Khuzdar, India.

Under the cover of night, a light armored vehicle with four-wheel drive drove into the mountain city, just over a hundred kilometers from the rich Indus River valley. The small city is already heavily guarded at the moment, with five steps and one post, ten steps and one sentry, all of which are officers and soldiers of the Soviet Internal Guard Force wearing blue big-brimmed hats! Although the blue hat has faded and turned white, a red heart defending Soviet power probably hasn't changed color yet, right? This force is the only force that Stalin can trust at the moment, and seeing these defenders of the Soviet Union like this, you know that Stalin himself must be sitting in the car!

Stalin sat in the window of the car and quietly watched the scene outside through the darkness of the night. Thankfully, the town was not burned down, and it doesn't seem to be controlled by the Balochs. Looking at the size of the town, it is estimated that some supplies can be raised so that the army can have a full meal. There's a big battle to come! Looking at the yellow-skinned Soviet defenders outside, Stalin was in a pang of heartache. These people can get priority supplies! Those ordinary Red Army, who could only eat the leftovers of the Internal Guard, did not know what the difficulties had become now! When this heroic army escaped from Tehran more than a month ago, there were more than 200,000 people and hundreds of thousands of dependents of the army, and it was mighty to walk on the edge of the salt desert in Kavir! And now it has only been a hasty escape for more than a month, and there has not been a really fierce battle, and it has become like this, and there is no rear to flee to the day. It's really hard to see. It seems that it is necessary to find a base for the Red Army as soon as possible!

When he was not in his mind, the armored car had already driven in front of the original British Governor's Office in Khuzdal, which had been used as the temporary headquarters of the Soviet Central Committee, and the two blue-hat guards at the door saw Stalin coming out of the car, and they were all upright, which was no worse than the guards in front of the Kremlin. Stalin wore a short-sleeved shirt, a well-trimmed mustache, and his signature carved pipe in his mouth, from which a wisp of green smoke emerged. Beria and Pos Krebeshev followed closely behind the leader, and Beria's trouser pockets were bulging. There was apparently a pistol inside, and Beria's right hand was in his pocket, and two eyes full of vigilance looked around. Pos Krebeshev was carrying a handbag, and since Stalin fled Tehran, this black leather bag has been carried by Pos Krebeshev, and no one knows what is inside? Even Poskolebeshev himself did not know, he only took the black leather bag from Stalin, which was locked with a small lock, and he did not inquire about what was inside. Don't want to know either.

Stalin strode inside with a calm face, and when he walked through the garden, he saw Zhukov and Timosinger greeted him with a group of staff officers. Timosinger gave a military salute to Stalin: "Comrade Stalin, it is great that you can come here and personally guide our work, and this time the battle of Sindh seems to be in sight." Stalin smiled faintly and glanced at Zhukov beside Timosinger, "Georgi. Konstantinovich, what do you think of the Battle of Sindh? Can we defeat the Indian puppet army? ”

Zhukov was originally opposed to a decisive battle with the Indian Central Army in the Sindh region, but since Stalin had made up his mind, Zhukov, as a soldier, of course, had no choice but to obey orders. He snapped upright. He also saluted Stalin, "Please rest assured, Comrade Stalin, that the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will definitely be able to defeat the Indian puppet army and liberate 30,000,000 Indian people!" ”

Stalin nodded with satisfaction and waved his hand: "Good! Let's go in and talk! ”

The war room of the headquarters of the Soviet Red Army, which was located in the former British Governor-General's Palace, was already covered with maps, a huge sand table, and telephone lines were everywhere. When all the staff officers saw Stalin coming in, they all stood up and saluted him. Stalin also returned the salute lightly. Then he strode to the edge of the sand table, "Have you made a battle plan?" ”

