【2nd Update】

On the evening of 17 July, a Shanghai-class destroyer standing west of Bintan Island and trying to find the traces of the British fleet suddenly discovered that the huge British Far East Fleet was not gathering in the direction of Pontianak, but was coming in a double column from the direction of the Sin Chau Strait, and the news was immediately sent by telegram to Xu Shoushan, commander of the Pacific Fleet, who was looking for warships near Benua Island, 150 kilometers away.

The British turned their temper and gave up their plan to attack Pontianak and returned directly from the Sin Chau Strait to their Straits Settlements lair...... This series of news made even the staff officers of the entire Pacific Fleet Command shout that they couldn't understand it!

Early the next morning, the news came from the direction of Pontianak that the South China Squadron had attacked the British fleet at night...... Since the British had temporarily returned to the Straits Settlements, he immediately ordered a rush back to Pontianak to complete the resupply.

On the morning of the 19th, the only special brigade of the Chinese Army, which had been secretly assembled in Yadong County and prepared for the battle, was 7,200 people of the Sixth Mixed Brigade led by Major General Ma Long of the South Asia Legion, and suddenly marched from Yadong to the Zhuomulari Snow Mountain Pass.

The highest altitude of Zhuomulari Snow Mountain is 7,400 meters, which is completely unconquerable in the eyes of the local Tibetans, and the Zhuomulari Pass is a natural canyon formed by the Zhuomulari Snow Mountain and the Himalayan granite mountain range, with an altitude of 4,500 meters, which belongs to the absolute plateau climate. But out of the pass all the way south. The elevation of the entire landscape is rapidly decreasing.

The Sixth Special Brigade can be said to be the only powerful branch of the entire Chinese Army that trains in a plateau climate. Moreover, no less than half of the officers and soldiers in the unit have also participated in the war against the northern Siberian snowfield, which can be described as a powerful force for special terrain operations.

In the afternoon of the same day, when the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 6th Brigade's outpost entered the southward slope through the Zhuomulari Snow Pass, a group of suspicious Indians was spotted in a dirty valley north of the pass...... They were suspicious because a company on the march spotted Hindus with old breech guns fleeing into the camp.

But when a company took up the terrain outside the camp. A 60mm mortar was brought in and fired three rapid shots at a wooden barracks gate in front of it, completely destroying the only defensive point in the entire camp at once.

In the face of the sudden fierce fire, the opposite side made the right move, and hundreds of Indians in rags ran out desperately, but what made Yilian couldn't understand was that these Indians, in addition to raising their hands to come out, they all summoned the family in the camp in a grand manner, and began to wrap up in front of the company......

What kind of trouble is this, the company commander who watched it almost vomited blood, and the company's Indian interpreter was still at the battalion headquarters. There's really no way to communicate now! Fortunately, I soon found a guy who knew a little Chinese in this group of Ah San. After some inquiry, the commander of the first company found that he had easily conquered the only military stronghold that controlled the surrounding area of nearly 400 square kilometers.

The big 300 Indian men and the old and young, men and women in the camp turned out to be the servant army set up by the British in the British colony of Nepal, and a few minutes later, when a platoon leader grabbed three disgraced British officers from the camp, the other party did not understand where the army in front of him came from.

One of the British lieutenants also protested unashamedly, and was immediately knocked to the ground by the butt of a rifle of a platoon commander, Meng Kang, and this butt actually played a role that surprised the company, and the might of the platoon leader was immediately unconditionally obeyed by many Indian servants, and by the evening, when the headquarters of Major General Malone of the 6th Brigade entered the Paro Plateau, a large amount of important information had been gathered here.

The British did not expect the Chinese army to cross the plateau of more than 4,000 meters and launch an attack along the slopes and hills to the south, while the other fact was completely consistent with the earlier investigation of the Intelligence Division, there were almost no British troops there, and the entire Paro Mountains extended south all the way to the Ganges Plain, and the altitude plateau was rapidly reduced to 2,000 meters.

For such an easy start, it was naturally expected by Ma Long, but there was no joy at all in such a victory, at most it was just a smile, and the first expeditionary force in South Asia under his jurisdiction would face a far more difficult situation than the second and third expeditionary forces, the most important of which was the lack of supplies.

The Sixth Special Brigade entered the plateau for training all the year round, and although the governor of Qin at that time did not say any military strategy, he also understood that it was necessary to enter the plateau to fight, but at that time he thought that the most likely thing was to use troops against Tibet.

