Now that Chu Tingchang has a real person of his own in this team, he can accomplish many things that were inconvenient for lonely people to do before, such as finding out the secret radio station hidden in the army. It is also very beneficial to the long-term layout of this force. He has already gotten rumors from China that Chongqing intends to give the 200th Division a corps-level number, and in addition, the troops given to Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang will also be expanded to the corps-level. The final counteroffensive in northern Burma will be based on these three armies, scheduled for the end of the year. Of course, he believes that the time will be brought forward, because it does not take 100,000 men to counterattack Burma.

He had even begun to work on a plan, with the general intention that Sun Liren and Slim's army would launch the first round of counteroffensive from the mountainous and difficult northern Burma to attract the main Japanese force northward, while his troops would go ashore directly from Kolkata or Chittagong and make a surprise landing in Sittwe to cut off the enemy's retreat. This was almost the exact opposite route of the Japanese attacking India, and of course unlike the Japanese, it was the material support that he might provide.

For this idea, he not only overstepped his responsibilities and intervened in the planning of the mobilization of the troops of Sun Liren, Liao Yaoxiang, and even Zhang Lingfu, but even sent an enthusiastic telegram to Colonel Brooke, who was far away in the United States and was writing the army's equipment needs for various battlefields, inquiring about the practical situation of airborne tanks and the possibility of giving priority to the counteroffensive in northern Burma. Since Brooke received two Congressional Medal of Honor, it was difficult to participate in actual combat according to Army practice, but Chu felt that even if people did not come, this friendship still had a surplus value to be squeezed.

The battle of Calcutta was still going on endlessly, and the stubborn resistance of the Japanese Chaoyu made the situation far more complicated than Chu Shizuo had envisioned, and since there was never a single officer who could sign the surrender on behalf of the Japanese, it was technically impossible to secure the outcome of victory, and it seemed that it was not enough to plant a flag on the governor's palace. So much so that Chu Tingchang had the idea of asking Captain Pu Jie to sign the surrender on behalf of the Japanese in the city, of course, after he regained his senses, he realized that this idea was too ugly.

The latest battle reports released by the 200th Division have not been adopted by the news agencies of several countries, after all, many Western reporters here have also experienced a long retreat from Burma to India, and they still have vivid memories of the invincibility of the Japanese army, and they do not trust the unilateral declaration of "victory" by the national army, and they all adopt a cautious attitude. And the gunfire in the city has not stopped, sometimes even quite intensely.

In order to reflect the value of the Alliance, Chief Chu not only agreed to fly the British flag over the Governor's Palace, but also sent special troops to relieve Smith's Special Air Service Regiment, which immediately went to carry out the secondary objective of capturing the Bank of Calcutta.

When the 70 British soldiers arrived in a hurry, they found that the place had indeed not been touched by the Chinese army, because there was still a broken Japanese engineer brigade, and there were about 150 people left. The Japanese also wondered why the Chinese army just didn't attack here.

Chu Tingchang's deliberate indulgence gave the Japanese army time to use the dug up bank ruins to strengthen the fortifications and resist stubbornly. At the same time, he ordered Zhou Youfu not to interfere in the attack here. Of course, Zhou Youfu knew it and would not ask the reason, but objectively caused the war in Calcutta to be delayed.

Just when Chu Tingchang and Vivel were calculating each other, on the battlefield of the Volga, the German army had already begun to surrender. From noon, the entire front was completely devoid of gunfire.

At 6 p.m. Moscow time, TASS reported this great victory to the world, and the world's major media rushed to reprint it, almost all newspapers defined this victory as a "turning point", and the report was accompanied by a passage from Stalin: Our imminent counteroffensive will not end at the 1941 borders, and our goal is the complete destruction of the fascists.

If we abandon our preconceptions, we must admit that this is the victory that the people of the world yearn for, and that the scale and significance are far higher than the battle in Calcutta, and that the plan of Chief Chu is completely ruined. Calcutta made a small fuss and did not attract the attention of the world under such a huge aura. Even by the next day, the victory in the assault on the Grand Doge's palace did not make it into the 3rd and 4th pages of the major newspapers. Only the front page of the Central Daily reported on this great victory that swept through the enemy's 15th Army and annihilated more than 100,000 enemies.

In the shadow of the defeat, the Japanese 2nd Division began to slowly retreat to the east bank of the Ganges in an attempt to gain a foothold near Chittagong, Kimura still did not give up his ambition to capture India, he needed a port as a stronghold for the second attack. Tao Mingzhang's department pursued all the way to the Ganges River, and watched the Japanese blow up the pontoon bridge to the opposite bank.

His reinforcement battle was thus successfully completed, and he received the order of Chu Tingchang to stop the attack and return to the division to sweep away the remnants of the enemy, and after completing the deployment of troops, he returned to Calcutta with Guo Rugui.

The two sat side by side in the back seat of the jeep, and inevitably expressed their respective views on the current situation.

"I didn't expect Chu Shizuo to take Calcutta so quickly, and I finally saw the power of Chu Shiza's new tactics in this battle. This visit to the East Indies to inspect mobile operations is worth the trip. Guo Rugui said.

"Yes, the battle of Chu Shizuo is indeed breathtaking."

