Chapter 65 The Carelessness of the Burmese Army The British army took advantage of the fog to sneak attack

The king and the officers and soldiers of Burma have surrendered, and the British, who were originally a little worried, have not come back, and Jiang Wei has continued to supervise the construction progress of the wharf, and the officers and soldiers on the wharf have been invested in the construction of the wharf, and there are not enough manpower, and many Burmese migrant workers have been hired. In charge of the dock was a battalion commander, in fact, all the people in his hands added up to less than a thousand, most of them were sappers. The construction site was very large, and the battalion commander and several leaders left a staff officer on duty in the office, and they all went to the construction sites separately.

In the duty room, in addition to a staff officer, there were two correspondents, two telegraph operators, and a sapper technician who happened to be reading the drawings here.

The weather in Myanmar was humid and hot, and seeing the fog outside, the technician said to the staff officer: "It's strange that there has been a lot of fog these days!" This fan still feels stuffy when it blows! ”

"Yes! If you are in Shanxi now, but it has just started spring, it is comfortable! The staff officer replied. The technician and the staff officer on duty are fellow villagers in Shanxi.

At this moment, several "bumper" gunshots suddenly came from the direction of the pier. Although the staff officer was only in his twenties, he had fought many battles during his internship, and he could hear that this was not the sound of an automatic rifle, nor was it the sound of a musket before the kiln, and he immediately felt that something was wrong, so he rushed over and took off the automatic rifle hanging on the wall of the gun, and issued several orders in a row: "Alarm sound!" Send a report to the battalion commander to call the police! Hold the radio! ”

Then he commanded the two communicators, who already had automatic rifles in their hands: "You two come with me!" ”

The two communicators agreed: "Yes! The staff officer said to the technician who was already a little nervous with the pistol in his hand: "You and this telegraph operator are here and can contact the battalion commander and them at any time." Then he said to a telegrapher: "The situation is not good, you run at once to inform the artillery battalion on the shore and prepare them." There is fog and they can't see the situation on the river! ”

By the time the telegraph operator said yes, the staff officer had already run in the direction of the dock with two messengers. The staff officers were very sober-minded and quickly made arrangements. Not long after he ran out with two messengers, he was confronted by more than 100 British soldiers who rushed towards him.

The three of them quickly lay down, lying behind a pile of rubble, and raised their guns to shoot.

"Smack!" The staff officers continued to shoot with accurate shots to knock down one British soldier after another. This staff officer is a graduate of the military academy, and he has just been assigned to the internship stage here. The graduates of the Yaogang Military Academy are all both civil and military, and they will not be able to complete their studies without reaching a certain level of shooting with various weapons. The two communicators, who are less than twenty years old, are also unambiguous, and the automatic rifles are sprayed alive, and at such a close distance, it is almost a guns.

Feeling that the sneak attack was successful, the British soldiers who were about to rush to the side of the improvised buildings of the kiln gang people in front of them still rushed forward despite the panting of running, and the hope of victory supported them.

They noticed that three running figures suddenly appeared in front of them, and they were about to grab and shoot. The people in front of them all fell down again. They thought it was these cowardly Ming Dynasty people, and they were so frightened that they fell down when they saw them. But before they could be happy, a string of bullets suddenly came from the front, and the British soldiers who ran in front were knocked to the ground one by one.

While the British soldiers were stunned, more than a dozen people had already been defeated. The British soldiers in the back quickly fell to the ground.

The British commander was also experienced, and after taking a look, the pile of rocks in front of him was not large, and there were not many people on the other side when he heard the gunshots, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to bypass from both sides.

As soon as the British troops stopped, the staff officer said to the two little communicators: "Don't be afraid, we just hold them back, there are a lot of us on the construction site, and they will be able to come out with weapons to support us in a while!" ”

"It's okay, we've all fought!"

"That's good! While the enemy is not coming, we will set up our positions with stones, one of you two will be in charge of the left, the other will be in charge of the right, and I will deal with the front. ”

"Yes!" Be! "Two communicators. Immediately lower your head to move stones and set up positions.

