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"The 1st Company assaulted to the left, blocking the back roads of those Indian Ah San, don't let them run! 2nd and 3rd companies are attacking head-on! Fire platoon cover! The battalion commander of the 31st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the Chinese Army ordered. Their attack on the British and Indian troops was very smooth, and after the heavy artillery bombardment of the Chinese army and the bombing of aircraft, the morale of the British and Indian troops had dropped to a very low level, and it was almost collapsed. Even if those British officers scolded and drove them away, they could no longer let those Indian Asan fight like a soldier. When the Chinese Army launched a charge and broke through their positions, these Indian Asan immediately began to flee for their lives, and many of them even lost their rifles!

After the 2nd Battalion of the 31st Regiment of the Chinese Army went ashore, it cooperated with the 1st Battalion to continue the onslaught against the British and Indian troops. It is hard to imagine that there were only two battalions of the squadron on the south bank of the Penchi River, and more than 10,000 people of the 2nd Division of the 232nd Army of the British and Indian Army fled. However, such combat power is not uncommon, after all, the gap between the squadron and the Anglo-Indian army is too big, and it cannot be made up by numbers at all. Just like during the Anti-Japanese War in Wang Yuze's memory, the Japanese were able to defeat the troops of a division of the G Army like rabbits, and the strength of a Japanese wing was able to shake the G Army and an army.

The 2nd Division of the 232nd Anglo-Indian Army retreated to the rear, and the reinforcements sent by Major General Lambart arrived before they stopped retreating. It's just that their original defense line has been captured by the squadron. When all the soldiers of the 31st Regiment had crossed the river, the engineering units of the 1st Army of the Chinese Army began to build pontoon bridges. The task of the 31st Regiment was to hold the beachhead. But. There was fire support from heavy artillery units and the Air Force. This doesn't seem like a big deal.

After the arrival of the 232nd Division of the 1st Army of the Anglo-Indian Army. Together with the 2nd Division, an attack was launched on the 31st Regiment of the Chinese Army. However, before they could enter the firing range, they were hit by the artillery brigade of the 1st Army of the Chinese Army, which was located on the north bank of the Penchi River. Under the guidance of the front line, 23 heavy artillery pieces accurately smashed shells on the heads of those Indian Ah San, and the Indian Ah San who blew up were holding their heads and running away. They finally broke through the blockade of the Chinese artillery, and what awaited them was the dense firepower of the 31st Regiment of the Chinese Army. Hundreds of light and heavy machine guns deployed on the defensive line opened fire at the same time, and dozens of mortars and infantry guns provided the most direct fire support. Under such a powerful firepower attack, the British and Indian troops were directly beaten and dizzy. Many Indian Ah San lay directly on the ground, holding their heads in their hands. No matter how urged by the British officers, they refused to charge the positions of the Chinese Army. Subsequently, the fighters of the Chinese Air Force arrived and strafed and bombed the British and Indian troops, and a large number of British and Indian troops died under the attack of the squadron. This made the morale of those Indian Ah San suffer a heavy blow again, these Indian Ah San never thought that the current war would be like this. Even when they rebelled against the British colonial rule a few decades ago, although the British army was strong, compared with the current squadron, it was completely different!

After a heavy blow. Many of the Indian Asans turned around and ran, refusing to continue fighting. After one or two Indian Ah San began to run away. The other Indian Asans also learned the same way and ran away one after another. The British and Indian charges and the American troops had already collapsed when they reached the defense line of the 31st Regiment of the Chinese Army, leaving corpses on the ground. This made the brigadier general of the 1st Division of the 232nd Army of the British and Indian Army scolded.

Major General Lambart, commander of the 232nd Anglo-Indian Army, personally rushed to the front line and urged the Anglo-Indian army to attack. However, by this time, the sappers of the 1st Group Army of the Chinese Army had already built a pontoon bridge over the Penchi River. Units of the 3rd Division of the Chinese Army, through the pontoon bridge, quickly reinforced the 31st Regiment on the south bank. Major General Lambart ordered the artillery of the British and Indian armies to shell the surface of the Pench River, intending to destroy the pontoon bridge built by the Chinese Army's engineering units. However, the fighters of the Chinese Air Force hovering in the sky quickly dived down and bombed the artillery positions of the British and Indian troops, destroying most of the artillery of the British and Indian troops, and killing many of the artillerymen. The remaining artillery of the British and Indian troops also fled, and they could not complete the task of destroying the pontoon bridge built by the Chinese sappers.

At 11 a.m., the 3rd Division of the Chinese Army crossed the river. Three infantry regiments, under the cover of artillery and air force, launched an attack on the 232nd Anglo-Indian Army. Although Major General Lambat gathered more than 30,000 British and Indian troops for defense, they only held out for less than half an hour before the defense line was breached. Subsequently, a division of the Japanese mercenaries also joined the battle, and these Japanese mercenaries were even more ferocious compared to the Chinese army. After attacking the positions of the British and Indian troops, these Japanese mercenaries preferred to adopt the bayonet fighting style, which made those timid Indian Ah San frightened, calling these Japanese soldiers the devil who crawled out of hell.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the 232nd Anglo-Indian Army was routed, and Major General Lambat led more than 20,000 remnants of his defeated army abandoned Ayvaj and retreated to Kunduz. At the same time, the strength of the Chinese Army was reported to the commander of the 23rd Army, Lieutenant General Adri.

