Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 86 DH-1 Missile Establishes Its Power
February 1982, 2 was the second day of the second month in the lunar calendar, the day when the dragon raises its head.

A far-reaching battle took place in the dense forests of the mountains in northern Myanmar. After this battle, an organization called the Southern Liberation Front began to rise, and its leader Cen Yong began to be included in the key focus list of some intelligence systems.

Back to the night of the Lantern Festival on February 2, in a small town called Langdao in northern Myanmar, Wang Jiankun’s uncle Cen Yong was busy organizing the Lantern Festival.

In a dark and secluded cave in the town, a government spy was secretly sending a message, reporting the South Liberation Front's intelligence during this period back to the government intelligence point in Myitkyina.

What the spy didn't know was that, although his messages were not blocked by the Southern Liberation Front, all of his messages were intercepted by the radio monitoring equipment located on the hills at the edge of Langdao, and his approximate location was also analyzed by the monitoring system.

Since the Southern Liberation Front began to use the mobile communication equipment provided by Wang Jiankun, most of the radio stations have been recalled within the organization, and the limited number of them have been reported and used in fixed locations. Mobile radio stations are no longer allowed to be used in the areas controlled by the Southern Liberation Front.

However, when Cen Yong used the radio to receive signals later, he was still able to receive some strong radio signals from time to time, which meant that the location of the message was inside the base, and it was not a radio station within the organization.

It was obvious that these must be the spies planted by the hostile forces sending the messages. In order to find these spies, Cen Yong and Lang, the person in charge of internal security within the organization, guessed many ways, such as sending people to search when abnormal signals were received, holding emergency gatherings to check whether all personnel were present, etc. However, the results were not ideal. The secret radio station was not found and the construction of the base was affected.

With no other options, Cen Yong found Wang Jiankun, told him about the secret radio station inside the base, and asked him if he had any way to find these ground rats.

Wang Jiankun thought about it and recalled the relevant knowledge of radio positioning, and came up with the simple and easy-to-use triangulation positioning method.

My uncle's territory was not very large. Based on the topographic map provided, Wang Jiankun asked Chieko to help design a radio positioning system.

There are a total of 8 receivers and one data solution center, which can be combined with the mobile communication base station provided in advance to perform preliminary analysis on the received radio information and then send it to the data solution center via the base station.

Based on the signals sent back by several receiving stations, the data analysis center can reversely calculate the distance of the transmitting source according to the reception time. The approximate location where multiple circles intersect is the transmitting source.

Then people can be sent with high-precision radio intensity detection equipment to search for the approximate location calculated by the system.

The system installation and debugging were all carried out by extremely reliable people brought by my uncle. After the installation and debugging were completed, a secret search for secret radio stations was carried out. The search results shocked my uncle at the time. Eight unreported radio stations were found in one day.

So after communicating with several top leaders, they decided to launch a rat eradication operation. Of course, the effect of the operation was very good. In just three days, 3 secret radio stations were found.

After that, several more were discovered one after another. Although the time for these ground rats to send messages began to shorten significantly, with the arrival of more than 10 radio intensity detection devices provided by Wang Jiankun, Cen Yong was able to dispatch personnel nearby to search and capture them.

Using this method, Cen Yong had found most of the secret radio stations in the base before the Chinese New Year, and more than 30 of the moles were caught and executed.

Six internal traitors were also found out by following the clues. One of them was a member of the first group to escape with my uncle. However, due to the difficult conditions when the organization was first established, he could not resist the temptation and was gradually developed into an insider of the government army.

The other five traitors were also bribed and developed by the surrounding armed forces. The conditions in the Southern Liberation Front where Cen Yong was previously located were indeed difficult, and when they first arrived, due to language barriers, they had to recruit and develop many weak-willed people into the Southern Liberation Front.

The spy who sent the message on the night of the Lantern Festival must have chosen the time, knowing that there would be a grand party that day and that there would not be many people within the organization to carry out the arrest, so he took the risk.

