Chapter 9 In Person at the Military Parade

But India’s self-perceived expansionist mindset is still a nuisance, with Hindus mainly suppressing the pacifist forces, but not letting India get too strong, it’s best to find something for India to do, which doesn’t go against the original intention of contributing to the world.

Now it was a case of having to choose the slightly less disgusting one in front of two assholes, not a good multiple choice question, but I believe that the entire British Empire, could not come up with a more suitable solution.

“Honorable Maharajah, when do you think this war will end.” Alan Wilson turned the tables and asked a seemingly unrelated question.

This was what stopped the monarch of Hyderabad from asking, the war had been going on for many years, the allies had already gained the upper hand which was obvious to everyone, but when exactly the war would end, who knew?

“Honorable Maharaja, only strength will be respected.” Alan Wilson made a reserved gesture and said, “Now there are five million British Empire troops fighting on various battlefields, they represent the strong military power of the British Empire, but the war will eventually end, but their weapons have already been made, the tanks they operate, the airplanes and warships they drive are an unimaginable piece of military heritage, instead of letting them rust, after the war is over it is best to play a residual role. end it would be better to put it to good use, and in so doing allow the British Empire to minimize its losses.”

“What do you mean?” Ali Khan seemed to have grasped something, but his tone was still somewhat uncertain.

“Honorable Maharaja, I would like to see the Hyderabad army as soon as possible.” Alan Wilson nodded his head and affirmed Ali Khan’s guess, with the weapons used by five million soldiers, it was still not a problem to try to boost the army of Tubang.

As for Hyderabad’s army, clarifying the ruler’s religion, it didn’t need to think about it to know that this army must be dominated by the Religion of Peace, the most fundamental reason was still that Ali Khan, the monarch, had the money to afford the flow of these armaments after the war.

“Are you able to do that?” As a monarch, Mir Osman Ali Khan scrutinized with a skeptical tone.

“If the war ends sooner, there will be that time to do it, if nothing is done, the worst that will happen will be a handful, now in answer to the Maharaja’s question of letting a part of the armaments flow into Hyderabad, I think it can be done.” Alan Wilson gave an affirmative answer, feeling that once the war was over, there would be no difficulty in part of the armaments being sold.

Alan Wilson knew that of the five million seven hundred thousand troops now in the British Empire, two million five hundred and eighty thousand, or nearly half, were Indian soldiers, which seemed a large number. But it was what all the colonies of the British Empire could afford to raise!

Once India became independent, with India’s own financial resources, it could not have afforded to raise more than two million troops. In fact India was not known for its military power in the early days of its independence, but of course bullying Pakistan was still out of the question.

And he knows the evolution of the Indian army, the Indian army is mainly veterans, the service life is generally very long, the Indian soldiers fighting in World War II and even to 1962, there are still a large number of serving in the Indian army.

In 1945 these soldiers in their twenties and thirties were also the main force nearly twenty years later. Having been taught to behave ruthlessly in the highlands, Allen Wilson did not have a high opinion of the Indian soldiers, and supplementing Hyderabad in terms of military strength was the most productive thing to do.

Since the meeting with Mir Osman Ali Khan, Allen Wilson has a goal in mind, that is, in the process of British India’s independence, must harvest as much benefit as possible, which has an important role in his later promotion in the British civil service.

British India is extremely important, but does not belong to the British mainland, in fact, at some level will be very embarrassing. For example, the 100,000 civil servants now working in British India, once British India became independent, in the end how many can continue to hold the iron rice bowl? Who knows, Alan Wilson certainly does not want to be among the army of people looking for work.

The state of Hyderabad has all the elements of a nation, and the entire state is the private property of Mir Osman Ali Khan himself, who certainly doesn’t care what the Hindus as a whole think in order to protect the sanctity of his private property.

As it happens, as a Briton, the present Hyderabad Commissioner likewise does not consider what the inhabitants of the colony think. The fact is very clear that Ali Khan has the money and now wants to maintain the status of the private kingdom of Hyderabad. And Alan Wilson, for money’s sake, decided to help the British Empire’s ally of three centuries.

A few days later, Alan Wilson took a few assistants to the Hyderabad barracks, observation of this private army has nothing to recommend it, to be honest, have seen the latter days of the torrent of steel in the eyes of Alan Wilson, this Hyderabad Tuban private army is really not enough to look at, there are people who have a gun and that’s it.

The heavy weapon was the Maxim machine gun, which was widely used in World War I. The semi-automatic rifles belonged only to Mir Osman Ali Khan’s personal guard, and the more eye-catching one was the Hyderabad cavalry unit.

Seeing this scene, Alan Wilson even had the feeling of being at an Indian military parade in person, just short of appearing to be able to transport a company of motorcycles, and wondered what mood Old Immortal Modi was in while watching the motorcycle show, anyway, he, the Commissioner, was not in a good mood.

“Commissioner, these Hyderabad soldiers have Lee-Enfield rifles, they seem to be very old models.” Andy, the aide who came with him, whispered, “Is Maharaja Ali Khan showing off his force against us?”

“That’s not really true, it’s just a mere display.” Alan Wilson said without looking back, what is this? Not to mention that it was 1945, even in the twenty-first century, the good old Lee-Enfield rifle, a weapon that was finalized in 1896, was still the main light weapon of the Indian Army.

Immediately after the Hyderabad Privateers’ drill, Alan Wilson reached out and applauded, with an expression worthy of an ally of the British Empire for three centuries, very much marveling at the unimpressive performance of the drill.

With a programmed fake smile, Allen Wilson said to Ali Khan’s son Abala Khan, “Hyderabad’s army, worthy of being a longtime ally of the British Empire, in all fairness to this pacifist-dominated army, in addition to the scale of the inferiority of a few, is not worse than the soldiers of the Indian Legion, but if you take into account the European army’s current combat literacy, there are still some to improve the place.”

Considering the army of the Hyderabad tudor state, which would certainly fight the Indian army once in the future, he, the Hyderabad Commissioner, certainly had nothing bad to say in case he demoralized this enemy of India.