Chapter 6: Another Defeat of the British

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The King of Bhutan sent a telegram to the world, announcing Bhutan's return to the arms of China, so that Britain's defeat in the first place was completely exposed, and the British government immediately issued a statement, saying that the Chinese Empire invaded other countries and destroyed Bhutan, a sovereign country, and did not recognize China's occupation of Bhutan, and France and Russia also declared that Bhutan was a ** country at the same time.

Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary wanted to win over China by making a statement: Bhutan is the territory of the Chinese Empire, and Bhutan's return to the Chinese Empire is entirely China's internal affair. The United States annexed Hawaii in this way not long ago, which was not recognized by the international community, and indirectly recognized the leadership of the Chinese Empire over Bhutan: "The fate of Bhutan should be decided by the king and people of Bhutan. ”

Countries such as Chile and Peru in South America also recognize Bhutan as part of the Chinese Empire, and they don't care where Bhutan is, but they just want to embarrass Britain, an old colonial power.

At the end of 1903, in order to overcome the great difficulties brought by crossing the Himalayas to the supply of military supplies, the British and Indian governments built a road through the territory of Bhutan directly into the eastern part of the country. After the return of Bhutan to China, the Chinese tank units passed through this road and soon reached the Kalimpong front. Cai ordered the troops to rest in place for a day. The next day, the Medium ** Regiment and tank units began the assault on Kalimpong.

More than a dozen Chinese tanks rumbled towards the British trench positions, while groups of infantry followed closely behind the tank troops. The British troops in the trenches suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound, and they looked nervously ahead, at first thinking that it was a cavalry attack, and they were ready for battle. After a while, there was a thunderous roar. They saw a roaring sound from a group of movable iron boxes resembling cars, and the secrecy of the Chinese development of tanks was well done, and the British did not yet know what it was. Dumbfounded at these things.

Soon, the tanks drove in front of their trenches, and the British soldiers held rifles and strafed the tanks, but the bullets only made a string of sparks in the steel armor shell of the tank, and soon the iron boxes were in front of the British troops, and a piece of iron suddenly opened on the iron boxes, and each iron box had a soldier in Wehrmacht uniform holding a light machine gun. They strafed the British troops, and the British troops near the tank were directly broken into several pieces by machine guns.

The British were shocked to see that the iron boxes could spew fire into the sky. The British artillery wanted to shell the tanks, but because the tanks had already rushed into the British positions, they would injure themselves if they shelled, and the tanks were moving fast. Therefore, the artillery of the British army did not dare to act rashly.

Tanks swooped over the trenches of the British troops. The Chinese infantry and cavalry behind also came to the battlefield at this time, and they carried out a fierce attack on the British troops who were running around, and the British army was already small in number, coupled with the heroism of the squadron, the British army was very confused, and the defense line quickly collapsed.

The tanks that were pursuing the British army opened fire on the dense places of the British troops, and one shell after another "boomed" into the dense crowd. The hordes of English and servant armies were swept down like wheat harvests. Those British troops who are fleeing. When they found that the iron box would be shelled, they were as frightened as if they had encountered a devil, and they shouted "God" and crawled.

Eventually, William ordered Artillery Captain McKinley to shell the tanks that were slaughtering the British, and McKinley said, "That would hurt your own commander!" ”

William pulled out his command knife and pointed it straight at McKinley's throat, "Captain, obey orders!" Otherwise we will all become cannon fodder for the Chinese! ”

β€œno!” McKinley had a painful expression on his face, his mind struggled, and after praying to God, he ordered the artillery to attack the tanks, and the British artillery aimed at the tanks and opened fire, but some of their shells did not hit the tanks, but only blew up a few craters, and the nearby British troops were blown up into the western sky.

β€œfire!” McKinley shouted, "Eon! "The British artillery kept shelling the tanks, the ground was shaking, two tanks were overturned by the shock wave of the shells, and one was blown up just after being hit.

But in this way, the position of the British artillery was also discovered by the Chinese artillery, Cai Ye immediately commanded the imperial artillery to begin to bombard the British artillery camp, and the tanks also opened fire, and the British artillery fired back, and the angry artillery fire blossomed on the British artillery position, setting off a burst of flying earth, and the British artillery position was quickly destroyed, and bursts of black smoke rose.

With the tanks opening the way, the squadron quickly broke through the British defense line in Kalimpong, but this was only the first line of defense, there was still a strong defense line near the center of Kalimpong, and now the British army continued to retreat, basically leaving the military bodies of those Indian servants to block the advance of the tanks.

Because the tanks were running out of fuel and ammunition and needed logistical replenishment, the British troops in the second line of defense, Cai Yi, ordered cavalry and infantry to attack.

The loud Chinese trumpets resounded through the streets of Kalimpong. King Uyan of Bhutan. In order to show his sincerity in returning to China, Wangchuck sent 2,000 Bhutanese troops to help the squadron fight in the streets. They were familiar with the terrain of Kalimpong, and with the cooperation of the local Bhutanese people, they broke through the second line of defense of the British army in only half a day.

John. Claude heard the account of Major General Wilhelm, who had escaped and returned, and felt a chill down his spine, he could not imagine that the Chinese Empire would have such a terrible weapon, and soon he came up with the idea of having the servants climb into the iron box with grenades to destroy the tanks.

An army of 100,000 servants from India was already on its way. Claude ordered the British and Indian servant armies to put up desperate resistance in Sudan for as long as he could, but he did not want to be captured or killed, so he retreated first, and Kalimpong, the city from which Sikkim had ceded it, took refuge in Sikkim and waited for reinforcements.

