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Text Chapter 844 The War of Words among the World¡¯s Big Bosses

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    "Pigs! Bastards! These yellow-skinned bastards!" Jamich roared.  150,000 Soviet troops had been fighting against the National Defense Forces in Afghanistan for two years, and were surrounded and starved to the point of turning green. The Soviet troops, who probably had enough human flesh to eat, were rushing towards us here and there to break out of the encirclement. They were obviously letting the enemy go on purpose!  I'm so angry, I'm going to be so angry!  I have always seen the British Empire cheating on its players. Who has ever seen teammates cheating on the British Empire?  Wait, it seems that Zhongying is not a teammate yet, right?  That is to allow the enemy to cause disaster, yes, to allow the enemy to cause disaster.

    Jamich was like an old woman with a bad mouth, cursing and hurriedly sending the new words he invented to the British-Indian Army Headquarters in Bombay.  As an army with less than 7,000 men, only a dozen 75mm rapid-fire cannons, and not even a few machine guns, trying to block the hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops who were already fighting to break through was like seeking death.

    Here, the 8th British Indian Division suddenly formed its troops, and over there, Bombay was also in chaos.  Lieutenant General Quinan had no choice but to forward the telegram back to China, and then appease Jamich and the 8th British Indian Division, saying that he would personally lead two divisions to support them.  Of course, he did not forget to accuse Yang Qiu and the Wehrmacht in the telegram sent back to London, scolding Yang Qiu and the Wehrmacht bloody.  But he didn't know that at the same time that he sent the telegram, Wang Zhengting and Gu Weijun hurried to the British Embassy in Beijing and solemnly informed Xu Gesen.  He also said that this mistake was because the troops were preparing to celebrate the New Year, so they were not careful and allowed the Soviet troops to escape. However, they are making up for the mistake. They have arrested the officer who made the mistake and mobilized troops from Kabul to Kandahar to intercept the attack and try not to give the British  Friends bring trouble and so on.

    Arrests were indeed made, but only a dozen deserters were arrested. Later that day, they were shot on the spot by Sun Chuanfang without any proof.  Xu Gesen was shocked after hearing the news. He didn't have the time to check the authenticity of the arrest list. He immediately contacted China to inform the Indian troops to take precautions.

    The two telegrams arriving at almost the same time caused an explosion in Whitehall. It seemed that the Japanese army was about to launch a new offensive in Bangladesh and Burma.  The Soviets actually stepped in and came to cause trouble. What kind of thing is this?  This is the crown of the British Empire, and it¡¯s not your backyard. Why are you running here when you have nothing to do?

    "Hold! We must hold Quetta!"

    Churchill, who was planning to occupy Norway, could no longer care about Scandinavia. He immediately ordered that it must be defended and ordered Cunningham to lead the Mediterranean fleet to attack. He also personally sent a telegram to the 8th British Indian Division.

    This telegram is very famous, and its main message is: "Colonel Jamich, you have to guard it, the king is watching you. The fate of the British Empire is in your hands. But don't be nervous, the Soviets will not fight. You  Look, Iran, Kazakhstan and Finland, how badly they were beaten, so as long as you maintain the dignity of the British Empire soldiers, they will automatically collapse when the gun fires."

    No one knows what Jamich thought after receiving the telegram, but the telegram later became evidence that newspapers ridiculed Churchill for knowing nothing about it and for liking to dictate to the military.

    After sending the telegram, Churchill, who had always ignored the media, suddenly realized that this was a good opportunity.  So he hurried to the House of Commons and told the old diehards in the Senate.  India is about to lose it, so stop hiding it and take out all your money.  I'm going to buy American arms and form a hundred divisions to save the world.

    It is definitely impossible to form a hundred divisions. The Senate, which has always been hard-pressed, is not even willing to listen. However, the entry of remnants of the Soviet army into India really caused panic.  Even the royal family was alarmed. George VI immediately tasked Chamberlain to find a way and asked the army to ensure the security of India.

