As the supreme commander of the Naval Resistance Army in Tanggang, Bao Gang's core task is to look after the family. In other words, it was not for the British to keep Ceylon. Although the cooperation between the two militaries has the same goal on the whole, there are also minor differences.

In the Naval Resistance Army, both Li Guang and Bao Gang did not trust the combat effectiveness of the British Army at all.

Although the British and Indian troops also went out to drill every day, their training was more of a routine. Speaking of equipment, although the equipment of the British army is much better than that of the Chinese army, it is not much stronger than the Japanese army. Compared with the Naval Resistance Army, it is far inferior.

The basic establishment of the British Army's infantry division consists of 3 infantry brigades (nine battalions) and 3 artillery regiments and support units, with an establishment of 13,600 personnel. ITS THREE ARTILLERY REGIMENTS TOTALED 36.2 MM GUNS (3 INCHES, ALSO CALLED EIGHTEEN POUNDER FIELD GUNS) AND 36 4.5-INCH GUNS. IN ADDITION, THREE BRIGADE-AFFILIATED ANTI-TANK COMPANIES (A TOTAL OF FORTY-EIGHT 25MM ANTI-TANK GUNS) WERE EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH THE ARMORED FORCES. The divisional cavalry regiment had 28 light tanks and 44 transport vehicles.

AND A DIVISION OF THE JAPANESE ARMY, NOT COUNTING MORTARS AND INFANTRY GUNS, ONLY THE NUMBER OF 75MM AND MORE THAN 75 MM ARTILLERY HAS FORTY-EIGHT, OR EVEN MORE.

On the surface, the number of artillery pieces of the Japanese army was not as large as that of the British army, but the Japanese army had a complete range of artillery and a suitable ratio. Compared with the configuration of the British army, it is more suitable for the combat environment of the South Seas. As for the Japanese army's transportation capacity, although it was poor, in Ceylon, where the jungle and mountains were densely packed, the British army's mobile transportation capacity did not necessarily have much advantage.

And the heavy equipment configuration of the Naval Resistance Force is not designed for any kind of combat at all. For the existing naval resistance army strength, it is almost as much as it needs. Especially when fighting a defensive war, there is no need to think too much about mobility, and the heavy firepower is comparable to a heavy mechanized division of the US army four or three years later.

The configuration of a heavy mechanized division of the US army has an extremely alarming indicator, and the amount of ammunition delivered in a salvo of light and heavy weapons is 100 tons.

There are too many cannons in the Navy. As long as the transport and logistics can keep up, it is simply not comparable to any division.

As for the light firepower ratio of the infantry, the Naval Resistance Army has also learned many advantages of the Japanese army, and has done a lot of strengthening.

As for the armored forces, the armored regiment of the Maritime Resistance Army was equipped with the latest forty-eight Tiger One tanks in Tanggang alone. And this is not all the armored forces of the Naval Resistance Army, most of the other miscellaneous tanks have now been transferred to Madagascar. Not only that, but there are now twenty-four tanks that fight with the infantry.

Therefore, after the war, Bao Gang's combat policy was to cooperate with the British army to a limited extent. If the British army behaves well and quickly increases its troops. If Ceylon is not lost, the Maritime Resistance Army will also try its best to cooperate. However, if the British army is unable to resist the Japanese offensive, the naval resistance army will adopt more conservative tactics to ensure that Tang Port is not lost before the reinforcements of the naval resistance army arrive.

Two blocking forces sent by Bao Gang. After starting from Tang Port, there are more than 30 kilometers of overlapping distances. And this is more than 30 kilometers away. There are two that can serve as the last barrier of Tang Harbor.

The tasks of the two interdiction forces that have already been dispatched are of course important. However, the deployment of troops on these two blocking positions is Bao Gang's most important task.

These two positions, from north to south, are arranged in echelons. It will become the last barrier for the Maritime Resistance Army to defend Tang Port.

One of the positions to the north is a hill called Cutler. Although the mountain is not high, it stretches for five or six kilometers from east to west. Stuck on the road to Don Harbor.

The hill is located thirty-five kilometres from Don Harbour, nearly twenty kilometres from the coastline, and about twenty kilometres from the mountainous region of central Ceylon. Due to Ceylon's tropical location. The east and west flanks of Mount Cutler are full of swamps and water networks.

If the Japanese want to attack from the north, this is the place to go.

The second blocking position, twenty-one kilometers from the port of Tang. It is located on a plain, but there are three or four lakes and countless ponds, and there are no roads except for an open field three or four kilometers wide.

