The departure of the helicopter left behind a shocking noise that shocked the plateau, corpses all over the ground, and a sea of fire everywhere. Let this place become a purgatory on earth.

The helicopter left for more than ten minutes, and the sky was filled with no movement except for the thick smell of burnt corpses, and the plateau seemed to be calm again.

Those Japanese soldiers who died were already cold, and the heat in their bodies was all released in just half an hour. Those Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers who were not dead, but were wounded, were no different from dead after the plane left.

This is an alpine region, and their wounds, if not bandaged in time, are enough to freeze them to death. Even if they don't die immediately, frostbite will not heal, and death awaits them as well. The difference is only a matter of time.

Those high-ranking Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to survive sat there weakly one by one, and they seemed to ignore the aftermath.

They've seen the equipment engulfed in flames, and there won't be any equipment left at that equipment storage site. That is the foundation of their foothold on the plateau, only when the equipment is there, and they who lack confidence have the opportunity to have ammunition to support themselves and stand here on the ground.

And now, without equipment, they cannot withstand the attack of the advance army. Regardless of whether they can block it or not, the fact that the ammunition alone can't keep up is enough for them to fight until they run out of ammunition.

Okamura Ningji groaned for a while, and when several low-level generals rushed to deliver the news, seeing that these high-level generals were silent one by one, they didn't dare to squeak, and quietly treated those generals with altitude sickness, but no one dared to come forward to speak, so he stood up and said: "Everyone, our situation is not good, but we are generals and the soul of the troops, even if we are broken in the next moment, before." There should be no discouragement for the soldiers to see. ”

Nakajima Imago also stood up and shouted proudly: "At the beginning in Shanxi, we did not leave our soldiers and return to our homeland, that is because we have the belief that we will win, although the enemy army is very strong, but the soldiers of the empire are not weak, today." Although we suffered a crushing defeat, it was expected and reasonable. Now is not the time for us to pursue and think about the reasons and responsibilities for the enemy's aircraft to attack the air, what we have to do is to lead our soldiers to fight for the glory of our imperial soldiers, we have not fallen yet, and use our blood to prove to the enemy that we are the strongest soldiers in the world! ”

Nakajima's words made everyone stand up, and then. Hideki Tojo raised his arms and shouted, "That's right! Let's fight for the Emperor!! ”

"Emperor!"

"Emperor!!"

The surviving generals and the guards who followed them raised their arms and shouted, letting the haze of the fiasco drift away.

They then returned to Lhasa, gathering their scattered troops along the way, treating the wounded, reining the dead, and beginning to lick their wounds.

Before it was dark, the losses of the Japanese troops were reported to the command. The generals who had just pacified the soldiers listened to the staff officers' readings one by one, and their hearts fell to the bottom again.

The death toll of the Japanese army and the puppet army exceeded 70,000. That's as many soldiers as the long journey to here. Of the more than 10,000 Tibetan self-defense forces that have just been recruited, not even half of them remain. They didn't know how to dodge, and they were all stunned and torn apart by machine guns.

More than seventy percent of the lathes were burned and became scrap metal. Only a few have survived. Those lathes and small equipment that did not enter the factory location remained.

The finished products and raw materials of gunpowder are concentrated in one piece. The fire burned everything there and produced a martyrdom. And the rest, too, were unloaded along the way when the troops arrived, and the number was not even a tenth.

Other materials, sun-shielding rubber and other auxiliary materials. It also suffered the loss of destruction, and most of the concentrated ones that did not have time to evacuate were burned.

The losses of guns and ammunition were the smallest, and the total losses before and after were less than one-fifth, which was equivalent to fighting a battle at the division and regiment level.

But everyone knows that without equipment, they will just sit on the empty side, and sooner or later they will run out of the remaining ammunition. The outcome was obvious. The image of the soldiers of the Empire carrying guns without bullets and going up to fight the enemy with loaded guns flashed in everyone's mind.

