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Shortly after Nimitz had sent the telegram, he was startled and thought it was too late to send the reminder, only to find that it had been sent by Mountbatten of Delhi, and in a pleading tone he begged the Pacific Fleet to support the direction of India. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The faces of the info crowd suddenly gloomy, now the British begged the Pacific Fleet to defend India, the Australians begged the fleet to defend Australia and New Zealand, and Washington hoped that the fleet could achieve some victories, which was logically completely impossible.

What's even worse is that in terms of strength comparison, the Combined Fleet is now more powerful than the Pacific Fleet, and the two sides may not dare to fight a tough battle.

"There are too many goals, too many tasks, and we have to have our own ideas." He sighed, "The Marines continue to clear out the Tarawa defenders, and India is really powerless now." ”

On the ninth day after Horikichi led the combined fleet, the landing fleet composed of Sher and Yamashita Fumimi also set off in a mighty way, and to the surprise of the British and Indian troops, the Japanese and German forces did not choose the Indian mainland, which was closest to Ceylon and only separated from the Pauk Strait, to land, but went directly to Madras, which was more than 400 kilometers away from Ceylon.

Although Mikawa and Tsunoda had only two light aircraft carriers and a total capacity of only 60 aircraft, the Japanese army's combat strength increased exponentially after the airfield on the island of Ceylon became operational. Two army flight divisions flew at the Stuka, FW-190, BF-219 and other aircraft.

After the British Empire's Royal Navy's Eastern Fleet was de facto wiped out, the Indian coast had become completely defenseless, and the Japanese could fight as much as they wanted, and even the 10,000-ton cruisers such as the Haguro and Kaohsiung were now beyond the reach of the British's force -- just as the British opened the door to Asian countries with their gunboats more than 100 years ago.

First, a large number of planes and bombs washed the ground in the air, and then 203mm naval guns opened fire at close range, and the officers and men dispatched by India watched in amazement as the enemy's positions fell into a sea of fire one by one, and the expected resistance and counterattack did not occur at all, and the landing campaign began at 9 o'clock in the morning, and when the No. 4 amphibious tank painted with the iron cross logo got off the landing craft and climbed directly onto the beachhead, the morale of the defenders had all collapsed, and there was almost no organized resistance.

The officers and men of the chariot brigade under the command of Nakura Kan shouted that they were not satisfied, they got up early in the morning and fought in the dark for 10 days, hoping to teach the British how to behave with new equipment, and considering that they did not dare to say that they had a complete grasp of tactics and equipment, they very modestly occupied the second batch of landing troops, and as a result, the first batch of German troops who went up directly controlled the scene, and by the time the landing craft came back to meet the second wave of attack echelons, the British were all finished.

Scheer smiled and asked Yamashita Fengwen if these troops wanted to go directly to the dock to land, and the Malay Tigers who were watching the battle on the warship didn't react themselves: "So fast? And that's the end of it? ”

"yes, let's rush ahead again, we can probably spend the night in Madras City today."

"It's too unscrupulous."

"It's just Indians, what strength do you expect from them? If the Indians really had the backbone, they would not have been enslaved by the tiny British Empire for so long. Scheer shrugged, "The British army in North Africa is the most capable of fighting, but after we cut off the supply channel, the 8th Army, with 300,000 troops, also surrendered, and now the British Empire is like a giant with a broken backbone, without the continuous blood transfusion of the Americans, it would have been impossible for a long time." ”

Yamashita Fengwen nodded: "Since you're here, let's experience it once, and it's better to use it as a drill." As a result, the chariot brigade scheduled to land was the last force to arrive in Madras that day, and luckily caught up with the encirclement of the British defenders of Madras.

Lieutenant General Girard, who was in charge of the defense of South India, was not unprepared, not only setting up the headquarters of the newly established 11th Army in Madras, but also preparing nearly 20,000 troops for a defensive battle.

Some time ago, he had been frightened, for fear that the Japanese or German troops would wake up in the night, but after the fall of Ceylon, he waited for the enemy to come on the left and the right to come, and he was a little suspicious, so he had to find a way to get the Royal Air Force to secretly send planes to the island of Ceylon to reconnoitre, and the result was that the Japanese army was conducting adaptation training. According to his thoughts, this kind of training is not likely to be effective in 3-6 months, so he relaxed a little, thinking that he still has enough time. Delhi has pledged to reinforce him with three more brigades, which are currently in the process of moving south. Although it was still far from his expectations, at least there was some hope.

Horikishi's air raid on Perth a few days earlier had distracted him into believing that the next phase of the Japanese army's battle should be in the direction of Australia and New Zealand, and although he always tried to complain to Mountbatten in Delhi about the lack of troops and equipment and the difficulty of defending, he had not been left without a trace of luck until today he was crushed by this sudden attack.

He knew that he did not have a fleet at hand now, and the shore defense could not be an opponent of the enemy's naval guns, so he focused his defense on a place about 30 kilometers from the coastline, according to his idea, he still had hope of fighting a good battle after breaking away from the support of the warships, and he had a unit equipped with Valentine and Sherman tanks. But he did not expect that the air power of the Japanese army would suddenly swell so much, and when the Stukka, FW-190, and BF-109 classic German aircraft in the European theater appeared, he had a feeling of imminent disaster.

What was even more desperate was the result of the air engagement, the few Royal Air Force squadron planes that had been reinforced, were either destroyed on the ground in the Japanese assault, or were shot down by the superior Japanese pilots in the air combat, and from the Japanese assault to noon, Madras lost any fighters that could be used to defend the sky in just four hours.

When the German and Japanese troops landed at the dock and the armored troops poured out of the transport ships, he suddenly realized how unrealistic his desire to think that he could block the opponent with one armored brigade.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese 4th Tank Division and the 9th Brigade of the German Marines launched an attack from the left and right flanks with the dock as the core, preparing to encircle and annihilate the Madras defenders. Upon receiving information about the enemy's division of troops, Gillard decided that he had found an opportunity that was not an opportunity, and he hoped that his only Anglo-Indian 6th Tank Brigade would crush one of the routes, demoralize the enemy, and then calmly organize a retreat. (To be continued.) )