The 260th Regiment of the 3rd Mountain Division pursued the enemy and arrived at Banbanzhai along the main road at the foot of Banban Mountain, the regimental commander Kong Qiu immediately ordered it to be surrounded, and not a single enemy soldier could be let go. Then as soon as they put up the mortar, the British flag in the stockade was lowered and a white flag was raised.

"Surrender? Fraud? Kong Qiu gritted his teeth and said in disbelief: "Could it be a plan? ”

The Indians really didn't have a plan, they surrendered sincerely, they ran out in line one by one and surrendered on their own initiative, and even handed over the list of weapons in Banbanzhai. It turned out that there were only about 30 Indian soldiers and 20 laborers in Banbanzhai, and 10 of these 30 or so Indian soldiers were stationed in Banbanzhai, and the other 20 or so escaped overnight last night. Seeing the five-color military flag of the Chinese, this group of people immediately thought that more than 1,000 people could not stand the pass last night, and that such an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack village as Banbanzhai must have been blown up by a single artillery, so they made a wise choice - surrender!

These Indians are indeed quite wise, the soldiers of the 3rd Mountain Division are all red-eyed, if they do not surrender, and then surrender after the fight, it is estimated that these Yunnan soldiers will not accept prisoners.

The 260th Regiment continued its assault on the town of Banhong, encountering sporadic resistance along the way, but was completely annihilated by Kongqiu's men. In order to save trouble, Kong Qiu secretly ordered that if the other side opened fire on us, we would not take prisoners. So the speed of the 260th regiment was even faster, and at eight o'clock in the morning, it finally arrived in Banhong. At this time, the five-color flag had been erected in Banhong Town, but the silver mine chief still heard the sound of gunshots.

The silver mine manager stationed by the British was broken by the troops commanded by Xiao Yaonan. They all retreated to a fortress that was very solid for storing silver ingots. Light yì is difficult to break.

To Xiao Yaonan's delight, the squadron attacked too fiercely last night, and the British's transmitter was blown up, and there are about 160 Britons in the fortress now. In the morning they organized a charge, which was left behind by the 3rd Mountain Division's quick-robbing submachine guns and then retreated.

Xiao Yaonan found the owner and asked him if he could find a way to break through the fortress, and the owner said that when he first repaired it, he was thinking about how to prevent it from being breached. I didn't think about how to break it, there is no tunnel and no weak point. So everyone had to surround the fortress, sometimes shooting and making it difficult for the people inside. But he didn't dare to rush in rashly regardless of the casualties.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Hong Linge, the commander of the 257th Regiment who attacked Manglai Village, arrived at Banhong with two battalions of soldiers from the main road after a quick overnight march, but everyone was too tired, and Xiao Yaonan ordered the 257th Regiment to rest and stand by.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon. Li Shucheng also arrived at Banhong with the divisional artillery battalion and the 259th regiment. and captured the prisoners. The captives hid in the forest and soon became unable to stand the mosquito bites, and the Indian soldiers trained by the British could not fight guerrillas, so they came out of the jungle one by one and surrendered. As many as 1,300 people were captured and taken prisoner, and last night's shelling at Banbanshan caused casualties among more than 500 Indian soldiers, of whom as many as 267 were directly killed.

Li Shucheng and Xiao Yao met with Nanshun, and then sent a telegram to the Ministry of National Defense to report the good news.

Defense Minister Sa Zhenbing immediately called Wang Maoru. At that time, Wang Mao was organizing a meeting at the Ministry of Communications to discuss the Ministry of Communications' plan for this year and listen to the financial budget.

The Minister of Communications, Halbara, first thanked Wang Maoru and said: "The biggest benefit of the Ministry of Communications this year is that China Railway Corporation has been transferred to the Ministry of Communications. The Ministry of Communications can finally change from a money-losing department to a money-making department, thanks to the support of His Excellency the President. ”

Wang Maoru smiled and waved his hand, and then Harbara made a budget. It is precisely because the railway has been assigned to the Ministry of Communications that the Ministry of Communications is overjoyed and has said that the Ministry of Communications will definitely make a profit this year and contribute to the total national finance. At this time, Secretary General Zhang Kuian hurriedly walked into the conference room and said in Wang Maoru's ear: "News has been sent from Yunnan that the 3rd Mountain Division has taken more than 1,300 prisoners in the Banhong Silver Mine, and now there are only more than 100 British soldiers hiding in the treasury and refusing to surrender. ”

Wang Maoru laughed, everyone in the Ministry of Communications was surprised, Wang Maoru said: "Everyone, your Ministry of Communications is in a very good form this year, and I hope to see a profitable Ministry of Communications at the end of the year." Okay, this morning's debriefing is over, let's eat, because of the emergency, the afternoon debriefing time was delayed to 3 o'clock, and the meeting was adjourned. ”

Everyone speculated about what the incident was, after all, only the senior staff of the Ministry of National Defense and the Seventh Army of the Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region knew about the fact that the squadron had taken action against the British who had invaded China.

