What is the key to getting an army to die for the current regime?

interests, so that the interests of this army and the current regime are rigidly tied together.

Artoria created the "Honor of the Brittany", and for this purpose did not hesitate to displease India's original vested interest classes Brahmins and Kshatriyas, and also raised an army in West Bengal with the Dalits and Shudras as the core, with the aim of forming such an "Indian" army in India whose fundamental interests were with the help of the British colonial government.

In order for such an army to die for the British, it is not enough to rise to an empty position, but also to come up with real money and real benefits.

With the mentality of the British colonial government, it is very painful and very costly to ask them to directly pay a large amount of profits to buy these Indian "inferior people". And Artoria also understood that high salaries alone could not buy a steel army that could fight well.

Other means must be used, and this army must be instilled with a sense of crisis that "if we don't fight hard, if we don't stand with the British, we'll be finished."

Artoria, who has inherited the dark side of Lin Han's character, knows how to deal with it.

The key to the problem of the old Chinese revolution was the peasant question, and the problem of land redistribution that had been entangled in the country for thousands of years. In the War of Liberation, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) solved this problem through large-scale land reform, and thus won the support of the largest working people in China, thus easily building an invincible iron army.

Artoria would also like to replicate China's "success".

In Artoria's view, India's problems are similar to China's, except that there is an additional caste problem.

The question of caste, she "solved" well, and the issue of land

Most of India's land was in the hands of the local princely lords and high castes, and there was no spare land for her to redistribute.

As the supreme ruler of India. Of course, it was not convenient for the British colonial government to take matters into its own hands and forcibly carry out land reform in India - the result would only be to force the middle and upper classes to the opposite side of the colonial rule that had helped them to maintain colonial rule here.

But it is possible to borrow the hands of others to carry out land reform.

It was with this idea that the Ratani guerrillas were created with the help of intelligence officers from the Fifth Division.

Rata's "radical" line of land reform in the base areas and guerrilla areas was entirely instigated by Artoria.

His mass execution of the high castes in the city of Bahapur was also what Artoria wanted.

In order for Artoria to develop an army that was absolutely loyal to the British colonists, she needed to give land to the families of the soldiers of these armies.

Prophase. The British indulged the Ratani guerrillas and carried out radical land reform in various places, killing all the local landlords and high castes, and only when they had done the "dirty work" did they enter the "drive" of the guerrillas, retake the land, and then distribute it to their families to form the Dalits and the Sudra army.

In the whole process, not only did they not spend a penny to acquire a large amount of allocated land, but they could also sell arms through war. Squeezing out the pockets of the princely lords of the PKI guerrilla zone is a great way to get it with one stone.

The process of Artoria's plan was much more evil than the above, and what was more evil or sinful was in the details of its implementation.

On 3 January 1945, nine days after the fall of Bahapur, the British troops in Calcutta remained unmoved despite the pleading demands of the princely lords of West Bengal

This time. Aboriginal private troops from elsewhere in West Bengal and from the nearby state of Harkhand totalled about 25,000 men. It was also at this time to assemble in the west by railroad.

West Bengal was the first state in India to receive "autonomy in the interior" from the British, while the neighbouring state of Harkhand was promised "preparatory autonomy". Over the past year or so, the two states have formed "autonomous armies" totaling more than 40,000 troops.

The 25,000-strong Indian Communist guerrillas in the Balbur region were already the limit of the city lords of the two princely states.

The British people's indifference to the imminent war situation in the north made the Indian independence forces in India "happy and worried."

Among these Indian independence forces, there are also many high-ranking people. They saw that the British deliberately allowed the Ratani partisans to "go big". It is nothing more than to use the threat of the PKI to warn the sinister princes of the princely states everywhere that you are nothing without the British Empire.

In their view, the refusal of the British to intervene is not a bad thing. The Ratani guerrillas numbered only 10,000 men. 25,000 against 10,000 people, no matter how you look at it, the princely forces have the upper hand. If the princely forces can solve this gang of PKI on their own, it will be of great benefit to negotiate with the British for "Indian independence" in the future.

