507 Weapons removed
"Take it. Take them all. Stilwell waved his hand, looking tired, he didn't want to ask Chief Chu Ting's mobile troops, what kind of wind do you want to do with a bulldozer, anyway, give it to him.
Obviously, this result must be what Chongqing wants the most, because the United States has equipped a person who can be trusted by the old Chiang, not Sun Liren, who is not very good with him, and the disadvantage of this is that many potential Chinese generals who are dissatisfied with Chongqing and are willing to listen to the United States will change their position, but the top priority must be to maintain basic stability within the Allied forces under the condition that the Japanese army is pressing, the Dutch have just disappeared from this stormy alliance, what Stilwell can do is to maintain it not to fall apart too soon, This is also the greatest strategic interest of the United States in the short term.
Kolkata was the most prosperous city in eastern India, with well-developed railway transportation, and now the entire colony was working at full speed to mobilize Chinese and transport the British.
There was chaos in the market, rumors abounded among the white population, rumors among the white population that the Japanese navy used one-meter cannons that could strike anywhere within 200 kilometers of the coast, that Japanese soldiers had taken drugs before the expedition so that they could kill and rape women for a week without tire, and that the Japanese had killed children just to test the sharpness of their swords.
On the contrary, the Japanese among the Indian intellectuals are a different one: these people are gentle and polite, hold themselves properly, often drink tea and meditate, and look at the starry sky, and only the Indians and the Japanese in the whole of Asia are in agreement in terms of thinking height and spiritual pursuits. The Japanese emperor was a peaceful, thoughtful philosopher, and his soldiers came here with the dream of saving Asia, at the expense of themselves.
In the basement of a bookstore in downtown Kolkata, Kagesa-Showa and Jawaharlal Nehru are hiding here, plotting the final details of the uprising. The military council of the Governor's Palace in Calcutta did not leak any information, and the British dismissed all the Indian attendants in the building, but other sources of information continued to be gathered, which was what Kagesa needed most. For now, he had become the biggest variable in Chu Tingchang's plan, and Chu Tingchang had no idea that this person was hiding somewhere a few blocks away from him, staring at him.
Kagesa doesn't use the radio to send back information, and his instincts tell him that the password of the Southern Agency is unreliable. Due to the fact that the Reich controlled too much of the area, the Japanese Army's encryption machine (a product that imitated the German encryption machine) had not changed its codebook since the beginning of the war. In addition, Asano told him that throughout World War II, Japan's code was like a broken net, although the more famous password cracks would be aimed at the Navy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but I believe that the army code had already been cracked by the Allies. He now uses the most primitive method to transmit information through secret envoys. The Yugoslav Agency has a submarine that quietly approaches the coast every few days, bringing some weapons and personnel with it and taking away intelligence. As a result, 419 has been left unaware of the fact that it is still alive.
The information that had been gathered, including the current number of weapons in the port and the strength of the Allied forces, as well as morale, etc., and most importantly, they received the news that the British army would retreat early.
Regarding the promotion of his old opponent Chu Tingchang to division commander, Ying Zuo got the news firsthand, and as soon as the command team brought by Chu Tingchang arrived, someone leaked the news in the brothel. He has been paying attention to this person Chu for a long time, and he has a lot of opinions that he wants to exchange with Makino, but at present, the two of them are separated, and it is not the right time, so he must focus on getting rid of this person now. He got the location of Chu's headquarters in the port area, and I am afraid it will not be easy to start there.
"Mr. Kagesa, this is the smallest scale map we can get."
Nehru handed over a map.
"One to half a million, the ratio is still not ideal, but it is not as old as 1935, and it will be sent to the coast immediately."
"Okay." Nehru immediately set about getting people to be sent away.
"Mr. Kagesa, I would like to say that I am grateful to you for selflessly building up the Indian army......"
"Avenging Gandhi is also our duty as a Japanese. The brutality of the British enraged all of Asia, and the armies of Thailand, Burma, and China would also join in the crusade. ”
"I have no problem with Colonel Zahed as the new commander of the Indian Army, but I am very concerned that Chandrabose is the chairman of the Indian People's Military Council, that he has been separated from the Indian people for too long, and that his doctrine of the origin of Indian civilization as Aryan is too far from Gandhi's mantle."
Kagezo was keenly aware of the internal rift between India's leaders, and that was something that could be exploited, but for now he couldn't let the split become too apparent.
"Rest assured, there will be a place for him in the new India, but it is by no means under his control."
Nehru was silent, and Kagesatsu gave him a reassurance.
"In a few hours, university students and Indian apprentices from foreign companies will take to the streets to strike, and then the British will shoot and suppress it with just one spark, and then the riots will naturally occur."
"Well, the British must be taken by surprise, as far as I know, there are about 17 tons of gold in the Bank of Calcutta, which is the wealth of the people of India, and the British must be prevented from transporting it. As soon as the imperial army arrived, the gold was saved.
Nehru's words surprised Nehru, he didn't expect the gold in the bank of Calcutta, the Japanese man in front of him knew it clearly, hadn't he been in prison with himself?
"Oh, we Japanese, we will never covet this money, but this gold can be used as the first money for the Indian army, and we can provide arms at a good price, and I think that when you take a position in the military commissar, you will control the money. In this way, the right to appoint personnel of the newly formed divisions and regiments is yours. ”
He drew a pie for Nehru in the air, but in fact he was just coveting the tax money that the British had looted, and as for how to spend it, he didn't count, let alone the Indians.