Timosinger frowned, took a whip and reported to Stalin: "Comrade Stalin, the plan is already there, we plan to adopt the tactics of attacking the south from the north, and use large-scale movement operations to pull the defense line of the Indian puppet army and create the best opportunity to annihilate the enemy. The specific plan of action was to invade the Indus Valley by a force disguised as the main force of the Red Army from Khuzda to the east. Threatens the areas of Khairpur and Rasim Yar Khan. Put on the illusion of preparing to open up a revolutionary base area in the middle reaches of the Indus River, and attract the main force of the Indian puppet army in the lower reaches of the Indus River to reinforce in the north. Meanwhile. We marched south with our main force and marched 370 kilometers to raid Karachi, the big city of the lower Indus River! ”

Stalin frowned and thought for a moment. Shen Sheng asked, "Are you sure?" As he spoke, he glanced at Zhukov again, "Georgy. Konstantinovich, you are now the Chief of the General Staff of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, you can tell me and see if you are sure? ”

Zhukov took the whip from Timosinger's hand, pointed to the sand table and began to explain: "Comrade Stalin, according to the information provided by the Chinese side, the Indian puppet Central Army has placed 10 armies and 500,000 people on the defense line of nearly 700 kilometers in the middle and lower reaches of the Indus River, although there are many troops, but they are still very thin on the defense line of nearly 700 kilometers, and it is not enough to form a continuous defense system, it is just an isolated garrison stronghold, ranging from 10 to 50 kilometers apart. The whole line of defense is full of holes, and it is difficult to echo the end of the line, which gives us a lot of opportunities to take advantage of. Therefore, we are sure that we will open up a revolutionary base in the Sindh area. It's just that "Zhukov did not say any more, and the reasons for opposing a decisive battle with the Indian army in the Sindh region had already been stated."

It is not a problem to open up a base area in a short period of time, but it is not easy to gain a firm foothold in a base area like Sindh, which is under enemy on all sides. At that time, the Soviet Red Army would have to face not only the main forces of the Indian puppet army from the north and east, but also a powerful squadron from the sea! In contrast, it is relatively easy to gain a foothold in Punjab and Kashmir, which is backed by the Himalayas. But Stalin and the entire Soviet Red Army. At the moment, they are anxious to get a piece of rich land and have a good rest, and they really can't take care of such a long-term thing.

Stalin frowned and didn't speak, just looked at the defense situation of the Indian puppet army on the sand table over and over again, the information provided by the Chinese puppet army was quite accurate, and the location of each regiment of the Indian puppet army was accurately marked. If the intelligence is correct, the Red Army will indeed win this battle.

He sighed softly and asked Timosinger, "Comrade Timulzinger, who will be in charge of the feint mission?" Timuzinger replied: "We want to make the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Marshal Budyonny the commander of the Indus Front." Command the forces of three divisions, plus the artillery units directly under the headquarters of our Red Army, to launch an offensive on the line of Mehrabpur and Gember. According to intelligence, the defense of the Indian puppet army is focused on the lower Indus River and around Karachi, and there is only one Indian infantry division near Mehrabpur and Gembor, in addition, two infantry divisions are deployed in Khairpur and Rahim Yar Khan, and these three infantry divisions belong to the 11th Army of the Indian puppet Central Army, which is located in the city of Khairpur. As long as we beat them up. The Indians will definitely draw the main force from the Karachi region in the south, and our 130,000-strong army will take advantage of the situation! Take down the largest city in western India! ”

Stalin asked again: "What is the combat effectiveness of this army?" A scornful smile slipped across the corners of Temusingah's mouth. What fighting power can the Indians have? However, the weapons and equipment in the hands are okay, each division has a 17-pounder artillery battalion, and there is an artillery regiment at the army level, two of which are equipped with British-made 17-pounder cannons, and one battalion is equipped with 8 Chinese-made 105mm howitzers. With three infantry divisions and one artillery division, we can definitely defeat them! ”

After listening to Timosinger's introduction, Stalin smiled bitterly and muttered: "While we defeat the Indians, it would be nice if we could capture some more 105mm heavy guns and other weapons and equipment from them." ”

