14 August 1935, Delhi, India, Republic Palace.

The Indian generals attending the emergency military meeting came out of the conference room with sad faces and saw Borodin, Blyukhel, Pavlov, and the eldest son of Comrade Ruy, Charya, hurrying into the conference room. Not long after, the roar of the great leader resounded in the conference room, and the generals of the Indian army quickened their pace and left the Republic Palace as if fleeing for their lives—it is not an exaggeration to say that they were fleeing for their lives. Just a few hours earlier, the commander of the Delhi garrison, Marik, and the commander of the Indian Red Army Air Defense Force, Hoshir Singh, had been executed by order of Lu Yi!

"Comrade Blyukhel, how did you command the battle! Enemy planes are coming from the airfield on Sagar Island to Delhi! How can you allow such a thing to happen? Why not counterattack, why not drive the enemy into the sea? ”

In the face of Lu Yi's loud reprimand, a trace of anger flashed on Blyukher's face, this Indian ** leader respected himself as the emperor a year ago! Now I dare to talk to myself like this.

"Comrade Lu Yi! Now there is a war going on, India is entering a world war! Many Indian cities including Kolkata, Jamshepur, Dhaka, Howrah, Karachi, Peshawar and many more are under airstrike! Minsk, Kyiv, Vilnius, Constantinople and other Soviet cities are also being bombed! Similarly, our bombers often visited Warsaw, Prague and Königsberg...... This is war! It's normal for you to up, and I'll blow yours! Please refrain from shouting. ”

After being hit by Blyukhel, Lu Yi immediately became furious. He has been a great leader for almost a year. Who would dare to say a word in front of him? He slammed the table and shouted, "Yes! It's normal for you to up and I blow yours, right? Is it normal to have enemy planes drive 1,300 kilometers to bomb a barely defended capital like this? We have long asked the Soviet Union to send fighter aviation brigades to India. Where are these fighter aviation brigades now? At present, we, the revolutionary youth of India, are fighting against Germany and China against the British and American armies in order to defend the Soviet Union, but you, the Soviet Union, are reluctant to send a few planes to India and watch our factories and cities bombed into ruins by the enemy! What kind of internationalism is this! ”

Ruy was almost gritting his teeth as he said these words, the bombing not only nearly killed his great life, but also discredited him and the Indian GCD in front of the citizens of Delhi. As soon as he said that "they will never make it to Delhi unless they are prisoners", the planes swaggered and dropped bombs and leaflets!

Blyukhel also turned pale, if the other party was Trotsky. Naturally, he didn't dare to talk back, but what was Lu Yi? Without him commanding hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops to help fight the world, Lu Yi would not know which Anglo-Indian government prison to eat in! However, Borodin, who was beside Blyukhel, knew the truth of this moment and that moment. Now Ruyi has firmly sat on the throne of the great leader of India, and the Soviet Union also needs the cannon fodder provided by the Indian GCD to sustain the war. In addition, Borodin also knew that China's aggression against India was not resolute, and as long as India was willing to withdraw from the Middle East and part ways with the Soviet Union, China would immediately withdraw its troops from India......

So now it is the USSR that has a request for India. You can't think of yourself as the emperor anymore like you used to. Seeing that Blyukhel was about to open his mouth to argue with Lu Yi again, Borodin hurriedly interjected: "Comrade Lu Yi, your criticism is very reasonable, our work has indeed not been done well, and we will definitely do our best to improve it in the future, please give us some more time." ”

"Comrade Borodin?" Blyukhel was slightly stunned. Immediately, when he saw the look in Borodin's hand, he sighed and said nothing.

"Comrade Blyukhel, how are you going to improve your work?" Lu Yi asked, wrenching his face.

"Comrade Ruy," Blyukhel said, holding back his anger and speaking as calmly as possible, "the location of Delhi is far from the Chinese army airfield. Therefore, it will not face the air threat of too strict, and the tragedy of Japan can be avoided as long as the air defense is strengthened. I will also ask Moscow to send an air force to India as much as possible......"

