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    "The 1st Company assaults to the left and blocks the retreat of those Indian Asans. Don't let them escape! The 2nd Company and the 3rd Company attack from the front! The fire platoon covers!" ordered the battalion commander of the 1st Battalion of the 31st Regiment of the Chinese Army.  .  Their attack on the British and Indian troops was very smooth. After the Chinese Army's heavy artillery bombardment and aircraft bombing, the morale of the British and Indian troops had dropped to a very low level and almost collapsed.  Even if the British officers scolded and drove them away, they could no longer make those Indian Asans fight like soldiers.  Although those Indian Asans were not strong in combat effectiveness, they were faster than rabbits when they ran for their lives. When the Chinese Army launched a charge and broke through their positions, these Indian Asans immediately began to run for their lives, and many of them even lost their lives.  The rifles were all lost!

    After the 2nd Battalion of the 31st Regiment of the Chinese Army came ashore, they cooperated with the 1st Battalion to continue their fierce attack on the British and Indian troops.  It is hard to imagine that the Chinese Army, which had only two battalions on the south bank of the Penchi River, defeated more than 10,000 people from the 2nd Division of the 232nd Army of the British and Indian Army and fled in panic.  However, such combat power is not uncommon. After all, the gap between the Chinese and British troops is too big and cannot be made up by quantity.  Just like in Wang Yuze's memory during the Anti-Japanese War, a Japanese brigade was able to chase away a division of the G Army like rabbits, and a Japanese regiment was able to overwhelm an army of the G Army.

    The 2nd Division of the 232nd Corps of the British-Indian Army retreated to the rear. It stopped retreating only after the reinforcements sent by Major General Lambart arrived.  However, their original defense line has been captured by the Chinese ** team.  After all the soldiers of the 31st Regiment crossed the river, the engineering troops of the 1st Group Army of the Chinese Army began to build the pontoon bridge.  The mission of the 31st Regiment is to hold the beachhead.  but.  There was fire support from heavy artillery units and the air force.  This doesn't seem to be a big deal.

    After the 1st Division of the 232nd Army of the British Indian Army arrived.  Together with the 2nd Division, he launched an attack on the 31st Regiment of the Chinese Army.  However, before they entered the firing range, they were attacked by the artillery brigade of the Chinese Army's 1st Group Army located on the north bank of the Penchi River.  Under the guidance of the front line, two hundred and three heavy artillery pieces accurately hit the heads of the Indian Asans, causing the Indian Asans to run away with their heads covered.  After finally breaking through the Chinese artillery blockade, what awaited them was the intensive firepower of the 31st Regiment of the Chinese Army.  Hundreds of light and heavy machine guns deployed on the defense line fired simultaneously, and dozens of mortars and infantry guns provided the most direct fire support.  Under such a powerful firepower attack, the British and Indian troops were directly beaten and disoriented.  Many Indian Asans lie directly on the ground, holding their heads in their hands.  No matter how much the British officers urged, they just refused to charge towards the Chinese Army's positions.  Subsequently, Chinese Air Force fighter planes arrived and strafed and bombed the British and Indian troops. A large number of British and Indian troops died under the attack of the Chinese army.  This once again dealt a heavy blow to the morale of those Indian Asans. These Indian Asans had never thought that the current war would be like this.  Even when they resisted British colonial rule decades ago, although the British army was strong, it was completely different from the current Chinese army!

    After suffering a heavy blow.  Many Indian Asans turned around and ran away, never willing to continue fighting.  When two Indian Asans started to escape.  Other Indian Asans also followed suit and ran away one after another.  The British and Indian troops' charge had already collapsed before the US troops reached the Chinese Army's 31st Regiment, leaving corpses on the ground.  This made the brigadier general of the 1st Division of the 232nd Army of the British Indian Army curse.

    Major General Lambart, commander of the 232nd Army of the British-Indian Army, rushed to the front line in person to urge the British-Indian Army to launch an attack.  However, at this time, the engineers of the Chinese Army's 1st Group Army had already built a pontoon bridge on the Penchi River.  The troops of the 3rd Division of the Chinese Army quickly reinforced the 31st Regiment on the south bank through the pontoon bridge.  Major General Lambart ordered the British and Indian artillery to bombard the Penchi River with the intention of destroying the pontoon bridge built by the Chinese Army Engineer Corps.  However, the Chinese Air Force fighter planes hovering in the sky quickly swooped down and bombed the British and Indian army's artillery positions, destroying most of the British and Indian army's artillery, and many of the artillerymen were also killed.  The remaining British and Indian artillery also fled, unable to complete the task of destroying the pontoon bridge built by the Chinese engineers.

    At 11 a.m., the entire 3rd Division of the Chinese Army crossed the river.  Under the cover of artillery and air force, three infantry regiments launched an attack on the 232nd Army of the British and Indian Army.  Although Major General Lambart assembled more than 30,000 British and Indian troops for defense, they only lasted less than half an hour before the defense line was breached.  Subsequently, a division of Japanese mercenaries also joined the battle. Compared with the Chinese army, these Japanese mercenaries were more fierce.  After invading the British-Indian army's position, these Japanese mercenaries preferred to use bayonets to see red, which frightened the timid Indian Asan, saying that these Japanese soldiers crawled out of hell.  of the devil.

