Under the cover of artillery fire, tens of thousands of Indian proletarian fighters marched forward along the road opened by the artillery, imprinted with the enemy's machine-gun fire. The minefields carefully laid out by the Indian puppet army have been swept away by artillery fire. The Indian soldiers, who were dazed by the powerful artillery fire, did not have the courage to rush out to lay mines at the risk of death, but under the supervision of the officers, they used machine guns and rifles to shoot desperately at the infantry of the GC International South Asian Army. The sound of the Bren LMG and Vickers water-cooled machine guns resounding throughout the front.

Bullets whistled past the charging infantry, and from time to time officers and men were shot and fell to the ground, and terrible screams began to sound one after another, and in the meantime, the officers shouted loudly in Hindi: "Forward! Forward all! No, stop! "These indigenous Indian officers and soldiers have not been trained for a long time, and they have not mastered all kinds of exquisite infantry infiltration, assault and infantry artillery tactics, and they can only charge with their heads covered! Uh, of course, the machine guns in the back are pressing, and you can't do it if you don't rush forward! Only by moving forward, can there be a glimmer of life!

However, the fire of the Indian infantry on the opposite side was not too intensive, after all, they stayed under heavy shelling for a full 120 minutes! The losses have already been heavy. And the remaining machine guns did not shoot for long, and the mortar groups deployed on the starting positions of the G Army began to suppress. Balls of flames and smoke continued to rise in front of the Indian army's position, and the scattered shrednel beat some Indian officers and men who leaned out of the trench to shoot into a bloody gourd, and the surviving Indian troops retracted into the trench one after another, and the firepower on the Indian army's position suddenly thinned out. Then there were the officers and men of the brigade of the GC International South Asian Army who rushed into the trench with rifles with bayonets on them. Fierce hand-to-hand combat has begun again!

"Good! Rushed up, and the first wave of the charge broke through. What a good thing these Indian proletariats are! Xiang Ying, who was watching the battle in the rear, saw this scene and couldn't help but shout loudly. The rest of the people in the forward observation center also had excited expressions on their faces. The fighting power displayed by these indigenous Indian soldiers has indeed exceeded expectations. This also means: Future battles can rely more on these Indian Asan. And not at the expense of the lives of precious Chinese internationalist fighters!

"Order the armored cluster to prepare to follow!" Peng Dhuai put down the binoculars, and a rare smile appeared on his usually serious black face. He looked back at Liu Bcheng and said: "Tell Comrade Xu Gda that the Indian proletariat has opened the road to victory for us with its life!" Next, it's up to the comrades of the armored division. ”

At this moment, on a plain only five kilometers away from the sortie position of the GC International South Asian Army. All the tanks, assault guns and armored vehicles that can be used by the GC International Armored Division have formed an offensive wedge. 11 No. 2 tanks, 19 Type 28 armored vehicles and 18 75mm armored assault guns were placed in front; Twelve No. 1 tanks, six Vickers light tanks and 97 wheeled armored vehicles were deployed on the flanks and in the rear. The tanks and armored vehicles were followed by more than 200 trucks, full of elite infantry armed with light machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles (all Chinese internationalist fighters).

Xu Gda is sitting on a command vehicle converted from a light armored car at the moment (the original 28-year-old model has been damaged in the battle a few days ago), proudly looking at the armored elite under his command! Although this armored division now has only 66 tanks, assault guns and heavy armored vehicles that can be used, it has a fierce murderous spirit that has been trained on the battlefield, and a self-confidence that it did not have before the war to defeat all strong enemies! Even if the opponent is one of the eight armored divisions of the Chinese Defense Forces. Xu Geda believed that his warriors must also have the confidence to destroy them! Dare to launch an assault on the invincible No. 4 heavy tank!

