The Bold Past
The discussion about the tits quickly calmed down in the car after a period of heat. A few people next to them were scrolling through their phones from time to time because they were reading messages in several chat groups. There were always messages posted in the group about Guogan. Every important message could make them discuss intensely for a long time. Yue Hua Yang became a spectator again, and Lin Fang could not understand at all. She could only watch.
So, she asked him what the word 'bold' meant. She wanted to search it up on the Internet so that she could understand it. Yue Hua Yang took her phone and entered the word " bold " in the search box on the web page. Soon, he jumped to the web page that contained the information about bold. Then he clicked on an entry for her, and after that, Lin Fang looked at the huge entry silently.
Guogan was originally formed by the defeated army and refugees of the late Ming Dynasty. Their earliest ancestors were actually from the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the local people were governed by chieftains. Later, under the pressure of the Manchu government, they were forced to submit to the territory of the Chinese Dynasty. This situation continued until Country Ying occupied Myanmar. Then, many places in Yunnan became the sphere of influence of Country Ying. At that time, the strength of the Manchu government weakened further. When they were forced by the Ying Kingdom to redraw the borders, the Kokang region was assigned to the Burmese colonial authorities. This situation continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty. Then, the Republic of China appeared. After the final battle between the two countries, a portion of the Kuomintang-Chinese army retreated here. From the beginning to the end, this place was dominated by the Han population. With the establishment of the new dynasty, there was another division between China and Myanmar. Due to the fixed treaty, this was not a disputed area. Therefore, this place was still managed by Myanmar.
In the 1970s and 1980s, a fierce civil war broke out in Myanmar. In the later stages of the war, the power between the opposition and the Burmese military government reversed. As the Kokang region was the first to submit a peace agreement with the Burmese military government, perhaps because of this, the Kokang region was divided into the first special zone of Myanmar. Before and after this, the Kokang area was an area where drugs were rampant. It was not until the beginning of the new century that the cultivation and trade of drugs began to be eliminated. However, two other industries slowly appeared here, prostitution and gambling.
Due to this special geographical location, the business here had always been very prosperous, and it had another name, Little Macau. At the same time, this place had always been a highly autonomous place. Although it was greatly influenced by the Chinese and Myanmar governments in the later stages, it still maintained the local government's autonomy. The telephone numbers and services here were provided by Chinese companies, including electricity. Almost 99% of the items were imported from China. Even the teaching materials were the same as China. The people here spoke Chinese. If anyone who did not know why came here, He thought that they were in a place like the mainland of China! Of course, the only difference was their nationality.
The Kokang region covered an area of about 2600 square kilometers. When the explosion disaster occurred, the population was nearly 500,000. Among them, 450,000 lived in the capital, Lao Cai City, and the remaining 50,000 people were scattered across the 2000 square kilometers of land. On the first day of the explosion disaster in China, countless Chinese refugees flocked from the border to almost every neighboring country. It was the same here. The Burmese military government, like other countries, immediately deployed 50,000 troops to guard the border. However, the Burmese government basically did not send any troops to guard other areas in northern Myanmar. They believed that those local ethnic armed forces would not easily let the Chinese people enter their place. Even if they entered their place, it would only cause them losses because those places were local ethnic minorities who opposed the Burmese central government. This time, the main place of care was Myanmar's First Special Region: Kokang area.
Early in the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, the Burmese government sent helicopters to the border of the Kokang region to observe. At the same time, the Burmese army also quickly assembled and headed for the Kokang region. When the helicopters confirmed that a large number of Chinese people had crossed the border into the Kokang region, the Burmese army also quickly moved in. The first batch of nearly 10,000 vanguard troops finally arrived at a checkpoint in the southern part of the Kokang region along the road at around 1 p.m. that day. After a simple report to the capital of Kokang, the checkpoint was lost.
This wasn't the first time such a situation had happened. In the past 50 years of the New Era, there would be a confrontation and conflict between the Burmese government forces and the Kokang self-defense forces every two to five years. Most of the time, it would be held during a major festival in China, such as the Chinese New Year. This was the time when confrontations and conflicts occurred the most.
