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Text Chapter 1192: Capture of Calcutta

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    At 8 a.m. on November 26, General Zhou Shun, commander of the Third Group of the Chinese Army, and Lieutenant General Yang Jiangqiao, chief of staff, came to the artillery brigade position.  A total of more than 300 15mm light howitzers, 155mm heavy howitzers and 155mm heavy cannons from the Chinese Army's 11th Group Army Artillery Brigade and 4 artillery divisions' artillery battalions have entered the position.  The thick barrels of the cannons were pointed ferociously at the British and Indian army positions in the north, ready to fire at the British and Indian troops at any time.

    The 243rd Army of the British and Indian Army, the 246th Army and the 24th Army that were reinforced from Calcutta, and the 245th Army that retreated from Rocky Gandapur have all gathered fifteen kilometers north of Diamond Port.  This place is far away from the Hooghly River, and the naval guns of the Chinese Navy's fire support ship squadron cannot threaten them.  The British and Indian troops attempted to build a line of defense here to block the Chinese Army's attack on Calcutta.  Delay enough time for reinforcements to arrive.  However, the Chinese Army's Third Group does not seem to give them enough time.  Although the first wave of troops only had 4 infantry divisions, there was also a cavalry brigade and an armored brigade, which could already form an extremely powerful assault group, enough to launch an attack on the British and Indian troops.

    "Report to the commander, the artillery brigade is ready!" the artillery brigade commander of the 11th Group Army reported to General Zhou Shun.

    "Well! Chief of Staff, where are the cavalry brigade and armored brigade?" General Zhou Shun asked.  When the strength of the troops was greatly inferior to that of the British and Indian troops, the assault force composed of the armored brigade and the cavalry brigade became the key to winning this battle.

    "Commander, the armored brigade and cavalry brigade are ready and ready to attack at any time!" Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao replied.

    "Start the attack! Defeat those Indian Asans today and enter Calcutta!" General Zhou Shun ordered.  After he arrived at Port Diamond, he discovered that the 2nd Army of the British and Indian Army stationed here had gone north and was replaced by an ordinary army. This made General Zhou Shun very unhappy, and he felt like a cooked duck.  It feels like it has flown away.  However, this also gave the Chinese Army's Third Group an opportunity.  It would take at least two days for the British-Indian Second Army and other reinforcements to reach Calcutta.  If the Third Group can defeat the British-Indian 24th Group Army and capture Calcutta within two days, the Chinese army will be able to occupy a favorable position in subsequent battles!

    "Fire!" After General Zhou Shun gave the order to fire, the commander of the 11th Group Army Artillery Brigade gave the order to fire.  More than 300 heavy artillery pieces that had been prepared opened fire one after another.  Dense artillery shells flew towards the British and Indian army positions a few kilometers away. The smoke generated after the explosion of the artillery shells almost enveloped the British and Indian army positions.

    Lieutenant General Benjamin, the commander of the 24th Group Army of the British and Indian Army, personally rushed to the front line to direct the battle. However, with the strength of the four armies of the British and Indian Army, even he did not have much confidence in resisting the attack of the Chinese army.  There are still three corps in Calcutta, and the other three corps also contracted towards Calcutta under his order.  Lieutenant General Benjamin hopes to delay for a while so that the remaining six armies of the 24th Group Army can build a defense line in Calcutta to withstand the Chinese army's attack!

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Artillery shells exploded on the British-Indian army's position. The 155mm grenade weighed 42 kilograms, and the 105mm grenade also weighed 128 kilograms.  For infantry, the power of such artillery shells is already irresistible.  Although the four armies of the 24th Group Army of the British and Indian Army built simple defense lines overnight, their defense lines had no effect at all against the heavy artillery of the Chinese Army.  Fire points of civil structures were destroyed one by one during the shelling. The shock wave generated after the explosion of the artillery shells directly threw away the British and Indian soldiers, and the flying shrapnel tore the fragile human bodies into pieces.

    The shelling stopped after 20 minutes, and the British-Indian army's position had been bombed into a mess during the shelling.  Using heavy artillery to deal with the British and Indian army's positions feels like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer.

    After that, more than two hundred tanks and armored vehicles of the 11th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army began the attack. Behind the armored brigade were troops composed of the 1st and 6th Army Divisions. They would follow the armored brigade to break through the British and Indian troops.  The defense line expands the results.  The Cavalry Brigade also began to make a detour when the Armored Brigade was dispatched, preparing to go behind the British and Indian troops to block their retreat, and strive to annihilate all the British and Indian troops of these four armies.  The other Army 5th Division and 16th Division also attacked from both sides.  With almost 100,000 troops, he launched an encirclement and annihilation of nearly 200,000 British and Indian troops. Although it was risky, Lieutenant General Zhou Shun had strong confidence.  If it were the US or British troops, he might not do this. But it shouldn¡¯t be very difficult for 100,000 Chinese troops to encircle and annihilate the 200,000 British Indian troops with weak combat effectiveness.

