As the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Bellu, had predicted, the Hong Kong Defensive Operations Conference was filled with a gloomy atmosphere of defeatism.

-- There was no way, because no one expected the sudden outbreak of war in Hong Kong in advance, and all the preparations were extremely inadequate.

According to the establishment, the permanent regular army of the British stationed in Hong Kong was generally four battalions, but unfortunately two battalions had been lost on the reed beach at Wusongkou in Shanghai, and one battalion had been abandoned on Zhoushan Island and could not be returned for a while. As a result, the ground forces remaining on the Hong Kong side were left with only one Punjab battalion of Indian soldiers, a small number of British white artillery, engineers, and a number of logistics troops. In addition, there were a number of militias of the British expatriate and a company of Hong Kong Chinese trade associations. If you include the police and the customs anti-smuggling team, it is estimated that a full battle can make up 4,000 soldiers and horses...... Obviously, such a pitiful force is far from enough to defend a million-strong metropolis like Hong Kong.

In addition to the lack of troops, the scarcity and incompleteness of the fortifications were an even greater problem, although a series of coastal forts and barracks were built here as a long-term solution after the British seized Hong Kong under the Treaty of Nanking. However, as with the problem of Singapore, the "first fortress in the Far East", the British fortifications in Hong Kong were all concentrated on Hong Kong Island, south of Victoria Bay, mainly against the threat from the sea to the fleets of other powers. The Kowloon Peninsula and the mainland part of the New Territories were largely undefended: the Hong Kong government did not have that many troops and not that much money. Not even think that the Chinese have the possibility of attacking Hong Kong from land!

Although relations between the two countries have deteriorated since the Anglo-Japanese alliance existed in name only after World War II, the British have repeatedly discussed the possibility of a future war against Japan. He also began to study Hong Kong's defensive strategy. However, due to the limitations of funds and heavy shili, most of the defense plans remained on paper.

Thus, at the special military meeting of the Governor's Palace on this day, the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Belle, heard the following report with a depressed face:

“…… According to the plan proposed by the War Jihua Group of the London Chiefs of Staff in 1927, we should extend the Hong Kong defence line to the Kowloon Peninsula to prevent all potential enemy forces from shelling Victoria Harbour and Taikoo Dockyard from the Kowloon Hills, so as to protect the vital facilities on both sides of the strait.

But here's the thing. Less than two months after the construction of the Drunken Bay defensive line across the ridge of the Kowloon Peninsula began at the end of last year, it was in an emergency because of the need to support the war in Shanghai and the Hong Kong government's financial and material reserves. It had to be temporarily suspended, and it is still idle. According to my field survey, the entire defense line is currently less than 10% complete, and most of the forts have only laid foundations. Not even a single artillery piece was installed. There is basically no real defense. Even if we start repairing now, we won't have time to collect so much cement and rebar ......"

The current Supreme Commander of the British Forces in Hong Kong, Colonel Josephine, said with a sad face, "...... What's more, even if the defensive line is completed, Hong Kong's existing forces are not enough to maintain such a long front, and the number of artillery is far from enough...... Therefore, we can only narrow down the goal and take holding on to Hong Kong Island as the primary task. At the same time, the roads and bridges on the mainland were destroyed in order to hinder the enemy's advance......"

“…… Other words. Once the Bolshevik army attacked from the north, we could only retreat all the way from the Shenzhen River to Victoria on Hong Kong Island, hoping to rely on the waves of the sea to hold back the enemy? How unreasonable! How can we be so cowardly in front of the yellow-skinned monkey! ”

Hearing that the military actually made such a cowardly statement at the meeting, a civilian official of the Hong Kong government couldn't help but slap the table and shouted, "...... If there is a lack of artillery, can't it be dismantled from warships? Is the Grand Fleet in Victoria Bay just a good look? ”

“…… The premise is to find so many skilled mechanics willing to climb these ships cursed by the god of plague. A naval lieutenant pulled his shoulders and interjected, "...... In fact, if the fleet could still move, those two battleships would be enough to cut off the enemy's path with artillery fire, but the problem was ......," he looked at the crowd with lackluster eyes...... Everyone knows that our fleet has been called by the Lord! ”

-- Indeed, the current British military in Hong Kong has an ocean-going fleet of nearly 200,000 tons on paper, which is equivalent to four times the total tonnage of the Chinese navy and far exceeds the entire maritime strength of many countries. However, since the vast majority of the sailors had already entered a state of "plague to death" and were buried in various cemeteries, the only surface boats that the Hong Kong government could actually put into combat were only four gunboats and a few anti-smuggling patrol boats.

With this little boat alone, I am afraid that it will not be able to block even the narrow waters of Victoria Bay, and the enemy's detour and landing will be even more unguardable.

Moreover, even if the artillery was dismantled from the "ship of the dead" to strengthen the shore defense, Hong Kong today would not have been able to muster so many trained artillerymen.