When there was a confrontation or conflict, the Chinese people who stayed in the Kokang area or the locals of the Kokang area would choose to come to Nansan City (which had developed from a town to a county-level city) on the Chinese side.），Moreover, the cities on both sides were almost connected. With 12 ports, one only needed to swipe a special identity card to enter and exit the two places. It was much easier to enter and exit than Hong Kong and Macau. Many people lived in this country and worked in another country, so they did not feel the trouble of entering and exiting at all.
This year, due to a very serious disaster in the mainland, some people with insight rushed to the Kokang area immediately. In just 14 hours, more than 200,000 people had entered the Kokang area, and there were many rich people among them. They bought houses, cars, land, and even commodities in the Kokang area immediately. After dawn, the locals in the Kokang area saw that the streets were filled with refugees from China, and they were rich refugees. Because they bought things without regard for the price, the price of every item that could be traded in the Kokang area quickly increased by ten times or even hundreds of times. Land also became a scarce and expensive item. As many fixed items needed to be verified by the Kokang regional government, and each certificate was linked to taxes, it only took half a day to receive a year's worth of taxes.
However, just as everyone in the Kokang region was celebrating the arrival of a great and prosperous era, the Kokang regional government received a report of the invasion of government troops at the southern outpost. This was a report that made them very angry because it blocked their way of making money and they had to start a war. At the same time, the Chinese people who received the news were also very angry because this was to cut off their chances of giving themselves a way out in the future. However, they had no choice now. They could only follow most of the locals and the Chinese who were doing business in the local area and run back to China. However, this time, the Chinese government was busy with their own matters and had no time to deal with the refugees at the border. Therefore, there was no settlement, no basic food, no one to manage them, and even no diplomatic activities with the Myanmar government. They could only rely on themselves.
The mobilization of the Burmese government troops from the border area quickly attracted the attention of the local ethnic armed forces in the surrounding areas. As they often united to resist the Burmese government troops, they had cooperated with each other for more than half a century. They had formed a considerable tacit understanding between each other. When one party was attacked by the government troops, the other parties would help. In short, they did not let the Burmese government troops take advantage of it. They tried dozens of times but gave up halfway.
Since the explosion, the history of Kokang was not worth mentioning. The new history of Kokang should start from the first day of the Chinese New Year.
On the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, after receiving the report from the front sentry post, the military department of the Kokang region tried to form a resistance force as quickly as possible. However, many members of the Self-Defense Force were at home for the New Year. They could only hurriedly organize some people and set up three lines of defense. However, they were quickly disintegrated by the government army. By the time the soldiers were organized, it was already 4 p. m. The government forces had already attacked the suburbs of Laojie. The Kokang government then split up the Self-Defense Forces and fought the government forces in the streets. The fierce battle began and continued until dark at night. As the Kokang government had implemented a blackout in the area where the war was taking place, both sides stopped fighting as soon as it was dark. The Burmese army had set up a camp outside the suburbs. It seemed like they were going to fight a protracted war.
In fact, at the beginning of the war, after the sentries reported, the Kokang government only released information that the Burmese army might come to harass again. Perhaps because such information was often released by the Kokang government, many people did not take it seriously. However, some people with insider information had already begun to secretly escape to China. Therefore, when the gunfire sounded, there were 550,000 people in the entire Lao Cai City. When they suddenly heard the gunfire, the entire city instantly panicked. Many people wanted to escape to China with their families. As for the refugees from China, they were even more panicked. Many of them had bought fixed assets here. Moreover, they had escaped from China with great difficulty. Now, they had to escape back. For some people, this was worse than death. Therefore, they hated the Myanmar army very much.
In fact, the strength of the independent army of Kokang was quite good. Among the armed forces of the surrounding ethnic groups, its strength was second only to the Wa State. It had a regular self-defense force of 1200 people. As for those who had served in the military and reserve forces, there were more than 30,000 people. After many people retired, they went through training and directly entered the public security system and other systems. Therefore, half of the staff of the government departments of Kokang were transferred from the military. Because their military structure was very small, positional warfare was not suitable for them from the beginning to the end. Their main advantages were jungle warfare, guerrilla warfare, and street warfare.
