Since Aung San began commanding the troops that had finished training in the training camps in Upper Burma to march south a month ago, he found that the Burmese people had a fairly high consensus on driving out the British. The movement, which he thought would be very difficult, received the cooperation of the local Burmese people, and even the cooperation of some military and police forces composed of local Burmese organized by the British.

On October 18, the People's Army lurking near Rangoon placed three wireless transmitters near the Rangoon military airfield according to the agreement and turned them on at 6:10. These devices required generators for power supply, which delayed things for three minutes during operation.

According to the news sent by the liaison personnel, as long as the devices were started, the Burma People's Army should leave immediately without guarding the devices. Learning that such expensive equipment could be abandoned at any time, Aung San and the upper echelon of the Burma People's Army were moved as well as sighing.

Not having to guard the devices avoided personnel losses. Although the lives of locals in Burma were indeed cheap, China's attitude really made people feel relatively warm.

Around 6:20, a large number of aircraft suddenly swooped down from the sky and carried out a violent bombing of the Rangoon military airfield. When the bombing ended, Aung San immediately commanded the Burma People's Army commando team to launch a fierce attack on the Burma airfield.

In the entire plan, the purpose of destroying the Burma airfield was to prevent the British from using this airfield nearby for combat. While the core of combat was equipment, personnel were equally important. Pilots, radio navigators, and ground crews all took a long time to train. The targets of the air raid were the aircraft, runways, fuel depots, and some buildings at the airfield. It could not launch attacks specifically against personnel. In order to completely paralyze the air power of the British Burma Army, it would be best to eliminate all British personnel in the airfield.

This 200-man commando team was equipped with assault rifles. After launching attacks from the east and west directions, thick smoke was seen rolling inside the airfield, and the guard troops on the periphery of the airfield were in chaos. When Aung San and the Burma People's Army wearing colonial uniforms approached, the panicked guards thought reinforcements had arrived and immediately hailed Aung San's commando team to come for rescue.

Aung San didn't expect it to go so smoothly. He immediately ran towards the perimeter defenders and began to strafe when he got close. Under the attack like cutting melons and chopping vegetables, the commando team didn't spare a single living soul. After killing the perimeter defenders, they charged into the airfield. The British inside the airfield were bombed miserably, and cries for help rose one after another. These voices were undoubtedly the best guidance. The commando team first killed the British Air Force personnel gathered for rescue, and then rushed into several buildings that hadn't been bombed. Seeing quite a few British guys inside, they immediately launched an attack on them.

These British guys had weapons in their hands, but mainly pistols. They were completely at a disadvantage in the shootout with assault rifles. Moreover, the Burma People's Army carried grenades, while the enemy would not carry grenades inside the buildings. More than ten minutes later, all the British in the several buildings were killed. Seeing that the task was completed, the commando team retreated immediately.

When the British troops in Rangoon arrived, they only saw that the smoke-filled airfield was surprisingly quiet. When this British army entered the airfield in astonishment, they saw only corpses all over the ground and didn't see a single living person.

The Upper Burma Army's ground offensive did not encounter any obstacles either. The British Indian Army had only one battalion in the wetlands area, and no artillery. The armored forces annihilated this battalion with one charge, and everyone from British officers to Indian soldiers surrendered quickly.

Infantry needed to take a lot of detours to pass through this area, but tracked armored forces did not have this limitation. Tanks and halftracks passed through several kilometers of wetland water network areas at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour. Two-thirds of the halftracks stayed to continue moving follow-up troops. Regiment Commander Dan Tuo's troops all walked on foot, protecting the one-third of the halftracks transporting heavy equipment and supplies, and continued south following the tank unit.

Dan Tuo took the lead in taking off his gas mask, feeling his breathing immediately clear. Although marching on halftracks and tanks saved effort, both types of equipment were equipped with diesel engines, and the oil smoke coming out of the engines was comparable to poison gas. Britain had poison gas production plants in India, and Britain never paid attention to rules when facing weak countries, using any cruel means. So the troops were equipped with gas masks, but unexpectedly they played a big role just as the operation started.

