Chapter 479: Artoria's Rhapsody

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 large ~~ piece of borderless land was created by the Indians themselves, and the hands of the governor and the oracle were clean in this matter, without 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.

The most crucial part of Artoria's plan is that she needs a large amount of land to be distributed among the families of the soldiers in the newly recruited troops in exchange for their loyal support.

The land of India has long had its own owner, and there is not an inch of land to spare.

What to do?

The only way to ask for land is to ask for land from the "dead".

The massacre of the "high castes" and landlords in Ratani created a large amount of terra nullius.

Through the massacre of the poor and untouchables by the "bandits", the returnees also created a large number of borderless lands.

When all the people died, the earth was freed up.

In the last days of January 1945 and the first five days of the following month, the British Provisional Governor's Palace in Calcutta was almost drowned in the "tears and snot" of the Indian local leaders who arrived from all over West Bengal, almost crying and kneeling and licking the tips of Mountbatten's shoes, gathered here with the only demand: to eliminate the Rata guerrillas of the Communists of India who were gathering in the north and expanding their territory.

To convince the British to send troops. They took the initiative to abandon the idea of "independence~~ autonomy" and demanded a return to the glory of the "British royal family".

The whole of India and the whole world now sees that the Ratani guerrillas were deliberately indulged by the British, but so what? The leaders of the Indian independence forces, led by Gandhi and Nehru, also hated the local princely lords, but so what?

February 5th. Having received everything the British wanted, Mountbatten, the Viceroy of India, finally agreed to send troops to the north to exterminate the Ratani guerrillas there.

The first sortie was 20 four-shot Lancaster bombers and 30 Mosquito fighter-bombers, which violently bombed the camp of the Ratani troops, killing hundreds of PKI guerrillas including Soviet advisers and representatives of the Republic of India through "precision" bombing.

On 6 February, the three divisions were already ready to go. Including a British division and two newly formed "Untouchables" and "Shudra" divisions, an army of about 50,000 people, carrying 60 tanks and more than 100 artillery pieces, went north by rail. Take Bahapur directly.

At the same time, the British army in the northern state of Bihar also sent two divisions south, and in the east Benlaga region, nearly 20,000 troops were also dispatched. The three-way army was dispatched in three directions, with a total strength of up to 100,000 troops. There are more than 100 tanks and hundreds of airplanes. More than 200 artillery pieces were used.

The 100,000-strong encirclement army was dispatched at the same time, which was the largest military operation of the British Army after the end of the one-year war.

For the British, there was no suspense in this "left-handed right-handed" encirclement and suppression operation.

On 6 February, the British army "swore to send troops", and on 8 February, the Ratani guerrillas took the initiative to abandon the city of Bahapur.

And the British troops in the other two directions also "pushed flat" smoothly all the way. Flat push process. Although the guerrillas resisted, these resistances were like stones thrown into a huge wave, and they were basically not radicalized by any wind and waves, and they soon disappeared.

By February 13, it was all the way forward. The onslaught of the British on three fronts joined forces in the heart of the Ratani guerrillas. The British announced to all India that they had succeeded in exterminating the main force of the "Rattani Gang". More than 6,000 Ratani bandits were killed and tens of thousands (mostly local militia members) were taken prisoner.

But the actual truth is that this is not the case.

Long before the British dispatched, Ratani had been secretly informed by the British army in advance.

In the face of the British army pressing from the south, north, and east, Ratani, with his own core main force of about 3,000 people, directly abandoned the base area and fled to the west, and then dispersed to "break through". The rest are all miscellaneous non-main forces with low combat effectiveness, and they are conducting "guerrilla warfare" locally.

According to the instructions of the British, with the cooperation of the British, Ratani played a golden cicada to get out of the shell, gave up the team of tens of thousands and walked away. Before the British army dispatched, it was Ratani who leaked the situation to the British side, revealing to the British the locations of the Soviet advisers and the representatives of the PKI, whom he regarded as "thorns in the side", and the British stepped forward to eliminate the people who "obstructed" him in the ranks. He then took his core men and followed the route designated by the British, scattered and retreated to the mountains of the junction of West Bengal and Jharkhand.

Ratani was already a "quick-growing" armed force, and its combat initiative and will to fight were far inferior to those of the Red Army. As soon as the core personnel of the leader were gone, the remaining troops of more than 10,000 people were immediately beaten back to their original shape.

Ratani's instructions to his subordinates before retreating were to preserve their strength and disperse and hide for future development. On his orders, his guerrilla detachment was dispersed in regiments and carried out guerrilla warfare in the mountains.

There was no major problem with this tactic in theory, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in history, the Red Army's anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines also developed and eventually grew on the scale of regiments.

However, the prerequisite for this kind of guerrilla tactics is to have an efficient and powerful grassroots party (crab) organization, but this is the most important basic condition, which the Ratani guerrillas do not possess at all. His guerrillas were "quick products," and although they had the title of "PKI" on their heads, there were very few real "CPI" in the ranks, and the ranks themselves were "crooked" in the process of growing up. In addition, it has been less than a year since the base was established, the foundation is too shallow, and the supreme leader is a big traitor who is an undercover agent of the enemy who is betraying intelligence. It is simply impossible to accomplish the difficult task of survival, guerrilla, and development behind enemy lines.

Most of the troops left behind by Ratani were wiped out under the pursuit of the British army, a small number of them scattered in the mountains and forests and became bandits, and many more took off their military uniforms and ran home to hide as civilians.

The presence of the Rattani guerrillas, who were imposing half a month ago, are like footprints on the beach in the Bahapur region. A big wave hit, and it was immediately washed away without a trace.