Lieutenant General Adri, commander of the 23rd Army of the Anglo-Indian Army, who was far away in Kunduz, was very surprised when he received the telegram. He never imagined that an army of 50,000 people would be defeated by the Chinese in most of the day, and this was the reason why the main force had not yet crossed the river because the Chinese wanted to launch a landing operation. If the main force of the squadron crosses the river, it will be even more impossible for the British and Indian troops to resist the attack of the squadron. To this end, Lieutenant General Adri immediately began to shrink the defensive line to the 23rd Army stationed in northern Afghanistan. Assembled in Kunduz and Herat, respectively. Trying to rely on the superiority in forces to hold on a little longer. At the same time, Lieutenant General Adri also reported to Delhi the news that Afghanistan had been attacked by the squadron, and asked the Indian Governor-General, Baron Harding, and the commander of the Anglo-Indian Army, Admiral Kitchener, to send more reinforcements into Afghanistan to fight. Lieutenant General Edri had already realized that he had completely despised the squadron before. Even if the squadron defeated the U.S. military in North America, he always thought that it was just because the U.S. military was vulnerable. But now it seems that the strength of the Chinese army is really worthy of the name. He wanted to rely on the 500,000 Anglo-Indian troops of a group army to resist the attack of the squadron in northern Afghanistan, which was really wishful thinking.

It's just that Lieutenant General Adri's strategy is still wrong. He tried to stay on the ground with Kunduz and Herat as the center. This is exactly in line with the intentions of the squadron. If the Anglo-Indian army abandoned northern Afghanistan and fled directly into the Hindu Kush Mountains, the squadron with a large amount of heavy equipment would really have no way to take them. However, the Anglo-Indian army assembled in Kunduz and Herat, which gave the squadron the opportunity to annihilate them completely. The fact that the Anglo-Indian troops did not flee immediately undoubtedly hastened their demise.

When the 3rd Division of the 1st Army broke through the Anglo-Indian line at Ivat, the other two units also won the victory and broke through the Anglo-Indian line. Among them, the westernmost part of the 201st to 210th Divisions of the Chinese Army was precisely Herat, where the British and Indian troops were assembled. For this reason, the squadron deliberately slowed down the pace of the offensive and waited until the British and Indian troops were assembled before launching an attack.

On October 20, the 1st Armored Brigade and the 3rd Infantry Division of the 1st Army of the Chinese Army reached the city of Kunduz. Although the Anglo-Indian army has amassed more than 200,000 troops here. But in the face of the steel torrent of the 1st Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army, it was still unable to resist. Although, on the American battlefield, the US military has begun to use anti-tank guns on a large scale against the armored forces of the Chinese Army. Britain, France, and Germany in Europe are also using anti-tank guns against each other's tanks and armored vehicles, etc. But the Anglo-Indian army did not have anti-tank guns at all. Even the British and Indian armies knew about the strength of the armored forces of the Chinese Army, but they did not have the equipment to deal with such weapons at present.

When the armored brigade of the 1st Army of the Chinese Army invaded the city of Kunduz and began to cooperate with the army to clear the Anglo-Indian army, the commander of the 23rd Army of the British and Indian Army, Lieutenant General Adri, realized his mistake. It is simply wishful thinking that the hundreds of thousands of Indian A-3 of the 23rd Group Army in his hands want to compete with the battle-hardened Chinese Army. The commander of the Anglo-Indian Army, Admiral Kitchener, sent the Anglo-Indian Army to fight in Afghanistan, not to resist the attack of the squadron, but to delay the pace of the squadron as much as possible, so that the British and Indian troops had more time to prepare. Moreover, even if the squadron captured Afghanistan, the British and Indian troops would remain in the mountains of Afghanistan to continue fighting to attack the squadron's logistical supply lines to support the Indian battlefield. The squadron's firepower is strong, but the material consumption is also very terrible, as long as it can harass the logistics supply line of the Chinese army, it can provide excellent support for the Indian battlefield. It's just that the erroneous command of Lieutenant General Edri caused heavy losses to the 23rd Army of the Anglo-Indian Army, and it was simply unable to complete the previously set tasks.

Coming to his senses, Lieutenant General Adri ordered the Anglo-Indian troops to break through from Kunduz and Herat and retreat towards the Hindu Kush. It's just that this order was issued a bit of a play, and a large number of squadrons and Japanese mercenaries have rushed to the battlefield and began to encircle and annihilate the British and Indian troops. The vast majority of the Anglo-Indian army was surrounded and annihilated, and only a very small number of them managed to escape the encirclement and flee towards the Hindu Kush Mountains! (To be continued......)