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[241] Liberation of Hong Kong and Macao

At the end of November, it is the middle of winter in the north.

However, people living in Guangdong still wear single coats, and the temperature even reaches more than 20 degrees at noon.

The discipline of Zhang Erpao, commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, was tightly fastened, and he held a slender baton in his hand and pointed on the large map of the temporary headquarters:

"The battle plan has been studied many times, and I will not be verbose anymore, in short, it boils down to one word -- "Quick!" "The sooner the better!"

Yesterday, the artillery battalion of the 28th Division of the 10th Episode set up an ambush in Bao'an Lotus Mountain, and sank two British gunboats in one go, which frightened the British fleet into a fart, and hurriedly ran away with black smoke. In this battle, together with our previous more than a dozen ambushes and sneak attacks on British and French warships, the British and French sank seven or eight ships, and seven or eight ships were wounded. ”

"Comrades, the East India Fleet and the French Far East Fleet do not dare to make their heads at the mouth of the Pearl River at all, they are already frightened by our artillery, and now they do not dare to cross the mouth of the Pearl River to shell our domestic river ports. In the words of the chairman, it is that the east wind has overwhelmed the west wind! ”

"I will now convey the decision of the Central Committee, and all the commanders and fighters of the Guangzhou Military Region participating in the war will obey the order!"

After Zhang Erpao finished speaking, all the commanders and fighters in the temporary command headquarters stood up.

"Early in the morning of 30 November, our army launched a campaign to liberate Hong Kong and Macao in accordance with the established battle plan, and under the blockade of artillery fire, it rushed across the two-kilometer strait in one go, quickly took Hong Kong and Macao, captured a local foreigner, and escorted them back to Guangzhou Prison.

Kill a stubborn enemy! There is no need to think about prisoners against British and French warships, they should be annihilated as much as possible, of course, it is good to be captured, but there is no need to pay additional casualties for this goal......"

At four o'clock in the morning on November 30, Li Lu had already gotten up and ordered the whole group to start cooking.

When he first attacked Beijing, Li Lu was only a platoon commander, thanks to the huge expansion plan of the revolutionary army, according to the merits of the Botou Battle and the Beijing Liberation Campaign, Li Lu has now become a regiment commander of the newly formed 21st Army, and Maotou has also become his personal guard.

Approaching six o'clock, the whole regiment had already eaten breakfast and began to move towards the offensive position, and with the arrival of the offensive time, the 21st Army, as the main force of this ground offensive, began to attack from the Shigang area of the Kowloon Peninsula to Kowloon to the south.

In accordance with the requirements of the operational program, the 21st Army's infantry and artillery were combined very smoothly, and with the large-scale assault of the infantry, the artillery battalions of each division were divided into parts, and the regiments were followed by company formations, constantly building new artillery positions on the march, and striking at the enemy's posts and artillery fortifications in accordance with the requirements of the front-line headquarters of each regiment.

Whistling shells sporadically swept through the early morning sky, and the British and French forts and infantry fortifications on the south side of the Kowloon Peninsula were blown up and flesh flew everywhere.

As the front fingers of the 61st Division of the 21st Army crossed Tai Mo Shan and entered the Kowloon Bay area, the wild charge horn was fully sounded, and the 181st, 182nd, and 183rd regiments under the 61st Division went down the mountain and roared to occupy Tsuen Wan, and by 10 o'clock in the morning, the 61st Division had completely occupied the Kowloon Bay area.

With the arrival of various artillery battalions, the number of artillery in the Kowloon Bay area continued to increase, and countless shells bombarded the so-called Victoria Bay area on the beachhead of Hong Kong Island on the opposite shore across the narrow line of Kowloon Bay.

The main force of the British and French forces was located in the southern part of Victoria Bay on Hong Kong Island, and after the loss of the Kowloon Peninsula without incident, the British and French forces used all the batteries in Hong Kong and more than 150 artillery pieces equipped by the allied forces in accordance with their garrison plan, and began to fire artillery at the 21st Army north of Kowloon Bay.