    Chamberlain certainly knew the importance of India.  Regardless of the current invasion by the Japanese army and the internal three-party confrontation, everyone knows that as long as the United Kingdom regains its breath, India will still be India, not even China, which is very close at hand. After all, the colonial foundation of hundreds of years is no joke!  But who would have thought that before China intervened, Stalin, who was almost losing his pants, would actually send his troops to break out of India. This was a disregard for the majesty of the British Empire!

    Chamberlain was actually unable to perform his duties as Prime Minister at this time. The old Lord was struggling to cope with the messy emergencies.  So Churchill stepped forward, wasn't he just a few hundred thousand remnant soldiers?  He immediately sent a telegram to Moscow, asking Stalin to order the Soviet army to stop advancing immediately. He also vowed that if you go to India, the imperial army will be rude.

    Stalin threw the telegram directly into the trash can.  You think I'm stupid!  Stop moving forward?  The Afghan front army has been without supplies for three months. If Zhukov had not stored a large amount of food and ammunition in advance when he was in office, he would have surrendered like Kazakhstan after running out of ammunition and food.  Now they finally broke out of the encirclement and actually stopped the front army from advancing.  This is the great Soviet Red Army, not your criminal British colonial army.  Besides, where else to go than to India?  Mashhad is all mountains, and there are several divisions of the National Defense Forces on the top of the mountains. Marley has also been cut off, and hundreds of tanks are watching eagerly. We can't let the troops run eastward into the deep mountains of Afghanistan, right?  Even Zhukov knewRoad, except India, everything else is a dead end.  Therefore, he would rather abandon the troops to the Indian gc party to strengthen their power (Stalin still had doubts about Nehru) than let the troops go to the Chinese prisoner-of-war camp to lose face, not to mention that he is also doing the crucial task of joining forces with Japan.  What about the sweet dreams of Myanmar and Tibet.

    Of course, he was scolding him in the office. After he finished scolding, he asked Motolov to reply with a telegram. The telegram only had four words: "Nothing has been found about this matter." Then he ran to urge Zhukov to work harder to solve the problem.  In Finland, after all, Chinese New Year is coming soon.

    Facing Stalin who was telling lies, Chamberlain was so angry that he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage. He had to push the tough Churchill back into his chair and asked Wavell, the Arab commander-in-chief who had cooperated with China in Afghanistan and had a good relationship with the Chinese military, to contact the Defense Forces.  The Asian Theater Command himself also sent a telegram to Yang Qiu, requesting him to order strict defense of Kandahar, and the British army was willing to cooperate with the pincer attack.  In short, in one sentence, the Soviet troops cannot be allowed to enter India, otherwise the relations between the two countries will be seriously damaged.

    Yang Qiu was also "innocent", so he immediately summoned Xu Gesen, pointed at Kandahar and sulked: "Ambassador Xu Gesen, look, something big has happened! I said after the Battle of Kunduz that I would give you Kandahar as a strategic buffer.  , but you resisted and rejected my good intentions. Now, we are in big trouble! There is only one division in Kandahar, and 70% of them are Afghan motley crews. How do you want me to defend it?"

    "You have to hold it even if you can't hold it! If the Soviet army breaks into India, whose responsibility is it?"

    Xu Gesen was so anxious that his buttocks burned.  After leaving the presidential palace, I went to the Ministry of National Defense and urged the National Defense Forces to defend Kandahar.  Yue Peng also cooperated, and ordered Sun Chuanfang to defend Kandahar in front of his face. He also strictly ordered Sun Chuanfang to send at least three divisions to pursue them.  The Afghan Air Wing was also asked to attack, making sure to block the Soviet army.  But what Xu Gesen didn't expect was that the National Defense Force, which had always had military orders, was in internal strife!  Air Force Commander He Ning directly refused the order because there was ice over the Afghan plateau and was not suitable for flying.

