Back on the night of September 20th, Shirane clearly remembered that the moonlight was very bright that day, and a faint layer of night mist drifted on the Jialing River. At that time, there were a total of seventeen people, including him, who quietly crossed the Jialing River on three sampans and transferred to a large wooden boat anchored at the shore.

This is a dhow with a load of about 20 tons, which is quite large by the standard at that time, of course, it cannot be compared with the river ships with a load of hundreds of tons at every turn, but this tonnage ship can enter the shallows and reefs of the Sichuan River and the Qijiang River, and it is the main shipping force between Sichuan and Shu and the Yunnan-Guizhou water system.

Under the response of several shipwrights, Wu Dewei and his party quietly climbed onto the deck, and were immediately invited into the cabin by the owner's deputy.

"The platoon commander ordered us to move on, and the third shift has already gone up." The deputy squad leader held the walkie-talkie and reported on the side. Kirwyn nodded, and the platoon commander made the right decision as he expected.

If you are in a plain area, or a more open village or town, then what you should do at this time is to let the spearheads withdraw, regroup your forces, and then launch several tentative attacks to find out the enemy's defensive position and firepower intensity. However, in such a narrow area at present, the strength of the company and platoon level cannot be used at all, and the infantry squad level is the most suitable combat unit.

"Let's go and eliminate that machine gun fire point, remember to subscribe to the genuine version." Colwin made his decision by pointing to the British firepower point a hundred meters away.

By this time, Max's machine gun had already knocked out an entire saddle drum, and the barrel had begun to burn, and just as he was replacing the drum with a new one, the Bren machine gun began to click again, and the bullets hit the surface of the brick steps continuously, raising a cloud of debris and dust.

The British soldiers were clearly not prepared to give up resistance, and they knew that they had been targeted by the Germans, and that if nothing happened, this was likely to be their final burial place.

The Bren machine gun was an excellent weapon, and it performed very well in the French theater. After the Battle of Dunkirk, the Germans captured tens of thousands of Bren machine guns, and the Germans allocated these weapons to the second-line troops.

The British machine gunners skillfully fired several rounds of three bursts at the Germans, and they were able to suppress the activities of the Germans in a short time. But everyone understands that this is only a flash in the pan, and it is impossible to rely on the tragic thirty rounds of Brenna's ammunition to last long.

Crouching in this machine-gun firing point was a British light machine gun crew, a non-commissioned officer with two machine gun shooters, and two ammunition men armed with short rifles, the former for firing machine guns, and the latter for loading empty magazines with loaders on the side. While the machine gun was being replaced, the ammanier began to shoot cover with the Lee Enfield rifle.

At this time, the German machine gun was also reloaded, and began to launch a fierce counterattack, tracer bullets like flying locusts fired into this firing point from the front, and the ammunition man quickly retracted his head and squatted back behind the bunker.

Colwin threw an M39 smoke grenade in the direction of the British firing point, the smoke grenade filled with red phosphorus jumped twice on the ground and rolled back along the ramp for a while before finally getting stuck on the curb, and then began to release a pungent white smoke that covered the entire street in a dozen seconds. Kolvin and the three riflemen put on the rubber gas masks they had prepared for a long time, and under the leadership of the squad leader, they rushed out of the shelter and quickly crossed the street.

At this time, the British soldiers also noticed that something was wrong, and they opened fire indiscriminately into the smoke. As the smoke faded, the British soldiers were horrified to find that the German soldiers had split into two lines, the machine gun crews were still in their original positions, and several other soldiers had crossed the street under the cover of smoke and were advancing towards themselves along the building across the street.

Although the German soldiers were currently in the corner of the machine gun, the machine gunner said that there was nothing he could do about it, because the German machine gun began to suppress them again, and now he could not even poke his head out, let alone aim and shoot.

The British missed the last chance to evacuate, their fronts were suppressed by German machine guns, and their sides were exposed to the fire of the German infantry. They could no longer get out of the bunker, and the British could only lean out and shoot blindly in the direction of the Germans, but with each leaning in, they felt themselves getting closer and closer to death.

