897 anti-encirclement and suppression and Long March 4 rear-end chasing and interception

In June, the scorching heat of India has arrived, and although it is close to the Bay of Bengal, there is no cool sea breeze in Bhubaneswar, the capital of the Socialist Union Republic of India. Only the hot winds that blow from the heart of the subcontinent to the west are the crowds of people in the streets dressed in thin gauze clothing with Indian characteristics or simply shirtless, probably due to the scorching South Asian sun, and most of the people here are dark-skinned and very short and thin.

The city is now the capital of socialist India, and under the personal auspices of Comrade Ruy, General Secretary of the GCD of India, the socialist transformation of the city has been completed, and all the shops have been nationalized and turned into state-run stores or travel agencies. The usual crowded markets are now deserted, and there are no roadside vendors selling snacks and knick-knacks. The whole city looks neat and orderly, and with the red flags flying everywhere, it really looks like a revolutionary center.

It was during this hot early summer in India that Mao ZD and Zhou Elai arrived in Bhubaneswar. Mao ZD came to India to supervise the war in the capacity of a special commissioner of the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the International Oriental Bureau of the GC, while Zhou Elai flew to India with Comrade Mao Zd, who had arrived in Wuhan by train, on a Junkers Ju-52 owned by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China after negotiating the arms procurement plan with the Ministry of Armaments of the Nationalist Government in Wuhan. As soon as the plane landed, the two leaders of the Chinese and G countries, who had lived in northern China for several years, felt an unbearable heat, and under the scorching sun of South Asia, the ground of the airport had long been scorched, and the temperature was always 40 degrees high!

Xiang Ying, Ye Ting, and Lu Yi, the leader of the Indian GCD, personally brought a senior general of the South Asian Army to the airport to greet them. Seeing that Zhou Elai also arrived in India, Ye Ting was a little surprised, and he smiled and said: "Chairman, I didn't expect you to come to India in person, with you to guide us, the Indian puppet army will definitely be defeated." ”

"Brother Xiyi, this is making fun of me," Zhou Elai smiled bitterly: "Where will I fight?" It's just a matter of managing the logistics for you. The war still depends on the concerted efforts of Vice Chairman Mao and the two of you. ”

"How dare you, how dare you." Mao ZD shook his palms and laughed, Xiang Ying also said with a smile on his face: "E come, fight the war and fight the logistics, as long as the logistics are in place, how can those Indian puppet armies be our opponents?" If this battle is won, you, the chairman of the Central Committee, will still be the first to take the lead. ”

"Has the Chinese Nationalist Government agreed to sell weapons? How many weapons were sold to us? When will it arrive? Lu Yi interjected.

Zhou Elai hurriedly took a list translated into English from the secretary and handed it to Lu Yi. Although this arms purchase was handled by Zhou Elai, it was nominally purchased from China by the Socialist Union Republic of India. So Zhou Elai introduced to Lu Yi with a smile: "The infantry equipment can arm about 18 to 20 light infantry divisions, as well as the full equipment of 3 artillery regiments with 105mm cannons and 150mm cannons. In addition, the Nationalist Government agreed to sell us armored vehicles and aircraft, including 120 of their newly developed Min-28 wheeled armored vehicles. This armored vehicle with 8 wheels has a cannon of 60 times the caliber of 50mm, which can be used against the tanks of the Indian army. ”

"Chairman Zhou, how thick is the armor of this 28-year-old armored vehicle? What is the full weight of the battle? Is there a carbide armor-piercing projectile equipped? As soon as Zhou Elai's words fell, an officer who followed behind Ye Ting, with a tall figure, a high nose bridge, and a pair of large round glasses, suddenly opened his mouth and asked.

