After receiving Tang Qiuli's telegram, Tang Qiusheng, commander-in-chief of the Xiduo Campaign, reacted first that the situation in the East Indies had undergone unexpected changes, otherwise, the division commander would not have mobilized so many troops and urgently went to the war zone. "Domain Names - Familiar to Everyone"

On the afternoon of 17 May, Tang Qiusheng issued an operational order to launch a fierce attack on the British and Indian troops on the left bank of the Xiduohukang River valley at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, with the rest of the troops holding on to their existing positions to prevent the British and Indian troops from taking the opportunity to break through.

Tang Qiusheng understood Tang Qiuli's intention to clear the passage on the left bank of the Hukang River valley, so that the eight brigades and troops transferred to the East Indian Theater, as well as artillery and tanks, could quickly pass through Guò, so this battle was not about annihilating the Anglo-Indian army, as long as they were driven across the river, the purpose of the campaign was achieved.

However, in this way, the westward advance of more than 100,000 troops through the left bank of the valley of the Guò Hukang River will inevitably alarm Alexander, who is encircled, and the commander with a little military knowledge will immediately judge what is going on, and no one can predict what will happen to the Anglo-Indian army assembled in the East Indies when a telegram is sent. The efforts of the troops that entered in the early stage in concealment will be in vain.

This point is what Tang Qiusheng is most worried about, and Major General Yu Guanghan, chief of staff of the Corps, also raised the same concern, "The deputy division commander, eight brigades with more than 100,000 people, trucks and tanks, it is impossible to hide from the British, so the division commander deployed in advance." in the East Indies. Is it necessary to make this point clear to the division commander to see if there is any other way? ”

Tang Qiusheng did have this idea, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was not necessary, Tang Qiuli was changing the deployment of the campaign. This must have been taken into account when the troops of the directly subordinate corps were mobilized to move westward, that is, they were not afraid of the intention of the violent lù campaign. What he wanted to do was to drive the British and Indian troops on the left bank of the Hukang River valley across the river as quickly as possible and clear the way for the troops to advance westward. []

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the battlefield in Xiduo, which had been silent for two days, was again earth-shattering, but the battle only took place on the left bank of the Hukang River Valley, across the river from the British and Indian positions. Not a single shell fell.

Lieutenant General Adams, the acting commander, put down the binoculars in a puzzled way, he couldn't understand why the troops of the Independent Division would suddenly attack, and they were surrounded for two days, and the troops of the Independent Division never attacked, according to Adams's understanding, it was still the reason for the lack of troops, and he still had more than 70,000 people. If the Chinese want to swallow it in one bite, they still need to work hard, otherwise, the Chinese will not be idle and run to Sido to surround themselves.

You can't break through on your own. It's okay to hold on to help, but what's happening now. I really can't understand what the Chinese are going to do, is it their follow-up troops to arrive, come and break each one?

Just as Adams was racking his brains, the communications staff officer ran over, "Report to the commander, I have received a telegram from the commander of the troops on the left bank, their positions are being subjected to fierce shelling by the artillery of the independent division, the scale is more than any time, the positions held by the troops are too dense, the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, they beg, withdraw to the right bank, in order to avoid the shelling, otherwise, the position will be lost!" ”

Do you still use them to report the funeral? Across the Hukang River Valley, Lieutenant General Adams could see clearly, just a few kilometers away on the opposite bank, already shrouded in smoke and dust, and the flames from the shells, carrying the earth, flew into the air, and there must have been the body of a British Empire soldier, who had been beaten but had no power to fight back, and this helpless mood tormented him in pain. …,

The only thing Adams can do is to let the troops on the other side withdraw, avoid the overwhelming artillery fire of the independent division, and be safer for the time being, he has already been mentally prepared, maybe the soldiers on the opposite bank have just crossed the river, and the Chinese shells will catch up with their heels, and when the time comes, they will also bear the baptism of these steel storms.

However, if you don't let the troops withdraw, you can watch them be blown to pieces by Chinese shells, and finally the whole army will be destroyed? Of course not, under the heavy artillery fire, the British and Indian soldiers on the left bank of the Hukang River Valley, as if fleeing for their lives, regardless of the various ways, waded across the Hukang River, the kind of wolf bèi, Adams saw that Venus chún dry mouth. [Just look for novel material]

The soldiers who climbed ashore with frightened and panting faces, all of them were like falling soups, frightened, and strange things happened again, and the shelling of the independent division, as suddenly as it had begun, came to a sudden halt, from an earth-shattering loud noise to a silence, which gave Adams a sense of unreality, and the roar of the engine could be heard in the smoke that had not yet dissipated.

The effect of the artillery bombardment was more than Tang Qiusheng imagined, when the troops of the 9th and 10th brigades rushed onto the road, the British and Indian soldiers had already run clean, except for the broken corpses, even the wounded soldiers struggled to cross the river, and the expected jī battle did not happen at all, which made Xiao Jinshan and Fang Yuanshan very depressed.

