Chapter 437: Closing the Church
Jiangyin Fortress is a fortress that the squadron focuses on building, because it is stuck at the mouth of the Yangtze River and protects Nanjing, so here, using the north and south, several batteries have been set up, especially the Jiangyin main battery, there are more than a dozen giant coastal guns, that is not a joke, a shell bombards you, you can't bear a cruiser,
On the other side of the riverbank, among the green fields and woods, there is also a hidden brigade, which is equivalent to the mortar unit in the Wuhan area, and it is also a regiment, with more than 70 large and small cannons, all of which are mortar types.
As soon as the six wounded British battleships came over, they were immediately bombarded, and the British army was not to be outdone, and they bombarded,
On the surface of the river, huge columns of water rose from time to time, and some fish were bombarded by dense shells and floated out of their white bellies.
The shells are very dense, the artillery of the Chinese army, the bombardment is very fierce, the cannon rumbles, shaking the ancient Jiangnan, here, was the place where the Taiping army was active a few years ago, and the Hunan army fought a bloody battle, and now, it is a good battlefield for foreign wars in China.
The shells of the British army were obviously faster and more frequent than the shells of the Chinese army, which was a conspiracy played by the British, but six warships, on the one hand, had to protect more than a dozen British merchant ships, and they really had more than enough power but not enough power.
The giant coastal guns finally hit the British ** ship, knocking one of them unconscious, and then, the artillery that found the feeling fought continuously, and in one minute, hit the enemy three shells in a row, sinking it,
Six minutes into the battle, another British ship was wounded,
Seven minutes later, the mortar artillery of Huaxia Tian** on the north shore attacked the British army, and the overwhelming mortar shells bombarded the British ** ship, bombarding the British soldiers there so much that they couldn't raise their heads, and there was gunpowder smoke everywhere, and they even had their vision affected.
This was a rare fierce battle, completely an artillery battle, and after twenty minutes, the two British ** ships escaped downstream with thick black smoke, and the rest of the warships either braved fire and smoke, or gradually sank,
On the river, there were the corpses of British sailors, intact and mutilated, the big fish in the Yangtze River, all excitedly surfaced, chasing some of them,
The two remaining warships of the British fleet, thirty miles east of the Jiangyin Fortress, suddenly found a British fleet speeding in front of them, and the British flag and military flag were hoisted, which made all the British naval officers and men cheer.
"Our reinforcements have arrived."
"Thank you, Lord, for being so omnipotent."
"Go back immediately and take revenge on the hateful Chinese."
The British waited happily for a while, until the four huge battleships were within range of the cannons,
The rice-shaped flags that were dancing in the hunt convinced the British that these were really four British ** ships, so many officers and soldiers poured onto the deck to greet the new warships, and some of the damage management personnel even threw down the fire and smoke that were being rescued.
The two fleets were approaching, infinitely closer, when suddenly, the fleet coming from the east came to a standstill and formed a battle formation.
Before the two British battleships could figure it out, they were beaten with their heads covered.
The four battleships, without hesitation, bullied the small with the big ones, smashed the British ** ship into a mess, and smashed it into the rolling Yangtze River torrent.
It's not that I don't like to capture, but the two British cruisers have burned extremely badly, and even if they are captured, they will have to spend a lot of money to repair them, and there is not much capture value, so let's send you to see Lord Yama in the river,
In this way, the eighteen British cruisers that were mixed in the Yangtze River valley in China were all finished.
After the battle, all the British merchant ships on the Yangtze River were confiscated, the merchants were arrested, and so on.
In five days, all British forces in China were eliminated, and this purge operation made the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom obtain great benefits, and the capital, including real money and silver, was immediately filled into China's state finances.
At the same time, the Chinese military and government also began to clean up the British factories where they were located, and the troops took over the factories, arrested the British bosses, managers, and technicians, and then left their technicians behind, trained Chinese workers, and then maintained normal production.
There are more than 200 British enterprises in China, with a total of more than 1,000 steam engines, and in a few years, the British have worked hard to send machinery and equipment to China, and they are all cheaper than the Chinese.
The Chinese side took this matter seriously, and the Chinese people, the factory workers, exposed the practice of many British people who transferred factories to the names of French or other nationals, and safely transferred them to the state.
Because the French were not willing to be lonely, there were two capitalists and the British who made trouble, and as a result, the local government arrested the Frenchman, interrogated him, and then fined him a few hundred pieces of silver.
In any case, all British assets in China finally fell into the hands of the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom government and the Chinese people.
For this point, many people expressed objections and worries, such as Li Hongzhang: "Ruiwang, is this practice not in line with international rules, we are clearly robbing it." ”
"Didn't the British rob it?" Luo Yang sneered,
"The British didn't seem to have robbed us." Li Hongzhang looked surprised,
Luo Yang couldn't help but explode a big chestnut on his head: "What's going on with the Old Summer Palace, wasn't it robbed by British and French soldiers and then set on fire." ”
"Oh, yes, yes."
"Also, after the British and French troops landed, they burned, killed and looted the people along the way." Luo Yang has always been obsessed with these: "Mr. Li, you are too uninteresting, you have no courage, do you only allow others to rob us, and we are not allowed to rob others, are we so cheap?" ”
"This, King Rui taught a lesson." Li Hongzhang laughed hehehe, very embarrassed,
Without him, the character of others is weak,
The Chinese Heavenly Kingdom attached great importance to the British missionaries in China and did not hesitate to arrest them, and this action won the unanimous support of the former Qing officials, because everyone had long hated the Western missionaries.
It can be said that the emergence of missionaries is their ideological aggression and erosion, and it is a policy of ideological assimilation; if one of the characteristics of a nation is the common psychological quality, your foreign missionaries use your fallacies and heresies and the God that cannot be beaten by the eight poles to deceive the Chinese, and to tempt and force the Chinese to convert to your religion.
As for economic exchanges and the dumping of commodities, it is reasonable to say that material use is common and natural selection, but the missionaries use power and science to castrate the national culture of other countries and nationalities, of course, they are ill-intentioned and extremely vicious.
The spiritual poison is far more powerful than the material one,
Hundreds of missionaries did not slip through the net, and for the sake of other countries that need to be scrupulous, they did not burn the church directly, but first closed it and then said,