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Volume 1, Urban Management¡¯s American Strategy Chapter 171, Poor Rats Eat Cats

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    South Hong Kong, Drunk Bay Line of Defense

    The diffuse smoke was slowly blown away by the breeze, and the once fierce gunfire gradually became less intense.

    An antique gunboat painted black was wandering in the open bay. The Union Jack flag of the British Empire fluttered majestically on the mast. The steam engine running at full speed made bursts of sharp sounds. The pitch-black muzzle was moving toward  The North Shore looked for targets to attack.

    And on the beaches lined with rocks, as well as in the bushes and rice fields at the foot of the steep mountains, there are corpses of martyrs lying everywhere.

    As for places farther away, there are countless blackened craters as big as a basketball court, destroying the green wilderness into mottled and ugly shapes.

    ¡ª¡ªBecause yesterday¡¯s journey was unstoppable, the somewhat arrogant and careless Third Army of the Workers¡¯ and Peasants¡¯ Red Army stumbled hard here.

    Although the defense system of the British army in Hong Kong is centered on Hong Kong Island.  But the British army also knew very well that if the mainland part of Hong Kong was completely lost, allowing the enemy to easily occupy the Kowloon Peninsula, then not only the Stonecutters Island Naval Base, where the huge fleet is parked, would surely fall into the hands of the enemy, but Hong Kong Island itself would also be difficult to hold on -  As long as the enemy establishes artillery positions on the north shore of Victoria Bay, the bustling urban area of ??Central, Hong Kong will be bombarded into rubble.

    Therefore, in the north of the Kowloon Peninsula, from Drunken Bay in the New Territories to Shek Tail Harbor in Sai Kung, including Kam Shan, Shing Mun Reservoir, Beacon Hill, Lion Rock, Tate's Cairn and a series of strategic locations, the British Hong Kong authorities planned and designed  A permanent defense line with a total length of 18 kilometers was built to prevent enemy troops from advancing southward from the New Territories area.  The entire defense line is built on the natural barriers of many peaks in the northern part of the Kowloon Peninsula. It can be said to be a dangerous place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

    but.  At the beginning of 1935, construction of this line of defense had just begun.  Most of it remains on paper.  By the time the Red Army began its southern expedition to Guangdong, less than 10% of the entire Drunken Bay defense line had been completed. Most of the fortresses had only been laid foundations, and not even a single artillery piece had been installed.  If the Red Army can break into Hong Kong in May, it will really be able to fight its way to Kowloon unimpeded and bombard Hong Kong Island.

    Regrettably, as well-known warlord groups in the country at that time, the Guangdong Army and the Gui Army were not little fat sheep left to be slaughtered.  In order to compete for the prosperous and prosperous Pearl River Delta.  The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army had to fight fiercely with the Guangxi and Guangdong armies in the north of Hong Kong for more than two months From plane bombing to silver bullet bribery, almost all tricks were used except for the "meat bomb offensive" organized by female underground party members.  After that, they annihilated the main force of the Guangdong army, severely damaged the Gui army that marched eastward to aid Guangdong, barely occupied most of Guangdong Province, and initially stabilized the place.  And opened the way to attack Hong Kong.

    In this way, it is equivalent to giving the British troops stationed in Hong Kong time to rush to repair the fortifications and collect reinforcements. By recruiting construction workers from all over the city, requisitioning construction materials for free, and exhausting hundreds of hard workers to repair the drunken bay defense line, the Red Army  About 70% of the invasion had been completed before; it relied on the ferry withdrawal from the Zhoushan Islands frontline and the emergency mobilization of troops from the Tianjin Concession and the Malayan Colony.  The current Hong Kong Governor has a few trump cards in his hand; and the various artillery dismantled from the first expedition fleet have turned the Drunken Bay defense line into a giant hedgehog covered with thorns!

