2135 Steel Torrent
George? Curzon's "Great Indian Revolt" is known in China as the "Great Indian People's Revolt", which took place in the mid-nineteenth century, and this great revolt involved more than a dozen regions and hundreds of thousands of people, and dealt a heavy blow to the British rulers.
Think Tank Hear George? Curzon's words said: "My Lord, of course I remember the rebellion, and how much our British Empire paid to suppress it. ”
George? Curzon smiled and said, "So although the Indians are stupid, they can still take advantage of it, and you immediately find a way to make the Indians hate the Chinese." ”
The think tank thought for a while and said: "Your Excellency, this is probably not easy, Indians believe in Hinduism, Hinduism has one of the biggest characteristics is that it has no quarrel with the world, and there is no hatred between China and India in history, on the contrary, the two countries have a lot of history in history, during the Tang Dynasty in China, there was a monk named 'Xuanzang' who came to India and contributed to the cultural exchanges between the two sides......"
George? Curzon frowned, his tone full of dissatisfaction, and said, "Don't you remember how the Great Indian Rebellion happened? ”
The thinker hurriedly said: "Of course, I remember that at that time we gave ammunition to the Indian soldiers, and some people slandered that there was butter and lard on the seals of the ammunition, and that the ox is a sacred object in Hinduism and the pig is a taboo in Islam, which annoyed them, and they immediately broke out into a rebellion. ”
George? Curzon said, "Since you know about this, why don't you use religion to do things?" What about provoking Indians to hate the Chinese? ”
The brainchild's eyes lit up, and he smiled: "I understand, Lord Governor, I will do this according to your instructions when I go back." ”
George? Curzon smiled and nodded, and then said, "We will hold on to Calcutta for a while, and then retreat to Delhi, which is 1,300 kilometers away from Kolkata, and such a large depth is enough for us to hold back Lin Yuan's attack." ”
Everyone nodded in praise, George? Curzon smiled and said, "Okay, let's dismiss, let's prepare for the attack of the Chinese." ”
The crowd then left the room, George? Curzon's think tank immediately sent a copy to the radio station in Calcutta, addressed to all Indians in Calcutta, which read: "The Chinese are coming!" They are going to force you to eat beef! They are going to demolish your temples and forbid you to worship again, so in order to protect your faith, please go to the British barracks and take up arms at once! ”
When the Indians heard this propaganda, they actually believed it, and many Indians joined the army, and the British had 10,000 British soldiers and 60,000 local soldiers in Calcutta, and after these demagogic propaganda, the number of local soldiers surged to 150,000 in an instant.
The British side is actively preparing, and the Chinese side is also making preparations. Curzon refused to surrender, knowing that this battle must be fought, so he ordered his subordinates to launch an attack according to the predetermined attack plan.
Kolkata is an excellent port, and there are several large rivers connecting from the sea to the city, and Lin Yuan was worried that his march from the big river would be blocked, so he decided to land in the small fishing village of Bakhari, more than 100 kilometers south of Kolkata, and march to Kolkata by land.
At 7 a.m. on June 28, the armored unit of the 1st Amphibious Division landed in the small fishing village of Bakhari, the coastline near Kolkata is very long, so the British army cannot deploy defensive forces on every coastline, and the small fishing village of Bakhari has no British defense.
India was a country with a huge gap between the rich and the poor in the Lin Yuan era, and even more so in this era, especially these fishermen, who were even more impoverished, with children having no clothes to wear, and adults could only cover their bodies with a few rags.
Lin Yuan saw that all countries in the world were developing army weapons, so he put the upgrading of Chinese army weapons on the agenda, and the infantry fighting vehicles equipped by the first amphibious division at this time were a new generation of equipment -- BZ-99 infantry fighting vehicles.
In addition to the upgrading of infantry fighting vehicles, the 1st Amphibious Division has also modified armored transport vehicles, and the amphibious combat army is mainly equipped with three types of armored vehicles, one is the main battle tank, the other is the infantry fighting vehicle, and the other is the armored transport vehicle, the main role of the armored transport vehicle is to transport personnel and materials to the front-line combat units.
Both infantry fighting vehicles and armored transporters have been updated, but the TK-96 has not been replaced, because the new generation of TK-99 main battle tanks is so advanced that it is "outrageous"! Therefore, the production speed was relatively slow, and the TK-99 produced was mainly equipped with the Siberian Front and the 7th Mechanized Infantry Division, which was responsible for the combat mission against Germany, and the German Army could be called the most powerful army in this era except for China.
The 1st Amphibious Division was organized into a "composite assault group" during the attack, which consisted of three armored vehicles, a TK-96 main battle tank and two BZ-99 infantry fighting vehicles.
When charging in large forces, there are hundreds of these composite assault groups, with a distance of 100 meters between each two composite assault groups, which facilitates communication between each two assault groups and facilitates the concentration of fire.
The frontal width of the troops was several kilometers when they charged, India was located on the plains, and there was no terrain to stop the troops' charge, and Lin Yuan's troops were like a torrent of steel in India, swallowing up a force that tried to resist in vain.
At around 7:20 a.m., this torrent of steel crashed into the position of India's newly formed 1st Division.
The new Indian 1st Division was formed by Indian native soldiers, and the commander of this division was the British, Colonel Laurent, who was originally a brigade commander in the British army, and later George Laurent. Curzon recruited a large number of Indian native soldiers to form a force, and Laurent was promoted from brigade commander to division commander.
The British officers in India all had the pride of the royal officers of the British Empire, because they usually came into contact with Indians who were more obedient than sheep, so Laurent immediately led his staff to the front line after hearing the report of the front-line troops that "the Chinese are coming" and urged the Indian native soldiers to block the Chinese.
When Laurent came to the front line, he blew up his lungs as soon as he saw the fortifications dug by the Indian soldiers, because the Indian soldiers did not dig an anti-tank trench at all, they just dug a trench in the ground, and used the excavated soil to pile up a breastwork in front of the trench, and the people hid behind the breastwork with rifles, and the rifles in their hands were still Enfield rifles that could only shoot single shots.