Because they had no choice but to take action. Looking at the huge changes in the Southern Liberation Front during this period, as well as the precision and decisiveness of the previous rat eradication operations, the spy felt that if the government forces did not send troops, the rise of the Southern Liberation Front would be unstoppable.

With the successful installation and operation of the first generator set of the hydropower station before the Chinese New Year, the organization has begun to move towards self-reliance and industrial development.

It seems that there is a powerful external organization providing assistance to it, because a lot of supplies were shipped back after the New Year.

For example, he found out that the machine tools being shipped back were actually CNC-controlled and capable of automatic production. Hearing the words "automatic production" he thought they were very advanced. What's even more terrible is that these machine tools were actually used to produce guns. It was said that more advanced equipment would be shipped later.

Sure enough, at the welcome party after the Chinese New Year, Cen Yong, one of the leaders of the Southern Liberation Front, announced the development plan for the next three years.

The construction of the power system was to be completed by 1982, and 70% of the areas under its control would be electrified. Coal, iron and copper mines would be prepared for large-scale mining, and steel and copper smelting plants would be completed and put into production.

By 1983, the preliminary steel industry, coal chemical industry, and fertilizer industry were completed, and the base area became self-sufficient in basic industrial products and food.

By 1984, in order to be able to manufacture more complex industrial products, hydropower will have to be expanded fivefold from the previous level, steel production capacity will have to reach 5 tons, copper smelting capacity will have to reach 50 tons, the fertilizer industry will have to reach 5 million tons, the coal chemical industry will have to produce basic gasoline and diesel, and plastics industry plants will also have to be built.

This three-step plan shocked many people, and it was even more incredible to the ears of this spy. If this small town in northern Myanmar and the surrounding mountainous areas could really accomplish this great feat, then all the surrounding forces would be no match for the Southern Liberation Front, not even the government forces.

At that time, Myanmar had just gotten rid of colonial rule and domestic development was extremely backward. Only some plain areas near the sea in the south were developing well. Most inland areas, especially mountainous areas, were still in a state of slash-and-burn agriculture, and industrial products were hard to find.

In Myitkyina, the largest city in the north, families who can afford to buy bicycles are considered the richest families. There is almost no industrial production, and the people rely entirely on mountain specialties and rice cultivation to exchange for industrial products.

After Cen Yong finished arranging the party and returned to the office, he saw that the system monitoring had detected that an unregistered radio station had sent a telegram for a period of time in the previous few hours.

Based on the approximate location calculated by the system, Cen Yong quickly arranged for people to search, and put the person on duty who was responsible for guarding the monitoring room that night into solitary confinement pending further processing, because the person on duty was not at his post the whole time, but ran out to attend the party.

The people who went to search found the cave, but it was empty. There were only a few signs of activity at the location where the message was sent, but it was impossible to find the mole immediately.

Because the content of the message could not be deciphered, and they did not know who the recipient was or what the recipient's reaction would be, the base began a policy of looseness inside and tightness outside after the party ended.

Of course, production arrangements cannot be stopped. The hydropower station has reached the end of its construction, and some people have begun the construction of the power grid. Transformers and cables are all purchased from the Nanyang region. The products manufactured by the factories opened by Japanese companies there are still quite good quality and cheap.

For a period of time afterwards, Cen Yong was in charge of internal security and military training. The new recruits first underwent part-time training, training for 4 hours and working for 6 hours a day. They also had to receive ideological education at night to instill the organizational program and goals of the Southern Liberation Front into these newcomers.

The internal security forces were all re-equipped after the Chinese New Year. They used fully automatic rifles whose parts were produced by Hong Kong Xingyao Machinery and transported to the base for assembly. This gun is a copy of the Soviet AK47, but the caliber and length of the gun have been reduced to be more suitable for the body size of the soldiers here and the mountain combat environment.

