After the fierce battle, there was a permeating silence, and this situation on the battlefield was especially strange. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

On the southern city wall of Guangzhou, Huang Zonghan has always been there, and Bai Gui actually appeared here, standing with Huang Zonghan.

Both of them were silent, along with all the soldiers and generals who were watching the battle.

It took a long time for Huang Zonghan to put down the binoculars and let out a long breath, to be honest, everything that happened just now, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would have been really hard for him to imagine.

800 Yangyi, Huang Zonghan knew that more than ten years ago, 4,000 such Yi people fought all the way from GD to Zhenjiang, but now 800 Yi soldiers were killed in an instant, and there was no one alive.

He couldn't help but think about it, it was really just an instant, and he heard the crackling of foreign guns, and the people fell down in response, and then he saw those coolies constantly crawling out of the trench, and rushed forward without fear of death. The first soldier was stabbed to the ground by the remnants of the Yiren. But the coolies were not afraid of death at all, and two went up, then three, five, ten, fifty, and the foreigners were in confusion and tried to escape, but they were cut down by the screaming coolies.

Thinking about it, Huang Zonghan couldn't help but glance at Bai Gui beside him with a complicated expression.

Quietly, Bai Gui was able to attract such a strong soldier, and he couldn't even help but believe that Bai Gui had been doing rebellion work in the city. This coolie soldier is so strong that there is indeed a possibility of taking the city in the city.

I saw that Bai Gui's face was calm, as if he was calm, but in fact, he was also frightened.

Yesterday Zhu Jinglun said that he would take the coolies to defend the fort, he was against it at first, these coolies are the only strength that Bai Gui can rely on, if the foreigners capture Guangzhou again, he still expects these people to protect him from the escape, and finally turn over to rely on these people, but Zhu Jinglun is more resolute, saying that if he does not fight, I am afraid that he will really not be able to hold Guangzhou, under the insistence, Bai Gui can only agree, and personally go to Huang Zonghan to suggest, it is considered to sell Huang Zonghan a favor, but I didn't expect Zhu Jinglun to really hold the fort, and what I didn't expect was that In this neat and tidy way, people will be energized when they look at it, and they will be lifted when they look at it.

What surprised Bai Gui the most was that he only saw a foreign gun ringing out, and then most of the foreign soldiers fell. As for the charge after that, he didn't care too much. He was completely shocked by the power of foreign guns, and thought to himself that it was no wonder that when Yingyi surrendered, Zhu Jinglun led people to copy Yingyi's armory, and his feelings were clear about the power of these foreign guns. No wonder when he first suggested that Zhu Jinglun give Hua Tingjie some foreign guns, Zhu Jinglun would pull out Hua Tingjie's theft of the silver treasury like a rich man.

More shocked than Huang Zonghan and Bai Gui were Lin Fuxiang and Zhang Qianshan.

Lin Fuxiang knows very well the courage required for soldiers to charge with a white blade, so far, there are only 100 elite soldiers under him who dare to fight in close combat, and the casualties are less than half, but these coolies carried by Zhu Jinglun are 2,000 people, and each of them can charge with a white blade, and he is not afraid of death, so how can he not be surprised.

Zhang Qianshan was shocked, but also brought some envy, from the time of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he entered the army to fight, several years of hard work, but only brought out four hundred brothers of life and death, but Zhu Jinglun in just a few days, suddenly mastered two thousand such dead soldiers in his hands, how to make him not envious.

No matter how shocked these people on the city wall were, they couldn't compare to Hua Tingjie on the fort.

Because Hua Tingjie was close at hand, he personally felt the atmosphere on the battlefield, and now he feels that the air is filled with blood.

But Hua Tingjie, who was close at hand, didn't completely see what happened just now, far from seeing it clearly on the city wall, and the authorities' fascination and immersive feeling made him even more confused about the facts.

When Zhu Jinglun asked him to help dig a trench yesterday, Hua Tingjie didn't know what Zhu Jinglun was going to do at first, and thought it was used to block the Yiren. In China's military tradition, there is a tradition of digging deep trenches, but they are generally only used to besiege the city, and the so-called digging long trenches to trap the enemy is such a method every time the Hunan army attacks the city.

As a result, before dawn, Zhu Jinglun brought people here and went directly into the trench, and Hua Tingjie knew that Zhu Jinglun did not plan to deal with it casually, but was really helping himself defend the fort. Because the location of the trench is in front of the fort, although there are some angles, if the Yi people want to hit the fort, they must bypass the trench, which means that Zhu Jinglun put himself in the position where the foreigners bear the brunt.

At that time, Hua Tingjie was both a little grateful and a little worried, he couldn't believe that this simple trench could block the foreign guns and cannons of the foreigners, and the Hunan army fought and paid attention to setting up camps and digging long trenches, although there were also trenches, but it was those camps and not trenches that really protected the soldiers.

Therefore, after the war, Hua Tingjie was always worried, so his eyes never left the battlefield. He also thought that once Zhu Jinglun encountered danger, he would definitely go to the rescue, and others were here to help him, and there was no reason to encounter danger, but he ignored it.

But not only did he not wait for Zhu Jinglun's crisis, but saw a strange scene.

It's weird, it's weird.

Unlike on the city wall, Hua Tingjie stood in the position of the fort, which was the same level as the trench.

When he saw the British attacking the trench, he could only urge the defenders here in the fort to shoot, but it was very strange where Zhu Jinglun did not let go of a shot. thought that the coolies that Zhu Jinglun was carrying were a group of rabble, and they would not let go of guns at all, which made him even more worried.