The chief of transportation, Harbar, pulled over and asked in a low voice, "Didn't the president's wife just ...... Why is he so happy today? ”

Chu Yong couldn't help but laugh and said, "What are you thinking?" ”

Harbara laughed, "Just kidding, guess what news would be so exciting for the president?" ”

Chu Yong shook his head and said, "I can't guess." ”

"I guess, it's military news." Halbara Road.

"How?" Chu Yongqi said.

Halbara said: "Do you think, our president is also from a military background after all, what will he be interested in when he is a soldier?" It's definitely war. Seeing Chu Yong frowning and pondering, he smiled again: "Who have we had an unpleasant relationship with recently?" ”

"British?"

"Yes, it's definitely the UK." Halbara laughed, "The president is a man who is happy to take revenge, this time he must have won a big victory, and he must have made the British unable to eat the dumb loss of walking around, so he will be so happy." ”

Chu Yong also echoed and laughed, but the evaluation of Harbara in his heart was lowered, this person has a bit of a big mouth, how can Chu Yong not know this? He didn't think about it, but he wouldn't say it. Halbara has followed Wang Maoru for more than ten years, and is ranked as the chief of transportation according to the merit assessment, but in fact, Chu Yong is presiding over the work of the Ministry of Communications.

Halbara patted him on the shoulder and said, "Shaopu, do you think there will be a scene of all nations coming to court in the future?" ”

Chu Yong said with a smile: "With the president here, he will definitely be." Halbara burst out laughing, and both of them had their own little secrets.

After Wang Maoru arrived at the Ministry of Defense, Xiao Yaonan's second telegram was also delivered, and all the British troops who had entered Banhong surrendered, and only half a battalion of pure British soldiers of the First World War was held in the silver mine treasury fort.

The pride of the one hundred and fifty-two British soldiers who had fought in the First World War was not enough to eat, and there was nothing in the storehouse but silver ore and semi-finished ore - and two rats. Captain Hudson, the officer who led the team, held out until noon, and after knowing that he had no chance of winning and had run out of ammunition and food for 22 hours, he said to the soldiers that we should surrender rather than starve to death and be killed.

The surrender of the proud British to the Chinese was undoubtedly an extremely embarrassing decision in the hearts of the British soldiers. Nearly half of the soldiers disagreed, believing that it was better to wait for the rescue, until the Indian army at the front came to the rescue. But soon after, after the Chinese escorted the Indian prisoners into the silver mines, all the life of the British was gone. Captain Hudson then went out to negotiate in person, demanding that the Chinese give them a corresponding high standard of prisoner of war treatment, such as milk, steak and coffee, and ensure that they lived in independent prisoner of war camps, not with Indians, and so on. It was treated as if they were guests and the Chinese had to be entertained.

Li Shucheng, the commander of the 3rd Mountain Division, didn't care, but Xiao Yaonan, the deputy chief of staff of the group army, was the leader of the team this time, and he immediately rejected Hudson and said: "After your army surrenders, we will treat it accordingly, but you are prisoners of war, not guests." I want to be treated like a guest, and I dream. Give you a month to think about it, but we will cut off the water and electricity for a month, and we will not give you a break. Come on, sing them a piece of "The Empty City Plan", so that the British can see the breadth and profundity of Chinese Peking Opera. ”

Captain Hudson returned to the fort depressed, and conveyed to the rest of the officers that the Chinese would only accept prisoners but would give no guarantees, and the British junior officers were depressed enough. After a while, a stick of Chinese beat gongs and drums, and even began to throw firecrackers into the fortress. That's right, it wasn't the soldiers, it was the absentees who were caught by the British, not only throwing firecrackers, but also making a few improvised catapults, stuffing mud pots with human and animal excrement, some dry and some wet. One of the absentees accidentally sprinkled black powder in dried cow dung, lit it, and threw it into the fort with a stone-thrower. Suddenly, the burning dried cow dung filled the faces of the besieged British soldiers......

Hudson and other British really couldn't hold on, and the Chinese on the other side didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack themselves, but teased themselves like cats teasing mice, allowing the silver miners who had been humiliated by themselves to insult themselves in every way, and had to raise the white flag and come out to surrender.

The arrogant soldiers of the Kingdom of England, the British ** team that participated in the European War, one hundred and fifty-three people, were actually smoked by a can of burning cow dung and surrendered......

In this campaign, the number of participants in the squadron was 8,623, and the British side was 2,755. On the Chinese side, the 3rd Mountain Division suffered 144 killed, 632 wounded, and consumed 300,000 rounds of ammunition and ammunition, nearly 10,000 grenades, and 300 shells of various types. On the British side, the 3rd Battalion of the British Expeditionary Force in Burma (composed of British) and the 1st Regiment of British Indian Glory (British officers, Indians as soldiers), 736 killed and 1,128 wounded, all of them were captured, but after counting the total number of corpses and prisoners of war, it was found that there were only 1,727 prisoners, 305 fewer than the number given by the British. In other words, more than 300 people are missing? (To be continued......)