180. The Anglo-Burmese army mutinied
In the vast jungle, the moans and wails of the wounded were constantly heard.
The Anglo-Burmese army was entrenched in the western mountains of Myitkyina, and was surrounded by heavy troops mobilized by the Chinese side.
The Anglo-Burmese commander, Admiral Dannatt, had the right plan, and they did cause a lot of trouble for China and slow down China's advance towards India. However, the hasty plan is not without loopholes, and the loophole in the plan is food.
Not to mention looking for towns in this area, there are not even villages, and there is no way to replenish the food, and the food carried by the army cannot support the consumption of two or three hundred thousand troops, and after only being besieged for more than ten days, the food of the army has bottomed out.
If the Anglo-Burmese army wanted to stay here long enough without starvation, it would have to cut the number of troops, and the limited food would have to support only the few people to survive and fight. This was a very cruel decision, but Admiral Dannatt did not hesitate to carry it out, allowing the British and Burmese troops to attack the Chinese fortified positions.
The reason why Admiral Dannatt was able to give such orders and decisions was entirely because the troops were mainly composed of Indians, and only the officers in the troops were white British, and no matter how many soldiers were lost, as long as they could achieve their strategic objectives, Britain would not criticize him harshly. If this force had been British, I am afraid that it would have been forced to surrender long ago.
Successive counteroffensives were launched, corpses were strewn all over the positions, and the morale of the troops was getting lower and lower.
"Indian compatriots, I am the Indian Negro Revolutionary Army Barona, the British are finished, their million-strong army has been defeated by the Chinese Defense Forces, and you are now surrounded by million-strong regiments"
"Fellow citizens. I am the Punjab Revolutionary Army, and you have no food, and if you resist stubbornly, you will either be killed or starved to death. I believe that you have also seen the offensive in the past few days, the firepower of the Chinese Defense Force is several times stronger than yours, the attack is futile, the British just want you to die, only enough people have died, and the little food left can be supported"
"Resist, kill the British, and join us in the Revolutionary Army. Drive the damned British out of India. ushering in India's anti-colonial victory"
The constant shouting of voices reverberated through the loudspeakers in this jungle land, causing constant commotion among the Indians. British officers kept shouting: "Don't stop, they're lying!" We, the British Empire, are the number one power in the world, and reinforcements are coming soon. Will beat the damned Chinese. ”
The roar of planes sounded in the sky. Countless flyers fell
Admiral Dannatt's face was haggard. He deeply regretted that this would not have happened if the troops had captured Myitkyina. He knew that Myitkyina was a transit point for supplies on the Chinese front, and there must be a large amount of grain there. If they had not fallen for the tricks of the Chinese at that time, then they would have succeeded.
Rear Admiral Olife reached out and picked up a leaflet, and said with a pale face: "Commander, our fleet and troop carriers reinforcing India were blocked by the Chinese Navy and failed miserably. There are a lot of photos on this leaflet, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to control the morale of the army anymore. ”
Dannatt said bitterly, "I see." This is a catastrophe unprecedented for our British Empire. MacDonald is the stupidest prime minister my British Empire has ever seen. If they do not force the Chinese, there is no doubt that the Chinese will point their forces to the north, because the Soviet Russia still occupies a large amount of Chinese territory, and its threat is far greater than ours. Olive, it will be an unprecedented hard battle, harder than the First World War. ”
Olife said in surprise: "Commander, you are too pessimistic, aren't you?" The Chinese challenge the entire Western world with the strength of one country, and we in the Western world are safe at home, and sooner or later they will fail. ”
Admiral Dannatt sneered: "Is that really the case? The Chinese are very smart, very smart. They are colluding with the Indian Revolutionary Army, don't you see something? Our reinforcements have been heavily damaged, our navy has suffered huge losses, and the entire eastern part of India will be open to China. We are not very worried about the Chinese, because their supply is still difficult, their navy is not enough to supply them by sea, and we are fully capable of driving them out of India. But don't forget, they have colluded with the Indian Revolutionary Army, and with the cooperation of these damned Indians, they will not only be able to quickly occupy eastern India, but the Indian Revolutionary Army will also expand rapidly, and with the cooperation of the Indians, the Chinese will no longer fight away. Most importantly, we may lose the support of India's huge population, we will lack soldiers, but the Chinese are likely to have countless Indians as cannon fodder. ”
Olife's face is as earthy, why is India known as the "crown jewel of the British Queen"? Not only because India is rich in resources, it is not only India that brings huge income to the British, but in fact the most important thing is that India has a huge population that can provide Britain with countless cannon fodder regiments.
China has a population of 500 million, India has nearly 300 million, Southeast Asia has more than 100 million, and the whole world has only 1.7 billion people during this period.
While Dannat and Olivee were contemplating this esoteric question, the troops on the front line had changed.
