Slim never suspected that these Indian troops would betray Britain. In other words, in his opinion, the people of these Fourth Indian Army dared not betray the British Empire.

Since Queen Victoria was officially crowned as the "Queen of India" in 1876, India has never successfully escaped from the British Empire. Some of the people who tried to resist were all suppressed by the British Empire.

What India is now carrying out is the non-violent non-cooperation led by Gandhi, whom they call "Mahatma". This is probably the biggest thing India can do at present, and any previous revolution will be quickly suppressed by Britain. This non-violent nature has achieved certain results.

"These damn Indian dogs! They shouldn't have given them so much benefit at the beginning, otherwise they wouldn't be more aggressive now!" Slim roared loudly at the current Indian Governor Victor Hope, the second Marquis of Linlithgo in his command.

"At this time, ask us for independence from India? No! Even if I die, it is impossible for them to succeed!"

The outbreak of the Pacific War made the call for India's already silent independence higher and higher. Gandhi even began to write a letter to the Governor's Office with his own followers to demand that India be completely independent.

In Slim's view, this was a betrayal and a humiliation. It was originally just a book, but after the British territory was captured by Germany, this book began to gradually turn into violence.

Although it has not yet erupted, Marquis Victor clearly felt that the storm was gradually taking shape. The Indians who had been constantly writing to him and marching began to remain silent.

If they marched, Governor Victor felt that he could control it. He could even make some unpainable promises, but these people were silent now, which made him start to panic.

Governor Victor rushed to the British camp and found Slim who hoped to hear his opinion.

"It's not the time to talk about these things. The Turkish can no longer give us too much support. What we have to face now are the Japanese people entrenched in Myanmar and those damn Indians. We have to solve these things. Otherwise, they will be over when we fight with the Japanese people!"

Governor Victor came here to be the governor, not to die. To be honest, if the land had not been occupied, he would have ordered all the damn Indians who were troubled.

During World War I, Indians wanted independence. At that time, the British had a very simple way to deal with this matter: directly arrest all the leaders, kill what should be killed, and what should be closed.

Brigadier General Reginalddale, who was in India at that time, took British soldiers to Dazalenwara Park, first blocking the main exit, and then ordered soldiers to fire machine guns at the crowd.

Hundreds of people were directly killed and thousands were injured on the spot. After this killing, the forces that tried to actively resist the British began to slump. However, with the advent of the Pacific War, they seemed to see hope and stir up again.

Now that the British cabinet has been withdrawn to Canada, Victor and Slim are really isolated in India. Once something happens here, they have no place to run.

Europe has fallen under Germany's iron hooves, and the Strait of Malacca is controlled by the Japanese. The Japanese navy has begun patrolling the Bay of Bengal.

"What can I do?! Do you have to agree to the damn Indians' conditions for their independence?! This is impossible!" Slim said angrily: "Last time, the Empire agreed to these people too easily. That was why they made more and more excessive demands step by step! According to me, all the bastards who made trouble should be cleaned up at that time..."

"General! Now is not the time to say this. What we need to do now is to deal with the Indians' request for independence that is happening now. This is what we need to do now."

Victor felt that he was about to go wild, but Slim could understand English?! Now is not the time to deal with these people. Without the support of the country, Victor still hopes that these people will help in the war.

If these people are pulling their backs behind the scenes, they will only suffer.

"Let's ask the cabinet! This matter is beyond our full scope. We need to ask the cabinet for its opinions..." What can Slim say? In fact, he doesn't know what to do now. It's like Victor said to deal with these Indians, as Victor said, may cause a huge rebound.

This is something Slim doesn't want to see, but if they agree to their conditions, neither Slim nor Victor has this authority. This matter can only be left to the cabinet to handle.

"Oh... the Indians are no longer making trouble now. After I caught a group of people, they seem to be brewing something." Victor said with a headache at Slim: "What I worry about is that we don't have enough time..."

Victor's words made Slim's pupils shrink suddenly. He said in a cold voice: "Victor, what did you say?!"

Slim suddenly thought of the Japanese fighter jets he had been seeing recently, but the patrolling Indian Fourth Army told him that there was no abnormality in front of the position.

Thinking of Victor's words, Slim suddenly stood up all over his hair! He suddenly thought. If these damn Indians really cooperated with the Japanese...

"I...I say that those Indians who have made trouble recently have not made trouble again." Victor repeated his words inexplicably, but Slim interrupted him rudely and anxiously.

"I'm not talking about this. It's the next sentence! The next sentence!"

