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    Rangpur, an important town in northern Bangladesh, is littered with corpses and densely packed craters extending from the Gorodoya River to the small town.  The lush woods were blown to pieces, and there were traces of explosions and battles everywhere.  In the winding and almost shapeless trench, the artillery periscope with a corner broken off quietly poked out.  The owner of the periscope is a second lieutenant company commander of the 166th Division named Huang Shi'an. His regiment, together with two infantry regiments of the 5th Division of the Group Army and the 713th Regiment of the 154th Division, are responsible for holding back the four Suyin divisions here.  In order to prevent the Soviet and Indian troops from discovering the problem, Fei Wenhua had always maintained a posture of only four regiments. Even though Rangbull's strength had increased to seven regiments and a rocket artillery regiment, he still adopted a rotation system to ensure that he would not be  The enemy saw the clues.

    Until last night, I didn¡¯t know what kind of crazy medicine those Soviets, who were like lost dogs in India, had taken, and they bombarded the entire night regardless of ammunition consumption, and launched three waves of charges in a row, so they had to invest an extra regiment.  The trenches in front of them have almost been filled, and the positions are full of corpses and blood. The hot and humid climate makes the trenches emit an unpleasant stench.  After six days and six nights of fighting, he only had more than 60 guns left, and almost everyone was injured. He only had four machine guns left, and the only supporting firepower was a 60mm mortar.  After extending the periscope, he saw a pair of cloudy dead fish eyes. A Soviet second lieutenant whose legs were blown off was lying less than ten meters in front of him, staring lifelessly into the periscope.  "Mad! Scared me!" the second lieutenant spat without any panic. After days of fierce fighting and killing, he and the soldiers had already become numb to the corpses.

    "How is the company commander?"

    ¡°I can¡¯t see clearly, it seems like there is a gathering, there are at least three to four hundred people.¡±

    "You're so paralyzed! Why can't I kill you all?" After hearing this, a platoon leader sprayed bloody saliva directly onto the corpse of a Soviet soldier next to him, and kicked him a few times.  He took out half a pack of crumpled cigarettes from his pocket and put it into his mouth, lit it with a kerosene lighter and took two long puffs before exhaling.  He complained: "Company commander, why do you think we came all the way from Kunming to this shitty place?"

    "Fight! What else can we do?" Huang Shi'an took the cigarette from his hand and sat down on the pile of corpses.

    "Then there's no need to come here to fight? Isn't it better to go to Myanmar from Yunnan to fight?"

    "I don't know either. I heard from the regiment leader that the higher-ups are afraid that the Japanese soldiers in Bangladesh and the Soviets and Indians here will collude with each other and threaten the southwest of our country, so they asked us to cut off the connection between the Japanese and India."

    "Afraid of a ball! Indian soldiers. It's not like they haven't fought in the past few days. Look at those turbaned men. They can't even bend down and move. They lie on the ground when the gun goes off. Madh, don't you know Indian women?  Is this the same virtue? If so, when the gun is empty, I will take the gun to the town and fire two shots, and there will be no need to spread out the bed."

    "Haha" The soldiers who gathered around were all amused.  Even Huang Shi'an gave a false kick and cursed with a smile: "Look at you, you are such a bear, you are a bitch all the time. Sooner or later you will die on a woman's belly." After scolding, he became serious: "Seriously, you know India  How many people are there? I tell you, 200 million! Listen clearly. It¡¯s 200 million! What are the Soviets best at? It¡¯s not just demagoguery. If they were able to deceive five or six million soldiers, they would fight with the Japanese.  In Yunnan and Guangxi, how many people on the border have to leave their homes? Not to mention that we have to fight against Central Asia, Persia and Japan. How can we have so much energy?"

    The soldiers nodded repeatedly, and even the platoon leader understood and said angrily: "Mad! I will fuck him more later. No matter what, I can't let them seduce so many soldiers and horses!"

