The first thousand one hundred and ninety-two chapters capture Calcutta
At 8 a.m. on November 26, General Zhou Shun, commander of the Third Group of the Chinese Army, and Lieutenant General Yang Jiangqiao, chief of staff, came to the position of the artillery brigade. The artillery brigade of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army and the artillery battalions of 4 infantry divisions, a total of three
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The 5mm light howitzer, 155mm heavy howitzer and 155mm heavy cannon have already entered the position. The thick barrels of the cannons have been pointed ferociously at the British and Indian army positions in the north, ready to fire at the British and Indian troops at any time.
The 243rd Army of the British and Indian Army, the 246th Army and the 24th Army that were reinforced from Calcutta, and the 245th Army that retreated from Rocky Gandapur have all gathered fifteen kilometers north of Diamond Port. This is far away
In the Hooghly River, the guns of the Chinese Navy's fire support ship squadron cannot threaten them. The British and Indian troops are trying to build a line of defense here.
, to block the Chinese Army's attack on Calcutta and delay enough time for the arrival of reinforcements. However, the Chinese Army's Third Group did not seem to give them enough time. Although the first wave of troops only had 4 infantry divisions,
There is also a cavalry brigade and an armored brigade, which can form an extremely powerful assault group, enough to launch an attack on the British and Indian troops.
"Report to the commander, the artillery brigade is ready!" the artillery brigade commander of the 11th Group Army reported to General Zhou Shun.
"Well! Chief of Staff, where are the cavalry and armored brigades?" General Zhou Shun asked. When the strength of the troops was greatly inferior to that of the British and Indian troops, the assault force composed of the armored and cavalry brigades became the key to winning this battle.
The key point.
"Commander, the armored brigade and cavalry brigade are ready and can launch an attack at any time!" Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao replied.
"Start the attack! Defeat those Indian Asans today and invade Calcutta!" General Zhou Shun ordered. After arriving at Diamond Port, he discovered that the 2nd Army of the British and Indian Army originally stationed here had gone north and was replaced by
An ordinary group army, this made General Zhou Shun feel very unhappy, as if the cooked duck had already flown away.
However, this also gave the Chinese Army's Third Group a chance. It would take at least two days for the British-Indian Army's 2nd Army and other reinforcements to arrive in Calcutta. If the Third Group could defeat the British-Indian Army within two days,
If the 24th Army Group Army and captures Calcutta, the Chinese army will be able to occupy a favorable position in subsequent battles!
"Fire!" After General Zhou Shun gave the order to fire, the commander of the 11th Group Army Artillery Brigade gave the order to fire. More than 300 heavy artillery pieces that had been prepared opened fire one after another. The dense artillery shells hit the enemy a few kilometers away.
The British and Indian army positions flew away, and the smoke generated after the explosion of the artillery shells almost enveloped the British and Indian army positions.
Lieutenant General Benjamin, the commander of the 24th Group Army of the British and Indian Army, personally rushed to the front line to direct the battle. However, with the strength of the four armies of the British and Indian Army, even he did not have much confidence in resisting the Chinese army's attack. In Calcutta
There are still three armies, and the other three armies also contracted towards Calcutta under his order. Lieutenant General Benjamin hoped to delay it for a while so that the remaining six armies of the 24th Army could build a good defense line in Calcutta.
Resist the attack of the Chinese army!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Artillery shells exploded on the British and Indian army's positions. The 155mm grenade weighed 42 kilograms, and the 105mm grenade also weighed 128 kilograms. For infantry, the power of such artillery shells
It was already irresistible. Although the four armies of the 24th Group Army of the British and Indian Army negotiated overnight
A simple defense line was built, but their defense line had no effect on the heavy artillery of the Chinese Army. Each of the firepower points of civil structures were destroyed during the shelling, and the shock wave generated after the explosion of the artillery shells directly hit the British and Indian troops.
The soldiers were thrown away, and the flying shrapnel tore the fragile bodies into pieces.
The shelling stopped after 20 minutes. The British-Indian army's position had been bombed into a mess during the shelling. Using heavy artillery to deal with the British-Indian army's position felt like killing a chicken with a knife.
After that, more than two hundred tanks and armored vehicles of the 11th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army began to attack. Behind the armored brigade were troops composed of the 1st and 6th Army Divisions. They would follow the armored brigade to break through the British and Indian troops.
The defense line expanded the results. The cavalry brigade also began to make a detour when the armored brigade was dispatched, preparing to go behind the British and Indian troops to block their retreat, and strive to capture the four armies.
The British and Indian troops were completely wiped out. The other 5th and 16th Army Divisions also attacked from both sides. With a force of almost 100,000, they launched an encirclement and annihilation of nearly 200,000 British and Indian troops. Although it was a bit risky, Lieutenant General Zhou Shun had extremely powerful
Strong confidence. If it were the US or British troops, he might not do this. But it shouldn’t be very difficult for 100,000 Chinese troops to encircle and annihilate the 200,000 British Indian troops with weak combat effectiveness.
