Chapter 550: Take the Queen and Run Together
Michael's tactics quickly failed, and in order to ensure that the position was not lost, he immediately ordered the artillery position to be ready. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Chinese Shence Army succeeded in luring the enemy several times in succession, and the fierce artillery fire poured down on the British positions several times, causing heavy casualties to the British troops.
"Rush!"
The 2nd Battalion of the 36th Infantry Regiment of the 9th Town launched a charge, but the British troops hid in the anti-artillery holes and hesitated, believing that this time it must still be a lure to the enemy, so they did not all of them go out to the position to defend, but only sent a dozen soldiers into the machine gun fire point to carry out the guard, and once it was not good, they immediately retreated.
As a result, this time the Chinese Shence Army really came, and seeing that it was less than twenty or thirty meters away from the position, the British army hurriedly rushed out of the anti-artillery hole and ran desperately to the position.
The British machine-gun fire opened heavy fire in an attempt to stop the Chinese Shence Army from rushing up.
Bang! Bang!
The hidden sniper fired, blowing the British machine gunner's head, and then the other British soldiers who tried to replace were killed one after another, causing the British fire point to stop instantly.
As a result, the Chinese Shence Army and the British army rushed into the position almost at the same time, and the two sides instantly launched a fierce white-knives battle.
Previously, the British army was booby-trapped by the Ninth Town Artillery Regiment several times, and the strength was significantly weakened, and the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the Shence Army who rushed up fought bravely and quickly gained the upper hand.
Seeing that the position was about to be lost, Michael, who was watching the battle from the rear, immediately made a decision and ordered an indiscriminate attack by artillery fire.
Only a man and a ruthless man can make this kind of decision, which is understandably the right choice from a military point of view, but from a human point of view, it is too cruel and ruthless.
"It is a good deal to exchange an incomplete battalion of the British Army for an elite battalion of the Chinese Empire!"
Knock knock!
Michael smiled as the cannon rang out.
Xindao: No matter how good you are like a ghost, you have to drink Lao Tzu's footwashing water.
The sudden shelling shocked the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion who attacked the British position, and the British were instantly stunned and scolded Michael for being shameless.
Boom!
When the explosion sounded, the commander of the second battalion shouted: "Hide! Watch out for shelling! ”
The officers and men of the 2nd Battalion had not encountered this situation before, and they knew very well that if it were the Shence Army itself that became weak, the commander would have issued such an order.
However, the only difference is that the Chinese Imperial Shence Army are all well-trained elites, and they are all warriors who have experienced the baptism of bullets and bullets on the battlefield and crawled out of the pile of dead.
When this happened, the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion, who were usually well-trained and experienced, jumped into the shell craters around them.
In probability theory, the probability of two shells entering a crater at the same time is 1 in 10,000 or even less. So when hit by a sudden shelling, jumping into a crater is much more surviving than staying in a position.
The British army lacked training in this area, and even the 15th Brigade, the most elite unit of the British army, garrisoned London, they had never seen this kind of battle, so they were instantly confused and did not know where to run. Some subconsciously lay down on the spot and resigned themselves to fate, while others jumped into the trenches, but they soon discovered that the coordinates of the British artillery of Nima were only the coordinates of the trenches, and most of the shells would be fired into the trenches.
In the blink of an eye, most of the British army was blown away, while the officers and men of the second battalion of the Shence Army suffered few casualties.
For a time, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese and British armies was judged.
When the British artillery rang out, Zhou Shuren on the other side of the position was also scolding the British commander for being crazy.
"Made, ruthless! Order the artillery regiment to immediately bombard the artillery positions of the British army for me! ”
The Ninth Town Artillery Regiment quickly revised the artillery bombardment, locked on the British artillery positions, and launched a counterattack.
Unexpectedly, the 15th Brigade of the British Army was indeed an elite unit, and their artillery only fired one round, and then moved the artillery position as quickly as possible, and as a result, the artillery fire of the 9th Town failed to cause losses to the British artillery.
Although the British artillery was not killed, the officers and men of the second battalion who forced the British artillery to move their positions and rushed to the British position in a short time were considered safe.
The 2nd Battalion took the opportunity to attack, cleaned up the British troops who had not been killed, and quickly took control of the position.
"Special operations platoon, touch me, find the British artillery position, and kill him for me!"
Zhou Shuren did not relax his vigilance, since the British commander could be ruthless and even kill his own people, then he would definitely do that next, so he must first kill the British artillery regiment.
