The dizzy Zhou Changfeng looked down and found that his abdomen was already red, and then he felt water dripping down his neck; When you touch it, your neck is bleeding?

Several people around him were shocked, and the medical soldiers who rushed to check on him hurriedly, but fortunately, the shrapnel only grazed his neck and only cut a hole; And the other shrapnel hit the ribs directly.

"It's not a big problem... Bandages for me! You go save someone! Zhou Changfeng snatched the bandage, then reached out and pushed the medic away.

He glanced in front of him and asked loudly while wrapping his bandages, "......How is the situation of the enemy tank detachment?"

"Boom!" Before he could finish his sentence, another 4.5-inch grenade hit the exterior wall of the third floor.

Although the soldiers had stacked bags of dirt behind the wall to reduce the secondary damage from stray bullets and shelling, the effect was limited.

The grenade fired directly reimbursed an anti-aircraft machine gun team, and the window they were in had been blown open, revealing the twisted steel bar.

Zhou Changfeng, who was choking on the dust and coughing, got up from the ground, and saw several parts of a heavy machine gun tripod, as well as a bloody severed hand, the watch dial on his wrist had been shattered, but the hands were still walking tenaciously.

The rich smell of blood and gunsmoke mixed into his nose, and the instinctive physiological reaction made him nauseous and wanted to vomit, but now he had to swallow desperately to suppress the vomiting feeling.

The phrase "as an officer is to lead by example" is not difficult to say, but how easy is it to do when you are on the battlefield?

A second lieutenant with a bloodied face walked a few steps on his waist and shouted at the top of his voice: "Sir! It's too dangerous! Go to the first floor! ”

"! Go back to the battle position! Zhou Changfeng ignored the window and leaned tightly against the dirt bags.

He took a deep breath, then cautiously stood up and looked out with his binoculars.

I saw that half of the dozen or so tanks had been destroyed and wounded at the moment, and the ground was full of craters, and more than 200 British and Indian troops accompanying them were digging foxholes on the spot while desperately fighting back.

Sure enough, this is going to get stuck there.

Even the simplest field bunkers can greatly reduce the effectiveness of incoming fire, and it only takes a good foot soldier to dig a lying hole in just ten minutes, and another half an hour to strengthen it into a kneeling foxhole.

This detachment of the Anglo-Indian army can be described as extraordinarily courageous, they are now under attack from both sides of Heights Zero and the city, but they still do not retreat, and are stubbornly carrying out close operations.

He retracted his head, turned around and asked, "How's the woods up north?!" ”

Someone replied: "There is movement observed, but the details are unknown!" ”

After learning about the situation, Zhou Changfeng went downstairs, and as soon as he returned to the headquarters, he called to inquire about the situation on Heights Zero.

After a long wait, Liu Qidong's voice sounded in the microphone, "Our side is very good, and we can't drop more than a dozen rounds per minute." ”

Zhou Changfeng took two sips of tea and said in a deep voice: "Before the sun sets, the enemy army that cuts into the middle zone can build a cover, after they are stable, the enemy army in front of you may try a general attack, and then there are also enemy troops in the north of the city, and it is estimated that we will be held back later, so we will probably not be able to support it!" ”

"Battalion commander, you put 10,000 hearts, let's put it aside and have a good time, if we don't kill one hundred and eighty enemies, we will all go to the kiln in the future and have no face."

"Heh, it's easy to say, don't complain later."

As soon as he put down the microphone, a communications soldier held the message in both hands and handed it to Zhou Changfeng.

He took a few glances at it, to the effect that the retreat of the 12th Division was still not going well, and that the division commander was seriously injured by repeated bombardments by the enemy's air force this afternoon, and the chief of staff took over the command, and now the command headquarters asked the 1st Battalion to hold out until the evening of 1 July.

In addition to this bad news, the two good news is that the main force of the mixed 3rd Brigade is also trying to arrive at the moment, although it has also been attacked by air, but it is expected to arrive on the second day; In addition, the Air Force agreed to organize an airdrop and asked for the required supplies to be listed.

Zhou Changfeng, whose complexion was complex, thought for a few seconds and ordered: "Call back, we will do our best to hold on." Supplies... Eighty-zero mortars, six-four mortars, two- and three-point bullets, and grenades are the four most important, and the rest of the materials are as you like. ”

The so-called two- and three-pointed bullets are actually the standard infantry bullets of the Ming army, with a caliber of 23 centimeters, that is, 7.36mm; while the heavy-pointed bullets are theoretically special ammunition for machine guns, and the warhead is a lead-core stern, which has a better long-distance storage speed, compared with the light-pointed bullets used by ordinary rifles with a lead-core flat bottom.

Of course, the two can actually be mixed, but the ballistic performance will change, and there will be a significant difference in medium and long range.

The guns continued to sound and the fierce fighting continued.

After just over half an hour, several A9 cruiser tanks ran out of shells, but they still used machine guns to fire desperately. The anti-aircraft machine gun group, which suffered heavy losses, had to abandon firing at it, and only one of the four anti-aircraft machine guns was now available, and one more needed to be repaired.

The so-called "often walk by the river, how can there be no wet shoes", the nimble as ghostly anti-gun team also had bad luck, three people were blasted away by several 2-pound high-explosive bombs.

Less than forty minutes before sunset, the general attack of the British and Indian troops really arrived as Zhou Changfeng had guessed.

After heavy sabotage fire on the hill, the Anglo-Indian 4th Artillery Battalion switched to suppressive fire, and the Raigar and Hyderabad battalions threw all six of their companies into battle, launching a strong attack in three waves.

Soon, Heights Zero ushered in a fierce battle that had never been seen before.

The two companies of the Tesspur battalion had now entered the forest to the north of the city, and were cautiously advancing southward, intending to set up a defensive position in depth from the edge of the woods.

"Boom!" The explosion of the mine was accompanied by screams, and the two soldiers wailed in pools of blood.

How many mines are there nearby? Fear stems from the unknown, and the panicked British and Indian soldiers all stopped.

At this moment, not only a few observation posts and guard posts near the woods were monitoring their movements, but the hospital building was also aware of it.

Zhou Changfeng nodded, and then a communication soldier picked up the phone and said: "One shift and two shifts, prepared according to the original plan, please reply when you receive it." ”

A few minutes later.

Soldiers of Companies A and C of the Tesspur battalion fell to the ground and plunged diagonally into the soil with long P1907 bayonets - if they hit a hard object, it could be a mine, and if they did not, they could continue, which was an emergency mine detection method in the absence of engineers.

The gentle breeze blows in your face, making you feel much more comfortable in this hot and humid climate.

Suddenly, a red flare shot into the sky, which was particularly obvious. And immediately after that, the whistling of mortar shells suddenly reached their ears?

Three rounds of twelve smoke bombs landed in the woods, and the red phosphorus inside immediately reacted, and began to rapidly release dense red phosphorus smoke.

The expected explosion did not come, and the British and Indian soldiers lying on the ground looked at each other - did the Chinese fire the wrong shell?