Chapter 939: Wu Shili's Prisoner Fate
Ten days later.
When rows of warehouses on both sides of the mouth of the Xingjiapo River appeared in front of Wu Shili in the distance, he found that his uncle Wu Lisi, who had always had a highly tense face, was obviously relaxed at this time, and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
In the past ten days, Wu Shili and his uncle have been evacuated from Hong Kong, and the journey can be described as arduous. Said to be evacuated, in fact fleeing.
As soon as he left Hong Kong, Wu Shili couldn't help but admire his uncle's cunning.
Uncle led him not on the largest cruiser, but on the frigate that had been prepared in advance, which, although not of great displacement, was the fastest, and the ship's food was well stocked. Sure enough, not long after they set off, more than 20 enemy warships arrived at Victoria Harbour, and when they found their warships leaving, they pursued them all the way. At this time, the speed of the frigate was reflected, and the wounded cruiser "Talisha" and another gunboat that fell behind were quickly surrounded by the enemy fleet, and the result was naturally predictable, either sunk or captured.
Fortunately, the "Talisha" put up a little resistance, delayed for a while, and allowed Wu Shili and his frigate to escape. As for the other warships, all of which are missing, it is estimated that they are more than lucky.
Even if he escaped, Wu Lisi was still worried that he would be caught up by the enemy fleet. He ordered the frigate to dodge all the way to the detour, which was supposed to reach Xingapo in 7 days, but dragged it out for 10 days, and he rushed to Xingabang without stopping for a moment, even if there was a shortage of fresh water along the way, he did not dock to replenish it, for fear that the enemy would catch up.
Having arrived safely in Singapore with such great difficulty, Goh Shili felt as relieved as his uncle when he thought that the 8,000-strong British infantry sent by General Ross, the commander of the expeditionary force, was attacking the Sultanate of Johor and the Chinese army that had destroyed Singapore.
Looking up, the houses on the banks of the Xingapo River are no longer the dilapidated appearance when they were destroyed by the Chinese army, but are much more neat, although there are still many houses that have been destroyed by artillery fire and have not had time to repair, but it is obvious that there is no war in Singapore.
Presumably, it was the army under General Rus' that routed the Chinese army and firmly held Singapore in possession. Wu Shili thought so, and Wu Lisi also looked at the port of Singapore in the distance with a smile, finally safe, and imagined that he could have a good rest in the Governor's Mansion of the Straits later, after all, he had been floating at sea for ten days in fear.
Entering the Sinkapore River, it is getting closer and closer to the pier. Excited, Wu Shili stood on the deck and even saw two frigates and cruisers flying the British flag moored at the dock.
However, just as the frigate was at full speed and was about to moor, the two frigates and the cruiser suddenly moved and headed towards the frigate, one in front of the other, sandwiching the frigate in the middle. The original rice-shaped flags on the two warships were suddenly torn off, and the two Chinese Imperial Flags with yellow stars on a red background were suddenly hung out, and at the same time, nearly ten swarthy gun barrels were raised on the sides of the two warships.
On the dock, several soldiers also rushed out, waving flags with yellow stars on a red background and waving flags, which turned out to be a signal for Wu Shili and them to surrender obediently.
Wu Shili was stunned! His face turned pale, and when he looked back at his uncle, he saw that he was the same as himself, with a look of disbelief, and exclaimed, "Oh, God! ”
At this time, Wu Shili suddenly discovered that the gypsy's hexagram was not only accurate, but also seemed to be aimed at not only the gypsy, but also him, including all the 2,000 garrisons on Hong Kong Island, who were all prisoners! Obviously, the enemy army had already conquered Singapore, and the warships on the pier that were originally flying the British flag had already been controlled by the enemy, and the purpose of waiting for the rabbit was naturally to trick the warships fleeing from the Pearl River or Hong Kong into the trap at the pier and capture them without much effort.
At this point, under the threat of the opponent's artillery, Colonel Wu Lisi did not resist and directly ordered surrender. All the British soldiers on the frigate, including Wu Shili, did not have the slightest opinion on his uncle's decision. At this time, you don't need to think about it to guess that even the entire Singapore has been controlled by the Chinese Empire's army, and General Ross stayed in Singapore to attack the Buddha Sultanate and the 8,000-strong army of the Chinese army that destroyed Singapore.
