Age of Conquest Reborn

Lieutenant General Chelsea, the commander of the British Army's Eastward March in India, is obviously in a good mood these days. He is very kind to his subordinates and has restored the polite temperament of a British gentleman.

Adams's telegram was not useless at all. At the very least, it aroused the alert of Lieutenant General Chelsea. For him, it no longer mattered whether he marched eastward to Xiduo in the Hukang Valley and rescued Alexander's troops who were surrounded.

Whether it was a trap or not, I reminded myself that the war situation in East India had changed. The Chinese were indeed advancing westward as Alexander said, and the future battlefield was obviously not on the west coast, but on the Imphal line.

The speed of troop assembly is obviously quite satisfactory to the Commander. Troops from southern India are gathered at Bokaro, Seifpur and Jinhati. Troops from western India are gathered at Dhaka and Khulna.

Assembling directly to Imphal saves a lot of time, and accordingly reduces the logistical pressure on Imphal. The food, drink and camping of 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers is not a small sum.

Because Imphal is the headquarters of the Eastward Army, more troops have been assembled. So far, there are two troops, most of which have arrived here. The strength of Imphal has reached more than 28,000

people, but this is obviously not enough to stop the Chinese's attempt to invade East India. This small amount of troops cannot even form a decent line of defense.

Compared with Imphal's several hundred kilometers of border facing the India-Myanmar border, two under-staffed divisions were far from enough. Therefore, Lieutenant General Chelsea issued an order to defend the border in Simpson, Saudia, and Dinsuji.

As long as the troops assembled in Ya, Ramgarh and other places reach more than two-thirds of the establishment, they will immediately move to Imphal.

According to Lieutenant General Chelsea's vision, before the ** division troops can eat Alexander's troops, he must gather at least five divisions with more than 60,000 troops on the Imphal front line to form the first line of defense. Then he can form the first line of defense.

The troops that arrived formed a second line of defense. At this point, Chelsea's strategic direction had completely shifted from rescuing Alexander's troops to defending the ** Division troops from attacking the East Indies.

But this is not enough. Even if all the existing troops stationed in India are collected, there will only be about 100,000 troops. This is not a bad quality of soldiers. If calculated, it will only have about 60,000 to 70,000 available troops at best.

Chelsea looked at the force allocation table and felt guilty. He was not sure whether the Chinese had the ambition to invade East India.

But his overall strategic deployment must focus on this possibility becoming a reality. The Imphal Defense Line requires a large number of troops to fill the gap. But there are only so many troops on hand.

After weighing the pros and cons, Lieutenant General Chelsea, in the name of the Commander of the Eastward March Army of the Indian Army, issued a notice to the Governor-General of India, recruiting all Indian reserve soldiers, including the semi-military National Guard, and incorporated them into the field force sequence.

Before the end of May, a second-line army of about 250,000 people must be formed and march to the Imphal defense line.

As for where so many soldiers come from, this is not a matter for Lieutenant General Chelsea to consider. It is a matter for the British Empire Governor in India. Chelsea now has a dual identity. On the one hand, he is the imperial envoy who carries out the constitutional order, and on the other hand, he is the commander-in-chief.

A powerful military general, even the Governor of India would look at his face. If the Governor does not cooperate, Lieutenant General Chelsea would not mind changing his partner.

By May 19, the number of British and Indian troops gathered in Imphal had reached more than 39,000. On the same day, Tang Qiuli, who was in the small town of Luhatin, received the intelligence from Chu Tian.

"The division pointed out that our special operations detachment has detected that the British and Indian troops assembled in Simpson, Saudia, Dinsukiya and Ramgarh will head to Imphal without waiting for all the assembly to be completed. The specific reason is,

Investigations are continuing.”

Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe had his own judgment on this intelligence. He said to Tang Qiuli: "Commander, based on the intelligence of Captain Chu, can we make the following judgments about the British-Indian Army's Eastward March Army?"

Due to the crisis in Alexander's army, after only nearly half of the troops were assembled, before all the troops were assembled, there was an attempt to go to the battlefield of Cido to rescue Alexander?"

Tang Qiuli shook his head and said: "This is not the case. The troops of the eight brigades directly under the Corps marched with great fanfare for a whole day and night along the left bank of the Hukang River Valley. No matter how lost Alexander was, he would still be able to judge the direction of our action.

He will not fail to send a warning to Chelsea. Regardless of whether Chelsea believes Alexander's warning, at least he understands that Sido is no longer important."

"Moreover, Chelsea should be aware that Sido may be a trap. If his troops rush over in a hurry, there may not be any good results. This is another new change. Looking at Chelsea's deployment, he wants to be on the front line in Imphal.

To build a defense line to block us, Yuhe, the only advantage we have is the seven brigades that entered the East India region in advance. So far, the target has not been exposed."

"The key to the East India Campaign is not to break up the British and Indian troops, but to gather them together and annihilate them. This is the most ideal effect. Can the seven brigades of the Sulu Mobile Corps, which have penetrated deep into the central region of the Indian continent, be able to defeat the enemy?

