Chapter 335: Ah San's counterattack
Myanmar, Yangon Railway Station.
With a whistle, a leading red-skinned train drove into the railway station and stopped, the doors opened, and a group of heavily armed officers and soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Shence walked down, and then assembled near the parking shed.
This is the sixth train of the day, and all of it is carrying troops, weapons and ammunition from the Chinese Empire.
The inhabitants of Burma know that this is another war, and as for following the war, they don't need to think about it to know that it must be Britain, because in the South Asian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, there are only two central powers, one is the Chinese Empire, the suzerainty of Burma, and the other is the British Empire, the suzerainty of India.
However, in the last train today, some Indians dressed as civilians came down from the last carriage, men and women, old and young, which surprised the residents of Myanmar.
The two military vehicles stopped at the platform, and a major officer came straight to the group of Indians, saluted a slightly dignified middle-aged man, and said: "Your Majesty, I am the special commissioner of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army in Burma, and at the behest of our division commander and the king of Burma, I invite you to the Burmese royal palace, and I will invite you to get on the train." โ
The Burmese don't know who Baha's is, but there is a word for His Majesty behind it, which arouses the curiosity of the people.
"He can't be the king of India, right?"
"Yes, I haven't seen it, but I heard that the British deposed the Mughal emperor a few years ago and sent the Indian emperor to the primeval forest of northern Burma, so it shouldn't be him!"
"It shouldn't be wrong, didn't you hear that **** military master call the other party Your Majesty!"
The crowd was talking, and the officer of the Chinese Imperial Divine Strategy Army just smiled slightly, which was equivalent to acquiescing to people's speculation.
That's right, the middle-aged Indian man in front of him is the last emperor of the Mughal Empire in India, Baha II, who was deposed from the throne by the British Viceroy of India in 1858, and the family was sent to the pristine forests of Burma.
Recently, the Chinese Empire has been strained in response to the war. In order to contain the British army in India from attacking the western frontier of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire had to make some big moves in India, and in order to win the trust of the opposition forces in India, the Chinese Empire promised to help them find Baha II and return it to them.
Baha II, who had been a savage for fifteen years, was able to see the light of day again, and was full of excitement, especially when he learned that the Chinese Empire intended to help him restore the throne and drive out the British colonists. He was even more grateful and said that he would fully cooperate.
At the Royal Palace of Burma, the King of Burma and the Supreme Commander of the Chinese Imperial Army in Burma, Lieutenant General Huang Jinliang, hosted a banquet for Baha II and his family, and conveyed the greetings of the Chinese Emperor Li Weiguo to him and his family.
The official topic of the banquet began after Baha II devoured a feast, and the people of Huang Jinliang and the king of Burma were not shocked to see Baha II and his family eating in embarrassment.
This Nima is right for whoever has been in the primeval forest for fifteen years!
"We express our deep condolences to your eldest daughter, Queen Hash, who failed to launch the war against Britain eight years ago, and wish you all the best."
The eldest daughter, Hashi, was married before Baha II was exiled, so she was spared exile. Over the years, Baha II's family had been hoping that Hash would come to their rescue, but there was no news for a long time, and it turned out that they had died. This made the anger of the Baha's family disappear in an instant, and they fell into deep grief.
Huang Jinliang continued: "At present, there are still six rebel forces in your country, which are not large or large, all of them were once subordinates of Queen Hash, and we have contacted them in the hope of helping them overthrow the British colonial rule. But they don't believe us, and we hope that His Majesty will lead them. โ
Bahรก II was also an emperor. Although he was already a puppet of the British when he ascended the throne, his political consciousness was still very high. Baha II was grateful to the Chinese Empire for finding and rescuing him and his family from the primeval forest.
"Master Huang, please rest assured, as long as I return to India, I will definitely promote an alliance between your two countries."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, and toast to the alliance between your and our countries!" Huang Jinliang was waiting for this sentence, and immediately raised his glass.
"Cheers to the alliance between your two countries!" Baha II also raised his glass with joy.
After the banquet. Soon Huang Jinliang arranged a team of soldiers to secretly protect Baha II's family, called protection, but actually surveillance, after all, it was not an ordinary person, it was the emperor of India. Huang Jinliang couldn't fully believe what this thing said.
However, cooperation is inevitable.
Soon, representatives of the Indian rebels came to Yangon and met with Baha II, and with the help of Baha II, the leaders of the rebels soon reached a cooperation agreement with the Chinese Empire.
