soldiers, causing great damage to the Mengtai army, and more importantly, the cannibal ghost in the jungle also made the Mengtai army extremely frightened.
When Kun Sha was still hesitant to know whether to continue the battle or withdraw to his lair, he heard a shocking news. The Burmese Communist Party sent a force from the southern front all the way over the mountains and mountains to attack his old nest of Ho Mong. Although this group of Burmese People's Army did not burn and loot as he did on the territory of the Burmese Communist Party before, they did it just as well. The 515th Brigade set a fire on the territory of Kun Sha and burned it for several days, burning the poppy fields on the territory of Kun Sha, and also destroyed all the facilities related to drug production in Kun Sha.
When Kun Sha learned the news, his eyes were split, and after sending Zhang Suquan to break off, he led the main force to prepare to return to the nest and defeat the Burmese Communist army. But as soon as he left, Bao Youxiang led the 815 Brigade to launch a large-scale offensive against the broken Zhang Suquan Division, Zhang Suquan desperately resisted but still to no avail, Zhang Suquan himself died in the chaos, the 815 Brigade annihilated nearly 1,000 Mengtai troops, and the front pointed directly at the rear of Kunsha.
At the same time, the 515 Brigade, which had completed the task of destroying Khun Sha's nest, also turned around and went north into the jungle area, and the two forces of the Burmese Communist Party, one south and one north, sandwiched the Kun Sha Department in the mountains.
In his panic, Khun Sa hoped to reconcile with the Burmese Communist Party and was willing to compensate the Burmese Communist Party for its losses, but the Burmese Communist Party, who knew that "it is advisable to chase the poor and brave the remnants", rejected Khun Sha's peace signal, and the two troops finally dragged this force to the ground after driving Khun Sha's army for more than a week, and launched a decisive battle.
Kunsha himself committed suicide, most of his troops surrendered, and some fled deep into the mountains with a temporary difficulty in apprehending.
Although the Khun Sa Rebellion caused some trouble to the Burmese Communist Party, it did not drag down the decisive battle of the main army against the government army on the Irrawaddy River Plain, and also gave the Burmese Communist Party an opportunity to completely control the Shan State. After the destruction of Khun Sa, the whole of Shan State was devoid of private armed forces and was completely under the rule of the Provisional Federal Government.