Chapter 578: The Harassment War Begins!
"These idiots, a bunch of idiots who only know how to wriggle their butts on a woman's belly, don't they know what it means to be a fighter plane?" Sitting in his tent, Colonel Freeman angrily threw aside his beautiful silver-white wig, revealing an unsightly Mediterranean-like baldness. 【Reading.com】
Next to him, Lieutenant Colonel Karui shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Your Excellency Colonel, if we had enough strength now, we would naturally not act with these fools, but now, our strength in India is too weak, and it took a lot of effort to get together such an army, since we do not have an advantage in the number of troops, how can these equally arrogant Hindustani people follow our advice?" ”
"Those Chinese are really shameless, they don't have any gentlemanly demeanor, and they actually use such despicable means as sneak attacks." Colonel Freeman sat limply in his chair, like a dying old lion whose mane was about to fall out.
"However, if we can eliminate the Chinese army in Miyanvali, it will indeed give a great boost to the morale of this coalition army, and it seems that we can only do this." Lieutenant Colonel Karui persuaded. "After all, we are not only proud of the British Emperor [***], but also for our Prime Minister William the Younger. His Excellency Pete, if he had not managed to persuade Parliament to pass the bill, we might now be living in Penang. ”
Colonel Forriman smiled bitterly, "I hope nothing will happen again, dear Karui, I always feel in my heart that if we turn north this time, I am afraid that we will never have a chance to approach Multan again." I hope it's not a hunch, it's just my own whims. ”
"Of course it's just your thoughts, to be honest, I don't think those Chinese can do anything unthinkable under such a heavy siege of enemies on all sides, as long as we can achieve victory, our European compatriots will definitely stand on our side, and at that time, they will be united by us to erase the last glimmer of hope from the Indian continent!" Confidently, Lieutenant Colonel Karui stood up, took his farewell to Colonel Nafreeman, and left the camp.
"Are you sure?" Lu Renjia, the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 117th Division of Multan City, raised his eyes to confirm whether he had heard correctly, and after seeing the scout who hurried back and nodded with great affirmation, Lu Renjia couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, slapped the earthy yellow city wall bricks of Namurtan City and scolded excitedly: "Damn, it seems that the division commander has already taken Miyanvali City, otherwise, these Indian indigenous coalition forces will definitely not retreat so quickly." ”
"If they retreat, then it means a problem, and the city of Miyanvali will inevitably be surrounded by those indigenous Indian forces." The regimental staff officer snorted indifferently. "In other words, the division commanders are using their example as bait to attract the attention of the Indian indigenous coalition forces."
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"I really don't understand the order of this military headquarters, even if the division commander and they take down the city of Miyanvali and threaten the back road of the Indian indigenous coalition army, so what?" Lu Renjia twisted his eyebrows with a headache.
Since these days, all the Chinese people in the villages around Multan City have moved into the fortified Multan City, and the militias of those villages have also been concentrated, cooperating with the 117th Division and the Third Regiment to defend Multan City, but the total strength is only about 5,000 people, and their opponents, the total number of Indian indigenous coalition troops is as high as 60,000 or 70,000, but more than ten times that of them.
Although Lu Renjia has the confidence to hold on to Multan City, confidence does not mean that he has strength, after all, most of the militia have never seen blood on the battlefield at all, and it is really difficult to defend Multan City with the 3,000 people of their three regiments.
However, now that the situation has changed because of the initiative of the 117th Division, there will be no danger in Multan City, at least for a short time. And Lu Renjia was worried about the commander of their 117th Division.
The 117th Division only has two regiments on a division headquarters, and even if the cavalry reinforcement regiment is added, the number is only a little more than 10,000, and since it is used as bait, the cavalry can only be used as infantry. The city of Miyanvali is not a fortified city, how can it resist the attack of a coalition army that is seven or eight times larger?
"I think the military department must have other plans, right?" The regimental staff officer continued to say this on the sideways, and adjusted Lu Renjia's appetite: "I said brother, please don't talk about it?" ”
"I'm afraid that the military department wants to knock down the Mughal Empire in one go." Fang Yuan, the regimental staff officer who looked white and chubby, looked like a kind gentry no matter how he looked at it, smiled extremely obscenely.
"Huh? I said, Brother Fang, you shouldn't have taken the wrong medicine, right? Now those Indian natives and British mongrels are secretly uniting and want to fight with us, we are on the defensive, and you actually say that the military commander wants to clean up the Mughal Empire? Lu Renjia felt that he had an urge to smoke this regimental staff officer who was usually a bad stomach.