On this day, the Internal Guard sentry discovered a group of sneaky people wandering around the outskirts of the base and quickly reported it to Cen Yong. After receiving the news, he asked them to keep a close eye on them and find a way to capture a few of them alive.

The arrest process went relatively smoothly. The special operations team of the internal security forces surrounded and captured three people alive at the cost of two people being slightly injured. After some interrogation, it was discovered that they were spies of the government army who were investigating the terrain and defense points.

After receiving the interrogation result, Cen Yong proposed at a high-level meeting that the base should enter a wartime state. Except for the seriously wounded and the basic service personnel who remained in their original positions, everyone else should be prepared for battle.

Because combined with the previous secret radio station's message, government spies came to investigate within a few days, which meant that the government forces were definitely preparing to attack the base.

The base is currently in a stage of major construction. If the government forces break into the base, all previous investments will be wasted, and the hundreds of new recruits will also be shaken. All the hard work of the past six months will be destroyed. So it is better to take action first and capture Myitkyina in the south to gain precious space and time for the construction of the rear area.

Because if we capture Myitkyina, an important city in northern Myanmar, and then establish and hold a solid position there, the base will gain a rare safe environment for development.

Because there is a valley between Langdao and Myitkyina, with continuous mountains on both sides, Magang south of Langdao had been occupied during the last war, and currently a field company and two platoons of armed patrols have been sent.

The two small towns further south are Laklagang and Layanga, which are currently under government military rule. However, there are no troops there, just some police and tax collectors. A small team of troops can occupy them.

30 kilometers south of Layanga is Myitkyina. Previous intelligence showed that there were two companies of government troops guarding there. Now the government troops have sent people to investigate. We must investigate and act as soon as possible to capture it before they increase their forces. Then we can have room for bargaining on whether to fight or make peace. Moreover, Myitkyina is closer to Yunnan than the base. It is only more than kilometers away from Tengchong. Although there are mountains blocking it, there are many trade trails, which will make it more convenient to trade with the country in the future.

Cen Yong's analysis convinced everyone at the meeting and they decided to quickly occupy Laklagang and Layanga first, and then after the mobilization of the base was completed, send three main companies, one internal security company, and corresponding logistics troops to Myitkyina.

So when Wang Jiankun sent a message to his uncle on Saturday, he did not receive a timely response, because the Southern Liberation Army began preparing for war after the Lantern Festival, and all radio communications were controlled. In order to keep it confidential, Cen Yong did not tell Wang Jiankun in advance.

Moreover, after receiving the DH-1 missiles and rockets sent by Wang Jiankun, Cen Yong immediately arranged a test. A group of internal security soldiers with junior high school education who were selected in advance were urgently trained, and then secret tests were carried out in the mountains north of Langdao.

During the test, the anti-aircraft missiles and rockets successfully hit the target. Then he quickly ordered this killer force to organize simulation training and then led the team to the Myitkyina front.

At this time, the fighting on the Myitkyina front was still in a stalemate. The government army temporarily dispatched a battalion of troops, and the defensive force reached more than 1 people. The Southern Liberation Front, as the attacking party, had only more than 7 field troops. The gap in weapons between the two sides was not big in such a place.

The Southern Liberation Front won because of its tight organization and strong fighting spirit, while the government forces held several fortresses. Although most of the soldiers were poorly trained and had poor shooting accuracy, they were protected by the fortresses and were very courageous and fought to the death.

On February 2, Cen Yong saw that the field troops had already cleared most of the areas inside Myitkyina, with only six fortresses still stubbornly holding out and waiting for reinforcements, so he decided to send out a killer force.

Although only two rockets were fired, the main shooter and the deputy shooter had trained very hard in the past few days and had practiced the entire launch process no less than a thousand times. When they heard that the mission had come down and that they had to use eight rockets to destroy six fortresses, they were very excited.