At the same time, Michael also ordered the British to retreat to the second line of defense, intending to continue to stall for time.
However, there is not much time left for the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Town, and in the last ten minutes, if they can't break through Grace, then the entire Ninth Town will receive a pennant with the word "Girl" printed on it, which is really a shame for the Ninth Town, so at this moment, the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Town are red-eyed.
Knock knock!
The Ninth Town Artillery Regiment once again concentrated fire on a volley, and following the pace of the shells, the Ninth Town successively dispatched eight battalions, arranged in echelons, ready to break through the British defense line in one go.
When Michael and the British troops on the second line of defense thought that the Imperial Chinese Army was going to play the trick again, it turned out that this time the Imperial Chinese Army returned to the old tactics, only this time the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Town stepped on the cannonballs and launched a charge together.
The British army was stunned, and this kind of desperate dispatch was unbearable. Because if the British army enters the position defense, it will have to keep an eye on the danger of being blown up by shells on the head, but if it does not enter the position, then the Chinese Imperial Army will rush into the position first, and then it will not be so easy to repel the Chinese Imperial Army.
The battle is changing rapidly and does not allow the slightest hesitation.
In just a few hundred meters, with a little hesitation, the opponent rushed to the front.
"Let them rush! Come and die! Order the artillerymen to fire at me! ”
Michael snorted coldly, and was about to play a game of self-harm again, but he didn't hear his own cannon for a long time.
"Where's our artillery support?"
Michael yelled that he dropped the chain at the critical moment, which made him very angry.
"Report to the chief, we have been calling the artillery for a long time and there has been no response!"
The Signal Soldier replied anxiously.
"Bastard, you don't know how to send someone to take a look!"
Michael was angry, so the signal soldier lay down his gun.
After a while, the signal soldier ran back panting and reported.
"Sir, no, the artillery positions are empty, they're all gone!"
"Nima!"
Michael instantly felt dizzy, his blood was rolling, and he felt the urge to vomit blood.
It turned out that just now, the special operations platoon of the ninth town directly touched the artillery position of the British army, and then began to attack.
In addition to being able to shoot artillery, the British artillery was very weak in gunfighting, and it was no match for the special operations company at all, and most of them were killed and wounded in less than a few minutes, and the remaining British artillery was so frightened that they threw down the corpses of their comrades all over the ground and turned around and ran.
The special operations platoon did not blow up the British artillery positions, and deliberately did not do so, because they did not want to tell the British commander that their artillery positions were gone.
As a result, Michael, who didn't know that the artillery position was gone, had been sitting and waiting stupidly, and in just a few minutes, the Chinese Imperial Army broke through the second line of defense of the British army and went straight to the third line of defense, which is where Michael's headquarters is located.
This is the last line of defense of the 15th Brigade of the British Army, and it is very good that Michael can build three lines of defense in such a short time.
It's a pity that this third line of defense is far less solid than the first two lines of defense, the British army has lost two positions in a row at this moment, not to mention the chaos of the army, the result of the fierce battle with the Chinese Imperial Army is heavy casualties, at this moment the third line of defense is less than a battalion of troops, how to block the onslaught of more than 20,000 elite troops of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army.
At this moment, a formation of battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy sailed on the Thames River.
The fleet arrived a little late, but it also helped a lot.
The four Bingyang-class battleships no longer need to be camouflaged, and the whole world knows that the Bingyang-class battlecruisers are a disguise, which is the fast battleship of the Chinese Empire, and after properly pitting the navies of the United States and Japan, the navies of all countries in the world are terrified.
Fast battleships, taking into account the firepower and armor of battleships, but also have the speed of battlecruisers, this is the perfect combination of firepower, armor and speed, only the Chinese Imperial Navy has done it, making the whole world envious, jealous and hateful.
The four Bingyang-class battleships lined up one after another, and the 406-mm cannon slowly raised and opened fire at the maximum elevation angle, and the giant shells of more than one ton made a terrible howl in the sky, killing the British position.
Boom!
In an instant, the earth and rocks crumbled, the smoke and dust soared into the sky, and the earth shook the mountains.
The violent blast blast instantly destroyed the not-so-fortified defensive position, blowing the British troops into the air, doing a free-fall movement in various positions in the sky.
The 155 mm heavy howitzers of the Chinese Imperial Army had already made the British army feel powerless to resist, and now in the face of the 406 mm giant naval guns, the British friends instantly broke down and were scared.
