Chapter 68: The Capture of Bengal

The Defence Forces (NDF) leaving Bhutan soon entered the Bengal region, and the IDF drove towards Dhaka as if it were no one. There are more than 3,000 British troops stationed in Bangladesh, but they were pulled by Smith as reinforcements before, so now only Dhaka in Bangladesh has 5,000 British troops and 50,000 Australian servant troops that have just been urgently transported from Australia, and 50,000 Australian servant troops have not been transported, and 200,000 servant troops transferred from India have arrived in Dhaka.

As for why the British army will station troops in Dhaka is because the Wehrmacht appeared in Bhutan, and the British felt that China would attack the Bengal region, so they kept mobilizing troops to Dhaka just in case.

In order to counterattack, the British forcibly ordered the British army that had just fled back and the 100,000 colonial troops in Burma to intercept and kill the Wehrmacht. While the Wehrmacht was marching towards Dhaka, the British army in Burma with his servant army was also on their way to Dhaka, and they received orders to go to Dhaka to combine with reinforcements from Australia, and then concentrate on attacking the Chinese army.

Smith had the most experience in fighting in Tibet and China, so the British continued to let him lead the rest of the battle, and if he failed again this time, he would have to be court-martialed.

Although the Wehrmacht did not encounter any resistance along the way, the speed of the march was not fast, because the logistics could not keep up, and many soldiers in a foreign country were a little unaccustomed, so the Wehrmacht was not very fast.

Along the way, the Wehrmacht also met a lot of Indian people, they looked at these numb expressions as if they saw themselves at the beginning, if it weren't for the Chinese government, they are no different from these Indian people now, let alone defeat the powerful British army, they are also very proud to think of this.

Due to the flat terrain in Bangladesh, the IDF marched in good condition, and during this time they also found a Chinese who had lived in Bangladesh for decades, and this Chinese temporarily acted as their interpreter and guide. After three days of marching, the Wehrmacht finally reached the vicinity of Dhaka, and the British troops in Dhaka also discovered the arrival of the Wehrmacht, and they urgently asked for help from the British troops who were rushing from Burma while arranging the battlefield.

Although there are more than 200,000 British troops in Dhaka, the real British army is only more than 5,000, and the rest are incompletely armed servant armies, the number of servant armies is too many, and the British weapons in Asia simply cannot meet these servant armies, and there are less than 100,000 real weapons, and they are backward guns and ammunition, and their logistical weapons supply is also insufficient, so the British army in Dhaka does not dare to attack, and can only passively defend.

Smith, who had just passed Agartala, suddenly received a telegram from Dhaka asking for help, he couldn't imagine that Huaxia's army would arrive in Dhaka so quickly, and now how could he want to go to Dhaka, he thought that Dhaka would definitely not be able to defend under the attack of Huaxia's demonic weapons and airships, and he might be sent to death if he went. Smith received a telegram from Dhaka a while later saying that the so-called iron box had not been found, so Smith told them to hold on, and reinforcements soon arrived.

After the Wehrmacht arrived in Dhaka, they launched an attack, and the airship fleet flew towards the city of Dhaka with a large amount of explosives, and the British troops in Dhaka were panicked when they saw these airships, before they were told that the Chinese army had airships, and they didn't believe it, but now after seeing it, they finally knew how the British army in Tibet was defeated so quickly, and the demon weapon must be true. When the British army in Dhaka saw the airship, they immediately began to dodge, and asked those servant troops to find a place to hide, but those servant troops had never seen the airship and looked at the airship in a daze, only some of the servant troops went to find a place to hide.

The airship fleet flew over Dhaka and immediately dropped bombs, bombs exploded in Dhaka, all kinds of buildings were blown up, many of those stunned servants were blown up to the point that only stumps and legs remained, and the whole of Dhaka was in chaos, both civilians and those servants were looking for a place to hide from the bombardment of airships.

The airship fleet was closed after two full bombardments in Dhaka, and the defensive positions outside were also blown into a mess, a large number of servant troops were killed, and the British had little to lose because they had found a place to hide beforehand.

The Wehrmacht began a fierce attack immediately after the airship fleet flew out of Dhaka, the British army was defeated under the Wehrmacht attack, they still drove the servant army to be cannon fodder as always, their artillery was killed after the Wehrmacht bombed Dhaka, without artillery they suffered heavy casualties under the shelling of the Wehrmacht artillery, and in just two hours the British army began to appear in a complete rout, just when the Wehrmacht wanted to attack further, Smith arrived in Dhaka with reinforcements.

The British reinforcements who rushed to Dhaka immediately launched a fierce attack on the Wehrmacht, and the Wehrmacht did not expect the British reinforcements to come so quickly, which made the Wehrmacht very passive, and in order to reduce losses, Cai Ye ordered a retreat as a last resort.

The Wehrmacht fought with the British and retreated, and even then the British did not dare to pursue the Wehrmacht, because they were also very tired now, and they rushed here non-stop in order to rescue Dhaka, and after arriving in Dhaka, they began to fight with the Chinese army without resting, so now they do not pursue the Chinese army.

