The vanguard of the Praetorian Guard, standing on the slope of the hill in front of them, completely took in the entire British defensive camp.

The British and French soldiers who surrendered had already been taken away by the logistics troops, and they would be greeted with a 'happy' life as captives.

The vanguard has attacked here, and their mission has been accomplished. The next thing was to wait for the arrival of the large forces, and the artillery of the heavy artillery division in the rear gradually subsided.

By this time it was nearly dusk, and the vanguard of a regiment had been assembled on the hillside. Their task was accomplished, but the operation was not over. Nearly 3,000 soldiers were working with the sappers to dig fortifications to prevent the British and French from counterattacking.

Gan Molin had already seen the movements of the Chinese army, but he did not intend to take the initiative to attack. He is not a general who is accustomed to attacking, and defense is his main tone. When the two fortifications on the hillside were attacked, Ganmalin had been notified, but at that time the artillery fire was still continuous, and there was no reinforcement at all. I could only watch as the two well-constructed fortifications were brought down. In Gan Malin's heart, those two fortifications were only for early warning, and Gan Malin realized the strength of the Chinese army, and he had no intention of supporting them.

Now there are only five divisions of troops in the defensive camp, and the three divisions at the beginning have suffered heavy casualties, and it is a miracle that the entire defensive camp can pull out 50,000 combat-ready soldiers. After the shelling was over, Gammelin only ordered the soldiers to come out to clean up the battlefield and dispose of the dead personnel. Tropical jungle carcasses need to be disposed of quickly to prevent bacteria from growing and causing disease. At the same time, the troops were ordered to call the Vietnamese and begin repairing the trench positions. In the previous shelling, many trenches and defensive types have been destroyed, and now they can only be repaired again. Fortunately, many Vietnamese did not die under artillery fire, and although many escaped, the personnel base was there, and there were still many who did not escape. Faced with the cold muzzle and shiny bayonets, tens of thousands of Vietnamese could only pout their butts helplessly and dig up. Even if they curse these British, French and Indian soldiers n times in their hearts, they can't change the current situation.

The Chinese army was building defensive positions, and Gan Molin didn't think of giving them a few artillery now. There were still a lot of artillery pieces hidden in the underground bunkers of the defensive camp that had not been blown up, but as soon as the idea came out, he pinched it out. He knew that once his artillery fired, it would definitely cause a strong counterattack from the opponent, not to mention that he didn't have many artillery, unless it was those heavy artillery hidden in the rear, there would be great results. Otherwise, as soon as these small artillery pieces of their own are shot, they will only suffer in the end.

Haig was also annoyed at this time, this battle was too bad. Every time I thought of counterattacking with artillery, I was ruthlessly dismissed by reason. Those cannons are their own killer weapons, and they must not be used unless they are absolutely necessary, once exposed. It is very likely to be quickly eliminated, and whether or not it can hold on to the arrival of reinforcements, those artillery is also the key.

At this moment, a signal corpsman ran to Haig's side and said: "Report to the commander, there is a local call saying that the reinforcements will leave tomorrow, and the number of reinforcements is 200,000. The remaining 400 camel planes on the mainland have already begun to depart, starting from various airports, and are expected to arrive here in seven days. The Air Force wants us to have airfields ready for them to land, fuel and ammunition ready for use. ”

Haig took the telegram and wrote at the very end: "This is the last reinforcement, and the transfer of troops to the Far East will affect the control of the colonies." At the very least, the war against China was drawn, ensuring that the British Empire's interests in Southeast Asia were not threatened. ”

Haig put down the telegram in his hand, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart. This news is mixed for him, the good news is that with the air force, the British and French forces in this war will not be too weak, if it were not for the other party's sneak attack, his air force will definitely not be defeated so quickly. The worry is that their troops will be able to complete the tasks assigned by the British mainland? Keep the tie, to put it lightly, this is only a few kilometers away from the mainland of China, if people come with a million troops all at once, then what's the use of being strong. Drowned.

"A bunch of wishful thinking guys all day." In the end, Haig could only curse in his heart. However, Haig can also see that London also knows that it is now a tiger, and it only needs to control the situation in Southeast Asia, and as for the Hong Kong issue, the telegram does not mention half of it.

Is it really like what Haig thinks? When the plane comes, there is a turnaround? If Haig had known that his twenty camels didn't even have a chance to fight back, perhaps he wouldn't have been so optimistic. After the airfield was bombed, Haig did not know the exact situation, only that the planes were blown up by the bombers. There is no trace of the specific battle situation, there are not many survivors at the airport, the battlefield of the air battle is far away from the airport, and the surviving British and French soldiers have not seen the air battle, so naturally there is no way to talk about it.

Ignorance is also a kind of happiness, just like Haig now, at least his heart is not so heavy.

