Chapter 66: The Battle of Kangma

Khamma's British army had not attacked Gyantse, and Smith wanted to run back to Myitkyina after learning that the Wehrmacht had airships, and then let Minto continue to command the battle, but as soon as he wanted to leave, he received a telegram from home, the prime minister ordered him to hold on to Khamma with his army for a few days, to delay as much time as possible, and also pointed out that the Imperial Far East Fleet had rushed to China, so that he should not worry.

In order to prevent the bombing of Wehrmacht airships, he ordered his soldiers to dig a lot of underground warehouses to store weapons and ammunition and to avoid bombing. He also asked the soldiers to dig a kind of trench with a wide and narrow mouth underneath, which he believed would withstand the bombardment of the airship and better protect the lives of the soldiers.

Although he had an airship to bomb the enemy, it was impossible for him to use the airship if the enemy attacked, and the current airship was just bombing a fixed place, so it was impossible for him to use the airship in his own position.

The current Wehrmacht's weapons and ammunition logistics are insufficient, so they did not attack the British army, but were waiting for the arrival of supplies and the fifty taels of wolf light tanks and twenty 2C heavy tanks on the road, before because they were not familiar with the road and terrain and did not let the tanks go to Tibet, after conquering Lhasa, Qin Yu ordered the tank troops to send tanks to support Tibet, and now the tank troops have arrived in Tibet, and the materials are on the way from Tibet to Gyantse, and there are 100,000 Wehrmacht troops rushing from Sichuan to Tibet.

Britain vowed to protect India from being invaded by the Wehrmacht before defeating the Chinese navy, so they recruited 700,000 servant troops in India and other places, and also sent 50,000 troops to India at home.

In the past two days, in order to understand the deployment of the British army, Cai Ye carried out several tentative attacks on Kangma, but each attack was resisted by the British army with a large number of servant troops, and the British army simply used the servant army as cannon fodder, those with inferior weapons, even the rifles of the early nineteenth century and flintlock muskets, so the Wehrmacht continued to strafe the British servant army with machine guns, and a large number of servant troops were killed, even so the servant army was still driven by the British army to block the Wehrmacht's bullet port.

Although after a few tentative attacks, more than 50,000 servant troops were killed, but Cai Ye did not have anything to be happy about, he watched those machine gunners and soldiers shoot bullets out wildly, and his heart hurt, and the consumption was so great that it did not hurt the British army, but killed some dispensable servant troops, which was really a waste.

At the time of the Wehrmacht's probing, their logistical supplies also arrived in Gyantse, only the tanks had not yet arrived, because the transportation in Tibet was too poor, the fuel consumption of the tanks was very large, and the supply teams that followed behind had opinions, and they had to stop refueling for a long time, so the tank troops had just arrived in the middle of Langkazi and Gyantse.

Smith also learned the approximate strength of the Wehrmacht in these several Wehrmacht tests, and when he first saw the strength of the Wehrmacht, he was also surprised, backward China would have such an army with advanced weapons, sufficient soldier experience, and high military quality, and his own army combat experience was not very sufficient, because the empire had not had large-scale wars in Southeast Asia in recent years, and the British army was very leisurely, and would only occasionally help the merchants of the empire to exterminate bandits or something. Smith felt sad when he compared, how long he would be able to hold out, if he didn't come, he would basically have nothing to do with it, and now he was about the same as Minto.

Soon the tank troops arrived in Gyantse, Cai Ye let them rest for a day and then took the army and tank troops to attack Kangma, after the first few temptations, he knew that the British army in Kangma had been fully prepared for the bombing of the airship troops, so he did not want the airship troops to waste ammunition.

Cai Ye and 130,000 Wehrmacht troops continued to rush towards Kangma, and when Smith of Kangma learned that the Wehrmacht was attacking, he told his soldiers to hold on, and he was ready to retreat at any time.

As soon as the Wehrmacht came to the British position at Kangma, the tank units were ahead of the line, while the Wehrmacht infantry followed closely behind the tank units. The British troops in the trenches suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound, and they looked nervously ahead, thinking that the Wehrmacht cavalry was coming and were ready for battle. After a while, the boom sounded louder, and they finally saw what the booming sound was, it turned out to be a movable iron box similar to a car, and they didn't know what it was, and they were all stunned to look at these things.

