Chapter 426: The Great Muddy Chase
Yang Meng planned a series of conspiracies in the southeast peninsula, the biggest beneficiary is Yang Meng, the biggest victim, in addition to England, is Burma, Vietnam and Thailand, but for Myanmar, which suffered the most, it is not without benefits, Yang Meng at least gave them a chance for national independence.
It is not so simple for Yang Meng to withdraw from Mengla, many things must have a beginning and an end, and those who have witnessed his direct participation in the conspiracy of the Southeast Peninsula must not stay.
Several leaders of the rebels in Annam's Xishan, Siamese people who traded with the Yang family, and some people from the Burmese military, after these people died, the Yang family also disappeared into the fog.
Facts are facts, and evidence is needed to corroborate them, and when these direct participants die, then the matter becomes a legend, and a legend is a legend after all, as a pastime after dinner, a legend can be put on the table for theoretical theories, but in the international situation, a legend is just a legend, and it cannot be put on the table.
Cutting off the heads and tails left directly on the Southeast Peninsula, this task is a matter of blood shadows, and the Southeast Peninsula is now in chaos, and it is a good time to deal with the beginning and end of these.
While arranging for the evacuation of the new army, Yang Meng sent Sun Boqing a list of assassinations, the scale of thousands of people is also a challenge for the blood shadow, the things here are done, and the blood shadow is almost out of the division.
Today's Siam is a prisoner waiting for death, I believe that the king of Burma will not let go of the opportunity to beat the water dogs, Siam has no military strength, it is a treasury for Myanmar to recover its strength, and robbing Siam should be the next task of the Burmese army.
This also just gives the Blood Shadow an opportunity to assassinate, whether it is a general of the Burmese army. Or the upper echelons of Siam. In the midst of war. are the easiest to assassinate.
And the war between Burma and Thailand will not last long, Qiao Gu Nai has evidence of the assassination of the King of Siam by the English, presumably with Qiao Gu Nai's position in the heart of the King of Burma, peace between Myanmar and Thailand will soon be achieved, and the initiator of the tragedy between the two countries, the British Lyric, will become the common enemy of Britain and Thailand.
transferred the biggest piece of filth on his body to England. Then things in India will be much easier.
Yang Meng was busy retreating, the British army was also busy retreating, the cavalry became infantry, and the horses of the cavalry also became the pack horses for carrying supplies.
At the moment when the British army stepped on the hard mud shell, more than 100,000 Burmese soldiers carrying food and Burmese knives on their backs also completed the post-war mobilization, and the elimination of the British invaders became the mission that these people wanted to accomplish the most.
The bodies of these Burmese soldiers. In addition to a bag of grain, a Burmese knife. There are also strings of straw sandals, what exactly this thing is for, only the Burmese army knows best.
The British army, who was busy retreating, was also blessed in the past two days, and the five consecutive days of sunny days made the British army evacuate quickly, and the hard shell formed by the silt was the best road, along the silt hard shell, nearly 40,000 British troops went straight to Bosheng.
Maybe it's in the East, right? The blessing lasted only two days, and now it is the rainy season in Myanmar, and five sunny days are extremely rare.
The march of more than 100 miles in two days was also a pioneering feat for the Indian Corps, and just as the generals of the British army were lamenting their good luck, the pouring rain began to sway with the scorching sun in the sky.
The mud shell, which was as hard as iron one moment, turned into a soft down pillow the next, and the mud that reached the ankle was undoubtedly the biggest bad news for the British army.
On the third day's journey, the British army did not stop from morning to night, but went straight for a short ten miles, which was not a good sign, and the decisive British general, directly in the night, discarded all unnecessary baggage, artillery, ammunition, and a large number of supplies, these things became a burden, and it was most important to speed up the march and withdraw from this quagmire.
On the fourth day, the journey continued not to stop for a moment, and although a large amount of baggage was lost, the day's journey only increased by a mere five miles.
In four days, the British army escaped from the mean, but there was still a Mishta in front of it, and a large area of the plain here was also covered with silt, and at this rate, it would take at least half a month for the British army to withdraw to Bosheng.
But will the Burmese army give them half a month? Of course, this was impossible, and on the third day, the Burmese sentry caught up with the British, who were slow to move, just packing up the artillery and baggage left behind by the British.
Walking in the mud for two days in a row, many British soldiers had rotten boots, along with their footboards.
Although the water that the British army drinks is dug from wells, it is a plague after the flood, and digging wells can no longer filter the water source.
Exhaustion, sickness, and fear began to spread in the rain, and on the fourth night, while the weary British soldiers fell asleep, the neighing of horses disturbed their dreams.
The Burmese army attacked, but the attacking Burmese army, the first thing to loot was the British army's horses, nearly 10,000 war horses, which is also a great wealth, compared with the lives of the British army, these war horses are more valuable.
But war horses are war horses after all, they are not docile pack horses, under the traction of knights, they will be safe and stable, but in the face of short Burmese soldiers, these war horses also show their unruly side.
The hasty start of the war in the rain, shoes became the key to life and death, leather boots stepped on the mud, it was difficult to pull them out at once, even the barefoot Indian soldiers, not as agile as the Burmese army wearing straw sandals.
The sudden encounter lasted less than half an hour, and the bayonets and rifle butts completely lost their due lethality in the hands of the tired British soldiers, and the fate of facing the short Burmese army, whether it was Indian soldiers or soldiers from the British mainland, was only to be slaughtered.
In the face of the fleeing British army, the Burmese army did not pursue, but immediately packed up the guns and tents on the ground.
