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Dressed in colorful uniforms, the Indian National Army marched through the wide street in front of the Governor's House, which had just been renamed Gandhi Avenue and where a huge portrait of Gandhi was erected.

About hundreds of thousands of Indians flocked to the sides to cheer. Originally, after the Japanese Navy's battleship cannon shot at the city, the Indians had begun to fear the Japanese who behaved strangely and rebelled. However, Kagesa, commanding the grassroots organizations of the Congress Party, flicked his tongue and began to convince a considerable number of locals that everything was a conspiracy of the Allies, with the Chinese being more guilty. After the British retreated, they were the only ones who did not leave in time that day, so that the Japanese Navy misjudged and fired. So those who are not brainy can easily transfer the hatred in their hearts to the Chinese army.

On the viewing platform, the generals of the Japanese and Indian armies watched the thousands of people passing by, and the first phalanx walked at a British pace, with personnel from the British army. The second phalanx walked at a German-style pace, with personnel from the 950 Indian regiment that the Germans were assembling in the process.

Since there was no rehearsal, no one knew in advance that the second phalanx would travel slightly faster, and in the end, in order to avoid collision, they were forced to slow down, which made the ordinary cavalry of the third phalanx and the camels of the fourth phalanx huddle each other. Out of fear of camels, the horses began to run around. Some of the cavalry fell down.

The whole parade was a mess, but the onlookers still responded with warm applause. After all, this was the first time in 350 years that Indians had seen their troops marching through the streets, and in order to strengthen this impression in the minds of the people, Bowes declined the proposal of the 18th Division to send a brigade to participate in the parade, so as to avoid unnecessary associations with the command of the troops and the independence of the new government. In order to reinforce the illusion of goodwill between Japan and India, the Tokyo base camp tolerated Bose's ostracism of Japanese advisers from within the army, and presciently sent 200 gendarmes to Calcutta, a rarity for the proportion of combat troops, mainly for fear of discrediting the Imperial Army and adding venereal diseases to the army in the event of a pandemic.

However, there are still more than a dozen cases of rape and prostitution disputes every day (many Indian prostitutes refuse to accept military tickets); The Congress propaganda machine kicked in to blame Chinese spies for all these bad things. Kimura was also forced to admit that since the landing, the southern agency has done nothing like wood, and all the good things in terms of intelligence and propaganda have been done by Kagesa Zhenzhao alone

In Chandrabos's view, the only regret of the parade was that there were no heavy weapons, and the Japanese took all the 290 trucks captured after the landing for themselves, and only allocated 4 limousines to senior Indian officials, so that his troops could only use horse-drawn carts and ox carts at present, and of course, in the entire Calcutta theater, the Japanese army had only 294 cars in total. It is difficult to meet the needs of domestic production and transportation in Japan.

After the parade was completed, the Indian army drove directly out of the city and went to the area where the Chinese army was attacking the city to participate in the battle. The Japanese planes launched reconnaissance activities and found that Chu Tingchang's army seemed to be retreating. Because they were cutting trees to camouflage vehicles, which was a necessary process before they could maneuver, the unit always paid extra attention to camouflage. This makes it difficult for aerial reconnaissance to detect its movements, or its size.

On the Japanese position, which had received nearly 10,000 shells, the Japanese soldiers crawled out of their hiding bunkers, many of whom had already hung their colors, and they had no time to bandage their wounds and must immediately prepare for battle. Because the weakening of the artillery sound is not a good sign, it may be a harbinger of the enemy's attack. They had fought with Chu Tingchang's troops in Burma, and knew that the troops could follow the extended artillery attack closely, and if they didn't come out quickly, the tanks might rush through the trenches.

There was a lot of smoke in front of him, and there was no trace of the enemy's attack at all, and there was no sound of rumbling tanks.

A brisk drum beat sounded behind them, and the embarrassed Japanese turned back one after another to see a battalion-sized Indian army marching in formation. It was only when they were very close to the battle line that the neat queue was disbanded, still advancing in a very dense formation. The Japanese lay on their stomachs, waiting for the shells to explode in the crowd of Indian soldiers, almost certainly, knowing how rapidly the artillery of the 200th Division had been advancing lately. The shells hit accurately and hard.

With bayonets and no artillery cover, 350 Indian soldiers crossed over the Japanese trenches and rushed forward. Division Commander Mutter watched nervously from the rear. This battalion was deliberately thrown out by Bose to conduct fire reconnaissance in order to show the solidity of the military cooperation between Japan and India.

Division Commander Mutter did not approve of such a reckless attack. He had considerable military experience in North Africa and expected that soon the troops would lose a small half of their troops in the first charge. However, the soldiers, who were completely unaware of the shady high-level political exchanges, seemed to be very confident, and after worshipping Shiva and completing their prayers, they resolutely went on the attack, not knowing that the Chinese army on the other side was close to 10,000 men, thirty times their own. As for how many artillery pieces there are, the Japanese intelligence agencies have never figured it out.

A miracle happened, and the Indian army briskly passed through the crater-riddled battlefield without encountering any shots. On the contrary, the Japanese reconnaissance planes were constantly harassed by the anti-aircraft guns of the Chinese army, and the planes could only observe from a distance, and saw that the Chinese troops were neatly lined up along the road, assembled by the trucks with no end in sight, and quickly boarded the vehicles and drove away.