Before Chelsea realized it, encircling Dhaka, Khulna and other places was the key to the East India campaign. If this step was taken well, it would be equivalent to closing the door from East India to the interior of India. Chelsea would have no chance to escape.

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Zhao Yuhe said: "Commander, I still don't understand. Do the British just sit back and watch Alexander be wiped out by us? The purpose of forming the eastward marching army was to rescue Alexander, but they gave up like this. How can the British be willing to do so?"

Tang Qiuli smiled sarcastically and said: "So what if you don't give in? Alexander was besieged in Xiduo, and it was a dead end. There was no way to save him. Chelsea was very smart. He was worried about repeating Alexander's mistakes, so he changed the battle.

The deployment is to change from marching eastward for rescue to blocking our march westward into East India. This is safer. Didn't you see that he was desperately trying to gather troops at Imphal? He wanted to build a blocking defense line on the Imphal front."

By now, Zhao Yuhe had fully understood that the division commander had already anticipated this by adjusting the battle deployment in time and ordering the troops to separate and encircle the five British-Indian army assembly areas close to the interior of India.

Tang Qiuli continued: "I am only worried about one thing. The seven brigades that penetrate deep into the interior of India travel long distances from the direction of Ledo, Sujia, Gamai, and New Taiji. The troops do not carry heavy equipment and are fighting tough battles.

At that time, I was afraid that I would suffer a loss, so I could only let Le Yiqin's aviation force provide aerial fire support. Fortunately, the British and Indian troops were only second-rate troops, not a tough nut to crack. If we were to fight the Japanese army, I would never

He knows how to pull off such a dangerous move!"

Zhao Yuhe said with a smile: "Commander, you don't have to worry about this. Commander Le has already sent a telegram that his bombers and fighter units are ready. They are just waiting for the division commander's order to blow several targets into rubble.

Ground troops clear the way!"

Tang Qiuli also smiled and said: "This Le Yiqin, his eyes lit up when he heard about the war. However, in the previous air battle in northern Myanmar, he killed the British and Indian air forces in advance.

For the ground forces, a major threat has been solved. Regarding Yuhe, when will the troops from the three brigades of the Sulu Mobile Corps transferred from Xiduo arrive at Luhadin?"

Zhao Yuhe replied succinctly: "According to their current driving speed, they will arrive here before six o'clock tomorrow evening at the latest."

Tang Qiuli suddenly smiled and said: "Yuhe, order the troops directly under the corps to march westward to East India to advance with great fanfare, but not too fast, so as to attract Chelsea's attention and cover the Sulu Mobile Corps.

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"Also, I ordered Deputy Division Commander Tang and Alexander's troops to have lost their role as bait. The troops in Xiduo were to be eliminated on the spot. As for fighting like this, the Xiduo Campaign Headquarters decided on their own. After the battle, the troops

Move westward immediately!"

By now, both Tang Qiuli and Chelsea have a general understanding of the opponent's deployment. Chelsea turned offense to defense and built a defense line in Imphal. Relying on the British's deep foundation in the Indian continent, Chelsea defeated the enemy.

It was a smart move to keep the troops out of the East India region, but Tang Qiuli's early layout would become a fatal move.

At noon on May 19th, at Xiduo in the Hukang River Valley, the headquarters of Lieutenant General Tang Qiusheng, deputy commander of the ** Division and commander-in-chief of the Xiduo campaign, and chief of staff Yu Guanghan hurriedly walked in, "Deputy division commander, received the division's instructions.

Emergency call, Alexander's command has lost its role as a decoy, and ordered us to annihilate us on the spot, and then the troops will immediately move westward! The combat deployment is decided by you!"

Tang Qiusheng was not surprised. When Tang Qiuli ordered the eight brigades of the directly affiliated corps to march westward blatantly along the left bank of the Hukang River Valley, without fear of exposing his intentions, he already realized that there was nothing to delay the Xiduo battlefield.

It makes sense.

Alexander and the tens of thousands of British and Indian remnants have completed their mission. From the bottom of their hearts, with six well-equipped field brigades of more than 100,000 troops, they attacked and were besieged for three days, losing all heavy equipment and tanks.

, the morale dropped to the lowest point, and the tens of thousands of British and Indian troops were sitting there waiting to be killed. Even a peaceful man like Tang Qiusheng could not cheer up.

According to Tang Qiusheng's thinking, there is no need to engage in a big fight in this battle. Alexander is already a ripe melon that will fall off at the first touch. It may be better to solve it in another way. His way is to persuade him to surrender.

Of course, if you want Alexander and tens of thousands of British and Indian soldiers to surrender willingly without any sense of resistance, they must show their due strength and be deterred. What soldiers believe in is strength. In the face of absolute strength, any luck or conspiracy

Power fraud is a meaningless joke.

What Tang Qiusheng had to do was to stage a scene that would make Alexander and his officers and soldiers tremble and feel incontinent when they saw it.

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