Chapter 1480: The Empty Shelf of the Eastern Advance Corps
Tang Qiuli's thoughts have jumped out of the current world, flying back to a few decades later, since he has such a strength and such an excellent opportunity, if he doesn't take advantage of it, the historians of later generations will use the pen like Peng, and write a big book about himself as a big fool, an idiot and a fool at the top.
Since the British Viceroy in India can make a McMahon Line and leave a scar to China, he can't make a Tang Qiu offline and dismember the Indian continent, anyway, India is now in the hands of the British, and if God wants to pay for it, if it is not taken, it is against the peace of heaven, a fait accompli, even in the later generations, the mouth lawsuit, let the Asan and the British fight.
However, I'm afraid that when the time comes, Ah San can't even find the main master, this time he flew to Germany, just to destroy the British Isles, thinking of this, Tang Qiuli was excited, and in advance for his motherland, got rid of a restless and annoying neighbor, and it was not in vain to be a man for two lives.
From a distance, the mountain tiger saw that Tang Qiuli's expression was in a state of confusion and contemplation again, and he said in his heart, "Yes, Xiaoqiu's old mistake has been committed again, what are you smirking at there?" "However, after many times, it is not strange to see it, and the mountain tiger is also used to it.
The mountain tiger came to find Tang Qiuli, there was something to report, the troops that had entered the East Indies in advance sent a capable guard regiment to meet their division commander, and the regiment commander was not far away, excited, waiting for the division commander to summon him.
When the mountain tiger arrived in front of Tang Qiuli, he deliberately sighed and said: "Hey, I've lost my soul again, I knew this, so I would have let Liu Xinlan follow, and save me from worrying all day!" β
Tang Qiuli came back to his senses, and when he saw the sympathy on Shanhu's face, he shook his head and sighed, glared at Shanhu angrily, and said, "Huzi, what a lost soul, I'm thinking about whether it's okay." What does it have to do with Liu Xinlan, let's talk, what's the matter? β
The mountain tiger replied, "Look, it's not angry." The army has sent someone to meet us, and the regimental commander is waiting below for you, the master, to summon us, and I will report and ask for instructions from the division! β
Tang Qiuli looked at the mountain tiger for a while, smiled and said, "Huzi, you." When did it become oily and slippery, if Ouyang Lan saw it, wouldn't you be blamed if you didn't fix it? β
Immediately, his face changed, and he asked, "What did you say just now?" Send someone to pick us up, return the strength of a regiment, nonsense, in this case. Mainly hidden, how big is the target of a few thousand people, and I don't know what their brains think? β
Colonel Regiment Commander. was excited and anxious, waiting for the division commander to meet the division commander, Tang Qiuli and Shanhu came over, the regiment commander hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Report to the division commander, Yu Jingjiang, commander of the first regiment of the second brigade of the Sulu Mobile Corps, on the order of the brigade commander, came to protect the safety of the division headquarters, please give the division commander instructions!" β
Yu Jingjiang was a little nervous, too. Among the nearly one million troops of the independent division, there are probably several thousand regimental-level officers alone, and there are a few of them who can personally meet the division commander in person and receive his instructions in person. This is a great honor, when I accepted the task, several other old fellows, their eyes were red with jealousy, and they complained that the brigade commander was eccentric, and gave all good things.
Tang Qiuli looked at Yu Jingjiang, this is an officer in his thirties, with a capable air all over his body, although he is sweating profusely, but his military appearance and appearance do not show any chaos and wolf bèi, he nodded slightly, and was very satisfied with his appearance.
Then, he asked seemingly casually: "Commander Yu, why did your Second Brigade send someone to take over the division headquarters?" How far is your brigade headquarters from here? Did there be any fighting on the way here? β
The attitude is kind and the tone is gentle, this is also Tang Qiuli's habit, he will never be angry with the commander of the grassroots troops, if it is because he sent people to protect himself, and the hidden position and intentions of the second brigade are exposed, the brigade commander, Major General Liao Zhenbang, I am afraid that he will be unlucky. β¦,
Of course Yu Jingjiang didn't know, Tang Qiuli asked the meaning of these words, and replied honestly: "Report to the division commander, this is the hidden area of our second brigade, more than 30 kilometers away from the current position, this area is controlled by us, there is no danger, after receiving the telegram from the division headquarters, the brigade commander ordered our first regiment to protect the safety of the division commander, it is dark, and the location of the brigade headquarters is not easy to find." β
Yu Jingjiang's answer was concise and clear, without a word of nonsense, without any delay, Tang Qiuli nodded with satisfaction, the problem he was most worried about was not stored anymore, his face became more and more kind, and said: "Commander Yu, please lead the way, tonight, I will bother you Brigade Commander Liao." β
He said to Zhao Yuhe beside him: "Yuhe, send a notice to the brigade commanders, tomorrow morning, at the second brigade station, a military meeting will be held to deploy the combat matters against the British and Indian Army's eastward marching corps, let's go, don't let Regiment Commander Yu wait for us, see what famous food Brigade Commander Liao has prepared for us?" β
Yu Jingjiang smiled innocently, his nervous mood immediately relaxed, and he secretly thought to himself: "The teacher is more approachable than he imagined, but I was nervous in vain." β
The night shrouded the land of the East Indies, and in the dark night, a long convoy of troops, along a simple dirt road, towards the station of the Second Brigade, galloped away, the headlights were like sharp swords, cutting through the night sky, except for the troops notified, no one would have thought that the number one person of the Independent Division, in the Indochina Peninsula and the Hukang River Valley, the division commander Tang Qiuli, who stirred up the wind and rain, had already entered the land of the East Indies.
