Chapter 905: Confrontation
Not very far from the Sino-Indian border, in a clearing on the Chinese border, a large number of Wehrmacht soldiers were putting down the supplies they had just carried over the mountains.
"It's so fucking tiring..."After putting the backpack on the ground, Wang Jun put his hands on his knees, and kept stretching his tongue like a dead dog. The sweat on his forehead already revealed what he had just experienced.
"Yes," the companion who was standing next to him and crossed the mountains with him nodded approvingly.
It's not just them, it's everyone else.
In order to come from Lhasa, this company of theirs can be said to have crossed mountains and mountains. Of course, if it is just to climb over the mountains and mountains, it is even more important, they are still carrying a large number of heavy supplies on their backs. These were all required by the Nationalist government to carry them to southern Tibet, and there were not only a large number of weapons and ammunition, as well as necessary food and fresh water, but also many very bizarre things.
For example...
Cement?
In fact, in this company of more than 100 people, there were at least twenty or thirty soldiers who came from Lhasa carrying cement.
Carrying cement all the way from Lhasa, you can imagine how tired they were.
And now that they have finally reached their destination, it seems that they will all look like dead dogs, which seems not to be unusual.
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While Wang Jun and the others were still gasping, the company commander of this company was gasping at the same time. I kept looking at the camp in front of me.
The camp is very simple, and it can even be said that it has been so many years since this company commander joined the army. He had never seen such a humble camp.
The whole camp was left with tent after tent, except for a few crude fences.
If no one had told him that this was a Wehrmacht camp, he might even have mistaken it for some of the kings of the mountains who had wandered here.
There is no way, the camp is still in its infancy, so it is naturally chaotic, especially considering the large amount of supplies piled up in the camp.
While the company commander was still looking, an officer on the side walked over quickly. Walked in front of the company commander.
After glancing at the officer and the star on his shoulder, the company commander hurriedly saluted. "Sir."
"Hmm..."nodded. The officer asked after returning the salute. "Are you the head of this company? What is the number of your troops? β
"We are the third company of the third battalion of the 273rd Regiment..." Hearing the officer's question, the company commander hurriedly replied. Ordered to come from Sara..."
"We're all the sameβ" The officer nodded, glancing at the group of dead dog-like soldiers behind the company commander.
Noticing the officer's gaze, after glancing back. The company commander was somewhat embarrassed. After all, his current soldiers are really not very good. It's too embarrassing. But just as he was about to make the soldiers behind him stand up straight and look better, the officer waved his hand as if he had read his thoughts, indicating that there was no need for him to do so.
"No, no, no, it's actually nothing...", as if he saw the confusion on the company commander's face, the officer continued to smile and said. Because it's not just when you get here, it's actually the same for everyone. You know, those mountains are really hard to climb, especially when we have so many things on our backs..."
Speaking of which. Even the officer was obviously reluctant to recall the painful experiences, because they were so painful...
After all, hiking over a mountain is not an easy task for anyone.
Of course, the Wehrmacht did not fail to think of using other means, at least to find some cattle to help with the camel transport. It's just that the order issued by the government at that time was very urgent, and when there was no way, the troops had to first let people find a way to reach the destination on foot, and then let the people who transported supplies try to transport things to the place from the rear with livestock...
Hearing the officer say this, the company commander was naturally greatly moved in his heart, because they could be said to have suffered a lot of sins along the way. Moreover, none of these peaks in Tibet are easy to climb, especially some of them are very dangerous, plus the things they are carrying, they have rushed all the way over, and I don't know how many dangers they have encountered, and some of them can almost wipe out their entire army.
Fortunately, after all, they are not an ordinary team, but an elite armyββββββ for various reasons, the government of the Kuomintang has no way to station too many troops in Tibet, in this case, the station here is naturally the elite of the elite.
It is precisely because the people stationed here are basically the elite of the Wehrmacht, that they can survive a series of unimaginable dangers and obstacles unharmed, and successfully arrive here.
