This explosion seemed to have opened the prelude, and at random, more and more violent explosions came one after another.

At this time, the surface of the Pearl River was already thick smoke, and from time to time, in the middle of the gray-white smoke, mixed with large clusters of flames rising into the air, followed by the thick smoke floating from the river to a height of dozens of meters, swept away.

Even on the Liede Fort, which was more than a mile away from the river, it was filled with pungent oil and stench smoke blown by the southwest wind. Feng Yunshan's face couldn't help but change!

"Oh no, I didn't think about this!" Feng Yunshan smiled bitterly, and then shouted: "Hurry up and pass the order, let the soldiers on the east bank of the Pearl River close to the shore and stand by, stay away from the river bank 500 meters away, don't get too close, be careful of the poisonous gas produced by oil and gas combustion!" ”

Smelling the smell of rotten eggs familiar in his previous life just now, Feng Yunshan was a little dizzy, fortunately the smoke drifted away immediately, but even this made him startled.

It is the characteristic odor produced by the combustion of sulfur-containing impurities in crude oil, especially hydrogen sulfide, but it is highly toxic, as long as a little, it can poison a large area. In the later Kaixian county blowout accident in Chongqing, natural gas rich in hydrogen sulfide quickly diffused with the air, and more than 200 people died of hydrogen sulfide poisoning within five kilometers of the accident site, and more than 2,000 people were hospitalized for poisoning. This is only because of a blowout at a fixed location, and now, the burning of the river that stretches for six kilometers and is as wide as a mile wide, producing thick smoke and hydrogen sulfide gas escaping from the oil and gas, which is very harmful, but fortunately, the amount of hydrogen sulfide contained in the ignited oil and gas should not be much.

However, Feng Yunshan simply looked at it with the naked eye, and found that because the oil layer on the river surface was a little thick, and the area of the entire river surface was too large, all of it was burned, causing the crude oil in the center of the river to not get enough air, and the incomplete combustion produced a violent smoke, which was blown to the east bank by the southwest wind, endangering the soldiers of the capture army who were in position on the east bank.

So he immediately ordered the soldiers of the beleaguering army near the river bank to stay away from the river, so as not to be harmed by the poisonous smoke. But at the same time, I was also shocked in my heart, and suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but blurt out with a wry smile: "After this battle, my Chinese Empire will have a life-and-death enmity with that empire on which the sun never sets." Those British soldiers on the expeditionary fleet were afraid that even if they landed, they would not be able to escape. ”

Originally, Feng Yunshan guessed that even if some of the British soldiers were burned to death, at least half of the soldiers would still be able to flee to the shore, and wait for the captured army that had been prepared on the shore to come forward and besiege them. In this way, these thousands of British soldiers have become their bargaining chips to blackmail the world's most powerful empire, and I believe that with these captives, even if Britain is not subjugated, at least the other side will be exhausted, and maybe an armistice treaty can be signed on this, at the cost of freeing some prisoners, forcing the other side to agree to the condition of not declaring war on the Chinese Empire again.

However, all this, because of his own negligence, it is very likely that these captives will be buried on the riverside. The only thing left was to hope that the infantry of the British Expeditionary Force would take more prisoners.

However, looking at the raging fire, Feng Yunshan's agitated mood suddenly figured it out again.

Why should foreigners invade themselves, and they still want to hope that they will not die. He simply didn't think about it so much. Since the other party is attacking him, he must be prepared to be buried in a foreign land. Maybe it hurts the other party, although it makes Britain extremely hateful, but thinking of this tragic price, he doesn't dare to act rashly.

Feng Yunshan was thinking nonsense, and the river downstream in the distance had already begun to enter the mode of hell.

In addition to the steam gunboats, gunboats, and frigates that were burned through the cabins by the fire ignited by the crude oil on the river, causing explosives to explode, a large number of cruisers and other major warships began to crackle and burn because the sails and cables were lifted into the air. The propeller of the steamship was even more involved in a large amount of thick oil on the water, and it slowly stopped, and it was difficult to start at all, so the British soldiers on board watched as the warship was engulfed in flames.

Of course, some of the British soldiers jumped into the river, but they soon regretted it. Not to mention that most of them fell into the water from the boat in this short period of time, they were burned by the flames that rose into the air and screamed, even if they were lucky enough to avoid the fire and fall into the water, people are not fish after all, they always have to poke their heads out to the surface of the water to breathe, and at this moment, the water surface has completely become a sea of scorched fire, the water surface is the crude oil slurry that is boiling, and the volatile oil and gas are immediately burned into the air, and the huge heat even the most surface of the river water is hot. A few lucky British sailors held their breath for too long, and they couldn't wait to rush out of the water, and the top of their heads was immediately wrapped in a hot black viscous oil slurry, which became a human-shaped candle, which could not illuminate others, but burned themselves.

Thick smoke billowed from the entire river, and the "Krufler" with a displacement of more than 2,700 tons had just been ignited by an oil fire because of the sturdy planks and the deep draft, but the side part of the ship had just been ignited by an oil fire, and it did not cause a major fire or explosion. However, dozens of British soldiers lying on the deck lying motionless, and more than a dozen soldiers who slowly squirmed and struggled, but they also coughed weakly a few times or shouted for God for help, and they were swallowed up by the billowing smoke on the surface of the river, and became silent.

And more warships are caught in a sea of fire. In particular, on the two-kilometer-long river bank close to Huangpu Zhou, the main warships of the British Expeditionary Force were concentrated in this area, and they were crowded in the dark, and it seemed that they were scrambling to land on the shore, but the east bank of Huangpu Island was a sandbar, and the water was only one or two meters deep, and many warships ran aground again, and only a small number of shallow water steam gunboats that escaped the fire barely landed.

As a result, on the bank of the two-kilometer-long river in Huangpu Island, dozens of warships gathered here and let out a series of explosions, either the explosives depot on the ship exploded, or the cabin was burned to the point that it was deformed and cracked, and the flames soared into the sky, and the mountains collapsed and cracked. The huge British expeditionary fleet became a "volcano" floating on the river, and countless panicked and dizzy British soldiers jumped into the river, engulfed in red flames and smoke......

On the shore of Huangpu Island, He Bo and dozens of other soaking British soldiers looked desperately at a distance of three or four hundred meters from the river bank, where rows of towering figures stood in the dark, motionless, suffocating in a flashing light under the red-hot fire.

"The British Empire Expeditionary Fleet, except for the few warships that did not enter the Pearl River inland river, the rest were wiped out!" There was a burning pain in Hobo's back, but it was much more than the despair in his heart.

Horb knew that the commander of the fleet, Seymour, should not have been able to escape.

When they discovered that the enemy had set fire to the river, he and Seymour took the flagship "Melville" together, but then the "Melville" with a load of more than 4,000 tons ran aground because of the shallow tidal flats at a distance of about 50 meters from Huangpu Island. With the help of several of his own soldiers, he found several iron pipes removed from the steam engine in the cabin, and jumped into the river with some British soldiers, sneaking all the way through the water, and breathing by relying on the iron pipes leading to the river, which was not too difficult for them to know how to use water. But there was chaos at that time, before He Bo jumped into the river, he had not seen Seymour's figure, even if he found him, the iron pipe of the steam engine on the "Melville" was almost dismantled, between life and death, who would be humble to save life, He Bo met several sailors and British soldiers rushing to grab his iron pipe, but they were all thrown into the river by his own soldiers.

He Bo didn't know how he rushed through the short fifty meters of river, he could feel the scorching heat of the river above his head, he held his breath, as if crawling through the ghost gate, he swam through the fifty meters of water with difficulty, and when he finally landed on the shore, he was also roasted by the flames ignited by the black oil accumulated on the shore, drank a few sips of water, choked on a few puffs of smoke, and then rushed to the shore with a crawl.

Unexpectedly, the scene in front of him made him feel cold and desperate.

And the dozens of British soldiers who accompanied him were also like migratory birds that had worked hard to migrate to their destination, but they found that countless hunters had dug traps at the destination waiting for their arrival, and they let out a desperate howl and fell to the ground in despair.

He Boqiang endured the severe pain from the burning wound on his back, and shouted in English: "God, we surrender, and send someone to rescue those British boys in the river." ”

However, he only screamed senselessly, and the Chinese enemy soldiers in light gray military uniforms who stared at them with cold and even hateful eyes did not pay any attention to him, but just held the black rifles in their hands flat and stepped towards them step by step.

He Bo was weakly captured. Before being dragged away, he saw a large group of soldiers and men carrying rafts and barbed wire emerging behind the grey uniformed enemy soldiers, and then fell into a coma.

......

It's already getting dark.

Last night, the blazing fire on the river that burned red half of the sky of Guangzhou Mansion had almost been extinguished, and only a small number of stranded warships and islands and reefs had accumulated weeds mixed with viscous black oil slurry, and still sporadically emitted flames and black smoke.

On both sides of the riverbank, and even beyond, there was a pungent smell of burning, and although the southwesterly wind was stronger than last night's, the smell of burnt oil and burnt meat mixed with roast meat was still in a radius of miles along the river.

The entire stretch of the river was littered with floating charred dead bodies, charred dead fish, pitch-black boat planks, tree branches, and other debris.