By the afternoon, the British expeditionary fleet had forcefully captured the upper rungs at the cost of one small warship sunk and two damaged. At this point, all three batteries in the river were fallen.

However, before the fort was captured, nearly 200 soldiers of the captive army hiding in the upper rungway battery were carried by three fast troop carriers and under the cover of the desperate pouring fire of more than 20 warships and Weiyuan Battery, they successfully escaped from Shangheng Island, and before withdrawing, all the remaining artillery of Yongan Fort and Shangrung Fort were blown up, and the enemy was no longer given the opportunity to attack the fort with the battalion fort step by step!

The focus of contention between the two sides changed from the upper and lower rungs island to the Weiyuan fort on the east coast.

Nearly 30 warships of the Chinese Empire, which were behind the Weiyuan Fort and behind the Dahushan Battery, took advantage of the range advantage and together with the Weiyuan Fort and the British fleet across the Upper Rung Island, and began to shoot at each other. Seymour was very cunning, although the British fleet did not fall below, he was still unwilling to fight hard with warships and batteries and warships in the rear, and no longer tried to land on the upper and lower rungs islands, so he decisively ordered the British combined fleet to retreat out of the Humen Gate, and anchored outside the range of the artillery of the Weiyuan Battery to rest.

Nearly 30 warships of the Chinese Empire did not dare to leave the shelter of the Weiyuan Fort to pursue, and they also hid in the waters behind the fort to rest.

On the night of the same day, General Ross, the commander of the British Army, led the first batch of more than 4,000 infantry transported by troop transports to land at the shallows at the southeast side of the Shajiao Fort. The British sent hundreds of people to attack tentatively, and the defenders of the capture army were less than 100 people, and after a firefight, the enemy retreated.

However, because it was too dark, neither side lit the lights, and there were bushes and weeds all around, and the two sides did not know the specific number of troops of the other side, and neither had the intention of launching a major battle, nor did they launch a major attack, and the stalemate continued, but only maintained sporadic shooting, harassing each other, and waiting for dawn.

However, Ross took the opportunity to continue to let the troop carriers continue to transport troops from the rear, and in the early morning of the next day, the troop carriers transported the second batch of more than 3,000 infantry to land again at Qishan. More than 7,000 marines and British infantry prepared to seize the wooden bridge at the third gate from the rear at dawn, cross the Taiping waterway and attack the Weiyuan battery group from the east.

As soon as the day dawned, on Niutou Mountain, not far from the wooden bridge at the third gate, Rong Weishan, the commander of the guard battalion of the 16th Infantry Division of the Capture Army, was sleeping soundly.

The last time he rushed to the Shajiao Fort to assist in the defense, he unexpectedly rushed to the fort before it arrived, and the Shajiao Fort had already been breached. In desperation, he led more than 350 soldiers of the battalion to retreat to Xinwan, leaving only a small number of soldiers to reconnoiter the movements on the banks of the Pearl River. Last night, when he heard that the British army had landed overnight, he immediately reported to the deputy division commander stationed on the top of Nanshan Mountain, Tabuqi, who realized that the British army must want to follow the same tactics as the attack on Humen 18 years ago, and landed from the flank to outflank the Weiyuan Battery. Later, Tabuqi left only a small number of reconnaissance battalion soldiers to stay at the camp on the top of Nanshan Mountain, and he personally led two regiments and division headquarters guard battalions with a total of more than 2,700 people to guard the island surrounded by the Pearl River and the Taiping Waterway. And Rong Weishan and the 350 soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion led by him are responsible for guarding the wooden bridge at the three gates connecting the east and west banks of the Taiping Waterway.

Rong Weishan knew that the Sanmen Bridge must be the focus of the British army's attack, and led his soldiers to prepare for battle overnight. In fact, the trench had already been dug two years ago, and Rong Weishan sent people to carefully repair it, and also made some preparations for the wooden bridge and the surrounding area. It was busy until the second half of the night that the soldiers slept peacefully.

"Woooooo A terrible siren sounded!

Rong Weishan on Niutou Mountain, less than 400 meters away from the wooden bridge at the third entrance, was immediately awakened and whistled.