As for who fired the first shot, there was no way to verify it. In any case, the battle between the two sides was very intense. On the first day, more than 100 people died on both sides. A conflict of such intensity had not happened for more than ten years.
The last time something like this happened was a major international event, but this time, it was a conflict that almost no one paid attention to because the focus of the world was on the catastrophe in China. In addition to the focus of China, the other focus was the conflict in Indonesia. The conflict here was not worth mentioning compared to the conflict that caused nearly 3,000 deaths in Indonesia.
The first day's battle was only a small matter compared to the second day's battle. The next day, the Burmese military government invested 15000 troops to launch a battle for the old street, while the Kokang side urgently mobilized more than 2000 people to resist the streets. Due to the panic caused by the war in the old street, nearly 300,000 people ran out of the city overnight, but there were still nearly 250,000 people. A large number of them were prepared to run to China today, but before they could leave, they were trapped by the two sides.
In the beginning, many of the Kokang soldiers did not have time to wear their military uniforms. They often shot at the Burmese soldiers, causing a lot of casualties among the Burmese soldiers. At the same time, it also made them feel that everyone in the Kokang area was a soldier. Therefore, many Burmese soldiers began to attack indiscriminately, causing a lot of civilian casualties. What was even more shameful was that these civilians were counted as the result of the war. They said that they had eliminated 2816 Kokang rebels. However, the Kokang side claimed that only 143 soldiers had died, and the rest were civilians. As for the difference in the deaths of Burmese soldiers announced by the two sides, there was not much difference, more than 1,200 people.
The next day, the Burmese government forces occupied one-fifth of the old street area and ended the battle. However, the Kokang side recaptured a portion of the street area overnight. By the dawn of the new day, the Burmese government forces resumed the street fighting with the one-eighth of the city area they occupied.
On the night of the second day of the second lunar month, a portion of the armed forces from the other parties had also arrived in Kokang. Including some of the newly recruited soldiers, the total number of soldiers reached 8,000. At the same time, the government army had gathered 30,000 people, and there were 30,000 more on the way. Everyone knew that the war on the third day of the third lunar month was inevitable.
On the third day of the first lunar month, the third day of the war, the old street market became more empty because most of the civilians who could walk had left. Other than those who were not afraid of death, the only ones left were the resistance forces. The Myanmar Air Force also began to move out on a large scale, blowing up half of the old street market further away from the border. The size of the army on both sides was further expanded. There were 23,000 people in Kokang and 56,000 people in Myanmar. Moreover, Myanmar had urgently transferred another 70,000 people from within the country and were on their way.
Several local ethnic armed forces near the border heard that Myanmar would continue to transfer more than 100,000 soldiers here. This made them very nervous, so they held an emergency meeting overnight to discuss the formation of an alliance army. The result was naturally a hit. According to their tradition of joint operations, they decided to attack the government forces 'strongholds nearby and reduce the pressure on the Kokang Self-Defense Army.
At the same time, the Kokang government also released a very tempting recruitment advertisement. The main content was:
1. After five battles, the soldiers would be given 30 square meters of housing provided by the government. After that, each time they participated in a battle, they would receive an increase of 2-5 square meters of housing area according to the danger rating. Any combat-disabled personnel could be directly allocated an increment of 10-100 square meters according to their disability.
2. Anyone who killed a government soldier would receive one mu of cultivated land and one mu of mountain forest. In addition, they would receive an additional land bonus based on the rank of the officer they killed.
3. All items obtained from destroying the enemy's forces in the war belong to the individual.
4. Anyone who successfully obtains or destroys the enemy's weapons and equipment in the war will be rewarded with three to five times the value of the materials or money once it is confirmed.
5. In view of the Burmese soldiers slaughtering our civilians at will, the government announced that all Burmese were guilty and should receive six years of reform-through-labor education. Therefore, any Burmese captured would be rewarded accordingly.
