Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 87 Reactions from all parties
As the four planes in the sky and the two gunboats that could run rampant on the river were destroyed by the missile forces of the South Liberation Front, the Myanmar government forces responsible for the ground offensive retreated very tactfully.

Although his regiment commander quickly issued an order to move away when he saw the situation was not good, it was still a little late. As a result, his soldiers had to abandon their weapons and armor in order to escape, leaving behind a pile of weapons, ammunition and supplies.

In the end, the Southern Liberation Front's pursuit troops only killed more than 30 government soldiers. This was the number of dead and seriously injured left on the road. There were probably dozens of lightly injured, but they were all taken away by their comrades.

While cleaning up the battlefield, more than 200 British-made Lee-Enfield rifles were seized, as well as 2 60mm mortars and 12 shells, 2 heavy machine guns and 2 machine gun rounds. Many other supplies were also seized, such as kettles, gun parts, bullet belts, shoes, hats and other miscellaneous items.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Cen Yong ordered the troops to set up defense lines at strategic locations and sent reconnaissance forces to check the east, west and south of Myitkyina to prevent local forces on the east and west sides from taking advantage of the situation and to prevent the government forces in the south from making a comeback.

What Cen Yong didn't know was that with the launch of six missiles, the personnel sent by the surrounding forces to investigate the Myitkyina battlefield had reported the situation to the relevant personnel. The Chen family army in the east immediately began to assemble, but they were not preparing to attack the Southern Liberation Front, but to prevent the Southern Liberation Front from taking advantage of the situation and annihilating them.

The Ming army in the west had been planning to challenge the Nanjie formation, because they had received news that the Nanjie formation had received a lot of supplies and recruited many new people during this period. They thought it was a fat pig, but it turned out to be a tiger. This time, the government army in the south tried to touch the tiger's whiskers first, but was slapped back by the tiger.

The news that the top government officers in the south received at this time was an urgent message sent by two armed helicopters. They only knew that the Southern Liberation Front had anti-aircraft missiles with a high hit rate. Two shots hit the two Vulcan bombers sent out. Then there was no further news about the two armed helicopters. They must have been shot down by anti-aircraft missiles.

The information sent back by the two gunboats later also confirmed the fact that the armed helicopter was shot down by a missile, but it failed to send any more information after turning around and fleeing, resulting in the rear being unable to accurately judge the situation of the two gunboats.

The fleeing regiment commander did not gather his troops until three hours later. After discussing with several battalion commanders how to report, he sent the news of the Southern Liberation Front back to the Mandalay headquarters in the south with exaggerations.

In the telegram, they reported that they were besieged by a division of the Southern Liberation Front. They fought desperately to break out. The entire regiment finally succeeded in breaking out at the cost of more than 200 casualties. The enemy had advanced missiles and rockets, and artillery shells rained down. Their own air force and gunboats were killed as soon as they came up, but they also reported how they bravely broke through without air cover, etc.

Except for the part about the missiles which they saw with their own eyes, the rest of the telegram was fabricated. They exaggerated the enemy's coming in such a way that if they went back and reported truthfully, losing their jobs would be the least they could suffer. They might even lose their lives.

The Burmese government at that time was called the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma. Although it was called a socialist republic, the policies implemented were capitalist reform policies.

Because it was a British colony before independence, a large amount of capital belonged to high-ranking colonial officials in the colonial government. Although some public infrastructure and large-scale mining and enterprises were taken over by newly established government agencies at the time of independence, most of the manageable personnel were still the previous people, or agents selected by the British.

If it were not for the US-Soviet rivalry after World War II, in order to win over several South Asian countries and prevent the Soviet Union from taking advantage of the situation and turning them completely red, Britain and the United States would have been forced to leave part of their profits in Myanmar to improve local people's livelihood. The Myanmar government would have given up long ago.

The word "Federation" in the name of the country when it was established represents that the country has not yet truly achieved centralized unification, and most places are still in a state of self-government. Therefore, in this case, the military has a strong say.

