Chapter 1204: The Final Battle
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"Commander, there are a lot of Indian Ah San who have surrendered to us! Those Indian Asans basically surrendered to us in rows! It's just that we accept the surrender of India on a large scale, which seems to conflict with His Majesty's will! Lieutenant General Wu Yanfa, chief of staff of the first cluster, said with some concern. (May Chinese.com 5.com) Although accepting the surrender of India's Ah San will help reduce the pressure on the Chinese army, if it arouses the dissatisfaction of His Majesty the Emperor, then the future of the two of them may be worrying!
"The Anglo-Indian army has amassed millions of troops in Punjab, and if we do not accept the surrender of these Indian Asan, if they resist desperately, even if we can win, I am afraid that in the end we will suffer heavy losses! Moreover, our acceptance of the surrender of these Indian Asans does not mean that we will let them go! We are very logistically stressed, and we can use these Indian asan to transport supplies for us. In addition, let the Japanese mercenaries take care of these Indian Ahsan, with the ferocious nature of the Japanese, it is difficult to say how many Indian Ahsans will be left in the end! As for the blame of Majesty, I believe that Majesty will definitely understand what we are doing! Admiral Yang Guoxing said. The second group was in the Bengal plain, and the third group was in Calcutta against the British and Indian troops, both of which adopted a total strategy of killing the Indian army, which of course could reduce the number of Indians as much as possible and facilitate the future migration of Chinese to India. But again, it is easy to provoke a revolt among Indians. Although, with the strength of China, it does not care about the resistance of the Indians. Even though India has a population of 300 million. But if China is determined to kill all these Indians. I'm afraid that the Indians will end up extinct too! However, now in the midst of the war, the Chinese army has not yet won a complete victory in the North American battlefield, and the European battlefield will also begin next year. In such a situation. China cannot afford to invest too many troops in the Indian theater! Admiral Yang Guoxing believes that the Imperial Emperor Wang Yuze needs the outcome of the war situation in northern India, and does not care about the process. How to be more beneficial to the battle situation, he believes that Wang Yuze knows!
"Hmmm! Let those Japanese take care of the Indian Ahsan, I'm afraid that after the war is over, there won't be much left of those Indian Ahsan! Lieutenant General Wu Yanfa said. Now that Admiral Yang Guoxing has made up his mind, he can't continue to say anything! Even if he was still a little worried in his heart, he could only hope that the wise and martial emperor His Majesty would be able to see the situation and understand their good intentions!
After the Chinese Army began to accept the surrender of Indian Ahsan on a large scale, the Indian Ahsan, who was surrounded in Wauzirabad, completely lost their fighting spirit. They left their positions in droves and surrendered to the squadron. Originally, the Chinese Army did not agree to their surrender. This makes these Indian Ah San have to fight to the death in order to survive. Now that they see the hope of survival, they naturally don't want to continue fighting. These Indian Asan did not even think about whether this was a scam by the Chinese, what kind of encounter would occur after surrendering, etc., these were not within their consideration. As long as they can avoid being killed on the battlefield, they are very satisfied!
The officers of the British army kept shouting and scolding those Indian Asan, and stopped them from surrendering, but this was of no use at all. If they are in a hurry, those Indian Ah San will even kill their superiors and surrender to the squadron. The Anglo-Indian 3rd Army was composed entirely of Indian Asan, and only the officers above the battalion level were British. This made it very difficult for these British officers to stop the surrender of these Indian Asan! A large number of Indian A3 surrendered to the 1st Cluster of the Chinese Army, so that the defenses of the Anglo-Indian 3rd Army at Wazirabad quickly collapsed. These Indian Asan were very obedient, and the Chinese Army didn't even have time to build a prisoner of war camp, but only sent a small number of soldiers to escort these Indian Asan to the grass on the bank of the river, but these Indian Asan did not have any resistance, as if they had accepted their fate!
Under such circumstances, Lieutenant General Kenneth, commander of the 3rd Anglo-Indian Army, sent a telegram to Admiral Kitchener. The telegram said: "Dear General Kitchener, the Chinese have changed their tactics and no longer slaughtered the Indians who gave up resistance, a large number of indigenous Indians have surrendered to the Chinese in formation, and our defensive line has collapsed." Now that the Chinese have invaded the city of Wozirabad, we are now unable to defend ourselves against the attack of the Chinese! Moreover, the Chinese have surrounded Wazirabad, and we have lost hope of breaking through. Therefore, I will lead the army of my headquarters to surrender to the Chinese, I hope you can understand! โ
At 4 p.m. on December 1, Lieutenant General Kenneth led thousands of British officers to surrender to the first group of the Chinese Army, because the other Indian Asandu had almost surrendered, and in the end only they were the British! Admiral Yang Guoxing, commander of the 1st Battalion of the Chinese Army, accepted the surrender of Lieutenant General Kenneth, and the British officers were to be held in segregated prisoner of war camps and then sent to China for detention until the end of the war before deciding whether to stay or not. The purpose of taking these British away from India is also so that many of China's actions in India in the future will not be exposed!
