Great time travel

Chapter 51, The Return of the British Empire

Hainan Island, the outskirts of Sanya Port, the frontline headquarters of the Qiongya Column of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants

Listening to the sound of rumbling explosions in the distance, and looking at the raging flames that almost dyed the sky red, almost all the commanders and fighters of the Red Army headed by Commander Feng Baiju were downcast. Hair is pulled down.

"...Commander... just watching the British blow up the port of Sanya? It's hard for us to save such a fortune!"

A Red Army commander yelled unwillingly, "... so many machines and equipment, as well as heavy artillery and iron-hulled ships... all of them are gone at once!"

"...What can I do? A main regiment that was originally deployed there was blown up at night before it could react. After being plowed once, our reinforcements can't go up at all... This battle can't be fought!"

Feng Baiju, the commander of the Qiongya Column, took a big puff of cigarette, then extinguished the butt of the cigarette, "...be patient for now! Anyway, they will leave after all... When the big British warships withdraw, they should It's our turn to teach those white dogs who are working for tigers..."

To be honest, if you want to say that you feel aggrieved, there is absolutely no one comparable to Commander Feng Baiju at the moment. The [-] American and British prisoners of war in the camp felt a little worried, vaguely feeling that this might cause some trouble.And now, the burning beaches and the constantly exploding ports have proved that the previous worries were not groundless.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

——After confirming that there were not only [-] American and British prisoners of war in the camp in Sanya, but also that they were held close to the coast, and that they had not been transferred by the Red Army, the London side immediately issued a strict order, requiring Frey, who had just led the Royal Eastern Fleet to station in Singapore. Admiral Ze lifted the anchor again and set sail with a new governor of Hong Kong who came by seaplane with a letter of appointment and rushed to China to be responsible for rescuing the prisoners of war on Hainan Island.

Therefore, although he was very worried about such a lonely and in-depth adventure, as a soldier whose vocation is to obey orders, Admiral Fraser still brought his flagship Battlecruiser Renown and three escort aircraft carriers converted from cruise ships, And a bunch of "small boats" such as light cruisers and destroyers, sailed through the Strait of Malacca into the South China Sea, and accepted the surrender of the Japanese army in Hong Kong amidst the warm welcome of the Hong Kong Maintenance Committee.

Next, although the strength is limited and the situation is unfavorable, you cunning British gentlemen still give full play to their diplomatic skills as a thousand-year-old shit-stirring stick.First, negotiations were used to paralyze the Qiongya Column of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants who had already controlled the entire Hainan Island, making them mistakenly think that the British were going to pay a large sum of money and supplies to redeem the prisoners of war.At the same time, he secretly contacted the Kuomintang troops and managed to obtain a batch of cannon fodder for the landing battle.

In the end, the British fleet sneaked into Sanya at night and easily destroyed the coastal fortifications left by the Japanese with an overwhelming shell.And a group of black African indigenous special forces took the opportunity to land and sneak in, killed a small number of guards in the prisoner-of-war camp, and rescued the American and British prisoners inside.

After dawn, a so-called elite Kuomintang army also successfully landed under the cover of fierce artillery fire, defeated the few workers and peasants Red Army fighters in the port area, took control of the port terminal in Sanya, and let the rescued [-] white prisoners of war , able to board the ship and go to sea one after another from here.

The entire rescue plan was code-named "Far East Lightning", which means fast in and fast out, without seeking occupation, and passed by like lightning.

To be honest, the Qiongya Column didn't care much about the fact that the [-] white prisoners of war left behind by the Japanese in the Tiandu Iron Mine were rescued by the British army, and even felt a sense of relief— —In fact, for such a large group of hot potatoes that cannot be killed or let go, they have long wanted to get rid of them.Just to make food available for these [-] mouths has caused the poor Hainan Island base to complain to the sky.

If the British army retreated the same way immediately after saving people, the Qiongya column might recognize it with their noses pinched.

But the problem is that while arranging for the rescued prisoners of war to board and evacuate one after another, the British army did not forget to blast and destroy various facilities in the Sanya military port-power plants, water plants, hospitals, ship repair yards, oil depots, coal bunkers, radio stations, etc. The sending station, the coastal defense fort, and the mine railway are all included in the destruction.The Kuomintang troops who went deep into the "suppression of bandits" also invaded the nearby Yaxian County, set fire to and killed them everywhere, and almost razed everything to the ground.

