Today is only the third day, and it will take three days for reinforcements to arrive, and Huang Yuying is considering whether it is time to use artillery. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He never used artillery, that is, he intended to stay in the final stage.

"Order the third battalion, abandon the first line of defense and retreat into the second line of positions."

"Order the artillery, aim at the forward positions of the third battalion, and prepare for the opening of the artillery."

"Order Political Commissar Chen Zhenhui to organize all the staff officers and political workers of the regiment headquarters into a team."

"Order the second and third companies of the first battalion of the seventh regiment to prepare and follow me to the north of the city."

Huang Yuying didn't care about Zheng Junlin's sacrifice, but after thinking for a while, he quickly issued a series of orders, and he asked for these orders to be executed quickly. The madness of the British army today was completely beyond Huang Yuying's imagination, and it made him feel overwhelmed at the moment.

"Zihe, let's lead the team to the north of the city, you are the regiment commander, and you have to command the operation of the whole regiment."

Without waiting for Huang Yuying to nod in agreement, Chief of Staff Wei Guangqi turned around and left the headquarters quickly. Wei Guangqi is also observing the enemy's situation, he is well aware of the current treacherous battle situation in the north of the city, the British army invested three battalions to continuously impact the position of the third battalion, almost all the seven companies were killed, the British army continued to attack the second line position, Zheng Junlin led the eighth company to resist desperately, and fortunately, the instructor of the third battalion led the remnants of the ninth company to reinforce in time to drive the British out of the position, and the third battalion commander Zheng Junlin also fell on the blood-stained position.

At this moment, the British army, Brigadier General Abt, who took the lead in making a breakthrough, finally showed a rare smile, although he was driven out by the Chinese army when attacking the second-line position, but this did not affect the brigadier general's good mood at all. In the battle just now, he had clearly seen the weakness of the defenders, and if there were two more charges, perhaps as long as there was one more charge, he could defeat these hateful Chinese.

Heavy artillery fire smashed on the second-line positions of the 3rd Battalion, and the explosion stirred up puffs of smoke. With the idea of a thunderous blow, Abt not only smashed the few remaining shells, but also deployed two battalions of attack troops in the front. As soon as the artillery stopped, the two battalions of British soldiers stood up impatiently and howled and began to charge, and this time was the moment that Huang Yuying had been waiting for a long time, and the artillery that had already calibrated Zhuyuan immediately rained shells into the enemy group that was still cheering. The positions of the two battalions of British troops were densely packed and suddenly became a hell on earth, and in the roaring artillery fire was constantly flying smoke and dust, and the stumps and broken arms of the British officers and soldiers were flying everywhere. As soon as the artillery that had been holding back for a long time fired the shells excitedly, the barrels of the guns were red, and cold water was poured on them and they continued to fight, and as soon as the sound of the artillery that lasted for half an hour stopped, the officers and men of the two companies that had been secretly moving together for a long time immediately launched a counterattack under the leadership of Chief of Staff Wei Guangqi. The devastated British army was pursued out of the forward position almost completely without resistance.

Abt's face turned pale, and the moment the cannon rang out, he knew that the two battalions he had put together were finished. The Chinese were so cunning that they fought for three whole days without firing a single shot, so that they let themselves ignore the fact that the Chinese army has artillery, careless, really careless!

Abt, who had his spine broken, could no longer launch a decent attack. White's attack despite casualties made only a little progress, and the soldiers of the Eighth Regiment were covered in blood, but they still held off the British attack.

As the sun set, the earth was red again, and the battlefield that had been fighting for a day began to fall silent. The weak wind of the Irrawaddy River could not blow away the blood in the air.

In the headquarters of the British army, White handed the briefing on the battle situation of General Charles that he had just received to the three brigade commanders with gloomy faces, and said: "Gentlemen, the casualties of our division are indeed very large, but the battle situation in Burma is also not optimistic, the Pinmana area has fallen into the hands of the Chinese army, and the defenders of Mandalay are still struggling to support. Let's take a look at this first! ”

"Your Excellency, General, we have done our best!" Brigadier General Brenzi, who was silent for a long time and suffered the smallest losses, spoke first: "Today, our casualties have reached more than 500 people, and the battalion commander who participated in the attack has also been killed. From the time of the offensive to the present, the casualties of our brigade have been close to one-third. ”

"Half of our casualties have already occurred." When he said this, Carchran was extremely bitter, and the counterattack of the Chinese army caused him great losses, and now he thinks about it with annoyance and hatred.