The Chinese Army captured Wauzirabad in a single day and completely annihilated the Anglo-Indian 3rd Army. This caused a great shock to the Anglo-Indian army, which, together with the losses of the Anglo-Indian 7th Army, had lost more than 600,000 troops in today's battle. At this time, the Anglo-Indian 10th and 12th armies were advancing towards Wauzirabad, preparing to support the 3rd Army. After receiving a telegram from the commander of the Anglo-Indian Army's 3rd Army, General Kitchener, the commander of the Anglo-Indian Army, immediately ordered the 10th Army and the 12th Army to stop advancing and retreat to Gujranwala, and at the same time ordered the 4th, 7th, and 11th armies to shrink to Gujranwala to avoid being broken by the Chinese army one by one. However, by the time his order was given, it was already over.
The Anglo-Indian 10th Army, when it received the order from General Kitchener, was less than ten kilometers from Wazirabad! After the Battle of Wauzirabad, the 1st Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army, the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the 1st Army, 4 infantry divisions and 10 divisions of the Japanese mercenaries, supported by hundreds of aircraft in the sky, launched a fierce attack on the 10th Army of the British and Indian Army. Originally, the 10th Army of the British and Indian Army was in a hurry, but it was suddenly bombed by the Chinese Air Force, and it suddenly became chaotic. After that, the 1st Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army launched a surprise attack, and the 10th Army of the Anglo-Indian Army in confusion had no time to organize a defense, and the beaten wolf bรจi fled!
The 4 infantry divisions of the Chinese Army and the 10 divisions of the Japanese mercenaries pursued the 10th Army of the British and Indian Army, and the cavalry brigade also came out from the side, killing the British and Indian troops into a section, which aggravated the confusion of the British and Indian Army! Under such circumstances, a large number of British and Indian soldiers lost their fighting spirit and surrendered to the Chinese Army, and when the Chinese Army accepted the surrender of these Indian Asan, more people gave up resistance, handed over their weapons to the Chinese Army, and entered the prisoner of war camps.
The 10th Group of the British and Indian Army was heavily damaged, except for a small half of the troops who escaped from the pursuit of the Chinese Army and successfully escaped, most of the troops were either killed in the melee or surrendered, and many Indian Asan took advantage of the chaos to escape and became deserters! The 12th Army, which was following behind the 10th Army, retreated ahead of schedule because of the early warning of the 10th Army and avoided the fate of being defeated. But even so, the 10th Army of the British and Indian Army was hit hard, and the commander of the British and Indian Army, General Kitchener, was still distressed to death!
On December 2, the Chinese Army began to advance towards Gujranwala! As the Anglo-Indian army was on the verge of a great enemy, Admiral Kitchener ordered all the troops to advance towards Gujranwala. At this moment, the Anglo-Indian forces assembled in Gujayranwala include the 1st Army, the 4th Army, the 5th Army, most of the 7th Army, the 8th Army, a part of the 10th Army, the 11th Army, and the 12th Army! Among them, the 3rd Army has been completely annihilated, the 7th Army has lost 3 corps, and the 10th Army has only about 4 corps left! However, even so, the total strength of the Anglo-Indian forces assembled in Gujranwala exceeded 3.5 million, which was more than four times the size of the 1st Cluster of the Chinese Army. However, after the battle of Wauzirabad, the morale of the Anglo-Indian army was low. Many Indian Ah San already knew the news that the squadron would allow them to surrender, which made these Indian Ah San very excited. Originally, they thought that they would definitely die, but they didn't expect that now there is still a glimmer of life. It can be expected that when the Chinese army launches an attack on Gujranwala, a large number of British and Indian troops will definitely surrender to the Chinese army in droves. Therefore, the commander of the Anglo-Indian army, Admiral Kitchener, was also very pessimistic about the outcome of this battle! Originally, he thought that the gathering of 9 army groups in the Punjab Plain, including the most elite 1st Army, would definitely defeat the first cluster of the Chinese army. But now it seems that the chances of them winning are very slim!
On December 4th, the 1st Cluster of the Chinese Army arrived in Gujranwala, and the final decisive battle of the Battle of Punjab began, which can be regarded as a decisive battle in the entire Indian battlefield! (To be continued......)