Such artillery was not worth mentioning at all in the eyes of the Soviet Red Army of those years. But now it's a baby! Some of the 122mm and 152mm howitzers brought out of the country were either damaged in battle, or ran out of ammunition and became a pile of scrap metal (in previous battles with the Sino-Russian coalition, Red Army artillery still appeared). The Red Army now has only some 17-pounder cannons and 25-pounder cannons aided by the British, of which the 17-pounder cannons are almost equivalent to 75mm caliber field guns, and at present the Red Army division-level units have a regiment of 24 guns. A 25-pounder cannon is equivalent to a 105mm howitzer, and there are only 48 artillery divisions under the direct jurisdiction of the Red Army Headquarters! Compared with the scene of tens of thousands of artillery guns firing at every turn during the Polish campaign, the current Soviet Red Army is really extremely down. Moreover, the source of weapons and ammunition in the future can only rely on a "transport captain" like India's Ah San.

The Red Army's battle plan was approved by Stalin and quickly transmitted by radio waves to the various Soviet Red Army combat units scattered along the border between Baluchistan and Sind. The units of the Red Army, which were in recuperation, after receiving orders. They all moved quickly. The 1st Guards Division of the Red Army, the 4th Guards Division, Feradimir. Lenin's Division (for the sake of morale, these remnants of the Red Army were now given a nice number), and the Red Army Headquarters Artillery Division formed the Indian Front and began to advance towards the valley of the middle Indus River.

The 2nd Guards Division, the 3rd Guards Division, the 5th Guards Division, the 6th Guards Division, the 7th Guards Division, the GC International Division (composed of GC fighters from various countries), Joseph. Ten divisions, including the Stalin Division, the Guards Tank Division (without tanks, composed of officers and men of the former tank units), the Guards Marine Division (composed of officers and men of the Black Sea Fleet and the Caspian Flotilla), and the Interior Guard Division (composed of the backbone of the Blue Hats, which were Stalin's guard troops), formed the Central Front, which was under the direct command of the Red Army Headquarters and marched southward. Head straight to Karachi.

In addition, the GCIST Youth Division, the Working Women's Division, and the Red Youth Division formed the Reserve Front. and tens of thousands of dependents of the army who were not fit to be soldiers, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union. The Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet, the GC International and other organs remained in Khuzdar to wait for the good news from the front.

At the same time, the Indian army, which had discovered the movements of the Soviet Red Army, also began a large-scale deployment adjustment. For a time, the entire west bank of the Indus River was full of brigades of soldiers, trucks, wagons, and forcibly recruited Indian soldiers transporting supplies. At the same time, the war machines of the Soviet Union and India began to run at high speed.

Armageddon, unprecedented in India's history, is about to break out!

One of the most typical summer thunderstorms on the coast of the South Asian subcontinent swept across Odisha, alleviating days of drought and bringing temperatures down. Mao ZD stood in the office of the GC International Oriental Bureau's advisory group in Bhubaneswar, looking at the large playground outside, covered with rainproof cloths, neatly parked 120 Min-28 wheeled armored vehicles, and 8 auxiliary armored vehicles modified from Min-28. These 128 armored vehicles, excluding fuel and ammunition, cost the Indian people a huge sum of 25.6 million fiat dollars! If you count the 120 wheeled light armored vehicles converted from Chinese-made military jeeps at the arsenal of the "red capitalist" Zhang Xueliang in the Far Eastern Republics. Thirty-six 105mm howitzers towed by Chinese-made half-track armored vehicles, more than 200 BMW brand 2.5-ton trucks, and 6,000 "armored infantry" equipped with all new equipment, as well as a staggering amount of ammunition, fuel and other supplies. The cost of this "GC International Armored Division" is as high as hundreds of millions of legal dollars!

Hundreds of millions of fiat currencies are almost equivalent to a few years of funding in China! Before China became a "semi-empire and semi-colony", even the entire national treasury might not be able to come up with it easily. And a little more state in India has raised hundreds of millions of dollars (fiat currency) in less than three months! The richness of this country is beyond imagination! Moreover, the gap between the rich and the poor and the degree of class oppression are equally staggering, and it is simply a natural soil for revolution, and if the revolution can be won first in India, with the wealth of India and the hard-working dedication of the Indian people. In less than 10 years, socialism will probably be built on this land.