In this process, a series of training they have experienced in the past can be said to have played a crucial role.
It's just that, even though he has successfully crossed the mountain range now, the officer can't help but want to break out in a cold sweat when he recalls a series of encounters with the past.
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The officer didn't come here this time to resonate with him. After some painful nostalgia for what happened when he first crossed the mountains, the officer said to them.
"Anyway, you're tired along the way, so don't be embarrassed, just find a place to rest. But before you rest, you sort and stack the supplies you have carried..."
With that, the officer pointed to the camp's passages dedicated to stockpiling supplies. "At present, the warehouse dedicated to storing materials has not been completed, so for the time being, the materials are separated and stacked in the open air. For example, this is where building materials are stored, as well as food, fresh water, weapons and ammunition..."
Look at the mountains of supplies. The company commander was a little surprised.
"But sir, is it okay to leave it like this?"
Forget about the rest, but if there is even the slightest problem with those weapons and ammunitionββββββ looking at the height of the pile, even if everyone in the entire camp is sent to the west sky, it is estimated that there will not be much of a problem.
And food and other things, in case of a rainstorm. Then basically they are busy all the way.
However, after listening to his words, the officer said a little helplessly.
"We know that, but it's a no-brainer. After all, we've just arrived, and even if we want to build some storehouses to store supplies, we need to have tools, and you've seen it right now. Just over those mountains. It's already made us tired and half dead, so the treasury or something, we can only postpone it for the time being..."
The company commander looked around and saw that this seemed to be the case.
The current camp can be said to be simple and abnormal, just looking at the scene in front of him, the company commander even thinks that maybe even the place where he lives is a little...
The troops sent to southern Tibet by the Kuomintang government this time probably had a regiment, and it was a regiment of the A Division, with about 3,000 people. In an ordinary country, it is almost equivalent to an ordinary infantry brigade.
So many people. It's not a simple thing to pile up...
At least they needed a big camp, a big, big camp, and the camp in front of them, which was more like a den of bandits, obviously didn't meet the requirements.
Under the arrangement of the officers, Wang Jun and his company quickly placed the supplies they had carried from Lhasa. Then they began to pitch tents in a position in the corner of the camp under the arrangement of the camp, and then the commander of the camp, the commander of the infantry regiment, also gave them a day of rest very humanely, so that they could recover their bodies and spirits during the day, especially the fatigue suffered in the process of climbing the mountains and mountainsββββββ which was particularly important for the people of Wang Jun's company.
It is also because of this relationship that after the tent was set up, the people of this company found their own place and slept directly, some of them didn't even make beds, they simply lay on the ground, and just made a pillow with their own belongings.
The people in the camp were not surprised by this, because many of them were like this when they first arrived.
Naturally, there is only one day of rest that can be given to them, because by the next day, they have to get up and work~
Because, as mentioned earlier, the camp here is still in a very rudimentary state, a lot of facilities have not been built, and even some of the fortifications are still in a very shallow state.
This is obviously not in line with the requirements of the national government, and for these veterans who have fought for many years, there is no way to protect their lives at the moment.
So the next day, they had to find a way to dig trenches in some dangerous places outside the camp and repair the fortifications with the cement they had carried on their backs. There is also the use of some materials around, get some warehouses and semi-permanent housing outββββββ always live in tents, people can't stand it, not to mention that this is not a suitable place to live in tents.
Of course, the kind of tents of the Mongols are an exception, but there is no doubt that they do not have such tents~
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How can I say that the road from Yunnan, Sichuan, and Qinghai to Tibet has indeed been completed, but so far it has only reached Lhasa.
In fact, Lhasa is not very far from southern Tibetββββββ at least on the map.
But isn't there such a saying, Wangshan runs a dead horse, not to mention that there is no short mountain on this side of Tibet. In this way, it naturally brings great difficulty to the problem of road construction.
