Guangdong, Huizhou, Hong Kong Campaign Frontline Command
With three crisp gunshots, a coffin covered with the bright red party flag of sickle and hammer was slowly carried onto the pyre by the soldiers. Several sappers carefully poured gasoline between the firewood, while Colonel Ikhonovsky lit the firewood himself and held the cremation for Comrade Grisha, the werewolf pilot.
"Young warrior, no one knows your name, but your achievements will last forever. May the spirits of Marx and Lenin bless you."
At the same time, in front of the combat sandbox in the headquarters, the time travelers and the Red Army commanders and fighters looked even more solemn.
" During the interception operation at the Pearl River Estuary, our Pearl River Fleet was defeated again, losing the cruiser Zhaohe and three shallow-water gunboats, and most of the other ships were injured. Although the three torpedo boats that attacked all successfully launched torpedoes, they were unable to do so. One hit"
Peng Dehuai frowned and read the battle report he had just compiled, "about a brigade of British reinforcements successfully entered Victoria Bay, which nearly doubled the number of enemy troops in Hong Kong. Now it will be even more difficult to fight! "
"The problem doesn't stop there. According to the telegrams we intercepted, the British expeditionary fleet stranded in Singapore also has signs of dispatching."
Wang Qiu sighed and handed over another message, "I really can't figure out why the British insist on fighting in Hong Kong to the end"
Speaking of which, the Workers¡¯ and Peasants¡¯ Red Army clearly possesses 21st century technical equipment, so why did they fight like this?
In fact, the reason is very simple. Advanced technical equipment is available. The people who can operate it just can't keep up.
¡ª¡ªThe Pearl River Fleet currently owned by the Guangdong Red Army has been established since the flag was awarded to the present. Not even a month old yet. In addition to some of the Red Army soldiers who were transferred to the ship, the backbone of the fleet and the largest ships were all defected from the original Guangdong Navy of Chen Jitang. At first glance, they seem to have some strength: mainly including the 2,600-ton flagship The cruiser Zhaohe, the 680-ton gunboat Haihu, the 274-ton gunboat Jiangda, two old gunboats under 100 tons, and four old torpedo boats. In addition, there are several fast gunboats provided by the traversers, with a total tonnage of just over 5,000 tons What's even more terrible is that the two largest battleships, the Zhaohe cruiser, are coal-fired boiler cruisers built in Britain in 1909, with the highest design. The speed is only 20 knots, and its main equipment is two 152mm main guns, which are now seriously outdated. Moreover, due to multiple injuries in successive years of civil war, the hull was in disrepair and could not even reach the design speed. As for the gunboat Sea Tiger, it has been converted into an anti-smuggling ship, with only one 4.7-inch front main gun, and its combat effectiveness is even higher. Not worth mentioning. The remaining ships originally belonging to the Guangdong Navy. Then they either fled to Fujian or hid on Hainan Island.
Although Wang Qiu and other time-travelers provided missile boats after arriving in Guangzhou, they were helpless in this ignorant era when elementary school graduates were considered intellectuals and at least 95% of the working people were illiterate. It is really not an easy task to gather so many sailors who can handle missile boats As of now. These missile boats and the trainees on them are still practicing hard at Tianzi Pier in Guangzhou, and they cannot even set sail.
¡ª¡ªNo way, sailors in the navy are no better than those in the army. They need at least a secondary level of education and long-term rigorous training. Otherwise, relying solely on enthusiasm will only mess things up. In the hands of a group of newcomers, even the most advanced and powerful warships will have difficulty exerting their strength. And in the hands of a group of illiterate people, the so-called most advanced and powerful warships can only lie on the dock and rust
When I was in Shanghai, even though there were time-travelers who provided step-by-step guidance, CDs and slide projectors to play teaching software, a full set of professional textbooks, and various naval battle movies for the officers and soldiers to watch every day, the Shanghai Soviet government¡¯s It also took more than two months for the small fleet to initially acquire combat effectiveness - but it only took one week to teach several captains and first officers to play the online game "Battle of the Sea"
As for Guangzhou, the preparation time is tighter, the training conditions are worse, and the quality level of the officers and soldiers is not to mention.
Therefore, at the moment, the Red Army can only dispatch such a shabby navy like a grandpa. Facing the British escort fleet, it will naturally be defeated.
In addition, air supremacy, which has always been extremely valued by the time travellers, and has been firmly grasped, has not played its due role - although the Red Army flying team bombed Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport in advance and easily eliminated the British troops stationed in Hong Kong. Several old biplanes that were seriously outdated. But the problem is that most of the Red Army's pilots are also rookies, basically at the level where they can just start teaching -6. Dogfights in air combat rely on air-to-air missiles to cheat, and bombs dropped to the ground miss eight out of ten times. This is even more helpless for naval ships that move at high speed, have small targets, and have fierce anti-aircraft firepower.
