Colonel Sicus is a native Scotsman, and the typical characteristics of the Scots are poor and stinky. But seeing the overwhelming number of fighters, and then looking at those Sikh soldiers who were not possessed by the soul, Colonel Sikus had no heart to play arrogantly, and his first reaction was to put up a white flag and surrender.

Seeing that the commanders were waving white flags, the Sikhs searched everywhere for everything white, taking off their sheets, towels and even white trousers, and shaking them at the sky with their rifles.

3,000 people waved white flags on the beach, and the scene was spectacular. Eager pilots circled the air several times, shooting the hapless ones who tried to hide in the bushes.

A snow-white parachute floated down from a two-seater plane and staggered down. A young second lieutenant officer landed on the ground, cut the rope with a paratrooper knife, walked straight to the British camp, glanced contemptuously at the Sikhs with curry-smelling faces and beards, and then asked in fluent English, "Who is the commander here?" ”

Colonel Sikus tidied up his military uniform, and accompanied by the two adjutants, he walked up to the second lieutenant with a kick, and after bowing respectfully, he held his saber in both hands: "Colonel Sikus of the British Empire in Weihaiwei, surrender to you!" Please ensure the safety of the lives of all our officers and soldiers in accordance with the "Neiva Convention" and treat prisoners of war humanely in accordance with the provisions of the Convention! ”

The second lieutenant did not take his saber, but politely returned the military salute, and said with a proud smile: "I am Lu Fei, the second lieutenant pilot of the first regiment of the first division of the Chinese Air Force, we still have combat missions now, and we have no time to capture you for the time being, please put your weapons and war horses here, and walk west along the official road on foot, our follow-up infantry and cavalry will accept your surrender!" You will be treated humanely! ”

Sikus wanted to jump into the sea and drown, but he didn't even have the time to take prisoners if he wanted to surrender??? Don't bring such a bully!

Lu Fei continued: "Leave a few officers and baggage soldiers here to guard the weapons and war horses, waiting for our army to receive them, I will stay here to cooperate with the reception work!" ”

Lu Fei had always used English, which most of the Sikh officers could understand, and they translated Lu Fei's words into the local vernacular, and the Sikh soldiers happily followed the officers of their tribe westward.

Colonel Sikus now not only wants to jump into the sea, but also wants the planes hovering in the sky to drop a few more bombs and blow up these embarrassing guys!

But the crowd was furious, and Colonel Sikus could only obey the advice of the soldiers very openly. Military bands beat marching drums as they escorted Indian Sikh soldiers who had discarded their weapons and horses to the west for the final surrender ceremony. The Sikhs were elated, as if triumphant.

Lu Fei was obviously a little dissatisfied, and he said coldly: "Colonel, after your army lost the battle, did it never collect the corpses of soldiers and treat the wounded?" ”

Colonel Sikus's big white face suddenly turned red, in the eyes of the white lords of their colonies, the local indigenous soldiers are consumables, and if they die a batch, they will recruit a batch, if it is a Gurkha soldier or a Huayong battalion who can fight well, the situation will be better, as for the Indian Sikh soldiers, they are purely cannon fodder that consumes the enemy's firepower.

Lu Fei looked at the corpses all over the ground and the wounded soldiers wailing in a pool of blood, and sneered: "Your Excellency, Colonel, I think I have understood, why your soldiers' combat effectiveness is so poor!" ”

Lu Fei also finally understood why the vulnerable Chinese [***] people in the late Qing Dynasty, under the leadership of Chai Dongliang, could beat the foreign soldiers who were once regarded as tigers and wolves to cry their fathers and mothers. Not to mention that they came in fighter planes today, even if they had an old-fashioned rifle in their hands, it would definitely not be a problem to destroy the British army composed of Indian Sikhs in front of them.

Lu Fei originally had a lot of contempt for the Sikhs, most of the officers of the Jianghuai Army had trained with Chai Dongliang's Gurkha Guards, and the captain of the guard, Suopan, had served as the commander of the British Ser Battalion, which had distinguished himself in battle. In that year, 8,000 Indian Sikh soldiers rebelled, and they were beaten by the 400-strong Semur battalion.

