The god man of Myanmar Qiao Gu Nai, after inspecting the Mandalay area, gave the king of Myanmar two ideas, one is to unite the Blue Flag Army, and the other is to build a dam that can stop the flood.

In the eyes of the King of Burma, the Blue Flag Army is just a regimental training of the Great Qing Kingdom, and it is very difficult for a regimental training to help Burma in the national war.

As far as the king of Burma knows, the Qing Kingdom is not as good as Burma in the war against England! The Qing Dynasty is over, how much can a wealthy businessman in Yunnan contribute to the war?

In the absence of any opposition, the construction of the dam became the choice of the whole of Myanmar. Myanmar is the Myanmar of the Burmese people, this is not false at all, Yang Meng said that a dam is difficult for the Burmese people, but three smaller dams, they can still build.

Nearly a million people, countless old and weak women and children have all joined the ranks of building the three dams.

The mountains and forests near Mandalay became barren mountains overnight, and three dams dozens of miles long were built in five days. Dams on land, easy to build, dams on the river, easier for the Burmese, countless boats filled with earth and rock, covering the entire Irrawaddy River.

Now the Burmese people are waiting, waiting for the rainy season to come, waiting for the continuous torrential rains every year, the Mandalay area does not need flood control, all the Burmese people, living on the highlands. They're just raising the dam inch by inch right now. Day by day, we are waiting for the rainy season to come.

Dams are just the bare essentials. The most critical point of this strategy is to intercept the news, from Mandalay to Magway in the mountains and forests, the elite soldiers all over Myanmar, as long as people appear in the mountains and forests, there is only one way, or a dead end.

The Yang family's sentries in Mandalay and Magway also had to pretend to be Qiao Gunai's subordinates. gathered a bunch around Magway, Qiao Gunai is now a popular man in front of the King of Burma, and his power is also very great, and the name of the first general under the King of Burma has slowly spread among the Burmese people.

presided over the construction of the dam, millions of Burmese people were working under Qiao Gunai, and in a trance, Qiao Gunai felt that he was much more powerful than the Burmese king.

The Burmese have done a good job of blocking the news, from Magway to Mandalay, whether it is a mountain forest or a river valley. Except for the Burmese, this is no man's land.

Defences are also being built along the banks of the Irrawaddy River, and the rainy season is expected to arrive in a dozen days. The first flood will come a few days after the start of the rainy season.

Carrying twenty days' food each, the Burmese army began to build graves for themselves along the Irrawaddy River. In front of him is a horse made of bamboo, and behind him is also a horse made of bamboo, there is no way to retreat, there is no way to retreat, tens of thousands of people are a line of defense, and tens of thousands of people are gathered within a radius of several miles.

There were no muskets, no artillery, nothing but a Burmese knife, a firewood knife, a bundle of sharpened bamboo, and all these people had was twenty days of food and twenty days of life.

Two bamboo-made horses of more than 10 meters are not only protecting these Burmese soldiers, but also restraining their lives, fleeing forward is the Siamese army that slaughters any Burmese, and fleeing backward is the overseer team armed with bows and arrows and steel knives, they have no way to live except for fighting to the death.

150,000 Siamese civilians, also with the help of the British, were quickly equipped, and their weapons were as rudimentary as those of the Burmese army, a sharpened bamboo, a firewood knife or a Burmese knife, and then a musket with a bayonet, and the battle began as soon as the rainy season came.

The monks of Siam also joined the ranks of the war, they did not come to fight, they came to the front for the sole purpose of demagoguery, so that the heart of every Siamese soldier burned with vengeful anger.

In the face of these Siamese troops with extremely poor equipment and even no uniform uniform, the British army also had two different attitudes, the British troops who came to Burma in the early stage were respectful of these, and the British troops who came in the later reinforcements only sneered at these people.

More than 20 river gunboats, either modified or standard, were also assembled downstream of Magway, and the real warships had to wait for the arrival of the flood to see if they could enter the Irrawaddy River.

For this battle, the British army also showed enough concentration, and the remaining 30,000 British troops also had to rush to escort supplies and assemble near Magway before the rainy season.

The pre-war wait and the post-war peace are the same as the death-making existence, time passes, and the irritability begins to spread among the Siamese army.

When the first drop of rain in the rainy season smashed a puff of dust, the irascible Siamese army embarked on a journey, similar to the method of the Burmese king, the people fought on the front line, the soldiers supervised the battle in the rear, and the Siamese soldiers, pushed by the swords behind, slowly walked towards the Burmese army position full of horses.

There were no tactical tactics, only the bloodiest hand-to-hand combat, the bamboo horses were full of corpses in the blink of an eye, and after the shouts after the battle, there was almost no other sound on the battlefield except for the sound of swords entering the flesh.

The sound of rain hitting the river soon suppressed the sound on the battlefield, the people in front wanted to retreat, the people behind were held up by swords, and they could only advance, and tens of thousands of Siamese soldiers were pushed into the position of the Burmese army so hard.

The place where the two armies engaged was only a line, and the Burmese army could not retreat, so it could only rush forward desperately, and the Siamese soldiers were the same, except for rushing forward, there was no way back at all.

Time flows slowly like the water of the Irrawaddy River, and the soldiers on the battlefield have no idea what is happening in front of the road, only the Irrawaddy River, which is red with blood, can explain the tragic battle ahead at this moment.