The British reacted quickly, and before they could finish arranging their positions, they surrounded them from three sides.

The staff officer ordered: "Save bullets as much as possible!" Just hold off the time! ”

"Smack!" "Smack!" "Smack!"

Three people, began to shoot in single shots. After hitting a dozen more British soldiers, the British soldiers fell down again.

Now the three of them are running out of bullets left in the snatch, they all rushed out in an emergency, and they brought the thirty bullets in the **.

At this time, gunshots rang out everywhere around the dock, and the staff officer smiled at the two little communicators and said, "Listen, our people have reacted. ”

"Great! This time the dock will be fine! A small correspondent said.

Another correspondent said: "But I don't have enough bullets in it!" ”

"What, scared?" The staff officer deliberately provoked the two communicators to say, "There are no bullets, we will greet them with bayonets!" ”

"Don't be afraid!"

"Don't be afraid!"

The two messengers resolutely grabbed the bayonets.

The British soldiers in front of the three of them also knew that the situation was not good, and they had to quickly deal with the enemy in front of them, so they immediately launched an attack.

The staff officer and the two communicators each threw out one of their hands.

Three hands **, "boom boom" bombed more than a dozen British soldiers, but the British soldiers who did not fall still rushed over regardless of life and death, the three of them quickly finished the bullets in the fire with the British soldiers, the British soldiers on the muskets were slower, and it was too late, they rushed over with long muskets with spears.

The staff officer was the first to leap up and rushed over with two consecutive thrusts, piercing the chests of two British soldiers. The results of this young staff officer's hard training at the Yaogang Military Academy were tested on the battlefield. However, he was soon surrounded by a dozen kiln soldiers.

The two communicators were back-to-back and confronted the British soldiers who surrounded them, and just when they were invincible, behind the British soldiers, there was a sound of "Bang Bang!" Gunshots.

There were more than a dozen kiln soldiers in overalls, shooting constantly with guns, rushing over. Apparently they ran straight back from the construction site, picked up their weapons and rushed over.

The British soldiers also wanted to stab down the three people who were surrounding before the kiln soldiers came over, but when they saw the three reinforcements, their fighting spirit was even stronger, and they desperately resisted a fierce stab of the British soldiers. As a result, the soldiers who rushed over saw so many British soldiers surrounding three people, and they were furious and beat these British soldiers into a sieve.

At this time, the gunfire throughout the pier intensified. The staff officer asked the platoon commander who led the team to run over: "Have all the people in our brigade come over?" ”

"We were scattered all over the site, unarmed, and when we heard gunshots and sirens, we ran to the camp! You see, we didn't change our uniforms. The platoon commander pointed to the clothes on his body, "Now that our battalion commander and leaders are not here, it is estimated that they are all fighting on their own." But I think as long as all of our people are armed, it's no big deal to come with a few thousand people! ”

"Good! Come with me, let's go to the river to see what kind of boat is coming, how do they know that there is a heavy fog coming today? The staff officer said and took a ** and put it on, and led the dozen or so people to rush to the dock. On the way, many soldiers joined their ranks. In front of him, he encountered a group of British soldiers, and they were also killed by a single strafing shot.

Before they could run to the dock, several shells were fired at them, exploding around them, knocking down several kiln soldiers. The other soldiers immediately lay down, and only then did they see several British warships leaning on the pier in the fog, and the cannons were fired by them.

The staff officer's mind flickered, he knew that it would take a long time for the sailboat to start and leave the post, and that if he could push a few infantry guns, he could sink them. But now that the dock was in chaos, and I didn't know how much time it would take to go back to find the artillery, the staff officer turned around and asked the platoon commander: "Do you dare to rush on the boat with me?" ”

"Humph! What don't you dare! Our dozen brothers listen to you! "The platoon commander is also unambiguous.

"Alright, let's shoot together, suppress them, and rush to the boat." The staff officer said.