As a result, when the coolie finally released the gun, Hua Tingjie only saw the rising white smoke, yes, it was white smoke, he didn't see anything. More than 1,000 rifles were fired, and the white smoke from the burning gunpowder formed a layer of smoke on the upper layer of the trench, and the trench was in front of the fort, so for a while, Hua Tingjie's vision was completely blocked by these white smokes.

Then he heard the constant screams, and when the white smoke had cleared and he saw the situation on the other side, he saw only the presence of coolies, and not a single person. This situation, how could Hua Tingjie not feel weird, the sense of mystery brought amazement, and he could only sigh in his heart the strength of this army.

Zhu Jinglun didn't know what others thought of him at this time, he himself couldn't figure out the situation, and when he saw that the battle was over, he climbed out of the trench, and there was no shadow of a British soldier in sight, and his eyes were full of screaming coolies.

These people were so crowded where the British troops were just now that they couldn't see what they were doing, and if you judged from the sound they made, you would think that they were fighting hard against the British army.

Zhu Jinglun hurriedly ran over, this was a war, and now these coolies were obviously a little delirious under the influence of crows and killings.

When they squeezed in front of them, they could barely see the coolies inside stabbing the British corpses on the ground with bayonets, and they were excited, while the coolies in the back tried to squeeze in and stain their bayonets red.

"Stop!"

Zhu Jinglun shouted, but at this time, these people couldn't listen at all, or couldn't hear it at all.

Immediately pulled over the black dog that followed.

"Go and pull them away, pack them up, collect all the guns and bullets, and go back to the battery!"

Zhu Jinglun explained, and the black dog immediately rushed into the group of coolies with his four followers, pulling, scolding, kicking, and punching, and finally restored order to these coolies. However, the process is still quite thrilling, and no one can imagine how dangerous these red-eyed coolies are when they are delirious and have weapons in their hands.

Perhaps it was caused by Jiwei, and the scolding of the black dog, the leader of the Xu Min, made these coolies slowly sober up, and they stopped the violence one by one and dispersed. Only then did a red corpse be revealed, a red corpse, because it was stained with blood.

The black dog cursed again, and finally someone began to clean up the battlefield.

Only then did Zhu Jinglun see the tragic scene, 800 British troops, except for some soldiers scattered around the ground, most of them were lying in a radius of less than 100 meters, which was 50 meters away from the trench, where they launched their charge.

Suddenly saw a British soldier standing up in the distance, and the black dog also saw it, when he was in the combat team just now, he used the excuse of protecting Zhu Jinglun and never rushed out, and now it was time to show his courage, and immediately took his rifle, scolded in his mouth, and rushed forward.

"Keep your mouth alive!"

The soldier was far from the trench, very close to the river beach, and apparently had just landed and had been shot and fell to the ground, but he did not die, probably fainted.

The black dog heard this, and quickly dragged the British soldier back with a few of his men.

It was a young soldier, with blond hair and blue eyes, and a pale face with immature freckles, but at this time his hair was disheveled, and his uniform was covered with mud and sand, and he looked terrified.

"What's your name?"

Zhu Jinglun asked him in English.

"Henry!"

The young Englishman replied.

"Don't be afraid, I won't kill you. But you have to cooperate with me and answer my questions honestly, do you understand? ”

Zhu Jinglun made an agreement with Henry.

Henry nodded earnestly.

"How many of you came?"

"2,000 marines, 500 marines!"

"Who's the commander?"

"General Simamight."

"Why did you send more than 800 people to attack this time? Yesterday it was less than half. ”

"The general has demanded that we must take it in one attack, and he is worried that you will play tricks."

Apparently yesterday's little trap made the British cautious, and decided to kill the chickens, intending to take the battery in one attack.

Zhu Jinglun nodded: "Didn't the French participate in the war?" ”

Henry said: "The main force of the French army is still in SH, haven't you contacted the French army in the north of the city?" ”

"No, sir. Our prefect did not see the need for the French to go to war. Said to let the French return home with shame. ”

It seems that the British were haunted by the withdrawal of French troops from Canton without a fight.

"How many people do you have in Hong Kong?"

"About two thousand!"

The main force of the Anglo-French alliance to the north totaled more than 4,000 people, including 1,000 French and 3,000 British. This time more than 2,000 people were sent to attack Canton, leaving 1,000 in Hong Kong, plus the 1,000 black regiments stationed in Hong Kong, there should indeed be 2,000 in Hong Kong.

The information given by Henry is consistent with what Zhu Jinglun has mastered.

"Okay, you go back with us now. I hope you understand who you are, that you are now a captive, that we will treat you like a gentleman, and that you will be like a gentleman and not get yourself in trouble. Do you understand? ”

Heng nodded forcefully.

The coolies cleared the battlefield, and the weapons and ammunition of the eight hundred British troops were a good harvest, and as for their corpses, there was no time to dispose of them for the time being. Then he immediately ordered all to return to the trench, and Zhu Jinglun feared that the British would bomb it at any time.

But after waiting for a long time, I didn't even wait for the imaginary shelling, and then I saw a British rowing boat, four or five soldiers, waving white flags, rowing this way.

The British came to negotiate, but instead of armistice negotiations, they made a request.

This request made Zhu Jinglun immediately understand the reason why the British army did not open fire.

The British hoped that the defenders of the battery would be civilized and gentlemanly and allow them to bring back the bodies of soldiers killed in battle.

The British army did not fire the cannon at the first time, it turned out that they took into account the corpses of these soldiers lying on the periphery of the fort.

But Zhu Jinglun did not agree to their request.