Chapter 864 Smashed the back garden of India
Afterwards, Wang Mao ordered Xu Shuzheng to release the captured 49th Independence Infantry Regiment. Xu Shuzheng left all their weapons, equipment, and supplies, and only allowed the deported prisoners to wear underwear, leather boots and a blanket to wrap them around them, plus three days of food rations. Three days later, these incomparable Indian soldiers finally received help from other Indian indigenous troops. When they saw their compatriots, these Indians burst into tears. They kept telling other Indian indigenous soldiers that the Chinese were devils and that the Chinese were invincible, which had a very serious psychological impact on other Indian indigenous soldiers.
In the hearts of Indians, this humiliating scar is always indelible, and it is accompanied by every quarrel between Chinese and Indian netizens a hundred years later.
What surprised Wang Maoru at this time was that the Gu Zhenglun team of the 127th Brigade of the 44th Division, Lu Taoxiang, who was stationed in Xikang, suddenly launched an attack on the Tibetan rebels in mid-November in the cold winter. He personally led his troops to divide into three groups and launched lightning attacks on Chamuduo, Bowo, and Sang'ang Quzong respectively. The speed of the progress was unimaginable for anyone. After all, it was winter, especially on the plateau with an average altitude of 4,000 meters. The severe cold was unimaginable, and the difficulty of marching was far beyond that of ordinary people.
The difficulty of using troops against the Tibetan rebels in winter made everyone unaware that Lu Taoxiang would use troops to Tibet at this time. The rebels in the Tibetan chieftains also thought that Chinese soldiers would dare to enter Tibet at least next summer, but the Chinese army came when it was the most difficult to use troops.
Lu Taoxiang, the commander of the 44th Division, began to plan this attack as early as after Wang Maoru left, which was to make the Tibetan rebels unable to imagine it and to make them difficult to resist. Lu Taoxiang chose to win by surprise and sent elite troops instead of all troops to enter. After all, the Tibetan rebels were backward in weapons and equipment and their fighting style was backward. He sent a brigade of troops to give the Tibetan rebels a great deal of face. Gu Zhenglun was entrusted with important tasks and personally led his army to directly take Tibet. The three troops finally completed the encirclement of the rebels outside Lhasa City.
Wherever Gu Zhenglun's 127th Brigade passed, all the disobedient chieftains were killed and the animals were distributed to serfs. The soldiers who helped rebel the chieftains were also beheaded, but Gu Zhenglun asked the rebel lamas not to be killed easily, and even if they were killed, they would destroy the corpses and traces were not allowed to be known. Gu Zhenglun's three regiments were extremely fast and they were almost rushing on their way every day. Later, everyone simply rode on yaks. The Tibetan soldiers were fighting hard, their equipment was backward, and they even came over on horseback and waved their knives, and were shot by Chinese soldiers. What made Gu Zhenglun laugh and cry was that the artillery they carried had never been used at once. So they even went down to ten cities.
However, what made Wang Maoru feel sad was the casualties of Gu Zhenglun's 127th Brigade. They were not injured by the Tibetan army, but by the weather and the steep terrain. The soldiers who died due to the cold and marching accounted for 70% of the Tibetan rebels this time. Many soldiers fell into the mountain stream and died when they crossed the mountains, and the soldiers could not even find their bodies. The winter march to attack the Tibetan rebels was beyond the enemy's expectations. However, there were also great casualties.
The British government did not expect that China's reaction was so fast. They were still preparing to discuss Kashmir. Two days later, the Chinese army had already arrived westward to the Linzhi area in eastern Tibet. The vanguard of the Chinese entering the Tibet Plateau relied on the high speed of the cavalry, advanced weapons, and high-spirited fighting spirit and fearless sacrifice. Within a few days, the Tibetan army was as fast as it could not even react, and they were taken to the town by the army. Of course, many Tibetans also helped the Chinese army. In addition, Gu Zhenglun's army accepted 500 Sichuan soldiers who had participated in the recovery of Tibet in the early years of the Republic of China.
He is extremely skilled in road traffic. As for the issue of keeping warm in winter, the soldiers of the National Defense Force are most grateful that the starting troops of the National Defense Force are Wang Maoru's Hulunbuir Border Defensive Brigade. The winter cold in Tibet is always low in Hulunbuir's winter, while the winter warm standard of the National Defense Force is based on the warmth of the Hulunbuir Border Defensive Brigade. Dog-skin hats, cotton coats, cotton trousers, cotton boots, tweed windbreakers, white cloaks, and cotton gloves that can cover the trigger part of the gun. This is the equipment of the National Defense Force. Even so, entering Tibet in winter still faces harsh natural conditions, so Chinese soldiers simply persevere.
The most sleepy thing in Tibet is the plateau lacks oxygen. Gu Zhenglun's army's faces are purple every day due to lack of oxygen, so he has to slow down his marching speed.
