The Ming army's well-organized, flexible defense left the Anglo-Indian army at a loss, and brutal street fighting forced them to temporarily suspend the offensive.

At 2:05 p.m., the British and Indian air forces braved the rain to enter the battle, and instead of carrying two 250-pound bombs, the Vincent bomber switched to a single 500-pound bomb and replaced it with a time-delay fuse.

The first bomb fell dozens of meters east of the building, and the second hit the roof of the building.

The roof of the hospital had been cut open by a 250-pound bomb two days earlier, but the 500-pound bomb landed elsewhere on the roof instead of hitting the floor on the fourth floor.

"Boom !!"

The bomb with a time-delay fuse smashed through the roof and the fourth floor, and finally exploded on the third floor.

A 500-pound bomb is a 100-kilogram TINE charge.

From a distance, the entire hospital building looks like a volcanic eruption, with huge amounts of smoke and debris bursting out, and flames and smoke spewing out from every window!

After more than ten seconds, people can barely see the general situation - the third and fourth floors are missing? The four-story hospital building now has only two floors... Or rather, two and a half floors, because the third floor is only the ruins of broken walls and various pieces of concrete.

The officers and men of the second team stationed in it had the foresight to retreat to the first floor and basement, but the powerful 500-pound aerial bomb made everyone hurt a lot, dizzy, and even some people actually coughed up blood and nosebleeds.

Zhou Changfeng felt that both ears were a little warm, and he touched it and looked at it only to find that it was blood!

The three field phones on the table all rang, and his hand holding the microphone was shaking involuntarily, "Hey, this is the command headquarters, something is happening!" ”

Xie Wancheng on the other end of the phone was obviously relieved, "Battalion commander? How's it going? ”

"There is no loss, but the injuries are not light."

"It's terrifying, both floors have been blown off!"

The other two phone calls were also from two teams from other defense areas, and it can be said that the situation just now frightened them.

"Return to the battle station immediately!" Zhou Changfeng took a deep breath, but he touched his aching ear, and he gasped in pain, "Then, divide a few people to inspect the structure of the building, and report it immediately if you find a large degree of deformation or broken seams." ”

Xiao Li nodded, and immediately turned around and ran out of the basement to give orders.

As a result, it didn't take long for someone to return the report, saying that it was found that there was a significant deformation of the main beam, as well as a large number of broken and fine cracks.

So Zhou Changfeng went over to check in person, and came to the second floor, just as he was staring at the main beam that was so cracked that the steel bars could be seen, someone next to him suddenly exclaimed.

"At ten o'clock, enemy planes!"

Another Vincent bomber and two Fury fighters appeared from the distant sky, apparently heading straight for the building.

Obviously, the hospital building in this state of affairs could not withstand another 500-pound aerial bomb, and if it did not want to be buried alive, it would have to run away.

"Evacuate, evacuate! Plan No. 2! Zhou Changfeng ordered without hesitation.

The soldiers who had just re-entered the battle position stood up again, and the heavy machine gun team also hurriedly raised the machine guns.

According to the predetermined order, the dozens of officers and soldiers of the second team and the battalion headquarters personnel combined with about a hundred people can be evacuated in a few minutes, but the problem is that there are still hundreds of wounded on the east side of the first floor!

For a while, many eyes fell on Zhou Changfeng, and the military doctor and second lieutenant who heard the news also opened their mouths.

"Immediately place the red smoke canisters in the southwest direction." Zhou Changfeng, who was expressionless, said coldly: "The people from the battalion headquarters will go first, and the second team will stay behind to assist in the evacuation of the wounded." ”

If the battalion headquarters is gone, the remaining troops will not be able to resist effectively, so they must be preserved.

In fact, the most indifferent decision now is to abandon all the wounded, but at the cost of a plummeting morale.

Leaving the second team to help evacuate the wounded, although it is likely that these dozens of combatants will also be compensated, but whether it succeeds or not, it can ensure morale.

Zhou Changfeng thought that he had made the most rational decision, and the people around him all agreed, and they dispersed in an instant to do their part.

"Buzz buzz—" Someone shook the small anti-aircraft siren in his hand, and the terrible siren sounded.

Radios, field telephones, switchboards, generators, the officers and soldiers of the battalion headquarters hurriedly picked them up and rushed out; The soldiers of the second team are making every effort to organize the evacuation of the wounded, and those who can carry them will directly resist walking, and those who should not be carried will be put on stretchers.

At this time, a sergeant found that the only remaining anti-aircraft machine gun group of the anti-aircraft platoon did not evacuate, but took it upon himself to move the machine gun up the third floor in ruins?

"What the hell are you doing?!"

"Air defense!" The corporal who led the team replied with two words very succinctly.

There was only one of the four anti-aircraft machine guns left in the anti-aircraft platoon, and there was not much ammunition left, and they had only more than 200 rounds of 40 cents of ammunition found scattered together, less than three chains.

The air defense platoon has two machine gun squads and one baggage squad, and there are only five of them left in the former's twenty or so. So they don't want to leave now, it's too troublesome for this big bulky guy to take away, and such a few bullets won't do much of a difference, so they just stay and make a break.

"With the name of 'air defense', the plane has not been hit once so far, and a base of 1,000 rounds is all used to fight tanks and people."

"It's just two hundred and five rounds, can you beat it?"

"How to shoot balloons and target machines in normal times, how to shoot them today."

While the five of them were talking calmly as if they were out of the way, the smoke canister on the southwest side of the hospital building was arranged, and a thick column of red smoke shot straight into the sky.

The bomber pilots who slowly approached DMG were a little puzzled, because according to the order, this bombing mission did not need to be instructed to launch smoke grenades on the ground, and could just be aimed directly at the building to drop bombs.

So why is the red mark smoke rising again?

Just when the pilot was confused, a barrage of bullets came straight in!

In order to buy time for the transfer of the wounded below, the anti-aircraft machine gun team chose to open fire early, forcing the three incoming planes to change course, but this also revealed their own position.

"Just a pistol?" Pereira, the pilot of the 45th Squadron, although he felt that it was unusual, dived head-on after circling in a circle.

Compared with the fighters, the Vincent bomber's movement to change course and circle around and then re-enter the attack course was naturally much slower, which bought at least a few minutes.

The anti-aircraft machine gun on top of the ruins was also aimed at the swooping fighters, and even in this state, the winged Fury fighters seemed to be slow, and there was little need to reserve much in advance.

The bright muzzle flame burst out at the muzzle, and in the sound of "dong dong" gunshots, a series of 12.8mm bullets whistled out, because the bullet chain was pressed with a patchwork of bullets, not a standard air defense group, so tracer bullets, penetrating bullets, instantaneous explosion bullets, armor-piercing bullets and so on were mixed in.

At the same time, the fighter that dived also opened fire, and the two .303 Vickers Aviation machine guns spat out two strings of bullets, and the two secondary shooters were hit in an instant and rolled down the building.

"It's smoking!"

The furious fighter dragged a puff of white smoke over the building, and the remaining three immediately turned their guns to aim at the second fighter, but as soon as they made a shuttle, their figure was swallowed up by the fire and smoke of the explosion of two 40-pound aerial bombs.