"In the early hours of the morning, hundreds of thugs were building a temporary base for the army in Varanasi. The VTOL transport aircraft returned to Varanasi again, carrying away the heavy construction equipment of the engineering troops.

Before the engineering troops arrived, the concave army, on the orders of the front command, strengthened the encirclement of Allarambad.

According to Pei Chengyi's deployment, the engineering troops first rushed to open the railway line from Varanasi to Fatehpur. Because the railway line passed through the Indian army-controlled city of Allahabad, the engineers had to build a temporary railway outside the Indian army's defensive positions to reconnect the severed railway. Because Allahabad is located on the south bank of the Ganges, several road and railway bridges over the Ganges have been blown up, and Fatahpur is west of Allahabad, so the temporary railway can only be bypassed south of Allahabad and needs to be connected to the railway to Manigpur to the south.

Using the method of "tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall", the construction of a temporary railway is not a big problem.

What is more troublesome is that the temporary railway is less than a kilometer away from the Indian army's positions and can be easily damaged. To this end, Pei Chengyi asked the fallen army to build a defensive position on the side of the railway line facing the Indian army, deploy half a brigade of troops on the position, and put the other half of the brigade's strength at both ends of the position. Using the strength of a brigade of thugs to defend a line of defense with a total length of less than the old kilometer can basically ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Seeing the squadron building a railway to Fatehpur, the Indian army immediately panicked.

Although there is no evidence that the Knife Army must rely on the railway line, the squadron opened the railway line at this time, making it clear that it wanted to enhance the continuous combat capability of the Knife Army, not only to annihilate the defenders of Fatehpur, but also to lay the foundation for continuing to advance westward. As long as the railway line is open, the squadron will not need to rush to attack Allahabad, concentrate on advancing westward, and maybe it will take Kanpur in one go.

The Indian army's first reaction was to fight back.

Blocked by the concave army, the defenders of Allahabad, who had lost all their heavy equipment, were unable to cross the "line of life and death" of the kilometer.

In the several counterattacks on the morning of the ugly morning, apart from the dumping of thousands of corpses on the positions of the concave army, the Indian army had nothing else to do

As the terminus of the temporary railway line progressed westward, the reality facing the Indian army became more and more brutal.

Fighting is death, and not fighting and waiting is death.

At this time, almost no one did not admire Pei Chengyi's courage.

Building railways at the front of the Indian army's positions, I am afraid that few commanders can think of such tactics.

The problem is that none of the Indian generals, including Du Qiwei, saw Pei Chengyi's tactical intentions, at least not all of Pei Chengyi's tactical intentions.

Is the temporary railway going to Fatehpur?

While the vast majority of Indian generals hold this view, Duchway holds the exact opposite.

In Du Qiwei's view, Pei Chengyi asked the engineers to go up to build the temporary railway, not to open up the railway line to Fatehpur, but to connect the railway line to Manigpur. The main force of the Knife Army has moved south, and it is challenging the Bhopal Army Group in the north with a pincer offensive. Although the combat effectiveness of the sword army is far greater than that of any Indian army, it has a main force in the face of it. The Bhopal Army Group of the 2nd Line Division, the 77th Army did not have a significant advantage, and was even at a disadvantage because of the division of troops. In the case of not being able to dispatch more ground troops, what Pei Chengyi can do is to provide sufficient combat materials for the Knife Army, so that the formidable artillery brigade of the Knife Army can be fully wielded. Pei Chengyi must open up the railway line as soon as possible, instead of putting the burden of logistics and supply entirely on air transportation. In this way, it is quite possible that the Knife Army will place the artillery brigade in Manigpur. Although the distance from Manigpur to Edawa is more than 1,000 kilometers, the maximum strike distance of the Chinese Army's long-range artillery is 1,000 kilometers. It can be said that Manigpur was the best "artillery position" that the sword army could find. As long as the artillery of the Knife Army is on its footing, it will be difficult for Army Group Bhopal to defeat the Knife Army in a frontal battle.

I have to admit that Du Qiwei's judgment is not inferiorly accurate.

Pei Chengyi's first purpose in asking the engineers to build the temporary railway was to send artillery and supplies to Manigpur.

