After twenty minutes of fierce fighting, the squadron stopped firing, and both the artillery and the infantry stagnated, because, on the British position, which was shrouded in smoke and fire, there seemed to be no living crowd, and the original bright military flag was now gone, and those red crowds were still there, but they were standing before, and now they were lying horizontally, and the British army was finished.

After stopping for ten minutes, I saw many British soldiers crawling on the position, crying, the ground was full of red colors, or British corpses, or blood, and many British horses, without dead or wounded, quickly escaped and ran into the woods.

There were more than fifty British soldiers stumbling towards the shoreline, still holding rifles in their hands, but the expressions were really strange, perhaps, they were already nervous, their faces were black, I don't know if it was fireworks or mud,

The squadron ** surrounded the past, layer upon layer, more than 2,000 troops, five or six thousand militia, by the way, and thousands of people, the Chinese just love to make up people's brains, especially when the iron can win the victory, gossip to some shrews also copied kitchen knives, because Huaxia Tian ** has regulations, capturing an enemy has a heavy reward, at least fifty taels of silver, money, white money,

The British looked at the impregnable crowd around them, threw their guns on the ground, and surrendered.

But there are exceptions, the three British ** officers, fortunately did not have any scars on their bodies, but they were lying on the ground and did not move, when the Chinese soldiers swarmed in, even pulling and pulling, did not make them stop philosophical thinking,

They are stupid, frightened stupid by the cruel truth,

The battlefield has become a sea of joy, although, there are also a lot of exclamations, no matter what, the corpses and blood on the battlefield are terrifying, that is, some regular officers and soldiers, although they are very brave in the battle, but when they think that they really killed someone, the psychological burden is still very heavy,

The British troops on the battlefield were extremely miserable, more than 50 British soldiers could still crawl and walk, and some British soldiers could not crawl, they could only turn over, their eyes were still open, but their bodies were very tattered by shells, or they were hit by bullets, and now, they could only wait to die, some of them shed tears and cried silently,

The Chinese militia, who were happy to clean up the devils, were soon driven by the overflowing sympathy and began to treat the wounded and sick of these enemies, but there were also a very small number of soldiers, when the British invaded before, the family members were slaughtered and looted, and they hated the British army very much, and went forward, brandishing machetes, slashing and stabbing at the corpses of the British soldiers, venting their anger,

The mountain infantry battalion of the British army was completely annihilated, all the personnel were either killed and wounded, or captured, thousands of foreign guns were captured, more than a dozen mountain guns were captured, and many sabers, more than 50 war horses, etc., beautiful British ** clothes, were stripped by some mischievous militiamen, worn on their bodies, showing off their might,

After getting the news, Qiu Yuancai had already led the main force of 3,000 people to come, looking at the battlefield, he was very pleased,

The British heard the fierce sound of artillery and gunfire, knew that there was a fierce battle, and could vaguely see the direction from the warship, and naturally could see the fall of the entire infantry battalion, and many officers suggested that more troops be sent into the battle, but Vice Admiral Barry refused,

"Retreat immediately."

"General."

"Obey the order and retreat immediately." Lieutenant General Barry yelled angrily,

The British fleet retreated from the mouth of the Pearl River, retreated to the depths of the ocean, and then, returned to Hong Kong, stationed in Hong Kong, received fresh water supplies, and, recruited a group of local Han thieves as soldiers, or as spies, to spy on China's military intelligence.

More than 1,000 troops were annihilated, so that Lieutenant General Barry quickly changed the strategy of the war, he originally thought that Nelson's defeat was due to his command error, now it seems that it was his own mistake, the squadron is at the mouth of the Pearl River, arranged a tight defense, not only many secret batteries, but also secret army units,

How many people are there in the squadron?

Lieutenant General Barry summoned the officers for a meeting, and everyone talked about the defeat of the infantry battalion, but one thing was common, the artillery fire of the squadron was extremely fierce,

What is a mortar, Britain does not know, anyway, the Chinese keep this secret very well, absolutely do not give anyone a little news, the artillery specially issued a secrecy fee, to anyone's doubts, all declared, this is a mountain cannon imported from the West, also known as field chicken cannon, field chicken, frog, short and concise,

The devil knows if the world's most powerful fluorescent screen has this kind of field chicken cannon.

Hong Kong also had a telegram formed by submarine cables, and General Barry seriously reported the situation to London, apologized, and said that he still had confidence in the future war.

The British authorities were taken aback, especially the Prime Minister, Disraeli, very annoyed, but the frustration of a thousand people, it was not convenient for him to say anything directly, but Barry

's immediate superior, Admiral Walker, was annoyed and angry, urging him to attack immediately and redeem the defeat, and the commander of the Western Pacific Fleet, Admiral Baker, sent a gentle message of condolence, in the name of comfort, in fact, Vice Admiral Barry knew very well that this was a mockery of him,

"A small battle, what is it?"

Lieutenant General Barry was stationed in Hong Kong for half a month, and only then did he judge the situation and make his choice,

The Minister of the Navy wanted to force him to use Hong Kong as a base to attack Guangdong, saying that it was the most prosperous commercial city in China, and once it hit this place, China's economy and finances would be hit hard, and Guangdong was far away from the Chinese capital, and if the squadron wanted reinforcements, it had to come by land, and the movement was slow, and if it was by water, it would enter the surface warfare of naval ships that the British army was good at, and in that case, the British army would win.

The superiors in the rear demanded an all-out attack, but from the defeat of the mountain infantry battalion, Lieutenant General Barry thought a lot, and in the end, he decided that instead of a full-scale attack on Guangzhou, he would make a surprise attack.

He believed that under normal circumstances, the British ** team was ambushed by the heavily prepared Zhong** taking advantage of the terrain and numbers, and even if the British army could win, it would pay a huge price, so he decided to advance in disguise and use merchant ships to fight and catch the Chinese by surprise.

After three days of careful consideration and repeated revisions of the idea, Lieutenant General Barry summoned two lieutenant colonel officers on duty to his headquarters to discuss the revisions in detail, and finally, on April 23, it was decided to launch a counterattack against China.

The British army has 80,000 troops and more than 15,000 navy, such a huge force, if you don't take some cities and don't achieve results, what kind of face will you have to return home?

After a day of preparation, the British army made secret contact with the French merchants stranded in Hong Kong, paid a lot of money, and finally obtained the right to use two merchant ships, and the French flag was flying on the ships, in a restaurant, the French merchants hesitated, the light of candles illuminated the interior of the hotel, and some gold and silver utensils emitted a brilliant streak, "Your Excellency, if the government of the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom blames me, what should I do." ”

"No problem, you can say that your ship was robbed by a gang of robbers, or that you have sold it to us, or that you say that we have rented your ship temporarily." The British ** official said,

"However, are the people of the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom all fools?" The merchant is still afraid,

"Do you think that the squadron of your merchant ship is still alive, and that after the occupation of Canton, we will pay you three million francs, gold francs."