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In the Yangon port area, the headquarters of the 11th Army of the Chinese Army and the headquarters of the 3rd Cluster of Operations of the Chinese Army against India is located in a building next to the pier. Now, the transport ships allocated by the Navy have been put in place, and the third group, totaling more than 700,000 troops, has entered combat readiness. Tonight, the first wave of landing forces consisting of the 1st Division, the 6th Division, the 15th Division, the 16th Division, the Artillery Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, and the Armored Brigade of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army will board the ship and set off. The 2nd Marine Division has already departed by boat, and it is expected that the day after tomorrow, on 25 November, will carry out a landing operation on Calcutta. Once the 2nd Marine Division establishes a beachhead, the four infantry divisions of the 11th Army of the Chinese Army will attack in depth and expand the landing grounds.

After that, the other 4 infantry divisions of the 11th Army of the Chinese Army, 10 infantry divisions of the army and 30 divisions of the Japanese mercenaries will also land in Kolkata afterwards, fight a big battle with the British and Indian troops around Calcutta, and then annihilate the troops deployed by the British and Indian troops around Calcutta, capture the most important city in eastern India, open another hole in the belly of India, and accelerate the defeat of the British and Indian army!

General Zhou Shun, commander of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army, is now also full of ambition. The predecessor of the 11th Group Army was the mobile unit directly under the General Staff, although it was still under the command of General Zhou Shun, but more often it was directly under the command of the Chief of the General Staff. Many times, Admiral Zhou Shun was greatly constrained. Now there are not enough regular army units of the Chinese Army. Emperor Wang Yuze ordered the reorganization of the mobile units directly under the General Staff into the 11th Army. undoubtedly gave Admiral Zhou Shun a chance to play. Meantime. The 11th Group Army is also the largest group army among the many group armies of the Chinese Army, and the other group armies are all six infantry divisions attached to brigade-level combat units directly under the group army, while the 11th Group Army has eight infantry divisions. Moreover, the 1st and 6th Divisions are the elite units of the Chinese Army. This made the combat power of the 11th Army very strong, not inferior to other group armies. For this operation, General Zhou Shun also has great confidence. The first cluster was in northwestern India, and the second cluster annihilated a large number of Indian troops in eastern India, which gave Admiral Zhou Shun a great stimulus. He was fully confident that the Third Cluster under his command would also be a great success. Not to mention anything else, the Anglo-Indian army group deployed in Calcutta was enough to make the other two clusters red-eyed, and if this army group could be eliminated, then the third group would have achieved the greatest victory in the war against India. Of course, in addition to the Anglo-Indian Army, which was deployed entirely in Calcutta, it was composed entirely of British, and the 1st Army in Delhi. It's just that, compared to the third group, the first group will eat the 1st Army of the Anglo-Indian Army. I'm afraid it's going to be even more difficult. The Anglo-Indian army in northwestern India amassed a large number of eight army groups. With the strength of 800,000 people in the first cluster, it is not very difficult to eat four million British and Indian troops. What's more, there is also an elite 1st Army among them!

"Commander, as soon as the arrangements are made, the first wave of troops will begin to board the ship in the evening. The second wave of troops, which began to board tomorrow evening, included the remaining 4 infantry divisions of our army group and units directly under the army, as well as 10 Japanese mercenary divisions. The remaining ten infantry divisions and twenty divisions of the Japanese mercenaries will set off in three days! The transport ships provided by the Navy could not transport all the troops to Kolkata at once! Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao, chief of staff of the 11th Army and also chief of staff of the third cluster of the Chinese Army, said. In addition to the war against India, the army is also about to start an attack on Australia, so the navy's transport ship capacity is very tight. After all, it is necessary to ensure the consumption of more than two million squadrons and mercenaries in the North American battlefield first, and then to be able to support the Indian battlefield and the Australian battlefield.

"Hmmm! Lao Jiang, it's up to us this time! Seeing them continue to achieve battle exploits before, this time it is finally our turn! Admiral Zhou Shun said with a smile.

"Haha, Commander, we've already figured it out! The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th armies are estimated to be depressed enough. It's been more than a year since the war began, and they haven't gotten a fight yet, so they can only watch from the sidelines. Although we were dealing with Indian Ahsan, we were finally able to drink some soup. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Britons among them! Lieutenant General Ehashi said.

