As the founder of modern special forces, the British created many special forces during the war, such as the Army Special Air Service Regiment (SAS), the Navy Special Boat Squadron (SBS), the Desert Expeditionary Force (LRDG) and so on.

The British, who had fled back to the British Isles, trembled at the millions of Germans on the other side of the Channel, but after the initial darkest hour, it was not long before the British began to consider how to fight back.

The German army that swept across Europe was so strong that allowing British troops to cross the sea and attack the Germans head-on was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

As a result, a lieutenant colonel named Clark proposed to "organize a small group of elite troops to harass the weak defensive areas of the German army, constantly wear down the German army, and strive for victory".

Many high-ranking generals thought that the method was to fight the fire and kill themselves, but this proposal was approved by the prime minister, and the Gomand attack force was born.

The situation was much the same, with the British helpless against the Germans across the Channel in Europe and the Ming in Asia.

Therefore, the unconventional surprise attack force has attracted the attention of many people, but there are also many opposing voices, believing that this is a loss of troops for no reason.

So Director Glenda and Captain Girrod struggled to prove that the infiltration strategy worked with a successful operation.

The Jungle Expeditionary Detachment (LRJD) has carefully selected two targets, the closer port city of Yangon in southern Myanmar and the farther and more dangerous Penang.

It wasn't until the night before the departure of the Trident submarine that they finally finalized it - the brave are fearless, and in order to prove our capabilities, the goal... Penang!

Developed as a commercial center by the British colonial government in 1786, Penang is now one of the most important port cities in the Malayan Peninsula with a large number of Chinese diaspora.

Penang was captured by the Ming Army on the Western Front during Operation Summer, and since then it has been bathed in the light of the sun and the moon, and there are often Ming naval warships replenished, repaired and maintained here.

In the face of the Ming military police and the agents of the Foreign Investigation Factory here, the British agents fought with them, and the losses were not small, but they also gained a lot.

They not only collected a lot of information, but also instigated against several sheriffs from the local police station, laying a good information foundation for the surprise attack.

For more than a year, the local Ming army captured some British agents one after another, and realized that Penang had been infiltrated by enemy agents to a certain extent.

However, everyone takes it for granted that it is necessary to prepare for air defense, or to do a good job of air defense camouflage for important facilities.

Obviously, the Ming army, which had never been attacked by special forces, could only think that the enemy might launch an air attack by carefully exploiting the intelligence they had spied on.

In this way, the infiltration of the jungle expeditionary detachment can be said to be surprisingly smooth.

The sun was set on the sea to the west, the moist sea breeze was blowing, and the team members skillfully paddled their oars, and the four boats quietly washed up on the beach.

Captain Giron cherished this opportunity so much that he personally led the team and vowed to prove that the specially trained elite detachment was deadly.

He designed a six-man assault squad, a five-man demolition squad, and a five-man support squad, armed with many Thomson submachine guns, and the support squad with two Bren light machine guns.

There were also those who used short-barreled Enfield rifles, known as jungle carbines.

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The operation was carried out with great autonomy - the Anglo-Indian command did not specify specific objectives to them at all.

In other words, Captain Girold only needs to lead his men to raid a random stronghold, take a few photos, and return with some loot to brag about it.

Once ashore, four small sampans were dragged into the grass and hidden.

The team members stood guard all around, and the officers gathered together to discuss the map.

"Benson, take Team D and Team H to Bayu, I want you to blow up the Chinese anti-aircraft guns."

"Understood!"

"Team C and Team F, let's go to Tanjung Highway, maybe we can ambush a convoy. Did you hear that? ”

Captain Girrod divided his men into two, an assault squad and a demolition squad to attack the 212th Independent Heavy Air Defense Battalion of the Ming Air Force, while he himself led men to set up an ambush on the side of the road in the northern part of Penang.

Wearing wide-brimmed floppy hats and self-dyed green Anglo-Indian uniforms, the team members quickly disappeared into the lush jungle......

The Penang Garrison Command has a fixed Penang garrison camp consisting of several infantry units and a gendarmerie corps, with a total number of nearly 1,000 men.

In addition, there are two anti-aircraft artillery battalions of the Air Force stationed in Penang, a naval service detachment, and the 59th Regiment of the 20th Division of the Army.

In order to defend this important port city on the west coast of the Malayan Peninsula, the Ming army not only deployed dozens of 80mm anti-aircraft guns, but also planned to install two shore-based warning radars here.

