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The beautiful Mediterranean Sea has become a whirlpool, and the war is becoming larger and larger, devouring the flesh and blood of both sides. In the Far East, in addition to being concerned about the newly issued Cape Town Declaration, people's minds are still focused on the war around them. The war, which lasted for more than two years, has affected all aspects of the country and society, the newspapers and radio stations are full of news of the war, the streets and alleys are plastered with all kinds of posters, universities, primary and secondary schools have strengthened patriotic education around the war, the machines in the factories are also overloaded, and even the national and world maps have been revised several times. Nearly 10 million soldiers, tens of millions of medical teams, transport teams, and engineering teams serving the war effort, and a large number of laborers have left the land to eat the state's military rations, but at the same time, the staple food on the dining tables of ordinary families has gradually decreased, and the supply of miscellaneous grains has doubled compared with the pre-war period.

Tens of thousands of workers have gone from Guam to the southeast coast, from the icy Sea of Okhotsk to the distant Central Asia, and countless huge national defense projects are being carried out day and night. The savings of thirty years of prosperity were squeezed clean in the blink of an eye. There were complaints, complaints, and indignation, but the vast majority of the people chose to support it without hesitation. Education and literacy are in-depth, and many people have understood what a great power is and what is the road to rise. Therefore, they know that if they want to realize the dream of a great power in everyone's heart, they must go through the torment of national hatred and family hatred, and experience the baptism of blood and fire. The more time goes by, after thousands of years of war, the tenacious, tenacious, hard-working and endurant national spirit that has already deeply engraved the suffering into the blood marrow has finally bloomed its most brilliant side. Young people put on military uniforms, bid farewell to their parents and run to war, and women went out of their homes to take on more social responsibilities. The workers chewed steamed buns and meticulously stared at the millimeter by millimeter scale, and the peasants sent off their relatives to sweat in the fields and send the plump grains to the military columns, all of whom held their heads high and held their chests high, calmly facing this world war that would not end at any time.

But some people think further, when the bitter cold of the Ural guns gradually weakened, and the Sino-Soviet duel was once again slowed down by the weather, the new generation of politicians who witnessed the world's political turmoil for 30 years and lived in the most beautiful and cruel era have begun to think about how to use the long winter to end the main war in East Asia, relieve the pressure on the people, and preserve a little more vitality for the country.

In the martial law port of Kolkata, dozens of UBT7 tanks painted with Vietnamese flags drove along the open hatch bridge into the wide tank landing ship. The rough piloting technique caused the constant whistling and crashing sounds of engines in the cabin, and their Chinese armored instructors hid their faces and wept, secretly cursing their students, which was really a waste of the Soviet-made BT tank, which was known for its speed and agility.

Indian workers in turbans hoisted cannons onto the deck, dragging heavy ammunition and cannons closer to the ship's hold. The entire wharf was such a scene, and the efficiency of the Indians made the more than forty landing ships transferred from the Persian theater of operations full of dissatisfied shouts from the navy. Only on the main berth on the outside, quietly, the gendarmes took matters into their own hands, busily carrying large sealed wooden boxes onto the "Anjiang" light cruiser. In the cracks of the worn wooden box, there is a faint golden glow. "How many batches is this?" Next to the cruiser, Li Zongren, who was preparing to set off to attack the Andaman Island, was chatting and laughing with Fei Wenhua and other officers.

"The seventh batch, when this battle is over, at least fifteen or sixteen batches." Fei Wenhua cracked his mouth full of white teeth and laughed vigorously.

Others don't know, but he knows very well that since gaining a foothold in India, the Indian army group has looted all over India on the pretext of clearing the Soviet-Indian troops, and has transported hundreds of tons of gold and silver alone, and countless cultural relics. In addition to the floating wealth, a steady stream of strategic resources such as crude steel, copper ingots, soldering irons, and rare earths were also transported back to China along the Myitkyina military railway, and the amount was even more staggering. So much so that the General Staff all thumbs up when it comes to Army Group India. There is no way, wars in other places are at a loss, only here not only does not lose money, but at least sends tens of millions of good things back by rail every month.

After gaining a firm foothold in India at the end of last year, Li Zongren and the Indian Army Group have been unable to carry out large-scale military operations because of poor logistics. It was not until the beginning of May this year that 100,000 prisoners of war and migrant workers were mobilized to build the Myitkyina military railway, which needed to be overturned over the mountain, until it was finally supplied steadily in the oil city of Digboy. With the support of the railway, Li Zongren first repaired a large number of industrial mines, such as the Bokaro Steel City and the Anglo-Indian Copper Smelter, and then recalled Indian workers to continue production, and also increased the production scale of the Digboy oil field and refinery. Under his control, in early August, the crude steel output in the areas occupied by the Indian Army Group was restored to 300,000 tons per month, 6,000 tons of copper, 30,000 tons of coking coal, thorium, branding, potash and magnesium alum, mica, sillimanite, asbestos, and other important and even strategic ores were mined to 300,000 tons per month, and crude oil was also increased to 200,000 tons per month, and most of these things were also shipped back to China.