Although the task was arduous, two groups of eight people headed towards the front line of the battle after receiving the order. Four of them carried eight rockets, two carried rocket launchers, and two served as assistant shooters and carried self-defense weapons.

The back of the fortress is close to the river and the front faces the exit of the mountain area. If these six teeth are not removed, it will be difficult for the Southern Liberation Front to gain a foothold in Myitkyina.

The two groups were each assigned three targets. After observing them, they decided to use armor-piercing bullets first. For this kind of brick and stone fortress, armor-piercing bullets can hit the target with one shot, while explosive and fragmentation bullets must hit the inside of the fortress, otherwise it will be difficult to be effective.

At this time, Cen Yong and several military commanders were observing with binoculars about 1 kilometer behind. When they saw the signal from the front that preparations were complete and whether to launch, they decisively ordered to launch immediately.

The assistant gunner immediately conveyed the order to the main gunner, and as the main gunner pressed the trigger on the rocket launcher, two armor-piercing shells flew out instantly and headed towards the fortress that was spraying machine gun bullets.

Boom! Boom!
Two huge explosions were heard one after another, and the battlefield suddenly became much quieter. At this time, the assistant shooter hurriedly helped to load the ammunition, and while the enemy was still in a daze, he took the main shooter to another position.

Then there were two more loud bangs, and two fortresses were blown away again. There might be ammunition detonated inside the two fortresses, and a large amount of debris was ejected from inside, including several corpses and body fragments.

When the rocket troops moved their positions to the last two positions, a government soldier ran out of one of the two remaining fortresses, holding a hastily made white flag, waving it as he walked out, and shouting words of surrender in Burmese and Chinese. Seeing that he came out shirtless, the white flag was obviously made of his white shirt.

Seeing someone coming out of a fortress and raising the flag of surrender, Cen Yongsui ordered one group to suspend the attack, and the other group to persuade the last fortress to surrender first. If they refused to listen to the advice and stubbornly resisted, there was no need to wait for orders, and they could directly launch rockets to send them into the sky.

Maybe they saw that some people had surrendered and there was only one fortress left, which was definitely not enough to hold on, so they all came out and surrendered quickly.

Seeing this, Cen Yong asked the commanders of each unit to be responsible for searching and patrolling their respective areas, and took the internal security troops that had made great contributions back to the occupied new camp.

That evening, after arranging various tasks for occupying the new consular district, the logistics troops were asked to erect a field radar brought from the base.

This is one of the radars that Wang Jiankun provided to his uncle. It was previously installed on a mountain near Magang to provide early warning of patrol aircraft reconnaissance by government forces.

Now that we have captured the important town in northern Myanmar, we have to guard against the government forces sending out combat aircraft, so the field radar must be installed and put into use as soon as possible.

The electricity here is generated from a small hydroelectric power station, which was captured and occupied intact not long after the battle began, so basic electricity needs can still be guaranteed, otherwise diesel generators would have to be installed urgently to provide power.

No plane came that night. It might be that the government forces were not prepared to lose Myitkyina and reacted slowly. But the next day, February 2, the government reconnaissance plane flew over for reconnaissance.

In order not to expose the missile, Cen Yong decided to let it conduct reconnaissance first, and then destroy it in one fell swoop after he sent out the plane.

At this time, the government forces had very limited combat aircraft. If they could destroy their air force in one wave, then defending Myitkyina would be more secure.

On that day, the reconnaissance plane flew back and forth over Myitkyina four times, and finally dared to lower to an altitude of one thousand meters. Cen Yong ordered the Southern Liberation Front's precious anti-aircraft machine guns to drive them away. The government army's reconnaissance plane saw the anti-aircraft machine guns and then raised its altitude and circled.

At this time, the radar was in place and constantly monitoring the sky within 50 kilometers around Myitkyina. The two missile teams were also ready, and the air defense missiles were always in the launch tubes.