Hideki Tojo, as the commander-in-chief, said after a short period of distraction: "Let's talk about it, what should we do?" Without enough equipment, we cannot allow the military industry to be built, and without it, we will not be able to support continuous operations, even if the enemy does not carry out daily air strikes. ”

Everyone was silent. This is a dead end, and there is no way to solve it unless you give up holding on and leave here, continue the march, and shake off the pursuit of the advance army.

As a person who has studied the history of Tianya Kingdom very thoroughly, he has good conditions for an open mind. Okamura stood up again at this meeting and said: "I think that it is no longer the best choice to hold on here, our foundation is gone, so the best way is to leave here and get rid of the advance army." ”

"But where are we going?"

Itagaki Seishiro frowned and said: "According to the information we have, the back of here is not far from the strength of the advance army, they already border Afghanistan, Turpan is also close to Mongolia, and they can't go at all, and the southeast is the land of Sichuan and Shu that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the road is rugged and steep, we estimated before, we don't have the support of aircraft and artillery, it is difficult to fight continuously, after all, there is no backup, no supplies." ”

"And the only thing we can easily approach is India, but are we going to war with the British? The base camp won't agree with us either. ”

Itagaki Seishiro's words are indeed true. Everyone has thought about these plans countless times, and finally chose to stick to the roof of the world, believing that the other side has no long-range artillery and no air force, it is difficult to attack here. Although this decision now seems to have failed.

Okamura Ninji stood up again and broke everyone's silence: "I think that in our current situation, even if the base camp agrees to attack India, then we will be under the enemy's back, and we will be without provisions. Then we will be in a terrible situation, and there will be no way out. However, I did think that going to India was the only option, and that we would not be stationed there, but that we would consult with the administrators of Great Britain, and that we would be able to leave by the sea, or to Taiwan, or to the mainland, by the way we reached the coast. ”

"What Gangmura-kun said makes sense, we can go and borrow it, and believe that the British will not watch us being wiped out and ignore it."

"There will be no conflict through the way, and we should have a chance."

"That's right! The base camp will also agree to this plan. ”

In the Command. The lieutenant general said in a rambling manner, and his opinions were very unanimous.

So after passing this plan, the anxious base camp received a detailed report and solution to the losses here.

After urgent consultations, the base camp decided that this was feasible, after all, the situation in Korea, the British army also dispatched Elizabeth-class battleships, which were on their side. There should be no problem with borrowing.

As a result, the Japanese negotiators urgently met with the British counterparts to find a way out for the tens of thousands of elites in Tibet. They knew that since the enemy army was able to attack from the air, it had already become a dead place, and if they didn't find a way as soon as possible, all the outstanding soldiers of the empire would fall there.

When the Englishman heard the word, his head immediately grew. At this time, they deployed heavy troops along the southern Tibetan route, especially the Kalunimpong mountain pass that leads directly to Lhasa. It was heavily guarded, with five divisions stationed there to prevent the Japanese army from entering India. They don't believe in this filthy people.

By the way, how could the British not be worried about the Japanese making trouble in India? Once that's the case, isn't it luring the wolf into the house? Although they still did not know that the air raids of the advance army had inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army, so that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army plummeted, and they were no longer able to attack India, although there were no large number of British troops stationed there. But there are also a lot of Indian soldiers, and there are also aircraft, tanks, and artillery. Where can the Japanese army, which lacks heavy weapons, shake?

But whether he knew it or not, Churchill would never let the Japanese army into his territory, even if it went to war.

This is different from the cooperation when dividing up other countries, it is your own territory, how can it be possible for other countries' troops to enter? It's not a matter of dignity, it's about uncontrollable trouble. Even if he was not afraid of war with the Japanese army.

This bottom line led to the ineffectiveness of the meeting between the two sides, and it was impossible to reach any agreement at all, even if the Japanese army promised great benefits, the British could not help, and the excuse was that they did not want to provoke the advance army to enter the country.

