As a mature politician, shamelessness and cheekiness are a must, and Sir Nathan has mastered these skills perfectly, as evidenced by the fact that when he rode in a carriage to the small dock in the north-west, he completely forgot that his wife and children were still at a loss in the Doge's Palace, and perhaps they could not have imagined that the breadwinner of the family would abandon him.

Nathan should have a common language with Liu Bang, and he is very "calm" at critical moments, which can also be called "shameless". As the gunfire in the rear became more and more intense, the small pier was close in sight, and Nathan, who was almost about to cheer, saw the steel helmet emerging from behind several buildings.

The task of the third company and one platoon of the reconnaissance battalion is to occupy this small pier and cut off all ways for the enemy to escape, and the officers and men of the platoon who are still regretting the blockade task and not fighting in actual combat are suddenly in high spirits.

A dense barrage of bullets accompanied the steel helmet, and the excellent marksmanship of the reconnaissance platoon ensured the safety of Nathan Governor at the cost of all ten guards. Predators don't have so many fancy, and in the case of unfavorable quarrels, they prefer to speak with bullets.

Nathan, apparently aware of the temperament of the soldiers, poked his head out of the carriage and shouted, "I surrender, I surrender!" The soldiers didn't know English, and Hua Guo didn't have the habit of teaching English to his students from an early age, but the white handkerchief fluttering in Nathan's hand said it all.

Good at escaping and surrendering, Sir Nathan perfectly captures the essence of a politician. Although I don't know what kind of official this is, the reconnaissance platoon can see that his status is not low. When the signal from the Governor's Palace that the Chinese army was over the battle, a reconnaissance platoon took the prisoners of war to assemble near the Governor's Palace. After handing it in, I found out that I had caught a big fish!

The main position of the British army on the Shenzhen River front, the Chinese army on the opposite side did not continue to launch a large-scale attack, perhaps knowing that a strong attack in front of the fortress would mean death. However, those hateful planes in the sky launched three powerful bombardments in succession, causing heavy losses to the fortifications again, more than three-quarters of the fortifications were destroyed, and the number of dead and wounded reached 4,000.

Taking stock of the pitiful forces in his hands, Major General Moult did not know how long he could hold on, the Chinese army did not need to send infantry to attack, and could raze the fortress to the ground by bombing the air force alone. Moult was appalled by this pattern of warfare. The engineers who built the fortress could not have imagined that they would have to guard against threats in the sky, so the top of the pillbox was the weakest point of defense, which was easily destroyed by the Chinese army's aerial bombs. Causes the fort defense level to be reduced to a minimum. Moult even doubted that in the current situation, the Chinese army would be able to crush itself with a charge the size of a regimental infantry.

What he didn't know was that the Chinese army did not plan to continue to send armored troops or infantry to charge, that the ammunition stored by the air force at the Huizhou Air Base had run out and was being transported from the warehouse, and that his boss, Governor Nathan, had been captured by the Chinese army, and that the Governor's Palace, a symbol of British colonial rule, had been captured.

But. When Major General Moult received Sir Nathan's order to surrender to the Chinese army, he breathed a sigh of relief. In any case, the British troops stationed in Hong Kong could not wait for the day when the expeditionary fleet defeated the Chinese navy. I have fought as hard as I can, and there is nothing to be ashamed of surrendering. This is not Moult's words to comfort himself, for Westerners, after surrendering, returning to the original army, the future will not be implicated, public opinion will not criticize, but will regard them as heroes. You don't see that even the top German army in Europe often surrenders as a formation in war. If this situation is tried in the East, those who surrender will themselves commit suicide in shame - except for the thick-skinned. The differences between Eastern and Western cultures are very stark. With the same level of equipment and tactics, Western soldiers are by no means opponents of Eastern soldiers!

From the Kowloon Peninsula to Hong Kong Island, the gunfire gradually stopped, and the Chinese army gradually took control of the situation, but the tank team led by Dong Ping was once again in trouble.

After watching a divine attack descend from the sky in Victoria Bay, Dong Ping made contact with the reconnaissance battalion opposite, and the third company of the reconnaissance battalion took a passenger ferry across the harbor and occupied banks and other important institutions. After the coordination, Dong Ping insisted on returning to the main position of the front line, although they were not considered deserters, but after all, they fought behind enemy lines without authorization, and did not contact the rear for a long time, and the military law and the professional ethics of the soldiers prompted them to urgently return to the main army.

However, Dong Ping, who also had no war, ignored the reinforced battalion that had been chasing them, Moult was very worried about the safety of the rear at that time, and the reinforced battalion sent was all British native soldiers, and these British troops were furious after seeing countless hospitals, logistics bases, and transit bases destroyed, and the tank squad successfully provoked their anger, and the most important thing was that the British troops who reinforced the battalion did not receive a notice of surrender.

