"Have you already crossed the river?"

"Yes, Your Excellency, the enemy army has crossed the Hakata River!"

Standing in front of Yamashita Fengwen, an adjutant said respectfully.

"What location?"

As he spoke, Yamashita Fengwen patted the military map on the wall, and the adjutant hurriedly walked to the map and pointed to a location northwest of Dhaka.

"Here, the enemy troops landed in Rajbari."

"Rajbari..."

Yamashita nodded.

"It didn't exceed expectations."

As he spoke, Yamashita Bongbun glanced at Rajbari's location.

"Is it here..."

Unlike He Zhuguo, Yamashita Fengwen's troops were very limited, including the new reinforcements from Japan and the troops still loyal to the former Thai government, as well as the troops recruited by the Provisional Government of Free India in India, Yamashita Fengwen only had more than 600,000 troops in his hands.

Of these more than 600,000 people, a considerable part of the troops must be allocated to govern the areas already occupied, as well as the forces to confront the British.

Therefore, although there is a 'small' natural danger of the Hakata River, Yamashita Fengwen can only focus on defending some places, and as for some other positions, how can the Zhu Kingdom choose to land in Rajbari, so he can only deploy some troops.

Fortunately, Yamashita Fengwen is not unprepared...

"Call Rajbari's troops and let them keep the situation there back at any time, and inform Kushtiya and Friedpur's troops to be ready to attack..."

"Understood!"

The adjutant said with his legs together.

"Let's go down."

"Yes."

Just as Yamashita continued to look at the map, a voice suddenly sounded on the side.

"General. What is the situation at the front now? ”

Yamashita turned his head and found that it was the priceless treasure and heart of the current Tojo government, who was also the leader of the Provisional Government of Free India and the supreme commander of the Indian National Army, Subas? Chandra? Bowes.

"You're here..."

For this Tojo Hideki's heart, Yamashita Fengfumi still doesn't dare to slack off. So he hurriedly said.

Bowes nodded, then glanced at the landing site that had just been plotted on the map.

"Is this where the Chinese landed?"

"That's right."

"How's the battle going?"

Yamashita shook his head.

"The Chinese have just taken a beachhead there, and now the troops are trying to find a way to drive them down the river, but..."

But what, Bowes also knows very well that since the other party can come up, it will not be easy to get someone down.

"So what now?"

"Please rest assured..."A smile appeared on Yamashita Bongfumi's round face. Since you can't catch it, don't do it..."

"So..."Bowes had also heard of Yamashita Fumi's prestige in the Indochina Peninsula. Coupled with the fact that the newly formed government of Free India still has a lot to rely on Japan and Germany, Bowes did not ask much.

Subas? Chandra? Bose was a radical independence activist in India, the leader of the Provisional Government of Free India, and the Supreme Commander of the Indian National Army.

Bowes was born in British India. He then completed his university studies in Kolkata; He then went to Cambridge University in England to study abroad and became involved in Gandhi's non-violent non-cooperation movement in 1921. But he was a radical for India's independence, serving as speaker of the Indian National Congress from 1937 to 1939 before being expelled by Gandhi's moderates.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Bose traveled from India to Germany in 1941 via Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. And in Germany formed an Indian brigade of two thousand people. In 1943, he was invited by Japan to depart from Kiel on a German U-boat, passing through Madagascar, and transferring to the Japanese I-29 submarine in the Indian Ocean to Japan. He traveled to Japan with the support of the Tokyo side. On 21 October 1943, the Provisional Government of Free India was established and assumed the position of Supreme Commander of the Indian National Army. In the same year, he participated in the Greater East Asia Conference, which was led by Japan. …,

After Japan's defeat and surrender in August 1945, Bose was on his way to Japan on August 18. Died at Taipei Songshan Airport as a result of a plane crash. The body was cremated at the Taipei Municipal Crematorium and held a puja at the Nishi Honganji Temple in Taipei, where the remains were transported to Japan for burial at Renkoji Temple in Tokyo's Suginami district. Long after his death, there are still many local legends in India that claim he was still alive. In the three portraits in front of the Indian Parliament Building, he is juxtaposed with Gandhi and Nehru, which shows his evaluation in India.

By the way, the 2,000-strong Indian brigade is the extremely famous 950th Indian Infantry Regiment, which can be called the rabble of rabble.

During their time at Lufey, they raped a French woman and her other daughter, and even shot a 2-year-old girl. In addition, after the war, the French magazine "3945" even published photos of the regiment's soldiers and Luftwaffe female civilian personnel fooling around in Paris.

"If only those Indian soldiers could use it..."

When he thought so, Yamashita Fengfumi also sighed.

After the Japanese army invaded India, after learning that Germany had such a figure as Bose in its hands, the Japanese government invited Bose to Japan to preside over the establishment of the Provisional Government of Free India, and at the same time hoped to cooperate with Japanese rule in India through Bose's influence.