    ¡ª¡ªAfter a period of natural wind and rain, as well as the Hong Kong authorities¡¯ recruitment of death row prisoners on board the ships for cleaning, the radiation intensity of these ¡°undead ships¡± finally dropped below the pathogenic dose, which at least allowed people to dismantle the naval guns.  Ammunition was transported and used to strengthen Hong Kong's land defense line.

    besides.  The British also transferred a group of naval personnel from Singapore to Hong Kong. Although they are not enough to control the huge battleships to lift anchor and go to sea, they can at least stay at the Stonecutters Island Naval Base next to the Kowloon Peninsula to act as a floating fort to the north of the drunken bay defense line.  The Red Army fired artillery to assist in the battle - and if the twelve-inch and fourteen-inch super guns of the British battleships were used on land, it would really be as if the end of the world had come!

    So, when the vanguard of the Red Army launched a tentative assault on the drunken bay defense line, they were immediately beaten to pieces by a fierce rain of bullets like a volcanic eruption.  The Red Army scouts finally found an unfinished gap in the defense line, but when the four regiments of the Red Army launched a surprise attack from here, they encountered the ace troops of the British Army in Hong Kong, the Northumberland Fusiliers and the  The Ulstershire Rifle Battalion is in for a head-on collision!

    ¡ª¡ªThe Northumberland Fusiliers are one of the most powerful ace units of the British Army.  This county is also the oldest county in British history. It is located on the northwest border of England. The world-famous ancient Roman Hadrian's Wall stands here. It has been the frontline of the English border people against the Nordic barbarians and Scots since ancient times. The martial tradition is still there.  It has been passed down from generation to generation among the local residents.  Therefore, the Northumberland Regiment has always been the top unit of the British army throughout the world.

    ? And the historical origins of another Ulstershire Rifle Battalion are also extraordinary.  Ulstershire?In Northern Ireland, the residents are mainly descendants of English and Scottish colonists, similar to the Japanese reclamation groups in Manchukuo.  These guys have enjoyed the privileges of conquerors for generations, and have been brutally oppressing the Irish natives since childhood. They have not only developed their toughness, but they are also the main culprits that have led to the division of Ireland to this day.

    As a result, at the Jinshan position of the Zuizui Bay defense line, the experienced British Army and the Chinese Red Army, who were new to the war and were not afraid of tigers, launched a wonderful showdown: relying on precise and fierce artillery cover, a mere thousand British troops actually faced off against four thousand  The Red Army launched a bayonet charge!  In the brutal fighting, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which had recently expanded its army too quickly and whose quality of soldiers could not keep up, quickly exposed its shortcomings.  Two of the regiments were quickly maimed, and the other two regiments were beaten to the point of fleeing, allowing the British army to chase them for two kilometers in one breath In the end, the Russian traversers brought in armed helicopters and attacked them from the air.  The British army carried out sniper fire and barely blocked the enemy with a hail of bullets like flaming whips, so that the battle situation did not collapse.

    However, the armed helicopter pilot of the Russian Werewolf Traveler also suffered his first casualty here - a certain unlucky helicopter was unfortunately hit by the debris thrown up by the high-explosive shell of the battleship's main gun and crashed. Although the weapon was operating  Fortunately, the pilot survived, but the driver, Comrade Grisha, died.

    At the same time, in the waters of the Pearl River Estuary between Hong Kong and Macau, Chinese and British warships once again launched a desperate battle - in order to block four troop transport ships that were about to enter Hong Kong, the young Red Navy had to bite the bullet and  Regardless of the disparity in strength between the two sides, the remaining torpedo boats and gunboats were assembled to force another attack, and they fought fiercely with the escorting British destroyers at the Pearl River Estuary However, courage cannot replace technology, and bloodshed cannot compare with steel. This naval battle at the Pearl River Estuary  The final result was that the British fleet was unscathed and the Red Navy was defeated

    At this point, the war in Hong Kong has reached a stalemate.
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