The sunset is tilted, and the remnant sun is like blood.

The long march was littered with craters left by bombardment, stumps and broken arms everywhere, countless wounded people were struggling and wailing, blood soaked the earth, and the blood stained on the rocks and trees dried up and turned dark reddish-brown.

Xia Fei breathed the air that was still filled with gunsmoke and blood, feeling that all he was inhaling was poisonous gas, every breath was draining his life, and every sight he saw made the despair in his heart more complete.

The model of modern warfare has exceeded his imagination, and in the absence of air supremacy, even marching is a luxury. Even if he had an army of millions, it would be like a naked slaughter in the face of such an air strike.

The situation has become extremely obvious, and the Chinese are not prepared to let them escape from this encirclement, let alone give them a chance to go back. In addition to the bombing, the leaflets in the sky did not stop being spilled. The Chinese are using aerial massacres on the ground to nakedly prove that their team cannot go back in the first place, and their long journey home is a road of death.

"We can't go back, let's surrender."

"Damn, we can die on the battlefield, but I can't tolerate such a massacre."

"Yes, if we go on like this, we will not even make it to Bengal, and we will have to die halfway first. Our Luxembourg regiment of more than 50,000 people was bombed and strafed by more than 200 Chinese planes, and lost half of them."

Facing the commanders of the various troops, Olivee tried his best to reassure them, and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, I can understand your feelings very well. But many of our troops surrendered without firing a shot, are you willing? The generals are all outstanding generals of their respective countries, did we come from thousands of miles to surrender to the Chinese? Can you endure such a shame? ”

"It's better to surrender than to die! We have nothing to do, the elite units of the Chinese have arrived in East Bengal, and they have set up countless machine guns and artillery waiting for us to die. ”

"Under the bombardment of Chinese aircraft with thousands or even tens of thousands of sorties a day (the number of sorties and how many planes are different concepts), no matter how we march, we will not be able to walk in the first place."

"Yes, it has not yet reached the line of defense of the Chinese, not to be killed by the Chinese's planes. will also be starved to death. ”

Xia Fei heard these chaotic voices. Finally, I couldn't help yelling, "Shut up for me." Xia Fei has a very high prestige in the military circles in the West, and he was so angry that he quieted down the scene, since there are many people who are dissatisfied. But there is still no face to refute Xia Fei. Looking at Xia Fei, who has become old and abnormal, but now he is like an angry lion. Let everyone also have mixed feelings.

Xia Fei saw that it was quiet. His expression eased slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Guys, why do the Chinese run so many planes to prevent us from moving towards Bangladesh?" Because they're scared. Even if China sent troops to set up a blocking line in East Bengal, they didn't think they could stop our attack. I also ask you to believe me, I will definitely be able to take you out of this damned place, and when the time comes, we will kill you back and teach the damned Chinese a hard lesson. ”

"General Xia Fei, did you just leave under the bombing of Chinese planes and machine gun fire? Then I ask how many of us will make it back alive. ”

Xia Fei said solemnly: "I admit that because I did not imagine that the Chinese would launch such a terrible air attack, we suffered heavy losses, but this situation will never happen again." From now on, we will move to a rapid march at night and rest during the day. ”

"A night march?"

"It seems like a good idea, it's dark at night, and the planes can't carry out precision bombing." For a while, many officers were talking about it.

Xia Fei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, not only could not bomb accurately at night, but more importantly, the plane could not dive and strafe, in case the plane failed to pull up in time, he was afraid that it would directly hit the ground and the plane would be destroyed and killed. But the daily march will only last ten hours at most, or even less, and only these hours will be under the cover of darkness, so that the speed of their march will be greatly slowed down, and it will be absolutely impossible to arrive and attack the Chinese Bengal defense line for at least three days.

The two armies faced each other, and every decision made by the commanders of both sides was a contest.

In such a large-scale battle between the Chinese and Western coalition forces, neither side knows how many reconnaissance scouts it has sent, and for this reason, some large-scale military movements of both sides cannot be concealed from each other in every major war.

The Xiafei Department of the Western Coalition Army's behavior of changing to a rapid march at night with full force soon appeared on the desk of the South Asian Front Command, and also appeared in Li Bufan's hands.

"A night march?"

Li Bufan frowned, it was obviously unrealistic to send planes to deal with them at night, China's industrial capacity was limited, and it was impossible for aerial bombs to carry out wasteful bombing at night like this. The weakness of China's heavy industry and manufacturing industry has caused too many troubles for Li Bufan, and the other party has done so, so that his plan to make the enemy's heavy losses on the road basically aborted.

Li Songshan said in a deep voice: "Commander-in-chief, in fact, there is no way to deal with them. ”

"Oh?" Li Bufan looked at Li Songshan in surprise, he really wanted to know what way to deal with the other party's trick.

