Chapter 862: An Indian Soldier Comparable to Italy (Autumn Monthly Pass)
The 49th Mountain Infantry Regiment of British India is known as the elite because of its efforts in helping the British East India Company to exterminate the independence of the local states.
The head of this unit, the British ** officer Karl. Hudson. He graduated from the University of Liverpool in England with a degree in shipbuilding, and was one of the few top students in the British ** team, which consisted of 1,963 people, including 12 white officers and 12 indigenous officers. Unlike other armies, which were composed of more than a dozen languages and were composed of people of all nationalities, the 49th Mountain Infantry Regiment was composed of soldiers of only five languages and twelve nationalities. The unit was divided into five battalions according to ethnicity and religion, namely the 1st Khalkha Battalion, the 2nd Green Battalion, the 3rd Karnataka Battalion, the 4th Rajasthani Battalion and the 5th Elliot Battalion. The genius idea of dividing the indigenous soldiers according to their religious beliefs and ethnicity came from the regimental commander Karl Brown. Hudson, at first, was for ease of communication, after all, his troops had four languages that he didn't understand at all, in addition to English, and he needed four heralds to pass orders. After dividing the troops according to language, he only had to pass it on to each officer in English.
In order to communicate with the 49th Mountain Infantry Regiment in a timely manner, the British Governor-General in India, Rufus. Isaac Strangtially dispatched a telegraph squad formed by the Indian high castes to liaise with the headquarters in Delhi in a timely manner to deliver the news.
Before the war, these Indian soldiers were very reluctant to enter the cold north at this time, and judging by the military orders issued to them by the governor of Isaacs. Obviously, this was to let them wear thick clothing and go into the cold plateau to fight, so after receiving the order, they stumbled.
For this reason, Carl Hudson had to use "harsh" military law to prohibit Green soldiers from eating meat and Indian soldiers from eating curry, which forced the more than 1,900 soldiers to move out of the camp. Because knowing the cold of Kashmir in the north. The Indian soldiers each carried a large amount of warmth to keep them warm, so much so that they had to walk very slowly.
And the staff, which consisted of three white staff officers, worked so poorly that they didn't even know which path they were going to take until they entered Kashmir. The map in their hands was actually a map marked in the language of the Pashtuns of Afghanistan, and this map was older than the three staff officers combined, and the three staff officers discussed it and thought that after this provocation, the map could be taken back to Britain for auction.
When the 49th Indian Mountain Infantry Regiment entered the territory of China along Kashmir. A hilarious incident happened when a shepherd boy who led the way led them into a snowy mountain valley and ran away, so much so that the troop got lost in the valley. Nearly wiped out.
Kashmiris are of yellow and Tibetan ethnicity, and they are disgusted by Indians who look like monkeys. In the history of the world, the northerners have discriminated against the southerners, and this trend is not only in China, but also in any country in the world. Because of race. The further north the geography, the larger the race. The fairer the skin, the stronger the body. Therefore, the Kashmiris in the north are extremely discriminatory against the Indians in the south, while British India is still a state of Fan, and the Kashmiris think that they are an independent kingdom, and even the shepherd boys deliberately lead the wrong way to deceive these people.
The 49th Indian Indigenous Mountain Infantry Regiment took the wrong path and gave the squadron time to move, and Ren Yuanxing, the commander of the White Tiger Regiment, immediately ordered Xu Shuzheng's unit of the 94th Brigade of the 33rd Division to enter the Pamir Plateau and enter the Chinese Kashmir region through the Afghan Khanate through Tashkent. Traditionally, the Chinese Kashmir region was inhabited by the yellow race, and later the Indian race and Central Asians continued to enter the region. The living space of the yellow race has been compressed, so that the territory of Chinese Kashmir is getting smaller and smaller.
Due to the urgency of the situation. Xu Shuzheng's unit worked non-stop all the way, and the herald who entered Afghanistan also promptly stated to Afghanistan that the squadron hoped to use the road to enter the Pamir Plateau under the Chinese side and snipe at the British invasion. The British had attacked Afghanistan four times without success, and Afghanistan had a feud with them, so they readily agreed to Xu Shuzheng's request, and escorted him all the way to the Pamir Plateau, which belongs to the Chinese side, without a guide.
At this time, the 49th Mountain Infantry Regiment of British India went around the mountains and retaliated by slaughtering a Kashmiri village, or rather, slaughtering all the livestock in the village, and the Kashmiris in the village had fled long before they arrived.