“…… Although Hong Kong's defense situation is not ideal, and we are facing many difficulties of all kinds, we still cannot abandon our responsibilities. ”

Seeing that the atmosphere in the venue was a little dull, Sir Belle had to frown and tap the coffee cup with a small spoon, and opened his mouth to cheer up his subordinates, "...... Ladies and gentlemen, our enemies, for all their arrogance and numerousness, are still an inferior people who are as good at breeding as rats. Since a century ago, our army was able to cross half the world to punish the barbarians here and help China return to the ranks of civilized nations. Now, then, we can also hold the Far Eastern fortress of the British Empire, and stop the continued spread of the red plague in this shijie......"

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However, while the senior military and political officials in Hong Kong were worried about the empty colonial city of Liliang, the lower-level British officers and soldiers and British expatriates still held a blindly optimistic attitude, and did not believe that the "lowly yellow monkeys" were their opponents.

-- At that time, one of the most distinctive psychological characteristics that pervaded white society in Europe and the United States was the widespread theory of white superiority. The degree of discrimination and contempt that whites in the United States and Britain have for Asians. I'm afraid it exceeds the limits of the imagination of many people in the future! Even the Japanese, who are also imperialist powers, are disdainful in the eyes of the British masters, as for the more "inferior" and "uncivilized" Chinese. It's even more ridiculous.

Although the previous Shijie War, which almost destroyed European civilization, had emptied Britain's treasury and shed blood, and also made many sane "international observers" feel that the Shijie Empire, which ruled the sea, was crumbling, it did not make the British soldiers who thought highly of themselves lose their conceit. After the end of the Great War in Europe and the defeat of the Germans, the British soldiers took up the sacred mission of shaping the majesty of the whole white man, and continued to point their swords again and again - from the Middle East to Afghanistan to China. The conquest of the British Empire never ended. The soldiers of the British Empire had long been accustomed to watching those "despicable" colonial natives tremble and tremble in front of the rice flag, and they were scared to the core.

Therefore, despite the looming specter of war. There is still a peaceful and relaxed atmosphere in Hong Kong. Cinemas were packed, bars were packed, jazz music was constantly playing from dance halls, and British staff and soldiers on leave were heading out in droves to the countryside in the New Territories.

Though. In Huizhou, less than a hundred kilometers north of the Shenzhen River border. At this time, it was already in a state of fire and smoke......

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"Boom-" "Boom-" "Boom-"

On the Cantonese army's position on the outskirts of Huizhou, groups of planes painted with sickles and hammers whizzed by, dropping small bombs with parachutes hanging and spitting white smoke, followed by bright fireballs rising into the air with the sound of explosions.

Suddenly, the ground the size of several football fields thundered and the heat wave rolled over. Trees fell and houses collapsed, and corpses were everywhere. screaming and screaming...... Under the saturation bombardment of dense rocket artillery and aviation cloud burst bombs, the humble positions of the Cantonese army were swallowed up by the flames almost in the blink of an eye. All the objects on the position, whether it was a hard cannon body or a soft human body, were torn to pieces on the spot by the violent shock wave, and a white ground was burned in an instant!

In the midst of a loud explosion, bright mushroom clouds rose from the ground, and the monstrous flames rolled and spread out in all directions, sweeping everything away like a hurricane. The violent shock wave even affected the Red Army aircraft in the air, causing them to jolt up and down like a turbulent current.

Listening to the dying screams coming from the flames, the remaining Cantonese soldiers also felt a chill in their hearts, not knowing when such bad luck would befall them. Many others have already been injured by the fish in the pond, either by the flying masonry or burned by the splashing flames...... What's even more terrifying is that some unlucky guys, even if they are far away, will feel a tightness in their chests, their breathing will start to become uncomfortable, zuihou will foam at the mouth, his face will turn purple, he will fall to the ground with convulsions, and even scratch his throat - because the cloudburst bomb has burned all the oxygen in the vicinity!

Therefore, by the time the Red Army soldiers sounded the loud trumpets of the charge and rushed to the enemy line with high morale, the Cantonese positions had lost even the sound of gunfire -- the machine gun positions and mortar positions built with sandbags were all in ruins, and the Cantonese soldiers squatting in simple bunkers were either scorched or suffocated to death, or they were so frightened that they threw themselves to the ground and knelt down in surrender...... There was little organization of effective resistance.

Looking at the positions of the Cantonese army on the ground that were burned to a piece of scorched earth and rubble, as well as the Red Army flying team with its wings swaying in the sky, and listening to the excited cheers of the Red Army soldiers around him, Comrade Peng Dehuai, commander of the Third Army Corps of the Red Army, put down his binoculars a little bored.

- It's so easy! Since leaving Ruijin to launch the southern expedition, every battle encountered has been equally easy and overwhelming!

Although Chen Jitang's Cantonese army has never been known for its fierceness and good fighting, it was so fragile that it could not even retreat in the face of the reborn Workers' and Peasants' Red Army -- in the course of the Red Third Army's march southward from Ruijin, wherever it encountered the enemy's heavy troops gathering and fortifying, it first bombarded indiscriminately with rocket artillery and airplanes, and relied on cloudburst bombs to wash the ground and burn a scorched earth full of ashes. And then when the Red Army soldiers rushed forward with automatic rifles, the enemy soldiers who could run had already run clean, and basically only needed to contain the prisoners and collect the corpses of the enemy.