The Japanese also know that this reason is an excuse. But the advance army once broadcast to the world that whoever helps the Japanese army is their enemy, and the ability of the advance army on land is believed that even Britain will be difficult to resist. Therefore, although this is an excuse, it is absolutely realistic, and it is not known whether the advance army will really wave its army into India.

In this way, the talks on this side were put on hold, and the Dong Ku side could be said to have won a complete victory when the 200 planes of the air raid troops returned 164.

According to the visual inspection, all the materials in sight were burned, although the air pressure was low and the cold was severe, but it did not affect the burning of the flame, as long as the equipment was burned by the flame, it was a pile of scrap iron, and it was impossible to use it at all, unless the scrap iron was recycled.

After the military doctor urgently inspected the current situation of those pilots, Dong Ku learned that there were 12 more flight members who were left with dark illnesses due to the rapid turn at high altitude, and were not suitable for flying.

According to the feedback from the Huya team members, Naqu is already beautiful and threatening, 300 kilometers, for the traffic conditions there, it is not a day or two to arrive, even if there are yaks, therefore, Naqu has been scrapped, and the front of the defense line is equivalent to being destroyed.

The situation in Lhasa was even more exciting, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, Huya soldiers infiltrated the Japanese military camp, got eighty percent of the lathe equipment destroyed, and lost a large number of materials, food, and ammunition, although the specific amount is unknown, but it has proved that while the Japanese army did not have air defense awareness, it successfully contained the possibility of the Japanese army standing in Tibet.

Dong Ku read the telegram in the headquarters and said: "Air raids, every press continues, judging from the information, the Japanese army does not even have the intention of building air defense, they still have antiaircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns, but it is estimated that they are no longer capable of air defense, as for whether the Japanese army will turn its energy to building a defensive line or something else, our air raids cannot be stopped." ”

"Captain."

Zuo Boyang stood up and said: "Air raids should not be carried out in large batches, too concentrated and too damaging, regardless of whether the Japanese army still has air defense, I think that small batches, frequent air raids, better than large-scale air raids, as long as the Japanese army is tired of dodging and does not dare to build positions, then when our troops arrive, the pressure will be much smaller." ”

Sun Tao also nodded and said, "Captain, what the adjutant said is right. We were able to participate in the air raids only with 200 aircraft, and now there are only 164, and there are only 10 attack planes left, and there are oil drums that will arrive tomorrow, after all, flying on the plateau at night is too dangerous, and only in the clear day can we transport supplies to Xining and Yushu. ”

There was a pause. He continued: "But the army should leave as soon as possible, captain, I think the Japanese army will enter India once they find that they cannot hold Tibet?" ”

Dong Ku shook his head and said: "Churchill is not a fool, if he can let the Japanese army enter, then he will not be able to sit in today's position, he will not lure the wolf into the room, this will be the border with Tibet must have been arranged with heavy troops." ”

Everyone agrees with this statement, who would put hundreds of thousands of troops into their own territory? Unless you want to eat it. But it is impossible for these powers to erect an enemy when their interests are not high. Naturally, there is no intention to eat.

While discussing the matter of attacking Tibet and air raids on Tibet, the Japanese army also received news that the talks could not be carried out.

Whether it was Okamura Ninji or Itagaki Seishiro, or Nakajima Imasago and other senior generals, they all scolded the British one after another. This is to cut off their way of life, this is to see them about to be overwhelmed by the flood and not be saved.

"These abominable Brits, we can't afford to be cheap!!"

Okamura Ninji's facial muscles twisted and squeezed out this sentence.

The other generals had the same idea and cursed one after another.

