Chapter 274: Bauhinia Blossoms (5)
Before entering the city of Hong Kong, the team stopped to recuperate and prepare for the final battle. After that, they will storm into the city of Hong Kong, follow the instructions on the map and go straight to the British Governor's Palace, then leave the city as far north as possible, as close to Tai Mo Shan as possible, and finally destroy the tanks and walk into Tai Mo Shan to take refuge.
"Let's go, hurry up!" Dong Ping urged Liu Yan, seemingly muffled by the sound of the tank engine, and Liu Yan climbed into the tank half a minute later, still holding a dark purple flower in his hand.
"What the hell?"
"You know no, this is called Bauhinia, Lao Tzu's girlfriend likes this flower the most, it's already May, I didn't expect to see this deep purple bloom, their flowering period is from November to March, and there is no such color after that, and now it's lucky to pick one." Lao Tzu wants to take it back and give it to his girlfriend, and he hasn't had a romantic time since dating! Liu Yan grinned, as if he had found something most precious and inserted it into the tank.
"Ah, after the reconquest of Hong Kong, you can come and pick this flower at any time." Dong Ping whispered, "Hurry up and switch from a literary youth back to a murderous demon, we are going to rush in!" ”
"Lao Tzu is not a literary youth in the first place, he has always been a machine that kills people without blinking!" Liu Yan howled, and everyone responded.
"Whoosh!" The commander of the Indian battalion, Lieutenant Phil, frowned, he had been holding here for half an hour with one thousand and one hundred Indian soldiers, and finally waited for this hateful squad. The tanks of the Chinese army are so huge that people can't help but want to leave their positions, but they must be as steady as a mountain as an officer. Otherwise, these timid Indian soldiers would not want to play a role.
The sweat rolled down under the turbans, and the Indian soldiers hiding behind the trees with rifles kept shooting at the Chinese tanks, but alas. After one of the Chinese soldiers on the tank was hit and the rest jumped out of the tank to hide behind, the bullets lost their effectiveness and clanged on the tank, without hindering the movement of the tank.
"'Burning' assault, 'rage' cover, attack!" The roads are narrow and do not use tanks to maneuver. On both sides are dense trees, and further away are paddy fields, which can only be forward!
Tank guns aimed at trees on both sides and fired. Knock out the enemies hiding behind, and the side-by-side machine guns and course machine guns follow, and dozens of enemies are hit, and the 7.62mm bullets are extremely powerful. The enemy lost his life before he could scream.
"Enemy on the left!" Commander Sun Li roared. The machine gunners immediately aimed at a dozen enemies who appeared on the left side, and it seemed that they were going to climb into the tank and hide in the dead end of the machine gun. The dense barrage of bullets repelled this wave of enemies, and pure infantry could hardly deal with heavily armed tanks in the absence of anti-tank weapons, or had no way to deal with them until they ran out of ammunition.
"Come back!" The commander, Lieutenant Phil, shouted that the Indian soldiers did not follow orders at all, and the shells and bullets spewed out by the steel monster killed hundreds of soldiers in just a few minutes, and the two tanks drove the Indian soldiers who ran for their lives. Bullets and shells harvest lives in the crowd.
The last obstacle before entering Hong Kong is gone, and the eyes are open. The building began to become dense. The destination has finally arrived! Along Victoria Bay, the roar of tanks caused numerous commotions, and two gunboats appeared near the coast, which were the British naval forces stationed in Hong Kong, eight gunboats, an old destroyer, and fifteen small patrol boats were all their strength, half of them were old wooden steam galleons, and there was little combat strength at all. The British did not expect the navy to hold off the Chinese, but only to escort the fleeing merchant ships, and now Nathan found that the navy had become a surprise - the artillery they carried could somewhat delay the speed of the Chinese tanks.
For Dong Ping and others, the two gunboats were also a surprise, the ignorant two gunboats approached the coast about 300 meters, and the two tanks advancing along the coast had a small target, but the gunboats at sea had a much larger target in comparison.
The four 75mm guns on the gunboat opened fire first, and Dong Ping, who didn't want to provoke right and wrong, was furious and ordered the tank to stop advancing, turn the turret, and the tank hit the warship.
The tank gun of the T01 tank was much more powerful, and the "burning" first hit, a high-explosive shell hit directly in the middle of a gunboat, and surprisingly, this high-explosive shell completely destroyed the gunboat, and in the explosion the wreckage of the gunboat was scattered everywhere - it turned out to be a wooden warship!
