Chapter 298: The Claws of the Devil Reaching Out to India
The old woman of the British Empire, who had half a meter of thick fat powder on her face, was once again given Qj by the puppy she raised back then, which made the whole world stunned, and even Boss Yang couldn't help but let out a sigh of attitude in the newspaper tomorrow: "If you are cheap, you are invincible."
The British Far East Fleet, which had been rampant in Asia for more than a century, came to an end completely, with two successive sneak attacks, three aircraft carriers, and five battleships erased from the Royal Navy forever.
What's more, from this moment on, the Indian Ocean was Japanese, and the Japanese marines took advantage of the situation to land in Sri Lanka, followed by two divisions of Indian puppet troops from Singapore, and under the leadership of the commander-in-chief, the Indian national hero, and the leader of the Congress Party, Field Marshal Bose, quickly swept across Sri Lanka.
After the liquidation of the British troops on land, the aircraft carrier Akagi and the battleship Kirishima were stationed in Colombo with dozens of light warships, staring at the Gulf of Aden, and the nearly 200,000 British troops who were struggling to support in India were completely cut off at sea.
This king was originally pro-German, and the Japanese had already threatened him, and if he dared to help the British, he would go over to cut him when India was destroyed, and judging from the current situation, it seems that this possibility is eight out of ten, so that he is even more unwilling to ask for trouble, the original result of his doing this in history was to let Joseph and the British go down to the north and south to destroy, and finally passed the throne to his son, and then he himself was thrown out by the British and died of old age in Africa, fortunately his son Pahlavi was smart, and quickly ran secretly to hug the thighs of the Americans, Otherwise, it is likely that Iran will become part of the sacred territory of the Soviet Union under the leadership of the BJP.
But now he is really helpless to engage the British like this. The British troops stationed in the Middle East have long been transferred to India to fight the Japanese, and even North Africa has transferred almost half of its troops, and even if there are a few left, they will never have the confidence to enter Tehran and capture Reza Khan alive.
Joseph in the north was more than willing to take advantage of the fire to make some war money from them. At the same time, it also allowed them to fight with the Japanese in India for three or five years, but the problem is that there is still an Afghanistan between them, and unfortunately this country has just finished fighting with the British for less than 20 years, and it is full of bitter hatred for the British Empire, so Joseph is also powerless, he can't let himself fall into the imperial graveyard again in order to make that little fortune, right?
Besides, even if he wanted to, he didn't have the energy, and now he was caught in the quagmire of Finland, and was even expelled from the League of Nations because of it. Originally, I thought that I was a big country, and I stepped on it to death when I lifted my foot, but I didn't expect to step on a porcupine and prick myself to the heart.
These days, the Indian Governor of New Delhi, Hope, and the commander of the Indian Army, Admiral Wavell, are so worried that their hair is almost gray, the Japanese are pressing forward step by step, the Eastern Front is launching the Second Battle of Calcutta, and shipwloads of Japanese, Indian, and Vietnamese mixed forces from the south are being transported to Sri Lanka waiting to land in India, and Zero fighters are showing off their might in the skies over India. As far as Mumbai, the Indians of Thiruvananthapuram don't set fire here every day. Just throw a bomb there, and you will sing a triumphant song to welcome the Imperial Japanese Army to liberate them.
This chaos is spreading throughout India, and even the esteemed Mr. Gandhi has called on the Indian people to express their demands peacefully in the form of a hunger strike, but unfortunately it is a pity that even Nehru, who was not so irrational, began to openly demand the withdrawal of British troops from India. to avoid the misery of life in India.
"Admiral, is it true that the glory of the British Empire will wither on the soil of India?" Looking at the crowd of demonstrators outside the window, Marquis Hope asked Wavell with a sad expression.
"Your Excellency, if you can't get the line of transport open as soon as possible. I can only guarantee to hold out for another two months at most. Wavell said gloomily, to be honest, it is not his fault that India is fighting like this, he has just been transferred from the Middle East Command, and as soon as he came, he led the LinkedIn Army to lift the Japanese siege of Calcutta, and also performed well in the subsequent battles, and even showed signs of driving the Japanese army back to the east of the Brahmaputra River, but the problem is that there is no logistical supply, he can fight in vain, and it is impossible for a colony like India to establish a military industrial system, and it is completely impossible to solve the supply locally, and then in the current situation in India, There are factories and no one to work for them.
"How about the Cabinet's negotiations with the Americans, as long as the United States can enter the war, our problems will be solved." He asked Hope hopefully.
"The U.S. Congress did not agree to enter the war, and Roosevelt himself was helpless." Hope said with a desolate face, poor British Empire has now reached the point of waging its tail and begging for mercy from those rebellious ministers and thieves.