A whistle is a command! Seeing that hundreds of soldiers of the captive army quickly assembled, Rong Weishan didn't have time to say anything, and waved his hand: "Brothers, behind you are the brothers of Weiyuan Fort who are desperate with those foreign warships, and our task is to protect their rear!" Don't talk about it, let me fight foreign devils! ”

Rong Weishan's guard battalion had just come down from Niutou Mountain and entered the trench, and dozens of soldiers guarding the wooden bridge had already exchanged fire with the British troops who were preparing to cross the bridge, and the two sides were shooting across the Taiping waterway. However, there were many British soldiers, and the narrowest part of the river was only less than 100 meters, and the range advantage of the captives was completely lost.

Immediately the British began to rush to the west bank of the waterway, preparing to cross the bridge.

The British also seemed to be cautious, and a large group of ragged Indian men who had been coerced up from Xingjiapo came out from behind, and were rushed up the wooden bridge by the British soldiers' muskets, crowding across the river. Seeing this scene, Rong Weishan calmly asked everyone to continue to lie in the trench, he had already greeted him in advance, he was not allowed to order, he was not allowed to move, and he was waiting for the opportunity. However, there were still more than a dozen soldiers from other brother battalions who were not reconnaissance battalions and kept shooting, but these were only a few sporadic shots, which should not affect the progress of those Indian people, but the Indian people were extremely timid, and when they heard the gunshots, they retreated, so that although the wooden bridge was still strong and spacious, it could not accommodate so many people, and dozens of Indian people were squeezed from the bridge like dumplings and fell into the Taiping waterway.

But the British troops on the east bank seemed relieved to see that only a small number of gunshots rang out, and the wooden bridge was unusually strong. When the wooden bridge passed three or four hundred Indian people, an order was given, and hundreds of British soldiers followed behind the Indian people and rushed to the west bank.

Rong Weishan had been lying motionless in the trench, staring at the situation on the wooden bridge.

By the time more than 200 British troops had crossed the bridge, the Indian men who had nothing to do had nothing to do had already crowded to a distance of only forty or fifty meters from the trench, and even some sharp-eyed Indian men had already realized that something was wrong and began to stop and shout, while the follow-up British troops were still marching without realizing it.

This is the moment!

Rong Weishan erected the red background yellow star banner lying next to him violently, and shouted at the same time: "Kill!" ”

With his loud roar, more than 500 gun barrels stretched out in a semi-circular arc surrounding the trench in the area of the wooden bridge, and more than 500 soldiers opened fire fiercely.

Seeing this, the other Indian men let out a beast-like scream, cried and turned over and fled, and the British troops behind also spotted the ambush in front at this moment, but the commander behind did not care, but ordered to speed up the crossing of the river.

At this moment, a loud bang exploded violently, and the wooden bridge broke violently from the west bank side, and although the entire bridge body did not completely collapse, a hole appeared several meters on the west side of the bridge, and hundreds of British soldiers on the bridge were frightened and fell into the river water of the Taiping Waterway.

At this time, more than 200 British soldiers and 300 Indian men who crossed the bridge suddenly became alone and were besieged.

Listening to the continuous sound of banging gunfire, there were only a hundred Indian people left, and when they saw that the bridge behind the road was broken, they frantically fled to both sides, so that the two hundred British troops behind them were exposed.

Rong Weishan ordered the artillery to open fire. The field artillery company above the trench began to fire, and the guns fired in unison, and although the British soldiers were well-trained and reacted extremely quickly, dozens of people were also hit. Because the bushes at the three gates had already been cleared by the captives, the field of vision was quite broad, and even if the British army was half-squatting on the ground, they could not avoid the dense rain of bullets.

Rong Weishan's guard battalion opened fire wildly. The British casualties on the west bank continued to mount, and soon exceeded 100 men.

At this time, the British commander on the other side finally lost his breath and ordered to return fire with field artillery, and at the same time let the engineer battalion erect rafts and logs, and while repairing the blown up wooden bridge, and erecting temporary means of crossing the river.

The trench showed a good defensive effect, and the shells exploded after falling on the trench, or jumped up and flew elsewhere in front of the trench, and it was difficult to hurt the soldiers in the trench at all. Several field guns on Niutou Mountain condescendingly opened fire, occasionally blowing up the British soldiers on the river bank to stump and cut off their bodies.

After more than ten minutes of fighting, the British troops and Indian people who crossed the river were basically wiped out. At the same time, the British army also set up a wooden bridge to cross the river, and not far upstream of the Taiping waterway, a group of British troops also began to cross the waterway and rush to this side.

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