Chen Zuyin arranged two divisions on the road from Beirut to Damascus, hiding in a series of valleys on the eastern slope of the Lebanon Mountains, while the other two divisions hid on both flanks of Damascus, leaving only one division to make a defensive posture in the front.

By the time Allenby learned of the bad news, two other Chinese divisions had also pressed him to the north and south at the same time, and a total of five divisions on the front surrounded him and the two divisions of his British troops.

"Quick, rush over, no matter what the cost, you must rush through." At this time, the bull's cold sweat broke out, he already knew very well that he had fallen into a set trap, as for why he had no time to think about it, the most important thing now was to escape, he brandished his saber and yelled at the commander of the chariot brigade.

More than 100 British-made light chariots under the cover of the infantry, drove at full horsepower and crashed head-on into the two Chinese divisions that were encircling behind, but unfortunately this small chariot, which was only a little more than ten tons, was as helpless as a lamb in front of the recoilless gun and bazooka on the opposite side, and the 60 bazooka could be penetrated head-on even if it was replaced by a Chinese active Dragon heavy chariot, not to mention this kind of strict zhòng shrunken version of the copycat tiger, as for the 105mm vehicle-mounted recoilless gun, it was simply too cruel for them.

More than a hundred chariots, in this way, under the sad and indignant gaze of Lieutenant General Allenby, struggled for less than five minutes before they were all wiped out.

Lieutenant General Allenby, who fought with the Chinese Army for the first time, was directly dumbfounded, you must know that his tank brigade has always been his life-saving weapon on the Belgian battlefield, how many Germans hate their tracks, and now it is simply over? He had a sense of unreality at this moment.

"Charge, warriors of the British Empire, defend the glory of the Empire with our swords!" The creature roared hysterically, and the poor British soldiers, with their bayonet-mounted Lee Enfeld rifles, charged at the mighty enemy, and were then crushed by the dense fire like the waves that hit the breakwater. At this time, the other two Chinese divisions on the north and south flanks also joined the battlefield, plus the Damascus defenders attacking from behind, the five divisions were like five high-speed rotating grinding wheels gradually squeezing towards the British, of course, they wore away all blood and lives.

And while Lieutenant General Allenby led the LinkedIn Army into a desperate and bitter battle, the British sailors on the landing ships lying on the beach waiting for their return were frantically putting away the gangplank, closing the hatches, and retreating with water, because at this time the bomber group that covered the sky had appeared in their sight, especially the fifty liberators who looked like prehistoric behemoths. The huge body pressed over with the momentum of dominating the world.

At this time, the battleships, cruisers, and destroyers that could provide protection for these landing ships were either in distant harbors or at sea a few kilometers away, but no matter where they were, it was certainly impossible to protect them, and these battleships could not go straight to the beach like landing ships, and they had to have a draft of five or six meters at the very smallest, so they could only watch the bomber group fly above the landing ships.

But for those Chinese bomber pilots who came to bomb, the eighteen landing ships neatly arranged on the coast below were simply within reach like bacon hanging in front of them. With the order of the commander of the bombing formation, one after another the Liberator and the Thunder bombers began to descend in altitude, while the bomb bays opened to prepare for bombing, and the anti-aircraft weapons below also began to fire at the sky.

These landing ships are nothing more than three or seven mm anti-aircraft guns or anti-aircraft machine guns. The numbers are basically in the single digits, their duty is to land on the beach, and air defense is not their job at all, and such strength is really too weak in the face of more than 150 bombers. The only use was to stop those Chinese bombers from dropping bombs at low altitudes, but unfortunately if it was a thunderbolt, the British might still be able to get some effect. But against a Liberator with a bomb load of five tons and equipped with the latest bombing sights, it doesn't make any sense.

The first round of bombing was these behemoths that were almost black technology for this era, and the fifty Liberators who swept from an altitude of 5,000 meters where the British anti-aircraft fire was powerless dropped 250 tons of coagulated shells on the coast, and the terrifying flames rose into the sky in an instant, and the eighteen landing ships were almost completely submerged in the sea of fire. Fortunately, after the Battle of the Gulf of Helgoland, the British, who had been hit hard, replaced the wooden deck of the landing ship with a steel one, although the displacement increased, but fortunately, there was air protection, so it was not burned down as at the beginning. But the problem is that the ship can't stand the people, those anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns are all open gun positions, and the soldiers who operate the weapons are naturally impossible to fight outside against the raging flames and blazing air currents, and hundreds of tons of coagulation qiyou shells burn in such a narrow range, and the surrounding temperature is not too much of a problem to roast people.