"Uh...I mean, after I caught some people, they seemed to be brewing something..." Victor felt the seriousness of the matter and tried his best to restore what he had just said.

Victor's words made Slim feel cold all over his body. He suddenly rushed to the door and opened the door and said to the guard outside: "Call the Chief of Staff!"

Although the guards were a little confused, they hurried to call the Chief of Staff to the office.

The current chief of staff is Lieutenant General Hutton, the former British commander in Myanmar. After Myanmar was defeated by the Japanese, he was changed to the chief of staff of the British Army in India.

"Slim, what happened?!"

Not many people in China know about William Joseph Slim, but his reputation in the UK was great. When the British "Focus" magazine selected the "Top Ten Military Commanders of the World" in 1998, Slim ranked first and ranked first among the top ten commanders.

Of course, this judgment is not accurate. But it can also show his high popularity in the UK.

"Victor just now told me a situation. Almost all the people who are making independence in India have stopped. Governor Victor suspects that they may be planning big actions..."

As he said that, Slim took a deep breath and said, "The planes have been hovering over our heads during this period. When we sent out the fighter planes, they ran away again. The jungle was too dense, and our reconnaissance planes could not see the situation inside. The Fourth Indian Army who went to reconnaissance told me that there was no problem there..."

Slim said it was scattered, but Hutton still keenly grasped the key points!

"Your Excellency Commander, do you mean the Fourth Army may have betrayed us?!" Hutton's hand began to tremble, and there were only three British infantry divisions and some other troops here.

If the Japanese army launch a large-scale attack and the Indians betray them at the same time, the British army will face double-sided attacks from the enemy.

Once this happens, then any consequences will be possible for a fool to guess!

"I'll have someone check it out right away! I will urge someone to do this in person." Hutton's face became extremely ugly when he heard Slim's words. He nodded to Victor as saying hello and then hurriedly left Slim's office.

After Hutton left, both of them lost interest in talking. They quietly waited in the office for the results brought back by Hutton.

Whatever the result is, they must know as soon as possible.

Although Hutton was defeated in Myanmar, he was also an old soldier. He quickly found more than a dozen elite soldiers in the British army and then led them out of the camp without hesitation.

These people have fought with Hutton, and Hutton knows their achievements and things.

"Everyone, now there is a task that concerns the production and survival of our army to you." Hutton looked at the dozen selected British scouts and said, "Here and here, the Indian army told us there is no problem. But now we suspect that they have not been reconnaissance, so we have to do this in person!"

"You are all the strongest soldiers in the British Emperor, so this task is handed over to you. Your mission is to find out whether there are Japanese troops there and how many if there are. Do you understand?"

"Yes! Your Excellency General!"

These people are worthy of being selected elites. Without any questions, their clear and neat actions silently illustrate all this.

After saluting Hutton, the team set out directly without even going back to the camp.

Hutton called them out in the name of wanting to hunt. Although it is a bit strange to take these elites to hunt, no one doubts anything when it comes to Hutton's habit of always and fond of hunting.

At this time, in the jungle outside Impal, Lieutenant General Mutaguchi, commander of the 15th Army of the Burmese Front of the Southern Japanese Army, had also arrived. He was planning specific combat tactical arrangements with his staff.

"These two high grounds must be taken first after the war begins. The 33rd Division must win Bisimpur, the 31st Division needs to advance to Kohima in the north of Impal, and the 15th Division is responsible for capturing the secret propaganda between Impal and Kohima."

"The north-south passage of Impal must be blocked, so these British people cannot take advantage of the opportunity."

"Hay!" Yamauchi, the commander of the 15th Division, the commander of the 31st Division, and the commander of the 33rd Division, Yukito Sato, and the commander of the 33rd Division, Yakuda Motozo, responded loudly.

"Commander. When will the support from the land aviation side be given?!" Major General Haruki Isaiyama, chief of staff of the 15th Army, looked at Mukou and said: "This is crucial to the success or failure of our battle. The British Royal Air Force still has more than 100 fighter jets here. If we do not have air support, it will be difficult to get the battle."

"I have called for tactical assistance on the side of Luhang. Marshal Sugiyama has ordered them to assist us in Indian operations. You can rest assured of this." Mutian smiled and said to his chief of staff: "The so-called 'Sun Never Setting Empire' has long lost its glory as it was back then. Believe me! The new Sun Never Setting Empire is only our Great Sun Never Setting Empire!"

"Hayi!!"

Valen's palms are sweaty now. He was watching the Japanese soldiers who were building hidden places under the trees in the low grass and sweaty in the vests.