These continuous shipments of materials have also made the General Staff more and more interested in India, although it will withdraw after the war according to the agreement, but it will not prevent it from taking advantage of the current situation. As a result, the General Staff not only transferred two additional infantry divisions to Li Zongren, but also transferred 15 divisions from the Vietnamese National Defense Forces. The combat effectiveness of the Vietnamese army is not very good, but if you want to say that the looting does bad things, it is definitely very powerful. So Li Zongren simply took advantage of them and took the opportunity to continue to advance to the central and southern parts of India, so far, the southernmost has reached Hyderabad, and the westernmost part has penetrated deep into Chhanxi in Madhya Pradesh, and all along the way have been looted, and even some of the more valuable minerals have been labeled, and then the prisoners of war and locals have been mined and transported back to China day and night.

Lieutenant General Quinnan, the Indian commander of the British army, did not know how many times he protested, and even the British Foreign Office sent a telegram to Yanjing demanding severe punishment for the "atrocities" of the Vietnamese army. With 400,000 troops, he continued to attack the base areas of the Soviet and Indian armies, and in early September, he also captured Calcutta and the whole of West Bengal in one fell swoop, driving all the Japanese troops who had long wanted to retreat back to Burma and the Andaman Island. Of course, the rich Calcutta was also "looted" again, and dozens of tons of gold and all kinds of foreign exchange were not transported by the army alone. However, Li Zongren himself knew that the fact that his motley army was able to win successive battles was actually the result of Chuikov and the Yue army not putting up frontal resistance in order to preserve their strength.

Helplessly, the British political axe simply ignored it in the end, anyway, no matter how much you can dig, it is impossible to move the Indian peninsula to China. However, after the recovery of Calcutta, Li Zongren's good life also came to an end. Because the General Staff had decided that Army Group India would take on the main task of attacking the Andaman and western Burma, and before Malacca was opened, it was also a major logistics station for the transfer of supplies to the Persian Gulf.

The Andaman Islands are not easy to fight, Li Zongren knows it in his heart.

When retreating from Calcutta, the Japanese had a premonition that China would seize Andaman and use it as a base for attacking Burma and Malaya. So a large amount of food and supplies were looted and shipped there, and a division of Patavia and Indonesian soldiers was brought in, bringing the total strength to 50,000, as well as a small destroyer fleet and several submarines operating in the islands. And in order to encourage the troops in the South Seas, Hirohito sent Prince Nohisa of the Northern Shirakawa Palace to the Philippines, and let Yamashita Fumi, known as the Tiger of Malaysia, be in charge of the war on the entire southeast peninsula.

On the contrary, Li Zongren's most reliable at the moment are only the 109th Motorized Infantry Division, the 153rd, 154th, 166th, 183rd, and 226th Infantry Divisions, which are the six national units. In addition, Bose's Indian National Army has also increased to 7 divisions, Fei Wenhua's Bengal Army has also increased to 3 divisions, plus 15 divisions of the Vietnamese Army, the number is already eight times that of the Andaman Army. But fighting a war is not based on troops, not to mention that these servants are useless, just the complex water patterns and terrain of the Andaman are a headache. The island's high mountains and dense forests are all primeval forests, which are very suitable for the tenacious Yue army to play skirmisher tactics, so even if all the five marines in the country are transferred, they can't fight a quick battle, let alone a ragtag army like him.

Because there's a Chuikov behind him!

According to the latest information, Nehru and the PKI have fully joined forces, and have made Chuikov the commander-in-chief of the all-India forces. Chuikov did not disappoint him, and while adopting a policy of avoidance towards Li Zongren, he constantly attacked the British army with tactics such as ambushes and detours. According to statistics, at least two Anglo-Indian divisions were completely annihilated, and a large amount of weapons and ammunition aided by the United States fell into the hands of Chuikov, swelling the total number of his troops to nearly 900,000.

No matter how difficult it is, it must be fought, not only to flank Malaya and Burma, but also to control and deter the Indian Ocean after the war.

Li Zongren was not worried about Chuikov and the Soviet-Indian army, so he only brought the 153rd and 166th divisions with him for this landing, and the rest were Vietnamese troops. Even so, before boarding the ship, he still grabbed Fei Wenhua and said, "Wenhua, it's up to a few of you here for the time being." Be careful of Chuikov, this person is bold and careful in battle, and he deliberately saved his troops some time ago, obviously trying to make us stretch the front. ”

"Commander, don't worry, I'll let the troops shrink and defend on the spot when I go back, and then fight him after you triumph." Fei Wenhua nodded, reassuring Li Zongren.

An hour later, the flotilla of 47 landing ships and merchant ships left the port of Kolkata and, after joining the escort patrol formation in the open sea, headed for the Andaman Sea.

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ps: I got home late, and it wasn't very good to write in a hurry, so it's a transition.

Excuse me...... (To be continued.) )