As for the field battalion Qi Ruixuan, the plan was originally to help the British army hold the Monale Hill position. But now that the Monale Hill had changed hands, the performance of the British army was really disappointing to Bao Gang, and such an important position was unexpectedly attacked by the Japanese army. Once such a strategic point as Mount Monale is lost, it will be difficult to regain it. Don't look at the fact that the Japanese army only had more than 1,000 people in the Monale Mountains at this time, even if they did not increase their troops, it would be impossible for the naval resistance army to recapture it without paying a heavy price.

The Naval Resistance Army had only a total of more than 7,000 troops in Tanggang, and Bao Gang could not tolerate the slightest negligence, and it was not in the interests of the Naval Resistance Army to recapture the Monale Mountains by spending the strength of the Maritime Resistance Army. Therefore, at fourteen o'clock, after receiving the Japanese army's capture of Monal Mountain, the mission of the first section of the field battalion Qi Ruixuan was changed.

Quan Chuan had already been cautious and watched the two teams occupy the hills on both sides of the canyon. Only then did he lead his subordinates into the canyon.

That's when he found out. This Butler Hill is not as simple as it can be seen from a telescope when you are far away. The mountain beams are actually two parallel roads, with about two kilometers of open land in between.

The two mountain beams seem to have been split into two sections by a blunt axe at the same time, and the canyon is the passage formed by the fall of the axe's blade.

Quan Chuanzao's squadron was the last to arrive at the battlefield, with almost no casualties and of course almost no combat exploits. Saburo Takeshita was exhausted from the fact that the other troops were fighting for more than ten hours in the hot weather, so he sent the squadron of Captain Jeonkawa Haya to occupy Butler Mountain.

In fact, the squadron of Quan Chuanzao was also very tired. The march lasted for more than ten hours, and the physical exertion was huge. And in Ceylon, the hottest time of the day is from 11 a.m. to 15 p.m. After crossing the first mountain beam, the whole Sichuan early devil was already tired like a mess of mud, and he opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue like a dog.

The Japanese army was tough enough to be so tired that they still did not forget to complete the task. Quan Chuan Zao still ordered, and the two teams continued to climb up and down the mountain beam, while his troops slowly stopped and waited a kilometer in front of the second canyon.

The exhausted Jeonchuan had long forgotten one thing, something very fatal. When occupying the first mountain beam, his main two squads were in the field. At this time, his main two squads were actually in the open ground between the two mountain beams.

If it were under normal circumstances, Captain Quan Chuanzao also went to a military academy, and as a soldier, he would definitely be alert in this kind of environment that can be described as a dead place. But Captain Jeonkawa Hayao didn't even have the slightest vigilance at this time. What's even more terrifying. He didn't leave a little bit of troops on the first mountain beam, not even a single devil left.

Such a completely tragic deployment simply overjoyed the battalion commander Qi Ruixuan, who had been in ambush for more than two hours.

To say that Qi Ruixuan, the commander of this field battalion, has been famous once in the Naval Resistance Army, but it is not a good reputation. When he was playing against the Italian army in Somalia, he was played by the Italian army and was unexpectedly unaware of it, and missed the opportunity to pursue.

After that blushing battle, Qi Ruixuan always had a thought that he had to fight a battle to make a name for himself. This battle is not only to be won. And the enemy must not be allowed to escape. If you just defeat or defeat, it will still be difficult to justify yourself.

When Bao Gang gave the order, there was no need to continue to capture Monal Mountain, and set up a defensive line at Butel Hill to block the Japanese army from moving south.

From that moment on. Qi Ruixuan began to use his brain. According to the topography of Butura Mountain, the attack should be a two-line mountain beam echelon defense. But when the scouts found out. The vanguard of the devils was only more than 200 people. Qi Ruixuan immediately boldly gave up the first mountain beam.

Daring to set such a strategy, Qi Ruixuan's confidence lies in the strong combat effectiveness of the field battalion, and he has strong confidence in his troops.

The key to the success of this battle is only one point, before the Japanese reinforcements arrive, kill more than 200 devils. If you can't kill more than 200 devils in time, the two armies will face off against each other by the devils guarding the first mountain beam. Although there will be no defeat, the battle situation will inevitably be passive.

The devil who climbed the mountain from both wings was tired like a dog, his vigilance was greatly reduced, and he began to climb the mountain slowly and leisurely, panting.

The first ridge did not meet the defenders. greatly relaxed the vigilance of the devils. These devils just made it routine to climb the second mountain beam, and none of them realized that there was an ambush of the strength of a field company on the mountain beam. Of course, no one realized that there was a field company lurking in the grass in each of the valleys on the flanks of the two mountain beams.

What's even more terrifying is that there are four tanks lurking in the canyon road in the middle of the valley, and this is Qi Ruixuan's killer weapon.

Qi Ruixuan is also a veteran, not a rookie who has just entered the battlefield, but watching the devil slowly climb the mountain, he still can't help but be impatient.

