Chapter 337: Although the Indian Empire is coming to an end, the mood of the Indians is very stable! (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)
"Warriors of Mysore, warriors of Tiep Sultan, your homeland has regained its independence, and an independent, free and glorious kingdom of Mysore stands on the land of South India! The Sultan said that as long as you defect to the Ming Dynasty, you can join the soldiers of Mysore in the future, and everyone can get the Chamindar ......"
"Warriors of the kingdom of Zhangxi, King Rao needs you, your Hindu homeland is being ravaged by Victoria's army, the blood of Brahmins is spilled all over the earth, and the Kshatriya warriors have taken up their swords, do you still have to fight for the emperor who is long dead? King Rao said, Da Ming is our friend in Zhangxi...... The Ming Dynasty is not here to liberate India, the Ming Dynasty is here to help the countries on the land of India rebel against British rule! British rule in India is about to collapse! ”
"Warriors of Hyderabad, your great and glorious Sultanate has been freed from British slavery, your compatriots are fighting for the freedom of the Sultanate with their sabers, the Ming is our friend, and the British Queen Victoria is an enemy of the Sultanate! Now it's time to join the army of Hyderabad and fight for Hyderabad, everyone can get Chamindar, whether he believes in the true god or Shiva......"
"Sikh warriors, devotees of the Guru, King Singh's army is fighting side by side with the Eight Banners of the Kingdom of Dajin against the mercenaries of Victoria and defending our Punjabi homeland...... Do you still have to die for the cruel and desolate Queen Victoria? ”
"Warriors of the Awad Kingdom, Lucknow has been recovered, the British are fleeing in disarray, our warriors are supported by the Gurkha from the north, the Celestials and Hindus are fighting side by side, and Awad's freedom is just around the corner!"
"Gurkha warriors, the king and the queen mother order you to immediately stop fighting for the British...... They are Nepal's enemies, and Daming is Nepal's friend! ”
"Now broadcast the Ming Emperor's letter to the peoples of the Indian subcontinent......"
"Da Da Da ......"
On the island of Shanmaxi, the front line of the Johor Strait defense line, the sound of radio and machine guns has been constant for the past two days.
Of course, this broadcast sounded from the loudspeaker of the Ming army on the north side of the Straits of Johor, and said two things, one was to use twenty or thirty native languages of the Indian subcontinent, and to make up a very true lie in the name of dozens of Indian princely kings with names and surnames--William died and India was divided!
The reason why this lie is true is not that William is dead and Indy has been divided. But William was going to die sooner or later, and he had no legitimate son to ascend to the throne, and his first heir, Princess Victoria, was a 12-year-old girl...... This is India!
Let a 12-year-old girl be the emperor, can this Indian Ah San accept it?
Therefore, the question of Kaiser Wilhelm's succession has always been a thorn in the hearts of Indian people of insight!
If the British Empire is still strong and can firmly suppress India, then whoever can be the emperor, even if the British bring a dog, can still be the emperor of India. However, Britain is not so strong now, and Britain must get the support of the "high Indians" in order to maintain India's stability while fully mobilizing India's financial, material, and human resources.
In this case, William died, Victoria died, plus Daming and Dajin made it bad together, and it would be really unreasonable for India not to collapse.
And the second thing in the radio is the "Letter of the Ming Emperor to the People of the Indian Subcontinent". Of course, the content of this "Letter to the Indian People" is completely true, Mu Zhongjun and Zheng Guoxian dare not come up with a fake "Letter to the Indian People" to fool people, it is a false holy decree!
However, this "Letter to the People of India" was drafted with reference to the suggestions put forward by Humphlai, removing all the contents related to "liberation", "equality", and "equality", and also emphasizing the need to "rise and destroy the country, succeed the peerless, and make meritorious heroes", that is, all Indian countries that were destroyed and subdued by the British Empire must be restored and independent! Among them, if you can find an heir, you will be restored, and if you can't find it, then you will choose another meritocracy with the help of the Ming Dynasty...... As for the meaning of meritorious heroes, of course, it is the Indian Ah San, who abandoned Britain and surrendered to Ming in the process of rising and falling, all of them are meritorious heroes, and they can be awarded the title of Chai Mindar, and in the future, they will be landlords who can exploit all kinds of untouchables in India!
In the face of this despicable and shameless psychological warfare, Viscount Bellsford sent an urgent telegram to Bombay asking about the health of His Majesty the Emperor...... Don't die! On the one hand, an order was issued, requiring all British and Indian officers and soldiers not to believe the rumor that "William is dead, India is divided", and violators will be killed!
But what are those Indian Ah San thinking, how does the British master know? And even if you know, it's hard to convict! Therefore, it is very difficult to carry out the order to be shot if you believe it.
So Viscount Bellsford came up with a seemingly clever solution, ordering constant machine-gun fire on the front-line positions, and masking the radio on the other side with gunfire. In this way, Indians will not hear the rumors and will naturally not believe them.
And this method of covering up rumors with the sound of gunfire was still very clever, because the mood of the Indian Ah San stationed on the defense line of the Johor Strait was obviously calmed down, and from the day after the Ming army began to broadcast, the Indians in the rear of the various positions no longer cried, but did what they should do under the command of the British officers.
It is clear that the rumor broadcasts of the Ming army did not play any role...... But in the next ten days, the Ming army's broadcast psychological war did not stop, and the hundreds of loudspeakers placed in front of the formation still repeated the lie over and over again. And the British and Indian troops on the other side of the strait did not have a loudspeaker to use, so there was a non-stop machine gun fire.
And under the cover of radio and gunfire, a battle to force the crossing of the Straits of Johor is also in full swing!
Because the Ming and Japanese coalition forces used the method of light and rapid attacks, constantly interspersed with detours, and advanced rapidly, they advanced to the north shore of the Strait of Johor in a very short time. But to break through the tightly fortified straits of the British and Indian troops, it was not possible to rely on Japanese light infantry alone. Therefore, the 10th Army of the powerful Ming Army could only move forward from the garrisons of Songkhla and Pattani with all its heavy artillery and a large amount of ammunition.
After more than half a month of preparation, more than 100,000 Ming troops and Japanese soldiers, as well as hundreds of artillery pieces of various kinds, have been quietly in place in the noise of the front line. A cannon craned its long neck on the northern shore of the Straits of Johor. The battle station was full of ammunition. The infantry of the brigade entered the starting position on the northern shore of the Johor Strait with rubber boats and assault boats for crossing the sea and landing.
At the same time, the Ming army's airships and Ssangyong planes also kept hovering over the British and Indian positions, and tens of thousands of photos were taken. The staff officers and photo analysts of the corps headquarters in Malacca worked day and night to study these photos, and also used the results to make a sand table of the Anglo-Indian defense line.
After careful study by the staff officers, it was found that the depth of the Anglo-Indian line was not deep enough, and the fortifications were not strong. It was only on the front line that a continuous array of barbed wire was built on the seawall, and possibly a dense network of firepower. But as long as a breakthrough can be achieved, victory should not be far away.
However, it is not easy to cross the sea, land, form a breakthrough, and build a bridge over the strait...... If the previous psychological warfare fails, then the tomorrow-Japan coalition will inevitably have an unprecedented bitter battle!