At dawn, the mountains to the south and the high mountains of Nepal to the north are illuminated extremely brightly. The Siliguri Corridor between the two mountains is hidden in the shadow of the mountains on both sides and looks very dark.

Until the buzz of propeller planes was heard in the sky, the British troops on the Siliguri Corridor defense line immediately became alert. The Chinese Air Force had also swooped down and launched an attack on the defense line on the ground.

Facing the Chinese Air Force, the British army did nothing. Seeing that the Chinese fighter jets changed their previous high-altitude reconnaissance and bombing practices, swooping down to drop bombs and strafing, many anti-aircraft gun emplacements on the defense line pulled down their gun jackets and fired at the Chinese Air Force fighter jets.

Fire violently.

Soon, the fuselage of a Chinese fighter jet shook and it quickly leveled out from a dive attitude. Not long after, thick smoke came out from the connection between the wing and the body of the fighter jet. It should be that the oil pipeline was punctured. The fighter jet only

It can drag the injured aircraft back to the Chinese position.

Another fighter jet was shot one after another, and the smoke coming out of the fuselage was mixed with flames. The plane had lost control, drew a helpless curve, and fell headlong into the British defense position.

The nearby British troops saw that the air defense system was working, and many people were already cheering in the trenches. After being suppressed by the Chinese Air Force for so long, how could they be unhappy when they could finally breathe a sigh of relief? These British troops stared at the sky and the ground.

In the battle between them, I couldn't help praying to God to help the British air defense forces win.

However, after all, the aircraft is an aircraft with a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour, flying more than 50 meters per second. After the Chinese Air Force discovered the British air defense firepower, it immediately chose to avoid it. The rotation speed of the anti-aircraft gun could not keep up with the aircraft.

The speed of the ship, although the subsequent shooting was fierce, was no longer as threatening as before.

In less than a minute, the British troops who were closer to the heavy artillery group behind the British defense line heard the whistling sound of artillery shells piercing the air above their heads. The officers immediately shouted: "Take cover!" They took the lead in getting into the anti-gun hole.

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After all, the British army was a powerful force that had participated in many bloody battles in the European war. Under the command of an officer, the soldiers used their hands and feet to get into the artillery-proof hole. Then they felt the mountains and the earth shaking, as if they were riding on a fierce horse. The artillery-proof hole

The soil above was shaken and fell, and the heavy artillery group of the National Defense Force of the Republic of China began to exchange fire with the British heavy artillery group.

It was 7 o'clock in the morning, and Commander Yu Cen had been awake for two hours. He looked at the sand table calmly and listened to the staff nearby who were using the radio broadcast system to communicate with the troops preparing to attack through walkie-talkies.

Even if the radio communication system used by the army is produced by the same manufacturer as the domestic civilian broadcasting system, it is not a military product. Even though the current wireless walkie-talkies are large and heavy, battalion-level walkie-talkies require particularly strong communication soldiers to carry them.

Even if the walkie-talkie's failure rate increases with the intensity of the impact during the movement. Even though the human voice transmission rate is only 1-5 bytes per second, it also requires training to ensure the accuracy of vocabulary.

The accuracy of understanding made Yu Cen still feel extremely at ease.

In the past, troop command relied on field telephones and radios. Once the battle began, it was up to the regimental commander to exert his command ability on the battlefield. On a battlefield where battle conditions are changing rapidly, the division headquarters' ability to grasp the battlefield is too low.

Nowadays, battalion-level combat units can communicate with the rear at any time through walkie-talkies. Of course, the division headquarters will not neglect the regiment headquarters. Only in unavoidable emergencies, the division headquarters will directly command battalion-level combat units. But the division headquarters can already

In a very short period of time, we learned where each battalion had arrived and what kind of combat operations it was conducting.

And not only division headquarters, military headquarters, and group army headquarters feel relaxed, they can also obtain information at high speed. The integrated information is distributed in batches to military headquarters and division headquarters through the latest electronic equipment, allowing division-level units to obtain it extremely quickly.

A lot of information about the entire battlefield.

Although this system is very crude, it can only play a comprehensive combat role in the current fixed front. It also requires a large number of well-trained engineering and technical personnel to be responsible for information editing, inspection, and transmission. However, Major General Yu Cen and most of his comrades-in-arms

They are all optimists. He believes that now that the problem has been solved, as long as the technology is iteratively updated, such an efficient battlefield command system will definitely be applied in more and wider combat scenarios.

The intelligence coming from the 4th Group Army Staff Headquarters was marked one by one on the sand table by the division staff. Yu Cen saw the artillery positions, transportation hubs, air defense positions, and defensive positions of the British army on the opposite side gradually becoming clearer.

