Chapter nine hundred and ninety-ninth hurricane gallop
Chapter 999: Rushing forward
The British air power is obviously insufficient!
The Buffalo fighter aircraft used by the British Air Force fighter squadrons in the Malay Peninsula had some problems, including being too large and poorly equipped; insufficient parts supply; insufficient support personnel; difficulties in defending the airfield against air attacks; and a lack of clarity and coordination
command structure; hostility among Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force squadrons and personnel; lack of proper training for inexperienced pilots, who paid a heavy price after the outbreak of war...
The remaining attack aircraft were obsolete: Blenheims, Lockheed Hudson light bombers, and Vickers torpedo bombers...these aircraft were simply ineffective.
Because of this, the entire sky is occupied by Chinese planes...
The ground troops also surged forward under the cover of the aircraft!
But the British did not give up. Britain is a strange country.
In 1554, Queen Mary married Prince Philip of Spain, and Catholicism became the Church of England. A large number of civilians, nobles and priests who believed in Protestantism were beheaded or burned at the stake. Although the rebellion was put down, the whole country in England was full of hatred for Queen Mary.
Hatred.
As the Protestant Bishop Latimer said before being burned at the stake: "God willing, we will today burn the eternal flame in England."
After the death of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, and Britain began to move towards the starting line of prosperity. Elizabeth was shrewd, cunning, foresighted, cautious and capable of maneuvering. Moreover, she was sharp-minded, knowledgeable and good at assigning tasks. Although the Queen also had the weaknesses of a woman who was indecisive, stingy and stingy, her thoughts
Gloomy and moody, she won more admiration than any king in history. When she ascended the throne on November 17, 1558, almost every British child can blurt it out.
Elizabeth grew up a Protestant. She was surrounded by a large number of Protestant ministers with new ideas and talents, who helped her survive the most difficult period in British history and ushered in the dawn of a great era.
Queen Elizabeth restricted the Puritans who were more radical than the Protestants. She killed the fanatical Catholic missionaries sent from the Holy See and imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, who was the greatest threat to her throne. In order to prevent civil and foreign wars caused by marriage
, she remained celibate to maintain stability in Britain.
The Catholic Spanish Empire hated Elizabeth so much that the Spanish royal family continued to plot conspiracies in an attempt to kill the Queen of England and support the Catholic Queen of Scots. After the conspiracy of an English Catholic named Babington was exposed, the Protestant ministers resolutely
Advocated killing Mary.
Elizabeth signed the death sentence, and another member of the British royal family lost his head because of his faith.
The death of Queen Mary completely shattered the King of Spain's dream of restoring Catholicism in England, and only the means of war remained. Spain has had the world's largest fleet since Columbus discovered America and Magellan sailed around the world. Prince Philip plans to be like
William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, conquered pagan England as thoroughly as he did.
Britain had no fleet worth mentioning, but it did have some daring pirates and adventurers. One of them wrote:
"If a person is afraid of death and is unwilling to serve the country or win glory for himself, then he will die even though he is alive. People will die, but honor will last forever."
England's ally was the Low Countries of the Netherlands, that is, the Protestant Netherlands, where the Spanish army was suppressing the heretics at the time. The Dutch held back the Spanish army, allowing the British fleet to let go of the Spanish "Invincible Armada" commanded by the Duke of Parma.
"A great battle in the English Channel.
The Spanish fleet completely failed, and the plan to set foot on Britain came to nothing. Before the war, Queen Elizabeth had a wonderful military parade speech:
"I have no mistrust of my dear and loyal people, such as only a tyrant can have. You will see from my consistent conduct that, according to the will of God, I place my strength and security in
In the sincerity of the people. Therefore, I come among you, determined to live and die with you in the smoke-filled war, and share the hardships. For God, for my kingdom, for my subjects, for my honor, for my
Ancestor, I am willing to die in battle and be wrapped in horse leather. I know that I am a woman and weak in body, but I have the heart of a king, especially the heart of a king of England, and I will despise Parma or any European monarch who dares to invade my land!" Great!
The famous playwright Shakespeare wrote the play "King John" in the passion of victory. One of the lines deeply resonated with the British:
"Although the whole world is our enemy and attacks us from three sides, we can still repel them. As long as England is loyal to itself, no great disaster can shake our hearts."
