The survivors took advantage of the victory to pursue, and in addition to the 1,000 British troops guarding the defense line of Admiralty Square, the remaining 2,000 people retreated into the Governor's Palace, trying to continue to resist with the help of the structure of the Governor's Palace's semi-fortress. Standing on the rooftop and watching the rout pour into the gate like a tidal wave, Spintozi's heart was full of bitterness, he knew that he had lost today. But for the sake of the United Kingdom and the Army, he will stay the course.

The survivors temporarily slowed down the pace of their attack, but kept some pressure on the Doge's Palace and tried to divide up their forces. The area above Admiralty Square was all British residential quarters, but now it was basically empty, and most of the owners had taken refuge in the Governor's Palace, so that the Governor's Palace was overcrowded, and even the gardens were full of panicked British civilians.

The 8th and 9th Companies of the Infantry of the Liberation Army began to develop to the east and west sides of Hong Kong Island, and at the same time blocked the British troops stationed in various places to return to the Governor's Palace, these troops rushed back to help, most of them did not carry artillery, and because the command system was disrupted, the various units went their own way, there was no unified coordination, and each time it was a company and a battalion to attack, but they soon retreated under the strafing of machine guns.

The 6th Infantry Company also began to clean up the battlefield and the British barracks that had become a ruin, and all the wounded of the Recovered Army were evacuated, while the British prisoners who were still active were watched to clean up the dead and wounded British troops, and only the British wounded who were still salvaging could be treated, and all those with missing arms and legs were put together with the corpses. There was also a British military hospital near the barracks, and the wounded and medical personnel did not have time to evacuate, and all of them became prisoners of the Liberation Army. At this time, Li Xiangqian, the commander of the third battalion who rushed to the front line to command the battle, simply ordered that all captured British prisoners be sent here for detention.

The battle has been going on for half a day, and the Liberation Army has also exposed many problems from it. First of all, the front-line commanders lack on-the-spot experience, and they don't know how to respond to emergencies. Second, there was confusion in command and communications, and walkie-talkies were equipped with deputy squad leaders in the training battalion and platoon commanders in other units; because the communication frequency bands were not strictly divided in advance, the phenomenon of "grabbing microphones" appeared after the start of the war, and this also caused the command organs in the rear to be unable to keep abreast of the situation on the front line. So Li Xiangqian was sent over to take full command of the battle at the front.

The first order given by Lee Xiangqian after his arrival was that all troops should stop attacking and rest in place. Hearing this order, the two company commanders of the training battalion who were preparing to storm the governor's palace in one fell swoop quit, and the two hurriedly ran together to ask for the guilt. As soon as they met, the commander of the second company asked with a question, "Battalion Commander Li, why did you let us stop the attack?" ”

Li Xiangqian's headquarters was selected in a conference room in the British barracks, which at least had a roof, and on two long tables put together a large-scale map of Hong Kong Island, on which two staff officers were marking the latest situation of friend and foe. Li Xiangqian raised his gaze from the map, looked at the two people who were menacing, and said calmly: "The tactics have been adjusted." From now on, the 2nd and 8th Infantry Companies were to be left behind to besiege the Governor's Palace, the other two platoons of the 2nd Company and the 6th Infantry Company were responsible for blocking the enemy attacking on the left, and the 3rd and 9th Infantry Companies were to block the enemy attacking on the right, and they must strive for total annihilation. One rifle platoon was left in the 3rd Infantry Company to guard the landing ground, and the rest of the troops were stationed in the all-bell barracks. ”

"Surround the point and send reinforcements." After listening to Li Xiangqian's words, the two immediately understood the intention of the new tactic. Speaking of which, this tactic has always been the magic weapon of our army, and it has been often used in the war of liberation, and it has been effective repeatedly.

"What about the original plan?" The second company commander couldn't turn around for a while, and asked again.

"Comrade, there has never been a war that went exactly according to plan." Li Xiangqian was speechless, although the second company commander had been a soldier before, but for only two years, the highest position was the deputy squad leader, and he was already used to acting according to orders. "The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and many situations are not considered in advance, so it is necessary to adjust at any time according to the situation." Although Li Xiangqian is the deputy commander-in-chief of the Liberation Army, and now he has full command of the front-line troops, the two company commanders are not his old subordinates, and the teaching battalion is a direct subordinate of Ma Angelica. "The battle at Admiralty Square in front of us has not completely annihilated the defenders, and now the remnants of the enemy have converged with the defenders of the Governor's Palace, which is far beyond the square, and if we cannot take it for a while, we may be attacked from the back. So I decided to make it easier and then more difficult, to destroy the enemy who came to my aid, and then to solve the Doge's Palace. And the reinforcements of the British army have become a taboo for the soldiers, and have become a tactic of adding fuel, and we can wait for them to die. ”

After understanding the tactical intentions of their superiors, the two company commanders had no objections and returned to their units to prepare for execution. With the exception of the necessary alert troops, the rest of the troops were transferred to rest, and the first thing to do now was to eat. In order to replenish the soldiers with more energy, the command abandoned the plan to distribute compressed biscuits to the soldiers, and to be honest, most of the survivors would not have been able to eat the thing if they were not too hungry. If you eat a pack and drink a glass of water, people with a small amount of food will feel very stretched, and if you don't drink water, you will feel very dry. And that thing is very high in calories, it is estimated that a pack has 400-500 kcal, and a small bowl of rice is generally only 110 kcal, and a pack can be used as half a catty of rice. Although the compressed biscuits produced by our army have various flavors such as peanuts and dates, they are still difficult for survivors to swallow.

