Recently, I heard a strange thing on the Internet.
A Chinese company sent an expatriate employee to Africa, and in his spare time, he guided the military operations of the local warlords.
In fact, he used the methods in Sun Tzu's Art of War, and flexibly applied those famous war examples in our thousands of years of history to give advice to the warlord, and in more than 2 years, this warlord annexed 8 surrounding tribes and warlords.
This asymmetrical warfare aroused the displeasure of the other warlords, who, after discovering the existence of the Eastern Division, filed a complaint, and the employee was later recalled to China.
According to the confession, after he finished his shift during the day, he would go to the warlord's side to give advice, arrange troops, and give instructions to the country, and then go back to the station to sleep around the early hours of the morning, and continue to work the next day.
The strategy and tactics of the Chinese seem to be engraved in their genes and born under the influence of thousands of years of civilization.
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In the autumn of 1949, with the birth of the People's Republic of China, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched a devastating attack on the million-strong national army entrenched in the southwest.
By the spring of 1950, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places had been liberated, and many of the remaining Nationalist troops had retreated to the border areas.
Among them, Li Guohui, a regiment commander under Li Mi's corps, fled into the primeval forests of northern Myanmar with some of his subordinates.
After a month or two of desperate journeys, they settled in villages in the mountains of northern Myanmar.
At this time, he was left with only more than 800 men and some light weapons, and he was very embarrassed.
Here, he moved around, collected the remnants of the national army that had fled to northern Myanmar, and continued to recruit troops, expanding the team to more than 3,000 people, although there were no heavy weapons, but it has become the largest armed force in the border area of China, Burma, Thailand and Laos.
They also sent a telegram to Taipei about their situation, asking for some support, but the Kuomintang authorities did not have a firm foothold on the island, so they had no intention of caring about them, and only told them to "solve their difficulties on their own."
First of all, he monopolized the traditional poppy trade in the local area, set up an administrative agency, collected taxes in the local area, and provided protection and order for the people.
He Li Guohui has taken root, but the Burmese government can't bear it anymore.
After all, this is the land of Myanmar, and it is unbearable that a foreign army has come and set up a country within a country.
From the defeat of Li Guohui's troops in northern Myanmar to taking root, the Burmese government sent people to talk to Li Guohui four times, asking him to "return to China" with his troops.
Li Guohui said that you didn't let me die, I'm sorry, I have to borrow your land to support my life.
Unable to bear it any longer, the Burmese government issued him an ultimatum: if he did not withdraw, he would be expelled by force.
Li Guohui said it's up to you.
In mid-June 1950, more than 10,000 Burmese government troops launched an attack on Li Guohui's troops, and they had artillery, aircraft and other heavy weapons, and their firepower advantage was overwhelming.
After many days of fierce fighting, Li Guohui, who was short of firepower, led his troops to fight and retreat, and retreated to the mountains and forests.
The Burmese army was overjoyed, believing that it had defeated Li Guohui's troops, and immediately started various modes of celebration, and the whole country rejoiced.
Just when they are at their most excited, that's when the tide is about to start to turn.
When the Burmese were in high spirits, Lee gave them a taste of what real war is.
Li Guohui led his troops to raid the Burmese army at night, first knocking out the Burmese artillery unit that posed the greatest threat, and then using the captured Burmese artillery fire to bombard the Burmese army's position.
The Burmese front began to collapse, and in order to recover the decline, the commander of the Burmese Air Force led three military aircraft to bomb the positions of the national army.
Probably in order to promote the bombing effect, the Burmese military aircraft launched a number of low-altitude strafing attacks on the positions of the national army, and as a result, the plane of the commander of the Burmese air force was directly shot down by the national machine guns.
Even though the commander-in-chief of the Burmese army, Ne Win, personally commanded the battle, he could not save the situation from a crushing defeat.
At the end of the battle in August, the Nationalist army lost more than 400 dead and 600 wounded.
The Burmese army lost 1,500 killed and wounded more than 3,000.
The great victory of the remnants of the national army shook the three countries of Burma, Thailand and Laos, and reporters from various countries came to cover and report one after another, and the prestige of General Li Guohui spread all over the world.
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After the defeat on the battlefield, the Burmese government had to temporarily stop and sign an "agreement" with Li Guohui, which was regarded as temporarily "borrowing" the land in northern Myanmar to Li Guohui's ministry.
Li Guohui continued to recruit troops and horses, expanding his team to nearly 10,000 people, and became the strongest local armed force in Myanmar.
And the news media hyped up, and Lao Jiang also knew about the existence of this army.
The remnants of 3,000 people were defeated, and more than half of the casualties of the tens of thousands of main forces in Myanmar were defeated, and the huge Myanmar had nothing to do with him.
It's rare, why didn't I find this talent?
The world-minded headmaster suddenly saw one of the hopes of a counteroffensive, and he elevated northern Burma to an important base for the counteroffensive in his heart.
He hurriedly sent Li Guohui's old boss Li Mi to take over this national army unit.
Actually, I came to "pick peaches".
