Zhu Guowei's position was still at the forefront and he did not follow his father's orders to return to Ava to take up the town. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo＝＝＝

On 1 March, he received an order from the Southwestern Front to break the enemy in front of him. Oh, this order was not given to him, but to Wu Changqing, the commander of the 18th Mountain Army, who had just led a detachment of 20,000 men all the way from Ruibao. After the two sides combined, there were already 40,000 troops, but the Indian army north of the Guling Temple was also reinforced, and the total strength was no less than 40,000 men.

And Liu Yongfu, the commander-in-chief of the Dali Army who was dumped by Zhu Guowei in the royal city of Ava, did not arrive at the Guling Temple, he had already been stumped by the chaos in various parts of Upper and Lower Burma. The rebel army of the Annam people also wore the gray uniforms of the Ming army and wreaked havoc everywhere.

These Annan people are completely desperate people who have lost their country, and in their hometown, the northern and southern Jiaozhou provinces of the Ming Dynasty, there are almost no people who think they are Annanites anymore. The small Duke's Dominion of Annam also became the territory directly under the Ming Emperor after the death of Pan Qingjian, the Duke of Annam, in 1874 - this was Pan Qingjian's last wish, because after more than ten years of extreme poverty, the people of Annamite in the Dominion continued to leave, and by 1874 the remaining population was less than 150,000. The nation of Annan is on the verge of extinction.

Without a nation, there is no hope of restoration, and the army of the Annam exiles who are dependent on Britain and Burma has now become a mercenary army of the British. is just working hard for money, wishing that he could have a chance to plunder and make a fortune to become a rich man in India.

So Will. Haiming's order to have them disguised as Ming soldiers to burn, kill and loot was well executed. At first, these people were still in Upper Burma, but with the oppression of the Dali army and the Ming army, most of them rushed into Lower Burma. While killing and plundering, they retreated to Arakan, which was still under British control. And the British did not do less destruction when they evacuated from Lower Burma. After these two burns. The social order in Upper and Lower Myanmar has been shattered. Thieves run rampant. The fields were barren, and the slightly more stable large and medium-sized cities were crowded with refugees, causing great trouble for the Dali Kingdom, which had taken over the territory. As a last resort, Liu Yongfu could only sit in Ava and dispatch troops to crusade everywhere, hoping to restore order as soon as possible. As for agricultural production in Upper and Lower Burma...... But it's not something Liu Yongfu can think of, the people on the Miaoxiang Plateau have been suffering for hundreds of years, and they are all looking at these rich plains! The provisional cabinet of the Dali Kingdom composed of Miaoxiang people. Now they are planning to redistribute the arable land across the country, and some of this mess is so troublesome!

The chaos in Dali has no end for a while, which means that it is difficult for the Dali army and the Ming army to get much supplies from Dali in the short term, and the war with the British and Indian armies must end as soon as possible.

Therefore, after Zhu Guowei and Wu Changqing joined forces, they did not delay for a moment, and immediately launched an attack on the British and Indian troops on the bank of the Misha River in the north of Gulingmiao City.

The shells exploded into hot fireballs on the Anglo-Indian lines. The positions of the Indian A-3 were very sloppily built, the trenches were dug shallowly, and they were not reinforced with wooden piles. There is no barbed wire in front of the trench, maybe there is no such thing, right? There was only a shallow trench in front of the trench. If such a fortification is seen by King Juan of North America, he will definitely laugh off his big teeth. However, Zhu Guowei did not have the same powerful firepower as Juan, not because he did not have artillery, but because there was no logistics line supported by the railway network behind him, and every shell had to be carried by horse-drawn people for thousands of miles to be delivered, which was really unaffordable. If it weren't for the capture of several thousand rounds of 75mm shells of the Burmese army at the Guling Temple, such artillery preparations would not have been able to be fired now. At the same time as the artillery bombardment, a battalion of the Ming army and a battalion of the Dali army had formed an offensive skirmish line in the open land 2,000 meters in front of the British and Indian positions.

"The Chinese's offensive formation is very good, stronger than the British army!"