The platoon commander nodded and said, "Let's do it!" ”

The staff officer took the lead and rushed towards the boat while shooting, and the soldiers followed the staff officer. They came to the gangway and knocked down several British soldiers guarding the gangway. Rushing onto the boat as he strafed. The automatic rifles of the kiln soldiers against the British sailors on board were a one-sided slaughter.

The British soldiers who boarded the pier received the order to retreat and ran towards the boats docked on the pier. Before they reached the gangway of the ship, the British soldiers were all killed by the kiln soldiers. The kiln soldiers who boarded the ship quickly killed all the British on the boat, but there were many rowers on the lower deck, all of whom had different skin colors from the British, and the kiln soldiers did not move them.

By this time, more Kiln Gang soldiers had rushed to the docks, and there were already light and heavy machine guns and mortars firing at the other British ships.

One British ship was blown up and caught fire, slowly capsized, and several more ships left the dock and left. One was captured by the Kiln Gang is soldiers.

Just as the officers and men of Yaogang were about to celebrate, batches of shells flew towards the wharf, and many soldiers fell on the wharf. The kiln artillery on the shore could not see the British ships in the fog on the river, and there was no way to return fire. However, the British ships could shoot at the pier by their approximate position.

By the time the battalion commander in charge of the dock rushed back to the dock, the British ship was nowhere to be seen. Seeing this, the battalion commander stomped his foot, drew his gun, and shot himself in the head, which was snatched by the soldiers.

After Qin Peng and Jiang Wei heard the news, they discussed it and decided that Jiang Wei would go to the dock in person to stabilize the morale of the army over there.

Jiang Wei said: "I don't think the British will end up like this, since it took so much time for them to come to take revenge on us, it is because they have made full preparations." Now that they find that our big ships are not here, they can't threaten the ships they sent, and this time they don't succeed, and they will attack us. At the end of the day, they'll shell us from afar. ”

Qin Peng said: "It's a pity that neither our Guangzhou nor Fuzhou are here. Otherwise, they have radio detection equipment, and they can be detected in fog. However, we still have to place artillery in important places, and try to find an opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the British. ”

"The problem is, we are still very passive like this, we have to report this situation to our families, even if we have a warship here, we are not afraid of the British. Now we don't know how many ships the British came. Jiang Wei said, "If we can't defeat the British, our entire coast of the Dajinsha River will be greatly threatened." ”

"Good! I'll keep my family informed of the situation here. Qin Peng said, "Commander Liu, the main force of their naval army is in the South Seas, and it shouldn't be too long to transfer a ship over!" However, you still have to find out when you go to the docks, why did the British know that there was fog today, how did they know that they were coming to attack us through the fog? ”

"Alright! I'll talk about it later! Jiang Wei agreed.

The kiln people really underestimated the British. The British were shocked by the sinking of eight ships. In particular, the story of the entire naval battle by the captain of a ship who was rescued at sea made the British in India very afraid. However, after the fear, the British also understood that if they did not defeat the naval army of the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult to say whether they would be able to gain a firm foothold in India, not to mention recapturing Burma in the future. Previously, they had also heard that the Ming army had a steam-powered warship, which was very powerful. But at that time, the British listened to it as a joke. The Ming Dynasty and the Nanyang region were basically the spheres of influence of the Spaniards, the Dutch and the Portuguese. Let the hated Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch and Ming Dynasty deal with it! But I didn't expect that the Ming army would come to Burma so soon. For Burma, the British made great efforts to sell firearms to the Burmese king, not only making money, but also arming the Burmese to attack the Ming Dynasty in the north. This can not only deplete the strength of the Burmese, but also hit the Ming people. At the same time, the British took advantage of the favorable conditions of good relations with the Burmese king to set up an intelligence network in advance.