Especially in the mountainous areas north of Gangau Mountain in the north, the northwest area of ​​Hlaingbie Mountain and the Shan Plateau in the northeast, there are many warlords. They only announced their joining the Republic of Myanmar in an autonomous manner, but they still act independently internally.

These warlord forces had been attacking each other before the independence of the country. The big fish ate the small fish. After the independence of the country, although there was a relatively powerful government above them, small-scale wars between them never stopped. However, they were controlling the intensity, and there was no war in which one side completely destroyed the other.

However, starting from the end of 81, a previously unknown force began to rise in northern Myanmar. Its members were all Chinese from the north. They initially only occupied the mountainous areas of Gawang and north of China. They were not very warlike, but had good construction and farming capabilities. They opened up terraces in the mountainous areas of northern Myanmar. The local mountain people were gradually attracted by their planting techniques and developed into one of their members.

After a few years, the group grew in number, and the nearby mountain people were developed into their backbone. They trained in their spare time and farmed in their busy time. By 1976, they were no longer satisfied with developing in the remote Gawang, so they sent troops to occupy Langdao, a relatively flat piece of land in the north surrounded by mountains.

From that year on, the southern government began to send people to actively search for information about this organization and learned that the name of the organization was the South Asian Liberation Front, abbreviated as SPLF. Its senior leaders included five people, namely Chinese Li Sheng, Cen Yong, Peng Sheng, Mon U Nu, and Kachin Ne Win.

Although the Southern Liberation Army sent troops to occupy Langdao at that time, that was not the territory controlled by the government army, but by the Ma family army. If the government army wanted to send troops, they had to pass through Magang occupied by the Ma family army. So after some consideration, they felt that it was unnecessary and the surrounding forces would definitely take action against them.

Unexpectedly, although the Ma family army, the Ming family army and the Chen family army took turns attacking the Nanjie formation in the following years, the Nanjie formation was like an indestructible cockroach, and it became stronger and stronger. Information sent back by the insider showed that its combat personnel had gradually grown from more than 100 at the beginning to more than 500 people, and they were well-trained and well-organized, very much like the elite infantry of the northern power.

If we didn't know that the northern power had no intention of interfering, we might really think that it was the vanguard sent by the northern power who was testing us.

By the second half of 81, the news received from the insider became increasingly grim. This force seemed to have received support from a certain other force. In the beginning, some medicines and oil were transported in, and gradually more industrial products were shipped in. By the end of the year, it seemed that they were developing at a rapid pace. Not only had they solved the problem of survival, they had also started to build hydropower stations, and the communication equipment was also a kind of equipment that had never been seen before. Due to authority issues, the insider had only seen it from a distance and knew its approximate shape and function.

Government insiders found the description incredible, because according to the insider, this was a combination of the most advanced pager and mobile phone in the United States. Some of its functions were very advanced, such as sending and receiving text messages at any time, but some functions were very backward, such as the inability to make calls.

Not long after this news spread, it was received that Ma's army's last territory, Magang, had also been seized by the Southern Liberation Army. Except for a few small minions who escaped, all the main members of the Ma's army were eliminated, and the Ma's army was eliminated in northern Myanmar.

The Ming army nearby was also robbed of Nanjir, a mountain town closest to Jiawang, the birthplace of the Southern Liberation Army, and was forced to sign a humiliating treaty, allowing the Southern Liberation Army's supplies to pass through the river controlled by the Ming army.

At this time, the three forces began to pay attention to the emerging Southern Liberation Army and sent a large number of spies to infiltrate it to gather information. In the beginning, they did get a lot of information, but it seemed that the Southern Liberation Army was not very secretive about the information.

For example, the construction of hydropower stations and power transmission and transformation facilities with a total installed capacity of 3 megawatts, the expansion of coal and iron mining, the addition of copper mining and smelting, and other construction information.

However, the sources of its funds and materials are very mysterious, but they all point to Cen Yong, the leader who is mainly responsible for the logistics of the Southern Liberation Front.

He seemed to send messages frequently via radio, but they could never be cracked, not even when the government forces invited British cryptographers to help.