    "Crunch! Crunch!" The sound of the tank's tracks grinding against the ground mixed with the rumble of the engine, like muffled thunder.  The steely British-Indian army's position, composed of more than two hundred tanks and armored vehicles, rushed forward, exuding an irresistible momentum.  !

      "Your Majesty Shiva, what is that thing?" Many Indian Asans poked their heads out from the defense line and looked stupidly at the approaching tanks.  Almost all Indian Asans have never seen this kind of weapon, and those who have seen it have become corpses!

    "Tank! Bastard, the Chinese actually used armored troops! God, how could we withstand the attack of the Chinese armored troops?" A British major officer said in horror.  As a British officer, he naturally knows how powerful the Chinese armored forces are.  The tanks and armored forces formed by the production technology that the Germans obtained from China have already caused enough suffering to the British and French forces.  If the British and French forces had not developed anti-tank weapons in time, and the Germans had scattered the tanks and used them purely as weapons to support the infantry, the defense line of the British and French forces might have been breached long ago.  However, the British and Indian troops do not have any anti-tank weapons. It is almost impossible to stop the advancement of the Chinese army's armored forces.

    Soon, the torrent of steel from the 11th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army rushed to the defense line of the British and Indian troops. The tank guns on the tanks began to bombard the firepower points of the British and Indian troops, and the machine guns they carried also began to fire at the British and Indian troops.

    The soldiers of the British and Indian Army were simply unable to resist this steel monster.  Many people used their rifles to attack these tanks and armored vehicles, but everything was in vain.

    "Ta-ta-ta!" A heavy machine gun fired wildly at a TB' Cheetah, a heavy tank.  The dense bullets hit the armor of the tank, making a crisp clanging sound.  But for the tank and the tank crew inside, it is of no use at all.

    Facing the attack by the British and Indian soldiers, the tank drove directly over, and its tracks ran over the heavy machine gun and the soldiers operating the heavy machine gun, crushing the heavy machine gun into parts. At the same time, it also crushed the British and Indian soldiers operating the heavy machine gun into pieces.  Bolognese.

    "Run! The Chinese are too powerful, we can't withstand it!" Facing the attack of the Chinese Army's armored forces, the British and Indian troops were unable to resist and collapsed almost in an instant.  A large number of British and Indian soldiers fled their positions and hurriedly fled towards Calcutta.  The armored troops of the Chinese Army were in hot pursuit.  Many British and Indian soldiers knelt down and surrendered to the armored troops of the Chinese Army. However, the Chinese Army's tanks ignored them and directly ran over the British and Indian soldiers, or directly used machine guns to kill these British and Indian soldiers.  Kill.  The Chinese Army seems to have made up its mind and will not take prisoners on the Indian battlefield!

    ¡°Click, click, click!¡± The sound of horse hooves sounded from far to near, like a muffled thunder.  The cavalry brigade of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army surrounded them in time, blocking the retreat of the British and Indian troops.  The brave knights galloped on their horses, and the sabers in their hands shone with cold light under the sunlight.

    "Kill!" The cavalry launched a charge and quickly rushed into the fleeing British and Indian troops. The sabers in their hands flew up and down, and every time they waved, they could pick up a head.  Faced with such a blow, the Indian Asans completely collapsed.  In less than an hour, the strength of the four armies of the British and Indian Army collapsed under the attack of the Chinese Army's Armored Brigade and Cavalry Brigade. The British and Indian Army soldiers who had lost their will to fight were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and were beaten by the Chinese  The army's 4 infantry divisions caught up and killed them all!

    Lieutenant General Benjamin, the commander of the 24th Group Army of the British and Indian Army, realized that the situation was not good when the 11th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army launched the attack, and escaped in advance.  Otherwise, he would probably have to die here.

    The large-scale killing lasted for several hours, and all four armies of the British and Indian troops were executed.  After that, the armored troops and the cavalry brigade continued to attack the enemy, and entered Calcutta that evening.  Although the British and Indian troops gathered six armies in Calcutta, they were unable to resist.  At the same time, the Chinese naval fire support ship squadron continued upstream along the Hooghly River, sailed only a few kilometers away from Kolkata, and conducted a devastating bombardment of Kolkata.  Under the attack of large-caliber naval guns, Calcutta slowly turned into ruins, and the Victorian-style buildings built by British colonists were destroyed in the explosion.  Indian Asan and British immigrants living in the city also suffered heavy casualties during the shelling.

    On the evening of November 26, the second wave of troops of the Chinese Army¡¯s Third Group landed directly in Calcutta. Tens of thousands of Chinese troops and 100,000 Japanese mercenaries invaded Calcutta.  Coupled with the first wave of troops from the Chinese Army's Third Group attacking from the south, after a night of fierce fighting, the 24th Group Army of the British and Indian Army was driven out of Calcutta, and the Chinese army captured this most important city in eastern India!
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