915 Anti-encirclement and Suppression and Long March 22 Chiang Kai-shek is coming!

"Call the General Front Committee, my heroic 1st Army of the GC International South Asian Army has captured Cheddari City, and I am now on the ruins of the former Indian Army General Headquarters in Cheddari City! The Indian army has retreated to the west, and our army is intensifying its pursuit. It seems that the victory in the battle of Jamshedpur-Danbad already belongs to our GC International South Asian Army! ”，

In the early morning of August 23, 1939, Xiang Ying, the political commissar of the South Asian Army of GC International, finally came to this small city that was almost flattened by artillery fire. Standing on top of a pile of rubble, looking up at the battlefield around you, in addition to the ruins covered by artillery fire, there are layers of corpses, including earthy yellow Indian puppet soldiers, as well as GC International South Asian troops wearing blue-gray military uniforms, among which there are many light-skinned internationalist fighters...... The preliminary casualty report has been sent to Comrade Xiang Ying, and the 1st Army of the GC International South Asian Army and the GC International Armored Division, which were only the main attackers, lost more than 23,000 people in six days and nights of bloody fighting! Among them, Chinese account for as much as 40%! If you include the losses of the 2nd and 3rd armies, which were responsible for the diversionary offensive mission, and the 4th Army, which was previously broken through by the Indian armored forces, in just six days, at least 58,000 GC soldiers are buried on this ancient Indian land! In addition, nearly 13,000 people are seriously injured or missing. Among them, the revolutionaries from China lost more than 30,000 people!

After paying such heavy casualties, if it were replaced by the army of any capitalist country in the world, most of them would have lost their combat capability, but this revolutionary army, which was directly led by the GC International Oriental Bureau, was still full of morale! The sound of artillery was still rumbling in the distance, and several planes marked with red stars circled in the sky. The officers and soldiers of the GC International South Asia Brigade passed around Xiang Ying with red military flags, ready to rush to the battlefield west of the Hooghly River.

At the same time as the decisive battle on the Jamshedpur-Danbad front, the offensive and defensive battles on the Hooghly River line had already been decided. However, it was the Indian army, which had an absolute superiority in numbers and firepower, that won. More than 300,000 Indian troops, under the personal supervision of Gandhi and under the indiscriminate command of two half-hung army commanders, desperately stormed for nearly four days, and after paying more than 50,000 casualties, they finally broke through the defensive line held by more than 70,000 GC International South Asian officers and soldiers.

"President. General Slim's telegram. Gan Metro, who was still supervising the war in Calcutta, took the telegram from Singh with a blushing face. He glanced at it, his face became even more gloomy, and then he suddenly tore the telegram in his hand to shreds, and said angrily: "This Slim is such a fool! It's stupid! How could I have appointed this British fool to be Chief of the General Staff of the Indian Army in the first place! ”

"Your Excellency, please, please calm your anger...... In fact, we have also achieved certain results in this battle! More than 80,000 ...... were killed and wounded," Admiral Singh said.

"But can we still hold on to Calcutta?" Gandhi glanced at Singh, gritted his teeth, and said, "I promised the people of India to keep this city!" My assurance is now the laughing stock of the whole world, and it's all Slim's fault! Can't he hold out for a few more hours in Jamshedpur-Dhambad? It only takes a few hours! ”

Singh just shook his head and smiled bitterly, as a great military layman, he also felt that Lieutenant General Slim's skills in fighting were a bit trendy. It used more than 1.2 million troops, and in the end it couldn't beat the 500,000 people of GCD! It seems that the decline of the British Empire is also because of these generals who can't fight. The Republic of India can no longer count on the "British thigh" in the future. Thinking of this, he quietly moved a few steps to Gandhi's side and said in a low voice: "Mr. President, now it seems that the British can no longer help India, and Lieutenant General Slim does not have much military talent, we need better military advisers." ”

"Better advisor?" Gandhi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Germans? Or the Chinese? ”

Singh twisted his eyebrows and thought for a while, then replied, "It's better to use Chinese to be safe...... At present, there are some rifts between China and Germany, and relations are clearly estranged.