They encountered no decent resistance along the way. By around noon, the troops arrived at the scheduled destination 35 kilometers from the border. This was a small town on the railway. At this time, the tanks and halftracks were crowded with people. More than a dozen people sat on the tanks, and on the halftracks with a maximum capacity of 11 people, about 25 people were stuffed in by everyone using their imagination.

Although it was very uncomfortable on these vehicles, after the troops arrived at the destination, they just stretched their muscles and bones during the formation period and continued to start the operation of occupying the small town and the railway station. One hour later, at 12:05 PM, the troops completed the mission.

At this time, the halftrack transport vehicles had returned, and the tank unit left only one platoon. The other tanks headed for the scheduled location in the west after refueling. At this time, the remaining two regiments of the 2nd Division had all crossed the wetland water network area with the help of halftracks and were advancing westward.

In the frontline command post, the rumbling sound of cannons could be heard, as well as the sharp whistling sound of whistles on aerial bombs falling in the air, and the loud noise when aerial bombs exploded.

Radio communications constantly received news from various units. The chess pieces moving constantly on the large sand table that gathered the news showed that the battle was proceeding unexpectedly smoothly. Lieutenant General Bomala in front of the sand table crossed his arms and frowned. After graduating from middle school in 1922, he was arrested for participating in activities opposing British colonial rule. In 1923, hearing that China had defeated Japan, he immediately went to China. He happened to catch up with the Unification War led by He Rui. Under his hard request, he became a glorious National Defense Force soldier. And he joined the Chinese Civilization Party in 1925.

He fought bravely during the Sino-British War, and after 1927 became a member of the Presidium of the Upper Burma Independence Committee. Later, he served as Army Commander, responsible for Upper Burma's military construction, and concurrently as the principal of the military academy. After that, he went to China for further studies for a few months every two years or so.

When the latest intelligence was delivered, and the staff officer reported that the 2nd Division, which had cut off the British retreat, had completed all tasks, a burst of cheers in Chinese immediately came from the frontline command post. Among the cheers were Northeast accents, Hebei accents, and Jiangning accents.

The Republic of Upper Burma was a country composed of very many princely states, and the Burma region was the area where Burmese people lived. In the official languages of the Republic of Upper Burma, the "second language" was Chinese. Since the upper echelon of Upper Burma basically went to study in China, the teachers China supported Upper Burma with knew a little Hmong at most; most teachers only knew Chinese. After more than ten years, as long as departments and people related to Upper Burma officialdom were concerned, they basically only spoke Chinese.

Among the Upper Burma Army officers, those who attended the Baoding Military Academy learned the Hebei accent, those who attended the Changshan Military Academy learned the Northeast accent, and those who graduated from the Jiangning (Nanjing) Military Academy learned the Jiangning accent.

Lieutenant General Bomala said to his classmate Senior Colonel Lu Xin next to him in relatively standard Mandarin, "Looking at it now, Germany really should have won the Western European campaign!"

Senior Colonel Lu Xin participated in a training session before this trip. During the training, he saw slide shows made from a large number of photos taken by the Chinese Volunteer Air Force aiding France, as well as some relatively clear aerial photography. He was deeply impressed by the German army's fighting in France.

Now the Senior Colonel had passed the shock period and could treat the brand-new war mode with rational emotions. Hearing his classmate's sigh, Lu Xin replied, "The British can no longer keep up with the times. Their current war thinking has serious path dependence, believing that as long as they have advanced European equipment, they can win."

"Is this your view, or the Principal's view?" Bomala asked.

"Neither." Lu Xin kept a small suspense. "This is the Chairman's evaluation."

Hearing that this was He Rui's view, Bomala immediately wanted to stand at attention. He treasured the party emblem of the Chinese Civilization Party at home. If it weren't inappropriate for the Commander-in-Chief of the Upper Burma National Defense Force to wear a foreign party emblem, Lieutenant General Bomala would be willing to wear this party emblem at all times. Apart from the fact that the few years of joining the Chinese Civilization Party were the time when Bomala made the fastest progress, that party emblem was put on Bomala personally by He Rui when he participated in the Advanced Party Member Commendation Conference as an advanced representative of the Civilization Party.

