Chapter 1172: Disposition of Afghanistan
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In Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, inside the royal palace, the king of Afghanistan, also known as the emir, Habibullah Khan, is furious. His study was already in shambles, with traditional Afghan handicrafts and porcelain from the East already broken to pieces.
Habibullah Khan is the ninth emir of the Barakzai dynasty and is only forty years old this year. Among the emirs of the Barak Dynasty, he is also a relatively dissolved emir. It's just that now the whole country seems to be being taken to the abyss by him.
Habibullah Khan Abdu. Son of Rahman Khan. Born in Samarkand in 1872. He succeeded to the throne on October 3, 1901, and began to settle relations with the British colonists. On March 21, 1905, the two sides signed the "Black Mole Treaty", agreeing that Britain would take control of Afghanistan's diplomacy in exchange for a British grant of £160,000 a year. The internal affairs are handled by the King of Afghanistan. Habibullah Khan carried out social reforms under strong internal and external pressure. The Council of State was established to deal with tribal affairs, the study of Western technology was promoted, and electrical, automobile, Western medicine and surgical techniques were introduced, schools were established, a military academy was established to be managed in a European way and adapted to the needs of Afghanistan, and a weekly newspaper was published. It's just that the biggest mistake of Habibullah Khan since he came to power is probably to deal with China in his stance on the Hazaras. While this ensured Pashtun dominance over Afghanistan, it also laid the seeds for Afghanistan's demise. And now. China launched a war plan against India. First and foremost is Afghanistan, India's northwestern barrier!
"Allah! Those damned infidels. Sure enough, it's unreliable. 500,000 people were wiped out by the Chinese in a few days! Now that the Chinese are bypassing the Hindu Kush and marching towards Kabul, and those untouchables have also started villains with the attack of the Chinese, what should we do now? After finally suppressing the anger in his heart, Habibullah Khan asked with a dark face. In front of him stood two middle-aged men, one was Caraccani, the minister in charge of dealing with state affairs. The other is the commander of the Afghan Army, General Amanola.
Originally, the Chinese army began to build up troops in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan, which already made Afghanistan worried. However, the arrival of the 23rd Anglo-Indian Army, with 500,000 Anglo-Indian troops stationed in northern Afghanistan, reassured Habibullah Khan a lot. However, only a few days after the war began, the 23rd Army of the Anglo-Indian Army was almost completely annihilated, and this news was like a thunderbolt from the sky, which hit Habibullah Khan enough. He never expected it. The Anglo-Indian 23rd Army would have failed so quickly that he would not have time to react.
"陛xià. I have ordered our troops to assemble towards Kabul. We will defend Kabul and fight to the end with those damned Chinese! The commander of the Afghan Army, Admiral Amanola, replied loudly.
"General Amanola, are you sure to defeat the Chinese?" Habibullah Khan asked, looking at Admiral Amanola.
Admiral Amanora was immediately silent, and since the last time the Afghan Army was wiped out by most of the Chinese, it was difficult to restore the size of 100,000 people. Although they received a lot of new weapons from the British, they were simply beggars compared to the Chinese armed to the teeth. Besides, even hundreds of thousands of Anglo-Indian troops were wiped out by the Chinese in a few days, how long can the 100,000 army in Afghanistan hold out?
Seeing Admiral Amanola silent, Habibullah Khan felt even more uncomfortable. Afghanistan was originally a powerful country in this region. But now it's like this. If he had been given another chance to make a new choice, perhaps he would not have rejected the Chinese side's good intentions. If he had fallen to China in the first place, maybe this qiē would not have happened!
"Carakani, how did the British reply to us? When will their reinforcements arrive in Kabul? Habibullah Khan asked. He knew that after the Chinese began to fully support ethnic minorities such as the Hazaras and Tajiks, he had no chance to switch to the door, and if he wanted to guarantee his power, then he could only follow the British to the dark. Now, his only hope is that the Indian Governor's Office will be able to send reinforcements to Kabul in time to join the Afghan Army in resisting the Chinese invasion.