"What are we going to do with those Chinese? They already have close to 100,000 people in India, and it looks like they're going to take over here. ”
"It looks like they're not ready to resist in Kolkata, maybe the war will go surprisingly well, and we'll have to sabotage the railroad so they can't leave easily."
A huge convoy of Chief Chu Ting's headquarters sped through the streets of Calcutta at a speed that snipers could not aim.
They went to the temporary headquarters, and each car had a blue sky and white sun flag on it.
Indian police on both sides of the road were holding sticks and beating protesters who tried to pour up with debris, and in the distance police were on standby, ready to spray the crowd with high-pressure taps, but near the Governor's Palace, a policy retreat had begun and Slim's British troops were evacuating. In just one day, a crowd of people poured into the streets, and the police station estimated that there were 200,000 people, and there was clearly a black hand behind it.
Zhou Youfu sat on the edge of Chu Tingchang and looked around excitedly, and the high-rise buildings here really attracted his attention. Yesterday was the first time in his life that he had flown on an airplane, and at night he had visited the kilns accompanied by a liaison officer of the British army, and he had almost thrown the matter of the Japanese into the air.
Chu Tingchang was much more cautious, watching outside from time to time, fearing that someone around him would rush through the cordon and throw a* at him, and he sat in the fourth car of the convoy: a Dodge Jeep with no special identification. He saw anger and happiness in the eyes of the Indians, two very different expressions, just as he had seen them in the eyes of the Burmese before.
"Boss, don't worry, the guard company is just behind, these idiots dare to approach and surprise them."
"You know a fart, can you shoot a gun now? A shot is about to riot. ”
"Hey, it's so good that it's useless to be prepared. Won't they take a few shots themselves to pick things up? Boss, if you look at it, you will definitely fight. Zhou Youfu said very reasonably, "Boss, what is the high-rise building doing over there?" Why are armored vehicles still parked? ”
"Oh, that's the Bank of Calcutta...... Formerly known as the East India Company Central, do you know the East India Company? ”
"I think I've heard of it, it's not selling tea."
"It was the opium seller back then."
"Indian ointment is worthless, far worse than Persian's."
Chu Tingchang found that he couldn't talk together, and continued to look out the window, beware of those corners that might hide and sought-after, and finally there was nothing to do all the way, he and his small command team arrived at the temporary headquarters at the port, and the current task was to accept the equipment and retreat as soon as possible. He had to check the tanks and trucks quickly, load them with petrol in advance, hook the towing cannon onto the trucks, and get out of here on his own once the British railways were paralyzed (which he judged to be likely). The Japanese warships would appear on the sea at any time, and Stilwell was a more decisive general, but he still wasted a day or two.
The headquarters was only a few dozen tents, a kilometer away from the headquarters of the new 38th Division, and the port was guarded by a battalion of the new 38th Division that arrived first, and the British defenders were rolling up and barely visible.
Some British and American liaison officers were waiting at the headquarters, and Chief Chu Ting was non-stop, immediately receiving tanks and artillery. He reduced the number of command and guard troops, and tried to use the C47 allocated by the Americans to transport the tank crew and drivers here, and was responsible for driving the tanks and equipment to the railway. Most of the people sent by Sun Liren over there are infantrymen, and there is a lack of people who can drive tanks, and there is nothing to be done about the M7 self-propelled guns at this time, and the original plan was for the British to transport weapons to the railway station, but the dispatch was chaotic, and the British were gone, and Chu Tingchang secretly looked at it in his eyes and remained silent.
Sure enough, as expected by Lao Zhou, there were sporadic gunshots in the direction of Kolkata in the afternoon, the gunfire became more and more intense, and there was no intention of stopping, followed by several explosions in the city center, and then the fire was raging there, the whole situation was exactly the same as before the fall of Yangon, it seemed that the situation was out of control, and I don't know how many Japanese spies were hiding in the city. He instructed his men not to be distracted by the situation in the city, but to take away their equipment.
With Hurricane fighters hovering overhead at all times, and transport planes taking off from time to time, it was Stilwell and other senior Allied generals who began to retreat. At the same time, a large number of C47 planes arrived, bringing with them all the equipment personnel of the 200th Division and the new 38th Division. Chu Ting ran to the hill near the port to observe, and found that except for the vicinity of the Governor's Palace in Calcutta, the rest of the place was out of control, not surprisingly, the British and American troops would soon withdraw, apparently losing this place to the Chinese soldiers, as for how the Chinese soldiers transported the armaments assigned to them, the United States and Britain did not care. The British had one thing in Yangnon, and that was to retreat as soon as possible.
A British liaison officer, Captain Winton, hurried to Chief Chu.
"Major, the command wants to know how many tanks you have here that can be dispatched immediately?"
"Immediate dispatch? There was only the commander and the driver, and my tank gunners didn't come. ”
"As long as you can move, the situation outside the Bank of Calcutta is very chaotic, there is a large mob gathering, the trucks loaded with goods cannot leave, General Vivel wants you to send two tanks to open the way. Just a few hours and let the truck go. ”
Captain Winton didn't mention what was on the truck, but since it was something in the bank, and the British were so worried, it was naturally not sugar.