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Text 201 Myanmar¡¯s Struggle

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    The Burmese fought beautifully in the first battle. Thirty thousand British troops attacked Lashio, which was guarded by 18,000 Burmese soldiers. As a result, they were beaten to death and retreated with thousands of casualties.  Although Myanmar's military strength is not large, they are all Yanying's direct troops. It can be seen that Yanying is also risking his own money.  The British are starting to take it seriously.  At first, the British believed that they sent 200,000 troops and Lashio was the only obstacle they encountered. After capturing Lashio, they would sweep across the entire Burma and completely wipe out any armed force that dared to resist.  The British could imagine that Lashio would be difficult to fight. They could imagine that after occupying this place, the Burmese people would be crazy about strengthening the city defenses here. They could also imagine that the Burmese people might be crazy about resisting, but they didn't expect Lashio to be so  It's not easy to fight, Lashio's city defense is so strong, and the Burmese resistance is so powerful.  The British immediately investigated the cause. They found that the Burmese had a very reasonable new firepower arrangement. This was obviously not the arrangement left by them in the past. They found that the Burmese had strong bunker fortifications, which was certainly not left by the British army.  , it was not left by the British, so who could have left it? There are two targets for the British to speculate. The first is naturally the United Provinces. They just had a fight with this regime. Obviously there will be no friendship between the two sides.  The second one is the French. The French have historically wanted to get involved in Myanmar, but they have never competed with the British. In the end, they could only accept the result that Myanmar was occupied by the British as a colony.  The British were not sure who it was. Based on their ongoing investigations, they knew that the Burmese people started building fortifications in Lashio as soon as they occupied Lashio. At that time, the battle between the British and the United Provinces in the Yangtze River Basin had just ended.  .  Will the United Provinces be able to provide support to Burma at this time? As for the French, if the British lose control in Burma, they feel that they have an opportunity to get involved here.  Then it is unlikely that they will secretly intervene to help the Burmese. After all, Britain and France are interdependent, and the two countries are the biggest beneficiaries of the world's colonial system. The French will not try to break this system, but will instead help the British maintain it.  Myanmar is also good for the French.  Therefore, the British believe that the United Provinces is the most likely possibility, but there is no evidence.  There is no evidence that the federal provinces gave aid to Myanmar.  Unless practical evidence can be found, Britain, which has finally reached a compromise with this barbaric regime and has withdrawn from China to come to Myanmar, is really unwilling to provoke this opponent again.  There must be evidence, evidence that makes the other party indisputable. With this kind of evidence, the international community can arbitrate.  Let the League of Nations sanction China, and instead let the United Kingdom apologize and compensate the United Kingdom, so that they can enjoy the humiliation.  But this evidence is not easy to find, unless they can capture Lashio, but it seems that this goal will not be achieved for a while.  So the British army continued to mobilize its troops.  Lashio was surrounded heavily.  ¡°Then we will pass through Lashio and sweep deep into Shan State, trying to defeat one or two Shan State troops and find evidence that is not conducive to the federal province.  Soon they had a chance and encountered a group of marching Burmese troops in the jungle.  Since dealing with the Shan people, it is rare to see large-scale Shan troops.  They usually break up into pieces and fight guerrillas with you in the jungle. The troop they encountered at this time should be traveling in the direction of Lashio, and it is most likely a reinforcement heading for Lashio.  Of course, the British will not let go of this Shan State troop. It is so rare that they usually cannot be caught. Now they encounter so many at once, almost like one or two regiments.  So the British launched an annihilating blow against the army. Although they failed to completely destroy the army, they were able to repel them and disperse them.  The British gained something, they seized a batch of guns, but what made the British depressed was that these weapons turned out to be British standard weapons, Lieenfeld rifles, Vickers machine guns, etc.  The British are puzzled as to why British weapons fall into the hands of the Shan people in large numbers and in large numbers.  They soon found out through investigation that the United Provinces had collected a large number of British weapons in Anqing. At that time, Anqing was a rear material transfer station for the British army, storing a large amount of various materials, and the weapons were naturally the bulk.  And since there was no fighting in Anqing, the fighting there almost fell into the hands of the United Provinces unscathed.  The British suspect that the Shan State Army obtained these weapons from the Federal Provincial Army.  