    "Yes, everyone will target the Soviet soldiers later. Look at them" The sniper held his gun. Just as he said this, a shell passed over the trench and hit the woods behind.  "Boom, boom, boom!" The dense artillery shells fell like raindrops, and Huang Shi'an and his comrades took their positions as if they were beaten to death.  When they were ready, they saw a BT7 tank rushing up again with four to five hundred Soviet and Indian soldiers.

    "Be careful of the tanks! Throw bombs and prepare 80 fire." The Soviet and Indian troops attacking Rangpur attacked again. They even sent tanks that had only been used once in the past few days, apparently to overwhelm the position in one go.  Amidst the crunching sound, the BT7 tank drove faster and faster, and appeared in front of the position a few minutes later.  "Grenade!" Huang Shi'an yelled, and the grenadier rushed out of the position with the 80mm recoilless gun, knelt on one knee, pointed it at the front of the tank, and pulled the trigger hard.  boom!  In a ball of flames, the BT7 tank turned into a fireball. Just as it was about to crawl back after the grenade hit, it was hit in the thigh by a Soviet bullet from behind. It lay on the ground unable to move.  "Machine gun cover me!" Seeing this, Huang Shi'an jumped out of the trench with two comrades, and pulled and pulled the injured grenade back to the trench.

    Not only did the Soviet and Indian soldiers who lost their tanks not retreat, but the artillery fire became more intense. Soldiers were constantly hit by shrapnel and fell in the trenches.  "Chief of Staff! Let's go up.""In the command post, the three regiment commanders who came to support one after another after the battle broke out clenched their fists, their faces red and veins pulsing around their necks. In the past six days, a total of six regiments of the 153rd and 154th Divisions transferred from Afghanistan arrived.  In India, two participated in the assault on Steel City, one went to support Siljar, and the remaining three were transferred to Rangpur, including the rocket artillery regiment of the Seventh Army. But they were afraid of investing too many troops at once to scare away Kozilo  Husband, Fei Wenhua had to endure a huge sacrifice and deliberately suppressed the support troops in his hands, creating the illusion that the position was crumbling, inducing the four Suyin divisions to continue the attack, and holding them back from escaping back to Steel City.

    The battle for the position is approaching fierce. Even though no less than 4,000 corpses have been left behind in six days, the four Soviet Indian divisions headed by Soviet veterans are still surging towards the outer position of Rangpurchen like a ferocious wave!  In the trenches, soldiers from both sides had rolled into a ball, strangling necks and gouging out eyes. Engineers with bayonets were stabbing each other's flesh with shovels. Grenades were banging on people's heads. Occasionally, someone fired a grenade and fell down around them with an explosion.  A piece of people.  Everyone was trying their best to kill the people in front of them. The shallow trenches were like a Shura hell, with layers of dead officers and soldiers on both sides.  Signal flares rose from the position one after another, which meant that the position was close to collapse and was in urgent need of reinforcements. When the reserve team behind, which had suffered nearly half of their casualties, saw the signal flares, they rushed into the trenches again under the heavy bullets.

    This kind of strangulation, which was close to hand-to-hand fighting, made Fei Wenhua sweat profusely and his fists became watery.  But Li Zongren's order was to receive a telegram before he could fight back.  "Chief of Staff!" A regimental commander's eyes turned red when he saw that he didn't give the order.  If it weren't for the years of strict military regulations.  I'm afraid he has bypassed the command post and rushed forward with his soldiers.  Just when tensions were rising in the headquarters and Fei Wenhua was so anxious that he was sweating all over his body, the voice that had been waiting for six days finally rang out.  "Report! It's a telegram from the commander! Porcaro, Porcaro Steel City is ours!" The staff officer jumped up excitedly!  It doesn¡¯t take much profound military knowledge to know that capturing Pokaro Steel City means that the National Defense Forces have established a foothold in Jharkhand.  As long as follow-up support can keep up, it won't take a few days to occupy the entire state.  This is tantamount to breaking the three-sided encirclement and suppression by the Communist Party of India, the Congress Party and the Japanese army, and not only implementing a counter-encirclement in East and West Bengal controlled by the Japanese army in one fell swoop!  It also directly threatens Uttar Pradesh, the stronghold of the Communist Party of India!