What worries them is that they are "only afraid of what if," and if the "bandit suppression troops" lose again and the war situation is out of control, they Indian independence elements will have no choice but to kneel down and beg the British to come forward to clean up the mess.

The scene in Bahapur, where more than 5,000 corpses of high-ranking castes, high-ranking officials and landlords were shot and killed by Ratani, bloodily told those in the upper echelons of India how cruel the class struggle was.

Compared with China, these people in India who play Indian independence understand conspiracy, politics, and can play with people's hearts, but they don't understand military affairs. If the warlords of old China were here, they would not have been optimistic about this so-called "third encirclement and suppression" from the beginning, and they would not have expected this little force to wipe out the Ratani guerrillas.

Similar to the Ratani guerrillas, which were born less than a year ago, the anti-bandit units in the two states were formed for only about a year.

When the British allowed them to build a large-scale army, they had no good intentions, they did not provide them with enough junior officers, and they deliberately did not interfere much in the training of the army.

The soldiers of the Indian Asan are mainly the soldiers of the Sikhs in the western plateau region with combat effectiveness, and the closer they are to the plains and the tropics, the worse and worse the combat effectiveness becomes. Coupled with the serious lack of qualified officers and regular training, the 25,000-strong bandit suppression force was nothing more than "armed civilians" in the eyes of the British.

Although the overall quality of Ratani's troops was not the same, they fought the war for nearly a year in a down-to-earth manner, and many Comintern fighters with actual combat experience joined the troops under his command. If everyone compares badly together, the overall quality is still much better than the opponent.

What's more, in the process of the third encirclement and suppression, the British secretly ventilated him again from the very beginning. Provide information on the anti-bandit units that have been prepared.

On 5 January, reinforcements from outside the city arrived and succeeded in recovering the city of Bahapur, which had been occupied for more than ten days, and the day before their arrival, the Ratani guerrillas had withdrawn from the city ahead of schedule, moving everything they wanted.

After the "reconquest" of the lost territories, the "high caste" coalition forces from other places. Begin to liquidate and take revenge in the city.

They received "denunciations" from high-caste people who had gone into hiding at the time of the fall and launched fierce revenge against the untouchables who had enthusiastically participated in the activities of the Ratani guerrillas during the "fall", arresting more than 10,000 people in and around the city of Bahapur within a few days. And most of them are innocent, and these Indian versions of the "homecoming group" have arrested so many innocent people entirely because of "the need for profit".

Under the banner of "colluding with the Ratani bandits," those "homecoming regiments" who fled before the war and are now returning to their hometowns with the army can directly confiscate the land of a large number of local peasants under the pretext of "colluding with bandits." People who really have "gangsterism" behavior. In fact, as early as the approach of the army, almost all of them retreated with the Ratani guerrillas. But the "returnees" do not want to know this, nor do they want to distinguish between them, they only want to make up for their losses in the war by robbing the poor.

Once again, the class between the upper and lower castes in India has intensified.

During the occupation of the Ratani guerrillas, they shot more than five thousand people within the city of "high castes".

When the "Indian Homecoming" returned, they killed more than 10,000 untouchables and Shudras in five days. The same is a river of blood.

And when this repatriation regiment left Bahpur and entered the PKI guerrilla areas and base areas to pursue and suppress bandits. At this time, they had already shouted the slogan that was produced in old China and then "resold" and imported by Japan: the stone should be passed through the knife, the thatch should be overheated, and the people should be replaced!

Artoria came into play at this time through the "Bandit Suppression Manual" handed to them by the Japanese. In order to make these repatriation regiments more efficient in doing exactly the "dirty work" she wanted, under the instruction of Artoria, the British also specially recruited a few experienced senior former artillery party officials from Southeast Asia who had fought with the Red Army to serve as advisers to these Indian repatriation regiments. Provide "work experience".