The German soldiers didn't care about the British bullets, they fired at themselves with their weapons, and then quickly jumped to the next bunker. Sergeant Colwyn commanded his men to fire at the British bunker, while carefully observing the situation in front of the queue, and he did not dare to launch an infantry assault on the British machine-gun fire point when the enemy situation was still unclear. For, according to his previous experience, in a firepower trap like this, the enemy would never have set up such a lone forward firing point, and the enemy commander would have arranged a covering crossfire at the other end of the street. The Englishmen seemed to be a little weaker than he had thought, and Colwin was convinced that the British should still have a large number of troops waiting in the rear.

Colwyn felt that he was close enough, and he and his men stopped in front of a small Victorian building. Theoretically, the smoke masking time of the smoke grenade is two minutes, but due to the environment, it is difficult to achieve this standard in actual combat, and now only a minute and a half has passed, and the white smoke has begun to dissipate.

The German infantrymen had already passed through the smoke barrier they had set up, and they took off their gas masks, and because they did not have time to retract them, they rolled up the rubber product and hung it on their belts. The riflemen crouched behind the fence of the flower bed at the edge of the house, picked up their rifles and began to shoot at the side of the machine-gun bunker, and the British made a very low-level mistake by not stacking sandbags high enough on the side of the fence.

Colwin turned around and looked behind him, and saw several infantry squads steadily advancing along the ramp, behind them a Tank Four had rolled one of its tracks onto the pavement, the black hole with the muzzle facing in his direction.

Colwyn had almost climbed the first part of the 400-metre steep slope, and was now well above the surrounding area, and he found that the view was very good, and he estimated that he could see directly from here the railroad they had crossed if it were not for the side houses.

From time to time, there were a series of crisp gunshots in the distance, interspersed with a few dull bangs, and there seemed to be a large-scale exchange of fire in a community in the distance, and I don't know how many buildings were set on fire, and Colwin saw several black and straight plumes of smoke.

Kirwyn could roughly tell what part of the sound was coming from. "It looks like we're going to speed things up, so why bother looking at piracy." Kirwyn turned to his rifleman and said, "Go see the original." ”

By this time, the Germans had completed a series of tests they had planned, and those front-line commanders finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to launch the first all-round attack on the defense of London. The London line of defense would collapse at the touch of a button, which was a situation that none of the marshals of the High Command expected.

Snyder's tank company was under the direct jurisdiction of the General Headquarters of Group E, and if it weren't for Bock's sober-mindedness, he would have almost been taken by Guderian to fill in the Thames, and Bock reminded Guderian that Snyder's No. 4 submersible tank would not have been able to climb up to the Thames' riverbed full of all kinds of rubbish and debris.

Bock intercepted the company and placed him on the southern front of the city of London, believing that the British defense in this direction was relatively strong and that this main armored force was very much needed as a breakthrough force. So, the company of diving tanks and the attached infantry company were thrown into this place.

"It's almost the distance, I'll see how many we have." Curvin crouched by the flowerbed and pulled two M24s from the grenade launcher's grenade pouch. The other two riflemen also drew their grenades from their waists and boots, respectively, and handed them to the sergeant.

Colwin placed the four M24 grenades in front of him, unscrewed the galvanized iron caps at the tail one by one, and pulled the fire rope attached to the white porcelain pendant out of the wooden handle. This was a plan that Colwyn had already conceived, because he observed that the bunkers guarded by the British were uncovered.

Colwyn was confident in his bomb-throwing skills, but he was not sure that he would be very accurate, so he threw four bombs in a row at the British bunker, ready to make up for the lack of accuracy with the advantage of numbers. Eventually, two grenades fell on the side of the road, and the other two fell into the barred flower beds, and the German grenades were so powerful that four dull explosions immediately reverberated through the streets.

Cyprus's Legion as the Führer's Legion is not only a nice name, but like the Hydra Corps, it has become a symbol of the Führer's power, and this originally large military-level unit is now even more powerful. In the later stages of the French campaign, this corps under the command of Manstein broke through several strong French defenses in succession, captured and annihilated more than 200,000 French troops, and the commander, General Müller, participated in the parade into Paris as a representative of the German Army.

The corps commander, Major General Müller, made a name for himself in Germany because of the dramatic forced landing on the Champs-Élysées, and like Rommel back then, he became another rising star in the German Army for a while. Speaking of which, Rommel used to be Muller's immediate boss, but this major general's starting point is much lower than Rommel's, and it can be said that his success is all due to the full support of His Excellency the Führer. (To be continued.) )