Olife looked at the captured front-line position, the corpses were in disarray, and the wreckage of more than twenty tanks was burning.

He came to a tank that had not burned and was destroyed to take a closer look, but saw that the tank's armor had many serious bumps and even a few large holes, and he couldn't help but gasp, which should be caused by more than 20 mm machine gun flat fire.

The firepower of the Chinese infantry far exceeded his estimates, and he attacked with seven or eight times the number of troops, and still paid a huge price of three to one, which made him shudder, knowing that this was still the situation when he had the advantage of heavy weapons.

"Report to the Chief of Staff, the Chinese are going to run." A staff officer ran over to report.

Olivee was taken aback, and hurriedly came to Gao Gao to look with a telescope, and sure enough, the Chinese side was retreating, and the Chinese army got the bodies of the wounded and fallen soldiers to the ship, and let the boat go upriver and leave, but the other troops retreated from the land, all the while, the Western army was deflated in the hands of the Chinese army, and it was rare to have such an opportunity to fight more and occupy an absolute advantage, and immediately shouted: "Order the troops to pursue immediately!" ”

However, at this time, a herald in the rear rode a horse and reported: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, the commander has an order to order the troops to stop the pursuit and retreat immediately." ”

"Withdraw? Fall back!? Olife was so shocked and furious that he almost thought he had misheard.

"Yes!"

Of course, Oliver knew that Dannatt had always been a mountain of military orders, and he didn't dare to disobey it, so he could only stare at the Chinese army in the distance unwillingly, and his eyes were almost about to spark.

He could not understand why, in such a situation where he was already absolutely superior. He actually let go of the Chinese army, he believes that even if the casualties are three times that of the Chinese side, then this rampant Chinese army should be killed at all costs.

"Why?" As soon as Oliver returned to Command, he asked Danner, yes, in a questioning tone.

Dannat looked at Olife for a long time, sighed and said, "All we need for this attack is a victory." ”

Olife was stunned and said, "General, didn't you say that you want to open a life passage for the retreating friendly troops?" But now the Chinese army has not been defeated, and they are retreating to the northeast. It will also intercept our retreating troops. Does such a victory make sense? ”

Dannatt shook his head and said, "Kid, do you think we really have what it takes to take on the rout?" No. The front line is hundreds of kilometers to us, and because of the heavy rains, the road is muddy, and it takes at least five days to walk. We can only walk on our feet. But the Chinese can transport troops by ship. Within three days. The Chinese can transport the second batch of troops over, do you think that with our current hundreds of thousands of troops with low morale, we can fight against the Chinese Defense Forces, armed to the teeth? ”

Olife was still reluctant to say: "But I can't let them go like this." ”

Dannatt sighed, "Let them go? Do you think the Chinese look like fools? They came by boat, and of course they could go by boat. But why did the Chinese army retreat by land? This made Olife thoughtful, Dannatt was slightly satisfied, nodded slightly, "Obviously, this Chinese army is luring the enemy, in the words of the Chinese, this is called 'luring the enemy deep', using this strategy, the next is generally to encircle or outflank the back road." ”

Oliver was instantly shocked into a cold sweat, thinking of the unpredictable and varied Chinese art of war, his heart was half cold, if it wasn't for Dannat to stop him, he was afraid that the consequences would be unimaginable. The most important thing is that once these three divisions are lost, then their already insufficient forces will be even more stretched.

Dannatt said: "At this time, we need to have an excellent reason, a reason to be supported by the vast majority of people, and a reason to be admired by our allies. But in reality, all we want is a victory, even if it is a small victory, to tell our soldiers with facts that we have defeated and repelled the Chinese, and the Chinese are not invincible. In this way, we can stabilize the morale of the army and give our soldiers the confidence to rely on natural hazards to hold this line of defense. ”

Olife said ashamedly: "Thank you for the general's teachings. ”

Dannert nodded, "You're still young, you need to learn." What I just said was only of military significance, and although it was only a small victory, and a disastrous victory that cost several times more, it had great political significance for the Empire. If I guess correctly, as soon as this victory is transmitted back to Europe, it will soon be spread throughout the Western world, and the media will say that the defeat of the second battle of Assam is entirely due to the despicable conspiracy of the Chinese, in fact, the Chinese are not as strong as they imagined. And then use this victory to tell people, look, we can defeat the Chinese, isn't this already defeated? Of course, the report may say that we have only one division or less, and our casualty reports will be small, and the casualties of the Chinese will be exaggerated. Even if governments know it, they will not debunk it, because we need to stabilize the hearts and minds of the military and the people, and the entire Western world will also see it, hoping to use our current natural defense line to block the Chinese, and if we block the Chinese, we will keep India, understand? ”

"Thank you, General." The corners of Olive's mouth were full of bitterness, India was known as the "jewel in the crown of the British Queen", this was not just a huge colony, but a symbol, a symbol of British power. Keeping India is tantamount to preserving Britain's international standing, even if it is shaky.

