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Text Chapter 1,189 Landing in Calcutta

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    In the port area of ????Pguang, the headquarters of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army and the headquarters of the Third Group of China¡¯s Army-India Operations are located in a building next to the pier.  Now, the transport ships allocated by the navy are in place, and the third group, with a total of more than 700,000 troops, has entered combat preparations.  Tonight, the first wave of landing troops composed of 4 divisions and 3 brigades of the Chinese Army's 11th Group Army: the 1st Division, the 6th Division, the 5th Division, the 16th Division, the Artillery Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, and the Armored Brigade will  Board the ship and set off.  The 2nd Marine Division has already set off by ship and is expected to launch a landing operation in Calcutta the day after tomorrow, that is, November 25.  Once the 2nd Marine Division establishes a beachhead, the four infantry divisions of the Chinese Army's 11th Group Army will launch attacks in depth to expand the landing site.

    After that, another four infantry divisions of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army, ten infantry divisions of the Army and thirty divisions of Japanese mercenaries will also land in Calcutta, fight a big battle around Calcutta with the British and Indian troops, and then annihilate the British.  After deploying troops around Calcutta, the Indian army captured this most important city in eastern India, opening another hole in India's belly and accelerating the defeat of the British-Indian army!

    General Zhou Shun, commander of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army, is also very ambitious.  The predecessor of the 11th Group Army was the mobile force directly under the General Staff Headquarters. Although it was still commanded by General Zhou Shun, it was more often directly under the command of the Chief of General Staff.  Admiral Zhou Shun often encountered great constraints.  Now, the regular troops of the Chinese Army are not enough. Emperor Wang Yuze ordered the mobile troops directly under the General Staff to be reorganized into the 11th Group Army, which undoubtedly gave General Zhou Shun an opportunity to perform.  At the same time, the 11th Group Army is also the one with the largest number of troops among the many group armies of the Chinese Army. The other group armies have 6 infantry divisions and brigade-level combat units directly under the group army, while the 11th Group Army has 8 infantry divisions.  Moreover, the 1st Division and the 6th Division are both elite units of the Chinese Army.

    This makes the 11th Group Army very powerful, not inferior to other group armies.  General Zhou Shun also has great confidence in this battle.  The first group in northwest India and the second group in eastern India both annihilated a large number of Indian troops. This gave General Zhou Shun a great stimulus. He fully believed that the third group under his command would also achieve huge gains.  of military exploits.  Not to mention anything else, just the army group composed entirely of British troops deployed by the British and Indian troops in Calcutta is enough to make the other two clusters jealous. If this army group can be killed, then the third cluster can do it this time.  It achieved the greatest military exploits in the war against India.  Of course, in addition to the Second Army deployed in Calcutta, which is entirely composed of British troops, the British-Indian Army also has the First Army in Delhi.  However, compared to the Third Group and the First Group, it may be more difficult to defeat the British-Indian First Army.  The British-Indian army has assembled as many as eight armies in northwest India.  With the strength of 800,000 people in the first group, it is not unusually difficult to defeat four million British and Indian troops, not to mention the elite 1st Army among them!

    "Commander, everything is arranged. The first wave of troops will begin to board the ship in the evening. The second wave of troops will begin to board the ship tomorrow night, including the remaining 4 infantry divisions of our army group and the troops directly under the group army, as well as the KO individual  Japanese mercenary divisions. The remaining ten infantry divisions and twenty Japanese mercenary divisions will set off in three days! The transport ships provided by the navy cannot transport all the troops to Calcutta at once!" 11th Army  said Lieutenant General Chang Jiang Qiao, chief of staff and chief of staff of the Chinese Army¡¯s Third Group.  In addition to the war against India, the Army is also about to launch an attack on Australia, so the Navy's transport ship capacity is very tight.  After all, we must first ensure the consumption of more than two million Chinese troops and mercenaries in the North American battlefield, and then support the Indian battlefield and Australian battlefield.

    "Well! Lao Jiang, this time it's up to us! We watched them continue to gain military exploits before, but now it's our turn!" Admiral Zhou Shun said with a smile.

    "Haha, Commander, we have already settled it! The 2345th Group Army is probably depressed enough. It has been more than a year since the war started, and they have not yet won a fight, so they can only watch from the side. Although we  We are dealing with Indian Asan, but we can finally drink some soup. Not to mention there are hundreds of thousands of British among them!" Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao said.

