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[277] Sweep through thousands of armies

Major General Hughes rode a brown horse, together with the British officers, and led nine British colonial infantry regiments in northern India from New Delhi to the Himalayan pass. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ?.

He was in such a bad mood that he couldn't be happy to see the open roses on the side of the road.

According to the information sent by the lords of the northern princely states, after the strong squadron set out from Ali in Tibet, it has already crossed the valleys of the Himalayas, and has now entered the Capone Valley.

After the Imperial Allied Army in the northern princely states rashly launched several attacks on the southbound squadron, they were violently beaten by the mortars of the Chinese Army, and the collapsed pits and valleys were being pursued and encircled by the Chinese infantry.

Major General Hughes was terrified, once the Capone Valley changed hands, the squadron would smoothly rush out of the Simla Pass at the southern end of the valley, and if he could not block the Chinese in the Simla Pass, it would mean a disaster, the squadron would rush into the plains of northern India, and they would have countless options in the direction of attack.

Major General Hughes was shocked by the speed of the squadron's attack, but Hughes felt that the squadron could not be numerous, the trade route to Lhasa via Ali was in poor condition, and the wilderness was full of gravel and streams, so the squadron's logistics must be very problematic.

Under Hughes, there were three strong Sikh infantry regiments, two Punjabi cavalry regiments, and four hard-working Gurkha infantry regiments, led by more than 100 British officers and more than 500 experienced British soldiers, with a total strength of more than 20,000 people.

As the most powerful corps in northern India, Hughes boasted to the Indian governor, Marquis Davrin, and the British commander-in-chief in India, Earl Shore, claiming that with his strong garrison, it was impossible for the Chinese to step into the northern Indian plain.

However, after several encounters, Hughes was horrified to find that the soldiers of the Indian princely states on which he relied for mountain warfare were powerless in the face of the revolutionary army of the Han and Tibetan tribes.

Hughes now pinned all his hopes on the Capone Valley and the Shimla Pass, as long as he controlled this, he could lock the squadron firmly in the Himalayas and not take half a step south.

After a morning's march, the vanguard of the Hughes Corps finally arrived at the Shimla Pass.

Their first opponent, the 11th Group Army of the Lhasa Theater of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, gave them a head start.

As a mountain group army, in order to facilitate the mobile march in the field, all the subordinate army groups in the Lhasa station area are equipped with all kinds of mortars and recoilless guns from regiment to company, and each division has a Type 56 160mm mortar regiment. Although the weight of the 160mm mortar of more than one ton is not light, it is also better than the weight of the 122mm howitzer used in the Kunming Theater of Operations, which is more than two tons, and it is convenient for trucks and tractors to tow in the valley area.

On the other hand, the British army learned from the fiasco on both land and sea in recent years, and vigorously developed artillery, but in 1880, Britain had not yet found a way to hit a 4-kilogram shell at 3,500 meters.

The British War Office was very angry about this, because in their opinion, Chinese 82mm mortar shells were about 4 kilograms per round (actually 4.75 kilograms, close to 5 kilograms), and Britain had to come up with technology that could fire 4 kilograms of shells from 75mm to 80mm howitzers to 4,000 meters if it wanted to compete with China on land.

Therefore, after strengthening the alliance with France, Britain and France jointly developed artillery, and Britain exchanged its superior naval technology with France's superior army artillery technology, and successfully produced the Type 85 75mm howitzer in 1885. The 25-fold diameter barrel and smokeless gunpowder allowed the gun to fire 4 kg of grenades to a distance of 4 km, but its lethality depended on a dozen or so uneven fragments of the cartridge case, compared to 6 km with a solid iron ball projectile.

Sadly, there was a huge technological gap between China and the British, so that all the artillery of this era fired 200 rounds of continuous adjustment within two kilometers, whether it was a grenade or a solid iron ball, the hit rate was only a little more than 10 percent. However, now countries around the world are learning from China's skirmisher tactics, and in the face of infantry that is no longer dense, the development trend of artillery shells will focus on grenades, so all countries are eliminating solid artillery shells.

However, due to the fact that all types of Chinese mortars have a range of more than five kilometers, and 160mm can hit more than 8 kilometers, the balance of strength in this war has been one-sided from the beginning.

The vanguard of the 11th Army opened the way with the powerful firepower of 81 light machine guns and 56 semi-automatics, breaking the advance of the Fortress Corps and forcing a large retreat and regrouping.

