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"Imphal has taken it!" A joyful exclamation suddenly loosened the atmosphere of the Southwest Front Command in Hong Kong. After approving the plan to raid Imphal, Zhu Guoxiong, the crown prince of Pen, Fun, and Pavilion, has been restlessly waiting for news www.biquge.info of victory. After staying up for several nights, his face was already full of tiredness. The temperament of the whole person was a little more murderous, and seeing the staff officers cheering there, he also sighed, and said to himself: "Three days and three nights of running and sneaking, and taking down the British Imphal Fortress, it seems that this Wei brother is not much worse than Juan...... Send a telegram to the 18th Mountain Army and ask them if they have completely cleared the British troops around the Imphal fortress and completely controlled the entire Manipur area? How many British troops were annihilated in this battle? How much material was seized? What is the replenishment situation? Also, where did the army of the King of Siam go? Where did Zheng Yongyi's soldiers go? When will you be able to take down the whole of Arakan? Now is not the time to be complacent! The last few words were said by the crown prince to the staff officers with a straight face.

The elated staff officers suddenly fell silent, and looked at the crown prince of their age, an expert in law, with some awe and some confusion. Zhu Guoxiong snorted: "The decisive battle is still to come!" What are you proud of now? Go to the Yingtian Hot Spring Palace, and at the same time report to the General Staff. The 18th Mountain Army of our Southwestern Front Army and the 1st Army of Dali Army sneaked through the attack on the front line of Imphal and succeeded, and the war is still ongoing. Details will follow. The door to India has been opened! ”

The staff officers in the room all looked at each other, and no one squeaked, and the atmosphere seemed a little weird. After a while. Only then did I hear General Shi Zhenji, chief of staff of the Southwest Front Army, speak: "Your Highness, what do you mean...... Are we going to advance into India? This India refers to...... Bengali? ”

Crown Prince Zhu Guoxiong nodded affirmatively, "That's right! It's Bangladesh! The emperor has already made peace with the Maratha Revival Alliance of India, the Confederation Congress of India, and the princes of the True God and Sikh Religion in India. Once I march into India. They will revolt! When this is done, India will be divided into a union state and more than a dozen independent states under the protection of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Guoxiong walked to the front of the map, staring at the Bengal region of India with heavy eyes, and suddenly found the feeling of many famous generals, "If you concentrate more than 300,000 troops, with the cooperation of the Indian uprising, you should be able to defeat the whole of Bangladesh, right?" ”

"Your Highness. The time to attack Bengal is ......," Shi Zhenji asked again, frowning.

"It's too late at the end of this month, how about the beginning of next month?"

"April! No, I can't. The logistics are simply too late! Shi Zhenji stared at the crown prince of Daming with red eyes. Some food could be raised around Imphal, but weapons and ammunition had to be transported from Siam's province of Lai Hing, which was 1,620 kilometres away from Lai Hing, which was connected to Bangkok by rail and was the logistics center for the Burma-India war. Moreover, the territory along the route has not been fully controlled, the roads have not been repaired, and military stations have not been set up...... It will take at least six months to establish an unimpeded logistical supply line, and another six months to stock up on ammunition and food, and the best time to attack Bangladesh will be March or April next year. ”

"March or April next year?" Zhu Guoxiong frowned and muttered in a low voice, "It's been too long...... Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed! ”

Shi Zhenji rolled his eyelids and thought, 'Everything is ready? What's in store? Grain? Ammunition? Road? Logistics and transportation lines? Don't have anything! ’

"So be it. Now it's time to form the Indian Front. Zhu Guoxiong was silent for a while, and his lawyer's intuition played a slight role - he should do things according to the rules. The Southwestern Front Army should also be upgraded to the Southern Army, which would be responsible for the strategy of the entire southern battlefield. Therefore, the final decision on the Indian strategy rests with the Indian Front. The responsibility of the Southern Army is only to guide and ...... military administration Go to Imphal. Zhenji, who do you think you should recommend to be the commander of the Indian Front? ”

Donghui Kingdom, Yingfu City. Early morning of March 23.