Lu Yi snorted coldly: "How are you going to make up for your mistakes in command?" ”

"Mistake in command?" Blyukhel and Pavlov glanced at each other. The latter asked tentatively: "Comrade Lu Yi, what do you mean ......?"

"The defeat in the Himalayan battlefield and the fact that the enemy landed in the Bay of Bengal were all caused by the command mistakes of the Northeast Front!"

"No, it's not a mistake." Blyukher retorted: "The attack on the Chinese line of the Himalayas was originally intended to force their Burmese Front to take the initiative to attack. This goal has now been achieved, so the Himalayan campaign was a success! ”

Lu Yi shook his head resolutely: "I don't think the Himalayan campaign was a success, from late June to now, the Himalayan Army Group has lost more than 250,000 people!" Did so many people die just to force their Burmese Front out? Comrade Blyukhel, what do you think of the lives of Indians? ”

Blyukhel lowered his head and kept silent, if there was anything wrong with his operational deployment against China, it was that he did not spare the life of the Indian Ahsan too much. Moreover, the losses of the Himalayan Army Group were indeed greatly unexpected -- Bulyuhel originally thought that the Himalayan Army Group would pay a maximum of 100,000 losses, but he did not expect that the bad weather in the Himalayas would cause a large number of Indian officers and men to fall ill, and the consequence of persisting in fighting while sick was that the casualty rate was staggering.

After venting for a while, Lu Yi lit a cigarette and took a few puffs to stabilize his feelings, and said to Blyukher: "The mistakes in the Himalayan battlefield must not happen again, and besides, the battle in the Bay of Bengal must be carried out as much as possible." Allah cannot be allowed to continue to expand its influence in the Bay of Bengal! I ordered the Northeast Front to drive the Chinese out of the Bay of Bengal by the end of August! ”

"But that's not realistic!" Blyukhel frowned and said: "In the Bay of Bengal, the enemy has an overwhelming superiority in the sea and air, and it is impossible for us to drive them out to sea. The most correct tactic is to clear the field with strong walls and lure the enemy deep. ”

Lu Yi glanced at Blyukhel and said coldly: "Comrade Blyukhel." That set of tactics of yours has just been used in the Middle East, do you think the Chinese will still be tricked? Your Northeast Front has lured the enemy for so long. Instead of going deeper, the enemy created a republic of the East Indies, built an airfield on the island of Sagar, and sent planes from there to bomb our capital, Delhi! ”

"Comrade Lu Yi, the gap between the strength of the enemy and ourselves in the Northeast Indian region is too great, and the total strength of the Chinese in Burma, Imphal and the Bay of Bengal is close to 1 million, the number of aircraft exceeds 1,300, and the number of tanks and armored vehicles is about 1,000. And there is also a powerful Western fleet. Blyuhel's tone was very slow, but very resolute: "We do not have the strength to win a quick victory, we can only choose to fight a protracted war and a war of attrition, as long as the power of the Chinese is contained in India, even if it is a favorable support for the world revolution." ”

"Comrade Blyukher, a protracted war and a war of attrition are both on the one hand, while India is holding back China's power. Our own main strength in India will also be contained and consumed by the Chinese. Moreover, China is not a small country with few resources and a sparse population, and their resources, industry, population, and land area are all greater than India's. Do you think India now has the capital to fight a protracted war of attrition with China? And now that the forces that China has put into the battlefield in India are only a small part of their total strength, at most 20 percent, why can't we concentrate 60 percent of India's forces to defeat them? Lu Yi patiently persuaded.

"But, Comrade Lu Yi, according to our estimates. The combat effectiveness of the squadron is 7 times that of the Indian Red Army, which means that their 1 million troops around Northeast India are equivalent to 7 million Indian Red Army......"

