Chapter 18 India (1)
The Indian and Chinese government did not expect it, nor did the British government. The situation of the war was beyond everyone's expectations. After the two divisions of the Southwest Military Region met with the landing troops, the two divisions that had almost no consumption were consumed. Before the landing troops could fully land, they immediately advanced westward after replenishing ammunition and dry food. In the words of the Southwest veteran general Feng Zicai, soldiers are more important than speed, and fighter jets cannot wait.
The southwest army took advantage of the railway that the British had not had time to break, and immediately rushed to Kanpur, an important city in central India after loading the troops. The next day, the Navy's First Marine Division fully landed and found that Feng Zicai and his troops had already rushed to Kanpur, so they immediately contacted Feng Zicai by telegram. Feng Zicai was unstoppable along the way. When he left, the two engineer companies borrowed from the Navy were useless at all, and his engineers had no work to do.
Although the UK is known as a 100,000 army in India, it is very scattered. Kolkata, Mumbai, Kanpur and New Delhi have garrisons, among which New Delhi and Mumbai have the largest number of troops, including a British army division, plus an infantry brigade in Kanpur and some artillery logistics units. In fact, there is only 40,000. China suddenly attacked India. The first thing that the Indian governor thought of when he learned about it was to shrink his troops. This idea was very sober and too sober. His idea should be said to be that there was no big problem. He shrank the British army into the three major cities of New Delhi, Kanpur and Mumbai, and arranged Indian troops on the road to advance the Chinese army, so that the Indian army could intercept the Chinese army's advance layer by layer. When the Chinese army attacked several major cities, it would definitely suffer heavy losses. Three hundred thousand, even a group of ducks was enough for the Chinese army to capture him for 10 days and half a month.
Unexpectedly, Feng Zicai came all the way toward New Delhi. There was no Indian army that was under the British army, even a group of ducks. Because the ducks could not run fast, it was still troublesome for the Chinese army to catch them. Because the ducks did not know how to surrender, the central army had to catch them one by one, while the Indian army was different. They ran very quickly and surrendered very seriously.
When Feng Zicai's vanguard arrived in Ranchi by train, it was already dark. The Indian railway was too garbage. The Indian train was really no different from the ox cart. This was the most common complaint of Chinese soldiers. The train was shaking and stuck to Ranchi. The two left-behind Indian divisions began to counterattack under the command of British officers. The dense gunshot scared the vanguard quickly stopped the train and jumped off the train. It turned out that a bullet was not fired. It turned out that the Indian soldiers were too nervous. They heard that the Chinese army was coming and the train was still two kilometers away, so they started shooting.
The regiment of the vanguard's army may have been smooth. The regiment commander asked the troops to get off the train and immediately launched formation, allowing the three battalions to attack from three directions. Fortunately, there was a heavy artillery battalion on the train, which was asked by the regiment commander Li Gan from Feng Zicai, and Feng Zicai snatched it from the 1st Marine Division of the Navy, because the two divisions in the southwest did not bring any heavy weapons because they were walking on the mountain road. Liu Yongfu, the commander of the 1st Marine Division, was Feng Zicai's old subordinate, so he didn't protest. He didn't know how Feng Zicai did it. He was almost 80 years old and was still very capable. He was still so desperate when fighting, and the troops he led were also as fierce.
The vanguard troops concentrated all the artillery fire while it was dark, and the two Indian divisions stationed in Ranchi suddenly became a group of people. The Indian division also had artillery, but they were all old guys, with a short range and were bulky. Just after a few shots, they were attracted by the 105mm howitzer of the heavy artillery battalion. After a series of bombings, the Indian division's cannon suddenly became mute.
Li Gan commanded his troops to charge and immediately tore a hole in the defense of the Indian army. The powerful firepower of the Chinese army was simply a nightmare for Indian soldiers. In the eyes of Indian soldiers, Chinese soldiers were all fucking devils. One stared with big eyes and roared in his mouth, holding a semi-automatic rifle with powerful firepower. The Indian soldiers could not raise their heads.
