At the same time, Chu Tingchang started to do two things. The first was to continue to purge the city of remnants of the enemy, and the second was to repair the airfield west of the city, which allowed Allied planes to carry journalists into the city. In addition, he received news that a large number of Chinese merchants staying in northern Burma intended to enter Calcutta with the army, and it was expected that the Allies would purge the local merchants who helped the Japanese, so they predicted that there would be business opportunities.

The resistance of the Japanese troops in the city gradually subsided, and just three days after Zhukov's victory, the victory in Calcutta finally became known to the world. Photographers began to enter the city to make up for some fake shots of the army braving enemy artillery fire, and in order to assist in the shooting, Chu Tingchang even sent the guard troops to wear Japanese military uniforms to cooperate with the performance.

During this period, the British army, far from the main battlefield, also achieved a major victory, encircling the Indian army 50 kilometers from Calcutta. Just after Chandrabose left his army unaccounted for, his deputy, Lieutenant General Mutt, commander of the desperate Indian 1st Division, surrendered to the Allies on behalf of the Japanese-Indian coalition. Originally, of course, it was only two divisions of the Indian army, but the British had an idea and placed a small sun flag on the signing table where Mutter was sitting.

What Chu Tingchang was embarrassed to do (let Pu Jie surrender on behalf of Japan), Vivier did it, which suddenly created a huge illusion for the outside world, and the victory in the Battle of Calcutta was actually led by the British. Then the Western newspapers began to report on it as Vivel had envisioned, and some of the news even ignored the main message contained in the noun of the Battle of Kolkata - where was Calcutta? It is only written that the British army won more with less, and in fact, they did annihilate more than 20,000 Indian troops with 8,000 people.

Vivier flew to Kolkata and was warmly welcomed at the airport, where he gave a long speech to waiting Western reporters without the presence of Chinese generals, in which he mentioned the Chinese army in 17 places, mentioned the name of Chu Tingchang 6 times, and did not even hide the fact that the Chinese army had captured most of the city of Kolkata, but the speech was well versed in the way of stealing concepts, giving the audience the impression that the Chinese army in the city was facing only a few thousand enemy troops (of course, it is also a fact). The British, on the other hand, fought with an enemy force of up to 30,000 men and seized the opportunity for the Chinese army to easily capture the empty city, ignoring the fact that there were no Japanese except for a few liaison officers among the approximately 25,000 enemy troops faced by the British army.

After completing this deceitful speech, Vivier triumphantly went to his new headquarters, the headquarters of the East India Shipping Company on the outskirts of the city, and waited for good news from other directions.

He knew that the East Indies had stabilized, not only Calcutta had won, but the Japanese army in Chittagong was panicking, and the best news was that the fleet of the British Empire was coming back, and the Japanese Combined Fleet was fighting fiercely with the American Navy off the coast of Central Pacific and Australia, and it was obvious that it could not be taken into account. In the past six months, they have finally seen the principle of concentrating the use of forces by the Japanese Navy in the main directions, and there will be no major battles in the Bay of Bengal. It can be seen that the turning point of the world war may have really happened, and it is right not to flee to New Delhi.

Colonel Smith, who stayed in the city, reported to him that the last thick wall of the underground vault of the Bank of Calcutta would soon be blown open, and in the report, Smith judged from his experience that the Japanese did not enter the vault, because the holes in the wall were made by the Japanese, and even filled with *, which shows that they did not have time to enter.

Vivier was so excited that he directly used the radio to order Smith to pause the blasting and wait for his truck to enter the city. In addition, the Chinese bulldozer troops who had cleared the obstacles were sent back, trying to control the nearby commanding heights and not allowing the Chinese troops to occupy a position where they could see the cargo loading and unloading area. Smith reported that the Chinese army had long since left on its own, and not a single Chinese could be found within a kilometer radius.

This was completely unexpected, and although there is no such thing as a demon in the English language, a similar philosophy of life exists. The lieutenant general's intuition told him that there was something strange there, and some inexplicable worries welled up in his heart.

Smith didn't know exactly what was in the vault, so he asked. Vivel replied perfunctorily that he was money.

The British army used a blast to blow open the walls of the vault, which caused a large amount of rubble to loosen and collapse and bury the passage, and cleared the vault for a morning before entering the vault at noon. Stacked sacks were found, some of which were heavy and what appeared to be precious metals, and a large number of papers scattered everywhere. Smith didn't dare to make a mistake, so he hurriedly took the adjutant sent by Vivier to escort him down to check on him, and organized people to carry it, and asked the participating soldiers not to open the sacks.

The first trucks arrived in central Vivel, where the lieutenant general was already waiting in warehouses blocked on all sides. As soon as he saw that it was a sack that had been unloaded, he felt that something was wrong, it should be a crate, right? Maybe the person carrying it didn't open it to see it, so he didn't know how heavy it was? But then several trucks came in sacks. After waiting a little longer, Smith also returned, and by the way, brought all kinds of personal storage items stored there, deeds and deeds, and finally a few trucks were empty. According to him, everything was emptied, and there was nothing left but dust and broken bricks.

Verveer's face turned pale, and he opened a sack himself. A miracle did not appear, it was full of metal silver coins of very small denominations, who would put gold bars in a sack?

"Damn the Japanese. It's a quick shot. He sat down on the sack and said hatefully.

"General, should there be something else somewhere?" Colonel Alan Smith asked indifferently.