"I just guessed, who told you to ask me?" Fang Yuan blinked innocently, with a very wronged expression. "Besides, make bold assumptions and carefully verify them, this is the purpose that His Excellency the Führer has repeatedly instructed us to keep in mind."
"Holy! I won't talk to you anymore, I'm going to train those militias. Hearing this, Lu Renjia rolled his eyes, turned around and left speechlessly. What he didn't expect was that the military headquarters of the Indian Field Army happened to have such an idea.
"Master Zou, what should we do now? What do you want our cavalry reinforcement regiment to do, you just have to give orders, and the order of the military headquarters is to let our regiment be at your disposal. In the city lord's mansion of Namiyanvali City, Peng Shijie, the commander of the cavalry regiment, sat opposite Zou Yu, who was gulping down food, looking at the commander of the 117th Division who was gobbling up, and there was a trace of the usual hippie smile in his tone, and there was a trace of respect.
"That's what the military order the commander gave you?" Zou Yu raised his head and glanced at Peng Shijie, continuing to deal with the food in the bowl.
"Yes, after the army commander ordered our cavalry regiment to cooperate with the 117th Division to capture Miyanvali, I will obey your dispatch from Division Commander Zou." Peng Shijie smiled dryly and handed over a cigarette. "Teacher, you shouldn't be angry with your little brother, right?"
"Why am I angry with you, you can take the city of Miyanvali in the shortest possible time, so that our army can have more time to consolidate the city defense, I am too late to be happy, blame you for what to do, besides, you did not violate the military orders of the commander." swallowed the last bite of food, wiped his mouth, took the cigarette handed over by Peng Shijie and lit it, and said calmly.
"Hehe, that's, how dare I disobey military orders." Hearing Zou Yu say this, for fear that Zou Yu would feel that he was robbing the merit, Peng Shijie, who gave himself small shoes, couldn't help but feel relieved.
"Your cavalry regiment will also rest for a day in the city of Miyanvali first, understand, get out of here." After taking a deep breath of his cigarette, Zou Yu frowned and thought about it before saying.
"Huh? Master Zou, what do you mean by this? As soon as he heard that the cavalry regiment that had assisted the 117th Division in defending Miyanvali City was going to be driven out of the city, Peng Shijie couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"You are cavalry, and if you stay in the city of Myanvali, you are tantamount to a bunch of infantry." Zou Yu raised his head and stared at Peng Shijie and said word by word: "I have already seen the city of Miyanvali, with my two regiments plus the troops of the division headquarters, it is enough to complete the defense on all sides, it is really a waste for you to stay here." ”
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Hearing this, Peng Shijie couldn't help but sit upright. "Master Zou, what do you mean......
"I believe that with the combat effectiveness of your cavalry regiment, in the land of India, if you want to be able to trap your hands and feet, I am afraid that you have not yet formed an army." Zou Yu's finger dotted on the map, and then drew a circle in the southeast of Miyanvali.
Hearing Zou Yu's words, Peng Shijie's eyes couldn't help but light up. "Master Zou, what do you mean...... Let our cavalry regiment interfere on the periphery, delay time, and make it impossible for those Indian native coalition forces to attack Miyanvali with all their might? ”
"How? Do you have faith, if you don't want to, you can treat yourself as infantry and defend the city for me here. Zou Yu raised his eyebrows and said lightly to Peng Shijie.
"Yes, of course there is, Commander Zou, you can rest assured, those indigenous coalition forces will be handed over to our cavalry regiment, and we will ensure that they will know how powerful we are." Peng Shijie was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly.
Zou Yu solemnly confessed to Peng Shijie with a straight face: "Remember, your task is only to disturb, not to let you go and fill in with human lives, if you can't do anything, you will leave the periphery of Mijanvali." When the time comes, your regiment will go north, east, and even west, and give me a hard harassment of the indigenous settlements of India, so that they will not be able to live in peace, and we have the Indus Fleet to supply them along the river, so you don't have to fear that you will be trapped. ”
Early the next morning, when the Indian indigenous coalition army turned around and marched north, Peng Shijie led the cavalry reinforcement regiment to leave Miyanwali, who was reinforcing the city defense, and thousands of iron horsemen rushed south.
It took only one day for the Chinese cavalry regiment, which was as fast as thunder and lightning, to discover the traces of the indigenous Indian coalition on the Indus River Plain.
After that, the Chinese cavalry, relying on their own mobility, as well as their sharp sabers and guns, like a group of rogues, a group of maddening hornets, frequently launched harassment operations against the large and bloated Indian indigenous coalition army.
(To be continued)