I build a red alert base in the Golden Triangle

Chapter 207

: Mijie River

Xiao Yi was sitting on a Grizzly light tank, wearing a legion’s tactical vest, tactical helmet and goggles. He also wore armor on the joints of his hands and feet. He was holding a camera in his hand, constantly recording A torrent of steel all around.

Like him, there were many legion soldiers, who sat on this Grizzly light tank and marched north along the road line.

In front of them was a mighty main battle tank unit. The M1A2 main battle tanks were galloping on the plains, their tracks crushing the grass and raising some dust from time to time.

Behind them were more units composed of Grizzly light tanks and armored vehicles, as well as various armored personnel carriers transporting infantry to coordinate the attack.

“It’s so boring. I didn’t even fire a gun all the way here.” Next to Xiao Yi, a legionnaire lit a cigarette for himself and looked at a blown-up Burma Army T-“Four “Zero zero” 72 main battle tank, muttering.

Xiao Yi followed the legionnaire’s gaze and filmed the camera in his hand.

I saw a Burmese Army T-72 main battle tank whose turret and chassis had been blown apart, lying on the grass on the roadside. There were still some blazing flames burning on the body, and even the surrounding grass was scorched.

There are several corpses of Burmese soldiers beside the wreckage of the T-72 main battle tank.

In the sky, several more Mi-24 ‘Hind’ armed helicopters flew over their heads.

Obviously these were Legion armed helicopter units that had exhausted their ammunition, returned to the air base to replenish it, and then rushed to the battlefield again.

This is a tactic used by the Eagle Nation during the Gulf War. The Legion’s attack on Mandalay this time can be said to be a standard replica of Operation Desert Storm.

But the Legion was more swift.

Because the Burmese army in Mandalay had already been bombed by the Corps, the basic area of heavy anti-aircraft weapons was blown up, and it completely lost its air superiority.

Even hundreds of tanks and more than a hundred heavy artillery pieces over 100 mm were lost to the continuous bombing by the legion’s air force.

As the legion’s ground troops advanced all the way, the Burmese army’s armored forces had been defeated and collapsed. The road was full of destroyed tanks and armored vehicles of the Burmese army, as well as many prisoners of the Burmese army.

Even Xiao Yi, a war correspondent who had just changed his career, could see that there was no suspense in this Battle of Mandalay.

“What, Lao Chen, do you still want to use your rifle to shoot tanks?” A legionnaire said with a smile to his companion who had just mumbled.

The legionnaire, who was called Lao Chen, said: “If I had known, I would have switched to a tank soldier! I can still fight a dozen Burmese tanks. You see, now our infantry is just pushing forward, taking over the Burmese army positions and cities, and the Burmese tanks and armored units were swept away by air force and tank units.”

Xiao Yi was actually very curious when he saw that the legionnaires had a relaxed attitude even on the battlefield.

He has followed the legion’s combat troops in the past few days to continuously advance. In Naypyitaw, he experienced the Burmese army blowing up the Bayan Reservoir, and followed the legion soldiers to capture the parliament building and general staff of the Burmese military government.

Now I am sitting on this light tank named ‘Grizzly Bear’ with the soldiers of the legion, and I feel the war in the most intuitive way.

These days he has interviewed many legionnaires and officers.

Unlike the armies he had seen in other war-torn areas in the past, the soldiers and officers of the legion seemed to be accustomed to war, as if it was already a part of their lives.

Even on the battlefield, you can’t see the negative emotions and war-weariness of the legionnaires, but only the desire for military glory.

This is not only the case with the Legion’s combined brigade troops, but also with the Legion’s second-line troops called guard troops.

Xiao Yi interviewed many legionnaires, and in the end he could only blame it on the continued turmoil in Myanmar and the decades of civil war.

After all, the place where the Legion emerged is the chaotic Golden Triangle area. There are several armed forces that are divided and often fight at every turn. Since Myanmar became independent from the colonial era, the civil war has been going on for decades and it has not ended yet.

Ordinary people living in the seven provinces of the central plains of Myanmar may have a better time.

The seven ethnic minority autonomous states are really in chaos.

Having survived in such troubled times, I have long been accustomed to war.

When Xiao Yi interviewed ordinary soldiers, they mostly wanted to end this war-torn world.

In particular, many of the guard troops of those legions are soldiers selected from prisoners of local separatist warlords and prisoners of the Burmese army.

At first, they joined the legion just to have a bite to eat, or they were forced to join as prisoners.

However, with the training and education of the legion, as well as the continuous victory of the legion in the battle against the Burmese army, more and more people see the hope of ending the war, see the glory of military merit, and see the possibility of transcending classes. 0.

“We’re here! We’re here! Get out of the car!” Just as Xiao Yi was recording the army’s steel torrent with the camera in his hand, the squad leader on the tank suddenly shouted.

The legionnaires sitting on the tank immediately jumped out and began to disperse.

Xiao Yi also jumped off the tank and immediately looked for cover.

But there were plains all around, and there was no big bunker. He could only lie down in a sunken pit.

Although they only got along for a few days, the tempering of the war has made him very mature on the battlefield.

He lay down in the pit and used the camera in his hand to record the tactical deployment and attack of the legionnaires’ skirmishers in coordination with the tanks.

I saw a somewhat wide river in front of me, lying across the attack path of the legion’s tank troops.

Xiao Yi had done some information before and knew that this is the southern barrier of Mandalay City, the Mijie River, which is about two hundred meters wide. It flows out from the Nongben Mountains and flows into the Irrawaddy River in the southern suburbs of Mandalay City.

The Burmese infantry division and artillery units stationed across the river have destroyed thousands of defensive positions and artillery positions under the continuous bombardment of the Corps.

Although the Burmese army blew up two road bridges on the Mijie River in an attempt to delay the army’s offensive.

But it is a pity that the Corps’ engineering troops have already driven armored bridge vehicles to splice the 2.5-inch steel floating bridge in the Mijie River.

This kind of steel pontoon is a semi-finished product, each section is more than ten meters long. Armored bridge vehicles only need to throw them into the water, and then the engineers of the Corps stand on it to operate the propulsion engine, connect the sections of steel pontoon, and fix the joints.

In just twenty minutes, the two steel pontoons were successfully built.

During this period, the few surviving artillery pieces of the Burmese army tried to block the attack, but they were attacked by the army’s armed helicopters as soon as they fired two shots.

The pontoon bridge was erected, and the vanguard of the infantry took the lead in crossing the river and establishing a beachhead.

Then the Legion’s M1A2 main battle tank drove majestically onto the pontoon bridge and successfully crossed the river.

This was followed by the Legion’s Grizzly tanks and armored vehicles carrying thousands of Legion soldiers across the river.

When Xiao Yi finished walking on the pontoon bridge and crossed the Mijie River, he could already see the urban area of Mandalay not far away.