Then the artillery battle began, and because of Yao Fan's advocacy of artillery, the Chinese Revolutionary Army had evolved modern warfare into the era of artillery confrontation. A 11mm mortar regiment in the vanguard of the 160th Army was the first to attack, and under the radio guidance of the vanguard, a heavy grenade mortar weighing 41 kg was poured onto the positions of the Hughes Corps.

In the rumble of the cannonball, the British opened their eyes to the 41-kilogram 160mm shell, which weighed ten times the shell of the British 75mm howitzer of the Model 1885 that had just been re-equipped, with a killing radius of more than 50 meters and an area the size of a football field.

Without waiting for the Theseus Corps to rush into the West Ram Pass to block the attack, the large force of the British Colonial Corps was soon bombarded to pieces outside the West Ram Pass, and each shell of the squadron took the lives of fifty or sixty soldiers, and even one shell entered the center of a Gurk infantry regiment assembled in a phalanx, killing more than 200 people on the spot and more than 300 people were seriously and lightly wounded......

Major General Hughes's spirit was almost broken.

But this is not the end, the modern infantry tactics of the revolutionary army have always been infantry and artillery coordination, and the arrival of artillery fire means the beginning of infantry impact.

Long before the start of the battle of annihilation in the Capone Valley, the 11th Group Army composed of the Han and Tibetan people had already completed a detour behind the enemy with iron pots and dry rations on their backs, and the two infantry regiments crossed the mountains from the east side, waded through the river valley in the east, and detoured back to the southeast side of the Hughes Corps, accompanied by the artillery cover of the artillery vanguard of the 11th Group Army, and launched a large-width encirclement charge against the Hughes Corps.

Hearing the terrible trumpet of the squadron blowing like a mountain and river, the Indian soldiers no longer had the will to fight, and began a large-scale collapse and flight, the British ** officers were at a loss, and the command of the unit was completely paralyzed.

At this time, the spirit of Major General Hughes can be regarded as completely broken.

Riding on his horse, he fled with the rout in panic, and cried in his heart: "No one can defeat Chinese, they are slaughtering us like wolves driving sheep, this is an unfair war......

With the collapse of the Hughes Corps, the main force of the 11th Army rushed out of the West Ram Pass and attacked the North Indian Plain in a big way.

On the eastern front of the Indian Liberation Campaign, the three army groups in the Kunming Theater also swept away all resistance, rushed out of various rugged and difficult mountain roads and woodlands, outflanked the enemy's main army corps in a roundabout way, and completely surrounded the 120,000 main forces of the British army gathered in Dhaka and Kolkata on the eastern front.

Then, the H-1 Division of the Air Force of the Republic of China took off from the Yangon field airfield, and a large-scale bombing group composed of 48 H-5s was dispatched, and the silver Reapers, handsomely dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on the encircled British troops, completely bombing the main forces of the British army in Calcutta and Dhaka, and completely losing the will to fight, and the two cities were almost in ruins.

In the Bay of Bengal, the summer is hot, and the salty, wet and warm sea breeze makes people feel slimy and slimy.

Britain's overseas Grand Fleet has assembled in the northern part of the Bay of Bengal, awaiting a decisive battle with the Chinese navy.

British Admiral Marquis O'Row, standing on the bridge of the battleship HMS Intrepid, launched in 1884, looked down at the deck and saw the soldiers praying for victory.

"Yes, victory, God save the Queen, Great Britain needs a victory so badly!"

Chinese-made radio transceivers ticked in the telecommunications room on the top floor of the bridge, the interpreters worked for days and days only to get a bunch of bad news, the British army of 200,000 in India was defeated one after another, the proud and loud trumpets were annihilated by the Chinese formation, and the revolutionary army bombed Calcutta back to the Stone Age with thunderous air power.

According to credible information, the Commander-in-Chief of the Calcutta Naval Base told Field Marshal O'Led that the British commander-in-chief in India, Count Shore, and his headquarters had also suffered misfortune in the air raids, and that Chinese planes had dropped tons of bombs that had blown up Count Shore's headquarters in the New Fort William Fortress in Calcutta into a pile of gravel, and that the British had not yet found the body of Count Shore.