The Imperial Chinese Divine Army will launch a large-scale ground military operation against the British Bengal Gang, and the troops of five towns will be engaged in the Bengal campaign, requiring the active support and cooperation of the Indian rebels.
The Indian rebels, under the leadership of Baha II, soon formed a joint command group and agreed to cooperate with the military operations of the Chinese Imperial Army.
However, the weapons and equipment of the Indian rebels were very backward, only a few thousand were equipped with old-fashioned front-loading muskets, and the rest of the tens of thousands were only equipped with cold weapons such as broadswords and spears, which had a limited effect on containing and harassing the British army.
As a result, the Imperial Chinese military quickly allocated a sum of money and weapons and equipment to the Indian rebels. The first batch of aid provided 20,000 rifles, 200 pistols, 20 Gatling machine guns, 5,000 radiums, 10,000 radiums, 12 75mm infantry guns, and 20 tons of supporting guns and ammunition. There will be more weapons and equipment assistance in the future, but it depends on the battlefield situation to make a decision. If the Indian rebels are not used, there is no need for the Chinese Imperial Army to waste money.
When the Indian rebels saw these advanced weapons and equipment, they immediately jumped up with joy and expressed their full cooperation. However, they don't know how to use a lot of equipment, so Huang Jinliang specially sent a team of 200 instructors to train them.
Of course, this training is a crash course, and it will take no more than a week for the Indian rebels to fight. After all, the Chinese Empire didn't have that much time to wait.
A week of intensive training is also very effective. At least the Indian rebel fighters have learned to use rifles, Gatling guns, grenades, and buried radium, and artillery can also fire. It's just that the accuracy is a little worse.
Twenty days after the siege of Guam, the Southwest Theater of the Chinese Empire mobilized the forces of the Five Towns and launched a large-scale attack on the British Bengal Gang.
The Chinese Imperial Army crossed the border from northern Burma, central Burma, and southern Burma in three directions and launched a surprise attack on the British troops stationed in Bangladesh.
Although the British troops in Bengal had been prepared, they were still taken by surprise. In the face of the wolf-like Shence army of the Chinese Empire, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Manipur soon fell, and the British army in Bengal was forced to retreat to the capital Dhaka, digging trenches and repairing bunkers, and engaged in fierce battles with the Chinese Imperial Army.
The Chinese Imperial Army surrounded Dhaka and launched a fierce attack, and tens of thousands of shells fell on the British positions and in the city every day, causing huge casualties to the British army, and the whole city was plunged into a sea of fire. Thick smoke obscured the sky.
However, the Chinese Imperial Army did not rush to capture Dhaka, but deliberately frightened the British with heavy artillery fire and the posture of large troops approaching the city.
Sure enough, in the face of the constant cries for help from the British army in Bangladesh, the British Indian governor was frightened and immediately sent troops from all over India to reinforce Bengal.
As a result, the garrisons in various parts of India first transferred the elite to the Pamir Plateau to attack the western frontier of the Chinese Empire, and then transferred the elite to Bangladesh to block the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army, and there were not many remaining troops. There aren't many elites anymore.
With the intelligence provided by S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Chinese Empire, the Indian rebels quickly began to move. For a time, the Indian gangs were in flames, and the Tamil gang and the Andra gang were successively captured by the rebels.
Baha II then re-ascended the throne as emperor in the Andhra gang and called on the Indians to join the British army, so the Indians of Delhi and Mahalla also rebelled, and the war quickly spread throughout India.
The British Empire undoubtedly attached the highest importance to the South Asian subcontinent. Because most of the raw materials of British industry came from the plundering and exploitation of India, cheap labor and cheap resources supported the industrial construction of the British Empire, and there was no room for error.
Benjamin's government quickly convened an emergency meeting to discuss the Sino-British Bengal campaign and the Indian rebel rebellion.
"Obviously. This must be the ghost of the Chinese Empire! โ
There is no doubt that the British top brass were the first to suspect the Chinese Empire, and were very convinced, although none of them had evidence.
"Whether it is the ghost of the Chinese Empire or not, now they are the enemies of our British Empire, and we must take it seriously!"
Benjamin called the crowd over not to complain, but to come up with a countermeasure.
"Mobilize troops, there is no other way!"
One of the councillors said bluntly, and everyone nodded their heads and looked at War Secretary Gate.
