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"Pigs! Bastard! These yellow-skinned bastards! Jamic roared. 150,000 fought with the Wehrmacht in Afghanistan for two years, and were surrounded by hunger and their eyes were green, and it was estimated that the Soviet army, which had no shortage of human flesh, rushed to break through here and there, and it was clearly deliberately releasing water! I'm angry, I'm going to be angry! I have always only seen the British Empire pit players, who has ever seen a teammate pit the British Empire? Wait, Zhongying doesn't seem to be teammates yet, right? That is to indulge the enemy in trouble, yes, to indulge in the enemy's trouble.

Like a broken-mouthed old woman, Jamic yelled and yelled at the new words he had invented and sent them to the Anglo-Indian Army Headquarters in Mumbai. As a division with less than 7,000 people, a total of only a dozen 75mm rapid-fire guns, and a few miscellaneous machine guns, trying to block the hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops who have already killed the red eyes and desperately broke through is the same as looking for death.

Here, the 8th Anglo-Indian Division rushed to arrange troops, and Bombay was also in chaos over there. Lieutenant General Quinan had no choice but to forward the telegram back to China, and then reassure Jamic and the 8th British Seal Division, saying that he would personally lead two divisions to support. Of course, he did not forget to report the crime in the telegram sent back to London, scolding Yang Qiu and the Wehrmacht to the blood. However, he didn't know that at the same time as he sent the telegram, Wang Zhengting and Gu Weijun had already hurried to the British Embassy in Beijing to inform Xu Gesen solemnly. He also said that the mistake was because the troops were preparing for the New Year, so they did not pay attention to let the Soviet troops escape, but they were making up for the mistake, arresting the officers who made mistakes, and mobilizing troops from Kabul to Kandahar to block the attack, trying not to cause trouble to the British friends.

The arrest was indeed arrested, but only a dozen deserters were shot on the spot by Sun Chuanfang later that day, and there was no evidence of their death. Xu Gesen was shocked when he heard the news, how could he still have the heart to check the authenticity of the arrest list. Immediately contact the country to inform the Indian forces of the precautionary measures.

Two telegrams arrived at about the same time that caused Whitehall to explode, and the Soviets were about to launch a new offensive in Bengal and Burma. This is the crown of the British Empire, and it's not your backyard, so why do you run here if you have nothing to do?

"Hold on! Be sure to hold Quetta! ”

Churchill, who was planning to occupy Norway, could not care about Scandinavia, and immediately ordered that he must defend to the death, and asked Cunningham to lead the Mediterranean fleet to attack, and personally sent a telegram to the 8th British and Indian Division.

This telegram is famous. It was to the effect: "Colonel Jamici, you have to guard well, the king is watching you, and the national fortunes of the British Empire are in your hands." But don't be nervous, the Soviets won't fight. You see. Iran, Kazakhstan and Finland, how badly they were beaten, so as long as you maintain the dignity of the British imperialists, they will automatically collapse as soon as the guns go off. ”

No one knows what Jamic thought after receiving the telegram, but the telegram later became evidence of the newspaper's ridicule of Churchill's ignorance and penchant for pointing fingers at the army.

After Churchill, who had always ignored the media, sent the telegram, he suddenly realized that this was a good opportunity. So he hurried to the House of Commons and told the old diehards of the Senate. India is about to be lost, so stop hiding it and take out all the money. I'm going to buy American fire, and I'm going to raise a hundred divisions to save the world.

It was certainly impossible to form a hundred divisions, and the Senate, which had always been a dime a dime, did not even want to listen, but the entry of the remnants of the Soviet army into India really caused panic. Even the royal family was alarmed, and George VI immediately instructed Chamberlain to find a way. And the army must ensure the security of India.

Of course, Chamberlain knew the importance of India, don't look at the current Japanese invasion and the internal confrontation between the three parties, but everyone knows that as long as Britain relaxes, India is still India, and even China is close at hand, after all, hundreds of years of colonial roots are not a joke! But who would have thought that China had not intervened yet, and Stalin, who was about to lose as pants, would actually let his troops break through to India, which is ignoring the majesty of the British Empire!

Chamberlain was actually unable to perform his duties as prime minister at this time, and the chaotic emergencies made the old gentleman tired to deal with. So Churchill stepped forward, isn't it just a few hundred thousand remnants! He immediately sent a telegram to Moscow, asking Stalin to order the Soviet army to stop its advance immediately, and swore that if you went to India, the imperial army would be unkind.

