In the Pguang Port area, the headquarters of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army and the headquarters of the Third Group of China’s land-to-India operations are located in a building next to the pier. Now, the transport ship allocated by the Navy is in place, and the Third Group
A total of more than 700,000 troops have entered combat preparations. Tonight, the 1st Division, 6th Division, 5th Division, 16th Division and Artillery Brigade of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army
The first wave of landing troops composed of 4 divisions and 3 brigades, the cavalry brigade, the armored brigade, will board the ship and set off. The 2nd Marine Division has already set off by ship and is expected to arrive the day after tomorrow, that is, November 25.
A landing operation will be carried out in Calcutta. Once the 2nd Marine Division establishes a beachhead, the four infantry divisions of the Chinese Army's 11th Group Army will launch an attack in depth to expand the landing site.
After that, another four infantry divisions of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army, ten infantry divisions of the Army and thirty divisions of Japanese mercenaries will also land in Calcutta, fight a big battle around Calcutta with the British and Indian troops, and then annihilate the British.
After deploying troops around Calcutta, the Indian army captured this most important city in eastern India, opening another hole in India's belly and accelerating the defeat of the British-Indian army!
General Zhou Shun, commander of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army, is also very ambitious. The 11th Group Army was formerly the mobile force directly under the General Staff Headquarters. Although it is still commanded by General Zhou Shun, it is more often directly under the command of the Chief of General Staff.
Command. Many times, General Zhou Shun encountered great constraints. Now, the regular army troops of the Chinese Army are not enough. Emperor Wang Yuze ordered that the General Staff be directly
The reorganization of the mobile force into the 11th Group Army undoubtedly gave General Zhou Shun an opportunity to perform. At the same time, the 11th Group Army is also the largest group army among the many group armies of the Chinese Army. The other group armies are all attached to 6 infantry divisions.
It is a brigade-level combat unit directly under the group army, and the 11th Group Army has 8 infantry divisions. Moreover, the 1st Division and the 6th Division are both elite units of the Chinese Army.
This makes the 11th Group Army very powerful, not inferior to other group armies. General Zhou Shun also has great confidence in this battle. The first group is in northwest India and the second group is in
A large number of Indian troops were wiped out in eastern India, which gave General Zhou Shun a lot of
A huge stimulus, he fully believed that the third group under his command would also achieve great military exploits. Not to mention anything else, the British-Indian army deployed in Calcutta alone was composed entirely of British troops.
The other two clusters are jealous. If they can kill this army,
If so, then the Third Group would have achieved the greatest military exploits in the war against India this time. Of course, in addition to the 2nd Army deployed in Calcutta, which was entirely composed of British troops, the British-Indian Army also had the 1st Army in Delhi.
Yes. However, compared to the third cluster and the first cluster, the British
For the 1st Army of the Indian Army, the difficulty will probably be even greater. The British-Indian Army has assembled eight armies of heavy troops in northwest India. With the strength of 800,000 people in the First Group, it will eat up 4 million British-Indian troops.
Army, the difficulty is not ordinary, not to mention the elite 1st Army among them!
"Commander, everything is arranged. The first wave of troops will begin to board the ship in the evening. The second wave of troops will begin to board the ship tomorrow night, including the remaining four infantry divisions of our group army and the troops directly under the group army, as well as the KO individual
Japanese mercenary divisions. The remaining ten infantry divisions and the twenty Japanese mercenary divisions will set off in three days! The transport ships provided by the navy cannot transport all the divisions at once.
Transport all the troops to Calcutta!" Lieutenant General Chang Jiang Qiao, Chief of Staff of the 11th Group Army and also Chief of Staff of the Chinese Army's Third Group, said. In addition to the war against India, the Army is also about to launch an attack on Australia, so the Navy's transport ship capacity
Very nervous. After all, we must first ensure the consumption of more than two million Chinese troops and mercenaries in the North American battlefield, and then we can support the Indian battlefield and the Australian battlefield.
"Well! Lao Jiang, this time it's up to us! We watched them continuously gain military exploits before, but now it's our turn!" General Zhou Shun said with a smile.
"Haha, Commander, we have already figured it out! The 2345th Group Army is probably depressing enough. It has been more than a year since the war started, and they have not yet won a fight, so they can only watch from the side. Although we
We are dealing with Indian Asan, but we can finally drink some soup. Not to mention there are hundreds of thousands of British among them!" Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao said.