On May 10, 1940, Hitler's armored regiments broke through the Western Front, Chamberlain's government resigned, and the British King authorized Churchill to form a cabinet.
Churchill spent his whole life preparing for this day. He was extremely energetic, talented in literature, and excellent in debating, and he held various important government positions. He
After the evacuation of Dunkirk, the British mainland had almost no heavy weapons. After France surrendered, Britain faced the most dangerous moment since the invasion of Normandy, even more serious than the threat of Napoleon's invasion. Thanks to the British fleet,
There is also an air force to be proud of.
During the Battle of Britain, the British army defeated the Luftwaffe's majesty, delaying Hitler's "Sea Lion" plan indefinitely, and finally aborted it.
And now, Churchill is also prepared to stay with Malaya, even if he fights until the British can no longer fight...
However, the Chinese are not Germans. The Chinese troops in the Malay Peninsula decided to give the British the last and most fatal blow...
Since landing on the Malay Peninsula, Sun Lianzhong seemed to be a banner of victory. Everyone believed in him so much that they entrusted him with life and death, in order to be immortal in the history of military warfare...
Late at night, the cold gunfire of the British army disappeared. From time to time, one or two yellow-white flares hung in the sky, and the magnesium light flashed, illuminating the bloody sand and the ferocious fortress.
The soldiers in the position were silent, crawling forward as slowly as possible, crawling over the barbed wire that was damaged by artillery fire, and rolling down the anti-tank trench. Now, they are safe.
The enterprising Sun Liren, who was personally commanding the front line, decided to continue moving forward.
His soldiers climbed out of the anti-tank trenches, cut off the fragmented corrugated barbed wire, and finally approached the British army's first trench. After several days of fighting, the Chinese soldiers had just seen the enemy's position clearly. It turned out that the enemy's
The position is an underground fortification buried deep under the ground. The top is covered with wooden boards and corrugated iron plates, and sand is spread on top. It is as flush and the same color as the earth. So you can't see the target at all, but the enemy can see you clearly.
Clearly.
The officers and their soldiers crawled into the British trenches. Strangely, there were no soldiers inside!
They moved further along the Gaigou and occupied some machine gun fire points and several garrison bunkers, but the enemy still did not move. Looking back on the enemy's tenacious resistance and shooting so effectively during the day, isn't it strange?
The officers ordered the troops to stop advancing based on their battlefield intuition. They stayed in the infantry trenches and anti-tank trenches, waiting for their own troops to launch a general attack at dawn.
At this moment, a large group of unusually tall and burly Australian men appeared. Their Springfield rifles were equipped with bayonets, and they rushed toward the Chinese soldiers in the ditch with a cold light, singing a song at the same time.
An old English ballad: "It's a long way to Tipperary."
The hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons has begun...
The British army seemed to have recovered from the initial chaos.
These Australians in the British army rushed towards the Chinese soldiers with murderous intent.
Although they appear to be completely different in size and weight, Chinese soldiers make up for this weakness with their excellent assassination skills.
Both sides were fighting very tenaciously, and no one was willing to give up easily. From time to time, people fell in a pool of blood, and from time to time, people died. Soldiers from China and the West were strangulating in this small position, risking their lives.
No one wants to fail! No one likes to fail! No one wants to give up here!
After fighting for more than 20 minutes, the Chinese reinforcements came up and wiped out the Australians with the weapons in their hands!
When almost all of these Australians were dead, the Chinese soldiers fell exhausted in their positions and seemed unwilling to get up again...
Now, the battle in the Malay Peninsula has become increasingly tilted in the direction of the Chinese.
The Chinese have a great advantage on the ground in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula. They have strong air support, coupled with their armored forces, they cooperate with each other, and their tactics and experience are superior to the British army, so victory can be expected.
Now, the problem facing the British is that their allied forces on the Malay Peninsula: British, Australians, Indians... It is very difficult to continue to hold on. But the meaning of the Malay Peninsula is lost.
Everyone knows what they are thinking about.
The British cannot afford such huge losses...
But the Chinese have no worries. This is completely different from attacking Hong Kong. They can bomb here unscrupulously, destroying all targets they think may pose a threat to them. Then they order their infantry to carry out attacks with joy.
mood to occupy the enemy's position.
While the ** team made a large-scale landing on the Malay Peninsula and achieved numerous victories, they set their sights on a new goal: