242. Panic

The end of the Battle of East Bengal marked a crushing defeat for the Western coalition forces in the Great War in South Asia.

In less than a month, the nearly 2.5 million troops invested by the Western coalition in the early stage, plus the more than 200,000 British troops invested later, as well as the 500,000 British Indian Colonial Legions and the Arab Legions, totaling nearly 3.5 million troops were annihilated by the Chinese side. Such a war of annihilation in such a short period of time is unprecedented.

Since the outbreak of the war, together with the Western colonial corps and the American army annihilated by the Chinese Defense Forces in the early days of the southward movement, plus the losses of the navy, the losses of the Western coalition forces have approached six million, and this loss has been close to the losses of the Entente countries in the First World War, and even, in a sense, more than the losses of the world war. (The Allied Allies of the World War suffered 549, 760,000 casualties, and the above figures include prisoners).

In this battle, the pride of the entire Western world was crushed, the navy, army, and air force were completely defeated, and the losses on both sides were completely disproportionate. Since the beginning of the war, the total casualties of the Chinese side have been less than 300,000, and the number of casualties in battle is even less than 100,000.

As far as the navy of the West, which has led the world since the Age of Discovery, lost hundreds of warships in this war, with a tonnage of two or three million tons, of which dozens of capital ships were completely damaged, and even the British Royal Navy, which ranks first in the world, was beaten into a second-rate fleet. The Chinese navy lost nearly half of its medium and large warships in Chittagong, but on the whole, the strength of the Chinese navy was still stronger than at the beginning of the war.

Panic is no longer enough to describe the Western world, and no one has called China the "Yellow Peril" anymore, because the media of the South American empire have already reported it.

The first "Yellow Peril" God's whip "Arati". It's just that after the defeat of the Xiongnu by the Chinese Han Empire, the remnants of the army who fled to the West were defeated, and their number was only more than 20,000 old, weak, sick and disabled. But the Han Empire defeated hundreds of thousands of elite Xiongnu iron cavalry. However, it was the more than 20,000 Huns who fled to the West, the old, weak, sick and the disabled almost wiped out Europe.

The second "Yellow Peril" Mongol legion, which was only composed of more than 20,000 Mongol primitives, went all the way to Europe, drank the Madanube River, and almost turned the European Renaissance into the dust of history. However, China's Southern Song Dynasty relied on half of the country to resist the main force of the Mongol Empire's million-strong army. If it weren't for the death of Genghis Khan and the return of the eldest son to the East to seize power, I am afraid that Europe would have become history. But not long after. The rise of the Ming Empire in China. drove the Mongols to the north, drove the invincible Mongol army back to the desert, and even bent the knee to sue for peace to survive.

If the Turks migrated westward, this people, which almost wiped out southeastern Europe, was in fact nothing more than a lost dog that had been beaten and fled by China's powerful Tang Empire.

The essence of the Chinese art of war is vividly displayed in a series of battles by Li Bufan. Interlocking. The deceitful strategy caused heavy losses to the Western coalition forces. Throughout the war, the so-called famous generals of the Western coalition forces were played by Li Bufan like idiots.

The Western world could not understand why China had suddenly become so powerful, so China's glorious war history was revealed, and the truth of the so-called "Yellow Peril" was discovered. It was only then that the Western world discovered that the "Yellow Peril" that almost destroyed Western civilization several times was actually nothing more than the defeat of the remnants of the army that was beaten by China.

As a result, the voice of the peace appeal spread far and wide, and anti-war protests were in full swing.

"Stop the war! We want peace. ”

"We refuse to die, the government is all liars, we can't beat the Chinese at all."

"The war was provoked by the Yankees, let the Yankees fight it themselves"

Churchill's face was gloomy, and his heart twitched as he listened to the slogans of the protesters outside the Prime Minister's House on Downing Street in the Prime Minister's office. He was really scared of a series of fiascos, and his once incomparably firm idea of "white supremacy" collapsed in his heart and was crushed by the ruthless war. However, he knew very well that the war had reached this level, and the Chinese had completely occupied a strategic advantage, and it was no longer something he could stop if he wanted to.

Until now, the Western world has lost several millions, which has made almost all Western countries feel painful. But how much do the Chinese lose? Two or three hundred thousand. This casualty is even more insignificant for China, which has a population of 500 million. If you want the Chinese to stop, unless the Chinese top brass all become idiots overnight.

At this time, China only needs to send a random army group to attack, and the British army in the whole of India will collapse, and Britain, known as the "jewel in the crown of the British empress", will easily fall into the hands of the Chinese.

Churchill is now thinking about whether to let the British troops in India retreat now, otherwise once the Chinese fight, it is a question of whether they can withdraw.

"Good news, Prime Minister." Baldwin quickly stormed the prime minister's office at this time.