This long-wave radar is developed by Guangzhou Tianning Telecommunications Company, with a working frequency of 116MHz and a power of 12kW, and the detection distance of aircraft formations at an altitude of 6000m can reach 150km, and the angle measurement accuracy is 3°.

In general, it is not bad, but the disadvantage is that the technology is not mature, and the manufacturing is time-consuming and laborious. The Daming Air Force placed an order for 23 units, and the first batch of 10 was planned to be delivered, but only 6 units have been delivered today.

Two of them were delivered to Hong Kong by sea and then unloaded and installed at a more suitable site on Penang Hill.

The No. 1 machine, which arrived last month, is largely installed and is being commissioned.

The No. 2 machine arrived at the port only a few days ago, and the large grille antenna had been delivered to the selected address, but the main control equipment, generator, and distribution box had only been loaded at the dock.

"Is it ready? If you don't go again, the sun will go down! ”

"One by one, they are grinding to death, tossing from noon to now."

"Is the hook hook up?"

"Done!"

With a loud roar of diesel engines and black smoke coming out of the exhaust pipes, two French Belier GPE-2 heavy trucks slowly pulled out of the Penang terminal.

The heavy truck is equipped with two large wooden boxes in the back, which contain all kinds of supporting electrical equipment for the radar - cables, distribution boxes, oscilloscopes, main control equipment, and so on.

The Penang Guard Battalion has a platoon on escort duty, consisting of three trucks and two sidecar motorcycles.

The officers and men had been waiting impatiently, they had received the order early this morning, and when they heard that they had set off at noon, they had waited until it was dusk before they set out.

Oh yes! Is it so troublesome to install a car with this expensive thing?

For lunch, each person was given two steamed buns to deal with, and I haven't eaten dinner yet.

The next journey is not too far, from the pier to the destination Penang Hill is only a dozen miles, only a quarter of an hour.

The convoy was driving at a low speed on the highway, and when it left the city, there were suddenly fewer pedestrians next to it.

What no one could have imagined was that just as the convoy entered a bend and slowed down in unison, a violent roar came from a very close range, and the shock wave instantly shattered the window glass of several trucks.

"Boom!"

A 21 truck produced by Yangyue Company was overturned by the explosion, and the whole vehicle burst into flames, and all the soldiers on it fell out of the car.

Almost at the same moment, a dense burst of gunfire rang out in the countryside.

The trademark "click" sound was audible as a Thomson submachine gun, and several Mills grenades flew to the ground, rolling twice and exploding.

The bombed-out truck blocked the way, and when caught off guard, the heavy truck of Belle, which had a huge inertia, could not stop at all. The driver pressed the brake pedal, but could only watch as the rear end of the car in front of him grew bigger and bigger, and finally crashed into a piece.

"Bang! Bang! ”

"Da-da-da-"

"There's an ambush!"

"Left hand side, left hand side!"

The soldiers hurriedly jumped out of the car in shock, crawled to the side to find cover, and then fired back at the British commandos on the other side of the road.

People who have been hit by bullets cry out for help in pain or roll into a depression on the side of the road.

Although the jungle expeditionary detachment had only a dozen or so men, it had a faint upper hand with the ferocious firepower of seven or eight Thomson submachine guns and two Bren light machine guns.

The Ming soldiers all left the dangerous convoy to avoid crossfire from both sides, and then continued the battle by relying on the ditches or depressions beside the road.

Captain Girold knew that his side had taken advantage of the ambush and caught his opponent off guard, but he was at a disadvantage in numbers, and he had to seize the time to take it.

He shouted, "Cooper and Morris, up!" ”

Immediately two men got up from among the bushes and rushed forward with agility.

They braved the hail of bullets through the dangerous firefight, stooped and rolled to the side of the bullet-riddled Belier truck, and threw the small satchel-style explosives bag backhanded.

It contained three packets of one-pound Barato explosives, a mixture of barium nitrate, TNT, and aluminum powder, which was commonly used by the British army.

But just as they were about to turn back, a 7.7mm rifleball hit the rear tire of the Belier truck on the right.

"Bang !!"

The damage of a truck tire burst should not be underestimated, and the air in the tire with a pressure of eight or nine atmospheres is released in a very short time, and the power can be imagined.

