Two whole days!

For the thousands of British defenders inside the St. Sumarie Fortress, they have been tormented, so to speak, from mental to psychological. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info for them to come, saying that the past two days have been perhaps the hardest days of their lives. The reason why it is difficult is not because of the war, but because of the constant harassment of the Chinese.

Two days ago, after the Chinese occupied the outer positions of this fortress. The Chinese offensive tended to ease, they did not continue the attack, but this did not mean that it was easy, and the next nightmare for the British soldiers was just beginning.

For two days, the Chinese would fire artillery at the fortress every half hour, and their shells might not be able to do much damage to the fortress. However, the loud noise of the explosion had a serious impact on these British soldiers.

Whenever they want to fall asleep. Shells would explode above their heads, and the loud explosion would wake them up from their sleep. On the battlefield, this is perhaps the norm.

At first, a lot of people didn't think it was anything. For these British soldiers, they seemed to be able to understand why they did what they did. It's just war.

But soon, the British soldiers in the fortress discovered that the purpose of the Chinese was not to attack at all, and the reason why they kept shelling the fortress was to make it impossible for the people in the fortress to sleep peacefully.

From that time on, shells would continue to fall into the fortress, waking the British soldiers from their sleep again and again.

Even they can barely sleep. But the sound of the shells exploding caused them to fall into a nervous breakdown, and the shelling continued for two whole days. For the British soldiers, it may not have taken many lives, but most of the British soldiers are constantly fighting against exhaustion.

Slowly, they seemed to be able to adjust to the explosions. Accustomed to the shelling of the Chinese, it seemed that they could sleep peacefully, but just when they were just adapting, smoke bombs once again fell in the fortress, which was a smoke bomb containing chili peppers, and the fortress was immediately shrouded in choking pepper smoke, compared to ordinary shells, perhaps the sound of this shell is not loud, but the choking smoke is enough to wake the deepest people from their sleep.

What's even more irritating is that the Chinese will always try to attack, although most of their attacks are tentative, but no one dares to take it lightly, everyone knows what the result will be if they take it lightly, which is likely to lead to the fall of the fortress.

For the British defenders guarding the fortress, in the face of such an attack, they had no choice but to deal with it exhausted and deal with all this.

One day, two days......

For the British, during these two days they no longer seemed fit to fight the Chinese, but to fight themselves.

With sleep, with exhaustion, with their own energy in a tug-of-war that has never been seen before.

As the commander of the British army guarding the fortress, Chamberlain didn't care about all this, compared to the mental exhaustion caused by most soldiers not being able to sleep peacefully. He had been anxiously waiting for reinforcements, for the legendary reinforcements, which now seemed to have become a kind of legend.

But the legend is promising, and it will arrive soon!

Only reinforcements can fundamentally solve the problem, and even in Chamberlain's view, the reason why the Chinese harassed the defenders of the fortress in various ways and even in a thousand ways can be said to be bizarre. This shows that they have no way to attack the fortress, let alone conquer it.

What does it take to storm a fortress?

Large-caliber artillery is needed first!

And this is precisely what the Chinese do not have, according to the intelligence that Chamberlain had about the Chinese army. The Chinese army was not an elite unit sent from China itself, but a group of Rocky Mountain lumberjacks and a handful of Chinese officers. The forces of such improvised formations are not taken seriously in China. They did not have heavy artillery, which meant that it was impossible for them to storm the fortress.

For example, there is also the possibility that they will dig tunnels and plant explosives in the tunnels, God knows, this is a more devastating attack, but luckily the fortress was built on the bank of the river, and the water table in this area is extremely shallow, and if you dig three feet deep, you will see the groundwater, and even the trenches can only be dug two feet deep, so he doesn't need to think about the tunnels at all.

But who can guarantee that the Chinese will not resort to a strong attack? After all, China has a constant stream of manpower! There is only one way to break the impasse in front of you, and that is reinforcements!

"Reinforcements! All we need now is reinforcements! As long as his reinforcements can come. We will not only be able to hold here, but we will also be able to defeat the Chinese here. Thus successfully defending the Canadian province ......"

At the time of saying this, Chamberlain did not have much confidence, he knew that the current Canadian province, the crisis was only just beginning, with the attack of the Chinese army, the Lower Canada region, inhabited by a large number of French immigrants, could break out at any time, just like 30 years ago.

The only thing that can be thankful is that it was not the French who attacked Canada. If it had been the French, I am afraid that there would have already been a riot there.

"I don't know when this nightmare will end, damn the Chinese guys!".

Chamberlain cursed those Chinese in his heart. In his opinion, it was these Chinese who took away his land in Ireland, and now these Chinese want to take away his honor.

If the Chinese occupy this fortress. Then all his honors will cease to exist. So at this time, Chamberlain pinned all his hopes on reinforcements led by General Jason.

"Yes, sir, as long as the reinforcements led by General Jason arrive here, then the outcome of the war will be fundamentally changed, and we can completely defeat the Chinese here and thus defend Canada."

Well, for everyone, it seems, the reinforcements led by Jason have become their last hope and the last straw.

In fact, this is precisely a kind of hope for people in a desperate situation, and only when they are in a desperate situation, they will be so longing, longing for a life-saving straw that can save them. And willing to pin all hope on this life-saving straw.

