Chen Geng and the Yan'an Observation Group followed the British to see the two sides fighting in eastern India, and participated in various battles throughout the process, even in the defense of Calcutta. Pen & Fun & Cabinet www.biquge.info Everyone saw that the situation of the British Empire was not good, not only in morale and training inferior to the opponent, but even inferior to the opponent in equipment. At first, the communists thought that no matter how British and American equipment was always advanced, it was not until they witnessed the Japanese tank brigade and Stuka appear on the scene to launch a ground-air cooperative operation, especially after a Japanese Tiger brigade (16 vehicles) appeared and directly scared away an Indian battalion, they knew that the British were also inferior in equipment.

Later, the Yan'an observation team found that the British were more and more ill, and they called this sentiment "Tiger tank phobia", and what was surprising was that the British themselves generously admitted that the Tiger was invincible unless planes were sent. Several military observers who did not believe in evil risked their lives to personally go to the front-line positions to fight the Tiger type, but whether it was the M3 37mm anti-tank gun of the US imperialist or the heirloom 6-pounder gun of the British Empire, they could only tickle the Tiger type, and only a very small number of 17-pounder guns were threatening, but they were limited to a relatively close distance. This kind of scene shocked the people in Yan'an, not to mention the lowest-level 37mm anti-aircraft guns, even the anti-tank guns that Britain and the United States had long eliminated. If the Japanese army used these equipment on the battlefield in China, how many comrades would die by relying solely on explosive packs and cluster grenades?

In addition to Sherman, the biggest threat to the Japanese tanks was actually the Bazooka and the recoilless gun, but most of the British and Indian troops who operated these two weapons were killed by the Japanese infantry, and the Japanese army also treated the tank as a baby bump, especially the Tiger was hung far behind to play the advantage of accurate sniping, how could they be willing to let them break through the position and fight a war of attrition like the Germans? When they heard that Germany and the United States built tanks in 10,000 units a year, the Yan'an Observation Group was silent.

Faced with such a situation, Chen Geng suggested to Slim more than once to launch guerrilla warfare in Japanese-controlled areas, but at first the other party just smiled: "Major General Chen (Chen Geng has the title of brigade commander and holds the rank of major general of the Kuomintang), guerrilla warfare cannot repel the ...... of the Japanese army."

Later, the battle situation deteriorated day by day, and the desperate Slim did listen, and agreed with Chen Geng to try it with an attitude of trying it out, but he spread his hands and said that no one could carry it out. Chen Geng asked more than 100 British and Indian volunteers plus more than 100 observers to form an Indian guerrilla force to infiltrate the Japanese-controlled area, trying to imitate domestic experience to establish a guerrilla area.

But after two months of practice, the attempt to establish a guerrilla zone failed unexpectedly for a number of reasons, such as language barriers, unfamiliar terrain, low morale and disobedience to orders by the British and Indian troops - they would rather listen to the British than obey the Chinese, but the deeper reason was the colonial servility of the Indian people. In order to gain the support of the people and speed up the pace of construction of the base areas, the Indian guerrillas did not adopt the relatively moderate method of reducing rents and interest rates in the country, but used fierce tactics to attack local tyrants and divide the land, uprooting a prince of a princely state that they considered to be inferior, and wanted to distribute his land and family property to the poor people in India. As a result, a jaw-dropping thing happened, not many people dared to ask for it, and even many people thought that it was such a big rebellion - "There will be no master to care about us in the future, how can we survive here?" ", made the guerrillas up and down all stupid.

Mu Ran returned to Mu Ran, and no one resisted the guerrillas, so the guerrillas settled down with peace of mind, intending to do mass work again, but what worried them was that within a few days the Nationalist Army of the Bose government heard the news coming, and in their opinion, the Indians who had received favors should be devoted to the guerrillas, at least they should not help each other, who knew that one by one the whole National Army reported that outsiders had "harmed the master", and the guerrillas did everything they could to repel the encirclement of the Nationalist Army and return to their own control area.

Along the way, everyone summed up their experience in frustration, and some people were unconvinced and said: "I'm weird, why are the masses all facing the puppet army?" ”

A bunch of people couldn't answer, only one British and Indian soldier muttered: "What is a puppet army?" ”

"Isn't Bowes a puppet regime? Isn't it a puppet army? ”

"That'...... What is a regular army? ”

"Aren't you just regular soldiers......" As soon as he said half a sentence, he was dumb and couldn't say any more. Now everyone reacts to what is the problem: the Anglo-Indian army is British officers from top to bottom, can this be called a regular army? The colonial army is about the same! Bose's National Army was at least Indian from top to bottom, and there were a few Japanese advisers, and it looked more like a regular army than the Anglo-Indian army!

