Tian Runye happily agreed to this arrangement, no matter what she was asked to do, it was better than eating and living here for nothing.At breakfast time, Xiaoru brought porridge and side dishes to Qiao Zhiqing from the cafeteria as usual.Because of the holiday, Min Ziying doesn't sleep until ten o'clock every day and doesn't get up.Qiao Zhiqing didn't call her, he only had dinner with Runye and Xiaoru, and he quickly got busy with official business.During his trip to Henan, he already had a way to deal with the disaster in his heart.That is, to liberate the peasants from the land as much as possible, to provide them with a job to support their families.After a while, Wei Ziyou had breakfast, sorted out the official documents and military newspapers in his hand, and sent them all to Qiao Zhiqing."
Brother Qiao, you got up so early today" Wei Ziyou laughed as soon as she entered the door, she thought that Qiao Zhiqing would linger with Kathia today, but she didn't expect him to come to work early in the morning."
Ziyou, you're just in time.Later, you will inform the major newspapers and ask them to send reporters to Jiaozuo to learn from their experience in fighting drought.I have also drawn up a specific method for cash-for-work, you will send it to the ministries later, let them discuss a specific plan, and then hand it over to me for review" Qiao Zhiqing didn't raise his head, took a pen and wrote the paper, listing the experiences on the paper, and didn't notice the meaning of Wei Ziyou's words at all."
Okay, I'll do it later."
Wei Ziyou nodded, and put the official documents and military newspapers in his hand on Qiao Zhiqing's desk."
By the way, has there been a military report from India recently" Qiao Zhiqing finished writing the last one, sorted out the documents, and handed them to Wei Ziyou."
Yes, this is the one sent back by Commander Wu Xuming" Wei Ziyou handed the top military report to Qiao Zhiqing and continued to speak, "Now that the battle has reached the last moment, our two armies are approaching Kolkata from the east and west, and I believe that good news will come back soon" The military report was sent a week ago, and the Ministry of Defense has already made a reply.Generally, the military newspaper on the front line is first handed over to the Ministry of National Defense, and then handed over to Qiao Zhiqing after being approved by the Ministry of National Defense.Finally, Qiao Zhiqing's opinion was added, and then the Ministry of Defense issued it to the front line.Wei Ziyou's guess was right, the Indian front had already sent back a good news yesterday, but it would take half a month to send it back to Beijing.After the Barisal defense line was breached, the Huaxing army was like a bamboo.The armed forces in various places could no longer become a climate, and they were soon wiped out by the Huaxing army, all the way to the outside of Calcutta.Before the land encirclement of Calcutta, twenty warships of the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet had already carried out two intensive bombardments on the area.Arriving in Singapore from Kolkata took a week's sail.The navy traveled back and forth between the two places, each time carrying enough ammunition, about tens of thousands of rounds.Kolkata is located in the Ganges Delta region of eastern India and is about the same location as Suzhou, China.Because of the well-developed waterways, the warships of the navy could go directly outside the city.Gordon originally wanted to defend the city according to the fortifications, but as soon as the naval fleet arrived, tens of thousands of shells were quickly smashed into the city.Britain has developed here for more than 100 years, and there are factories, schools, banks, office buildings, and three- and four-storey buildings everywhere in the city.At this time, there were more than 100,000 Indian civilians in the city, and Gordon originally wanted to threaten the lives of these people, but he expected that the Huaxing army would not bomb intensively.But things went out of his way.Gordon was wrong, the Huaxing Army was not Indians, they were colonizers like the British Army.For these alien people, Hua Xingjun is not in the mood to be responsible.From the first day of the bombing, a large number of refugees rushed out of the city.They had lived under the colonial rule of the British army for hundreds of years, and they had long regarded the British army as their masters.originally counted on the master to protect him, knowing that Huaxingjun was coming, he insisted on living in the city.Some even volunteered to serve the British army, taking the initiative to help the British army build fortifications and carry grain and grass materials.Now as soon as the cannon sounded, the earth was turned upside down, and the whole earth seemed to collapse at this moment.These slaves could not count on their masters, so they hurriedly packed up their salutes and fled out of the city.The shelling lasted for three days and three nights, and the explosions were like thunder in the sky, one after another.Houses collapsed one by one, and the sky was completely obscured by flying smoke and dust.The city was shrouded in darkness as if the end of the world had arrived, and was soon reduced to rubble.After the bombardment, the British forced civilians to dig out of the rubble, salvage supplies and ammunition from the rubble, and rebuild fortifications.Gordon had already made up his mind to live and die with the city, and now the British army was all deployed on the front line, and the rear was in urgent need of manpower to carry supplies.He had his men cordon off the outside of the city, and all the people who fled the city were shot.The Indian people are about to cry, and they are not allowed to flee, and they are hiding in the city for fear of bomb attacks.However, the British army was surrounded by defenses outside the city, and they had to obediently return to the city and continue to help their masters defend.The streets were littered with severed limbs and corpses.There was not a single house in sight in the