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Originally, I thought it was almost over, but the Holy King only informed the British army that they might attack, and he was not sure that they would attack. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Unexpectedly, just now, Liang Peiyou led the brothers of the boat army to flee under the Humen Fort in a panic.

Originally, there were nearly 100 red single boats, only more than 60 remained, more than 800 plank sailing boats and small fishing boats, and only 500 remained.

Chen Yucheng hurriedly sent someone to report to Guangzhou, and at the same time ordered urgent vigilance, strict guard, and wait for the incoming enemy.

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Bai Gui led everyone to continue walking, and before he had traveled half a mile, suddenly a large flock of birds flew out of the grass, rushing into the sky and flying north.

Bai Guizheng was surprised, and the face of a personal guard leader beside him changed, and he suggested: "It's not good! Lord Taiwan, these birds are specially arranged here with long hair, as a warning! It seems that our roundabout outflanking tactics with the foreigners are probably going to be discovered by Long Hair. ”

Bai Guiqi said: "It is normal for the soldiers to alarm the birds. What is the ability of the long-haired to arrange the birds? ”

The leader of the guards knew that Bai Gui had not led his troops to fight, so he explained: "The subordinates suspected that Changmao was in order to warn, and at intervals of distance, he sprinkled some rice grains and mung beans in the grass to lure the birds to eat. If a large group of men and horses marched through, it would alarm the birds to fly into the sky and warn them. ”

Bai Gui sent someone to turn over the grass, and after a closer look, he really found some rice, and his face suddenly became gloomy, a little ugly: "Long-haired thief, extremely cunning!" ”

He didn't care so much at the moment, he ordered the mercenaries to be in front, and he personally led the guards behind, urging him to hurry and rush directly to the rear of the fort.

After another two miles, a large flock of birds appeared along the way. Bai Gui ordered everyone to stop, looking at the fort less than two miles away, which was clearly visible. Anyway, it had already been discovered, and a sneak attack was impossible, so they had to wait for the fleet on the river to exchange fire with the battery, and only after hearing the massive artillery fire from the battery did they start attacking from the rear of the battery.

The British troops behind them also stopped behind them, resting on the spot, checking foreign guns and ammunition.

It didn't take long for the sound of artillery shelling from the battery to be heard. There's a fire over there!

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However, it was said that Wu Yuanyou, the commander of the naval division, led 3,000 Qing naval divisions, and at the urging of the British warships behind, he rushed to the fort, and after entering the firing range, the fort did not fire!

Wu Yuanyou is overjoyed! Immediately ordered the artillery of more than 80 red single boats to swing out and fire at the battery, and suddenly the roar resounded incessantly.

But there were too many red boats, and only the first two rows of boats could shoot to the battery.

Wu Yuanyou was in a hurry, and ordered the first two rows of warships to get closer to the battery, so that the artillery on the third row of red single boats in the back could also hit the battery.

At this moment, on the Shajiao Fort, nearly 100 guns fired at the three rows of red single boats in front at the same time, and the shells poured down like meteorites and smashed into the ship's board, which was a huge hole.

In just one salvo, six or seven of the Red Boats were damaged, three of which had already entered the water and were about to sink as they slowly capsized. Wu Yuanyou felt a pain in his flesh, and hurriedly sent other red single boats to rescue the Qing army on the three ships that were about to sink. He looked behind him, but saw that the British warships behind him were still not moving, and he did not see the slightest attack. He then ordered the Qing army to send a commander, waved the flag, and signaled to the British army to urge him to attack.

Due to the fact that after the Opium War of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, defense has always been the priority, and the artillery on the fort has nearly ten Portuguese coastal heavy guns purchased from Xiangmen, which is commonly known as the heavy Furlong machine artillery.

In addition, after Feng Yunshan captured Guangzhou, he transported more than a dozen giant coastal guns of 8,000 catties and tens of thousands of catties captured in Guangzhou to the Shajiao Fort and the Dajiaoshan Fort in Nansha.

In this way, the power of the artillery on the Shajiao Fort was much greater than that of the small and medium-sized guns on Wu Yuanyou's red single boat. In particular, the coastal heavy artillery of more than 5,000 catties can damage a medium-sized red single ship with a single shell.

More than ten red single warships were destroyed, and Wu Yuanyou couldn't hold on.

This Shajiao fort is much more powerful than when it was in his own hands. I didn't think before, I didn't think that this battery was so difficult to attack, and I didn't know how many guns the battery blew up. He only had more than 80 red single ships left, and he lost more than 10 of them, and he was afraid that he would be annihilated here for another hour, and he would have to find a short-term view before the British army captured the city of Guangzhou.

As a result, Wu Yuanyou ordered the fleet to retreat.

At this moment, the British fleet moved!

Led by the flagship "Telia", the remaining five warships and two armed steam merchant ships slowly approached the Shajiao Fort in the north of the river.

Four miles away from the battery, the British warships stopped and no longer advanced, but pulled their sails, trying to turn the bow of the ship, change the formation, and use the most conventional tactics of flanking shelling.

After the red single boat in front of them lured the fire of the Shajiao Battery, and several rounds of artillery bombardment were down, the British troops had already calculated the effective firing range and muzzle alignment of the Shajiao Battery.

As an excellent British naval soldier, Chawei has meticulously completed the basic work of these naval battles. When he heard the surveyor's report on the range of the guns and the key areas of fire of the Sand Point Battery, he ordered the British fleet to attack!

The effective range of the guns on the British flagship, the wooden sailing ship and the two armed merchant ships was about four miles, and the maximum range was more than ten miles!

And just now, the surveyor calculated that the rebels' Shajiao Battery, the key fire area of the artillery is about 1,600 yards (that is, about three miles), the effective range is estimated to be so much, the maximum range does not need to be considered, I believe that with the rebels' artillery technology that is worse than that of the Manchus, even if the maximum range reaches 10 miles, it will not hit, it is meaningless.

Chawei was still ready to use the same methods as the Manchu War ten years ago, but after ten years, although the artillery on the Shajiao Fort was much more and the firing range had increased, the power of the artillery on the British warships had increased even more.

Chai Wei believed that as long as his fleet was docked outside the effective range of the battery, and his artillery could bombard the battery, he would be able to win!

Just as the six main battle warships were turning their angles and were about to turn to the side of the battery, suddenly, more than a dozen huge shelling sounds sounded in the woods on both sides of the battery and in the grass more than one person high. And the Shajiao Fort was also followed by more than a dozen huge artillery sounds.

Boom Boom Boom ..... Boom Boom Boom....

The sound of these cannons was so loud that it shook the Qing soldiers who were beating drums and shouting on the red single boat in front of them, and suddenly felt as if the surroundings were still.

Then, their faces turned a little pale: more than a dozen shells with a huge impact seemed to be coming at them.

In an instant, before they could react, shells whizzed overhead and fell into the ranks of the British fleet in the rear.

At this time, the Qing army sailors on the red single boat broke out in a cold sweat.

It turned out that the long-haired thieves didn't bombard them with all their artillery just now. They walked around the muzzle, but they didn't take them seriously!

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