[1377 Powerful Anglo-Indian Allied Forces]
"Captain Gao, Director Zhang!" the non-commissioned officers shouted, and the eyes of several people were red, so they rushed over to check.
The first person to look up was Gao Yitong, shook the sand on his body, and supported him with the help of two non-commissioned officers.
Seeing that Zhang Haobo did not respond, Gao Yitong shouted anxiously: "Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang! How are you?"
Zhang Haobo fainted from shock and was shouted and shook by several people. It was not until a non-commissioned officer poured cold water from a kettle on Zhang Haobo's face that Zhang Haobo woke up, "Well, the British shells are really powerful, more powerful than our CEO's 1878 artillery."
Everyone was relieved when they heard Zhang Haobo's words.
Strangely, the war between the Chinese army has basically never stopped, but so far, no major-level officer has died in the Chinese army. Moreover, the officers of the Chinese army usually rushed in front, not in the rear, or in the command post, and they cannot come out, especially regiment-level officers. This is a very magical place. If one of Zhang Haobo and Gao Yitong were killed just now, it would have broken this precedent.
"It's a pity that our artillery brigade will not be allowed to come over, otherwise our firepower will not be inferior to that of the British!" Gao Yitong smiled and saw that Zhang Haobo was fine, he was in a better mood. He said to several magistrates around him: "Send the order to fight and retreat while fighting, so that the Afghans should not act recklessly. If the British attack is too fierce, they will retreat to Kabul's street battle, leaving half of them to support the outside of Kabul."
"Yes." The correspondent hurried down to pass the order.
Gao Yitong is the leader of the main division of the Chinese army. It is not a problem to lead Afghans to fight in wars. Tens of thousands of people are not a problem. The key is that the Afghans are not very obedient. The indigenous army is brave and good at fighting. They rush up to fight with the British-Indian coalition forces at any time. There are too many casualties. This is not the effect Gao Yitong wants. Every time he repeatedly reminds him, many Afghans still rushed forward, but there is no way. After all, it is not a regular Chinese army, so Gao Yitong can only endure it. This is still the agents from the Chinese Bureau of Statistics temporarily placed them as instructors of various thousand-person teams, otherwise, they would not be able to call the Afghan indigenous army.
Gao Yitong looked around and saw that Kabul's outer defense line had fallen into smoke.
However, he was not very worried. The Afghans were fierce, but they had no tactical and strategic qualities. After they could not fight for a while, they would naturally obey the command of officers and agents of the Statistics Bureau sent to various thousand-person teams. As long as they followed in the general direction, they would not collapse.
Gao Yitong had no time to reorganize more than 3,000 Afghan indigenous troops in his hands, so they still used the oldest military system in the cold weapons era, including five, ten, hundreds, and thousands.
In other words, Gao Yitong and Zhang Haobo did not intend to teach the Afghans the same system as the Chinese army. They could just pull them to fight. They really practiced the same as the Chinese army, and there would be a lot of trouble in the future. They were just fighting temporarily and did not expect such an army in the future.
The Chinese army and the British army had completely opposite ideas. The cute president's Chinese army never wanted people other than the Han people. Only the Bureau of Statistics recruited people everywhere for training, regardless of color or region. As long as you beg for the Emperor and the Chinese nation, you can do it. This is not the case with the Chinese army. The Chinese army is completely a Han army.
Only some of the Mongols in the cavalry division, however, had to be so enshrined that the Mongols who could speak Chinese and write Chinese characters would have the opportunity to join the Chinese army.
The British and Indian troops mobilized at least hundreds of cannons and launched crazy artillery bombardment on the first line of defense of the China-Arab joint army.
The British and Indian army's guns were not large in diameter, the largest was only 105 mm, and most of them were field guns and infantry guns of 75 mm.
Due to the difficulty of transportation, the British were not sufficient. After more than ten minutes of release, the infantry began to charge. Then, under the command of Chinese officers, the Afghan indigenous troops began to shoot and retreat according to the order.