China's army is too much, and its combat effectiveness is too strong, and if Britain alone is afraid that it will be difficult to contend with it, so Britain needs help, and needs to fool into some cannon fodder.

The Art of War: The soldiers are fast.

The Assam Division of the Chinese South Asian Front used the "Gonggong Plan" to destroy the Assam Front, a Western coalition army, and immediately transported the most elite First Army down the river, landed in Guwahati, and quickly interspersed with Shillong, heading straight for East Bengal.

Although the Western coalition forces have arranged troops to garrison logistics supply lines, from the previous situation, East Bengal is already a safe rear, and the only things that need to be guarded against are bandits and some indigenous monkeys hiding in the jungle, as well as possible airborne troops from the Chinese side. However, the number of airborne troops is not large, and even if they are attacked, they can quickly mobilize troops to encircle and suppress them. For this reason, there were not many troops stationed in the rear node, and several important supply depots were only the defenders of a regiment.

How can a regiment withstand the attack of the entire Chinese army? They were quickly annihilated or forced to land.

After receiving that damn telegram, Xia Fei ordered the troops to retreat overnight, but before they could retreat to southern Burma, the retreat route in East Bengal had already been cut off by the Chinese side.

The hundreds of thousands of Chinese defense forces in northern Burma have also pressed south, and even the open sea of Yangon has seen a huge Chinese fleet.

In just two or three days, Xia Fei seemed to be more than ten years old, a majestic, hot-blooded, and confident veteran became like an old man who was about to walk on the wood, and the wind and candle were in his last years.

The roar of an airplane engine was heard in the sky, followed by leaflets falling from the sky.

Xia Fei saw these flyers, and he didn't move. And his chief of staff, Lake, quickly brought a few leaflets, and his face was extremely ugly.

Xia Fei said: "What do the Chinese write on it?" ”

Lake said bitterly: "The Chinese have publicized their victory on the Asami side, saying that we have no reinforcements to meet the breakthrough, we are surrounded by millions of Chinese troops, and even at sea there is the main fleet of the Chinese, and we have no way to escape." And"

Seeing him hesitate, Xia Fei said lightly, "Go on." ”

Lake gritted his teeth and said, "And the Chinese know that we are almost out of food." They demanded that we surrender as soon as possible, otherwise"

Xia Fei's face twitched, and he said decadently: "Go on, I can bear it." ”

Lake said gloomily: "They said that if it is late, even if we have already surrendered, we may not have time to transport food to save our soldiers, because we have too many people, nearly a million." ”

"Too much deception!" Xia Fei almost screamed, snatched the leaflet from Lake's hand, the more he looked at it, the more ugly his face became, and soon he tore the leaflet to shreds in anger, "Since the Chinese know that we have an army of nearly one million, aren't they afraid that we will die and break the net?" I don't believe you can't break through. ”

Lake said bitterly: "General, the Chinese also have more than a million troops on the Assam side, and it will take at least three days for our troops to reach East Bengal to launch an attack, so we will only have enough food for three or four days to eat." ”

Xia Fei said viciously: "No! It is true that the Chinese have more than a million troops on the Assam side, but Assam experienced super floods and the roads were blocked by silt. Although I know that the Chinese have prepared a lot of transport ships, the ships are limited, the troops they can project are also limited, and it is impossible for them to carry heavy weapons in such a quick outflanking. The ships went down the river very quickly, and it may not take a day to transport hundreds of thousands of troops to Guwahati, but if this group of ships wants to return to transport troops again, it will need to go upstream, and the time spent is multiplied, so this time the Chinese group has more time to transport two group armies. We beat 300,000 with 1 million, can't we beat it? ”

Lake immediately said: "Then I will immediately arrange for the troops to break through to the west." ”

"Go ahead!" Xia Fei waved his hand heavily.

In fact, both Xia Fei and Lake knew that in fact, the probability of breaking through was too low and too low, and the strength was not calculated as just said. Once they launch a breakthrough to the west, then there is no doubt that the hundreds of thousands of Chinese defense forces pressed from northern Burma will launch a fierce attack on them, and if they abandon the Salween defense line, the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops east of the Salween will also join the siege, and they will face a three-sided attack, where is it possible to concentrate all their forces to attack west?

It's just that they really can't bear this breath and can't afford to lose that face. (To be continued......)