Age of Conquest Reborn

When Chu Tian heard what Liao Zhenbang said, he was a little surprised. The area where the Second Brigade set up an ambush was the only way from Saifpur to Imphal. The British and Indian troops would inevitably take this road to gather in Imphal, but

It's a matter of time. Is it necessary to be excited and surprised in Brigadier Liao's tone?

Chu Tian didn't pay much attention, and Liao Zhenbang stabbed him a few more times and said: "Captain Chu, look, I, old Liao, have been fighting for ** years, and I have never seen anyone marching like this. This time they are wide open."

Eyesighted!"

Chu Tian raised the telescope curiously and took a look, "Puchi" happy. This was probably the first time he was sincerely happy since he led the detachment deep into the Indian mainland. According to the intelligence he had detected, the British and Indian soldiers gathered in Seifpur

army unit

It is called the Fourth Division of the Indian Army. It has a full strength of more than 13,000 troops. Now, only more than 9,000 troops have arrived. This is normal. The rest are still continuing to gather. The key is the behavior of the British and Indian troops.

The formation of the army made him laugh uncontrollably.

It’s not bad. The soldiers of the British and Indian Army have all obtained vehicles to travel. There are no walkers, but the means of transportation are all kinds. Some of them are trucks, which are packed with water, and some of them are riding bicycles.

What surprised people was that the soldiers of the British and Indian Army actually used ox carts and donkey carts as means of transportation. What's more, they even rode donkeys and wandered in the marching column.

Cars, trucks towing artillery, bicycles, ox-carts and donkey-carts, soldiers riding donkeys, the whistles of trucks, soldiers driving cattle, and the shouts of donkeys all mixed together to form a strange sound in the early morning light.

Chu Tian couldn't help but shake his head when looking at the beautiful scenery.

However, the British-Indian army that came out from Seifpur did not even send any leading soldiers. More than 9,000 people were dragged along the road for more than ten kilometers, marching and fighting here and there.

It was more relaxing and comfortable than an outing. The bullock cart blocked the road of the truck, and the piercing whistle caused the soldiers from both sides to curse each other. There was a quarrel.

Chu Tian put down the telescope, looked at Liao Zhenbang who was laughing happily, and asked: "Commander Liao, the target has appeared, are you going to fight like this?"

Liao Zhenbang stopped laughing and replied: "Captain Chu, you are just a bunch of bastards who are making fools of themselves. Look, are they preparing for a war? Is it an ambush battle? The old routine, cut off the head and tail, cut in the middle, it turns out that I

I'm still a little worried. It's hard to fight this battle without heavy weapons. We don't need them now. We can kill more than half of the British and Indian troops with light and heavy machine guns and mortars. The rest will be eaten in one bite by a final assault!"

Chu Tian reminded: "Commander Liao, do you want to call for air fire support from the aviation force? It is safer to fight. Our special operations detachment has requested to participate in the battle. Anyway, we have nothing to do, so you can assign tasks!"

Liao Zhenbang grinned and said: "These things are not worth the price of a bomb. We don't need to use the aviation force. We can save it if we can! Our military strength exceeds that of the British and Indian troops, which is more than 7,000 people. We are planning an ambush again, so we will cover them."

Dumplings, 100% sure, I said

Captain Chu, please spare me. In the eyes of the division commander, all of your soldiers are precious little pimples. If there are casualties, the division commander won’t eat me? This is a pure infantry job, so you should specialize in it.

On the battle detachment, that's overkill!"

Seeing that Chu Tian did not insist anymore, Liao Zhenbang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to the combat staff: "Order, the first regiment will cut off the head, the second regiment will cut off the tail, the third regiment and the brigade team will attack in the middle, cut in the middle, and two

The battle will be over within an hour. When the battle begins, the fourth regiment will immediately leave the battlefield and occupy Seifpur. I will spend the night in the city today!"

The British and Indian soldiers walking at the front were wandering on various vehicles. Suddenly, there was a strange roar in the sky. If you were a veteran with rich combat experience, you would definitely be able to hear it. It was the sound of countless rounds.

The sound of mortar shells falling head-on, but these rookies stationed in the Indian Army's 4th Division probably had never even seen a mortar a few times.

Everyone stared with fascinated eyes, looking around for what the noise was, "Boom, boom, boom!" A series of loud noises exploded in the marching column of the British and Indian troops. Smoke filled the air, shrapnel flew everywhere, and aroused

In the smoke column, the bodies of British and Indian soldiers flew up into the air. Although the heavy artillery regiment of Liao Zhenbang's brigade remained in Magao, with hundreds of mortars, they fired a volley of heavy artillery regiments.

The British and Indian soldiers in front were crying and howling in a chaotic mess. The entire British and Indian marching column had not yet reacted. Then, there was another earth-shaking loud noise from behind, and the panicked British and Indian soldiers were beaten back and forth.

The soldiers ran towards the center in a panic and huddled together. Some of them ran around aimlessly, trying to find a hiding place.

Liao Zhenbang laughed loudly and ordered: "The third regiment and the team directly under the brigade, cut in the middle and do it cleanly!"

After the sound of mortars stopped, there was the roar of light and heavy machine guns. At around 5:30 in the morning, the ambush battle in the southeast of Seifpur ended successfully. The second brigade completely annihilated the fourth Indian army stationed with slight casualties.

