Chapter 408: Shen Junmen's bloody battle against Humen
After the Humen Fortress, Shajiao and Weiyuan forts were lost one after another, the war finally spread here.
In just half a day, at most four hours, the group of piercing fortresses that occupy the most advantageous location is only the Humen Fortress and the Dajiao Fort.
Shen Junmen picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, and it was estimated that the Dajiao Fort was almost finished, because the sound of artillery there had gradually become smaller half an hour ago.
The sound of artillery was quiet, and there were only two possibilities, one was that the defenders of the Great Horn Battery inflicted great damage on the enemy and repelled the enemy's attack.
The other is that the Dajiao Fort has been captured, and since watching the performance of the sailors of the Humen battalion, Shen Junmen feels that the latter is the most likely.
As the core coastal defense center of the entire Pearl River Estuary, Humen Fortress is not like the Dajiao Fort, which can set up hidden barriers underwater, so the big ship of the revival navy can calmly sail to the ocean opposite Humen Fortress to directly bombard the fortress!
Shen Junmen no longer cared about showing the bearing of the commander of the First Army, Taishan, who collapsed in front of him without changing color, and he ran back and forth, howling and directing the gunners to bombard the cross-chin galleons on the opposite side.
Although most of the shells fell into the water, there were occasional guns or two that hit the ships of the Revival Navy, and each time they hit, Shen Junmen let out a hearty laugh and asked Goshha, who followed behind him, to take credit for the guns that fired the guns.
These gunners guarding the fort are not like the sailors who can go to sea, they usually have no chance to make money, and because the Humen Fortress is the barrier of the entire Guangzhou after all, before Ye Kai rose, the British, French, and Dutch warships often came to harass one or two, so the training of the gunners of the entire fortress was passable.
Just these more than 800 people, relying on dozens of artillery and the revival navy to bombard each other for almost an hour, although everyone was wounded, but the morale can still be maintained, and also overturned a few small boats of the revival navy transporting landing soldiers, plus the loud encouragement of Shen Xuan, the governor of Guangdong, the Humen fortress fort group counterattacked, and even fought decently.
However, soon the sound of Shen Junmen's howling and encouragement was lowered, because there were originally two galleons bombarding the Humen Fortress on the sea, which would have become four, and the Jingyuan Fort on the left side of the Humen Fortress was almost inaudible.
On the ocean, behind the cochin galleon warship, some small boats like ants slowly appeared shuttling on the sea, they were sending soldiers to the shore, and they were about to launch a general attack.
On the beach, a total of five battalions belonging to the 1st and 2nd regiments of the 1st Division of the Baxing Army, and more than 3,000 troops were quickly assembled.
The vermilion lacquered saucer helmets they wore on their heads reflected a dark red light in the westerly sun, and the tips of the bayonets on the flintlock pistols also danced with this dark red light, which looked extremely terrifying and strange.
A group of Green Battalion officers on the Humen Fortress watched all this in horror, not only because the phalanx of the Fuxing Army was particularly neat, but also because they showed a calm appearance that made people feel panicked.
Even if the cannonballs fired from the Humen Fortress bounced into their phalanx, the formation did not show even the slightest hint of panic.
Soon! The hundreds of cannons of the four Jiaozhi ships suppressed the forts of the Humen Fortress and could only fire a few shots sporadically.
The revival army on the beach immediately transformed into a small team of seven or eight people gathered together like puppeteers who pinched the point, and rushed towards the Humen Fortress all over the mountain, but there were only 3,000 people, and it looked as if they were going to cover the entire hillside!
"Everyone, let's stay in one place, we must always be worthy of the emperor and the Qing Dynasty!"
Shen Junmen arched his hand to the generals, guerrillas, and garrisons around him, and his words revealed a sense of depression.
"Liu Shen is coming, Liu Shen is coming!"
Everyone was about to disperse, and a commotion came, and under the hillside where the fort was located, several Shen Junmen Goshha looked at General Liu with an unnatural look on their faces with anger on their faces.