Li Lu stood on a high ground at the Kowloon Bay Pier, holding a walkie-talkie and ordering the mortar company accompanying the regiment: "Bomb! Blow it up! Be sure to smash the artillery positions of the foreigners on the opposite side for me! ……”

As the three divisions under the 21st Army frantically rushed into the southern tip of the Kowloon Peninsula, the artillery battalions of the three divisions began to cover the south bank......

Lord Sutter, commander-in-chief of the Anglo-French forces, stood on a hill on Hong Kong Island, looking anxiously north with a telescope.

"Damn! Damn it!!! These devils !! Satan !! of the East ”

Lord Sutter watched the coalition artillery positions on the southern shore of Victoria Bay being lifted into the sky one by one, and cursed angrily.

Baron Rebrown, the commander of the French army, trembled slightly in his legs at this moment, and shouted anxiously:

"The Chinese have more and more artillery! Their shelling is too powerful! Each shot is more powerful than a 12-inch 304mm caliber 800-pounder coastal defense gun!

Our artillery is completely incapable of firing at them! With just one shot, their shells can destroy a single life within 20 to 30 meters!

Son of a bitch bastard!! Where did these lowly yellow-skinned pigs get these shells!!

Sartre, we are losing this defensive battle!! ”

Lord Sartre roared madly: "They have nearly a hundred cannons! And the number is still increasing, and as far as I can see, their artillery seems to have a magic effect, and it only takes 2 to 3 seconds to complete a single launch! That is, a rate of fire of 20-30 rounds per minute!!

Damn it! That's impossible! That's impossible!!! ”

Baron Rebrown's palms were all sticky with oil and sweat, and he could barely hold the handle of the command knife on his waist, and he said dejectedly: "I now know why the five-nation alliance army was completely annihilated by the Chinese in Shanghai, this kind of artillery of the Chinese is the first in the world, such a great power and high rate of fire, we can't fight against it."

For the Army, artillery is the truth, and Chinese now has the strongest truth......"

To the north of Kowloon Bay, Li Lu used binoculars to check the state of artillery damage on the other side, and asked Maotou beside him, "Is the reserve of artillery shells enough?" Is the militia battalion under our regiment keeping up? ”

After a year of training and study in the army, Mao Tou is no longer the original baby, now he is not only good at rifle shooting and grenade throwing, but also a good hand at explosives, and now he is working hard to learn mathematics through the guò military literacy class and the self-study textbooks issued by him, and has finished learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and is learning decimal numbers and fractions. Because the army now has regulations, anyone who fails mathematics and Chinese literacy in primary school will not be promoted.

"Regiment commander, don't worry, the militia battalion is following, this time the artillery company in the division is following our regiment, and the division has allocated 900 shells, one cannon with 100 rounds, and the militia battalion is all with it."

"Tell the militia battalion to pay attention to its own concealment, and when sending shells, they must abide by safety regulations, and they are not allowed to send shells more than once!"

"Yes, regiment commander, I will tell the militia battalion again, and we must send bombs in batches and small quantities."

"Well, otherwise, if a firing point is taken, the ammunition will be killed."

……………………

Due to the high-intensity fire strike of the 21st Army from 10 o'clock, by noon, the British and French troops on the southern shore of Kowloon Bay had been bombarded and had no foothold, and began to flee to the Stanley barracks at the southern tip of Hong Kong Island. The more than 150 artillery pieces equipped by the coalition forces, and almost all the artillery of more than 1,000 people were killed, and they died under the destruction of the artillery fire launched by the 21st Army.

Under the cover of the artillery companies along the coast, the convoy that crossed the sea and landed had already set out from Shenzhen and finally entered Kowloon Bay at this moment.

As the vanguard of the sea-crossing force, 1,307 people from the 183rd Regiment of the 61st Division led by Li Lu were the first to board the ship and crossed the sea lightly, carrying only 300 rounds of ammunition and 4 grenades per person.

The 183rd Regiment took only 20 minutes from embarkation to landing, and immediately after the landing, it launched a fierce pursuit of the remnants of the enemy forces on the island, and except for one company that remained at the landing site, the whole army pursued in the direction of Stanley.

