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The losses of the British army are also staggering, the army's anti-aircraft guns alone have been blown up more than 800, the navy has also sunk 6 light warships, of which only 2 can be salvaged and repaired, and the British Royal Air Force has been hit by unprecedented heavy damage, the total number of planes that have been directly shot down and blown up alone is as high as more than 2,000, and if you add the output lost by some aircraft factories affected by air raids, it is more than 3,000 planes.

The only thing that made Churchill feel a little fortunate was that the war was fought over the British Isles after all, so after the British planes were shot down, the pilots could parachute, and the survival rate was therefore higher, plus the German lost planes were mainly bombers, while the British downed (as for those that were blown up on airfields, the survival rate of the pilots was often higher, because most of the time they were not in the planes at all) were mainly fighters, because the crews of bombers were generally much larger than those of fighters, As a result, the total number of permanent attrition of the RAF was only one-third that of the Luftwaffe, and this was the only loss smaller than that of the German army

But even so, the British Royal Air Force was weakened to the level of a second-class power, and the Luftwaffe temporarily seized air supremacy over the British Isles and its adjacent waters, and only anti-aircraft artillery units could give the British some sense of security, but after all, they could only protect a small area, so the initiative in the war had completely shifted to the German side

And at this time, there was another very unpleasant news from the far east. The Chinese finally moved again after a long hibernation, and the Manipur Line, which was urgently built by the British at the India-Burma border, was easily broken through by the Chinese in just a few days, to Churchill's disbelief, the large number of permanent fortifications built by the British and Indian colonial governments in the Manipur Mountains did not play the slightest role, and the Chinese only sent infantry to attack after regular artillery bombardment and air raids, and easily occupied them, and many fortresses fell to the enemy without even sending a distress signal

"What the hell is going on?" Churchill was puzzled and immediately ordered MI6 to investigate the matter with all its might, because MI6 already had many intelligence officers operating on the Indo-Burmese border. In addition, it is difficult to achieve complete secrecy in such a large-scale campaign. Soon after, Churchill received a report from a senior agent of Indian origin who found that the British officers and soldiers who had died were mainly due to asphyxiation, and that many had died of severe burns all over the body, as far as he knew. When the Chinese infantry attacked. The British troops stationed in the various permanent fortifications had actually lost their ability to resist. The vast majority of them have died

"Is it chemical weapons?" , Churchill thought with a frown, the heat would render biological weapons ineffective. Then the only thing that can kill people invisibly is chemical weapons, but how can chemical poisons enter so many fortifications and poison all the British troops inside, and even have no time to take protective measures? Churchill couldn't help but wonder, but this did not prevent him from pouring dirt on China's Red Party government on charges of "using chemical weapons".

In fact, the Chinese army was able to break through the strong defense line of the British army almost bloodlessly in this battle, relying on a secret weapon, but it was not a chemical weapon as the British thought, but a cloudburst bomb that had been mass-produced for a period of time. In a sense, Hu Weidong deliberately gave up the victory to invade India, so that the British could build a strong defense line along the Manipur Line, so that on the one hand, it could consume the British manpower, property and resources, and on the other hand, when the Chinese army launched an attack on it in the future, the strong fortifications on this defense line would instead become a grave dug by the British army

This killing mechanism is completely different from the new type of conventional high-explosive bomb, which has been used in many battles before, but because it is only used in small-scale battles, and the secrecy is in place, the Shijie powers have always been kept in the dark. In this battle, Hu Weidong no longer hid, just in the stage of attacking the fortified position, the Central and Southern Field Army used up more than 100,000 cloud burst shells and aerial bombs, if you count the larger number of individual cloud burst shells, the total ammunition is not less than 10,000 tons, and it shocked Shijie all of a sudden.

The reason why Hu Weidong dared to expose this special type of ammunition to the world is because now that the European war has broken out, a full-scale Shijie war is inevitable, and there is no need to worry that China will become the target of public criticism and be strangled by the entire Western Shijie, and even the Soviet Union; Second, the banditry in China has basically subsided, the militia system has been initially established throughout the country, and at the same time, industrial construction has also been further developed, and the comprehensive national strength of New China has been greatly enhanced.

Moreover, although the Central and South China Field Army has expanded to no less than 800,000 people, more than 70 percent of them are newly recruited soldiers on the Indochina Peninsula. However, in this way, the combat effectiveness of the army, especially the infantry, will inevitably decline, and it is necessary to use a large number of cloud burst bombs to reduce the difficulty of the first major battle of the recruits in Central and South China

In addition, there is another very important reason, that is, the climate in India is really disgusting, and the rainy season from June to September every year rarely stops, and there are frequent floods, which are not conducive to military operations; once it is summer, the temperature will often reach 40 or 50 degrees, and it is even more impossible to fight, otherwise there are only more people who die of heat than those who die in war. Therefore, only from October of each year to May of the following year, a war can be fought in India, and because the rainy season in eastern India ends late (usually lasts until October), and the Chinese troops on the western and central fronts are blocked by the Himalayas, it is impossible to launch a large-scale offensive, and the heavy responsibility of the main force can only fall on the central and southern field armies on the eastern front. This means that the Chinese army has only six months to attack, so a quick victory is crucial. (To be continued......)