When Li Xiangqian received the report, he immediately ordered the other troops to pay attention to the movements of the enemy in front of him, but the bad news soon came back, and the British troops who had returned to help from both sides had already slipped away quietly, leaving only a place of garbage.

The Second Company and the Eighth Company of the Infantry had already chased out of the back door, and the British had been away for several hours, and as for whether they could catch up, it was only up to luck. The armoured vehicles could not climb the hill and could only outflank them from both sides of the island as originally planned and with infantry units.

The Governor's Palace was occupied, but the original campaign objectives were not achieved, and most of the troops went to pursue the remnants of the enemy, so that the remaining infantry company was completely unable to take care of such a large area, so the headquarters had to send troops across the sea to support, and at the same time the air force was dispatched to reconnoiter the movements of the British.

Li Xiangqian led the former enemy headquarters into the Governor's Palace, the British flag on the flagpole in front of the building had been lowered as a trophy, and a bright five-star red flag was waving in the morning light, and from this moment on, the British colonial rule in Hong Kong ended one hundred and thirty-nine years ahead of schedule. Looking at the fluttering national flag, Li Xiangqian, Shen Xingshi and others witnessed history, and the pride of creating history was born. Walking into the small building, looking at the interior Victorian-style furniture, decoration, oil paintings hanging on the wall, and various handicrafts with British or Chinese style, several people looked at each other and smiled, China's modern history is a history of humiliation, it is recorded that the Chinese were defeated, slaughtered, and robbed, and today the Chinese finally raised their eyebrows and exhaled again, and everyone naturally rejoiced. Li Xiangqian picked up a ceramic vase on the desk, first looked at the pattern, and then pretended to look at the bottom, "Ho! It is something of the Qianlong Dynasty, and it will be worth a lot of money to put it aside in the 21st century! ”

Shen Xingshi was carefully examining an oil painting on the wall, which was a portrait of a middle-aged white man, with a white wig like a mop, a big nose, green eyes, a blazing gaze straight ahead, and a red military uniform full of medals. The instructor pursed his lips, "It shouldn't be the work of a famous artist, it's not worth any money!" ”

Du Lali, who followed the troops to shoot news and documentary materials, and also came to see the diorama, knocked on a set of Western-style full-body armor in the corner, and the metal texture made a sonorous "dangdang" sound, "It's a real guy, much more majestic than the leather made of Little Japan!" At this time, the logistics director, who was in charge of counting the trophies, came to report, "The British should have left lightly, probably taking nothing with them except the weapons they were carrying." The weapons scattered here and there have been collected together, a total of fourteen large and small cannons, more than fifty rifles, in addition to a batch of unopened rifles in the arsenal, ten in a box, about two hundred boxes, and the bullets and gunpowder have not been counted. ”

"There's no danger with these things, is it?" Shen Xingshi asked eagerly. He was deeply impressed by the British's delayed firing rifle device, and he was afraid that the British would also have such a delayed ignition device in the arsenal, and if it was activated at this time, more than 100 people in the governor's palace would have to be reimbursed here.

"Nothing strange was found in the arsenal." The logistics director replied. He also thought of the problem when Shen Xing thought of it, so he had already checked the arsenal inside and out. "I don't think the British would be willing to blow up their houses like that."

"The British may still have illusions that they can fight back, so it is unlikely that they will engage in a scorched earth policy." Li Xiangqian also agreed with the logistics director's opinion, "And delayed shooting is not the same as delaying the ignition of an arsenal." The former will have little impact regardless of whether it fails or is launched in advance, and the latter fails regardless of it, if it is launched in advance, not to mention those who can't bomb us, their actions will be exposed in advance. And if the British want to run away, of course, the later they are discovered, the better, and they will not add uncertainties to themselves. Besides, there are a few British who have sacrificed their lives and money to stay, and it is impossible for them to bomb their own compatriots together. After listening to Li Xiangqian's analysis, everyone was completely relieved.

"Lao Li, what do you think of those Britons?" Although this kind of thing is in the hands of Shen Xingshi, he still wants to hear Li Xiangqian's opinion.

"These people are, after all, civilians, not prisoners of war, and it is not appropriate to lock them up. I heard that those American and French expatriates also ran away with the British, probably because they were afraid that we would not treat other Westerners differently. We will have to deal with them in the future, and we still have to pay attention to the image. Vice Minister Du, your Propaganda Department should also increase its propaganda efforts, and it is mainly up to you to maintain people's hearts! "Li Xiangqian, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, he has the authority to govern all matters on the front line, and he should not let him be asked when he is in charge." Instructors, the issue of discipline in the troops should also be strictly grasped. Neither our own nor the indigenous soldiers were allowed to enter the houses at will, nor were the foreigners. Petty theft and hand-in-hand sheep are absolutely prohibited, and robbery, murder, and rape are severely punished. The last sentence seemed murderous.

"Okay." When the application is carried out, it should be answered. He also knows the importance of military discipline, not to mention the indigenous soldiers, if it is their own people who commit crimes, they will definitely not be able to convince the public if they are not punished, and the punishment may cause a backlash. It's nerve-wracking! It seems necessary to propose to the headquarters the creation of a gendarmerie and to throw this offending job to someone else.

In addition to the necessary vigilance troops, the rest of the people began to clean up the property of the governor's palace, but fortunately, most of the indigenous soldiers were ordinary people in the past, and they had not been polluted by the green camp. After the unlucky guy who had stolen a silver lighter was caught, no one dared to ram the muzzle of the gun, and what awaited the unlucky man was three days of confinement and a year of no promotion.

