The situation in the southeast peninsula is slowly beyond his control, which is within Yang Meng's expectations, but he didn't expect it to be so fast, before the Burma-Thailand war began, the shadow of Britain and France appeared in his chess game.

This is Yang Meng's goal to join France to resist the British, and the role of France is also very important to Yunnan, if the goal of France is really Yunnan, then he will have to mention the British army in Asia in one go.

England and France are both on the battlefield of international relations, and it seems a bit naïve to want to provoke the confrontation between the two, but this is also a cover, Yang Meng has a strong army in his hands, as long as it has been tempered, even if Britain and France join forces, in his own acre and three points of land, Yang Meng can still ensure that they have no return, and the war of annihilation, as long as there are one or two wars, it is enough to deter these two countries.

There are thousands of words, and the final decision on whether to cooperate or not is still those two words, interests! If the gains outweigh the losses, it is worth the risk, and if the losses outweigh the gains, it should be stopped.

Everyone has their own plan, this Yang Meng can't stop it, and all he can do now is to try his best to make his plan come true.

Although the conspiracy between Britain and France is somewhat unexpected, it is still acceptable, after all, the interests of Yunyan in his hands are too huge, and he can't be moved, so he stabilized his mind, Yang Meng put this matter behind him, the alliance between Britain and France is not so stable, just take the opportunity to destroy it, and now the most worthy of attention is the situation in the southeast peninsula.

"Zhiqing, let the group of people cultivated by Morse come over a part. Bring enough cables and a telegraph. Pull up a few routes in the mountains of Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand. We're going to set up secret intelligence offices in these three countries!

Commander, don't worry about Annan's affairs first, now that Myanmar and Thailand are the key, what is the situation over there? ”

There is a priority in the contradictions, Annan is not something that can be captured in three or two months, France still has some time to gain a foothold in Annan, and now the key is the revenge war between Burma and Thailand.

Think of the relationship between Siam and England. Yang suddenly thought that his plan for Myanmar and Thailand this time seemed to have given England a great opportunity.

"The Siamese army has been assembled in Phitsanulok, and now it has gathered more than 30,000 people, according to the news from the mountain monkeys, the Siamese troops should not be less than 50,000 people this time.

These 50,000 people are all elite soldiers from all over Siam, and Siam's actions this time can be said to be a battle for the whole country. I'm afraid that the king of Burma won't be able to stop it!

There is also news from the sea, there are English warships in the vicinity of Bosheng and Motama in Burma. But there were no large-scale troop carriers in sight. ”

50,000 people can be regarded as a national war for Siam, and Yang Meng's idea is undoubtedly achieved, but the action of England is a little intriguing.

"Commander, do you say that England has now detected the matter between Burma and Thailand?"

Yang Meng had a guess in his heart, but he didn't want this guess to come true, so that his men and horses would be put into the battlefield at the first time.

"It should be clear that Pak Sang in the west of Burma is a seaport and adjacent to India, and it is normal for the English fleet to appear in Bo Sang, while the Motama area is close to Siam, and the English warships appeared in Motama, and there can only be one explanation, that is, they are preparing to land near Motama.

The place where the Siamese army assembled, also had some conflict with what I thought, although Phitsanulok is a big city, but it is a little far away from Yangon, and the march from Phitsanulok to Burma needs to cross two mountains, and Phitsanulok's nearby Tak is the best place to gather troops.

The people's grievances are boiling, war is inevitable, and the generals of Siam are delaying time at this time, and there must be other plans from the top level.

Contacting the English warship that appeared in Motamar, this problem is easy to explain, and the Anglo-Thai alliance is not unthinkable! ”

Xu Ziwei analyzed the results according to the intelligence, which is similar to what Yang Meng imagined, Siam is not a fool, and if he starts a war with Burma, he should have made a war letter in advance, this is not negligence, it should be a conspiracy, Siam wants to join forces with England to destroy Burma, this idea is very big!

