309 Capture of Mandalay
At this critical moment, no one expected that a vigorous AA movement would turn into a civil war. The People's Army of the Communist Party of Burma, which had been suppressed by the government forces in remote areas for many years, suddenly showed amazing combat power, defeating the government forces.
After conquering Lashio, the People's Army quickly attacked south, and successively captured several important towns such as Sibnaoqiu, which had already invaded Mandalay Province, and directly pointed to the country's important town Mandalay City.
The level of the People's Army of the Communist Party of Burma has always been considered to be the level of the guerrillas. Its strength and talent are not enough to command a large-scale battle of more than a certain scale. However, the People's Army is unstoppable with the slogan of "please the people for their decrees".
First, the garrison is empty, and second, the fighting will is not strong. With the emergence of a group of leading parties, several battles were relatively easy.
It seems that the Communist Party of Burma, which was originally regarded as a disaster, suddenly became a savior at this moment. When the People's Army of Burma entered Lashio, it was even warmly welcomed by local residents. The military government, which had already aroused public anger, was facing the sudden
The enemy that emerged seemed very dazed, and the Communist Party of Burma also rose from the level of military preschool to become a master of tactics in one fell swoop.
At the same time, the military government's rebellious actions have also attracted attention and condemnation from the world. A spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry solemnly condemned the atrocities of the Myanmar government at a regular press conference on the second day when Myanmar began violently suppressing protesters, and urged the Yangon authorities to immediately
Stop such unjust behavior and face and respect the voices of the people. (This is called lice not itchy on others, right?)
Then the Communist Party of Myanmar began military operations and quickly achieved a series of military victories. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs jumped out again. Because it has long been the biggest supporter of the Communist Party of Myanmar. Although it has obviously alienated the Communist Party of Myanmar in recent times, the Communist Party of Myanmar suddenly looked like
It was like taking aphrodisiac, and the outside world couldn't help but wonder if China planned to cause trouble in Southeast Asia again.
In order to clear its relationship, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hypocritically said: "China calls on all parties to remain calm and restrained, believing that communication and dialogue are the best way to resolve disputes, and advocate the peaceful means of resolving problems. China is willing to fight civil war in Myanmar.
Play an active role in the mediation and the process of democratic reform in Myanmar.”
The United States' statement is slightly slower than China, but the content is roughly the same. It is naturally more accusing of the atrocities of the Myanmar military government, and it is also cautious about the rise of the Communist Party of Myanmar. After all, the Communist Party of Myanmar is still the Red Party, even if they shout "Fight down."
Yangon, the national election "The United States still doesn't think that the Communist Party of Burma will fulfill their promises, but it's just that one dictator overthrew another dictator.
Under such an environment, the key battle that determines Myanmar's future destiny broke out.
After breaking into Mandalay Province, the People's Army of the Communist Party of Burma conquered Meimu, Aniskan and other places, gathered four genuine people's army brigades, as well as a regiment of former government surrenders controlled and collected by a Red Police Battalion, and gathered about
The troops of 1560 were divided into three groups to encircle Mandalay.
Mandalay is a tall city that is interrupted by the Irrawaddy River. It is also a base camp where the Myanmar government forces urgently mobilized troops to prepare for war after facing the challenges of the Myanmar Communist Party. The country's troops in Myanmar have only about 100,000 troops.
Mandalay has a B-10,000 army, and there is also a certain number of armored vehicles.
Myanmar government general Naitan was instructing his subordinates when organizing the offensive and defensive battle in Mandalay: "The group of rebels in the Communist Party of Myanmar has been too smooth after the rebellion, which not only encourages more rebels.
The bad thoughts also hit the prestige of our government and the army, so our army must return the Communist Party of Myanmar to its original form with a clean victory and rebuild the respect the people have for us."
He did not expect that it was such a decision to insist on fighting head-on battles on the front battlefield that caused huge losses to the Myanmar government forces, and completely exposed the weak side of the Myanmar government forces, and even more so-called democratic figures who were clamoring across the country.
When the Communist Party of Myanmar was at the opportunity, they chose to cooperate with the Communist Party of Myanmar and attacked the military government of the Programme Party.
Forty kilometers southwest of Aniskan, the government forces took the initiative to completely defend the main passage from Shan State to attack Mandalay Province. The line of the Meimu River Niskan is located between two mountains for about ten.
The kilometer-wide plain valley is basically the only way to invade the hinterland of Mandalay Province. It was taken down by the People's Army because it was too negligent. Now, in order to stabilize Mandalay's defense line, the government forces must regain this strategic location.
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The front encounter with the government army was the People's Army's 6ll brigade, an elite unit composed of Red Alert Burmese soldiers. Although the equipment is far from other Red Alert troops, it is mainly light weapons and two artillery battalions.
Door 2 howitzer. But such equipment is something that the Myanmar government forces have almost never encountered before.
After the elite 6ll brigade discovered the enemy's situation, it quickly spread its artillery positions. When the government forces entered the range, the artillery units of the 6ll brigade immediately shelled the government forces that were still in the marching state. Although the government forces were numerous, this way.
