"It's getting worse and worse!"

Maldeshi worriedly reported to Yang Muqi: "The 1st Artillery Corps of the Japanese North Island and the 38th Mountain Artillery Wing have been deployed in Bao'an County, which is adjacent to the border, and can launch a large-scale artillery bombardment of the positions of our garrison at any time.......

"Your Excellency, do you think I did not ask for a request from Your Excellency the Prime Minister?"

Yang Muqi said depressedly: "But now, the domestic front against Germany has been defeated one after another, and the French have surrendered to the Germans, where are there too many troops and resources to support us?" The Canadian brigade that came in a while ago was all a ...... that I managed to win for us."

"The Canadian brigade is poorly trained, poorly equipped, and has no combat capability at all!" Mardeshi said.

"It's better than nothing, isn't it? At least 2,000 people! Yang Muqi comforted.

Mardeshi didn't speak, for him, if there were no fighting troops, it was better to have them than not, because if the war broke out and these people collapsed, it might cause the entire defense line to collapse.

"Our defense line of Drunken Bay is extremely stable, even if the Japanese army attacks, even if we can't hold Hong Kong, we can always do it to gain time to evacuate, anyway, this Hong Kong is not the inherent territory of our British Empire, even if it is occupied by the Japanese, there is nothing!"

Yang Muqi said: "Besides, isn't there still a long way to go on Lantau Island?" I heard that recently, a large number of unidentified people have entered Lantau Island, and it is estimated that the troops secretly sent by that guy from Lu Yuan are not afraid, so what are we afraid of? ”

"Lu Yuan's bastard, wolf ambition, we can't trust him!"

As soon as Lu Yuan was mentioned, Maldeshi was furious and said: "While cooperating with us, he colluded with the Germans to exchange penicillin for submarines, this person is simply shameless to the extreme-I suspect that this guy secretly sent people over for reinforcements at this time, I'm afraid it's not just to help us defend Hong Kong, this guy may want to take advantage of our fight with the Japanese army and reap the benefits!" ”

"Not really...... Yang Muqi said.

"Sir, don't you know best about this guy's insidious cunning?" Mardeshi said.

“…… So what do you say? ”

Yang Muqi was depressed, although he hadn't seen Lu Yuan yet, but through the representatives Luo Qinghu and President Chen sent by Lu Yuan, he had already suffered a lot of secret losses.

"It's already difficult to deal with the Japanese army, and now we have to watch out for people on the far side of Lantau Island......"

"We must prepare in advance and transfer supplies in advance, so as not to organize an evacuation when the time comes for the war!" ”

Yang Muqi thought about it, nodded and went to the chief of staff Berwaltz and the brigade commander Vales on the side to prepare, load all the goods to be transferred, if it is not enough, you can requisition merchant ships, and you must leave Hong Kong before seven days.

At the same time, Admiral Gollinson's navy should also be ready for combat and transfer at any time, and once the war starts, let the British family members board the ship and leave Hong Kong as soon as possible.

"Major General Mardeshi, when do you think the Japanese attack on Hong Kong will happen at the earliest? Did the Japanese army really prepare 10,000 or 20,000 elite troops in Nantou and Luohu to attack us? ”

Yang Muqi asked again: "According to intelligence, the troops assembled by the Japanese army in Bao'an County are all prepared for the attack on the area of Kunming in Yunnan!" ”

"The Japanese are extremely deceitful, they say that the troops assembled in Bao'an County are to attack Kunming, which is absolutely not credible, but one or two hundred thousand people, it should be an exaggeration - the Japanese often love to exaggerate their strength!"

Mardeshi said: "Looking at the operational preparations of the Japanese army, although the time of the attack is uncertain, it should be within two or three months - after all, attacking Hong Kong is equivalent to declaring war with our British Empire and our allies ...... Americans."

"That's good!"

Hearing this, Yang Muqi breathed a long sigh of relief, there were still a few months, enough for him to arrange a lot of things.

But they didn't know that in a few days, the nightmare of war would envelop the entire island of Hong Kong!

In the next few days, the port was full of people and extremely busy.

Countless supplies, especially those looted in the colonies, were loaded onto ships under the escort of the British, waiting to be transported to the port of Manila and then transferred back to the empire.

The U.S. gunboat Mindanao also stopped in the harbor, and the U.S. troops on the ship saw the shipload of supplies, their eyes were red, and they said in their hearts how many benefits these British have reaped in the Far East, if one day in the future, the power of the empire can take root in the Far East, so many materials will definitely enable the empire to grow rapidly, surpass the British, and become the new leader of the world!

Inside the ship, Captain Gabri was receiving the British commander, Major Mardeshi.

"Captain Gabby, the situation is critical, I hope you must help!"

Mardeshi pleaded: "There are too many supplies in the warehouses on Hong Kong Island, if you don't help, our army will not be able to transport them in a short time, and there will be a large amount of military supplies, if they fall into the hands of the Japanese, it will be a huge disaster for us and for China......

"Your Excellency Major, it's not that I don't want to help you, but I really can't help!"

Gabry said: "My Mindanao is a gunboat, responsible for combat missions, not a transport ship, and although our two countries are allies, but I have no right to help this kind of help, if necessary, please contact my superior, if the superiority orders me to help, I will not shirk!" ”

Mardeshi snorted, and said in his heart, when is this coming, and let me go to your upper peak to give you an order? When the order comes down, it is estimated that it will be next year!

However, although there was a fire in his heart, Mardeshi also understood that the reason for Gabri's refusal was high-sounding, so he could only say: "Since Your Excellency the Captain is so embarrassed, then I won't trouble you, but Your Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong has ordered that all merchant ships must evacuate Hong Kong in two days, and I hope Your Excellency will leave on time at that time!" ”

"This is natural!"

Gabby said with a smile: "Our ship is just taking a short rest here, adding some fresh water and food supplies, and we must leave as soon as possible......"

Now Hong Kong is like a hornet's nest that may explode at any time, and Gabby just didn't say directly, even if you beg us not to leave, we must leave as soon as possible, not to mention that it is equivalent to driving us away now!

It's just that in Hong Kong now, because of the intensification of the war atmosphere, the rush of buying has already spread everywhere, and the supplies on the ship are not so quickly replenished, otherwise they may have already left.

(End of chapter)