"It's similar to what I thought, it seems that we can't block the intelligence anymore, the British and Thai alliances are not something that Myanmar can fight, and we have to take the lead."

The chaos is more chaotic than imagined and planned, and the beginning is a scene out of control, and if you want to stabilize the situation, you can only invest your own forces in the Burmese and Thai battlefields.

"Third master, don't be anxious, don't we still have a Qiao Gunai? The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, there is a Salween River between Myanmar and Thailand, the Anglo-Thai coalition forces want to attack Burma, they will inevitably build a pontoon bridge on the Salween River, and then let Qiao Gunai's people cut off the pontoon bridge on the Salween River, as long as we block the river, it will take less than a month for the Anglo-Thai coalition army to starve to death!

The two countries have a feud, and the killing of Siam is very necessary, and we will act now, which is not conducive to the life-and-death struggle between Myanmar and Thailand! ”

Xu Ziwei's view is very clever, there are no roads and railways, supply is the biggest weakness of the war, once there is no supply, no matter how elite the army is, it is just a group of starving ghosts.

"Clever! That's a good plan!

Zhiqing, send a message to Taichen, asking the shipyard in Guangzhou to send a thousand shipwrights and twenty to thirty marine steam engines!

Let Xishan send manpower to this side, make barges in advance, let Yiliang's arsenal, recently produce a batch of twenty-four-pounder mortars, and build a flowering bomb manufacturing plant in Mengla, we must hurry!

Commander, let Qiao Gunai prepare men and horses, let Yang Ba keep an eye on the Siamese army at all times, and the war will be between this month or two, and our goal is not only the supply of the Siamese army, but also the property they plunder. ”

One order after another, came out of Yang Meng's mouth, with Xu Ziwei's analysis, Yang Meng's heart has also stabilized a lot, his mind is stable, he thinks more, war always carries looting, Siam This is a war of revenge, the plundering of Burma will definitely be a lot more fierce, do not miss any opportunity to make a fortune, Yang Meng also revealed the essence of a businessman.

"Third master, this strategy is wonderful, and the war is fought with money. And the support of England for Siam. It also falls on the word interests. Siam and Burma don't have the money to fight, so our chance has come. ”

"Hmmm! Let's go down and arrange it! ”

It is difficult to calculate the gains and losses, as long as you can see the situation clearly, even if there is something improper in the early planning, the impact on Yang Meng is not very great, after all, he is not a person who directly participates in the war, just a conspirator hidden behind the scenes.

The situation on the southeast peninsula is getting better and better, and Yang Meng, who is sitting in Mengla. But the high-intensity training continued, and on the twentieth day after Yang Meng's order was transmitted, the Siamese army gathered in Phitsanulok and began to move.

30,000 pioneers, 20,000 rear troops, it only took ten days of effort, the two armies entered the territory of Burma one after the other, and Myanmar, where the army was empty, was a delicacy in front of the Siamese army. The soldiers were divided into six routes, and the front was directed at the royal city of Yangon, Burma, and the Siamese soldiers were full of hatred. Nor is it good, killing and plundering are the tone of war.

It took only half a month for the Siamese army to approach Yangon, and in half a month, the Siamese army was not only concerned with the march, all the walled temples along the way were spared, the number of killings was incalculable, and the plundered wealth was enough for the Siamese army.

Siam did not declare war, the king of Burma was also very angry, the most hateful is Siam's slaughter and plundering methods, which has never appeared in the previous wars between the two countries, this is the rhythm of exterminating Burma!

What is even more hateful and terrible is the British army, which also saw the opportunity to move, and the front of the army is also directed at Rangoon, to meet the battle, which is too hasty for the Burmese king, although it has gathered 30,000 troops, but in the face of the offensive of Siam and the English, the whole of Burma feels that there is no chance of victory.

Fighting to the death or moving the capital, there are only these two choices, the Burmese king's forces are not advantageous at all, and moving the capital has become an inevitable choice.

