pertwk Chapter 167
Chapter 167
: The Han people have entered the customs!
The deployment of the Burmese army in the northern region is like this.
With Mandalay in the Central Military District as the logistics hub of the northern front, a northern front is formed by combining the northwest military district and the northeastern military district.
This front originally had 150,000 troops. After 90,000 troops were mobilized and retreated to Mandalay and Meiktila, there are still 60,000 troops on the northern front, including Lashio City, Xingwei District, and Lao Cai in Northern Shan State. About 25,000 people have been deployed in Muse County, Muse County and other places.
In addition, the 30,000 troops in Naoqiu and Hsipaw counties belong to the Eastern Front.
However, as the internal war situation in Myanmar worsens, the troops in Northern Shan States such as Nau Chiu, Hsipaw, and Lashio are all unified under the command of the Northeast Military District of the Myanmar Army, totaling about 55,000 people.
In this way, the “377” Burmese army unit fighting against the Burmese coalition forces on the front line of Kachin State is reduced to less than 30,000 people.
The Burmese army entered the defensive phase in Bhamo, Maulu and other places.
Compared with the fighting that broke out in Taunggyi City, which is located on a high mountain plain, the environment in Northern Shan State is more complex and the fighting conditions are more difficult.
When the legion completely annihilated the 30,000-strong army in the eastern theater of Myanmar and completely captured Taunggyi City, the legion’s Third Route Army had just completed the task of dividing the Burmese army in northern Shan State. With the assistance of the air force, it was attacking various parts of northern Shan State. The Burmese army carried out encirclement and annihilation operations.
And because there are other warlord separatist forces active, such as the remnants of the Northern Shan State Army, the Ta’ang Army, and the Kachin Army guerrillas active in Northern Shan State.
Oh, and there are more than a thousand remnants of the Kokang clan fighting guerrillas in the mountains and forests.
If Wang Yao wants to rule the entire country of Myanmar, he must not allow these separatist armed forces to continue to be entrenched in remote areas.
If he wants to spread his rule to every village and town, he must completely eliminate these separatist armed forces.
Therefore, Wang Yao was not eager to give orders to the Third Route Army, but asked them to fight steadily, completely occupy Lashio City and other places, and be prepared for a long-term counter-guerrilla war.
The Second Route Army, led by Zhao Wenlong, was divided into two parts. One part was stationed in Nansang County and Taunggyi City to guard the rear of the First Route Army, and the other part went north along the highway in Taunggyi, to Naoqiu, Hsipaw and other places. , cutting off the retreat of the Burmese Army’s Northeastern Military District, and posing a threat to Mandalay, preventing the Burmese Army’s northern troops from going south easily.
The First Route Army of the Legion in the south is dividing its troops into three groups and launching an attack on the Burmese army’s defense line in the Nongben Mountains from three directions.
The first is the railway line from Taunggyi City to Meiktila. Various railway bridges and road bridges have been blown up by the army, cutting off the way for the Burmese army to support Taunggyi City from Meiktila.
As a result, the Battle of Taunggyi ended too quickly. When the 1st Combined Battalion and the 1st Guard Brigade of the Legion’s 1st Route Army marched towards Meiktila along the railway line, the blown bridges caused some trouble to the Legion.
However, the Corps’ engineering troops quickly repaired these bridges to provide support for the Corps’ main troops and logistics transportation.
In the central area of the Nongben Mountains, the main force of the 1st Combined Brigade marched into Xindagon County along the highway.
This is a small city located on the lakeside in the center of the Nongben Mountains.
After the vanguard of the legion entered the Nongben Mountain area, they passed through a vast forest and suddenly saw a clear view.
A long and narrow freshwater lake appeared in front of the Legion soldiers.
This narrow strip of land deep in the Nongben Mountains was originally a river valley plain. When the Burmese government built water conservancy facilities decades ago, the downstream outlet was dammed to ensure sufficient water supply in the central plains. water source.
In the sky, Legion’s Invader attack aircraft roared past.
On the ground, the Corps’ M1A2 main battle tanks and Grizzly tanks drove on the highway and crossed the bridge over the lake.
The fishermen fishing on the lake and the local villagers living by the lake stopped what they were doing and looked at the fighter planes flying in the sky and the steel behemoths on the road, as if a cloud of war was coming towards them.
On the west side of the lake is a plain, where Xindagong, a small county town in the mountains, is located.
On the west side of Hindagon County, there are continuous mountains.
The Bago Dynasty built a pass here, named Hu Pass, to guard this important place.
To this day, this Tiger Pass is still playing its role. As the eastern barrier of Naypyitaw, an infantry battalion of the Burmese army, with more than 300 soldiers, is stationed all year round.
But at this time, the pass was being bombed from the air by the Legion.
The intruder attack planes carried a large number of aerial bombs and guided bombs and launched continuous bombings at Huguan.
On the ground, the legion’s troops quickly occupied Xindagong County, and then dispatched an artillery unit to bombard Huguan.
Three M270 self-propelled rocket launchers can fire thirty-six 227mm rockets at Hu Pass in one round of bombardment. The entire Hu Pass was swallowed up by the explosion. The Burmese army stationed at Hu Pass also suffered a nervous breakdown under such bombing. Fleeed.
Under the cover of an M1A2 main battle tank, the soldiers of the legion slowly launched an attack on Huguan.
Two small drones took the lead and conducted a low-altitude reconnaissance of Huguan, which had been subjected to indiscriminate bombing, from the air.
When the regiment’s infantry soldiers entered Hu Pass, this centuries-old pass had been blown to pieces. There were craters and black ashes everywhere, as well as the bodies of some Burmese soldiers.
Under this kind of saturation bombing, the role of the pass is no longer as powerful as it was in ancient times. The huge shells don’t even need to break through the city wall. The shock wave of the explosion can kill the enemy troops inside the city wall.
In the end, the legion soldiers only found a few Burmese soldiers hiding in the shell-proof caves whose eardrums had been shattered and their eyes were blank. They had obviously not recovered from the bombing.
When looking at the legionnaires in 2.5, these Burmese soldiers raised their hands.
With the Corps occupying Hu Pass in the Nongben Mountains, the door to Naypyitaw, the capital of Myanmar, was opened.
Some Burmese soldiers who escaped from Hu Pass brought the news back to Naypyitaw.
Moreover, when the army launched an attack on Taunggyi a few days ago, many civilians fled from Taunggyi, crossed the Nongben Mountains, and entered the core areas of central Myanmar such as Naypyitaw and Meiktila, bringing a mountain of mountains to the locals. News of the war broke out in Taunggyi.
As the defeated troops from Hu Pass poured into Naypyitaw, Naypyitaw, which had been continuously bombarded by the army, was now in chaos. Ordinary people rushed to flee south with their families.
Because I don’t know when it started, a rumor spread in Naypyitaw.
‘The Han people have entered the customs! ‘.