If we use German advisers, the Chinese are likely to misunderstand that we want to defect to Germany. He said in a more aggravated tone. Although Germany is strong, China is very close to us, and the Indian Ocean is under the control of the Chinese navy. ”

Gandhi let out a long sigh, a look of helplessness slipping across his face, and walked around the room with his hands behind his back. "You don't know the minds of the Chinese, do you? They want us India to be divided! How can you really help us to suppress the CCP? These GCDs are not what they got on Indian soil! ”

Singh sighed lightly and said with a bitter smile: "Mr. President, of course the Chinese know their sinister intentions, but the current situation is clear. The American-German war was imminent, and both countries had no time to take care of India for a short time. And Britain and France have weakened, and Japan ...... I can't cross the Strait of Malacca. Now we have to rely on China. Saying that, he smiled confidently: "In fact, Chinese also have differences on the issue of GCD. For example, their chief of general staff, Luo Yaoguo, has always been relatively pro-G, and the Sino-G expedition to India was carried out with his support. And Chiang Kai-shek, another giant of the Chinese Kuomintang, has always been anti-G, and we can ask him to come to India as a general military adviser. ”

Gandhi nodded silently. Chiang Kai-shek had a slight friendship with him, and they exchanged letters for a long time in order to plan a military campaign to encircle and suppress Stalin's Red Army. Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek unabashedly revealed his disgust with GCD in his letters!

"By the way, is Chiang Kai-shek still the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force?"

"Not anymore." Singh smiled and replied: "The number of the Chinese Expeditionary Force has been revoked, and among the three armies under it, the 17th Army has been transferred to Kuwait Free City and the Gulf Free Zone, the 18th Army has been stationed in Saudi Arabia, and the 25th Army has been stationed on the island of Ceylon. Chiang Kai-shek's new post was Minister of Colonial Affairs of the Chinese Nationalist Government, although he was apparently very unhappy with this arrangement and remains in Tehran to recuperate. ”

"Oh, why? Is it a suspicion of being a small official? ”

Singh replied: "I don't know the specific circumstances, but I am sure that Chiang Kai-shek still has considerable influence in the squadron, especially in the Chinese garrisons around India, there are many cronies." If we can bring him in to help us, it will definitely help the BJP in its great cause. ”

Gandhi finally made up his mind, and he said to Singh: "Then please go to New Delhi and make contact with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in the name of the Indian Minister of War and ask him if he has any wishes." By the way, what do you suggest here in Kolkata? Can you not give up? ”

"Calcutta......" Admiral Singh glanced at Gandhi out of the corner of his eye, and said tentatively: "Calcutta can hold on!" We also have four Central Infantry Corps and two Local Infantry Corps near Calcutta, a total of 250,000 troops. You can leave 150,000 men to defend the city, and another 50,000 to guard Dhaka, and 50,000 to guard Imphal. This should ensure that East and West Bengal and Assam do not fall completely. ”

"Good! That's it. Gandhi sighed softly and added: "Appoint General Mountbatten as the commander of the defense of Imphal, and promote Major General Rao to lieutenant general and commander of the defense of Calcutta, and Dhaka will let ...... The commander of the armored unit, Major General Mittal, who was defeated by the infantry, went to the defense. ”

After haphazardly arranging the defenses of East and West Bengal and Assam. Mahatma Gandhi, who had vowed to live and die with Kolkata, took a plane back to his capital, New Delhi, after brazenly announcing the "victory in the Battle of Kolkata."

And this Kolkata, as well as Dhaka, the capital of East Bengal, were soon besieged by the GC International South Runners, who also claimed victory in the Battle of Jamshedpur-Dhanbad! Apart from these two isolated cities, the whole of East and West Bengal is also occupied by GCD. In addition, the state of Karkhand, half of Bihar south of the Ganges, and the northwestern state of Assam are also controlled by GCD. However, the GCD base in southern Odisha and western Chhattisgarh was seized by the Indian reactionary army.