But what they don't know is. Just a few hours earlier, Jason, the major general leading the reinforcements they had hoped for, had stopped where he was ordered to be, waiting for further orders.

As for the rescue of the British troops in the fortress of St. Sumary, on the contrary, it became a secondary task, for them it was all over.

Because, Jason has already received a clear order.

Stand in place, awaiting further orders.

Faced with this order, Jason was very confused, but he still chose to obey, as an officer, he must obey the orders of his superiors. Even this command is incomprehensible.

While he was waiting, the British troops, who were struggling to hold on to the fortress of St. Sumary, suddenly found that their telegraph lines were once again open.

After the battle began, the telegraph line of the fortress was cut off. If it weren't for the telegraph operator's routine maintenance of the telegraph machine, perhaps they would not have noticed that the telegraph line was back open.

Subsequently, they received a telegram from Toronto.

"Surrender!"

Faced with the order given by Toronto, Chamberlain was stunned. He had been waiting for the distant army, but he didn't expect that what he was waiting for was such an order.

General Hank of Toronto ordered him to surrender like the Chinese army. As for General Hango himself...... They have already surrendered to the Chinese army.

"This can't be, how could the Chinese get to Toronto? It's simply impossible......"

Almost instinctively, Chamberlain could not even believe that the telegram was real, and he even thought that it was a false telegram sent to him by the Chinese, as for where they got the code. I'm afraid only God knows.

Chinese in Toronto? And already occupied there! Even General Hank has already signed a surrender agreement. And ordered the British troops throughout the Canadian provinces to stop resisting, like the Chinese army surrendered.

How is this possible?

The Chinese are obviously in front of his eyes, how can they appear in Toronto. Even if they had appeared in Toronto, General Hank would not have surrendered so quickly.

But what followed was completely beyond his imagination.

When Chamberlain chose to ignore this order. New telegrams were constantly coming down to the fortress, and everything turned out to be indeed a telegram from the British command in Toronto, and even specifically reminded them.

"The surrender agreement has been signed, and they will be treated in accordance with their rank after surrender. and personal property can be retained. ”

They were even specifically told that "within four months of the end of the war, they will be released and go home!" Of course, there is a premise for this. That is, they cannot do anything to break the surrender agreement.

"Sir, it seems that this is really an order from Toronto."

Whether, again, after sending a telegram like Toronto asking if the previous order was true, everyone looked at the colonel when they were severely reprimanded by the Toronto side and asked Chamberlain to obey the order.

They were well aware of the colonel's hostility to the Chinese, and of course they were more afraid, because the colonel's selfishness led to the destruction of the surrender agreement.

They feared that they would personally be mistreated in prisoner-of-war camps if the surrender agreement that General Hank had fought for was broken, and that their private property would be confiscated.

"Sir, this is a direct order from General Hank!"

An officer looked at Chamberlain and said solemnly.

"Now we have to obey orders."

The officers looked at Chamberlain and even hesitated to send a telegram like Toronto, asking if their commander refused to obey orders. For them, there is no other choice for what they should do, and I am afraid that there will only be one choice at that time, which is to remove Chamberlain from command.

"Well, gentlemen......"

After repeatedly confirming the authenticity of this order, even though his heart was full of all kinds of hostility towards the Chinese, Chamberlain did not lose his mind because of his selfishness, as others imagined.

"We fought valiantly for Britain, we fought hard, and now we ......"

Chamberlain looked at the officers in the command post, and his tone was a little low.

"According to the general's order, we will surrender to the Chinese. The war is over for us, and I want each and every one of you to know that in this war we are all worthy of our duty. ”

Is it really worthy of one's duty?

In Chamberlain, it seems that everything she has is obedience to orders. Even this order was an order for him to open the gates of the fortress. He was ordered to surrender to the Chinese while he was still able to fight.

This is not unacceptable! Command...... It's the order.

In the afternoon of the same day, five hours after Chamberlain received the first telegram, the British flag on the fortress of St. Sumarie was lowered, followed by a white flag.

There seemed to be a sigh of relief in that strange look, but it seemed to be a little unwilling, and the reason why he was relieved was because he didn't need to worry about continuing to resist here, and he didn't need to worry about the fact that he had exposed that the 167th Division had no poisonous gas.

Poison gas is nothing more than a deterrent. But without a dominant position on the battlefield, no matter how lethal the poison gas is, it will not be able to achieve a decisive effect. Li Yumin was looking for excuses for himself in his heart, but there was always some regret in his eyes.

This regret was due to the fact that he saw the end of the war.

Now that the entire Canadian province has surrendered, there is no suspense in the war in British North America, and how long will the British resistance in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia last? Even if they choose to resist, the end is already doomed, there will be no more fierce battles, so to speak, now that the British rule in North America is over, British North America ...... From today onwards, it can be called "Chinese North America".

"Sir......

When Li Yumin lamented the end of the war, a young captain next to him also said with some regret.

"Looks like the war is over, sir, what are we going to do if this battle is over? Disarmament and reintegration? Or ......"

The Captain looked south, where there was much more expansive and fertile land.

"Don't be cranky, the British are coming......"

Interrupting his subordinates' thoughts, Li Yumin looked in the direction of the fortress, and the first thing that caught his eye was a white flag......

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