Compared with Tang Qiuli's relaxed freehand, if he lifted his weight lightly, the commander of the British Army in India's Eastern Advance Corps in Imphal, Lieutenant General Chelsea, was in a bad mood and wanted to scold.
According to the traditional habits of the British Army, the Eastern Advance Corps of the Indian Army should be the establishment of a group army, and the number of troops under its command can reach more than 200,000 people, but Lieutenant General Chelsea, who flew to Imphal a day earlier, opened the troop deployment table, and only glanced at a few times, and the first thing was to slam the coffee in his hand, along with the cup, at the feet of the training director of the major general stationed in India.
The poor training director of the major general, who didn't dare to say a word, looked at the commander under the rage, full of grievances, can he blame himself? The daily training of the Indian army is originally a matter of having a match or not, and those Indian soldiers are good to say, British soldiers, all of them are similar to young masters, if they say that they drink and gamble to make women, they are all masters, but when it comes to training, they can hide if they can, and they can rely on them.
In addition, this time Commander Alexander, the eastern expedition to northern Burma, fought with the Chinese, and transferred relatively speaking, well-trained troops, and the rest are some old fritters, crooked melons and cracked dates and other soldiers, if not most of the Indian soldiers to fill the faΓ§ade, himself, the training director, can be dismissed, this department should also be abolished.
Chelsea waved his hand, like a fly, and told the training director to get out of the way, he looked upset, and the training director was like a pardon, packed up the things on the table, and disappeared in front of the eyes of the commander with a movement faster than a rabbit.
Chelsea wants to scold people, the first thing to scold is that Alexander, this old bastard, who has taken all the elite troops of the Indian army and emptied them to see what is left for him?
On the troop allocation table, there are only more than 90,000 people in the full battle, and I am afraid that only God knows how many personnel there are, and moreover, the troops that are also distributed in various parts of the Indian continent, especially in the East Indies and East Pakistan, are almost only empty shelves, and the garrison troops in some places only have the strength of a pitiful company.
The key is the soldiers' plain zhΓ¬, this is the most annoying thing for Chelsea, when he first arrived in Imphal, he took the time, with all the officers of the corps command organ with an empty shelf, to check the local garrison, not bad, Alexander to Imphal, left a regiment of garrison, but when the troops were assembled, Chelsea's enthusiasm turned into a basin of cold water, poured through the heart! β¦,
It is said that it is the establishment of a regiment, and the soldiers who can be assembled are only a little more than two battalions, and the vast majority of them are still Indian soldiers with a curry flavor, as for their compatriots, just like that, the image of a swinger brother is more than the temperament of a soldier, all of them are listless, and they are also bearded, and they are like hangovers and unsober.
The British soldiers in disheveled uniforms accounted for the majority, and if it were not for the presence of Indian soldiers, Lieutenant General Chelsea, who was extremely disappointed and furious, would not hesitate to order them to run along the playground until they vomited blood, so as not to disgrace the soldiers of the British Empire.
After checking the weapons and equipment, Lieutenant General Chelsea was completely speechless, many of the soldiers' weapons and equipment were dilapidated and defective, and the rifles in the hands of some soldiers were rusty in the barrels, either lacking triggers or missing parts.
In other words, after two or three years as a soldier of the British Empire, a total of less than 200 bullets were fired, and Lieutenant General Chelsea was sure that even if these soldiers were allowed to shoot Chinese soldiers at a distance of 20 meters, more than half of them would miss the target, and the rest would probably be scared to pee their pants, unable to even lift their guns, or simply flee for their lives.
As for the regiment of the Impal defenders, there is not a single heavy artillery or field artillery in the whole regiment, more than 20 mortars, all the belongings, and the light and heavy machine guns are pitiful, this is still the defenders of the important town of Imphal, so what about other places?
Lieutenant General Chelsea did not dare to think down, Alexander, the old bastard, did enough, all the artillery and tank units were withdrawn, leaving nothing good for himself, and what the result was, they were all lost in the Hukang River valley in northern Myanmar, surrounded by the Chinese, pitifully waiting for rescue.
In the end, Lieutenant General Chelsea did not even have the strength to be angry, and the biggest problem he faced was how to solve the equipment of the troops, as well as the scattered troops to assemble in Imphal on time.
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