After the President of the Republic of China, Wang Yueyue, visited the UK and issued a tough declaration, the offensive against the UK was intensified in vain. novel
A large number of Sino-German coalition forces poured into the UK and launched the most ferocious attacks on various battlefields in the UK.
February 26, 1944, Southampton, England.
The howitzer finally waited for the opportunity to fire. Loading the shells, pulling the gun bolts, and retreating to hide, the eight howitzers completed the first round of firing missions almost simultaneously. However, the six shells fired only made larger white spots on the wall of the strong fort defended by the British on the opposite side. The wall attacked by the shells still remained intact and stood on the edge of the fort.
When the howitzers fired, the British in the fort heard the roar and were frightened. They formed a mass, screaming and fleeing deeper inside. After the sound of the cannon, they found that the wall only trembled for a while and did not collapse. It was still functioning as a barrier.
At this time, all the British were happy. They realized that this was a near-miss bombardment. These attacking attackers had no way to defeat them because they could not penetrate the fort. Then the British got excited, a smile broke out on their mournful face, howling and running back to the firing hole, roaring arrogantly, and firing unscrupulously at the artillerymen who were preparing to fire for the second time.
This time, the British in the fort changed their tactics. They aimed their anti-aircraft machine guns and several heavy machine guns directly at the howitzer group. The other two machine guns were drawn out to suppress the grass to prevent the Chinese from firing cold shots again.
The fierce fire from the British anti-aircraft machine guns did not give the howitzers a chance to reload their shells. The artillerymen were beaten so hard that they lay on top of the enemy and had no power to fight back.
Lieutenant Commander Li Jie and others who were commanding on the front line were hampered by heavy machine guns and could not reach the fort, making the sniper mission impossible.
Company commander Zheng Zhuguo realized the danger of the stalemate, so he organized the entire company's light and heavy firearms to fire at the fort to cover the retreat of the artillery.
Under the suppression of strong firepower, the artillerymen abandoned eight artillery pieces and hurriedly retreated to their starting position.
Zheng Zhuguo was annoyed when his attack was thwarted, but he couldn't think of a better way to attack. In desperation, he had no choice but to ask his superiors for instructions to dispatch Dakou Sutra artillery.
The frontal attack on Southampton Battery was temporarily halted.
There is a train station to the southwest of the fort. In order to prevent the British here from using the train to escape after the fort was captured by the Chinese army, Zheng Zhuguo decided to capture the train station first so that the enemies of the fort would be completely surrounded. After the large-caliber artillery arrives, clean up the remaining enemies here.
Li Jie took the reinforced second row towards the train station.
A team of forty or fifty people lined up in two columns and ran forward on the open ground. As long as they climbed over the unknown high ground in front, the train station would be exposed in the sight of the attack.
After a continuous rapid march, the soldiers rushed to the front of the position.
After arriving here, the formation of the queue began to become chaotic, and no one cared about who was in front and who was behind. Although everyone was panting, they did not forget the honor. They all wanted to be the first to rush to the position as soon as possible.
The soldiers all fought bravely to be first. If you are faster, I will be faster than you. Not to be outdone, even the few soldiers carrying artillery shells actually challenged the group of pure infantrymen headed by Jiang Jianglong.
Just as the second platoon was marching quickly towards the position, suddenly, gunshots rang out from the position.
As soon as the gunfire rang out, several soldiers rushing in front were immediately knocked to the ground.
When the soldiers discovered the British on the mountain, they began to exclaim, "Lie down, lie down quickly, there are British here."
The soldiers in front fell down, and there were still people behind them rising up.
Jiang Jianglong pulled a passing soldier to the ground and shouted: "You don't want to fucking live anymore, you didn't hear the British above!"
The second platoon was pinned down on the hillside and unable to move.
Li Jie observed the terrain, called Xiao Yong and said, "Fourth squad leader, take your squad over there and take down the hilltop for me."
"Yes," Xiao Yong replied, then turned around and shouted to the soldiers on the hillside, "Class 4, follow me."
As soon as the shout came out, more than a dozen figures suddenly floated up from the ground.
Xiao Yong stopped talking and moved towards the south side of the position. The dozen or so people behind followed closely in a straight line.
