Chapter 267 Dreaming of World War II

While giving the rioters in the Andaman Islands a last chance, the British Indian Army was also working intensively on a battle plan. Considering the large number of ex-Japanese prisoners of war on the islands, it was not a bad idea to call it a battle plan.

General Erwin is still very conscientious, using the existing forces that can be utilized, developed a plan to seize the island.

Mainly divided into four steps, the first step in India, as well as the British forces in Burma under the jurisdiction of the air force, air raids on the Andaman Islands, but since the air drop leaflets to persuade the surrender of the air raids began the next day.

The second step was, to mobilize an Indian division on board as the main force for the capture of the Andaman Islands. Thirdly, a beach landing under cover of the ship’s guns, and finally the annihilation of the rioters to restore control of the Andamans.

Of course these steps were summarized by Allen Wilson, and the written article’s battle plan was worded in such a way as to “consider considerations of the type of warfare restricted to outside of regular warfare, and use Lanchester’s law of squares to determine the basic fulfillment of the requirements of the belligerents by using Lanchester’s law of squares to determine the basic fulfillment of the requirements of the belligerents in the case of close engagements where the strength of any one side is directly proportional to the square of its own numbers. As well as determining the conditions of the final battle victory belongs to, so as to arrive at the most preliminary trend of the entire battle judgment and general understanding.”

“Through the coordination of the different attributes of the various types of soldiers, with the goal of minimizing the time to complete the task, to achieve the maximum combat purpose!”

It’s very spiritual! Every word amongst this combat report, Allen Wilson recognized, but combined together, he knew half of it, and he would definitely not doubt it if someone else took this combat report and gave it to him, telling him it was a physics department thesis.

“Life still needs more learning.” In the middle of the British army command in India, Alan Wilson listened to the military staff’s unnamable discussion and felt inferior in the knowledge reserve for the first time.

He was in front of a lot of women to talk a lot, now even rely on the survival of the skill is threatened, if he can not blow, can attract Margaret and Vivien Lei? Without even starting the first step, how could there be any going forward?

“Allen, you came from the Governor’s Office, right, does Baron have any suggestions?” Only after General Erwin had finished formulating the battle plan did he look at Allen Wilson, who looked rather embarrassed, with a satisfied expression, and asked the other party about the purpose of his visit.

“General Erwin, the Governor General’s side feels that we should first airdrop a persuasive letter, and that it’s better if we can do it without bloodshed.” Allen Wilson, who was deeply immersed in self-doubt, only snapped out of it when he heard General Erwin’s words, “There are also Japanese POWs on the Burmese side who are undergoing restorative reconstruction, so we can utilize these POWs who know Japanese to write leaflets to be airdropped to the Andaman Islands, and if the rioters resist, then we won’t be blamed.”

“A good idea, no surprise you should be the one to run this.” General Erwin nodded his head, wanting an affirmative answer from the rat that fell in the rice bowl.

Seeing Allen Wilson nodding, General Erwin nodded, “Preparing for the battle will also take some time, you can use this time to make a final effort.”

“I will do my best to avoid bloodshed.” Alan Wilson’s face was solemn, feeling the heavy responsibility, Prime Minister Chamberlain, who had the heart to prevent the world from erupting in order to maintain peace in Europe back then, should have been in the same state of mind when he betrayed Czechoslovakia.

British Burma and British Malaya, there are a large number of prisoners of war, and soon received a telegram from General Erwin’s local garrison, they waited for this special mission, airdropping persuasive leaflets, airdropping sites are a few major islands in the Andaman Islands, hoping that the rioters on the island can hand over their guns and surrender, the golden ticket greatly drop ……

The Andaman Islands are nearly a thousand kilometers from India and much closer to British Burma and the Isthmus of Krakatau, which is part of Malaya, and transport planes are undergoing final checks in airfields in both places.

This time the mission was mainly undertaken by the Bristol-170, a British Bristol transport aircraft designed as an economy passenger/cargo or all-cargo aircraft. The prototype first flew in December 1945, not in time for World War II, but with fighting still going on in South-East Asia, and was used for military transportation for the war effort.

The Bristol-170 had an upper monoplane design with a high nose cockpit and large double-opening cargo doors below for easy loading and unloading of cargo, Alan Wilson had seen a glimpse of it in New Delhi, and like a lot of British stuff, it was either state-of-the-art and backward technology or overly advanced and immature technology, the Bristol-170 transport was the former.

A glance at the Bristol-170 transport would have made it look like a very up-to-date military transport, with a layout no worse than many of the later American and Soviet transports, except for the large belly. But in the end it ended up being a Comet airliner.