"Crunch! Crunch!" The sound of the tank's tracks crushing the ground mixed with the rumble of the engine, like muffled thunder. More than two hundred tanks and armored vehicles formed a steel British-Indian army's position and rushed toward it, emitting a
An irresistible momentum.!
"Lord Shiva, what is that?" Many Indian Asans poked their heads out from the defense line and looked stupidly at the approaching tanks. Almost all Indian Asans had never seen this.
This kind of weapon, everyone who has seen it has become a corpse!
"Tanks! Bastards, the Chinese actually used armored forces! God, how could we withstand the attack of the Chinese armored forces?" a British major officer said in horror. As a British officer, he naturally knew that China
The power of human armored forces. The armored forces formed by the tanks and production technology that the Germans obtained from China have already overwhelmed the British and French forces.
Enough suffering. If the British and French forces had not developed anti-tank weapons in time, and the German army had dispersed the use of tanks and simply used them as weapons to support infantry, the defense line of the British and French forces might have been broken through long ago. However, the British and Indian forces
The Chinese army does not have any anti-tank weapons. It is almost impossible to stop the advance of the Chinese army's armored forces.
Soon, the torrent of steel from the 11th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army rushed to the defense line of the British and Indian troops. The tank guns on the tanks began to bombard the firepower points of the British and Indian troops, and the machine guns on board also began to straf the British and Indian troops.
The soldiers of the British and Indian Army were unable to resist this steel monster. Many used their rifles to attack these tanks and armored vehicles, but everything was in vain.
"Click, click, click!" A heavy machine gun fired wildly at a TB' Cheetah, a heavy tank. The dense bullets hit the armor of the tank, making a crisp sound. But for the tank and the tank crew inside,
, of no use at all.
Facing the attack of the British and Indian soldiers, the tanks drove directly over, and the tracks ran over the heavy machine guns and the soldiers operating the heavy machine guns, crushing the heavy machine guns into parts. At the same time, they also crushed the British and Indian soldiers operating the heavy machine guns into pieces.
Meat sauce.
"Run! The Chinese are too powerful, we can't withstand it!" Facing the attack of the Chinese Army's armored forces, the British and Indian troops were unable to resist and collapsed almost in an instant. A large number of British and Indian soldiers
They fled their position and hurriedly fled towards Calcutta. The armored troops of the Chinese Army were chasing after them.
.Many British and Indian soldiers knelt down and surrendered to the Chinese Army's armored forces, but the Chinese Army's tanks ignored them and directly ran over those British and Indian soldiers, or directly used machine guns to kill these British and Indian soldiers.
Soldiers killed. The Chinese Army seems to have made up its mind and will not take prisoners on the Indian battlefield!
"Da da, da da!" The sound of horse hooves came from far to near, like a sound of muffled thunder. The cavalry brigade of the 11th Group Army of the Chinese Army surrounded them in time, blocking the retreat of the British and Indian troops. The brave knights mobilized
The horse galloped, and the saber in his hand shone with an icy light under the sunlight.
"Kill!" The cavalry launched a charge and quickly rushed into the fleeing British and Indian troops. The sabers in their hands flew up and down, and every time they waved, they could pick up a head. Faced with this, the Indian Asans
The blow completely collapsed. In less than an hour
Within a few seconds, the strength of the four armies of the British and Indian Army collapsed under the attack of the Chinese Army's armored brigade and cavalry brigade. The British and Indian Army soldiers who had lost their will to fight were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. They were killed by the four Chinese Army's armored brigades.
The infantry division catches up and kills them all!
Lieutenant General Benjamin, the commander of the 24th Group Army of the British and Indian Army, realized that the situation was not good when the 11th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army launched the attack, and escaped in advance. Otherwise, he would probably have died here.
The large-scale killing lasted for several hours, and all four armies of the British and Indian troops were executed. After that, the armored troops and the cavalry brigade continued to attack, and in the evening of the same day they invaded Calcutta.
Although Calcutta gathered the strength of six armies, it was unable to resist it. At the same time, the Chinese naval fire support ship squadron continued to flow upstream along the Hooghly River.
Then, it sailed to a place only a few kilometers away from Calcutta and carried out a devastating bombardment of Calcutta. Under the attack of large-caliber naval guns, Calcutta slowly turned into ruins. Those Victorian-style buildings built by British colonists
The building was destroyed in the explosion. Indian Asan and British immigrants living in the city also suffered heavy casualties in the shelling.
On the evening of November 26, the second wave of troops of the Chinese Army's Third Group landed directly in Calcutta. Tens of thousands of Chinese troops and 100,000 Japanese mercenaries invaded the city of Kolkata. In addition, the first wave of troops of the Chinese Army's Third Group came from the south.
Launched an attack, after a night of fierce fighting, the 24th Group Army of the British and Indian Army was driven out of Calcutta, and the Chinese army captured this most important city in eastern India!