The government forces did not launch an attack that day, but they detected that there were troops marching rapidly 30 kilometers south of Myitkyina, and they should be able to approach the 10-kilometer defense line of Myitkyina the next day.

Taking into account the range of the missile and in order to be able to inflict a heavy blow to the enemy in one blow, Cen Yong asked the leaders of the field force to shrink the defense line to 5 kilometers outside Myitkyina, where he would be responsible for the front-line enemy resistance mission, while he would be responsible for defending Myitkyina's airspace and port.

Sure enough, on February 2, government troops appeared outside the defense line along the road along the river. First, a reconnaissance plane appeared in the air, followed by two bombers and two armed helicopters, and two gunboats also appeared on the river.

After receiving the report from the scout ahead, Cen Yong decided to attack the air first and then the surface. After all four planes were within the missile range, he decisively ordered the two missile teams to quickly launch anti-aircraft missiles.

At this time, the bombers in the sky were flying faster than the helicopters and were running ahead. They were bullying the Southern Liberation Front because they had no planes, otherwise they would not dare to send bombers up. They would definitely use fighter jets to resolve the air threat before sending out bombers. However, government aircraft and pilots are very valuable, and every flight is carefully calculated. Since the Southern Liberation Front has no air power, sending fighter jets would be a waste.

In a flash, the first two DH-1 missiles launched hit the target. It is difficult to miss the target when attacking such a low-speed bomber.

At this time, the two armed helicopters following behind were a little confused when they saw the bomber suddenly explode and disintegrate in the air, but it was a good idea to run away first when encountering danger. The pilots of the two armed helicopters reacted quickly and quickly turned around and ran in the direction they came from.

However, the two DH-1 missiles launched later had already flown out of the launch tube. The propellant burned rapidly, pushing the missile's speed to supersonic speed. However, before the missile reached its maximum speed of 2.1 Mach, it had already caught up with the two relatively slow armed helicopters.

Although the pilots finally made evasive actions, the supersonic DH-1 missile did not give them a chance. It exploded when it was about 5 meters away from the helicopter. A large number of fragments instantly rushed towards the helicopter. Two aircraft were hit by a large number of debris. One of them was hit in the fuel tank and exploded in the air, caught fire and turned into parts falling. The other one was luckier and fell to the ground while emitting black smoke and circling.

After the aerial target was resolved, Cen Yong ordered the missile team to get on the truck and drive quickly to the riverside. When they arrived at the riverside, the two gunboats were about to turn around and run back. There was no time to get off the vehicle, so Cen Yong ordered the missiles to be fired directly from the truck.

The faster the speedboat came, the faster it was eaten by the fish. Two missiles hit two gunboats one after another. Except for three smart ones who jumped into the river when they saw the smoke of the missiles and survived and were captured, the other 3-odd people sank to the bottom of the river with the gunboats.

All six missiles hit the target, although the target was not prepared, but it also means that this missile has a good hit rate and power.

The ground troops responsible for attacking the defense line saw the planes falling one by one in the sky and heard two huge explosions from the direction of the river. They began to turn around and flee, and the government corps commander who was commanding the battle also took the lead and turned south.

This kind of local force capable of attacking air targets cannot be defeated by a small regiment of his. If he doesn't run fast, he might be surrounded. Didn't you see that this unit has abandoned the defense line previously set up at 10 kilometers? Maybe it was just to let him get closer so as to implement the "encirclement and dumpling" tactic.

The officers and soldiers of the Southern Liberation Front who were fighting in the field did pursue the enemy for a while while they were fleeing, but they soon returned. At that time, the Southern Liberation Front was short of troops, and they had to send troops to guard the occupied areas in the rear to prevent other forces from taking advantage of the situation.

In general, this battle did hurt the government forces, especially after the four attacking planes and two gunboats were shot down. The reputation of the Southern Liberation Front in northern Myanmar was established.

(End of this chapter)