afterglow

Chapter 35 Street Fighting Anticipation
"Persist for a while, and soon, soon succeed...Damn it!"

Major General Wilson witnessed everything with his binoculars. It was obvious that victory was close at hand, but the soldiers who were about to rush forward flinched.

What a fall short!
However, there was a third wave, and companies B and C of the Hyderabad Battalion could still go into the attack, and now they were trotting to the "jump point", that is, the attack starting position.

A dozen or so tanks lined up in a row were not idle, and they kept firing and strafing during this idle period to keep suppressing the Ming army's position.

But at this time, a series of shells suddenly fell?
"Boom boom boom-"

The formation of nearly 300 people from Company B and Company C was half covered in the blink of an eye, and their movement was stagnant.

After eliminating the threat in the woods, the Ming army in the urban area naturally had to support Height Zero. Four rounds and sixteen rounds of 80mm mortar shells accurately and timely landed on the third wave of the British and Indian army's upcoming offensive. in the army.

The front is the retreating friendly army, and he was bombarded before he launched an attack?
Obviously, in this bad state, it is impossible to continue to attack. Forcibly launching an attack is to die. Wilson reluctantly ordered to stop the attack.

The captain next to him picked up the Webley flare gun and fired a green flare into the sky; immediately, the British and Indian soldiers began to retreat quickly.

The sun touched the horizon, night slowly covered the entire sky at a speed visible to the naked eye, and darkness fell.

Since the hundreds of British and Indian troops were lying between the highland and the urban area, the communication between the two places has been cut off.In this age when small radios were still unreliable, wired telephones were the mainstay of battlefield communications.

After discovering that both the main line and the backup line were disconnected, the headquarters could only communicate with Height Zero through signal flares.

Several yellow and white flares were launched into the sky, and soon several flares of different colors were launched into the sky.

"Yellow, white, red, red, they can't stand it anymore." Zhou Changfeng stood by the window and looked at it, and said lightly: "Get ready to switch defenses."

In fact, he really wanted to try a night attack to drive away the British and Indian army stuck in his throat, but it was not easy to conduct a successful night attack.

This group of British and Indian troops has about 300 people, and there are tanks as firepower. It is possible to expel them only by investing in at least one strengthened company-level unit. If you want to be more secure, you have to invest in two.

But now he only has three squadrons that don't meet his requirements, a total of about 300 infantry. Unless he fights to the death, how can he spare more than [-] people to attack at night?
After weighing, Zhou Changfeng gave up this plan.

In fact, in his prediction, the street fighting in the urban area is the most critical finale, which is the best choice according to local conditions.

Different from ordinary troops, due to their special nature, several divisions and brigades of the Forbidden Army have received additional street fighting training-assuming that if special circumstances arise, the Forbidden Army is likely to have a fierce confrontation with their opponents in Nanjing.

That being the case, it is natural to reflect the results of the usual extra training.

The only submachine gun currently equipped by the Commonwealth Army is the Lanchester submachine gun imitated from the MP18/28, and the number is not large, and it is basically only equipped with the Royal Navy.

In contrast, the Ming army not only has the Type [-] portable machine gun honorably produced by the Wuchang Arsenal, but also the Type [-] automatic guns from the Jinling Arsenal.

The former is a well-regulated 30s-style submachine gun-cutting processing, free-action principle, 35 rounds of arc-shaped magazines fed from the bottom, and even a bayonet seat reserved.

As early as during the European War, the military investigation team sent by Ming Dynasty to Europe had seen the power of submachine guns—the German Stormtroopers armed with MP18 were extremely sharp, beating up the British and French troops who only had bolt-action rifles in the trenches.

So someone managed to get an MP18 captured by the French army and sent it back to the country.

Unlike many countries that do not pay much attention to submachine guns, the Ming army liked this new weapon that could scatter bullets at close range and was easy to control, so they imitated it in reverse.

In addition, the Ming army was implementing the national policy of encircling and suppressing bandits in Western Hunan and Western Hubei on a large scale at that time. In the deep mountains and old forests, bolt-action rifles were obviously not as good as submachine guns; It occupied a place in the infantry weapons of the Ming army.

[The Ming army also discovered that flamethrowers are very effective for bandits hiding in caves, and can turn vicious bandits into panicked sheep at once. It is more effective to eat with Cl and COCl gas. (Serious.jpg)]

After the MP18 gradually became obsolete, it was natural to update it. Therefore, after referring to the Steyr MP34 and Suomi M7931, Wuchang Arsenal designed the three-four submachine guns by itself.

As for the so-called "Type 7907 automatic gun", it is actually the M[-] semi-automatic rifle improved after the Jinling Arsenal bought a production license from Winchester Company. This is a type of civilian weapon.

【Winchester M7907】

However, during the European War, the French army ordered a batch of special M7907 (semi-)automatic rifles capable of fully automatic shooting. Someone in the Ming Dynasty military inspection team was very interested in this, so they inquired about the price and learned that it only cost 28$. I thought I heard it wrong.

It adopts the principle of free bolt type, is fed by 5/10/15 round magazines, fires .351 round head bullets, and the kinetic energy of the muzzle is about 1800J.

The firearms of the free action principle are simple in structure and low in cost, but they are only suitable for launching pistol bullets with low kinetic energy.In order to enable it to fire high-power ammunition, the designer simply and rudely chose a huge bolt block to forcefully suppress the recoil force miraculously.

In short, with an effective range of 250 meters, automatic shooting, and low price, it can be said that it is very suitable for second-line personnel to use, so the Ming army took it into their pockets; it is worth mentioning that cavalry units also favor this gun.

The advantages in weapons and equipment can play a huge role in certain situations. Zhou Changfeng believes that if the British and Indian troops dare to blindly engage in street fighting, they will inevitably suffer again.

There is no shortage of murderous opportunities in the pleasant summer night. Although the British and Indian troops did not launch an attack at night, they were actively carrying out reconnaissance and infiltration operations.

They organized a large number of teams with three or four people or eight or nine people, sneaking quietly through the night, trying to find the assembly points, firepower points, and material hoarding points on the Ming army's front.

The sound spread farther in the quiet night than in the daytime. There were constant gunshots within a radius of ten miles, sometimes a few short shots, sometimes a series of crackling, and even the bang of an explosion.

The guard posts set up by the Ming army listened intently to the subtle movements around them. Some people put simple listening devices on their ears, and some threw broken glass slag and empty cans to places where the enemy might haunt.

The second lieutenant, a military doctor who likes to take pictures, performed a more detailed debridement on Zhou Changfeng's two wounds, then rinsed them with Dakin's disinfectant, and finally applied medicine and bandaged them.

Zhou Changfeng grinned in pain, but the military doctor didn't take it seriously, instead he took out a small bottle and asked, "By the way, sir, do you agree to take this medicine?"

(End of this chapter)