In front of the railway bridge position, where there is no cannon roar, an alternative battle rhythm is shown.

The British did not dare to bombard it with artillery, for fear of damaging the railway bridge. Although the airborne division had no such scruples, it had already run out of shells and heavy machine gun bullets, and several "warrior" light tanks and "clouded leopard" wheeled armored vehicles in the position had become toothless tigers, which were simply parked in front of the trenches by the paratroopers and used as bunkers.

In the shallow trenches, the dead and wounded paratroopers lay row after row. For the Guards Airborne Division, which was airdropped behind enemy lines, on the battlefield in a foreign land, there was no rear, no hospitals, and not even supplies.

Many of the wounded were simply bandaged, and it was better to resign themselves to fate than to be treated. The task of holding the 48th Division alone behind enemy lines was almost equivalent to a death sentence for the seriously wounded paratroopers. As for the minor wounds, they put a bandage on the wound and immediately return to their position in the trenches to continue the fight.

Major General Li Longdi was also wounded, his right arm was "bitten" by a British bullet, and the Enfield rifle was very penetrating, the bullet did not remain in the body, and a hole was pierced in the arm. It was the first time for the young hygienist to bandage his division commander, and he seemed a little cautious.

Master Li, who was known for his fiery temper, immediately yelled, "Why are you like a girl/man, and you spend so much time clumsily tying a bandage?" ”

After being scolded, the little hygienist shrank even more, and the tears of grievance swirled in his eyes.

Master Zhao next to him really couldn't look at it, "I said Lao Li, you are enough!" The battle is not going well, what are you angry with other people's hygienists? ”

"Hey...... Lao Zhao, you say, when did our guards fight such a battle? In Japan, in the Middle East, in Africa...... No matter where we are, our Airborne Forces are not flat and flat? It doesn't matter if we sacrifice, but if our brothers really throw them here, our guards will really lose face. ”

"What shame? Our two airborne divisions fought 100,000 British troops, even if we were all killed, we wouldn't be ashamed, right? Milk/milk/, if we are fully equipped and have enough bullets and shells, I will not be afraid of these Brits for two more days. ”

"Nonsense! What else do you say if you have supplies? Forty-eight hours from the General Command, and it won't be long! But Lao Zhao, I have a hunch, even if we hold out for forty-eight hours, there may not be reinforcements to come! Unless it was Jiang Shuai who ordered the airdrop to continue. Even though he didn't hurt his bones, but his arm was pierced, Li Longdi still sweated on his forehead in pain.

"I'll send another telegram to the General Command. No matter what, we have to hold on, the bullets are gone, let's get on the bayonet! Isn't it just death? Our Guards can't have bad seeds! ”

"Okay, it's really going to be that part, let's compare the two of us, see who kills more with a bayonet!"

"You pull it down, your arm is already useless, what kind of hero are you pretending? You disabled person, rest well! I'll go to the position and have a look. Zhao Mingcheng picked up the steel helmet, stood up, and without waiting for Li Longdi to speak, he bent down and drilled out of the division headquarters in the semi-underground bunker.

"Damn...... You're disabled, your whole village is disabled! ”

Hearing the scolding behind him, Master Zhao didn't look back, but his face was full of wry smiles. The situation on the battlefield is already very bad. Having lost their already small amount of heavy firepower, many of the fighters had only one magazine left in their hands, and perhaps they could not even resist the next attack of the British army.

"Milk/milk/of, are you really going to throw it in this Taima River with Lao Li?" Grabbing a rifle that sacrificed a soldier, Division Commander Zhao made an assassination action with all his might, "I haven't practiced for a long time, I have to fight to death a British, otherwise it's too embarrassing!" ”

……

General Headquarters of the Allied Forces in A Coruña.

The battle of Yeovil touched Jiang Yunzhi's heart all the time. General Xiao Guoxing has become an ant on the oil pot, and he doesn't even need a staff officer, rushing to answer every phone call that rings.

The advance of the 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions and the 3rd Army Corps of the South Seas at Middle-Ludwen was rapid. Montgomery's inland defense line built on the railroad line, and the position outside Horniton, one of the three fulcrum cities, had been broken through by Rear Admiral Kan Aiguo's 1st Marine Division.

On the "Cretaceous" beach, what happened to the 1st Brigade of the 1st Marine Division was like a nightmare. More than half of the casualties of the brigade directly disabled the 1st Brigade. However, as one of His Majesty's favorite generals, Kan Aiguo has always been iron-blooded in his soldiers, and in the face of the 1st Brigade that had to retreat and repair with heavy casualties, Division Commander Kan was still unmoved. The 2nd Brigade and the Jewish Brigade remained at the forefront of all the landing forces in the extended campaign inland.

The Spanish and Turkish troops who landed in Axminster Bay also advanced quickly, cutting off the railway line between Hornetton and Exeter on the afternoon of the 23rd, completely cutting off the retreat of 200,000 British troops at the southern tip of the Cornish Peninsula.