The occupied area of the Liberation Army continued to expand as the left and right roads swept away, and all the forts were abandoned, and there was no resistance along the way, except for the scattered guerrillas. Two hours after the departure of the 2nd Church Company, which was pursuing in pursuit of the mountains, news came that the unit had engaged the British troops at Banner Hill.

Because of the slow movement of civilians, it was not until after five o'clock that the first British began to board the ships. Because there was no pier in Wong Chuk Hang, everyone could only be picked up by small boat, which delayed the retreat. By daybreak, all the civilians had boarded the ship, and Spintozzi knew that it would not be possible to evacuate all of them before the Liberation Army pursued them, so he set up blocking troops on several key roads.

At the top of Mount Banner was a company of the 2nd Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment, plus an infantry company of the 8th Punjab Regiment. Founded in 1688, the regiment has a glorious history, and although it is not the ace of the British army, it has also experienced a hundred battles. It was part of the main army of the Duke of Marlborough in the War of Spanish Succession, and participated in the Battle of Blenheim, the foundation of the British Empire (breaking the myth of the undefeated Louis 14), and the battles of Ramirez, Odenade, and Malpraquet. At the end of the 18th century, he participated in the American Revolutionary War and the Egyptian campaign to annihilate the remnants of the Napoleonic Expeditionary Force, and one participated in the Peninsular War. Because of his outstanding performance in the "First Opium War", he won the "China" combat commendation. The original plane will dissolve in 1881.

The British captain who led the team chose a condescending terrain, spent another two hours constructing simple fortifications, and made a good camouflage, and the second company of the teaching company that arrived in a hurry was hit in the head, and a row of guns knocked down the first few that rushed to the front, and then rolled down the mountain road. The people behind hurriedly lifted the wounded and retreated, but the explosives dropped by the British injured several more people, and they had to retreat to an open field more than 200 meters away. Although the wounded were blurred in flesh and blood, there was no danger of life, only one was hit in the face, bullets pierced through the brain, and soon lost his breath, and he became the first survivor to die.

Hearing that there were sacrifices of his own people, the eyes of the commander of the second company of the second company turned red all of a sudden. "Mortars, give me a flat shot at the positions of the British!" After shouting for a while but not responding, a subordinate reminded: "Head, the mortar hasn't caught up yet!" "In order to catch up with the British, it took only two hours for the Second Company to arrive here, the mortars were still two kilometers away, and now there were not even recoilless guns or bazookas. There was no way, the commander of the second company had to order the heavy machine gun to suppress the British troops on the top of the mountain, and then the death squads of the two squads launched an upward attack under the slogan of avenging their comrades. However, the mountain road was rugged and narrow, and the British not only lined up their guns, but also threw explosives and stones down from time to time, and the survivors launched two charges and were knocked back, and several wounded were added. The commander of the second company had to order the troops to suspend the attack, urging the mortar platoon to speed up and calling for air support.

After discovering the advance of the British troops, the "Bumblebee" was ordered to go out, and after reaching the skies over Hong Kong, it immediately searched for traces of the British along the southern coast. Soon, the retreat field by the sea in Wong Chuk Hang was discovered by the "bumblebee", and watching the dense crowd on the beach boarding the transport ship under the pick-up and drop-off of the dinghy, Wang Li didn't know where to attack. Because it was an emergency sortie, the plane did not carry bombs or incendiary bombs, and the machine guns alone could not help the warship. Although the firing range of the 152mm heavy gun can reach here, the command is really not at ease with the gunnery skills of those amateur gunners, and there are no shells to waste for them, so for the time being, everything has to rely on the "Bumblebee". So the two on the plane had a brief exchange, and then aimed at the manned boat.

When the "Hornet" appeared over the retreat field, the British soldiers fired rifles at the plane, whether they could reach it or not. For a while, the smoke was everywhere, and Li Ce could only control the altitude of the plane to more than 100 meters, so as not to become the first plane to be hit in this time and space, the first plane to be shot down, and the first plane to be shot down by a rifle.

The berths of the Royal Fleet's warships were about a kilometre from the beach, and hundreds of dinghies ferried back and forth between the two to transport the Army onto the ships. The "bumblebees" circled back and forth over the area, spitting tongues of fire at these boats again and again, and although the beach was densely populated, their range of movement was also wider, and they could dodge in both directions whenever the planes flew by, so it was easier to deal with the unsheltered and sluggish boats at sea. Once bitten by a machine gun, the dozen or so passengers on board the boat were often either killed or injured, and the "Hornet" circled back and forth three times, destroying the two dinghys, one of which began to leak and sink because the bottom of the boat was pierced. Several other boats suffered heavy casualties, and there were countless people who fell into the water, but this number was less than eleven for hundreds of boats, and there were no injuries. And when the "Hornet" runs out of bullets, it becomes a toothless tiger and can only return to the base to reload.

When the "bumblebee" disappeared into the sky, Spintozzi came out of the hidden woods, looked at the frightened soldiers around him, and urged: "Everyone hurry up! This devil doesn't know when he'll return. "Some small boats at sea began to salvage the soldiers who had fallen into the water, and during this time several landlubbers had drowned, and those who had died did not dare to throw them into the sea for fear of attracting sharks. The infantry in the dinghy used rifles as oars in order to speed up.

When the commander of the second company called for air support, the "Hornet" had already completed its first attack and was returning to the base to reload, but the command rejected his request on the grounds that the air force had another mission, and he could only continue to wait for the mortar platoon to come up.