Many years ago, people who often mingled around Zhong Yi knew that His Majesty was a well-known good spirit who did not have a bad spirit.

This time, no miracle happened, and His Majesty once again ...... Unfortunately, in words.

After the end of Operation "Surgery", the Chinese Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sun Liren and the Blue Legion of the Spanish Wehrmacht worked together to launch an attack on the British forces in the neutral zone of the isthmus.

At the beginning of the campaign, the attack went well. The British army's underground fortifications were hit by the "Skunk" ground-penetrating bombs, and many sections were blown up. If the continuity of the tunnels is interrupted, effective support and offensive mobility cannot be guaranteed.

The British, who could only choose to defend on a fixed pivot, were forced to face an attack by the Allies, who were superior in numbers and firepower. Coupled with the second wave of air raids and the endless Allied artillery bombardment for several days, the British ground fortifications were already badly damaged.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force and the two vanguard divisions of Spain successfully broke through the British defense line in the neutral zone of the isthmus. Using the gradual blasting of explosives and the emergency call of individual flamethrowers, the Allies drove the British out of the tunnels or burned them to charcoal.

Although the British army suffered losses, the Allied casualties were also not small. There is no way, attacking such a fortress, even if the key areas are destroyed in the air raid, but the resistance of the British army can still effectively kill and injure the attacking soldiers.

Rao is a famous general like Sun Liren, and there is no good way. In fact, it is the same even if someone else comes here. Due to the special and narrow terrain of Gibraltar, the armored forces could not be deployed on a large scale, and a small number of tanks were undoubtedly the target of the British army in the fortifications in the slow march.

The British army in Gibraltar was not a black colonial force in Africa, the United Kingdom had occupied the area for more than 200 years, and the Gibraltar garrison was the first to receive assistance from the United States after the war. In Gibraltar, there are large reserves of both military and supplies. It was for this reason that the Allies abandoned the most common siege tactic of attacking forts, as that would mean that the campaign would be protracted.

Hanhuang doesn't want to wait! Therefore, the Allies had to pay a certain sacrifice and capture Gibraltar in the face of a hail of bullets.

One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, both ancient and modern!

The 27th Division of the Vanguard paid the price of nearly 100 killed and nearly 300 lightly and seriously wounded. In Sun Liren's opinion, such casualties are still bearable, and the death squads of the Blue Legion of the Spanish Defense Forces have sacrificed more, but for the Spanish people who are eager to regain the lost territory, it is nothing! Every member of the Falangist who joined the Blue Legion was paraded by the Führer, shouting: to erase the last disgrace of the Kingdom of Spain with life and blood.

Seeing the prospect of conquering Gibraltar, Franco had already arrived in Seville from Madrid. This further stimulated the will of the Blue Army, "The Führer is looking forward to joining us in Gibraltar, into our Spanish soil." ”

Sun Liren sat on the sidelines, watching the Spanish officer's hard work with cold eyes. I have to admit that this kind of army with faith is crazy and terrifying. He even remembered the already lost civil war, when the opponents of the country/army also boosted morale before the war, right?

Think of the Huaihai Campaign, when hundreds of thousands of elite nationals/troops had to throw away a large number of vehicles and heavy weapons because of the muddy land, and then lost their armor in the frenzied charge of others.

What is the spirit of the army? The military soul is supported by fanatical beliefs, you can not want your life, you are not afraid of casualties, uh, that's right, in Xinhua's fashionable saying called "throwing your head and spilling blood"!

Sun Liren used to despise this statement, but after fighting side by side with the Spanish army, which was also known for its fanaticism, he was a little envious of this kind of army with a fanatical military spirit. "At least when someone has to die, there is no shortage of stormtroopers, and there is no need to pay out of their own pockets to sprinkle the ocean......"

However, this relatively relaxed atmosphere changed abruptly the next day before and after the attack on Iwayama.

The British firepower seemed to have suddenly increased greatly, and the Allied soldiers in the charge were knocked down in pieces like wheat harvesting. In just half an hour, the two regiments that wanted to bypass the rocky mountains and attack the city and the port were all disabled.

Sun Liren had to suspend the offensive, but this decision was strongly opposed by the Spanish commanders. In his opinion, this is the last madness of the British army, what is it if two regiments are disabled, and during the Spanish Civil War, there were more battles than this.

This rampant tone made Admiral Sun Liren speechless, and he wanted to say, "Compared to the scale of the war and the number of participants in the war, is the population of your Spain as much as the army of China during the Civil War?" ”

But think about it again, now his motherland should be the Republic of China, China, which is preparing to establish a state on Xiqi Island? Is there a chance to go back in this life? With a bitter smile, Sun Liren still chose to be silent. Since the lives of the Spaniards are not valuable, let them rush and attack again after finding the reason anyway.

Under the organization of the Spanish officers, another regiment of pikemen shouting slogans rushed forward, and under the blow of the British version of the Vickes machine gun of the Maxim heavy machine gun, it was repulsed without any suspense, and then rushed, and retreated......

An hour later, the Spanish commander walked back to the command with his head down, "Sun, you're right. ”

Sun Liren did not make fun of him, but patted him on the shoulder to express comfort. "The sacrifice of the brothers is worth it!"

It was not a simple comfort, through the several charges of the Spaniards just now, Sun Liren saw clearly in the telescope that it was not that the defense of the British army had been strengthened, but that the underground tunnels and dark forts in this area had basically not been hit too seriously.

