Chapter 24 The captives also drink milk
The battle turned into a pursuit battle, tanks and armored vehicles were like wolves, and the 17th Brigade of the Australian Army was the Australian sheep in the Great Artesian Basin. This analogy is very apt, there are no tigers and wolves and other beasts on the Australian continent, and the Australian army has no armored troops at all, and most Australians firmly believe that as long as there is the protection of the British Empire, no country will dare to fight their doctrine, so they are only keen to raise more sheep. Turning a blind eye to the fact that the European continent has gradually entered a white-hot arms race, in the words of Canberra's MPs, there is no country on earth that can defeat the empire on which the sun never sets, and as the dominion of the British Empire, King George's brilliance also shines on Australia.
Few of the soldiers of the 17th Brigade have heard of tanks, and many of the soldiers just run all the way without looking back, and they are unlucky if they are hit by artillery and machine guns. Fortunately, the speed of the Type 59 in battle was only about 20 kilometers per hour, and it often "reasonably collided" or stopped to fire artillery, so many soldiers of the 17th Brigade were able to "escape from the tiger's mouth". But the tiger is easy to escape, the wolf kiss is hard to dodge, the real more lethal is actually the dozen wheeled infantry vehicles, the two machine guns on each vehicle are like bullets do not need money to shoot non-stop, there are countless deserters in front of you, no need to deliberately look for the enemy, hundreds of routs have gathered on every road, the machine gunners on the infantry vehicles feel like harvesting wheat, row after row of Australian soldiers with khaki broad-brimmed hats fell to the ground in fear and despair, they can't fight and fight, they can't run and run, and there are smart ones who simply raise their hands and squat on the side of the road, Seeing that these surrendered soldiers were not attacked again, more soldiers did not run away, and the roadside in the barracks was full of people. Fortunately, they did not wave their felt hats, and staged another bloody drama of military and civilian fishing and water love.
Brigadier Hans did not flee, because his old friend, Baron Hebar, refused to flee like a sheep, and even if he was defeated, he would maintain the honor of nobility. In desperation, Hans and the guards who did not want to leave him also packed their uniforms and wide-brimmed hats, and stood together behind the unruly artillery position, which had long been destroyed by tanks. Brigadier General Hans was ashamed that the 17th Brigade, which had been painstakingly managed, was almost completely wiped out in a short period of time, and his old friends who came from afar to visit him were in a desperate situation; Brigadier General Hans was proud again, and even at this last moment, there was still a team of hundreds of people around him, and he would not leave it.
The red earth under the feet trembled, the dark green tank was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers of the guard company directly under the brigade headquarters took off their wide-brimmed hats and quietly walked over to block the front of the brigade commander Hans, seeing this scene, Huo Lu in the tank commanded No. 111 to advance quickly, and only suddenly braked a few meters away from the Australian soldiers, and no one dodged. Opening the turret door, Company Commander Huo exposed his upper body, and raised his right hand high and gave a thumbs up.
Dare to block dozens of tons of steel behemoths with flesh and blood, this group of Australian soldiers is the real soldiers, and their courage deserves to be praised by anyone, even in this battlefield filled with gunpowder, even if both sides are still undying enemies at the previous moment. Huo Lu suddenly felt that this battle, his side won a bit of a fluke, if the Australian army had some weapons that could compete with the Type 59, the result would definitely not be as easy as it is now.
The soldiers in front of the tank were suddenly separated from the left and right, and Hans and Hebal walked out side by side. Although the uniforms of the Australian army were very ugly and even a little irregular, Huo Lu still recognized Hans's rank of brigadier general through the epaulettes, and in the 17th brigade, there was only one brigadier general, and that was their brigade commander. Huo Lu was very excited, looking at the nervous appearance of this group of people, he knew that there were big fish, but he didn't expect it to be the ultimate boss of this battle. Of course, seeing Hebar beside the boss made Huo Company Commander even happier, not only because the battalion commander gave the order that Hebar must be protected before the battle, but also because seeing the two standing together, Huo Lu understood that although Hebar had not sent back the news, he was definitely excellent in completing the task of preventing the 17th Brigade from retreating in advance, well, absolutely excellent.
Commander Huo gave a military salute to Hebar - the baron is a colonel, although it is the rank of the Australian army, but the commander has never said that he will not admit it! This military salute made Brigadier General Hans a little confused, and subconsciously returned a military salute, he thought that this lieutenant of the enemy was very military and respected himself. Hey, it's a sin to bully honest people!
The rest of the plot is nothing more than that, both sides have to maintain the dignity of the soldiers, both the victors and the losers, although Brigadier Hans is angry that the enemy commander who accepted his surrender is only a major, but the slightest subtleties do not affect the course of the battlefield, especially Baron Hebal, who shrugged his shoulders and muttered in a low voice, "Yes, I was only a second lieutenant at that time!" ”。
After more than an hour of fighting, the Australian army was killed and wounded more than 700 people, on both sides of the road raised their hands as good babies and the Australian troops who surrendered with Hans added up to 7 or 800 people, and the other Australian troops took advantage of the chaos to escape from the barracks, of course, waiting for them to be the white cavalry battalion led by Qian Zhihao, I don't know what kind of expression these Australian soldiers will have when they see the cavalry battalion soldiers wearing Type 07 camouflage uniforms.
As for the other captures, most of them still had the Lee-Enfield Type 3 rifles that the arsenal had not had time to take out, and the soldiers of the armored battalion did not look at them at all, so in order to avoid future trouble, they simply threw them on the ground and let the tanks pass by. It was the fresh milk and eggs in the logistics warehouse, which made the soldiers like treasures, and the doves occupied the magpie's nest and opened a gang directly in the canteen where the 17th Brigade was stationed and had not been reasonably charged.
As soon as the smell of milk filled the cafeteria, Qian Zhihao led the cavalry battalion to rush in with the smell and scolded Huo Lu angrily, "You kid is a dog's nose?" ”
The Australian troops who ran out were captured by the cavalry battalion and returned more than 300 people, exceeding the number of cavalry battalions, but they were both whites, and the two sides communicated well, "Dude, what are you running, our People's Liberation Army treats prisoners preferentially." ”;“ Shoot and don't kill, be honest! Sentences such as these are translated into English and resounded at all the intersections leading to Kalgoorlie. In less than half an hour, Qian Zhihao took more than 300 captives to collect his troops and returned to the court with a great victory.
When the soldiers of the armored battalion and the cavalry battalion untied their collars and prepared to eat, there was a small commotion among the prisoners in the open field. ”
Ask the sir, the whole country Lin couldn't cry or laugh when he heard it, and Brigadier General Hans next to him immediately demanded that his soldiers should not go hungry, Hebal wanted to be a peacemaker, but when he thought that he was still accompanying Hans to play the role of a prisoner, the play was not finished, so he quickly closed his mouth. The final result was that the canteen continued to open, and it was necessary to expand the scale, put all the pots that could be found in the barracks, make a fire to boil milk and boil eggs, and all the leaders of the cavalry battalion and the prisoners went into battle.
Quanguo Lin and Jiang Yunzhi glanced at each other, and laughed: "Yunzhi, our armored battalion is the most gentlemanly unit in the world!" ”