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Volume 2 Under the Warlord Chapter 1160 The Battle of Banhong (5)

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    The 260th Regiment of the 3rd Mountain Division pursued the enemy and arrived at Banban Village along the road at the foot of Banban Mountain. The regiment commander Kong Qiu immediately ordered to surround it and never let a single enemy soldier go.  Then, as soon as they put up the mortar, the British flag in the stockade was lowered and the white flag was erected.

    "Surrender? Fake surrender?" Confucius gritted his teeth and said in disbelief: "Is it a trick?"

    The Indians really had no tricks. They surrendered sincerely. They lined up one by one and ran out to surrender. They even handed over the list of weapons in Ban Banzhai.  It turns out that there are only about 30 Indian soldiers and about 20 army laborers in Banban Village. Ten of these 30 Indian soldiers are stationed in Banban Village, and the other 20 or so soldiers fled last night.  Back.  Seeing the Chinese five-color military flag, the group immediately thought that more than a thousand people could not stand the pass last night. A village like Banbanzhai, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, must have been blown up by a blast of artillery, so they made a decision.  A wise choice - surrender!

    "These Indians are indeed quite smart. The soldiers of the 3rd Mountain Division are red-eyed. If they don't surrender and then surrender after fighting, these Yunnan soldiers probably won't take prisoners."

    The 260th Regiment continued to attack Banhong Town and encountered sporadic resistance along the way, but was all annihilated by Confucius' men.  In order to save trouble and convenience, Confucius secretly ordered that if the other party shoots at us, no prisoners will be taken.  So the 260th Group moved faster, and finally arrived at Banhong at 8 o'clock in the morning.  At this time, five-color flags had been erected in Banhong Town, but gunshots were still heard from the director of the silver mine.

    After the silver mine manager stationed by the British was broken into by troops commanded by Xiao Yaonan.  They all retreated into a fortress, which was a very solid fortress where silver ingots were stored.  Easily difficult to break.

    What makes Xiao Yaonan happy is that the Chinese *** team attacked too fiercely last night and the British transmitter was blown up. There are about one hundred and sixty British people in the fortress now.  In the morning, they organized a charge, but the 3rd Mountain Division's quick-attack submachine guns left more than thirty corpses and retreated.

    Xiao Yaonan found the owner of the fortress and asked him if there was a way to break into the fortress. The owner said that when he first built it, he was thinking about how to prevent it from being breached.  I didn't think about how to break through it. There were no tunnels and no weak points.  So everyone had to surround the fortress and sometimes shoot to make the people inside miserable.  But he didn't dare to rush in regardless of casualties.

    At ten o'clock in the morning, Hong Linge, the commander of the 257th Regiment that attacked Manglaizhai, led two battalions of soldiers from the main road to Banhong after a night of forced march. However, everyone was too tired, so Xiao Yaonan ordered the 257th Regiment to rest and standby.  .

    At twelve o'clock noon.  Li Shucheng also arrived at Banhong with the divisional artillery battalion and the 259th Regiment.  And captured and looked at the prisoners.  These prisoners hid in the forest and soon couldn't stand the mosquito bites. In addition, the Indian soldiers trained by the British did not know how to fight guerrillas, so they walked out of the jungle one by one and surrendered.  As many as 1,300 prisoners were captured before and after. Last night's shelling on the Ban Ban Mountains caused more than 500 casualties of Indian soldiers, of which as many as 267 were directly killed.

    Li Shucheng and Xiao Yaonan successfully reunited, and then sent a text message to the Ministry of National Defense to report the good news.

    Minister of National Defense Sa Zhenbing immediately called Wang Maoru.  At this time, Wang Maosu was organizing a meeting at the Ministry of Transportation to discuss the Ministry of Transportation's plan for this year and listen to the financial budget.

    Chief of Transportation Harbala first thanked Wang Maoru and said: "The biggest benefit of the Ministry of Transportation this year is that China Railway Corporation has been placed under the Ministry of Transportation. The Ministry of Transportation can finally change from a money-losing department to a profit-making department. Thank you for all this."  The support of His Excellency the President.¡±

    Wang Maoru smiled and waved his hand, and then Harbala made a financial budget.  Just because the railway was transferred to the Ministry of Transport, everyone in the Ministry of Transport was very happy and said that the Ministry of Transport would definitely achieve profitability this year and contribute to the national finance.  At this moment, Secretary-General Zhang Kui'an hurriedly walked into the conference room and said in Wang Maoru's ear: "There is news from Yunnan that the 3rd Mountain Division successfully reunited at the Banhong Silver Mine and captured more than 1,300 people. Now there is only one  More than a hundred British soldiers hid in warehouses and refused to surrender."

    Wang Maoru burst out laughing, and everyone in the Ministry of Communications was surprised. Wang Maoru said: "Everyone, your Ministry of Communications is in good shape this year. I hope to see a profitable Ministry of Communications by the end of the year. Okay, this morning's report is over. Let's have dinner.  Go ahead, because of an emergency, the afternoon report time has been postponed to three o'clock, so the meeting will be adjourned."

    Everyone is speculating about what the incident is. After all, only senior staff members of the Ministry of National Defense and people from the Seventh Group Army of the Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region know that the Chinese Communist Party took action against the British who invaded China.

