“…… Just this morning, the Japanese fleet again shelled the coast of Shanghai and began to organize a landing on Jinshanwei on the south side of Shanghai......"

In the temporary base in Yuexiu Mountain, Guangzhou, Wang Qiu, wearing a shorts vest, held a telegram he had just received and said to Ms. Jin Qina, "...... This time, the Japanese played with their lives and blocked the Zuihou of the Combined Fleet, don't you worry about the situation in Shanghai? ”

“…… What is there to worry about? I already knew about this more than half a month ago, and all the preparations that should have been made have been made, and the entire battlefield information is completely one-way transparent to us, and it is also a home battle in Shanghai......" Ms. Jinjina put down the pen in her hand, leisurely picked up the herbal tea to relieve the heat and took a sip, "...... If they can still lose in this way, then Fang Zhimin and Xun Huaizhou should also hang themselves to thank the countrymen! ”

Indeed, as Ms. Kinkina said, because of the telegraph codes of the Japanese Navy, Army, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs at this time, the traversers and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army were thoroughly exposed in the all-round archives provided by the Japanese government in later generations. Therefore, long before Rear Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi led the Truk Atoll detachment from the South Pacific, the Red Fifth Front Army in Shanghai had already grasped the general movements of this Japanese Zuihou counterattack force.

At this moment, in the Shanghai area, there are 80,000 Red Army troops brought back from eastern Zhejiang by General Xun Huaizhou to take charge of the defense, there are special science soldiers who have arrived with Comrade Kang Sheng to purge the spies, there are a large number of ordnance materials that have been hoarded in advance, there are the latest arsenals to produce ammunition, and there are air defense and anti-sea radars to provide long-range vigilance. More than 600 aircraft competed with Japanese carrier-based aircraft for air supremacy, and there was a coastal defense fleet of small torpedo boats, gunboats, and missile boats...... If you have such a rich capital and such adequate preparations, you can still be torn apart by the 20,000 Taiwanese troops of Lieutenant General Shouichi Terauchi. Breaking through the downtown area of Shanghai, then the Red Fifth Front Army is really on the same level as the South Vietnamese army in the Vietnam War era.

——According to Professor Yang's comment on this matter in Guangzhou: "...... Even an ugly girl has to see her in-laws. In any case, children always have to learn to grow up on their own, apprentices always have to try to start work on their own, and the Red Fifth Front Army in Shanghai must also have this ability, and after leaving the help of us traversers, learn how to rely on their own liliang to fight a modern war - just like a graduation exam! ”

And telegrams of the battle situation were sent from the Shanghai front one after another. It also proved that the commanders and fighters of the Red Army really fought well -- the Japanese Taiwan Army, which landed on the beach from Jinshanwei, was always firmly suppressed on the beachhead and could not develop in depth. Then it was bombarded to ashes by overwhelming artillery fire. The carrier-based aircraft on the Fengxiang aircraft carrier were quickly lost in the fierce confrontation, and even the aircraft carrier itself was attacked by air strikes...... It is a pity that the flying team of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is, after all, still a rookie who has just learned from it. There was no training at all to attack targets on battleships. So after a fierce battle in the air and sea. The aircraft carrier Fengxiang suffered only one aerial bomb and was slightly damaged, while 15 of the Red Army's fighters and bombers were beaten down by anti-aircraft guns.

However, the Japanese merchant ships and cargo ships carrying the army suffered heavy losses in the indiscriminate bombardment, and one of the passenger ships carrying half a company of soldiers reinforced Shanghai Tangtou did not reach its destination. It was blown to pieces by the air-to-ship missiles of the Red Army in Shanghai. Four hundred people drowned on the spot, and eight hundred struggled to climb the nearby tidal flats. Most of them didn't even have pants left—and they were quickly annihilated by vigilant militias

On August 3, the Red Navy managed to organize a rather successful raid, heavily damaging the Japanese Navy's Zuihou battleship "Yamashiro" with missiles and torpedoes, sinking the heavy cruiser Myoko and a destroyer, and shelling the beachhead where the soldiers were gathering from behind the landing Japanese troops...... But three torpedo boats were sunk and one missile boat ran aground and broke down - in general, the gains outweighed the losses.

