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Text Chapter 1048 Departing from India

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    The beautiful Mediterranean Sea has become a whirlpool, and the increasingly large-scale war is devouring the flesh and blood of both sides.  In the Far East, in addition to being concerned about the just-issued Cape Town Declaration, people are still focused on the war around them.  The war that has lasted for more than two years has affected all aspects of the country's society. Newspapers and radio stations are full of news about the war. Various posters are posted on the streets. Universities, middle schools and primary schools have strengthened patriotic education around the war. Factories  The machines inside are also overloaded, and even the country and world maps have been revised several times.  Nearly ten million soldiers, tens of millions of medical teams, transportation teams, and engineering teams serving the war A large number of laborers have left the land and are eating national military rations. At the same time, the staple food on the tables of ordinary families has gradually decreased, and miscellaneous grains  The supply has doubled from before the war.

    Many daily necessities have begun to be in limited supply, and large-scale reconstruction projects have also been delayed due to reduced steel supply. Tens of thousands of workers have traveled to various places, from the distant Guam to the southeast coast, from the icy Sea of ??Okhotsk to the distant  In Central Asia, countless huge national defense projects are being carried out day and night.  The savings of thirty years of prosperity were wiped out in the blink of an eye.  There were complaints, complaints, and indignation, but the vast majority of citizens chose to support it without hesitation.  The in-depth education and literacy have enabled many people to understand what it means to be a great country and what it means to rise.  Therefore, they know that if they want to realize the dream of a great power in everyone's heart, they must suffer from the hatred of the country and the family and experience the baptism of blood and fire.  As time goes by, after thousands of years of war, suffering has been deeply engraved into the blood of the national spirit of perseverance, hard work and patience.  Finally bloomed the most brilliant side.  Young people put on military uniforms, bid farewell to their parents and went to war.  Women are stepping out of the house and taking on more social responsibilities.  The workers chewed steamed buns and meticulously stared at the millimeter-by-millimeter scale. The farmers sent off their relatives to sweat in the fields, and sent the full grains to the military columns Everyone held their heads high and held their heads high.  Chest, calmly face this world war that does not know when it will end.

    But some people thought further. When the bitter cold Ural guns gradually weakened, the duel between China and the Soviet Union slowed down again due to the weather.  The new generation of politicians, who have witnessed thirty years of world political turmoil and lived through the best and cruelest times, have begun to consider how to use the long winter to end the major wars in East Asia, relieve the pressure on the people, and preserve a little more vitality for the country.

    In the Calcutta Port under martial law, dozens of UBT7 tanks with Vietnamese flags painted on them drove along the open cabin bridge and into the large tank landing ship.  Rough driving skills.  The roar and collision of the engine continued to be heard in the cabin. Their Chinese armored instructor covered his face and cried, secretly cursing his students for really ruining the Soviet-made BT tank, which is known for its speed and flexibility.

    Indian workers in turbans hoisted the cannon onto the deck and dragged the heavy ammunition and cannon closer to the cabin.  The entire pier was like this.  The efficiency of the Indians caused more than forty landing ships transferred from the Persian theater to be filled with shouts of dissatisfaction from the navy.  Only the outermost main berth was quiet, and the military police took matters into their own hands.  Busily moving the sealed large wooden boxes onto the light cruiser "An Jiang".  A golden light shines through the tiny cracks in the worn wooden box.  "Which batch is this?" Beside the cruiser.  Li Zongren, who was preparing to attack Andaman, was chatting and laughing with Fei Wenhua and other officers.

    "This is the seventh batch. After this battle is over, there will be at least fifteen or sixteen batches." Fei Wenhua opened his mouth full of white teeth and kept laughing.

    Others don't know it, but he knows very well that since it established a foothold in India, the Indian Army has used the pretext of destroying the Soviet and Indian troops to plunder all over India, transporting hundreds of tons of gold and silver alone, and cultural relics.  There are countless others. If he hadn't considered the impact, he would have sent troops to move the famous Ashoka Pillar to the National Museum in Beijing.  In addition to floating wealth, a steady stream of strategic resources such as crude steel, copper ingots, soldering irons and rare earths were also transported back to the country along the Myitkyina Military Railway, and the quantities were astonishingly large.  So much so that whenever the General Staff talks about the Indian Army, everyone raises their thumbs.  There is no way, fighting in other places is a loss, only here not only does it not lose money, but at least tens of millions worth of good things are sent back through the railway every month.

    After establishing a foothold in India at the end of last year, Li Zongren and the Indian Army have been unable to conduct larger military operations due to poor logistics.  It was not until early May this year that 100,000 prisoners of war and migrant workers were mobilized to build the Myitkyina military railway that needed to go over the Foreigner Mountains all the way to the oil city of Digboy, and finally stable supplies were obtained.  With the support of the railway, Li Zongren first repaired a large number of industrial and mines such as Bokaro Steel City and the Anglo-Indian Copper Refinery, then recalled Indian workers to continue production, and also increased the production scale of the Digboy oil field and refinery.  Under his control, in early August, the crude steel production in the areas occupied by the Indian Army returned to 300,000 tons per month, 6,000 tons of copper, 30,000 tons of coking coal, thorium, iron, potash, mica, and sillimanite.  The mining volume of important and even strategic minerals such as , asbestos, and asbestos has increased to 300,000 tons per month.Crude oil has also increased to 200,000 tons per month, and most of these things are shipped back to the country.

