The Burmese government army does not have a regimental level, and the government army has major military regions and several mobile divisions.
Directly below the division level is the battalion level, and there are about 2,100 people in a battalion.
In terms of numbers, a battalion of the Burmese government army is almost equivalent to a regiment of the Chinese army.
As a major battalion under the Northern Military Region of the Burmese army, Kajon has been stationed in Myitkyina, Kachin State, for the past two years.
In the sixties and seventies, the particularly powerful Kokang king Peng Jiasheng suddenly went into seclusion, and the entire Kachin army was leaderless, so the government army easily controlled most of the Kachin state.
But what people didn't expect was that King Kokang, who had been in seclusion for several years, suddenly made a comeback, and rose strongly in a very short period of time, not only pinching the scattered Kachin army into a fist, but also equipped with advanced weapons that I don't know where to get it.
In the mountainous and forested landscape of northern Burma, the size of the army is no longer a key factor in determining a war.
It is as if before Peng Jiasheng rose again, there were more than 50,000 troops stationed in the entire Kachin State, and in Myitkyina alone, there were ten battalions with a total of more than 20,000 troops.
But in this case, Peng Jiasheng only used a small elite death squad of about ten people to directly serve the Northeast Military Region Headquarters of the government army stationed in Myitkyina.
As a result, Myitkyina's troops, which numbered more than 20,000 men, were immediately disorganized by the Kachin army, which numbered only a few thousand men, and was driven out of Myitkyina in one fell swoop.
Among them, the main battalion of Caron was in a daze, wrapped in a rout, and retreated again and again For a professional soldier, this vague defeat is the greatest shame for Charon.
When the defeated army gained a firm foothold after retreating hundreds of kilometers, Kajon also led his men to launch a counterattack against the Kachin army, but although the Kachin army was small in number, they occupied a favorable position, and the Kachin army could block the counterattack of several thousand government troops with only a few hundred people by taking advantage of the narrow terrain.
As long as the Kachin army occupies these dangerous terrains, the government army will be helpless no matter how numerous they are.
In this case, Kajon proposed to move north along the Qindun River from the western front and then raid Mogang, which was controlled by the Kachin army, via the Wulu River.
This plan may seem like a good plan, but it is very difficult to implement in practice.
The Western Front was not as easy to walk as the Central and Eastern Fronts, in the eighties.
There are almost no roads on either side of the Qindun River.
Although the government army can mobilize only a dozen or so river gunboats, this kind of small 30-ton gunboat cannot pull many people at all.
If the Caron's troops wanted to follow the gunboats all the way north, they would need to carve a way through the primeval jungles and lofty mountains.
This is a very dangerous and very difficult task, and the distance from the small town of Griwa to Hun Malin alone is more than 200 kilometers in a straight line, and almost all of them are no-man's land.
Moreover, the amount of water in the Qindun River in September is still very large, and if you advance 200 kilometers from such a situation, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is basically equivalent to sending you to death.
There is simply no road to go on the Western Front!
This is something that the Kachin army knows, so the Kachin army is not defended at all in the west.
There was no need for fortification, nature had already set up the best line of defense for the Kachin army.
Of course, Caron knew that this route forward was difficult, but since he had proposed it, he had already figured out how to deal with it.
The way that Caron opened up the route from the Western Front was very simple and rude, after all, it was a government army, so Caron directly asked for more than 300 elephants from his superiors, and used elephants to open the road directly in the jungle.
With elephants on land and gunboats carrying supplies along the river, the main battalion of the Caron was well on the Western Front.
Although they walked more than half a month on the more than 200-kilometer journey from Griwa to Hun Malin, they also opened up a road from south to north, and its strategic significance was still quite huge.
In the 80s, Hun Malim was a small village, far from what it would be 30 years later in the northern part of Sagaing State.
When Caron's troops arrived at Hun Marin, they only made minor repairs and replenished their provisions, and then followed the gunboats all the way east.
After arriving at the Wulu River, it is still easier to walk on both sides of the Wulu River, because some owners of the jade field will transport the jadeite rough from here to Hongmalin, and then send it to Yangon by boat from Hongmalin, so there is still a dirt road to go here.
In this way, Caron's troops walked along the Wulu River for three days, covering a distance of more than 100 kilometers, and then took advantage of the darkness to directly raid the Damukan mining area.
The battle at the mouth of the Mog Stack was going very well, and the warehouse area was located not far from the south bank of the Wulu River, and the heavy fire from the gunboats could easily attack the warehouse area.
Especially the two 37-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, here it is simply an insoluble big killer.