    Transportation Chief Harbala pulled over Deputy Chief Chu Yong and asked in a low voice: "Didn't the president's wife just why is he so happy today?"

    Chu Yong couldn't help but said with a smile: "What are you thinking about?"

    ?Halbala smiled and said: "Just kidding, what news do you think made the president so excited?"

    Chu Yong shook his head and said: "I can't guess."

    "I guess it's military news." Halbala said.

    "How do you say that?" Chu Yongqi asked.

    Harbala said: "Think about it, after all, our president is also a soldier. What would a soldier be interested in? It must be war." Seeing Chu Yong frowning in thought, he smiled and said: "Recently we have  Who are you having trouble with?"

    "British?"

    "Yes, it must be the United Kingdom." Halbala said with a smile, "The President is a person who enjoys grudges. He must have won a great victory this time. He must have made it impossible for the British to suffer the consequences of being dumb.  So happy."

    Chu Yong also laughed in agreement, but his evaluation of Harbala was lowered in his heart. This person has a bit of a big mouth. How could Chu Yong not know this?  It's not like he didn't think of it, it's just that he couldn't say it out loud.  Harbala has been with Wang Maoru for more than ten years, and is listed as the Chief of Transportation based on merit evaluation, but in fact Chu Yong is in charge of everything in the Ministry of Transportation.

    Harbala patted him on the shoulder and said, "Shaopu, do you think there will be a scene in which all nations will come to court in the future?"

    Chu Yong smiled and said: "With the president here, I will definitely do it." Harbala laughed, and the two of them tacitly had their own little secrets.

    After Wang Maoru arrived at the Ministry of Defense, Xiao Yaonan's second telegram was also delivered. All the British troops who entered Banhong surrendered, and only half a battalion of the expeditionary force composed of purely British World War I soldiers stood firm in the silver mine warehouse fortress.

    The pride in the hearts of one hundred and fifty-two British soldiers who participated in the First World War was not enough. There was nothing in the warehouse except semi-finished ore from silver mines - and two rats.  Captain Hudson, the officer leading the team, held on until noon. Knowing that there was no chance of winning, he had run out of ammunition and food and had not eaten for 22 hours. On the contrary, after the squadron opposite began to kill chickens and cows for lunch, he attacked the soldiers.  Said we should surrender instead of starving and being beaten to death.

    The proud British surrendered to the Chinese. This was undoubtedly an extremely embarrassing decision in the hearts of the British soldiers.  Nearly half of the soldiers disagreed and believed that they could wait for rescue, until the Indian troops from the front came to rescue them.  But soon after, after the Chinese escorted the Indian prisoners of war into the silver mine, all hope for the British was gone.  Captain Hudson then personally went out to negotiate, asking the Chinese to give them corresponding high-standard treatment for prisoners of war, such as milk, steak, coffee, etc., and to ensure that they lived in independent prisoner-of-war camps instead of being locked up with Indians, etc.  They are treated as if they are guests and the Chinese must treat them well.

    Li Shucheng, commander of the 3rd Mountain Division, didn't care, but Xiao Yaonan, deputy chief of staff of the group army, was in charge of leading the team this time. He immediately rejected Hudson and said: "After your army surrenders, we will treat it accordingly, but you are prisoners of war.  You are not a guest. If you want to be treated like a guest, dream. I will give you a month to think about it, but during this month we will cut off your water and electricity, and we will not let you rest. Come on, sing a song for them.  "Empty City Strategy" allows the British to see the breadth and depth of Chinese Peking Opera."

    Captain Hudson returned to the fort dejectedly and conveyed to the other officers the reply that the Chinese would only accept prisoners but would not give any guarantees. The British junior officers were very depressed.  After a while, a bunch of Chinese people beat gongs and drums, and even started throwing firecrackers into the fortress.  That's right, they were not soldiers, but the truants caught by the British. They not only threw firecrackers, but some people also made a few improvised catapults and filled the clay pots with human and animal excrement, and some were dried excrement.  , some are wet feces.  One of the offenders accidentally sprinkled dry cow dung with black powder, lit it, and threw it into the fort with a sling.  Suddenly, the burning dried cow dung filled the besieged British soldiers' faces with cow dung

    Hudson and the other British people really couldn't hold on anymore, and the Chinese on the opposite side didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack them. Instead, they were teasing themselves like a cat teasing a mouse, allowing the silver miners who had been insulted by them to insult themselves in every possible way. As a last resort,  , had no choice but to raise the white flag, walk out and surrender.

    ¡°The proud soldiers of the Kingdom of England, one hundred and fifty-three British troops who participated in the European War, were smoked by a jar of burning cow dung and surrendered

    In this battle, 8,623 Chinese troops participated, and 2,755 British troops participated.  On the Chinese side, the 3rd Mountain Division lost 144 people, injured 632, and consumed 300,000 rounds of ammunition, nearly 10,000 grenades, and 300 rounds of various types of artillery shells.  On the British side, there were the 3rd Battalion of the British Expeditionary Force in Burma (composed of British people) and the 1st British Honorary Regiment of India (British officers as officers and Indians as soldiers). 736 people were killed and 1,128 wounded, all of whom were captured, but statistics  After counting the total number of corpses and prisoners of war, it was found that there were only 1,727 prisoners.??, 305 fewer than the statistics given by the British side.  In other words, these more than 300 people are actually missing?  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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