Does this Liu Shen General still dare to come? escaped from the battle, the Humen battalion disobeyed the order, these two were enough to kill his whole family twice!
Several generals and guerrillas who were familiar with General Liu on weekdays also had a look of dissatisfaction, if this General Liu was still there, and the Humen Battalion Sailors under his charge could dispatch one or two, they would not have fought so passively.
Shen Junmen's face was even more gloomy and cold, and he showed a trace of murderous aura all over his body, is he going to kill General Liu now? Or throw him a knife and let him fight off the attacking GIs?
"How many of you are so bold, the military gate only summoned General Liu to go up, do you want to break in?" Before General Liu arrived, under the fort, several Shen Junmen's Goshha first shouted angrily.
What's going on? Fleeing from the battlefield and disobeying the orders of the subordinates are not counted, and General Liu will still despise the officials and disrespect the military orders? Is this to commit all the military laws that can be committed?
Poof!
Yes!
Sharp knives and screams rang out, and a guerrilla looked down the hill, a little unaware of what was happening.
Bang! In a flash of fire, one of the guerrilla's arms burst open, and someone struck him with a powerful firebolt.
At the moment of the gunshot, Shen Junmen, who was born as a martial arts student and grew up in a martial arts family, rolled on the spot and fell into the corner.
As soon as Shen Junmen fell, a black, different from the Qing army's fire thunder was thrown up from the hillside, and the huge orange-red fire burst violently, and several gunners who didn't have time to run and a guerrilla from the right battalion of Dapeng screamed, and the blood flowed on the ground.
In the faint yellow smoke, several ghostly figures jumped up, and as soon as General Song Shen pulled out his waist knife, a man dressed in black and holding a water thorn burst out in front of him.
Poof!
Poof!
A terrifying sound of sharp blades entering the flesh sounded, and General Song was pierced into a bloody hole without even having a chance to swing a knife.
Wu Jiangzong next to him took out a spear and stabbed it violently, and the guy who took the water spur flashed ghostly, and then threw out a packet of yellow powder wrapped in paper and smashed it into Wu Jiangzong's face.
Wu threw away the spear in his hand with a scream, screamed miserably, covered his face and stumbled down from the high platform of the fort.
There were a total of five people who jumped up to the top of the fort, in addition to the guy with the water splitter stabbing everywhere ghostly, there was also a guy with two knives who blocked the path leading to the top of the fort below, and cut down a few green battalion soldiers who wanted to come up to see what was going on.
The remaining three guys. A man with a strange large shield protected the person behind him, and the person behind him held a small crossbow that could shoot continuously, and he shot several officers in an instant.
The remaining guy pulled out a few powerful fire mines, and in three or two strokes, they blew up the gunners who had gathered to fight desperately.
"Second uncle! Come on! A roar shouted in Ningbo dialect sounded, and Shen Junmen's nephew took a single knife and rolled close to the man in black who was shooting the officer with a small crossbow.
But the speed of the man in black was faster, and he quickly returned with a crossbow, Shen Junmen's nephew snorted, and was hit by a crossbow arrow in the shoulder, but because he wore a layer of armor, the crossbow arrow did not penetrate deep into the body.
However, the shield of the guardian who put crossbow arrows and fire and thunder throwing was manual, he bounced more than a foot high sideways, and the shield in his left hand knocked over Shen Junmen's nephew who had just gotten up with a sudden wave, and then without the slightest hesitation, the short knife in his right hand stabbed down, right in the center!
"Righteousness!" Shen Junmen howled miserably in his heart, as if someone slammed his heart, this is his eldest brother's only son, he just wanted to follow him to become an official and a half-job, and now it is gone.
However, although he was very hurt in his heart, Shen Junmen had no expression on his face, and the moment his nephew was stabbed, he bent down and lowered his head and jumped out!
As long as you get off this platform, you can gather the soldiers below to come up and kill all these people on the fort to avenge your nephew!