As a high-ranking general of the army, he led a large army into Nyingchi, Lhasa, and Shigatse in southern Tibet many times, and saw the extremely backward social conditions in the localities, and as an outstanding soldier who was influenced by the new army and the concept of a modern state, what he saw and heard was simply unbelievable; those so-called nobles and monks kept a large number of Tibetans in captivity as slaves, and there were only three kinds of slave owners, slaves, and monks.

He never thought that the battle he imagined did not appear, but he had to cross the border line to carry out an expedition that he had never imagined, and the materials that the Sixth Special Brigade had hoarded a lot at the beginning finally came in handy this time, but in front of him, an epic battle that would cross the Gangetic Plain and attack southward made him still feel deeply pressured.

The 300-kilometer long journey, with the extremely difficult situation of continuous logistical supply, may be an impossible mission for any army, but Malone accepted it immediately...... This is undoubtedly a grand strategy tailored for him and for the Sixth Special Brigade.

That night, when Maroon summoned the senior officers of the brigade to arrange combat missions, the 300 Indian servants who were captured that day received propaganda in the prisoner camp that was later called the feudal enlightenment of India, and of the 300 Indian prisoners, the vast majority of whom were low-caste natives of India, of course, there were also a few broken elements of the second-class Kshatriya elite families, but in this land of Paro, where birds do not, this so-called caste advantage has long been gone.

Chen Hai, a mission officer of the Special Brigade on behalf of the central government, announced a condition that was irresistible to everyone, as long as they accepted the administration of the Chinese government, all low-caste natives would be canonized by the Kshatriya magnates, and after the war, all military elites with military merits would receive land feudalism recognized by the Chinese government, and the only condition was naturally to accept the nominal right of rule from the Chinese government.

It subconsciously didn't matter who recognized their social hierarchy with these indigenous servant armies living under the strict hierarchy of India, the Brahmins could, and so could the Chinese emperors from the East, and, on this unusual night, they suddenly felt their status raised.

With the exception of a few captives, almost all of them immediately pressed their handprints to accept the social status boost given to them by the Marlon general, and on the same day, they received their first sumptuous dinner after the promotion...... A company stole curry, grains, and dried meat from the camp warehouse...... This was originally a meal that could only be enjoyed by British and indigenous officers.

Ma Long, on the other hand, received Chen Hai's report that the reorganization of the indigenous army had been completed, and the only thing needed was to assign a few officers to them...... Thus, on the first day of the offensive of the First Army in South Asia, the Indian Army under the jurisdiction of the First Expeditionary Force had two more companies of baggage.

Early the next morning, Meng Kang, the platoon commander of a company who had just been appointed commander of the Indian regiment yesterday, was depressed and began to organize this chaotic Indian regiment at the gate of the battalion with a squad of soldiers......

Meng Kang, the leader of the first platoon...... The current official position has been promoted to the rank of commander of the Indian regiment overnight...... Of course, I never dreamed that I would soon be in charge of as many soldiers as General Ma Long of the brigade!

At the same time, the mighty 6th Brigade had already set out early, and had already set out early, making its way along the Paro Plateau to the southern hills to the city of Madari, 100 kilometers away, the source of the Ganges tributary of the Kahaka River.

But this also made the entire plan in the march route had to be adjusted many times, the original less than 100 kilometers of plateau march, and finally arrived at the destination at 2 pm on the 20th, marked on the map of the city of Madari, in the mouth of the first batch of Indian regiment indigenous soldiers is already a great city, as a result, when the second regiment and three battalions appeared outside the city, in front of this so-called town with only a wooden fence built on a slope, let the commander of the third battalion repeatedly find the indigenous troops to confirm.

The whole battle was completely worthless, seeing the appearance of the heavily armed Chinese army, a battalion of Indian soldiers stationed here also realized that the other party was not here to visit the door, a large number of Indian soldiers under the command of a dozen British officers began to form at the gate of the town, the commander of the third battalion saw this bizarre battle situation, and it took a while to realize it...... The dirty Indian soldiers were apparently using front-loading rifles, so the British officers had to make them stand in formation, and they couldn't load their front-loading rifles while lying on their stomachs.

And it was the two MG08 heavy machine guns of the third battalion that solved the battle, and the commander of the third battalion ordered the machine guns to be set up without saying a word, and directly came to crossfire...... After a sudden attack, more than half of the very dutiful British officers fell, but all the Indian soldiers lay on the ground, but not a few of them hung up. (To be continued......)