Although the devil had completely entered the ambush circle, Qi Ruixuan was most concerned not about the devil who was climbing the mountain, but about the movement of the devil on the open ground.

The two squads of Japanese troops led by Captain Jeonkawa Hayao have not moved since they entered the open field. Qi Ruixuan was a little uneasy, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart: "Could it be that the devil has discovered something?" ”

In fact, Captain Jeonkawa Hayao didn't find anything, and there was no movement at Taniguchi all the time, and there was only one reason - tiredness.

Now the devil is not only tired of climbing mountains, but also tired of riding a bicycle. A group of devils stopped at Taniguchi, but they were all gasping for breath.

The two flank squads of the devils climbed closer and closer, less than two hundred meters away from the front line of the Naval Resistance Army. Qi Ruixuan saw that the main force of the devil still did not move, and when he was a little unable to hold his breath, Captain Quan Chuan Zao led the main infantry to ride on the bicycle, and there was movement.

The devil climbs the mountain slowly, but the bicycle is fast. When the devil approached the front of the position about a hundred meters, the main force of Jeonkawa had already crossed the center of the open field.

Qi Ruixuan's heart was beating rapidly, but he still didn't give the order to fire.

Jeonchuan may have seen that the wings were not far from the top of the mountain, and he felt that there was no danger, and the bicycle did not pause, and continued to move towards the canyon.

The two flanks of the Japanese army were less than 50 meters away from the front line of the Naval Resistance Army, and the bicycle team led by Quan Chuan Zao was less than 200 meters away from the entrance of the canyon.

Everything went well, and it went beyond expectations. Qi Ruixuan couldn't hold back the joy in his heart anymore, and yelled hurriedly: "Fight." ”

Accompanied by Qi Ruixuan's roar, there were countless dense gunshots, and then the roar of mortar infantry artillery.

A field company in front of the Naval Resistance Army, plus a firepower company, the firepower is not at all imaginable by the Japanese army.

At the first moment of the battle, the riflemen killed thirty or forty Japanese soldiers.

Dozens of machine guns erupted in rage, and the devils fell to the ground like mowing grass. The machine gun bullet is so powerful that when it hits the torso, it is a cloud of blood mist, and when it hits the limbs, it is immediately a stump and a severed arm.

What was even more terrifying was the intensive fire of dozens of mortars, infantry artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and anti-aircraft artillery, covering the offensive areas of the Japanese troops on both flanks.

Captain Jeonkawa was frightened by the sudden blow and rolled to the ground at that time. Before he could see the battlefield clearly, he saw four tanks rushing out of the canyon.

This is an armored platoon of the heavy fire company of the field battalion, although there are only two British light tanks and two Tiger tanks, but in this environment, four tanks are a symbol of invincibility.

The four tanks didn't even use their main guns, and several heavy machine guns sprayed bullets and swept towards the devils like a rainstorm.

The two teams led by Quan Chuan Zao, more than 100 devils, were all in the open field, and there was nowhere to hide, so they could only lie on the ground or hide behind a mound of dirt that they didn't know if they could block bullets.

The open land in the mountains is only two kilometers, and the exit of the canyon is only two hundred meters away from the main force of the whole Sichuan morning. Even if the little devil wants to escape, two small short legs can't outrun four tanks.

These four tanks rumbled past the Japanese army, and did not stop at all, leaving only scraps of flesh and blood along the way.

Quan Chuan was lucky that he was not killed on the spot. When he remembered to retreat, he realized that in just a few minutes, four tanks had rushed to the mouth of the canyon of the first mountain beam.

It's only been a few minutes, and Quan Chuanzao's mind is in a mess, is there five minutes? A squadron of nearly two hundred and fifty devils has lost two-thirds.

The show begins, and this is not the final ending. Four tanks, leaving two to guard the exit of the canyon, two Tiger tanks turned around again and killed. It's not just these two steel beasts wreaking havoc, and it's not just the rain of bullets from the naval resistance army on the second mountain beam. The naval resistance forces on both wings of the open land have already rushed over, and the whole Sichuan has not known where the end has come.

Jeonkawa drew his command knife early and wanted to kill himself, but when the katana was unsheathed and just flashed in the sun, it attracted the bullets of the sharpshooter. At that moment, the Mozingana sniper rifle bullet accurately hit Jeongawa's skull, and Jeonkawa's head cracked like a rotten watermelon.

The scattered Japanese troops saw that the canyon was not the way out, and wanted to escape from the first mountain beam, but the naval resistance army outflanked by both wings occupied the mountain beam first, and in the end it was difficult for even a devil to escape.

In less than ten minutes, the battle ended. The Naval Resistance Army only paid the price of four wounded and one killed, and completely annihilated 249 Japanese squadrons of 249 people. (To be continued......)