    The inability of the strongest air force made Xu Gesen very dissatisfied, but dissatisfaction was dissatisfaction. The Chinese Air Force was not the Royal Air Force.  India is not a war zone, and it does not have the responsibility to accompany you to risk your life.  Fortunately, the Army finally gave them face and sent three divisions to step up the pursuit. The entire Kandahar garrison also went out to intercept them risking their lives.  Especially for the heavy artillery regiment stationed in Kandahar, 36 155mm towed howitzers kept bombarding the Soviet vanguard. The clouds generated by the continuous explosion of thousands of artillery shells once made Jamich breathe a sigh of relief.

    But the cannon stopped firing at noon. Jamich was so angry that he sent three telegrams asking why, but he got the same answer: "The ammunition is out."

    A small heavy artillery regiment is located on a plateau with inconvenient supplies.  How much ammunition can be stored?  So Jamich really can't blame others.  Artillery is the courage of the army. Without artillery, how can we stop the attack?  So after paying a heavy price of "37 casualties", the Afghan soldiers "smartly" withdrew first, causing the defense line to collapse.  The main force of the National Defense Force also had to withdraw from the city and wait for reinforcements.

    As soon as the artillery stopped, Ryabyshev, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Afghan Front, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He emerged from the bunker with a slovenly beard, and then called all the officers and political commissars.  Yin Yin warned: "Don't worry about Kandahar, the Chinese don't have enough troops here! Go around, go around! Tell every commander and soldier. Grit your teeth and speed up! Quetta is in front of you, it is India! There is a lot of food there, rush!  "

    I¡¯m going to take my life!

    The distance from Kandahar to Quetta is less than 200 kilometers. Previously, because they did not want to get involved in the Afghan quagmire, the British army had no defense from Quetta to Kandahar. Even the National Defense Forces did not deploy a single soldier to avoid tension between China and Britain.  It's good now, it's completely advantageous for the Soviet army.  The mighty Afghan front troops easily crossed this neglected area and arrived at the gates of Quetta in the evening.

    Major General Kozlov, who is responsible for opening the road, has been fighting in Afghanistan for ten years. He is a veteran officer who participated in the Battle of Kunduz. His subordinates are also veterans who have been entangled with Sun Chuanfang for more than a year. In terms of strength, they are much more powerful than the Kazakh front army.  But he still didn't dare to be careless. After all, he was facing a British army that he had never fought before, and there were three infantry divisions of the National Defense Forces chasing behind him. A slight delay would be the danger of being wiped out.  So now the troops have only one way to survive, which is to capture Quetta in the shortest possible time, then cross the Suleiman Mountains into the Indian Great Plains and join the Indian gc party and guerrillas in Uttar Pradesh, India.  Under his personal leadership, even the usual artillery preparations were filtered out, and the entire motorized infantry division directly launched a sea of ????people charge.

    Facing the overwhelming Soviet army, the British and Canadian soldiers in the 8th British-Indian Division were still very loyal to their duties, because they knew that as long as they defended for two to three days, the reinforcements from the rear and the arriving Wehrmacht troops would be able to choke this Soviet army.  broken.  But what made Jamiki despair was that most of the Sikh soldiers in the army had long been frightened. Seeing the Soviet army's heroic charge, they turned around and ran away after less than two hours of fighting.  "It's over!" Jamic suddenly exclaimed when he saw this scene.He was stunned, and finally the adjutant asked the soldiers to hold him up before he escaped.

    "Ran?"

    Kozlov, who was already prepared for the total annihilation of his army, was stunned. He didn¡¯t even lose a single battalion!  You know, coming out this time is really a desperate move!  Because they had been besieged for too long, each person only brought four days of food rations. All the tanks were blown up, and the armored vehicles and cars only had one-way fuel. In addition, hundreds of people marched forcibly for two days and nights to avoid the severe cold and freezing rain of the Chinese Air Force.  Kilometers, the soldiers have already been seriously overdrawn. It can be said that as long as a random army comes to block it for a day, the entire army will collapse!

