"Oh! Crazy, crazy, God, my God, what exactly are the Chinese going to do? This is a crime, this is a massacre! Raglan and his retinue roared, but the sound of the cannon around them was so deafening that even they couldn't hear what they were saying.

After a full twenty minutes, the shelling gradually stopped, and as far as the eye could see, except for a limited number of areas, the city was in ruins, from the docks to the depths along the Yangon River, to the banks of the Bago and Irrawaddy rivers, thousands of buildings were destroyed in the shelling, the streets and rubble were littered with corpses, dense Burmese mixed with whites, frantically fleeing, the whole city was ablaze, and the British had almost destroyed the efforts of the British for ten years.

"Your Excellency Wang Feng, do you know what you're doing?" Lambert glared at Wang Feng with blood-red eyes, and shouted in a trembling voice, at this moment, he was so angry that he didn't even care about observing the naval gun fire of the Democratic Alliance.

Wang Feng shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands aggrievedly: "Mr. Lambert, our artillery fire has not hit the British residential area, what are you excited about?" I'm just telling you the most correct way to keep the Burmese from resisting, you see, are they running around? Did you organize a revolt? Didn't you? This shows that it is useless to conquer the inferior races, to indoctrinate them, and to submit only to power and force. ”

The sound of cries and the smell of blood gradually drifted in the thick black smoke, and countless fleeing armies fled farther and farther, although the British residential areas were indeed not hit much, and even if there were shells falling in, they were extremely rare, which could be understood as accidental bombing, but Yangon was finished, and nearly 70,000 Yangon residents. No less than 10,000 were killed and seriously injured on the spot, and the rest scattered and fled. In other words, the people of Yangon either died or fled. The whole city is about to become an empty city, and an empty city, what is the point of Britain coming?

Britain is different from China, China itself is a populous country, so the basic policy of expansion is to land without people, which is also the most bloody and cruel way of expansion, but who makes Chinese more, in line with the principle of dead friends do not die poor, since Chinese cannot die. Well, it's up to you Burmese to die.

Britain needed a colonial population to produce raw materials and dump goods, and population was more important to Britain than land.

"Mr. Wang Feng, you did it on purpose! Your main Chinese forces, which have poured in from the mountains of northern Burma, are gathering under the city of Lashio, and although the siege has not yet begun, the leading marshal Mr. Shi Dakai has plundered the nearby villages and small towns. Nearly 100,000 civilians have died at your hands, and your indiscriminate killing of innocents will completely anger the international community, and now you have personally come from the sea with your fleet, and your purpose is to invade Burma. Hostile to the British, right? Lambert asked in a cold voice.

"Huh?" Shi Dakaibu hadn't taken the initiative to attack yet, which made Wang Feng a little surprised. However, if you think about it, you can understand that although the China-Myanmar highway was successfully built. But the mountainous area along the border with China, which stretches for hundreds of kilometers, is only a winding road. Even if there is no pause for 24 hours, the arms and materials of the 200,000-strong army and nearly 1,000 large and small artillery pieces still need to be transported out of the mountainous areas, and this is indeed a protracted process.

Although the Democratic Alliance developed military trucks, they were limited by the lack of fuel and could not put them into practical use, and they had to wait until the Shengli Oilfield officially produced oil, and this time period was at least a year later.

And the strategic position of Lashio is very important, it is the capital of Shan State, is the gateway of the newly relocated capital of Myanmar Awa, only less than 300 kilometers away from Ava, and Ava between a horse and a flat river, once the Democratic Alliance army breaks Lashio, a week can be under the city of Ava, and then capture Awa, on Burma almost perished, the Burmese government can not deploy heavy troops in Lashio, and according to Shi Dakai's cautious character, it will inevitably be fully prepared before launching a general offensive.

"Mr. Lambert, please calm down!" Wang Feng immediately pressed his hands and said without hurrying: "Three years ago, when the Chinese army attacked Hunan, it was found that the Xiang army at that time had a large number of British-made weapons, and after our careful investigation, we determined that these weapons came from Burma, and the Burmese government smuggled them to the Xiang army through the mountainous areas of China and Burma to support the Qing court, which in fact constituted an act of interfering in the Chinese civil war and greatly increased the casualties of the Chinese.

With regard to the vicious acts of interfering in China's internal affairs, the Chinese side's consistent attitude is to crack down on one by one and never tolerate it, so China's dispatch of troops is a retaliatory action against the Burmese government and has nothing to do with violating British sovereignty. ”

"Nonsense! Myanmar is too busy to take care of itself, how can it afford to support the Qing court? Since the Qing court invaded Burma four times during the Qianlong period, Burma had almost no contact with China, so what reason did he have to interfere in China's internal affairs? Although Lambert also wanted to calm down, Wang Feng's reversal of black and white was too annoying, how could he be calm, roaring angrily.

"Oh? It's not even Myanmar? So, you British did it? Wang Feng's eyes shot a cold light.

