The Battle of Kokang is over, and the next city to be fought is Lashio.
No one expected that the most difficult thing to fight in the Kokang Battle was not Lao Cai, but the Erawan Buddha, Guanyin Mountain, and the Great Pond. These are just three small strongholds on the periphery of Kokang, and apart from the fact that the terrain is a bit high, there are few advantages. But these three strongholds blocked the Kokang Alliance for half a month. I originally thought that the old street was the most difficult to fight, but I didn't think that it was the easiest to fight.
Before the Kokang Allied Army could exert its strength, Tun Min, Bai Suocheng, Wei Huairen, Liu Zhengxiang and others all withdrew, ran away, and disappeared. After the reconquest of Lao Cai, the Burmese army was left with only two remaining strongholds in Kokang. One is Mixiangou and the other is Nantianmen. Mixiangou is the headquarters of the Kokang Burmese Army, and Nantianmen is the artillery position of the Burmese Army, with heavy artillery deployed and more than 2,000 infantry.
The captain originally thought that it would take more than half a month for the Kokang Alliance to fight the Erawan Buddha, Guanyin Mountain, and a big pond. According to the intensity of this confrontation, it is reasonable to hit Mixiangou and Nantianmen, which is as short as 1 month and as long as 3 months. But the captain still overestimated the Burmese army, and the Battle of Erawan Buddha may be the highest moment for the Burmese army in the entire Kokang Campaign. Others, such as the Battle of Qingshuihe, the Battle of Rolling Lane, the Battle of Mujie, the Battle of Race Sticks, etc., were all defeated. When the Kokang allies fought one, they broke through one, and they were almost invincible and invincible.
The captain can only say that there are masters in the alliance army. This unit is not like a guerrilla force in northern Burma, but more like a regular army that has been trained in special warfare, is disciplined, brave in combat, and has a strong will. After taking Lao Cai and entering the city, the Kokang Allied Army did not take a stitch from the masses, which can be said to be a non-committent in the autumn, the three major disciplines and the eight points of attention were strictly observed, and victory was not arrogant, defeat was not discouraged, and it was difficult for such an army not to win the battle.
During the attack on Mixiangou, the two sides fought for only one day and one night, and the remnants of the Burmese army surrendered. More than 1,000 Burmese soldiers lined up to lay down their arms, and the Kokang Allied Forces did not embarrass them, and arranged buses and travel expenses to be repatriated back to Lower Burma. Attack the city for the bottom, attack the heart for the top. I heard that the Mixiangou headquarters had surrendered, and the 2,000 Burmese troops stationed at Nantianmen surrendered without a fight. After 14 years, the Kokang Alliance returned to Nantianmen.
Here, countless Allied soldiers died at the Nantianmen. Now, they have finally fought back, retaking the Kokang region guarded by those warriors who died in the Nantianmen 14 years ago. Nantianmen, the most difficult commanding heights in the entire Kokang, was recovered by the Kokang Alliance without a single shot. This is what the captain never expected, the Burmese army was as timid as a mouse and did not dare to resist at all. It can be seen from this that the Burmese army has gone in Kokang.
With the exception of a very small remnant of the Tatmadaw remaining in Kokang, Kokang no longer has a decent Tatmadaw force. The Kokang people regained control of Kokang, and this battle completely drove the Burmese army out. The only regret is that Bai Suocheng, Wei Huairen, Wei Rong, Liu Zhengxiang, and other 10 wanted electric fraud ringleaders have not been arrested so far. The electric fraud industrial park entrenched in Lao Cai has been completely banned, and all the electric fraud companies have also been eliminated. In the current old street, the electric fraud has been cleared, but the electric fraud industry will not disappear. They just moved from northern Myanmar to the Philippines, Dubai and other places to regain their strength.
Northern Myanmar has been cleared of telegraphic fraud, and the Kokang Allied Army, the Arakan Army, and the De'ang Army have made great contributions. While their main aim was to regain control of Kokang, without them, the northern Burma wire fraud industry would not have been wiped out so quickly. The Burmese military has always been in defiance of China, verbally promising to crack down on wire fraud, but secretly shielding each other and providing an armed umbrella.
What the Burmese army was unwilling to do, let the Three Brothers Alliance do it. This is called feng shui rotation, and what the Burmese army once captured is now all lost.
The wire fraud industry is gone, and Kokang has been liberated, but the campaign in northern Myanmar is not over. Next, it depends on whether the alliance of the three brothers will take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Lashio. Lashio is the capital of Northern Shan State and the largest Chinese-populated city in northern Myanmar, with a population of 800,000, 70% of whom are Chinese. If the alliance of the three brothers can go south to capture Lashio, it will lay a better foundation for Kokang's future economic construction.
Judging from the situation in northern Myanmar, this is the best time to capture Lashio. The Burmese army had just experienced a major rout, and its foothold was not stable, and the rout soldiers escaped from death, and they did not dare to resist. Min Aung Hlaing is lost in the hearts of the people and the morale of the army is unstable. If the Burmese army is rearmed, it will miss the best opportunity to attack Lashio. The alliance of the three brothers should make a decisive decision and move south as soon as possible to lay a larger base for the survival and development of the Kokang people.