In the middle of the night on December 21, 1944, a train from Kolkata to Bahapur was traveling in the dark night. The British have been operating in India for many years, and the railway network in India is very well developed. However, the speed of Indian trains in this period was not fast (in fact, even in the 21st century, it is not fast, everyone understands, ha!). As they approached Durgapur, a large number of soldiers in black uniforms suddenly appeared under the roadbed on both sides of the railway tracks on a section of the train going uphill.

Taking advantage of the slowing down of the train as it went uphill, the fighters quickly climbed onto the train, quickly took control of the front of the train, and then stopped the train.

It was a wagon carrying military supplies, loaded with enough munitions to arm three regiments of troops. After the failure of the second encirclement campaign, the Ratani guerrillas continued to expand, and the lords of the princely states of West Bengal were terrified and turned to the British for help. The British were reluctant to send troops and only agreed to sell them three divisions of arms to arm themselves.

After these princely lords paid, the British brought in the first batch of munitions by rail, but "intelligence" leaked that the munitions were intercepted halfway by infiltrated Ratani guerrillas on the way to their destination.

The British were ostensibly selling these arms to the princely lords, but in fact they were deliberately giving them to the Rattani guerrillas in order to strengthen them and facilitate their upcoming military campaign to seize the large city of Bahapur in West Bengal.

After a year of war, the control of the local princely powers in the northern part of West Bengal was very weak. After a year of war, the army of more than 10,000 troops formed by the local princely lords had already been defeated in many battles, and the remnants of the army were scattered and cowered in various large cities. At this moment, in the northern region, the offensive and defensive momentum of the two sides has changed.

The radical programme of struggle of the Ratani guerrillas of the PKI had to be strongly hostile to the old forces of India. It has also received enthusiastic support from the poorest at the bottom. When the British deliberately did not intervene, the activities of the Ratani partisans in the rural areas were carried out entirely openly.

There were only twenty Indian soldiers on board, and their food that night had been put in sleeping pills, and the guards on duty did not wake up from their sleep until the guerrillas put their guns on their heads.

The people who drugged (the crabs) were not partisans, but officers of the Fifth Division of British Intelligence, who cooperated with the guerrillas. This arms robbery. It was originally a double play written and directed by the British and Ratani.

Without firing a single shot, the Ratani guerrillas easily captured three entire regiments of munitions, including three "Crusader Tan(Crabs)" and more than a dozen artillery pieces sold by the British. These were all "siege equipment" carefully prepared by the British for the Ratani guerrillas.

December 25, 1944, this day is Christmas.

Two wars are taking place in West Bengal.

A bloodless war that took place in Kolkata with fireworks, Christmas gifts as ammunition, a war of hearts and minds.

That night, a large number of fireworks were released in the skies of Kolkata, and more than 100,000 Anglicans in the city who had become Catholics this year, along with their families who were several times that number. I am happily watching New Year's fireworks.

These Anglicans of Indian origin are full of gratitude to the "divine messenger" Artoria today, and on this day, the local church distributed a "communion" to each believer that was enough for his whole family to eat.

Not only that, but on the night of Christmas Eve the day before, the Catholics dressed in Santa Claus costumes were divided into dozens of carriages prepared in advance, moving around the city. According to the list prepared in advance, the gift of "Artoria the Divine Messenger" is given to the homes of believers from door to door.

The whole event cost a lot. But in fact, the Anglican Church and the British government behind them did not spend an extra pound for this.

Religion is an activity that is all about profit.

You don't see, countless foolish men and fools usually save money and pick every penny. But when he went to the temple to burn incense and donate to engage in feudal superstitious activities, he did not feel heartache when he burned money.

This is true for China, and foreign countries are no exception.

In India, the "golden body" (statue) of the god in the temple has something shiny on it. But it is all real gold, and these "golden bodies" are donated by countless believers, including a large number of untouchables and Shudras, who have been brainwashed by religion and pulled out of their teeth. (Note: The specific method is to grind the gold into a thin layer of gold leaf, stick it on the statue one by one, and accumulate it over the years with countless believers.)