The Indian division was originally poor in combat effectiveness. If the British army had been in charge of the formation, it would have been a few more strokes. Now the British army would have retreated to several big cities. The morale of the Indian soldiers was not high, and they were even more depressed. After being broken through the gap by the Chinese army, they could not resist it. Fortunately, the British officer kicked them in the butt, so they did not run away immediately. It was also Li Gan's luck that it was difficult to get a stray bullet, but it fell into the command center of the Indian division, which immediately exploded the entire command center. The colonel in charge of the command should have been seriously injured. The command of the Indian division was completely in chaos.
Although Li Gan had not many troops in his hands, this guy was brave and bullied the Indian army with no firepower. He actually acted on the company and attacked Ranchi from all sides. The Indian soldiers were really not good at it. After losing command, they were in a mess. Li Gan rushed to it. At night, he had no idea how many people had come to the Chinese army. The Chinese army rushing in was even more bold and reckless, killing people all the way and setting fires everywhere, making it seem like there were Chinese troops everywhere. The defense of the Indian army collapsed first, and many soldiers began to sneak away in the dark. With the lead, they learned more. At first, one or two, then a whole squad and a squad were all over, and later they scattered.
There were still a few people who escaped. More Indian soldiers thought that there were Chinese troops everywhere and they were surrounded. They simply dropped their guns, held their heads with their hands, and put their underwear on their heads, shouting loudly in their mouths: "Surrender! Surrender!"
The Chinese soldiers didn't understand at first, but later they understood it. It was better to say that the Indian soldiers were disciplined and had a great time playing. The soldiers from the entire company and battalion lined up and set up their weapons. Everyone held a white flag made of underwear and shook it. This time, Li Gan was exhausted from the vanguard and captured the prisoners all night. Fortunately, the Indian soldiers cooperated enough and squatted there and remained motionless.
When it was dawn, Li Gan was startled, "Oh my god!" There were three or five Chinese soldiers guarding hundreds of Indian soldiers with guns. Li Gan was so scared that he quickly sent the reserve team of the last company in his hand to take care of the prisoners.
Li Gan's vanguard regiment fought for one night. At 8 a.m., a regiment of the follow-up troops followed. Seeing that Li Gan's troops had captured so many prisoners, they were all stunned. Two Indian divisions, the captives alone captured 20,000, and Li Gan's subordinates had only two thousand people. This was also counted as an art troupe. When the soldiers of the follow-up troops watched the girls of the art troupe tremblingly with rifles, they immediately scolded Li Gan. They didn't know how to cherish the beauty, Li Gan said with a bitter face: "Damn you think about me, 20,000 prisoners, where did I come from so many soldiers to guard them."
Frightened and frightened Li Gan even cursed the follow-up troops and said, "What the hell are you doing? You run so slowly, even the snail should have arrived long ago." The commander of the follow-up troops also said with a bitter face: "The Indian train is full of fucking garbage. Not to mention the slow running, the locomotive broke down once along the way. Fortunately, we put the gun on the head, and the train driver has repaired it, otherwise you still have some waiting."
Besides, after Liu Yongfu's first land division landed, Liu Yongfu contacted Feng Zicai by radio. He heard that one of Feng Zicai's regiments had two Indian divisions. He drooled in envy. Is this Indian division still an army? Liu Yongfu asked this. Feng Zicai said: "You go and ask the Indian!"
After contacting Feng Zicai, Liu Yongfu immediately boldly changed his combat plan. He originally planned to cooperate with the attack and advance forward. Now it seems that Feng Zicai's direction does not require his help. One regiment is equal to two Indian divisions. Liu Yongfu calculated with his fingers for a long time and finally concluded that the 30,000 soldiers of the First Land War Division were approximately equal to the 8 Indian divisions.
Liu Yongfu immediately ordered the troops to attack and advance along the railway towards Mumbai. Of course, the military command still needs to be implemented, so send a regiment to chase Feng Zicai's troops, which can be considered as cooperating with each other.
After the navy cooperated with the landing troops to land, it swept along the Indian coastline as planned and rushed to Mumbai with murderous intent. All the cities along the coast were not spared from the care of naval warships. When they saw a city, they came to a volley. The swaggering naval formations are now unemployed on the Indian sea. The British did not even drive out fishing boats. They found all Indian fishing boats. The Chinese army came to liberate India, so it was not difficult for the Indian people. The navy just concentrated the Indian fishermen they caught every day on several boats, and then called the rest of the boats as British naval warships, and sank them with cannons.