And it is precisely these waste Sikh soldiers, in the Gengzi National Revolution 14 years ago, who beat more than 100,000 Qing guards armed to the teeth with Mauser, Manlisha, and Krupp cannons. Not to mention the more than 100,000 Boxers in Yanjing City, before they saw what the foreign soldiers looked like, they threw away their red belly pockets and hung crosses around their necks, and they were busy changing the court!

It's not that the enemy is too strong, it's that we're too weak!

Lu Fei remembered an allusion that the instructor had told him when he was in the military academy, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu Shan Yu sent Zuogu Liwang to lead 20,000 troops to besiege Jinpucheng in the Western Regions, and hundreds of Han troops were besieged by the Xiongnu army for more than half a year. The Xiongnu also admired their bravery very much, but the defenders disdained the temptation of the Huns to become kings, and killed the Xiongnu envoys who came to persuade them to surrender, in order to show their belief in never surrendering, and the soldiers feasted on the enemy's flesh and blood in the terrified eyes of the enemy under the city!

Hundreds of years later, there was a great hero who celebrated the pride of his ancestors in his verses: Ambition to eat Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Hun blood!

The defenders all have a belief in their hearts, the Han will not give up on us, and the reinforcements will definitely arrive!

It was such a strong belief that supported them to repel the tidal attack of the Huns, even if they boiled and ate all the animal tendons on the bowstring, they insisted on resisting. When Chang'an received the news that Jinpucheng was besieged, it was already half a year later. At this time, no one knew whether Jinpucheng had been breached, and no one knew whether there were still living Han troops in Jinpucheng. Even so, the Han still sent a large army to the rescue, and when there were only twenty-six defenders left in the city, the reinforcements sent by distant Chang'an finally braved the wind and snow and stepped on quicksand to reach the foot of Jinpu City.

When this brave and fearless defender returned to Yumen Pass, there were only thirteen people left, and the loss of reinforcements was far more than dozens of times this number, and the consumption of materials was innumerable.

When these thirteen warriors returned to the pass, the guards of Yumen Pass personally bathed and changed the clothes of these ordinary soldiers who were already insincere and benevolent, expressing their highest respect for the heroes.

My big man, it is precisely because of this spirit of not giving up every soldier that he can have the majesty of Hu Lu to the ground. It is precisely with the firm belief that the motherland will not give up on us that the soldiers of our Han Dynasty can have the determination to fight that is stronger than the iron stone.

It is precisely because of this that our nation uses the word "Han" as the eternal title of the nation! Even if the dynasty changes, even if the dust is all over the sky, the descendants of China will always be the descendants of the Han Dynasty! The Chinese's eternal honorific title for hot-blooded men is two words: Hanzi!

If there is no ambition to expand the territory, it is impossible for the Han Iron Cavalry to break through Loulan, it is impossible to extort Shi Yanran, and it is impossible to leave all the land suitable for human survival in East Asia to future generations.

It's just that the rulers of thousands of years have used all kinds of despicable means such as "strong kings and weak people" and "annihilating the good people" to gradually cool the blood on the chests of Chinese men into ice, let them live in nests, let them live all their lives, let them kill each other, let them distrust each other, and turn this great nation into a soulless walking corpse!

The attitude of the British towards the Sikh soldiers made Lu Fei understand why the first clause in the military regulations of the Jianghuai Army was that he was never allowed to give up the wounded comrades and the corpses of the soldiers who died in battle, and also made him understand why the punishment for not saving the death in the military regulations was so severe. He also understood the meaning of the school motto inscribed by Chai Dongliang in the military academy: Love the soldiers and the people is the most powerful national defense!

The state of parents will never abandon their children, and their children will never abandon the motherland!

At this moment, Lu Fei's chest was filled with pride, until the plane hovering in the air flew straight over Qingdao, and when he was left alone in the huge British barracks in Li Village, he did not have the slightest fear.

He believes that the current motherland will not let him fight alone! Behind him are hundreds of thousands of Jianghuai troops, and there are 40,000 compatriots as his strong backing!

On the contrary, the more than 100 officers of the British army who stayed behind to guard the camp cowered and did not dare to look directly into Lu Fei's eyes, their blue eyes only contained fear of unknown fate.

??? Dividing line ???

Kuang Haishan, as the commander, actually led the troops to the front line in person, and he only had a rapid reaction division at his disposal, 12,000 people, plus the 6,000 merchant police corps that arrived in advance. And the army he will face is 60,000 people, including the most well-equipped Guards Division and the most ferocious Kumamoto Division, and the military attaches of various countries who accompanied him to watch the battle all sweated for him.

