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At 8 o'clock in the morning of November 26, General Zhou Shun, commander of the third group of the Chinese army, and Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao, chief of staff, came to the position of the artillery brigade. The artillery battalions of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army and four infantry divisions, with a total of more than 300 105-mm light howitzers, 155-mm heavy howitzers, and 155-mm heavy cannons, have entered the positions. The thick barrels of one cannon after another were already pointing fiercely at the British and Indian positions in the north, ready to fire at the British and Indian troops at any time.

The 243rd Anglo-Indian Army, the 246th and 24th Armies reinforced from Calcutta, and the 245th Army withdrawn from Rokigandapur were all gathered fifteen kilometres north of Port Diamond. Here is far from the Hooghly River, and the naval guns of the Chinese Navy's fire support ship detachment cannot threaten them. The Anglo-Indian army attempted to build a defensive line here to block the Chinese army's attack on Calcutta. Delay enough time for the arrival of reinforcements. It's just that the third cluster of the Chinese army doesn't seem to give them enough time. Although the first wave of troops had only 4 infantry divisions, there was also a cavalry brigade and an armored brigade, which could already form an extremely powerful assault group, enough to launch an offensive against the Anglo-Indian army.

"Report to the commander, the artillery brigade is ready!" The commander of the artillery brigade of the 11th Army reported to Admiral Zhou Shun.

"Hmmm! What about the Chief of Staff, the Cavalry Brigade and the Armored Brigade? Admiral Zhou Shun asked. When the strength of the Anglo-Indian army was greatly inferior, the assault force composed of armored brigades and cavalry brigades became the key to winning this battle.

"Commander, the armored brigade and the cavalry brigade are ready to attack at any time!" Lieutenant General Ehashi replied.

"Start attacking! Defeat those Indian Asan today. Hit Kolkata! Admiral Zhou Shun ordered. When he arrived at Port Diamond, he found that the 2nd Anglo-Indian Army, which had been stationed here, had gone north. Replaced with an ordinary army group. This made Admiral Zhou Shun very unhappy, and he felt that the cooked ducks had flown away. However, this also gives the third cluster of the Chinese Army a chance. It would take at least two days for the Anglo-Indian 2nd Army and other reinforcements to reach Calcutta. If the 3rd Group is able to defeat the Anglo-Indian 24th Army in two days and capture Calcutta, the squadron will be able to occupy an advantageous position in the ensuing battle!

"Fire!" After General Zhou Shun gave the order to open fire, the commander of the artillery brigade of the 11th Army gave the order to open fire. More than 300 heavy guns, which had already been prepared, opened fire one after another. Dense shells flew towards the positions of the British and Indian troops several kilometers away, and the smoke from the explosion of the shells was produced. Almost all the positions of the Anglo-Indian troops were shrouded in it.

Lieutenant General Benjamin, commander of the 24th Army of the British and Indian Army, personally rushed to the front line to direct the battle, but with the strength of the four armies of the British and Indian Army, he was not even very sure that he himself was not very sure. There were three more corps in Calcutta, and the other three corps were also contracted to Calcutta on his orders. Lieutenant General Benjamin hopes to delay for a while so that the remaining 6 corps of the 24th Army can build a defensive line in Kolkata to resist the attack of the squadron!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Shells exploded on the positions of the British and Indian troops, and the 155-mm grenade weighed 42 kilograms, and the 105-millimeter grenade also weighed 12.8 kilograms. For the infantry, the power of such a shell is already irresistible. 24 armies of the 4th Anglo-Indian Army. Although a simple defensive line was built overnight, their defensive line was for the heavy artillery of the Chinese Army. It doesn't work at all. The fire points of the civil structures were destroyed in the shelling, and the shock wave generated by the explosion of the shells directly threw the British and Indian soldiers away, and the shrapnel tore the fragile human body to pieces.

The shelling stopped after 20 minutes, and the positions of the British and Indian troops were already in shambles in the shelling. The use of heavy artillery against the positions of the British and Indian troops is completely like a feeling of killing chickens with a knife.

After that, more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles of the 11th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army began to attack, and behind the armored brigade were troops of the 1st and 6th Divisions of the Army, which would follow the Anglo-Indian defense line broken by the armored brigade to extend the victory. The cavalry brigade also began a detour when the armored brigade was dispatched, preparing to go around to the back of the Anglo-Indian army to block their retreat, and strive to annihilate the Anglo-Indian troops of these four armies. The 15th and 16th Divisions of the Army also attacked from both sides. With a force of almost 100,000 troops, nearly 200,000 British and Indian troops were encircled and annihilated, although it was a bit risky, but Lieutenant General Zhou Shun had great confidence. If it were the U.S. or British army, he might not do it, but it should not be very difficult for the 100,000 squadron to encircle and annihilate the 200,000 British and Indian troops with weak combat effectiveness.

