Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 761: Killing the Good and Taking the Risk

The Gurkhas naturally had no problem with the order for the general attack. After all, the South Vietnamese had just been repelled on both the western and southern fronts, which meant that there should not be many enemies left.

In addition, there are still remnants of the Ying army and uniformed police behind them, and there was a sudden explosion in the sand mine, which must mean that something has happened among the Yuenan people.

With external enemies at their side and internal strife at the same time, the morale of the Gurkhas instantly collapsed.

The British troops on the northern and eastern fronts heard and saw fierce fighting on the western and southern fronts. After observing for a few minutes, they felt that the firepower in the sand mining area was obviously reduced by at least half of what it was before.

They were basically attracted to the western line and Nanxi. Now the Ying people on the northern and eastern lines felt that they could take advantage and immediately decided to attack the South Vietnamese from behind.

This kind of battle with favorable winds highlighted the British army's long-term training.

Not only did morale increase, but marksmanship also improved by several percent.

For a time, the sand mining area was surrounded by gunfire, and the Gurkhas did attract most of the South Vietnamese troops on the western and southern fronts, and comrades from both sides died at the hands of each other.

In addition, the Gurkhas wanted to kill the enemy and get rewards, so the South Vietnamese had no choice but to fight to the death in order to survive.

As the two sides fought, they gradually became so bloodthirsty that they no longer cared about the northern and eastern fronts.

It was easy for the British troops on the northern and eastern fronts to rush into the sand mining areas.

But the Vietnamese knew that this was a matter of life and death. They could not escape, and they wanted to surrender, but because of the darkness, as soon as they showed their heads, they were bombarded with bullets.

Even many Ying people did not want prisoners at all at this time.

He was beaten so badly before, now is a good opportunity to take revenge.

The Gurkhas were even more excessive. Before, Lan Gang and his men were worried that the southern and western fronts would be broken through and escaped by the Vietnamese. So when the Gurkhas were supporting the southern and western fronts, they had already offered a reward of 100 Hong Kong dollars for killing one person.

Since there is money to be made for killing people, the Gurkhas, who are willing to sacrifice their lives for money, would never take prisoners.

In addition, both sides are now killing each other and have become blood-thirsty.

Unless one side gets scared and runs away, it will have to kill the other side.

Even when a small number of Yingguo people saw someone shouting to surrender, they pretended not to hear.

Once the Gurkhas on the western and southern fronts defeat the South Vietnamese, the difficulty of clearing the sand mining sites will be reduced several times, and they may even force the surviving South Vietnamese to surrender.

But this gave Chu Xiangqian a good opportunity to launch an air strike on the British.

Of the remaining seven grenades, five were thrown by Huang Diao'er after he approached the British troops on the northern front. He used his little claws to grab the grenades and threw them accurately into the groups of British troops.

Shantiao was on the eastern front, using two grenades to launch an air strike, easily killing or injuring a dozen British soldiers.

What Chu Xiangqian didn't expect was that Huang Diao'er was so powerful.

Five grenades were thrown into the crowd, and more than twenty of the more than 5 British troops on the northern front were killed or wounded.

In an instant, they lost the will to fight and either ran away or hid, not daring to move.

When Chu Xiangqian saw the three Nanyue people taking the opportunity to escape from the northern line, he almost cursed the Ying army as trash.

But Chu Xiangqian knew in his heart that with more than 30 soldiers killed or wounded, it would be strange if their morale did not collapse.

Fortunately, he was not worried about how far these three Yuenan people could escape.

Glancing at Zheng Shufen and Zheng Baoyi, mother and daughter who were already asleep, Chu Xiangqian cursed inwardly as he got up from the bed and walked to the balcony of the second-floor bedroom to think for a few seconds.

Just let Huang Diaoer chase after it.

The tits continued to stay in the sand mining area as early warning aircraft.

However, there was basically no suspense in the battle in the sand mine.

Although the Ying army on the northern front was defeated, after fighting for so long, almost all the South Vietnamese people were killed.

When the Gurkhas broke through the western and southern fronts, where they were attacked from all sides and whose morale began to decline, the battle was basically no longer suspenseful, except for the South Vietnamese who hid under the cover of night or pretended to be dead.

The Gurkhas also suffered heavy casualties. Out of a team of 40 people, no more than 20 were still able to move.

These 20 people, facing the surviving Vietnamese, no matter if they were kneeling in surrender or pretending to be dead, were all shot.

Moreover, seeing that the British were killing prisoners, the Gurkhas, who were already very brutal, immediately became even more unscrupulous.

When cleaning up the battlefield, no matter if they were dead or alive, they were all killed with a bayonet or a few bullets.

After Chu Xiangqian realized that there was no need to keep an eye on the sand mining site, he ordered Shanque to chase Huang Diaoer.