After some analysis, the expert said that the received information seemed to have been encrypted using the most advanced digital technology, and the encryption method had nothing to do with traditional passwords. If the secret key was not obtained, it could not be cracked even with the most advanced large-scale electronic computers.

When the top government military officials heard this answer, they originally thought that the South Liberation Front had really received support from a major power in the north during this period, and was preparing to vigorously develop and split the north and eventually join the other side. Now, because of this indecipherable secret message, this doubt can be dispelled.

According to cryptographic experts, this digital transmission and encryption technology is only mastered by a few major countries in Europe and America. Even the Soviet Union has not mastered it completely. It is even more impossible for a country with more backward electronic technology to have this technology. Without this technology, how can it support such advanced equipment as the South Liberation Front? Later, the government army leaders wanted to let the insiders get more information, but they did not expect to receive news that several insiders were arrested one after another. And it was not just the people they sent, but the other two families were even worse. The insiders they sent were almost wiped out.

The top government army leaders began to attach great importance to the Southern Liberation Army. While mobilizing troops, they also began to contact the Ming Family Army and the Chen Family Army.

The Nanjie formation is no pushover either. Previously they were thinking of building first and then expanding, but now several forces are treating them as a soft persimmon, so they have also sent out spies to investigate the surrounding forces, and the insiders they had planted before have also been activated one after another.

Sure enough, the unusual movements of the Ming army were discovered by the Nanjie formation, so Cen Yong replied to Wang Jiankun that a force wanted to take action, and he was prepared to strike first.

For some reason, the Chen family army has not made any moves. Perhaps it is because they did not have any major hatred with the Southern Liberation Front before, and there are continuous mountains between the two families. If they want to fight, they can only start from Aojie in Daikou and fight northwards, but they have to pass through Layanga and Laklagang controlled by the government forces.

Chen's army did not trust the ethics of the government army and was afraid that the troops they sent would be cut off by the government army, so they kept playing tricks on the government army representatives, not saying they would not send troops. They only said they needed to make preparations, purchase weapons and ammunition, and that their logistical supplies were insufficient, so they hoped the government army would provide some support first.

It was not until the third day after the Lantern Festival in 1982 that the government forces received news that the Ming and Chen armies had dispatched troops, but instead received news that the two towns closest to the Southern Liberation Front, Laklagang and Layanga, had been lost one after another.

At this time, a battalion sent by the government army was still 100 kilometers south of Myitkyina. After receiving the news, it had to abandon its mountain artillery and artillery shells and march quickly to Myitkyina.

Therefore, the hundreds of people of the Southern Liberation Front could easily annihilate the defenders of Myitkyina, because that battalion, lacking the cover of artillery fire and with pure infantry, could only suffer a great defeat when facing the Southern Liberation Front's troops.

In the end, they could only retreat to a few fortresses along the river. They wanted to hold out until reinforcements arrived, but they didn't expect that the Southern Liberation Army actually had rocket launchers, which were infantry-held cannons. They immediately destroyed the four front fortresses. The two behind saw that the situation was not good, so they decisively surrendered after sending the last telegram.

When the government forces received the news that Myitkyina was captured by the Southern Liberation Front so quickly, they were anxious and angry, and quickly deployed troops. In order to wipe out this suddenly rising force in one fell swoop, they had to send out two of the only four Vulcan bombers in the north and the only two armed helicopters. They also sent out gunboats as fast and mobile artillery support.

Unexpectedly, they were still defeated by the Southern Liberation Army. They actually had advanced air defense missiles, and they seemed to be individual air defense missiles with fast launch. The missiles could not only hit airplanes in the sky, but also gunboats and other equipment with strong armor.

The staff of the government army headquarters in Mandalay were stunned by the news that came back one after another, especially the exaggerated news sent back by the infantry regiment. They didn't know whether to believe it or not.

The government army has a tradition of exaggerating the fighting power of its opponents in order to highlight its own military exploits or to find excuses for its own failures.

But this time it is different. This emerging Southern Liberation Army not only has advanced rockets, but also individual missiles that can shoot down both airplanes and gunboats. So it seems not impossible that it has a strength of a division or even more than a division.