Starting today, Haig has ordered people to build a second layer of defense, and from the front defense camp to here, nearly 200,000 Vietnamese have gathered in the middle section to break ground. Haig has been doing his best to defend himself. Once the camp in front is breached, it will not be attacked by the other party to the end, and he will have a chance to take a breath.

Upon receiving this telegram, Haig sent a brigade of troops to build the airfield. This time, Haig was looking for a place to hide, and he had to stay away from here.

Unbeknownst to Haig, his every move had actually fallen into the eyes of the Scouts, who were already surrounded by all kinds of eyeliners, watching them all the time. Although Haig also did a lot of maneuvering, for a Scout who was proficient in stealth, patrolling and looking at the surrounding trees alone would have no effect on them.

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Just as Haig received a telegram from London, Chen Shao also received news from European spies. The content is similar to what Haig received, except that Chen Shao's information was collected by spies, not from London.

This time, the British side did not send too many escort warships, and it was about the same as Chen Shao expected, intending to land in Burma. Because Britain did not believe that Chinese warships would quietly cross the Strait of Malacca to attack their troop carriers, and because China had eliminated Britain's Eastern Fleet, there was a short-term gap in Britain's naval strength in the Indian Ocean, and it was urgent to support the army, and the British side did not wait for the time to form the Eastern Fleet again. For all these reasons, the British sent only four destroyers to escort the convoy.

The main point is that Britain does not yet know the specific strength of the Chinese Navy. The Battle of the South China Sea and the destruction of the Eastern Fleet, the British side only knew the news of the aircraft carrier, but what they knew was also half a claw. British sailor prisoners and medical personnel who had gone to medical care were put under guard, and the details of the battle were forbade for the time being.

Now the whole of Hong Kong has been tightly surrounded by the Chinese Navy, and even if it is directly approaching Hong Kong's port, the coastal defense batteries set up on the shore do not dare to open fire. The two battleships in Shanghai also returned, and together with the aircraft carrier Shihuang, they formed a task force and cruised outside Hong Kong. In particular, the battleship Kunlun Mountain has been close to Hong Kong many times, and the closest one time, standing on the side of the ship, you can clearly see what the people standing on the shore look like.

The Chinese in Hong Kong gather around the coast every day, and they all want to take a closer look at the warships of their motherland, and every time the Chinese warships approach, the whole seashore will resound with huge cheers. The sinking of the British warship in Hong Kong by planes is in itself an extremely proud matter for the military residents, and now the huge warships of the motherland can be seen on the sea every day, which makes every Chinese in Hong Kong feel very excited.

The British soldiers in Haiphong did not know if they would be torn apart by the angry crowd if they opened fire on the Chinese warships at sea. The British defenders in Hong Kong were only 10,000, while the Chinese had hundreds of thousands and nearly a million, not to mention that at this time Hong Kong had been surrounded by a Chinese army, and the elite army of 50,000 people, the artillery and tanks in the attack formation had already made the defenders in Hong Kong lose the courage to counterattack. At present, it seems that the Chinese army has no intention of attacking, and they all hope that this scenario will continue. As long as the Chinese army does not take the initiative to attack, it is even more impossible for them to take the initiative to provoke.

Chen Shao's attitude towards Hong Kong is to besiege but not attack, as long as the British and French forces are defeated, Hong Kong's problems will be solved. Chen Shao also plans to take back a complete Hong Kong, coupled with the large number of Chinese in Hong Kong, the attack will inevitably hurt the innocent. Britain has been building in Hong Kong for decades, and Chen Shao has no intention of destroying anything, and taking over such a Hong Kong is very beneficial to China's development and construction at that time.

After asking the shipyard about the progress of the refit of merchant ships, Chen Shao put down the phone in his hand. Several ready-to-use merchant ships have been almost renovated, and they will be ready to leave the port in these two days, and after the renovation is completed, they will be able to complete the replenishment of the ocean-going submarines, ranging from daily necessities to torpedoes. The Navy has its own submarine carriers, but they are warships, and passing through the Strait of Malacca in this way will cause British vigilance. That's why we had to rebuild a few merchant ships so that we could pass through the Strait of Malacca generously.

Chen Shao saw the four British escort destroyers in the intelligence, and said with a slight sigh in his heart: "Is money really a thing!" ”

At the end of World War I, Britain had 447 destroyers, but due to the post-war economic depression and financial constraints, only about 100 ships remained after ten years, and they were all old ships from World War I. These nearly 100 destroyers have to undertake many tasks, such as patrolling the colonies and training troops, and are an indispensable part of Britain's current maritime maintenance forces. In the absence of an all-out war, even large warships cannot be dispatched in a short period of time, and even destroyers can only be dispatched four.

The sun never set, the empire now only leaves the afterglow for future generations to admire.

(To be continued)