Such devastating damage made the entire Qiongya column really bleed-you must know that these industrial facilities left by the Japanese in Sanya, although they are only standard configurations in small remote towns in Western countries, are poor and white. China, which is poor and weak, can already be called an extremely advanced industrial center!Before taking over Manchukuo, the entire Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army probably didn't have so many machines and equipment!

Although after taking over Sanya, in order to disperse the risk, the Qiongya column has already transported some machinery, equipment and ordnance materials from Sanya and placed them in the hinterland of the base area.But after all, the time is short, and there are still quite a few things left in the local area.Moreover, there are many big things such as ship repair yards, water plants, mining machinery, and ironmaking equipment, which Qiongya Column cannot dismantle and carry at present.

Therefore, in order to rescue these precious industrial equipment, Feng Baiju, the commander of the Qiongya Column, had to hastily summon some troops and hurried over to Sanya... Then, these local guerrillas of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, who had not yet left their true colors of mud legs, were first attacked. After being bombarded indiscriminately by the British Naval Air Corps, and being dizzy by the main guns of the battlecruiser Renown, they were killed and injured before they really came into contact with the enemy!
It was truly a humbling experience.Although they were revolutionaries under the banner of anti-imperialism and patriotism, they used to say that the foreigner's strong ships and guns were very powerful, but they didn't have a very intuitive and vivid understanding of how powerful they were.And at this moment on the Sanya battlefield, they experienced the real "imperialist punishment" for themselves...the result was that they were almost paralyzed from the beating.

——Compared to the high-spirited Japanese Navy Combined Fleet and the large-scale US Navy Pacific Fleet, today's Royal Navy Eastern Fleet is indeed a phoenix that is not as good as a chicken.Compared with the capital ships that can be obtained, there is only one battlecruiser, the Prestige. There is no battleship or regular aircraft carrier, and the escort aircraft carrier can only be used to make up the number. The rest are a bunch of thousands of tons. Cruiser and destroyer.

But even so, in the eyes of the Qiongya Column of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, even such a "small fleet" that is not as good as a phoenix, is already a terrifying and powerful enemy like a thunderbolt, and Mount Tai is overwhelming—even if it is the main destroyer. Cannons are real heavy artillery on land, and in the eyes of the Red Army, they can be regarded as the treasure of the army!The main gun of the battlecruiser Renown is even more amazing. Each gun barrel is more than 20 meters long, and a person can drill into the gun bore!When a cannonball hits, with the impact point as the center, within half a football field there is nothing left!As long as a few shells hit it, a village can be razed to the ground!In addition, these naval guns have a range of up to [-] to [-] kilometers... In comparison, the mountain artillery bombardment of the Kuomintang army and the Japanese army is like setting off fireworks.Not to mention that during the day, the three carrier-based bombers escorting the aircraft carrier also posed a huge threat to the Qiongya column trying to counterattack, and even forced the Red Army soldiers to march at night.

I have to admit that this kind of situation of being beaten without fighting back is really extremely uncomfortable and desperate-all the sea power in the hands of the Qiongya Column is only a few torpedo boats left by the Japanese when they retreated. The gunboat, and it's all been destroyed by now.

Not long ago, when Commander Feng Baiju was driving in the dark, he accidentally went in the wrong direction, broke into the range of the British naval guns, and was discovered by the enemy's scouting sentry.So, next, he personally experienced how earth-shattering the bombardment of the British fleet was—in almost a moment, his eardrums were almost shattered, his internal organs were pulled together, and clusters of The cannonballs fired as densely as a machine gun, burning the ground and making the sky red. The shells exploded right next to him, and the earth almost buried him in the air waves.He has never felt so close to death, every second is so difficult, like a lonely boat in a stormy sea, or like a chicken under a torrent of hail...

When the bombardment of the British fleet temporarily stopped, Commander Feng Baiju's guards and secretary had been blown to pieces, and he himself was buried in the void. He was so dazed that he almost died.Thanks to a few brave red women's soldiers who rushed over during the shelling and dug him out desperately, Commander Feng Baiju was saved from death... But the battle was obviously not going to last.