Of course, this is not a problem, from Sichuan, Yunnan and Qinghai, thousands of kilometers of roads have been built, how far can the distance between southern Tibet and Lhasa be? Can you still be sad about the journey of thousands of highways?
Obviously, this is absolutely impossible, and there is only one reason why this road was not built, that is, Yan Shao did not think about repairing it. At least for a short time.
In fact, in Yan Shao's thoughts. At least for the short term, the government does not intend to build a road to southern Tibet.
On the one hand, the construction of three roads to Tibet has already put great financial pressure on the government. Now that the road has been built. The influence of the Kuomintang government in Tibet has also been strengthened and consolidated, so naturally there is no need to continue to build.
Another reason is that Yan Shao is not willing to stimulate the British too much.
Yan Shao is not a particularly radical person, at least his personality is not as extreme as Hitler or the Japanese, no matter what he does, he seems very radical. For example, the Japanese first took the Northeast, and then won Longwangshu. Vainly trying to annex all of China, and when China has not yet finished annexing, it has begun to think about the whole of Southeast Asia againββββββ of course. This is also because the Americans banned the export of oil to Japan at that time...
There was also Hitler, who first took the Rhine demilitarized zone, and after recapturing it, he was not satisfied, and annexed Austria. Of course. Here it can be said that it is voluntary. After all, Austria and Germany still have a certain relationship, and even Hitler himself can be said to be an Austrian.
But then what? After Czechoslovakia was sold by Britain and France, Hitler, who was not satisfied, annexed the whole of Czechoslovakia again.
It can be said that it was because of the relationship between Britain and France that betrayed their teammates, Czechoslovakia, the seventh power in the capitalist world, was completely annexedββββββ you must know that the Czech Republic is not a weak country. The title of the seventh most powerful country in the capitalist world is not something that can be won by just one person, and in fact the reason why Germany's industrial power has grown so rapidly. It also has a lot to do with the annexation of Czech industry by Germany.
If at this time, Hitler was content with the merits and achievements of the annexation of the Czech Republic and digested it for a few years, then Hitler was definitely a famous figure in the history of Germany.
It's like a great figure in history, but because of something in his later years, he became mixed.
There is even a saying in later generations that if a figure like Hitler had died 'young' at the most important turning point of each era, then they would have left behind the most magnificent side of history, and might even become a perfect person in the hearts of future generations.
Unfortunately, this was not possible, because of Hitler's greed, coupled with extremely radical policies. Of course, there is also the fact that Britain and France were too weak in front of them, and they kept making concessions, which made Hitler think that Britain and France would continue to retreat, so Germany attacked Poland.
In a way, in fact, this time Britain and France sold their teammates again.
Because although Britain and France had promised to protect Poland's security, in fact, both Britain and France were hiding behind the Maginot Line built by the French, and just sat back and watched the war launched by the Germans against Poland.
Historically, Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, but remained inactive for four weeks during Hitler's conquest of Poland. The French army was only fortified behind the Maginot Line. The soldiers called the war on the Western Front in Germany a 'sit-down war' or a 'strange war', and the Poles were naturally very pitiful to be betrayed by their teammates.
In the following time, Hitler swept first Britain and France, then swept Soviet Russia, and after making too many enemies, he finally brought the inducement of defeat to Germany.
After all, Germany still has no way to compete with the whole world...
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Hitler's experience is very valuable to Yan Shao, at least Hitler's experience has made Yan Shao understand one thing, that is, he must always restrain his greed.
Because a lot of times, it's because you've taken one more step than usual that you feel completely harmless that you have caused disaster.
In Yan Shao's view, since he has made China create a miracle, all Yan Shao needs to do in the future is to 'keep to himself' and take care of his family business.
To put it simply, it is to practice hard internal skills...
Anyway, things have basically been done, and then you only need to work hard to improve your internal skills, so the current fruits of victory naturally don't need to worry about problems.