One of Vivier's Canadian brigades was attacking from the west, and of course, out of trust in the Chinese army, did not keep an eye on the movements of Chu Tingchang on the flank, which was obviously a very fatal negligence, and any Chinese general knew that it was often more important to look at friendly neighbors than to watch the enemy. Now that Chu Ting has run away, Brigadier Hammond doesn't know yet.

Of course, Chu Tingchang knew the severity, he hoped that the allies would appear more realistic when playing the rout, and he also knew that the Indians were not very capable of attacking. So he delayed an hour to inform Vivier, and the angry Vivill scolded on the radio, and the Governor, of course, had reason to be angry, and usually only the British army betrayed friendly troops, how could it be the other way around?

Of course, it was inevitable that the Governor would call Stilwell to complain, but the Chief of Staff was not there. Because Stilwell recently noticed that the quality of the soldiers sent to Assam had deteriorated, many of them had not eaten for two days before they boarded the plane. Chiang shirked on the radio and said that since the beginning of the spring, the Central Plains has been in a famine, and his army is short of food, and since these soldiers will have to rely on the United States and Britain for supplies in the future, what is the big deal to eat seven or eight meals less. Stilwell dropped the phone and flew straight to Chongqing.

Scouts from Division Commander Mutter reported that Chinese troops were rapidly running north along the road, possibly in connection with the 2nd Division's recent skirmish to the east. Still a little hesitant, he checked the traces left by the enemy's shelling, not like a false move to retreat forward, looking at what was supposed to attack, but suddenly something happened.

He reported his thoughts to Boss, but Bose judged from a political perspective that there was a rift between the Chinese and British armies, and it was more serious than expected, so this was the best fighter and should not be missed. He had to show his hand in front of the Japanese, so that he would have the upper hand in the battle against the natives.

Mutt sent his cavalry troops and searched along the road. Before sunset, the Canadian logistics convoy, which was transporting artillery shells, immediately began an encounter, capturing six trucks and full ammunition, and the cavalry company hanged a dozen captured Canadian soldiers and Indian porters on the side of the road, showing their determination to show no mercy to the British accomplices.

It was Bose's established strategy not to leave prisoners, and in order to distinguish himself from the local Congress party, he was in a way deliberately betraying Gandhi's line and showing his iron hand. Among the middle and upper class radical nationalists, Gandhi's set had long since lost much market and was spurned, and this-for-tat approach of revenge was more favored.

Of course, Bose doesn't care about the feelings of those people at the bottom, they are not educated in any way and there is little difference between livestock, nationalists and colonizers are too lazy to indoctrinate these people with any ideas, and many low-caste people do not care about the camp, anyway, they are being taken advantage of by people who are whiter than themselves. Bowes was equally merciless towards these people.

The 11th Canadian Brigade, which had been attacked suddenly, did not know the scale of the flank attack on the enemy, and began to retreat in a panic. Far less orderly than Chu Ting's long department. Originally, the deployment of Vivel put Chu Tingchang's 200th Division between the 18th and 2nd Divisions of the Japanese Army, and his own troops were relatively safe, but now the situation has reversed. Vivier was now unable to even find the location of Chief Chu on the map of the war zone around Calcutta, and his adjutant told him that Chu had run off the map. And radio contact came and went.

The Japanese overheard the telegrams exchanged between the two sides, and although they could not decipher them in their entirety, they could decipher the idiomatic parts at the beginning and end, indicating that they were addressed to the Chinese army, and the wording was not very polite. In short, it doesn't seem like a trap, because the chaos shown by the British is extremely real.

The cavalry reconnaissance units of the 200th Division were dispatched from all sides to reconnoiter the enemy's movements, but they still did not wait for the 18th Division to be dispatched, and it was clear that Mutaguchi was still observing. The Japanese also did not tell their Indian allies their suspicions, and they wanted the Indian army to attack far and wide, to test the real situation.

At night, there was a fierce battle between the Indian army and the Canadian rearguard, and American military photographers recorded the battle with a video camera: two armies with identical weapons and tactics engaged near the road. The two sides began firing a kilometer apart, and an hour later, when the two sides approached 300 meters, the battle was interrupted - the Indians withdrew from the battle and began to pray.

An hour later, fighting continued to break out, and the base station continued until dawn before the Indian army ran out of ammunition and withdrew from the battle. The copy is named after the Kimol village encounter and is a realistic war documentary.

In the long two-hour film, all the audience can see is a dark background, tracer bullets flying around on both sides.

In the headquarters of the 200th Division, Commander Chu Ting was still concerned about whether the 18th Division would be dispatched. Aerial intelligence from the British showed that the main forces had come out, which did not correspond to the intelligence of 419. Obviously, the British have a habit of boasting about their enemies and deceiving their allies.

"The Indian 2nd Division was also dispatched, on the western flank." Tao Mingzhang sorted out the information of the British and marked it on the map.

"20,000 people fight 4,000 people, the Canadian 11th Brigade will hang tomorrow." Chu Tingchang nodded, as if he was evaluating the football game, and he didn't pay much attention to the outcome of the game.

"Master, what should we do?"

"Continue to wait, wait for Mutaguchi to come out. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to hit it with 200,000 shells. ”