Chapter 498
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When the Chinese army proposed independent autonomy in South Asia, British rule in South Asia collapsed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 On the battlefield, the main force of the Allied countries in the northeast was annihilated by the Chinese army, millions of Indian soldiers became prisoners of war of the Chinese army, the British army lost the largest combat group in South Asia, and the rest of the region was like an eggshell waiting for the Chinese army to swallow.
Reasonable Indians can see what will happen next, the British who have been pampered for many years seem to have lost their original position overnight, and the Chinese are becoming the new masters of South Asia, and it is all too obvious which side is more advantageous to go -- judging by the degree to which the native Indian forces have fallen to the Chinese, they have little loyalty to their British masters.
The only factors that constrained China's complete control of South Asia were the vast land and poor transportation conditions, but these were solved with the help of local forces, local guides and laborers, and many places without railways relied on countless locals to transport logistics materials, which was not efficient, but it was better than nothing.
Within three months, the Chinese army had entered the southern tip of the Deccan Plateau, the northwestern desert region, and the northern Chinese border, and a mechanized infantry brigade appeared on the Afghan border, eyeing the Middle East. More than 300,000 Britons were taken prisoner by the Chinese army, most of them well-dressed commoners and so-called aristocrats, but in the future their gentlemanly demeanor would be lost in the prisoner of war camps and construction sites.
The loss of South Asia would be an exaggeration of the blow to the Entente, Britain had lost its most important source of raw materials, the Middle East oil corridor was in danger of being cut off, South Asia's abundant human resources could not be used any longer, the British controlled Indian soldiers and officers were unstable, domestic industry was slowly stagnating, naval warships and the expansion of the Sixth Army were in trouble, and even more adverse effects would gradually emerge in the next six months to a year.
The plan for dealing with South Asia has been stored in the archives of the General Staff and can be taken out and slightly modified at this time. According to the plan, more than 20 countries will be formed in South Asia, and the Indo-Christianity region and the Islam-Ran-Christianity region will be divided into several countries. The local forces welcomed this, and the political parties that had previously dominated India were opposed, but they were unarmed, and the tribal leaders, local leaders, and generals were powerful under the auspices of the Chinese army. More than half of the colonial armies mobilized by the British became the armies of those local leaders and generals, and with these armies, the voice of local forces was greatly increased, and coupled with the lure of China, the division of South Asia was inevitable.
For hundreds of years, South Asia was plagued by wars and wars, with warlordism becoming the mainstream. No country has the strength to be unified again, because there is an invisible hand that prevents the formation of a unified power here, and even the battles between countries have the shadow of China. By propping up some small countries, neutralizing some of them, and attacking some of them, China has obtained unimaginable benefits in South Asia, and some commentators have even attributed China's hegemony over the next century to South Asia, plundering the resources of these places, occupying the markets in these regions, and selling China's surplus arms, and Huaguo's rule here is as stable as Mount Tai.
In the process of seizing South Asia, there were very few battles, and the Chinese army fought here more like receiving. However, in several skirmishes, the defenders, mainly British soldiers and Gurkha mercenaries, caused a lot of trouble for the Chinese army, and these battles reminded the Chinese army that they still had to be prepared for a tough battle.
On the coast of the Persian Gulf, a tough battle is going on, and in the Chinese-Kuwaiti region, before the outbreak of the war, the Chinese army stationed troops of an infantry division and a mechanized infantry brigade, and focused on the deployment of defenses in several oil-producing areas such as the Great Burgan oil field. There was no break between China and Britain after the start of the war, and the Middle Eastern oil fields, including the Great Burgan field, continued to supply the Allies with oil, and the Persian Gulf became one of the busiest shipping lanes, with large quantities of crude oil destined for East Asia and Europe, and even further afield to the Americas. The Chinese army took this opportunity to send an additional infantry division and an infantry brigade here, and 75 air force planes assisted the 6th Army in the defense. Using the stationing of this unit, the Chinese army gained a lot of experience in equipment in desert areas, such as how to prevent wind and sand with individual weapons and tanks, goggles, filters, desert terrain uniforms, and so on.
When the war began, the Middle East oil supply to China was cut off, and the British tried to retake Kuwait, which is home to the largest oil field in the Middle East and produced more than half of the Middle East's oil exports. In order to succeed in World War I, the British mobilized 300,000 troops from Iraq, India, Saudi Arabia, and even Egypt, most of them colonial troops. The first is to seize the oil fields, and the second is to consolidate the defense of the Middle East and reduce the risks existing in the Middle East, which can be regarded as the rear of the Entente. Moreover, Chinese Kuwait is far away from China, and after the sea lanes were cut off, it basically lost contact with the country, and the range of China's long-range bombers and transport planes was not enough to reach Kuwait.
In terms of numbers, the British army was seven to one compared with the Chinese army in Kuwait, but the firepower of the Chinese army was not weaker than the British army, and even more powerful. At the beginning of the battle, more than a hundred planes cobbled together by the British were lost in air battles, and twenty-one powerful Mustang fighters dominated the skies of Kuwait and protected dozens of bombers to participate in the attack on the British forces on the ground.