However, Kuang Haishan did not have the slightest worry at all, these 12,000 people were the descendants of the Jianghuai army, who followed him on an expedition to Mongolia, and later followed Gu Nanshan to fight the Hiroshima Division, and eliminated the Mitarai Brigade of the Kumamoto Division at Dagukou.

500 trucks carrying a large amount of military supplies, towing hundreds of artillery pieces of large and small calibers, and there was also a flight division in the sky with 85 planes to help, as well as 20 "Land Cruisers" of an armored battalion secretly transferred. Moreover, there are 40,000 follow-up troops who are taking the train to the front line for reinforcements.

As soon as the army arrived in Gaomi County, the reconnaissance plane in front sent back a telegram that the main force of the Yue army had been discovered in Liuting Town, which was less than 10 miles away from Gaomi County, and at the same time, there were trenches and other fortifications built by the Yue army.

Kuang Haishan ordered the troops to start assembling, and within a few minutes, he saw several two-wing, two-seater wooden planes flying from the direction of Jimo.

The soldiers of the Jianghuai Army immediately set up their machine guns, pulled out the pins and changed them to an anti-aircraft state, and before they could open fire, they saw the semi-metal planes of the air force passing overhead, and the evil eagles swooped downward.

The semi-metallic "Huaxia-style" against those gasoline-engine-driven copycat versions, whether it is maneuvering or speed, is not a star and a half, those planes painted with sharks, tigers, and yakshas, surrounded by the military fighters are a strafing shot, and the slow military planes are too late to escape, one by one into burning fireballs, tumbling and falling from the sky.

It really deserves the reputation of "lighter", just a dozen!

After killing the planes of the Yue Army, the fighters of the 1st Air Force Division were divided into two routes, and a small part flew to the Jimo Airport of the Yue Army to beat the water dogs, and most of them went straight to Liuting Town.

"Speed up the march and arrive at Liuting Town in half an hour!" Kuang Haishan gave an order expressionlessly.

Half an hour later, a rapid force of trucks and cavalry arrived at Liuting Town, and several trenches appeared in front of them, and the trenches stretched from Aoshan Town in the southwest to the northeast, and on both sides reached the sea.

Kuang Haishan and the military attachés watching the battle were stunned at the same time, isn't this a trench war that the Europeans have a headache for? When did Xiao Yueben also learn this hand?

This trick was really not learned from the Europeans, in the Russo-Russian War, the two sides once built trenches dozens of kilometers long. General Yoshiko Akiyama used machine guns, artillery, and barbed wire to beat the Russian Cossacks into historical terms, and 8,000 men defeated 100,000 Cossacks, which made him famous in one fell swoop.

In order to cope with the Chinese participation in the war, General Akiyama Yoshigu simply took medicine according to the prescription and built this 50-kilometer-long trench, and at the same time deployed 20,000 elite Yue army defense. The commander of this line was the famous Lieutenant General Genjiro Akashi.

General Akiyama Haogu can be described as well-intentioned, and he does not dare to underestimate the Jianghuai army that once defeated the Yue army at Dagukou.

It was clear that this trench had just been hit by an air raid, and the deer barricades and horses on the frontal position were blown to pieces, and the barbed wire fence was also blown into a tangled group. But Kwong Haishan is well aware that the seemingly shattered positions of the Yue army have not been seriously damaged, and the entangled barbed wire fences will be more difficult to climb.

The air raid did not cause fatal damage to the positions of the Japanese army!

In the more than three years of training of the Jianghuai Army, trench warfare defense and attacking the enemy's trenches are the most important topics, and all officers are very familiar with trench warfare.

Kuang Haishan released the observation balloon, and the artillery aiming balloon on the position of the Yue army was also raised at the same time, and when he saw the balloon of the Yue army, the fighters of the 1st Air Force Division hovering in the air were like eagles that had found sparrows, and they rushed to surround it, and in a moment they turned the poor balloon into a sieve, and the head of the observer of the Yue army in the hanging basket was even more smashed into a colander.

The observers in the balloon reported in detail on the firepower and personnel of the Japanese army with telephone lines connected to the ground, and the Japanese army became blind and deaf.