Adams and a dozen senior staff officers looked at each other, not knowing what was happening on the other side, and after a long time, the smoke cleared, and what appeared in Adams's eyes was dozens of bulldozers on the road on the opposite bank, busy bulldozing the craters on the road, and the bulldozers quickly passed.

Then, there was no end to sight, trucks full of soldiers of the Independent Division, hauling large-caliber howitzers, and gun trucks roaring into the tanks, the traffic rolling, stirring up the dust in the sky, Adams stared at this qiē in a state of limp.

A senior staff officer beside him muttered: "The shelling of the Chinese just now is to seize the road on the left bank of the Hukang River Valley, and their troops, going west, God, will not be to attack the East Indies, right?" If we have artillery, this is the best chance to kill and wound Chinese soldiers! ”

Adams jī Lingling had a cold war, and at this moment, he understood all the Yiqiē, Tang Qiuli's purpose was not to Siduo, let alone his own tens of thousands of remnants, his purpose was to rescue his eastward marching army, and he and tens of thousands of soldiers were just bait, a huge plan.

Adams's heart sank to the bottom coldly, he knew what the consequences of the telegram for help sent by himself and Commander Alexander jointly would bury the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Eastward Advance Legion! Tang Qiuli's vicious eyes were already fixed on them.

Adams suddenly went crazy and shouted, "Communications officer! Communications Officer! Send it now! The sudden movement frightened the dozen or so senior staff officers around him, thinking that the acting commander couldn't stand the stabbing just now, and his nerves were wrong?

The communications officer stumbled over, and what he saw was the blood-red eyes of the acting commander, and when Adams dictated the message, he was a little incoherent, and the content was only one sentence, Tang Qiuli was in Xido, set a huge trap, march eastward into the army, and immediately abandon the plan to rescue our department!

The telegram was sent, and Adams, while anxiously awaiting a reply from Lieutenant General Chelsea, stared blankly at the other side of the Hukang River Valley, where the troops of the Independent Division were rolling westward.

The troops of the independent division, after a whole afternoon, at night, can still see a long line of light composed of car lights, piercing the night sky, but Adams did not wait for Lieutenant General Chelsea to call back, he sent several more letters one after another, all of which were like a stone sinking into the sea, and Adams was about to go crazy, and sent another letter to the General Staff, but he also did not get a reply. …,

Despair, fear, fear, remorse, all the negativity filled his heart, and His Excellency, the Acting Commander, who had always been mild-mannered, finally showed his true face, and in his tent, he cursed and cursed Jesus, and listened carefully, not only Lieutenant General Chelsea, but also Admiral Brandt, the Chief of the General Staff, and even the Prime Minister, Sir Churchill, who became the object of his greetings to his relatives.

Lieutenant General Adams was in the encirclement of Sido, jumping to his feet and cursing in a hurry, so angry that he almost exploded, and Lieutenant General Chelsea, the commander of the Eastward Advance Corps, was also scolding, but the young and vigorous Commander His Excellency only scolded one person, and that was Commander Alexander.

After a few days of busy work, the troops were assembled and the weapons and equipment finally had a clue, and the equipment of the Americans, through the port of Calcutta, arrived in India in a steady stream, and was soon dispersed and transported to various assembly sites, and when the troops were assembled, equipped with American weapons, the mighty dàngdàng killed Bensido, but at this moment, the damned old hún egg Alexander, came with such a telegram.

What did Tang Qiuli say about setting a huge trap in Xiduo and waiting for him to jump in, according to it? I saw with my own eyes that the troops of the Independent Division were constantly driving westward, a big joke, the Hukang River Valley is on the road on both sides, and your tens of thousands of troops of Alexander are stuck there, and the soldiers and tanks of the Independent Division, can't they grow wings and fly over?

Even if the troops of the Independent Division are indeed heading for the East Indies, then how can you Alexander be safe and sound, and send me a bullshit warning telegram, could it be that Tang Qiuli is extraordinarily kind to you, and his subordinates are merciful, letting you ventilate me and report to me? This is so illogical!

If I were the Chinese Tang Qiuli who was rumored to be divine, the safest and most direct way would be to kill you, the old hún egg, first, so that I would not be afraid of my own intentions, and in my surprise not counting, I would also send a telegram to the General Staff, lying about the military situation, and the task of the Eastward Advance Army was not only to relieve the siege of Sido, but also to undertake the mission of keeping the Chinese out of the East Indies.

Therefore, the opinion of the General Staff, to my own decision, whether to rescue Sido's surrounded troops, Chelsea's attitude is very simple, rescue Sido, it is no longer important, the important thing is that since the Chinese have an intention to invade the East Indies, we should make early preparations and speed up the build-up of troops.

Adams's telegram, instead of warning Chelsea, made the Anglo-Indian army assemble faster, and if Adams had known that this was the effect, he would have regretted what he had done.

(To be continued) rs