Although it is difficult to lead, the soldiers' duty is obedience, and there is no problem with this. Most of them are led by their own leaders. Before the leaders came, they were mobilized separately by Yamlali. They knew that they had to obey the command of the Chinese officers. A small number of troops that could not be restrained would die if they died. The large army retreated. You are still fighting with people in the British-Indian Allied Forces. Aren’t you just waiting to die?
After a few times, the Chinese military officers fought and left as soon as they said they could. The Afghan indigenous troops also learned to obey the orders.
There is no big difference between people, and between nations, physical fitness and wisdom. As long as people are human, they are similar, so the locals in Afghanistan saw that the tactical qualities of Chinese military officers were not comparable to those of them, so they gradually became convinced.
After the artillery fire stopped, tens of thousands of Indian soldiers with white cloth strips wrapped around their heads and the indigenous troops under Abdur Rahman Khan held big swords and spears. Driven by the British army, they attacked the positions of the Hua-A joint army in a mess.
These chaotic army were so slow that it made the Chinese military officers feel ridiculous.
Because no matter the British, the Afghan indigenous troops under Abdur Rahman Khan, or the Indian soldiers, are unwilling to fight. Even if you have dozens of times the military strength advantage and huge military advantage, can you fight if you don’t want to fight?
The two sides shot against each other, with bows and arrows. Under the guidance of Chinese officers, the local Afghan army built a simple position, exposed their heads and shot arrows in the positions. The casualties were much smaller, but they could only temporarily delay the progress of the British and Indian coalition forces. When the British and Indian coalition forces reached within fifty meters, they hurriedly evacuated backwards.
In this way, the two sides were dancing. As long as the British-Indian coalition forces seized a position, the Chinese-Arab joint army would tentatively fight. When the British-Indian coalition forces continued to advance, the Chinese-Arab joint army continued to retreat.
The distance between the two sides was always between fifty meters and one hundred meters, and the arrows on both sides were obviously not as fast as the scolding on both sides.
Swear and beat.
Zhang Haobo was amused, "Although I have been watching for a few days, every time I see the war between the two sides, I want to laugh."
Gao Yitong also smiled and said, "Yes, such a small battlefield as Kandahar, both sides can fight there for more than a year. How could this be a war? Now with our command, even if the main force of the Chinese army cannot come, I still have the confidence to gain a foothold in Kabul."
Zhang Haobo nodded, "It depends on our logistics mobilization capabilities now. As long as the Central Asian Province does not have a problem with its own supply, Afghans should be able to be self-sufficient."
In this way, the British and Indian coalition forces oppressed outside Kabul.
"Strange, these Afghans seem to be as good as before. In the past, we had to fight with them for a long time every step forward. Why do we run back while fighting now?" Indian British commander Daniel Lewis said while looking at it with a telescope.
Abdur Rahman Khan also observed with a telescope, "Because of the guidance of Chinese officers, they seem to be as good as they can fight before, but they are obviously more organized! General, have you seen that the people on our side are dying, and their casualties are very small."
Those who died were Indians and Afghans. Daniel Lewis would not care about their life or death. He said, "Diet is death faster than before, but it's okay. We have more people. Just drive them out of Kabul. If you take Kabul, we will be equivalent to fully controlling the southern part of Afghanistan."
Abdur Rahman Khan felt angry when he heard Daniel Lewis's careless tone, and knew that Daniel Lewis did not take the life and death of Indians and Afghans to heart, but he didn't say anything.
In fact, all the British invaded Afghanistan died in the war between the British and the Afghans. There were no casualties in the British. After more than a year of fighting, only 10,000 or 20,000 casualties were killed, while millions of Afghans died! Including the Indians, the total amount should be nearly tens of millions.
When we arrived at the edge of Kabul's city defense, there were many bunker-style houses. Chinese officers led the Afghan indigenous troops to resist one by one, building one by one. At night, the British-Indian coalition forces were interrupted.
Chapter completed!