Out of the Hukang River Valley, the eyes suddenly opened up, the great plains and shallow hilly landforms of eastern India were unobstructed in front of Tang Qiuli's eyes, Tang Qiuli patted the driver's shoulder, and the armored command vehicle stopped abruptly and stopped steadily on a high ground.

The evening breeze and the brilliant sunset give the earth a layer of orange-red luster, which is different from the solidified green in the Hukang River Valley, and is more different from the lofty mountains and low hills and bushes in northern Myanmar, which constitute the main scenery, and sometimes large areas of flat land, in all fairness, the natural conditions here are much better than those in northern Myanmar.

From the perspective of a soldier, such terrain conditions are most suitable for large-scale armored clusters to carry out plain assaults, Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe said: "Division commander, judging from the map, we have entered the East Indies, and the strange thing is that I have carefully observed and found no boundary monuments. ”

Tang Qiuli also carefully observed the surroundings, sure enough, there was nothing to find, he couldn't help but feel strange, if I remember correctly, two years ago, the 6th Brigade and the 7th Brigade of the directly subordinate corps, in the Hukang River Valley, surrounded a brigade of British and Indian troops, under pressure, and in the Indochina Peninsula, the Japanese were beaten to the ground and retreated, and the British colonial authorities in India signed a border agreement with themselves.

Here, there should be a boundary monument to save zài, this is the most superficial common sense question, their own side, will not ignore such an important matter, this route, is Alexander commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, invaded the main passage of northern Burma, another reincarnation of history, now, along this route, into the East Indies, for the British who have been obsessed with the Indochina Peninsula, it is really a great irony!

Could it be that the boundary monuments were brought down by the British, or rather. It was a deliberate attempt to confuse the border line, and while he was pondering there, the mountain tiger on the side said: "A few stone boundary monuments are missing, what's so strange." Maybe he was stolen away by that old guy Alexander? ”

Tang Qiuli and Zhao Yuhe were dumbfounded at the same time, Shanhu's words are as unreliable as they are, what is a dignified Anglo-Indian army commander commanding hundreds of thousands of troops doing if he can't get along with a few stone boundary monuments? Isn't he sick? What's more, the boundary monument has been knocked down, is Wen Jiàn still there!

The mountain tiger opened the river with ridicule. That's right, when Alexander's soldiers entered northern Burma, they ordered the soldiers to knock down a few boundary monuments and put them in their own cars, as for the ones they wanted to bury there, in this section of the Hukang River Valley. According to his ideas, not only the Indochina Peninsula, but probably Yunnan in China. Or further away in Chongqing, with defeat after defeat, his ambition has completely become a laughing stock.

Ambition can, but to correctly assess their own strength, from British Prime Minister Winston? Beginning with Churchill, to Alexander, who was surrounded in Sido, to Lieutenant General Chelsea, the commander of the British Army's Eastern Advance Corps in India, who was about to appear, all overestimated the capabilities of the British. thought that the British Empire was still the empire on which the sun never set a hundred years ago, but on the contrary, it greatly underestimated Tang Qiuli's strength.

Alexander and his chief of staff, Lieutenant General Adams, were in the encirclement of Sido, embattled and terrified. With a glimmer of hope, wait for reinforcements to arrive.

The topic of the boundary monument was interrupted by Chen Feng, the director of the division commander's communications department, Chen Feng took a telegram and said: "Division commander, I have received a telegram from the commander of the Chutian detachment of the special operations detachment, please read it!" ”

Tang Qiuli received the telegram, "Division commander, I have been ordered to go deep into the East India and East Pakistan to carry out activities, and I will now report the reconnaissance situation as follows: Beginning on the afternoon of 15 May, the British and Indian troops scattered in the East Indies and East Pakistan regions have been assembled in the Imphal area, and I have led the special operations detachment to secretly attack a small unit of the British and Indian army. ”…,

"According to the prisoners' confessions, they received an order from the new commander of the Eastern Advance Corps, Lieutenant General Chelsea, to assemble in Imphal and organize into a new combat unit, their number is, the Third Regiment of the Sixth Division of the Eastern Advance Corps of the British Empire Army in India, because the identity of the prisoners is low, more information cannot be obtained, and specific information will be reported at any time while continuing reconnaissance!"

Tang Qiuli smiled happily, the battle situation was developing according to his own expectations, the British finally pieced together the last bit of troops, and came to find themselves desperately, Chutian's intelligence proved this, it was just right, it seems that Alexander is very cooperative!