Although Lord Sartre repeatedly asked the warships stationed in Hong Kong to insert into Kowloon Bay and launch artillery bombardment of the revolutionary army on the north shore, Brusto, commander of the East India Fleet, completely ignored this request. The British and French fleets and all kinds of ships of all sizes collected from all over the port were anchored at the Stanley Military Port at this moment, filled with supplies, and waited for the war to be out of control, and then evacuate Hong Kong with their shameful colonial troops and flee to the French colonial port in Annam.

The British East India Fleet and the French Far East Fleet, because they had previously fired at the shore defense artillery of the revolutionary army, knew how terrifying the accuracy and rate of fire of the Chinese artillery were, and the rated rate of fire of 30 rounds per minute of the 82 was a nightmare for any fleet, and the Chinese artillery moved flexibly and elusively, and the combined fleet of Britain and France was often caught off guard by sudden shelling.

This tragic downward momentum was so sad for the Anglo-French combined fleet that the planned shelling of China's coastal ports had to be cancelled. The day before, the British and French fleets had hoped to bombard the coast through Guò and transport the land to land and seize samples of Chinese artillery, but because they were discovered by the Chinese coastal defense forces, they suffered heavy losses from the shelling and had to retreat.

When the three regiments of the 61st Division under the 21st Army completed the landing, the dust had settled on the liberation of Hong Kong Island.

At this moment in the Stanley area, Li Lu's 183rd Regiment is frantically slaughtering the British and French troops who fled all the way here.

The original Anglo-French army of more than 15,000 people was completely annihilated from the 3,000 people stationed on the Kowloon Peninsula, and then lost more than 5,000 people in the "Victoria Bay" under artillery fire, and then fled all the way to Stanley. Along the way, the fierce pursuit launched by the 183 regiment continued to kill and wound heavily, and the high rate of fire of the 56 semi-automatic and the death harvest of the Type 81 light machine gun had left the British and French forces unapprehended, and they did not know how to deal with it at all.

The makeshift fortifications and trenches erected by the Anglo-French forces along the way also failed to stop the attack of the 183rd Regiment. The revolutionary army, after suppressing the trenches with fire, launched an attack by the assault group with a rain of grenades, killing the entire Anglo-French army in the trenches and then moving on.

In the Stanley Military Port, the remaining more than 5,000 British and French troops are frantically flocking to the large and small ships moored here, hoping to escape for the rest of their lives.

Everyone knows that the Chinese executed all the prisoners of war in the previous Battle of Shanghai, and the soldiers of the British and French forces were terrified at the thought of being executed after being captured.

The French resolutely abandoned their soldiers from the colony of Annam, and the British were unequivocal, leaving the local soldiers of Hong Kong to defend to the death, taking only British soldiers and officers on board, and at the same time evacuating British merchants in Hong Kong on a large scale.

The Stanley Military Port was in chaos for a while, and the British merchants and immigrants who had thought that the great British Empire would easily defeat those yellow-skinned pigs were terrified, and they wanted to board the ships with their families.

In front of the boarding stairs at the dock of the 4,800-ton steam carrier Padua, a British sailor rudely shouted: "Ma'am, no luggage!" ”

The Englishman who accompanied the richly dressed Englishwoman cried out: "For God's sake, these are my possessions, and Britain should protect my possessions!" ”

A sailor pulled the man away: "The people behind are on board!" ”

"No, you can't do that to me! I'm a gentleman! The man yelled.

The sailors ignored the man's shouts and continued to anxiously arrange for boarding, judging from the distant gunfire and explosions, that the Chinese army was about to storm the Stanley barracks.

Suddenly, the whistle sounded, and the sailor's face changed greatly, and he quickly turned around and rushed to the boat, and pushed the boarding ladder with the rest of the sailors, and for a while a dozen or so Britons who were climbing frantically fell down heavily.

Throughout the Stanley Military Port, the whistles sounded one after another, accompanied by the cries and pleadings of British immigrants, and the ships began to leave the port one by one.

"You bastards who deserve hell! Bastard! ”

"The son of a bitch's navy! May God shipwreck you at sea!! ”

"Come back! Please! For God's sake! Come back! ”

"For the Queen's sake, please take me away! I'm Jazz! Sir! ”

"Bloody hell awaits you! The Navy goes to hell! ”

"Go to hell for the navy!"

"Go to hell for the navy!"