The encounter began just as the tank squad left the city, and the British were the first to reconnoiter the tank team's movements and set up an ambush circle in a small area. The anti-infantry mines planted in advance did not affect the operation of the tank, but the logs piled up in front of the road blocked the way, after Dong Ping gave the order to reverse, the rear was desperately piled up with logs by the British army, and on both sides were mounds with a slope of more than 50 degrees, and the slope exceeded the maximum elevation angle that the tank could advance, and the battle was inevitable!

The two field guns were placed on the mounds on both sides by the British troops, and the field guns fired in a straight line at a distance of more than a hundred meters, although they could not penetrate the armor of the tank, but they made the fighters inside dizzy.

Dong Ping forced himself to calm down, he found that the situation of the two tanks was very embarrassing, the British troops were lying on the mounds on both sides, including the two nasty field guns, the angle of fire of the tank guns was not enough, and they could not counterattack, and the bullets of the British infantry continued to hit the tanks, making it impossible for people to poke their heads out to manipulate the machine guns that could fight back, so there was only a way to forcibly break through those obstacles!

"Fire at the log obstacles in front of you and blast them away!"

The temporary piles of logs were not reinforced concrete fortresses, the height and thickness of which made it impossible for tanks to pass directly, but after a shell hit an obstacle about fifty meters in front, the heavy logs were pushed several meters high and scattered on the road.

"Keep shooting!" The bombardment of the British field artillery swayed from side to side, and the loader struggled to control his balance and pushed a high-explosive shell into the chamber of the gun, and the fireman aimed at the nearby obstacle and opened fire again, and the tall logs became loose. When the third high-explosive projectile was ejected, a narrow road appeared in front of you, and a large number of logs could be faintly seen in the smoke of gunpowder being hit by the explosion **** to both sides of the road.

Dong Ping's "Burning" took the lead, broke out of the British encirclement, and after driving more than 100 meters, the "Burning" found a firing angle, aimed at a field gun on the hill and opened fire directly, destroying it. Before he had time to celebrate, Dong Ping found that the "rage" in the rear had not moved, and there was no response to the radio call.

Looking at the "rage" that filled the smoke of gunpowder, Dong Ping knew that it was likely that its engine and wireless communication equipment were damaged, and if it didn't care about the "rage", it would sooner or later become a pile of parts under the siege of the British army!

The "burning" that broke out of the encirclement had already met the conditions for a counterattack, and the slope on the north side of the hill was relaxed, and the "burning" spewed out a large amount of black exhaust gas, which rushed up the hill under the drive of a powerful engine, and appeared in front of the British army like a prehistoric beast.

The attack and defense changed in an instant, and under the blow of "burning" two large-caliber machine guns and 76-mm tank guns, after occupying favorable terrain, the besieging British army finally collapsed, and thousands of people in the reinforced battalion fled to the north. The angry Dong Ping did not give the order to stop shooting, and the "burning" chased the British soldiers for 300 meters, but due to the lack of ammunition and fuel, coupled with the fear of "rage", he did not continue the pursuit, but at least a hundred British corpses were scattered along the way.

The "Fury" was indeed incapacitated, and in order to ensure safety, except for the soldiers of the "burning" tank group, the rest of the men were set up as infantry on the top of the hill as infantry - it was very likely that the British would encounter the British if they continued to advance, so it was better to stand by and ask their superiors.

The escaped British reinforced battalion was captured by the Chinese troops heading south on the way, and two hours later Dong Ping's tank group finally joined up with the main force. In the summary afterwards, the armored regiment headquarters described it in the document as follows: "The tank group composed of three tanks, "Burning", "Fury", and "Bandits", was able to maintain a charging posture when encountering strong enemy artillery fire, and after successfully breaking through the enemy's defensive line, because of the weak troops, it chose to continue to assault in depth. Unable to contact the rear, the group chose the most suitable tactical plan, continued the battle with great fearlessness, and dealt a major blow to the British rear, destroying seven British rear bases, destroying more than 300 British troops, destroying one British gunboat, and assisting the reconnaissance battalion in disrupting the British defenses during the bombardment of the Governor's Palace.

The report reported by the armored regiment seems to be flat and stable, but in fact, it has the meaning of speaking for these people, but it is more perceptive and point-to-point, pointing out that Dong Ping chose to act without authorization when he could communicate, which is a weakness and is difficult to hide, and Dong Ping has no intention of concealing it.

Therefore, these people did not receive the title of the highest honor for military personnel -- the heroes of China, but the individual and group merits were enough for Dong Ping to brag about. (To be continued.) )