The Chinese army has plenty of ammunition stored here, and there is no shortage of fuel -- near the oil fields, there is a small petrochemical plant built in Huaguo, which is enough to supply the Chinese army here. The disadvantage is food and fresh water, and food is not easy to store in hot weather, so the Chinese soldiers here most often eat canned food that has a long shelf life but has a poor taste. In terms of fresh water, Huajun's desalination facilities are relatively advanced, but the taste is also unbearable, but it only solves the problem of whether there is a problem.
The narrow terrain was not conducive to the Chinese army's tossing and turning, and the desert terrain was not conducive to defense, except for the reinforced concrete permanent fortifications near the oil fields, the Chinese army did not build strong fortifications elsewhere. It is reassuring that the British attack does not mean that the Chinese army must defend, from the terrain point of view, the British attacked from the north and south, with Iraq and Saudi Arabia as their bases, and the main force in the Iraqi direction.
Using elite infantry and powerful firepower to consume the British army's sharp energy, the 22nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the only mobile unit of the Chinese army, took the initiative to attack with a large number of armored vehicles, half-track armored vehicles, trucks, etc., and with the help of air force reconnaissance, found the weak points of the British army, inserted it like a sharp knife, and stirred it vigorously, causing huge casualties to the British army and then quickly retreating, and retreating before the enemy reacted and counter-encircled.
This style of play made the British very uncomfortable, they did not have the ability to detect the movements of the 22nd Brigade of the Chinese Army in advance, the air was occupied by Chinese aircraft, and the endless desert terrain was not conducive to infantry reconnaissance, and the British soldiers did not have the ability to infiltrate and reconnoitre. Therefore, the weak points of their forces could always be found by the Chinese army, and the losses continued one after another, and the British could only increase their vigilance and lay more obstacles and mines on the perimeter, but with little success. In this situation, the British became more and more cautious, and the intensity of the attack became smaller and smaller, and finally they were on the defensive, and the inefficiency of Twitt's offensive and defensive battles made the British generals hate, but they were helpless. More importantly, the attacking troops were bleeding in front of the Chinese defenses, and sometimes a battalion of Chinese troops could withstand a regiment or even a brigade of British troops, and even inflicted a heavy blow on the other side, forcing it to retreat. The Chinese army gave full play to the advantages of high mobility and powerful firepower, but the British were poor in means because of the incompetence of the colonial army and the backwardness of weapons and equipment.
While the South Asian campaign was well underway, warships of the Chinese Navy appeared in the Arabian Sea and aggressively tilted ammunition on British positions in the Strait of Hormuz. A regiment of Navy 6th Men then landed in the Fortress and quickly routed a battalion of British soldiers to occupy the coastal fortifications. Immediately after that, more than a dozen minesweepers entered the strait to clear the obstacles, and the warships of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese army smoothly entered the Persian Gulf, accompanied by a large amount of military supplies from an infantry division.
Seeing the arrival of Chinese support and the collapse of the British army, the timid colonial army was best at seeing the wind and steering the rudder, which was also characteristic of small countries - they could only survive flexibly between large countries. The general trend is that China is about to control the desert of the Middle East, the British are in decline, and they will be driven out by China, and obeying China is the best way to maintain power and power, and a series of conditions put forward by China are also impossible for local forces to refuse.
Since then, everything that has been born in this area has been the same as in South Asia, with a large number of small countries appearing, and local soldiers are armed with Chinese-made weapons and shooting at each other with Chinese-made ammunition. Of course, the most significant difference between this and South Asia is that the biggest contradiction in South Asia is the conflict between the two sects, and the biggest contradiction in the Middle East is the conflict between the Arab countries and the Jewish countries.
Australia, the Pacific Islands, the Indochina Peninsula, the Southeast Asian Islands, South Asia, and the Arab region, when China's power expanded rapidly and occupied about a quarter of the world's land, the Germans were still moving slowly on the Eastern European Plain. Kaiser Wilhelm II had already begun to be dissatisfied with the extent to which the 6th Army was advancing, even though there were often good news of the victory over the enemy from the front - the German army from the north was approaching St. Petersburg, annihilating 150,000 of the enemy, and occupying St. Petersburg in the spring offensive; Finland became independent and joined the Allies, and the Germans took full control of the Baltic; The center cluster won the Battle of Kursk, encircled and annihilated the 310,000 Russian soldiers in the encirclement, and then the road to Moscow was open; The southern cluster cooperated with the Ottoman army to annihilate 300,000 Russian troops and approach the Caucasus.
But none of this good news could be compared to the joy of the Chinese army occupying a quarter of the world's land, even though the Germans had occupied almost all of Europe. What annoyed Wilhelm II the most was that the Russian army turned out to be tenacious, Nicholas II had no idea of surrendering, and more cheap gray cattle were organized and rushed to the front, where 1.3 million Russian soldiers were waiting for the Germans in Moscow. Moreover, these Russian soldiers actually had plenty of weapons and ammunition in their hands - the Chinese sold a huge amount of military supplies to Russia, which made China an invisible ally of Russia and an enemy of Germany. 8