The staff officers around Kuang Haishan quickly sketched out a sketch based on the observer's report. After Kuang Haishan looked at it, he ordered the artillery to prepare.

"Knock knock!"

The 75 mountain artillery began to fire, and the army position was filled with smoke and dust.

"Boom!"

One hundred and twenty mm cannons and howitzers began to fire, and the earth began to tremble with a deafening sound and a shock wave of explosions.

Hundreds of artillery pieces of large and small calibers repeatedly plowed several times on the positions of the Japanese army, and the machine gun forts of the Japanese army were blown up, and the deer barricades and horse rejection were turned into pieces of broken wood.

The Yue army blindly fired back with artillery, but there was no artillery aiming balloon to guide the direction, and the artillery fire of the Yue army looked messy and fragmented.

Under the cover of mountain artillery and heavy artillery, the mortars advanced. The howitzers of 50 to 120 mm caliber made a muffled sound of "swallowing," and one shell after another cut a curved trajectory in the sky, and fell into the trenches, killing and wounding a large number of the Japanese troops who were huddled into a ball. The Japanese army, who had escaped heavy artillery attacks by hiding in the trenches, scurried around in the trenches like hornets without kings, often huddled into lumps, and a single mortar shell could kill more than 10 people.

After half an hour of shelling, the artillery fire of the Jianghuai army finally stopped, and the position of the army was already as unsightly as dysentery. The military attachés of those countries who watched the battle were dizzy and their ears were ringing, and they couldn't hear the sound outside for a long time.

With hundreds of artillery pieces and more than 300 mortars in just one division, the Jianghuai Army's firepower was so fierce that the military attachés of various countries watching the battle were astonished, and at the same time, the mortars of the Jianghuai Army also attracted their attention. This mortar fires very frequently, and the caliber is also from 50 mm to 120 mm, and at the same time it is quite simple and flexible. Much better than the mortars that are now commonly used on the battlefields of Europe.

After the artillery attack, the air force threw a bunch of large and small aerial bombs on the positions of the Yue army, destroying the Yue army again.

Telephone reports from observers on the gun-aiming balloons said that most of the trenches had been destroyed and that the infantry could already make a surprise attack.

Kwong Haishan was dismissive of the trenches built by the Yue army, which were just a ditch and a breast wall made of excavated earth. Compared with the kind of inner walls reinforced with planks and sleepers during the training of the Jianghuai Army, as well as the anti-artillery pits built of reinforced concrete, and the individual soldier holes deliberately dug into the shape of cat ears, it can be said to be extremely simple.

He saw it well, and the trenches he built were indeed not comparable with the European powers on the Marne River defense line, nor with the trenches used by the Jianghuai army for peacetime training, and the biggest shortcoming of the army trenches was the lack of reinforced concrete machine gun forts and artillery positions, and the protection of heavy weapons was quite insufficient.

But this can't be blamed on the incompetence of General Akiyama, it is really caused by the lack of domestic transportation capacity. It is said that it is an island country, and maritime transportation is the lifeline, but the total capacity of the whole country is only 900,000 tons, and it is already very good to be able to transport these 60,000 people and equipment to the Jiaodong Peninsula. He was not rich enough to be in the British Empire, and even coffee and cigars were shipped from Brazil and Cuba to the French front.

Reinforced concrete can't be said to have been unlucky, but it has other uses, the current defense line is only the front of the two lines of defense built by the army, and there is no luxury in building materials to build trenches, and a ditch to avoid air raids is good!

In Kuang Haishan's eyes, his defense line is not only not strong enough, but also not wide enough, but long enough. There is no deep enough defense line, and once a little bit is breached, the whole line will collapse!

It seems that Xiao Yueben is nothing more than that, Kuang Haishan originally planned to take a short rest, wait for the follow-up troops to transport the "land battleship" over, and by the way, let the armored battalion appear to open the eyes of those military attachés watching the battle, and come to the on-site arms sales conference, but now it seems that there is no need for this.

Good steel is used on the blade, and the good show should also be put behind, and it can't be ** as soon as the gong is opened, anyway, the result of the air force's reconnaissance is Beiling Mountain, ten kilometers to the east, and the second line of defense built by the army.

Kuang Haishan felt a little bored, Xiao Yueben's trench was too unbombed, he waved his hand, and said calmly: "The infantry attack, quickly destroy the remnants of the enemy!" ”

(To be continued)