Gate rolled his eyes, the army is the weakest force in the British Empire, and it is the least popular with the royal family, you don't see the British Navy with the word royal, but the army does not, because the army once executed King William, and since then the army has nothing to do with the word royal.
Today, the British Empire fully supports the construction of the Royal Navy, and the army funds are very small, and even many colonies are not managed by the army, but replaced by the Royal Marines.
"Look at what I'm doing, I don't have any troops to adjust, Matt has hollowed out all the elite of the army."
Matt took 80% of the British Imperial Army from the British Isles, so although Gatet is now the Secretary of War, the total number of troops in his hands is not as much as a division commander.
"If there are no soldiers, then recruit!"
There were councillors again, and everyone was still looking at Gate.
Well, Getter is speechless, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk, you have to pay for recruiting soldiers, 90% of the military expenses are given to the navy.
"Yes, as long as His Excellency the Minister of Finance gives money!"
The Minister of Finance refers to Benjamin, and the British Prime Minister is mostly part-time Minister of Finance.
The ball was kicked to Benjamin again, but Benjamin heard that he wanted money, and his face suddenly darkened, in the past five years, the economy of the British Empire has become more and more sluggish, mainly in the face of strong competition from the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire's steel, automobiles, petrochemicals, silk textiles, porcelain, tea, medical equipment, medical supplies, etc., are very popular with European and American countries, seriously squeezing the share of British foreign trade exports, and the British Empire's survival of the Yapian trade was uprooted by the Chinese Empire, and the Golden Triangle is gone, It is said that the Chinese Empire also established a Yapian factory in the Golden Triangle, produced something called a bandit, and exported it to Europe and the United States, especially Britain, under the banner of medicine and special drugs, poisoning the British people, and a large amount of British wealth was robbed of by the Chinese Empire, as well as that damn illegal banknotes, causing financial turmoil in Britain, and a large outflow of gold and silver, all of which made the British economy worse.
In particular, the British Empire vigorously developed its navy and built ironclad warships on a large scale, and military expenditure accounted for more than 70 percent of its fiscal expenditure, which further aggravated the emptiness of the national treasury and the accumulation of debts.
"No money!"
As soon as the word Benjamin had no money came out, everyone was dumbfounded.
Don't be so single!
The parliamentarians were very unhappy, because every time the treasury allocated money they would get a little bit of oil, so they naturally would not be happy to hear Benjamin say that there was no money.
"Then issue another Treasury bond!"
A member of parliament made a very unceremonious suggestion.
Benjamin frowned and said, "Still want to issue Treasury bonds?" The opposition is staring at us, and the opposition almost drowned me when it issued 100 million pounds of long-term government bonds. No, the general election is coming, and I am not sure that I will be re-elected if I issue treasury bonds at this time! โ
The British election is imminent, the opposition wants to come to power, Benjamin wants to be re-elected, he has to be careful, so he launched a war, hoping to use the war to divert the attention of the British, if he wins a war, he Benjamin can be unceremoniously re-elected.
However, the current war situation does not seem to be as good as expected, and Matt has not taken Guam for a long time, and he has lost his troops. Britain, Japan, and Russia agreed to send troops together, but Japan has already sent troops, and the war situation is not optimistic. The Russians were selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, secretly asking for benefits from the Chinese Empire, and when the British army attacked Tibet on a large scale, it was a fire in the backyard, and the Indian king ran back to set off a war of restoration, and India was in danger.
Benjamin has always controlled public opinion, and most of the British are still unaware of the progress of the war and the situation in India, and once the government bonds are issued again, the opposition will inevitably make a big fuss and force Benjamin to explain the purpose of the national bonds.
"If there is no national debt, there will be no universal compulsory military service like in Germany. But that also needs money, unless they are allowed to rob it, those Indian princes should still have a lot of oil and water, they can scrape it! โ
Another congressman put forward a bad idea, and the three sentences do not leave the bank, which is just a money word, and it is purely out of the eyes of money.
At this moment, the military department made an urgent report.
"Prime Minister, something is wrong, there is a rebellion in the Serbian region, the Ottoman army is massacring the Slavs, and the Tsarist government has sent us a note that if we can't control the Ottoman Empire, the Tsarist Empire will have to intervene in the conflict."
Fack!
At the critical moment, Turkey came out to make trouble, and Benjamin was so angry that he vomited blood! (To be continued.) )