The British Royal Navy is a very backbone fleet, and the British Royal Navy is an army with a long history, so none of the 12 warships surrendered. Of course, after all of them were sunk, when the Chinese Navy went to rescue the people who had fallen into the water, the Royal Navy was very obedient and was picked up by the Chinese Navy.

Fighting bravely until the warship was sunk, this is the courage and duty of the Navy. Of course, when rescued, he did not refuse, this was the choice after the sinking of the warship. It is also a tradition of the British Navy to return to the homeland alive and continue to serve in the Navy.

Watching the British warship disappear into the sea, the warships of the Chinese Navy thundered with joy. However, this naval battle led to a public case in the history of the navy. That is, whether the Chinese Navy ran to 21 knots or not. It took decades for the matter to be clarified. At that time, the Chinese battleships had a maximum speed of 18 knots, and the heavy cruisers ran to 19 knots. One of them, the heavy cruiser Tongcheng, which was used as an experiment, ran to a speed of nearly 20 knots under overpressure. According to the judgment of China and Britain, it is estimated that a sea current at that time played a role in fueling the troubles.

From a purely military point of view, this matter is not really that important. In this era, it was possible to exceed 18 knots to surpass all the capital ships of the time. There is no particular difference between verses 18 and 20, and the result is that the enemy cannot escape. The British Navy's message with carrier pigeons before the ship was sunk only said that the Chinese Navy had reached a speed of nearly 20 knots. The problem fermented when China and Britain exchanged prisoners of war, or China unilaterally returned prisoners of war.

At this time, the Chinese Navy did not think so much, and after killing the British fleet, the next move was to land in Ceylon. At dawn the next day, the large landing ship lowered the landing craft. The landing force boarded the warship, which was so simple that it was outrageously simple, and headed for the predetermined beach.

Second Lieutenant Qi Rui led his platoon to sit on a fast-moving landing craft. Everyone clung to the handles on both sides of the landing craft, and everyone had conducted training to land on the beach before the war, and the weather today was very good, with little wind and waves. There were still quite a few fighters who couldn't help but vomit.

Although his stomach felt good, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui still felt that his heart was beating violently like a drum. Small landing craft are put into the sea by cranes on large landing ships, and these landing craft are made of riveted steel plates more than one meter high, and as long as they are not hit by enemy shells, the bullets will not hurt the landing ship at all. The hatch of the landing craft, propelled by a gasoline engine, is located in the bow of the ship, and when the landing craft touches the beach and stops, the hatch opens downwards. The landing force on the landing craft rushed out of it, wading across the beach and launching an attack on the enemy on the shore.

Second Lieutenant Qi Rui knew that this thing was equipment that was completed on the basic design proposed by his father Wei Ze. At this time, it was not the time to think back on these major events, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui held the Type 76 rifle developed and produced under the guidance of his father Wei Ze, and waited for the landing craft to land. Although there was no sign of the enemy on the opposite side, there was calm on the beach of the landing ground. But in the woods on the shore, and behind the rocks, will there be enemies hidden? Second Lieutenant Qi Rui was not confident at all.

In all kinds of imagination, the landing craft shook violently, and everyone was shaken and dizzy. Before everyone could fully recover their strength, the front hatch opened, and the captain shouted, "Get off the boat!" Disembarked! ”

This kind of training has been experienced many times, and the troops on the ship do not want to think so much, everyone rushed into the waist-deep sea water with their weapons in hand, rifles in flat hands, heavy backpacks on their backs, and the troops fought towards the shore with deep feet and shallow feet. More than a dozen boats of fighters had already been laid down on the landing ground several kilometers wide, and everyone was struggling to move forward in the sea.

These long ten minutes were the first real battlefield test that Second Lieutenant Qi Rui had ever experienced, and when the troops seized the landing ground, set up defensive positions, and made sure that there was no enemy on the coast, all the troops who landed cheered. It's even more exciting than winning a battle.

The occupation of the landing positions was only the beginning, the troops began to build the landing grounds, and more than 20,000 landing troops, more than 20,000 troops' equipment, ammunition, supplies, were to be sent to the beach. To the great surprise of Second Lieutenant Qi Rui, more than 400 monks wearing robes and holding tin rods were also sent to the beach. As a materialist army, the Liberation Army has its own political and work system. The fear of death in the war is naturally the responsibility of the political work department, and it is impossible for the monks to intervene.

It was only when the troops escorted the monks to start their actions that Second Lieutenant Qi Rui understood what was happening. Ceylon is a Buddhist country with a strong Buddhist tradition. When a group of highly nervous Chinese soldiers walked around Ceylon with weapons, the local people felt nothing but fear.

A group of monks wearing robes and carrying tin rods first visited the presiding officers of the temples in the surrounding area, and communicated with them cordially in Sanskrit, which was quickly recognized by the local temples. Everyone is a monk, and the Chinese monks promised that the Chinese army would not invade the local monasteries and would not kill the people, but the Ceylon monks preferred to listen first.

The temple was very influential in Ceylon, and the local monks helped the Chinese army buy food, and the people were not so afraid. China has come up with silver dollars to buy grain, which has made the locals feel a lot more at ease.

Three days were spent temporarily communicating with the locals, and the troops set up a defensive line near Colombo to prevent the enemy forces from coming out. And there were not many British troops in Colombo, and the Chinese army would let them Amitabha Buddha if they didn't take the initiative to attack, where would they dare to come out.