The Chinese soldiers recovered Tibet from east to west, and many chieftains close to the Chinese government also began to turn to support Gu Zhenglun's 127th Brigade, supporting logistics and transportation work along the way, and providing animals to help Chinese soldiers march. Some pro-British lamas left angrily and fled to western Tibet. Due to the bad weather, the Chinese soldiers' march to Lhasa slowed down, and the British immediately protested to the Chinese government to protest the invasion of the Chinese military. The Chinese Presidential Office transferred the British protest letter to the State Council under the pretext of the President recuperation.
On December 24, 11th year of the Republic of China, representatives of Tibetan lamas and chieftains jointly announced that Tibet would return to the Chinese family, but Tibet still maintained the unity of religion, politics and religion, and Tibetans ruled Tibet.
Rufus Isaacs, the British Governor of India, immediately threatened to protest, claiming that the Tibetans chose freedom, and the Han people gave them shackles. Rufus Isaacs also sent people back to China to lobby for Congress and declare war on China. The Chinese are already eager to invade neighboring friendly countries.
The Ministry of National Defense immediately refuted that Tibet has been an inseparable part of China's territory since ancient times. Zhang Kui'an, Director of the Foreign Affairs Department, said: "If you open the Qing map, you can see that the Chinese map clearly marks that Tibet is a part of China, not an independent country. On the one hand, some countries require us to follow all debts and treaties of the Qing Empire, but on the other hand, they do not recognize the integrity of the Qing Dynasty. Isn't it ridiculous? If the government of the Republic of China recognizes the treaty of the Qing Empire, it must recognize the inheritance of the Qing Empire's territory, otherwise they will not choose to negotiate. Just sit on the ground and cry to get benefits." The British government immediately sent representatives to negotiate with the Chinese government, and they began to finally treat China as a sovereign state.
Kashmir severely defeated the British Indian Mountain Infantry Regiment and Gu Zhenglun's sudden recovery of Tibet despite the severe cold plateau, allowing the British and countries around the world to see a rising country. This country was once leading the world for thousands of years and was only behind for nearly fifty years, but the country quickly reflected on itself and intended to rise.
The Military Affairs Office of the Ministry of National Defense established the Jiahe Medal of the National Defense Forces as the highest medal of honor awarded to officers, and the Dragon Medal of the Dragon Medal was the highest medal of honor awarded to soldiers. Wang Maoru ordered the entire army to commend Xu Shuzheng and Gu Zhenglun in the name of the Ministry of National Defense, and awarded Xu Shuzheng the First Class Jiahe Medal, awarded Gu Zhenglun the First Class Jiahe Medal, and awarded the twenty soldiers who performed outstandingly in this battle with the first class Dragon Medal. Only three of these twenty first class Dragon Medals were awarded to the 94th Brigade, and the 127th Brigade was seventeen on the 127th Brigade because of the more difficult conditions in the Tibet March, but no one envied them. The winners of these seventeen medals were all obtained by the fallen soldiers.
On December 25, 11th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese government finally made a decision after several times of the Imperial Parliament, announcing that the "Soviet-Japan Lease Agreement" signed with the Soviet Union was invalid. It also sent a special envoy, Yasaka Uchida, to visit China, to sign a series of northern defense regulations, preparing to negotiate on East and West Siberia, Sakhalin Island, Kamchatka Peninsula, and Kuril Islands. Japan's purpose was to occupy the northern continent in one fell swoop, and the Lena River was bounded by the Lena River, and the Lena River moved, and occupied a total of 3.3 million square kilometers of land from the Outer Xing'an Mountains to the north to the Arctic Ocean.
Of course, the person who came up with this plan was Hirohito's think tank Hidetake Sato. In fact, Sato already has the title of a young prime minister in Japan. The wisdom of this young man with a slutty private life made Hirohito admire him. Hirohito was five years younger than Sato and trusted him very much. This trust exceeded anyone and caused dissatisfaction among many officers.
After Sato Hidetake died of his wife, she became more unscrupulous in seducing a married man or an ignorant girl. With his handsome appearance and humorous conversation, some Japanese politicians were very unhappy. Of course, the Japanese believed that being arrogant is not a problem, and seducing women is not a big deal. However, this time Sato and Hirohito's wife, Ryoko's sister, hooked up with him and further brought him closer to the Regent, which is why Hirohito feels at ease with him.
Sato, who became Hirohito's brother-in-law, arrogantly even contradicted the veterans in the cabinet conference room, and had to occupy 3.3 million square kilometers of land to give the Japanese people a mainland explanation. He slapped the table at the meeting and even jumped up to point at the veterans' conservative and inaction, even worse than him, a literati. Sato's toughness actually won the support of the military, and Hirohito was even more impressed with him. In Hirohito's opinion, the frozen soil in the north is indeed of no value except the symbolic significance of 3.3 million square kilometers of land. Who would like to live on ice?
Sato waited and said loudly: "Now the Soviet Union is too busy to look east, and even the Chinese can provoke the annexation of their Central Asia. Why can't we occupy East and West Siberia? If possible, we must continue to push our territory westward, so that Japan and Russia can use the Ural Mountains as their border."
Chapter completed!