This time, after the British ship was sunk by the kiln man, the British did not dare to take action without finding out the situation. However, the intelligence network sent them information about the past made the British even more frustrated. Because the Ming army took advantage of the opportunity of rebellion, they quickly controlled the king of Burma and the entire territory of Burma. The situation is very unfavorable. The British finally decided to send troops as soon as possible to drive the Ming army out of Burma. Otherwise, it will be even more difficult to wait for the Ming army to gain a foothold in Burma.

The British also fought from the sea, and when they were in Burma, they did a lot of intelligence gathering on the hydrology and meteorology of Burma. They know that in March and April, there was a period of very heavy fog in Myanmar, and as long as the fog was up, it would take a few days. The British also received information that the Ming army had won a successful victory in Burma, and the vigilance of the officers and soldiers was very low. The officers and men on the wharf rushed to participate in the construction, and they did not bring weapons. Moreover, the warships of the Ming army are not here.

After careful consideration, the British decided to take advantage of a foggy day to take a sneak attack, seize the dock, and then use more than 20 warships to land on the pier. I want to fight a big battle with the Ming Dynasty. At this time, they only knew that the Yaogang people were very powerful in their warships, although they had also heard some legends that the Ming army's muskets were very powerful, and they didn't take it too seriously. They were convinced that the English soldiers were the best and bravest, and that with one musket per man, the fighting power could not be stopped by one man.

The tactics of the British were still very successful, they took advantage of the fog, leaned on the dock with six large ships, and landed more than 500 people at a time. But their only mistake was to underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Yaogang army. Unexpectedly, the soldiers of Yaogang took up arms and showed strong combat effectiveness without the command of key officials. Several groups of British soldiers who landed on the shore were met with resolute resistance from the Yaogang soldiers. Nowhere did he hold a position, and he was forced to retreat. In the end, a ship was captured, a ship was sunk, and another ship was set on fire and retreated to the Dajinsha River before being extinguished.

The British warships that retreated to the river and waited on the river vented their anger on shelling the pier. They went berserk and poured a large number of cannonballs onto the docks. Although it is difficult to guarantee the accuracy of the fog hit, a large number of shells still fell on the dock, and the soldiers of the kiln gang were also killed and injured by the shells.

The clever British warships retreated to the sea without waiting for the fog to clear, ready to look for an opportunity to attack the Ming army again. They were also afraid of land artillery bombardment at them.

Zhang Zhimu came to the command center, listened to Ouyang He's introduction to the situation, and said, "I think it's better to talk to Fan Chengkun and them, and let them send a boat to support Qin Peng and them!" ”

Ouyang He said: "I am also discussing this matter with Mr. Chen!" ”

Chen Yufeng said: "It's good for these little rabbit cubs to suffer a little loss! Otherwise, they always feel that they are invincible in the world, and no one dares to touch them. I think if we don't defeat the British, they will still make trouble for us in Burma. Our original plan was that after Fan Chengkun and their Nanyang affairs were over, they would enter the Western Ocean (Indian Ocean) and build a naval base there, and at that time, they would just deal with the British army. The British, it seems, can't wait. I think that the strongest force in the South Seas, the Furlong man, has been defeated by us, so it is better to let a new warship of 1,800 tons, with a flat-bottomed warship, go over there to support Qin Peng and them first. Wait for Fan Chengkun to completely solve the matter of Nanyang, and then go over to completely subdue the British. ”

Ouyang He said: "If Mr. Zhang and Mr. Chen have no opinions, I will notify Fan Chengkun and send him an order." In the previous situation, I have already asked people to turn them around to Fan Chengkun. ”

Chen Yufeng nodded and said, "Send it to them immediately!" We need to increase our strength on the Burmese side, and now they need stability on their side. If the British threaten them at sea, it would be detrimental to their next move. ”

"That's right! After this sneak attack, the British learned the power of our infantry, and they will not land and fight us again, for fear that they will suddenly come over at sea and fight a few artillery attacks, which is very annoying! Zhang Zhimu said.

At this time, a staff officer pushed the door in, "Report!" Commander Fan telegram! ”

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.