Chapter 492: The Eastern Conference

The Indian subcontinent has a long history, rich resources, vast land, and a large population, which is one of the few rich places in the world, but like the people of other tropical regions, the Indians are not martial, not good at war, and with the rise of Western colonial powers, India has completely become a colony of the British.

However, unlike the Chinese who hate colonial aggression, the Indians have a very complicated attitude towards the colonizers, on the one hand, they resent them for grabbing their land and wealth, and on the other hand, they are grateful for the unity that the colonizers gave them.

Of course, no matter how cowardly the nation is, there are outliers, and even if Chandra is the most capable of these outliers, just a year ago he received help from China, with a thousand capable soldiers in his hands, and a large amount of arms aid, Chandra began to fight against the British.

Chandra's initial activities were concentrated in northeastern India and northern Burma, which were backed by China and could get support nearby, coupled with the complex terrain and fierce people, it was a good guerrilla zone, Chandra hired a group of guerrilla warfare experts from China to guide the Indian army.

In the beginning, the army did not directly target the big cities, but began to operate against the vast rural areas, and after taking control of the rural areas, Chandra implemented two very radical reforms, the first was to completely abolish the caste system and make everyone equal, and the second was to divide the land equally, so that anyone could have a piece of land of their own.

The caste system is a chronic disease in India, under which society is artificially divided into different classes, various occupations are passed down from generation to generation, and society is unprecedentedly stable and dead, and Chandra's reforms have undoubtedly stirred up a thousand waves with one stone. It greatly shocked the people who had been paralyzed by religion.

Chandra quickly gained a large number of supporters. In particular, the lower classes of untouchables and middle-class walkers, who saw following Chandra as their only chance to change their fate, soon grew to tens of thousands, and the British colonial government quickly learned about the situation and organized two siege operations, but both were defeated by Chandra.

But Chandra was on his feet, but he was well aware. His influence was still very limited, and it was still too far from actually driving the British out of India.

At this time, the Changtian incident broke out, and the next day Chandra received a promise from China to provide them with a large number of arms and supplies, and to support Chandra to take stronger measures to deal a heavy blow to the British and Indian authorities.

After getting this information. Chandra was overjoyed and immediately decided to get the arms and marched on Guwahati, the largest city in the Indian state of Assam and the economic center of the entire northeastern part of India, which, if captured, would cut off India's ties with Burma and greatly weaken British control over all of South Asia. This is also what Chandra has been brewing all along. After receiving a batch of Chinese arms aid, Chandra's confidence grew unprecedentedly.

Follow the guidance of your Chinese advisor. Chandra's troops did not take the approach of assault directly, but selected fifty of the most elite warriors to form a caravan and first infiltrate Guwahati with a large number of specialties, and then join forces at night to occupy the whole of Guwahati.

After careful arrangement, everything went according to plan, the soldiers who had mixed in first violently attacked the command center of the defenders, disrupting the chain of command, and at this time Chandra's troops also rushed in, and after a whole night of fighting, Guwahati finally fell into Chandra's hands.

A total of 1,300 enemy troops were killed, including 70 British officers, the rest were native Indian soldiers, and the Chandra side also paid about 1,000 casualties, but the sacrifice was worth it, and they had successfully taken control of Guwahati.

Chandra also officially raised the banner of the Free Army of India, calling on all of India to rise up against the British colonizers and establish an independent Indian Republic!

The British know very well that China will definitely use the Changtian incident to exert pressure on the British, but the British did not expect that there would be a problem on the Indian side, and they also think that China relies on its maritime superiority to blockade Hong Kong, and then force Britain to retreat, this is a more normal way of thinking, who knows that China is acting more ruthlessly, and even attacking India, this is the lifeblood of the British!

India has a large number of anti-British organizations, but the scale is very limited, not so much an army for independence, but bandits, the British did not take it seriously at all, the British Empire has ruled the world for so many years, this kind of thing has been seen a lot, how do you know that this time the situation is completely different, the other side actually has the ability to occupy big cities, those stupid and stupid Indians absolutely do not have this ability, most of them are instigated and supported by China behind the scenes.

This move is indeed vicious, India is the core of the colonial order of the British Empire, once shaken, Britain's colonies all over the world will have problems, this situation has a precedent in history, when Britain spent considerable effort in response to the Indian national uprising.

Fortunately, the British Empire was in full swing and had sufficient strength to deal with it, and now the British Empire is hopelessly old and powerless, as the saying goes, the tiger does not hurt people, although the situation in Britain is not not hurtful, but there is not much strength to run thousands of miles away to hurt people.

