The principle of Yang Feng's war in the South Asian subcontinent is actually very simple.

It's just two words, sabotage!

Seizing the Assam oil field to suck away the impetus for Tianzhu's industrial development, and then destroying Calcutta's industrial base to destroy Tianzhu, so that the future Tianzhu will continue to cling to the Soviet people's big tui in the quagmire of poverty and chaos, fantasizing about their brilliant dream of a great power, and acting as a stage for Yang Feng's performance.

In that case, what are you going to do in Kashmir, where birds don't? What was it intended to do in the original design, which was left to Nehru's North Shore?

Direct attack on West Bengal!

"Militarily speaking, attacking Calcutta is the best option, so that we can avoid fighting in the alpine mountains, which is especially important for our Ming soldiers, who are accustomed to tropical life and will not like Kashmir, and we can also avoid the dangers of the Brahmaputra River, the Tianzhu people have a strong defensive line on the north bank, and our soldiers will face heavy casualties when they force their way across this large river several kilometers wide.

And to attack Calcutta, our battlefield will turn into a swamp of wetlands, and the Stalin-2 heavy tank is close to fifty tons, and the Tianzhu people will not be stupid enough to use it on such a battlefield.

Even if it did, it would be difficult to move an inch, and I don't think there are bridges around Kolkata that can handle that weight. ”

Kesselring said as he sipped his tea.

Ayub. Khan and Khor looked at each other, in fact, both Pakistan and Assam knew very well what they could get in this war, Jinnah only wanted Kashmir, Moran only wanted to retake the North Shore, and as for the rest, they all had this awareness. Even if they want to. The people of the United States do not necessarily support it. Because the United States wants to teach Nehru a lesson and make him sober up, instead of stabbing him in the heart and forcing him to have no way back.

But now that Yang Feng insisted, then they had nothing to say.

And as Kesselring said, militarily attacking Calcutta is indeed the best option.

Starling 2 heavy tank.

It's better not to provoke this thing.

Recently, Starling gave Nehru's two battalions of this kind of thing. has been pressing on the heads of the coalition forces like a heavy mountain, and even the Americans are a little uneasy, and even specially reminded Yang Feng not to ignore the 122 mm tank gun.

In this way, the operational objectives were determined, and as for the rest, it was the work of Kesselring and the officers of the coalition command, and the deployment of such a large-scale campaign was not something that ordinary people could play, the deployment of troops, and the reconnaissance of the enemy's situation. Strategic deception, and even transportation. Logistics, and even contraception for soldiers had to be taken into account. Fortunately, with the training of several military academies of the Ming Empire in the past two years, coupled with the practice of Javanese operations, Yang Feng already has a preliminarily usable staff team, plus veterans like Kesselring and those experienced Prussian mercenaries, everything is carried out secretly and quickly and steadily.

Just as Wu Zurong's Kunlun aircraft carrier formation left Rotterdam and embarked on a long journey across the Atlantic, all the preliminary preparations for the Kolkata campaign were completed.

In addition to the feint attack in Kashmir, the Pakistan-India border guard, and the defense in the north of Assam, there are nearly 100,000 left, and the mobile forces mainly composed of the Ming army and the Pakistani army are all assembled in Chittagong, and the coastal defense fleet of the Ming Navy has also arrived at this port to make a posture that it will land and attack Kolkata from the sea. At the same time, the vampire fighters of the coalition forces also frequently appeared at the mouth of the Pajileti River, taking advantage of its altitude of more than 13,000 meters and the maximum speed of nearly 900 kilometers to reconnoiter this area, and even the destroyers of the Ming army openly appeared in this area to measure the depth of water and tides.

Nehru was fooled.

In fact, although Kolkata is only 60 kilometers away from the border of East Pakistan, there is an impassable barrier, because from the Mekna River to the west, to Kolkata for more than 200 kilometers, all are water network swamps, the world-famous Sundaban wetlands, no one can launch an attack from this direction, especially the armored forces, as long as the landing at sea is prevented, then Kolkata is foolproof.

But alas, this time Kesselring was ready to attack from this swamp of water networks.

What is a 200-kilometer water network swamp?

"Hurry up, we must get to Calcutta before dawn tomorrow!"

Li Jun, commander of the Third Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army, sat in the command car, holding the combat map in one hand and the walkie-talkie in the other, and said that next to him was a guide provided by the Pakistan Army, who was standing in the car, his head sticking out, holding a super-large night vision device and looking around.

Around this command vehicle, in the dark night, countless infantry fighting vehicles rumbled in the muddy wetlands, and many combat vehicles were even slowly floating in the river, because of the use of active infrared night vision devices, so if you are not close, it is difficult to find these steel beasts on such a night.