city, and there was a crying and screaming everywhere.This tranquility lasted only a week, and after the Huaxing Army's army approached the outside of the city, the navy's twenty warships came again loaded with ammunition.The main target of the navy this time was the trenches dug by the British outside the city.Before the bombing, the ship's airships carried out a detailed reconnaissance of the azimuth coordinates of each trench in advance.The naval artillery all adjusted its coordinates, and with the order of the fleet commander, the shells quickly smashed down the British trenches.The British army in Calcutta was already panicked, and after learning the news of the siege, they lost the will to fight.Now that the shells have exploded on the position, the spirits of all the soldiers have completely collapsed.In particular, the main guns of the Naval Fleet's Broken General contained more than 300 kilograms of bombs alone.When the shells were fired, it seemed to be a meteorite that fell on the British position, leaving a huge trench in the ground in an instant.All the British troops within a radius of tens of meters were killed, and they were shocked to death by the impact of the bombs.It would have been fine if the British had been lying in the trenches, but if they accidentally lifted up, they would have been torn apart by the flying shrapnel.The bombardment lasted for a day and a night, and half of the trenches dug by the British outside the city were razed to the ground.Taking advantage of the situation, the Huaxing Army's army launched an attack, quickly broke through the first layer of defensive positions, and then quickly expanded the results in all directions.On the battlefield within a radius of tens of miles, the positions of the British army were quickly divided into small pieces.The eastern and western fronts of the Huaxing Army will make peace, with a total strength of more than 200,000.At this time, the British army was dead and wounded, and only more than 50,000 soldiers remained.More than 30,000 of them were stationed in the trenches outside the city, and more than 20,000 were stationed in the inner city defenses.The Huaxing army launched an attack with several times the strength of the force, and the British army did not have the strength to parry at all.Their morale had already collapsed, and in the face of such a large-scale attack, where could they still have the heart to resist.Often, without firing a shot, they turn around and flee towards the city.The battlefield completely became the slaughterhouse of the British army, and the Huaxing army quickly shot them out like a whirlwind.After only two hours of fighting, the British positions outside the city were all scattered.The defense of more than 30,000 people was quickly killed by more than 20,000 people, and less than 10,000 people fled into the city.After the Huaxing army completed the goal of clearing the periphery, it launched a general attack on the city the next day.The soldiers and horses of the three military districts attacked from all directions at the same time, and all of them headed towards the governor's palace in the center of the city.After Lawrence left, Gordon and British command were stationed here.The Doge's Palace is a large European-style garden building, and although the office building was destroyed by a bomb, half of it is still standing.The concept of a void has not yet been put in this era, but there is a spacious basement underneath the Doge's Palace.Gordon was directing the battle inside at this time, and the guns in the city rang out from time to time, and he even felt the footsteps of the Huaxing army.The corridors in the basement were filled with Gordon's own soldiers, as well as wounded generals who were constantly wailing.Everyone looked panicked, and if they didn't think about the sound of artillery outside, everyone would be scared and shiver.He sat down at the council table in despair, like a defeated rooster, unable to lift the slightest spirit."
General, quickly withdraw, the Huaxing army is about to attack here" The adjutant general Barron commanded the battle in the city, and after the defense line was broken up by the Huaxing army, he braved the guns and returned to the basement."
Where are you going to run now," Gordon smiled bitterly, as if he was ready to die, took out his pipe and lit it, and smoked calmly."
General, there is a great chaos in the city now, we can disguise ourselves as Indian people and get out of the city, as long as we still have a breath of air, then there will definitely be hope of turning defeat into victory" Barron persuaded him anxiously, seeing that the Huaxing army was attacking.If you don't leave now, you won't have a chance again."
Barron, we all fled here from China.I told you at that time that India was my last destination.If India is lost again, even if it escapes, I will not have the face to live in this world again.Barron, we've lost to the Huaxing Army after all" Gordon sighed, he was not a war fanatic, and he didn't want his men to suffer unnecessary casualties at this time.Originally, he wanted to count on fighting street battles with the Huaxing army to delay time, but the Huaxing army bombed the city into ruins.The collapse of the defensive line he had worked so hard to build in the city was undoubtedly not a huge blow to him.Now that all the chips in his hand had been used up, he had completely fallen into despair in his heart, and he could not mention any fighting spirit."
Take care, General" Barron didn't say anything more, he already knew what Gordon meant.He gave a straight salute to Gordon and fulfilled his last duty as an adjutant general.As soon as he left the command room, all the British troops in the aisle focused their eyes on him.There was a sudden silence in the basement, and it was only a moment before a gunshot rang out in the command room, making everyone shudder."
The general has an order, surrender" Barron choked up and gave the last order, and went straight out of the basement with two of his own soldiers
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