After the successful missionary work of British Christianity (i.e., the state religion) through the "miracle" of Artoria, these believers who joined the church in the past year, whether rich or poor, have donated to the church, and the "intangible value" created by all kinds of "free" "voluntary labor" is even more innumerable.

Religion is, in fact, the most evil means of exploitation in the world. The trick that Artoria played in Calcutta was nothing more than a copycat of the Philos, which used to play in the past: to give back to them a portion of the wealth that the parishioners had created for the Church.

But it was this trick of using the money of the parishioners to help the parishioners that moved the Indians in the city of Kolkata to tears.

Here in Kolkata, the night sky is smoky. The city of Bahapur, a few hundred kilometers away, was under continuous artillery fire, and the flash of fire illuminated the city shrouded in darkness.

After intercepting enough munitions to equip three integrated regiments, the Ratani guerrillas made up for the last shortcoming of their weapons and easily expanded the regular army to more than 10,000 men. Relying on several captures, he reorganized two artillery regiments and a Tan (crab) Kelian.

This amount of troops, of course, is not enough to see if it meets the regular army of the British army, but the garrison used to deal with the princely lords of Bahapur City is already much stronger.

On Christmas Day, the Ratani guerrillas concentrated dozens of artillery pieces of various types, six tanks (crabs), and tens of thousands of troops in their hands to launch a fierce attack on the city of Bahapur.

The six tanks in Ratani's possession were all Crusader tanks captured by their opponents. Three of them were trophies from the previous war, and the other three were captured from an attack on an arms train a few days earlier. In order to make it easier for this guerrilla force to secretly do dirty work for themselves, the equipment that the British sent to the north was deliberately kept the same model to facilitate their supply, and on that arms train, a large number of tank (crab) spare parts were also deliberately prepared for maintenance and replacement.

The Crusader Tan (Crab) Gram is a Cruiser Tan (Crab) Gram. It was the Tank that equipped the British army after the end of the French campaign.

During the French campaign, the main tanks (crabs) of the British army were the MKII cruiser tanks and the Matilda infantry tanks. The former was a cruiser tank with a weight of 13 tons, and the artillery was a forty-mm tank gun, three machine guns, a crew of five, but only six to 30 mm of armor.

And their opponents. The German No. 2 tank (crab) had a combat weight of more than 15 tons, an equivalent gun, a crew of four people, and a maximum thickness of 40 mm of frontal armor. Due to the weakness of the thin skin and the lack of a radio station, the MKII Cruiser (Crab) Gram had a hard time competing with the No. 2 Crab Gram.

Another Matildatan (Crab) Gram, although the armor thickness was up to eighty mm, the Type I only had a machine gun. The Type II barely used the 40 mm anti-Tan (Crab) gun, but the speed was extremely slow, and when it encountered the German "Triple Balance" 25-ton No. 3 Tan (Crab) Gram, and the opponent's 75 mm/40 times diameter Tan (Crab) Cannon, it was also humiliated and defeated, and caused a sensational "No. 3 Tan (Crab) Crisis" on the French battlefield.

After the war, the British learned from the pain and accelerated the development of new types of tanks (crabs). At that time, the Crusader Tan (Crab) Gram had already been developed and was preparing to be put into production. -- The one-sided defeat in the Battle of the French made the British realize the backwardness of the design ideas of the cruiser and the infantry. Understand that the balance of attack, defense and maneuver is the right way to develop Tan (crab). The standard tonnage is 19 tons, and the Crusader tank (crab) gram that still adheres to the concept of cruiser tank (crab) gram is no longer suitable.

But when the French campaign was lost too quickly. In the face of the German armored army approaching the English Channel, the British Isles were also shocked three times a day, for fear that the Germans would soon launch a landing operation. At that time, the British could only continue to produce "Crusader tanks (crabs) that were almost obsolete before they were equipped".

However, until the end of the war in 1940, the Germans did not launch a landing operation against the British, and these crusader tanks (crabs) were also the last British cruisers (crabs) and did not get the opportunity to go to the battlefield at all.