Active infrared night vision devices are not high-tech, the Prussians have already used them on Leopard tanks in World War II, and even individual night vision devices have them.

But this is unimaginable for Tianzhu people.

Li Jun led his infantry brigade, which is actually a mechanized infantry brigade, and the infantry fighting vehicles drawn from the other two brigades are also under his command, and he has a total of 400 infantry fighting vehicles in his hands, 3,200 vehicle-mounted infantry, in order to prevent encountering enemy tanks, each vehicle is equipped with an RPG7, and the use of Red Arrow 73 is still too dazzling, this thing is enough to deal with T34, even if it encounters Starling 2, it can be killed.

In the dark of night, the roar of diesel engines in the mangrove-strewn Sundaban wetlands with waterways and inaccessible waterways disturbs the sleeping crocodiles. These beasts, which are also terrifying in front of humans, in front of the monsters of this mechanical age, shake their stupid bodies in horror and flee from their homes, some unlucky ones are inevitably crushed directly from their bodies by the steel tracks, and some are not clear-headed, and even in the dark, open their mouths to show off their sharp teeth, but unfortunately, the next moment they are mud.

This is a torrent of steel, a torrent that sweeps over all those who crush the mantis arm and block the car.

At the same time, another torrent of steel is also sweeping across the sea.

At the forefront was the reinforced heavy cruiser Kaohsiung, followed by the heavy cruiser Kalinin, the destroyers Rin and Zealin, four battleships formed a huge phalanx, and in the middle of the phalanx were a full thirty landing ships, which were loaded with two infantry brigades and dozens of Sherman tanks, and their goal was also Calcutta, but they forced a landing from the mouth of the Pajileti River.

Behind this fleet, numerous small warships, merchant ships, river liners, and even slightly larger fishing boats, all the ships that could be found, loaded with soldiers and war materiel, sailed from Chittagong, from Dhaka, from assembly points, and then met at the mouth of the Mekna, and followed in the night by the landing fleet, the second landing force, more than 20,000 men, who were to go ashore after the landing fleet had opened up a solid landing ground.

And in Dhaka, the front-line airfield in Chittagong, nearly 300 coalition fighter jets, including 36 vampires, have also been assembled and ready to attack.

The former is still the first time to carry out a combat mission, in fact, since the development of this small aircraft, this is also the first time to participate in the war. Havilland's eyes are wide open, expecting more orders from the small aircraft.

As for the bomber and transport groups, they were assembled at the Imphal airfield, and the coalition had prepared three bomber wings and one transport wing for the operation, the latter of which was responsible for airdropping a paratrooper brigade and cutting the railway bridges leading to Calcutta to buy as much time as possible for the landing force to fight.

This is a large-scale battle, it is simply an overlord operation, at least for the Ming army, it can be described as unprecedented, and in Kesselring's words, as long as this battle is over, they will return to Prussia, and the Ming army is fully capable of carrying out any combat mission alone.

But Tianzhu, on the other hand, was not aware of the coalition's plan at all.

Of course, it is impossible for Nehru not to know that the coalition army is about to attack Calcutta, how could he not know such a large-scale troop transfer, not to mention that it was originally a country, and he also has countless eyelines in East Pakistan, with such a formation of the coalition army, what else can he do except land and attack Kolkata? Besides, apart from Kolkata, there are no other targets worth starting in this area.

But neither he nor Timaiya, as chief of the General Staff, including the head of the Soviet Advisory Corps, Marshal Meretskov, did not realize that the deadliest sword was piercing Calcutta through the Sondaban wetlands at a speed of thirty kilometers per hour.

In their opinion, this is simply impossible, and no one can pass through that piece of natural danger.

The focus of their defense was always at the mouth of the Pajileti River.

After receiving the news that the coalition forces had departed, the commander of the Calcutta defense immediately began to make operational arrangements, and in order to avoid being bombarded by large-caliber naval guns, at the suggestion of Soviet advisers, he hastily blocked the mouth of the river with anchor mines, forcing the coalition forces to land in the water network area on the east coast. In the northern part of this area, a linear defensive position was constructed, with the strength of two divisions to be responsible for holding it, and the heavy artillery group assisted by the Soviets was placed behind the defensive line, and as long as the Allied forces could not break through the defensive line, then they could only be crowded into a small landing field to be shelled, and he had two regiments of one, two, and two mm cannons.

Another important support is the airfield north of Calcutta, where there is a fighter wing and two bomber groups, one each for Il-4 and Il-II, and the Black Death will turn the landing ground into a coalition graveyard.

Of course, this was their own dream, and they did not know that this airport would be the first to be unlucky. (To be continued......)