The other gunboat turned around and ran, I thought it was a soft persimmon, but I didn't expect to touch a hand of dung, unlucky! Of course, the two tanks would not let go of the gunboat, and the gunboat, which was slowly turning on the water, was hit by two high-explosive shells and sank neatly in Victoria Bay.
There were not a few onlookers on the sea, they were all waiting for passengers to board the ship to escape the war, and the screaming foreigners did not succeed in evading, and witnessed with their own eyes how the Chinese army's artillery taught their own country's navy. They all ran into the buildings on the side of the road, and sneaked a peek at the two tanks swaggering through the street, ignoring the frightened crowd.
From entering the city to the southernmost pier on the Kowloon Peninsula, about eight kilometers, the Chinese tank squad staged a military parade in advance, and although there were only two tanks, it far exceeded the deterrent power displayed by hundreds of tanks in peacetime.
Stopped at the southernmost point, Dong Ping drilled out the tank, there were no British troops around, two tanks parked side by side on the seashore, through the telescope, you can vaguely see the British Governor's Palace two kilometers away at the southern end of Victoria Bay. It was impossible for a tank to cross the harbor to reach the governor's palace, and it had to survive the dry life from afar.
"Two thousand meters, I don't know if the tank guns can send shells to the governor's palace." Dong Ping said.
"Try it, it's all here, you can't pull it back without firing."
Two tank guns were erected high, ranging and calculating, loading shells, two shells were test-fired, and through the telescope, Dong Ping saw a puff of dust and smoke floating near the governor's palace.
"There's a door! Offset 0.5 degrees to the left and do one more round! ”
This time it still didn't hit, but it was closer, close to two thousand meters, almost beyond the maximum range of the tank, the shells were affected by the wind, air, humidity, etc. during the flight, and it was difficult to hit accurately, and the wind in the harbor was not small, which had a great impact on the shelling.
It wasn't until the fifth round of shelling that a single shell hit the front door of the Governor's Palace, and there was little damage, but it was enough, the shelling of the British Governor's Palace was Dong Ping's idea, he said that the symbolism of this shelling was greater than the practical significance, the demonstration to the British powers meant greater, the goal was achieved, and it was time to leave.
"Look, what's that?" Sun Li asked suddenly, and everyone followed his direction and looked up at the sky.
"Airship, it's our airship!"
Five "Roc class" airships floated from the north, their huge bodies casting huge shadows on the ground, and after crossing Victoria Bay, the airships slowly landed in the paddy fields about a kilometer south of the Governor's House, and then ran out of the cabin with hundreds of soldiers.
Five airships carrying 1,000 Chinese soldiers suddenly appeared on Hong Kong Island. Governor Nathan, who was rushing to the dock before, had to go back to the Governor's Palace to avoid artillery fire after seeing the Chinese tanks on the opposite side, it doesn't matter if the Governor's Palace is shelled, just repair it afterwards, but the merchant ship full of his own property must not have an accident, I hope that the Chinese tank will ignore the ship parked on the dock!
Go to his London order, Nathan has decided to escape, he knows the fierceness of the battle on the front line, Moult did not live up to his expectations and successfully blocked the attack of the Chinese army, but the Chinese tank squad broke through the defense line and entered the rear, which became the straw that broke the camel's back, Nathan did not want to die under the fire of the Chinese army, and would rather give up his political future than save his life.
Unbeknownst to Dong Ping, his squad had inadvertently made a contribution, preventing the British governor from boarding the ship and escaping, buying time for the soldiers on the airship. When Nathan knew that there were also Chinese troops in the rear, he knew that he was powerless, and he sent the last cavalry battalion around him to try to make a final resistance. And ordered his men to change their clothes, abandoned their families and the merchant ship, and secretly ran out of the governor's palace with three guards, and fled to the west, where there was also a small dock, unnoticed, hoping to find a merchant ship there that had not left!
The reconnaissance battalion trained as a special operation has some skills of special forces, and airship sneak attack is also one of the training subjects. After the defeat of the front-line armored regiment, the First Army immediately changed its operational thinking, and an ordinary combat staff officer proposed that the reconnaissance battalion should take an airship to Hong Kong Island to control the upper echelons of the British army, the governor, and so on, and force the British army to surrender, so as to reduce the pressure on the front line to the greatest extent.
After calculation, the probability of success of this battle plan was more than 80 percent, mainly because the British army did not have effective anti-aircraft weapons in their hands, and the sneak attack of the airship would not suffer much damage. It turns out that five airships were not even attacked! (To be continued.) )