The hapless senior Cooper was overturned on the spot, rolled on the ground a few times, and then was killed on the spot when the Ming machine gunner on the other side of the road turned his gun and fired two short shots.

As the fuse burns out, the fuse takes effect, and the dynamite pack explodes violently!

For a while, sawdust and equipment parts flew all over the sky, crackling and falling within a radius of 100 meters, everyone was so shocked that they shrank their necks, and the small battlefield was quiet for several seconds.

Seeing that the soldier next to him shook his camera, Captain Girod immediately ordered a retreat.

The players did not dare to fight, and immediately fought and retreated from the back......

At about the same time, Team D and Team H also launched an attack on the anti-aircraft gun positions of the Ming army.

The actions of special forces can often be seen as "unethical", and their targets are often the enemy's second-line troops or rear service personnel.

On the one hand, it is an elite who has received special training, and on the other hand, it is a rookie who has little experience in war and lacks individual training, and he still has mental calculations and no intentions, so he will naturally have an advantage.

The Air Force's 212th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion is armed with 18 Type 37 80mm anti-aircraft guns and 6 large-caliber searchlights, and such units are deployed in important cities or transportation hubs for air defense of important areas.

The British commandos were not yet equipped with silenced weapons, and silent assassination with cold weapons was not only inefficient but also easy to miss.

When they were detected, a fierce exchange of fire ensued.

The gunfire was loud, the scene was not small, and tracer bullets flew back and forth in the dark sky, and the roars and shouts were incessant.

In nearly 20 minutes of counterfire, dozens or hundreds of antiaircraft artillery officers of the Air Force could not help these dozen or so British commandos.

In the white light of the explosion of explosives and the burning of thermite, an anti-aircraft gun with a purchase price of more than 40,000 yuan turned into scrap steel.

However, the jungle expeditionary detachments that carried out surprise operations for the first time were also inexperienced.

Fast in and out, quick battle and quick victory are the rules of the special forces, otherwise you will pay the price of blood!

The three armored vehicles arrived belatedly, and the heavy machine-gun fire instantly blocked this corner of the anti-aircraft gun position, and suppressed the British commandos who were trying to retreat.

Only one of the three armored vehicles is a Bren machine gun car captured last year, which is considered a regular armored car; The other two were actually made by Ming army sappers using the requisitioned British Austin cars with welded steel plates.

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These things are effective against guerrillas and resistance groups, and rounding up is equivalent to no money, so it can be said that they are used to the fullest.

"Sergeant, we're crucified here!"

"Damn! Damn it! Use your rifle to fire anti-tank grenades at it! ”

A commando refills his Enfield rifle with empty cartridges and fills the muzzle with a grenade launcher in the shape of a cup.

With a "bang", a No. 68 anti-tank grenade flew out and hit the side of the Bren machine gun car.

In the explosion, the steel plate was pierced, and the weak metal jet injured several people, but nothing else helped.

In the northwest corner of the anti-aircraft artillery position, the members of the D and H teams of the jungle expeditionary detachment were screaming hysterically, countless bullets were flying from all directions, and the team members were shot one after another in place.

Half an hour later, the battlefield was calm again.

The night breeze blowing from the sea carried away the choking smoke, but the thick smell of blood still went straight to the nose.

The soldiers of the 212th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, armed with flashlights and rifles, carefully gathered around and arranged the eleven corpses in various forms in a row.

In the early hours of the next day, a telegram was sent from the Penang Command and was sent to the Metropolitan Governor's Office along with hundreds of other telegrams.

「…… In the evening of the same day, the headquarters was attacked by a death squad of the enemy. The enemy came quietly, killed the sentry and sneaked up, and after being discovered by the headquarters, he resisted stubbornly, blowing up four anti-aircraft guns and one commander......

On a vast and wide front, there are countless stories happening every day and night.

Zhou Changfeng naturally didn't know about this trivial matter, and he had to prepare for the promotion ceremony.

Xia Xiaoshi was actually more active than someone Zhou, and woke him up early in the morning.

"Zhou Kexing! I will go to the military headquarters at eight o'clock. ”

Zhou Changfeng, who was half-asleep and half-awake, was stunned for a few seconds before he woke up, and said vaguely: "Now... When......"

"Tatsuki!" Xia Xiaoshi replied very simply.

As a result, Zhou Changfeng turned his head to look at the window in confusion, but found that it was dark outside.

Talk nonsense! It's not even dawn yet!

(End of chapter)