"This" Lambert immediately vented his momentum, and the supply of weapons to the Hunan army was approved by the chief commissioner of Bago Province, Pan, but this kind of thing can only be done, not said, and there is no room for maneuver when he says it, just like Wang Feng, who only shelled Rangoon about 20 minutes ago, but he did not admit that he had violated the sovereignty of Britain, and he kept saying that he was here for revenge.

Lambert also wanted not to admit it, but in Burma, except for the British, they are Burmese, and if it is not the British, it must be the Burmese who did it, and he has just exonerated the Burmese, and then denies that it is not a slap in the face? So he simply shut up.

Wang Feng didn't want to completely turn his face with the British, so he smiled faintly: "Mr. Lambert, China's retaliation against Burma is about to begin, and it is inevitable that innocent people will be injured in the war, in order to avoid casualties of irrelevant British, I think you should make a suggestion to Mr. Pan, the chief commissioner of Bago Province, and the British Bengali authorities to withdraw the British in Burma to Bangladesh as soon as possible." ”

"Humph!" Lambert snorted.

The withdrawal of the British in Burma is equivalent to surrendering Burma to China, but if you don't withdraw, the Chinese Navy has more than 20 warships with more than 20 cruisers, and the army also has 200,000 troops and 1,000 artillery pieces, and its strength is extremely powerful.

Compared with the British, there are only more than 10,000 soldiers, including Indian soldiers, and the navy has only two cruiser-class troops and a dozen frigates of several hundred tons, and its military strength in Burma can be called pitiful.

Wang Feng kept saying that he was here for revenge and had nothing to do with the British, and he kindly thought about the safety of the British, and persuaded him to withdraw the British to Bangladesh in advance, what else could he say? Only silence can be maintained.

Wang Feng seemed to think of something, and said solemnly: "I have already made clear China's position, I hope Mr. Lambert will decide as soon as possible, and I also ask Mr. Lambert to convey to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of your country on my behalf, in my capacity as the emperor of China, I invite your Queen Victoria to pay a friendly visit to China at an appropriate time, and the Chinese side will give the most grand reception. ”

Lambert suddenly stumbled, inviting the Queen of England to visit China, or a friendly visit, you know, there were few heads of state in that era who went abroad, he had to admire Wang Feng's whimsy, and a cloud of anger rose in his heart.

Lambert regarded Wang Feng's invitation as humiliation, and he couldn't tell him what the reason was, but he just had a feeling of being humiliated, and said bluntly at the moment: "I will convey your invitation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and say goodbye!" With that, he walked away quickly with a few followers.

When he came, he was uneasy, and when he went, he was confused, Lambert read Wang Feng's ambition to annex all of Burma from a few words, he felt that the matter was big, China's 200,000 troops and more than 20 cruiser warships gathered in Burma, this can no longer be solved by diplomatic means, nor can he be dealt with by a Rangoon commissioner, he needs to report to Pan Er as soon as possible, and the British and Indian governors and even the British government will come forward.

After Lambert gradually walked away, Wang Feng waved his hand violently: "We will also go ashore!" ”

One after another, the flags were raised, and the fleet slowly approached the dock.

At the same time, the palace of the Burmese royal palace was overcast.

The Burmese King Min Dong sits high on the throne, this is a middle-aged and elderly man in his fifties, with white sideburns, wearing a white hat with gold trim, two mustaches, wearing a traditional Burmese white cage base, wearing a gold belt on his shoulders, stepping on a pair of wooden slippers, holding a white mink fur duster that symbolizes power, his eyebrows are tightly locked, and he looks worried.

King Min Dong was elected to power through a coup d'état to overthrow Bagan Myint, this man was weak, in the same year of his reign, after Bago was occupied by the British, he also fantasized about persuading the British and Indian authorities to return Bago to Burma through negotiations, and the following year, in April 1853, he sent a delegation to negotiate with the British, and the negotiations lasted for more than a month, and finally came to an end.

Another year later, King Min Dong sent a mission to Calcutta to again demand that the British and Indian authorities return Bago, and Ramsey, then Governor of India, who had been forced to return to China for investigation because of the defeat of the East India Company on the Yangtze River, arrogantly declared that Bago would always be British as long as the sun was shining.

King Min Dong was disillusioned, although he did not recognize the British annexation of Lower Burma, but did not dare to use force, and even in order to maintain the rule of the Burmese royal family, he also opposed the Burmese people's resistance to the British, and in fact recognized the British rule of Lower Burma.

There were not many important ministers in the main hall, except for King Mindong, there were also the crown prince King Kanang, the national teacher Tatanaban, his eldest son Prince Mingong, and his cousins Prince Liangyuan, Prince Song Zhuan and Prince Mikye.

Among them, the crown prince King Ganang is the mastermind of overthrowing Bagan Min, and he is also the representative of the main battle faction, King Min Dong did not designate his son as the heir, but declared King Ganang as the crown prince, which made Prince Min Gong extremely dissatisfied, Tata Naban is the Buddhist leader of Myanmar, as we all know, Myanmar is a country where Buddhism is prevalent, and adult men must become monks once in their lives, which shows the influence of Tata Naban, and because of this, King Min Dong was cited as a powerful helper. (To be continued.) )