He handed the telegram to Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe and asked, "Yuhe, what do you think?" ”

Zhao Yuhe pondered for a moment and replied: "Division commander, I think that the appearance of this new name of the so-called Eastern Advance Corps, as you expected, was newly formed by the British in order to rescue Alexander's department, and I personally think that this should be the last strength of the British army garrison in India. ”

"This Eastern Advance Corps should not have been formed just to rescue Alexander's headquarters, I'm afraid there is another purpose, and Imphal, the closest to the Indo-Burmese border, has convenient transportation, which is conducive to the assembly of troops, in order to rush to the nearest major town in Sido, it should be the starting point of the attack of the British and Indian Army's Eastern Advance Corps, my judgment is that much, and I ask the division commander to correct!"

Tang Qiuli laughed and said: "Yuhe, how did you become humble, you have judged all the circumstances, and you still need me to correct something, however, there is one thing that needs to be paid attention to, the strength of the British and Indian troops in the East Indies is easy to assemble, and the troops in the interior of the Indian continent will not take a day or two to rush to Imphal." ”

"Therefore, if we want to fight the East Indies Campaign, we must make preparations with both hands, whether to attack all of them or one, if this East Advance Corps does not have time to gather all its troops, and the existing forces attack the West, our campaign will be easy to fight, but it will not be able to achieve the main goal of completely annihilating the British troops in India, if the British and Indian troops are all assembled, no one can predict how long the time will drag."

"It is impossible for our seven infantry brigades and two artillery brigades to have more than 100,000 troops lurking in the Imphal area for a long time, and what to do once the commander of the British and Indian army, Chelsea, perceives our strategic intentions and retreats, these are all issues that your staff office needs to consider when formulating the battle plan."

Zhao Yuhe wrote them down one by one, and Tang Qiuli said to Chen Feng again: "Director Chen, call Chutian back, first, be sure to reconnoiter clearly, the equipment, strength, grouping, departure time of the British and Indian Army's Eastern Advance Corps, especially whether it has armored troops and the specific number. ”

"2. The scope of action of the special operations detachment can be expanded to the following scopes: Imphal, Simpson, Shardia, Dingsugia, and other places, select suitable targets to attack, but they must create the appearance of infiltration by small forces, create panic for the British, and accelerate the speed of their troop build-up, and all attack plans must be submitted to the division headquarters for approval before they can be carried out."

Then, he said to Chen Feng: "Send a telegram to the Commander of the Fleet at the Yangon Naval Base, the task force will depart in two days, and before that, collect intelligence on the following areas: the Nicobar Islands and the Andaman Islands in the Andaman Sea, the Chagos Islands, Sri Lanka Islands, and the Maldives Islands in the South Indian Ocean. ”

After listening to the words of division commander Tang Qiuli, chief of staff Zhao Yuhe and chief of the communications department Chen Feng, they glanced at each other, and the British were in great trouble, and the division commander was starting from both land and sea to list all the islands in the Indian Ocean as targets for the British to attack, and at sea, to build a chain to contain any forces on the Indian continent and march towards the Indian Ocean. …,

However, neither of them dared to ask, the division commander's next step, whether to attack the South Asian subcontinent from the southern tip of the Indian continent, if so, the strength of the two corps is obviously not enough, if the troops are mobilized from the Malay Peninsula, it means that the strategic center of gravity of the independent division has shifted from the Indochina Peninsula to the South Asian subcontinent, what should the Japanese do?

Especially the chief of staff Zhao Yuhe, faintly worried, Tang Qiuli saw the content from the eyes of the two subordinates, he said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm not so arrogant, the vast Indian continent is not available for a while, you can only wait for the opportunity, the layout of the sea will contain any forces on this continent that rise in the future, imagine what great development can be made by regional forces that cannot get out of the Indian Ocean?" ”

Zhao Yuhe and Yu Deshui smiled, both of them were nervous, a little uncomfortable, in fact, neither of them could understand that the reason why Tang Qiuli, who was reborn, wanted to fight against the British in the East Indies in addition to fighting the British in the Indian Ocean, and took all the islands around the Indian mainland as the target of occupation was based on the memories brought by later generations.

The neighbor who lives in the southwest of China is a master who is not very peaceful, and he has a mess of his own mess, but he always wants to be the boss of Asia, and naturally regards China as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh, and from time to time he makes some trouble, either to hook up with the United States and contain China, or to buy a few broken warships, and shout to go out of the Indian Ocean and drink the Pacific Ocean.

In their opinion, the Indian Ocean is India's inland sea, compared with China all day long, the cowhide is blowing loudly, but can not take out the real thing, extremely manic heart, realistic national strength, caused those A San brothers, deformed practices, jealousy and hatred, history, A San brother in southern Tibet, Mao Weiren ordered, the Chinese a big slap instigated, A San at that time spat blood, looking for teeth all over the ground.

Since there is such an opportunity, Tang Qiuli will definitely not miss it, and in advance, Ah San will honestly stay on his own turf, and be a quiet and obedient little brother, so as to live a more comfortable life!

(To be continued) RS

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