In the afternoon of the same day, Kalimpong was basically occupied by the squadron, Cai Yi ordered the squadron to take advantage of the victory to pursue, launched a fierce attack on the third line of defense, the same is to use tanks to fight the forward, the cavalry and infantry behind are closely behind the tanks, as soon as the British see the arrival of the tanks, they ordered a large number of Indian servants to have two grenades each, they rushed forward and threw grenades at the Chinese tanks, but often did not come to the tanks. was killed by a shot by a Chinese special sniper, and his bones were blown up.

Tank sniper is a special unit officially created by Song Xiaofei and the tank corps, with high concealment, low defense, and low mobility. Able to achieve high-power long-range fire support, qualified snipers will avoid the core of the battle, looking for a one-hit kill opportunity from a long distance. Each Chinese tank is guarded by twenty snipers. They are equivalent to modern special forces, "use me in the first battle, use me to win", this is the belief of Chinese snipers.

Chinese snipers, they generally come into contact with sniper rifles for more than three years. It is an infantryman with excellent technology, good psychological quality, and rich experience, who carries out "devilish" training: when carrying heavy off-road, he specially chooses rough road conditions. The weight was increased from 20 kg to 40 kg; 7 hours of camouflage work at night, and specially selected hard-to-dig Gobi stone ground; When measuring wind and ranging, instruments and equipment are rarely used, and team members are required to do "oral mental arithmetic"; When shooting in a standing position. To increase the stability of the gun. Hang bricks on the muzzle of each team member, and gradually add up, up to a maximum of 5 bricks, and even the sniper rifle adds up to nearly 15 kilograms, and one end is 30 minutes. Each sniper also studied the "Sniper Training Manual" and the "Wind Deviation Correction Parameter Table", which contains more than 300 ballistic parameters of new sniper rifles in a variety of geographical and climatic conditions, which greatly improves the shooting accuracy.

Many of the Indian Servants were killed by the tank's machine gunners, and some managed to get close to the tanks. Only two tanks were damaged, and thousands of people were killed and wounded.

These Indian death squads and human bombs were cleaned up by the squadron. The tank units continued to rush towards the British positions, and soon broke through the last line of defense of the British troops. With the advantage of numbers and vitality, the squadron directly broke down the entire defense line of the British army, and Major General William of the United Kingdom thought that the task had been completed after so many days in Bhutan, so he also withdrew. Cai Ye surrounded Sikkim with 20,000 squadrons.

William reported to the British War Office about the Chinese tanks, emphasizing that this weapon and the ironclad monsters that could move like cars and spray shells and bullets were simply the meat grinder of war, and this meat grinder was the biggest factor in the defeat of the British army.

The British government felt that this monster could also be a German-made weapon, but according to the report of British intelligence officers in Germany, the German army did not have this weapon, and the Chinese Empire had tanks that seemed to have formed a scale, so they thought that the tank might be a weapon developed by the Chinese Empire itself, and then they felt the fear of the squadron, and they regretted that they should not send troops **, China's sleeping lion, did wake up, and should not provoke the Chinese. However, Britain, as an old colonial empire, could not swallow this breath, so it pinned its hopes on the Far East Fleet to teach the Chinese Empire a profound lesson in the Yellow Sea, so that the Chinese Empire could stop in moderation.

After liberating Bhutan, Cai led his troops to begin preparations for transnational warfare and continued to storm Sikkim.

With a land area of only 7,096 square kilometres, Sikkim is a tiny landlocked country located in the southern foothills of the Himalayas, bordered by China to the north, Bhutan to the east, Nepal to the west, and West Bengal to the south.

In 1700, the Nepalese Gurkha army invaded Sikkim and captured Radazi, the capital of Sikkim at that time. The Gurkha army continued to advance towards **, once occupying the whole of Houzang and sacking the Tashilhunpo Monastery, where the Panchen Lama was stationed, and as a result, ** and the Panchen Lama asked the Qing government for reinforcements. At that time, the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty used troops twice, and finally the Qing army led by Fukangan and Hailancha drove all the Gurkhas** out in 1791, and pursued them across the border to the outskirts of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Since then, Sikkim has become a vassal of China, which is also the last item of Qianlong's "Ten Complete Martial Arts".

In 1888, the British sent troops to capture Longtu Mountain, Yadong and other key passes. Soon after, the Qing court recognized Sikkim as a British protector. Most of the Sikkim people believe in Tibetan Buddhism, so Cai Ye decided to take back Sikkim and annex Sikkim into the ** autonomous region and become a state in China. It was the first time he went abroad to fight, and if he could open up and expand the territory of the Chinese Empire, he would be immortal, which was an honor for his ancestors.

Sikkim is located on the southern slope of the eastern section of the Himalayas, the summer wind is very cool, one early morning, Cai Ye holds a golden horsewhip in his hand, stands on a slope of the Himalayas, overlooking Sikkim, the mountains in Sikkim are endless, the whole territory is surrounded by high mountains on the west, north and east sides, such as a horseshoe. The waters of the Tisda River, which is considered the "Mother River" of Sikkim, flows down gently and sparkles in the sun.

At this moment, the earth is at the foot, Cai Ye is full of pride in his heart, that feeling of conquest, the glory of opening up thousands of miles of territory, is not something that ordinary people can experience, he looks into the distance, knowing that his future journey will be a sea of stars! At this moment, he thought of the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties, and remembered many great men in history, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Li Shimin, and the territory of the Chinese Empire, maybe surpassing them! (To be continued......) u