Recently, the fighting in the Lao Cai area of northern Myanmar has entered a white heat, in order to counter the offensive momentum of the Burmese army, the Kokang army used mortars to carry out precise empowerment bombing of the Burmese army headquarters. For the Kokang Army, which has a backward level of weapons and equipment, the mortar is undoubtedly heavy firepower, and the ballistic characteristics of the mortar are also excellent weapons in this kind of operation, after the mortar fires the shell, the muzzle velocity of the shell is low, the charge is large, and the lethality is strong, and the accuracy of attacking directly from the top is also very high.
In addition to striking at the Tatmadaw Command, which has made the Tatmadaw high-level of the Tatmadaw fearful, the Kokang Army has also widely used mortars against the militia of the telecommunications group, after all, no matter how good the fortifications are built, they cannot resist flexible mortar strikes, and even if they build perfect trenches, there will be casualties. There are also attacks by the front-line offensive units of the Burmese army, due to the lack of advanced counter-artillery equipment of the Burmese army, the mortar attack of the Kokang army, which has caused huge casualties to the Burmese army and the telemail militia groups.
In the Lao Cai operation, the Kokang Allied Army had formed a tight encirclement in the previous operations, and as long as the armed personnel of the Burmese army and the telemail group came out to operate, the Kokang Allied Army would open fire when they put in mortars, while the weapons of the Burmese army and the telemail armed forces were only rifles and rockets, and there would be no counter-artillery equipment, so it was impossible to locate the artillery positions, and they could only be passively beaten. In this case, it is not possible to go out on a large scale and is restricted to this area.
According to some sources, in order to stop the follow-up offensive of the Kokang Army on Lao Cai, Bai Socheng, one of the leaders of the Northern Myanmar Wire Fraud Group, is mobilizing his family, that is, armed guards, to resist the Kokang Army to the end. However, in the face of the powerful offensive of the Kokang Army, it was obviously difficult for these armed guards to do their best without encouragement. According to other news, Bai Suocheng took out 10 million yuan and sent it to the death squad, claiming that after repelling the Kokang army, 100,000 yuan would be given to each person. This is actually a drop in the bucket for Bai Suocheng, who has a big family and a big business in northern Myanmar and has made countless money from telecommunications fraud. 100,000 yuan wants people to die, and even a little stingy.
However, one of the purposes of the Kokang Army's offensive this time is to eliminate the electric fraud group, and for some vested interests who are working in the electric fraud group, they have every reason to live and die with the electric fraud group, and if they don't have the 100,000 yuan, they will theoretically resist the Kokang army for a while. However, after all, it is only 100,000 yuan, and the bottom of the Northern Myanmar Telecom Fraud Group will not be too desperate. The Kokang Army's excellent overall discipline and policy toward prisoners will, sooner or later, break down the resistance of the grassroots of the Northern Burma Wire Fraud Group.
In addition, in terms of the larger battlefield environment, Lao Cai has been completely surrounded. And the Burmese army is not very concerned about breaking the siege. After all, the Myanmar government and the wire fraud syndicate have a purely money-interest relationship. If the siege is lifted, the loss is greater than the benefit that the Northern Myanmar Wire Fraud Group can give. Then the Burmese army will lose the reason to strike hard at the Kokang army.
In fact, due to the increasing casualties of the offensive, the offensive of many units of the Burmese army has come to a standstill, which of course has the factor of stubborn resistance of the Kokang army, but the more important reason is obviously the lack of willingness to attack. The Burmese army has hundreds of thousands of people, and if they want to beat the Kokang army into the forest, they will definitely be able to do it. But the current situation is obviously very complicated, with the hot-mouthed telefraud group and the well-known backers behind the Kokang Army, and the Burmese army can only rely on air strikes to pretend.
The Myanmar Air Force has also recently stepped up air strikes on the ground, with MiG-29 fighters, K-8 trainers and Mi-35 helicopter gunships of the Myanmar Air Force carrying out air strikes on the positions of the Kokang Allied Army, and even sending fighter planes to carry out multiple rounds of air strikes a day, but it has not been able to change the fighting situation on the ground, and Lao Cai is still surrounded by the Kokang Allied Army.
And for the Kokang Army, the most difficult period has passed, and the capture of Lao Cai is just around the corner. However, with regard to the conflict in northern Burma, there are still many issues worthy of attention, and it is obvious that the Kokang Army's goal is not only Lao Cai; in the future, will the Kokang Army continue to expand its territory in one go? Will the Burmese army, which is currently paddling water, show its ferocious fangs in the future? Also, how to comprehensively wipe out the telecommunications syndicate in northern Myanmar, the wildfires will not be exhausted, and the spring breeze will blow again, and if the Kokang Army wants to implement its own anti-electric fraud policy, it will certainly launch a larger-scale battle in the Lao Cai area in northern Burma, and the smell of gunpowder will probably be even stronger at that time.