Chapter 1160 The Battle of Ban Hong (5)
When the 260th Regiment of the 3rd Mountain Division pursued the enemy and arrived at Banban Village along the main road at the foot of Banban Mountain, the regiment commander Confucius immediately ordered it to be surrounded and no enemy troops should be let go. Then they had just raised the mortars, and the British flag in the village was lowered and a white flag was raised.
"Surrender? Fake surrender?" Confucius gritted his teeth and said in disbelief: "Is it a plan?"
The Indians really had no plan. They surrendered sincerely. They lined up to surrender voluntarily, and even handed out the weapons list in Banban Village. It turned out that there were only 30 Indian soldiers and more than 20 military workers in Banban Village. Ten of these 30 Indian soldiers were stationed in Banban Village, and the other 20 were fled back overnight last night. Seeing the Chinese five-color military flag, the group of people immediately thought that they could not stand the pass last night. The village that was easy to defend and difficult to attack in Banban Village must have been blown away by a single cannon, so they made a wise choice - surrender!
These Indians are indeed quite wise. The soldiers of the 3rd Mountain Division are all red-eyed. If they don’t surrender and surrender after fighting, they will probably not be captured by these Yunnan soldiers.
The 260th Regiment continued to attack Banhong Town, and encountered sporadic resistance along the way, but was annihilated by Confucius' subordinates. In order to save trouble, Confucius secretly ordered that if the other party fired at us, he would not be captured. So the 260th Regiment was faster and finally arrived in Banhong at 8 o'clock in the morning. At this time, five-color flags had been raised in Banhong Town, but the silver mine manager still heard gunshots.
After the silver mine manager stationed by the British was broken by the troops commanded by Xiao Yaonan. They all retreated into a fortress, which stored silver ingots and was very solid and difficult to break.
Xiao Yaonan was happy that last night, the attack of the Chinese ** team was too fierce, and the British transmitter was blown up. There are about 160 British people in the fortress. In the morning, they organized a charge, and were left with more than 30 bodies by the 3rd Mountain Division's quick robbery submachine gun and then retreated.
Xiao Yaonan found the owner and asked him if he could break through the fortress. The owner said that when he was practicing, he thought about how to prevent being broken. He didn't think about how to break through, and there was no real tunnel and no weakness. So everyone had to surround the fortress and occasionally fired fire to prevent the people inside from living in peace. However, he did not dare to rush in without regard for casualties.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Hong Linge, the commander of the 257th Regiment who attacked Manglai Village, led two battalions of soldiers to quickly pass the road and marched overnight to Banhong. However, everyone was too tired, Xiao Yaonan ordered the 257th Regiment to rest and standby.
At twelve o'clock noon, Li Shucheng also arrived in Banhong with the division artillery battalion and the 259th Regiment. He captured and looked at the prisoners. These prisoners hid in the forest and soon could not stand the bites of mosquitoes. In addition, the Indian soldiers trained by the British could not fight guerrillas, so they came out of the jungle and surrendered. The prisoners were captured from the front and back. The shelling in Banshan last night caused more than 500 casualties to the Indian soldiers, of which 267 were directly killed.
Li Shucheng and Xiao Yaonan met successfully, and then generated a power to report good news to the Ministry of National Defense.
Minister of Defense Sa Zhenbing immediately called Wang Maoru. Wang Mao was organizing a meeting at the Ministry of Transport to discuss the Ministry of Transport's annual plan and listen to the fiscal budget.
Harbala, the head of the Transportation General, first thanked Wang Maoru, and said: "The biggest benefit of the Ministry of Transportation this year is that China Railway Corporation is assigned to the Ministry of Transportation. The Ministry of Transportation can finally change from a loss-making department to a profitable department. Thanks to the support of His Excellency the President."
Wang Maoru smiled and waved his hand, and then Harbala made a fiscal budget. It was because the railway was assigned to the Ministry of Transport, and the Ministry of Transport was excited and said that the Ministry of Transport will make a profit this year and contribute to the national finance. At this time, Secretary-General Zhang Kui'an hurried into the conference room and said in Wang Maoru's ear: "I sent a message from Yunnan that the 3rd Mountain Division successfully met at the Banhongyin Mine, capturing more than 1,300 people. Now only more than 100 British soldiers are hiding in the warehouse and refuse to surrender."
Wang Maoru laughed loudly, and everyone in the Ministry of Transport was surprised. Wang Maoru said: "Everyone, your Ministry of Transport is in good shape this year. I hope to see a profitable Ministry of Transport at the end of the year. Okay, the report this morning will end and everyone will have dinner. Due to emergencies, the report time in the afternoon will be delayed to three o'clock and the meeting will be adjourned."