    Therefore, he was still very suspicious of this negligible price, thinking that the British army was going to delay the guerrilla war, and he was suspicious and sent a small force to search and advance until the reconnaissance force reported that the British army could no longer be seen in Quetta, and the city was full of discarded arms and ammunition.  After collecting supplies, I really believed that the British had escaped.

    Rush, grab it!

    The starved Soviet army rushed into Quetta and immediately caused a catastrophe. The red-eyed Soviet army took away almost all the food and livestock in the city. At least 500 women were killed by the well-fed Soviet army.  The army raped him, and the large number of weapons and reserves that Jamiki had no time to blow up became the trophies of others.  When the three infantry divisions of the Turkmen Army arrived the next morning, it was as if a tornado had ravaged the place. The mules and horses were gone, and the food was gone.  Just three feet away from scratching the ground!  The whole city was filled with wailing people.

    Since the disaster was caused by oneself, one should take care of the aftermath, right?  So Sun Chuanfang ordered to stop the pursuit, and transferred a large amount of food from the rear to appease the people, at least to ensure that they could survive the winter safely.  Naturally, it would be impossible to continue the pursuit after such a delay, not to mention that there was India in front, and there was no agreement with the United Kingdom to jointly deal with the Soviet Union, so the three divisions settled in Quetta with peace of mind.

    Here, Sun Chuanfang began to clean up the remnants of the small group, and joined forces with Mashhad and Mare to start preparing for the spring offensive. Over there, Lieutenant General Kuinan was unlucky.  When he arrived at Sibi by train with ten thousand people, he happened to encounter the remnants of Jamiki's troops.  Only then did we know that Quetta had been lost, so we had to gather our troops to appease the remaining soldiers, and then organize a defense on the spot.

    Ryabyshev, who had no pursuers, was not in a hurry, and marched slowly with 150,000 troops to adjust the status of the troops.  After all, the soldiers of the Afghan Army had never enjoyed such a leisurely life for a long time. Thinking back to the days when they were bombed by planes or bombarded by artillery, hiding in caves and eating compressed biscuits every day, now it is simply paradise, so it finally took three days to arrive.  Sibi.  One has to be blocked and the other has to go to Uttar Pradesh.  The two sides immediately started a "big battle" in Sibi.  It was said to be a big battle, but it was actually a contest between Kozlov's motorized infantry division and Kuinan's half-British Indian division.  Facing the Soviet veterans who had fought in Afghanistan for several years, Quinan sent out all his Australian battalions but was unable to stop them. He only held on for one day before being dispersed by Kozlov.  More than five thousand Indian soldiers became prisoners.

    Ryabyshev happily praised Kozlov and the motorized infantry division, and reported the "great victory" to Moscow.  When a staff officer saw that the British Indian Division was so weak, he suddenly thought that he should go south to attack Bombay!  Drive out the British in one fell swoop and liberate all of India.  Fortunately, Ryabyshev is more sensible and the British Indian Division is weak.  But the Soviet troops were outsiders after all, and the three factions of the National Congress, the Muslim League and the Democratic Party each had hundreds of thousands of guerrillas.  What's more, India has hundreds of millions of people.  They had lost most of their heavy equipment and were seriously short of ammunition, so they rejected the suggestion and asked the troops to continue recruiting livestock along the way to avoid entanglements and speed up the advance towards Uttar Pradesh.

    Quetta was lost and the Battle of Sibi was defeated. Now the British Empire was completely shaken!  I don't know who it was, but he actually published the news in the newspapers. As a result, the whole of Britain fell into an uproar.  In addition, the Soviet army had already gained the upper hand in Finland. Now the British people gave up and gathered tens of thousands of people in Downing Street to express that they had had enough and demanded that Chamberlain step down.

