Chapter Seventy-Seven: This is how the war was fought
"Hurry up, hurry up." Qiu Jiyun, deputy commander of the 326th Regiment of the 110th Brigade of the 67th Division of the 18th Army, slapped Zhang Tianfang, a northeastern soldier who was walking slowly on the side of the road.
"What are you doing in such a hurry? I'm almost tired from running so far, and I tell you that if I had to kill you before. "Zhang Tianfang may be from the Northeast, and his temper is also very straightforward, and he has been mixed in the 110th Brigade for more than a year, and he is also very familiar with Qiu Jiyun, and the two of them say that these words that are obviously looking for trouble in the eyes of outsiders will not affect the relationship between the two at all.
"What are you doing, you want to rebel? I'll tell you, if we don't make it to the ground before lunch, today's lunch will be canceled. Qiu Jiyun smiled coldly, ignored Zhang Tianfang, and continued to run forward alone.
The higher authorities have already sent an order, ordering them to rush to the position before dinner a few days at the latest, and then familiarize themselves with the situation of the position, or to see if the position is not satisfactory and revise it themselves, after all, the engineer unit is not a combat unit, and it is impossible for them to understand the habits of some combat troops, so they can only dig trenches and so on according to their own wishes and the engineer manual, but this does not mean that there is no difference whether the engineer has roots or not.
With the previous work of the engineers, they only need to see if the position is satisfactory when they arrive, and then they are slightly revising it, because the engineer manual is drawn up according to the habits of the combat troops, and it can save the combat troops several hours of time when they come and go.
"Who's the hell? Why is it so? Zhang Tianfang turned his head to look at Zhao Yu, who was also a soldier from the Northeast.
"I don't know." Zhao Yu shook his head.
"Sichuanese, do you know?" Zhang Tianfang looked at a Sichuan soldier who was also in his own class.
"You are a dead northeasterner, you don't even know this, a melon baby, it must be that the superior is too slow for us to run and criticize him." Sichuan guy Jin Cheng scolded with a smile.
"Oh mom, no, I'll tell you, the big guys should run faster for me, if anyone dares to slow me down for five minutes to see if I don't kill his calves." Zhang Tianfang thought about it carefully and felt that this was also the case, otherwise Qiu Jiyun would have no reason to be so anxious for no reason.
Along the way, the march of the troops silently sped up a lot, originally the 326th Regiment was the vanguard army marching into Guangdong, when they received the order, they were already about to Shaoguan is the farthest regiment from Shenzhen, but their speed is really not slow, because there are two regiments next to them, although they are also almost to Shaoguan, but the distance between the 326th Regiment and them is more than 60 kilometers.
The 326th Regiment finally entered the position that had been laid for them by the engineering unit half an hour before lunch, and the soldiers were tired and out of breath, while the regiment commander Li Yicheng and the deputy regiment commander Qiu Jiyun hurriedly went to the brigade headquarters for a meeting, and the rest of the soldiers had dinner in advance, and then began to revise their positions.
After lunch, Qiu Jiyun and Li Yicheng returned to their positions with depressed faces, and they didn't know why they suddenly turned around here, because Hong Kong was opposite, which was the territory of the British. But when they arrived, they didn't get happy when they learned why they came here, firstly, because a lot of troops had been assembled here, and in addition to the two brigades of the 69th Division, which were responsible for local stability, most of the troops of the 11th Division had also arrived here. The second is what they just learned that the Qing court had signed a traitorous treaty with the British, and the place where they are now has theoretically become a British concession.
Is it really about to fight the British? I don't know if the Navy can beat it, but the Army is no problem anyway. There are more than 30,000 elite army troops here, as well as thousands of frogman troops and special forces of various divisions, and there is no problem in defeating the opposite side.
In the afternoon, the soldiers were on vacation, but people had to stay in the position, anyway, whatever you wanted, as long as you didn't run out of the position, you could quickly return to your battle position if something happened.
At night, the soldiers slept peacefully, because for the rest of the year, until the end of the war in Hong Kong, they could not sleep soundly. They received a tip that the British and Indians would attack tomorrow morning.
"Get up, there's a situation." Qiu Jiyun ran quickly, and his hands kept patting on the soldiers lying in the trenches. This kind of scene is not only seen in the 326th regiment, but also in all the troops, and the secret post ten kilometers ahead has already spotted the British and Indian soldiers who are advancing here.
One by one, the soldiers got up and rubbed their eyes, picked up the steel guns and lay on the position to watch the calm and unremarkable front, and the soldiers of the cooking squad behind them took the hot steamed buns made in the early morning and stuffed them into the hands of the soldiers, they had field rations, but the officers knew that once the war started, they would not have time to sit down and eat peacefully, so they let the soldiers eat a hot steamed bun as much as possible.
"British?" As time passed, the figure of the British soldier had gradually appeared in his eyes, Zhang Tianfang rubbed his eyes vigorously, and said in disbelief.
"It's the British, brothers, the commander-in-chief said, everyone will fight this battle hard, don't worry about any shells and bullets, you can fight as many as you can, don't be polite to the guys on the other side, you can eat as much as you want." Company commander Ouyang Jing stood in the position of the company commander and said to his own company.
"Didn't you say there wasn't enough ammunition before, so let's save some of it, as long as we can scare them?" Zhang Tian is a native of the Northeast, and his bold surname naturally makes him unable to keep things he doesn't understand in his heart, let alone in this army where superiors and subordinates are equal.