Three days later, the fleet turned south and joined up with the second wave of troop transports. This time, 40,000 troops were transported to land near Galle, and Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's troops escorted the monks all the way south, and finally converged near Galle.

During the escort, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui was completely sure of the plan to send the monk to his father Wei Ze. Twenty percent of these monks are qualified monks selected from famous Chinese monasteries, and the remaining eighty percent are graduates of Buddhist colleges. These people are proficient in Sanskrit and know the Buddhist scriptures by heart. In addition to this, all of them had studied materialist Buddhism.

There are two types of monks in Sri Lanka, one is from Siam, and they only deal with wealthy people. One was imported from Myanmar and mainly dealt with ordinary people.

The spiritual realm of Buddhism's pursuit of liberation is the material foundation of human beings, and pure consciousness cannot exist independently. Before his death, Socrates asked his friend to offer a rooster as a sacrifice to the god of medicine, saying that "death healed my flesh". What the old gentleman was referring to was that the instinctive desires brought about by the flesh had finally been eliminated by death. The fifth volume of the Mahayana Righteous Chapter says: "The five desires outside the world are dyed with love, fame and greed" refers to this meaning.

The Chinese monk preached the Diamond Sutra, which has four verses, "If you see me with color and ask me with your voice, you are walking in an evil way, and you cannot see what you are." This realm is even higher, which requires not only the pursuit of those who believe in Buddhism, but also the realm of those who believe in Buddhism. This style of doing things made Second Lieutenant Qi Rui feel familiar.

The defenders of Galle refused to surrender, and more than 60,000 Chinese troops were distributed between Colombo and Galle, with 10,000 guarding Colombo, 10,000 for intermediate liaison, and the remaining 40,000 for conquering Galle. Second Lieutenant Qi Rui knew very well that the real war was just around the corner. Because his father Wei Ze was still alive after so many battles, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui once felt that the war was not so terrible. When he was really going to war, he couldn't help but get excited and nervous.

The troops had already delivered 150 howitzers, and on October 15, the battle began. Second Lieutenant Qi Rui thought that there would be a very detailed analysis, but the command headquarters issued the battle order at a very fast speed.

The city of Galle stands out for the 12 bastions that guard the city, although these tall buildings do not pose a real threat from the perspective of the current development of military technology. But the tall building still gives people a rather oppressive feeling.

As soon as the observation balloons were raised, 150 howitzers began to bombard the bastions. After several shells were test-fired, one shell finally hit the fortress. After the smoke cleared, everyone found that the fortress had not been directly blown down, but only a large hole had been punched in the fortress.

At this time, some soldiers began to cheer, and seeing this situation, everyone fell silent again. The artillery did not easily destroy the enemy's fortifications, which was not what everyone originally thought. For a whole morning, the artillerymen were doing the work of destruction. After all, the fortress is old, and a single shell can't knock it down, and a dozen or dozens of shells can still destroy these old buildings. With the destruction of the last bastion, the infantry offensive battle officially began.

Second Lieutenant Qi Rui was in the second wave of attacking troops, and not long after the first wave of troops set off, there was a movement of exchange of fire in front. The gunfire of the exchange of fire was intermittent and lasted for nearly an hour, and the first wave of wounded were sent down. The commanders and fighters who were waiting to enter the battle got up one after another and looked at their comrades on stretchers. The wounded soldiers received temporary emergency medical treatment and their wounds were wrapped in gauze. Several stretchers were covered with white cloths, and there was a faint appearance of human beings underneath the white cloth.

Even if he couldn't see the situation under the white cloth, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui could guess that the comrade was probably sacrificed. A shivering feeling arose in Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's heart. This is war! If you step on the battlefield, you can die. Although I heard my father Wei Ze talk about life and death on the battlefield many times, even Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's mother talked about the war she had seen, and the death on the battlefield. But for the first time, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui understood that he was actually afraid of death.

However, when this thought almost occupied Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's mind, he felt a kind of anger, which was the anger of the fear of himself. Before joining the army, too many people told Second Lieutenant Qi Rui about war and death. At that time, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui didn't feel anything. Now when you see someone actually dying in battle, do you scare yourself like this? Rubbing his face vigorously, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui didn't look at these wounded and sacrificed comrades. He shouted to his comrades in the platoon: "Everyone hurry up and check the weapons, it is estimated that it will not be long before we are on board." ”

At this time, the faces of the comrades of the army were already quite ugly, and after hearing this, the faces of some comrades were even more difficult to look at. Some of the fighters began to do the final inspection of their weapons, as Second Lieutenant Qi Rui said. Some of the fighters did not react at all, they still craned their necks to look at the city of Galle, and then at the wounded.

Second Lieutenant Qi Rui immediately shouted, "Now I order, the whole platoon will start checking the weapons." The squad leader and deputy squad leader hurriedly urged the comrades to start working! ”

The order worked, and the troops began to check their weapons. Through the inspection, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui quickly recovered his mood. In less than half an hour, the correspondent brought the order of the battalion commander. Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's company began to march into the city of Galle.

"Comrades! Let's go! Although he shouted, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui put on his rifle, straightened his steel helmet, and strode towards the battlefield.