"I do not agree with this judgment, according to you, the 10 million troops of the Chinese are not equivalent to 70 million Indian Red Army!" In addition, the combat effectiveness of the 8 million army of the Germans is probably not below the squadron, so how much of the Indian Red Army is equivalent to the combination of the Chinese and German reactionary armies? That's it. Is it necessary for the world revolution to continue? ”

This statement of Ruy made Blyukhel speechless, in fact, now the top level of the Soviet Union and the G has long known that there is little hope for a world revolution. But this kind of thing cannot be said to Lu Yi, if Lu Yi does not believe that the world revolution can succeed, then why does he continue to send Indian cannon fodder to the Soviet Union and the Middle East? The peace conditions offered by the Chinese to India are not harsh.

"The squadron is indeed well-equipped, but they are not a people's army after all, and the vast majority of officers and soldiers just take money and sell their lives, and they don't know who they are fighting for and why. And we in India and your Soviet army are real people's troops, and the whole army is armed with Marxism and Trotsky ideology, and they are fighting for the liberation of mankind, and there is a world of difference between the morale of the two, and the morale of the army, like weapons and equipment, is the key factor that determines the outcome of the battle, even the decisive factor! Lu Yi paced slowly in his office, analyzing as he went: "So we should not be deceived by the powerful appearance of the imperialist army, in the Middle East, our Indian army has not defeated the Anglo-American imperialist army armed to the teeth with rudimentary weapons and equipment?" If we can do it in the Middle East, why not in Northeast India? ”

Blyukher's heart could not help but complain, the victory in the second Middle East defense war made Lu Yi have a misconception that it was the strength of the Indian Red Army that defeated the Anglo-American Allied forces, not the fatal mistakes of the British and American Allied forces that caused his own defeat.

"However, Comrade Lu Yi, the squadron has much more combat experience than the American and British armies, and our Northeast Front Army only has a slight advantage in numbers." Although there were some things that Blyukhel could not say, he was still trying his best to convince Ruyi as much as possible.

"If the troops are not enough, I can transfer them to you, and add 10 group armies and 300,000 reserves to the Northeast Front! Comrade Blyukher, do you now have the confidence to defeat the Chinese imperialist army? ”

Hearing this, Blyukhel's face changed: "Comrade Lu Yi, do you want to give the general reserve of the Indian Red Army to the Northeast Front?" ”

"Yes." Lu Yi said: "Comrade Apanashchenko, commander of the Northwest Front, called and said that the existing strength of the Northwest Front is enough to repel an attack of any scale by the Chinese army, so there is no need to increase the strength. ”

Blyukher pondered for a moment, and the mountains of Kashmir and Afghanistan appeared in his mind, although the Chinese army had recently seized the plains on the south bank of the Amu Darya River in northern Afghanistan, but the main force of the Indian Northwest Front under the command of Apanashchenko relied on the mountains of south-central Afghanistan to defend against the Chinese attack. Now the battlefield in Afghanistan has reached a stalemate. The Kashmir cluster under the Northwest Front suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Asekhin in July, but the transportation conditions in the Asekhin region were relatively poor. The Chinese were unable to sustain a large army there, so they remained on the defensive after defeating the Kashmir cluster and did not take the opportunity to attack Indian-administered Kashmir (the People's Republic of India considers the Chinese-controlled Asekhin and Karakoram corridors to be part of Kashmir and part of Indian territory).

Thinking of this, Blyukhel finally nodded and agreed: "Okay, when the reinforcements of the 10 army groups arrive, the Northeast Front will immediately attack." But the direction of the attack is not the Bay of Bengal, but Imphal! ”

Imphal has now also become a "disputed area between China and India". On China's official map, Imphal and the entire Naga Mountains are part of the Republic of Myanmar. And on the map of Indians, Imphal is, of course, an integral part of the People's Republic of India. And Ruy also knew that Imphal Fortress was Burma's gateway to India, and as long as Imphal was captured, the Chinese were unlikely to threaten northeast India by land. After some thought, Ruy agreed to Blyukhel's request, but at the same time asked him to move south to reclaim the Bay of Bengal immediately after the capture of Imphal.

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Nanking. Tangshan Prime Minister's Office.