At this point, the "First Battle of Kolkata", which lasted for more than a month, finally came to an end, although the Indian authorities in New Delhi and the GC International South Asian Army all claimed victory after the war, but everyone can see that India's war is far from over!

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A.D. 1939

Wuhan, the capital of the Republic of China, at the end of August. Few people in this big city, which has become the center of the Eastern world, seem to care about the ongoing war in India. Except for the "Red Star Daily", which has just been approved for publication in Wuhan, which has a long introduction to the outstanding exploits of the GC International South Asian Runners-up and the various preferential conditions for immigrating to West Bengal, India, no newspaper will publish news related to India.

During this period, China's press and public opinion were concerned about a series of shocking massacres that occurred in the "Dominion of British Eastern Australia"! The perpetrators of the massacre were the troops of the Imperial Japan, a friendly neighbor of the Republic of China. Presumably, the Japanese wanted to purge all white Australians from Eastern Australia and turn it into a "new paradise" for "10,000,000" Japanese nationals, so they slaughtered more than 300,000 white Australians after capturing major cities such as Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra, in order to create an atmosphere of terror and force the seven or eight million white residents there to flee to Western Australia...... Of course, the Japanese side resolutely denied the massacre.

However, some "Chinese immigrants" who came to Australia to make a living in the early years took quite a lot of photos reflecting the massacre of the Japanese army, and sent them back to China through special channels and published them in China's newspapers and periodicals. As a result, the "anti-Japanese protests" of the Chinese with a sense of justice were triggered. There are even many Kuomintang legislators who have proposed the use of force to stop the humanitarian disaster that is taking place in eastern Australia in the legislative and supervisory chambers! Well, in fact, similar incidents seem to happen from time to time in the Chinese territories of Southeast Asia and Central Asia, but no one in China has ever stood up to say a word for the oppressed people there, and no one cares about the apartheid that is happening there......

Captain Chiang Wei-kuo, who is half Japanese, returned to China in this somewhat incredible "anti-Japanese wave". As soon as he got off the plane, before he had time to report back to the armored corps headquarters, he was taken to the general staff by a major general of the armored corps who was waiting at the airfield. Now he was sitting anxiously in a luxuriously decorated meeting room in the General Staff Headquarters, waiting for Luo Yaoguo, chief of the General Staff, to receive him. Of course, his uneasiness was not due to the fact that he was half of Japanese ancestry, but that China was now pursuing a narrow Han nationalism on the national question -- as long as there was even a little Han blood, it was divided into Han Chinese. A Chinese-Japanese mixed-race like Jiang Weiguo, who has a Chinese father, will never be considered a "Yamato nation"!

What really upset Chiang Weiguo was his adoptive father, Chiang Kai-shek, who refused to be the Minister of Colonial Affairs of the Nationalist Government! The reason why Chiang Kai-shek wanted to reject this "fat shortage" was that this post was 100 percent civilian, and the Military Council was justifiably abolished after the country entered the "constitutional period." Therefore, once Chiang Kai-shek was transferred from the "Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force" to the "Minister of Colonial Affairs", it meant that he would lose his military position, and according to the regulations on the management of active military personnel of the Chinese National Defense Forces, he would be transferred to the reserve and bid farewell to the military circles completely! For Chiang Kai-shek, a big army leader who has worn military uniforms for most of his life and whose protégés are all in the army, once he leaves the army and becomes a civilian official, I am afraid that there will be no day for him to make a comeback.

But the question is, if the old man refuses to be the minister of civil service, will Luo Yaoguo arrange a corresponding military position for him to do? Jiang Weiguo smiled bitterly and shook his head, in fact, Luo Yaoguo, who led the National Defense Force to win the world war and made China the hegemon of the East, could not shake his prestige in the National Defense Force for a long time. The old man's refusal to return to China is probably not only a fantasy of a comeback, but also a concern for personal safety, right?

