The ticking of the announces became a constant background sound in the house, and the officers and men of the staff department were busy with their own business. When Li Xiucheng came in, everyone in the house was busy with their own work. Li Xiucheng walked to a small door on the right, pushed it open and walked in.

This small hut was Li Xiucheng's office in the General Staff, and he picked up the clay cup on the table and poured a sip of cold tea.

At this moment, there was a knock at the door.

After Li Xiucheng said "come in", an adjutant walked in, and he handed Li Xiucheng a copy of the latest front-line battle report.

Seeing the content of the battle report, Li Xiucheng had a sneer on the corner of his mouth. He said to the adjutant standing next to him: "The British have learned wisely, they are no longer charging in a row. ”

The officer laughed, "If that's the case, the musketeers in their ranks are also eighty percent useless." You must know that in addition to firing in a row, the hit rate of a hundred meters will not exceed 20%. ”

"Don't underestimate the firepower of the British army, they have some riflemen in each of their companies, and last time a soldier of the Seventeenth Town of the Second Army also captured a Draser's rifle from the British infantry."

In fact, the nearly two-month battle in Kohima has given the squadron a deeper understanding of the British Army. The British Army is actually not as weak as imagined, and their equipment should be said to be world-class. It's just that the squadron is lucky to have a bright light, under the guidance of Lin Hong. The Chinese workers rarely took detours, they always went to the right goal pointed by the emperor, and they did not hesitate to study, so that the equipment of the Chinese army was slightly stronger than that of the British army.

The two chatted a few more words. The adjutant said goodbye to Li Xiucheng and retired.

Li Xiucheng walked indoors to a map and studied it carefully, and saw that the army on the map had penetrated deep into the Ganges Plain. Li Xiucheng was most worried about the supply of troops. It seemed that the use of British guns should be taught in the army, and only then would it be the best way to continue to penetrate into British India.

Three days later, early in the morning, the Kohima front.

Loud noises came from the British positions one after another, and the billowing smoke and dust of the explosion swept into the sky conspicuously on the British positions.

The earth-shattering sound alarmed the officers and soldiers of the Asian coalition across a ditch, and many of them quietly looked at the situation on the other side from hidden places, and this scene filled the officers and soldiers with doubts. Ma Yonggui, a staff officer of the 7th 19th Infantry Division under the Seventh Army, was also one of them. He picked up his binoculars and peeked through a pile of weeds. Ma Yonggui's actions were very careful, everyone thought that the artillery that killed the most people on the front line, but the veterans knew that the British riflemen were the machines that killed the most people. In recent days, the rifle gunman in Britain has suddenly disappeared. Many soldiers on the front line were relieved, and Ma Yonggui dared to use binoculars from the trench to observe the opposite position. In normal times, he would be in danger. You must know that the rifle gunner, even from a distance of 1000 meters, can penetrate ten centimeters of soft pine planks. Although the soft pine planks are not too hard. But no matter how you compare, it is harder than human skin.

In Ma Yonggui's glasses, the chaos on the British position always makes Ma Yonggui feel a little different than usual, and from time to time you can see Sikh soldiers with big beards and red turbans haunting the trenches, seeing that the direction of their movement is far from the front line.

Ma Yonggui immediately came to his senses. Why didn't there be a high-nosed Brit in his telescope, these soldiers must have no restraint and are withdrawing from the battlefield in large numbers.

Thinking of this, Ma Yonggui turned around and rushed towards the staff room.

The staff room was a mud hut dug out of a trench, the doorway supported by a wooden stake, on which hung a rudimentary wooden bar.

The wooden door was violently pushed open by Ma Yonggui, and it almost fell apart. But Ma Yonggui didn't care about this, he shouted to the soldier smoking hookah next to the telegraph: "Quick, shake the motor up, urgent military situation." ”――

In the Indian Theater Staff Headquarters, there was a continuous stream of announcements. The translated messages were handed over to Li Xiucheng one after another. The contents of the calls were all the same, and the staff officers and commanders at the front judged that the British troops had retreated.

Li Xiucheng pressed the black square telephone on the table and shook it vigorously. With the shaking of Li Xiucheng, this rustic and rough telephone rigidly carried out its mission.

More than 200 meters away from the general's office, a telephone with the same appearance jingled and rang, which made people ring the alarm clock.

Shao Wen was talking to Huang Juezi about the upcoming supplies, when he heard the phone ringing, he stood up and asked Huang Juezi, "Is Lao Huang still used to using this thing?" The first few times this thing called, I was talking to a staff officer, and the good fellow scared a young officer out under the table. ”

Huang Juezi laughed when he heard this, and he also laughed: "This new thing was equipped to the army by His Majesty. It's really useful, I heard that it was produced in a factory opened by Xu Shouxin, so I went back and asked Mr. Xu to install one at home. ”

The two were talking, Shao Wen, who was holding the microphone, his face became solemn, and soon Yang Lucian put down the phone.

Huang Juezi stood up from his seat, looked at Shao Wen solemnly and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"The British did run away."

The Emperor's main army finally entered Kohima, but the town had been destroyed by the British. In order not to leave anything for the emperor's * team, not only the heavy artillery on the front line was blown up, but even the supplies of this town, they took everything they could take away, and burned everything they couldn't take away.

Burnt houses can be seen in the narrow, dusty streets of Kohima, charred wooden beams blackened in the ashes, and homeless Indians can often be seen on the streets. Their belongings were looted by the fleeing British Indians, and they sat in front of their empty houses one by one. The whole of Kohima did not see the slightest bit of anger, the locals did not know where tomorrow would be, and they were no longer afraid of the new army, because they had nothing left to rob.

Shao Wen rode on horseback and listened to Li Xiucheng's suggestion, and he said to the logistics officer very generously: "You bring some food out with Staff Officer Li and distribute it to the Indians here, and let the guides in the team give them a lecture according to Staff Officer Li's wishes." ”