By 15 February, Governor Mountbatten had announced to the Indian authorities in Calcutta that the joint dispatch of British troops in the three places had basically wiped out the main force of the Ratani guerrillas, that the bandit leader Ratani was missing, and that the British were pursuing Yunyun.

On 20 February, Governor Mountbatten announced in Calcutta an "amnesty" from the British Queen's Decree at Buckingham Palace, announcing an amnesty for ordinary civilians who had joined the "Ratani Gang". This is the "Huairou" policy after the stick.

When Governor Mountbatten announced the Queen's pardon to all of India, Chen Taiping was meeting with Artoria in the secret room of the local Cathedral in the capacity of "Lan Fang".

It is no secret to the British who have a large number of undercover agents in the PKI guerrillas. The group of people sent by Lin Han was able to smoothly enter the Ratani guerrillas and successfully retreat from the encirclement and suppression of the British army, which was also inseparable from the "active cooperation" of the British.

"There are no forever friends. Only eternal benefits. ”

When standing in front of Artoria and talking to this "legendary patron saint" of Britain, Chen Taiping felt this strongly.

It's 1945. Ten years ago, during the War of Liberation, Chen Taiping, who was still a hot-blooded young man at the time, joined the Red Army as a returned overseas Chinese and participated in the war with Britain in the Shanghai area.

Four years ago, during the "One Year War", he also joined the side of New China and participated in the jungle war from Burma to southern Tibet.

But for the whole of last year, he ostensibly joined the PKI. In fact, it was secretly cooperating with the British, and it was the PKI guerrillas, allies of the socialist camp, who were trapped.

"In the face of nationalism, we must first give in."

Recalling his actions in the past year, Chen Taiping also felt that his outlook on life and world view had been completely subverted. Sixty comrades came to India with him, six of whom died in the war. The rest were taken out by him, and most of them are now on their way home. But of the sixty, only he and the other two knew the true truth about the mission.

Chen Taiping is now discussing with Artoria the topic of continuing to "support" the Ratani guerrillas in India. The Ratani guerrillas have been nominally wiped out, but in reality their core remains intact and are now hiding in the remote mountains of India.

In the opinion of the British, they will continue to raise the red flag in other states. In the process, the British would continue the West Benglas model, using them to create more "borderlands" to be given to their "honorary Bretanians".

It would be embarrassing for the PKI to send out the supplies that were found to have the fingerprints of the British government on them. So in this matter, Artoria asked Lin Han to come forward to help, using the identity of Lanfang merchants to do this, acting as their "white gloves" to do the dirty work for them. Since this is not a trivial matter, and it cannot be discussed in the British government institutions, the church, as a forward base for the cultural invasion of Western powers, naturally became the meeting place for the two sides.

On the issue of India and the PKI, Lin Han's views were very "reactionary" and completely different from those of New China. So this matter is completely out of the way of Beiping.

When Chen Taiping and Artoria were talking, officials from the British colonial government were also on hand to discuss the topic of mutual cooperation on this issue in the coming year.

After the conversation, Chen Taiping said goodbye to Artoria, and Rothschild and Artoria, who were talking to him, began to talk.

At first, he also lamented the current strange relationship between China and Britain.

Artoria corrected him:

"It's not between China and Britain, it's between Lanfang and the Empire on which the sun never sets, there's a difference. That Chinese Chen, he represents the Chinese god standing behind him, not China, and there is a difference between the two. ”

Rothschild was stunned for a moment, then nodded in understanding.

Since the beginning of the Holy Impact, the five countries that claim to have "divine envoys", except for the Soviet Union, which has not yet received the help of divine envoys, Britain, Germany, and Japan have all been eager to push their own gods or divine envoys to the fore in order to enjoy the "incense faith" of the people. However, after the Divine Shock began, the British received information that the "crystallization of China's will" had been stranded abroad for a long time, and that they had been hiding in Germany for a long time to play the role of "Sephiroth", that is, they would not return to China.

It's easy to make all kinds of associations. Since knowing that there are "superhumans" such as Lin Han and Yamato Nadeshiko in this world, various countries have organized a large number of experts to study these existences. Studying their abilities, ways of thinking, personality preferences, etc., Lin Han is naturally the focus of research by the British.

Artoria, who was born from Lin Han's womb, of course knew why, but because she had an agreement with her "father", she kept it secret from the British in this matter, and also kept a secret about Li Huamei for him.

Artoria asked, "Mr. Rothschild, do you know what is the key to the future fate of the British Empire?" ”

"India, Australia, Canada?"

Rothschild was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and thought of several answers in his head, but they were all denied by himself.

"It's the Zi (Crab) Palace, the woman's Zi (Crab) Palace!"

Artoria replied.

Artoria then sighed:

"The greatest weakness of the British Empire is that the population of our main nation is too small."

Rothschild nodded in understanding.

"The various solutions I have come up with to solve the plight of the British Empire are really only a symptom rather than a cure, and the real key is not here, but somewhere else."

Rothschild asked: "Is it the resolution you proposed to the Emperor and the Prime Minister last year?" ”

Artoria nodded, "Yes, the British Isles are too small to accommodate too many people, and Europe is too crowded. If George III had the courage to abandon Europe and move the royal family and the core of the British Isles to the United States! So now, the United States is the United Kingdom, and the empire with the sun never sets on the entire North American continent can truly achieve that the sun never sets. ”

Rothschild showed the same expression of regret, which is also the most regretful point of the subjects of the British Empire today. (To be continued......)