Chapter 55: The Battle of the Canyon Heights

After the army arrived in the Nyingchi area, Cai Yi ordered to reorganize and rest for a day, because the logistics were less than half now, and the soldiers should be very tired, not only to guard against the rebels but also to pay attention to those terrifying terrain and wolves.

After receiving domestic orders, the Indian governor Minto brought the army that had already been prepared into Tibet in one fell swoop, and they still wanted to advance in Tibet without sufficient logistics, and the speed was not usually fast.

In fact, the Indian Governor Minto has long been disgusted with life in India, he wants to take this as an opportunity for him to return to China, he has been planning this plan, as long as he defeats the stupid Chinese army and makes Tibet independent, he will become a great hero of the empire, and when the time comes, he will definitely be knighted or something, and he can leave India and return to China to enjoy life.

After receiving the British order to march into Tibet, Germany immediately jumped out and said that Britain had the audacity to meddle in the internal affairs of other countries, and also said that the Chinese government was a good friend of Germany, and Germany would give the Chinese government the best support when necessary, including the most advanced warships and weapons.

Although Russia is an ally of Britain, it does not want Britain to obtain Tibet, Russia also covets Tibet very much, it also wants to make Tibet independent and then become its own territory, Russia is now staring at Outer Mongolia and has no energy to fight for Tibet with Britain, and the British ambassador to Russia once agreed on behalf of Britain and the Tsar that the two countries will decide who Tibet belongs to after Tibet becomes independent, and now the Chinese government will be brought down first, and the Tsar reluctantly agreed.

The Japanese had already anticipated the British action, so they were now urging the Ma Jiajun to attack the Wehrmacht in the northwest, but the Ma Jiajun postponed it on the grounds that the time was not yet ripe.

Regarding the news that Britain sent troops to Tibet, Qin Yu asked Foreign Minister Wu Yanfang to protest against the British hooliganism and let the British withdraw their troops, because Tibet is the territory of China, Qin Yu also announced to the whole country that the British army would send troops to Tibet, and the Wehrmacht would fight to the death with the British army.

As soon as these news came out, the whole country was shocked, and I originally thought that Britain was just scaring the Chinese government, but I didn't expect it to be true, which made two voices appear in the country, one is to sing praises to the Chinese government mainly from students and the new generation of capitalists, believing that it is necessary to fight a decisive battle with Britain, and China will win; The other is that the former Qing Xiucai and those old people mainly think that Britain is too strong, and Huaxia is not Britain's opponent at all, and the Huaxia government is bringing Huaxia into the abyss of war, which will ruin the achievements of Huaxia over the years, and their thinking is still stuck in the Manchu Qing period.

Qin Yu resolutely put more manpower and material resources into this war, this war must be won, and he wants people all over the world to know about his rise.

The Southwest Army continued to set off after resting in the Nyingchi area, and then they went south and then kept advancing along the Brahmaputra River, and they reached the Shannan area without encountering any obstacles along the way, and the Southwest Army eliminated more than 5,000 rebels on the way, as for why there were no rebels along the way, it was because the Dalai Lama concentrated his troops in Tibet, and the Southwest Army still had about 190,000 troops.

In the Shannan region, the Southwest Army encountered a rebel army of 10,000 men, where there was a narrow canyon with only one entrance and the kind that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the 10,000 rebels were stationed on the high ground of the canyon.

The rebels relied on the high canyon terrain to attack the southwest army, this terrain was invincible, and if they wanted to break through the rebels in front, they could only blindly rush forward.

After seeing it, Cai asked the artillery to bombard the canyon heights, hoping to blast out a gap in the heights, but the artillery shelling did not play a great role in the big rocks on the canyon heights, but only blew the rocks out of pits, and there were stone slabs made of huge rocks on the highlands to cover the rebels.

Cai Ye saw that the shelling was useless to this high ground and quickly stopped the shelling, he looked at the high ground carefully, but he did not find any shortcomings, and in the end he could only carry out a strong attack to test it.

The 10,000 soldiers of the Southwest Army continued to rush towards the high ground, and the soldiers continued to advance rapidly along the way, shooting at the enemy while dodging bullets, but their shooting was no threat to the rebels on the high ground, and the bullets of the rebels continued to shoot into the bodies of the soldiers of the Southwest Army, the soldiers of the Southwest Army were constantly knocked down, and the 10,000 troops lost 3,000 people in less than three hours.

Cai Yi's face was very ugly, he didn't expect this highland to be so difficult to attack, if he didn't capture this highland, it would affect the entire battle situation, but the loss after the capture was too big would also affect the plan this time.

In order to solve the problem quickly, Cai Ye went to attack the canyon heights again the next day, this time Cai Yi used the nearby trees to make a large shield for the soldiers to advance with several people, it was obvious that the shield method was successful, and it took less than a hundred casualties for the southwest army to rush to the bottom of the canyon heights, and they excitedly attacked the rebels on the heights, and the rebels on the heights were hit from time to time and fell from above, and the rebels also used the high terrain to fight back.