    These supplies that are constantly being shipped back have also made the General Staff more and more interested in India. Although they will withdraw after the war according to the agreement, it does not prevent them from taking advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune now.  Therefore, the General Staff not only transferred 2 additional infantry divisions to Li Zongren, but also transferred 15 divisions from the Vietnam National Defense Force.  The combat effectiveness of the Vietnamese army is not very good, but when it comes to looting and doing bad things, it is definitely very powerful.  So Li Zongren simply used them to take the opportunity to continuously advance into central and southern India. So far, the southernmost reaches have reached Hyderabad, and the westernmost reaches as far as Jhansi in Madhya Pradesh. Everything along the way has been looted, and even some valuable items have been looted.  The minerals were tagged, and then prisoners of war and local people were mined and transported back to the country day and night.

    Lieutenant General Quinan, the commander of the British Army in India, protested countless times. Even the British Foreign Office called Beijing to demand severe punishment for the "atrocities" of the Vietnamese army. Whenever he received such a telegram, Li Zongren would arrest a few troublemaking Vietnamese soldiers as scapegoats.  Send money and rush back to the country, and then continue to make a fortune.  The British government had nothing to do about this, because Li Zongren did not forget his job when he was "robbery". With 400,000 troops, he continuously launched attacks on the Soviet and Indian Army base areas. In early September, he also captured Calcutta and the entire  West Bengal drove all the Japanese troops who had long wanted to retreat back to Burma and Andaman Island.  Of course, the rich Calcutta could not help but be "looted" again. There were dozens of tons of gold and various foreign exchanges that the Japanese army had no time to transport away.  However, Li Zongren himself knew that the fact that his motley army was able to win consecutive battles was actually the result of Chuikov and the Japanese army not making frontal resistance in order to preserve their strength.

    Helplessly, the British government simply turned a blind eye in the end. No matter how hard you dig, you can't move the Indian Peninsula to China.  However, after regaining Calcutta, Li Zongren's good days also came to an end.  Because the General Staff has decided that the Indian Army will be responsible for the main task of attacking Andaman and western Myanmar, and before Malacca is opened, it is also a major logistics station for transferring supplies to the Persian Gulf.

    The Andaman Islands are not easy to fight, Li Zongren knew it.

    When retreating from Calcutta, the Japanese army had a premonition that China would seize Andaman and use it as a base to attack Burma and Malaya.  Therefore, a large amount of food and supplies were seized and shipped there. A division composed of Japanese expatriates and Indonesian soldiers was also transferred from Batavia. The total strength has been increased to 50,000, as well as a small destroyer fleet and several submarines.  Activities within the archipelago.  And in order to encourage the troops in Southeast Asia, Hirohito sent Prince Shirakawa Nohisa to the Philippines, and put Yamashita Tomofumi, known as the Malay Tiger, in charge of the war in the entire southeastern peninsula. Even Andaman put Tada Shunlai in charge, which shows that he wanted to resist.  in the end.

    On the contrary, the most reliable troops Li Zongren has at the moment are the 109th Motorized Infantry Division, the 153rd, 154th, 166th, 183rd and 226th Infantry Divisions. Wu Huanxian and the 16th Plateau Brigade, who were originally the most capable, have returned to China in early August.  Rest and recuperation, it is said that it will be deployed to the Ural Plateau early next year.  In addition, Bose's Indian National Army also increased to 7 divisions, and Fei Wenhua's Bangladesh Army also increased to 3 divisions. Together with the 15 divisions of the Vietnamese Army, the numbers were already eight times that of the Japanese army in Andaman.  But fighting is not about military strength. Let¡¯s not talk about the ineffective military control of these servants. The complex water patterns and terrain of Andaman alone are a headache.  The high mountains and dense forests on the island are all virgin forests, which is very suitable for the tenacious Japanese army to use skirmishing tactics. Therefore, even if all five domestic marines are mobilized, they will not be able to achieve a quick victory, let alone a miscellaneous team like his.  military.

    Because there is Chuikov behind him!

    According to the latest intelligence, Nehru and the Communist Party of India have fully joined hands, and Chuikov has been appointed commander-in-chief of the all-India forces.  Cuikov did not disappoint him. While adopting an avoidance policy towards Li Zongren, he continued to use tactics such as ambushes and detours to attack the British army.  According to statistics, at least two British-Indian divisions were wiped out, and a large number of American-aided weapons and ammunition fell into Chuikov's hands, swelling his total number of troops to nearly 900,000.

    But no matter how difficult it is to fight, we must fight, not only to flank Malaya and Burma, but also to control and deter the Indian Ocean after the war.

    Li Zongren was worried about Cui Kefu and the Soviet Union Army, so he only brought the 153rd and 166th Divisions during the landing, and the rest were Vietnamese troops.  Even so, before boarding the ship, he still grabbed Fei Wenhua and said, "Wenhua, we are relying on you here for the time being. Be careful of Chuikov. This man fights bravely and carefully, and he deliberately conserved his troops some time ago. It is clear that he is  They want us to extend the front.¡±

    "Don't worry, Commander. When I get back, I'll have my troops shrink and defend on the spot, and I'll wait for you to return in triumph before fighting him again." Fei Wenhua nodded to reassure Li Zongren.

    An hour later, a fleet of 47 landing ships and merchant ships left the Port of Kolkata, and after converging with the escorting patrol formation in the outer sea, headed for the Andaman Sea.

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    PS: I got home a little late because I had something to do, so I wrote in a hurry, which is not very good. Let¡¯s consider it a transition.

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