    At one o¡¯clock in the afternoon, the 232nd Army of the British and Indian Army was defeated.Major General Rambat led more than 20,000 defeated soldiers to abandon Aivaj and retreat to Kunduz.  At the same time, the strength of the Chinese Army was reported to Lieutenant General Airdrie, commander of the 23rd Army.

    Lieutenant General Airdrie, commander of the 23rd British-Indian Army in Kunduz, was very surprised after receiving the telegram.  He never expected that an army of 50,000 people would be defeated by the Chinese in most of a day. This was because the Chinese were about to launch a landing operation and the main force had not yet crossed the river.  If all the main forces of the Chinese Army cross the river, it will be even more impossible for the British and Indian troops to resist the attack of the Chinese Army.  For this reason, Lieutenant General Airdry immediately began to shrink the defense line towards the 23rd Army stationed in northern Afghanistan.  They gathered in Kunduz and Herat respectively.  Trying to rely on the advantage of military strength to last a little longer.  At the same time, Lieutenant General Airdrie also reported to Delhi the news that Afghanistan had been attacked by the Chinese Army, and requested the Governor-General of India, Baron Harding, and the British-Indian Army Commander, General Kitchener, to send more reinforcements to fight in Afghanistan.  Lieutenant General Adri has realized that he completely underestimated the Chinese team before.  Even though the Chinese army was defeated by the US military in North America, he had always believed that it was just because the US military was vulnerable.  But now it seems that the Chinese Army's strength is truly worthy of its name.  He wants to rely on a group army of 500,000 British and Indian troops to resist the attack of the Chinese Army in northern Afghanistan. That is really a wishful thinking.

    However, Lieutenant General Airdrie¡¯s strategy was still wrong.  He attempted to focus on Kunduz and Herat and wait for reinforcements.  This is exactly in line with the intention of the Chinese team.  If the British and Indian troops gave up northern Afghanistan and fled directly into the Hindu Kush Mountains, the Chinese army, which carried a large amount of heavy equipment, would really be unable to do anything to them.  However, the British and Indian troops gathered in Kunduz and Herat, which gave the Chinese team the opportunity to annihilate them.  The British and Indian troops did not flee immediately, which undoubtedly accelerated their defeat.

    When the 3rd Division of the 1st Group Army broke through the defense line of the British and Indian troops in Avaj, the other two units also achieved victory respectively and broke through the defense lines of the British and Indian troops.  Among them, the combat target of the 201st to 210th Division of the Chinese Army in the far west happened to be Herat where the British and Indian troops were assembled.  For this reason, the Chinese Army deliberately slowed down its attack and waited until the British and Indian troops gathered before launching an attack.

    On October 20, the 1st Armored Brigade and 3rd Infantry Division of the 1st Group Army of the Chinese Army reached the city of Kunduz.  Although the British and Indian troops have assembled more than 200,000 troops here.  But facing the torrent of steel from the 1st Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army, it was still impossible to withstand it.  Although, on the American battlefield, the US military has begun to use anti-tank guns on a large scale to deal with the Chinese Army's armored forces.  Britain, France and Germany in Europe are also using anti-tank guns to deal with each other's tanks and armored vehicles.  But the British and Indian troops had no anti-tank guns at all.  Even the British and Indian troops know how powerful the Chinese Army's armored forces are, but they currently do not have the equipment to deal with such weapons.

    When the armored brigade of the Chinese Army's 1st Group Army entered the city of Kunduz and began to cooperate with the army to eliminate the British and Indian troops, Lieutenant General Airdrie, commander of the 23rd Group Army of the British and Indian Army, realized the mistake he had made.  Just relying on the hundreds of thousands of Indian Asan soldiers in the 23rd Army in his hands to compete with the battle-hardened Chinese Army is simply wishful thinking.  General Kitchener, the commander of the British and Indian troops, sent the British and Indian troops to fight in Afghanistan not because he wanted to resist the attack of the Chinese troops, but because he wanted to delay the Chinese troops as much as possible and let the British and Indians  The army just has more time to prepare.  Moreover, even if the Chinese Army captures Afghanistan, the British and Indian troops will continue to fight in the mountainous areas of Afghanistan to attack the Chinese Army's logistics supply lines to support the Indian battlefield.  The Chinese Army's firepower is powerful, but its material consumption is also very terrible. As long as it can harass the Chinese Army's logistics supply line, it can provide excellent support for the Indian battlefield.  However, Lieutenant General Airdrie's erroneous command caused the 23rd Army of the British and Indian Army to suffer heavy losses and was unable to complete its previously established tasks.

    Lieutenant General Airdry, who came to his senses, ordered the British and Indian troops to break out from Kunduz and Herat and retreat towards the Hindu Kush Mountains.  However, this order was a little clumsy. A large number of Chinese troops and Japanese mercenaries had already arrived on the battlefield and began to encircle and annihilate the British and Indian troops.  Most of the British and Indian troops were surrounded and then annihilated. Only a handful of people successfully escaped from the encirclement and fled towards the Hindu Kush Mountains!  (To be continued)
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