svetikya Chapter 368
Chapter 368
: The Escaped General and the Mengtai Army
Mae Hong Son is an administrative district deep in the mountains in the northwest of the Kingdom of Siam.
It has a vast area, but most of it is tropical rainforest and plateau mountains, with a population of only about 210,000.
Mae Hong Son is also the administrative region with the longest border with Qin in the Kingdom of Siam.
It is also a paradise for criminals and is considered the edge of the Golden Triangle.
Those who have been active here for a long time include the Mongolian-Thai Army and the Kayah Army and other ethnic minority armed forces, as well as the armed forces of various drug traffickers.
They have lived in virgin forests for a long time, kidnapped mountain people to grow poppies, and recruited young adults from these mountain people as soldiers.
In this chaotic area, due to the complex environment and the familiarity of the minority tribal armed forces and drug traffickers with the terrain, it is difficult for both the Siamese army and the former Burmese army to eradicate these armed forces.
When the Siamese army encircled them, they ran to Myanmar. When the Siamese army could no longer stay in the border mountains and evacuated, they came back to continue planting poppies.
Similarly, when the Burmese army encircled and suppressed them, they fled to Siam. They repeated this process and could not be eradicated.
However, since the rise of the Qin State, it has cracked down hard on drug traffickers and ethnic minority armed forces in the Golden Triangle area, and even used helicopters to parachute troops one after another into mountain villages surrounded by mountains to directly occupy them.
Then there are armed helicopters and drones that conduct long-term attacks on the hills, poppy plantations, and strongholds occupied by minority armed forces in remote mountainous areas.
Under the long-term offensive of the Qin army, the remnants of the Mongolian-Thai army and the Kayah army, which had been entrenched in this area for decades, fled to Siam.
In order to curb the expansion and development of the Qin State, the Kingdom of Siam also took in these incoming armed forces and placed them in Mae Hong Son Province, an area that was already sparsely populated, remote mountainous, and densely jungled.
boom! boom! boom!
A huge explosion sounded, causing Kun Yulong on the top of the mountain to wake up from his memories.
At this time, he was standing under a big tree on a hilltop, and under the cover of the tree’s shade, he was observing the battle on the front line.
This is a large mountain located northwest of Mae Hong Son Province. More than ten kilometers northeast of them, it is the official battle area between the Qin Army and the Fourth Infantry Division of the Third Military Region of Siam.
The Siamese 4th Infantry Division is a light infantry unit with about 15,000 personnel. It is stationed in various provinces in northern Siam for a long time.
Since the rise of the Qin State, the Fourth Infantry Division has moved to Mae Hong Son Province. In addition to the task of confronting the Qin army at the border, it also has the task of monitoring the armed forces of a few tribes such as the Mongolian-Thai Army and the Kayak Army.
And because Mae Hong Son is the area with the most mountainous areas and the densest virgin jungle in Siam, although the Siamese 4th Infantry Division stationed here was also bombed by the Qin Air Force, it was less vulnerable than other areas, especially those stationed in the plains. For the Siamese army, the damage was considered minimal.
Now, the Qin army launched an attack on Mae Hong Son along the highway. The first to suffer was the Siamese Army’s Fourth Infantry Division stationed at important passes and towns along the highway.
“How to fight like this…” A middle-aged man wearing an old Burmese army combat uniform walked up to Kun Yulong and complained as he looked at the battlefield with the roar of artillery in the distance.
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In the sky, the Qin army’s attack planes and bombers hovered over the battlefield, swooping down from time to time to attack the Siamese army.
The Qin Army’s armed helicopters were also firing rockets at the hills where the Siamese 4th Infantry Division was defending.
Kun Yulong had a dull old face and looked at Waylon next to him.
The former commander of the Southern Military District of the Burmese military government lost successive battles with the Qin army. Finally, he took the lead in running away at the Battle of Mawlamyine, abandoning the last elite of the Burmese army and running to Myawaddy.
Then when the Qin army attacked Myawaddy, he ran to Siam. After being taken in by Siam, he was placed in Mae Hong Son.
When the Qin State wanted Weilun, they also gave him the nickname “Fleeing General” as a humiliation.
The 13th and 14th Divisions of the Burmese Army under Waylon were also reorganized into the Burmese Restoration Army, with five brigades and a strength of over 10,000 people. However, they lost a lot of heavy equipment on the way to escape and are now just a light infantry force. That’s all.
It is considered to be the largest armed force among the various armed forces hosted by Siam in Mae Hong Son Province.
“We definitely can’t win in a head-on battle.” Kun Yulong said, then looked at Zhang Wei behind him and asked: “Is there any news from Shan State?”
After the Qin army completed its unification, it began to clear out armed forces such as the Mongolian-Taiwan army and the Kayah army entrenched in remote mountainous areas.
Kun Yulong even lost his old base of He Meng Town, and the remaining troops with less than 2,000 people fled to Mae Hong Son House and asked for help from Siam.
The same thing happened to him, including the Kayak Army, the Karen Army, and other minority tribal armed forces who were severely dealt with by the Qin army and fled into Mae Hong Son Province in embarrassment.
These armed forces range from two to three hundred to one to two thousand. Including the local drug trafficker armed forces in Mae Hong Son Province and the Bamar Restoration Army in Waylon, the number is as small as 15,000. .
But they did not dare to confront the Qin army head-on. No, since the Qin army launched the attack, the Siamese 4th Infantry Division has been retreating steadily. The Qin army drove them all the way and fought for more than 40 kilometers.
No matter how the commander of the Siamese 4th Infantry Division called them ‘guerrillas’, they just wouldn’t move.
These armed forces were all severely dealt with by the Qin army. They knew the strength of the Qin army so well that they did not dare to show their faces and could only quietly observe from the side of the battlefield.
As the chief of staff of the Mongolian-Thai Army, Zhang Wei has been looking sad since Qin declared war on Siam.
When Kun Yulong asked him, Zhang Wei sighed and said, “Our informants in Qin have basically lost contact. At present, we know nothing about the situation in Qin.”
Hearing this, Kun Yulong frowned: “Is this the case with He Meng as well?”
He Meng Town was his hometown. After the Mongolian-Thai Army collapsed and the old man Khun Sa surrendered to the Burmese government and went to Yangon to retire, Kun Yulong took the remnants of the Mongolian-Thai Army to the border town of He Meng Town. Based on this, we have been working hard for more than 40 years.
But now, he had only been defeated for a few months, and He Mengzhen was completely out of contact?
Zhang Wei nodded.
Kun Yulong turned his head and looked at the battlefield in the distance, and said solemnly: “We cannot let the Qin army defeat the Siamese Fourth Infantry Division.”
“They are defeated, and we have no place in Mae Hong Son. If Siam is defeated! Where can we go?”