Wavell let out a long sigh of helplessness.
"How about we ask the Chinese for help?" He said suddenly.
"Chinese? Don't you understand their performance? The 200,000 expeditionary troops were stationed in northern Burma and acted every day, and they were about to discuss the script with the Japanese, and their intention was very clear, as long as the Japanese army was forced away from the Chinese border, it would be enough to move forward any more step. Marquis Hope said.
"That's that our offer is not enough, we don't have to pay attention to them in Nanjing, they have no ability to help us at all, but Yang Feng is different, he has enough ability, and now he has at least 400,000 elites who have nothing to do, as long as he can dispatch half of his troops, and then add the Burmese expeditionary force, he will have enough strength to drive the Japanese army out of India and Burma." Wavell said.
"Yang Feng, will he agree?" Marquis Hope said suspiciously.
They didn't know they were luring the wolf in.
Of course, Boss Yang of Peking is willing, in fact, these days he is counting the stars and the moon and hoping that the British will ask him for help, and even the route into India has been determined, of course he will not be stupid enough to fight Burma.
"Fly directly from Xi'an to Lhasa, and then use Lhasa as a logistics base to go out of Yadong and enter India." Yang Feng pointed to the map and said very strategically, as if the British had already asked him for help at this time.
A bunch of old warlords looked at him dumbfounded, although he hasn't had much business in the past few years, he doesn't have to be hungry to this point, right? Besides, if you really want to go out and grab some points, then it is better to work hard, and let out 35,000 people to grab Shenyang, the Japanese have built a lot of factories over the years, and when the time comes, it will be a windfall to sell to Longteng Company.
You must know that the North China Coalition Army went out to fight, that is not to use the provincial finances, all the military expenses Longteng Company pays, and then the harvest of foreign plunder in addition to rewarding and compensating soldiers, the rest is all owned by Longteng Company, and it did make a windfall in Liaoxi, but the expeditionary force lost money even if it was a battle, but fortunately, it later got a super large jade mine, and the jade gold source dug out has been purchased at seventy percent of the pre-war price, so in the end, the loan of the People's Bank of China was repaid, and now with the war calm, And the jadeite is still being dug in a steady stream, and Longteng Company has gradually begun to turn losses into profits.
Now Yang Feng is thinking about going to India to fight, what are the good things in that ghost place? Besides, it was the territory of the British, and as a person who went to help, he couldn't find out whether he was robbing it or not.
"You know what? First of all, we must pay for labor services when we send troops to the British, and we are fighting in the form of mercenaries, of course, we can't say that to the outside world, so the British have to pay gold.
Second, who said that the third brother's family is poor? They had gold jewels in their hands, which the British had looted a lot of, and after the Battle of Plassey in 1757, the British had robbed the Bengal treasury of nearly 50 million pounds of gold and jewels. Yang Feng said with a look of contempt.
"How much?" Sun Dianying's eyes lit up.
"Fifty million pounds, about three or four hundred tons of gold according to the gold standard at that time." Yang Feng said with a smile.
Immediately followed by a sound of swallowing saliva, to say that these old warlords can now be said to be worth more than 100 million, but even three or four hundred tons of gold are enough to make them crazy.
"But they're all gone, and we don't have anything to catch now." Han Fuyu politely pushed his glasses and said, This product is currently pretending to be Sven to change its image, so he got a pair of flat glasses to wear.
"Who said they were done robbing? How is it possible to grab millions of square kilometers of land? Do you know how much gold, silver, and jewelry are hidden in their temples? The princes of India like to build temples and then hide their wealth in the temples, because Indians believe in gods, even thieves dare not enter the temple to steal things, the British are at first robbed, and then in order to coax the Indians to work for them, they no longer do this kind of work openly, I can tell you very responsibly, as far as I know, in the south of India, there is a temple that at least buries enough treasure to double the wealth of each of us.
We are not British, so we don't have to think about any impact, when the time comes, those Indian kings who surrendered to the Japanese, the rich will be arrested directly, and they will be shot without paying to see if they will pay or not. Yang Feng said with a cruel smile.
A group of old warlords immediately became enthusiastic, and they wanted to go into India now.
"But what if those lamas don't agree with us using Lhasa as a base?" Fu Zuoyi said very calmly.
"How dare they?" Pang Bingxun said viciously.
"No, no, we want to be civilized, if they don't agree, then let's change to someone who can agree, isn't there another one in Bailing Temple? We've raised him for so many years, and now it's time to go back and take a look. Yang Feng said with a smile. (To be continued......)
PS: That's all for today, I'll make it up later, and I have to accompany my wife to the hospital for a checkup tomorrow, I'm pregnant, and it seems that the situation is not good.