After all the nine companies of infantry were ashore, the landing force began to attack the British on their own initiative. Two wheeled armored vehicles were in the lead, followed by the second and third companies of the training battalion, and marched along a main road to the Admiralty barracks. Although the British have been in Hong Kong for eight years, the infrastructure is still very limited, except for the Governor's Palace, which is still beautifully repaired, other places, especially the Chinese settlement, are chaotic. The houses are all built haphazardly without planning, and vegetables are still planted in the open space between the houses. The main road leading to the Governor's Palace was only paved with cinders, and on both sides of the road were some Chinese shops, and the signs and banners hanging at the door indicated their identities, but all the gates were closed at this time. But what is certain is that behind the cracks in the doors and windows are a pair of nervous and wary eyes.

Because of the narrow road, the two armored vehicles could not run side by side, so they could only form a long snake formation with the infantry. As the armored vehicle moved forward, the horn on the car played an announcement in Cantonese dialect. All Chinese civilians are required to stay at home as much as possible, close doors and windows, and do not harbor ghosts. During the period when the Liberation Army landed, the British army set up several barricades on this main road, and everything that could be used was used by them, and the carts, tables, wooden boxes, and sacks were piled up in the street haphazardly, and the British hid behind them, and the rifles stopped the advance of the Liberation Army. However, these troops were hastily organized after the shelling, and under the heavy fire of the Liberation Army, they quickly broke up, and on the contrary, the survivors wasted a lot of time by clearing these obstacles.

The stop-and-go journey lasted more than an hour, and when the assault troops approached Admiralty Square, they met their first fierce resistance. The British built a strong line of defense here, not a makeshift patchwork of "illegal constructions" like the previous ones, but a fortification made of masonry - a stone wall half a meter wide and one meter high. After the outbreak of the conflict with the Liberation Army, especially after the failure of the attack of the Canton garrison, Spintozzi organized manpower and material resources to build fortifications on the periphery of the Admiralty barracks in case of emergency, which finally came in handy today. On the front, which was more than 100 meters wide, a total of six twelve-pounder mountain grenades were arranged, and six artillery pieces were fired at the same time, although they could not cause any real damage to the armored car, but they also shocked the occupants of the car. The junction was blocked by half-man-high rocks piled up by the British, which exceeded the ability of armored vehicles to climb heights. Although the British artillery could not help the armored car for a while, the cannon of the armored car was powerless against the British half-meter-thick stone wall, and at the same time, the ammunition reserve was limited, and it was impossible to consume too much in this kind of useless fire. And under the dense fire of the British army, the survivors could not move the stones that stood in the way.

"He's!" The platoon commander of the assault unit scolded. If only there was a tank! Originally, it was thought that it would be enough to have recoilless guns and bazookas for supporting firepower, and the main battles were street battles, so the assault troops did not carry mortars, and now the troops are blocked at the intersection, and it is difficult to even raise their heads, let alone attack with bazookas. The platoon commander used the walkie-talkie to call for support, and at the same time gave an order to the bazooka team of the platoon, "You two go up to the roof and find a way to knock out the artillery!" ”

Because this area is a prosperous area on Hong Kong Island, and there are two or three storey small buildings on the street, the two found a long bamboo ladder to climb up to the roof of a three-story small building. Both of them carried dozens of kilograms of weapons and equipment on their backs, and the tiles on the roof crackled loudly, and at the same time frightened the owner of the house. The two of them slowly climbed to the ridge of the roof, and when they looked down condescendingly, they could see clearly the defense line of the British army on the opposite side. And the attention of the British army was focused on the intersection, and no one noticed that there were two sneaky figures on the roof. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the main shooter opened the bazooka bipod, set the bazooka on the ridge, aimed at the nearest British gun emplacement, and then pulled the trigger without hesitation. Then, without waiting to check the results, he quickly slid and retracted behind the roof ridge with the bazooka.

The rockets went straight for the British gun position, and the explosion of the projectile detonated the ammunition on the gun position, forming a huge fireball. The artillery instantly became torn apart, and the barrel of the gun, which was more than a meter long and less than 200 kilograms, rotated and swept towards the two Indian soldiers carrying ammunition, directly smashing the two into a pulp. The people on the gun emplacements also became fragmented, forming red concentric circles with the explosion point as the center, and various human stumps were scattered among them. The stone wall was also damaged in the blast, and a five-meter-wide gap was blown open.

Before the British could wake up from the sudden explosion, a second rocket struck again, this time with a more violent explosion, and the artillery with a gun carriage soared directly into the air, and when it landed, it smashed an Indian soldier into Brahma's arms. The attack of the bazooka duo also exposed themselves, and the British's rifle bullets immediately greeted them like raindrops, and the duo immediately slid down the bamboo ladder from the roof, and ten seconds later, a shell directly lifted the entire roof.