The Wehrmacht retreated from Dhaka to Donji, where they were setting up and resting, while Smith and his men were cleaning up the battlefield.

Smith was very happy to see that the Wehrmacht really didn't have that demonic weapon, and without that terrifying weapon, he believed that he would be able to hold on to Dhaka until reinforcements arrived. This time, the Wehrmacht did not bring tanks because of Bhutan's terrain and fuel problems, so they had to rely on airships and infantry to fight the British, and the result was that the progress of the battle was very slow.

Immediately after the soldiers had rested, Smith ordered the soldiers to dig underground warehouses to store ammunition, and the trenches were rebuilt, and the role of the servant army finally showed their value in this kind of hard work, and the trenches and underground warehouses were dug very smoothly and were completed in only one night.

The next day, the Wehrmacht began to attack Dhaka fiercely again, Cai Ye used a new tactic this time, he knew that yesterday's reinforcements were just escaped from Tibet Smith knew that the British army must have been prepared to prevent airships, so he wanted to use the bombardment of airships and artillery to suppress the British army, and then the Wehrmacht divided into three parts of the left, center and right to attack, so that the soldiers could try their best to call the bullets to the British army, and use grenades to scare the servant army away.

This time, the airship fleet did not go to the central bombing of Dhaka, they rushed towards the trenches dug by the British army, bombed the exposed military buildings when they saw them, and also focused on bombing those strategic commanding heights, and flattened many trenches. The British ran to hide when they saw the airship coming, and those servant troops were told by the British army before that they would hide when they saw the airship, and they would also find a place to hide from the bombing of the airship.

The airship fleet did not leave after the bombing, but circled over Dhaka, and the British troops on the ground did not dare to stand up when they saw that the airships had not left, and the Wehrmacht slowly approached the British positions.

Smith, who was in the center of Dhaka, was very puzzled when he saw that the airship did not leave after the bombardment, and finally he took out his binoculars and stood in a place where he wanted to look at the trench in front of him at the risk of being discovered, and he was frightened by the fact that a large number of Wehrmacht troops were quietly approaching the position in front, which was already less than a thousand meters away from the position, and the Imperial soldiers in the trenches did not even notice the airship still hiding in the air.

Smith saw that the trench in front of him was approaching by the Chinese army, and he immediately shelled the Chinese soldiers who were approaching the trench without caring about the danger of the artillery being discovered.

"Boom ......"

"Boom ......"

British shells continued to fall in front of the position, and many advancing Wehrmacht troops were blown away, but the pace of the Wehrmacht did not stop, they continued to dodge the shells and quickly rushed to the British position. The airships in the air saw where the British artillery was located and immediately flew there to bomb.

The British troops in the trenches stood up and watched after hearing the sound of artillery, and after seeing that the Chinese soldiers were approaching them, they did not care about the airships in the air and launched an attack on the Wehrmacht, and the Wehrmacht saw the British army's face after speeding up to the land, because the bombardment of the airship exposed many gaps in the position, the British army drove the servant army to fill the gap, and the servant army went to block the attack of the Wehrmacht.

When the Wehrmacht saw the servants coming out, they immediately blew them up with grenades, and when they saw the power of the grenades, the servants dodged as soon as they saw the Wehrmacht pull out the grenades. When Cai Ye saw that his soldiers were discovered, he immediately asked the artillery to suppress the British army, and the airship in the air had already flown to the British artillery at this time and began to drop bombs, and the British artillery was blown up after a while.

With the help of artillery, the Wehrmacht was immediately relieved, and they soon rushed to the British positions to engage in melee combat with the British, while the servants were under the watchful eye of the Wehrmacht artillery, and the servants were soon made to flee in all directions by the artillery.

Smith didn't dare to let the artillery fire after seeing that the artillery was blown up by the airship, and when he saw that the position in front had been captured by the Wehrmacht, he asked the soldiers to prepare to retreat, he knew that after the front line was broken, there was basically no hope for this war, and there were those airships in the sky, he didn't know how much explosives were still on the airships, but it was definitely enough to blow up his artillery.

The Wehrmacht soon took the entire British front, and the Wehrmacht, who had taken the line, immediately rushed towards the British in the center of Dhaka, and the Wehrmacht artillery shelled the British as usual.

Smith asked the British army to drive all the servant troops to fight the Wehrmacht, and let the British army also retreat while fighting, Smith also asked the logistics troops to withdraw one after another, and he planned to retreat to India, he thought that the Chinese army would definitely open the road from Yunnan to Bengal, so Myitkyina would definitely be attacked by the Chinese army, and he didn't want to die.

A few hours later, the British army began to retreat on a large scale, and the Wehrmacht pursued the retreating British army while attacking the servant army, and soon the Wehrmacht conquered Dhaka, and the British servant army surrendered in large numbers, and the British army was able to escape the pursuit of the Wehrmacht with less than 20,000 British troops.

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