Slowly chasing, only attacking when the British army was resting, and every time the Burmese army attacked, the British army had to leave nearly a thousand corpses. Surrender. OK! But after surrendering, they will be beheaded. As for the British, the Burmese army dealt with them in a way that was not much different from that of the Siamese.
The only slight difference is that the Burmese army will take off the uniforms and shoes and socks of the British army, which are also a lot of wealth for ordinary Burmese soldiers.
After all, Myanmar is the Myanmar of the Burmese people, and the Burmese army did not waste much about these corpses, they braved the heavy rain to take these corpses. Buried in a piece of field, after all, this is also an excellent fertilizer, the most important thing is the epidemic, it is very simple to expose these people to the wilderness, but this is their own home! Although tired, the soldiers of the Burmese army still worked tirelessly to bury the corpses.
It was difficult to walk fast in the mud, and many British soldiers, in order to speed up, had to throw away the leather boots on their feet. But the feet that have been worn out are stepped on in the mud. After a day or two, you will be infected.
The soldiers fled less and less, the generals of the British army, the time has come to make a choice, escape can only be a dead end, in speed they are much slower than the Burmese army, if you want to get out of this quagmire alive, there is no other way to go except to fight to the death.
But you also need weapons and ammunition to fight to the death! After several days of escaping, the equipment rate of the entire British army was greatly reduced, and the barrels of many muskets were also plugged in the mud. The problem of medicine is big, and the remaining more than 20,000 people, who can use only a little more than 10,000 muskets, dry fire. Medicine, a gun can only be divided into one or two packs.
But as long as it rains, these muskets are still decorations, and they can't be loaded with medicine, and even if they are loaded, they are all wet medicine, and the British army can only fight through hand-to-hand combat if they want to fight their way out.
The British army, which stopped and prepared to fight to the death, did not find an opponent, and the Burmese army was not a fool, from Humble to Mishita, from Mishita to Bosheng, it was difficult to complete this road in less than half a month.
The supplies of the British army are gone, and instead of going up and fighting to the death, it is better to wait for these foreign devils to starve to death.
The officers and men of the British army, who were waiting for the battle, soon discovered this fatal problem, and if they left, the Burmese army would fight with them, and if they did not leave, they would lose their combat effectiveness in a few days, and now the situation has changed, and it is the British army that cannot advance or retreat.
The soldiers of the Burmese army were playing with the British army on the front line, and Yang Meng, who was still commanding the retreat in Mengla, smelled the smell of interests. 10,000 war horses, this is also a great harvest for Yunnan, although Yang Meng spent a lot of money in Guangzhou to buy horses from various countries, but so far has not saved enough 10,000 horses.
Horses are a good thing for Yang Meng, and the same is true for the king of Burma, but Yang Meng has a way to make the king of Burma compromise, and the grain is exchanged for horses at half price, which is also a transaction that the king of Burma has to do.
After several months of fighting, the Burmese king is basically a poor ghost, although the war with England will end soon, but the Burmese army still has a battle to fight, that is, Siam, the wealth that was robbed last time has long been replaced by food and weapons, this time the Burmese king decided to rob the rich areas in eastern Siam.
In the rainy season, you can't go to war with Siam, if you want to use troops against Siam, you can only wait until the end of the year, and at the same time, Burma also has to guard against British retaliation, for the Burmese king, a cavalry of more than 10,000 people, compared with the rations of hundreds of thousands of people, is still more important than food.
The king of Burma pinched his nose and recognized the deal, and Yang Meng also praised the king of Burma, and the one who knew the times was Junjie.
After taking over more than 9,000 pure-blooded high-headed horses, Yang Meng felt that the trip was worthwhile, England suffered a blood loss, the strength of the two major powers in the Southeast Peninsula was greatly damaged, and Annan was about to fall soon, as for Nanzhang and Cambodia, they are only second-tier countries in the Southeast Peninsula, and the specific national policy is still to follow the big countries.
The more than 20,000 British troops near Mishita are already dead, and the Burmese army will not let them go, as for the revenge that the Burmese king is worried about, in Yang Meng's opinion, it is purely distracted.
After this war, the British army not only lost most of the Indian elite soldiers, but also the British deterrence of India was also in jeopardy.
But this is only the idea of the English side, if you want to stabilize India in a year or two, you have to listen to his Yang Meng's opinion.
Yang Meng drove more than 9,000 pure-blooded horses out of Mengla, but the British army on the front line in Burma became a trapped beast, unable to walk and fight, and stopped all the way, and finally after ten days, more than 20,000 British troops no longer had a trace of combat effectiveness because of lack of food.
The Burmese army did not have a trace of mercy in the face of the British soldiers who had no combat effectiveness, and the 30,000 Burmese troops surrounded more than 20,000 British troops, and the massacre took a long time from the beginning to the end, a full two days, and more than 10,000 golden retriever heads were also collected by the Burmese army.
At this moment, the war is not over, and the recovery of Lower Burma is still an important task of the Burmese army, fighting in the rainy season, not only the British army can't stand it, but the Burmese army can't stand it either, but the Burmese king gives a death order, and the Burmese army has the existence of the warlord behind it, and braving the heavy rain to recover Burma has become something that the Burmese army has to do.
Burning down all the churches, killing all the blondes and blue-eyed people, there are no detailed orders, all the Tatmadaw has to do is kill.
The British fleet docked in Bosheng also received a batch of gifts, more than 10,000 heads, and seeing the heads of more than 10,000 native English soldiers, the British fleet also quickly left Bosheng.
The expeditionary force was completely wiped out, and that was more than 60,000 people! This is the biggest defeat of England outside Europe in recent years, and the aftermath is something that many people are unwilling to face and have to face. (To be continued......)