Savoring this sentence carefully, "advanced European equipment" had a lot of flavor. Bomala thought for a moment and suddenly laughed. "Sure enough, the British really look down on us. I thought the British must know our army's equipment level, so they would have a targeted plan. Looking at it now, only advanced European equipment is worthy of a powerful European army. Hahahaha!"

Lu Xin agreed with his old classmate's view. The arrogance of the colonialists made them think that human beings had natural racial nobility and lowliness. This foolish view made the British think that even if "backward peoples" possessed advanced weapons, they could not exert the performance of advanced weapons.

Compared with the arrogance of the colonialists, Xunzi, the master of Chinese materialism more than 2,000 years ago, had a very materialist classic explanation: "The children of the Gan, Yue, Yi, and Mo peoples are born with the same voice, but grow up with different customs, because education makes them so."

The Republic of Upper Burma indeed could not compare with Britain in fields such as population and industry. But this was not because the people of Upper Burma were naturally baser than the British, but because they had not received relevant education. In the past ten-plus years, Upper Burma had gained independence in terms of state and politics, while Upper Burma had integrated with China in terms of economy, culture, system, and education. This country was no longer developing independently but developing together with the Asian Economic Community. Although limited by natural factors such as geography, Upper Burma was not suitable for heavy industrial development, it did not mean that the country of Upper Burma was not industrialized.

Since Upper Burma had begun to enter industrialization, and Britain had not surpassed industrialization, and the military resources obtained by Upper Burma were not less than Britain's, why should Britain look down on Upper Burma? Or to put it more bluntly, what are you British pretending for!

Just as Lu Xin was thinking about these questions that a Chinese senior colonel was more likely to think about, he heard Lieutenant General Bomala ask, "How high a level do you think our army can perform in the assault on fortifications?"

Lu Xin smiled. "Hehe, as long as you don't let tanks charge fixed strongholds, you should win relatively easily. After all, the Gurkha and Sikh battalions know how to lay minefields to defend the flanks."

Lieutenant General Bomala nodded after listening. He indeed had the impulsive idea of letting tanks assault fortifications just now. Such sharp offensive equipment as tanks indeed gave Bomala the intuitive feeling that tanks were omnipotent. And Lu Xin's seemingly joking remark was undoubtedly a reminder, eliminating Lieutenant General Bomala's impulse.

Inside the Upper Burma headquarters, commanders were conducting rational thinking and discussion in a calm environment. In the British Burma Army headquarters in Rangoon, Lieutenant General Bella felt as if he had lost the ability to think. Panic, anger, the air force, and feelings of loss took turns, intensifying Lieutenant General Bella's feeling of powerlessness.

Now Lieutenant General Bella fully believed that his opponent was the Chinese army disguised as the Upper Burma Army. He really couldn't believe that a group of Burmese mountain monkeys could fight such a smooth and precise battle at a distance of hundreds of kilometers. What happened during the day reminded Lieutenant General Bella of his experience in the Western European campaign.

Having experienced that terrible campaign where he was beaten dizzy, the Lieutenant General also pieced together a relatively complete picture of what happened during the Western European campaign through repeated reviews afterwards and information obtained from Germany after the Anglo-German peace.

Whether it was the surprise attack on the airfield, or the clusters on the border line being violently attacked by artillery and tactical air forces, as well as the sudden interruption of communication between the front line and the rear. And the desperate telegrams of "tank units are attacking us" suddenly sent by several British telegraph offices. Everything that happened made Lieutenant General Bella feel very familiar; the Western European campaign was replayed in front of him on a smaller scale.

If Lieutenant General Bella had to admit that this was fought by the mountain monkeys of Upper Burma, Lieutenant General Bella felt it would be better to say that the opposing troops were an army composed of a group of British Communists. After all, Britain did not lack Communists, and many Labour Party members among them had also participated in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Some of them were strictly monitored after returning to Britain. The British government was very afraid that this group of guys with actual combat experience would engage in armed struggle within Britain.

In the end, Lieutenant General Bella had his adjutant record the draft telegram sent to the British Command in India: "Our army is under attack by the Chinese army and has fallen into an unfavorable war situation."