"Oh, it turned out to be Comrade Xu Gida, the commander of our armored forces." Zhou Elai stretched out his hand and shook Xu Guangda, who was asking, and said with a smile: "Comrade Guangda's questions are very professional!" Fortunately, I memorized the performance data of this 28-year-old armored car on the way to India, otherwise I would have been asked by you. ”

Xu Gda's face was slightly red, and he smiled embarrassedly: "Chairman Zhou, I'm also happy, I won't tell you that our armored troops only have some outdated FT-17 Renault tanks, and they were all obtained by Comrade Zhang Xueliang through special channels...... In addition, there are some armored cars, which are really unreachable! ”

Zhou Elai nodded and said with a smile: "Now it's okay, our armored soldiers also have a sharp weapon." This 28-year-old wheeled armored vehicle has an armor thickness of 5mm to 21mm, a total combat weight of 11.7 tons, and the main gun is a PAK38 50mm anti-tank gun in service with the German Army, and is equipped with the best tungsten steel armor-piercing projectiles, which can penetrate 78mm thick armor at a right angle at a distance of 500 meters, which is enough to deal with the No. 2 tank sold by the Kuomintang to the Gandhi authorities. This armored car has just come off the assembly line, and even the armored divisions of the Chinese Defense Forces are not equipped, so they were sold to us first. ”

Seeing Xu Gda's happy expression, Zhou Elai knew that Luo Yaoguo did not deceive him this time, and really sold him a good weapon.

"Comrade Guangda, how long will it take for the armored forces of our GC International South Asian Army to master this armored vehicle? Can they be used against the armored divisions of the Gandhian Army? Mao Zd on the side asked lightly.

Xu Gda thought for a moment and replied: "Vice Chairman Mao, I can't give a definite answer to your question, after all, I haven't seen this kind of armored car yet. It can only be said that in general, such wheeled armored vehicles are easier to maneuver and maintain than tanks. Our existing armored corps is also mainly equipped with wheeled armored vehicles, and if there are professional and technical personnel sent by the Wehrmacht to guide us, we should be able to master this kind of equipment within a month. As for whether they could deal with Gandhi's armored divisions...... I don't know much about it now, after all, this is only an armored vehicle, not a tank. Its 50mm cannon can destroy the 40mm frontal armor of the No. 2, but the 75mm cannon of the No. 2 tank can also smash the Type 28 armored vehicle to pieces. Of course, it is difficult to say whether the armored soldiers of the Indian puppet army have such an accurate head. ”

For this ambiguous answer, Mao ZD nodded with satisfaction: "Well said, we GCD people should seek truth from facts." However, weapons and equipment are dead after all, and it depends on people to exert their power, so talent is the key! Your armorers must master this equipment as soon as possible and find the best tactics against Tank 2. ”

"Please rest assured that Vice Chairman Mao will definitely master all kinds of new weapons and equipment as soon as possible, and we will definitely let the Gandhi puppet army learn our strength." At this time, Xiang Ying, the political commissar of the GC International South Asian Army, took over the topic with a smile. Then he exchanged a few words with Zhou Elai and Mao ZD, and then took them to the dormitory of the headquarters of the GC International South Asian Army in Bhubaneswar City and settled down. It was the palace of a prince of India, and the lavishly decorated palace of the princely state and his family had been brought to their fair place by the agrarian revolution of May - annihilated!

After sending Zhou Elai and Mao ZD to the headquarters of the South Asian Army, Lu Yi of the Indian GCD said goodbye and left, and he also had to preside over a commendation meeting for the activists of the agrarian revolution in Odisha, and at the same time arrange the next stage of the agrarian revolution work.

After Lu Yi left, Zhou Elai and Mao Zd did not rest, and immediately held a meeting to understand the situation of the recent Indian Revolutionary War, and Ye Ting reported to them the latest military deployment of the Indian puppet army.

"The Indian puppet army is now confronting our army along the 1,000-kilometer front of the Balasol-Jamshedpur-Ranchi-Raipur line." Standing in front of a huge military map, Liu Bcheng, chief of staff of the South Asian Army, pointed to a red and black dotted line on the map with a baton and said: "The Indian puppet army has mobilized a total strength of about 1 million people to dig trenches and build fortifications along thousands of kilometers of battle lines, and set up a formation to squeeze us from the northeast, northwest and west, but there are no heavy troops in the direction of the southwest to Andhra Pradesh. It seems to be an attempt to push us out of our base areas, drive us all the way south, and force us all the way to Madras Jurisdiction, the southernmost tip of the South Asian subcontinent. ”

"Madras Jurisdiction...... What's the situation there? Mao ZD frowned and asked.

