At this time, the British were looking for their own death, and actually placed more than 4 percent (more than 300,000) and more than 70 percent (nearly 200,000) of India's total strength on the Manipur Line. After all, this defense line is too long, and if the troops are insufficient, no matter how strong the fortifications are, they may be taken advantage of by the Chinese. But they didn't expect that the Chinese army would have such a sharp weapon as a cloud burst bomb, which made their advantage of relying on fortifications to defend it become a quick death talisman

As a result, the total number of British troops killed by the cloudburst shells alone exceeded 200,000, and they were unable to make any counterattack against the enemy until they died, and the number of casualties of the Chinese army in the offensive phase was less than a regiment. The loss of so many elite troops at once, and the solid defensive line that had been painstakingly built up were also useless, which dealt a fatal blow to the morale of the remaining British and Indian troops, and the PLA easily controlled all of the Manipur Mountains with an average altitude of more than 1,000 meters almost effortlessly in its own hands, thus gaining the ability to "attack and retreat." ". As the front line advanced to the plains west of the Manipur Mountains, the Chinese Air Force was finally able to show its might (World War II bombers were ineffective in supporting mountain warfare), and their cannons and bombs made the fleeing British and Indian forces "heard".

Due to the fact that it is more troublesome for armored units to cross the mountains. After tearing a hole in the Manipur defense line, Hu Weidong immediately decided to use three light infantry divisions as the vanguard of the field army, and these subordinates did not disappoint him, and only took a little more than a day to take the general logistics base of hundreds of thousands of British and Indian troops on the eastern front, Imphal, because the British army was caught off guard, many materials were not destroyed in time, so a lot was captured, and at this time the Central and South Field Army's attack on the Manipur defense line was far from over

After capturing Imphal, the commanders of these three divisions quickly decided to divide a division and shoot the important city of Chittagong as quickly as possible. The other two are approaching Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. So. The hidden danger that they were already at a disadvantage in strength has undoubtedly become more obvious, but under the premise that the bomber group of the Air Force can rush to support at any time, even if the British army has five times the strength and firepower superiority, it is impossible to eat an integrated division of the Central and Southern Field Army in a short period of time. And now it is no longer possible for the Anglo-Indian army east of the Brahmaputra River to concentrate so many superior forces. If you insist on being strong. On the contrary, it will give the main force of the Central and Southern Field Army who followed up a chance to make dumplings. In fact, the British were not stupid, they decisively abandoned large areas of land and dropped weapons and ammunition along the way to slow down the enemy's pursuit. Finally, he succeeded in withdrawing more than 100,000 people to the west of the Brahmaputra River to confront the Chinese army across the river, and constantly sent telegrams to China asking for reinforcements.

But at this time, the British mainland was already in flames, where could they still be able to send reinforcements to India? What's more, now that Egypt and West Asia are occupied by the Arab Commonwealth, if the reinforcements sent by the British mainland want to reach India, they must take a long way around the Cape of Good Hope, so is it too late? As for the relatively close Commonwealth countries of Australia and New Zealand, they have already sent a large number of troops to help the British army fight against China and the Axis powers, both of which are not very populous, and the permanent attrition of more than 100,000 people so far has been unbearable for the governments and people of the two countries, and it is difficult to send many more people to the British as cannon fodder in a short time

The situation of the local war of resistance is precarious, and now the colonies are about to be lost, not long after the outbreak of the European war, the former "empire on which the sun never sets" has fallen into an unprecedented predicament. But just when Churchill was desperate and the mustache was overjoyed, the Roosevelt administration in the United States finally couldn't help but take action

In fact, both in history and in this time and space, the course of World War II was largely a game laid out by Roosevelt. The number one strategist in the history of the United States knows very well that although the United States is blessed with unique conditions, the Eurasian continent is the center of Shijie, and if the United States wants to become a real Shijie hegemon, it must not only be strong enough, but also prevent the emergence of a dominant power on the Eurasian continent.

Therefore, after the rise of the Soviet Union, although Roosevelt had to let go of the economic blockade in order to solve the domestic economic crisis, so he sat back and watched the Soviet Union become stronger, but the Great Depression had just ended, and the Roosevelt administration immediately changed its attitude towards the Soviet Union. Roosevelt also considered that the two countries might not follow his optimal script, but if they did, it would also be beneficial to the United States, because the two countries would inevitably turn against Britain, which was also one of the obstacles to the United States becoming the hegemon

Of course, it is impossible to calculate the last resort, and Roosevelt has also miscalculated three times in history, one is that he did not expect France to be defeated and surrendered so quickly, and as a result, Germany once controlled almost the entire Western Europe, and its strength far exceeded Roosevelt's initial expectations; Second, they did not expect that the seemingly powerful Red Army would lose so badly in the early days of the Soviet-German war, that the wishful thinking of the United States to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight was forced to be dispelled, and it had to give a large amount of economic and military assistance to the Soviet Union, a potential adversary; Third, they did not expect that Japan would choose to attack Pearl Harbor first after turning its face against the United States, which caused the US Government to have no time to react, and for a time it was so embarrassed that it relied only on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to maneuver with the Japanese Combined Fleet

Note 1: Although the British Far East Fleet has suffered two heavy losses, its overall strength is still not below that of the Chinese People's Navy, and the defense of the Andaman Islands military base has also been greatly strengthened compared with history, especially the addition of a large number of advanced land-based aircraft, it is almost impossible for the Chinese Navy to land directly in the weakly defended hinterland of the other side by sea as it did when it attacked Vietnam. But what the British didn't expect was that China has always been a continental country, and its strategic thinking is different from that of Britain as a maritime country after all, Hu Weidong never thought about this offensive line from the beginning, and as a result, the British strengthened the defense of the Andaman Islands in vain, but weakened the air defense of the Indian mainland Liliang (to be continued......