Volume VIII 1321 The Bitter Fruit of Underestimating the Enemy

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The wails of grief and indignation could not deter the Chinese soldiers, and the crying of the wounded could not make these Chinese feel the slightest soft-hearted, and the snipers in ambush in the mountains and forests remained silent, and the sneer on the corner of their mouths proved that they were not too lazy to have the slightest nonsense with these invaders.

Who can answer Nicholas's question? Only artillery! The artillery position in Setouchi Village was already crazy at this moment, and the commander of the artillery regiment rushed to the battlefield excitedly after every salvo to show off his might, and he gestured his middle finger at the enemy in Setouchi Village and the warships in the bay, and cursed loudly.

"Blow up, keep bombing, blow up this group of doggy invaders...... This is the land of our Chinese people, and I didn't invite you here, grandpa! This killing will be remembered by these Rakshasa ghosts for a hundred years!"

After six volleys, Setouchi has become a burning city of fire, not a single house in the entire village is intact, either blown down or ignited, the Rakshasa ghosts are crowded in the firelight, the soldiers who are ignited on their bodies scream and jump into the sea, and the troop carriers rushing forward in the distance to risk running aground, wanting to save some more troops.

"Get on board, grab the rope ladder...... Grab the rope ......" Numerous rope ladders and thick cables were thrown from both sides of the troop carrier, crackling and smashing the surface of the water into a splash.

At the moment, there was chaos in the harbor, the trestle had been destroyed, the beach was surrounded by debris and dead bodies, and the troop transports could not find a suitable place to anchor, and they could not even get close to the shore.

Now the soldiers can only rely on themselves to jump into the sea and swim next to the troop carrier, and then grab the rope ladder and climb up, and the efficiency of such a withdrawal can be imagined, and if the nearly 20,000 soldiers want to evacuate, I am afraid that it will not be possible to do it for more than eight hours.

The detachment's Hermansky's eyes were on fire: "This can't be done! We can't let Chinese bomb so recklessly...... We're going to be wiped out!We're going to be trapped......."

The hellish scene in front of him swirled in front of him, the corpses floating in the waves crashing against the battleship, and the mentally poor recruits lying on the side of the ship and vomiting.

The artillery positions in the distance were still pouring anger, the Russian army organized three counteroffensives in a row and were resisted by the Chinese, and Hermansky's naval artillery fire was also ineffective because of the distance and angle problems.

"Damn it! do my bidding...... The entire detachment, led by the Svetlana, had its entire detachment and headed five hundred meters to the north...... Keep bombarding enemy artillery positions!"

"What?" everyone immediately exclaimed, "Captain, no! There is a shallow sea ahead, and there are reefs, and we will run aground......

"Shut up!" Hermansky yelled, "Don't I know that there is a shallow sea ahead? Are you blind to me?, but what can we do now, our battleships are closest to the enemy's artillery positions, and if our firepower cannot be suppressed, all 20,000 army brothers will have to die here......"

"At the moment of life and death, if our death can be exchanged for the lives of 20,000 brothers, then what is the point of death! Do you really think that you have come to East Asia for tourism? Do you really think that you have come to enjoy happiness?"

Hermansky's angry scolding made the officers and soldiers present shut up, and this sentence directly pointed out the careful thinking and small calculations of many expeditionary officers and soldiers. In fact, in the eyes of many officers and men, this expedition that attracted the attention of the world was a long vacation tour, and in their hearts the Asians were weak, and these Chinese who ceded land and paid compensation were even weaker among the weak.

As long as the powerful Russian ** team shows its muscles in front of these sheep, it can scare them into peeing their pants, and they can extort the most delicious food and wine, the most beautiful women, and the most wealth.

The Qing government was defeated again and again in the war against Western civilization until it was no longer recovered, and now the Qing Dynasty's fear of foreign aggression has emerged, and the contempt of Westerners for the Chinese has replaced the contempt of the Middle Ages.

China is no longer a sign of ancient civilization and power, although China is still rich, but this richness has become undefended fat, as long as the industrial level of European countries is strong enough to mobilize a fleet to expedition to Asia, then you can cut the fattest piece at will.

Xiao Letian once said that in the 19th century and even the first half of the 20th century, Western civilization could not eat China, not because they did not have that ambition, but because the level of science and technology at that time was still very low, and there were only a few countries that could cross half the world to put heavy troops.

Britain, France, Russia, only these three countries can barely do it...... Of course, the United States has such industrial strength, but the United States is in a period of economic recovery at the moment, and the post-civil war period of calm, the development of people's livelihood is an important task of the United States, isolationist ideas are very rampant, so the United States Navy in this era is only a defensive army.

In fact, looking at the late Qing Dynasty and modern history, since the first Opium War, there were actually three European countries that fought against the Great Qing Dynasty, one was Britain and the other was France, which were the only two industrial countries that could send heavy troops from Europe to Asia, while Russia mainly relied on the army to press south from the northern continent.

The first Opium War was fought by the British themselves, the second Opium War was fought by Britain and France together, and then the Annam War between the Qing and France, followed by the counterattack of the small neighbor of the First Sino-Japanese War.

It was not until 1900 that all European countries could send warships to form an eight-nation coalition to attack Beijing, and the world's human beings had already entered the era of complete steam warships, and it was the huge development of science and technology that gave second-rate European countries such as Italy and Austria-Hungary the ability to project heavy troops to the East.

It can be said that in 1869, Russia was able to organize an expeditionary force of 30,000 troops to cross more than half the world to conquer China, which was definitely an extremely exciting thing in Russia, and it was also a dazzling feat in Europe.

Spain and Portugal did not have this ability, the Netherlands and Italy did not have this ability, and even Austria-Hungary and Prussia, which had powerful armies, had to shake their heads and sigh and be ashamed.

This is the reality, the indisputable fact, how can the expeditionary force set out under such praise and worship not be arrogant? Hemansky was not wrong at all, these officers and men did not think about their defeat from the beginning, and did not even think about casualties.

In their hearts, it was as if the victory of the Far East was like a ripe apple on the treetops, which could be easily picked on tiptoe.

Looking at the red-faced officers and soldiers, Hermansky shouted in a low voice, "Our light enemy has made a big mistake, so we can only make up for this mistake with blood...... The war is like this, and now if we don't sacrifice, who will sacrifice?"

"Now follow my orders, and the detachment will all go north to grab the best firing position...... Open the cannon and hold down the Chinese artillery on the hillside!"

Note: There are only two shifts today, and there is a white fact at home that I can't get rid of, sorry.