Stalin threw the telegram directly into the trash. You're stupid! Stop moving forward? The Afghan Front has not been replenished for three months, and if it were not for the large amount of food and ammunition that Zhukov had stockpiled in advance when he was in office, I am afraid that he would have run out of ammunition and surrendered like the Kazakhs. Now it is difficult to break out of the encirclement and actually stop the advance of the front. This is the great Soviet Red Army, and not your British criminal colonial army. Besides, where is it not going to India? Mashhad is full of mountains, there are several divisions of the Wehrmacht on the top of the mountain, Mare has also been cut off, hundreds of tanks are eyeing each other, and the troops can't be allowed to run east into the deep mountains of Afghanistan, right? Even Zhukov knew that except for India, the rest was a dead end. So he would rather lose his troops to the Indian GC Party to strengthen their power (Stalin was still suspicious of Nehru) than let his troops lose face in the Chinese prisoner of war camps, not to mention that he also dreamed of joining forces with Japan and threatening the vital Burma and Tibet.

Of course, he scolded in the office, and only after scolding did Motorov reply to a telegram, which contained only four words: "There is no such thing." Then he ran to urge Zhukov to make more efforts to solve Finland, after all, it was almost the Chinese New Year.

In the face of Stalin, who opened his eyes and told nonsense, Chamberlain was so angry that he almost suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, so he had to press the hard-line Churchill back into his chair and let the Arab commander-in-chief Waver, who had cooperated with China in Afghanistan and had a good relationship with China, contact the Central Asian Theater Command of the Wehrmacht, and he himself sent a telegram to Yang Qiu, asking him to order a strict defense of Kandahar, and the British army was willing to cooperate with the flanking attack. In short, it is a word, the Soviet troops must not be allowed to enter India, otherwise it will seriously damage the relations between the two countries.

Yang Qiu was also very "innocent", so he immediately summoned Xu Gesen and pointed at Kandahar and sulked: "Ambassador Xu Gesen, you see, something big has happened!" After the battle of Kunduz, I said that Kandahar would be given to you as a strategic buffer, but you were unwilling to resist and reject my good intentions. Well, now it's big trouble! There is only one division in Kandahar, and seventy percent of them are Afghan miscellaneous troops. How do you let me keep it? ”

"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it! If the Soviet army broke into India, who was to blame? ”

Xu Gesen was so anxious that he went to the Ministry of National Defense after leaving the presidential palace and urged the National Defense Army to defend Kandahar on the spot. Yue Peng also cooperated, ordered to defend Kandahar in front of him, and strictly ordered Sun Chuanfang to send at least three divisions to pursue. Let the Afghan air wing attack, be sure to stop the Soviet army. But what Xu Gesen didn't expect was that the Wehrmacht, which had always been full of military orders, was infighting! Air Force Commander Honin outright refused the order because of the presence of ice over the Afghan plateau. Not suitable for flying.

Xu Gesen was very dissatisfied with the fact that the strongest air force could not be dispatched, but he was dissatisfied, the Chinese Air Force is not the Royal Air Force, and India is not a theater of operations, so it is indeed not the responsibility to accompany you to play with your life. Fortunately, the army finally gave face. Three divisions were sent to intensify the pursuit, and the garrison of Kandahar also attacked and risked death to intercept it. In particular, the heavy artillery regiment stationed in Kandahar, 36 155-mm towed howitzers kept bombarding the Soviet vanguard, and the cloud created by the continuous explosion of thousands of shells once made Jamic breathe a sigh of relief.

But by noon the cannon had stopped firing, and Jamic sent three telegrams asking why, and the answer was the same: "The ammunition is gone." ”

A small heavy artillery regiment, and it is located on a plateau with inconvenient supplies. How much ammunition can you have? So Jamici is really not weird. Artillery is the courage of the army, how can it be blocked without artillery? So after paying the heavy price of "37 dead and wounded", the Afghan soldiers were very "clever" and withdrew first, causing the defense line to collapse. The main forces of the Wehrmacht also had to retreat to the city and wait for reinforcements.

As soon as the artillery stopped, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Afghan Front, Ryabishev, finally breathed a sigh of relief, got out of the bunker with a sloppy beard, and called all the officers and commissars. Yin Yin advised: "Don't care about Kandahar, the Chinese don't have enough troops here!" Go around. Get around! Tell every commander, grit your teeth and speed up! Ahead is Quetta, it's India! There's a lot to eat there, rush! ”

It's time for your own life!