By 8 p.m. on the 23rd, the number of Allied troops landing in Lime Bay had reached more than 600,000.

But for Operation Overlord, the most critical is still the port of Weymouth.

After two days and nights of hard work, the Chinese Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sun Liren and the three engineer divisions of the Guards Corps finally completed the first phase of the construction of the module of the deep-water port. The Yanhuang steamers on the two piers have already begun to unload the 6th Guards Panzer Division, which is responsible for rapid assault missions.

Earlier, the 12th, 20th, and 22nd ace divisions of the Chinese Expeditionary Force had set out to take over the barracks of the British 11th Armored Brigade in Dorchester, thirty kilometers away.

Colonel Kwon Zhiyong, who was sitting in the M4a3 tank, finally received a telegram from the General Headquarters, in which Jiang Shuai approved the operation of the Einsatzgruppen team to accompany the British 11th Armored Brigade and take the lead in reinforcing the Yeovil Airborne Division. This made Colonel Kwon's plan famous, and by this time, the 11th Armoured Brigade was less than thirty kilometers away from Yeovil, and Diamond had already negotiated with Kwon Zhiyong to launch an attack on the British troops besieging Yeovil an hour later.

But no one knows whether the Allied command was negligent or deliberate. The news of the arrival of reinforcements was not informed of Li Longdi and Zhao Mingcheng on the Taima River railway bridge.

In order to repel another charge launched by the British overnight, the paratroopers almost ran out of last bullets. Li Longdi ordered the bullets on the sacrificed comrades-in-arms to be collected, but when it was evenly distributed, each paratrooper could only get five bullets.

Looking at the British army who threw down a piece of corpse and retreated, Division Commander Li suddenly smiled. Just when the paratroopers around him wondered if the division commander was crazy, Lao Li told the paratroopers the story aloud that the Chinese army dared to ambush the Japanese with only five bullets per person during the Anti-Japanese War.

"Five bullets can also fight an ambush war? How do you win? "For the soldiers of the Han Guards Legion, five bullets? That's unimaginable. If it weren't for the sudden entry of the U.S. Air Force into the war this time, coupled with the fact that the surrounding British troops were too dense, the Guards Corps would not have fought a battle without supplies at all.

"How did you win?" Li Longdi grinned, and the other goods still wanted to wave their hands, but just as they were about to raise their arms, there was a burst of heart-piercing pain, and then they thought that they were "crippled".

"Nima, the Eighth Route Army is different from us, and people never rely on advanced equipment to fight. People dare to fight with Japanese devils, machine guns, and cannons, and when the bullets are gone, it is hand-to-hand combat! Little Devil...... Uh, it's those guys from the Dongying Army, and they're pretty good at fighting bayonets, right? Lao Maozi can't kill them. But compared with the Eighth Route Army, they are playing with a big sword in front of Guan Gong! Playing with knives, we Han people are not the ancestors of Little Japan? ”

"Hahaha......" There was a laugh from the trenches, and even the wounded with bandages on their heads grinned in pain.

"Commander, if you say that about the Japanese, if Concubine Sakura knows about it, you will be miserable!"

"Haha......"

"Damn, you bunny!" Li Longdi also smiled, "Who dares to show Lao Tzu the news, when this battle is over, Lao Tzu will confine him for a week!" ”

"Commander, do you think we can win this battle? We are also the same as the Eighth Route Army, with five bullets per person. ”

"Why don't you win? The Eighth Route Army can win, why can't we? The Eighth Route Army, like us, is all Han Chinese. An ancestor's, they can win, but our guards can't win? Think about it, since the beginning of sending troops with His Majesty in the Golden City, when has our Guards been defeated? "The loud-voiced Major General Li Longdi is like Zhang Yide of the ancient Han Dynasty, with a rough appearance, but he is by no means reckless.

"The division commander is right, our Han Guards are invincible, are you still afraid of these Brits? If the bullet misses, the bayonet will be put on! The Eighth Route Army can fight hand-to-hand, and so can our Guards! ”

"Get on the bayonet! Fight with the British! ”

"That's right, I'd rather die than lose the face of the Guard!"

Li Longdi's words provoked a sense of glory in the hearts of the paratroopers of the Guards Regiment, and a kind of fanatical mood was permeated in the trenches. This sentiment spread farther and farther, spreading throughout the two-kilometre-long Taima River position.

The paratroopers drew their multi-purpose sabers from their waists. In the daily training of all armies of the Empire, the technique of stabbing was emphasized. Zhong Yi never intended to embarrass his army to the point of fighting the enemy with bayonets. Even counting the handle, the saber, which is less than thirty centimeters in length, has almost forgotten by the soldiers that it also has the function of a bayonet.

But this time, the airborne division will really run out of ammunition.

Suppressive fire such as mortars and machine guns rang out again, was this the eighteenth or twentieth offensive of the British army? No one asked. For the first time, the paratroopers cherished the few bullets in the magazine, and they only pulled the trigger after aiming.

