Chapter 584: The Great Rout
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In this way, the Chinese government would either have to give up much of its battlefield gains in exchange for peace, or it would have to risk a war with the United States. You must know that now, during World War II, if a real war with the United States is really fought, it will probably not be a local war like the Korean War, but a full-scale war on an unprecedented scale.
However, Hu Weidong became increasingly conceited by the successive victories since the start of the army in Jiangxi, and did not take such a risk to heart at all, but immediately ordered the front to launch an offensive and put pressure on Britain and the United States with an even greater victory.
Fortunately, conceit and anger did not affect Hu Weidong's battlefield decision-making, he did not let the main force of the eastern front force force cross the Brahmaputra River, but unexpectedly entrusted the central line of Fang Yongle with heavy responsibility, although the Chinese army under his command was only more than 30,000 people, but with the full cooperation of the Nepalese Communist Party, he quickly eliminated the Anglo-Indian army and the Nepalese puppet army that invaded Nepal, and successfully recovered the Nepalese People's Republic, and added three new Gurkha mountain brigades under his command, so that the total strength of Fang Yongle's division exceeded 60,000. At this time, the main forces of the British and Indian armies were concentrated on the eastern front to confront Hu Weidong's Central and Southern Field Army, and there were more than 100,000 people in the mountains of the western front to fight Wang Zhen's Xinjiang Corps (due to supply difficulties, the actual number of troops participating in the battle was only a few tens of thousands. Bitter fighting, Hu Weidong described it as "the British have stretched out both fists to hit people, and now the door is wide open." A single stab of a knife in his heart can be fatal. ”。 Therefore, the more than 60,000 people of Fang Yongle's department were enough to change the situation on the entire Indian battlefield, and this old subordinate did not disappoint him
Taking advantage of the emptiness of the British and Indian army's defense in the middle line, Fang Yongle led the army commander to drive straight into the suburbs of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, British India, within a week. Lucknow was one of the most important transportation hubs in British India, and if it fell into the hands of the enemy, the consequences would be unimaginable, so although the Anglo-Indian forces on the central line were empty, the Anglo-Indian governor managed to squeeze out some troops into Lucknow, increasing the number of its defenders to more than 50,000. Although the strength is not inferior to the opponent. But because of the prestige of the "Himalayan Tiger". The Anglo-Indian governor strictly ordered the defenders of Lucknow not to go out of the city to meet the attack, and only to wait for reinforcements for the time being.
The railways in India are criss-crossed, and the traffic is very fast, under normal circumstances. Even 100,000 soldiers thousands of miles away. It can also be shipped to Lucknow within 24 hours. But the problem is that the Anglo-Indian field forces are now not able to draw at all. The Eastern Front, which had the largest number of troops, was also in dire need of reinforcements due to heavy losses at the Battle of Manipur, and the smaller Western Front was barely able to draw with the enemy, so the Anglo-Indian Governors had to send garrisons from all over the country, even new recruits in training, to Lucknow. This is much less efficient.
Although even this did not take 10 days, Fang Yongle did not give the enemy so much time, and in order to let him conquer Lucknow as soon as possible, Hu Weidong also put the twin-engine H-1, which was designed to carry more than 3 tons of bombs and even 5 tons of bombs in actual combat, into the battlefield for the first time, taking advantage of its long range, fast speed, and being able to avoid radar reconnaissance, took off from Dhaka Airport, and launched a surprise air attack on Lucknow, thousands of miles away. And the 3-ton super-heavy cloudburst bomb, which was also put into the battlefield for the first time, also showed its jaw-dropping and terrifying power
Because the explosion mechanism of the cloudburst bomb is different from that of ordinary bombs, and the cloudburst bomb used by the Chinese army is a super-era weapon modeled after the "single-base cloudburst bomb" invented in 201X, its explosive yield alone is equivalent to 15 tons of TNT. And because the large-yield cloudburst bomb can release the explosive power more efficiently than the conventional bomb, its actual killing effect even exceeds the conventional high-explosive bomb with a yield of 50 tons, if there is really such a big bomb on the shijie.
The mushroom clouds rising up in the sky fully demonstrated the horror of this "sub-nuclear weapon," and the unique lethal effect of the cloudburst bomb made the death of the British and Indian officers and soldiers who were victims even more miserable. Since the Western armies are staunch "weaponists", when the power of the enemy's weapons far exceeds their psychological expectations, the collapse will come very quickly, and after the bombing is over, Fang Yongle is about to order an attack, but the Anglo-Indian troops in Lucknow have already taken the initiative to hang up the white flag
After Fang Yongle's division occupied Lucknow, the British and Indian troops fell into an unprecedented danger, while the Chinese army completely seized the initiative in the Indian battlefield, Fang Yongle's troops could join with Wang Zhen's corps to the west to eliminate the 100,000 troops of the British and Indian troops on the western front, and to the east could join forces with the Central and Southern Field Army to attack the hundreds of thousands of main forces of the British and Indian armies, while the British and Indian troops had a total strength of more than 700,000 people, but they could only sit and wait for the end of annihilation.
Moreover, the horror of the enemy's new weapons also spread rapidly among the British and Indian troops, seriously shaking the morale of the troops, and Hu Weidong lost no time in ordering the air force to drop the more powerful 5-ton cloudburst bombs on the British and Indian positions on the west bank of the Brahmaputra River (because the distance is much closer, there is no need to worry about the range). Although the effect of the cloud burst bomb on field positions that were not composed of enclosed or semi-enclosed permanent fortifications was not particularly good, the Anglo-Indian army, which was already a frightened bird, completely collapsed when it saw the mushroom cloud rising.
As a result, as soon as the artillery on the east bank of the Brahmaputra River sounded, the Indian troops on the opposite side took the lead in abandoning their positions and fled westward, and some of the British officers in charge of commanding them tried to shoot the deserters to stop the collapse, but most of them were counterattacked by the loyal dogs of the past and turned into a dead corpse, and the Indians now have only one thought in their minds -- "escape". Even if the emperor tried to stop them, these guys who had lost their minds would not hesitate to shoot, and a British war correspondent mocked in the report, "Have you ever seen a herd of zebras running in Africa?" But it is not as spectacular as the rout of the Indian army"
The Indians collapsed without a fight, and the British troops in the defense line were unable to support themselves alone, so they had to retreat westward, but due to low morale and the pursuit of the Chinese Air Force all the way, the originally orderly retreat soon turned into an unprecedented rout, at this time, Ma Zhongying, who had just landed on the west bank of the Brahmaputra River, decisively decided not to wait for the follow-up troops to cross the river, and only took an armored division that had already crossed the river to take the lead in a full-speed pursuit of the enemy army that began to collapse, and the British and Indian hundreds of thousands of troops completely collapsed (to be continued......