Everyone speculated about what the incident was. After all, only the senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense and the Seventh Army of the Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region knew about the incident.
The head of transportation, Harbala, pulled the deputy head of the city, and asked in a low voice: "Isn't the President's wife just now... Why is he so happy today?"
Chu Yong couldn't help but laugh and said, "What are you thinking about?"
Halbala laughed and said, "Just kidding, what news will make the president so excited?"
Chu Yong shook his head and said, "I can't guess."
"I guess it should be military news." Halbala said.
"What do you say?" Chu Yongqi said.
Halbala said: "You think, our president is also a soldier. What will he be interested in? It must be a war." Seeing Chu Yong frowning and pondering, he smiled and said: "Who are we having a bad time with recently?"
"British?"
"Yes, it must be Britain." Halbala smiled, "The President is a man who is willing to avenge his enemies. He must have won a great victory this time, and it must have made the British lose money that he can't bear to take the blame, so he is so happy."
Chu Yong also echoed and laughed, but his evaluation of Harbala was lowered a little. This man was a little big-mouthed. Didn’t Chu Yong know this? He didn’t think of it, but he just couldn’t say it out. Harbala has been following Wang Maoru for more than ten years and ranked as the head of the Transportation General in accordance with his merit evaluation, but in fact, everything in the Ministry of Transportation was Chu Yong in charge of the work.
Halbala patted his shoulder and said, "Shaopu, do you think there will be a scene of all nations coming to pay tribute in the future?"
Chu Yong smiled and said, "With the president here, it will definitely happen." Harbala laughed loudly, and both of them tacitly knew that they had their own little secrets.
After Wang Maoru arrived at the Ministry of National Defense, Xiao Yaonan's second telegram was also submitted. All the British troops entering Ban Hong surrendered, and only half a battalion of pure British soldiers, an expeditionary force composed of soldiers from the First World War, was defending in the warehouse fortress of the silver mine.
One hundred and fifty-two British soldiers who participated in World War I did not eat the pride. There was nothing but the semi-finished ore of silver ore in the warehouse - there were two rats. Captain Hudson, the officer in charge of the team, held on until noon. He knew that he had no chance of winning and had no ammunition and food for twenty-two hours. Instead, the team opposite Zhong** began to kill chickens and cows for lunch and told the soldiers that we should surrender instead of starving to death and being beaten to death.
The proud British surrendered to the Chinese, which 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 and wait for the Indian army to rescue them in front of them. But not long after, the Chinese escorted the Indian soldiers and prisoners of Banbanshan into the silver mine, and all the British's vitality was gone. Captain Hudson then went out to negotiate in person, asking the Chinese to give them corresponding high-standard prisoners of war treatment, such as milk steak and coffee, and ensuring that they lived in an independent prisoner of war camp, rather than being locked up with the Indians, etc. The treatment seemed to be as if they were guests, and the Chinese had to entertain them well.
Li Shucheng, the commander of the 3rd Mountain Division, doesn't matter, but Xiao Yaonan, the deputy chief of the Army's staff, is the leader of the team this time. He immediately refused Hudson and said, "After your army surrender, we will treat you accordingly, but you are prisoners of war, not guests. If you want to get the same treatment as guests, you dream. Give you a month to consider it, but in this month we will cut off water and electricity for you, and we will not let you rest. Come, sing a piece of "Empty City Plan" for them, so that the British can see the profoundness of Chinese Peking Opera."
Captain Hudson returned to the fort in depressed mood and conveyed to the other officers that the Chinese only accepted prisoners but would not give any guarantees. The British lower-level officer was very depressed. After a while, the Chinese beat drums and drums and even began to throw firecrackers into the fort. Yes, it was not soldiers, but those absentees who were arrested by the British were fiddling with firecrackers. Not only did they throw firecrackers, but some also made several stone casters temporarily, stuffing the clay pots with human and animal feces, some were dry feces, and some were wet feces. One of the absentees accidentally sprinkled black gunpowder into the dry cow dung, and then lit it and threw it into the fort with a stone caster. Suddenly, the burning dry cow dung made the besieged British soldiers full of cows...
Hudson and other British people couldn't hold on anymore, and the Chinese opposite didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack them. Instead, they teased themselves like cats and mice, allowing the silver miners who had been humiliated before to insult him in all kinds of ways. They had no choice but to raise the white flag and come out to surrender.
The proud soldiers of the Kingdom of England, the British team who participated in the European War, were surrendered by a can of burning cow dung...
Chapter completed!