From Meizhou to Longchuan to Huizhou, the Red Third Army fought several battles of annihilation in a row. However, the Cantonese army did not seem to have learned a lesson, and was always attacked by a tentative raid by the Red Army, and began to gather its troops and gather a group. Zuihou burned to the ground in a mushroom cloud of cloudburst bombs...... After winning several times in a row like this, Peng Dehuai seemed to lack a sense of accomplishment like a normal person bullying a fool when he started fighting the Cantonese army again.

Well, in short, after annihilating the enemy in front, Huizhou City, which has no troops to defend, can already be regarded as taken. To the south of Huizhou is Shenzhen, and to the south of Shenzhen is Hong Kong, which the British have stolen - and captured Hong Kong. It is the ultimate goal of the Red Third Army's southern expedition!

I don't know what the combat effectiveness of the British army is compared with these soft-footed and stupid Cantonese troops? Is it an easy fat to deal with or a hard nut to bite?

Of course, it doesn't matter whether Hong Kong is easy or difficult to fight. The current revolutionary situation is very good, and it can be said that victory is in sight!

I heard that He Long also fought well in the direction of Guangzhou, and beat Yu Hanmou to the point of bleeding. On the battlefields of Hunan and Jiangxi, there were also frequent good news, and the Soviet areas from Guizhou to Shanghai were already connected on the map. In just a few months, he made a line across the whole of South China. A huge red belt with a population of more than 50 million. Only the battle situation in the Central Plains Theater in the north was very critical -- after the Japanese army in North China had defeated the allied forces of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng and occupied most of Henan Province, it immediately turned around and launched an attack on the Red Army, which had just returned to the Dabie Mountains not long ago to rebuild the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet region, and had not yet gained a firm foothold for a while. Chiang Kai-shek's descendants, who had retreated to Wuhan, also took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet area in the Dabie Mountains from behind.

Under the attack of the superior forces of the Japanese army and the Kuomintang army from both sides, Comrade Xu Xiangqian was now in a very difficult situation. It also worried the rest of the Red Army. But the trouble is that the location of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area is too bad. Comrades in other base areas even if they want to support. It is also a helpless way to deal with the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base areas that are lonely behind the enemy...... Alas, although the reactionary warlords of the Kuomintang were now vulnerable, the Japanese invaders did not know how long they would be able to exert their might in China! Peng Dehuai thought as he watched the Red Army soldiers clean up the battlefield.

What he didn't know was that the time-travelers at this moment had once again begun the "final solution" against Japanese militarism......

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Modern Shijie, Russia, Siberian wilderness, a certain semi-abandoned secret military base

Looking at the army green jet transport plane on the cement runway, which was full of silly and thick black style and seemed to have rust, Wang Qiu couldn't help but gasp - he felt for the first time that complaining was actually a profound science. Because when you see something all over the body, but you can't start spitting it out of your mouth, you will know how important the entry point is, which is where the essence of spitting lies!

“…… This one...... Is that your homemade remote-controlled drone with a nuclear bomb? He asked Sonia hesitantly.

“…… Yes, although the 100 million ton TNT explosive equivalent 'Khrushchev' hydrogen bomb is really not available at the moment. However, there is still one hydrogen bomb in stock of the 60 million tons of TNT explosives equivalent 'Big Ivan', which is almost enough. Sonia replied proudly, "...... In order to save you time and your body, we even have ready-made remote-controlled drones to help you transform them! The service is considerate enough! ”

“…… I know that. Here's the problem...... This is the modified drone you use to deliver hydrogen bombs? It's too shabby! ”

Wang Qiu scratched his hair in great distress, "...... It's not an antique from the Soviet era! Aren't you afraid of another accident? A 100-million-ton 'Khrushchev' hydrogen bomb had already been missing, and now it is still so careless -- what are you trying to make a fuss about? ”

“…… Never mind! It is precisely for security reasons that we did not ship it to the current China, but let you run directly to Siberia with the wormhole, and teleport it to the time and space of the Republic of China in the base, so as not to let this expired nuclear bomb risk flying around the sky......"

Commissar Sonia proudly boasted about her cleverness, "...... Anyway, as long as this nuclear suicide drone is brought over there and successfully takes off from Shanghai, there will be no fear of anything. The worst result is that it didn't fly over the East China Sea and fell halfway through...... Well, it is also possible that it will not be able to detonate at that time, and it will become a dirty bomb to cause nuclear contamination in Japan - anyway, it will not be a big deal! ”

“…… Drop the East China Sea? Marx is on top! It seems that even you don't have any confidence in the safety of this plane? Wang Qiu shook his head and sighed, "...... It seems that I have to discuss with Sister Jinchina, and ask her not to release any declaration of destruction to the outside world in advance, lest this broken plane really fall into the East China Sea or the Sea of Japan, and the Shanghai Soviet Government will be ridiculed by the whole Shijie public opinion circles again......"

-- The countdown to another nuclear explosion on the Japanese archipelago has begun...... The only difference is that this time no one knows anymore...... (To be continued......)