Part 4 Chapter 201: Final Order? (x)

About 15,000 men of the 15th Anglo-Indian Division on the Cuttack and Bhubaneswar sides relied on the fast-flowing Brahmin River to defend themselves, and it was not easy to break through head-on.

Lieutenant General Duan Qirui, commander of the 3rd Army of the "Asian Solution", was 51 years old and adapted the 1st Nanyang Volunteer Division from the 303rd Division of the former Nanyang Volunteer Light Infantry that participated in the pacification of Borneo and Java to contain the enemy frontally, and the 2nd Nanyang Volunteer Division was reorganized from the 304th Division of the former Nanyang Volunteer Light Infantry who participated in the pacification of Java to take a naval landing craft and maneuver "from beachhead to beachhead" behind enemy lines. Commander Duan led the front command of the army to land here that night.

The next day, the three infantry regiments of the main force of the army on the transport ship were unloaded from Baladipu as the backbone, divided into two routes and traced the river, and with the cooperation of the airborne troops, on October 5, they captured the Mehanadi railway bridge north of Ktakak, cutting off the communication between the defenders of the Brahman line and the rear.

On 7 October, the main force of the army swept north and swept the enemy on the Brahmin River from the rear, and the containment forces in front also launched a general offensive at the same time, and the defenders quickly collapsed, and the rest retreated to Semburpur, on the river of Mohanadi.

After securing the railway line between Barasol and Ktak, the main force of the army quickly moved south, taking Ktak without a fight on October 10, and on October 11 occupied Bhubaneswar, capturing the Bhubaneswar Naval Air Station, which had played an important role in the Battle of the Bay of Bengal, and then moved to the defense.

The 10th Division of the Anglo-Indian Army was about 17,000 men. Defended in a precipitous valley leading from the Bengal coast to the Jodhanabugle Plateau, the division was easily replenished with weapons and ammunition due to its proximity to the steel and military industrial center of Jamshedpur, and was also supported by a thoroughbred British infantry brigade of about 7,000 men directly under the Anglo-Indian Army Command as a reserve.

Along Klegpur to Jamshedpur. The 65th Army of the Chinese Army, which steadily advanced between the railway lines, was a prominent unit that participated in the French Indian Raiders.

From October 2 to 4, the army commander, Lieutenant General Wang Shizhen, was 55 years old. The 129th Infantry Division under his command failed to attack the enemy's position head-on, so the 130th Infantry Division returned to the north of Jamshedpur to launch a surprise attack, but was suddenly counterattacked by the enemy's reserves.

On 9 October, the reserve of the army group, also French India, was obtained. The 136th Division of the 6th Army of the Lüxun Army - after reinforcements, Lieutenant General Wang Shizhen once again personally led the main force to attack the frontal defense line defended by the British and Indian 10th Division, and fought fiercely for 3 days, finally drove back the enemy in front of him, and entered the suburbs of Jamshedpur on October 12, and the next day, the British brigade defending the city fled without a fight, and blew up some key industrial facilities before retreating, including the No. 1 blast furnace of Tata Steel, the largest and most advanced in India, but did not have time to destroy most of the pits and mines scattered on the outskirts of the city.

As the key direction of attack of the Chinese army's "Shiva" operation, by September 30, the Anglo-Indian defensive force on the Calcutta side had increased to about 60,000 men, including most of the Anglo-Indian Division, most of the 14th Division, and one of the 17th and 19th Divisions.

The one responsible for launching a frontal diligent attack on the enemy in Kolkata was . The 9th Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Feng Guozhang at the age of 57, began to advance eastward along the railway line from Klegpur on October 2, and the 5th Marine Division to the north along the west bank of the Hoogr River until October 6 to join forces on the outskirts of Howrah, an industrial satellite city on the other side of Kolkata.

Just Kolkata. While the defenders were focusing almost entirely on Howrah, on 7 October, the main forces of the 1st Marine Army, assembled on the west bank of the Hooger River south of Howrah, suddenly crossed the Hoogh River in landing craft, amphibious combat vehicles, and armored vehicles under the cover of 300 artillery pieces and 100 ships, gunboats, gunboats, and minesweepers, and captured Port Diamond on the east bank, a subport downstream of Howrah, which happened to have an old narrow-gauge railway to Calcutta.

However, Lieutenant General Yu Dalong was not in a hurry to drive his elite marines to attack Calcutta directly, but first concentrated on expanding and consolidating the defensive ring around the port until the main force of the 2nd Panzer Corps of Lieutenant General Wen Yu was unloaded.

By 11 October, after reinforcing the 1st and 2nd Marine Armoured Brigades and the 11th and 12th Marine Infantry Brigades, which had previously been part of the 1st Marine Corps, the 2nd Panzer Corps had assembled more than 450 combat vehicles, more than 500 half-track and amphibious armored vehicles, 60 self-propelled guns and 130 towed guns around Port Diamond. Yu Dalong decided to immediately lead his troops to launch a surprise attack.

At dawn on October 12, the 300 cannons of the two armies roared at the same time, and in the roar of artillery, the torrent of iron armor rolled and surged, and hundreds of chariots drove majestically towards the enemy position in the mist.

The sun was high, the mist had lifted, and the five-kilometer front was covered with ironclad chariots painted with brightly colored beasts, ignoring the bullets fired from the front and the shells exploding nearby, constantly spitting tongues of fire over the barbed wire and across the trenches. At the same time, hundreds of humming warplanes swept by the battlefield at low altitudes, concentrating on the artillery positions behind the battle line, and huge fireworks of clusters of shells blooming gorgeously.

Indian soldiers, who had never seen such a horrific spectacle, abandoned their weapons or jumped out of their trenches and ran to the rear—mostly swept away by the oncoming bullets, or muttered prayers in amazement, and many more chose to join their superiors, raising their hands in surrender to the "indestructible beasts".

Within a day, the 2nd Panzer Corps captured nearly 10,000 of the enemy, and the advance advanced into the Gadenridge district on the southern outskirts of Calcutta, and the defenders fell into great confusion, abandoning the city defenses and retreating north the next day.

On the afternoon of October 14, Lieutenant General Wen Yu led his troops into the city without blood, and Calcutta was liberated.

The next day, amid the sporadic gunfire on the outskirts of the city, Senior General Deng Jian, Commander of the Indian Front, came to the unfinished Victoria Memorial at the southern end of Matan Park to meet with the Chairman of the Provisional National Government of India and Commander-in-Chief of the Indian National Army. Gangdal. Tilak, as well as the Interim National Government of India's Parliamentary Prime Minister Mohandas. Karamchand. Gandhi walked up the hastily remodeled spiral staircase to the marble pedestal that was originally intended to be used to house the statue of Queen Victoria, and hereby announced: The Provisional National Government of India has taken Calcutta as its station, calling on groups and individuals aspiring to national independence from all India to come here to "discuss state affairs", and at the same time calling on the Indian officers and soldiers in the British and Indian armies to defect and fight to become ministers of the cause of national liberation.

Tilac's speech lasted about a quarter of an hour, and just as it was Gandhi's turn to take the microphone, Deng Jian, who was brewing a draft, was disturbed by the adjutant's sudden whispering in his ear......!