Although the charging British troops fell one after another, the sporadic gunfire on the position had already made the British commander realize: the Han army ran out of bullets!

The crisp "click, click" sound was heard in the trenches, which were the paratroopers who had finished firing the last round on the pylons at the front of the barrels. The empty magazine was also pulled out to make it easier to hold the gun with both hands and move forward.

The British troops were getting closer and closer, and they could already clearly see the smirks on their faces.

So far in the battle, whether it is a British soldier or a Guards paratrooper, the living have experienced too many life and death partings. The hatred between the two sides has been properly contained, and unless a nuclear bomb explodes, it will be difficult to OT again. Kill the enemy, or be killed by the enemy, there is no choice.

Thirty meters, twenty meters, fifteen meters...... Li Longdi suddenly roared, "Guards paratroopers, rush with Lao Tzu!" ”

Although it is shoddy, it is definitely "rushing with Lao Tzu" rather than "rushing to Lao Tzu".

However, the British army did not see the Japanese army charging and withdrew the bullets, and it seems that there is really no "bushido" spirit in the West.

Many of the paratroopers who crossed the trenches fell directly. Seeing the Han army launch a counter-charge, the first reaction of many British soldiers was to pull the trigger.

Li Longdi's bad luck has not passed, and he was the first to get shot, and he was shot in the knee. With a scream, Master Li fell to the ground.

But it was this shot that saved his life.

The paratroopers of the 19th and 23rd Airborne Divisions of the Guards repelled another and last attack of the British with bayonets.

At four o'clock in the morning of the 24th, Kwon Zhiyong's special task force finally arrived at the Taima River Railway Bridge battlefield with the 11th Armored Brigade of the British Army, and routed the British troops in front of them and joined up with the Airborne Division.

Among the dead people, the paratroopers found Division Commander Li Longdi, who had lost too much blood, and ...... Division Commander Zhao Mingcheng, who was shot several times, but still held his rifle tightly and stabbed the bayonet into the body of the British soldier.

In fact, when the rear of the British army in front was copied and began to break up, the number of paratroopers still standing on the battlefield was less than a regiment.

The standard establishment at the regimental level of the Airborne Forces of the Han Guards Corps is...... 1320 people.

On the day of landing, 20,000 heroes were airdropped, and 48 hours later, there were only 1,000 left. Major General Zhao Mingcheng, commander of the 23rd Guards Airborne Division, was killed, and Li Longdi, commander of the 19th Guards Airborne Division, was seriously wounded.

Colonel Kwon Zhiyong, the leader of the special operations team of the Allied Command, temporarily acted as the commander of the Taema River iron bridge position, and organized the paratroopers and the British 11th Armoured Brigade to continue to hold the railway bridge. It was not until after dawn that reinforcements from the Chinese Expeditionary Force rushed to the vicinity of Yeovil and, under the command of General Sun Liren, surrounded and annihilated the nearby British troops.

Marshal Jiang Yunzhi ordered the air force transport planes to take the plunge and take Li Longdi back to the Allied Field Hospital in A Coruña for surgery under the full escort of the Raptors squadron and early warning aircraft.

Three days later, Major General Li Longdi, who woke up after the successful amputation operation, did not make a big fuss about the lost left leg and right arm, but after learning the news that Zhao Mingcheng had been sacrificed, he silently shed a few tears, "Lao Zhao, fight the bayonet, Lao Tzu obeys you!" Lao Tzu didn't kill any of them, and he was shot in the knee! ”

……

In the Battle of Yeovil, the Allies surrounded 600,000 British troops deployed by Montgomery on the Cornish Peninsula west of Devon at the cost of almost the total annihilation of two airborne divisions, and successfully opened the passage north to London.

The 6th Guards Panzer Division and the 21st Guards Army Division, which landed later, quickly advanced towards Greater London.

On 25 June, Turkish troops stormed Exeter, Montgomery fled back to London by plane, and hundreds of thousands of British troops were forced to withdraw to the Bristol Bay area.

On 26 June, the Allied forces, which had regained air supremacy, launched another large-scale airborne operation, with the 20th and 22nd Guards Airborne Divisions dropping on the east bank of the River Severn, and on the same day, together with the 24th Guards Army Division, captured Gloucester and Cheltenham, cutting off the British retreat to Wales by land.

After the capture of Wellington by the Jingzhou Army and the Italian army, the southern army of the native British army was squeezed into an area of less than 100 square kilometers between Burnham and Weston.

On the evening of the 26th, Marshal Jiang Yunzhi, commander-in-chief of the Allied forces, issued an ultimatum, ordering the besieged British troops to surrender within 24 hours, otherwise the Allied forces would launch a final general offensive.

"It's not what I want! Hope that you will think clearly and make a decision early! ”

This is a sentence from the Han Emperor published on the front page of the South China Daily.