Soon the things were in front of their trenches, and some soldiers were shooting at the tank, but the bullets only sent a string of sparks on the tank, and more soldiers were watching the tank arrive. Soon the tin boxes were in front of the British army, and a piece of iron suddenly opened on the top of the iron boxes, and each iron box had a soldier in Wehrmacht uniform holding a light machine gun at the British army, and the British troops near the tank were directly smashed by the machine guns.

The British artillery wanted to shell the tanks, but because the tanks had already rushed into their positions, the shelling would hurt their own people, and the tanks were moving fast, so the British artillery did not dare to act rashly.

The tank units easily crossed the British trenches, and the Wehrmacht behind them also came to the battlefield at this time, and they launched a fierce attack on the British troops who were running around, and the British troops were even more confused when they saw the arrival of the Wehrmacht's army.

The tanks that were chasing the British opened fire on the dense British troops, and one after another shells fell among the dense officers, and the groups of servants were shot and killed by the tank troops, and the British soldiers who were fleeing suddenly found that the iron box would still be shelled, and they were frantically trying to get farther away from the tanks. The head of the British artillery in the rear suddenly received an order to shell the tanks that were slaughtering the British troops, and the head of the artillery ordered the artillery to attack the tanks after struggling, and the British artillery aimed at the tanks and opened fire, but their shells did not hit those tanks, basically hit the vicinity of the tanks and did not hit the tanks, but killed a lot of British troops nearby.

Although the tanks were not hit, the British artillery continued to shell the tanks, and their shelling was not ineffective at all, several Wolf tanks were overturned by the shock wave of the shells, and one light was just hit and blown up. But in this way, the position of the British artillery was also discovered by the Wehrmacht, and the Wehrmacht artillery began to shell the British artillery camp, and the tanks also fired back at the British artillery camp, and the British artillery was disabled by the Wehrmacht in more than an hour.

With the combination of tank troops, the Wehrmacht easily broke through the British defense line, but this was only the first line of defense in Kangma, and there was a strong defense line near the center of Kangma in the back, and now the British army continued to retreat to the rear defense line, basically keeping those servant military bodies to block the advance of the tanks.

The Wehrmacht, which had broken through the first line of defense, did not continue to advance, because the tanks were running out of fuel and ammunition and needed logistical replenishment, and the British troops in the second line of defense were ready to do enough, so Cai Ye ordered the army to rest on the spot.

Smith, who was in the rear, felt a little frightened after hearing the account of the fleeing British army, he could not imagine that Huaxia would have such a terrifying weapon, and he broke through his first line of defense in only half a day, which made him very frustrated. He was struggling to figure out how to deal with the Wehrmacht's demonic weapons, and soon he had the idea of taking out those demonic weapons, and that was to have the minions take out the demons with grenades.

Smith was preparing to flee while preparing for war, and the Empire's orders were to be fulfilled to the best of his ability, and he could delay the Wehrmacht for as long as he could, but he did not want to be captured or killed.

Early the next morning, the Wehrmacht launched a fierce attack on the second line of defense, the same use of tanks to open the way, and the Wehrmacht behind was also closely following the tanks, and the British troops used artillery to carry out fierce shelling of the tanks as soon as they saw the arrival of the tanks, but there were basically no shells that could hit the tanks, and the tanks still rushed quickly towards the British positions.

Just as the tank troops rushed to the British position, a large number of servant troops were driven by the British to fight the tanks, and those servant troops basically had a grenade in their hands, and they threw grenades at the Wehrmacht tanks. Many of those servants were killed by the tank's machine gunners before they could pull their grenades, and some managed to get close to the tanks and cause damage to the tanks, and the 10,000 servants only blew up less than 10 tanks, and the 10,000 servants were killed by the tank troops and the Wehrmacht who followed behind.

After these death squads and human bombs were cleared by the Wehrmacht, the tank units continued to rush towards the British positions, and because there were no death squads to stop the tanks, they quickly broke through the British defenses, and the Wehrmacht behind also rushed into a military position to fight the British troops.

With the superiority in numbers and weapons, the Wehrmacht directly broke down the entire defense line of the British army, and the British army was no match for the Wehrmacht at all. Smith had the soldiers resist the Wehrmacht attack by digging up the military structure to prevent the Wehrmacht's airships, and he was ready to retreat in the rear, so that he could keep himself safe as soon as he returned to Myitkyina, believing that the Wehrmacht had completed its mission after so many days in Kangma, and that the demonic weapons that had appeared today gave him a better reason to retreat.

The British troops in the defensive line were unable to delay the Wehrmacht, and in one day Kangma was captured by the Wehrmacht.