.“ The current commander of the Indian army is still the same Haig-ro? Ludendorff asked in a whisper.

Without waiting for Ollie to answer, Chen Tian snatched the words: "Yes, it's still him, our old acquaintance Douglas Haig!" The German Army's men are defeated! At the beginning of our attack on the British mainland, he lost his position as commander of the British mainland defense because of the defeat in the war, and was sent to India to train a new army. After the fall of the British mainland, he took over the military and political power of India, and had the Viceroy of India, Baron Charles Harding, Deputy King of India, declare India's eternal loyalty to Edward VIII and the British government-in-exile. ”

"No wonder the Indians are still resisting!" Ludendorff muttered knowingly.

"Don't underestimate this guy, his few cavalrymen have bothered me for a while! Now, he not only contracted the defensive line, but also blocked all the large and small ports within 200 kilometers of the defensive line with sunken ships, and deployed guard posts wherever it was possible to land. Despite three defeats to Haig, Ollie seems to be both serious and depressed about this opponent.

"Since the Indian army is in full swing and has a considerable numerical advantage, general, where are you going to look for a breakthrough?" Hindenburg was both interested and interested, but for the time being, it seems that the Kaiser did not intend to leave the battle plan to the army command.

"Your Excellency Marshal, the main thing I want to solve when I come back this time is this problem!" "First of all, excluding the troops stationed in southern Iran, Afghanistan and maintaining logistical supply lines, I can only put into battle 120,000 troops!" Although it is not impossible to use these troops to attack the defense line of 200,000 or 300,000 Indian troops, I am afraid that once our army falls into a fierce battle with the other side in the attack, the Indian army in another place will rush to my flank and belly! Moreover, such a campaign will be very depleting to our army, and after the end of the campaign, we will most likely not be able to break through to the Indian peninsula in a short time! ”

There is no objection to this. Even if the Indian army is weak, they still have the dual advantages of numbers and geographical advantages, and with Haig, a veteran of the battle formation, even if the hard attack wins, the expeditionary force may lose a considerable number of troops. You must know that due to supply and other reasons, the 200,000 German-Turkish expeditionary force is basically infantry, and the whole army is only equipped with 4 armored regiments, 6 heavy artillery regiments and 3 Turkish cavalry brigades. Moreover, these troops have also been consumed to a certain extent in a series of previous battles, and when the supplementary troops are brought in from the country and form combat effectiveness, it will almost wait for the rainy season to end.

In this way, the cheapness is naturally picked up by the Japanese. Now that the main forces of the Indian army are fighting against the German-Turkish expeditionary force, the resistance encountered by the Japanese army is far smaller than that of its allies, and once the German-Turkish expeditionary force cannot move south before the rainy season, the Indian peninsula may be occupied by the Japanese army. Then, with the British East Indies previously occupied by the Japanese and Thailand, which the Japanese actually controlled, most of Southeast Asia will be controlled by the Japanese government. In that case, the Japanese-occupied area would be very rich in resources such as glue, oil, minerals, and labor:

Two of the world's three major rubber producing regions, the British East Indies (Malaysia), Thailand, and the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), have fallen into Japan's sphere of influence; The British East Indies and the Dutch East Indies have been found to have abundant oil reserves. The British East Indies had fallen. Although the Netherlands was a neutral country, its military power in the colonies could not compete with Japan at all; The British East Indies, Thailand and India are all regions rich in mineral resources, among which the tin of the British East Indies, potash from Thailand, and ferro, manganese, iron and bauxite from India are the most abundant; As for the workforce. India and China are the most populous countries, and with India being a British colony for many years, most Indians have become docile and easy to manage.

With these resources, the Japanese government will accelerate the development of its own local industry and economy by plundering the resources of Southeast Asia, and at the same time make their military stronger, and it will only be a matter of time before they embark on the road to world hegemony, which no country in the world wants to see.

"Our plan is to carry out a strategic landing operation on the southern tip of the Indian Peninsula!" As he spoke, O's baton drew everyone's attention to the huge peninsula in southern India that stretched from the continent to the Indian Ocean.

"Strategic landing operations?"

Except for Chen Tian, the generals present all looked at each other. They were not unfamiliar with the term, and they had often heard it more than a year ago, that a landing to attack Britain was a strategic landing. However, now the strategic landing site mentioned by Ollie is in India, thousands of kilometers from the German mainland, which is also thousands of kilometers away from the current front of the German-Turkish expeditionary forces!

It was Chen Tian who took the lead in breaking this atmosphere: "Very good, keep talking!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty! As I mentioned earlier, a frontal attack is not conducive to our strategy of seizing the Indian peninsula as soon as possible! Conversely, if I go on the defensive on the Indus front. Then only 100,000 troops will be enough to block the Indian army on the other side of the Indus River! In this way, my 20,000 troops will be able to pull out and land on the Indian Peninsula more than 1,000 kilometers behind the Indian army's defensive line! Fire support for the landing is enough with our support fleet, and troop carriers can also be requisitioned from the transport fleet! It's just that there is a certain risk in this strategic landing, the lives of 20,000 German soldiers are at stake, and I must have the support of the Supreme High Command! ”

After that, Ollie looked at Chentian very seriously, this best friend since childhood, and the supreme ruler of Germany, planned every German soldier to be his most loyal people.

The other generals were still thinking about the feasibility of this kind of operation, and Chen Tian said unexpectedly:

20,000 is too little! At least 50,000, preferably 100,000! ”

Now even Ollie was frightened, Germany attacked Britain, it only needed to cross a ditch dozens of nautical miles wide, and it was not a big problem to invest hundreds of thousands of people, but now if you want to transport so many troops to the Indian Peninsula in a month, not to mention the time it takes to gather troops, collect ships and board troops, even if you set off from Germany mainland to the Indian Ocean by boat, it will take two or three weeks!

At this time, what came to mind was another world-famous Inchon landing, which was carried out in "one of the most unsuitable ports in the world for landing operations", which turned the entire Korean war in one fell swoop, and North Korea watched as its supplies were cut off and the front-line troops were counter-encircled and annihilated when the Korean Peninsula was almost reunified.

Ollie said with a sad face: "But Your Majesty, my expeditionary force can't draw so many troops!" You see, 5,000 troops are stationed in Iran and 450,000 in Afghanistan, and these forces are already stretched thin, and most of them are Turkish soldiers! The 30,000 people who protect the logistics can barely pull out another 10,000 people, and we don't have any more ......"

When attacking the British colonial forces in Afghanistan, the local rebels stood with the German-Turkish expeditionary force, but when the German government and the Turkish government rejected their demand for independence, they found that they were not liberators but another group of invaders, so they began to attack the German-Turkish expeditionary force camp, and the German-Turkish expeditionary force used the advantage of troops and equipment to suppress it harshly, which is why the situation in Afghanistan has now been calmed down but the expeditionary force still needs to be stationed in more than 40,000 people.

"Don't worry, I said yes, there will be!" Chen Tian looked at Ollie seriously, and then paused with his cane, he was standing on the northeast side of the sand table, which was three or four thousand kilometers away from India in comparison.

Ollie's eyes widened, unable to understand for a moment.

"Qingdao!" Tatsuten said the name of a place, "Don't forget, there is our largest fleet and merchant fleet in Asia!" ”

Ollie's eyes lit up.

Then, Chen Tian walked to the other side of the table and paused with his cane, "Gibraltar, there are hundreds of German merchant ships and oil tankers that pass through here every day!" ”

Ollie is Ollie after all, after Chen Tian pointed out the key, he quickly figured out the context of the whole plan: De**, who is currently stationed in Qingdao, There were 35,000 troops, and 42,000 German troops stationed on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, both of which were the elite of the German overseas dispatch forces, and as long as even half of the troops were withdrawn from them, they could make up nearly 40,000 reinforcements.

"Your Majesty's meaning is that my 20,000 troops will land first and consolidate the landing ground, and then the troops transferred from these two places will land directly, even if the Indian army returns to the division, the troops we transferred later will have enough time to rest and redeploy?"

Chen Tian replied with satisfaction: "That's right! By sea, it usually takes 2 weeks for a merchant ship to travel from Qingdao to the southern part of the Indian peninsula, and it takes 2 weeks to get there from Gibraltar. So, in these two weeks, I think your troops will be ready for the landing attack! ”

Ollie put his feet together, "Your Majesty's name!" ”

Chen Tian walked over and patted him lightly on the shoulder, "Okay, next, you should have a good chat with our First Quartermaster General, to carry out such an operation, many German merchant ships need to be requisitioned, and all the ammunition and material supplies for the landing force must also be in place in advance!" ”

Lieutenant General Ludendorff, who had been standing nearby, took the initiative to take a step forward, "Your Majesty, please rest assured! The army logistics department must go all out! ”

"That's good!" Chen Tian nodded, "You guys study slowly!" I'll talk to Field Marshal Hindenburg about something, and you'll come over for lunch at noon! ”

"Yes!" Ludendorff and Ollie were very happy to accept the invitation.