So the evidence was immediately presented to the international community, but the response from the federal province was full of sarcasm, saying that the British seized a batch of their own weapons in Myanmar and then relied on another person. This is really confusing logic. Don't forget to seize the British weapons.  It was not just the United Provinces that had weapons, the Burmese themselves also defeated the British army.  Moreover, the Federation said that the British army's logistics management was so chaotic that perhaps they themselves sold these weapons to the enemy, and then in turn relied on another innocent person.  The British immediately argued that the Burmese did sneak attack on British-controlled Lashio and obtained a batch of British weapons, but they should give priority to equipping their troops guarding Lashio, and there would be no spare capacity to equip other troops.  As for the British logistics personnel secretly selling weapons to the enemy, this is not just a slander;It is an insult to the United Kingdom and requires the federal provincial government to be responsible for its words and deeds and must apologize.  The United Provinces stated that they had no reason to help Burma. Although the Chinese sympathized with the oppressed Burmese people, if the United Provinces had chosen to help Burma, I am afraid that the Burmese people would have beaten the British out long ago and would still be able to tolerate the British in Burma.  With only hundreds of thousands of British troops conducting military operations, they can show off their power in Burma with the help of the United Provinces? The statement of the United Provinces made the British very unhappy, but they did not argue because it was true that they suffered a defeat in China.  , it¡¯s too embarrassing to continue arguing.  The British stopped talking and became determined to find conclusive evidence.  They do not believe that the Burmese do not have a single piece of military equipment from the federal provinces.  But Lashio is really hard to fight.  Since the last reinforcement sent by the Burmese was defeated by the British, they understood that they were no match for the British in regular combat, so they no longer sent large troops to reinforce, but instead sent fragmented troops to fight in Lashio.  They were dealing with the British nearby, hoping to use the jungle guerrilla warfare tactics of the past to harass the British.  The British really have a headache with this tactic.  Not to mention them, future generations of American emperors all suffered greatly in jungle warfare.  So the British hoped to end the war as soon as possible.  Capture Lashio as soon as possible.  Prolonged delays will be very detrimental to the British. The protracted consumption is a huge burden, and it is very likely to cause other changes.  It would be too bad if it causes a chain reaction and wars rekindle across Myanmar, followed by instability in India.  The British tanks were dispatched, but their iron vehicles were unable to compete with the artillery protected by reinforced concrete bunkers.  After several attacks and being beaten into scrap, the British understood that tanks could not conquer the fortress.  They then chose bombing, massive and intensive bombing.  But at this time, Lashio had already become a fortress. Except for military buildings, other buildings in the city had no value. The Burmese people did not care at all about the British bombing.  This bombing did not cause any damage at all. As for its own military buildings, they were all very strong bunkers. When the British bombed them, not only was it difficult to be effective, but they were heavily damaged by anti-aircraft fire.  The British are in a dilemma.  The attack cannot be effective, and it will be difficult to explain not to attack. Not to mention that the international community will laugh at it, and the domestic people will not accept it.  But at the same time, the Shan people are not feeling well and are tightly besieged.  The reinforcements from outside were unable to break through the British blockade and could only harass them.  But the British relied on the railways.  The ability to control Lashio is too strong, and the harassment has no decisive effect at all, and cannot fundamentally reverse the situation of the war.  The lack of contact between outside reinforcements and Lashio means that Lashio is always an isolated city, and it is difficult for an isolated city to hold on. This is a military rule.  If the siege continues for a long time, the people in the city will either starve to death or die in battle without any ammunition or reinforcements.  Fortunately, Yanying has stored enough food and supplies here, as well as a batch of ammunition, which is enough to last for two or three months. But after two or three months, I have no idea what to do then.  The Shan people were obviously worried too much. The British did not have the patience to spend several months with them. They could not afford to lose this person. They fought with the colonial army for several months and relied on a tight siege to win.  It turned out that the British were playing tricks. One day, a large number of planes suddenly flew over, avoiding anti-aircraft weapons and bombing at high altitude.  This bomb was very special. After it landed in the city, there was no violent explosion. Instead, puffs of smoke of various colors came out. Then the Shan soldiers who smelled the smoke began to die in various strange postures. The death was very painful.  .  The British actually used poison gas.  On the battlefield of World War I, the Germans used poison gas on a large scale for the first time and achieved very good results.  Britain and France were tit for tat, and they immediately responded with poison gas. The two sides launched a large-scale poison gas war. In the end, no one was harmed, but a large number of people were injured and disabled.  Many soldiers were blinded by poisonous gas, and their lungs were damaged by poisonous gas. Even if they were cured, they were left with various sequelae.  This is a cruel weapon, an extremely inhumane weapon that harms both sides. Therefore, after World War I, various countries issued laws of war after deliberation, prohibiting the use of poison gas in war.  But the British have now started to use it, which is obviously very despising.  War is often the focus of newspapers, and the news that the British used poison gas quickly spread throughout the world.  Although the British tried to block the news, it was not easy to block the news, not to mention that the federal provinces were behind it and did not hesitate to spend money to have foreign newspapers report the truth of the matter.  At the same time, the United Provinces stood up directly. They publicly criticized the British for being unjust, disregarding the rules of war, and taking the lead in using poison gas bombs in the war. They hoped that the international community would come forward to arbitrate.  But the so-called international community, the so-called League of Nations, is controlled by a few big countries. In Asia, that is, Japan still has some say, and no one pays attention to the voice of the federal provinces.  ¡°But the federal province cannot but express its stance.  Especially Zhao Zeyong himself was very frightened at this time. After all, he had just fought with the British.??One battle.  If the British also used poison gas in China, the damage would be too great, and the outcome of the war might be unpredictable.  Fortunately, the British did not. Perhaps they considered themselves a civilized army at that time, and the Yangtze River was an area of ??international concern. They did not want to use poison gas bombs regardless of the international image. Perhaps it was because the development of the war situation was too sudden. When the British still thought that they  When they would effortlessly and invincibly defeat the Federal Provincial Army, the Federal Provincial Army suddenly reversed course and completely surrounded the British in just a few days. More importantly, the Federal Provincial Air Force always  Occupying the advantage, the British were unable to drop poison gas bombs through aircraft, and the artillery was also suppressed by the Federal Provincial Army and could not be unscrupulous.  But no matter what the reason was, it was fortunate enough that while Zhao Zeyong lashed out at the British, he also began to ask the United Provinces to urgently develop poison gas. This kind of thing is not complicated to make. The United Provinces have relatively developed chemical technology capabilities, and the production is not complicated.  It's difficult, and it doesn't require a very advanced poison gas, as long as it can kill people. Westerners invented it more than ten years ago, so there is no reason why copycats can't copy it.  So Lianxue quickly produced a batch, and then secretly sent it to the Burmese people across the border.  The Burmese began to use this batch of poison gas to attack the British army. The British army was caught off guard, and the Shan people broke the siege of Lashio.  But then the British mobilized a large number of troops and surrounded Lashio again. At the same time, they began to purchase a large number of gas masks.  The British have gas masks, but the Shan people do not. If they are purely fighting a gas war, the Burmese will naturally suffer.  But the Shan people also have ways to do it. They can use a towel dipped in water and tie it to their face. This simple gas mask has some effectiveness and can ensure that they do not lose their combat effectiveness in the poisonous gas, but it cannot completely prevent the damage caused by the poisonous gas.  People will still feel uncomfortable over time.  Lashio was in danger several times, and the soldiers in the bunker were killed by British poison gas. The British almost captured these fortresses. Fortunately, these fortresses were connected underground, and reinforcements were quickly received to drive away the British troops.  The back and forth is repeatedly tapped. The British even used the poisonous gas, and they still couldn't overcome La Ya. It was indeed a bit anxious. In the end, it was used with erosion.  The international community has finally begun to criticize the British, leaving the British passive. However, their suppression of colonial riots and their anger at the Shan people's massacre of the British cannot be tolerated. The accusations from the international community cannot shake them.  determination.  The situation of the Burmese people is not good. They are simply struggling in poisonous gas. Zhao Zeyong feels that it is impossible to hold Lashio.  So Yanying was advised to abandon Lashio and continue to fight guerrillas with the British, but Yanying was disobedient.  At this time, something happened in China, which made Zhao Zeyong want to give up Myanmar for a while.
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