The problem is that guessing Pei Chengyi's intentions does not mean that a solution has been found.

The closest Indian army to Manigpur was the defenders of Allahabad, followed by the Bhopal Army Group, which had not yet reached Edawa. By the time Duchway made his judgment, Hong's assault forces had taken control of Manigpur and expelled a small number of Indian military and police officers from the area.

In the evening, with the official opening of the railway line to Manigpur, the engineers once again took a vertical take-off and landing transport plane, and the engineering equipment was also transported away that night. Instead of returning to Varanasi, this engineering force headed south to Manigpur, which was controlled by the 4th Army.

After arriving in Manigpur, the main task of the engineering troops was not to build artillery positions, but to build warehouses of supplies.

One of the great advantages of fighting on the Gangetic Plain is that a lot of infrastructure does not need to be built, such as a field airfield for vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft, which does not need to be built, but only needs to find an open space and consolidate the foundation. Artillery positions also do not need to be specially built by engineering troops, most of the work can be done by the artillery themselves. What the engineers had to do was to build a warehouse for supplies and build a passage for wheeled vehicles, and the Ganges Plain was an alluvial plain, and the rainfall was very heavy, and the surface was too soft, making it difficult for wheeled vehicles to move in the field.

At this point, what Pei Chengyi wanted to do, even the generals of the Indian army guessed it.

Construction was carried out in Manigpur, and it was clear that it would provide support to the Knife Army and make every effort to deal with the Bhopal Army. Is there a way to solve it?

Du Qiwei didn't even think of a solution, can the Indian generals be more powerful than Du Nianwei?

The conundrum facing the Indian army was that the Bhopal Army Group would not only have to go north, but also to increase its northward, and it would have to take out the sword army in the battle. If the Bhopal Army Group had stopped moving north, the Knife Army would have turned around and dealt with Fatehpur, cleaned up the Indian army in the north, and then turned back to clean up the Bhopal Army. Don't doubt that the Knife Army has such a strong combat effectiveness, the previous battles are enough to prove that the Knife Army not only has a long-distance running ability that no one can match, but also has a sustained combat ability far superior to that of ordinary field armies. Let the 77th Army let go of its hands and feet, and both Indian armies will be finished. For the Indian army, there is only one chance, that is, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Sword Army, Pei Chengyi has not had time to deploy artillery to Manigpur, concentrate on killing the Sword Army, and then defeat Manigpur, forcing Pei Chengyi to shrink the defensive line, and finally go to deal with the airborne thug brigade entrenched in Fatehpur to complete the counterattack operation.

The question is, how much hope is there for such a fight?

At sunrise and night, the main force of Army Group Bhopal had just reached Edawa, and the vanguard had already split into two routes, rushing to Jhansi and Murwara respectively. Although the Indian army is not slow to act. But the degree of the sword army is faster. In the evening, the Assault Brigade of the Knife Army surrounded Chhansi, and it was expected to occupy Champhi before dawn, while the vanguard of the Indian army could not have reached Champsi before dawn; The 3rd Armoured Assault Brigade had already captured Sedna, just a stone's throw from Murwara, and even if it had spent the night in Sedna, it would have been able to reach Murwara before the Indian vanguard and establish a defensive line in Murwara. Because Manigpur was already under the control of the squadron, the Bhopal Army Group temporarily adjusted the battle arrangement, put the original target of Jhansi to the back, and decided to attack Murwara first.

In other words, the first battle will break out in Murwara.

For the Indian army, the biggest problem is the degree of march.

Before the main forces of the Indian army reached Edawa, the Chinese Air Force began to bomb them.

Although the intensity of the bombing is not very high, mainly because the nearest Chinese air base in Edavao has a combat radius of only 4,000 meters when carrying 2 tons of bombs, and it is impossible to stay over the battlefield for a long time, the requirements for the time spent in the air by the interrupted bombing are not high, and it does not require the focus on striking the armored forces, and the main thing is to delay the action of the ground forces. Under the threat from the air, the Indian army can only choose to march at night, leaving at most two hours before dark, and must stop advancing within two hours after dawn and carry out camouflage and concealment on the spot. As a result, the Bhopal Army Group could only advance thousands of kilometers per day, while the Knife Army was able to move more than a kilometer a day without reducing its combat effectiveness.