    "What are you waiting for? Attack! Attack! Attack!" After holding on for six days, the anger of being suppressed and beaten by the enemy completely burst out at this moment.  The roar of joy and counterattack made Fei Wenhua's whole body feel hot.  Three infantry regiments that were already ready to attack joined the battlefield. Thirty-six hidden rocket launchers roared wildly at the same time. The position that was shaky just now was instantly unbreakable.

    "Company Commander, Company Commander! Look!" Huang Shi'an had just killed a Soviet soldier. Before he could take aim at the next target, he was forced to twist his body by the blood-covered platoon leader.  When I saw the densely packed support troops along the trenches, a rush of blood rushed to my brain, and I burst into tears!  "National Defense Forces. Attack!" As this slogan from Wuchang resounded throughout Rangpur, the Chinese finally gained a foothold in the South Asian subcontinent.

    After learning that Porcaro was lost, his retreat was cut off and he was already at the end of his rope.  Kozlov, whose ammunition was basically exhausted, did not make any struggle, leaving more than 4,000 corpses behind, and evacuated to Jamshedpur through Japanese-controlled West Bengal.  Shojiro Iida, who attacked Siljar and Imphal, was also in a state of shock. He did not expect that West Bengal would be threatened overnight.  They had no choice but to give up the attack and retreat to Dhaka and Calcutta first.  At the same time, Chuikov immediately changed from defense to offense.  An agreement was reached overnight with Nehru's Indian National Army, and a total of 400,000 troops were stationed on the front line of Burhanpur and Nagpur, waiting for fighter planes to appear.  Considering that Uttar Pradesh was under direct threat, he also transferred four troops to Varasina to guard this strategic point on the Ganges River entering the north.

    Whether it was Auchinleck or Kuinan, they all shouted excitedly after learning that Li Zongren had raided Bocaro Steel City.  Even Churchill personally called the Indian Allied Forces Command to thank Li Zongren and the China-India Group Army for bringing the Indian war situation, which was precarious just a few days ago, into a strategic stalemate.

    On October 23, the day Li Zongren occupied Bokaro Steel City, he sent two more regiments to attack Dhanbad.  After the 19th Infantry Division of the Communist Party of India stationed here learned that Steel City had been lost, the Indian soldiers, who were severely undertrained, had no intention of fighting. Even if the Soviet war supervisory battalion suppressed the formation and killed hundreds of deserters in a row, they still could not reverse the defeat.  The battle lasted only three hours, and 5,000 Indian soldiers were captured, and the rest were all routed. Only a small number fled into West Bengal, from where they detoured to Jamshedpur to join Kozlov.

    Because the Indian soldiers dispersed so quickly, even the copper smelting plants and copper mines were not destroyed.  Regrettably, according to Indian soldiers, the reserves were here five days ago. Ten thousand tons of copper ingots and three hundred thousand tons of crude steel from Bokaro Steel City that were originally intended to be shipped to the United Kingdom have been transported back to Uttar Pradesh by the Communist Party of India. There are also about  Three thousand tons of copper ingots were handed over to the Japanese under the agreement.

    ?After taking Dhanbad, Li Zongren went non-stop and launched attacks on Asansol in West Bengal and Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand.  Sani Roman, who had lost all his heavy weapons, could not withstand the impact of the armored regiment at all. By the afternoon of the next day, he withdrew from the city and retreated to Raul Kela, Orissa. Together with Kozlov, he guarded the passage south from Ranchi.  .  At the same time, Li Zongren secretly sent troops to occupy the Mokobodhi temple complex and a large number of temples northeast of Bokaro under the pretext of searching for enemy troops, and transported at least 2,000 precious cultural relics and a large amount of gold treasures back to the country overnight.  Later, this "search" evolved into a routine mission. According to post-war investigations by the British and Indian governments, at least 50,000 Indian cultural relics, gold, silver and jewelry worth 3 billion yuan were robbed by Chinese troops stationed in India during the war.  China also stole a large amount of materials from India, including one ton of ore, 20 million tons of crude steel, and 500,000 tons of copper