What's even worse is that Britain's current finances are invested in the aircraft carrier project, after the Geneva Conference, Britain has been allocated a share of 170,000 tons of aircraft carriers, and it is still the world's first-class power, but the embarrassing financial situation of the British Empire no longer allows them to build ships unscrupulously.

But for the sake of the British Empire had to grit its teeth for the last face, in order to build aircraft carriers, Britain has cut a lot of expenditures to improve people's livelihood, and the British people are all complaining, in fact, don't look at the glory that the British have enjoyed for hundreds of years, the living standards of the British are not very high, because the energy required to maintain a huge colonial empire is also amazing.

The British really lived a good life after World War II, the country weakened, and there was no need to maintain a huge colony, and even the Americans had to help with national defense and security, so that Britain had the capital to improve people's livelihood, and the same was true for future generations, and the best life was not the Americans, but Northern Europe, a country known for its high welfare.

This is the helplessness of the hegemon. The British now have a big family. Naturally, there were flaws everywhere, Chandra's uprising greatly shocked the British government, and after the occupation of Guwahati, Chandra did not relax its offensive and continued to expand its power in Guwahati as the center.

He also proclaimed the Federal Republic of India and appointed himself President and Minister of Defence. For a time, the South Asian subcontinent was turbulent, and the mountains and rains were about to come, and the wind was full of buildings.

The Hong Kong issue is also continuing to ferment, and this time the wave of strikes by Hong Kong workers is far more violent than before, and in addition to the workers, businessmen and students have all joined in. It's as if the whole society has stopped.

Under pressure, the British government arrested the policeman who fired the gun and promised to compensate the dead and wounded, and the tension between China and Britain eased considerably.

After a heated debate between the plaintiff and the defendant, the judge finally announced the verdict. The soldier who fired the shot, though negligent. However, it is also faithful to duty and does not constitute the crime of intentional homicide. He was sentenced to only ten months' hard labour and a fine of one hundred pounds!

As soon as the results of this trial came out, the whole of Hong Kong, including China, was boiling, and the British government's cover-up intention was undoubtedly revealed, and this hand was played very beautifully; China originally exerted pressure on Britain through political means, but now the British have turned political problems into legal problems, and even if they are not satisfied, they can only solve the problem through endless court bargaining.

In this way, the embarrassing situation of the British government has been resolved, but obviously this is British wishful thinking, the so-called international law is just established by the West by virtue of its strength, and now that Britain has declined, it is simply playing with fire and self-immolation to lead China by this means.

Large-scale demonstrations continued in China's major cities, and Foreign Minister Gu Weijun personally held a press conference, Gu Weijun expressed his views on behalf of the Chinese government, and the British government in Hong Kong openly shielded a murderer and executioner, which shows that the British authorities have lost their basic morality and have completely become a disgrace to the civilized world, and Britain's behavior has completely destroyed the legal system they flaunt, and it has been proved that Britain is not a country with a legal system at all, but a hooligan!

Gu Weijun has always been known for being tough, and this time he made the same speech, directly calling the British government a hooligan, which shook the sky, and all the reporters clearly felt China's anger and wrote hard.

At the end of the press conference, Gu Weijun stressed that Britain must hand over the murderer to China, and then the Chinese court will try it, and return justice to the Chinese people.

As soon as Britain saw that its tricks were not successful, it attracted a greater backlash from China, and it also panicked, frequently demanding that the Chinese government respect the law, and also hinting that if the Chinese side is dissatisfied, it can appeal!

However, China did not want to have a fight with the British for a long time, and just a month after the outbreak of the Changtian incident, China and Japan announced that they would hold an Asian conference in Pyongyang to discuss the development and future of Asia!

This is another bombshell, most of the countries in Asia are now colonies, what is the future, how to develop, if you want to develop, you must overthrow colonial rule, there is no doubt that the purpose of China to convene this conference is to threaten the colonial rule of Britain.

China no longer cares about the gains and losses of Hong Kong alone, but looks at the whole of Asia, and if Britain is still obsessed, then the revolt in India will spread throughout Asia!

And Japan's involvement in it is even more unusual, not long ago there was a war between China and Japan, and now the two countries are united, and the changes are too interesting, and there are only eternal interests between countries, and there are no eternal friends.

After China issued an invitation, the Free Army of India in North Vietnam, Siam, Chandra, resistance organizations in Indonesia, Malaya and other places, and even representatives of the Middle East all issued statements expressing their participation in the meeting, and hoped that China and Japan could join hands to carry the banner of resistance against colonialism in Asia and completely realize the independence of Asian countries! (To be continued.) )