"Hold on a little longer, and it will be very soon, very soon...... Damn it! ”

Major General Wilson watched everything with a telescope, and it was clear that victory was close at hand, but the soldiers who were about to rush forward retreated.

What a failure!

However, there is a third wave, and Battalion B and C companies of the Hyderabad battalion can still be engaged in the assault, and they are now trotting to the "jump point", that is, the assault starting position.

More than a dozen tanks lined up in a row were not idle, and they continued to fire at this interval to maintain the suppression of the Ming army's position.

But at this time, a series of shells suddenly fell?

"Boom, boom, boom—"

The formation of nearly 300 men of B Company and C Company was half covered in the blink of an eye, and their movement was stagnant.

After eliminating the threat in the woods, the Ming army in the city naturally had to support Heights Zero, and four rounds of 16 80mm mortar shells landed accurately and timely in the third wave of the Anglo-Indian attack.

Ahead of a defeated friendly army, and before they could launch an assault, they were shelled?

Obviously, this poor state is impossible to continue the attack, and forcing the attack is to send it to death, Wilson reluctantly ordered to stop the attack.

The captain next to him picked up the Webley flare gun and fired a green flare into the sky; Immediately, the British and Indian soldiers began to retreat rapidly.

The sun touched the horizon, and darkness descended as night slowly covered the sky at a speed visible to the naked eye.

With the hundreds of Anglo-Indian troops lying between the high ground and the city, communication between the two places has been cut off. In this era when small radios were not reliable, the wired telephone was the bulk of war communications.

After discovering that both the main and backup lines were disconnected, the command could only communicate with Heights Zero through flares.

Several yellow and white flares were lifted into the air, and soon several flares of different colors were also launched into the sky.

"Yellow, white, red, red, they can't stand it." Zhou Changfeng stood by the window and looked at it, and said lightly: "Prepare to change the guard." ”

He really wanted to try a night raid to drive the Anglo-Indian army stuck in his throat, but it was not easy to carry out a successful night raid.

The Anglo-Indian army had about 300 men, and it had tanks to rely on, and it was necessary for the side to invest at least one reinforced company unit to be able to expel it, and if it was more secure, it would have to invest two.

But now he only has three less than three teams at hand, a total of about 500 infantry, unless he fights to the death, how can he draw more than 300 people to attack at night?

After weighing it, Zhou Changfeng gave up this plan.

In fact, in his vision, the street battle in the urban area is the most critical finale, which is the best choice to adapt to local conditions.

Unlike ordinary troops, several divisions and brigades of the Forbidden Army received additional training in street warfare due to their special nature – assuming that in the event of a special situation, the Forbidden Army would likely have to engage in a fierce confrontation with their opponents in the city of Nanjing.

In this case, it is natural to reflect the results of the extra training.

The only submachine guns currently armed by the Commonwealth army are the Lanchester submachine guns, which are modeled after the MP18/28, and they are only available in small numbers, and are basically only equipped with the Royal Navy.

In contrast, the Ming army not only had the Type 34 hand-held machine gun honorably produced by the Wuchang Arsenal, but also the Type 20 automatic gun from the Jinling Arsenal.

The former was a modest submachine gun in the style of the thirties - with a machined machine, a free bolt principle, a thirty-five round-shaped magazine fed underneath, and even a bayonet mount.

As early as during the European War, the military expedition sent by the Ming Dynasty to Europe had seen the power of submachine guns - the German Storm Commando armed with MP18 was extremely sharp, beating the British and French troops with only bolt-action rifles in the trenches.

So someone managed to get a captured MP18 from the French army and send it back to China.

Unlike many countries that do not pay attention to submachine guns, the Ming army is very fond of this new weapon that can splash bullets at close range and is easy to control, so it imitated it in reverse.

In addition, at that time, the Ming army was implementing the national policy of encircling and suppressing bandits in western Hunan and western Hubei on a large scale, and in the deep mountains and old forests, bolt-action rifles were obviously not as good as submachine guns; The "hand-held machine gun" that was able to shine has since firmly occupied a place in the infantry weapons of the Ming army.

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After the MP18 gradually became outdated, it was natural to be updated, so the Wuchang Arsenal designed its own Type 34 submachine gun after referring to the Steyr MP34 and Suomi M1931.

As for the so-called "Type 20 automatic gun", it is actually the M1907 semi-automatic rifle that the Jinling Arsenal purchased from Winchester Company after the production license, which is a civilian weapon.

【Winchester M1907】

However, during the European war, the French army ordered a batch of special, fully automatic shooting M1907 (semi) automatic rifles, the Ming military expedition group was very interested in this, so they asked the price, and when they learned that it was only 28$, they thought they had heard it wrong.

It adopts the principle of free bolt action, is fed by a 5/10/15 round magazine, fires .351 round-head round-head round, and has a muzzle kinetic energy of about 1800J.

Guns based on the free bolt-action principle are simple in structure and low in cost, but they are only suitable for firing pistol bullets with low kinetic energy. In order to make it capable of firing high-power ammunition, the designers simply and crudely chose a huge bolt block to vigorously suppress the recoil force miraculously.

In short, the effective range of 250 meters, the ability to shoot automatically, and the low price can be said to be very suitable for the use of second-line personnel, so the Ming army took it into the bag; It is worth mentioning that cavalry units also favored this gun.

The superiority in weaponry can play a huge role in certain situations, and Zhou Changfeng believes that if the British and Indian troops dare to blindly engage in street fighting, they will inevitably suffer a great hardship.

Although the Anglo-Indian army did not attack at night, it was actively engaged in reconnaissance and infiltration operations.

They organized a large number of squads of three, four, or eight or nine people, and quietly sneaked through the darkness of the night, trying to find the assembly points, firepower points, and material hoarding points on the Ming army's front.

The sound travels farther in the quiet of the night than during the day, and the sound of gunfire is constantly heard within a radius of ten miles, sometimes a few short blows, sometimes a series of crackles, and even the roar of explosions.

The guard posts set up by the Ming army listened attentively to the subtle movements around them, some put improvised listening devices on their ears, and some threw broken glass slag and empty cans into places where the enemy might be haunted.

The second lieutenant, a military doctor who likes to take pictures, performed a more detailed debridement of Zhou Changfeng's two wounds, then rinsed them with Dakin's antiseptic solution, and finally applied and bandaged them.

Zhou Changfeng grinned in pain, but the military doctor didn't take it seriously, but took out a small bottle and asked, "By the way, sir, do you agree to take this medicine?" ”