Especially those that hit directly, after burning the red deck, immediately ignited the wooden materials inside, and the internal flames of the six landing ships rushed out immediately afterward, and the poor British sailors were cornered and could only scream in the flames and be burned to ashes.

This scene made the British battleships who could not rush to the rescue feel sad and angry, but they could only be sad and angry, the draft limited them, not to mention getting close to the coast, even if it was dangerous to enter within two kilometers.

But the Liberator was only used to kick the door, and after the fire below weakened slightly, the Thunder bombers loaded with heavy bombs pounced immediately, and as the 50 kg or even 250 kg bombs fell, the landing ships, which were already completely burned red, completely ushered in the end.

"Prepare to retreat!" On a battleship of the British Navy in the distance, looking at the landing ships that were crushed in the explosion, the commander-in-chief of the operation, Field Marshal Fisher, said with a sigh.

"Marshal, General Allenby hasn't come back yet?" A general next to him said suspiciously.

"They, they can't come back, it's a trap, either the MI5 spy mutinied, or the Chinese got his codebook and sent us false information." Marshal Fisher said with some pain.

He was right, Lieutenant General Allenby the Bull and the nearly 40,000 British troops he led were indeed unable to go back, with the five Chinese divisions completing the siege from all sides, they had no hope of breaking through, and could only be trapped in a small area in the Bekaa Valley to lay out a circular defensive line to hold, they would not have reinforcements, nor could they have supplies, the only thing they had was the courage to fight, although they could still persist in fighting under the encouragement of various ideas, but this persistence could not last long.

Fisher's retreat was very correct, because immediately after blowing up their landing ship, the bombers flew back to the airfield in Aleppo to reload, which was not even necessary to refuel, and took off with bombs as fast as possible, and the other British warships and transports crowded in the port of Beirut were good targets, but by the time the bombers returned, the British transports had already withdrawn from the port and returned to the sea, and retreated westward under the escort of a large number of warships.

Attacking a seafaring fleet protected by a large number of anti-aircraft fire with horizontal bombers was a thankless task, and the commander of the returning bomber formation, as soon as he saw that the British had withdrawn to sea, immediately abandoned the attack on Marshal Fisher, but their bombs would not be brought back, so that the besieged British Army became the object of their anger.

"Madamn, these guys from the Army Aviation are really shameless, they actually used two hundred and fifty kilogram bombs to bomb the infantry, and they didn't rob the credit like this." On the battlefield in the Bekaa Valley, Wu Luzhen, commander of the 211th Division of the Chinese Army, looked at the terrifying fire balls rising in the distance in amazement and said with disdain.

"Whatever, we can save effort, if we just surround like this, and then let them keep blowing up, these British veterans are very difficult to deal with, each of them is scary, and the rate of fire of the rifle is almost catching up with our semi-automatic." An officer next to him said.

"It's a good idea, let Lu Airlines replace it with napalm qiyou bombs, anyway, they just burn some gasoline." After Wu Luzhen finished speaking, he immediately asked for the radio from the signal corps and began to contact the military headquarters.

In fact, it should be said that their pressure is not small, the seventy-first and seventy-second armies are counted as the first time to participate in a real battle, but their opponents are not the same, these British troops are the elite of the European battlefield, veterans who have been tempered in the past five years, after a hundred battles, after understanding that they are in a desperate situation, out of hatred for Emperor Yang to deceive the British people again and again, it can be regarded as a tragic division, and the bull Allenby is also a fierce general in the British army at this time, and it is not easy to deal with it if he goes out and fights.

Although total annihilation is certain, the price paid by the Chinese side will certainly not be small.

After receiving Wu Luzhen's request, Chen Zuyin immediately realized that this was the best way, he immediately gave orders to the armies, the five divisions that were originally attacking all stopped and turned to defense, Allenby, who had just slowed down from the bombardment, was a little inexplicable, but he didn't mind taking a breath at this time, at this time he had already made up his mind, he would rather die than surrender, even if the whole army was destroyed, let the Chinese see the tiger might of the British Empire, at least until the ammunition was exhausted.

It's a pity that what he didn't know was that at the Aleppo airport, the bombers that had just returned had already begun to reload, and they were all loaded with coagulated qiyou shells that could be said to be a nightmare for the infantry. (To be continued......)