None of the brothers in the back rushed up. Suppressed by the devil's artillery fire, only more than 700 brothers rushed forward. ”

"The devil's cannon group is on the top of the mountain, and the brothers rushed up with me to serve their cannon group." Wang Gang roared.

Feng Zicai looked at the telescope at the headquarters for a while at this time, then turned to the communicator behind him and said, "Let Cai Ning blast the city wall out of the city wall within 30 minutes, and charge in turn to reduce the pressure on the commando." ”

"Yes."

on the artillery position.

"Standard, the battalions have been rebuilt, and the artillery has been set up. Please instruct! ”

"Give you 15 minutes, 1 kilometer ahead of the rampart. Put! Cai Ning yelled.

"Boom! Boom ......"

Countless shells fell around the city wall, and the solid city wall was suddenly full of bricks, but there was no danger of collapsing in a short time.

"General, the Qing artillery group is firing again. The city walls were heavily shelled, and a large number of Qing troops appeared in the west, south, and east directions of the city. Look at this posture like it's about to attack the city! ”

Wallace frowned, staring at Mandalay City on the sand table in thought.

At this time, a staff officer standing in front of the sand table suddenly spoke up: "Sir, the route of the Chinese's assault is very strange. ”

"Oh, what's wrong." Wallace looked up at the staff officer.

"Look. In the direction they were heading was a cliff where there was no road at all. ”

Someone next to him laughed and said: "It seems that the Chinese have exhausted their efforts, and they have hit such a dead road in a panic during our encirclement, we should immediately close our defenses and surround them here." ”

"General, the Chinese don't look like they're attacking a city. Their light artillery could not blow down the walls, and could only blast a few holes in a short time. However, there were Qing troops all around, and it didn't look like an organized siege. It's just a purposeless harassment outside the city! ”

Wallace looked at the Qing troops who had assaulted in and the Qing troops and artillery bombardment points on the outskirts of the city, and listened to the staff officers' analysis.

He really couldn't guess the true strategic purpose of the Qing army, what did they want to do? If you want to destroy our artillery group, why did you run to the cliff instead of heading straight to the top of the mountain? A whole infantry regiment has been laid out there, and as long as the assault team rushes up, it will be a live target.

Spent so much effort just to send hundreds of people up the cliff?

In addition, the attack on the city wall must have been for the purpose of besieging the city, but why were the troops scattered around and not in the direction of the bombed wall?

Wallace was silent, and only after a long time turned to the staff officer beside him and said, "Let the artillery group continue to bombard the assault point just now, and ignore the Qing troops around you." ”

"Yes."

By this time it was already dawn, and the attack had been going on for 4 hours.

Feng Zicai's eyes were bloodshot, and the stubbornness of the British made his strategy lose its due effect. No matter how much he pretended to attack the city, the British still suppressed the assault force invariably.

He didn't have the luxury of letting the rest of the commandos rush up, he just hoped that the commandos who had already rushed up would be able to complete the seemingly impossible task.

"Biaotong, this is a cliff, there is no road."

"Damn, the terrain here has been rehearsed so many times on the sand table, why did you kid take the wrong way. I'll shoot you! Wang Gang looked angrily at Li Yu who was talking to him.

"There is a road on the sand table, and those Burmese must have deceived us."

"***, find your way and rush up. If we can't get rid of the devil's artillery position, we won't have the face to go back. ”

"Biaotong, the way back was blocked by the little devil. I can't go down! ”

Wang Gang turned around and ran to the front of the troops, and saw that the British had built a relatively complete defensive position in the place where they had just rushed up, not to mention that there were only more than 700 people in their hands, even if they gave him a complete target force, it would be difficult to break through their position without the cover of heavy weapons.

"Looks like the little devil wants to kill us." Wang Gang muttered.