Kajon knew very well that once the battle on this side started, then the Hangba field on the other side of Yuewan Mountain would definitely know, so Keron adhered to the purpose of the soldiers, leaving a few gunboats and hundreds of soldiers to continue to encircle and suppress the mouth of the Moge Stacking Field, while he led the main force to move forward quickly, and strive to directly capture this field when the Hangba field entrance had not had time to react.
After all, this is a jadeite mining area, and although there are big pits everywhere, there are roads everywhere - whether it is to transport jadeite rough by elephants or by people, roads are needed.
The main force led by Kajon soon bypassed the Moon Bend Mountain and arrived at this mining area centered on the mouth of Hangba Chang.
This mining area is also the hinterland of the Damukan mining area, and as long as it is occupied, the entire Damkan mining area will be completely taken.
According to the guide's guidance, Caron knew that the building standing on a small high ground was the common warehouse area at the entrance of several farms in the mine.
"Battalion commander, this warehouse area is not easy to gnaw, look at this posture, there must be preparations here, you see, the fires of this cordon are burning, and there are machine guns on the four corner towers, if we attack rashly, the brothers will suffer great losses."
"Yes, boss, this area is about 30 meters higher than the other side of the river, and it is far away from the river, our gunboats can't support it, and we can't fill this big hole with human lives!"
One of the speakers was the deputy battalion commander, and the other was the company commander of a company, both of whom were Caron's most trusted subordinates.
Keron led several of his most important men and some soldiers in a forest less than four hundred meters away from the warehouse area, looking at the situation with binoculars and discussing how to take the warehouse area.
The company commander of the second company looked at the company commander of the first company with disdain and said, "Sir, let's go to the second company!"
We're guaranteed to take this warehouse district for the second time.
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And didn't the guide just say?
There is a newly opened warehouse in this warehouse area, which has been open for a year, but it has not been shipped out, and it is all piled up in this warehouse.
If we take this warehouse, we can at least get thousands of tons of jadeite!
With this money, your strength will skyrocket immediately, and the hard work of our battalion these days will be worth it. ” As the right-hand man of Caron, the commander of the first company and the commander of the second company are at odds with each other, and as long as they are not involved in the war, the competition between the two of them is still very fierce.
Of course, Caron knows the value of this warehouse, and taking this warehouse not only means completely taking over the field in this area, but also getting thousands of tons of jadeite rough stones.
At the mouth of the Mog stack just now, there were only three or four hundred tons of jadeite rough in a huge warehouse area, which made Charon very disappointed.
The reason why he put forward such a military plan, and personally led his soldiers to attack from the Western Front on a long distance, one is that the Kachin Army is indeed undefended on the Western Front, and the other is because this is a jade mining area.
Regardless of the fact that they belong to the government army, but within the government army there are also many mountains, if in this military operation, they can receive all the jadeite from the three mining areas of Damukan, Xiangdong and Lao Phakang along the way, it will undoubtedly be a huge windfall.
Money often unmakes the men who make it!
In the face of such a valuable jadeite, Charon was not moved, it was nonsense.
The deputy battalion commander said: "Boss, if we use RPGs to knock out the four corner towers of this warehouse, the loss will be greater, and it is not impossible to take this warehouse area."
Although this warehouse area is strategically located and has strong walls, our men will be able to break through if we knock down the four most threatening corner towers.
As long as we can get under the walls, then this warehouse can't escape!
” After a pause, the deputy battalion commander continued: "Look, although the lights of the four corner towers are turned off, we are not without flares, let our people stand in positions with bazookas, and with a few flares, our people can immediately launch bazookas, and we can knock out these four at one time."
Before the deputy battalion commander could finish his words, Charon was horrified to find that his most heartfelt deputy, the head of the melon seed was suddenly like a watermelon smashed by a sledgehammer, and it was torn apart in front of Charon's eyes.
Charon even clearly saw that because of the loss of his head, the blood gushing out of his neck was two or three meters high, and the blood that fell was like a torrential rain, drenching Charon's head and face.
And this is not the end, the commander of the second company who insisted on leading the team to capture the warehouse area just now, suddenly had a big hole in his waist, this big hole is so big, Caron can even see the legs of the first company commander through this big hole, and the upper and lower bodies of the second company commander are only connected to two lines of flesh and blood The thigh of the fourth company commander on the opposite side suddenly burst out of a cloud of blood, and then the entire thigh of the fourth company commander disappeared so abruptly, and some fine bone slag splashed on Caron's arm.
Several soldiers next to him were also missing arms and legs in an instant, and one soldier had a big hole in his chest directly Almost subconsciously, Charon lay on the ground, and the moment he just lay down, a sharp "whoosh" sound sounded in the air, and Charon knew that it was the sound of a bullet cutting through the air