Chapter 301: The Tiger Who Broke into the Flock

This wing of the Japanese army stationed in Yadong, there is less than a brigade that can still get up and fight, how can it still stop this group of wolf-like guys, not to mention that these people in the 29th Army have been fighting with the most elite Kwantung Army of the Japanese army for seven years from three or three years to the present, and now they are facing these second-line divisions that have just been formed for a few years, it is purely Roulin, which took the throat of this Himalayas in less than an hour, and the remnants of hundreds of Japanese soldiers fled in a hurry, leaving more than 1,000 wounded and sick people.

The head of the regiment under He Jifeng is not a good bird, he gathered all the people of Yadong, and then directly tied them up and threw them into the wilderness to feed the wild wolves and vultures.

Yadong took it meant that India opened the door, and then the follow-up troops arrived, not in a hurry to go south, but in the name of threatening the flank of the Japanese army, Li Qingshan's division entered Bhutan first along the Himalayas to the east, and happened to find a few Japanese in Bhutan, so under the pretext that the king of Bhutan had colluded with the Japanese and put them under house arrest, leaving a regiment to guard the palace, of course, how they guarded this is not easy to say, and the remaining main force continued to the east, sweeping all the way to Shannan, where there was no Japanese army, and finally swept all the way to Tawang.

The Japanese army sent a squadron to brush up in this Pure Land on Earth, and none of the locals resisted, which gave this old bandit in the Northeast an excuse, tens of thousands of troops stationed here, based on Tawang, searching for Indians south of the entire McMahon Line, and then throwing them into the ravine to feed the wolves, making the Pure Land of the World bloody.

In fact, his division has never participated in any battles on the southern front since then, and put Hai Dongqing, the big man who had tried to hijack the little puppet, into southern Tibet, which was the order of Boss Yang, that is, to use the ferocity of this goods to clean up this land for future generations, not only southern Tibet. It also included Assam, which was Hai Dongqing's duty, and in the end he fulfilled his duties well, and during the twenty years that Assam Duli was the commander of the Chinese garrison, the Hindustani people were almost extinct in this land.

Just when Li Qingshan was sweeping southern Tibet, the main force of the participating army led by Xiao Zhenying unceremoniously entered Sikkim. He was also arrested on the grounds that the Sikkim royal family had colluded with the Japanese, but he was better at playing than Li Qingshan, and directly sent the Sikkim royal family to Tibet, and then loaded it on a plane and transported it to Nanjing, and within a few days the news came that the Sikkim king announced that China would be the suzerainty and break away from British protection.

After sending off the Sikkim royal family, Xiao Zhenying sent someone to have a long talk with the King of Bhutan, who was under house arrest in the palace, of course, no one would know the specific contents, anyway, the next day the King of Bhutan announced that he would go to Lhasa to make a pilgrimage to the Living Buddha. And he took the whole family with him to go on Hajj.

This is the right thing, can not delay the people, the head of the regiment in charge of guarding him, quickly sent a battalion escort, from Yadong into Tibet and then pilgrimage to the living Buddha, before leaving entrusted Xiao Zhenying, who temporarily converted to Buddhism, to manage the country as the prime minister, as a result, this time the Hajj has been more than 20 years, after which the capital of Bhutan Thimphu. It was the headquarters of the army that went to India until almost 50 years after the end of World War II. This command was abolished.

However, at that time, the country could no longer distinguish whether it was a duli country or a vassal of China, and even the king grew up in China, and spent more than half of his year enjoying life in China.

Because of these messy things and delays, it took more than ten days after taking Yadong, and He Jifeng's troops began to officially go south. However, the situation of the war did not change much during this time, although the Japanese occupied Calcutta, but the losses were also huge, and they completely underestimated the fighting power of the British who were cornered, and the Japanese suffered more than 40,000 casualties in this battle alone. With more than 50,000 casualties between the Indian and Vietnamese armies, it can be said that Wavell was still proud of the defeat, at least for the first time since the Japanese attack on Singapore, this was the first time that the British army had suffered fewer losses on the battlefield than the enemy.

The newspapers in Britain embellished the battle as a turning point in the Far East, and although we failed in a tactical sense, we won in a strategic sense, and the boys of the British Empire, with their bravery and tenacity, made the invaders pay a heavy price.

Because of this victory in the strategic sense, after the capture of Calcutta, the Japanese army did not have the ability to continue the offensive in a short period of time, especially the Chinese army entered India, which made General Nakamura Kotaro in charge of the Indian battlefield more vigilant, to be honest, now the Japanese army is more or less a little phobic from top to bottom, as long as his troops appear on the battlefield, it is simply like a curse, no matter how stable the battle situation will appear jaw-dropping variables, new weapons in the hands of this guy are endless, And one is more cruel than the other.