Although Huang Diao'er's sense of smell is not as good as Da Zhuang and Hong Niu's, it is enough to keep up with the three fleeing South Vietnamese people.

However, Chu Xiangqian was not in a hurry to kill them.

After following them for more than an hour, when the three guys entered the forest, we realized that Huang Diao'er and Shanque were fighting.

When a titmouse flies down from the sky, there is basically no sound until it gets close to its target, then it flaps its wings to stabilize its body.

By the time the three South Vietnamese reacted, the tit had already slashed the neck of a target with its claws as fast as lightning.

The remaining two were still alive, and their attention was all on the air. Huang Diaoer jumped onto the back of a target.

He opened his mouth and bit hard, actually breaking the target's cervical vertebrae.

Then it jumped from the second man's shoulders, and its two claws that could dig through rocks directly pierced into the last man's head, killing him instantly.

The man whose cervical vertebrae were bitten off did not die immediately, but he was paralyzed all over and could only watch as the yellow dart walked up to him and slapped him with its claw. Then his eyes went black and he lost consciousness.

After Chu Xiangqian saw everything clearly through the tit, he gave Huang Diao'er an order to dig a hole and bury the people, and no longer paid attention to Yuen Long.
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Chu Xiangqian went to bed peacefully and covered Zheng Baoyi who was sleeping in the middle with a blanket. Then he looked at Zheng Shufen who was sleeping soundly and saw that she had a faint smile on her face even when she was sleeping.

He couldn't help but smile and shook his head, then lay down, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

But while Chu Xiangqian was sleeping soundly, there were many follow-up problems in Yuen Long.

The first thing is naturally to clean up the battlefield and collect the corpses.

The second reason is that the casualties of the Ying army were too heavy.

The team of 120 people suffered direct casualties of 70 people. No matter whether it was Lan Gang, Fei Bo, Lei Luo, or the chief of Yuen Long Police Station, they could not escape accountability from their superiors.

Fortunately, the captain who commanded a company of the Ying army this time was a foreigner. In addition, this guy rejected the suggestion of the mobile force to take the lead, so he was responsible for at least 70% to 80% of the casualties of the Ying army.

Lan Gang was whispering with Fei Bo, Lei Luo and the chief of Yuen Long Police Station about how much more money they should give to the brigadier general and other officers of the garrison to keep them quiet.

The captain also knew that he was in big trouble, but fortunately he wiped out all the Vietnamese people.

There is still a lot that can be done about how to write a post-event report.

So this guy pulled several warrant officers, second lieutenants, and lieutenants to discuss it, and then took the initiative to come over and said to Lan Gang and others, "Ladies and gentlemen, I and several officers agree that this is a difficult and glorious victory.

So we think we should have a unified voice in how we write reports, and we will not forget your contributions.”

After saying that, the captain looked at Lan Gang, Fei Bo and Lei Luo. His meaning was very clear: no one could escape responsibility.

If you don't want to be demoted or even fired, then hide it from your superiors.

As for how to write the report, generally speaking, they only report good news and not bad news, and even exaggerate the difficulty of the battle.

Fei Bo and others nodded without much hesitation.

Anyway, what they just discussed about giving hush money to Brigadier General Dawson and the stationed officers was almost the same idea.

Afterwards, the captain said clearly that they would go to the refugee camp to capture people and kill them, and exaggerated the number of thirty or forty Vietnamese people to two or three hundred.

Fei Bo and the others' eyes lit up.

It was run well, and not only was there no fault, but it was actually a credit. A group of people immediately gathered together and started whispering.

However, you can arrest refugees, but you must not arrest Chinese people.

On this point, Fei Bo, Lan Gang, Lei Luo, and a few foreigners all subconsciously reached a consensus.

So after a brief discussion, the guys quickly set their sights on the Vietnamese refugees who had smuggled into Hong Kong Island.

Soon, teams of uniformed soldiers, plainclothes soldiers and a platoon of British troops were dispatched in assault vehicles to arrest people.

When they arrived at the camp filled with tents and shanties, they arrested anyone they saw except those who could speak Chinese.

There weren't actually that many Nan Vietnamese refugees these days. After the small-scale war between North and South Vietnam broke out in 61, the Nan Vietnamese felt that they had the support of the Chinese people and it would be easy to defeat the North Vietnamese.

North Vietnam felt that it had the support of Big Brother and the red giant China, so it was not impossible to defeat the United States and South Vietnam.

The real large-scale refugee wave did not appear until the mid-70s, when North and South Vietnam were unified and North Vietnam began its liquidation operations, and only then did tens of thousands of South Vietnamese refugees flee South Vietnam.

The first group of people who entered Hong Kong Island by ship in 61 consisted of only more than people.