By noon on 4 August, the Japanese army's decisive counterattack had completely failed, and the landing force had never been able to break through the beachhead, but the armored vehicles of the Shanghai Chengguan Brigade drove directly onto the beach of Jinshanwei in an attempt to push the exhausted Japanese troops into the sea.

On this day, two more Japanese transport ships were sunk, leaving 3,000 Japanese troops in the belly of the fish, causing Lieutenant General Terauchi Shouichi, who was supervising the battle on the Jinshanwei front, to find that he could no longer take out any living liliang to put into the battlefield, and the ammunition rushed ashore was on the verge of running out.

When he first sent a telegram and then sent a special envoy to ask for help from the American, British, and French soldiers on Zhoushan Island, which was a few miles away, but was refused, Lieutenant General Terauchi Shouichi had to issue an order to "stop fighting" in the evening of that day, and then retreated to the Shengsi Islands with more than 6,000 remnants of Zuihou, almost rowing sampans and lifeboats. The Japanese naval fleet, which had palpitations, took advantage of the situation to break the siege and return home to replenish fuel and ammunition.

However, General Xun Huaizhou, who had fought a fiery battle, still refused to give up, and simply collected all kinds of small boats, fishing boats, and gunboats on the spot, and under the cover of the air force planes, launched a majestic landing operation on the Shengsi Islands -- the Japanese Taiwan Army, which was like a frightened bird, was caught up by the Red Army again before it could gain a firm foothold, and as a result, Lieutenant General Terauchi Shouichi was almost unable to organize any resistance, so he broke and fled again, and retreated all the way to Zhoushan Island to be the companion of the Western coalition forces.

All in all, Lieutenant General Terauchi Shouichi used the disastrous defeat of 20,000 Imperial Japanese Taiwan troops on the tidal flats of Jinshanwei in Shanghai to fully verify an unbreakable wise saying in modern warfare -- a large-scale amphibious landing operation without air supremacy is basically tantamount to collective suicide!

On the other hand, when the smoke of gunpowder in the Shanghai battlefield gradually dissipated again, the beacon fire of the Lingnan battlefield was once again blazing.

On August 6, Peng Dehuai's Red Third Army finally completed its rest and replenishment in Huizhou, and immediately launched an operation to attack Hong Kong in the south.

According to Mr. Peng's exclamation after watching the movie to resist US aggression and aid Korea in later generations, he said: "...... Judging from the current Jiashi, I am afraid that in this life, I will not have the opportunity to 'cross the Yalu River' and compete with the Americans on the Korean Peninsula! But. Now we can 'cross the Shenzhen River with great dignity' to regain lost territory and beat the British, which seems to be good! Anyway, the British and the Americans should not be much different......"

- Met with almost no resistance. The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army crossed the Shenzhen River with great momentum and drove straight into the hinterland of Hong Kong......

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While the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army swept through the Pearl River Delta and engaged in a series of bloody battles with the Cantonese and Gui armies, the British in Hong Kong did not sleep idle.

-- Although amazed by the fierce fighting power of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and shocked by the monstrous catastrophe that occurred in Japan, the British troops stationed in Hong Kong still had no intention of retreating without a fight: the British Empire in this era. It's not the island country that was broken by the Shijie war and the economic crisis, and was so carried away by the "multicultural theory" that it allowed the Scottish referendum to vote for independence. It's the shijie overlord who is still majestic!

Although Britain's national fortunes have been declining, the total area of the colony under the Mizi banner has reached a historical peak.

So, in order to maintain the vast colonial empire. In order to suppress the national uprisings that are now surging all over Shijie. The bravery and bravery of the British army in this era were in fact not inferior to their pirate ancestors - in India, Burma, the Middle East, and Africa, the British army easily bloodied all organizations and groups that dared to take up arms to resist, and cut down blacks, Arabs, Indians, and Burmese Buddhists.

Cruel facts have proved that in the face of all colored people at this time, the soldiers of the empire on which the sun never sets are still indisputably first-class soldiers. In the face of any other peoples outside Europe, the British soldiers continued to maintain the prestige and arrogance of the noble Caucasian race – including the Chinese, of course.

In short, in the eyes of the arrogant British. At this time, China was still a "tattered fourth-class state", and China's military was no different from the time when the Old Summer Palace was burned more than 70 years ago. It's still a bunch of sloppy, fragile, and vulnerable yellow-skinned monkeys.

Although the collapse of the joint intervention forces of the United States, Britain and France on the beachhead of Shanghai has already taken the Western media by surprise, and it has also dealt a blow to the confident European and American armies. And then the earth-shattering nuclear explosion on the Japanese archipelago shocked the entire Shijie unprecedentedly...... But all this was still not enough to make the proud British gentlemen change their usual stubbornness, contempt and disbelief against the Chinese - they simply blocked their ears and covered their eyes, refusing to admit the reality that their opponents had long since been reborn, but insisting that the Chinese Bolsheviks were just a bunch of poorly armed beggars, and that the victory of the Chinese in the Shanghai defense was not very convincing. As for the catastrophe that occurred in Japan, it was nothing more than a few natural disasters that happened - the Hong Kong newspapers also published a full-page "scientific common sense" ridiculing the "strange theories" of the Red Army.

Of course, contempt to contempt, arrogance to arrogance, ridicule to mockery, all the necessary combat preparations, the British troops in Hong Kong still tried to do the best - since the Red Army marched south from Jiangxi Province, the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Belu, while mobilizing all the manpower and material resources at hand to urgently repair the fortifications of Drunken Bay and the Kowloon Peninsula, while crying and grabbing the ground, asked for more reinforcements from Whitehall in London and the nearest colony of Malacca.

And Whitehall in London did take advantage of the Red Army's repeated entanglement with the White Army in the Pearl River Delta to send several additional reinforcements to Hong Kong. Coupled with the expatriates and Chinese volunteers recruited by the Governor of Hong Kong, the total number of troops in Hong Kong has increased from 4,000 at the lowest point to about 8,000 - Hong Kong's defense system has also changed from being full of holes and fragility in June to being quite confident in August.

But in any case, for Hong Kong, which has a total area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, such a small number of troops is still a drop in the bucket......

As for the second Far East intervention force, which Churchill claimed to have completed the mobilization of the Admiralty Churchill, which claimed to have two aircraft carriers, two battleships, six cruisers, 22 destroyers, 15 auxiliary vessels, 120 aircraft of various types, and a huge army of 25,000 troops, it remained stranded at the Singapore anchorage for some reason, and for a long time failed to complete the necessary preparations for crossing the sea to China.

Therefore, the 8,000 British troops in Hong Kong, who were alone in the enemy's territory, had to fight alone for the time being in front of Peng Dehuai's Red Third Army - for this reason, the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Belu, in view of the huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, ordered the complete abandonment of the New Territories in the north of Hong Kong. The British retreated to the fortifications around Drunken Bay and Kowloon, while civilian clothes teams were mobilized to blast and destroy roads and bridges in northern Hong Kong. to delay the pace of the Red Army's advance to the south.

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With the launch of the Red Third Army's Hong Kong attack, telegrams reporting the battle situation were sent to the headquarters of the Party Central Committee in Guangzhou like flowing water.

“…… Our flying team took off from Guangzhou Tianhe Airport at dawn and successfully attacked Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, shooting down and destroying about 20 enemy planes! ”

“…… The forward ground forces of the Third Army had crossed the Shenzhen River, and the British troops stationed in Hong Kong had not put up fierce resistance in the border areas. ”

“…… Bridges and roads in the New Territories were severely damaged, and our army was forced to send sappers to repair them. Ground forces march slowly......"

“…… Our Pearl River Fleet failed to break through into Victoria Bay, but was stopped at Chek Lap Kok, where the British battery was so heavy that another British destroyer attacked. There is a huge disparity between the surface forces of the enemy and us. Our Pearl River Fleet had no choice but to temporarily retreat to the Shekou anchorage......"

“…… Our reconnaissance unit has occupied the commanding heights in Hong Kong, Tai Mo Shan at an altitude of 957 meters, and the resistance along the way is extremely slight! ”

“…… The representative of the local maintenance meeting of the vanguard of our army in Yujian, Tuen Mun Town, asked the higher authorities to instruct specific countermeasures. ”

“…… In order to break the blockade of the waters of the Pearl River estuary by the British fleet stationed in Hong Kong. Our flying team again made a sortie to bomb the British military port of Stonecutters. However, the enemy's anti-aircraft fire on Stonecutters Island was very fierce, and our troops lost six fighters, failed to destroy any targets, and returned in frustration......"

“…… Two British gunboats harassed Daya Bay and shelled our convoys on the shore roads, but fortunately suffered minor losses......"

“…… The sneak attack on Jihua on Lantau Island at night failed, and our landing fleet was expelled and pursued by British speedboats......"

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Judging from the sand table map in the war room, the Hong Kong raiders of the Red Third Army are jihua. The main content is to push south from the front line of the Shenzhen River and go straight to the Kowloon Peninsula. Then the artillery was fired across Victoria Bay, forcing the British troops trapped on the isolated island to surrender. Due to the rugged terrain between the New Territories and the Kowloon Peninsula, the roads are narrow and mountainous, which is not conducive to the passage of large troops. However, the Red Army did not possess the right to control the sea in Hong Kong, so it could not land behind enemy lines, so it could only consider two routes to the south: namely, along the Kowloon-Canton Railway in the east, to the south to the Shing Mun Reservoir and over Jinshan; and along Castle Peak Road to the west across Tsuen Wan. Finally, it cut through the defense line of Drunken Bay, which was urgently repaired by the British army, and directly inserted into the urban area of Kowloon on the north shore of Victoria Bay.

In the initial phase of the ground offensive, the capture of the New Territories north of Tai Mo Shan, the Red Third Army proceeded exceptionally smoothly – the British forces in Hong Kong largely abandoned the defenses of northern Hong Kong due to a severe shortage of troops. When the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army swam across the Shenzhen River with nervous expressions, they did not find any trace of the enemy behind the border post where they had gone to the empty building, but only saw a quiet idyllic scene: waist-high rice growing in the vast green rice fields. Under the scorching sun and the light wind, the ears of rice continue to rise and fall like ocean waves......

Although the bridges and roads along the way were seriously damaged, the Red Army soldiers, who were accustomed to the mountain roads in southern Gansu, obviously did not fear the small hills and muddy mud in Hong Kong. The important thing is that the enemy forces have almost no resistance - it should be said that they cannot be found at all, and the devil knows where they are hiding.

On the evening of the first day of the Hong Kong Raid operation, the Red Army reconnaissance detachment, which had infiltrated Hong Kong in advance, had already climbed to Tai Mo Shan, the highest peak in Hong Kong, and planted a red flag on the top of the mountain. The main force, advancing from the east and west, had already successfully marched 15 kilometers south, and the next day occupied the towns of Tuen Mun and Tai Po, controlling nearly half of Hong Kong's land area – but still far from the core of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.

During this period, the Red Army was largely unresisted except for symbolic sexual harassment, and the main British forces were never visible, seemingly hiding in the clouds.

Compared with the smooth ground attack, the Red Army's surface troops' attack on Hong Kong was very unsmooth -- relying on a number of small ships of less than 100 tons sent by the traversers through the time and space gates, the Red Second Army Corps in Guangzhou managed to form a Pearl River Fleet, and played a significant role in the battle to clear out the remnants of the enemy in the Pearl River Delta, and this small fleet also contributed to the liberation of Macao......

However, when this small fleet, which had been trained for less than a month, swooped down from the Shekou anchorage to Hong Kong in an attempt to enter Victoria Bay, their meagre firepower was inadequate—any British destroyer could drive these small boats around.

That night, the temporary anchorage of the Pearl River Fleet in Shekou was attacked by British destroyers, and two gunboats were burned on the pier.

But in any case, on the whole, it was a day of great progress of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, a day of great momentum, and a day of congratulations.

However, the real test finally came when the Red Army continued south the next day, passing through Fanling and Tai Po, gradually approaching the line of Drunken Bay. (To be continued......)