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Hurriedly getting dressed, Kirsch rushed out and grabbed a soldier and asked. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Raid, raid by the British!"

"How many people!"

"I don't know, a lot, a lot!"

Releasing the obviously frightened soldier, Kirsch hurried over to the command vehicle, now he could not delay, he had to find out what was going on at once, the gunfire was very fierce, it was clear that the men of the 71st Infantry Division had already exchanged fire with the enemy, and his own troops had not yet moved immediately for a while because they were all tanks, and it was night.

"Each unit quickly entered the combat state, first to confirm whether the enemy has anti-tank weapons, and secondly, to determine the general number of enemies, and quickly reported the news to me, in addition, what did the sentries do, and whether the sentries had any casualties!"

Kirsch was also very busy, but the most important task now was to figure out the situation immediately, not to get the troops into a counterattack immediately, the 71st Infantry Division was already engaged in the enemy's fire in front, and the enemy could not break through the line quickly.

Soon, a seemingly comprehensive intelligence was reported to Kirsch, the British launched a counteroffensive in the early morning, the British troops involved in the counteroffensive should not be more than two regiments, and now they are in a fierce exchange of fire with the 71st Infantry Division, and the British troops have not been found to have any heavy firepower for the time being, and it is the sentry of the 71st Infantry Division who is responsible for the perimeter guard, and now they cannot be contacted, and they may be dead.

"It seems that the defenders of Aylsford were reinforced, and then they took advantage of the night to launch a surprise attack, but they didn't know that the men of the 71st Infantry Division had arrived in Maidstone, so they took the risk to attack."

A staff officer made a summary, and there seemed to be no problem with this summary, after all, according to the previous intelligence, there was indeed only one British infantry regiment in Aylsford, and now the strength of two regiments launched a counteroffensive at the same time, which should have happened to be reinforced, and he thought that his strength was enough, and he couldn't fight it during the day, so he carried out a night attack in the early morning.

"Order the troops to immediately enter the combat situation, the tanks do not turn on their headlights, move forward slowly, do not need to be completely sure of the exact position of the enemy, and as soon as they find traces of enemy fire in a place, immediately destroy them with tank guns."

Kirsch did not command at night, but he was very familiar with the performance of the tanks under his command, the tank's headlights were so close that it was completely impossible to detect the enemy in the distance, and if the tank turned on the headlights, it would not be able to see the muzzle flame of the enemy in the distance because of the light.

In complete darkness, using the muzzle flame as a target designator and delivering a fatal blow directly from a tank gun is definitely a good note, and it can be said that Kirsch's response strategy is not a problem.

With Kirsch's order, almost all of the 1st Tank Brigade moved except for the units responsible for protecting the rocket artillery battalion directly under it.

The roar of the tanks advancing made the soldiers of the 71st Infantry Division seem to see the British being torn apart by the shells at once, and they made way for the tanks to continue moving, and when they passed them, they immediately followed the tanks and attacked with the tanks.

Boom~~~Boom~~~~Boom~~~~

A series of explosions, bursts of fire blooming in the darkness in the distance, this was not a fireworks show, but the last hours of the British soldiers.

As the tanks showed their might in the night, as if they had completely destroyed the morale of the British in an instant, the gunfire immediately became dull, and the British were retreating, and in Kirsch and Wiesenberg's view, the British night raid had been declared bankrupt.

"The British offensive operation has failed, and at this time we should boldly pursue it, destroy these two regiments in one fell swoop, and take Aylsford!"

After seeing the British begin to retreat, this was Wiesenberg's opinion, but this opinion was obviously not 100% agreed with Kirsch, the troops had a serious lack of time to rest, and the tanks were very unfavorable to fight in such a dark environment, Kirsch preferred the troops to stop, return to Maidstone to rest, and wait until dawn before attacking.

But Wiesenberg's insistence was also justified, if the enemy was given a few more hours, not to mention whether the two British regiments could be completely annihilated, and most importantly, the enemy was given time to rebuild the defensive system, which would still be somewhat detrimental to the attack.

After some deliberation between the two men, Kilsch finally agreed to Wiesenberg's idea, and the troops continued to attack and try to take Aylsford before dawn!

However, if the troops marched into Ellsford, then the main offensive task would be given to the 71st Infantry Division, and the task of the 1st Huaxia Division would only be to guard the perimeter at that time, and the tanks would not enter the city.

In the situation on Maidstone's side, Li Ling had no idea that in the First Landing Group Command, Li Ling's task was more to coordinate the offensive operations of the entire group, rather than a single unit. Furthermore, because Medstone was attacked in the early hours of the morning, and because of the limited number of enemies, neither Wiesenberg nor Kirsch reported the incident to the command in the first place.

Li Ling didn't know what was happening in front of him, he was still sleeping peacefully at this time, and even when the troops had already attacked from Maidstone, the staff officers in the headquarters did not report the matter to Li Ling, in the eyes of these staff officers, it was impossible for two British infantry regiments to pose any threat to the Huaxia 1st Division and the 71st Infantry Division, and it was obviously not a wise decision to call up the chief of staff who had not slept peacefully for several days for such a small matter.

It is precisely because of all kinds of coincidences that the development of things suddenly enters an uncontrollable link!

If even one person reminded Li Ling that the troops had already rushed out, it would definitely not be the way things would develop later, and Li Ling would never agree to the troops attacking at this time!

There is an old Chinese saying that 'when things go wrong, there must be demons', and the morale of the British army has fallen to the bottom since the beginning of the war, and in such a situation, the first thing they should consider is to protect themselves, or to stop the speed of the two armored divisions from launching a surprise attack on London as much as possible!

Everyone knew that the 1st and 7th Armored Divisions were advancing towards London at full speed, and at this time, the British troops, who only had two infantry regiments, did not hold Ayersford, but attacked Maidstone, which was obviously absolutely unjustifiable!

However, Li Ling didn't know what was happening on the front line, he was still asleep!

It wasn't until he woke up from a nightmare, and the time pointed to 4 a.m., that he knew for the first time from the mouth of the staff officer that the troops were already attacking!

At this time, the 71st Infantry Division had already fought all the way to Elsford together with the 1st Huaxia Division...... (To be continued.) )