Moreover, most of these people, after staying in Hong Kong Island for a period of time, went directly to Europe and the United States if they had some money.

Many of those who have no money have been absorbed by neighboring Southeast Asian countries, or have had connections to integrate into Hong Kong society.

After two or three years, the seven or eight hundred people still staying in the camp are the most miserable and the least welcomed.

But even with this small number of people, it still brings a great burden to Hong Kong Island. The Yue Nan societies that cheat, join gangs or gather together to protect themselves have indeed brought great trouble to society.

Even those in military uniform and plain clothes were unwilling to enter the camp, let alone make some money.

So when the foreigners attacked these people, many soldiers in uniform and plainclothes just watched from the side.

From that night on, there were no more refugees in the camp, but the locals in the nearby New Territories continued to spread the word that many gunshots were heard that night.

The next morning, Chu Xiangqian began to regret when he saw the newspaper in his hand.

Not only did the Oriental newspapers report this incident, but other newspapers also reported it extensively, saying that the military and police had joined forces to wipe out a group of more than 700 pirates in Yuen Long last night.

If Shantiao had been watching this, Chu Xiangqian would have definitely taken a lot of photos of the Ying people shooting and killing the Nanyue people.

Unfortunately, I thought everything was fine last night and fell asleep early.

Chu Xiangqian could only comfort himself by saying that even pictures taken with cameras these days would be blurry in the dark.

This incident caused a great sensation in Hong Kong Island.

The first thought of people from all walks of life was disbelief. But when the pro-foreign newspapers started showing some photos in the afternoon, they had no choice but to believe it.

Of course the picture of the bodies was blurry, but it certainly looked like a lot of people.

Add to that hundreds of light and heavy weapons, and ordinary people instantly began to feel fortunate.

Moreover, in the early morning, fierce gunfire was heard in many places in Kowloon, the New Territories and even the main island.

The police held a press conference and officially announced that in the early morning, they arrested or killed more than a dozen Vietnamese people who were hiding in the homes of relatives and friends, and found a large amount of jewelry, gold and cash that were stolen in the robbery some time ago.

The so-called capture alive was just to avoid discussion. In fact, including Ruan Fa Kui, more than a dozen Vietnamese people hiding in the city were all shot dead in the name of arrest.

In addition to Chu Xiangqian's order to the newspaper, Oriental newspapers, magazines, and some tabloids began to report extensively on the fraud and vicious crimes committed by the Vietnamese in Hong Kong Island in recent years.

Not only did everyone applaud, but people's attitude towards the Vietnamese people also became countless times worse.

Many civil groups directly asked the Hong Kong government to refuse to accept Vietnamese people again.

Those refugees who were already in Hong Kong Island also demanded to leave the island.

Naturally, some clubs took the opportunity to fight with the Yuenan Club.

However, this time, not only the police favored the local community, but even the public and foreigners also favored the local community.

After the incident became a big deal, the news quickly spread to London.

However, London only protested to the Chinese and South Vietnamese, and never thought about investigating the whole case.

As for the report submitted by the garrison of killing more than 700 enemies, London did not care how many of them were true and how many were false.

Even the people of Magnesium and South Vietnam think that the number 700 is too exaggerated and must be exaggerated to seek credit.

Since no one cared, the matter was quickly suppressed.

Not only was Ge Bai commended, but Brigadier General Dawson also did his best. After all, 120 people killed more than 700 bandits armed with submachine guns and light machine guns, and they themselves suffered less than 70 casualties. It was indeed a brilliant military achievement.

As for the captain, he directly skipped the battalion commander and became a major regiment commander, and became the third-in-command of logistics for the garrison.

It seems that Dawson is not stupid. He knows the trick here, so he removed the captain from the command position of the front-line troops.

However, there is a lot of profit in logistics, and he doesn't have to participate in the battle, which is a great thing for the captain.

But this guy will have to listen to Dawson obediently in the future. After all, Dawson has such a big handle in his hands, and most of the money embezzled from logistics will definitely go into Dawson's pocket.

Of course, just because London doesn’t investigate doesn’t mean they really know nothing.

Norton called Chu Xiangqian and asked him to help find out.

Chu Xiangqian would naturally not sabotage the situation, and he actually hoped that there would no longer be a large number of Vietnamese people living in Hong Kong Island or even getting resident certificates.

So we can only say that the real identity of the pirates was deserters from Nanyue, and their number was not more than 700, but it was true that there were only two or three hundred of them.

With his words, Brigadier General Dawson was not only not at fault, but London also felt that he was a very capable leader.

Even if the enemy was pirates, the fact that 120 people killed two or three hundred people was enough to show that the garrison's training and fighting spirit were extremely high.

A few days later, someone in London proposed to promote Dawson to major general, but he would not be sent back to London for the time being.

(End of this chapter)