Some soldiers of the Southwest Army took out grenades and threw them on the high ground, and the rebels on the high ground did not care very much when they saw the smoking things, and some even picked them up to look at them, but the rebel soldiers with grenades were blown apart with a 'boom', and the nearby rebels were also involved in the explosion, and blood and flesh were immediately scattered. Explosions rang out one after another, and there were bursts of miserable wails from the high ground, these grenades completely frightened the rebels, many of the rebels were stunned, and soon the loud shouts of the rebel officers made these stunned soldiers continue to attack the southwest army below. The officers of the rebels quickly thought of a way to deal with the Southwestern Army.

I saw that a large number of rebels threw down one big stone after another, and the rebels also used the artillery used to suppress the Southwest Army behind to bombard the soldiers of the Southwest Army who were close in front of them, which caused a large number of casualties to the Southwest Army, and Cai Ye reluctantly withdrew again.

The Second Southwest Army lost 2,000 men again, which made Cai Ye even more angry, he couldn't imagine that the powerful Wehrmacht would suffer such a big blow in such a small place, and at the same time, the morale of the soldiers was also very poor.

Just when Cai Ye was distressed again, his adjutant told him a good news that made all his distress dissipate, because in order to win this war, Qin Yuyu let the air force drive some of the airships that were originally used to train the air force to help the Southwest Army solve the difficult terrain.

The airship was the LZ-38 Zeppelin produced by Germany in the later generations, and Qin Yu only built ten airships, and this time he sent seven airships. LZ-38 Zeppelin:

Length: 163.37 m 02

02020202 diameter: 18.59 m

Volume: 33,780 cubic meters

02 engines: 4 x 210 hp Maybach engines 0202020202

Speed: 96km/h02.

The arrival of these airships not only carried a large amount of supplies, but also loaded a large number of bombs, all of which were large bombs of more than a hundred catties, so Cai Ye was very happy, because with the airship Canyon Heights, it would soon be taken.

The day after the airship arrived, Cai immediately ordered the air force to bomb the canyon heights and blast out the rebels in the canyon heights. The airship fleet quickly rose into the air and advanced towards the highlands, and in the canyon heights, the rebels saw that there were several large things flying in the direction of the southwest army, and the rebels did not see the airships and thought that it was the arrival of the gods, and they all knelt down and bowed down, and the airship fleet in the sky saw it and said that the rebels were a group of dirt buns, and they even knelt down and bowed down without even seeing the airships, which was really ignorant.

The airship that flew over the high ground of the canyon immediately dropped bombs against the rebels kneeling below, and soon the rebels saw that something had fallen, and they even tried to hold it, but the boom blew up hundreds of people nearby, and there was a big crater on the ground. There were more and more black spots in the sky, and the rumbling sound on the high ground was endless, and the rebels were stunned for a while, how did the gods attack them, and some smart ones ran to dodge, leaving only those stunned rebels.

Soon the rebels realized that it was a bomb and not a god, but it was too late, a large number of shells dealt with more than half of the rebels, and while the rebels were still confused, the Southwestern Army carried out a fierce attack, and because there was no resistance, they quickly rushed to the high ground, and the rebels above either surrendered or were shot.

This time, the Southwest Army only lost less than 500 people to solve the canyon heights, and thanks to the help of airships, otherwise the casualties would have been more than so few.

Due to the heavy losses in the Battle of the Canyon Heights, Cai asked the Southwest Army to pause for a day in the Canyon Heights, mainly to clean up the battlefield and put up the sacrificed soldiers, and then leave some soldiers to wait for the government to send someone to transport the bodies back to the martyrs' cemetery in Nanjing, and to confirm the names of these sacrificed soldiers so that they can be engraved on the monument in Nanjing.

A day later, Cai continued to advance in the direction of Lhasa with the southwestern army, and the British army finally entered Tibet, and they reached the vicinity of Gangba.

The Dalai Lama began to be anxious after knowing that the Wehrmacht had already arrived in the Shannan area and had broken through the valley and high ground, and the British army was ready to arrive before the Wehrmacht arrived, and he was ready to flee for his life, and the less than 30,000 troops in Lhasa were no match for the Wehrmacht, so he urgently urged the British army to march quickly.

Minto threw away the letter with disdain after receiving the Dalai Lama's urgent letter for help, in his opinion, it is better to let the Tibetan soldiers lose a little more, otherwise Tibet will not obediently obey, he is very disdainful of the Chinese government, or he dares to provoke our British Empire after defeating a million garbage, it is simply looking for death.

Minto is actually a military idiot, he doesn't know the real combat power of the Wehrmacht, and he attacked before his own logistics arrived, I really don't know how he became the governor of India.