Rong Weishan pulled the trigger in his hand hard, and hit the chest of a bearded British soldier who rushed in front of him, and the power of the musket at close range exploded a large bloody hole in his chest. Another British soldier rushed forward fiercely, and the Enfield rifled rifle in his hand did not have time to reload, so he stabbed the flat end of the long sword-shaped bayonet equipped with the musket in his hand with the speed of impact.

Rong Weishan habitually pulled the trigger, but suddenly woke up to the fact that he had just finished shooting, there was no bullet, and he had no time to dodge, so he held the handle of the Krupp breech rifle with his left hand and blocked it forward, stabbing the British soldier to the side with a knife in his chest, hitting the left shoulder, his left hand was in pain, and he couldn't hold the Krupp breech rifle in his hand and fell to the ground. However, with this gap, the free right hand quickly felt a Colt revolver pistol that had long been filled with ammunition from the right side of the waist, and there was no need to aim at all, and when he raised his hand, it was a shot, which hit the fierce British soldier's forehead, and red and white splashed out.

Rong Weishan, who was sitting in the trench, took a few big breaths, simply inserted the Colt revolver firing pistol in his hand into his side waist, took out a spear from the trench, and stabbed a British soldier who had just pulled out a bayonet from the back of a captured soldier with one arm with his right hand, and picked it out of the trench.

When Tabuqi led his troops to the Nanshan defense line, the battle was heating up.

He didn't have time to reorganize his troops, nor did he give any orders, and the situation in front of him had already made him too late to say anything, so he directly pointed the Colt-style revolver in his hand at a column of British soldiers who were crawling up the trench densely, and pulled the trigger to shoot a "lobster soldier" in red clothes and white pants.

A group of soldiers who followed him raised their guns and fired, and a large group of British soldiers who rushed to the edge of the trench were immediately killed and wounded. Fortunately, almost all the rifles in the hands of those British soldiers had already fired, and they rushed directly into the trenches to prepare for bayonet fighting.

Seeing this, Tabuqi pulled out a card knife inserted in his back and shouted: "Brothers, follow the old tower to kill foreign soldiers!" With that, he gritted his teeth and jumped into the trench first, holding up his sword and facing the British soldiers who had been disrupted in formation.

Tabuqi is a military general, although the Chinese Imperial Capture Army has always insisted on using the latest musket as the main weapon, in recent years has been Zhujiang will most of the cold weapons eliminated, but Tabuqi still insists on a stainless steel brand knife on the back, without losing the true character of the general, said to be used in the battlefield fighting.

At this moment, he did get his wish.

Tabuqi, who was wielding a card knife, was everywhere with his blade like flowing water, as if he had drunk a jar of old wine and swayed his strength at will. In the eyes of the surrounding soldiers, the deputy division commander swept the enemy soldiers in front of him like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, harvesting their lives, and even with them, their blood surged, some drew their broadswords, some raised their spears, and killed the British soldiers in front of them.

The remaining soldiers of the 2nd Regiment and the guards of the guard battalion in the trench seized the time to reload their ammunition, and then quickly shot at the British soldiers who rushed up and approached.

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An hour and a half later, Tabuqi, who had turned into a bloody man, looked at the British soldiers who were still rushing towards the trench, gradually calmed down, looked at Rong Weishan who was still killing next to him, stepped forward to help him kill the British officer, and then pulled Rong Weishan into the trench, and shouted: "Weishan, quickly, this line of defense can no longer stop the foreign soldiers." There are too many of them, this trench is too long, and now our army has too few troops and insufficient defensive density, which is extremely unfavorable to our army! Now is not the time to be demoralized, we must hold the Nanshan Fort and the Weiyuan Fort Group before Division Commander Zhang leads the reinforcements to arrive. Pass my order to abandon this line of defense and return to the Nanshan Fort to defend it. In addition, some men were sent to the concrete retaining wall on the north side, although the line was much stronger than this trench and the battle line was much narrower, but also sent a battalion of troops to support! ”

Rong Weishan shouted: "Deputy division commander, the brothers can still hold on, we can withstand it!" ”

"Stop talking nonsense! Obey orders! Now is not the time to be a hero! Tabuqi raised the card knife in his hand high, and shouted sharply with his eyes: "This is what Your Majesty often calls strategic transfer, phased defense." Back to the Nanshan Fort, where the fortifications were more effective against foreign soldiers than here. Carry out the order, otherwise I will be engaged in military justice on the spot! ”

Rong Weishan saw that the deputy division commander was really coming, so he had to honestly obey the order, and shouted loudly: "The deputy division commander has an order, the brothers of the reconnaissance battalion, follow me to kill the enemy, the brothers of the first regiment, quickly go to the northern defense line to support the friendly army!" The rest of the division headquarters and the brothers of the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment withdrew from the battlefield within three minutes and returned to defend the Nanshan Battery! Execute the command! ”

After speaking, the soldiers who took the lead in leading the reconnaissance battalion fought hard to kill the British soldiers, consciously shrinking their forces, and covering the other soldiers to withdraw from the middle of the trench to the top of Nanshan Mountain.