"Lao Jiang, you are wrong! Although those boys are panicking now, next year, they will have a big war! They will fight against the Russians by then, and Lao Maozi's millions of troops will be
It's enough for them to fight. Besides, after we invade Europe, if Germany
If people don't know what to do, maybe we will fight them again. Then there will definitely be a battle!" General Zhou Shun said with admiration. As a senior general of the Chinese Army, what he longs for most is to be on the battlefield.
Command the army to attack the enemy and expand the territory of the empire!
"Commander, then we have to move faster! Our war against Europe will have to wait until at least next spring, which is still a few months away. As long as we can get rid of those Indian Asan within these few months.
, maybe we will have the opportunity to participate in the European battlefield.
Don’t forget, there are still four armies on the American battlefield. If you don’t act quickly, you might be overtaken by those grandsons!” Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao said. He also didn’t just want to be a lieutenant general.
That's all, if you want to get promoted, you need a lot of military exploits. And military exploits can only be obtained on the battlefield.
"Okay! The division commanders of each division below have greeted me. This time we have to face the elites composed of British people. We have to show our prestige and let other friendly troops know that although our 11th Group Army
We are the last force to be formed, but we are not vegetarians!" General Zhou Shun said.
"Commander, shall we set off with the first wave of troops or with the second wave of troops?" Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao asked.
"Of course it's the first wave! This landing operation is the first battle since the establishment of our 11th Group Army, and it must be fought well! We will set off with the first wave of troops then to let those British guys know
We are awesome!" General Zhou Shun said directly.
On the evening of November 23, four infantry divisions of the Chinese Army’s 11th Group Army and the artillery, cavalry and armored brigades directly under the group army boarded more than a hundred Navy transport ships in Yangon. The Navy dispatched a team of six
A fleet of light cruisers and 10 destroyers escorted them. The entire Indian Ocean region now belongs to the control area of the Chinese Navy’s Indian Ocean Fleet.
domain, there is no worry that the landing fleet will be attacked. Now, except for the British Navy and the U.S. Navy, no navy can pose a threat to the Chinese Navy. However, the U.S. Navy is fully preparing for war, and the British Navy
The main force was still concentrated in the eastern Atlantic and the North Sea to defend against the Germans, and there were no spare warships to send to the Indian Ocean for combat.
On the Bay of Bengal, a huge fleet is sailing westward, with the target officially located at the mouth of the Hooghly River on the west side of the Bay of Bengal. This fleet is mainly composed of 9 huge battleships, and there are many light cruisers around these battleships.
and destroyers were cruising. A dozen kilometers east of this fleet were loaded with marine and marine warships.
More than 20 transport ships with all the personnel and equipment of the 2nd Marine Division. The 2nd Marine Division will be the first force to launch a landing operation against Calcutta. They will land directly at Diamond Port at the mouth of the Hooghly River, and then
Establish a solid beachhead and wait until the Chinese Army's Third Group lands before launching an attack on Calcutta.
Diamond Port is still 60 kilometers away from the mouth of the Hooghly River, and there are several islands at the mouth of the river. According to the information obtained by the Chinese army, the British and Indian troops have deployed some troops on these islands, the largest of which is Sagar Island.
An infantry division has been deployed on the island. However, this will not pose much of a threat to the Chinese army for the time being. The British and Indian troops do not have large-caliber weapons on Sagar Island.
Heavy artillery cannot threaten the transport ships of the Chinese Navy. Although in the early days, the British deployed some coastal defense artillery on Sagar Island, most of them were less than 200 mm in caliber and were few in number. They did not have the firepower of the Chinese Navy at all.
The opponent of the support ship squadron only needs to leave a few fire support ships to suppress these coastal defense guns, and the rest of the fleet can go upstream and launch an attack on Diamond Harbor.
At 6 o'clock in the morning on November 25, the Chinese Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet fire support ship squadron arrived at the mouth of the Hooghly River. Nine fire support ships sailed into the Hooghly River under the escort of several light cruisers and destroyers, while the 2nd Marine Corps
The division stayed behind and waited until the fire support ship squadron cleared the British and Indian coastal defense positions on Sagar Island before they entered the Hooghly River.
When the fire support ship squadron of the Chinese Navy appeared at the mouth of the Hooghly River, the British and Indian troops guarding the coastal defense batteries here were not aware of it at all. A total of more than 20 coastal defense guns were quietly aimed at the Hooghly River
, there was no sign of any artillery fire. The Chinese army did not know that the British and Indian 2nd Army had moved north, and those defending Sagar Island were Indian Asan. Naturally, they would not defend in strict accordance with the regulations!
At 6 o'clock in the morning, Major General Lei Hua, commander of the Chinese Navy's fire support ship squadron, issued the order to open fire, and the Chinese Army's Third Group's combat operation against Kolkata officially began!