Feng Zicai and Liu Yongfu divided their troops to attack. Shi Dakai, the commander-in-chief of the Indian War Zone, also led the three infantry divisions and a cavalry brigade of the second echelon to land in India. Shi Dakai was still on the sea and Shi Dakai kept receiving good news. Liu Yongfu and Feng Zicai celebrated the festival every day. Today is an Indian division and tomorrow is an Indian brigade. In 6 days, Liu Yongfu rushed to the city of Mumbai and formed a sea and land attack on Mumbai with the Navy's special fleet. Feng Zicai also surrounded a British brigade in Kanpur, but Feng Zicai's life is not easy at this time. The British army was not an Indian division, and Feng Zicai was blocked in Kanpur for two days.
Shi Dakai immediately ordered the Cavalry Brigade to quickly reinforce, leaving two regiments to be responsible for logistics, and the other troops were quickly advancing along the railway. What was depressed was that the locomotives were robbed by Feng Zicai and Liu Yongfu, and they could not come back for now, and most of the troops had to advance on foot. However, Shi Dakai's troops also had a way, and they found dozens of hand-cranked repair cars, and a company's troops set out first while they rode the repair cars.
Shi Dakai did not encounter the 200,000 prisoners he had caught along the way. After asking, Liu Yongfu and Feng Zicai both replied: "It's been dealt with." When asked about the seized weapons, their answer was: "It's been dealt with"
How to deal with it? Liu Yongfu and Feng Zicai are worthy of being from the same army. In addition to machine guns, all the seized weapons were concentrated, and fuel was poured into scrap iron with fuel. As for cannons and dumps, they were also concentrated and used mortars to detonate them in the distance. These garbage weapons were kept by their side for fear of trouble and were left to Indian soldiers for fear of their destruction. Anyway, a large amount of scrap iron was needed in the country. Shi Dakai scolded, "A prodigal son, when we occupy India in the future, we still need to use Indians to maintain public order. We can't leave the guns? Is it a waste to fire a good gun for the Indians?
As for the captives, Liu Yongfu and Feng Zicai complained, "It's difficult to support the troops, and they can't afford it!" What should I do if I can't afford it? Of course, all of them were released. Indian soldiers holding weapons were not as good as a group of ducks. Are Indian soldiers without weapons more troublesome than ducks? Well! What makes sense!
Feng Zicai's Kanpur encountered a real blockade. A British mixed brigade led three Indian divisions to organize relatively effective defenses on the front line of Kanpur. Feng Zi had only two days of fighting. Before the encirclement was completed, the British soldiers ran away while the night was shining, forcing the two Indian divisions to launch a counterattack like a duck, but ran away and even bombed the railway. After learning that the two Indian divisions were betrayed by the British, they immediately announced their surrender, and why would they fight? Feng Zicai was so angry that he scolded the British for being despicable and captured the two Indian divisions. At this time, Shi Dakai also came up. After the two armies met, they advanced quickly towards New Delhi.
Liu Yongfu was the happiest. After arriving in Mumbai, a British division was blocked before he had time to retreat. The main reason was that the Indian soldiers were too cooperative. The British thought they could hold on to the Indian defense line for half a month, but they disappeared in less than a week. There was still a large amount of supplies at the Mumbai port and they were blocked by the special fleet. The Chinese army was advancing so fast that neither side expected. The British planned to concentrate troops in New Delhi and then carry out the decisive battle.
The most important thing the Indian governor did these days was to keep scolding Indians for being useless. Of course, Indian women are still good. The governor has to sleep with Indian women every day. After the Chinese army launched an attack, the Indian war situation destroyed 250,000 Indian troops in just 10 days, and surrounded two British infantry divisions and an infantry brigade in Mumbai and New Delhi.
For the British army, the most terrible thing was that their troops were divided and surrounded before they completed the expected assembly. Even the Chinese army did not expect that everything would go so smoothly.
The Indian battlefield was full of good news every day. The staff of the commander were busy and kept marking the position of our army on the map. Yang Yi in Shanghai also received good news. When Yang Yi returned to Beijing, Mumbai had been occupied on the Indian battlefield. Now Liu Yongfu is following the railway to fight towards New Delhi. The British army in New Delhi was surrounded by Feng Zicai and Shi Dakai due to insufficient preparations.
Chapter completed!