Chapter 419: Defeat and retreat

Qiao Gunai took Yang Meng's advice, Xu Ziwei left with the olive branch of the Blue Flag Army, and Yang Meng was also preparing to face his own war.

The stalemate is only the beginning of a more tragic war, and the next Anglo-Burmese war will become more brutal, and Siam's participation in the war is inevitable, but this fierce beast with hatred will stir up the British plan into a piece of shit.

The purpose of England was to colonize Burma, while the purpose of Siam was to exterminate the entire Burmese people, colonization required labor, and the war of extermination required only killing.

The interests of England and Siam have extremely prominent contradictions, and in the short term, the introduction of Siamese troops by England will be of great benefit to them in breaking the deadlock in front of them, but the outcome will be unpredictable.

The accession of Siam will only make the resistance of Myanmar more and more intense, and now the Burmese king has hundreds of thousands of young and strong, and after Siam enters the war, there will be more and more, after all, Siam wants to destroy all the people of Burma, and with the pressure of extermination, the cohesion of the Burmese king will only become stronger and stronger.

Today's Motama is almost a no-man's land, the people of Myanmar, those who can be evacuated have long been evacuated, and most of the rest are hidden in the mountains, and it is difficult, difficult to search for supplies from Motama!

After receiving the invitation of England, the king of Siam, who had been prepared for a long time, also agreed, and the 100,000 Siamese army with grain and grass gathered in Mawlamyine in three days.

Learning in the war, the two sides of each other's opponents are the best masters and apprentices, especially between Burma and Siam, the Siamese army carries only half a month's worth of grain and grass, which is obviously far from enough for the current scale of the war.

But. The last Burmese-Thai war. The Burmese army really taught the Siamese a lesson. There is no need for supplies to fight a war, as long as there is an enemy, and when you meet an enemy, the problem of supply is solved.

The posture of the King of Siam was much more than the British generals expected, and he thought that it would be good if Siam could send 20,000 or 30,000 people. I didn't expect it to be an army of 100,000.

Although the Siamese army mostly uses cold weapons, this is not a problem for the British army, as long as the British army tears a hole in the position in Burma, and uses a gun or a knife in close combat, the difference is not very big.

Accompanied by 100,000 friendly troops, the British troops stationed in Motama happily hit the road. With an absolute number of troops, positional warfare. It became very chicken, and any position of the Burmese army could not resist the impact of the 100,000 Siamese army.

Breaking formations and slaughtering, wherever the Siamese army as the vanguard passed, there were only corpses everywhere. The British army did not react much to this, although the Indian governor blocked the news about Imphal, but the massacre of the city was still spread among the Indian soldiers, so the Siamese army wantonly slaughtered the surrendered Burmese army, and was not stopped by friendly troops.

For this kind of information, it is also extremely concerned about the whole of Burma, and Yang Meng's people are even more so, the Siamese army only slaughtered thousands of soldiers on the front line, and the news that the Siamese army wants to destroy the entire Burma is spreading in Upper Burma.

After the news of the Siamese massacre leaked, the Burmese king also started to push the surface, and the notices were posted all over Upper Burma, a colonial war, which directly became a war of national life and death.

With Qiao Gunai's prompt, the Burmese king also made the right choice and continued to move the population to Mandalay, while part of the main force of the Burmese army also moved to the vicinity of Mandalay.

Although the army and civilians are retreating, the king of Burma did not give up the meaning of the Mishita defense line, and 100,000 young men were supplemented to the Mishita defense line, this confidence was passed on to the king of Burma by the 30,000 Burmese troops in Imphal, and the British army in Imphal was vulnerable, this is the answer to the Burmese king from the 30,000 Burmese army.

And in the face of the aggressive Siam, the Burmese king also needs time to finish the matter of clearing the wilderness, the last time the Siamese army was defeated on the supply line, this time the Burmese military leadership, decided to give Siam another time, put Siam down twice in the same place.

In the face of the position defense of the Burmese army, the British army is also thinking of a solution, this method is still provided by the Burmese army, dozens of artillery salvos are extraordinary, and advancing with artillery has also become a strategy of the British army.

However, the British army's artillery ratio was very small, and the 30,000 troops only had dozens of field guns under 12 pounds, which was far from the nearly 100 large and small artillery pieces of the Burmese army.

It is impossible for the British army to dismantle naval guns to fight positional warfare like the Burmese army, and with India as a support base, the British army is also very calm in the face of nearly 100 artillery pieces of the Burmese army.

The British army on the front line of Bosheng stopped moving, but the Siamese army fought heartily, and advanced to Bago in ten days, which was already very fast.

Although the battle was hearty, the Siamese army also felt great pressure, although there were many Burmese troops who retreated, but the Burmese troops who surrendered became fewer and fewer, and it became a habit of the Burmese army to fight to the death if they could not escape.

It's best to run away, if you can't run away, instead of being slaughtered by the Siamese army, it is better to fight with your life, the Siamese army slaughtered and surrendered troops, it has become a fact, and the soldiers of the Burmese army are also convinced of this, because the Siamese army has done the same thing in Burma before.

The pressure of the battle is still secondary to the Siamese army, the most important and dangerous is the pressure of supplies, the army is running out of grain and grass, but where the Siamese army has fallen, there are no villages to plunder, and the shadow of the first defeat once again hangs over the head of the Siamese army.

The disadvantages of stealing the master to learn the art are also reflected, without the master's skill, you can't use the tricks taught by the master casually, and the helpless King of Siam can only mobilize a large number of grain and grass from the country to support the army on the front line.

But the supply of 100,000 troops is not a simple matter, the rich areas of Siam have been swept away by the Burmese army, and Siam, whose strength has been greatly damaged, wants to maintain the supply of 100,000 troops, it is difficult, very difficult!