Churchill smiled bitterly: "Your Excellency Baldwin, is there still good news now?" ”

Baldwin said seriously: "The Chinese are withdrawing. ”

"Withdraw!?" Churchill jumped up from his chair all of a sudden, glared wide-eyed, and said, "Why withdraw?" Could it be some conspiracy? "The Chinese art of war is so powerful that it almost makes him bow and snake.

Baldwin said: "Soviet Russia announced several army-scale military exercises in the Baikal region, which is obviously aimed at the Chinese. Russia and China had a lot of territorial conflicts, and since they were neighbors, they did not want to face an unprecedentedly powerful China. ”

Churchill breathed a sigh of relief and sat down in the prime minister's chair: "Great. Stalin, a ruffian gangster, who spoke out in the underworld, finally had a little political acumen. ”

Baldwin smiled bitterly, "yes." It is hoped that the Chinese will not attack India at this time. ”

Churchill's face was extremely ugly when he thought of India, India was like the face of Britain, but now the Chinese can fight if they want to, step on it whenever they want, which has to be said to be a naked humiliation, which makes the British Empire lose face. But he no longer had time to think about this, and asked, "How many troops did the Chinese send north?" ”

"It is said that two million elites."

"Two million!" Churchill was filled with emotion in his heart, what a huge number, such a huge number of troops, he was really envious. However, how many troops do the Chinese have in Southeast Asia? I'm afraid that there will be no less than five or six million, right? Even if two million are transferred, it will still be easy for the Chinese to fight India. He even suspected that the British soldiers, who were already frightened by the bows, would raise the white flag or flee if they heard the gunshots.

In a courtyard in Darwin Harbour.

Ishihara Wan'er lay on the rattan chair lazily basking in the sun, occasionally taking a sip of green tea, the fragrance of tea is thorough, and the whole person looks fluttering.

For the time being, he has gotten rid of the troubles on the battlefield, and he really wants to be ironic that those Western barbarians still want to play tricks with Li Bufan, which is simply equivalent to taking the axe and humiliating himself. Sure enough, after losing his wife and breaking his troops, Xia Fei's Burmese Front Army did not come out, and even the elite of the British army fell in, and by the way, the navy and air force were folded, and there were almost no soldiers to fight in the entire South Asian continent, and they were all sent to Li Bufan to clean up.

Ishihara Waner has always believed that to be a man must be self-aware, what kind of person is Li Bufan, even the brave and outstanding Itagaki Seishiro is a god who is desperate to commit suicide under some measurements, and compared with this kind of person, it is purely to find death. He, Ishihara Wan'er, is naturally no match for Li Bufan, and even Seishiro Itagaki thinks so, otherwise he would not be so desperate as to commit suicide. For this reason, he never thought of winning the battle with Li Bufan in terms of strategy, and what he proposed to Pershing was a "stupid method".

This "stupid method" is to rely on the West's strong industrial capacity and national strength to fight China to the death, and to fight hard everywhere, and not to be false at all. This approach would be a terrible fight, with heavy casualties on both sides. It's a pity that the Westerners who are afraid of death don't want to use this method at all, they can't afford to lose, but as a result, they suffer even greater losses.

"Tuk tuk" came a few knocks on the door.

Ishihara said, "Please come in." ”

Pershing pushed the door in a decadent face, and the fiasco of the Battle of East Bengal caused an uproar in the Western world, and the blow to the entire Western world was unparalleled, and the United States was already in chaos. In a series of battles in South Asia, the millions of US troops that the United States had deployed into South Asia were completely annihilated, which was an unprecedented tragic loss for the United States. If we add the losses of the Philippines and the losses of the US Navy, the United States will lose 1.5 million officers and men alone.

Ishihara Wan'er saw Pershing's dead father's appearance, and said leisurely: "Do you finally believe it now?" ”

Pershing said bitterly: "The Battle of East Bengal is really a trap. But Your Excellency, is there no other way to defeat the Chinese? ”

Ishihara said lightly: "If you can find a person who is stronger than Li Bufan's military strategy to lead the army, it is not impossible to defeat the Chinese army commanded by Li Bufan." ”

Pershing was shaken and said, "Then where is this person?" ”

Ishihara said lightly: "How would I know? Maybe not born yet. ”

Pershing was angry for a moment, and although Ishihara was flat, he could feel the irony. But now is not the time for him to get angry with Ishihara, he knows that Ishihara is very smart, smarter than him, but he knows Chinese military history very well. After a pause, he said, "Then let's not talk about this for now." I would like to ask you, why did the Chinese, after winning the Battle of East Bengal, suddenly send heavy troops northward instead of taking the opportunity to capture India? ”

Ishihara smiled and said, "You really overestimate me, how can I know Li Bufan's thoughts." However, I think that China and the Soviet Union have a huge territorial conflict, and sooner or later there will be a war; As for India, perhaps Li Bufan is waiting for the coalition to send some more people to die. ”

Pershing looked at Ishihara blankly, almost by this answer. (To be continued......)