At this moment, there was a soft sound of footsteps outside the door. Jiang Weiguo hurriedly stood up and found that it was Major General Luo Youlun, deputy chief of staff of the Armored Corps Command who brought him here, who had brought him here. This Major General Luo Yaoguo's little fellow countryman, a native of Meixian County, Guangdong, is said to have a little kinship. He is also a high-achieving student in the seventh phase of Whampoa, the third phase of the armored corps and the eighth phase of Lu University. He also performed well in the recent campaign in Western Europe, and as soon as he returned home, he was promoted to deputy chief of staff of the armored corps, and it seems that the future is definitely bright. So the mood is also extraordinarily good, and everyone is very pleasing to the eye, and Jiang Weiguo, who was a little uneasy, also smiled at him, and said, "Weiguo, what are you doing so nervous?" It's not the first time you've met the assistant marshal, and if I'm not mistaken, the two of you are still neighbors, right? As he spoke, he patted Jiang Weiguo on the shoulder again. The assistant marshal is waiting for you in his own office, in fact, there is nothing serious, I just want to know about the war situation in India, and there may be the matter of Jie Gong wanting to be the general military adviser of the Indian army......"

"What!?" Jiang Weiguo was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Luo Youlun with blinked eyes, "Sigong, who did you hear that my father was going to serve as the military adviser of the Indian army?" ”

Luo Youlun was also stunned for a moment, "What, you don't know yet?" This was made by the Jie Gong himself, and the Government of the Republic of India has also made a request to us in this regard. He smiled again: "It's okay if you don't know, just tell the truth when the time comes, come with me, don't let the assistant marshal wait for a long time." After speaking, he walked to Luo Yaoguo's office with Jiang Weiguo.

"Wei Guo, I heard that you saw the battle between the armored forces of the Chinese G and the armored forces of the Indian army on the spot in India, right?" After Luo Yaoguo beckoned Jiang Weiguo and Luo Youlun to sit down, he directly asked about the Indian war situation, and seemed to be quite interested.

"Lieutenant General, I did witness three battles between the GC International Armored Division and the Indian Armored Forces." Jiang Weiguo took out a few reels of film from the leather bag he brought with him and put them on his desk, "And I also filmed some of the battles in it, and I want to bring them back to the Armored Corps Command for research." ”

"Oh." Luo Yaoguo smiled slightly and nodded. "Okay, you're still a caring person." He said to Luo Youlun: "Siyang, you take these films back, make a copy and send them to the General Staff, I want to take a look." ”

Luo Youlun agreed, and put the reels of film into a file bag and put them away. Luo Yaoguo turned to Jiang Weiguo again and asked, "Then what do you think of the performance of the armored forces of Zhongg?" Can it be called elite? ”

Jiang Weiguo shook his head and said with a smile: "Generally, there is still a gap between us and the German armored forces, but the performance of the Indians is worse, so I let an armored division of the Chinese G fight out an Indian armored corps." Then, Jiang Weiguo carefully told Luo Yaoguo everything he saw and heard in India.

"Then the performance of the Indian army is really bad, especially their armored forces." Luo Yaoguo smiled coldly: "But the Indians still want to rebuild an armored division, and they also asked Lingzun to buy our No. 3 tank." Speaking of this, Luo Yaoguo glanced at Jiang Weiguo with a smile, "Brother Jie's face always has to be sold a little, I have agreed to sell all the equipment of a heavy tank battalion in India, and I am also ready to sell another 180 No. 2 tanks, 60 28-year armored vehicles, 18 75mm armored assault guns, 18 28-year self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, a batch of armored command vehicles, armored maintenance vehicles and other equipment...... In addition, there are thousands of cannons of more than 100mm. What a big deal! Saying that, he paused, looked at Jiang Weiguo, and said: "Weiguo, I plan to let you work hard again, go to India to participate in Lingzun's military advisory group, you have been in the GC International South Asian Army for a while, it can be said that you know yourself and your opponent." It should be the most appropriate for you to assist Ling Zun. ”