A British man in the position discovered Xiao Yong and others. After shouting "Woo-hoo-wa-la" a few times, he held a submachine gun and shot at these people.
When Jiang Jianglong saw this, he quickly lay on the ground and fought back at the British man.
¡°Bah bang bang!¡±
Several rounds of bullets were fired and hit the British position, causing the Saturn to burst out randomly.?The British corpse was pushed off his body, stood up, spat on the ground again, and then turned around and looked at Niu Qiang. Not only did he not thank me, he even blamed me, "You kid, you want to kill me! Why didn't you shoot me earlier?"
"I, I'm afraid of hurting you."
"Hmph, you're afraid of hurting me. If it's a little later, I'll be stabbed to death by this guy. Then, what's the point of shooting?"
"Hehe, that's not true!" Niu Qiang said with a smile, "Oh, team leader, you can fight! Why did you let this guy have the upper hand today?"
Jiang Jianglong glanced sideways at Niu Qiang: "Didn't you see that I'm tired? What a look.
Look at how big that guy is. Damn it, suddenly a sack is thrown down from above and I try to hit you! "
Jiang Jianglong and Niu Qiang limped toward the waiting room while holding Peng Guangrong.
By this time, the fighting in the waiting room was over. Six or seven British corpses lay scattered about the room. A soldier checked on the roof and found that there were only four British people on the house, plus the two British people who were killed by Jiang Jianglong and Niu Qiang on the water tower and at the train skin. There were only a dozen British people guarding the train station.
"Platoon leader, that's all British." Xiao Yong came over and said to Li Jie.
"Yes! It seems that the British focus is on the fort." Li Jie looked in the direction of the fort.
"There are not many people in the turtle son's group, but the one who beat me got scolded by a small soldier.
"Fourth squad leader, please count the number of people." Li Jie said to Xiao Yong.
"Count the number of people in each class." Xiao Yong walked away and informed each class.
After a while, each class counted the casualties and reported them. A total of five people were injured and six died.
Li Jie frowned, "Damn it, such a small station cost me so much." Turning to Xiao Yong, "Organize the lightly wounded and carry back the seriously injured brothers and those who died. The others followed me to attack the fort. .¡±
"In that case, our combat effectiveness will be even less. It is better to leave the lightly wounded soldiers behind and take care of the sacrificed brothers first, and then wait until we take down the fort." A squad leader suggested.
Jie agreed, and then said: "Each squad will count their weapons and prepare to set off."
After a brief arrangement, Li Jie led the remaining people and began to move towards the fort.
As soon as they walked not far away, they heard gunfire in the waiting room. Immediately afterwards, a barrage of bullets was fired at them from the waiting room.
The team that was marching forward was hit like this from behind, causing chaos in an instant. They all fell to the ground, turned their heads, and stared at the waiting room with big eyes and small eyes, not understanding what was going on.
Li Jie was also confused and thought to himself: "The British people in the waiting room have been wiped out, how come there are still British people showing up?"
Jiang Jianglong noticed a British hat swinging on the window. He recognized it as a British soldier and shouted: "Platoon leader, the waiting room has been occupied by the British again."
"What's wrong," Li Jie secretly cried out. He clearly realized that if the British appeared there, something would happen to the wounded soldiers placed there. Thinking of this, he shouted loudly: "Brothers, fight back with me."
The soldiers turned around and attacked the waiting room again.
In this attack, we did not dare to use grenades and artillery because we were worried about injuring the wounded inside. This gave the British people hiding in the waiting room an opportunity. They fired wildly and threw grenades outward, blocking the second row of soldiers from moving forward for a long time.
"Jiang Jianglong, aren't you damn accurate! Knock out that machine gunner for me." Li Jie became anxious and ordered Jiang Jianglong repeatedly.
Jiang Jianglong didn't say anything, thinking, "We'll see, I'm not bragging. You guys haven't sealed this." Jiang Jianglong climbed behind a sleeper, put his half-action rifle on it, and pointed at the spit. A shot was fired from the window of Flame Tongue.
As soon as the gunfire rang out here, the machine gun immediately became silent! ! . ,