The division had more than 9,000 people, of which more than 5,000 were killed and more than 3,000 were captured. The entire battle lasted an hour and a half and ended. At the same time, the Fourth Regiment of the Second Brigade successfully occupied Seyi, which was already an empty city.

Fubul.

The battle started so suddenly that the Fourth Division of the British and Indian Army did not even have time to warn and report to the commander of the Eastward Army, Lieutenant General Chelsea.

After receiving the telegram from Liao Zhenbang, Tang Qiuli, who was at the Luhading headquarters, happily said to Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe: "Okay, Liao Zhenbang won the first battle and made a good start. He sent an order to commend him. At the same time, he ordered

Liao Zhenbang's brigade was deployed along the western side of Saifpur to guard against enemy forces coming from the interior of India."

As Liao Zhenbang's second brigade fired the first shot of the East India Campaign, troops from other directions launched rapid attacks on the British and Indian troops who had left the assembly area and assembled in the direction of Imphal. By noon that day,

The First Brigade of the Sulu Mobile Corps destroyed the British and Indian troops in the area and occupied Dhaka.

After the troops of the third brigade annihilated most of the divisions of the British and Indian troops in the field, they marched into Khulna. The fourth and fifth brigades used their superior strength to attack Pokaro before the British and Indian troops left the assembly area.

A sudden attack was launched. After four hours of fighting, more than 10,000 British and Indian troops in the area were wiped out and Pokaro was occupied.

The 6th and 7th brigades fought against the British Indian troops in Zhenhati. After annihilating one of them in the wild, they immediately surrounded Zhenhati. Zhenhati was the most defensive town among the five attack targets.

, about 4,000 British and Indian troops resisted desperately. The troops attacked for two hours but failed. Finally, Le Yiqin's aviation force was called to provide air fire support.

After five hours of fierce fighting, the 6th and 7th brigades of the Sulu Mobile Corps completely annihilated the British and Indian defenders of Zhenhati and occupied Zhenhati. By about 11 noon on May 21, the Sulu Mobile Corps

The troops of the seven brigades have all completed the campaign objectives. Dhaka, Khulna, Pokaro, Saifpur, and Jinhati, five important towns close to the interior of the Indian mainland, fell into the hands of the ** division troops.

Immediately, the division commander Tang Qiuli ordered all ministries to build a front line of more than 300 kilometers from Dhaka at the southern foot of the Himalayas in the north to Zhenhati at the mouth of the Ganges in the south, centering on the existing occupied area, to control the East India region.

, cut off from the Indian continent with a single cut, and all the passages for the eastward advancing army to retreat to the interior of the Indian continent were blocked.

Alarms were raised frequently. After receiving emergency telegrams from various places, Lieutenant General Chelsea, the commander of the Eastward March Army in Imphal, could not believe that this was true. The intelligence he had revealed that Tang Qiuli entered the East India region.

The troops, with only eight brigades, are still confronting their own troops on the Naga Hills line. Could it be that the ** division troops that attacked Dhaka, Khulna, Pokaro, Seifpur, and Jinhati came from

Falling from the sky?

What's more, the five assembly areas of Appellate are two to three hundred kilometers away from Imphal. Tang Qiuli actually gave up the target near Imphal, chose the distance for the nearer, and attacked the Appellate area first. What does that mean? His troops have already entered in advance.

He entered the East India region, but it was just that his own intelligence and reconnaissance departments did not discover it.

Chelsea had a rough idea of ​​the strength of the five assembly points. There were not even 10,000 but seven or eight thousand men. The whole army could be wiped out within a few hours. The troops used by Tang Qiuli must have at least one division at each location.

Counting this way, the ** division troops that entered the East India region already numbered fifteen divisions and more than 200,000 men. The sweat on Chelsea's face dropped.

Chelsea realized the seriousness of the problem. Dhaka, Khulna, Pokaro, Saifpur, and Jinhati were lost. Their eastward marching army and the retreat channels to the interior of the Indian mainland were all blocked, that is,

It is said that the entire East India region was cut off from the Indian continent by Tang Qiuli, and Imphal has become a dead place.

Chelsea was extremely frightened. She appealed to the British Cabinet and the General Staff and repeatedly begged Prime Minister Churchill to mobilize American aircraft to join the war. At the same time, Chelsea ordered the second-line army troops that were being assembled to immediately attack Darfur with the existing strength.

Kharna, Khulna, Bokaro, Saifpur, Jinhati and other places, launch counterattacks, be sure to recapture the above-mentioned areas, and ensure smooth communication between the eastward advancing army and the interior of the Indian mainland.

Chelsea was a little worried. He had realized that Tang Qiuli had designed traps and traps one after another during the entire battle against the Indian troops. First, Alexander's troops were shot, and the entire army was annihilated in the west of the Hukang Valley.

Then, it was his turn to be unlucky and his escape route was cut off. Any commander would understand the seriousness of the problem.

On the morning of May 21, during this unusual half-day, the entire land of East India was filled with the roar of guns and artillery. Almost half of the gathering areas of the British and Indian troops were attacked by the ** division troops, and

Lost one after another.

Lieutenant General Chelsea, the commander of the British-Indian Army's Eastward March, looked at this chaos, his eyes were straight, and he didn't know where to start.

(To be continued)