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After receiving the telegram from the General Staff, General Qin Fei, the Governor of Burma, immediately mobilized two brigades of mercenaries and the cavalry division of the 9th Army to take the lead in crossing the Rakhine Mountains into the Rakhine region of Burma as the vanguard of the whole army; Then, send 1 defense division to follow up and protect the newly occupied territory. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Subsequently, all the Indians in Burma were mobilized and began to widen and smooth the mountain road from Beya to Pigeon Cave Town.

The task of repairing the road is handed over to the staff officers below to carry out, and the road sections are divided, with every ten people in a shift, and every hundred people in charge of a road section, checking tasks every day, and distributing food according to the amount completed; In order to be able to eat their bellies, the enthusiasm of Indians for labor has been fully mobilized.

Indian soldiers, the level of war is not very good, but they are good at work, as long as they are well fed, plus the corresponding punishment measures, their work efficiency is not lower than that of the Chinese.

On October 5, Commodore General Gongxing stationed in Sabang Port took the initiative to contact Qin Fei, hoping that the two sides would unite and occupy Chittagong first; This is exactly what Qin Fei thought, without the escort of battleships or battle cruisers, he would not dare to occupy Chittagong, even if he did, he would not be able to hold it, and now with the protection of battlecruisers, it would be very easy to occupy Chittagong.

So Qin Fei immediately telegraphed and ordered the 18th Army from the Nanyang Special Administrative Region to go to Sabang Harbor to join the mixed fleet of battle cruisers, and then go directly to occupy Chittagong.

On 4 October, Zhang Wei delivered all the warships needed by the navy, and Li Zhaoshui began to reorganize the navy. The original South Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet left only some destroyers and fast torpedo boats for patrol and local law and order, and battle cruisers were assigned to the Indian Ocean Fleet.

The commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet is Admiral Tang Yongji, an elite naval staff officer of the newly synthesized group.

According to Li Zhaoshui's plan, Tang Yongji led 2 Xia-class battleships, 2 Lanfang-class battleships, 2 battle cruisers, 1 heavy cruiser, 2 light cruisers and corresponding destroyers, torpedo boats, and 4 submarines to settle in Sabang Port first; Immediately after getting acquainted with the situation of the fleet, blockade the Bay of Bengal, occupy Sri Lanka, the Maldives, the British Indian Ocean Territories, the Seychelles, Mauritius and other places, and establish military ports on the occupied islands; In addition, it is equipped with 1 marine division and 1 defense division for the Indian Ocean Fleet; The heavy and light cruisers assigned to the Pacific Fleet were first seconded to the Indian Ocean Fleet and were to escort the Governor of Madagascar and the officers and men of the 41st Army to the island of Madagascar, along with the remaining warships such as battleships.

Tang Yongji felt that Li Zhaoshui's arrangement was very good, and immediately set sail with the fleet to which he belonged and went to Sabang Port.

On 11 October, the Indian Ocean Fleet arrived at the port of Sabang, and the mixed fleet of battlecruisers for public flights was placed under the jurisdiction of the Indian Ocean Fleet.

On 14 October, the fleet of the 18th Army arrived at the port of Sabang, and after a one-day rest, Commodore Gong Zhou led a mixed fleet of battle cruisers to protect the 18th Army to Chittagong; At the same time, two Lanfang-class battle cruisers, one heavy cruiser and two light cruisers, as well as some destroyers and torpedo boats, were dispatched to occupy Colombo in Sri Lanka, the Maldives and the British Indian Ocean Territories in front of the United States, and the first early warning barrier of the Indian Ocean Fleet was established.

Many officers and men of the Indian Ocean Fleet have been very excited about the sale of many battleships and battlecruisers since the war against Japan, and they have not had their own warships for several years.

Now that the combined fleet of Britain and France has not yet arrived, the British Far East Fleet is frightened to hide in Bombay and dare not come out, seizing British islands in the Indian Ocean, just as an exercise to train their hands.