On the hillsides on both sides, in addition to the British army and the Siamese army, there are also the Burmese army and the Yunnan New Army watchers, and now everyone's eyes are focused on the battle line that only moves between a few meters, and the people watching the battle have no intention of fighting each other at all.

Of the people watching the battle, the English officers were the most touched, and now most of the English officers. I feel a little chill in my back. After all, they were direct participants in the war. The Burmese army's fearless fighting style is definitely not a good thing for England.

Looking at a group of numb people, slashing and killing each other, except for the wanton blood, this is not at all similar to the battlefields experienced by British officers in the past.

The rain did not stop, but the footsteps of the Siamese army slowly stopped, and the 20,000 people were gone. The first level of the Warlords faced the Burmese army who were trampling on the corpses, and there was no other Warlord behind the Warlords, and in the face of the surging Burmese Army, the Siamese Warlords of more than 1,000 people became the first team to retreat on the battlefield.

But there is not much space left for them, no matter how they cut and kill the Siamese people in front of them, they have not found a way to retreat, if they escape to the river, they can still have a glimmer of life. The only thing that awaited them was the feet of the Siamese army.

Most of the first batch of Warlords were not killed by swords. Instead, he was trampled into the mud by the Siamese army behind and choked to death.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and before the sky was completely dark, the Siamese army finally won the victory, and the Burmese army in the horse rejection array was not left behind, and after a whole day of hand-to-hand fighting, no one had the strength to clean up the rejection of the Burmese army's corpses, and the bitter cries of the Siamese army began to echo on the battlefield.

It's so miserable, it's hard for people who haven't experienced it to describe this feeling, at first the position is bigger and higher, and then it slowly decreases, and at the end of the whole battlefield, it is impossible to distinguish which is mud, which is the corpse, and it is impossible to distinguish which are Siamese and which are Burmese.

The follow-up Siamese soldiers began to come up to clean up the battlefield, without distinguishing who was who, as long as it was a dead body, they were all thrown into the Irrawaddy River, but the river water had been polluted, and in the rainy season, there was no shortage of drinking water, and the British officers did not have any restrictions on this.

What is the feeling of 60,000 or 70,000 corpses floating on the surface of the river, people who have seen this battle say that they do not feel it, just like the weeds brought by the flood, the rain has accelerated the speed of the water flow of the Irrawaddy River, and the corpse thrown into the river in the previous moment is dozens of meters away in the next moment, and it is difficult to leave a feeling.

More than 30,000 people were lost in the first battle, the generals of the British army trembled, and in the rainy season, the power of firearms was greatly reduced.

30,000 people a day, 200,000 people in Siam, will be wiped out in a week, and no one knows how many defensive lines the Burmese army has laid out in front, neither the sentries nor the scouts can get close to the territory controlled by the Burmese army.

The countless corpses that went down the river also alarmed the commander of the river gunboat anchored downstream of Magway, and the countless corpses drifted in the fleet with the river all night before slowly disappearing.

The arrival of the river flotilla solved the problem of the British army, and the fleet, together with the Siamese army, attacked the Burmese position, which became the method with the least casualties.

In the face of the shelling, most of the Burmese soldiers will destroy the rejection horses in front of them, brandishing Burmese swords and rushing into the Siamese army, one day, two days, three days, tragedy is staged every day, only more than 100,000 Siamese troops left, and slowly come to the brink of collapse.

In the face of such a battle situation, the generals of the British army also had to order a rest, and the firepower of the river gunboats was too weak, which was not enough to destroy the positions of the Burmese army.

Now we can only wait for the flood to come, for the water level of the Irrawaddy River to skyrocket.

A group of officers of the Yunnan New Army who watched the battle watched the massacre for several days, and only learned four words, and they fought to the death and did not retreat.

After Yang Meng got the news from the front line, he knew that the overall situation of the Dao had been decided, and if he continued to watch the battle, there would be no gain, and now, the British army had been defeated, and the number of deaths could only depend on the scale of the flood.

After listening to Xu Ziwei's report, Yang Meng only said four simple words: 'Sad Song in the Rain'.

Such a battle is enough to go down in history, not to mention anything else, a single defeat of the British army is enough to make those Burmese soldiers who died in the rain go down in history.

"Good! The Burmese army sang an elegy for the funeral to the British army, and we don't need to be polite, inform Wei Huozi, and after receiving the order, let him organize a new army of 50,000 people on the Tibetan side, and after the new army is formed, it will immediately march into India.

Now India's defense is empty, and his goal is to encourage the Indian poor to rebel, and the target of the first war is the Indian landlords and nobles, who have swept away their lives and wealth, and let him arm the Indian people who are willing to participate in the rebellion.

Let the Wuzhuang and Grange on the Tibetan border put down all the work at hand, organize a strong army of the people, and prepare to transfer goods from India.

Inform Uncle Ding of Dali and ask him to send a new army to the Tibetan border to monitor the three Dharma kings, once these three Dharma kings dare to play moths behind their backs, they will all be killed and all the monasteries will be burned. ”

Military orders came out of Yang Meng's mouth, Xu Ziwei was excited to hear it, and Solang Baima couldn't help but tremble a few times when he heard Yang Meng's last sentence.

"Grandpa......"

"You can reveal my orders to your family, and they will know what to do!" (To be continued......)