In order to keep the officers and men on the front line well fed and well-fed, the command headquarters and the logistics department thought of many methods, and finally rushed to produce a few tow-type cooking vehicles, and when the troops were resting, several cooking trucks started with all their strength to provide hot food and hot meals for the seven or eight hundred officers and men on the front line, and even the troops besieging the governor's palace were able to eat delicious meals at the first time. The thousands of Englishmen who were surrounded in the governor's palace were all hungry, and the British soldiers hiding behind the fortifications smelled the smell of food coming from the opposite side, and everyone could only swallow saliva and endure the torment of hunger.

The British troops trapped in the governor's palace certainly refused to sit idly by, and two bayonet charges were organized by the officers at the helm. After rushing more than 10 meters for the first time, they were cross-strafed by two machine guns, and after the first echelon was all knocked to the ground, they retreated, and although the British soldiers tried their best to attack the positions of the Liberation Army, their best result was only to rush to a place 15 meters away from the defense line of the Liberation Army. This "record" was set by a private of the upper ranks, and subsequent British soldiers challenged this "record", but unfortunately no one was able to break this "record" again. Ten minutes later, the British, unwilling to be defeated, launched a larger charge, only to have two officers who had just left the gate to lead the team were knocked down by the snipers, and then the troops quickly retreated. In the flow of people who charged, the officer with the command knife was so conspicuous that he was simply guiding the sniper to shoot at him.

The deputy squad leader put down his rifle and continued to eat his lunch, which was already getting colder. In the past, I used to work while eating, but this is the first time I have fought while eating. "Hanging ——! You can't eat cleanly even if you eat! Du Ziteng came over with a lunch box. The corpses in front of the position emitted a heavy smell of blood, as well as the wails of the dying and seriously wounded, but this did not affect the taste of the two of them. The deputy squad leader quickened to dig the last few grains of rice into his mouth, then picked up his automatic rifle and took aim as he chewed, and as he swallowed the last bite of food, his gun went off, and a wounded soldier crawling towards the governor's palace turned into a corpse.

This brutal shooting deterred the British army, and the British soldiers were no longer willing to participate in such a suicidal charge, no matter how the officers ordered, urged, threatened, and kicked, and no one was willing to leave the protection of the wall. The British also pushed out the only two remaining mountain grenades, but before they could open fire, a few mortar shells followed, so the last means of counterattack of the British army was gone.

In fact, the encirclement of the Guangfu Army is not tight, after all, it is still too reluctant for two or three hundred people to surround more than five thousand people. The Liberation Army could only block the main road, and if the British Army forcibly broke through regardless of casualties, the Liberation Army would not be able to stop it. However, the British army now has a great burden, that is, the nearly 2,000 British civilians who have taken refuge in the Governor's Palace. If these civilians were to break out with them, it would not only slow down the army's movements, but also cause a large number of civilian casualties, which was unacceptable to the gentlemen of Spintozi and the municipal council. The plan to abandon the civilian army to break out on its own was met with unanimous resistance, and although Davis repeatedly assured that the Liberation Army was civilized, no British were willing to risk their lives to test whether the Chinese were merciful. As a result, the 5,000 British could only sit in the city under the "encirclement" of the 300 Guangfu troops, and wait for the troops on the periphery to relieve the siege. As long as the British army did not take the initiative to attack, and the troops in charge of the encirclement did not pay attention to them, the battlefield that was in full swing just now fell into calm for a short time, which made the British troops who rushed to relieve the siege begin to be suspicious again, thinking that the governor's palace had fallen, so they hesitated.

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With a sad face, the Xie Wu family rummaged through the ruins of their house for something that could still be used. Although he also knows the saying that "immortals fight, mortals suffer", it is not easy for the fate of this "mortal" to fall on anyone's head. originally thought that the British had tens of thousands of troops and could not be burned on Hong Kong Island by the war, so he did not prepare to take refuge, who knew that the British were so unbeaten. "These damn shorthaired bandits!" He scolded with hatred in his heart.

"Found it! Got it! The lady of the Xie family not far away suddenly shouted. I saw her slashing in the rubble, and then pulled out a cloth baggage, Xie Wu's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly ran over, grabbed the burden and checked it, and the weight was right. Thinking that the wealth was not exposed, I didn't open the burden to check. At this time, he saw a few short-haired bandits who had just cursed walking towards him, and subconsciously hid his baggage behind him.

The leader was Shen Xingshi, whose job now is to clean up the aftermath – to inspect the damage to Chinese houses during the fighting and to make compensation. He walked up to Xie Wu and asked, "What is this gentleman's surname?" ”

It was the first time that Xie Wu, who had seen the world, saw such a polite Qiu Ba, and replied in a panic: "There is a question from Master Lao, and the villain is exempt from your surname." ”

"This house is yours?" Shen Xing asked, pointing to the ruins in front of him.

"The next is owned by the villain." Xie Wu nodded repeatedly.

"How big is the loss?" Shen Xingshi asked again, but he didn't understand what he meant, and explained, "Your house was damaged by our car, how much do we need to pay you?" ”

"Losing money?!" Xie Wu suspected that he had heard it wrong, and subconsciously replied: "The broken bricks and tiles are not worth a few dollars." Hearing that her man was confused and the lady of the Xie family was gone, she tore it open and cried when Xie Wuchong Shen Xing: "Master Jun! Our family of seven or eight people has been living in this store, and now that the store is gone, how can our family live? Master Jun, you have to give our family the master! "There is sadness in the tone, it is really sad for the hearer, and cry for the listener?