Okamura Ninji gritted his teeth and said, "Everyone, the base camp did its best. Although we were ordered not to violate the borders of the British, how could we spare these bastards who would not save them? I propose. Our troops are moving towards the border, and if we are unable to hold the attack of the advance army, we will make a desperate bet to open the Indian defense line and bring the advance army to the Indian border even if we die in battle. Let the British can't stand by and watch the excitement! ”

"I agree with Your Excellency's proposal!"

Seishiro Itagaki raised his hand in approval.

Nakajima Imago also followed up and said: "I also agree with Gangmura-kun's plan, since the other party will not save him when he sees death, then why should we leave room for them?" ”

Other generals hesitated and opposed, but everyone knew the final result. This is to make the empire the opposite of Britain, which is equivalent to inviting a strong enemy for the empire. However, everyone is going to die in battle, who can see what will happen in the future? It is not known whether Britain will still be able to deal with the empire if they are at war with the advance army, but in the spirit of the idea that revenge is not revenge, they also acquiesced to this extremely dangerous plan.

Hideki Tojo was not a strategist, nor was he a politician, he also had a factor in his bones that would be rewarded, and the moment he learned that Britain had openly refused to take advantage of it, he hated it, and when Okamura Ninji proposed this plan to lead the way to the east, he not only did not stop it, but also raised his hands in favor.

"Pass my orders!"

Hideki Tojo ordered loudly: "Order the first Gang Village Ninji Department to move to the wrong place, and Itagaki Seishiro to move to the mountain pass where Yato is, concentrate 92 infantry guns and mortars, and carry artillery at full strength, but do not approach the border, the movement should be secret, and wait for orders." ”

"Hayi!"

Okamura Ninji and Itagaki Seishiro had a fierce look in their eyes and shouted their orders.

"The other ministries will reorganize the materials and supplies, build positions with the only anti-aircraft weapons, and start tomorrow, continue to build defensive positions, we are running out of time!"

The Japanese negotiations were not known to the outside world, and the British quickly convened a meeting after a short meeting to study possible new movements of the Japanese.

During the meeting, everyone agreed that it was possible for the Japanese army to flee to the Indian side during the battle, and that if the Japanese army was defeated, the border would be impacted, so it was necessary to take precautions in advance.

They knew that the strength of the advance army was not something that the Japanese army could resist now, from the end of the battle in Shanghai, all the way to Nanjing, Yangzhou, and Gaoyou. Xuzhou, and even Changchun, Shenyang, and Shandong, these places, the Japanese army did not have a decent resistance, and basically collapsed at the first touch. This time, the Japanese army was also unable to fight with the advance army, and it would definitely be crushed.

So, at about ten o'clock in the evening, India began an urgent recruitment movement. The Indian reservists, that is, the young and strong, took up arms one after another, and there was no uniform clothing, only a steel helmet for each person, and they began to assemble in the middle of the night, and then they gathered in small places and large places, and after daybreak, they would move towards the border between India and Tibet.

These soldiers are purely cannon fodder, cannon fodder that consumes the enemy, and there are not many British troops here, so Churchill had to make this decision. Otherwise, it will be too long to transfer troops from within the country, and even if Malaysia is transferred there, there will also be a problem of time.

At the same time, 3,000 British troops from Iran with 5,000 local forces also marched towards India to support the guards there and prevent the Japanese from crossing the mirror.

They didn't know the garlic of the Japanese army, and they didn't know that the Japanese army was not going to storm their border, although the Japanese army had no room to live, but they still didn't forget to pull a cushion on their backs, let the advance army and the British army clash, and then fight. This not only took revenge, but also shifted the attention of the advance army to the British, and according to Okamura Ninji's calculations, the Japanese army would get precious respite.

Dong Ku also didn't know what the Japanese army thought, but if the Japanese army really entered India, Dong Ku would never let these demons escape, even if there was a war with the British, he would leave this Japanese army behind first. If Britain really openly helped the Japanese army, he might have used the strength of Central Asia to attack Ichiro and India, and teach the British a painful lesson. (To be continued......)