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Liu Xiang's broad face has turned purple.Obviously, what Chen Changjie said was very unpleasant, and it was really hard for him to accept that a dignified armored colonel was being ridiculed by this artillery officer.

"Okay! It's not Liu Xiang's fault!" Seeing that there was a tendency to quarrel, Chiang Kai-shek immediately waved his hand and interrupted Liu Xiang, who was about to retort. "Old Chen, don't talk about anything else, the opponent's tactics are very clever, even if you go up, probably not much better than Liu Xiang, not to mention that this is a strategy I agreed with him, he did it for the sake of the entire battle situation!"

At this moment, a messenger rushed over in a hurry: "Commander-in-Chief, General Chen Jitang sent a telegram!"

"Oh? Read!" Hearing what the other party said, Chiang Kai-shek said loudly without lifting the stone.

Huang Jun immediately took the telegram from the messenger next to him, and then read aloud: "We have captured Boulogne. Jieshi, do you want me, an old friend, to help you?" After reading these, Huang Jun Immediately raised his head and cautiously said to Chiang Kai-shek: "Commander-in-Chief, General Chen has captured Boulogne."

"Very good! Very good! Very good!" Hearing this telegram, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't help but browbeat. He patted the table heavily and shouted loudly, "Quick! Send a congratulatory message to General Chen Jitang immediately. , express my heartfelt congratulations, and inform him to immediately lead the troops to attack Calais from the side." Then he turned his head to Liu Xiang who was standing aside, "Now you can show your full strength. Tell me, conquer this high ground How long will it take to push the opponent into the city?"

"Give me 10 minutes, no! Give me 10 minutes to take down this highland!" Liu Xiang, who was blushing, seemed to be venting his anger.

Just when Chiang Kai-shek happily issued orders and Liu Xiang patted his chest swearingly.On the other side, in the basement of the magnificent Calais Opera House, little Montgomery was frowning as he watched the battle reports sent from various places. "General! Chief of Staff, General Browning's order!" Little Montgomery's adjutant carefully unfolded a telegram.

"Bastard! Idiot! Idiot!" After carefully reading the telegram on the table, the usually calm little Montgomery suddenly jumped up.Then, the things on the table scattered from the edge of the table like a wind.

"What's the matter with the general?" Colonel Nicholson, Montgomery's chief of staff standing beside him, immediately asked in a low voice when he saw that the temper of the originally gentle officer had turned so irritable.

"Look! This is a good suggestion from our chief of staff! His suggestion is really good!" While talking about Little Montgomery, he handed the telegram to Nicholson who was standing aside.

Nicholson got the telegram and read it immediately. "What? General Browning is too funny, isn't he? He actually gave such an order. Let's launch an attack from Calais and cooperate with the defenders in the direction of Boulogne to launch a pincer attack on the dragon army on the flank, so as to ease the siege of Boulogne , and will also send logistics transport troops to transport supplies to Dunkirk. This! This is simply! It’s just talking on paper!” Nicholson couldn’t help but shouted loudly after seeing this inexplicable telegram.After a while, he gradually returned to normal, and immediately said to his superior: "General, what do you mean?"

"I don't agree! I absolutely disagree. This is simply a risky operation. An absolute risky operation. Now that the enemy is pressing on us from three directions, our strength is already insufficient. Simply defending Calais is a big problem." However, at this time, the division of troops will simply lead us to a dead end. No, absolutely not, absolutely not!" The mobile force in our hands has only one armored battalion, and there is not much mobile heavy artillery support.If I rush into our mobile troops to launch an attack, it will soon fail. We are all calm professional troops, and it is impossible to make such a mistake! Little Montgomery said, "So, I decided not to support and defend Calais with all my strength!" "

Before he finished speaking, a communications soldier rushed in, "Commander, I just received an urgent telegram from the Boulogne defense line! The Dragon Armored Group has occupied Boulogne, and our army is retreating."

"What? Boulogne is lost?" Hearing the news, Nicholson immediately became nervous. He quickly rushed to the map, looked at the map carefully, and said, "If the news is true , then our flanks are in danger. Because the Dragon Army troops can appear there at any time, then we will face nearly 20 enemies."

"I know! I know this!" Little Montgomery had become very impatient at this time, because the current situation was too bad for him, but he hadn't figured out a solution yet.Another bad news came from the phone: "The highlands in the southwest have been lost! The dragon army has captured the outskirts of Calais and is advancing into the city!" After hearing the news, little Montgomery suddenly laughed out loud. . "Good! Good! The Chinese commander is really a fool!"