The Middle East Corps reported that the initial repair of the air base on the island of Gershm had been completed, and that on the morning of 15 August, 120 bombers belonging to the 10th Air Force of the German air force had flown to the island of Gershm, along with about 1,000 Luftwaffe ground crews. On the afternoon of 16 August, two transport ships of the Imperial Arab Navy, laden with ammunition and aircraft spare parts, airfield equipment and anti-aircraft guns, arrived at the dock on the island of Geshmu......

Report of the East Indian Front. Following the successful bombing of Delhi, the capital of India, on 13 August, the 4th Bombardment Air Division organized 240 sorties to bomb the Delhi area on 15 August and 16 August, dropping a total of 120 tons of bombs and 20 million leaflets. At the same time, the Bay of Bengal landings are progressing very well, and the ports of Sagar and Dekka have been largely restored. The 1st Panzer Cavalry Corps has already begun to go ashore. On the northern front of the Bay of Bengal Battlefield, the 1st Marine Division and the 1st North Korean Division are still confronting the Indian army on the Demlug and Furda lines. However, the East Indian Liberation Army took advantage of the confrontation between our army and the main force of the Indian army and occupied Mohenpur and Danden in Bengal. Odisha in Balyabar, Jelleswal, etc.

The Afghan-Kashmir Army Group reported that the first phase of the Tibetan highway from the Kashgar region to the Aseketchin region has been fully completed. The 9th Infantry Corps, the 10th Infantry Corps, and the 2nd Mountain Corps have secretly advanced along the Tibetan Xinjiang Highway to the Asekeqin area......"

In Chang Ruiqing's prime minister's office, Chen Xinrui was holding a document and reporting on the latest military information received. Chang Ruiqing sat leisurely on a circle chair, holding Erlang's legs, and holding a cup of coffee in his hand. Hearing that the troops of the three armies had secretly advanced towards the Asekechin region, he laughed out loud and said to Zhao Zhen, the chief of the general staff sitting opposite him: "Youlin, that Lu Yi Asan probably would never have thought that we would gather 200,000 soldiers from four armies in the uninhabited area of the plateau of Asekeqin, right?" ”

It is the height of summer in Nanjing now, although the temperature in Tangshan, where the Prime Minister's Office is located, is relatively cool, but Zhao Fatzi is still too hot at this time, shaking his fan and saying with a smile: "Of course, the Indians would not have thought that we would gather so many troops in Asekechin, but Brother Yaoru, you should not forget how much ammunition and how much supply the 200,000 army consumes every day." There is no way to support a long-term battle of 200,000 troops by the Tibetan road, and once they have no way to attack the Punjab Plain, or are defeated by the Indian Red Army on the Punjab Plain, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

As early as the summer of 1932, just after the outbreak of World War II, the Chinese Ministry of Defense realized that India was likely to fall into the hands of India, and that China's Tibetan border would be very difficult. Therefore, the Ministry of National Defense immediately launched the construction project of the highway into Tibet, which is divided into three parts: first, the Sichuan-Tibet highway; the second is the Qinghai-Tibet Highway; The third is the Tibet-Xinjiang Highway. Although after three years of arduous construction by more than 100,000 road construction troops, none of the three roads has been completed. However, the Tibetan Xinjiang Highway was still built to the Asekhin region bordering Kashmir, so that the Chinese National Defense Forces also had the possibility of using Asekhin as a base to raid the Kashmir region of India.

But seizing the bottom of Kashmir is not the goal of Chang Ruiqing and the Chinese Ministry of Defense, their real target is the Punjab plain, India's breadbasket. This plain at the foot of the Himalayas and on both sides of the Indus River may not be very large (including the real-world Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, and Pakistan's Punjab), but it is India's most important food producing region! Especially at a time when India's agriculture is supported by a large number of laborers to support the world revolution, Punjab's food is of strategic importance to India, which has a population of 100 million. And India's second largest production area is Bangladesh, which is now being invaded by the squadron. Even though most of Bengal was still under the control of the Red Army, food production would still suffer severe blows (largely due to India's scorched earth policy).

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