A communications staff officer on horseback galloped to Xu Gda's command car and shouted at him, "Division commander." Headquarters Command: Panzer! Assault, rush in through the passage opened by the infantry and crush the enemy! ”

Xu Gda and Zeng Kelin, the chief of staff beside him, glanced at each other and said in a deep voice: "Okay! It's finally our turn! Kling, give the order, the sword of our armored soldiers is about to be unsheathed again! ”

Zeng Kelin nodded heavily, turned on the car radio, took a deep breath, and shouted the code of attack into the microphone: "Armored soldiers, fight!" Struggle! ”

The roar of the motors suddenly drowned out all the sounds around them, and more than a hundred armored vehicles began to roar and spit white smoke, and then they rushed forward in a rolling motion.

The news of the dispatch of the armored troops of the GC International South Asian Army quickly spread to the former enemy headquarters of Slim, and the lieutenant general, who finally determined the direction of the opponent's main attack, no longer hesitated, and immediately issued an order to the First Armored Corps of the Indian Army to attack. At this time, the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions of the 1st Armored Corps of India had also suffered heavy losses in the early battles! Although a batch of spare tanks was urgently replenished from New Delhi, some tanks under repair were repaired and returned to the front line. However, on August 17, the two armored divisions under the command of Major General Mittal still had only 116 mobile tanks, of which 65 were No. 2 and 51 were No. 1, and none of the six-ton Vickers light tanks were missing.

After receiving the order, Mittal also immediately ordered the troops to be dispatched, 116 tanks, 123 armored vehicles, and more than 10,000 motorized infantry accompanying the sortie to quickly pounce on the Indian defense line in the area of Burulia, which was broken through by the G Army.

At around 12 noon on 17 August, the Indian Army's armoured units and the GC International Armoured Division set up a battlefield on the plain between Burulia and Celida. The G Army first used a powerful artillery group to cover the advancing Indian armored group, and more than 300 large-caliber guns poured thousands of high-explosive shells on the Indian armored units, and eleven tanks and twenty-two armored vehicles were hit and destroyed! Nearly 70 A2 light dive bombers and 65 escort F3 fighters dropped more than 100 bombs, damaging six trucks full of soldiers and five light armored vehicles, and killing more than 100 officers and men on the spot. However, the tanks and heavy armored vehicles of the GC International Armored Division were lucky to escape.

Armored clusters on both sides quickly moved closer to each other in the face of artillery and air strikes, and soon closed the distance to 500 to 600 meters. Then start shooting! At this time, the Indian army armored cluster also had 62 tanks No. 2. The GC International Armored Division has only 11 No. 2 and 19 Type 28 armored vehicles equipped with 75mm and 50mm cannons that can threaten each other, and the Indian armored forces have a clear numerical advantage!

"Order light tanks and light armored vehicles to charge! The infantry began to prepare for the charge...... Armored assault artillery bombarded Indian infantry! Xu Gda yelled into the intercom. Dozens of four-wheeled light armored vehicles, with little armor and firepower, accelerated abruptly. Rush towards the Indian army!

This is the latest tactic summed up by the GC International Armored Division. In the case that the firepower and number are inferior to the opponent, these light armored vehicles can only be used to launch a decisive charge to attract the opponent's firepower!

However, the Indian army, which has already suffered two losses, has now learned to behave, and they did not waste their firepower on this "completely harmless" armored car, but concentrated the firepower of 62 No. 2 tanks on the 11 No. 2 and 19 Min-28 armored vehicles of the GC International Armored Division, and the tank armored vehicles of the G Army were set on fire one after another! But the Indian army's No. 2 tanks are no better. The armor of this tank was also too thin to withstand the bombardment of 60 times the caliber 50mm anti-tank guns, and the commanders of the armored units on both sides painfully found that their tanks (heavy armored vehicles) were not very good at defense, although they had great firepower. Under the powerful anti-tank fire of the opponent. It's all steel coffins and stuff.