Speaking of this, he jumped up, and then came to the front of the entire Calais map, took the baton, and said loudly: "Calais has been a city known for its defense since ancient times, and any building is a fortress. If the opponent sends a large number of troops to capture the city, it will take a lot of time and lives. If heavy artillery and aircraft are used, it will take a long time. More importantly, they do not have a large number of infantry. Mechanized troops are very important for Calais This kind of fortress terrain is very uncomfortable. So we can buy a long time. As long as the longer the delay, the better for us! So, the Chinese are finished!" Speaking of this, little Montgomery finally breathed a sigh of relief.Then he suddenly turned his head and said to his adjutant: "Immediately order all the troops to shrink their defenses and prepare to adopt the combat method of iron barrel defense to give the opponent a fatal blow!"

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On the other side, after learning that the British army's troops were shrinking, Chiang Kai-shek also laughed, "Little Montgomery, let us see who is the strong man of this era!"

On the evening of May 5, the day-long battle outside Calais finally came to an end.Although generally speaking, the Dragon Army and the Allied Army did not invest a lot of power, but the bloody battle situation still made the commanders of both sides frown involuntarily.But Chiang Kai-shek here is very happy.Because Chen Jitang's reinforcements arrived here.

It was the Tenth Armored Division of the Dragon Army who came for reinforcements.The joining of this unit made Chiang Kai-shek feel much better.On the same day, regardless of the distinction between superiors and subordinates, he dragged a few people to the headquarters to drink Moutai, and ate a meal of French seafood by the way.The warm atmosphere made everyone present feel as if the Dragon Army had won a decisive victory at this time.

On the other side, while Chiang Kai-shek and the others were feasting on the sea, Little Montgomery was also planning a strategy to deal with the Dragon Army with his chief of staff, Colonel Nicholson, in his underground command post.Compared with Chiang Kai-shek, his troubles are even greater.After all, the opponent still has a steady stream of reinforcements, and he seems a bit stretched in terms of using troops.Compared with the area he wants to defend, his troops are too small.Fortunately, an elderly French colonel escaped from the encirclement of Boulogne, so Montgomery Jr. let him command the French troops in the Calais area and accepted orders from Montgomery Jr.

At the same time, Montgomery Jr. also incorporated some French coast artillery units into the entire defensive force. These people were originally used as coastal fort artillery to shoot at ships, but because the Chinese came from land, the coastal fort artillery could not 360 ring shooting, so the usefulness for the allied forces is very limited.Therefore, this kind of gun has become a useless decoration in the eyes of little Montgomery.

Another problem is Calais' defense.Although the fortifications of Calais have a very long history, in the eyes of little Montgomery.Even so, these fortifications could not withstand a decisive attack by a modern army supported by aircraft and heavy artillery fire.In particular, the Dragon Army's long-known Eastern Fortress Destruction Cannon and the Dragon Army's newly developed 1.1-ton concrete blasting aerial bomb.So little Montgomery knew very well that if he put his troops on those ancient city walls, he could only become the target of the opponent's planes and cannons.

Therefore, after carefully studying the layout of the city of Calais, Little Montgomery decided to rely on the canals inside and outside the city to organize defenses.He ordered that several lines of defense inside the city must be guarded, and all roads and railways leading to Calais must be closed to prevent the opponent's tanks from rushing in along the road.In addition, several important areas were to be mined and barbed wire fenced, and positions began to be established.It's just that when the battalion commanders and regimental commanders just started to deploy troops, the gunshots were getting closer and closer.

At dawn on the 29th, the Long Army began to attack according to its own schedule.Under the cover of heavy and accurate mortar and howitzer fire, three dragon infantry regiments attacked the British positions simultaneously from the south, southwest and southeast of the city.On defense there was the [-]st Battalion, Queen Victoria's Rifles.Faced with such a crazy infantry attack from the opponent, this battalion could not resist it at all.After all, the battle line is too wide.Such a wide position can easily be infiltrated by the dragon army.Soon, they wisely withdrew from their first position and entered the second position one kilometer away, thereby strengthening the defense of the second battalion of the Royal King's Rifles.

But soon the dragon army rushed there, and the two sides started a fierce exchange of fire.However, due to the gloomy sky, the lack of air support, and the absence of chariot troops, the three attacks of the Dragon Army all ended in failure.This made Hu Sanyu, the commander of the [-]th Armored Division who had sworn at the banquet and boasted that he could take Calais in two hours, feel very embarrassed.However, after he invested in an armored battalion in his hands, the situation of the battle turned instantly.With the support of the powerful firepower of the dragon army, the dragon army began to advance steadily, constantly squeezing the defense line of the allies.

Finally, at 10:15 in the morning, the 69th Infantry Regiment of the Dragon Army under the 86th Armored Division occupied the castle of Point de Colony and began to clear several satellite strongholds attached to its periphery.The [-]th Infantry took Colony Harbor.