"I said you're a dead Northeasterner, don't you understand this? Before, we didn't let us fight too hard because we were fighting a civil war, in the end, it was our own people fighting our own people, of course, just scare, but now it's different, the opposite side is the British devils, killing a lot of us, do you say you can save fighting? Sichuan guy Jin Cheng kicked Zhang Tianfang in the back.
"Also, I found that your Sichuan guy has a pretty good head, but let me tell you, if you dare to kick me in the future, I will kill you and me." Zhang Tianfang touched his head and scolded with a smile.
The British began to stop, and they spotted the squadron that had been deployed in front of them, and their fortifications were very strange, and it seemed that they were as timid as rats, and only thought of defense, and they wrapped themselves tightly, for fear that they would be hit. British commander Mike picked up his pipe and smiled, he was very disdainful of this defensive tactic of the [***] team on the opposite side, he believed that as long as the British Empire's army could take the opposite position with a charge, this idea may be strange to you, maybe you will ask why he thinks so, the answer is very simple, because Mike Jue's British Emperor [***] team's combat effectiveness is enough to fulfill such a prophecy, and their strength is far from being comparable to the group of Far Eastern monkeys on the opposite side.
Mike waved his hand forward and motioned for his troops to continue charging.
Tang Zhiyun stood in front of the position and looked at the offensive tactics of the British army opposite, and suddenly laughed sourly in his heart, he couldn't imagine that the British army on the opposite side was really stupid and rushed over in line like this, did they still think that the trick of increasing the density of offensive troops to improve the efficiency of the attack would work here? Then let the Brits see how I shred up their offense.
Since the founding of the Hainan Army, the Hainan Army has completely abandoned the primitive infantry defense tactics and charge tactics, and the mainstream tactics of the army charge in the world are still to use dense charge teams to fight. The method of dispersing the forces as much as possible to reduce the damage of machine guns to infantry has not yet spread, at least in the ignorance of the countries. With such a formation, in front of the Hainan army, which is equipped with a large number of machine guns, this is undoubtedly suicide. From the moment the British army began to charge, Tang Zhiyun knew that this war would be a naked massacre.
Although the firing range of the 'Tongtong' Fire Dragon Machine Gun has reached an astonishing 1,800 meters after being equipped with a triangular bracket, in order to take care of the brothers with rifles in their hands, commanders at all levels still put the enemy into 400 meters to fight according to the previous reservation, and at this distance, an average company only defends a position more than 100 meters long, and before this war, the military headquarters has increased the number of fire dragons equipped with each company to four, that is to say, on average, there is a fire dragon on average every 30 or 40 meters.
If the British army wanted to rely on a dense formation to break through the position on such a tight defensive formation of the Hainan army, it was absolutely impossible, and only death awaited them.
Suddenly there was a strange sound, even though many British soldiers were shot and fell to the ground and the wailing sound, such a dense formation made them have nowhere to escape, nowhere to hide, and many soldiers were so frightened that they didn't even know to look for cover, just blindly stood there in a daze, until they were hit and fell to the ground, they remembered that they had forgotten to find cover.
This can't be blamed for their carelessness, but in the previous battles, they never used such a thing as a cover in the attack, and this time the matter came so urgently, plus their mentality of being the world boss for a long time made them so light on the enemy, and the Hainan army slapped the British [***] team hard.
From the first machine gun to the present, the battle has begun for five minutes, and it is these five minutes that have become a nightmare for the British soldiers, for them there is nothing more terrible than this, dense bullets rushed at them, 75 field guns, 102 heavy guns, 120 howitzers, 155 heavy howitzers, 50 mm 60 mm mortars frantically smashed into the center of the British army, one by one shells exploded in the center of the crowd, after being hit by 155 heavy howitzers, The center calculates that within a radius of fifteen meters is the range of killing, and within fifty meters will be injured, and if you are unlucky, you can be hit if you stand a hundred meters away. Ten minutes into the war, there were nearly 1,000 British soldiers lying on the ground at this moment, and the Indian soldiers were even more pitiful, forced to go up by the British soldiers, and the Indian soldiers suffered the greatest casualties, but more than 2,000 were killed by various shells, and even more were wounded, more than 5,000 people.
Seeing that the power of the opponent's artillery was so powerful, the British soldiers sighed for a while, and many soldiers who were not injured and had not had time to rush to the range of combat fire hurriedly dropped their equipment and ran backwards like crazy, hoping that the opponent's shells would not hit them, and they prayed to God. The British commander saw that the two sides had just met and that he had become defeated, and although he was very angry, he couldn't care much after seeing the might of the other side, and hurriedly retreated to the depths of Hong Kong under the protection of his personal entourage.
"Hey, let the artillerymen stop quickly, they all scared people away, I can't reach this range." Zhang Tianfang pointed to the artillery position behind him and scolded, in fact, not only the British troops on the other side were afraid of the battlefield in front of them, but the Hainan soldiers here were also scared when they saw it, until today they didn't know that the artillery equipped on their side was so powerful, and in just ten minutes of fighting, the British [***] team and the Indian army were defeated, and nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 6,000 were injured. However, they are also very glad that the other side is not equipped with such artillery, and they are not currently threatened by any artillery.
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