"India is relatively developed in the north and relatively backward in the south, and this Madras jurisdiction in the southwest corner is a Tamil settlement, perhaps it is a less important area in the eyes of the New Delhi government? Moreover, once we reach the southernmost tip of the South Asian subcontinent, the space for our army to maneuver will be greatly reduced, and the Indian puppet army can rely on its numerical superiority to oppress us from north to south, and press us all the way into the Indian Ocean. ”

In fact, the authorities in New Delhi did not have the idea of driving the GC International South Asian Army into the sea to feed the fish, and they also knew that the South Asian Army had the shadow of Chinese imperialism behind it...... So, Gandhi and Nehru just wanted to push the South Asian Army away from the heart of India.

However, the Chinese side could not guess the intentions of the other side, after all, they did not understand the national conditions of India, nor did they know these spokesmen of the Indian bourgeoisie. Zhou Elai crossed his hands around his chest, stared at the map and asked, "How are you going to deal with this situation?" ”

"I'd like to have a plan." Ye Ting said: "Since the Indian puppet army forced us to withdraw from the base area, then we might as well move to Andhra Pradesh." Then turn westward to threaten Mumbai, India's largest commercial city, and once Mumbai is in danger, the New Delhi government will not be able to ignore it, and will definitely order Singh and Mountbatten to divide their forces to come to the rescue, so that we will have the opportunity to find fighters in the movement of the enemy army and destroy the main force of the Indian puppet army. ”

"Once we leave the base area, it will be the enemy's territory, and we don't have a mass base there! Moreover, Gandhi has a very high prestige in India, and many people who do not know the truth are deceived by him and regard us and the Indian GCD as invaders. When the time comes, you will be deaf and blind, will you still be sure to fight a sports war in search of fighters in motion? Zhou E asked again.

From the reports sent by the South Asian Army and the Indian GCD, Zhou Elai had long known that the poor middle peasants in India were still deceived by the Brahmin religion and Gandhi, and did not support the Indian GCD led by Comrade Lu Yi. Moreover, the feudal power in rural India is extremely strong, which is not comparable to those rich people in China.

"Then let's just retreat south to the Madras jurisdiction and establish a base there." Ye Ting smiled bitterly: "At present, we only have 200,000 available soldiers, which is not enough to maintain a front of thousands of kilometers. If the enemy keeps squeezing us step by step, if we do not want to abandon our base areas, we will have to fight a decisive battle against the enemy, and heavy casualties will be inevitable. ”

Ye Ting also felt that things were a little tricky, and it was indeed very risky to leave the base area and go into an area where there was no mass base to fight! In order to defend the base areas, it is necessary to fight a decisive battle with the other side, and the casualties will be very staggering, which will be quite unfavorable to the future development of China and G.

"Comrade Ye Ting, if I can give you another month to expand and train the army. And a month later, the Soviet Red Army led by Stalin will enter the northwest of India and contain part of the strength of the Indian puppet army, do you still have the confidence to defend the base areas at a relatively small cost? Zhou E asked again.

"Yes." Ye Ting thought about it for a while, and then gave an affirmative answer. "If there is another month, our revolutionary base area should be consolidated, the South Asian Army can be expanded by another 100,000 people, and the 100,000 Indian soldiers who enlisted in May can also complete the most basic training and can be integrated into the army to participate in the battle." Speaking of this, Ye Ting asked rhetorically: "By then, the weapons and equipment we have procured from the national government can also be in place, right?" ”

Zhou Elai nodded and said in a deep voice: "Yes, all the weapons and equipment purchased this time will be in place by the end of June." Moreover, I will also order the Indian GCD to propose peace to the Gandhi authorities, and the Kuomintang side will intervene to mediate, which can always be won in a month. His voice suddenly increased: "Besides, Stalin will soon come to India!" ”

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Persian capital, Tehran, Rose Palace.