In particular, the mysterious bombs with great power that appeared on the battlefield in Burma simply made all the generals despair.

Based on this mentality, after learning the news of Ho Jifeng's southward movement, Admiral Nakamura immediately reduced his forces, and all Japanese troops retreated to the south bank of the Ganges River, and at the same time retreated to Calcutta with the Japanese troops attacking westward, and handed over the task of attacking to the Indian puppet army.

At this time, the Indian puppet army can be said to be as strong as a snowball, under the leadership of General Bose, the hero of the Indian people, it has rapidly expanded from two divisions originally captured in Singapore to a huge army with 200,000 troops, and officially established the Republic of India, General Bose appointed himself president, and in addition, as the Congress Party Zhuxi, announced that he would be starved for several months, and called on the Indian people to express their demands rationally Gandhi, who was expelled from the National Congress, as for Nehru for the time being, he was not treated like this, However, Mr. Gandhi has not died after several months of eating, and one cannot help but admire the depth of his yoga skills.

The Japanese all withdrew to the south bank of the Ganges River, which made He Jifeng, who ran to them to compete with him, very depressed, not crossing the river attack is obviously a fool's talent, this goods are very shrewd, otherwise they would not have cut off the bald guys in the original history.

So he simply stopped on the north bank of the Ganges River, and began a large-scale anti-traitor campaign in a vigorous manner, in the area under his control, all the Indian nobles, tycoons, and even temple monks who had dealings with the Japanese were all arrested, of course, mainly Hindu, as for the Yislan, according to the instructions of the big boss Yang, try to treat each other with courtesy, and even let Erma find a few imams to send over as liaisons.

For those Indian traitors who were arrested, there is only one requirement, take money to redeem, and do not want money, they want gold, silver, jewelry, antiques and other hard goods, and the time limit, those who do not come to redeem after the expiration date are directly shot on the charge of Indian adultery, anyway, at this time the British are not interested in caring about these, besides, because of the tusha of the British in various places, the British now hate the Indians to the core, and they will not care how many Chinese kill.

Just when the war situation in the north gradually stabilized because of the addition of the Chinese army, the south was getting worse day by day, and the Japanese army took their servants along the west coast all the way to the north, and now the troops are in Mumbai, because the coast is not safe, this is especially clear to the British who were launched by pirates, so the Marquis of Hope actually gave up the defense of the peninsula, and his current strategic goal is actually not to keep India, but to keep the British in India, so all the British from all over the south were called by him to around New Delhi, backed by the Chinese and the remnants of the 100,000 British troops in the hands of Wavell to hold on to this area, and then wait for the international form to turn around.

So in this case, the Japanese army was almost in a no-man's land in the south, and soon even Bombay fell into their hands, and the Japanese army in Bombay supported another puppet, the Indian Federation headed by Nehru.

They are not stupid, Bose is more radical, not very easy to control, and now the strength is not small, in this case, it is better to find him a halter, on the grounds that the distance is inconvenient to control, in India to get two countries, so that even if the whole of India is occupied, the country will always be divided, like such a huge country of millions of square kilometers, if she is not divided, it will be difficult to manage.

Both Bose and Nehru were well aware of what the Japanese were doing, but they were already competing with each other within the Congress Party, and naturally neither of them wanted to be subservient to the other, and this arrangement was exactly what they wanted.

After taking Bombay in this way, the Japanese army on the southern front also stopped going north and began to digest the territory they had occupied, especially the iron ore they urgently needed, and the result made them simply ecstatic, the mineral distribution map given to them by Germany was not the slightest mistake, Goa and the two states of Karnataka next to it were simply a treasure trove, and the iron ore was jaw-dropping in terms of quantity and grade, if all these iron ores were developed, the Great Japanese Empire would be enough to conquer the world, so in this case, the Japanese army had no intention of going north, Put all your thoughts on iron ore development.

The Japanese troops on the north and south roads stopped at the same time, the Chinese army was robbing homes in northern India, the British were desperately trying to consolidate the defensive circle of New Delhi, and the Indian and Vietnamese armies did not have the courage to challenge their old masters without the Japanese sending troops.

But at this moment, a thunderbolt suddenly exploded on this planet, a real thunderbolt on a sunny day, which shocked everyone's hearts.

On 4 May 1940, the Luftwaffe, with a huge scale of nearly 4,000 combat aircraft, suddenly launched a stormy air attack on all the British, French, Belgian-Dutch air bases on a frontline of several hundred kilometers from the Netherlands in the west to the Maginot Line in the east, and the sword of Damocles hanging high over the world's head finally fell. (To be continued......)