After a series of defeats, the morale of the Indian soldiers has been low to the bottom, and the front line strewn with corpses and the shouts of the Indian Revolutionary Army finally made the Indian soldiers change. Several Indian soldiers could not help but ask the British officer: "Sir, have we really failed in the Indian Ocean?" ”
The British officer shouted inwardly: "Ridiculous, our British Imperial Navy is the first in the world, invincible for three hundred years, how long has China's navy developed, they are just a group of dolls, vulnerable to attack." ”
"Sir, but the combined fleet in the South China Sea was completely annihilated by the Chinese, wasn't it?"
The British officer's face turned the color of pig liver, and he roared: "That's a damn Chinese sneak attack." ”
"If the Chinese can successfully sneak attack once, they can have a second time. The chief denied the defeat in the Indian Ocean, but what happened to the photos on these leaflets? And photos of the Chinese troops already crossing the Ganges"
The British officer's face was extremely ugly, you must know that this is an era when there are no photoshopped photos, after the Indian Ocean naval battle, the Chinese army entered India in a big way, and took photos in front of many special signs, which cannot be faked. At that moment, he was annoyed and angry, stepped forward and snatched the leaflet, tore it to pieces, and shouted: "You are a demon to confuse the people, shake the morale of the army, come here, arrest me." ”
However, his shouts did not respond.
The British officer noticed that something was wrong, and looked at the Indian soldiers who were looking at him coldly on all sides, and a chill rose in his heart. But it also made him even more annoyed, and he pulled out his pistol and shouted: "I will deal with you, a bastard who shakes the hearts of the army."
"Bang" A gunshot rang out, and the British officer was stunned, looked down at the bloody hole in his chest, looked at the Indian soldier in front of him in disbelief, and slowly fell.
"On the contrary, we will join the revolution and kill the British!"
"The British are no longer good, if it weren't for our Indian legions in the original world war, they would have lost a long time ago. Revolution! The time has come for the liberation of India! ”
"Millions of British and French troops have been defeated by the Chinese in less than a month, Indian independence is just around the corner, revolution!"
The excessive oppression finally provoked the Indian soldiers to resist, and since the Anglo-Burmese army has been defeated, surrounded, broken through and surrounded again, if it were not for the fact that India has been colonized long enough, the Indians have become accustomed to the command of the British, and they would have mutinied a long time ago. A question, the British officers still treated it with the same high-minded attitude, which finally inspired the mutiny, coupled with the agitation of the Indian Revolutionary Army, and finally out of control.
The mutiny spread like a plague, and countless Indian soldiers killed British officers one after another, forming an unstoppable torrent.
When the news of the mutiny reached the command of the Anglo-Burmese army, both General Dannatt and Chief of Staff Olivee were stunned. Such a military change could not be suppressed, and the entire Anglo-Burmese army was only a few British, but only a few thousand officers and a few thousand artillerymen, how could it stop the rebellion of the remaining hundreds of thousands of Indian soldiers? Even if they have God's help to stop them, there are still hundreds of thousands of Chinese elite troops outside.
"It's over!" Admiral Dannet was like falling into an ice cave for a while, completely desperate. In fact, his breakthrough to the north has already decided the fate of the Anglo-Burmese army, but he hopes that the Anglo-Burmese army will be wiped out by the Chinese, because it can not only cause certain casualties on the Chinese side, but also consume a large amount of materials on the Chinese side. However, the huge casualties and the bad situation made the Anglo-Burmese army unstable, and this hidden danger finally broke out at this moment.
The gunfire on all sides kept coming, and it became more and more dense, the British army in addition to the guard unit of the headquarters is the officers and soldiers of the artillery unit, and they could not resist the mutiny after becoming crazy Indian soldiers, those mutinous soldiers killed British officers, it is equivalent to no way back, the Indian uprising in the sixties of the 19th century, how many Indians did the British suppress and kill? Hard to count.
Olife shouted anxiously: "Come, take the commander and withdraw immediately." ”
Dannatt laughed miserably: "Go? Where else can you go? ”
Olivee gritted his teeth and said, "We enter the jungle, and as long as there is a glimmer of life, we must not give up. "At this time, they are even unable to surrender, surrender to the Chinese they may be able to save their lives, in fact, the British and Burmese military top brass is also so prepared, they are ready to surrender to the Chinese at the last moment, when the Indian soldiers are almost dead, but now this situation can never surrender, the already crazy Indian rebels will definitely not let them live."
Dannatt saw that Olivee was still so persistent, and immediately said: "Bring all the food you can bring." "A small number of soldiers can survive in the jungle with their wilderness survival skills, but it is not so easy when there are more people.
In an upheaval, the British forces of the Anglo-Burmese Army were finally forced to retreat into the jungle under the command of Admiral Dannatt, and thousands of British troops entered the vast forest sea (to be continued......