At the same time that the Tenth Armored Division of the Dragon Army was fighting fiercely in Calais.Another armored division of the Dragon Army also began to attack. They set out from the high ground captured yesterday and attacked several bastions southwest of Calais.There they met stubborn resistance from the French defenders.Especially the sailor unit of the French Navy. Many people in this unit had already boarded the ship and prepared to evacuate.However, at that time, a French captain named Carlos de Lambert was ordered to go to the pier to gather volunteers to defend the fort, so these sailors resolutely went ashore again, took their weapons and joined the battle.These volunteers, assembled from various units, occupied the important Bastion No. 11.Bastions No. 12 and No. 13, occupied by another French army, did not choose to fight.Some of them huddled on the concrete floor of the Calais wharf with large and small packages, while others hid in the city's cellars and sewers or other places quietly waiting to surrender.

By noon, fierce fighting continued.The 86st Guards Company of the British Royal Tank Battalion, supported by two companies of the 13th Infantry Division, attacked from the west of Calais.They tried in vain to attack the weak flank of the Dragon Army in order to cut off the rear of the 4th Infantry Regiment of the Dragon Army that had entered Calais, thereby restoring the defense near the port of Colony.But the dragon army seems to have been prepared for the British attack.The A[-] tank of the British army had just set foot on the battlefield, and the No. [-] tank of the Long Army appeared out of nowhere.After a fierce confrontation, the Long Army instantly gained an absolute advantage.

The Dragon Army troops arrived at Fort Nijore, and the strength of the three regiments surrounded the place with water.After a burst of fierce shelling, the dragon army began to attack.Facing the high granite wall of Fort Nijore, which is more than ten meters high, they used an extremely primitive method, that is, the ladder tactic.The wooden ladders were collected by Long Jun from various French houses, and then quickly mounted on the wall.At this time, the Dragon Army infantry took submachine guns, grenades and engineer shovels and began to charge up one after another.

But for the defensive side, this tactic is too simple.They condescendingly used rifles and machine guns to easily deal with several dragon soldiers who came up, and then used grenades to clean up the dragon infantry who had placed ladders below.The battle lasted for more than 3 hours.By 4:35 in the afternoon, the Dragon Army's offensive against Fort Nijore still hadn't made any progress.So Long Jun immediately changed his tactics.They quickly separated a regiment of troops, bypassed some strong fortresses on the outskirts, and began to attack the core positions of the British army.

However, the soldiers of the [-]nd Battalion of the Royal King's Rifles who stood firm there did not retreat, and used the complex terrain to resist wave after wave of attacks from the Dragon Army.Even, they relied on grenades and Molotov cocktail bottles to destroy two No. [-] tanks of the Dragon Army during the battle, and damaged two No. [-] tanks.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the British army's troop carrier "Kohistan" arrived at the port of Calais, brought in urgently needed ammunition and supplies for the defenders and a company of supplementary soldiers, and evacuated hundreds of refugees and wounded from Calais. .

With the help of reinforcements, little Montgomery was relieved.After all, after a day of arduous fighting, facing such strong pressure from the Dragon Army, the allied forces did not retreat, on the contrary they fought in a more orderly manner.Moreover, through a preliminary assessment, Long Jun's losses are still relatively large.This made little Montgomery very happy.In his opinion, it shouldn't be a problem for him to be able to hold on for two days.

On the other side, Chiang Kai-shek, who had received information about the setback in the attack, did not get angry. He just casually read the battle report and then threw him aside.

"Huang Jun! Is everything ready?" He raised his head and asked his adjutant.

"Yes! Commander-in-Chief! Everything has been prepared, just wait for tomorrow!" Huang Jun immediately reported.

"Good! Start on time tomorrow!" Chiang Kai-shek said slowly.

At 5 o'clock in the morning on May 29, Calais, which had just been calm for 3 hours, fell into endless artillery fire again.Under the scorching artillery fire, about three companies of the Dragon Army Grenadiers began to launch a fierce attack on the No. 6 and No. 11 Bastions along the gap opened in the northwest direction.A large number of smoking grenades flew out of the hands of these soldiers, spun around, and threw them into the firing port of the castle.In an instant, the entire castle was shrouded in artificial thick fog.First, a large number of soldiers approached the outer wall of the castle through the dense fog, and then the engineers who advanced first took out the plastic explosives and special anti-fortress bombs they carried with them, and blasted the granite outer wall of the multi-bracket one by one. .Soldiers with submachine guns and flamethrowers then entered the fort again and began to clean up the remaining defenders inside.

However, the Allied forces still steadfastly defended. Relying on the complex maze-like structure of the multi-bracket, they continued to deal with the dragon army inside.The battlefield once again fell into a stalemate.

"General! Our defense line in the northwest has been breached by the opponent. Although several bastions are still under our control, based on the current situation, I'm afraid it won't last long." Colonel Nicholson looked at himself anxiously the boss.Judging from the current situation, after two days of preliminary testing, the Dragon Army has already understood the weak areas of its defense, and then began to adopt the method of focusing on assaults, constantly attacking those areas, in an attempt to turn them into large and small areas. the gap.This tactic was deadliest against Allied forces lacking reserves.