Because the rookie pilots of the Red Army are really playingApart from the difficult task of dive-dropping bombs, there is no way to even think about throwing torpedoes, so we can only continue to equip them with missiles. However, the Chujiao-6 has a miserable load-carrying capacity, and it is really disappointing. People went crazy, and finally had to use anti-tank missiles to temporarily modify a 40-kilogram "fire and forget" ultra-light air-to-ship missile, which was finally successfully installed on the Chujiao-6 "fighter" Unfortunately, due to The missile is too light, with the warhead weighing only 8 kilograms. As a result, it can only hit small gunboats and cannot even sink destroyers.
In addition, the mistakes made by the Red Army ground forces were even more obvious - because the British army successfully destroyed the main roads, railways, tunnels and bridges in the northern New Territories in advance, or blasted them with mud, the Red Army's mechanized troops and artillery troops were The march was delayed, and it was difficult to repair and restore roads in a short period of time. As a result, the Red Army troops that initially arrived in front of the Drunken Bay defense line were just a group of light infantry advancing lightly
According to normal logic, the forward troops at this time should rest on the spot and wait for the heavy artillery to be brought up. However, the frontline Red Army commanders, who were inexperienced and eager to take credit, ignored common sense in war and used light infantry with poor firepower to attack the drunken bay defense line The result was of course one can imagine.
Therefore, the last and most critical problem is: both the Red Army and the traversers have committed the problem of overestimating the enemy!
¡ª¡ªMany people of later generations feel that the United Kingdom on the eve of World War II was a paper tiger that was fierce in appearance and soft in heart, and could be subdued as long as it shouted twice.
Wang Qiu and the others initially thought the same way, thinking that as long as they could mount cannons to the Kowloon Peninsula and fire a few cannons on Hong Kong Island, the British troops stationed in Hong Kong would hoist the white flag. The more optimistic people even believe that the British troops in Hong Kong may only provide symbolic resistance from the beginning.
If this is the case, then this Hong Kong strategy will become a relaxed armed parade - and the relaxed experience of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army on the first day after crossing the Shenzhen River and entering Hong Kong also deepened the Red Army commanders' understanding of the "British" I don¡¯t like fighting¡±.
But in fact, as a world overlord who can dominate the seven seas and rule the vast waves, and a sea king who uses gunboat diplomacy to open the doors of ancient Eastern countries, even though they are now exhausted and entering a period of decline, the British pirate gentlemen have never They will lack the basic blood, backbone and bravery, let alone the consciousness to abdicate and step down from the stage of history.
Therefore, whether it is for the sake of the face of the empire or the self-confidence of the world's hegemon, the British consider themselves obliged to use artillery shells, bombs and bullets to teach these Chinese Bolshevik thugs a lesson and let them understand the rules of this cruel world. Who formulated it.
This is not yet the era of great colonial liberation. If you want to take back any land from the British, you will have to pay for blood and death!
Finally, after some discussion, in order to respond to changes in the enemy situation in Hong Kong, the Red Army Headquarters in Huizhou made the following countermeasures.
First, urgently strengthen the shore artillery power of the Humen Fortress and deploy a number of shore-to-ship missiles to prevent British warships from using the old tactics from the Opium War period to break through Humen and attack Guangzhou City, cutting off the retreat of this Hong Kong attack, and even It starts in an anticlimax and ends in vain.
Second, establish a rocket launcher position in Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong, where the remaining enemies have been eliminated, and launch large-scale artillery attacks to the Drunken Bay defense line and Stonecutters Naval Base less than ten kilometers to the south, and even further to the core urban area of ??Hong Kong Island. Use long-range strikes to destroy the enemy's determination.
Third, airlift the crew members who have initially completed their training from Shanghai and drive modern world missile boats out to sea to prepare for naval battles.
Fourth, urgently set up a shore-to-ship missile base in Macau on the other side of the Pearl River estuary: intercepting British reinforcements is second, the key is to sink all ships trying to escape Hong Kong - in short, to eliminate the Hong Kong rich and bankers carrying The possibility of money absconding
At the same time, the Governor of Hong Kong Island, Sir Beru, was accompanying a group of generals from the British reinforcements, drinking, chatting and laughing in the restaurant of the Government House. He also invited socialites to accompany him. Everyone's face was rosy and bright. A confident expression of victory.
¡ª¡ªAfter repeated calls from the colonial authorities in Hong Kong, the British Empire finally sent new reinforcements from Singapore: a total of about 6,000 people, including an artillery battalion, an Australian cavalry regiment, and two Indian Punjab infantry battalions. An Indian Rajput infantry battalion, a Canadian volunteer regiment, and many Gurkha mercenaries recruited at the foot of the Himalayas further enriched Hong Kong's defense capabilities.
Moreover, Sir Belu has always believed that intelligenceAs expected, the Chinese people below had their heads bruised and bleeding in front of the solid Drunken Bay defense line, and their bodies were scattered everywhere. Coupled with the British Empire's naval fleet's attack on their broken boats I think this crisis may be over soon!
However, just when Sir Beilu was looking forward to the victory that had yet to come, on the north shore of Victoria Bay, on Tai Mo Mountain in front of the Drunken Bay defense line, rows of thick, black and hard rocket launchers had been installed in place, and each rocket fired All raised their heads and pointed at the British barrier ahead
¡°¡The setting of the coordinates of the impact point has been completed, the Soman special gas bomb has been loaded, and now the final launch preparations begin¡¡±