This time, Admiral Tang Yongji sent out all high-speed warships, so that the officers and men of the navy could familiarize themselves with the performance of the new warships, seize territory, and carry out a war against Britain in the Indian Ocean, capturing or sinking all the merchant ships of the four countries.

With the protection of the powerful Indian Ocean Fleet, Qin Fei was even more emboldened and transferred all the 9th Army to the west of the Rakhine Mountains.

After entering the Rakhine region, the mercenaries and cavalry first stabilized the place, occupied the towns of Sitgedong and Dui, established a supply transfer station here, and then quickly moved north.

By order of Qin Fei, the 9th Army entered Bengal, cavalry and mercenaries, and a defense division entered Assam.

At this time, Assam was very large, including the five southern states of Nagaland and Meghalaya, which were later divided; Bangladesh is also very large, encompassing the later states of Bangladesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar and Odisha in India.

On October 11, the mercenaries and cavalry entered the Indian state of Assam, and finally ushered in the harvest season of the mercenaries, and everywhere they went, they plundered all the food, gold and silver, and occupied their houses, and the strong Indians were required to build roads, barracks, and defenses, as well as auxiliary transportation, and those who did not have jobs were driven away and left to starve to death.

On October 13, the 9th Army entered Bangladesh, also confiscated the wealth of the locals such as grain, cloth, gold and silver, pounds, workshops, factories, and shops, and then captured the able-bodied men and used them as free labor, and the other locals were driven away and those who resolutely refused to leave were shot on the spot.

Because it is in the rainy season, the river is full, the flood is cross-flowing, there is standing water everywhere, there is a lot of silt on the road, the Indians are trekking hard, hoping to get out of the place of suffering as soon as possible, under difficult conditions, lack of food and clothing, the rain comes and there is no place to shelter from the rain, can only be washed away by the rain, the old and infirm die in large numbers, in the process of fleeing for their lives, no one stops to bury these dead, can only be washed away by the flood or let them rot, which in turn leads to the outbreak of the plague.

In the rainy season, rats, snakes and other animals have nowhere to hide, and at night, a large number of rats gnaw on the corpses of the dead from high places to the flat ground, and the tragic situation is indescribable.

Fortunately, the army had enough medical doctors to require soldiers to pour gasoline on the corpses and cremate them after encountering them, bury the cremated bones deeply, and sprinkle large amounts of quicklime in the town to disinfect them.

Military doctors also strictly manage the personal hygiene and military diet of all officers and men, strictly enforcing that anyone drink raw water and eat raw food such as fruits, and spray disinfectant on their hands, shoe soles, clothes and pants before meals.

After learning the news, Zhang Wei urgently airlifted drugs such as quinine, sulfonamides, penicillin, and streptomycin, as well as disinfectants and disinfectants such as iodine wine and hydrogen peroxide, to the front-line military medical department.

All officers and men were given new towels, soap, masks, and other sanitary products, officers at all levels were required to strengthen the hygiene management of officers and soldiers, and bathhouses, toilets, and other facilities were set up in all camps.

Under the strict management of military doctors and officers of all ranks, the plague did not spread among the Xia imperial army.

The cavalry and mercenaries advanced at a high speed, driving the Indians to flee desperately, and everywhere they went, the autumn wind swept by, confiscating all their belongings, and causing more Indians to join the fleeing army.

The plague spread across the Indian continent as the Indians who crossed the Ganges into the hinterland of the Indian continent, and it tended to intensify.

On 19 October, the 18th Army arrived at Chittagong, which by this time had been occupied by the 9th Army.

The 18th Army did not land, but under the protection of destroyers and torpedo boats, it went up the Ganges River and joined the ranks of the grabs for territory.

After crossing the confluence of the Brahmaputra and the Ganges, the 18th Army went up, laying down some of its troops to seize territory, and finally reached Patna, plundered the city before returning to the north bank of the Ganges to occupy the area west of the Brahmaputra and north of the Ganges.

With the protection of the destroyers and the use of the seized cargo ships in Chittagong, the 9th Army sailed up the Ganges and prepared to occupy the area east of the Ganges and on both sides of the Brahmaputra River.