The tanks (heavily armoured) of both sides fought fiercely for about half an hour, and the battlefield was full of smoke-filled wreckage. Fragments of the explosion were also scattered all around, as well as the charred bodies of members of the tank crew...... All 30 tanks No. 2 and Type 28 armored vehicles of the GC International Armored Division were destroyed! Only 6 of the 18 75mm armored assault guns remained, and 12 Tank No. 1 and 6 Vickers light tanks were all destroyed in the battle!

The Indian army also lost more than half of the 62 No. 2 tanks, leaving only 29 still operable, and more than half of the 51 No. 1 tanks were also lost, leaving only 21 still operating.

However, the GC International Armored Division, which lost in the tank engagement, did not leave the tank wreckage and fled in a hurry, but together with the follow-up unit GC International South Asian Army 1st Division, which had just arrived, launched wave after wave of fierce attacks on the tanks of the Indian army with infantry. In less than five hours of fierce fighting, the infantry of the G Corps launched five regimental charges under the cover of its powerful artillery group. Destroyed the remaining 29 Indian Army Tank No. 2 and 21 Tank No. 1 with anti-tank grenades, explosive packs and even Molotov cocktails! Of course, they also paid heavy losses for this, according to post-war statistics, the GC International Armored Division and the 1st Division of the GC International South Asian Army paid the price of 5,443 casualties, 2,059 serious wounded, and 412 missing in the fierce battle on August 17! More than half of them are valuable fighters for Chinese internationalism......

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General! A divisional infantry cluster of the G Army has already stormed the vicinity of Cheddari! You are requested to transfer command immediately. ”

Lieutenant General Slim, chief of the general staff of the Indian army and commander-in-chief of the Central Route Army, sat in his headquarters in a gloomy manner, looking at Chief of Staff Carter, who was briefing him on the latest battle situation. He couldn't believe that his ears and eyes could be overwhelmed by an armored cluster of more than a hundred tanks and 18,000 officers and soldiers by 66 tanks (heavy armored vehicles) and more than 10,000 infantry of the GCD!

"How are the preparations for the offensive of the Northern Route Army? When can I start? Slim muttered.

"The vanguard of the Northern Route Army has entered Calcutta, and it will take at least two days to complete preparations for the forced crossing of the Hooghly River." Chief of Staff Carter seemed to have lost confidence, and he said to Slim: "Your Excellency, the operational goal of saving Mahatma Gandhi has been achieved, and we have inflicted heavy losses on the G bandit army, whose casualties are estimated to be more than sixty thousand!" The Chinese GCD officers and soldiers, who were the backbone, also lost at least 30,000 ...... You can't recover without a few months of rest. And our recovery capacity will definitely exceed GCD, just take advantage of this time to step up the formation and training of the army, hoard military funds, and the next battle will definitely be a complete victory! Wipe out GCISM in South Asia once and for all! ”

Slim was stunned when he heard this, but after thinking about it, he felt that Carter's words had some truth. At least in terms of resilience, the authorities in New Delhi are far stronger than the GCD. After all, ordinary Indian soldiers are as many as they want, and the factories of weapons and ammunition in New Delhi and Mumbai can also produce most of them. If it cannot be produced, it can also be purchased from foreign countries, and the authorities in New Delhi still have sufficient foreign exchange reserves for gold. And it's not so easy for GCD to recover! Because the backbone of them is precisely those revolutions from China. But as many as they want, otherwise they wouldn't be in India......

Come to think of it. Slim jerked up from his chair. Walked up to the map and stared at it for a moment. Immediately afterwards, he gave an order to the staff officer: "The battle cannot be over yet, because we have to further consume the lives of those Chinese GC ists!" The 1st and 3rd Divisions, which were ordered to serve as reserves, relied on Cheddari City to carry out defenses, which must hold out for more than three days! A telegram was sent to the Northern Route Army, ordering them to complete preparations for the forced crossing of the Hooghly River within two days, and to seek opportunities to cross the Hooghly River with local troops from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Threaten enemy flanks. Send a telegram to the Southern Route Army, asking them to launch a fierce offensive against the G Army entrenched in Odisha at all costs! ”

Slim's orders turned into radio waves and shuttled through the air, pushing the most tragic general battle of the Indian Revolutionary War to **!