The biggest threat to the attacker is the opponent's heavy artillery group. In this battle, the Chinese Air Force gathered 360 fighter jets, divided into 6 teams, to continuously attack the British army. The army's artillery group also cooperated closely with the Air Force.

, working hard to render the heavy artillery groups behind the British defense lines incapable of combat.

To make the opponent's heavy artillery lose its combat effectiveness on the battlefield, it is not necessary for one's own artillery shells to hit the opponent's gun barrel accurately and completely destroy the barrel. The barrel of the artillery is indeed very important, but without the operators and transport personnel of the artillery, there is no aiming of the artillery.

System, it is meaningless to have a intact gun barrel. To destroy artillery and transport troops, and destroy the artillery aiming system, it only takes one Chinese 120 artillery shell to explode within 10 meters of the British 150 artillery.

In less than half an hour, the British artillery began to lose its firepower. There were calls one after another in the defense headquarters. Because the calls could not come in, the communication soldiers ran on two legs. When they arrived outside the headquarters out of breath, they found

The door was already crowded with other messengers waiting to deliver the message.

After all, the people in the British Command can only listen to news one by one, and there are many messages coming in at the same time. The command cannot accept so much information. Even the news that the British Command has received has already made the commander and staff

There was a huge fear lingering in my heart.

Britain does not lack heavy artillery, and neither does China. After more than a year of road construction and transportation, the number of Chinese and British heavy artillery on both sides of the Siliguri Corridor is around 300.

The British air defense firepower indeed effectively threatened the Chinese Air Force, damaging and shooting down more than a dozen Chinese Air Force fighter jets in a short period of time. However, what shocked the British army was that the remaining Chinese fighter jets seemed to ignore death and still braved British anti-aircraft firepower.

launched the attack. At the same time, the Chinese artillery began to bombard under the guidance of the Chinese Air Force.

Even though the British army once again resorted to releasing smoke to provide concealment, the Chinese Air Force adopted a close-range attack combat method. Even though the accuracy of the bombs was still insufficient, the machine guns on the fighter jets swept the British artillery positions and still blocked the British artillery.

And the troops transporting artillery were beaten with blood and blood.

The bombing, strafing, and artillery fire guidance of the Chinese Air Force caused the heavy artillery positions of the British Army to suffer a devastating disaster. In just half an hour, it was already confirmed that more than 80 artillery pieces had lost their combat effectiveness. The remaining artillery pieces were desperately moving, and there were no more

The remaining heavy artillery can continue to fight.

If the situation continues to deteriorate like this, the British defense line will have to rely on fortifications to withstand the attacks of Chinese heavy artillery groups and infantry. Based on the experience of British generals who participated in the European War, the battle has begun to develop towards a desperate level.

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When the Chinese heavy artillery group began to bombard the minefields and barbed wire positions at the front of the British defense line, Yu Cen felt that the time to attack had arrived. Just as he was about to give the order, the "attack order" from the headquarters also arrived. This made Yu Cen feel a little bit nervous.

In the past, Yu Cen could only enjoy the pleasure of issuing attack orders to thousands of troops. Now Yu Cen had to notice that behind him, in the army headquarters and group army headquarters, sat a group of people who were interested in the war.

The generals whose sensitivity and timing are superior to those of Cen.

"Attack!" Yu Cen ordered. The staff was about to pass on the order. When Yu Cen's estimated order was just issued to the grassroots troops, the bombardment weakened at a clearly discernible speed. At this time, the British artillery

Under the reasonable stranglehold of the Chinese Air Force and artillery, they were too busy to take care of themselves. I guess this short pause was to give the infantry time to attack. The artillery of the National Defense Force was also quickly moving their gun positions to prepare for the next round of artillery bombardment.

Yu Cen walked out of the headquarters and entered the observation position. Through the high-power telescope, he saw those quite light tanks rushing out of the position and advancing towards the British position. Following the tanks were infantry squads. The tracks of the tanks were both

It can flatten potholes and create a safe road for the infantry. The body of the tank can also be used as a mobile fortification for the infantry squad, which can withstand light fire attacks on the British position within a certain angle.

This batch of tanks drew heavily on the French Renault light tanks. Yu Cen felt that these tanks should be more effective without British heavy artillery attacks. However, he did not expect that these tanks with freely rotating turrets could be followed by infantry.

Drive at speed

, while turning the turret to bombard the firepower point of the British position. They fought and drove all the way, crossing the distance between the Chinese and British positions, and just entered the British defense line. The National Defense Force team followed the path opened by the tank team.

, disappeared into the British defense lines.

Yu Cen felt that his mind was very clear, but after seeing the completion of such an attack, he suddenly had the question "Is this an exercise?" In the past, the infantry of the National Defense Forces had to spend a lot of time to complete this step, so the National Defense Forces

He has mastered civil engineering skillfully, that is, digging communication channels to get closer to the enemy's position. He has mastered various infantry leap forward tactics, crawling, rolling, jumping, and using all available terrain to get close to the enemy's position.