However, Li Guohui is still quite "honest", and as soon as the old chief came, he handed over the military power.
The international environment at that time, with the outbreak of the Korean Peninsula War, also magnified the value of the remnants of the Northern Burmese Army.
The Americans began to intervene, providing them with large quantities of equipment and ammunition, as well as $200,000 a month for military spending.
After a year or two of hard work, the army had grown to more than 20,000 people, covering 200,000 square kilometers, or one-third of Myanmar's land area.
The Burmese government is in the throat, but there is nothing to be done, after all, the Americans are behind it.
In 1953, when the Korean Peninsula War was about to be armistice, the Americans were anxious to withdraw from Asian affairs, and they had to focus more on the most important European affairs.
Americans' support for the Northern Burmese Army gradually ceased, and the enthusiasm of the schoolmaster on the island did not decline for a short time.
As soon as the time came, the Burmese government was ready to come up with a big battle to completely solve the northern Burma issue.
In order to ensure victory, this time Burma spent a lot of money to invite mercenaries from outside to help.
This is a "volunteer army" composed of India's elite troops, more than 4,000 people, all veterans of World War II, who performed well on the battlefield and were well received by the British.
In May 1953, with more than 4,000 Indian mercenaries as the core and more than 16,000 Burmese troops as the auxiliary, with the support of aircraft and artillery, launched a large-scale attack on Li Mibu.
Although the total number of the national army is more than 20,000, it needs to be stationed in various parts of northern Myanmar on a daily basis, and it is also necessary to maintain law and order, collect taxes, and protect the territory and the people.
Their large-scale offensive in Burma was also underestimated in advance.
As a result, at the beginning, the Nationalist army lost a lot of territory in the area controlled by the national army, suffered heavy casualties, and several hundred people were captured.
The Indo-Burmese coalition soon reached Laniu Mountain, where Li Guohui led the garrison, and at this time, there were only 1,000 people around him.
He fought here with the Indian army for 10 days, and the Indo-Burmese army could not attack it for a long time.
In order to achieve a quick victory, the commander of the Indian army, Colonel Daniel, played a trick by ordering the captured Nationalist soldiers to be driven to the front of the battle, and the bayonets were put against their backs to make a meat shield.
They found someone to shout in Chinese: Come, let's see how you kill your own people.
Nationalist prisoners who did not want to move were either stabbed to death with bayonets, or hacked to death by Sikhs and Gurkhas in the Indian army with scimitars in their hands.
The Indian army apparently made a fool of himself, and this cruel act of torture provoked strong anger among the soldiers of the national army.
In order not to shoot at the captured comrades-in-arms, Li Guohui ordered to stop shooting, all of them put on bayonets, rushed to the Indian army, and started a white-knuckle battle.
In the face of the bayonet charge of the national army, which was not afraid of death, the Indian army was taken by surprise.
At this time, about 4,000 reinforcements from other places arrived and quickly joined the battle.
The two sides were killed in the dark, and the Indians soon became disorganized and began to retreat.
However, it was too late, and more than 4,000 Indian troops, except for more than 300 who fled, were almost completely wiped out, and those who were captured were also executed on the spot to punish them for the crime of torturing and killing the prisoners of the national army.
After this battle, Li Mibu became famous in Southeast Asia and became a veritable king of northern Burma, and Burma was helpless against him.
03
Of course, although the military victory is very large, changes in the international situation can determine the life and death of this remnant army.
The Burmese government was unable to defeat the Nationalist army on the battlefield, so it continued to complain at the United Nations and other international forums, accusing the Kuomintang government, which had usurped the UN seat at the time, of "invading" Burma, while the Americans aided and abetted the abuse.
Although the strength of the country has the final say in the international arena, the rights and wrongs of this matter are still clear at a glance.
The Americans demanded the withdrawal of troops from the Kuomintang regime, and the international community also exerted great pressure, and the principal had no choice but to gradually recall 30,000 people in the following years.
However, in order to leave a wedge, the principal still left 5,000 people in the local area, and he did not want to go back under the pretext of not wanting to go back.
In the following two or three decades, these people gradually split into multiple armed groups, entrenched in the border areas of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, and degenerated into various FD groups.
In 1981, in order to exterminate the guerrillas entrenched in Khao Ya Mountain, the Thai government invited the remnants of the national army entrenched in northern Thailand to send troops on the condition of "providing Thai citizenship".
There were only more than 1,000 guerrillas in Khao Yashan, but the Thai government had not taken them down after more than 20 years of fighting, and with the assistance of the Thai army, nearly 1,000 second-generation remnants of the army fought fiercely for three days and completely annihilated this guerrilla force.
At that time, King Bhumibol also specially summoned Duan Xiwen, the general of the remnants of the national army, and fulfilled his promise to give the remnants of the northern Thai army and their descendants Thai citizenship.
Having said that, the third brother is sometimes really unconvinced, although they are still not convinced.
Your elite can't even beat the third-rate of the national army, and if you can beat the PLA, then it's a hell.