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August 20, 1939.

The fighting is already raging across the northeast of India. In the middle of the Jamshedpur-Danbad line. The 4 armies, 1 division and 1 artillery cluster of the GC International South Asian Army launched a fierce attack with all their strength, and more than 700 artillery pieces and mortars roared day and night. Shells fell on the positions of the Indian troops in groups. Tens of thousands of Indian revolutionary fighters and Chinese internationalist fighters raised their rifles with bayonets and shouted the slogan "Long live GCD" and launched wave after wave of charges! The GC International Armored Division has been fought into an infantry division, and the South Asian Army does not have an assault force that can make a decisive decision, although most of the final victory belongs to them, but such a victory must be piled up with countless lives and ammunition.

On the Indian side, although the whole line was shaken by the fiasco of the 1st Panzer Army, it was unwilling to collapse and still gritted its teeth and persisted in the artillery fire. The focus of contention between the two sides was Cheddari, a small town behind the Shedpur-Danbad Indian line, which had become a point of inconsistency because it was right in the middle of the Indian line. Lieutenant General Slim gritted his teeth and filled in one infantry division after another drawn from other parts of the defensive line, and slowly reduced to ashes under the overwhelming artillery fire of the GC International South Asian Army......

At the same time, on both sides of the Hooghly River, near Calcutta, an even more brutal forced crossing was being fought. The fierce fighting began at 10 p.m. on August 19, and the Indian army on this line seemed to have gone completely crazy because of the personal supervision of Mahatma Gandhi. Their infantry braved the rain of machine-rifle fire on the opposite bank, and kept forcing their crossings in small boats, and the entire river was littered with earthy yellow Indian corpses, and the river was stained pale red with blood. The heavy casualties seem to have been completely ignored by the Indian commanders! They just drove their soldiers into this "slaughterhouse" continuously.

Of course, near Calcutta, the superiority in artillery firepower was on the side of the Indian army, and their three and a half armies had a total of 60 artillery batteries and 248 17-pounder or 25-pounder guns. The shells poured down on the heads of the G troops on the opposite bank as if they didn't want money, and under the flash of artillery fire, the GC soldiers suffered heavy casualties, their corpses piled up like mountains, and the water near the west bank of the Hooghly River gradually took on a bright red color!

After just one day and one night of hard fighting, just preliminary statistics, the casualties of the 5th and 7th armies of the GC International South Asian Army on the west bank of the Hooghly River reached 6,200 people! Among them, Chinese internationalist fighters suffered more than 2,000 casualties. As for the casualties of the Indian army, according to the figures released by the Indian War Department after the war, they exceeded the 20,000 mark!

And in Odisha, which is far away from the main battlefield, there is no clear front by August 20, because the main defense line of the GC International South Asian Army was unexpectedly broken through by the surging Indian army! Only the vicinity of Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, remained firmly under the firm control of the main force of the GC International South Asian Army, which was shrinking in time. However, the local troops of the GC International South Asian Army did not withdraw from all parts of Orissa, but engaged in bloody melee battles with the Indian army all over Orissa!

Compared with the battles on the central and northern routes, the battles in Odisha on the southern route were significantly less in terms of firepower and the number of regular troops, but the cruelty was far beyond imagination! Due to the incomplete land and caste revolution in Orissa before, a large number of princely princes and Brahmin landlords escaped the net and fled to the side of the reactionary government of India, and many of them also joined the local troops of the Indian army, and naturally they were killed at this time! In addition, there were many "Shudra rich peasants and upper middle peasants" who were full of Brahmin and Kshatriya indicators, and their murderous nature was also exposed, and they became the most vicious accomplices of the princes and Brahmins who returned from the counterattack, wantonly slaughtering the poor and middle peasants of Orissa! At the same time, the seeds of hatred between different classes in India were sown...... (To be continued......)