"Hurry up, move faster, move to the car."

On the other side of Sagar Island, near the mouth of the Hooghly River in Bengal, India, a small town called Jagdib has been a scene of complete chaos. Although the news of the Chinese imperialist invasion was still blocked above, the constant rumbling of artillery in the Bay of Bengal in the distance spoke for itself. The final transfer of the Indian organs, the Indian people, and some other miscellaneous institutions in Jagdib County has already begun, and important materials and big figures have already gone to Kolkata, and now it is Niranjan, the newly promoted secretary of the Indian Ghagdib County Party Committee, who has just been promoted. Prashad. He is now standing in the warehouse compound of the Jagdib County Grain Bureau, supervising the food bureau's porters to load large bags of white rice onto horse-drawn wagons. This grain is probably the last thing in the city of Jigdib that still has some value and cannot fall into the hands of Chinese imperialism! In fact, most of the grain here had been shipped to Calcutta a few weeks earlier, but as long as Jagdib had not fallen for a day, the county grain bureau had to maintain a minimum supply -- in India at present, grain is a strategic commodity for unified purchase and marketing, and it is very difficult for the townspeople of India to buy grain except for the grain stations in charge of the grain department of the Indian people.

Of course, it is only difficult, because in a large country with a population of 350 million people like India, administrative efficiency is always a big problem, even if India is the head of GCD, it is impossible to prohibit it, so the black market, the tail of capitalism, is always in existence! But everything sold on the black market is expensive. The income of the average Indian city dweller is not affordable. So food stamps and food purchase certificates are two things that are necessary for urban dwellers in India, but from tomorrow onwards, all will be issued by the Jigdib Food Department. The food stamps and grain purchase certificates stamped with the seal of the Jagdib Grain Bureau will be completely invalidated. Because the county town of Jigdib will be abandoned tonight! All the grain stored in the warehouse of the Jigdib Grain Bureau must be transported before this, and those that cannot be transported must be destroyed immediately to avoid the enemy!

In Nilanjan. Thanks to the efforts of Prashad and his comrades, it seems that this glorious mission entrusted to the organization can be successfully accomplished. However, Prashad's brows were still tightly furrowed, obviously looking at the porter in front of him who was working hard to carry the grain, and suddenly gritted his teeth and cursed: "These guys, you know that Yang Feng yīn is violated. There is no party at all, and the enemy must be a traitor when he comes! It's so unbelievable, you must catch a few of them and be a negative example! ”

provoked the thunderous anger of the secretary of the Ying County Party Committee. It is the top party and government leaders in the towns and villages to which Jagdib district belongs, and these people are the basis for India to rule India and control the people. Many of the supreme instructions of the great leader Ruy must also be carried out through them. However, this time, these township officials and village officials of the Indian GCD seemed to be a little unfavorable, and the county party committee and county government had already ordered the villages below to cut all the crops that were not yet ripe. lest it grow up to be used by Chinese imperialism in the future. But it had been three days since the order was given. But just now, Prasad rode around the countryside around the county seat with his entourage, and Ren did not see anyone answering the party's call to cut rice in full swing. This hasn't happened before!

Standing beside him was a man in his thirties wearing a gray-and-blue Indian Red Army uniform and carrying a Soviet-made Tokarev TT30 pistol at his waist. Hearing Prashad cursing those rural cadres who were not doing well, he smiled bitterly and said: "Secretary Prashad, the comrades below have done their best, but after all, those crops in the field are the lifeblood of the peasants, a year's ration, and the rice has not yet grown." The loss is too great, and you will starve in the coming year...... The peasants refused to mow with their hands. What can the village cadres below do? Even if you do it yourself, how much can you cut? Unless the basic militia of the county armed forces department is sent down. "The person who spoke was the head of the county armed forces, an active deputy battalion-level officer of the Indian Red Army, and now there were three or four hundred basic militiamen under his command, who were the revolutionary spark in Jigdib County.

Hearing what the Minister of Armed Forces said, several cadres around Prashad nodded one after another: "Comrade Secretary, this is an extraordinary time, and it seems that it is not possible to be unmoving. ”

"Comrade Secretary, while the enemy has not yet attacked, hurry up and send the militia down, as much as we can cut, I believe that as long as we do our best, the above will understand."

"But it doesn't say that coercive measures can be used to make farmers cut rice, that is the farmers' rations for the coming year, in case ...... When there was a conflict, people were shot and killed, and it will be our responsibility to investigate it in the future. ”

"Accountability? It depends on why the shot was fired and who was killed? These are extraordinary times, and the indicators are given above, 5% of the spies, the remnants of Brahmins and the Indians! If the enemy hadn't come so quickly, he would have been arrested and killed in two days! ”

In the end, it was the representative of the All-India Anti-Corruption and Anti-Sabotage Committee in Jagdib County who was more clever and gave Secretary Prashad a somewhat feasible idea. India is a country where the working people are the masters of their own affairs, and both the Indian GCD and the Indian people are public servants who serve the working people, how can this public servant go to the working people's homes with thugs and guns to force the working people to destroy their rations? Even if there is this jīng god on it, Secretary Prashad doesn't dare to do it, "jīng god" is not written in black and white on the red head text jiàn, it is up to the comrades below to experience it, in case it will be wrong, and the net worth will be gone. Even if it's good now, who knows when it will be wrong in the future? The crime of shooting at workers and peasants is very severe in any socialist country!

