The Lyra and Roma were indeed running out of ammunition, and although Mailer could replenish them with some gunpowder and solid shells, the most lethal flowering shells were one less shot, and there was no place for supplies in the Bohai Sea at all.

Now even Europe has not popularized flowering bombs, let alone backward East Asia, and the two French warships have to go to Shanghai to find merchants in the concession to buy, or directly to Hong Kong and the British Navy to procure, there is no other way.

This is why the two French captains and Maile attached so much importance to the Dagukou Fort? This is the reason why the Dagukou Fort not only threatened the warships, but also stored a large amount of gunpowder, which was urgently needed by the French.

More importantly, the Green Battalion would not modify the artillery, but there were professional sappers in this group of French pirates, and as long as the battery was taken, they could transform it and turn the artillery facing the sea ninety degrees to bombard the industrial zone.

The shore anti-Japanese artillery is powerful and has a long range, and if the heavy concrete wall of the SAR is bombarded by the shore anti-Japanese artillery, it will be as simple as hammering tofu.

For the Dagukou Fort, Mailer and the French captain can be said to have exhausted the organs, and the two groups of suspicious soldiers from the east and west besieged the SAR, and then sneaked into the military formation to secretly lurk on the west side of the fort, waiting for the defenders to relax their attention to make a fatal blow.

The configuration of the sneak attack team can be described as a luxurious lineup, three hundred French veterans, more than a thousand elite eight banners, and finally five hundred cavalry to kill, such a team is not something that the green battalion soldiers can resist at all, and the defenders of Dagukou are better than anyone else.

But tonight is evil, it has been more than two hours since the sneak attack, and the gunfire and shouting of killing at the mouth of Dagu have not stopped, and the wave is higher and more intense, this group of green battalion soldiers have all fallen into evil.

Time was precious for the two French warships, the bombardment of the industrial zone had been going on for too long, and they didn't have so much ammunition to consume, and finally the captain of the Lyra, Kraft, made a bold decision, he wanted to move the battleship to the front of the Dagukou battery, and use the salvo of artillery to support the army in the battle, and if it was really not possible, let the soldiers go ashore and participate directly in the battle.

The Lyra began to signal the Roma to express its strategic intentions, and the captain of the Roma, Molde, was not Kraft's superior, and he could not dissuade him from adjusting the ship's posture.

Operating a sail warship to make a short-distance movement in the dark of night was a great test of sailors' skills, and now both warships are heading south, and the starboard gun doors of the battleships are firing at the SAR.

The Lyra was in the north, and the Roma was in the south, and Kraft would inevitably have to bypass the Roma if he wanted to get to the battery, and when the two ships were juxtaposed, the guns were absolutely not allowed to fire in order to prevent accidents.

On the dark sea, the sail operators are carefully controlling the windward area of the sails, and the masts are jumping up and down.

In this war, countless foreign cargo ships have always been strictly neutral, some left early, and of course, some merchant ships chose to stay, because the valuable goods on their ships could only be eaten by Lotte Ocean.

When two French warships suddenly attacked, the remaining merchant ships scattered in all directions. After all, Kraft and Molde are Europeans, and they also have a bit of affection for the same European merchants, especially since there are many Spanish, Portuguese, and British merchant ships in the merchant ships, and they dare not attack these merchant ships no matter how bold they are.

In this way, there was a very strange scene on the surface of the Bohai Sea, two French warships desperately bombed the Special Administrative Region, and behind the butts of the warships further east, more than a dozen European merchant ships were moored in the sea to watch the excitement.

Of course they want to leave, but the valuable equipment in the merchant ship is their net worth, and if they don't sell it to Lotte & Co., they will lose their fortune this time.

"Look...... The Lyra is moving... He must want to support the battle of the Dagukou Fort, what should he do? Chinese can't hold it......"

"What else can I do, send a signal to the shore, remind these Chinese...... Oh God, are these French robbers forcing me to go bankrupt?"

In the dark night, more than a dozen merchant ships suddenly blinked their eyes collectively, and the lookout on the mast operated the signal lights and began to flash and initiate signals.

The light of the signal lights in the night can shine far away, and there are many soldiers in the special zone and the Dagukou fort who can understand the light signals, and the news that the Lyra is preparing for a sneak attack is instantly spreading.

"Look at the foreign merchant ships on the sea...... They're signaling to us...... An enemy ship is preparing to attack Dagukou, and a French warship is preparing to move south, and they are going to bombard Dagukou......"

"Clean up the cannons...... Reload and prepare to resist ......"

There was a roar on the fort, and now it has really reached the critical point of collapse, and both sides have now become tired soldiers, and both sides have no remedial moves, and the SAR can no longer divide its troops.

Panting, the Green Battalion soldiers began to run towards the artillery, throwing away the dead bodies from the barrels and searching for gunpowder and shells from the mess, ready to resist the enemy at sea.

How could the cavalry infantry of the Eight Banners allow them to organize resistance, screaming and rushing forward to kill the soldiers who were operating the artillery.