At the beginning, the implementation of this plan was relatively smooth, as a radical figure second only to Gandhi in terms of influence in India, Bose can be regarded as quite influential in India, not to mention that even if the Indian character is docile, there are many people who are inclined to violent resistance.

So when Bose began to cooperate with Japan in establishing the Provisional Government of Free India in India, especially in Calcutta, a considerable number of Indians enthusiastically joined the newly formed Indian National Army.

Even a considerable number of Indian troops, originally in the service of the British, threw themselves at Bose.

At first, the Tojo government was naturally overjoyed by this situation. However, it didn't take long for them to discover that these so-called Indian soldiers were simply a rabble, and they were even inferior to the local soldiers recruited from Burma in terms of combat effectiveness, and these Indians were quite difficult to serve.

Because of religion, there are not only requirements and taboos of this and that. And often likes to cause trouble. Even in India's own towns, these Indian soldiers can cause a lot of trouble.

Bose also knows his own family affairs, and he knows very well how uncompetitive his Indian compatriots are, but he knows that he knows that he still has to defend his compatriots in person.

For the sake of these Indian soldiers, Yamashita even had an argument with Bose.

Fortunately, both of them knew what was most important at the moment, so there were no major disputes.

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After the success of the beach. Follow-up landing forces began to land on the landing site in a steady stream.

On the other side, Yamashita was waiting for news from the front line in the headquarters.

"How many enemy troops are there now?"

"It's almost like a division!"

"A division..."

Yamashita Fengwen sighed.

"It's a little less, but it's the limit..."

Think so. Yamashita said to his subordinates.

"Order the troops of Kushtia and Friedpur to storm the enemy forces in Rajbari from the left and right flanks and cut off their rear routes..."

As he spoke, Yamashita looked at the other locations on the map.

"Order troops from other directions, and be vigilant, so as not to be caught off guard when the enemy forces attack from other directions."

"And..."

"Command the aviation in the rear. After the exchange of fire between the troops of Kushtia and Friedpur and the enemy's landing force, provide air support to the troops there, not asking them to seize air supremacy, but begging them not to let the Chinese bombers be too presumptuous ..."

As he spoke, Yamashita Bongbun glanced again at the location of the upper Rajbari in the area.

"Can this operation be successful? It's all up to the land airline..."

Yamashita was very clear that he relied on the little troops he had at hand. It is impossible to hold the Hakata River in its entirety, after all, the entire Hakata River is 300 kilometers wide. Even if only a small part of them needs to be defended, it is quite a distance.

Although the Ho Zhu State Department on the opposite side is not more than him in terms of the number of troops, all of them are regular troops in the National Defense Force, unlike the troops in his hands, although a considerable part of them are standing and reserve divisions transferred from the mainland, but there are also many original Thai troops and Indian troops, and the combat effectiveness of these troops is really not ideal...

Therefore, Yamashita Fengwen can only carry out key defenses, and there is no way to deploy a small number of troops in some other secondary areas―――――― after all, it is better to focus on defense than to be as thin as paper in every position.

However, Yamashita was well aware that it would be impossible to hold the Hakata River with these forces at hand, and even if the enemy forces that landed were driven down the river, the other side would be able to do it all over again.

So Yamashita had an idea in his heart, since he couldn't hold the Hakata River, why not let the enemy army in and annihilate it in one fell swoop?

Even if the enemy army is driven down the river, the other side will not suffer many casualties, but if all the enemy troops who have landed are eaten...

Yamashita once estimated that with the troops on hand and the reserves, he could eat almost 10,000 people, and if there were more, the situation would become more difficult...

More than 10,000 people...

Although there are fierce battles and big wars everywhere in the world at the moment, and it is common for hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded to be killed, it is still a distressing thing to be eaten by 10,000 people for no reason, not to mention that He Zhuguo's troops in India are not very many...

So...

"10,000 people, although not much, but enough..."

That being said, Yamashita actually had another thing in mind.

"If you can eat 10,000 people, even if you lose Calcutta, you can give an account to the above..."

The Hakata River may not be able to hold it, and neither will Calcutta.

Yamashita Fengwen knows this...

"The key is still the people of the army aviation, can you not let the enemy take away the air supremacy before eating these 10,000 people..."

Thinking so, Yamashita looked at the roof of the headquarters, as if he wanted to see through the sky above, but unfortunately he didn't see anything...

One of the most crucial aspects of Yamashita's plan. That is, whether the people of the Army Aviation can occupy a place in the sky, do not seek to seize air supremacy or press the fighters of the Defense Air Force, but only hope that the Defense Air Force will not be too unscrupulous in the sky.

Otherwise, even if they can successfully encircle the more than 10,000 enemy troops who have already landed. Under the bombardment of bombers, it would be easy for these Wehrmacht troops to escape, and then everything would be useless...

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He Zhuguo was not aware of Yamashita Fengwen's plan, and after the troops successfully seized a position, He Zhuguo hurriedly ordered more troops to cross the river.

In He Zhuguo's view, as long as the troops can successfully cross the river, then the Hakata River will be in the bag, after all, He Zhuguo is still very clear about the combat effectiveness of his troops.

