A haze of fear hangs over London. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The bombing campaign of the Don Army against Britain began in January 1816 and lasted until mid-February. During this period of time, the Tang Army launched two to four attacks a week, at first mainly using missiles to attack threatening military targets, preemptively disarming Britain's ability to resist, and later when Britain basically had no counterattack power, it even sent a large number of bombers to bomb Britain's domestic industrial cities fiercely.

From London to Birmingham, from Liverpool to Manchester, these major cities have fallen victim to the Tang bomb. Some cities have almost completely lost their industrial capacity, factories have been completely destroyed, and their workers have lost their lives in large numbers. However, the British soon discovered that the Tang army would not attack residential areas, so some British, who thought they were savvy, began to move some industrial machinery to residential areas or rural areas. This approach was indeed effective in the early days, but in terms of industrial nature, most factories would erect tall chimneys, and after the Datang reconnaissance force discovered this situation, they immediately judged the truth. This was followed by bombing, which inflicted more casualties on the British.

200,000 people were killed or wounded in the British bombardment, which the British called "the-blitz". For the Tang people, the British can be said to be full of all kinds of dissatisfaction and hatred, but slowly breeding, there is also a sincere fear of the Tang people. No matter how many ways the British tried, there was no way to intercept the missiles that Datang was flying at speed, as well as a large number of fighters. The Dons were always able to take the lead, discover the anti-aircraft weapons laid out by the British, and then destroy them first.

Britain once believed that there were a large number of national revolutionaries in their own country who were spying on intelligence for the Tang people and betraying the country to seek glory. Although this speculation is not completely wrong, it is true that many Britons serve Datang, but Datang's real way of understanding military intelligence is not through these spies. In Britain, like in Germany, a special anti-enemy purge was launched, which may not have been as terrible as in Germany, but it also caused a certain amount of social panic.

It was at this juncture that the Tang Dynasty also began to take action against Britain's last colony.

Before the outbreak of new ground operations in Europe, the Tang South Asian Theater had launched a campaign first. Compared with several other theaters, the scale of the Tang Army in South Asia is not very large. However, after the start of the wartime state, the Tang North Indian Overseas Territory also began large-scale conscription, and the recruitment of 350,000 Indian soldiers was also very smooth, and the recruitment was completed in a very short period of time, and training is now underway. The original force consisted of a South Asian Front composed of three army groups, one of which was a complete Indian Tang Army unit. The army group in the direction of Donghui was composed of ethnic Chinese, Burmese, and Siamese.

The British knew that in the event of war, the South Asian subcontinent would inevitably become a battlefield as well. And India is definitely more important to Britain now than the crown jewel on the head of another queen of the empire on which the sun never sets. In order to defend India, the British gathered 200,000 troops here, but the main force was a servant army composed of locals.

In particular, the British in South Asia were relatively short of heavy weapons and armored forces, while their opponents, the Don Army, were armed to the teeth. In units made up of ethnic minorities such as Indians, although not fully mechanized, basically every division is equipped with armored regiments, and there are enough trucks to transport infantry. After all, Britain has not completed the primitive capital accumulation of capitalist countries, so the British army's family base is relatively thin, and it is impossible to be as luxurious as the Tang army.

The South Asian Campaign first broke out in Bangladesh, and the Tang Dynasty's Donghui overseas territory actually occupied part of Bengal, and Donghui joined the Tang Dynasty for more than 20 years, although it was worse than North America, China and other regions, but it was also advanced. Therefore, a large number of Bengalis are smuggled over every year, and an important condition for them to live in the local area is to give up their religion, so there is such a group of Bengalis who have no religious beliefs in the land of the Tang Dynasty.

Among the Tang army were a considerable number of East Bengalis, who originally belonged to the local security forces, but in wartime, they were transformed into regular troops.

At the end of February, the Don army launched an offensive in Bengal. A mechanized infantry division of the Tang Army advanced downstream along the Brahmaputra River from the Donghui Assam region; On the other hand, the Burmese and Siamese divisions marched from Chittagong and attacked westward along the narrow coastal plain.

The strength of the Datang Air Force here is not as dense as that of Europe, because the British themselves do not have many planes in India, and even have only one formed air force in Bangladesh, and there are more than 20 old-fashioned biplanes, monkey version of equipment purchased from Datang. In the direction of Bangladesh, the Datang Air Force deployed a fighter aviation division and a strong attack aviation division, with a total of only about 100 aircraft, and the models were relatively old, the fighter was J-6, and the attack aircraft was J-5, and the main task was to cover the army's operations.

The attack of the Tang army was not too sudden, and the British had expected it, but their resistance was still relatively weak. In the border zone, the 73rd Mechanized Infantry Division of the Tang Army broke through the defensive forces, which consisted mainly of Bengalis, without much effort. In South Asia, where the river network is dense and the roads are muddy, it is somewhat difficult for the heavy mechanized troops of the Tang Dynasty to march, so the armored vehicles equipped by the Tang army are relatively light, and the combat vehicles are mainly wheeled. After the battle began, two or three helicopter gunships fired several rounds of rockets, and the artillery hit, and the British army was in great confusion, and the tanks and tanks of the Tang Army completely fell apart as soon as they rushed.

In this case, it was not the enemy army that affected the speed of the Tang army's advance, but the somewhat troublesome terrain in the local area. The soldiers spent far more time solving the tank getting stuck in the mud, or seeing the water and building bridges, than the actual battle with the British army. On the other hand, the Tang Army was in a similar situation, although the combat effectiveness of the minority Tang Army was weaker than that of the Chinese Tang Army, but it was still much stronger than the Bengali Army.

In just five days, the Don army captured Dhaka, the capital of Bengal, from which the British governor had to flee to Bihar in a hurry. The Don continued to expand its gains, and finally engaged in a slightly more intense exchange of fire with two British infantry divisions near Babna. Although the British army tried to resist, under the advance of the Tang army, it still did not hold out for even forty minutes before collapsing. (To be continued.) )