    "Bokaro Steel City was damaged by less than 40%? Dhanbad only went to two regiments and captured 5,000 people? Even the copper mines and copper smelting plants remained intact?" Inside the frontline headquarters of the Abadan Persian Theater,  Bai Chongxi flipped through the battle report he had just received under the lamp, with a look of disbelief on his face.  Even the officers of the Persian Gulf Army, such as Li Mingrui and Zhu Jiande, were secretly dumbfounded.  "Haha, I didn't believe it at first. I even asked the aircraft carrier Tibet to send a reconnaissance plane to confirm it in person." Zhu Binhou smiled beside him and said: "Only from the plane did we know that the one stationed in Dhanbad is an all-India division, and the soldiers are not fully trained.  Three months.¡±

    "No wonder, I asked how could Lao Li be so brave." Bai Chongxi laughed.  He and Li Zongren are from the same hometown and classmates, and they are also best friends. His old friend became famous in India, and he was also very happy.

    Zhu Jiande also smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Why do these Indians come here?"

    "That can't be said. Nehru actually grasped the timing of his launch very well. We were attacked by the Soviet Union and the Japanese, and Britain itself could not protect itself. There were 200,000 Soviet troops inside to help. Relying on India's manpower and material resources, if we could save a few  Steel plants and industrial facilities are not enough to arm an army of five to six million people. What a pity!Lao Li was too cruel this time and cut off their seven inches. Otherwise, I am afraid that Mumbai will  Lost it." Chief of Staff Li Mingrui was smoking, thinking of the situation a few days ago and feeling a little scared.  If Nehru and the Communist Party of India really captured Bombay, I am afraid they would have to divide their forces to help defend the areas controlled by the Muslim League.  By then, no matter how poor the Indian army's combat effectiveness is, the Persian Gulf Army will still be stretched thin.

    India has entered a strategic stalemate.  Bai Chongxi no longer had to worry about the Muslim League in the east, and turned his mind back to the Middle East and the Mediterranean, asking: "Is there any movement from the Soviets?"

    Li Mingrui said: "There are no big changes. Only four or five railway corps have been transferred to Armenia and Azerbaijan. There are also more than a dozen railway air defense trains. I guess the railway lines are afraid of being bombed by us, and we want to strengthen air defense. However, the defense of the Caucasus and Baku has been strengthened.  A lot. Intelligence says that Baku has deployed about 2,000 anti-aircraft guns of various types and 500 to 600 of the best fighter jets. The number of troops in the Caucasus has increased to 800,000. Including Persia, the total is more than 1.5 million.  . It is said that the Soviet Union has begun to arm the Kurds. About 100,000 guerrillas from Kurds, Armenia and other places have been armed. They are preparing to enter the battlefield in the Middle East." Since August, the Persian Gulf Army has continued to bomb Tabriz, Azerbaijan and other places.  The railway transportation line caused supply difficulties for the Soviet Iranian Front.  "By the way, the intelligence also said that Moscow has appointed Yereomenko as the chief of staff of the Iranian front army, and he should be able to arrive soon."

    "Ereomenkois he the same Yereomenko who served under Budyonny back then?"

    "Yes, it was recommended by the old guy Budyonny. It is said that this man is brave in battle, optimistic and strong, and his shortcoming is that he likes to talk big." Li Mingrui said: "Before coming, he repeatedly said Pavlov in front of Budyonny.  If we don¡¯t think about making progress, Persia¡¯s geographical location can completely contain Central Asia and make greater contributions.¡±

    ¡°Contact the country and send this person¡¯s information as soon as possible.¡± After saying that, Bai Chongxi asked about the internal situation in Iran.

