Chapter 49: The Battle of Tundulu (2)

One day in March 1937, the British garrison patrol at Heights 456 and the German reconnaissance unit of the 6th KPA Division who were on their way to explore the information of the British garrison encountered an unexpected encounter, and the two sides had an encounter that was more than worth the loss, which surprised the British. When KPA reconnaissance units encounter patrol units. The British then sent a battalion of troops to reinforce it, and when the British gathered superior forces, the African People's Army, which had only one platoon of troops, engaged it, and the British army did not take advantage of it. Instead, he was wounded by this army and killed nearly a company of himself. In the end, the other party calmly withdrew. It's incredible, I can't imagine it, it's terrifying. This was the collective thought of all the Royal Army soldiers who took part in this battle.

The first few times our brother troops who went out to encircle and suppress this rebel army ended in failure, and even the entire formation was annihilated, and very few escaped. At that time, the big guys didn't believe it, thinking that it was just those people who failed to make excuses for themselves. Now he has encountered this force, and the result has proved that the opponent's combat effectiveness is extremely strong. I just don't understand that these mud-legged people are trained there to be such a strong soldier. Their combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of the Germans. This caused a headache for British officers of all ranks stationed at the 456 heights.

There are two points that can be confirmed: First, this group of black anti-British armed forces is extremely strong in combat, and the strength of this platoon is at a disadvantage, and under the superior strength of the opponent, it forcibly eats a company of the opponent and retreats in an orderly manner. Second, it is obvious that the other side will launch a large-scale campaign against itself in the near future. This small force was obviously here to find out the information about the deployment of its own army, but it was accidentally detected by its own patrol. This is the common understanding of the officers of the 456 Highlands garrison

After conjecture, all the senior commanders stationed on the 456 heights decided to ask Major General Bertrand in the city to retreat, and the garrison here was destined to be quickly eaten by the other side, but Major General Bertrand not only did not allow them to retreat, but the order returned to them was to hold on for 24 hours, and finally belonged to the official level and crushed people to death, so they had no choice but to hold on.

Later, after the reconnaissance unit returned to the 6th Division, the platoon commander urgently entered the division commander's temporary headquarters and told the division commander about the exchange of fire between himself and the other side. After hearing this, the division commander Camille sighed, and finally said: "These British are so powerful in battle, and they are blind to such a big battle." But it may not be the real combat power of the British, so it is better to be careful. ”

Just after Camille said that, Camille received a call from the General Command ordering them to do something. Hung up the phone, but Mire said excitedly: "Great, finally do it." ”

Camille is only 20 years old this year, and he is already a major general and division commander, and he has the same spirit as ordinary people. Not surprisingly, before the age of 22, the commander of the army was an ironclad thing. After calming down his excitement, he grabbed the internal phone of his division and regiment and said to the people below: "The artillery regiment must fire the first shot in three minutes, and the shelling will take half an hour. Regardless of the shells, call me as fast as you want. Half an hour later, the tank regiment and all the infantry regiments pressed me en masse. This was the first battle commander of our division, but looking at us, he couldn't be careless. ”

The following regiment commanders collectively said: "Please rest assured that the division commander will fight the first battle beautifully and will never disgrace the division commander and the sixth division." ”

Soon the regimental headquarters of the 6th Division entered a combat state. At this time, the officers at all levels in the command of the British army in the 456 heights were in a state of sorrow. At this time, shells of more than 20 kilograms fell from the sky. The sound of violent explosions was incessant. The blast of the shells sent the British army's light and heavy machine guns and soldiers on the ground into the air.

This is a British army officer who said in surprise: "No, this is the explosion of a 12-pounder howitzer." Bad dish. After saying that, he was about to leave the headquarters, but as soon as he went out, a shell exploded next to him and killed him on the spot. Frightened, the other British officers hurriedly retreated.

At this time, the positions of the British army were already in a panic, and most of the British soldiers in Africa had not participated in the European theater of World War I, and such intensive shelling was experienced for the first time. So the whole army was in a panic, especially the servant army bombed the battalion. No matter how the officers scolded or even shot a few people, they couldn't control the situation.

The shelling stopped after half an hour, and those who survived quickly crawled out of the mound, but they were surprised to find that the trenches they had built were gone. At this time, the 456 heights had turned into a bare hill, and the machine guns and artillery had turned into piles of scrap metal. The last surviving soldiers found that their squad was less than a third. I suddenly wanted to cry without tears.

At this moment, the Englishmen noticed that the branches in the earth were trembling, and they looked into the distance and immediately peed their pants in fright. Tanks are methodically pounced on them. Each tank was followed by at least one squad of soldiers. It was only these British soldiers who realized that their ears had become deafening.

Then some of the soldiers came to their senses of panic, grabbed their rifles not far from them, and fired back at the tanks, but the bullets from the rifles only sparked and clanged at the tanks, as if they were constantly laughing at the ignorance of the British.

At this time, the soldiers of the African People's Army hiding behind the tanks kept taking advantage of the gap between the tanks to shoot back at the British soldiers on the mountain. For a time, it was even more difficult for the British soldiers, who were in a weak position, and the soldiers of the African People's Army were given a few names by the soldiers who survived the shelling.

At this time, some of the surviving mid-level officers of the British army quickly gathered the soldiers around them, and found that they had few soldiers left, and hurriedly called their headquarters, but the phone was as silent as death. At this time, the command of the British army had been wiped out by the artillery of the African People's Army, and the senior officers were basically killed and wounded.

In the end, these middle-level officers saw that they could not contact their superior officers and began to choose to retreat in the direction of the headquarters, and when they retreated to the headquarters position, they found that the headquarters at this time was only a broken wooden wall, and their superiors died in it. At this time, these middle-level commanders looked at each other. Finally, he nodded, put up a white flag, and surrendered.

The soldiers who finally rushed to the hill to receive the British position were also really shocked by the tragic situation of the British.