Near noon, the pilots who had eaten a full meal boarded the transports, twelve Bristol-170 transports took off at the airports of British Burma and British Malaya, the mission of the British planes on this trip was not to drop bombs, but to drop propaganda leaflets, the leaflets were printed with a lot of Japanese, the gist of which was to let the rioters on the island to surrender, and not to make unnecessary resistance.

An hour later, the Bristol-170s appeared over the Andaman Islands, and knowing that there were no anti-aircraft weapons on the islands, the pilots flew low, opened the double-opening hatches in the belly of the plane, and dropped the leaflets.

Pilots with very good eyesight could even see that some rioters appeared, looking at themselves with indifference, but this is not the point ……, the point is that the pilot of the transport plane flying at ultra low altitude saw piles of grimy white bones, which were not animal bones, and the pilot who realized this, took the risk of circling over the Andaman Islands a several times to confirm the fact, that there was a gruesome truth on the island.

The rioters watched with numb eyes as the circling enemy planes flew away and started picking up the leaflets on the ground without even reading what was on them, they were looking for a place to get ready to enjoy themselves, there was a shortage of everything on the island and the treatment of using paper only for their asses was a treat that people hadn’t had for a long time and not far from them were the ghastly white bones, it was clear that it was daytime and the atmosphere on the island was chilling!

Andaman Islands appeared strange disease, many people have no reason to epilepsy, weakness, prisoners of war do not know what this is the reason, but understand that it must be a kind of infectious disease, the key is, no one knows the source of the infection, the protection can not be talked about, starvation and pestilence, has made the rioters as the walking dead ……

Some of the huts, sick prisoners of war for no reason a shiver, a gust of wind drifted through the grass not far away from the skull was still there exposed, empty eye sockets as if these people issued a sneer.

Through the return of the pilot’s report, Sir Barron and General Erwin are aware of the tragedy that occurred in the Andaman Islands, were shocked speechless, a good half a day to come up with a unanimous opinion, the Andaman Islands problem must be resolved immediately.

“Mad cow disease!” Silent Alan Wilson’s mind flashed this sentence, related? Of course it’s related, mad cow disease was triggered and spread due to the cattle feed processing process developed in the UK, which allowed the use of meat and offal from animals such as cows and sheep as feed, allowing abnormal Prion proteins to enter the body of the cow.

That is, cows eat the same feed made from beef, and cows eating cows is how mad cow disease emerged.

“Attack the Andaman Islands at once and wipe out all the rioters.” General Erwin gave the military order viciously.

The port of Calcutta, a full Indian division embarked one by one and left amidst the puzzlement of the inhabitants of the harbor.

Meanwhile, the British Air Force in Burma and Malaya received orders to stop dropping leaflets and bomb the Andaman Islands this time, even utilizing four local Lancaster bombers loaded with aerial bombs to join in this air raid.

For the Lancaster bombers, I believe the survivors of the British-occupied areas of Cologne, Essen is certainly a fresh memory, it is the main strategic bombing of Germany, with the end of the war, the Lancaster bombers were also placed in the colonial air bases, this time it is just the right place to use.

As if World War II had returned, a fleet of British bombers loaded with aerial bombs arrived over the Andaman Islands, and the main island of the Andaman Islands instantly experienced the same treatment that Germany had received from the British and American bomber fleets.

One aerial bomb after another was dropped. These Japanese POWs in the South Seas did not understand why the mainland surrendered, but now they had seen it. For the unarmed Japanese POWs, the bombing was a little too brutal, as if the war was not yet over, but they did not have proper weapons in their hands.

Some of the POWs who were in the middle of the desperate situation made a desperate resistance by firing into the air with looted rifles and artillery.

The effect is certainly not, but instead strengthened the determination of the British air force bombing, the next day, the third day ……, overnight the British air force in the Asian colonies as if back in 1945, will be the Andaman Islands on the main island of the several settlements, bombing a fragmented.

A few days later, the navy carrying the landing force arrived late, the main guns of the Tribal-class destroyers joined in the barrage to provide cover for the landing Indian forces, and from the looks of it, the two main islands of the Andaman Islands had become virtually uninhabitable for human habitation.

The twin one-hundred-and-twenty-millimeter main guns roared into action, joining the swarms of British bombers in the air in the final preparations for the landings.

Before the artillery fire had ceased, the landing force had already begun in landing craft, urged on by the British commanders.

The so-called resistance was not as fierce as expected, after all, the garrison of the Andaman Islands, infantry guns are only a few, can the whole island can pull the trigger of the whole collection of things are only a thousand.

The real resistance is from the landing after the Indian soldiers into the dense forest began, at the same time these landing soldiers were scattered everywhere skeletons shocked, followed by uncontrollable anger, the island of the Indians should have been killed for sure. ……