The traffic between the various tunnels was smooth, and the British troops could move quickly and appear in the most advantageous defensive positions. The sturdy concrete fortifications were lined with a large number of Vickers light and heavy machine guns and other automatic fire.

In the face of such a defensive position, the use of crowd tactics is tantamount to murder.

The Germans, armed with a large number of Mark's heavy machine guns during World War I, killed more than 60,000 British troops in a dense formation in a single day. After so many years of development, heavy machine guns have long become an important component of firepower at the squad and platoon level.

A heavy machine gun in a bunker can slaughter a battalion of attacking soldiers if there are enough bullets.

This situation made both commanders very helpless, and it was obvious that the "surgical operation" operation did not cut out all the tumors with precision, as in the war report. At least on the west side of the rocky mountain, this group of fortifications is intact.

At the first thought, they all thought of calling the air force again to strike. But when the eyes of the two met each other, they both saw the three golden stars on their collar badges in each other's pupils.

If it was a Han army unit that was in charge of the ground offensive here, then they would definitely call the air force without hesitation. But for the Chinese ...... It should be called the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Spanish Defense Force, they both need to prove themselves in battle. Earn more respect and dignity for your country.

The two generals, who had to communicate through an interpreter because of the language barrier, actually understood each other's meaning at that moment: to capture the fortress with their own strength.

The Spanish head of state was waiting in Seville not far away to step into Gibraltar with the Blue Army, and the Spaniards had no way back; And Sun Liren also very much hoped to use a great victory of the expeditionary force to present the founding of China. When the two commanders had already unified their operational thoughts with their eyes, everything became much simpler.

The ground assault force did not report the obstruction of the offensive to the General Command of the Theater. Instead, all the artillery units of the two corps were reorganized, and the artillery positions were moved forward, and the fortifications, the ground, and the mountains on the west side of the rock mountain in Gibraltar were bombarded.

When giving the order to the artillery, General Sun Liren's original words were: "Boom, give Lao Tzu a hard shot." It's not a carpet shelling, it's a kang smashing a kang bombardment, a frenzied bombardment...... Until all your shells are gone. ”

…… The artillerymen were speechless, and the commander was already frenzied, thinking about what to do, and took off his clothes...... Uh, it's a shirt, bare-chested to hit / cannon fire!

The artillery divisions of the expeditionary forces were armed with 155-mm and a small number of 203-mm caliber howitzers. In general, artillery of such caliber was enough to hit any target, but it was far from enough for the semi-underground fortifications of the British army made of cement concrete.

During the air raid, a considerable number of British troops would survive in the underground kang tunnels hit by skunk drilling, which shows the strength of these fortifications.

The artillery of the ground forces, the bombardment of the fortifications of the British army, has been several days. Everyone understood that an artillery bombardment of this magnitude could not deal much damage to the British.

But for the attacking forces, they really don't have much to do without calling the air force.

The method agreed between Sun Liren and the Spanish commander was to bypass the well-fortified area of the British army and launch an attack on the other side where the tunnel was obviously much destroyed, in order to flank the British troops in this section of the fortifications.

While this still requires a lot of sacrifice, ...... There's really no way out. If you want to take the fortress quickly, you must take this section of the fortification as soon as possible.

The Spanish commander was quite bloody, "This is to liberate our Spanish land, let our Lancers rush first!" ”

"Nima!" Sun Liren secretly cursed a mantra he learned from Jiang Yunzhi in Cairo, "It's useless for you to emphasize to me about Spanish territory, and in the end, you don't want the Han Emperor to nod?" ”

"Let's come together, not only can the Spanish brothers bleed, our Chinese soldiers are also good!"

…… I don't know if the Spanish commander has heard of "Liao Zhai"? I believe that if he hears it, he will definitely sigh, "It's all a thousand-year-old fox!" ”

After a full day of fighting, Sun Liren found that not to mention the intact fortifications, even the incomplete position on the side, after paying thousands of casualties, could not be completely taken.

The Spanish were indeed brave and organized an attack overnight. It's just that Sun Liren frowned again and again, the death squad changed batch after batch, and the position was just a few meters and a few meters forward, but the price paid was: the corpse platoon is not just these few meters.

I tried the barrage in the night Xu Jin, which I learned from the machine infantry of the Han Guards Regiment when I was in Africa, but the effect was still not satisfactory. The new 27th Division had already been replaced because of heavy casualties, and the new 22nd Division, which had the strongest combat effectiveness of the expeditionary force, was almost half disabled, and had to be withdrawn to the rear to rest and recuperate.

The newly formed 15th Division, which was newly formed, was thrown in by two more regiments, but it was still hundreds of meters away from the position where the planned flank strike was launched.

The Spanish commander, who was anxious to make a meritorious service in front of the Führer, was the first to be unable to resist, and after nearly twenty hours of fighting, the casualties of the Blue Legion reached more than 10,000.

The casualties on the side of the Chinese Expeditionary Force are actually about the same, but they are only rotated by several troops, which is not so obvious.

If this fight continues, half of the expeditionary force will have to be thrown into this projectile land, "You can't fight like this!" ”

As soon as Sun Liren spoke, the Spanish general on the opposite side nodded fiercely, and he didn't know if he understood, but ...... In other words, after the battle in the past few days, the two generals have quite a clear meaning.