"Vice Chairman Mao! Vice Chairman Mao! A slightly Sichuan shout came from the door. Mao ZD turned around and looked over, and saw Liu Bcheng and Yang Skun not knowing when they appeared at the open door of the office, and they seemed to be a little out of breath.

"The Battle of Sindh has begun!" Yang Skun, deputy head of the advisory group of the GC International Oriental Bureau, strode over and handed the telegram in his hand to Mao Zd, who took the telegram with a slightly excited expression and looked at it a few times before nodding again and again, and said with a smile: "Okay!" All right! It seems that the deployment of the central government has been successful as well. ”

This is a telegram from the GC International Headquarters forwarded by the GC International Eastern Bureau, informing the latest situation of the Sindh Campaign, which has just begun. The battle first took place in India and the middle reaches of Khairpur, where the Indus Front's army of nearly 150,000 (what the GC International's telegram says) under the command of Budyonny and Voroshilov left the mountains of Khuzdar and entered the Indus Valley. In a small town called Gember, a division of the Indian puppet army was encircled, and another Indian puppet army division of Mehrabpur was attracted to reinforcements, while the 1st Guards Division, Lenin's Division, and the 1st Red Artillery Division of the Red Army set up an ambush in the middle of the way, crushing this Indian division of more than 10,000 men, capturing more than 3,000 Indian officers and soldiers, 21 British advisers, and capturing more than 2,000 rifles and more than 100 machine guns. Fourteen mortars, eight 17-pounder field guns, and countless ammunition baggage.

"Win the first battle! It seems that the Soviet Red Army can still fight! Mao Zd slapped his face and smiled. As long as Stalin's army of more than 300,000 (the exact number of the Soviet Red Army is not known) can open up the situation in western India, whether it is the establishment of a revolutionary base or the breakthrough of the Indus River to march towards New Delhi, the pressure on the GC International South Asian Army can be greatly reduced.

"Yes," Liu nodded approvingly. "And the combat effectiveness of the Indian puppet army does not seem to have improved much compared to the previous Anglo-Indian army. Vice Chairman Mao, do you think we should also launch a campaign? To cooperate with the military operations of the Soviet Red Army? ”

Mao Zd thought for a moment and said: "How many troops does the Indian puppet army still have in the areas of Garkhand, Chhattislus, and West Bengal? ”

"There are 300,000 central troops, 400,000 local troops, a total of 700,000 troops! Among them, there was an Indian 3rd Army, about 50,000 men of the Central Army, which remained in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal; There are also about 50,000 local troops responsible for local policing in Karkhand, Chhattisr and West Bengal; The remaining 600,000 men confronted us on a thousand-kilometer line of defense. "Speaking of which. Liu Bcheng pointed to the 128 armored lanes on the large playground: "Vice Chairman Mao, there are these armored vehicles. The thousands of kilometers of defense line laid out by Slim are simply vulnerable! ”

"How's the expansion going?" Mao ZD asked about the expansion of the South Asian Army. According to the plan of the Central and Eastern Bureaus, the South Asian Army will be based on Chinese internationalist fighters, supplemented by a large number of Indian indigenous officers and soldiers, and will eventually expand into a huge force capable of liberating the entire South Asian subcontinent. However, after arriving in India, the expansion plan of the South Asian Army did not go as smoothly as expected.

"Now 250,000 poor and middle Indian peasants have joined the army." Liu Bcheng's eyebrows furrowed slightly, "But these people are difficult to train, they are lazy when they have the opportunity, and they also like to cheat and play tricks, they are very dishonest, they will say one thing to their faces and do another behind their backs." On the surface, these people are very supportive of the revolution, but they may not be very reliable when they actually go to the battlefield. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )