Guangdong, Huizhou, Hong Kong Campaign Front Command

With three crisp gunshots, a coffin covered with a scythe, hammer, and bright red party flag was slowly carried up the pyre by the soldiers. Several sappers carefully poured gasoline between the firewood, while Colonel Ihonovsky personally lit the pyre and held a cremation for the werewolf pilot Comrade Grisha.

“…… O young soldier, your name is unknown, your deeds live on, may the spirits of Marx and Lenin bless you in heaven. ”

At the same time, in front of the combat sand table in the headquarters, the traversers and the commanders and fighters of the Red Army were even more solemn.

“…… During the interception operation at the mouth of the Pearl River, our army's Pearl River Fleet was defeated again, losing three cruisers and three shallow gunboats, and most of the other ships were wounded. Although all three torpedo boats successfully released torpedoes, none of them hit......"

Peng Dehuai frowned, reading the battle report that had just been sorted out, "...... About one brigade of British reinforcements successfully entered Victoria Bay, which nearly doubled the strength of the enemy forces in Hong Kong in one go, and it was even more difficult to fight at this time! ”

“…… The problem doesn't stop there, according to the telegrams we intercepted, there are also signs of sorties from the British expeditionary fleet stranded in Singapore. ”

Wang Qiu sighed and handed over another telegram, "...... I really can't figure out why the British insist on stumbling to the end in Hong Kong......"

Speaking of which, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army obviously has the jishu equipment of the 21st century, so will Weishenme still fight the war like this?

In fact, the reason is also very simple, advanced jishu equipment is available. The people who can operate it just can't keep up.

-- The Pearl River Fleet, which the Guangdong Red Army currently owns, has not yet completed a month since it was awarded the flag and became an army. Among them, in addition to some of the Red Army fighters who were transferred to the ship. The backbone personnel of the fleet and the largest ships were all defected from the original Chen Jitang's Guangdong Navy, and at the rough glance they also had some strength: they mainly included the 2,600-ton flagship cruiser Zhaohe, the 680-ton Sea Tiger gunboat, the 274-ton Jiangda gunboat, as well as two old gunboats of less than 100 tons and four old torpedo boats. In addition to the several fast gunboats provided by the traversers, the total tonnage is just over 5,000 tons...... What's worse are the two largest of them, the capital ships. The cruiser Zhaohe was a British-built coal-fired boiler cruiser built in 1909, designed for a maximum speed of only 20 knots, and mainly armed with two 152 mm guns, which is now seriously outdated. And because he was injured many times in the civil war. The hull was in disrepair and could not even reach the design speed; As for the Sea Tiger gunboat, it has been converted into an anti-smuggling ship, with only one 4.7-inch front main gun, and its combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning. The rest of the ships that were originally subordinate to the Guangdong Navy either fled to Fujian or hid on Hainan Island.

Although Wang Qiu and other traversers provided missile boats after they came to Guangzhou. I have no choice but to be in this ignorant era when at least 95% of the working people are illiterate even if they are intellectuals after graduating from primary school. It's not an easy task to get together so many sailors who can play missile boats well...... Up to now, these missile boats and the trainees on board are still training hard at the Tianzi Wharf in Guangzhou, and they have not even been able to set sail.

- No way, the sailors of the Navy are not inferior to the Army, at least a medium level of education and long and rigorous training. Otherwise, just relying on a passion will only mess things up. In the hands of a group of newcomers, it is difficult for even the most advanced and powerful warships to exert their strength. And in the hands of a group of illiterate people, the so-called most advanced and powerful warships can only lie on the dock and rust......

When I was in Shanghai, even though the time-travelers gave hand-in-hand guidance, had CD-ROMs and slide projectors to play teaching software, had a full set of professional textbooks and teaching materials, and showed the officers and men all kinds of naval war movies every day, it took more than two months for the small fleet of the Shanghai Soviet Government to initially become combat-capable, but it only took one week to teach several captains and first mates to play the online game "Battle at Sea......

As for Guangzhou, the preparation time is more intense, the training conditions are even worse, and the quality level of the officers and men is even more inadequate.

Therefore, at present, the Red Army can only dispatch such a grandfather-class tattered navy, and in the face of the British escort fleet, it will naturally be a complete defeat.

In addition, the air supremacy, which has always been extremely valued by the traversers and firmly grasped, did not play its due role - although the Red Army flying team bombed Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport in advance, easily eliminating the seriously outdated old biplanes of the British troops stationed in Hong Kong. But the problem is that most of the pilots of the Red Army are also rookies, basically at the level of just being able to start the Chujiao-6. In air combat, dogfights rely on air-to-air missiles to cheat, and they fail to drop bombs on the ground, and they are even more helpless against naval vessels that move at high speed, have very small targets, and have very fierce anti-aircraft firepower.