Moreover, the employment system of GCD in India is relatively strict, but there is nothing that can be used for temporary workers who carry the black pot...... Besides, the black pot that printed g will be terrible, even if there are temporary workers, they don't dare to carry it.

But now that this problem has been solved, 5% of the spies, the remnants of Brahmins and the Indians are the targets set by the red-headed text! Whoever dares to disobey orders will obediently destroy all his rice. It's the spies, the brahmins, and the indi! Even if he was shot, his family and future generations will be pariahs for generations! Secretary Prashad gritted his teeth and made up his mind to revolution: "There is no way, in order to resist China." For the sake of the world revolution, this can only be done. 'Fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, leaving not a grain of rice or flour for the enemy' is Comrade Lu Yi's wise instruction, and we must complete it. Whoever is disobedient is a spy, a brahmin, and a hindr! Let the basic militia arrest people immediately, and the public procuratorate and law will immediately try and shoot them all! ”

At a time when the Indian cadres in more than a dozen counties in the Hooghly and Ganges estuary areas were racking their brains to implement the policy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness and scorching the earth to resist China. Around the beaches of Sagar Island and the only pier on the island where large freighters can be docked. It has become a huge, somewhat chaotic-looking army assembly and material dumping site. The landing operation began in the early morning of July 30, 1935, but by the morning of July 31, the 1st Marine Division of the Chinese Army was still not completely landed. Not to mention the 1st Panzer Cavalry Division, which has more than 200 tanks and high-hitting artillery...... The port facilities at Sagar Port were almost completely destroyed, and there was no way to unload large equipment before the end of emergency repairs, and the armored cavalry division, which had intended to start landing immediately after the capture of Sagar Port, had to continue to drift at sea, and the 1st Division of Allah Army, which was airlifted from Central Asia, used this dilapidated small port to land first.

Speaking of which, this time the landing operation at the mouth of the Hooghly River was jointly commanded by Peng Dhuai, Pan Wenzhao, and Jiang Mosan, commander of the Navy's Western Fleet. It is the first time that the Chinese Navy and Army have played a large-scale amphibious landing operation! Although the army and navy have spent a lot of time preparing for this. Reference was also made to the lessons learned during the landing operation at the port of Jeddah by the Arab Imperial Navy and Army. But when the Hooghly estuary landing actually began, the scene was still chaotic, and the progress was slower than expected. The only consolation is probably that the resistance of the Indian Red Army was not as fierce as expected, knowing that the mouth of the Hooghly River is not too far from Calcutta, and both Peng Dhuai and Pan Wenzhao think that the sharpest force of the Indian Red Army is in Calcutta!

The Indian army on Sagar Island probably only had about one regiment, and the Sagar Island Battery, which looked very imposing in the photos sent by the Air Force, turned out to be an empty shelf, which was destroyed by three Cantonese-class battle cruisers with one-ton guns. The bombers and suicide planes of the Soviet and Indian air forces, which were originally expected, did not show up, causing the naval pilots on the aircraft carrier Keqiang (imitation Canglong class), the aircraft carrier Dunchu (imitation Canglong class), and the aircraft carrier Songping (imitation Canglong class) to wait for more than ten hours.

Now the carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese naval aviation are interesting. There are no torpedo bombers or professional dive bombers, they are all J-3E Dragon Eagles. Hang up the bomb and you can play dive bombing, throw the bomb and you will be a first-class fighter! The three imitation Canglong-class aircraft carriers are equipped with a total of 210 Dragon Eagles, and in addition, the Air Force also dispatched hundreds of sorties of J-4D Golden Eagles from the Bosheng base in Myanmar to provide air cover for the Grand Fleet in the Bay of Bengal.

Although the Soviet-Indian air force was temporarily absent, the Indian army on Sagar Island put up a very fierce resistance. Their battle line is not placed on the side of Sagar Island near the Bay of Bengal, Sagar Island is a melon-shaped island, more than 20 kilometers long and 12 or 3 kilometers wide, and it is long from north to south and narrow from east to west, and this coastal defense regiment of the Indians placed the defense line on the northernmost side of Sagar Island, and when the shipwrecks and mines at the mouth of the Hooghly River have not been cleared, the warships of the Chinese army can only be in the Bay of Bengal, and even the main guns of the Cantonese-class battle cruisers are difficult to reach the Indian positions (the draft of the Cantonese-class is relatively deep, and there is no way to get close to the coast of Sagar Island).