If the march cannot catch up with the sword army, it will not be able to grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

If you don't even have the initiative, why should you destroy the sword army?

It's just that the Indian army has no choice and must annihilate the sword army as soon as possible.

To this end, the Indian army put forward the tactic of concentrating forces and annihilating each one.

It has to be said that this is the best tactic that the Indian army can find in the current situation, and it also grasps the point.

The three combat brigades of the Knife Army acted separately, the Tiche Armored Assault Brigade, which was considered by the Indian Army to be the most combat-ready in combat, did not go south, but went to Fatehpur to support the Airborne Sullen Brigade, the Armored Assault Brigade, which ranked second in combat effectiveness, was entangled with the Indian army in Zhanxi, and the Murwara was the Digong Armored Assault Brigade with the worst combat effectiveness. Eating persimmons and picking soft ones, the Indian army decided to attack Murwara first, in addition to wanting to take Manigpur as soon as possible, and also had a great laugh with the first armored assault brigade. If the 7th Armored Assault Brigade can be eliminated in a single battle, it will not only convince the officers and men of Army Group Bhopal that victory is in sight, but also boost the morale of the entire Indian resistance fighters. You must know that until now, the Indian army has not been able to annihilate the squadron above the company level on the battlefield!

Is it really what the Indian army hoped?

If the number can indicate the combat effectiveness, then the concave army is not the number one ace army of the Republic Army, and the airborne fighter Shao Brigade is not the number one combat brigade of the old army. In the sword army, 3 catties, the combat effectiveness of the combat brigade is comparable, and judging from the past results, the performance of the Digong armored assault brigade is still above the other 2 brigades. In the Peninsula War, it was the No. 1 Armored Assault Brigade that made a strategic detour to the U.S. Marine Corps and forced the U.S. Army to surrender en masse; The capture of Cheongju and the assistance of the Au Army in the capture of Seoul were also the 3rd Armored Assault Brigade of the First Sword, which was called the Quick Reaction Brigade at that time.

It is definitely not an easy task to take out the 1st Gong Armored Assault Brigade.

What's more, whether it is Du Qiwei or the Indian generals, they only see what is on the surface.

It can be said that Pei Chengyi asked the engineers to build the railway, which had the effect of killing four birds with one stone.

First of all, the Bhopal Army Group had no way to retreat, and could only fight a decisive battle with the Sword Army. Secondly, the Fatahpur Army Group must move south as soon as possible to support the Bhopal Army Group; Although this effect has not yet been felt, as long as the Bhopal Army suffers, the Fatehpur Army Group will definitely abandon the siege of the airborne Sullen Brigade and move south under the resistance of the Tice Armored Assault Brigade; This move not only relieved the threat of the old airborne 3rd Brigade, but also laid the foundation for the annihilation of the two group armies of the Indian army. Then Allahabad's garrison had to strike back with all its might, cutting off the railroad line to the south of its position, rather than holding on to reinforcements, so that the fallen army could wipe out Allahahabad's Indian army in an easy positional defensive battle. Makes it easier to attack the soldiers. Finally, a large number of effective forces of the Indian army were eliminated, so that the two strategic defense lines of the Indian army were full of loopholes, providing Pei Chengyi with more strategic options; To achieve this catty, the goal must be annihilated by the 3 Indian troops.

When later generations evaluated Pei Chengyi's command characteristics, no one could not help but turn this operation into a classic.

Exactly, "the Battle of the Junction." The battlefield is located between the northern and southern lines of the Indian army, which is written in military textbooks, "Tactics of building railways." It has become the research pair of many military scientists

Is it seduction, or persecution?

No one can say for sure, and no one can say for sure. Judging from the situation at the time, Pei Chengyi's move not only had the purpose of seducing, but also played a role in persecution.

Of course, the key to whether the entire campaign can be successfully completed depends on the action, not on the calculation.

On the night of sunrise, the advance force of the Air Assault Brigade arrived in Manigpur.

