I build a red alert base in the Golden Triangle

Chapter 205

: The last elite of the Burmese army

After accepting the task, Liu Xiao returned home and made some arrangements for his family.

“Why are you going to the Golden Triangle again?” Liu Xiao’s wife couldn’t help but worry when she heard that her husband was going on a business trip again, to the dangerous Golden Triangle area.

But I still helped my husband pack his luggage.

“The Golden Triangle is not as dangerous as before.” Liu Xiao comforted his wife while helping.

“There is still a war in Myanmar, and the guns have no eyes… And I heard that a dam in the capital of Myanmar was blown up, and floods washed away half of the city!” The wife complained while packing her luggage: “You I’ve only been back for a few days, is there no one else in your company besides you?”

Liu Xiao smiled and explained: “Maybe it’s because I have interviewed the Legion before. If the new government in Myanmar is established, I may have to stay there for a while.”

Liu Xiao’s wife also grew up as a foreign correspondent. The two met in a war-torn country in the Middle East and have experienced a lot together.

Although she has now returned to China and works as an editor for a small news newspaper in China, her job is relatively stable, but her husband Liu Xiao has been active abroad for a long time, and the wife is used to it.

It’s just that this time she just came back and had to leave again within a few days, which made her complain a little.

After packing her husband’s luggage, the wife cooked a sumptuous dinner. Every dish was Liu Xiao’s favorite.

Knowing that this was his wife’s expression of love and worried that he would not be able to eat well outside, Liu Xiao took care of all the meals.

While eating, Liu Xiao also told his wife what he saw in Jingdong.

And his wife just sat across from him quietly and listened.

A night of silence.

Early the next morning, Liu Xiao took his luggage to the airport and met other personnel.

Although the editor-in-chief said that reporters at the headquarters let him choose as he pleased, Liu Xiao knew that many reporters at the headquarters actually did not want to travel outside, so when he selected his accompanying companions, he chose those who had experience working abroad, especially in war-torn areas. people.

Then ask them what they think. If they don’t want to go, Liu Xiao will never forcefully persuade them.

So although there are only four people in his team including him, each of them is an excellent reporter with rich experience and adventurous spirit.

When Liu Xiao and his party took a plane from the capital of Dragon Kingdom to the border.

The war in Myanmar has also undergone new changes.

Mandalay, the cloud of war has shrouded Myanmar’s second largest city.

As early as the fifth day of the war, the legion’s troops attacked the Naoqiu area, less than 200 kilometers away from Mandalay.

In the subsequent time, when the southern troops of the Legion launched a campaign against Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, the Legion troops in Northern Shan State also completed the siege of the Burmese army in cities such as Nauqiu, Hsipaw, and Lashio.

After the 20,000 Burmese troops in Meiktila were defeated by the Legion’s First Route Army, many Burmese troops fled to Mandalay, and the Legion followed closely.

Coupled with Naoqiu’s legion, the two legions gathered about 20,000 troops, one from Meiktila and the other from the Shan State Plateau.

Mandalay, located on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, is the second largest city in Myanmar and was once the capital of many ancient Myanmar dynasties.

This core city located in the central plains of Myanmar has a population of more than 1.7 million people.

Mandalay Province, where Mandalay City is located, has a total population of only 6.1 million.

Today, soldiers of the Burmese Army can be seen everywhere in this populous city, while ordinary people either flee to other places or are careful to survive in this chaotic situation.

With the fall of Naypyitaw, the capital of the Myanmar military government, all the top brass of the Myanmar military were wiped out, and senior generals of the Myanmar army in various places began to support themselves.

At present, the largest military commander in Mandalay is the commander of Myanmar’s central theater, Ha Kelen.

Because the Northeast Theater was quickly breached by the Army Corps, tens of thousands of Burmese troops in northern Shan State were surrounded and divided by the Army Corps. Within ten days, they had completely lost contact. (abcf)

Therefore, the Central Theater and the Northwest Theater joined forces and concentrated the remaining troops of the Burmese Army’s northern front in the Mandalay area, preparing to defend Mandalay and fight a tough battle with the army.

“Report to Commander! The 22nd Motorized Infantry Division has completely lost contact!” In the underground headquarters of a military base in Mandalay, the telegraph operator brought bad news.

Harkelen finished the telegram with a sullen face and asked the telegraph operator to go down.

“The 22nd Motorized Infantry Division is gone too…” Ding Kun, commander of the Northwest Theater Command, sighed.

The only forces they have assembled in Mandalay are the 44th Motorized Infantry Division, the 55th Motorized Infantry Division, the 66th Motorized Infantry Division, the 5th Armored Division, the 4th Artillery Division, the 5th Artillery Division, the 6th Artillery Division, and the 3rd three local divisions, two independent infantry brigades, and three independent artillery battalions.

A total of about 100,000 troops.

The Burmese Army troops originally stationed in Meiktila, the 33rd Motorized Infantry Division, the 4th Armored Division, and an independent brigade, totaling about 20,000 people, were defeated by the army in Meiktila City, and less than 3,000 people escaped. .

“Have you contacted Waylon in the south?” Harkelen looked up from the map and asked.

Waylon is the commander of Myanmar’s southern theater, in charge of the southwest theater and Yangon theater, and conducts pacification operations against the rebellious southeast theater.

The troops under his command include two motorized infantry divisions, three local divisions, an artillery division and some independent units, totaling about 70,000 people.

However, after the army captured Taunggyi and launched an attack on Naypyitaw, Mindon Lai ordered the southern front to deploy troops to defend Taungoo.

The 99th Motorized Infantry Division, the 5th Infantry Division, the 7th Artillery Division, the 1st Independent Brigade, and the 2nd Independent Brigade moved north to Taungoo to set up defenses.

As a result, more than 30,000 people were defeated by a legion of less than 10,000 people in Taungoo, and they lost their armor.

It is said that more than half of the 99th Motorized Infantry Division was lost, the entire 5th Infantry Division was wiped out, and more than a hundred heavy artillery pieces of the 7th Artillery Division were lost.

“Wellen rejected our request to attack the legion together. I estimate that Waylon currently has less than 40,000 troops. The legion’s troops continue to move south, and he is afraid it will be difficult to hold on.” Ding Kun frowned. General Waylon said he was not optimistic about the southern front.

“In addition, there is a traitor in the Southeast War Zone in the south, and the Coastal War Zone and the Navy are also restless now.”

Hearing that Waylon rejected the request of a flanking legion, and that the coastal theater and naval fleet were restless, Harkelen only felt powerless.

In his plan, if he launched a counterattack against the legion in Mandalay at this time, no matter what, the army of 100,000 would have to force the legion to gather its main force to fight here.

Waylon led 40,000 troops on the southern front and took the opportunity to move north to attack Taungoo and Naypyitaw.

There is only a glimmer of hope!

These 140,000 troops are already the last elite of the Myanmar military…