While preparing grain and grass, he ordered the Siamese army to advance as fast as possible, this time the king of Siam was still learning from Burma, the last time the Burmese army attacked Siam, killing too many people. Many Siamese soldiers. All of them had loved ones who died at the hands of the Burmese army.

Among the 100,000 Siamese army. Such people accounted for more than half, and they were the vanguard of revenge, and in this attack, the King of Siam gave the task to these enemies of the Burmese army.

The enemy is in front of him, although there is no sharp musket, but the steel knife in his hand can kill people, and the 50,000 Siamese forwards also showed the fierceness of revenge. Against the positions of the Burmese army, they launched a lifeless charge again and again.

The first to retreat was not a part of the British army, but the Burmese army facing the Siamese army, which was somewhat unexpected for the Burmese king, but the defeat was like a mountain, and the large-scale rout began to spread among the Burmese army like a contagion.

The Siamese army captured Myshta within five days, which led to the rout of the entire Myshta defensive line, and the rout, unlike the retreat, was difficult to stop. Although most of the soldiers were withdrawn, the Burmese army suffered considerable losses in food and grass.

Got food and grass from the Burmese army. The pressure on the Siamese army was immediately much less, and after the slaughter of more than 50,000 Burmese young men in Mishita, as the vanguard of the British army, the Siamese army took the initiative to launch one revenge charge after another.

In ten days, following the loss of Myshta, the Burmese army lost its humility again, although the Siamese forward suffered a lot of losses, but the Burmese army could not stop the offensive of the Siamese army at all.

Mishita and Bei Lie were lost one after another, and the king of Burma was also scared out of a cold sweat, if he hadn't listened to Qiao Gunai's advice, he might have died in the hands of the Siamese.

In the face of the defeat and retreat of the war, Qiao Gunai became a life-saving straw in the hands of the king of Burma, above the court, the king of Burma asked Qiao Gunai, the head of the Lisu tribe, he already had a draft in his heart, fighting while retreating, training all the way, the Burmese army stuck to the Mandalay area, which was the plan made by Yang Meng in advance.

Although the top brass of the Burmese army has some objections to this, the situation of the war is such that they have no choice but to argue anything, and it has become a unanimous decision of the Burmese army to take Magway as the first line of defense and arrange for the Burmese army to train troops along the way.

As the vanguard of the British army, the Siamese army was also able to kill freely, and after capturing the despicable, it slaughtered more than 50,000 Burmese troops, which also made the Siamese army familiar with the taste of blood.

The British army that came later, although they found something wrong, but the Siamese army walked in front of the British army, although it was suspected that it was a massacre, but now the victory of the war is the most important, and the British generals automatically ignored such an inappropriateness.

It took five days to fight the Siamese army of Mishita, ten days to fight the Hum, and the next stop of Magway, counting the march, the time given by the King of Siam to the generals at the front line was twenty days.

The king of Siam also discovered the weakness of the Burmese army, that is, it takes time to retreat, and the earlier the fight, the more supplies will be provided, and the provisions captured by Mishita are more than ten times more than that of the despicable, and the rapid defeat of Magway has become the primary task in front of the Siamese army.

But Magway is not easy to fight, there are too many obstacles along the way, there is a position of the Burmese army every ten miles, twenty days, let alone to fight Magway, from the humble road to Magway, the Siamese army only walked one-third.

Although the Burmese army was still retreating, it was becoming more and more difficult to fight, and the Siamese army suffered more and more casualties.

Repelling 20,000 or 30,000 Burmese troops, Siam had to pay at least a few thousand dead and wounded, and in 40 days, the Siamese army attacked under the city of Magway, but less than 50,000 of the 100,000 army remained.

Starting from Mishita, the British generals who had been in the spectator position also watched the battle of the Siamese army all the way, and the more they looked at it, the more frightened they became, and the generals of the British army suddenly realized that in this war, the introduction of Siam seemed to be a big failure.

In the eyes of the British army, once there are more than one percent of casualties, the indigenous armies of Asia will collapse, but the Burmese army that can fight against the Siamese army has broken this spell, not to mention one percent, the generals of the British army have seen the Burmese army that is almost wiped out and is still fighting bloodily.

The intervention of the Siamese undoubtedly increased the bloodiness of the Burmese army, which was extremely unfavorable to the British ruling Burma in the future. Magway gathered more Burmese soldiers, and in order to test the performance of the Burmese army against the British army, the British army, who had been watching the battle, decided to attack Magway City.

The war began for such a long time, and the British army was also fully prepared, with more than a dozen gunboats and nearly 200 artillery pieces, which were the sharp weapons used by the British army to deal with the Burmese army.

Magway's siege battle was carried out from the beginning, although the British artillery fire was sharp, but the Burmese army's counteroffensive was just as impressive.

More than a dozen gunboats on the Irrawaddy River, on the night of the siege, were attacked by the Burmese warships, more than a dozen gunboats, only two ran away, for the gunboats, the Burmese army attaches great importance to the Burmese army, this thing is far more threatening to the Burmese army than the British artillery.

In order to sneak attack these gunboats, the Burmese army paid nearly 30,000 dead and wounded, and the British army against the enemy was not much better, more than 10 gunboats were sunk, and the casualties on the front line also exceeded 8,000, this battle should be regarded as a victory for the Burmese army.

A small victory at the Irrawaddy did not change the Burmese army's rout, and Magway fell on the twentieth day after the siege began, thanks to the combined efforts of the British and Thai.

Although the overall situation is a rout, but the Burmese king has more than 300,000 soldiers who have experienced the war, although like the Siamese, these 300,000 people have no equipment, but they can kill people with steel knives in their hands. (To be continued......)