Chapter 51: The Battle of Tundulu (4)
Just when Kandanya was thinking wildly, the trumpeter of the army sounded the rapid trumpet of the charge: "Tick-tock... Tick... Tick. At this time, all the KPA soldiers rushed out of the trenches in a flock, shouting out the passion and vigor in their hearts. The first artillery shelling was directed at the British soldiers, and the second was directed at the walls of Tonduru, where the artillery and heavy machine guns had been blown up by the artillery, and even the walls had been blown out of a large number of holes.
Kandanya carefully followed behind his squad leader's buttocks, because he rushed in front of the squad leader in the previous battles, and the harmful squad leader kept pushing in front of him. Another time he blocked a bullet for himself and was seriously injured. So Kandanya automatically hid behind the squad leader in order to prevent the squad leader from getting hurt for himself. At this time, human bodies were constantly falling from the walls of Tungduru. At this time, the British army was obviously severely suppressed by the machine-gun fire of the African People's Army. They could only hide in the battlements of the city wall and secretly shoot cold shots, but this kind of shooting was basically inaccurate. Instead, they attracted more bullets to greet themselves, but there were also some brave British soldiers who were not afraid to die and stood up and fired at the attacking team with machine guns and rifles. But their bravery was only temporary. It was quickly knocked out by the snipers of the People's Army.
Soon the soldiers of the African People's Army rushed to the walls of Tunduru to follow. It was only then that the British counterattack inflicted a little damage on the African People's Army. A large number of rolling logs and boulders the size of human heads fell from the sky on the heads of the attacking warriors. Some of the fighters who could not dodge in time were smashed and their brains burst and died on the spot. This old-fashioned method has really caused great inconvenience to the African People's Army.
However, the African People's Army is a platoon unit, with one squad responsible for erecting ladders and one squad responsible for fire suppression. A squad was responsible for climbing the city walls. Once the squad responsible for erecting the ladder is killed, the squad responsible for guarding takes over the battle. So soon ladders were erected on the city walls.
Just as the soldiers were about to climb the ladder, a large number of British soldiers emerged from the battlements of the city wall and dropped the smoke-emitting grenades. "Boom... Boom... Boom: "A large number of fighters were killed and wounded.
Kandanya had also rushed to the bottom of the city wall at this time and was about to climb the ladder, holding the ladder with one hand and shooting at the British soldiers on the city wall with a semi-automatic rifle in the other. At this moment, he was pulled down the ladder by the squad leader. The squad leader pressed Kandanya with his body. After a loud bang. Kandanya was released by the squad leader.
After getting up, Kandanya said to the squad leader: "Thank you, squad leader, otherwise my little life would have been explained here today." ”
The squad leader said angrily: "You don't have to thank me, pay attention to yourself in the future, I can save you for the first time and the second time." Can't save you the third time, the fourth time. In the future, there will be more dim sum eyes on the battlefield, and don't go on a rampage without caring about anything. ”
Kandanya stuck out her tongue and said, "Yes, yes." The squad leader reprimanded. I'll pay attention later. ”
"Okay, this is the battlefield, don't give me a grin. Prepare to attack again. The squad leader said:
The British grenade attack resulted in four dead and four wounded in Kandanya, and two-thirds of their men were lost. But at this time the mortars of the African People's Army began a tactical bombardment of the city walls. One by one, the British soldiers who were tired of dodging and preparing to attack again were pulled out by mortar shells and shot by name.
Soon the ladder was erected again, Kandanya rushed to the front again and was the first to climb the ladder, and the squad leader saw it and said to the fire cover personnel next to him: "Quickly increase the fire output, and you must not let the British stick out their heads." After saying that, the squad leader also climbed up the ladder.
Soon Kandanya climbed the city wall under the cover of ground fire, and the semi-automatic rifle in Kandanya's hand at this time had been replaced by the automatic rifle of the squad leader. Jumped onto the city wall. At this time, the British on the city wall discovered that Kandanya had climbed the city wall. Whoop screamed and rushed over.
When Kandanya saw it, he picked up his automatic rifle and pulled the trigger on those British soldiers without hurrying. Immediately, the surrounding British soldiers were killed and wounded. The squad leader who followed him also jumped in, holding a light machine gun from the fire support soldier and firing wildly around. Then the rest of the crew rushed to the city wall one by one.
Then the warriors gathered more and more, and the area they controlled became larger and larger. The British counterattack was also suppressed. The squad leader led the people all the way to rush all the way, and finally rushed down the steps of the city wall, and finally captured the southern gate of Tonduru City. With the concerted efforts of the warriors, the gates of the city were opened.
As soon as the city gate opened, the soldiers of the African People's Army outside the gate rushed into the city gate with shouts. After two hours of street fighting, the remaining British troops surrendered under pressure from the African People's Army. The tens of thousands of remaining British troops and 100,000 servants were taken prisoner.
At this moment, the squad leader suddenly grew to the ground, and Kandanya was so frightened that he hurriedly went to help. But Kandanya touched the squad leader's back and found it slimy, and when he opened it, his back was full of blood. There are two bullet holes in the back. Seeing this, Kandanya hurriedly shouted, "Is the medical soldier here?" Hurry up and save someone. ”
Soon, two medics came over with stretchers and lifted the squad leader onto the stretcher. Just as Kandanya was looking at the squad leader, a major officer came to Kandanya's side and patted him and said, "Do you know why the squad leader is so good to you?" ”
Kandanya looked back and saw that it was his battalion commander, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "I don't know, please give the battalion commander advice." ”
"Because you have the same surname as him, he had a son back then. If you are alive, you are as old as you, but the Creator Man, whose son died in the famine, including his daughter-in-law, finally chose to be a soldier, found you in the barracks, and his dead heart was resurrected again. I said here, do you understand? ”
Kandanya nodded with tears in her eyes, indicating that she understood. At this time, the battalion commander said again: "Your squad leader is you from today onwards, and your squad leader will not be able to serve in the field army after his physical recovery, so he can only be transferred to the garrison, but you don't have to be sad, your squad leader can at least be a company commander when he goes to the garrison." ”
After the battle, the African People's Army (APA) quickly took control of the city of Tonduru, and because of the growing popularity of Li Junhao in Ruwuma Province, some Britons did not dare to stay in some small county towns and ran to Tungdulu or the capital Songaia. As a result, today Tonduru revealed that none of the floating wealth of these Englishmen had been transferred.
The results of the subsequent inventory were that more than 130,000 rifles and more than 1,200 light and heavy machine guns were seized. Bullet stroke. 112 artillery pieces of various types. More than thirty tanks. £5 million. More than 30,000 taels of gold. 580,000 taels of silver. A sum of other supplies.