However, the battle did not stop because of the short retreat of the British army, at this time both sides were already red-eyed, wave after wave of British troops rushed to the city without fear of death, and the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Regiment on the defense were even more sworn to die, and the bestiality of man was vividly displayed on the battlefield at this moment. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The streets of Prome are riddled with ravines, ruins and ruined walls, and the smoke of gunpowder fills everywhere. The various positions located in the city were rivers of blood, and the corpses were stacked in various postures, those facing the sky on their backs, kneeling on the ground, wrestling with each other's bayonets and rushing into each other's stomachs, half of their heads were missing arms and legs, and the pools of blood were coagulated and half-coagulated, and they were still flowing, and there was even an occasional heavy ** sound in the pool of blood. All this shows the fierce fighting situation here

On the crippled street positions, most of the surviving officers and men of the Eighth Regiment were wounded but still fighting desperately, and the fire dragons that seven or eight machine guns constantly spewed pressed the British troops to the street not far away and did not dare to move.

"Soldiers, rush! Rush in! The British officer's hoarse voice kept screaming.

With the howl of the officer, groups of roaring soldiers crawled out of the street and behind the ruins, but they did not take two steps when a rain of bullets swept in, and immediately fell in front. Throughout the afternoon, the British launched several charges, approaching the street position several times, but they were all defeated. White put the last reserves to use, and Huang Yuying threw all those who could move into battle, and even he himself carried a machine gun into the position. The fierce battle continued, and the commanders on both sides gritted their teeth and persisted.

The sun began to slowly slide into the distant sky, and the clouds on the horizon gradually turned red. Suddenly, there was a loud sound of military trumpets in the sky, and a red flag rushed quickly from afar. Under the personal leadership of Li Hongxiang, the reinforcements of the Third Division, which had been traveling day and night, finally arrived. Worried about his subordinates, Deng Taizhong broke through the British army's defensive line arranged on the periphery with a single charge, and took advantage of Deng Taizhong's tearing opening, Li Hongxiang launched an attack from the eastern front to the north and south of Prome.

It was not Huang Yuying who noticed the military horn first, at this time he was no longer the calm and calm head of the group, but like the small soldiers, regardless of the bullets flying around, he pulled the machine gun and fired fiercely.

"Captain! Head! Trumpet, trumpet! The trumpeter pointed into the distance and cried excitedly.

Huang Yuying didn't hear clearly, still holding the machine gun, and asked without replying: "What did you say?" Be louder! ”

"Reinforcements! Regiment commander, reinforcements have arrived! The trumpeter burst into tears.

The machine gun stopped abruptly, this time Huang Yuying heard it clearly, turned around and grabbed the trumpeter: "What reinforcements?" Where is it? ”

"Listen, head of the regiment, listen!"

Huang Yuying listened attentively, and the faint sound of the charge horn became clearer and closer, and he shouted wildly with ecstasy on his face: "Reinforcements have arrived!" Brethren, reinforcements have arrived! ”

With Huang Yuying's roar, the gunfire on the position stopped almost at the same time, and the surviving officers and soldiers immediately burst into cheers: "Reinforcements have arrived!" Reinforcements have arrived! ”

Huang Yuying roared, laughed, and then cried... He sat down in the trench and burst into tears, muttering weakly: "Reinforcements have arrived!" Reinforcements have finally arrived..."

The gunfire was more violent, and the trumpets were closer and clearer. The British troops on the opposite side obviously heard it, they hurriedly looked into the distance, the red flag became clearer and clearer, and the British army, who was still desperately attacking just now, finally panicked when they saw the red flag that was getting closer and closer, and the string that the British army had been tightening these days was finally broken.

"Withdraw! Evacuate! The British officers who had come to their senses on the battlefield began to yell incessantly.

When he heard the first trumpet, White was a little stunned, and when it became clear that it was the reinforcements of the Chinese army, White knew that it was over. In an instant, it was as if the backbone had been removed, and the whole person lost his spirit. At this time, he could no longer take care of the chaotic attacking troops and headquarters.

"Your Excellency General, what should I do? Now what? The chief of staff asked with a crying voice. Of the 15,000 men in the three infantry brigades of their division, 10,000 had already filled the bottomless pit of Prome.