    Hitler also took the opportunity to add insult to injury and openly claimed that the high-caste white people in India were of Aryan descent, so Germany should help them, form an Aryan Legion, and join forces with the Soviet Union to liberate all of India.  "." Stalin wished he could kill Mustache himself. Isn't this pushing me into a pit of fire?  !  After hating Mustache, he had to face Ryabyshev's equipment requesting help telegram, so he immediately asked Motolov to contact Japan.  After all, the Afghan front forces lost most of their heavy equipment this time and were extremely short of ammunition. They could not transport it themselves and had to ask Japan for help.

    Hirohito was in a dilemma and came to Nagata and Tojo Hideki to discuss.  Nagata directly refused, believing that it was meaningless to support the Soviet Union alone. Instead, it would prompt Britain to seek help from China and open the Indian battlefield for Yang Qiu to enter.  However, Hideki Tojo strongly supported it, believing that Japan needed to maintain a two-sided attack to ensure that Yang Qiu did not dare to attack Japan and successfully digest Nanyang.  The two also fought over this, and the quarrel turned upside down.  But in the end, the ambitious Hirohito made the decision to hand over part of the weapons seized in Malaya, the Philippines and other places to Ryabyshev.

      Of course, it is for sale and requires money.

    This conflict caused Nagata Tetsuzan and Tojo Hideki to completely break up. In the end, he simply forced Konoe Fumimaro to resign and prepared to elect the naval faction Mitsumasa Yoneuchi as prime minister to curb the increasingly greedy mainland faction Tojo Hideki.  However, this naked betrayal of the Army caused him to be collectively besieged by the Army, and Japan's political situation once again fell into chaos.

    Mussolini in the Mediterranean also jumped out to see the good show, saying that Italy was happy to help Britain, just like it did in the Spanish Civil War, and was willing to send 500,000 troops to exterminate the gcist dictatorship.  In the end, it even alerted the White House. Roosevelt immediately called Churchill and sent five 10,000-ton ships loaded with arms to Bombay.

    The world¡¯s big guys came together, and newspapers around the world began to report on this war of words between the big guys. Only Chamberlain was really anxious!  Immediately instruct the army, navy and air force to destroy the Soviet troops entering India.  But the strange thing is that Lord Churchill, who has always loved the limelight and claimed to be the only savior of the British Empire, suddenly became leisurely.  He was indifferent to domestic politics and did not participate in the war of words between the bosses. Instead, he called French Prime Minister Reno and said: "Don't let China's 22 fleet use Djibouti port anymore, and neither can Seychelles."

    Renault was confused. Why did you suddenly mention Djibouti when you don¡¯t care about Norway and India?  He was very familiar with this fat man who was evil-hearted and full of bad intentions, and had always been a friend of the Taoist but not a poor man, so he immediately became vigilant.  Of course, Churchill would not tell the truth. He deliberately frightened him by saying that he suspected collusion between China and Germany and that cooperation must be suspended first.  Let¡¯s talk about observation.  Renault was really convinced. After all, China and Germany had many pre-war agreements and military cooperation.  Moreover, France also wanted to avenge Yang Qiu's attack on the Soviet Union, which caused France to lose its most important eastern containment force. Therefore, the French government not only did not prevent the French gc party from organizing an international column to fight in the Soviet Union, but also secretly donated a large amount of weapons and equipment.  Moreover, Britain is the most important ally, so Renault finally agreed to suspend Sino-French military cooperation.

    Of course, Renault also needs China. After all, the French East Indies are still under the protection of the Chinese Navy.  If Yang Qiu is offended by "tearing up the Sino-French South China Sea Agreement", I am afraid the Japanese army will pounce immediately.  Therefore, Darlan refused to carry out this order for a time. It was not until Reno explained the importance of Britain in detail that the naval leader, who had always been unfriendly to Britain, slowly sent a telegram to Chinese Navy Commander Chen Shaokuan.  The excuse is that Djibouti's equipment is aging and the port needs to be closed for several months for overhaul. You should find a place to endure it first.

    As soon as Darlang sent the telegram, Wu Huanxian and Ayub had already led their troops to Dera Gazihan at the eastern end of the Suleiman Mountains.