The fortifications of this Indian coastal defense regiment are backed by the Hooghly River, and they are very strong, and they are equipped with six 120mm heavy mortars, and the firepower of the machine guns is also more than that of ordinary Indian troops. It was not until noon the next day that the 1st Marine Division of the Chinese Army, with the support of the J-3E Dragon Eagle fighters, annihilated more than 1,500 officers and men of the Indian army's coastal defense regiment. Later, Pan Wenzhao, who served as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy of the landing force on the battlecruiser Canton, decided that the combat strength of the Indian army was not weak. The 1st Marine Division fought continuously again, exhausted, and heavy weapons did not go ashore. So the time for the forced crossing of the Hooghly River to attack Jigdib was postponed. This also gave the Indian GCD cadres in the vicinity of the Hooghly estuary ample time to carry out their scorched-earth anti-Chinese struggle.

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"The battle report on the front line of the Hooghly River has been transmitted, and the Chinese army has now completely controlled Sagar Island, and more than 1,500 commanders and fighters of the 9th Regiment of the Red Navy and Coastal Defense on the island have all died heroically (in fact, only more than 500 have been sacrificed, and more than 900 have been taken prisoner). As a result of their resistance, the evacuation and evacuation of Jagdib, Hordia, Ganti, Gobalpur, Rokigandapur and other counties has gained ample time......," Pavlov frowned and said a summary of the battle report to Blyukhel, who was huddled in a circle chair. From time to time, he also raised his eyes to see this hottest military strategist in the world's revolutionary camp at the moment. In order to boost the morale of the army, Comrade Trotsky had decided to introduce a system of military ranks in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (in fact, there were already military ranks, but they were not called generals, colonels, or lieutenants). And five people, including Blyukhel and Frunze, Tukhachevsky, Vatsettis, and Egorov, will be awarded the rank of Marshal of the Red Army! However, the news of the imminent ascension did not seem to bring the slightest joy to Blyukhel, and after returning from the Himalayan front, Blyukhel's jīng god has been a little sluggish. I wonder if it's because of the slow progress of the Himalayan war?

"Send a telegram to Comrade Berzin and tell the Himalayan Army Group to stop attacking and move to the defensive." Hearing that Pavlov's words had fallen, Blyukhel commanded in a low voice. "Also, call Moscow. It is requested that two fighter aviation brigades equipped with Il-18 fighters be sent to India. Weapons and equipment exported to India also need to be increased. The monthly volume needs to increase by at least 80%. ”

"Eighty percent?! And two more fighter aviation brigades!? Pavlov glared at Blyukhel, "Comrade commander, I'm afraid Moscow won't agree?" Now the domestic supply of weapons and ammunition is also starting to tighten, and it is simply impossible to supply India with so much of something. ”

Blyukhel stood up, picked up the hot coffee on his desk and took a big sip: "On my way back from the Himalayan front, I also went to Jamshepour, the center of India's steel industry, which produced 1 million tons of pig iron and 600,000 tons of steel a year before the revolution, and this steel mill produced 550,000 tons of steel last year. This year's production plan is 800,000 tons of steel, in addition. There is also an arsenal that we and Rìben jointly built next to the Jamshepur Iron and Steel Plant, and the equipment has been shipped and will soon be installed in the original plan, so that the light weapons and light artillery produced in India will be able to meet the needs of the Indian battlefield...... But now it's gone, it's all gone, it's been blown up by Chinese planes! In addition, the arsenal, power plant, gas factory, and shipyard in Kolkata were all in ruins. In particular, the arsenal in Calcutta, especially the rifle factory in the city of Calcutta, which is an old arsenal with a history of more than 100 years, produced rifles for the anti-French coalition camp as early as the Napoleonic Wars, and from 1795 to 1815 produced 3 million rifles, which were used by the armies of Tsarist Russia and Prussia!

The Chinese also knew the importance of this factory, but they did not destroy it when they briefly ruled Calcutta, but this time they sent hundreds of J-3E Dragon Eagle bombs to dive into the Kolkata Arsenal, completely flattening the factory. This morning, Comrade Lu Yi personally called me and told me that without the arsenals and steel factories in Kolkata and Jamshepple, India's arms production would be reduced by more than 80 per cent in a short period of time, and that if we did not fill this gap, the Indian Red Army would not be able to maintain the most basic supply of weapons and ammunition.

In addition, Chinese's He-111 and Ju.88 bombers also bombed the railway lines in Bangladesh and Bihar indiscriminately, and a large number of weapons and ammunition were destroyed in the process of transportation...... Comrade Pavlov, why don't you go to Moscow in person, emphasize India's practical difficulties with Comrade Trotsky, and believe that he will help us solve some of them. ”

Seeing Pavlov's embarrassed look, Blyukhel walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder: "Comrade Pavlov, there is no doubt about the importance of India, if we fail in India, then the Middle East will soon be occupied by China and Germany, and the Soviet reserves will soon have problems." So we can't afford to lose India in any case, and we must not underestimate the determination of the Chinese to overthrow the Indian revolutionary regime, and the difficult course of the war is likely to exceed our previous expectations, so I need something more. He paused, and then said: "Comrade Pavlov, I know that you have a good relationship with Comrade Tukhachevsky, so it is better to go and talk to him again, and you must get as many weapons and equipment as possible." ”。 )