As for southern Tibet? Will the British do anything about this place? This Yan Shao really didn't worry. The reason why the British in later generations will attack is also to disgust China before evacuating.
But now it's different. First of all, after the First World War, the British did not, at least not have the strength to compete with China on land. This is true even in India.
Secondly, maybe he can disgust China in southern Tibet, but in the future, Britain will disgust China here, purely because they are going to withdraw, and the rest has nothing to do with them. But now India is still in their hands, and it is not yet time for them to give up on themselves...
Now the British can do anything, so to speak. But it will definitely not provoke China on the Sino-Indian border...
At least not yet...
However, when the strength of the British has recovered, I believe that China's strength has also grown to a point that the British dare not face up to at all. Until that time. Southern Tibet will only be safer, not dangerous...
This is one reason why Yan Shao did not build a road from Lhasa to southern Tibet...
Because he doesn't need to worry about the security of southern Tibet, again, in the case of hard internal training. He also doesn't want to make a fuss. casually touching the sensitive nerves of the British on the Indian question.
Anyway, it only takes another ten years, Yan Shao no longer needs to be afraid of any country, including Britain, the United States, Japan and the Soviet Union, naturally there is no need to be too anxious to set up obstacles for himselfββββββ this is not a game, who has to increase the difficulty for himself. The difficulty is enough, and I have to get myself out of a hellish difficulty...
Yan Shao is not sick in the brain, or suffering from masochism, of course it won't be like this...
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For Yan Shao, it only takes 10 years. Then you don't have to worry about anything.
If it weren't for the fact that the British were disgusted with Yan Shao on the issue of Macau, it would be for a long time to come. Even Yan Shao could not have sent too many troops to southern Tibetββββββ firstly because it was unnecessary, and secondly because of logistical difficulties...
For Yan Shao, it is enough to send a few troops to show that this is Chinese territory, but now the British have really angered Yan Shao on the issue of Macao. Yan Shao naturally doesn't have to worry about problems that will touch the sensitive nerves of the Britishββββββ can't only the British provoke him, but he can't fight back, right?
What's more, Yan Shao was not afraid of the British, but was just unwilling to take the initiative to provoke right and wrong before thoroughly consolidating the fruits of the First World War. Since now that he has taken the initiative to come to the door, Yan Shao doesn't mind facing it...
Seeing that Wang Jun and his company had entered the tent they had just built, the officer who had just been in charge of guiding them shook his head and smiled slightly, and then planned to continue his work.
But at this moment, there was a sudden alarm from the sentry outside the camp.
Hearing the alarm, the officers and men in the camp were more or less stunned.
This is not surprising, after all, they are all troops pulled from Tibet, and they were ordinary infantry divisions before they moved into Tibet. With the exception of a few officers within the unit, few soldiers had personally experienced war ...
In addition, they have been active in the country all the time...
For these soldiers, who have not experienced war, it is inevitable that they will feel a little confused when they suddenly hear the sirens representing the enemy...
Fortunately, after all, they are from the first division, and in addition to being well equipped, the training of the first division is also strict. With strict training, the soldiers in the camp soon reacted, quickly grabbed weapons and equipment from the camp, and ran out one by one after putting on steel helmets and military uniforms. Even Wang Jun, who had just run into the tent to rest, was the same...
At the same time, the commander of the camp, despite some inexplicability, rushed to the direction where the alarm had come from with a company of troops that had just been assembledββββββ where one of the lines of defense was built, right on the Sino-Indian border.
When the commander of the camp and the officers and men of the company arrived at the scene, he was somewhat taken aback by the scene at the scene.
There, a group of British and Indian soldiers were confronting the Wehrmacht who were building the trenches.
It's just that while the confrontation is taking place, the atmosphere between the two sides is not tense, but rather hot. Especially the Wehrmacht and the British, who are the main force, are even more scolding each other across the national border! The sound of 'FUCK' is endless! (To be continued......)