Chapter 1157: The Battle of Banhong (2)
At this time, Wang Maoru and the Minister of National Defense Sa Zhenbing, the Deputy Minister Jiang Fangzhen, the Chief of Staff Wu Peifu, and the Deputy Chief of Staff Ren Yuanxing He Anding were discussing at the Ministry of National Defense, because Xiao Yaonan had already entered Myanmar by small road and had arrived at the town of Rolling Lane (Rolling Lane, a small town located on the border between Myanmar and China, nearly half of the people in the town are Wa and Dai, the other is Burmese, and a small number are Indians).
Roll around the town? If you roll around, you have declared war on Britain, and if you don't fight, the army is already outflanked in place, so why wait?
Wang Maoru's attitude towards Rolling Town was to fight, and to annihilate them all, which caught the British off guard, and the British did not know about the blockade of the news. This is in line with the thinking of the Ministry of National Defense, and the experienced Minister of National Defense, Sa Zhen Bingjian, said: "Since the troops have entered Burma, in order to avoid trouble, I have ordered them to take off China's five-color military insignia and military flag after entering Burma." ”
"Ginger is still old and spicy." Wang Maoru stretched out his thumb and smiled.
Chief of Staff Wu Peifu said: "After the attack is rolling, we must make up our minds whether to completely annihilate the British." This time, unlike in Kashmir and Tibet, where Tibet and Kashmir have been recognized as Chinese territory since the Qing Dynasty, but our troops are now in Burma. ”
"Don't fight?" Wang Maoru shook his head and said, "I can't help fighting, and I can't wait at all, once the British react, it's not that they will be attacked on their backs, but on our backs." ”
Ren Yuanxing nodded and said: "The president is right, this battle must be resolved quickly and annihilate the British army in one fell swoop." ”
"So let them outflank them quickly, and destroy the defenders as much as possible. Then immediately withdraw to Cangyuan, Yunnan. Wang Maoru smiled, and then said, "That's right." Didn't the Burmese rebel against the British all along? In this way, we will give the credit for the occupation to the Burmese Recovery, and the army that outflanked Banhong is our squadron. ”
"Myanmar re-a**?" Wu Peifu was taken aback, "Where did Myanmar come from?" ”
Wang Maoru laughed and said, "No, we will build one and send a secret telegram to Xiao Yaonan to recruit Burmese." All the supplies we have seized except for money and important information are this 'Burmese revenge'. The British are making trouble for us, let's make trouble for them first, get a monkey and throw it into the belly of the princess of the iron fan, and let them cry. To offend the Chinese, let's play some small tricks with them. ”
"Yes." Wu Peifu said.
Sa Zhenbing added: "After the war, we can say that we have captured bandits in Yunnan. The bandit has attacked the villages of the Wa and Dai ethnic groups and killed many civilians, and they have been completely wiped out. ”
Wang Maoru laughed and said, "Ming Gong has also learned to be cunning. ”
The next day, Xiao Yaonan reported an incident to the Ministry of National Defense by secret telegram, which made the Ministry of Defense laugh out loud, when the 257th and 258th regiments of the 3rd Mountain Division had just surrounded Rolling Lane. Rolling City immediately raised the white flag without hesitation. Seeing that the white flag was erected in Rolling City, Xiao Yaonan was slightly surprised, and let the two soldiers go in to investigate in case there was fraud.
As soon as the two Chinese soldiers arrived at the gate of the town, they heard gunfire and shouts of killing inside, and immediately retreated to report to Xiao Yaonan. Xiao Yaonan was puzzled. Is this enemy suspicious?
Half an hour later, the door opened. A group of indigenous Burmese soldiers dressed in British uniforms lined up with guns and surrendered.
Xiao Yaonan cautiously ordered two companies of the first battalion of the 257th Regiment to surrender, and after the two teams of soldiers collected all the guns, they searched the rolling lane, and there was no ambush inside. Only then did Xiao Yaonan order the troops to directly occupy Roll, and after inquiry, he found out that this was the case inside.
The current captives were all British Burmese soldiers - and the Burmese were not willing to give their lives to the British, whom they had long hated.
In 1886, the British completely occupied Burma during the three Anglo-Burmese wars, and listed Burma as the Burma province of British India. The British then emigrated a large number of Indians to Burma, and instead of sympathizing with the destruction of Burma, these Indians bullied the new slaves as old slaves, helped the British persecute the Burmese, and massacred the Burmese guerrillas. As a result, the majority of Burmese soldiers are Indians, and only a small number of Burmese are forcibly recruited as soldiers.
After the Indian soldiers and Burmese soldiers stationed in Rolling Lane were surrounded, they learned that it was the first squadron to enter, and immediately the Burmese soldiers shot the Indian soldiers in the back, and at the same time, the Burmese in the city also began to kill the Indians in the city - this is like the Indonesians persecuting the Chinese under the notice of the Dutch - before Xiao Yaonan's mountain troops entered the city, most of the Indian soldiers were killed by the angry Burmese, and all the Indian people in the city were also stimulated by the Burmese soldiers killing the Indian soldiers. The hateful Burmese then slaughtered the Indian people. That's why when the two soldiers came to visit, they suddenly heard the sound of killing and gunfire coming from inside.