After listening to the report on the work of the guerrillas, Chen Geng, who was in a heavy mood, wrote a long telegram and sent it to Yan'an: "...... The tragedy of India is that they are colonies, full of history of conquest by outsiders, and there is never a sense of national self-examination, and Bose's national government, even if it is a puppet regime propped up by the Japanese authorities, can be regarded as the first national government in India in modern history - after all, when the British were in power, they did not even give such a government to Indians. The fiercest Hindu nationalists of the last century have fiercely rebelled against British rule, preferring to believe the Japanese rather than the British, while ordinary Indians are at a loss for what to do and who to rebel...... Therefore, I believe that it will take a long way to launch a revolution and establish a political power in India, at least until Japan's hypocrisy is exposed and the national contradictions between Japan and India intensify.

Based on various information, I think we can understand the reasons for Japan's gradual withdrawal from Chinese mainland: Japan's insufficient military strength and resources, unable to simultaneously government China and India, two large countries with vast regions and large populations, must make a trade-off, in view of the Indian people are more docile and more easily driven, Japan has chosen the Indian offensive, I think Japan will withdraw more at home, and the central government should seize the favorable opportunity to accelerate development.

From a purely military point of view, a total defeat of the British side in India without foreign aid is inevitable, but this does not mean that there is nothing to be done, and it is not enough to rely solely on the British and Indian troops to put up frontal resistance, even if it is not possible to establish stable guerrilla zones and base areas in a short period of time, I think it is possible to transfer a part of the elite troops to carry out mobile operations behind enemy lines, to disrupt the stability of the enemy's ruling order and the smooth flow of supply lines, and if the central authorities agree, I am willing to lead a part of the Indian comrades and delegations to carry out this task and prolong the Japanese offensive as much as possible……”

Yan'an replied to him with a long letter, and finally emphatically stated: "...... It is not your top priority to launch guerrilla warfare and help the British hold back Japan's pace, and your most important mission is to study and master modern military theories and the experience of commanding large corps, to humbly learn the command tactics of the regular army with British officers, to take advantage of the present favorable opportunity to draw on the experience of Britain and Japan in combat, to grasp the essence of modern warfare, and to use it for our own purposes as much as possible; at the same time, it is necessary to pay attention to collecting information and intelligence on military, economic, and political aspects, and especially to grasp Japan's equipment configuration and technical characteristics...... ”

Even the Yan'an Observer Group knew that the situation in India was over, so how could the top brass in London not know? Therefore, it is obvious that the condition of retaining the Indian colonies can be removed from the Anglo-German negotiations first.

The second condition is the British colonial issue, and Germany's position in this regard is very clear: the British colonies that have been de facto occupied by the Axis and its allies should no longer think about taking them back, so that Africa, the Middle East and even Southeast Asia will definitely have no chance with the British Empire, like the Falklands handed over to Argentina, but the four most elite dominions, Germany, promised to help Britain continue to stabilize, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia (a little place that has not yet been swallowed by European countries) Germany promised not to move, and Australia and New Zealand Germany will come forward to coordinate with Japan, Canada is secured by Germany.

Ribbentrop even said that if the Canadians are willing and the British government asks for it, in the future, the United European Fleet and the European Integrated Armed Forces can be deployed on the US-Canada border, especially Newfoundland as a direct territory of Great Britain is the top priority. For Hoffman, once he has a foothold on the North American continent, missiles can reach New York in 10 minutes, and the armored division can cross the US-Canada border to engage in a blitzkrieg -- this is a sour thing to think about.

In order to get the British into line quickly, and considering that Britain still had several million army and a fleet after all, the German side proposed to find a colony for Britain in South America, such as part of the Brazilian territory bordering British Guiana.

The third condition is the question of the arrangement of the British military and political leadership. Ribbentrop said that all British high-level officials who are willing to cooperate with Germany, regardless of their attitude towards Germany in the past, will not be held accountable, and those who are unwilling to cooperate with Germany but do not resist or sabotage (including Churchill himself) will be tolerated and come and go freely, saying that there is absolutely no idea of settling accounts after the autumn. Since Britain's long-term sea power has also been obvious to all, in order to accommodate the feelings of the British people, it was agreed that in the future the British would be the commander of the European United Fleet. As for

The fourth is economic arrangements. At the same time, Germany will place various industrial orders in Britain to help stabilize the economic situation, and Britain can join all kinds of European joint venture mechanisms and common markets in the future, and at the same time, the current oil fund in the Middle East will also give British capital a piece of the pie, and the two sides can also cooperate in advanced technology, after all, British industrial technology is second only to Germany in Europe, and even surpasses Germany in some fields. In the final analysis, Germany will of course have to eat the lion's share in the process of EU integration, but as long as the four major dominions are in hand, Britain will surpass France to enjoy the second deal and status -- isn't it the second oldest with the United States?

In other words, with successive defeats in Britain and the United States, Britain's asking price is lowering, and the possibility of an agreement between Britain and Germany has become more and more likely......