Half a month of walking more than 50 miles from the Sino-Indian border without encountering a single Chinese soldier, not even a single Kashmiri tribal resistance, except for a snow leopard that attacked them due to winter hunger, killing three Indian soldiers, which made the Indian soldiers feel invincible in the world. When the weather is fine, these Indians even sing and dance, some simply sit on horseback and take a nap, and some say loudly: "When we go to China, we must cut off a few Chinese's braids and take them home for exhibitions." ”
Every day, even these soldiers used plain code to relay their coordinates and directions to the Indian Governor's Office in Delhi, believing that Chinese could not even use a rifle Chinese even a telegraph. Indian newspapers have also repeatedly publicized the feat of recovering the whole of Kashmir and the Pamirs, and they do not shy away from commenting on how much time it will take to recover all Kashmir, and some even say that it is better to occupy Tibet together, and the province quarrels with the Chinese every day. The Indians were on the side of the British at this time, as if their masters had won, and how proud they were, typical lackeys, like the little devil country in another time and space a hundred years later.
The proud Indians also sent troops to scout at first, but they were extremely lax after half a month's march without encountering a single battle. As they passed through a gorge in Arkansas, they were suddenly ambushed by the 94th Brigade of the National Defense Forces and the local Kashmiri tribesmen who had been waiting for a long time, and the Indian soldiers apparently did not expect that they would encounter Chinese troops less than fifty miles after they had just crossed the border boundary marker erected by the Chinese.
The Chinese ** person lifted the white cloak covering his body, revealing the black, green and brown camouflage military uniform The Chinese military uniform is very recognizable, and the whole body is like a frog-like camouflage military uniform, and only the Chinese ** person in the world has this kind of frog skin military uniform.
The 49th Mountain Infantry Regiment may be really an elite unit in the country, and the regiment commander is not in a hurry to order the whole team. Equipped with the most elite rifles and artillery, he was ready to stand in four platoons to return fire when he encountered an ambush by the squadron.
You know, this is a canyon, and the difficulty of attacking on the back is ignored by these people. And the soldiers fighting in a line of guns also gave the Chinese artillery a target to aim.
"Call me." Xu Shuzheng was stunned for a moment, what was this Indian doing, and then immediately shouted excitedly, "A bunch of fools! Mortars, mortars, grenades, smash me down. ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The mortars and bazookas of the squadron mercilessly smashed into this group of platoon guns, and suddenly, the Indian soldiers panicked. Cal. Hudson immediately ordered the 1st Battalion, the most elite of the Khalkhas, to prepare to climb the hill to return fire, but they were the first to be attacked, and the Chinese soldiers were well-trained and well-armed. And the Khalkhas, despite their bravery and skillful fighting, some of the soldiers did not even know how to shoot, they climbed the mountain with Khalkha scimitars in their hands, and in the middle of the battle they were blown down by grenades.
And the Green Camp soldiers gathered quietly, and I don't know what they were talking about, after their white battalion commander was shot dead, these people ran out of ideas.
The most let the head of the regiment Karl. Hudson's disappointment was that the Indian soldiers, who had planned to stand in a line of gunfire at first, scattered and fled after being attacked by mortars, and Hudson shouted several times to no avail.
The Indian soldiers turned around and ran, throwing down several British ** officers who jumped to their feet and cursed, as a result, four British ** officers were killed by ambushers on the mountain. When Carl Hudson tried to stop the soldiers from fleeing, an Indian officer simply drew his saber and tried to cut him, and he had to kill him in self-defense.
Hudson, who was wearing a general's uniform, was also attacked by the Chinese soldiers, but he survived, and the guards around him died, and he only suffered bruises from running away and falling. The 49th Mountain Infantry Regiment of British India, which was ambushed, retreated and ran to the rear, Xu Shuzheng laughed when he saw this, and ordered the cavalry to attack.
The 282nd Regiment of Xu Shuzheng's 94th Brigade is a cavalry regiment, they have been waiting for a long time, seeing the infantry in front of them killing the enemy happily, and finally after receiving the order, they drew their sabers and shouted: "Kill the enemy to serve the country, sacrifice your life for righteousness, raise the prestige of our country, and revitalize my China!" Kill! ”
The sound of rumbling horses' hooves sounded in the valley, and the onslaught of more than 1,600 cavalry frightened the fleeing enemy, some of them immediately squatted on the ground and raised their hands, and those who did not have long eyes had their heads cut off by the cavalry. There were also Indian soldiers who surrendered slowly, and were severely beaten by other people who surrendered first, and the remaining few British ** officers were arrested by the Indians and sacrificed to the Chinese. Some of the Indian soldiers were so frightened that they fell to the ground and pretended to be dead, but when they saw the others being strung away, they immediately jumped up and demanded that they be strung together as well...... Because they are glorious prisoners of war, not fleeing routs.
The combat capability of the Indian soldiers was vividly reflected in this war, at first it was decent, but once it was frustrated, it immediately routed and fled, and its ability to flee was comparable to the Italian Army in Europe, and they were the Italian Army in Asia. ChineseTwenty-three years after the Gengzi Incident, Chinese has completely embraced the new way of fighting and created a Chinese mode of warfare.