The focus of the battlefield instantly changed from the battle for the fort to the battle for artillery, the green battalion soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers rushed up layer by layer, and the war was completely a group of wild people fighting in the end, and each cannon was twisted into a pimple around it, and the desperate roar went straight to Xiao Han.

Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun their bayonet formation had long since disappeared, and everyone was fighting on instinct in the chaos, and the snipers saw that the morale of the green battalion soldiers had fallen into madness, and they no longer needed their hand-to-hand combat to motivate, and they all chose their old long-range sniping.

The snipers began to disperse and began to shoot at the enemy, so close that they were still deadly even without a scope, but when the shooting continued for five minutes, a desperate situation was in front of everyone, and the bullets had run out.

"Running out of ammunition, this is called running out of ammunition......" Ye Qiu took out the bayonet from his waist and prepared to load it on the muzzle again, but it turned out that the bayonet had already bent in the fight just now.

"Damn, this is forcing me to smash it with my fists......" Ye Qiu looked at it, the scenery of the entire fort was in full view, watching countless people twist their knots together, fighting with their fists with daggers and even teeth and fingers, Ye Qiu actually smiled.

Yes, it was a desperate smile, he knew that this was the last battle, that both sides had exhausted the last shred of vitality, and now they were no longer human, just fighting on the instincts of beasts.

"Hey...... Farewell to my father and mother, farewell to the new army, goodbye to the prime minister...... I'm more than 100 pounds, and I'll explain it here today......"

Pang Chaoyun turned his head and glared at him fiercely, "What's the commotion? If you have nonsense and kill a few more Tartars, I don't believe that we will fight to this point, and we will still lose? The prime minister is the hidden dragon, we all know this, the hidden dragon's career has just started, how can it be lost..."

"You kid coaxed, I didn't ...... Isn't it just a French warship, I don't believe it can crush us..."

As soon as Ye Qiu heard this, his mouth crooked and he began to say, "Fart, who are you talking about, we can die, we can sacrifice thousands of defenders, but the prime minister's career will not lose..."

"I firmly believe that the prime minister will definitely avenge us, even if he dies, there is a tablet of mine in the Ryukyu War Temple......"

The two were arguing, but their eyes were full of reluctant comradeship, they knew that time was running out, and the moment the fire of the French battleship rang out, it might be the day when they said goodbye to the world.

When life can only be measured in minutes, bickering is not a memorial to leaving this world.

Dagukou is burning, the SAR is burning, the trenches are burning, even the sea is burning, and so on...... How can the sea burn? What's going on over there.

Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun were arguing, and they didn't carefully observe the changes in the battlefield, and now the sea in the east suddenly became bright, and there were bursts of noisy shouts along with the sea breeze.

The two glanced at each other, knowing that something was wrong on the sea, although they didn't know what was happening, but they always had a strange premonition in their hearts, could it be that the darkest hour before dawn had passed?

Yes, their instincts were not wrong at all, for there were now four strange ships on the sea, coming rapidly from east to west, and they seemed to be deliberately hiding their identities, and the ships had sneaked over without any lights.

It wasn't until the ship approached the foreign merchant ship that the four big ships seemed to hear some signal, and at the same time lit up countless torches and lanterns, and the whole sea was covered with snow, no wonder it gave people the illusion of a sudden burn.

"What the hell is this...... Is this a battleship? God...... They were about to collide, and it was too late to lift anchor, so they quickly sent a signal to tell them that we were merchant ships...... "The foreign merchants on the sea were in chaos.

The speed of the four big ships was extremely fast, and the shouts of the foreign merchants had not stopped, they had already passed by, and at the moment when the two ships intersected, all the foreigners saw a scene that shocked them.

"Soldiers... All ships were soldiers in blue uniforms...... It's a new army from the Ryukyus, and this must be Xiao Letian's reinforcements have arrived...... Our business has been saved..."

At this time, Kraft and Molde also saw the four warships that suddenly appeared, and the one that started them was extremely familiar.

"Wavebreaker...... It's our Wavebreaker... Damn, that's the captured Wavebreaker...... Xiao Letian's soldiers chased after him... Quickly adjust your attitude and prepare to shoot ......"

Kraft and Molde shouted the name of the Wave Breaker almost at the same time, and now that the light cruiser that had made them lose face appeared in front of them, there was only one possibility, Xiao Letian's main force was back.

That's right, the Wavebreaker is now the flagship of the Ryukyu Navy, and Xiao Lotian is sitting on it now, and there are three converted clippers around the Wavebreaker, which are full of blue-clad recruits.

Xiao Lotian looked at the burning Tanggu with a grim face, and beside him was a dejected Frenchman, the captured envoy Molière.

Xiao Lotian gritted his back molars and said, "Fortunately, Lao Tzu set off one day earlier, if it is one day late, my special zone will have to be demolished by you...... Monsieur Molière, you have once again pushed yourself to the disadvantage, and you French may not gain the slightest benefit in future negotiations......"

"Pass my order, send a signal to the Special Administrative Region, and say that I, Xiao Letian, have returned, and Lao Tzu has come back alive..."

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