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Chapter 9 - In-person military parade

But India's self-conscious expansionist thinking is still a problem, with the Hindus mainly suppressing the forces of pacifism, but also can not let India too strong, it is best to find something for India to do, which does not go against the original intention of contributing to the world.

Now it is a matter of having to choose the slightly less disgusting one in front of the two bastards, which is not a good choice, but I believe that the entire British Empire, could not come up with a more suitable solution.

"Respected Maharaja, when do you think this war will end." Ellen Wilson turned the tables and asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

The war had been going on for years and the allies had gained the upper hand, but who knew when the war would end?

"Respected Maharaja, only strength will be respected." Alan Wilson made a reserved gesture and said, "Now there are five million British Empire troops fighting in various battlefields, they represent the strong military power of the British Empire, but the war will eventually end, but their weapons have been manufactured, the tanks they operate, the aircraft and warships they fly, is an unimaginable military heritage, instead of leaving it to rust, in the war the end of the war it is better to be able to use the residual heat, so that the British Empire also reduces its losses."

"What do you mean?" Ali Khan seemed to grasp something, but his tone was still somewhat uncertain.

"Honorable Maharaja, I would like to see the army of Hyderabad as soon as possible." Alan Wilson nodded his head, affirming Ali Khan's guess. With the weapons used by five million soldiers, it would still not be a problem to boost the army of Tupang.

As for Hyderabad's army, clear ruler's religion, do not need to think to know that this army must be mainly peace religion, the most fundamental reason, or Ali Khan, the monarch has money, can afford the flow of these armaments after the war.

"Are you able to do it?" As a monarch, Mir Osman Ali Khan scrutinized with a skeptical tone.

"If the war ends earlier, there will be this time to do it, if nothing is done, the worst outcome will appear to be a handful, now to answer the Maharaja's question, let a part of the armaments flow into Hyderabad, I think it can be done." Allen Wilson gave an affirmative answer, feeling that once the war was over, part of the armaments were sold without difficulty.

Allen Wilson knew that among the five and seven hundred thousand troops of the British Empire now, there were two and a half million Indian soldiers, accounting for nearly half of them, which seemed like a large number. But this is the British Empire all the colonies can only afford to raise!

Once India became independent, with India's own financial resources, it could not afford to raise more than two million troops. In fact, in the early days of independence, India was not known for its military strength, but of course it was still not a problem to bully Pakistan.

And he knew the evolution of the Indian army, the Indian army is mainly veterans, the service years are generally very long, World War II combat Indian soldiers even to 1962, there are still a large number of service in the Indian army.

These soldiers in their twenties and thirties in 1945 were also the main force almost twenty years later. Taught hard to behave in the highlands, Allen Wilson did not have a high opinion of Indian soldiers, and supplementing Hyderabad in terms of military strength was the most effective way to do so.

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

British India's position is extremely important, but does not belong to the British mainland, in fact, at some level will be very awkward. For example, the 100,000 civil servants working in British India now, once British India becomes independent, how many more can continue to hold the iron rice bowl? The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.

The state of Hyderabad has all the elements of a state, and the entire state is the private property of Mir Osman Ali Khan himself. To protect the sanctity of private property, Mir Osman Ali Khan certainly did not care what the entire Hindus were thinking.

As it happens, being a Britisher, the present Hyderabad Commissioner likewise does not consider what the inhabitants of the colony think. The facts are very clear: Ali Khan had the money and now wanted 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 hundred years.

A few days later, Alan Wilson came to Hyderabad barracks with a few assistants to observe this private army has no redeeming features, to be honest with the eyes of Alan Wilson who has seen the flood of steel in the latter days, this Hyderabad private army is really not enough to see, someone has a gun and that's all.

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

Seeing this scene, Alan Wilson even had the feeling of being in India's military parade in person, just about appeared to be able to transport a company of motorcycles, and I do not know what mood Modi old fairy was in when watching the motorcycle show, anyway, he, the commissioner, was not in a good mood.

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

"That's not really true, it was a mere display." Alan Wilson said without looking back, "What is this? Even in the twenty-first century, the old and powerful Lee-Enfield rifle, a weapon of 1896, was still the main light weapon of the Indian Army.

After the drill of Hyderabad private army, Alan Wilson immediately reached out and applauded, with the expression of a worthy ally of the British Empire for three hundred years, sighing with admiration at the drill without any bright performance.

With a programmed fake smile, Alan Wilson said to Ali Khan's son Aballa Khan, "Hyderabad's army, worthy of the British Empire's long-standing allies, in all fairness to this predominantly pacifist army, in addition to the scale of some inferior, not worse than the Indian Legion soldiers, but if you consider the current combat quality of the European army, there are still some to improve place."

Considering the army of Hyderabad earth state, will certainly fight with the Indian army once in the future, he, the commissioner of Hyderabad, of course, nothing bad to say, in case of demoralization of this Indian enemy how?