From another angle, Hou Chencheng also didn't want the 17th Armored Division to head south.
According to Hou Chencheng's understanding, the primary strategy to stabilize the situation is actually to accelerate the advance southward.
After sweeping through Gujibang, continue south to attack Baroda, occupy and control the mouth of the Narmada River, then proceed with Plan B upstream, advancing inland via the Narmada River to complete a strategic large detour, cutting off the area south of the Malwa Plateau.
In fact, as long as Baroda is captured, it could force the Fan Army to reinforce the south.
Here, it involves a very crucial and sensitive issue.
The composition of Fanluo Country.
Although it suffered a century of colonial rule by the Bulan Kingdom, the current Fanluo Country has to a large extent inherited the colonial authority's legacy. Or to put it another way, it is the unified situation during colonial rule that laid the ideological foundation for its unity.