They rarely fight frontal combat at the level, and basically fight against guerrilla anti-government armed forces in the mountain jungle, while they are the first to fight on the ground.
Because there is no gun aiming radar, no balloons and drones for scheduling and sighting, and these guns are basically the earliest models of New China imitating the Soviet Union, which is no longer useful, and it is not accurate to hit the Burmese formation.
It was particularly high, but its deterrence was jaw-dropping. The artillery bombardment lasted for more than ten minutes completely defeated this aggressive government army. The government army that originally planned to attack Aniskan in one fell swoop and retreated in a hurry.
The 6ll Brigade immediately took advantage of the victory and pursued the trucks provided by the forward base, which was considered to have completed the preliminary motorization. The government military ran with two legs, and the 6ll Brigade was chasing the truck, so there was no suspense in the People's Army with stronger motor power.
After cutting off the government's retreat, the two sides exchanged fire again. Although the battle was gone without the previous shelling, the depressed government forces were beaten by the infantry of the 6ll brigade without gathering fire.
More than 600 people in the government army were shot dead, more than 1,000 were captured, while only four people in the 6ll Brigade were killed and more than 20 were injured.
The stabilization of the passage in the valley basically means that the People's Army once again took the initiative in the offensive and defensive battles in Mandalay. Without giving the government troops more time to prepare, the Chairman of the Communist Party of Myanmar, Baden, ordered that the entire army would encircle Mansion in three groups.
Dele, the 6ll brigade cuts off the path from Mandalay to Yangon to the west, and the 10l brigade goes north to prevent the government troops from fleeing north. The 6l0 brigade, the 614th brigade, and the 9th independent regiment formed by the newly surrendered surrender, will attack this
A major city in Myanmar.
Even though the vanguard troops were completely wiped out, Myanmar General Naitan still did not think that the People's Army was stronger than the government army, but was attributed to his incompetence and carelessness, so he gave up the policy of sticking to scorched earth and still took the initiative.
Nedant concentrated the more than twenty most precious 106mm Nl0IAl artillery in his hand that year, and also set up his own artillery positions to bombard the People's Army's troops.
But he never expected that the People's Army had much more artillery than him. The 610th Brigade even used the largest 2m heavy artillery in the army to bombard Naedan's artillery position and the command post he built outside the city. In addition to the heavy artillery, the People's Army
They also launched 10m rocket launchers, 2 howitzers, 15 howitzers, and almost all the types of artillery they owned, and fired fiercely at the Burmese government troops who were ignorant of the sky and the earth.
This time the artillery was hit, and the government army lasted for five or six minutes and was hoarsely beaten by the fierce shelling of the opponent. A 2mR spoon shell landed in the courtyard of the Burmese Army Command, and the heavy artillery directly bombed.
The building was collapsed, including General Naitan, the highest commander of the war zone, was also bombed to death.
The government army, which had lost its backbone, performed even more unbearable. The People's Army adopted the multi-point assault and the tactics of segmentation and siege made the government army very uncomfortable. Their ability to move is slower than that of the People's Army, so they can escape after a while.
I couldn't run for a mile or two and then encountered the People's Army troops in another direction.
At first, the government forces' resistance was still relatively tenacious, but the government forces, which were beaten to the point of being completely incompetent, became increasingly unorganized in the chaos, and eventually they had to surrender to the Communist Party of Burma.
The entire Mandalay offensive and defensive battle lasted 61 hours. The People's Army's 60,000 troops wiped out more than 5,000 government troops and captured more than 7,000 soldiers. Some troops lost their weapons and fled into the mountains and forests. There was also a government incident.
The incident in which the army robbed a small boat on the Irrawaddy River escaped along the river.
Mandalay's conquest means that the Communist Party of Myanmar, which was originally famous for its rebels in remote areas, officially took the stage to compete for state power, and also attracted the attention of all sectors of Myanmar society. Deqinbaden arrived in Mandalay on October 7
, and announced the establishment of a temporary federal government in Mandalay and designated the military government as an illegal regime. At the same time, Badending also invited representatives from all walks of life in Myanmar, workers and peasants, academic circles, medicine, law and religion to go to Mandalay to convene Myanmar's national politics
The Consultative Conference and the Constitutional Conference formulate a new national constitution and organize national elections after the complete elimination of the military government.
Although many people still have doubts about the Communist Party of Myanmar, those so-called opinion leaders who were nothing in the past and those who were prestigious among the people were flocking to this constitutional congress. No matter what, they were not vested interests and entered the military government.
The regime is too difficult. If they follow the Communist Party of Myanmar, once they succeed, they will inevitably enter the political circle and ascend to heaven. Therefore, many actual invited people "pleasantly" attend the meeting, even including several prestigious democrats in Myanmar.
Of course, not everyone respects the Communist Party of Myanmar. Aung San Suu Kyi, whose father is an important former leader of the Communist Party of Myanmar, publicly condemned the Communist Party of Myanmar's rebellion after the Communist Party of Myanmar conquered Mandalay and called on the Communist Party of Myanmar to lay down his weapons.
Chapter completed!