Rushing straight up and charging into the British position like now is a situation that every commander only dreams about. Now that the dream has become reality, Yu Cen feels that he really needs some time to adjust his mood.

It is not only Yu Cen who needs to adjust his mood, nor is it only the headquarters of the 4th Army Group of the National Defense Forces of the Republic of China. British officers at all levels along the British Siliguri Corridor defense line feel confused. The infantry tactics of the Chinese army are completely different from those used by the British army.

After the Chinese infantry broke into the British position, it immediately spread like mercury. Bullets were fired from the front, sides, and rear of the British army at the breach. It is easy to understand if the front and sides were attacked, but if the back was attacked

, which proves that the communication between the troops in the rear of the British army and the main unit has been cut off. Not only has the unit been attacked, but the troops in the rear of the British army have also been unable to enter the battle.

According to British combat regulations, when encountering such a situation, our troops need to immediately stand firm and request higher-level command departments to send reinforcements. First, the headquarters of British regiments and brigades received continuous requests for reinforcements. Soon,

The British division headquarters also began to receive distress calls.

The headquarters of all British regiments, brigades, and divisions were confused. Where did so many Chinese troops come from? Did they fall from the sky?

If the British command system had panoramic information at this time, they would have discovered that the total number of Chinese infantrymen rushing into the British defense line with the tanks at this time did not exceed two regiments. Because these two regiments adopted infantry squad tactics, they have become

Nearly 100 combat teams in units of 3 people began to attack.

A platoon or even two squads launched a multi-angle attack on a British battalion. There were also some combat teams following the tanks and advancing in depth.

The British infantry are not timid people. They are also very proficient in the British infantry tactics manual. It is precisely because the level gap between the Chinese and British infantry tactics is too large, and the British army is too proficient in British infantry tactics and abides by them too much.

The army itself shrunk into small defensive bodies that could be fully controlled by the company and battalion commanders, allowing the Chinese infantry squads to intersperse and attack as they pleased.

On the ever-changing battlefield, as long as the opponent has the upper hand, it will be difficult to regain the situation. Not to mention the news that each British army is defending itself and requesting reinforcements from the command headquarters, which has never seen before.

Bewildered.

It took a lot of time to determine which troops were attacked from both front and rear, and which troops were still able to move freely. As a result, a phone call was made to the troops that had not been attacked. The first thing the other party said after picking up the phone was, "I

Our department is under siege, please support us!"

After hearing such news, even the British commander, no matter how calm he was, had to panic.

The battlefield was interconnected, and chaos spread from the positions that were broken open by Chinese tanks to the British positions on both sides. The offensive pressure of other infantry divisions of the Republic of China National Defense Force that did not have tanks to clear the way suddenly dropped. When these troops rushed into the British positions,

A storm swept through all the British positions and stunned more than 100,000 British troops.

The British military headquarters at the British Siliguri Corridor defense line only knew that the Chinese army was coming and that the British troops were being surrounded. Judging from the current intelligence, the British defense line was probably unable to resist. But why did it resist?

The British Defense Line Command was completely at a loss as to how they could not resist it.

The generals in the headquarters were at a loss like ants on a hot pot. At this time, the chief of staff was doing mental calculations. As the calculation approached the final result, his eyes opened wider and wider. Finally, the chief of staff touched his forehead.

Sweating, he forcibly suppressed the trembling in his voice, and said quickly in as calm a tone as possible: "Your Excellency, Commander, according to reports from the front line, the Chinese army launching the attack this time will definitely not be the 200,000 we estimated, but probably 600,000!

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The figure of 600,000 made the air in the British headquarters freeze for a moment, but after a while, the shocked British generals felt relieved.

No wonder! No wonder! There are 150,000 British troops on this line of defense. The 600,000 Chinese troops are 4 times the British army. After this number of Chinese troops rush in, the British frontline combat troops can indeed be instantly trapped in a situation where they are attacked from both sides.

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If the 600,000 troops on the opposite side braved the fierce artillery fire of the British army and charged in regardless of casualties, all the previously puzzling and common-sense battle reports could be fully explained.

The despicable Chinese actually assembled so many troops on the battlefield! When the British commander thought that he had to fight with 15 troops against a Chinese army of 600,000, which was four times his own size, he couldn't help but feel intense sadness and indignation in his heart.

Think again, 150,000 versus 600,000, the British defense line has been rushed in by the Chinese army. What should we do now...

At this moment, new news came. The British Army, which was originally engaged in mountainous field battles with the Chinese Army on both wings outside the defense line, was unable to withstand the fierce mountain-cutting fire from the Chinese heavy artillery amid the continuous dive bombing and strafing of the Chinese Air Force.
To be continued...