Because the rookie pilots of the Red Army really couldn't play the difficult job of diving and dropping bombs, and as for throwing torpedoes, they couldn't even think about it, so they could only continue to equip them with missiles, but the Chujiao-6 can be called a tragic load capacity, and it was really maddening, Zuihou had to use anti-tank missiles to temporarily change out a 40-kilogram "launch and forget" ultra-light air-to-ship missile, which was finally successfully installed on the Chujiao-6 "fighter...... Unfortunately, because the missile was too lightweight, the warhead weighed only 8 kilograms, and as a result, it could only hit small gunboats, and even destroyers could not be sunk.

In addition, the mistakes made by the Red Army's ground forces were even more obvious - because the British army succeeded in destroying the main roads, railways, tunnels and bridges in the north of the New Territories in advance, or blasting landslides to bury them, the Red Army's mechanized and artillery units were delayed in their march and it was difficult to repair and restore the roads in a short time......

According to normal logic, the forward troops at this time should rest on the spot and wait for the heavy artillery to be brought up. However, the commanders and fighters of the Red Army at the front, who lacked experience and were eager to seize the merits, ignored the common sense of war and used the light infantry with poor firepower to gnaw at the defense line of Drunken Bay...... The results are predictable.

Therefore, Zuihou, and the most critical one, is that both the Red Army and the traversers have committed the mistake of underestimating the enemy excessively!

——Many later generations felt that Britain on the eve of World War II was a paper tiger who was fierce and inward-looking, and would be soft as long as he snorted twice.

Wang Qiu and the others also thought the same way at first, thinking that as long as they could set up the cannon on the Kowloon Peninsula and fire a few cannons at Hong Kong Island, the British troops stationed in Hong Kong would be in a state of desir and put up a white flag. More optimistic people even believe that the British forces in Hong Kong may have put up only symbolic resistance from the outset.

If this were the case, then the Hong Kong raid would have turned into a light-hearted armed march – and the relaxed experience of the first day after the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army crossed the Shenzhen River into Hong Kong also reinforced the erroneous impression of the Red Army commanders and fighters that "the British don't like to fight."

But in fact, as a shijie overlord who can rule over the seven seas and rule thousands of waves, and a sea king who uses gunboat diplomacy to open the gates of ancient oriental countries, even though they are now exhausted and enter a period of decline, the pirate gentlemen of Britain still never lack basic blood, backbone and bravery, and there is no consciousness to abdicate and let the virtuous take the initiative to step down from the stage of history.

So, whether it was for the sake of the face of the empire or the self-confidence of the shijie hegemon, the British considered themselves obliged to use shells, bombs and bullets to teach these Chinese Bolshevik thugs a hard lesson, so that they could see who made this cruel Shijie rule.

Now is not the time of the great liberation of the colonies, and if you want to regain any land from the British, you will have to pay blood and death!

In the end, after some discussion, in order to deal with the changes in the enemy situation in Hong Kong, the headquarters of the Red Third Army in Huizhou made the following countermeasures.

First, it urgently strengthened the shore artillery of the Humen fortress and deployed a number of shore-to-ship missiles to prevent the British warships from following the old tactics of the Opium War period and breaking through Humen and directly attacking the city of Guangzhou.

Second, it is necessary to establish rocket artillery positions in Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong, which has been cleared of the remnants of the enemy, and launch large-scale long-range strikes on the Drunken Bay defensive line and the Stonecutters Island Naval Base, less than 10 kilometers to the south, and even further afield to the core urban area of Hong Kong Island, so as to destroy the enemy's determination to hold on.

Third, the crew members who had already learned their studies were airlifted from Shanghai and sailed out to sea in a modern Shijie missile boat to prepare for a naval battle.

Fourth, the emergency establishment of shore-to-ship missile positions in Macao, on the other side of the Pearl River estuary: to intercept British reinforcements, the key is to sink all ships trying to flee Hong Kong – in short, to eliminate the possibility of Hong Kong tycoons and bankers absconding with their money......

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At the same time, the Governor of Hong Kong Island, Sir Belle, was accompanying a group of British reinforcements to mingle and laugh in the dining room of the Governor's Palace, and invited courtesans to accompany them, all with a red and confident expression on their faces.

- After a lot of calls from the colonial authorities in Hong Kong, the British Empire finally sent new reinforcements from Singapore: a total of about 6,000 men, including an artillery battalion, an Australian cavalry regiment, two Indian Punjabi infantry battalions, an Indian Rajput infantry battalion, a Canadian volunteer regiment, and a number of Gurkha mercenaries recruited from the foothills of the Himalayas, further enriching Hong Kong's defenses.

Moreover, the Chinese, who had always been considered by Sir Beilu to be mentally retarded, really hit their heads in front of the strong Drunken Bay defense line, and their bodies were scattered all over the field. Add to that the blows of the British Imperial Navy fleet to their battered little ships...... I guess this crisis will soon be over!

However, just as Sir Belle was looking forward to the victory yet to come, on the north shore of Victoria Bay, on Tai Mo Shan in front of the Drunken Bay defensive line, rows of thick black and hard rocket launchers had been installed in place, each rocket was pointed at the British ramparts in front of them......

“…… The coordinates of the impact point have been set, the Soman special gas bomb has been loaded, and preparations for the launch of the zuihou ...... begin" (to be continued......