On the way to Taiwan Province Province, a Kuomintang army in Yunnan, because it was located inland, had no time to go to Taiwan Province Province by boat along the coast, so it had to turn around and flee to Myanmar.
Thousands of people in this army finally fled to Myanmar after avoiding heavy raids. The original plan of this unit is that they are still thinking about the main force of the Kuomintang in Taiwan Province Province, so they want to continue to flee. As long as they go through the jungle in Myanmar, they can reach Thailand, and then they can take a boat to Taiwan Province Province to join the main force.
After many twists and turns, they finally got in touch with the Kuomintang superiors who had arrived in Taiwan Province Province. In fact, the superior didn't want to go to great pains to let an army that wasn't one of our own come to Taiwan Province Province through the checkpoint, because it needed a lot of maneuvering, and this army had nothing to do with the Kuomintang at this time, so the order given to them by the superior of the Kuomintang was to stick to the Myanmar-China border area instead of going to Thailand to prepare, and let them keep training, obey orders and be ready to fight back at any time, but in fact the Kuomintang had given up.
Although the Kuomintang (KMT) superiors didn't make it clear, this army in Myanmar already knew that it was abandoned and it was difficult to return to China. When you go back, you will be regarded as a reformed political enemy. So under the leadership of the head of the Kuomintang army, they stayed in Myanmar. In order not to be bullied in a foreign country, this army has never been disbanded.
Later, in order to obtain more living resources, the army chose an area in the Golden Triangle, where it occupied and established its own territory. Later, in order to strengthen their own strength, they sent people back to Yunnan to find other Kuomintang soldiers who stayed there to join. Under the organized leadership, the number of this army has expanded rapidly, reaching more than 3,000, becoming the largest armed force in the border areas of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, and becoming a menace to the governments of these three countries.
The constant activities of this army in the Golden Triangle area have attracted the attention of the government. 1950, Myanmar sent air force, artillery and infantry troops and launched a surprise attack on them.
Although the Kuomintang troops were defeated in the civil war, they were still not taken seriously in the face of military attacks from Southeast Asian countries far less than China. It can be said that it was a breeze, and the troops who came to crusade were beaten out of the water. Not only did they beat back the enemy, but they also seized some heavy artillery and a number of weapons of the Burmese army, which enhanced their own strength.
The Burmese government saw that it was unable to destroy it after sending heavy troops to crusade against it, so it had to send people to negotiate with it. In order to gain a place here, this Kuomintang army did not want to compete directly with the local government, so it accepted the government's proposal for peace talks. They directly released all prisoners captured in Myanmar, and the government was satisfied. In the end, the peace talks between the two sides were successful, and this army survived in the Golden Triangle for a long time.
Because this army defeated the Burmese government forces, it caused a great sensation in the local area. The Myanmar media began to report on this remnant Kuomintang army, and the momentum was growing. Finally, the news that they won the battle of the Golden Triangle reached Taiwan Province Province one day. Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan Province Province, after learning this news, felt that this army was valuable, so he sent Li Mi to Myanmar to recruit this army, but Chiang Kai-shek still couldn't give them anything, only said that he could develop himself in Myanmar and expand his power here, and then the Golden Triangle region could be used as a stronghold to counterattack the mainland.
After Li Mi arrived in Myanmar, he immediately reorganized the army and encouraged them to develop the economy while strengthening training. In order to get the money, he made it a rule that we should take care of all the opium planted in the Golden Triangle. Formulate unified purchase price, unified price and specification sales. The huge profits from buying and selling opium soon became the largest drug-making and trafficking team in the Golden Triangle, and the Myanmar government was helpless.
Seeing that this army was getting stronger and stronger, the Myanmar government felt that it could no longer sit still, but it could not beat them, so the Myanmar government reported the matter to the United Nations. At that time, in order to gain international support, the Kuomintang in Taiwan Province Province naturally could not allow this kind of image-damaging thing to exist.
So the superior immediately gave the order to disband the army. Soldiers who want to go back to Taiwan Province Province can come to Taiwan Province Province. If they don't want to stay in the Golden Triangle, then they have dissolved their relationship with the Kuomintang from now on, and what they do has nothing to do with it. In this army, 4,000 people did not want to go to Taiwan Province Province, but chose to stay in the Golden Triangle and later moved to northern Thailand to settle down. The village where they live is called. Maisler? .
This army has no other source of livelihood except drug manufacturing and trafficking. In order to make a living, they can only go back to their old ways. Naturally, the Thai government could not tolerate it and sent troops directly to crusade. This time, they failed and the troops were incorporated into Thailand. The Thai government promised them that they would fight mainly for Thailand, that there would be no trouble in the future, and that the government would provide them with supplies. Seeing that resistance is hopeless, the army can only agree to this condition.
However, when they surrendered voluntarily, the Thai government immediately changed its mind. The Thai government stipulates that this army and its descendants can only live in northern Thailand for life, and can only live in this village and cannot work in other areas. The media in Taiwan Province Province reported their experiences, and the people were very sympathetic to them. Faced with social pressure, the Kuomintang can only set up a special foundation to support them. Taiwan Province provincial authorities have also built schools in this village to provide them with employment opportunities.
However, with the chaos of political situation in Taiwan Province Province, the foundation supporting them has been neglected, and these people have lost the support of Taiwan Province Province. Perhaps they have now become Thais under the influence of the surrounding living environment.