And during the war. The tanks that the British placed in India were mainly older tanks produced before the war, and they also did not perform well in the one-year war. In addition, the other largest number of tanks (crabs) of the British on the Indian Peninsula is the M3 light tanks imported from the United States, which is a tanks (crabs) with similar measurements as the No. 2 tanks. It's just that the firepower is slightly weaker and the maneuverability is better.

By 1944, the British Army had completely abandoned the backward idea of the cruiser tank (crab) and the infantry tank (crab) gram, and was instead developing the "main battle tank (crab) gram" that could combine the strengths of the two - that is, the 100-man captain tank (crab) gram. However, the difference between the battlefields in South Asia and Europe is that there is a lot of rain (crabs) and rotten paddy fields here, and it is difficult to move an inch of overly heavy 30-ton or 40-ton tanks (crabs) here, and the light cruiser tanks (crabs) or light tanks (crabs) are the protagonists here.

These six Crusader tanks were deliberately brought to West Bengal by the British, hoping to gain experience and lessons in actual combat.

Garrisoned in Bahapur was an army of less than 2,000 men improvised by the local princely lords, who were poorly armed, lacked anti-artillery, and had few heavy weapons to threaten the Crusaders.

The Ratani guerrillas launched an attack on Bahapur at noon on the 25th, and by 8 o'clock that night, a red flag was planted on the roof of the local town hall.

During this period, the princely lords of Bahapur constantly radioed their English counterparts for help, and the British in the south ignored them completely. Although the distress telegrams sent by him were piled up higher and higher in front of Governor Mountbatten, Governor Mountbatten refused to give the order for rescue, and instead threw down the telegrams to participate in today's Christmas egg celebration.

Bahapur was originally deliberately wanted by the British to be lost to the Ratani guerrillas. Over the course of the year, the Ratani guerrillas have taken control of the countryside within a two-hundred-kilometer radius of the city of Bahapur. The guerrilla actions forced the local princes of the city to shrink into the shells of the turtles in the cities.

Bahapur was the last node in this area, but today, he is knocked open.

At half past ten o'clock on Christmas night, Ratani, dressed in a captured British-made military uniform, walked into the mayor's building in Bahapur.

Before him, there were countless "superior people" who he had only looked up to before, all of whom looked at him with fear and hatred.

"The time for revenge has finally arrived!"

A voice cried out in Ratani's heart.

Before being co-opted by the British Intelligence Service, Ratani was one of the few "outliers" among Indians who were born with a spirit of resistance.

When his name was still Harry, he was in his village when his family was killed in a conflict with a nearby Brahmin and his family was killed, and he became a wanted man in exile before being captured by the British colonial authorities.

The people in the fifth department of Britain took a fancy to Harry's strong feelings of rebellion and revenge. They deliberately put him in a prison for the Indians, where they instructed the Brahmins to humiliate him and let him enjoy all the suffering of the world.

At that time, Harry was lying in a dark cell, shackled, desperately waiting for his death, when the "Divine Messenger" appeared.

She told him that she had come to find God's warrior left behind on earth, and that he Hari, who was not a pariah, was God's "holy warrior" on earth, and that his original name was Ratani

"Artoria" appeared beside him like a goddess, and then extended her hand to him. 、

She easily left the tightly guarded prison with him, and when she left the prison, all the guards around her, as if they did not see them, turned a blind eye to him and her.

Harry also felt that there was nothing abnormal about this, because it was a miracle.

Overnight, Harry was easily subdued by Artoria and became a loyal follower.

Artoria takes Hari to a nearby Anglican residence, where she gives him a few days off, where Harry meets many people like him, all of whom are the lowest untouchables of India who have been "saved" by Artoria.

Here, in addition to enjoying food and tranquility, he has also received a "respect" that was unimaginable before.

After regaining his strength, Harry soon joined the "oracle" sent by Christ along with others like him, and he himself was given the title of "Holy Warrior", and he later changed his name to Ratani.

Then, with the help of a Fifth Intelligence Officer disguised as a Catholic, he learns all sorts of things he couldn't have imagined before. After three months of making up for the evil, Ratani could not learn much, but compared to the previous confusion and ignorance, he was much stronger. (To be continued......)