Even the newly mobilized reserve forces. After being equipped with the standard equipment of the Wehrmacht, it can also be compared with the elite divisions in the Japanese army―――――― of course, this is mainly because the equipment of the Japanese army is too shabby.

A considerable part of He Zhuguo's hands are troops from the main group army, although the rest are reserve troops that have just been mobilized. But with the advantage of equipment, it is also harmless. …,

Therefore, as long as the troops can be transported across the river, He Zhuguo asked himself that his subordinates would definitely not lose to Yamashita Fengwen.

"As long as you can take the Hakata River, it will be a very simple matter to take Kolkata next."

Thinking so, a smile appeared on He Zhuguo's face.

However, just when He Zhuguo was still there thinking about the dream of taking the Hakata River and marching into Calcutta. He Zhuguo's adjutant suddenly walked in quickly.

"Commander, something is wrong!"

“？”

After receiving orders from Yamashita Fumi, the Japanese troops on the left and right flanks of Rajbari, which had been prepared for a long time, launched a fierce attack on the river-crossing troops that had landed in Rajbari.

On the other hand. Yamashita also threw in some of the reserves he had in order to be able to devour all the Wehrmacht forces that had crossed the Hakata River in the shortest possible time.

Due to the fact that the Japanese army acted very suddenly. After adding that the troops crossing the Hakata River were somewhat careless, they were caught off guard. The Wehrmacht's rear route was almost cut off by the Japanese, but even then it was precarious, and it could be cut off at any time.

After learning of this situation, He Zhuguo anxiously ordered the follow-up troops to step up the river crossing to provide support to the river crossing troops who were about to be surrounded, and on the other hand, he urgently ordered the air force units in the rear to bomb the Japanese army to relieve the pressure on the river crossing troops who were struggling to support them on the beachhead.

However, at this time, the Japanese army aviation unit was also dispatched.

Recently, the life of the Japanese army's army aviation unit can be said to be quite sad.

Because there are only a very few Type 4 fighters in the Japanese army, and the other Type 3 and Zero Combat or something, they are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered in the face of ZD20 fighters, so the fighters of both the Army and the Navy rarely fight.

This was especially true in Burma and India, where the fighters of the Army, which were not very numerous, were usually bombed and the fighters of the Army were hiding in the rear to rest...

However, this is not to say that the Japanese are out of action.

After understanding that the Type 3 fighters and the Zero War could not effectively confront the Wehrmacht fighters, the Japanese army put all the production lines into the Type 4 and other fighters that could be countered.

And because Japan had technical exchanges with China in the early years, but some technical aspects were higher than those of Japan in history, so in terms of engines and other aspects have not been as troubled as in history, fighters such as the Type 4 can fully compete with the ZD20 or P51.

Of course, this is not to say that the Nationalist government is so brainbroken that it did not hide its smuggling from Japan, but it is just that in order to paralyze Japan, the Nationalist government made a gesture of Sino-Japanese friendship, and under such circumstances, some experts and professors in China generally do not have much vigilance against Japan.

Therefore, although the government has repeatedly ordered that it is not allowed to reveal too much new technology to Japan, Japan still has obtained some through various means, including engine technology.

Fortunately, the technology in this area is top secret, and Japan is indeed too backward in terms of engine technology, and Japan itself does not have many rare metals required for some engines, so Japan's technology in the engine has not been improved much, but just a little bit, it is enough for Japan...

After diverting all the production lines to the Type 4 fighters, Japan also quickly produced a considerable part of the Type 4 fighters, and since India was one of the most fierce fighting areas, a considerable part of the Type 4 fighters produced were transported to India by sea.

And now, whether Yamashita Fengwen can eat more than 10,000 Wehrmacht troops on the beachhead of the Hakata River depends on these Type 4 fighters......,

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After learning about what happened on the Hakata River, the air force in the rear was also taken aback, and did not expect such a thing to happen in a good situation.

Although the Air Force and the Army were also a little dirty in the past, especially when the military expenses were divided every year, they were their own people anyway, so after receiving He Zhuguo's order, the Air Force quickly launched fighters and bombers to prepare to provide support to the besieged Wehrmacht.

However, just as they flew over the Hakata River, Japanese army fighters appeared...

Originally, the Japanese fighter air force was rather contemptuous, after all, the air battle over the Taiwan Strait had proved everything, and in the past series of bombings, the Japanese Army Air Force fighters were all hidden, like Sun Tzu, and allowed the Wehrmacht Air Force to bomb the Japanese Army.

But now...

"It's all four-style !!"

As soon as he pulled the joystick, one of the drivers yelled.

They never expected that the Japanese fighters that came this time were all Type 4...

If the Type 3 and the Zero War are both dishes, then the Type 4 is not easy to deal with, not to mention that the pilot training of the Japanese army is all elite...

On the other hand, the Japanese pilots seemed to know the importance of the battle, so they fought extremely frantically (to be continued......