Kandahar to Quetta is less than 200 kilometers, because they did not want to get involved in the mud pits of Afghanistan, so the British army from Quetta to Kandahar was undefended, and even the Wehrmacht did not deploy a single soldier to avoid Sino-British tensions. Now it's good, completely cheap for the Soviet army. The mighty Afghan Front easily crossed the area and reached the city of Quetta in the evening.

Major General Kozylov, who was in charge of opening the way, has been fighting in Afghanistan for ten years, is a veteran officer who participated in the Kunduz campaign, and his subordinates are all veterans who have been entangled with Sun Chuanfang for more than a year, and their strength is much stronger than that of the Kazakh front. But he still didn't dare to be careless, after all, there were British troops who had never fought before, and there were three Wehrmacht infantry divisions in pursuit behind him, and a slight delay was in danger of being completely annihilated. So now the troops have only one way to live, which is to take Quetta in the shortest possible time, and then cross the Suleiman Mountains into the Great Plains of India, and join the Indian GC Party and guerrillas in Uttar Pradesh, India. Under his personal leadership, even the usual artillery preparations were filtered out, and an entire motorized infantry division directly launched a sea of people charge.

In the face of the black oppressive Soviet army, the British and Canadian soldiers in the 8th Anglo-Indian Division were still very loyal, because they knew that as long as they held for two to three days, the rear reinforcements and the arriving Wehrmacht could crush this Soviet army. But what made Jamic desperate was that most of the Sikh soldiers in the army had long been frightened, and when they saw that the Soviets were not afraid of death, they launched a sea charge, and only fought for less than two hours before turning around and fleeing. "It's over!" Jamic was stunned when he saw this scene, and finally the adjutant let the soldiers carry him to escape.

"Ran away?"

Kozilov, who was already ready for the annihilation of the whole army, was stunned, he didn't even lose a battalion! You know, it's really a gamble to come out this time! Because they had been besieged for too long before, each person only brought four days' rations, all the tanks were blown up, and the armored vehicles and cars only had one-way fuel, plus in order to avoid the Chinese Air Force, the Chinese Air Force braved the severe cold and freezing rain for two days and two nights to forcibly march hundreds of kilometers, and the soldiers were already seriously overdrawn.

Therefore, he was still very suspicious of this negligible price, thinking that the British army was going to fight a guerrilla war and delay, and he was suspicious and sent a small force to search and advance, until the reconnaissance unit reported that Quetta could no longer see the British army, and the city was full of discarded arms and supplies, and then he really believed that the British had fled.

Rush, rob!

The starving Soviets rushed into Quetta and immediately caused a catastrophe, the red-eyed Soviets robbed almost all the food and livestock in the city, and at least 500 women were raped by the well-fed Soviets, and a large number of weapons and reserves that Jamic had not had time to blow up became trophies for others. Wait until the next morning the three infantry divisions of the Turkmen Army Group arrived. It's like a tornado is raging here, the mules and horses are gone, the food is gone, and the ground is almost three feet away! The whole city was full of weeping people.

Since the disaster was caused by yourself, you should always deal with the aftermath, right? So Sun Chuanfang ordered to stop the pursuit, and transferred a large amount of food from the rear to appease the people, at least to ensure that the people survived this winter safely. Such a delay naturally made it impossible to continue the pursuit, not to mention that India was ahead, and there was no agreement with Britain to jointly deal with the Soviet Union, so the three divisions were stationed in Quetta with peace of mind.

Here, Sun Chuanfang began to clean up the small remnants. Met with Mashhad and Mare began to prepare for the spring offensive, but Lieutenant General Quinan over there had fallen for eight lifetimes. When he arrived in Sibi by train with 10,000 men, he happened to encounter the remnants of Jamic's army, and then he knew that Quetta had been lost, so he had to gather his troops first to pacify the remnants. Then organize the defense on the spot.

Ryabesev, who did not have a chasing army, was not in a hurry, and marched slowly with 150,000 troops to adjust the state of the troops. After all, the officers and men of the Afghan Front have not wanted to enjoy this kind of leisurely life for a long time, thinking of the days when they were either bombed by planes or bombarded by artillery, and they hid in caves and ate compressed biscuits every day, but now they are simply paradise, so it took three days to arrive in Sibi in the end. One is going to block, and the other is going to Uttar Pradesh. The two sides immediately launched a "big war" in Sibi. It is said that it is a big war, but in fact, it is a contest between Kozilov's motorized infantry division and Quinan's half-British Indian division. In the face of Soviet veterans who had fought in Afghanistan for several years, Quinan sent out several Australian battalions in his hands but could not stop them, and only held out for one day before Kozilov was scattered. More than 5,000 Indian soldiers were taken prisoner.