The gunfire is still ringing out sporadically, and there is always no time to stop. Imphal City, oh, is the Imphal Fortress and is now the same as the previous Guling Temple. became Zhu Guowei's trophy. This time, the British and Indian troops seemed to have turned into Qing troops, and they fled in despair. When the more than 30,000 people commanded by Zhu Guowei had just reached the halfway point, Su Yanfa's people got an urgent report that the British and Indian troops had begun to evacuate Imphal, so Zhu Guowei immediately gave up the outflanking plan, ordered the troops to be lightly armed and lightly armed, and rushed straight to Imphal day and night, and finally rushed to the British and Indian troops behind the palace before they completely burned the city of Imphal and the materials in the city, and after scaring away the British and Indian troops behind the palace, they actually had the strength to extinguish the fire that had just been lit, and snatched half of the Imphal city and about 200,000 stone of military rations.

The Chinese army marched, fought, and fought fires for days, and I don't know how many days I hadn't had a good rest, but under the stimulation of the successive battles, everyone was full of energy. The Chinese army of the brigade has begun to assemble, preparing to pursue the fleeing enemy and clear the remnants of the British and Indian troops around the city of Yingfu. Although the British and Indian troops retreated in a planned way, they also caught Zhu Guowei, who acted quickly, by surprise, and part of the army was scattered, and the rebel army looted many villages and towns around the British mansion, and the gunfire outside the British mansion continued for a whole day. There is no doubt that Zhu Guowei is indeed a very good soldier, more than enough to serve as a battalion commander or regiment commander, but as the commander of the army......

The main force of the 18th Mountain Army led by Wu Changqing also arrived in Yingfu City later, and now the commander of Wu Dajun and King Zhu Da are both red-eyed, sitting on top of a pile of ammunition boxes, listening to the staff report on the results of the battle.

"Your Excellency, Commander. In the battles around Imphal, our army killed, wounded, and captured a total of 11,450 British and Indian officers and men, and captured 215 cannons, more than 50,000 rifles, countless shells, bullets, and gunpowder, and more than 200,000 stone of food! ”

Zhu Guowei nodded with satisfaction, although the captured cannons were all outdated front-loading smoothbore guns, and the rifles were also various old-fashioned models, it is estimated that the more than 10,000 people annihilated would have to be divided by two and then discounted in half to be credible. But it was already a miracle to take down Imphal, a fortress that had caused headaches for the Ming army for many years, before paying a mountain of corpses and a sea of casualties.

Wu Changqing waved his hand to let the staff officer retreat, "Your Majesty, the Front Army Headquarters has sent a telegram to the 18th Mountain Army, asking about the feasibility of attacking Bengal. ”

Zhu Guowei blinked tiredly, and counted with his fingers, "Attack Bangladesh?" I'm afraid it's too late this month, but it should be ready next month...... The 50,000 men of the 18th Mountain Army will be able to reach Yingfu at the end of the month, right? My Dali army will be able to expand to 100,000 by the beginning of next month, and Liu Yongfu will be able to send another 20,000 people at the beginning of next month. Zheng Yongyi has 15,000 Tibetan militia in his hands, the king of Bhutan can send another 5,000 militia, and Su Yanfa can mobilize at least 50,000 militiamen, so he will arm them with the weapons we have captured. In addition, the Su family and other Donghui nobles were able to raise more than 100,000 stone of grain. In this way, we will have 170,000 troops and 2,780,000 stone of military rations along the way. Ammunition is also adequate. The King of Siam had already dispatched 100,000 men, and the 17th Mountain Army of the 7th Army had also arrived in Lower Burma, so that the King of Siam had 150,000 men all the way...... With a total of 320,000 troops, it should be able to take down Bengal, right? How many people are there in the entire Indian army? Less than 700,000, right? ”

"Too risky, isn't it? The logistics line has not yet been established! ”

"Isn't it all without logistics all the way? Now the princely princes of India are on our side, so there is no need to worry about food, the problem is only ammunition...... I have already made statistics, and there are still 10 bases of ammunition in each department of the Dali Army, which should be able to fight a battle. After all, this is not North America, and the Indian army is not the American army. Otherwise, we won't be able to get to the British Mansion at all. ”

Wu Changqing is not Zhu Juan and Shi Dakai, and after listening to Zhu Guowei's analysis, he actually feels reasonable. Ammunition with 10 bases can theoretically fight for 10 days, what army in India can make 320,000 Chinese troops fight for 10 days?

Thinking of this, he lowered his head heavily, "Okay, just report it to the front army headquarters!" (To be continued) R655

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