Under the slogan of "stones must be slashed, thatch must be overfired, and people must be replaced", everywhere these Indian homecoming groups went, there was a bloody storm. Every day, more than four-digit poor and untouchables are dragged out and killed under the pretext of "gangsters".

The massacres began on 5 January and continued until the 20th of that month. So it stopped because at this time the Ratani guerrillas, who had been retreating, began to counterattack.

During this period, the entire upper echelons of India, after receiving what happened in Bahapur, "hurt their kinds", and the rabbit died and the fox was sad, and they all applauded the behavior of the lord's army's "homecoming regiment". Even if a few people realized that something was wrong, under the covert suppression of the British, not many people heard the strange noise.

Gandhi and Nehru were the ones who opposed the massacres and purges of the untouchables and the poor in the region, but they got the news too late.

1945 was not a posterity, and news spread slowly. The massacre that preceded was not realized until a few days later, in the Kolkata area, when a large number of floating bodies were found in the downstream river, that people realized what was happening there. And this time it was already after January 15th.

In the first ten days of January, Gandhi and Nehru, two people who might have relied on their prestige to stop the massacre, suddenly became hospitalized together for food poisoning. The sudden illness interrupted their original trip to Bahapur, and by the time they were better enough to be discharged from the hospital, the slaughter (crab) had already taken place on a large scale.

On 20 January, the Ratani guerrillas, who had been retreating continuously, gained more room for maneuver by retreating, and succeeded in distancing themselves between the several princely state armies that were pursuing them.

The Great Counterattack began.

On 20 January, Ratani's troops concentrated their forces of 15,000 men with 10 tanks (four of which were captured during the attack on Babunir) and surrounded a division of the encirclement and suppression forces in the midst of the assault, and 5,000 troops, and launched an encirclement and annihilation operation.

Before the war, knowing of the massacre in the guerrilla areas by the returnee regiments, there was no need for more "pre-war morale encouragement" from the political commissars in the army, and Ratani's troops became "mourning soldiers" because of the killing of their families. After the joint attack began, it took less than four hours for them to completely annihilate their opponents.

After the war, in retaliation for the massacre of his opponents, Ratani ordered all the captives to be executed.

On 21 January, Ratani's troops turned around and surrounded another army of reinforcements that had arrived, and in only half a day, they again annihilated more than 4,000 opponents. As usual, in this battle, he once again did not leave any prisoners, and executed them all.

By 22 January, the rest of the "anti-bandit" troops, feeling bad, began to turn around and retreat. But by this time, the Ratani guerrillas had already killed the red, and they frantically launched a pursuit and retaliatory operation.

Over the next five days, they fought several battles, won four battles, and destroyed nearly 7,000 of their opponents. The city of Bahapur was recaptured on 30 January.

At this point, the vigorous third encirclement and suppression operation ended in the crushing defeat of the two princely alliance forces, during which the Ratani guerrilla even captured many high-ranking officials led by the commander-in-chief of the coalition army.

In the city of Bahapur, Ratani put the high-ranking officials on trial and executed them all for massacres and crimes against the people, and not only that, but he also ordered the "most complete" liquidation of the old landowners and high castes in the reclaimed areas.

Throughout January, the Hooghly River, which flows downstream through Kolkata, is blood-red, and during this month, residents downstream can see a large number of floating corpses floating down from the upper reaches every day.

As news of the carnage from northeastern West Bengal kept coming, the Governor of India, Mongtun, was happily clinking glasses with her in celebration.

After clinking glasses with Mountbatten, Artoria smiled and said to the governor, "We have a lot of free land now. ”

This vast expanse of borderless land was created by the Indians themselves, and the hands of the governor and the oracle were clean in this matter, and there was not a trace of unnecessary blood.

A series of massacres in the north-eastern part of West Bengal, Artoria is well aware. All of this she had predicted, and it was the most critical and evil part of her plan, which was now complete. (To be continued......)