The Dreadnought was not the Dreadnought-class battleship as later generations thought, but an upgraded version of the Royal Navy's ravage-class ironclad ship, with four 317mm guns, each weighing 25 tons and a range of up to 10 kilometers.

Ever since the Royal Navy was defeated again and again by the arrogant Chinese Navy, the British Navy embarked on a large-scale shipbuilding campaign with the intention of achieving shame. As a result, the ravage-class ironclad ship was upgraded to become the current Dreadnought battleship.

The entire Royal Navy Overseas Grand Fleet, which has 139 large and small warships divided into 10 detachments, is currently assembled in the Bay of Bengal, because according to intelligence, the Chinese fleet has set out from Banda Aceh and after replenishing in Yangon, all the way to Calcutta.

The Marquis de O'Rad knew that the current Royal Navy Overseas Fleet was actually the most powerful British fleet, even larger than the home fleet, and if this could not achieve victory over China, then the British maritime empire would be completely destroyed, which he could not imagine.

The sun gradually rose, and at noon, the third squadron in front sent back a message that the Chinese fleet had been spotted on an unprecedented scale, in addition to a dozen large warships, there were also more than thirty small boats of less than 1,000 tons.

However, this naval battle suddenly began without warning, and the Chinese fleet, more than 20 kilometers away, did not wait for the Royal Navy detachments to pounce on it to complete the encirclement, and showed its hideous fangs.

Li Lu, the new deputy commander of the South China Sea Fleet, ordered a long-range missile attack on the British Navy. Ten 024 missile boats spread out over the sea and pulled out a formation of lateral intensive attacks.

The commands of the captains of the boats echoed through the horns of the boats:

"All of them are ready for battle!"

"All of them are in battle mode at once!"

"All combat positions are immediately in place!"

"Each combat position begins to self-check!"

"The missile is powered!"

"The fire control radar is powered!"

"Missileman reloaded squibble!"

"The radar is locked, and the real-time data injection is normal!"

"The motor is turned on and the automatic constant temperature state is complete!"

"The main engine is at full power! Full speed ahead! ”

"All personnel have entered the bridge cockpit, and the watertight door has been locked with air tightness"

"I order, missile launch!"

"Yes, launch!"

"Yes, launch!"

After approaching the target, the missile terminal guidance radar was turned on, and after completing the climbing action, it roared and dived into the belly of the British warship.

There was a series of big explosions on the sea, and the "Cotrton", "Hercules", "Steadfast", "Perris", "Dignity" and other major warships of nearly 10,000 tons or even more than 10,000 tons were destroyed in an instant, and the Royal Navy was completely disrupted, and no one knew what kind of magic the Chinese Navy used and how it did it.

With a displacement of 13,000 tons, the Guangzhou is a primary battleship specially designed for the Chinese Republic in the 21st century, equipped with four 203mm single-barreled main guns, which is a 203mm plus howitzer type. In addition, it is equipped with 4 130mm secondary guns, 4 57mm secondary guns, and 8 twin 37mm automatic guns.

Due to the lack of overly complex electronic systems and twin or even triple turrets, the ship resembles a smaller version of the 071 Dock Landing Ship, with a lot of room for improvement.

Although it is a design of the 21st century, the main construction and assembly are all completed by the Republic of China, because it does not consider too much electronic equipment, does not require landing operations, and does not bring helicopters or missile vertical launch systems, so the ship's self-construction is not too difficult, and the localization rate has reached nearly 50%.

The Canton's 203mm guns, which had a range of 50 kilometers, opened fire at this time, announcing that the entire fleet had joined the battle. Fuzhou, Kunming, and Taipei, which are of the same level as Guangzhou, followed by the cannons, and then the Hong Kong, Macao, Foshan, Maoming and other destroyers of the same level as the Four King Kongs also joined in, followed by the assault of the Type 037 submarine hunting and the pursuit of the Fish # Mineboat Brigade, 203mm, 130mm, and 57mm naval guns rumbled, and the Fish # Mine entered the water with a bang, and the sea surface was strangled into a ball.

When the Marquis of Oride arrived at the battlefield area, groups of British warships were rushing to the Chinese fleet without fear of death, Oled looked at the wreckage on the sea that had been blown up by the Chinese Navy, and the fire and black smoke shrouded the Royal Navy, as if it was a crematorium.

An idea came to Oled's mind: "Maybe I'll never be back in London again......"

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