"Lao Jiang, you're wrong! Although those boys are waiting to panic now, by next year, they will have a big battle! When the time comes, they will fight against the Russians, and Lao Maozi's millions of troops will be able to fight them. Besides, when we invade Europe, if the Germans don't know what to do, maybe we'll fight them again. There will definitely be a battle when the time comes! Admiral Zhou Shun said with some envy. As a high-ranking general of the Chinese Army, what he most longed for was of course to command the army to attack the enemy on the battlefield and expand the territory of the empire!

"Commander, then we'll have to move faster! We will have to wait until at least next spring, which is still a few months away, and as long as we can get rid of those Indian Asans within these few months, maybe we will have a chance to participate in the European theater. Don't forget, there are still 4 armies on the battlefield in the Americas, and if you don't move quickly, you may be preempted by those grandsons! Lieutenant General Ehashi said. He also doesn't just want to be a lieutenant general, if he wants to be promoted, he needs a lot of military exploits. And combat merits can only be obtained on the battlefield.

"Good! The commanders of all the divisions below greeted me, this time we are facing the elite of the British, we have to show our prestige, let the other friendly units know that although our 11th Army is the last unit to be formed, we are not vegetarians! Admiral Zhou Shun said.

"Commander, are we going with the first wave of troops, or with the second wave of troops?" Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao asked.

"The first wave, of course! This landing operation is the first battle since the formation of our 11th Army, and it must be fought well! We'll go with the first wave and let the British know we're good!" Admiral Zhou Shun said directly.

On the evening of 23 November, four infantry divisions of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army and artillery brigades, cavalry brigades, and armored brigades directly under the group army boarded more than 100 transport ships of the Navy in Yangon. The Navy sent a fleet of 6 light cruisers and 10 destroyers to escort them. Now the entire Indian Ocean region is under the control of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy, and there is no fear that the landing fleet will be attacked. Now, apart from the British Navy and the US Navy, there is no other country whose navy can pose a threat to the Chinese Navy. It's just that the U.S. Navy is preparing for war with all its might, while the main forces of the British Navy are still concentrated in the eastern Atlantic and the North Sea to defend against the Germans, and there are no extra warships sent to fight in the Indian Ocean.

On the Bay of Bengal, a large fleet is sailing westward, and the target is officially located in the area of the mouth of the Hooghly River on the western side of the Bay of Bengal. The fleet consisted mainly of nine large battleships, and around these ships, there were quite a few light cruisers and destroyers. A dozen kilometers east of this fleet were more than 20 transport ships loaded with all the personnel and equipment of the 2nd Marine Division. The 2nd Marine Division will be the first force to launch a landing operation against Kolkata. They were to land directly at Port Diamond at the mouth of the Hooghly River, then establish a solid beachhead and wait until the landing of the third group of the Chinese Army before launching an attack on Calcutta.

Port Diamond is still sixty kilometers from the mouth of the Hooghly River, and there are several islands at the mouth of the river, and according to the information obtained by the squadron, the British and Indian troops have deployed a number of troops on these islands, the largest of which is Sagar Island, where an infantry division is deployed. It's just that this will not pose much of a threat to the squadron for the time being. The Anglo-Indian forces simply did not have large-caliber heavy artillery on Sagar Island and could not threaten the transport ships of the Chinese Navy. Although in the early days, the British deployed a number of shore defense guns on Sagar Island, but most of them were below two hundred millimeters in caliber, and their numbers were scarce, and they were no match for the Chinese Navy's fire support ship detachment. Only a few fire support ships were left to suppress these shore defense guns, and the rest of the fleet could swim against the current and attack Port Diamond.

At 6 a.m. on November 25, the Chinese Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet fire support ship detachment arrived at the mouth of the Hooghly River, and nine fire support ships sailed into the Hooghly River under the escort of several light cruisers and destroyers, while the 2nd Marine Division remained behind, and they would not enter the Hooghly River until the fire support ship detachment cleared the Anglo-Indian shore defense positions on Sagar Island.

When the Chinese Navy's detachment of fire support ships appeared at the mouth of the Hooghly River, the British and Indian troops guarding the shore defense batteries here were not aware of it at all. A total of more than 20 shore defense guns were quietly aimed at the Hooghly River, and there was no sign of firing at all. The squadron did not know that the 2nd Army of the Anglo-Indian Army had already marched north, and the defenders of Sagar Island were all Indian Asan, so they naturally would not defend in strict accordance with the regulations!

At 6 o'clock in the morning, Rear Admiral Lei Hua, commander of the Chinese Navy fire support ship detachment, gave the order to open fire, and the combat operation of the third group of the Chinese Army against Kolkata officially began! (To be continued......)