Five minutes later, the third line of British positions was razed to the ground, and huge craters with a diameter of fifty or sixty meters were visible everywhere, and the sand and steel guns in the core were melted and solidified together, and as far as the eye could see, it was a scorched earth of ruins.
Michael didn't know how deep he was buried, and he felt like he had climbed at least a dozen meters before he surfaced the ground.
The air was filled with the smell of burning, and the bloody smell of severed limbs and intestines made him vomit almost instantly.
"It's over!"
When Michael opened his eyes, it was a desolation, a whole elite infantry brigade, tens of thousands of British troops, and now he couldn't hear a single panting voice.
Footsteps sounded, and Michael thought that there were still British troops alive, but it turned out that the soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army rushed up and were sweeping around.
"There's a living one here!"
"It looks like an official! You might even get a credit for bringing him back! ”
Two Divine Warriors stepped forward, one grabbed an arm, and pulled Michael out of the bunker.
As a result, the next moment, all the surrounding Shence Army soldiers were stunned.
Seeing that they were all looking at him, Michael looked down with some puzzlement, and was instantly confused.
"Fake, where's my lower body?"
Michael's lower body had already been blown off, and if he hadn't been buried in the hot sand, the melted sand stuck directly to his waist, preventing the blood from flowing and keeping Michael alive until now, he would have died a long time ago.
"Ahh Yes! ”
Michael screamed, and at this moment he felt pain, a heart-rending pain.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out, and a squad leader pulled out a gun and ended Michael's life.
"Paralyzed, it's too noisy, scare Lao Tzu!"
The squad leader blew out the white smoke from the muzzle of the gun and said unhappily.
"Squad leader, you are so merciful! If you leave my words alone, let him die a slow and painful death like this! One soldier said dissatisfied.
"That's it, the paralyzed British army almost let our ninth town lead a girl's pennant, that's a lifetime of shame!" Another soldier said angrily.
The squad leader shook his head and said with a smile: "Okay, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, and arrive in Renham in the next two hours. ”
"Understood! Don't worry, squad leader! This week, our class must still be an advanced collective, and our class has to take the mobile red flag! ”
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After getting through Grace, Zhou Shuren and Hu Shi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and they couldn't complete the task.
At the thought of being given a girl's pennant if they couldn't complete the task, both of them were so frightened that their livers fluttered.
There was still two hours of rapid march to feel Renham, but this was the strong point of the Shence army, and neither of them was worried, and immediately ordered the officers and soldiers of the whole town to pull out, and as for some trophies or something, take away those who are worried about them, and don't want them if they don't look at them.
The Chinese Imperial Army advanced by land and water, and surrounded London by the north, south, and central roads.
When the British High Command learned that the 15th Brigade had been annihilated, it was also shocked. That is one of the most elite troops of the British Empire, the strength of a whole brigade, tens of thousands of elite British troops, even lasted only an hour before the whole army was wiped out, how powerful and ferocious this Chinese Empire Shence Army must be!
For a while, the swing faction in London became nervous again, and they had been fooled by Ross into agreeing to the defense of London, but now it seems that 10,000 elites were reimbursed in less than an hour, and the remaining 40,000 ragtag troops were even more vulnerable, and I am afraid that they would not be able to hold out even one night.
For a while, the call for surrender on Downing Street rose again.
Ross was also shocked, although he had been mentally prepared and guessed that the British army would not be able to stop for long, but Nima held out for an hour, which was really unexpected.
Ross felt a lot of pain in his feet, had the British Empire reached such a point of vulnerability!
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, we must leave immediately, the group of capitulators has already sent people to contact the Chinese Empire! I'm afraid that if we leave a little later, they will sell us as gifts! ”
Chamberlain hurried to inform Rose.
Ross was so angry that he was awakened by Chamberlain for a long time.
"At least take Her Majesty with you!"
"No, the queen is old, and now we are running for our lives, and it is a burden to bring the queen with us. And if the Chinese Imperial Army knew that the queen had run away, they would definitely not agree to peace talks, and those surrenderers would definitely think of this, I am afraid that they have already kidnapped the queen, we must leave as soon as possible, they will come to arrest us soon! ”
"These bastards!"
Ross was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, but he held back, and hurriedly fled with Chamberlain, under the protection of a group of henchmen, out of London. (To be continued.) )