Transportation and supply operations were carried out at the same time, with vertical take-off and landing transport planes transporting personnel and equipment weighing less than stew, equipment above stewed mass transported by rail, and combat materials transported by rail and airdrop. According to Pei Chengyi's order, this night, not only the No. Gong Artillery Brigade remaining in Banda must reach Manigpur, but also the No. 1 Fighter and No. Concave Artillery Brigade of the Cave Army and the No. 1 Station Artillery Brigade of the Detachment must also arrive at Manigpur, and the low-altitude strike force of the Old Air Assault Brigade will arrive at Manigpur after dawn, and the temporary take-off and landing site of the main fighters will not be able to be leveled at night as planned. Pei Chengyi did not rush to send the first and first effective artillery brigades of the Wu army, mainly because the Wu army is still stationed in Nepal, and the heavy equipment can be airlifted to Patna, and then transported by rail, the whole process takes 2 days. What's more, Manigpur's accommodating capacity is limited, and after the 4 artillery brigades are stuffed, there is no place to accommodate the 2 catty artillery brigades of the driving army. We can only wait until the engineering troops have completed the work in Manigpur and then select a more suitable deployment site for the army's two artillery brigades.

With so many troops deployed in one night, the transport aircraft units of the Air Force and Army Aviation are tired enough

At dawn, the transport work continued.

After the deployment of the main artillery, the main transport was combat materials.

From a logistical point of view, this is almost an impossible task.

The actual strength of the four artillery brigades of the three armies is equivalent to that of one artillery brigade, and the establishment of the 7th artillery brigade is too "barbaric". If all the cannons are fired at maximum intensity, they can throw 80,000 tons of shells in the time of a hit! Even according to the normal combat level, even if each gun fires 4 shells per minute, and stops for 6 minutes to cool down the track for 4 minutes, the ammunition consumption at the time is about 4 tons. A large-scale armored battle lasts about the time of the heart, and if the battle does not go well, it may last for hours, and the artillery undertakes half of the support task, and it is necessary to prepare 40,000 to 80,000 tons of shells in advance. A train with a wagon can transport four tons of ammunition at a time, and it takes a train to deliver 80,000 tons of shells.

From Varanasi to Manigpur, there are up to four small trains per day. There is no doubt that railway transport cannot meet the needs of front-line operations, and we can only continue to use air transport forces.

The actual situation is that in order to prevent any accidents, Yuan Chenhao asked the logistics troops to transport at least 10,000 tons of ammunition to Manigpur before the start of the campaign, and make preparations for the emergency delivery of 10,000 tons of ammunition. That is to say, if the battle breaks out at noon on the 10,000th day, even if all transport forces are mobilized, they will only be able to transport the old 10,000 tons of artillery shells to the front line, and it is impossible for the train carrying ammunition to return to Varanasi at this time.

As a last resort, the logistics force could only be equipped with strength, including five stew-class trucks.

Nearly half of these trucks, which were originally used to carry humanitarian relief supplies for war refugees in Patna, are not part of the Republican Army and are the "property" of the Bangladesh Army. "In the case of forced requisition, the Bangladesh Army not only did not complain, but sent truck drivers to actively cooperate. This made Pei Chengyi very pleased, and when he was writing the battle report, he was also particularly strong in the support and help provided by the Bangladesh Army.

The squadron made every effort to deliver war materials to Manigpur, which immediately attracted the attention of the Indian army.

There is no doubt that the battle of the General Assembly is about to begin.

After weighing the pros and cons, Gujarad had Army Group Bhopal stop at Damo, about a kilometre west of Murwara, and then ordered Army Group Fatahpur to turn south and attack Banda.

It can be said that this is Gujarade's "constant wave."

Although the reaction was a little slower, after the Fatahpur Army Group moved south, it was not Gujarad who needed a headache, but Pei Chengyi. In other words, if the Assault Brigade A is unable to stop Army Group Fatahpur and allows the Indian Army to take control of Banda, the Assault Brigade A and the Lenai Armored Assault Brigade will have to fight on their own. Gujarad asked Fatehpur Army Group to attack Banda in order to divide the 77th Army. Next, the 1st Gong Armored Assault Brigade had to use thugs to form a main army group.

Is there still a need to fight such a battle?

Of course it is necessary, and it is necessary!