The battle cruisers had too deep a draft to enter the Ganges and could only stay patrolling off the coast of Chittagong, protecting the safety of Chittagong, deterring the British in Calcutta, and preventing the British and Indians from escaping by boat.

The areas reached by the Xia Empire's army were all densely populated lands, with developed agriculture and rich lands, and they plundered frantically and robbed a lot of wealth; Qin Fei only used an airship to deliver weapons, ammunition, sanitary products, and other baggage to Chittagong, and then used the captured cargo ships to transport them to various troops along the river; Grain, horse feed and other places to eat, saving a lot of transportation pressure.

By the end of October, the island of Sri Lanka was completely occupied, and all the locals, except for the able-bodied, were transported to the Indian mainland by cargo ships, and those who dared to resist were shot directly; Those who remained physically strong were under the supervision of the army and had to do heavy manual labor such as the construction of permanent fortifications, roads, barracks, docks, and air bases.

By the end of November, the Marines had occupied bases in the Maldives and the British Indian Ocean, and had begun to build the Diego Garcia Island military base with the use of locals, building barracks, military ports and airfields, warehouses and other infrastructure.

Diego Garcia Island is the largest and southernmost coral island of the Chagos archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the whole island is a V-shaped coral atoll open to the north, the central lagoon is 24 kilometers long, 6.4 kilometers wide, an area of 27 square kilometers, a water depth of 10~20 meters, and a sand reef with sand on the outer edge, which is a natural harbor; It is more than 1,900 kilometers away from the southernmost tip of the South Asian subcontinent, and is located at the meeting point of many shipping routes between the Cape of Good Hope, Singapore, the Red Sea and Australia, and its strategic position is very important. Li Zhaoshui plans to build the island into an air base and an important naval anchorage.

In Malé, Maldives, a supply port for destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines was built, and an airfield was constructed.

On 27 October, the fleet led by Han Shin reached the eastern part of the island of Madagascar, occupying Mauritius and Réunion by the way.

On the 28th, the fleet reached the open sea of the port of Tamatave in the eastern part of the island of Madagascar, and when it was still more than 15 kilometers away from the port, Han Xin ordered the Hainan Island-class light cruisers to open fire and shell the port fortress.

At this distance, the fortress cannon could not do anything, the range of the fortress cannon was not so far, it could only be passively bombed, but the hit rate was not high, and the explosion power of the 152mm burst bomb still shocked the French troops guarding this place.

As the distance shortened, the Xia-class battleships and heavy cruisers began to open fire, the 343mm main guns, the shells exploded more powerfully, and the frightened French defenders on the island of Madagascar urgently retreated, and under the cover of naval guns, the 41st Army successfully landed in the port of Tamatave.

Han Xin ordered the cavalry and mercenaries to land first, and then pursued the fleeing French army, which all fled into the city of Antananarivo, and the cavalry surrounded the city.

After the arrival of the Praetorian Guards of 1 defense division and 2 regiments in the rear, the mercenaries and the Janissaries infantry regiments began to attack, engaging in street battles with the French army, and under the blows of mortars and light machine guns and mercenary precision marksmanship, the French army was defeated and retreated; After five days of fierce fighting, the French army lost more than 4,000 casualties and countless wounded.

On 1 November, after stabilizing the situation in the port of Tamatave, Han Shin ordered the fleet to occupy the Seychelles, the islands of Comoros and Mayotte, as well as a number of surrounding islets and atolls, with at least one battalion of the National Defense Force stationed on each of the larger islands.

In mid-November, the Indian Ocean Fleet moved its home port to Colombo and sent two submarine teams off the coast of Mumbai and the Gulf of Aden to monitor the movements of British warships, and to attack passing British merchant ships at night.

At this point, the Indian Ocean Fleet blocked the Bay of Bengal and took control of various strategic points in the Indian Ocean, waiting for the arrival of the combined Anglo-French fleet. (To be continued.) )