"Crunch! Crunch! "The sound of the tank's tracks crashing against the ground and the rumble of the engine were mixed like thunder. A torrent of steel consisting of more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles rushed towards the positions of the British and Indian troops, exuding an irresistible momentum.

"Lord Shiva is above, what is that?" Quite a few Indian Ahsan poked their heads out of the defensive line and looked stupidly at the approaching tanks. Almost all of the Indian Asan have never seen this kind of weapon, and those who have seen it have become corpses!

"Tanks! Bastard, the Chinese actually used armored forces! God, how could we have withstood the attack of the Chinese armored forces? A British major officer said in horror. As an officer of the British army, he naturally knew the strength of the Chinese armored forces. The tanks that the Germans received from China and the armored forces formed by the production technology had already made the Anglo-French army suffer enough. If it weren't for the timely development of anti-tank weapons by the Anglo-French forces, and the Germans' scattered use of tanks as a weapon to support the infantry, perhaps the Anglo-French defense line would have been broken through. However, the British and Indian forces did not have any anti-tank weapons, and it was almost impossible to stop the advance of the armored units of the squadron.

Soon, the steel torrent of the 11th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army rushed to the Anglo-Indian defensive line, and the tank guns on the tanks began to shell the fire points of the British and Indian troops, and the machine guns on board also began to strafe the British and Indian troops. The soldiers of the Anglo-Indian army were simply unable to resist this steel monster. Quite a few people attacked these tanks and armored vehicles with rifles in their hands, but all of them were in vain.

"Da Da Da!" A heavy machine gun frantically fires at a T5 'Cheetah' heavy tank. Dense bullets hit the armor of the tank with a clanging and crisp sound. But for the tank and the tankmen inside, it is useless at all.

In the face of the attack of the British and Indian soldiers, the tank drove directly over, and the tracks ran over the heavy machine gun and the soldiers who operated the heavy machine guns, crushing the heavy machine guns into parts, and at the same time crushing the British and Indian soldiers who operated the heavy machine guns into meat sauce.

"Run! The Chinese are too strong, we can't stand it! "In the face of the attack of the armored forces of the Chinese Army, the Anglo-Indian army was simply unable to resist and collapsed almost instantly. A large number of Anglo-Indian soldiers fled their positions and fled in the direction of Calcutta. The armored forces of the Chinese Army pursued after them. Many British and Indian soldiers surrendered to the Chinese army's armored units, but the Chinese army's tanks ignored them and ran over the British and Indian soldiers, or killed them with machine guns. The Chinese Army seems to have made up its mind that it will not be taken prisoner on the battlefield in India!

"Da-da, da-da!" The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, like a muffled thunder. The cavalry brigade of the 11th Army of the Chinese Army outflanked it in time and blocked the retreat of the British and Indian troops. The brave knights galloped on their horses, and the sabers in their hands shone with a cold glow in the sunlight.

"Kill!" The cavalry launched a charge, quickly rushing into the fleeing Anglo-Indian army, their sabers flying up and down, each swing of which could bring a human head. In the face of such a blow, the Indian Asans completely collapsed. In less than an hour, the strength of the 4 armies of the Anglo-Indian army collapsed under the blows of the armored brigade and cavalry brigade of the Chinese army, and the Anglo-Indian soldiers who had lost the will to fight were completely like lambs to the slaughter, chased up by the 4 infantry divisions of the Chinese army, and then all killed!

Lieutenant General Benjamin, commander of the 24th Anglo-Indian Army, realized that the situation was not good when the 11th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army launched an attack and fled ahead of schedule. Otherwise, he would probably have to die here.

The mass killing lasted several hours, and all four Anglo-Indian corps were executed. After that, the armored forces and cavalry brigades continued to attack and entered Calcutta in the evening of the same day. Although the Anglo-Indian army gathered the strength of 6 corps in Calcutta, it was simply unable to resist. At the same time, the Chinese Navy's detachment of fire support ships continued to sail up the Hooghly River, sailing only a few kilometers from Calcutta, where it carried out a devastating artillery bombardment of Calcutta. Calcutta was slowly reduced to rubble by the blows of large-caliber naval guns, and the Victorian-style buildings built by the British colonists were destroyed in the explosion. Indian and British immigrants living in the city were also killed and wounded in the shelling.

On the evening of November 26, the second wave of the third group of the Chinese Army landed directly in Calcutta, and tens of thousands of squadrons and 100,000 Japanese mercenaries entered the city of Calcutta. Coupled with the first wave of troops of the third group of the Chinese Army attacking from the south, after a night of fierce fighting, the 24th Army of the British and Indian Army was driven out of Calcutta, and the squadron captured the most important city in eastern India! (To be continued......)