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Thinking of this, Nicholson quietly looked at Montgomery again.Now Montgomery has completely lost the high-spirited feeling of the previous few days.There were several layers of wrinkles on the already thin face.The eyes also became deeper and deeper due to staying up late for a long time.This commander, who was originally extremely agile in thinking, fell into a strange state of pause at this time. "What does the commander of the dragon army want to do? Why didn't they play their cards according to common sense? Armored troops attacked the fortress bastions. Isn't this in line with common sense?" He stared at the map and said to himself.

After a while, little Montgomery suddenly jumped up. He turned his head and asked Nicholson loudly, "Who is the commander of the other party? Who was in charge of attacking Calais in the end?"

"Huh?" Montgomery's question stumped Nicholson.Although it is said that knowing oneself and knowing one's enemy can lead to a hundred battles, he is not sure who the opponent's commander is, because just judging from the sequence of troops formed by the Dragon Army.Three division-level units belonging to different armies appeared, and these three armies also belonged to three armored groups.So Nicholson himself didn't know who his opponent was.

In the headquarters of the Huben Army, Chiang Kai-shek also frowned. After listening to Huang Jun's report on the current battle situation, he asked, "What? Little Montgomery hasn't made any moves yet?"

"Yes, they didn't make any moves, and their reserve team showed no signs of mobilization." Huang Jun continued: "In my personal opinion, the other party doesn't seem to be hooked. Did they already see something, or did we Tactical intent has been leaked. If so, maybe our command or..."

"Stop guessing!" Chiang Kai-shek immediately waved his hand to interrupt his random guessing.

"Since this is not right, that is not right either. In the end, there is only one of the following!" After thinking for a long time, Chiang Kai-shek finally stood up: "I greatly overestimated the courage of little Montgomery, his courage It's really too small!" Having said this, Chiang Kai-shek actually burst out laughing.Then asked: "How many reserves do we have?"

"Reserve?" Huang Jun was stunned for a moment, and immediately replied: "There are still nearly one and a half divisions that have not been used! Among them, the Ninth Panzergrenadier Division has not been mobilized as the general reserve team, and two regiments are preparing to serve as the second division. Waves of attacks into battle."

"Well!" Chiang Kai-shek touched his chin with his hand: "Order! The Independent Brigade will attack the Calais Railway Station, and the Panzergrenadier Division will attack the Calais Airport. Tell them to use all their strength to attack there with all their strength." .Tell them I don't need reserves, I just need train stations and airports!"

"But! If this is the case, we won't have a reserve team. If something happens, our situation will be very bad!" Huang Jun still wanted to argue, after all, this order was really difficult for him to accept.

Chiang Kai-shek waved his hands, and said, "There is an old saying in China called 'put the dead and live', and this is what I want!"

After some adjustments, the dragon army attacked again.This time, according to Chiang Kai-shek's pre-arranged tactics, in addition to continuing to attack the 11th and 13th bastions, the Dragon Army also had two more main attack points, that is, Calais Railway Station and Calais Airport.

Calais is divided into two districts, the Old Town and the New Town by the Acanal.The old city of Calais is on an artificial island surrounded by canals and ports.Calais-Ville-Ville is in the southeast.Calais train station is in the middle of these two places.If the train station is controlled, the Dragon Army will be able to divide the entire Calais defense system into two.If the enemy army holds the train station, they can continue to deal with the dragon army through the canal.Therefore, whether it is for the Allied Army or the Dragon Army.It's all very important here.

This time Chiang Kai-shek handed over the heavy responsibility of the attack to the Ninth Panzergrenadier Division.After receiving this order, Liu Xiang, the commander of the division, seemed very happy.After all, he commanded this battle alone, and he attached great importance to this task.

The Calais train station is a three-story building covering an area of ​​approximately 24000 square meters.Among them, the entire waiting hall only occupies more than 4000 square meters, all of which are of masonry structure, and the exit platform is a full 20000 square meters. There are a total of 8 platforms, all of which are steel skeleton structures covered with glass curtain walls, which look quite luxurious.

Due to the importance of the position of the railway station, the British army carried out a precise defense there, and two battalions of the Ninth Infantry Brigade of the Third Infantry Division were stationed there.According to Montgomery's estimation, if the opponent wants to take down the train station, he must invest an infantry division and fight for a whole day.

The battle between the two sides first started on the outskirts of the railway station, the Calais-Phaidon train transfer station.This small place north of Calais that is not even marked on a tourist map in detail has attracted the attention of countless people at this time.The No.20 Third Panzergrenadier Regiment of the 39th Panzergrenadier Division and the [-]th Infantry Battalion of the British [-]rd Infantry Division fought there.