After all, this organization has been developing in the mountainous area of ​​northern Myanmar for more than 10 years. It has grown step by step from being surrounded by wolves and eating wolves. It is also good at farming and construction. It must have attracted a lot of human resources.

After a meeting, the leaders of the government army's Northern Military Region in Mandalay decided not to seek a solution by force until the mysterious force behind the support of the South Liberation Front was clarified. Instead, they would send representatives to contact them, hoping that they would stop in Myitkyina and announce that they would join the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma as an autonomous regime.

As mentioned earlier, the British cryptographer found by the government forces is actually also a British intelligence officer who has been studying South Asian languages ​​and the codes of various countries. For such a force with the most advanced digital encryption capabilities, he will of course pass the intelligence back to his country.

The British intelligence agencies reacted very quickly and forcefully. All the information on the Southern Liberation Front that the government forces had collected over the years was passed on by the British insiders. They did not attach much importance to the construction intelligence contained therein. This level of construction would have been completed by them a hundred years ago, so they skipped it and kept it aside.

However, I am very interested in the missiles mentioned there. Two missiles fired by the South Liberation Front hit two Vulcan bombers at the same time. Although the Vulcan bomber is a British technology from the 50s, its flight altitude is generally 3 kilometers, and as a jet bomber, its speed is not slow, more than 600 kilometers per hour. This shows that the firing altitude of this individual missile can exceed 3 kilometers, and the speed should be supersonic. The range is difficult to judge due to lack of information.

However, even the latest models of individual air defense missiles in the United States cannot reach a firing height of more than 3 kilometers, not to mention their own domestic individual air defense missiles.

Moreover, the information shows that this missile seems to be a launcher that can launch two types of missiles. The latter should be used to deal with low-speed armored targets. The heavily armored gunboat that was retired by the UK and transferred to the Myanmar government army was also sunk by this missile with one shot, indicating that it has strong armor-piercing and blasting capabilities, and it must be very useful to use it against tanks.

If the technology of this missile or the corresponding physical object can be obtained and then popularized among NATO member countries, the pressure on the Western European front facing the Red Soviet Union will be greatly reduced.

So British intelligence agencies immediately began to dispatch forces to obtain the technology of this missile or steal a physical set.

The United States had just withdrawn its troops from Vietnam at this time, and its influence in South Asia had shrunk greatly. However, with the reinforcement of Britain, there was no need to worry about it becoming an information black hole, because the United States would receive almost all the intelligence that Britain knew in the near future.

Therefore, the news did not reach the US intelligence agencies for a while. Even if the United States knew about it, it would not put much effort into it, because they had already used most of their strength to deal with the Soviet Union and were no longer able to cope with the situation in South Asia.

The Soviet Union in the north had no interest in the mountainous areas of northern Myanmar at this time. Its main business in South Asia was the Cam Ranh Bay naval base. There were indeed insiders in the Myanmar government forces, but they did not pay much attention to the Southern Liberation Front. They only informed the country that the government forces were defeated by an organization called the Southern Liberation Front in the mountainous areas of northern Myanmar, and mentioned in passing the existence of individual air defense missiles and anti-armor missiles.

The head of the KGB's South Asia region did not take the news seriously after receiving it. He simply transferred the matter of the two missiles to relevant research institutions and asked them to see if they could develop similar missiles.

At this time, most of China's attention is not in northern Myanmar, and relevant intelligence collection does not rely on secret intelligence personnel, but on openly collecting social information. As for the various factions in the mountainous areas of northern Myanmar, they are only able to know their sphere of influence, and as long as they do not violate the border, they are allowed to develop.

Therefore, Cen Yong should feel very fortunate at this time that the three major powers did not pay any attention to him. Otherwise, not only would he and his Southern Jiezhen be completely exposed in front of the major powers, but even Wang Jiankun's superpowers might be discovered.

After Cen Yong arranged the post-war reconstruction work in Myitkyina, he finally remembered to reply to Wang Jiankun. However, his shortwave radio was not brought with him on this mission, so he had to wait until he returned to Landau before he could reply.

(End of this chapter)