After the Kokang announced the recruitment, the number of their soldiers rapidly expanded to more than 40,000. Although many of them were new recruits who had never experienced war, the main task assigned to them was to capture the Burmese people in the places where they lived. They wanted to cause panic among the Burmese people and force them to form a large-scale refugee group to head to Lower Myanmar to attack the social stability and economic development of the Burmese government.
When the other local armed forces heard the last message sent by the Kokang, they also began to capture Burmese people in the areas under their control and then handed them over to the Kokang to exchange for supplies or money. In just one day, they captured more than 10,000 Burmese people and handed them over to the Kokang people. However, the Kokang government immediately transferred these Burmese people to a rich man named Jin Renyi and took away the cash or supplies from him. These were all discussed by the government and Jin Renyi, and this idea was also thought of by Jin Renyi.
In any case, ever since the beginning of the capture of the Burmese, the balance of the war had been tilted sharply towards the allied forces formed by the Kokang and other forces. The allied forces had begun to win battles everywhere, while the Burmese government forces had begun to lose sight of one thing. In fact, this was not because the allied forces had a qualitative increase in combat strength, but because millions of Burmese people in the border areas had heard that the ethnic minorities in their eyes had begun to capture Burmese people everywhere and sold them as slaves. Because of this reason, they were really frightened. More than a million Burmese people in the Northern Myanmar War Zone abandoned their homes and fled along the road to Myanmar. All the roads and trails along the way were blocked. This caused the Burmese government forces to have difficulty in supplying guns, ammunition, and daily necessities. As a result, their combat effectiveness was inevitably weakened.
Therefore, on the fourth night of the war, the Kokang side turned from defense to attack, while the government army began to retreat. They turned from ground attack to defense and increased their air attack power. This gave the allied forces hope of victory. At the same time, this result further stimulated those who wanted to join the army to take advantage of it. After all, many people who had no choice now felt that it was still very promising to be a soldier in Kokang for a period of time. At least a gun would give him a great sense of security.
Time passed day by day, and there were new surprises in the Kokang area every day.
Today was already the tenth day of the lunar month. The allied forces formed by the Kokang side had already begun a major counterattack. They had already pushed more than 100 kilometers to the south. In addition to completely regaining control of the Kokang area, they had even occupied a large number of Burmese territories that had withdrawn. Due to the lack of ownership of land and materials, the allied forces had decided to sell most of the ownerless land to the Chinese who had fled. Firstly, they could generate income, and secondly, they could prevent the Burmese from making a comeback. Third, they could also let these Chinese people attract the anger of the Burmese government and the Burmese people. They would not suffer any losses and would even benefit from it.
According to their usual habits, these lands were permanent private lands. Moreover, the price offered by the allied forces was very cheap, attracting a large number of Chinese people to buy them. Soon, more than 100,000 Chinese people gathered on the newly acquired land. Coupled with the arrival of more and more Chinese people, the total population of the Kokang area had already faintly exceeded one million. Of course, most of them were Chinese.
In order to protect their land, many Chinese who bought the land gathered together to form self-defense militia. At the same time, they quickly established villages and even towns. These people all agreed with the Kokang government.
According to the statistics of the Kokang government, its direct administrative area was close to 10,000 square kilometers, and its population was close to one million. Among them, there were nearly 60,000 soldiers and militia. The war had become more and more prosperous, and its strength had become the most powerful force among the ethnic minorities in northern Myanmar. Similarly, the strength of other ethnic minorities had also increased, but it was not as terrifying as the Kokang.
Yue Huayang and Lin Fang only learned about this after going through several websites and news in the Kokang region. For the two of them, they could only use shock to describe their hearts. In just ten days, the world had changed dramatically. It turned out that the Chinese were persecuted in many countries in Southeast Asia, but they stood up and made the people of their countries tremble.
The train continued on its journey. It had already stopped at a few stations and was about to reach the terminal. It was time for them to continue their journey because their hearts were filled with anticipation.
However, Yue Huayang thought to himself,"Courageous!" I'm coming!
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