Surrender, many people have thought about it, but the massacre of the Siamese army has made many surrender factions join the camp of the hardliners, for Siam, Myanmar has never lacked the courage to go to war, with the support of a large number of hardliners, moving the capital is not a problem.

From Yangon to Mishita, from Mishita to Humpla, the Burmese royal family has lost too much dignity and wealth along the way, and the caravan of the Yang family has also taken the opportunity to scrape the Burmese king's sum, dozens of times the profit, which is definitely very considerable, but it is a problem to transport this wealth back to Yunnan.

Why would the king of Burma agree to the business whose price has increased dozens of times, is it not because the goods he paid are all large gold and silver artifacts that are extremely difficult to transfer?

Things can't be transported, and the stewards of the Yang family also have a way to find a place directly, dig a pit and bury it, and then get up again in the future.

When the war was raging, food and weapons were the most valuable things, the king of Burma ran away, and the people of the royal city also lost their backbone, a bucket of rice and a bucket of silver, and the farce that had appeared in western Yunnan was also staged in Yangon.

The war business was also expected by Yang Meng, dozens of Yang family caravans, transformed into an army of more than 3,000 people, and they would buy and sell if they had the opportunity, grain and firewood knives became the most valuable things, and half of the wealth of the royal city of Burma was taken away and buried by the Yang family, an armed caravan of more than 3,000 people.

After the Burmese king ran away, the Yang family's caravan also stayed for a few days, and the Siamese army came again, and the buildings, Buddhist temples, as long as there was gold and silver, were all taken away, and after the looting, the Siamese army set the Burmese royal city on fire with a fire.

After this fire was lit, the Siamese people breathed a sigh of relief, but the whole of Burma became the sworn enemies of Siam, no matter what happened to the court? But the royal city was set on fire, which was an absolute disgrace to all Burmese, and Siam lit a fire in Yangon, and also kindled the anger of revenge in the hearts of all Burmese.

There is one thing that the Siamese army should not do, that is, to loot and burn Buddhist temples, all countries on the southeast peninsula believe in Buddhism, this fire and the flames of Buddhist temples have not been extinguished, so that the whole of Myanmar has formed a heart, and the next thing is to fight to the death.

The king of Burma, who fled to the despicable, also made a poisonous oath to kill the Siamese people in order to avenge the hatred of burning the royal city, this reason is very good, in a short period of time, the king of Burma gathered nearly 100,000 troops, although most of them are ordinary people, but with the support of revenge, their combat effectiveness is also immeasurable.

The British army was completely a spectator, and did not experience any decent resistance, and as soon as the Burmese king left, the Burmese army, which was confronting the British army on the front line, also withdrew to the humble side.

The Burmese king was not captured alive, and the Siamese army was still angry, and before the arrival of the British army, it became the main task of the Siamese army to plunder the wealth of Burma.

Looting and burning, every time the Siamese army passes, in addition to the corpses everywhere, it is the city walls that have been burned into ruins, and the Siamese people know that even if they beat Burma, in addition to the border areas, the core area of Myanmar, England will not let go, and it is also the meaning of the Siamese army high-level.

Marching on the southeast peninsula, the British army was no match for the Siamese army, and the British army, which had planned to make a profit, could only follow the Siamese army's ass and look at the ruins.

But the harvest of the British army is also good, the teak forest in southern Myanmar is what Britain wants the most, the teak forest, on behalf of this batch of large warships, this time to send troops, the purpose of the British army, in addition to occupying Yangon, is the teak forest in southern Burma.

Yang Meng in England and Yunnan only made a small fortune, and what really made a big fortune was the Siamese army, gold and silver treasures, wood for large buildings, anyway, everything valuable in Burma was looted by the Siamese army.

The army of 50,000 people is getting smaller and smaller, and after the capture of Myshta, there are only more than 20,000 Siamese troops left, and the remaining 20,000 or so are busy transferring Burma's goods! (To be continued......)