Half an hour later, Tabuqi and Rong Weishan led more than 100 soldiers of the captive army to retreat to the Tibetan Cave. In less than three minutes, the entire trench of the Nanshan defensive line was occupied by the swarming British troops.

When British Major Walsley climbed up the trench, he was stunned by the dense corpses in front of and inside the trench! In front of the trench, the corpses of British infantrymen in red clothes and white trousers in imperial uniforms folded into layers accurately told him the tragedy of the battle that had just taken place. He closed his eyes in agony, which reminded him of the painful battle on the Crimean Peninsula three years ago, in which countless British soldiers died under the fortress. Moreover, at the beginning, those British soldiers were more likely to die under the wounds and plagues, but now on the soil of this eastern country, the British soldiers are directly killed in the bloody battlefield battles. Looking at the black shadow glowing with cold light on the top of the mountain, like a wild beast, I don't know how many British soldiers' lives will be swallowed!

Although the enemy lines were seized and the enemy troops fled, Major Wolseley, the British Empire officer who fought in the Second Burma War, the Crimean War, and the suppression of the rebellion in India, began to fear for the first time.

He saw more than one such scene in the trench: an enemy soldier from the East, covered in wounds and badly wounded, biting like a wild beast on the throat of a British soldier so hard that several British soldiers could not pull it apart.

The quartermaster at the front had already counted the rough results of the fierce battle: more than 840 enemy soldiers in the east were killed, 653 British Empire soldiers were killed and 315 were seriously wounded, and the chances of the seriously wounded soldiers surviving were slim.

Ross, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, who had just rushed to the Nanshan defense line and listened to the results of the battle, gasped!

This casualty is too great!

Although he ordered to break through the enemy's hilltop batteries and riverbank batteries at any cost, he never expected that his side would suffer such heavy casualties! Is this still the backward East, or the empire of Great Britain and Ireland that never sets?

He never dreamed that in the first large-scale attack that had just landed, he would suffer such heavy casualties. This casualty can wipe out almost any small and medium-sized country in the East!

But now that it is such a result, he has no choice but to continue and occupy the fort! The expeditionary fleet led by Seymour had been bombarding the batteries for almost a whole day, but they still had not been able to capture the batteries on the riverbank. Damn it!

Ross did not hesitate too much, and directly ordered that the 3,000 British soldiers who had just participated in the battle, and the remaining 2,000 people, should rest on the spot, so that the British soldiers who had caught up behind could organize a force of 2,000 people and continue to attack the hilltop battery.

At this time, news came from the northern front that the northern defense line was unusually strong, and the field artillery attack was ineffective, and the 2,000 infantry sent to attack the northern front fought hard with the defending enemy for several hours.

Ross was furious and sent someone to drink the Ringgiraite Major General to lead the troops to attack again, otherwise send it to a military court!

At this time, nearly 1,600 British troops were densely lined up in four rows, forming a line formation, and attacked the Nanshan Fort on the mountain. If it weren't for the narrowness of the mountain, Ross would have been ready to crush all the 4,000 troops in his hands.

He had already detected that the defenders on the hilltop battery were running out of strength. As long as the offensive continues, it won't be long before the battery will be captured. Even if the battery cannot be captured for a while, the resulting offensive will make the opponent unwilling to fire on the naval fleet again.

This attack was even more tragic!

Ross watched the battle less than 400 meters from the hilltop fort and found that the hilltop fort was like a turtle shell. The entire fort is completely poured with cement, occupying a radius of thousands of square meters on the entire summit of the mountain. The whole fort is like a domed castle fortress. It seems that the enemy will attack from the rear of the battery, and in addition to the firing holes of a few guns, there are hundreds of musket firing holes on the rear side, which protrude in an arc shape, facing the north, east, and south directions, and only the cannon ports are fired in the direction of the western waters.

Moreover, the British troops, who were attacking in a line formation, were constantly spewed musket bullets from the firing holes of the batteries, and lost twenty or thirty men for every few steps advanced. Moreover, the musket in the shooting hole continued to fire as if it would not stop.

With a slight look through his binoculars, Ross understood that this fortress, which was more of a land fortress than a fort, was mainly armed with musket fire. The enemy troops inside must have been divided into three rows, one platoon to shoot, one platoon to prepare, and one platoon to reload, specifically to deal with their own attacks!

Ross hurriedly stopped the British troops on the front line and stopped attacking in a line formation, which was no different from queuing up to die. It can't go on like this, this battery must be bombarded with artillery just like it did against a fortress.