Ryabishev happily praised Kozilov and the motorized infantry division, and reported the "great victory" to Moscow. When a staff officer saw that the Anglo-Indian division was so weak, he suddenly thought that he should go south directly to attack Mumbai! In one fell swoop, the British were driven out and all of India was liberated. Fortunately, Ryabishev is more sensible, and the British and Indian divisions are weak. But after all, the Soviet army was an outsider, and the Congress party. The guerrillas of the three factions of the Muslim League and the Democratic Party each have more than 100,000 people. What's more, India has a population of hundreds of millions, and most of the heavy equipment on their side has been lost, and ammunition is seriously insufficient, so it refuses to suggest that the troops continue to collect animal power along the way, avoid entanglement, and accelerate their advance towards Uttar Pradesh.

Quetta was lost, the Battle of Sibi was lost, and the British Empire was completely shaken! I don't know who actually stabbed the news into the newspapers, and as a result, the whole of Britain fell into an uproar. Coupled with the fact that the Soviet army had already gained the upper hand in Finland, the whole British people stopped doing it, and gathered tens of thousands of people to Downing Street, saying that they had had enough and demanded that Chamberlain step down.

Hitler also took the opportunity to fall to the ground, openly claiming that the high-caste whites in India were of Aryan descent, so Germany should help them, form the Aryan Army, and join forces with the Soviet Union to liberate all of India. “。” Stalin hated to have slaughtered the mustache himself, didn't he push me into the fire pit ?! He hated the mustache and had to face Ryabesev's equipment for help telegrams, so he immediately asked Motolov to contact the day. After all, this time the Afghan Front lost most of its heavy equipment, and there was a great shortage of ammunition, so they could not transport it over and had to ask for help.

Hirohito was very embarrassed and asked Nagata and Hideki Tojo to discuss. Nagata directly refused, believing that it no longer made sense to support the Soviet Union alone, but would prompt Britain to turn to China and open the Indian battlefield for Yang Qiu to enter. However, Hideki Tojo strongly supported it, believing that Japan needed to maintain a two-sided attack to ensure that Yang Qiu did not dare to attack Japan and smoothly digest the South Seas. The two also fought for this, and the quarrel turned upside down. But in the end, the ambitious Hirohito still made a decision to hand over some of the weapons seized from Malaya, the Philippines and other places to Ryabesev.

Of course, it is for sale, and it costs money.

This conflict completely tore Nagata Tetsuyama and Hideki Tojo apart, and in the end he simply forced Konoe to resign, preparing to elect Mitsumasa Yonechi of the naval faction as prime minister to curb the increasingly greedy Hideki Tojo mainland faction. However, this naked betrayal of the army caused him to be besieged by the army from top to bottom, and the Japanese political situation fell into chaos again.

Mussolini in the Mediterranean also jumped out to see the show, saying that Italy was happy to help Britain, just like the Spanish Civil War, and was willing to send 500,000 troops to exterminate the Independence Army of GCISM. In the end, it even alarmed the White House, and Roosevelt immediately called Churchill and sent five 10,000-ton ships full of munitions to Bombay.

The world's bigwigs appeared en masse, and newspapers all over the world began to report on this war of words between the bigwigs, only Chamberlain was really anxious! The army, navy, and air force were immediately instructed to destroy the Soviet troops that had entered India. But strangely. Lord Churchill, who has always loved to be in the limelight and boasted of being the only savior of the British Empire, suddenly became leisurely, ignoring domestic politics, and did not participate in the war of words of the bigwigs, but called French Prime Minister Renaud: "Don't let the Chinese 22nd fleet use the port of Djibouti anymore, and neither can Seychelles." ”

Renault was confused, don't you care about Norway and India, and suddenly Tidjibouti is doing? He is too familiar with this fat man with a black heart and a black belly full of bad water, who has always been a friend of the dead and not a poor man. Be alert immediately. Of course, Churchill would not tell the truth, and deliberately scared him into saying that he suspected that there was collusion between China and Germany, and that he must first suspend cooperation and observe before talking. Renault was really convinced, after all, there were many pre-war agreements between China and Germany. There is also a lot of military cooperation. Moreover, France also wanted to avenge Yang Qiu's attack on the Soviet Union, which caused France to lose its most important eastern containment force, so the French government not only did not prevent the French GC Party from organizing an international column to fight in the Soviet Union, but also secretly donated a large number of weapons and equipment. What's more, Britain is the most important ally, so Renault finally agreed to suspend Sino-French military cooperation.