When Valen and his team members were ordered to come, they did not agree with this task. If the Japanese army wanted to attack Impal, the troops needed were at least 50,000.

It is impossible for such a large number of soldiers to be mobilized without any noise. Although the combat effectiveness of the Indian army is a little worse, it is not difficult to find clues.

Moreover, there are tens of thousands of people hidden in the jungle, and even if you are careful, you will leave traces.

Indeed, the traces left by the Japanese army here. Unfortunately, the fourth Indian army that patrolled the Indian army turned a blind eye to it. The Japanese army had a tacit understanding of the Indian army, while the Indian army had a tacit understanding of the traces and even sometimes helped to clean them up.

But when the British army came to reconnaissance themselves, the traces were exposed very clearly. Valen and the others easily noticed that there was a secret force stationed here.

Then, they began to reconnaise the troops. The situation they found during the reconnaissance made them frightened. There were three Japanese divisions gathered here, and even Valen and others saw some Indians appearing.

The Indian army betrayed Britain! This is the conclusion that Valen and others came to, which made them feel scared. If this matter was not discovered, once the Japanese army suddenly started a war, the Indian army stabbed the British drama again...

"Person Valen, we have roughly understood the situation here..." Sergeant Leonard, who led three people to the other direction to conduct reconnaissance, returned to their hidden point and said in a deep voice to Valen: "There are at least 50,000 Japanese troops here and this jungle. There are about 5,000 to 7,000 Indians here."

"We observed the firepower equipment of the Japanese army. Their attack carried a large number of heavy weapons. A rough calculation showed that there were at least twenty artillery artillery of more than a caliber..."

At this time, the British reconnaissance teams who were scattered reconnaissance returned to this hidden point one after another. Parts of information were placed in front of Valen.

"Okay, we will retreat immediately. The situation here must be reported to the command center immediately..."

Valen's face turned pale as he watched the reports. A reconnaissance team encountered the patrol of the Fourth Indian Army, and the team chose to hide.

As a result, something that made them almost crazy in the grass happened. After encountering a Japanese squad, the patrol of the Fourth Army only smiled awkwardly and separated.

There was no firefight, and neither side even showed hostility. They looked at each other from afar and smiled. Then they turned around and left in a tacit understanding. These situations all indicate that the Fourth Army of India had betrayed Britain.

It is even possible that these Indians had already made peace with the Japanese, and this news was extremely deadly for the British army.

The report was quickly sent back to the command center. Looking at the reports, Slim was not in the mood to praise the brave British soldiers who went to reconnaissance.

His own speculation was confirmed, and those damn Indians really chose to betray the British Empire.

"We must clean up all these cancers. The entire Fourth Army can't believe it. We must clean up all of them, otherwise if they turn against each other in front of the battlefield or suddenly cooperate with the Japanese army to launch an attack on us, the loss will be huge!"

Slim decisively said to his chief of staff, Hutton, in a deep voice: "Tonight, call the generals of the Fourth Army to have a meeting, and then secretly gather the troops and go directly to the Fourth Army's garrison to conduct comprehensive disarming!"

"Anyone who tries to resist, kill!"

The commander of the Fourth Indian Army and several division commanders received an emergency order in the afternoon, saying that he would go to the headquarters for a meeting in the evening. However, the messenger did not explain what meeting it was.

But these Indian officers were used to it. Although the British used them, they never trusted them. Those combat orders were always known until the last moment.

Recently, because British territory has been occupied and Japanese aircraft often operated over Impal, this kind of combat conference was held very frequently.

I think this time it was the general who wanted to play something?! The officers at all levels of the Indian Fourth Army thought that no one suspected that the matter of peace between them and the Japanese was leaked.

At around 7:35, these officers of the Fourth Indian Army gathered one after another in the conference room of the Commonwealth Command in Kolkata, waiting for the arrival of Commander-in-Chief William Joseph Slim.

While waiting, everyone was still talking in a low voice. Of course, no one would talk about sensitive topics involving the Japanese army here. Most of them were talking about trivial things in life.

Time passed minute by minute, and by eight o'clock, the commander-in-chief had not appeared yet. This made the officers of the Fourth Indian Army feel in a panic, and they finally felt something was wrong.

Several officers wanted to go out, but the guards at the door said the meeting was a confidential meeting. Commander Slim ordered no one to leave the conference room.

"Please forgive me, sir!" The British soldier standing at the door pointed at the Indian officer intentionally or unintentionally, and the officer returned to the conference room with great tactfulness.
Chapter completed!