Although Red Army soldiers are never afraid of sacrifice, the power of spirit cannot surpass steel after all.

As a result, the Red Army soldiers gathered from all over the island could only hide in the coconut grove far away from the port, watching the British engineers and the Kuomintang reactionaries completely destroy the industrial facilities left by the Japanese. The county seat was blasted into a pile of rubble... In the end, not only the British army and prisoners of war retreated calmly, but the Kuomintang troops who landed also boarded and retreated with the British army, leaving no chance for the Qiongya column to retaliate.The unwilling Red Army soldiers cleaned the battlefield carefully again, but except for a few stragglers who fell behind, there was still no result at all.

Returning to the Sanya military port, seeing the rubble and bomb craters all over the place, as well as the burned coconut trees with only tree stumps, everyone felt very heavy.

"...Commander, we just beat off the Japanese imperialist aggressors, and now the British imperialist aggressors are here again. Tell me, will there be American imperialists coming to be villains next? If you come a few more times, I'm afraid all the pots and pans in the house will be smashed!"

A political commissar of the Red Army said somewhat dejectedly, "...the planes and iron-clad ships of the foreigners can't be fought, and they can't even reach them. If you hide, you can hide from the monks, but you can't hide from the temple. How should we fight this battle? Do we have to fight again?" Abandoning the county seat once and going up the mountain to fight guerrilla again?"

"...What if we are forced to go up the mountain again to fight guerrilla warfare? We had nothing in the past, why don't we still raise the red flag to make revolution?"

Although Commander Feng Baiju was also in a bad mood, he tried his best to encourage him, "...Don't be too pessimistic! The Central Red Army has now reached Guangxi, and it is not far from us! The days when imperialism and reactionaries continue to rampant in China are over. It's because the rabbit's tail can't grow..."

——Obviously, the British colonists who have just made a comeback and achieved miraculous success will never agree with the above point of view...

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Prime Minister's Residence, [-] Downing Street, London, UK

Amidst the classical music played by the phonograph, a cloud of green smoke slowly rose, transforming into various shapes in midair.

Under the smoke, the current Prime Minister of the British Empire and the most famous fat man on the island of Great Britain, Winston Churchill is sitting on the sofa with a cigar in his hand, his fat round face is full of complacency and a bright smile .And on the seats or sofas around Prime Minister Churchill, the core figures of the British Empire's wartime decision-makers are all in a good mood at the moment-although the wartime British Empire has just gone through another period of lack. The harsh winter of coal, food and electricity caused complaints from all over the country, but this still did not affect the good mood of everyone present.

At this moment, they are listening to the latest Far East military situation reported by Major General Stewart Menzies, the current MI[-] chief nicknamed "Big C".

"...So, the 'Far East Lightning' operation of the Eastern Fleet of the Royal Navy has achieved complete success?"

"...Yes, the whole operation went quite smoothly. All the more than 5 Allied prisoners held in the Sanya prisoner-of-war camp were successfully rescued. At the same time, our army also destroyed the Bolshevik rebels on Hainan Island. The military's industrial base, and its own casualties are less than 100 people..."

Rear Admiral Stewart Menzies replied, "...At present, the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Fleet who have completed their missions and the rescued prisoners of war have all arrived in Hong Kong for rest. The local government of Guangdong, China has treated us very kindly and offered to our army Sufficient food and drinks were provided. The wife of the supreme leader of China even rushed to Hong Kong by plane to express condolences to the prisoners of war..."

——In short, with the addition of more than 5 prisoners of war, the embarrassing situation of the British Empire’s overstretched troops on the Eastern battlefield is expected to be greatly improved. The morale of the people is also an excellent booster.

However, compared to another even greater victory, this small operation in the South China Sea is nothing...

"...Okay, let's talk about China's affairs for now, let's talk about another more exciting good news!"

Winston Churchill reached out his hand to put out the butt of a cigar, then turned and pointed to the map of India on the wall and announced, "... cheers! Everyone! God bless Britain! Let the Hindustan that was about to fall , once again returned to our flag!"