    "That old boy Mossadegh is active now. He is pouring all the dirty water on the Soviet Union and the Kurds in accordance with the president's request. Many people believe what he said. However, there seems to be some disagreement among them. Some people feel that it should not be done.  Many people are not optimistic about our cooperation, especially after the bombing of London. Pahlavi seems to be very worried too, and he has been urging me to go north as soon as possible in the past few days"

    "Humph! A bunch of short-sighted people." Zhu Binhou snorted coldly.

    Li Mingrui chuckled: "I don't blame them. Now India is in chaos, Italy has sent troops to Egypt and Greece, and the Soviets are strengthening Persia while eyeing Iraq. What about us? Britain cannot protect itself, and our country is being attacked by Japan and the Soviet Union. The Malacca Channel  It is also temporarily suspended. The Central Asian Railway will not be opened to traffic until the beginning of the year, and supplies can only be supplied through the Afghan and Muslim League railways. Haha Looking at the overall situation, it is no wonder that people are afraid,?Even among us, there are soldiers muttering.  "

    "They only saw the rise in power of the Soviet Union, Germany and Italy, but they didn't know that these countries had huge weaknesses. Just food alone, and the three together couldn't last three years! As for Japan If the president didn't want to wait, why would he?  There is a place where Hirohito can dance."

    "Yes." Bai Chongxi agreed with Zhu Binhou. If the president hadn't wanted to wait for the United States' attitude, he would have blown up Tokyo.  However, the pressure on his side is indeed greater. Without Malacca, the supplies can only go to Afghanistan, and then be supplied through the railway from Lahore to Karachi. Because this section of Afghanistan relies on trucks, the supply volume is very small.  Especially the recent outbreak in Italy has added to the tension in North Africa and the Middle East.  Thinking of this, I quickly asked about the joint plan between the Navy and the British Navy: "Marquis Bin, when are you and Cunningham going to take action?"

    "The Tibet will be able to leave and come back tomorrow morning at the latest. After they reach the Red Sea, I will go to Alexandria. I estimate that it will beearly November, otherwise Cunningham will not be able to hold on."

    Although Bai Chongxi is the commander of the theater, the Third Fleet is under the navy, and he only has the right to make suggestions.  Therefore, he was more worried about the fleet's action and reminded: "The Italian navy is still quite powerful, and your French warships cannot cross the canal, so you must be careful and don't delay the major events in the Andaman.  "The Third Fleet was deployed in the Persian Gulf. In addition to ensuring the safety of the Persian Gulf and the Suez Canal, Yang Qiu was deliberately placed outside, preparing to attack the important chess pieces of Andaman and Malacca, so everyone was afraid of an accident like the Ryukyu Naval Battle.  Condition.

    "I will be careful. When I get to you when the news about India reaches Moscow, I estimate that Stalin will take advantage of the winter truce in the north to open up the situation from the Middle East and contain us and the United Kingdom from supporting India." Zhu Binhou also reminded  .

    "Haha, we are waiting for him." Bai Chongxi smiled, picked up the tea cup and was about to drink water, when a communications staff officer ran out of the door.  Panting, he rushed into the office and shouted: "Report, urgent call from the General Staff! At 18:47 this evening, a German submarine sank the British RMS Queen Mary out of the harbor off the coast of New York. It has been confirmed that at least the above  There are nine hundred American citizens! The USS Milwaukee light cruiser and two destroyers that rushed to the rescue were also attacked. The Milwaukee was hit by two torpedoes and sank. The destroyer USS Stephen was also sunk, and another McKee was sunk.  An explosion occurred after the ship returned to port"

    There was no reaction in the office for a while. It was not until the staff officer reported for the second time that everyone suddenly opened their mouths and stood up one after another.  But they did not cheer or be happy. Instead, Bai Chongxi and Zhu Binhou frowned slightly.  The arrival of a heavyweight ally like the United States at this time will definitely be a big turning point from the perspective of war, and can quickly change the balance of strength between the alliance and the enemy.

    But from a national perspective, is it a blessing or a curse?.

    (To be continued)
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