Damn it! When did this eastern country, which calls itself the Chinese Empire, have such a powerful force! Such a powerful British Empire expeditionary fleet was burned by the other side with trickery, and this is nearly 10,000 British Empire soldiers, how could it be so easy to defeat? Wu Shili couldn't figure it out, but he only knew that the British Empire seemed to lose all its territory in the Far East from now on. And the British Empire, which lost the entire Far East, can it still be called an empire on which the sun never sets in the face of the newly rising Chinese Empire?
Wu Shili suddenly became confused. Of course, he was even more confused about how he would be disposed of.
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Saint Kyo, inside the Imperial Palace.
Feng Yunshan looked at the secret security sent by the secret service department on the imperial desk with a special expedited order, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously showed a smile, covering the tired color between the corners of his eyebrows.
Since the burning of the Pearl River and the annihilation of the British expeditionary fleet in one fell swoop, Feng Yunshan knew that this menacing British expeditionary force invading China was no longer a climate. Sure enough, in less than two days, more than 5,000 infantry of the Expeditionary Force Army Commander Ross 1, who was blocked in the suburbs of Hualong Town, Panyu, were besieged by the three main infantry regiments of the 47th, 48th, 52nd and 11th Infantry Divisions. After several hours of fierce fighting and two hours of negotiations, more than 800 people were eliminated and thousands were wounded, and even Ross was hit by stray bullets and could not command the battle. The end result was that the remaining 4,000 British soldiers surrendered en masse and became prisoners of the Chinese Empire.
After Feng Yunshan surrendered in Rus' No. 1, he knew that the battle had been won, and he was no longer ready to stay in Guangzhou. If you leave Shengjing for a few months and don't go back, I'm afraid that the entire empire will think that the emperor is going to move the capital back to Guangzhou. Moreover, after coming out for so long, although there was a secret service department that transmitted documents and letters with great efficiency through railways and telegraphs, it was still far away from the central courtiers, and it was very inconvenient to deal with state affairs. Therefore, Feng Yunshan immediately set off with Liu Shengbang to rush back to Shengjing, and left Zuo Zongtang and Fan Ruzeng and other generals in Guangzhou Mansion to continue to deal with the tail of the war.
Not long after returning to Shengjing, the reports of Zuo Zongtang and Mao Qi of the General Staff continued to arrive in front of Feng Yunshan in the palace through the channels of the Special Service Division.
With the arrival of various reports, Feng Yunshan also grasped the situation of the follow-up war after he left Guangzhou, and became more and more satisfied.
Soon after he left Guangzhou, the South Ocean Fleet and the Pacific Fleet, which had been hiding for a long time, attacked one after another, not only recaptured the forts at the Shiziyang and Zhujiang Tiger Gates, and routed or captured the British troops who occupied the forts and scattered them everywhere, but also blocked the two battleships with the largest deadload, the "Duke Wellington" and the "Captain Hundred," through the personal letter of Rear Admiral He Bo, the deputy commander of the captured expeditionary fleet, under the Weiyuan battery group, and successfully forced the two battleships that had suffered heavy losses from the bombardment to land.
In the following week, the Pacific Fleet and the South Sea Fleet split up and launched the fiercest pursuit of the remaining expeditionary fleet, successfully capturing all the warships stationed at the Hong Kong pier and the hundreds of infantry preparing to evacuate in the bay area of Hong Kong Island. At the same time, most of the Portuguese fleet cruising near Macao and Xiangshan was killed, and all the rest were captured.
At this point, the entire joint expeditionary fleet that arrived near the Guangzhou Mansion of the Chinese Empire was uprooted. Although there are many losses, there are also many gains.
Not to mention the captured British soldiers, the 14 warships and dozens of troop carriers captured by the British Army alone, although the number of warships is not as large as the Nanyang Fleet, but 2 battleships with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons, and 4 main cruisers with a displacement of more than 2,400 tons, are enough to form a naval fleet that is more powerful than the Nanyang Fleet, not to mention that there are hundreds of captured British naval soldiers who are willing to submit to the Chinese Empire and serve Feng Yunshan after understanding the salary system of the captured army. Although he was a little greedy for life and afraid of death, it still made Feng Yunshan extremely excited.
Of course, nothing was more exciting than the thousands of captured British soldiers. With these captives, Britain will inevitably pay a huge price for his aggression against China.