Li Songshan smiled: "It's actually very simple. Don't we have airborne troops? We can completely parachute troops into this area, they march at night, then our airborne troops will launch a night attack on them, I see how they can go. ”

"What a good idea, the commander's move is simply a stroke of genius." Zhang Xiaozhun also suddenly brightened up, and his restrained thoughts suddenly opened, but then he frowned again and said, "It's just that our airborne troops are only one regiment so far, if the other side attacks desperately, it is impossible to stop it, we should invest more troops in battle." ”

Li Bufan also thought a lot at this moment, he also remembered some of the war history told by Wu Di and him, and smiled at the moment: "One regiment is not enough, we can let other armies forcibly parachute, isn't it the same for paratroopers to parachute for the first time?" Moreover, our purpose is only to delay their actions, not to fight them. We can not only ambush, but also lay mines. If this road is full of mines, I see how they march. ”

Zhang Xiaozhun frowned and said, "But we don't have so many mines." ”

Li Songshan said: "Don't worry about it. We don't have enough mines, they can be modified with shells, and it's not too difficult. The foreign devils sent us so many shells, and we asked the artillery side to calculate, and the shell preparation exceeded the wear and tear of the barrel, which means that we have destroyed all the barrels of these cannons, and there will be a lot of shells of different specifications left. Our artillery production capacity is already very low, and we have to change the barrel specifications, not to mention the production of abrasives, just the adjustment of the 10,000-ton hydraulic press, which can not be completed in ten days and half a month. This will greatly affect our already small artillery production capacity. In my opinion, it is a double benefit to use the excess shells on this. ”

Li Bufan nodded and said, "Very good." Then it's decided. After a pause, he said, "But it can't prevent this group of Western barbarians from advancing regardless of casualties." In this way, let the advance force arriving in East Bengal quickly repair the airfield, and ask for specifications that can accommodate bomber landing. ”

Li Songshan said thoughtfully: "What does the commander-in-chief mean is that he is ready to put the air force on the front line to cooperate in the operation?" ”

Li Bufan nodded and shook his head and said, "Not only that, but at the same time, I want to use the plane to airlift the disassembled artillery to the front line." Now that the roads are destroyed, we now have no other way to put heavy weapons on the front line, and although Xia Fei's troops are quickly withdrawn, they have no choice but to destroy the artillery in order to prevent it from falling into our hands. However, the British army in India was preparing to meet the retreat of Xia Fei, and our 'Gonggong Plan' was forced to be launched in advance, and they had a group of artillery stranded there, but they could quickly put into battle, and they had to be guarded against. ”

Zhang Xiaozhun said: "The commander-in-chief is wise. Our troops quickly interspersed, at most they can carry all kinds of portable mortars, at most 105 mm mortars, even 150 mm mortars have to be abandoned because they are too heavy. If the British do attack, and they put hundreds of artillery pieces into battle, we are afraid that the troops who will stop them will suffer heavy casualties. ”

While they were talking, suddenly a staff officer knocked on the door of the conference room and sent an urgent report: "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, Chief of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense urgently telegraphed." ”

Zhang Xiaozhun took the telegram, sent the staff officer out of the conference room, and quickly scanned the telegram, his face quickly became gloomy.

Li Bufan saw Zhang Xiaozhun's cloudy face at that moment, and couldn't help but say, "What do you say?" ”

Brigadier General Zhang Xiao sent a telegram and said: "We have received information that a large number of planes from the West are constantly flying from Europe to the East, and they are constantly flying from various airports, the specific number is unknown, but it is estimated that there are several thousand. At the same time, the coalition Indian Ocean Combined Fleet, consisting mainly of the US Atlantic Fleet, is advancing across Sri Lanka towards the Bay of Bengal. There is also the Congress Party that seems to have fully flipped to the British, and the hundreds of thousands of garrisons they had organized to assist the British army in maintaining order are likely to cooperate with the British army, and even some of the Indian anti-colonial forces have been persuaded by the Congress Party's Gandhi, which are mainly Hindustani. ”

Li Bufan looked at the telegram, nodded slightly, and quickly gave the telegram to Li Songshan, and then sneered: "The British have raised this dog well, and they are quite obedient." This is the case in India, the British threw out a bone and immediately rushed to lick it. Hindustani, good, good. ”

Li Songshan read the telegram and said with a sigh: "It seems that the British are ready to fight with us in East Bengal." Fortunately, the Hindustani, who make up half of India's population and are the main target of the British, are the core of oppression for other ethnic groups. ”

"Battle of East Bengal?" Li Bufan frowned deeply (to be continued......)

PS: I wish you all a great belation, and I wish you all a happy Lantern Festival. Yesterday there was something.,Overnight code word to three o'clock to ensure regular updates.,I hope you understand.。