Nepal for British India and even Britain, has a great value that can not be ignored, so after receiving the Nepalese king's request for help, the British Indian Governor immediately sent a large number of reinforcements, because of the previous in Tibet suffered a big loss, the British and Indian Governors did not dare to be a little careful about the Chinese army, in order to prevent accidents, they actually sent 50,000 British troops and 50,000 Indian troops, the total strength of more than 3 times the total number of troops under Fang Yongle, but the result made him stunned, in the Royal Air Force regardless of the danger of the efforts to support, At the cost of more than 4,000 casualties, Fang Yongle killed more than 10,000 British troops and captured more than 20,000 prisoners, and the 50,000 Indian troops were almost completely wiped out, and the Tibetan Corps captured more than 30,000 Indian prisoners alone

His outstanding performance in the Nepalese campaign earned Fang Yongle a reputation as Shijie, and the British and Indians feared him and called him the "Tiger of the Himalayas", and later renamed him the "Tiger of the Mountains" as Fang Yongle became more and more famous.

However, Fang Yongle himself was not particularly satisfied with the Nepalese campaign, in his opinion, it was a matter of course to achieve victory, because his 30,000 elite soldiers were all special troops specializing in mountain warfare, while although the British side had 100,000 people, but only a few thousand of them were good at mountain warfare, because the Gurkha brigade, which was the best at mountain warfare in the British and Indian armies, had already been completely annihilated by him. In addition, it is difficult for large units to carry out operations in mountainous areas, and it is extremely inconvenient for aircraft to reconnoiter and bomb. Therefore, it was difficult for the British army's strength advantage and air superiority to be brought into play, so Fang Yongle did not defeat the strong with the weak at all, but obviously attacked the weak with the strong

At this time, the Anglo-Indian governor, who was unwilling to fail, on the one hand, asked for help from home, and on the other hand, he wantonly recruited troops in India, and started the insidious idea of using Indian soldiers as cannon fodder to consume the enemy, "As long as the Indians are not dead, the British Empire will never admit defeat!" ”。

In this way, Fang Yongle suddenly became more stressed, you must know that there is no large arsenal in Tibet, although the arms workshop built by the Kashag government has been expanded and upgraded, it can still only make bullets and grenades. And production is limited. And most of the raw materials needed for artillery, shells, and even arsenals are not produced in Tibet. It had to be transported from other provinces, and at this time, two of the four roads into Tibet had just been built, and the transportation capacity was seriously insufficient, and one Nepal was defeated. More than half of the ammunition that had been stockpiled in the previous year or so had been used. Where can we afford to kill all the Indians?

Originally, Fang Yongle could also carry forward our army's fine tradition of being good at using captures to supplement combat attrition. However, the cunning Anglo-Indian governor-in-chief, after learning the truth of some of the battles during the Nepalese campaign, quickly and keenly judged that the ammunition reserves of the Chinese army would definitely not last long, so he ordered all Indian soldiers to carry only one magazine, that is, 10 rounds, so that the Chinese army could fight no matter how beautifully it fought. The ammunition that can be captured is simply not enough to supplement the consumption in the battle, and if the ammunition on both sides is used up to fight a white-knuckle battle, no matter how elite one side is, the exchange ratio will not be high, so no matter how brave the PLA soldiers are, they will definitely not be able to fight the Anglo-Indian army with an absolute advantage in numbers.

"This is almost the same as the situation when the Western Route Army fought the Ma Jiajun, the old chief said that this is called cannon fodder tactics, which is really appropriate", Fang Yongle learned that there were few ammunition reserves left, and the captives had been captured by hundreds of thousands, most of which were Indians, and the head was as big as a fight for a while, although the Indian soldiers were not as brainwashed by extreme religious ideology as the Ma Jiajun soldiers back then, but the language barrier made it more difficult for them to convert

In desperation, Fang Yongle had no choice but to stretch out his hand to the central government, asking for some more political workers who knew English (these were scarce talents in China at this time) to help reform the prisoners, and at the same time withdrew to Shanbei with only one-tenth of the ammunition remaining in Tibet.

When passing through the Sikkim Pass, Fang Yongle did not leave many troops here, because a strong fortress had been built here, so that it was originally "a man should be a pass, and ten thousand people should not be opened." According to Fang Yongle's estimates, with the combat effectiveness of the Indian army, if you want to take the Sikkim Pass, you will have to pay at least 100 times the casualties and ammunition consumption, even if the British don't care about the lives of the Indians, the British can't afford to eat the almost heavenly amount of ammunition consumption, after all, although Britain is the former hegemon, the military output cannot reach more than 100 times that of China (as for the restrictions on the efficiency of transportation, In the particular geographical location of the Sikkim Pass, the situation is similar on both sides. Not to mention that arms also cost money!

The British were not fools, and after a disastrous defeat in their tentative assault on the fortress of Sikkim, they decisively abandoned the continuation of the assault and instead concentrated their forces in the attempt to "recover" Nepal. However, the CPN and the Nepal People's Republic Army, established with the help of China, led the heroic Nepalese people in an indomitable struggle against the British invading army in the lofty mountains of the motherland, and the British suffered tens of thousands of casualties within a month, but still failed to occupy the entire territory of Nepal. The Anglo-Indian governor was forced to resign before he suddenly woke up, in fact, the Chinese used exactly the same strategy as him, but in the skin of "liberation", it appeared more righteous

But Fang Yongle, who was forced to retreat to China, did not think that adding blockage to the British was a victory, and after returning to Tibet, he made a serious review of the Nepalese campaign, and finally found that the British strategy was not completely uncrackable, because although India's manpower was almost unlimited, it would take time to train it into a barely capable army, and although the British military production capacity was far from being comparable to China's, after all, it had to be transported from the mainland, so the supply per unit time was also limited.

Therefore, as long as China expands the scale of the war so that the Anglo-Indian army cannot be replenished at a rate that can keep up with attrition, the British will surely lose. Considering that the troops from Xinjiang and Tibet will face the problem of supply, Fang Yongle's proposed battle plan to the central government is to start a war in Burma and force the British to take the initiative to sue for peace, although the tropical rainforest is not a good battlefield, but after all, there is a Yunnan-Burma road available (to be continued......