There were several Yunnan soldiers of the Wa nationality in the 3rd Mountain Division, and they took the initiative to ask the locals to inquire, and after communicating with Guò and learning about the cause and effect, they reported to Xiao Yaonan, Xiao Yaonan smiled bitterly: "Fuck, this Liangzi is getting bigger." ”
Twelve Indian soldiers were shot en masse, forty-one ordinary Indians were killed in the city, women, children, adults, men and the elderly, it is estimated that these Burmese were not interested in dark-skinned Indian women, and they were directly hacked to death with knives, and they were not humiliated.
Xiao Yaonan ordered the bodies of the Indians and Indian soldiers to be burned, and then summoned all the people in the city, demanded that they keep it secret, and handed over all the captured weapons to the Burmese. That night, Xiao Yaonan received another letter from the Ministry of National Defense to leave a force to form the Burma Restoration and hand over the credit for the attack on the city to the Burma Recovery. Xiao Yaonan took the secret telegram from the Ministry of National Defense and said to Hong Lingge, the commander of the 257th Regiment, and Wang Changhai, the commander of the 258th Regiment: "I have been thinking too much, this was not fought by us in the first place, and we will not take the credit." ”
Hong Linger and Wang Changhai laughed, and the three of them discussed, and left a squad of soldiers, let them change out of their military uniforms, put on the clothes of the locals, and organize the "Burma Recovery".
The soldiers of this squad are depressed, the regular army has become a guerrilla, who is happy to change it? But an order is an order, so the eleven men began to recruit local young people to form a guerrilla unit. The locals were very enthusiastic, probably because they were bullied by the British, coupled with the enthusiasm of the young people of Burma, and the support of China, so fifty-seven were recruited in one morning. Fifty-seven Burmese youths and eleven Chinese soldiers formed the so-called Burmese Fu** and began to think about attacking in all directions.
Also that morning, Xiao Yaonan had already assembled his team and began to set off for Banhong in the northeast. When passing through the border outpost, the camouflage uniforms of the squadron played a good role in disguise, and the soldiers found that although their military uniforms looked more "disgusting", like the skin of a toad, the concealment effect was really good.
The 7th platoon of the 3rd battalion sent by the 258th regiment sneaked up and knocked out this burnt card, which consisted of twelve Indians and one British. The people inside had no idea that an army would attack them from behind, and even these diminutive Yunnan soldiers in the seventh platoon could finish off the British and their lackeys with only bayonets.
The British are sleeping, and the Indian lackeys are boiling curry potatoes and enjoying themselves......
When Xiao Yaonan arrived with a large army, he looked at the thirteen captives sitting on the ground, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "But so, the British have nothing to fear. ”
"Despicable! Vile! The only British soldier protested loudly.
Xiao Yaonan couldn't understand English, so he asked his adjutant what the kid was talking about, and his adjutant graduated from the Yakeshi Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and he couldn't understand it, so he guessed: "I guess I'm scolding you." ”
"I'm my grandmother." Xiao Yaonan said angrily, "Give them all to me......"
"Seats, seats." Liu Bin, the commander of the third battalion of the 258th Regiment, ran over with a smile and said, "There is something good." ”
"What's that?"
Liu Bin waved his pocket and said: "Just now two guys from Guizhou under my command went to, and they almost died, it turned out that they stepped on the snake's nest, fortunately, these two people were born in the mountains and knew how to catch snakes, so they caught more than 20 snakes." It's all poisonous snakes! He emphasized.
When Xiao Yaonan heard this, he suddenly thought of an idea, looked at the British and Indian with a smile, and said, "You said that if we let them go, will people know that we have returned from Burma?" ”
Wang Changhai, the head of the 258th regiment, immediately persuaded: "Participate in the seat, you can't let it go, you can do it wrong." ”
Xiao Yaonan smiled: "I have a better way, I don't need us to do it." ”
"How?"
Xiao Yaonan pointed to the snake bag, then to the captives, and smiled evilly. Liu Changhai and Hong Linger suddenly shuddered, this way is too ...... Perverted.
But five minutes later, the screams rang out in the air.
Xiao Yaonan and other central ** officials sighed: "It's really unfortunate that the border post was attacked by poisonous snakes! I deeply regret what happened to the British side. ”
This is not what Chinese did, this is not what Chinese did......
After dealing with the prisoners, the 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Mountain Division continued to set off, with the 3rd Battalion of the 258th Regiment as the forward, and quickly interspersed with the Banhong area.
The army passed through the night to Guò Yonglao, Yongwax, and Bangaozhai, all of which were deserted and were all driven away by the British, but when they were in the middle of the night, a group of people suddenly burst out of the grass by the roadside. The soldiers of the third battalion almost opened fire, but when they saw the crowd that came out waving the Yellow Dragon Flag, I will go for it, it is still the flag of the Qing Dynasty - and ran over. It turned out that these were villagers who had been hiding in the mountains when the British drove the village from the neighborhood.
Liu Bin, the commander of the third battalion, was suddenly frightened: "Could it be that our march has leaked secrets?" ”