"I recently wrote a report to Chongqing, summarizing Chu Shiza's tactics as follows: mobility, firepower, and communications. If these three units are superior to the Japanese army, they can occupy the upper hand on the battlefield, what do you think? ”

"What Brother Ru Gui said is very true, but in my humble opinion, there is actually one omission."

"Oh? Tell me about it. ”

"When I first saw Chu Shizao's use of troops, he was indeed able to dispatch freely and deploy compactly...... On the surface, it is indeed a perfect combination of maneuverability, firepower, and communications. ”

"Well, that's what the foolish brother sees too."

"But I think there is another thing, which is hazy and difficult to see clearly, whether it is a bystander or a person involved. This is the same thing, which is reconnaissance. To this day, I am still in a fog about the means of collecting enemy information from the division," Tao Mingzhang said and suddenly frowned, "It is said that the aerial reconnaissance of the Allied forces is the same in each theater regardless of thickness, but I just heard that General Sun Liren fought with the enemy's weaker 31st Division, and the exchange was still 1.8 to 1, of course, this was also caused by the difficulty of attacking the Japanese army when it was on the defensive. But isn't Chu Shizuo a stronger city in Calcutta? The casualties were much smaller than those of the Japanese army, so every time I won, I have a feeling of being light and fluttering, and there is no foundation under my feet. In fact, General Sun's exchange ratio makes me feel more real, or down-to-earth. ”

"It turns out that the name seal also thinks this way?"

"I have received a Western-style education since I was a child, and I don't believe in the traditional history of the emperor's general induction, and I also have great reservations about those historical figures who are clever and wise, but in the past six months, the division has almost all hit the enemy, and sometimes even the results of aerial reconnaissance are contrary, which I am indeed a little confused."

"Maybe your teacher is really Huaxia Zhongxing, a Yue Fei-like figure who fell from the sky." Guo Rugui said.

"Huaxia ZTE? It's not enough to rely on one Yue Fei alone," Tao Mingzhang shook his head, "I heard that there was a great drought in the Central Plains this year, but it was the Japanese puppets who were helping the victims to buy people's hearts. 'Water and drought soup yellow', hehe, Commander Tang of the first war zone, is also tied for one of the four disasters. ”

"Brother Mingzhang, don't mention these things too much, beware of the villain on the wall."

"This is India, let me tell me what's wrong, Chongqing can't stretch its hand that far." Tao Mingzhang sneered.

"Yes, it is true that the mountains are far away from the emperor here...... By the way, I just received news from China that the troops here are going to be reorganized. Guo Rugui seems to have deliberately diverted the topic.

"I've heard of that, too."

"Give the number of the new 38th Division and the new 1st Army, the number of the 22nd Division and the new 6th Army, your 200th Division will restore the number of the 5th Army, and Chu Shizuo will be promoted to major general and deputy commander in the near future."

"Deputy Commander?" Tao Mingzhang was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped, "How is it possible, there has to be a military commander?" ”

"Yes, I want a military commander, the candidate has already been decided, so ...... Don't say that Chongqing can't reach here. ”

"Chu Shizuo has fought bloody battles with the Japanese army all the way from northern Burma, not to mention the merits and hard work, only he can deal with several times the Japanese army without falling behind, I only hate, the three divisions here are not all handed over to him to command, how can it suddenly ...... Whoever came up with the idea in the Military Command Department is simply a national thief. ”

"You don't have to worry, where is the personnel here that the Military Command Department and the Military Affairs Department can move, and it is set by the commission."

"Lao Jiang, Lao Jiang, it's just old and confused."

"How can the commission be confused, what you see in war, what he sees is politics. Chu Shizuo eats too much at the Americans, and it is difficult to control it with heavy troops, so you are both taboo. ”

"Most of the country has fallen to the enemy, what kind of moderation and intemperance are you looking at, and how is it different from Song Gaozong?"

"It's okay for you to talk to me about these angry words, don't go outside and talk nonsense, it's not good for you and your teacher."

"I'm so disappointed in the party-state anyway. After driving the Japanese back to my hometown, I will be discharged from the army and return to my hometown. With such a dim-witted party-state, there is absolutely no possibility of victory in dealing with the communist army. ”

"It's a long time coming, don't talk angry, if you really want to be angry, it's not at the expense of national interests."

"If I return to my hometown after being discharged from the army, will it be at the expense of the interests of the nation?"

Guo Rugui smiled and did not answer.

In Calcutta, at the request of the British, Chief Chu agreed to send artillery and tanks to support the air service regiment. After nightfall, under the attack of tanks and *, the defending Japanese troops were finally routed.

Smith's forces finally made their way into the underground bunkers, and after a night of fierce fighting, they almost wiped out the remnants of the enemy below. During this period, the Chinese army always kept a distance to avoid any suspicion of being under the melon field.

Vivier waited anxiously for news from there. The British discovered that in just a few weeks, the Japanese had dug a passage into the underground vault. If it weren't for the rush of the siege, the wall would have been broken through in the past two days. The British army proposed to borrow a bulldozer from Chu Tingchang to clean up the ruins at the scene, and Chu Tingchang agreed to come down without asking for any reason.