Caraccani looked embarrassed, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Your Majesty, the Viceroy of India has rejected our request. They said that given the complex operations in Afghanistan, the British and Indian forces would no longer send troops into Afghanistan to fight. Moreover, they hope that our army can continue to fight the Chinese, let us hide in the mountains, and attack the logistics supply lines of the Chinese. Wait until they defeat the Chinese on the battlefield in India, and then help us drive the Chinese out of Afghanistan. The Viceroy of India also said that if His Majesty wished, he could go to Delhi and stay until the end of the war! ”
"O Allah! Those damned infidels, they're crossing the river and tearing down the bridge! At this time, they still want to die and not be saved, and they want us to die for them. Those British people are really unreliable. Sue them, I'm not going anywhere! I'm staying in Kabul! Habibullah Khan roared loudly, feeling as if he had been betrayed by the British.
"Your Majesty, the British are really too deceitful, the British and Indian troops have more than 10 million troops, but they are unwilling to come to the rescue of us, obviously want us to fight with the Chinese, they are so good to reap the benefits!" Admiral Amanora said.
Habibullah Khan was now also full of resentment towards the British, but there was nothing he could do about it. Now Kabul is about to be attacked by the squadron, and those minorities who have the support of the Chinese side will definitely strike at him and all the Pashtuns. How the Pashtuns treated them in the past, they will definitely get it back. The thought of this made Habibullah Khan feel a little numb!
"Your Majesty, or let's make peace with the Chinese!" They shouldn't kill them all! "Calacany built yì road.
"No, even if I die in battle, I will not compromise with the Chinese!" Those damned untouchables want to climb on the heads of our Pashtuns and make a fortune, it is absolutely impossible! Habibullah Khan flatly refused.
On October 27, after a long attack, the Japanese mercenaries of the 201st, 203rd and 204th Divisions of the Chinese Army and four divisions arrived in Kabul first. After a night's rest, the Chinese army launched an attack on Kabul before the follow-up troops arrived.
By this time, all 100,000 Afghan Army members had gathered in Kabul. Under the leadership of Habibullah Khan, these Afghan and Chinese armies fought fiercely. Even though the Afghan Army received a large amount of equipment from the British, it was not at all a level compared to the Chinese Army. The Afghan Army has more than 100 heavy artillery, which is equal to the number of all the heavy artillery of the three infantry divisions of the Chinese Army, but it is much worse in quality, and it is completely suppressed when the two sides engage in artillery battles. Subsequently, Chinese Air Force fighters arrived and bombed the artillery positions of the Afghan army, killing most of the Afghan army's artillery in one fell swoop, and also destroying a lot of artillery. In the ensuing battle, the artillery of the Afghan Army was never able to play any role in the future.
After half a day of fierce fighting, the Chinese army and Japanese mercenaries entered the territory of Kabul. As the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul is also a well-known big city in West Asia, although it cannot be compared with Chinese cities, but it is still very good. After being stormed into the city by the squadron, the Afghan Army is still resisting stubbornly. It's just that their resistance can't change the outcome of their defeat at all.
On October 29, the following divisions of the Chinese Army also arrived in Kabul and engaged in the offensive. The Afghan Army, which was absolutely inferior in terms of troops, suffered heavy losses after a hard battle. Moreover, their courage was also consumed in the fierce battle. A large number of Afghan troops surrendered to the squadron. The Emir of Afghanistan, Habibullah Khan, raised fire ** when the squadron attacked the royal palace. His son succeeded to the throne and became Inayatullah Khan. It's just that the Barak Dynasty of Afghanistan at that time had been overthrown, and he could only form a government-in-exile in India with the help of Karakani and others. After India was conquered by China, he went into exile in Britain.
After the capture of Kabul by the Chinese army, the resistance in Afghanistan, or the Pashtuns to be exact, did not stop. However, this has little to do with China. With the support of China, Hazaras, Tajiks, Uzbeks and Turkmen formed a coalition government, with elected tribal elders at all levels of government and Hazaras as prime ministers. It's just that no king, or rather, a nominal king, became the emperor of the Chinese Empire. It's just that China has not interfered in Afghanistan's internal affairs. But even so, the newly established Afghanistan is very conscious of itself as China's little brother and follows China's intentions in everything.
The first thing the new Afghan government did was to form a new government army with the armed forces of various tribes, and China provided the new Afghan government with a batch of weapons. After the formation of the new government army, they began to suppress the Pashtuns, doubling down on all the oppression they had inflicted on them. At the same time, the Afghan government army has also taken on the important task of protecting the logistics supply lines of the Chinese army, and with them, those Pashtuns cannot pose a threat to the logistics supply lines of the Chinese army! (To be continued......)