"What to do? In fact, this place is very close to the enemy's artillery position, but unfortunately there is no way to get there. ”

"Visually, how far is it from the cliff to the artillery position? Are there enough grenades? ”

"It's at least 500 meters away, and grenades and bullets can't reach it."

Wang Gang ran to the cliff and looked around, and next to the cliff was a horizontal cliff. The smooth cliff leaves no point of focus, but the cliff leads laterally to the opposing artillery position.

Wang Gang, who was in the middle of this, suddenly saw the British artillery group spit out a long tongue of fire again, and then exploded a brilliant fire at the position he had just assaulted.

"Brothers, the road behind is blocked by the British devils. Let's just crawl over here, and even if we die, we'll end up with the cannons. ”

Everyone did not say a word, but silently held the bayonet in their hands, and threw all the guns, ammunition, and dry food on the ground, leaving only some grenades and bullets to hang on their waists.

"Old Ni, you take 100 people to stay here to stop the British. Don't let the British come up and find out what we are trying to do, let's surprise the devils. ”

Without waiting for the political commissar to answer, he had already led people to climb from the top of the steep cliff, Wang Gang had a bayonet in his mouth, a grenade and a bullet on his waist, and his hands were grasping the protruding wall stone, looking for the next point of focus in front of him.

One by one, the commandos climbed with Wang Gang, and the more than 100 commandos left behind held a military salute to their comrades. Seeing them leave, not long after they climbed, dozens of people had already fallen.

Of course, Feng Zicai didn't know any of this at the headquarters, and it had been a full 8 hours since he launched the attack at 4 a.m. It has been 3 hours since the assault team rushed in, and according to common sense, it should have been possible to reach the position of the British artillery group. But so far there has been no response, and it seems that the commando team has failed.

Then today's efforts will be in vain, and the British army will discover their intentions. In the future, it will be even more difficult to destroy the opponent's artillery group!

Time passed minute by minute, and he promised Zuo Shuai patting his chest. If you don't take this place on time, let alone say that the big man wants to shoot him, even he can't spare himself.

Liu Yongfu's pressure there must be greater than himself, and he has to resist the attack of more than 70,000 British troops. Every minute here is a little more dangerous there.

"Signal Corps."

"Here."

"Tell Cai Ning to stop attacking. Let Wang Huan and Lu Zheng take the men and horses of this standard to rush once, and take down the British position on the city wall for me. ”

"Yes."

Looking through the binoculars, there were countless hidden forts and bright forts on the walls of the British army. The firing point was quite solid, and with the support of the permanent artillery group on the hill behind the city, the two targets that rushed up retreated.

"Let the troops back down and recuperate." Feng Zicai said helplessly.

"Yes."

"General, don't care. Didn't they pull out their first and second line positions today, and then send an assault team to take up his artillery group in the evening. Political Commissar Ryo Tanaka said.

"Damn, I shouldn't have let Wang Gang's rabbit cub go. If you read too many books, you will be kept and turned into waste, what a talented student. It's all false, and Lao Tzu personally led the commando team up tonight. Feng Zicai scolded.

"The general is angry, now the situation of the commando team is unknown, wait a little longer, let the targets still be ready for the impact." Ryo Tanaka said.

In the cliff, Wang Gang stabbed into the cliff with a bayonet in one hand and pulled it down with his hand. Feeling that he could bear his weight, he continued to climb forward, and the 500-meter straight distance was already halfway through. But half of the brothers around him are gone, but the physical and mental qualities that can stay are one in a million.

At this time, I heard that the British artillery fire had stopped, and the whole valley was still lively and lively just now, and now it was a little scary.

"The British artillery fire stopped. It seems that the general has stopped attacking, it's all because we are moving too slowly, brothers are working harder. If anyone falls, they will shut their foul mouths for me, so that the British will find out, and we will all be targets. Wang Gang said breathlessly.

Another soldier stepped into the air and fell. But there was no sound other than a "thump" when it fell to the bottom of the mountain. It's not like the previous "ah" and "ah" sounds.