Taking advantage of the brief confusion in the British defensive line, the leader of the first platoon of the second company shouted "Commando, follow me!" Then he took the lead in jumping over the block of the road and rushed out of the intersection. Led by him, two platoons of soldiers rushed to the edge of the square and opened fire on the British, relying on the terrain and buildings. Coming out of the cramped area, the superiority of the survivors' firepower was immediately brought into play, and the British behind the stone wall were for a moment suppressed by automatic rifles and could not raise their heads. The second platoon commander led a dozen men to shoot while rushing towards the gap, preparing to use it as a breakthrough to tear through the British defense, when he was still about twenty meters away from the gap, he suddenly saw a sparkling barrel rolling down from the gap. Because the square had a certain slope from south to north, the wooden barrel rolled towards the second platoon leader, who immediately realized that it was a lit powder keg, and he only had time to shout "fai er because of the heat" before the barrel exploded. The air wave of the explosion knocked down the platoon commander and the two soldiers who rushed in front and flew five or six meters away, and the surprise attack of the survivors also stopped, and everyone carried the three wounded back behind the barricade with all hands and feet, only to see that the faces of the three wounded were blackened by black powder, and the people also fainted, but there were no obvious injuries on their bodies. A soldier pinched the platoon commander's man, and waited for a while before the latter woke up slowly. The soldier asked with concern, "Platoon commander, are you okay?" ”

The platoon commander shook his dizzy head, slowly stood up, suddenly stumbled and almost fell, and with the help of the soldiers, he finally stood firm, moved his limbs, and did not feel any injuries. The other two soldiers did not suffer any obvious external injuries, and they woke up before and after, which is also because the place where the powder keg exploded was more than ten meters away from them, and the power of the black powder was limited, and the barrel was not equipped with large killing weapons such as iron nails and iron sheets, so they were only shocked by the shock wave, but they did not hurt their muscles and bones.

At this time, the British artillery was once again in force, and the riflemen, under the command of the officers, also began to counterattack, and the survivors who rushed to the square were forced to retreat again. Seeing that the attack was blocked, the commander of the second company also rushed to the front, and he poked his head out from behind the armored car to see the situation in the square. turned around and said to a few squad and platoon leaders: "It's not okay to block here!" The second platoon leader, you take your platoon around to the left and attack from the flanks, the third platoon attracts fire from the front, snipers, bazookas, heavy machine guns go to the roof, snipers hit officers, bazookas and heavy machine guns suppress artillery! The order was concise and clear, and several platoons immediately led their subordinates into action. The platoon commander, who had already cleared his head, asked, "Company commander, what about the task of our platoon?" ”

From the beginning of the assault, a platoon rushed all the way to the front, so it suffered the greatest losses. Seven people were already incapacitated by lead bullets or grenade shotguns, but fortunately, with the protection of steel helmets and body armor, they were not injured to the point, and the remaining 20 or so people fought for more than two hours, and they were also very tired. The company commander originally intended to let them rest for a while, but the platoon commander quit, and now that he is resting, maybe the honor of attacking the governor's palace will fly, so he insists on asking for battle.

The company commander glanced at the armored vehicles that could not move forward and could not be forced, and then looked at the houses on both sides of the street, and a bold plan came to mind. "You take someone to get out of the houses on the left!"

The platoon commander immediately understood the company commander's intentions, and he didn't have any psychological obstacles at all to do this kind of thing. Although our army has a tradition of not taking a stitch from the masses, it is impossible to pay so much attention to it during the current fighting. A long line of people immediately led people to smash open the doors of several shops, and then even drove out the owner's family in fright, leaving no time for anyone to clean up.

This house is the façade of a tofu shop, and a shop like this has a front store and a backyard structure. The shopkeeper's family watched in horror as the six-wheeled iron cart slowly retreated, then accelerated forward and swerved into the door of their shop. The shop that had been built for six or seven years was instantly reduced to rubble, and the owner and his family rushed to save some damage, but were held back by a few survivors.

Because the tofu shop was a single-story building, the wooden beam tiles smashed on the roof of the armored car did not cause damage to the body, and the armored car rushed into the backyard and turned around again and rushed out of a shop facing the square. The sudden rush of the behemoth attracted the attention of all the British, who were already suppressed by the automatic fire of the survivors and could not fight back, and then the snipers and bazookas on the roof were named one by one, if it were not for the nearly 100 casualties of nearly 100 people against the troops of more than 3,000 people, those Indians would have run away long ago. The artillery has been completely destroyed, several officers have been killed and wounded by bullets fired from nowhere, the command of the troops has been a little confused, if it were not for the sergeants who could still hold the soldiers, if it were not for the constant pushing down of the ignited powder kegs, if it were not for the survivors' marksmanship is really not very good, the hit rate at a distance of more than 200 meters is amazingly low, all enough for machine guns to suppress, the British defense line may have been broken through.

The armored car that suddenly rushed out became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and when the armored car was driven towards him without fear of guns, some Indian soldiers first couldn't resist the pressure and fled, rifle fire was useless, and the artillery was still useless at close range, and even the three powder kegs that rolled over could not stop its advance, and when the armored car broke through the stone wall through the gap, the British defense line was completely collapsed. The 3rd Company followed closely behind the armored body, the survivors climbed over the stone wall and shot the fleeing British from behind, and the 2nd Company and 2nd Platoon fought from the left flank, and the side fire swept down a large crowd.

Wolf was also in the fleeing crowd, and was awakened by his comrades after the bombardment, and was sent to guard the line. The unit he was in was no longer formed, and he had to fight side by side with people who had been improvised together. After the defensive line was breached, everyone ran towards the governor's palace on the hillside, and the screams from behind them from time to time indicated that people were constantly being shot. He looked back, and there were fewer and fewer comrades behind him, and he even felt that the Chinese were aiming at him. He knew that he could not run faster than a bullet, so he wisely threw away the rifle in his hand and stood there with his hands raised. With his example, more and more British soldiers raised their hands.