Located in the heart of Tehran, this ancient palace that once belonged to the Pahlavi dynasty is now the royal palace of the Empress of Russia and Queen Anastasia I of Persia. In the most luxuriously decorated diamond hall of the Rose Palace, several green teas from China waft with a refreshing fragrance. Empress Anastasiania, dressed in a long court dress of red velvet with bare shoulders and back, and no Islamic women's headscarf, wore beautiful blonde hair, and leaned leisurely on her throne. Her coronation has just ended, and at the coronation, the amorous Russian empress was dressed in such a "non-Islamic" outfit. So that a large number of bearded imams from all over Persia who came to pay tribute almost fell out of their eyes! I wonder if I will call on the Persian people to rebel after I go back?

Luo Yaoguo glanced at the empress beside him, who seemed to be a little willful, and he was really a little crying and laughing. He now sits on a chair next to the Queen's throne, which is also a "throne" with elaborate carvings, but a little bit of a slump in the ass. The two of them sit like this, and they look like kings and queens...... Of course, such a seat was arranged by the empress herself, and Luo Yaoguo just stubbornly sat down under the gaze of Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling who stared at the boss. As for the Russian ministers of the Empress, they had long been surprised by this, but they did not show any surprised expressions, they all looked at the old and serious looks.

"Text." The empress shouted Luo Yaoguo in fluent Chinese, and then smiled at him: "I now have another crown on my head, although the subjects of Persia do not necessarily support me as their monarch." But I am still the queen of this country, so I am obliged to liberate my subjects from the tyrant Stalin. And you're here to help me, aren't you? ”

Luo Yaoguo smiled and nodded solemnly: "Yes, Anas, in addition to attending your coronation, the purpose of my coming to Persia is to drive Stalin and his Red Army out of Persian land!" ”

This set of rhetoric had already been discussed by Luo Yaoguo and Anastasia last night, and then the empress said without thinking: "Then I will hand over the command of the Russian army in Persia to you, and I hope that you can unify the command of the Chinese and Russian armies to complete this mission as soon as possible." As she spoke, she looked at the Duke of Blyuhel again, and said in a deep voice: "Duke, I think you are willing to obey Marshal Luo's orders, right?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I obey whatever you will." Blyukhel frowned slightly, took a breath, stood up and bowed to the empress, paused and said: "Your Majesty, from what we have so far, it is very likely that Stalin's Red Army will flee to the southeast of Persia, and the ultimate target is likely to be India. And if we follow the pursuit, it will be difficult for us to catch up with Stalin's Red Army, which fled eastward with light weapons. Therefore, the minister suggested that the squadron could be invited to land at Bandar Abbas in southeastern Persia, and then move north into the province of Kerman to cut off the eastward advance of Stalin's Red Army. ”

"Fuwen, what do you think?" The empress asked Luo Yaoguo with a smile.

Luo Yaoguo pondered for a long time and nodded: "Okay, just do it, I will immediately give an order to the Persian Gulf Squadron of the Western Fleet, and ask them to send marines to seize Bandar Abbas." With that, he turned his head to look at Chiang Kai-shek again. Brother Jie, the 18th Army, which had taken out Huang Wume (Huang Wei) from the expeditionary force, immediately rushed to Abadan and prepared to go to Bandar Abbas by boat. In addition, the 17th and 25th armies immediately launched a pursuit in the direction of Isfahan! ”

"Okay." Chiang Kai-shek nodded slightly at Luo Yaoguo, which was regarded as accepting the order. Luo Yaoguo smiled and said, "Brother Jie, please let Huang Wu and me (Huang Wei) come to the Rose Palace before leaving, I want to see him." As he spoke, he glanced at Blyukhel, who was dressed in the Russian marshal's gown and had a large gold medal on his chest. Your Excellency, I also ask your Russian Persian Front to strike at once, to pursue Stalin with at least two infantry corps, to enter the Kukhrud Mountains with one infantry corps, to occupy the main mountain passes and prevent Stalin from escaping into the mountains, and to seize Khorasan Province with one cavalry corps. ”

After saying this, he turned to the empress again, "Anas, please use the name of the Persian empress to ask the Indian Republican ** team to cooperate with the pursuit operation, block the Indo-Persian border, and not let Stalin's troops enter India." ”