"A third of my troops are now left." Abt's voice was a little bleak, and he bowed his head in frustration.

Now White has completely put away his previous arrogance, and he nodded with a tired expression: "General Charles has sent reinforcements from the Australian brigade, and it is estimated that he will arrive at the battlefield tomorrow afternoon." But until then, gentlemen, you must show your courage and not let the Australians look down on us. ”

Speaking of reinforcements, we have to mention General Charles, who has a fire in his belly. The White Division, which he had placed high hopes on before, besieged a small Prome with 20,000 men, and could not advance an inch for three days, which greatly puzzled Charles, and he kept sending telegrams almost every day to ask about the situation of the war, but with little success. Now that the situation of the war had deteriorated, Charles could no longer care about it, and ordered White to increase his army by a brigade and ordered him to capture Prome by a time limit.

Australian reinforcements arrived earlier than General White had expected, and after a brief rest in Rangoon, they arrived at the Prome front the next morning. The arrival of reinforcements also boosted the morale of the British troops on the front line. Major General White quickly adjusted his deployment and decided to use the Australian Brigade to attack in the north, Abt and Carchran in the east, and he still led the divisional troops and Brents to attack the south.

In the afternoon, the deployment was adjusted in place, and the British army began to attack.

"Fire!" White looked at Prome, at the place that had disgraced him and brought him countless setbacks, and coldly ordered. Today he must take Prome, he wants to see what the Chinese commander in front of him is like.

The muzzle of the cannonball spewled sharply towards the distant position, instantly covering the position with smoke and fire. The newly reinforced Australian soldiers looked excitedly at the position opposite that trembled slightly in the violent explosion, they firmly believed that there would be no living people in that land, and it would be easy to take it.

The battle began to heat up. The shelling stopped, and a wave of earthy yellow people began to rush towards the dead silent position on the opposite side, but just as the earthy yellow wave approached the position, a network of fire suddenly erupted from the position, and the hot and dazzling light made the earthy yellow crowd suffocate violently, but soon the earthy yellow crowd began to roll towards the rain of bullets again. Suddenly, there was a shout of killing, and a group of ragged Chinese soldiers began to jump out of the mutilated trench with bright bayonets, and launched a counter-charge against the earthy yellow crowd. The two crowds collided quickly and violently, countless white shining bayonets began to collide with each other, grenades exploded, the crowd was rapidly decreasing, and half an hour later the earthy yellow crowd began to retreat in disarray.

White looked coldly at the retreating troops, he knew that they would not succeed, this kind of retreat and reunion scene has been repeated and unknown in his eyes a few times. White didn't know that at this time, Huang Yuying in the city had already taken out all the strength to breastfeed.

"Order, prepare the reserves."

As the British new force launched a new charge, the position of the 1st battalion south of the city was quickly broken through. The remaining officers and men of the battalion holding here had no time to pull the trigger, and in the face of the extremely ferocious British troops who rushed to the position one after another, with a "click! "Click! The sound of the snow bayonet began to shine in the sun.

The two armies fought together again, Tao Zhen didn't remember how many times he fought hard, he was ragged but like a wolf, he rushed out of the trench not long after, three or four British soldiers fell under his bayonet, blood stained his body, Tao Zhen in the blood still unswervingly moved forward to kill. The repeated stabbing of the officers and soldiers of the first battalion began to make the British army gradually become frightened, but no one noticed in the chaotic battlefield, and a British officer smiled and pointed his gun at Tao Zhen.

Tao Zhen fell silently on the position for which he had fought bloodily, and the officers and soldiers of the first battalion fought back in grief. "Avenge the battalion commander!" The shouts resounded in the sky, and amid the roars and stabbing of the officers and soldiers, the British troops withdrew from their positions in disarray after dropping large numbers of corpses.

As soon as the fleeing British retreated, and not even half the distance, White ordered the prepared reserves to launch a new wave of offensive. The battalion, which had suffered heavy casualties, could no longer hold off the enemy's attack, and most of the casualties retreated to the second line of defense. Just when the defense line in the south of the city was broken, the British attack in the north and east of the city also arrived, and Wei Guangqi, the chief of staff, and Wei Fakui, the commander of the second battalion, fell into a bitter battle almost at the same time.

Seeing the steady stream of British troops pouring into the positions of the Chinese army, General White, who was watching the battle from the rear of the battle line, finally showed a long-lost smile on his face.