Will. Hemming seemed to be talking to himself. He arrived at the fortress of Imphal after the battle in Burma was in full swing, and now he was on the front line with Gordon's troops. It is not to command, but to see with your own eyes the attack power of the squadron - it is really a pity to say, if Emperor Zhu adopted Zhu Guowei's suggestion this time and raided Imphal with 20,000 elites, the commander-in-chief of the British Indian Army may not be able to return to Calcutta alive.

Charlie. Gordon glanced at his immediate superior, and Hemming's words seemed to mock the British Empire's Army.

The two men were parked side by side on a hill behind the Anglo-Indian lines, overlooking the entire battlefield. The artillery bombardment of the Chinese army had stopped, and more than 1,000 Chinese soldiers shouted and launched a charge, most of them using rifles with bayonets, while others were holding the latest air-cooled machine guns, and after walking a few steps, they stopped and fired for a while, causing clusters of green smoke to rise from the positions held by the Indians.

The Indian artillery also opened fire, stirring up a cloud of dust on the open flat ground, and the shells exploded violently, making large and small gaps in the wavy formation of the Chinese army. However, the stragglers of the Chinese army remained intact and quickly pressed towards the Indian army.

The Indian army's machine guns also began to shoot, spewing out tongues of fire that swept across the line of the Chinese army's skirmishers, and the Chinese troops rushing in front cut down like wheat, while the Chinese troops behind did not rush hard but each found the terrain to crawl down, while slowly squirming forward, while using accurate shooting and mortars to point out the machine gun fire of the Indians. The sniper's rifle is better to say, at most the machine gunner will be killed, and at the urging of the white officer, a new machine gunner will soon be replaced. But mortars can destroy entire machine-gun fire points with guns! In less than an hour, when the first wave of the Chinese army's charge ended, two-thirds of the machine guns on the first trench of the Indian army had been blown to pieces!

Will watching the game from the rear. Heming smacked his lips, "No wonder the United States can't stop the offensive of the Chinese army, these people are really difficult to deal with!" ”

"Your Excellency, are we going to let them into India?" Gordon asked, hesitantly.

"Why don't you put it? Can you really hold Imphal? Oh, by the way, Su Yanfa, the princely prince of Assam, has just given a 17-year-old daughter to Zhu Jishi...... I've heard it's beautiful! ”

Gordon pouted, the Assam princely state is the least tamed princely state in the whole of India, because the Assamese people are not the indigenous people of India who were conquered by the Aryans 4,000 years ago, they are yellow people who migrated from China. And they didn't really embrace Hinduism either, and caste meant nothing in Assam, because the Assamese people all considered themselves to be a high-caste caste, and no one wanted to be a low-caste pariah...... In Assam, the servility of the common people has not yet reached the point of penetrating into the bone marrow, so they have been rebelling against the rule of the Anglo-Indian authorities. This is also Will. The main reason for Hemming's decision to abandon Imphal.

"Since the prince of Assam has sent his daughter to the Chinese court, indicating that they have completely surrendered to the past, I am afraid that the Chinese can easily control Assam, right?" Gordon reminded again. "Once Assam is completely in Chinese hands, within two years, agriculture on this land will be able to support hundreds of thousands of troops."

"The Chinese will not wait for two years, and they will organize a large army to attack India this year." Will. Hemming was sure, "Because once India falls into the hands of China, the British Empire will be finished...... Without India's support, the Strait of Malacca would not be held at all, and Australia's communication with the mainland would be completely cut off, and then the continent would be lost. When the time comes, Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, allies of the British Empire, will also defect, and Mathilde will be happy to bring about this situation. So that the Chinese will win world hegemony, Charlie, you say they can resist such a temptation? ”

"But how sure are we that we can defeat the invading Chinese army in Bangladesh?"

"Sixty percent." Will. Hemming smiled and looked at Gordon, "Maybe it's not a little bit." But that's the best chance we can go for! He paused, "Okay, I'll go back to Bangladesh first, you can almost withdraw here, your people can't beat them." Remember, leave some food for the Chinese when retreating, they will not attack Assam if they are not full! (To be continued.) )