    Wu Huanxian is very excited.  The 16th Plateau Brigade and the two Muslim League divisions could not stop the Soviet army.  What's more, his coming this time is not to obstruct, but to give the Muslim League a safety explanation, hoping to consume as much of the Soviet army as possible.  So he didn't take the initiative to enter the mountains to ambush.  Instead, we chose this place where the remaining mountains are remaining as a blocking point.  Unlike Zhuo Fan who defended the city, he followed the fighting habits of mountain troops and dispersed his troops at key points on both wings, opening up the road leading to Dragazihan, forming an inverted gourd ambush circle.

    This kind of deployment surprised Ayub and the Muslim League officers. Why not enter better mountainous areas?  After explanation, they understood that the Suleyman Mountains were the last natural barrier to enter the Indian Great Plains. Ryabeyshev would definitely be extra careful. In order to avoid the ambush, he would definitely order a day and night journey and possibly change routes multiple times. In this way, the Soviet army would be  They must be very tired, and they will definitely relax their vigilance when they get out of the mountains.

    In the end, the situation was exactly as Wu Huanxian had judged. Ryabyshev breathed a sigh of relief after leading his troops out of the mountain. The soldiers below also relaxed their vigilance. They never expected that after continuously defeating the British army, they would be attacked by 30,000 troops at the end of the mountain.  ambush.  The offensive started with the 16 12-tube 107 rocket launchers of the 16th Brigade. This kind of rocket launcher that can be towed by only one horse is very popular with mountainous and lightly-armed troops. However, the manufacturing of rockets is troublesome, so the equipment has not yet been popularized.  .

    One rocket per second rushed towards the resting Soviet camp from six kilometers away. The densely packed rockets trailed orange-red tail flames, leaving gray-brown trails in the sky, hitting them like falling meteorites.  Soviet Army.  Since there was no loud noise when the heavy artillery was fired, the Soviet troops did not realize they were under attack until the shells fell.  The rumbling explosion startled Ryabyshev and other officers. At first they thought it was a Chinese or British bomber, but when they saw the fireball on the ground, they realized it was a heavy artillery unit.  The power created by the 16 107 rocket launchers was astonishing. From a distance, it looked like three or four artillery regiments were firing. Even the Muslim League officers almost swallowed their tongues. I didn¡¯t expect such a weird little thing to fight so hard.  fierce.

    After the mortars and Ayub's artillery battalion also fired continuously from all directions, Ryabyshev and Kozlov mistakenly judged that they were ambushing the main force of the British army. In order to avoid entanglement, they simply gave up even entering the city and ordered the troops to  Accelerate tongguo Indus River.

    The dry season in winter helped Ryabyshev a lot, and the engineers didn¡¯t spend much time.With enough strength, a pontoon bridge was built.  As a result, a very strange scene occurred in the Dragazihan blockade. The Soviet army, which had no intention of fighting, only sent a small number of troops to block the blockade. The main force was like bulls with rough scalps and thick flesh that were not afraid of bloodshed. They kept breaking through the eight-shaped opening deliberately released by Wu Huanxian.  The 10,000 soldiers and 20,000 Muslim League soldiers of the 16th Brigade were unable to kill each other, so they simply concentrated all their firepower on the Bazikou.

    Just like this, a desperate fight and a desperate escape continued until the next morning. After the belated British bombers dropped more than a hundred small bombs, the blocking war came to an end. A total of 8,000 Soviet troops were killed or killed.  Wound prisoners.  In the following days, Wu Huanxian launched many pursuit battles. However, after entering the plains, the Soviet army's actions accelerated significantly and there were more roads to choose from. Therefore, after chasing Bahawalpur on the edge of the desert, they gave up their plan to rush into the desert and withdrew their troops.  Return to Peshawar.

    The British troops who arrived later also tried to stop Ryabyshev many times, but they were either defeated and given equipment for free, or they were forced to escape at night. As hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops quickly approached Delhi, India was suddenly in chaos  ¡­(To be continued¡­)
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