Of course, Renault also needs China, after all, the French East Indies are still under the protection of the Chinese navy. If you offend Yang Qiu's "Tearing Up the Sino-French South China Sea Agreement", I am afraid that the Japanese army will immediately pounce. So Darlan refused to carry out this order for a while, until Renault explained the importance of Britain in detail, and the naval leader, who had always been unfriendly to Britain, sent a slow telegram to Chen Shaokuan, the commander of the Chinese navy. The excuse is that Djibouti's equipment is aging and needs to be closed for a few months for major repairs, so you should find a place to endure it yourself.

As soon as Darrang sent a telegram, Wu Huanxian and Ayub had already led their troops to Dragazikhan at the eastern end of the Suleiman Mountains.

Wu Huanxian is very clear. The 16th Plateau Brigade and two Muslim League divisions could not stop the Soviet army. What's more, he didn't come to block him this time, but he just wanted to give Muslim League a security explanation. It was hoped that part of the Soviet army would be consumed as much as possible. Therefore, he did not take the initiative to enter the mountain range to ambush, but chose this place where the mountain was exhausted as a blocking point. Unlike Zhuo Fan, who defended the city to the death, he scattered his troops at various points on both flanks in accordance with the combat habits of the mountain troops, and released the road leading to Dragazikhan, forming an ambush circle at the mouth of an inverted gourd.

This deployment surprised the Ayyub and Muslim League officers, so why not move into a better mountainous area? After explaining it, they understood that the Suleiman Mountains were the last natural danger into the Great Plains of India, and Ryabishev would definitely be extra careful, and in order to avoid ambushes, he would definitely order a day and night journey and may change his route several times, so that the Soviets must be extremely tired, and they would definitely relax their vigilance when they got out of the mountains.

In the end, the situation was exactly the same as Wu Huanxian's judgment, Ryabishev led his troops out of the mountain and breathed a sigh of relief, and the soldiers below also relaxed their vigilance, not expecting that after continuously defeating the British army, they would be ambushed by 30,000 troops at the end of the mountain. The prelude to the offensive was the 16 16 12-barreled 107 rocket launchers of the 107 Brigade, which only need a horse to tow rocket artillery is very popular with mountain and lightly armed troops, but the rocket manufacturing is more troublesome, so the equipment has not yet been popularized.

One rocket per second rushed from six kilometers away to the resting Soviet camp, and the dense rockets dragged orange-red tail flames, drawing gray-brown trails in the sky, smashing into the Soviet troops like falling meteorites. Because there was a loud noise when it was fired like a heavy artillery, the Soviets did not realize that they had been attacked until the shells fell. The rumbling explosion startled Ryabishev and other officers, who at first thought that it was a Chinese or British bomber, and only after seeing the fireball on the ground did they understand that it was a heavy artillery unit. The power created by the 16 107 rocket launchers was amazing, and from a distance, it looked like three or four artillery regiments were firing, and even the officers of the Muslim League almost swallowed their tongues, but they didn't expect this strange little thing to fight so fiercely.

After the mortars and Ayyub's artillery battalion also opened fire continuously from all sides, Ryabeschev and Kozilov misjudged that the ambush was the main force of the British army, and in order to avoid entanglement, they simply gave up entering the city and ordered the troops to speed up the passage of the Indus River.

The dry winter period helped Ryabishev a lot, and it didn't take much effort for the engineers to build a pontoon bridge. So there was a very strange scene in the Dragazikhan blockade, the Soviet army that had no intention of fighting only sent a small number of troops to block, and the main force was like a brute bull with a rough scalp and thick flesh that was not afraid of blood, constantly breaking through the Bazikou deliberately released by Wu Huanxian. And the 10,000 soldiers of the 16th Brigade and the 20,000 soldiers of the Muslim League were not able to eat each other, so they simply concentrated all their firepower on the Bazikou and bombarded it.

It was a death-and-death fight, one of which fled until the next morning, when the belated British bombers dropped more than 100 small bombs, and the barrage was declared over, with a total of 8,000 Soviet troops killed or wounded and taken prisoner. In the following days, Wu Huanxian also launched a number of pursuit battles, but after entering the plain, the Soviet army's actions were significantly accelerated, and there were more roads to choose from, so after chasing to Bahawalpur on the edge of the desert, he gave up his plan to rush into the desert and returned to Peshawar.

The British troops who arrived later also tried to stop Ryabeschev many times, but they were either routed and sent away for nothing, or they were fled at night, and as hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops quickly approached Delhi, India was suddenly in chaos