The sound of military trumpets is becoming more and more similar, the shouts of the Chinese army charging are already clearly audible, and the chief of staff is about to cry when he sees the division commander who is still stupid. As a general of the British Empire, he did not want to die here or wait to be captured by the Chinese. Perhaps out of the honor of the officer, the red-eyed chief of staff did not choose to flee alone, but immediately seized power and began to command the whole division to retreat to Rangoon.

The reinforcements of the third division, who were also red-eyed, certainly did not watch the British retreat safely. After breaking the British army besieging Prome, the officers and men of the 3rd Division did not stop, and did not care about the situation of the British troops who raised their hands and trembled on the left and right in front of them, and directly chased the rout to the south. The officers and men of the Third Division fought successively and were unstoppable, and the British troops were forced to retreat again and again.

As reinforcements arrived on the battlefield from the east of the city, the first to bear the brunt was the rapid collapse of the two brigades of Abt and Kakron, and the Australian brigade cut off from the north of the city quickly lost the heart of resistance, and they were either captured or killed when they could not flee south. The two brigade commanders, Abt and Kakron, who were the commanders, only ran a few miles south after rushing out, and were caught up by the pursuers and became prisoners. As for Major General White and Brigadier Commander Brents, who attacked the south of the city, they escaped capture because the division's chief of staff gave the timely order to retreat.

The Battle of Prome ended in a complete victory for the Chinese army, but the cost to both sides in this battle was enormous. In the whole campaign, the Chinese army invested regiment after battalion, a total of 4,000 troops, and after six days of bloody fighting, only more than 600 troops remained, including 300 seriously wounded who lost their combat effectiveness. Du Zhongqi and Chen Zhenhui, political commissars of his division, were seriously wounded, and all the officers from Wei Guangqi, chief of staff of the regiment to Wei Guangqi, including officers at all levels of battalion, company, and platoon, were killed in battle, except for two seriously wounded company commanders.

On the other hand, the British army also suffered heavy losses, according to later statistics, in the entire Battle of Prome, the British army successively invested one division and one brigade of offensive troops, but in the end the British army was able to successfully withdraw to Rangoon, a total of less than 3,000. The rest were either killed or captured.

When Charles learned the result of the Battle of Prome, he angrily flipped the table and scolded Major General White for being incompetent, and more than 20,000 people attacked a small Prome and actually hit such a result, isn't this stupider than a pig? When did the British Empire's army become so weak? No matter how much Charles resented White in his heart, it was no longer useful at this time. The tide of the war had taken a turn for the worse, the main force of the British army in Prome had been basically wiped out, and the British army attacking Donghu had been unable to open the situation for a long time, and the opening of the northward passage had become a luxury, and the isolated defenders of Mandalay would soon be completely annihilated under the siege of the Chinese army. Charles, who had countless thoughts in his heart, clearly knew that now was not the time for unwarranted accusations, and his first thing to do was to successfully hold Rangoon under the imminent thunderous attack of the Chinese army.

At this moment, there is only one brigade of more than 5,000 people guarding Yangon, plus the remnants of the army that have been withdrawn from Prome one after another, there are only 8,000 people. In order to keep Rangoon, when the defeat of the battle had become almost inevitable, Charles, the commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Burmese army, then sent an urgent telegram to the country requesting reinforcements to enter Burma after ordering the two divisions attacking Donghu to withdraw south to Bago. The British Empire must not lose Rangoon.

The victory in northern Burma boosted the morale of the Chinese troops entering Burma, and the successive victories stimulated the officers and men of various units to take the plunge. Almost at the same time as the victory in the Battle of Prome, the 1st and 6th Divisions of the Northern Front advanced out of Homarin, echoing the 11th Division in the Hugang Valley, and Chen Bing threatened the Great Plains of India on the Indo-Burmese border; After capturing Mandalay, the 2nd and 10th Divisions of the Central Line swept through the surrounding areas. On the southern front, in addition to the 3rd Division stationed in Prome, the 4th and 12th Divisions were stationed in the east, and the main force began to expand in the direction of the pier to carry out offensive defense against the British troops in the direction of Bago and Rangoon. On the same day, the Seventh Division, which had been resting in southern Tibet for more than a month, also officially crossed the border line and arrived at Darjeeling.

After two battles, the main force of the entire British Empire in South Asia has lost more than half. Chinese troops swept across Burma, making the British Empire's ruling power here weaker than ever.