Chapter Seventy-Two: The Siege of Lindy City
Lieutenant General Jeriola, commander of the Eastern Front Corps of the African People's Army, looked at the commanders of several garrison divisions below, looking at the tattered clothes of several people because of the rapid march on the road, with some small scars on their hands and faces, three of them were quite burly, and the other two were weak, one of them was estimated to be about 50 years old, and secretly thought: "This headquarters is also true, how can these five people distinguish between them!" Isn't it too child's play to let these people cooperate with us in attacking the city? "But when people come, you can't snub them. Jeriola stood up and comforted, "Thank you! You've done a great job! Go down and rest. ”
The commanders of the garrison stood up and looked at Geriola gratefully, who had been hurrying for days without taking a bath, and was feeling uncomfortable! After thanking them, they turned to leave. Jeriola hurriedly stopped again: "You few garrisons don't need to go to the Lindy City area anymore!" ”
A few people stopped, turned around, and were surprised! One of them asked, puzzled, "What?" Is there a new quest on it? ”
Jeriola shook her head: "No! This is my suggestion, most of your garrison troops have not been on the battlefield, have no actual combat experience, have received formal military training, they are all disabled veterans, you go to the Lindy City area, where you are at sea and encountered a British naval raid, undoubtedly to die! ”
One of them was unconvinced: "Commander Jeriola! We are all local soldiers. If you are familiar with the geography and terrain here, it will not be so easy to deal with our garrison! ”
Jeriola smiled disapprerovingly: "Our party does not advocate engaging in tasteless armed insurrections in areas of hostile influence, nor does it advocate the formation of local armed units in areas of hostile influence to carry out armed struggle, because that would not only have little effect, but would cause great losses, and would also affect many innocent people." ”
After listening to Jeriola's words, several people were stunned, they really didn't know that the People's Army still had this provision. "We advocate that the rank and file members of the Workers' Party in the areas of hostile influence should only work in secret, and that all armed struggle and military operations carried out behind enemy lines should be led and planned by the KPA Military Committee, and that they must be carried out by experienced MI agents or KPA special forces, and that other branches of the Workers' Party should not and do not have the right to require you, the second-line garrisons, to carry out such tasks." That's why I'm against you carrying out the movement. ”
One of them asked puzzledly, "So we're here to see how you fight?"
Teriola then said: "Of course, you can't rest, at this time our army has taken a large part of the territory of Lindi Province, there are many places in the military void, the problem of crime and enemy destruction is very serious, your task is to quickly conquer those areas, restore law and order, and capture enemy agents." The task is not small. ”
Then a few people rejoiced when they heard this: "This is very good! We're here to do this job, and it's our job, and we're familiar with it. We are willing to stay and accept this task from you! ”
"That's good, if you still have any difficulties, bring them up to me now, and I'll try to solve them for everyone here. Save yourself from having to run for it. Jeriola said:
"There is no big problem, but the armament of several of our divisions is okay, but the heavy firepower is too little. See if you give us a few guns to use as suppression weapons. Of course, we still don't need heavy artillery. A man said solemnly.
"This is okay, I still have 1,000 rocket launchers and 5,000 rockets, 300 80mm mortars, and 6,000 shells. It's all out to you. It must be chaotic here. Jeriola agreed without hiccup.
Then the group went down satisfied, and after assigning the weapons, they went to work according to their pre-divided areas.
Not long after the few people left, Geriola summoned several of his army commanders to hold a meeting at the headquarters. Jeriola gave clear instructions to clear all British forces in the entire outskirts of Lindy City within three hours, take the shore defense artillery positions on the north side of Lindy City, and then cooperate with the navy to prevent another surprise attack by the British Navy.
The shore defense artillery positions north of Lindy City are in the shape of U. The U-shaped concave faces the coast. It is equipped with 5 305-mm coastal defense guns and 10 280-mm coastal defense guns. There are also 150 mm shore defense guns. Only an artillery regiment and an infantry regiment were guarded, as well as a brigade of black servants. Auxiliary defensive positions are also levers of construction.
The unit that served as the offensive battery was the third division, and there was a saying in the African People's Army that the second division was attacking and guarding the second division, and the third division was both offensive and defensive. So Jeriola chose the Third Division, the current commander of the Third Division is called Rex, he is very burly, with a round face and a big head, no hair on his head, and he is very black and shiny, and people who don't know can be scared by his appearance. But I'm unusually good-tempered.
Soon Rex received the order and set off with his team, and soon the artillery units of the 3rd Division began to fire a large number of incendiary and armor-piercing shells, as well as high-explosive shells, at the battery positions. Suddenly, the British troops on the entire position were blown up and howled, and because the coastal defense artillery was too large, the blind spot for close-range shooting was also quite large. As a result, these artillery could not suppress the artillery of the African People's Army, and the artillery of that regiment was too powerful to be beaten honestly.
The poisonous smoke from the incendiary bombs was so smoke that no one could observe. The officers and men of the 3rd Division took advantage of this opportunity to launch an attack on the battery. As a result, the British troops in the front-line positions were attacked by the African People's Army before they could react. In a hurry, these people were taken prisoner before they even had time to escape. After capturing the first line of positions, when the attack on the second line was launched, the British soon came to their senses and fought back violently against the attacking army, suppressing the army to the death of the attack.
Then the artillery pointed at those dynamic strongholds one by one, and the soldiers approached the second-line positions step by step while the shelling was over, and as soon as the shelling was over, they jumped into the trenches in the second-line positions and started a white-knuckle battle with the British. Due to the large number of pistols in the KPA, British soldiers were occasionally hit by bullets in the course of white-knuckle battles and lost their second-line positions. Then the fighters rushed directly to the battery. The fort guard's name was Steven, and the colonel saw that the situation was gone, and ordered the destruction of the running bolt and surrendered.
At this time, the African People's Army also launched a fierce attack on the other peripheral British blocking positions, and soon lost one position after another. The rest of the army quickly broke and fled to the city of Lindy, and relentlessly resisted. Soon a huge encirclement completely surrounded the city of Lindy