"Will I send an elite force like yours for the sake of these coins and contracts? Where there should have been a dozen tons of gold. ”

"However, when we arrived outside the vault, the Japanese had not yet completed the blasting work, and half of the blasting points had not been installed*. There was also the main entrance to the vault, which was blown up, and the metal gate fell there, and the passage was blocked by boulders, and because the collapsed earthwork was too large, the Japanese tried to attack from the side. ”

"yes, that's weird." Vivier dragged down his military hat and wiped the sweat from the top of his head, "But if it weren't for the Japanese, who would have opened the vault and smashed it again?" ”

"Those Chinese have bulldozers."

"Those bulldozers were specially modified to attack the city, and they were the ghost idea of Pavilion Chief Chu, I knew about it a few weeks ago. At the time, Stilwell and I didn't believe that this was the way to fight. Vivier shook his hand, as if he didn't believe that Chu Tingchang would have this hand, "Andy, what are those bulldozers doing now?" He then asked the adjutant beside him.

"Construction is underway in the port area, and the Wusheng Temple is being built. It is said that the overseas Chinese who fled here from Myanmar paid for the construction of a 20-foot statue of the ancient Chinese god of war. Chu Tingchang's troops were filled with superstition, and they had to pray to this ancient military god in every battle. ”

"You see, they should be open-minded in building religious places in such a high-profile manner." Vivier shook his head, the political capital he had earned now was enough to offset the loss of gold, anyway, if he pushed the matter on the Japanese, the matter would be over. More than a dozen tons of gold seems to be a lot, but compared to the losses brought to the empire by the war, it is actually just a drop in the penny.

Inside a booth outside a construction site in the port district of Kolkata. Chu Tingchang was surrounded and surrounded by a group of wealthy overseas Chinese businessmen who came from northern India, and they offered incense to Guan Gong together, and Chu Tingchang announced the start of the construction of the Guandi Temple in Kolkata. Chu Tingchang symbolically shoveled a shovel of soil in the applause of the crowd.

Then the wealthy merchants asked Chu Shizuo to write a plaque for the upcoming Guandi Temple. Most of these Chinese businessmen fled to North India from Burma, and seeing the recovery of Calcutta and the arrival of a large number of allied troops, business opportunities should not be underestimated; Originally, the British were afraid of Chinese merchants entering the East Indies, and there were many restrictions, but now that the Chinese army is controlled, the British naturally want to give three points, so they raise money to build the Guandi Temple, and they also want to vote for Chu Tingchang's favor. Chief Chu Tingchang will not block these things, and there is certainly nothing wrong with allowing the Chinese to enter South Asia. He also filmed sappers and bulldozers to cooperate with the construction. If you counterattack Burma one day, there will be a place to take the oath to set out.

Surrounded by the crowd, he came to a table covered with rice paper. After all, I learned calligraphy in the Children's Palace after an hour, and it seems that I can show my hand again. He took the pen. With a wave, he wrote down the eight big characters of "Yi Bo Yuntian, Megatron China", and felt bad, thinking that this was not Huaxia after all, as if it could not be shaken, so he changed the paper, thought about it again, and wrote down the eight words "Optimus Pillar, Megatron World".

threw the pen, went out of the colorful shed surrounded by the merchants, said goodbye to the merchants, and only got into the jeep that his face was difficult to look at. Zhou Youfu next to him already knew what was going on, and he didn't speak.

The car drove away, and Zhou Youfu knew that the proportions were almost over.

"Master, is it still what the chairman said in the letter?"

"Yes...... he sighed, "I think I have shallow qualifications, and I am not from Huangpu, although I have military merits, it is still difficult to trust the commission." ”

"What did Lao Jiang say in the letter?"

"It is said that I have worked hard and made outstanding achievements, and if I am not too young, I can be in charge of the military of a war zone. He also said that the situation here is complicated, that the United States and Britain both have their own ambitions and hope that our army will be used for them, and that the rest of the troops have already shown signs of not listening to the dispatch, fearing that our roots are not deep and we will not be able to deal with the foreign powers. Therefore, there must be a future of old age......"

"Empty talk just wants to empty you?"

"Hey, don't talk nonsense. The army is not my own, it is national. ”

"Lao Jiang's thoughts, isn't that the fleas on the bald man obvious? But really, who's coming? It can't be Du Yuming, right? ”

"The commissioner wanted to send him, but Stilwell refused." When Chu Tingchang said this, he sneered with bad intentions.

"Could it be that Senior Commander Dai is back?"

"No, I'm afraid that Master Dai's injury won't get better for a while, and he wrote to me a few days ago, saying that his condition is unstable, and the intra-abdominal infection cannot be cured, and he may have to go to the United States for treatment."

"Master, my Lao Zhou is here to leave a sentence, as long as it's not these two, it won't work if anyone comes to keep it."

"Oh?"

"Du Yuming is the old commander of the 5th Army, and Commander Dai has a deep foundation in the 200th Division, but then again, the current 200th Division is not the 200th Division of the year."

"How?"

"To tell the truth, the three regiments of the 200th Division were lost in northern Burma, but there are brothers in all units here, and there are not many people in the 200th Division, and the officers in charge here were all promoted by you when the war situation was most difficult, and you only recognized them when you arrived in Chongqing, India. Therefore, the current 200 divisions are neither American nor commissioned, but we are the Chu family's army. ”