    "Lao Jiang, you are wrong! Although those boys are panicking now, next year, they will have a big war! They will fight against the Russians by then, and Lao Maozi's millions of troops will be  It's enough for them to fight. Besides, after we invade Europe, if the Germans don't know what to do, maybe we will still fight them. There will definitely be some battles by then!" General Zhou Shun - Mu De  said.  As a senior general of the Chinese Army, what he desires most is to command the army on the battlefield to attack the enemy and expand the territory of the empire!

    "Commander, then we have to move"?It¡¯s almost time!  Our war in Europe will have to wait at least until next spring, which is still a few months away. As long as we can get rid of those Indian Asans within these few months, maybe we will have a chance to participate in the European battlefield.  .

    Don¡¯t forget, there are still 4 armies on the American battlefield. If you don¡¯t act quickly, you might be overtaken by those Sun Tzu!  "Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao said. He also doesn't just want to be a lieutenant general. If he wants to be promoted, he needs a lot of military exploits. And military exploits can only be obtained on the battlefield.

    "Okay! The division commanders of each division below have greeted me. This time we have to face the elites composed of British people. We have to show our prestige and let other friendly troops know that although our 11th Group Army  We are the last force to be formed, but we are not vegetarians!" General Zhou Shun said.

    "Commander, shall we set off with the first wave of troops, or with the second wave of troops?" Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao asked.

    "Of course it's the first wave! This landing operation is the first battle since our 11th Group Army was formed, and it must be fought well! We will set off with the first wave of troops then, and let those British guys know  We are awesome!" General Zhou Shun said directly.

    On the evening of November 23, the four infantry divisions of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army and the artillery, cavalry and armored brigades directly under the group army boarded more than 100 navy transport ships in Yangon.  The Navy dispatched a fleet of 6 light cruisers and 10 destroyers to escort them.  Now the entire Indian Ocean region is under the control of the Chinese Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet, and there is no worry that the landing fleet will be attacked.  Now, except for the British Navy and the US Navy, no country's navy can pose a threat to the Chinese Navy.  However, the U.S. Navy is fully preparing for war, while the main force of the British Navy is still concentrated in the eastern Atlantic and the North Sea to defend against the Germans. There are simply no extra warships sent to fight in the Indian Ocean.

    On the Bay of Bengal, a huge fleet is sailing westward, with the target officially located at the mouth of the Hooghly River on the west side of the Bay of Bengal.  This fleet is mainly composed of 9 huge battleships. There are also many light cruisers and destroyers cruising around these battleships.  A dozen kilometers east of this fleet were more than twenty transport ships carrying all the personnel and equipment of the 2nd Marine Division.  The 2nd Marine Division would be the first force to launch a landing operation on Calcutta.  They will land directly at Diamond Port at the mouth of the Hooghly River, and then establish a solid beachhead. They will wait until the third group of the Chinese Army lands before launching an attack on Kolkata.

    Diamond Port is still 60 kilometers away from the mouth of the Hooghly River, and there are several islands at the mouth of the river. According to the intelligence obtained by the Chinese army, the British and Indian forces have deployed some troops on these islands, the largest of which is Sagar Island.  An infantry division was deployed.  However, this will not pose much of a threat to the Chinese army for the time being.  The British and Indian troops simply did not have large-caliber heavy artillery on Sagar Island and could not threaten the Chinese navy's transport ships.  Although the British deployed some coastal defense artillery on Sagar Island in the early days, most of them had a caliber of less than 200 millimeters and were sparse in number. They were no match for the Chinese Navy's fire support ship squadron.  Only a few fire support ships need to be left to suppress these coastal defense guns, and the rest of the fleet can go upstream and attack Diamond Harbor.

    At 6 a.m. on November 25, the Chinese Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet fire support ship squadron arrived at the mouth of the Hooghly River. Nine fire support ships, escorted by several light cruisers and destroyers, entered the Hooghly River, while the 2nd Marine Corps  The division stayed behind and waited until the fire support ship squadron cleared the British and Indian coastal defense positions on Sagar Island before they entered the Hooghly River.

    When the Chinese Navy's fire support ship squadron appeared at the mouth of the Hooghly River, the British and Indian troops guarding the coastal defense forts here were not aware of it at all.  A total of more than twenty coastal defense guns were quietly aimed at the Hooghly River, with no sign of firing.  The Chinese army did not know that the British and Indian 2nd Army had already moved north, and those defending Sagar Island were Indian Asan. Naturally, they would not defend in strict accordance with the regulations!

    At 6 o'clock in the morning, Major General Lei Hua, commander of the Chinese Navy's fire support ship squadron, issued the order to open fire, and the Chinese Army's Third Group's combat operation against Kolkata officially began!
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