Chapter 441: The Battle of the Great Horns
Dense bullets shot at the Chinese again, as if he had been shocked, he twitched violently, twisted, and ejected, and countless bloody arrows burst out of his chest and head, even when he did not have any autonomous consciousness on the ground, the British soldiers who came up breathed a sigh of relief, and then, a British sergeant picked up his rifle and smashed the butt of his rifle fiercely, and two more soldiers came up and broke his heart with bayonets,
The British officers and soldiers who suffered a heavy attack and retaliated against the flames of fire searched all the positions for a while, and then they were satisfied, hundreds of officers and soldiers of the squadron became flesh and blood, and died, and the British army who attacked the British army just now was actually just one person.
The British captain found a few things from the resisting Chinese artilleryman, including the style of his military uniform, confirming that he was a commander,
"This guy is so brave." He involuntarily shouted,
He dragged up the corpse of this lieutenant ** officer, grabbed those grenades and looked at it, now, the army of the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom has been equipped with a large number of this kind of thing, and the British have not yet, they feel the huge power, the British captain is a little angry, and feels that the army of the Sun Never Sets Empire, the weapons are actually inferior to the Huaxia Tian**_,
The British ** officer, who was sighing, suddenly heard a shout from the soldiers around him, and the sound of random guns, and then, he felt that something was fiercely passed through his head, and he almost fell down, he was an experienced soldier, and he knew that he was injured.
When I touched it with my hand, my face was covered with blood, and in front of the jaw on the left side, there was a big hole, and blood spurted out.
"Which guy sneaked up on me?" As a sign of his bravery, the captain, whose hands were covered in blood, stood firm and looked towards the place where the shot was fired,
Unexpectedly, another bullet hit him in the nose, sending him directly into the abyss of a coma, and after a large mass of Venus appeared in front of him, he collapsed on the ruins.
Several British soldiers rushed over, holding bright bayonets, and stabbed into a dense green in the woods.
Bang, two more shots, two more British soldiers were hit, and their fat bodies fell to the dirty dirt floor,
After the indiscriminate shooting, at the cost of a soldier's life, the British finally succeeded in clearing the enemy's hidden danger, but in the end it was found that it was just a small soldier.
On the way to report to the general of Guangzhou, the soldier met some civilians, handed over the task, and rushed back with his rifle in his hand, fighting to the last breath.
The British Marines occupied the Sand Point Battery, then established a landing ground, and then the fleet approached another battery with two battleships and four cruisers, the Great Horn Battery,
The situation at the Great Horn battery was very unexpected, and the careful deputy commander of the artillery, the commander of the fortress, found out about the problem and immediately rectified it, and as a result, it was prepared, and as soon as the British approached, they decisively bombarded,
The British army did not have excessive espionage activities, but the traitor forces inside China were too arrogant.
It was a squad leader who was going to blow up the battery, a dozen soldiers, before the operation, their whereabouts were leaked, and a soldier who was unwilling to join reported to the deputy regiment commander, but unfortunately, this deputy regiment commander was immediately assassinated by the rebel soldiers who rushed to him, and the rebels brutally cut off his legs with a saber, broke his arms, and the great pain made him unconscious,
Fortunately, the other officers found out about the problem, quickly captured the rebels, and cracked their conspiracy, so more than a dozen lurking soldiers who were hostile to Huaxia Tian** were cut off their heads on the spot, and the angry officers and soldiers even chopped these guys into meat sauce,
After a civil strife, the internal troubles were cleared in time, and the deputy regiment commander who woke up still commanded the battle.
More than a dozen coastal guns, the caliber is huge, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Luoyang government, which has been going to war with the great powers, attaches great importance to the defense of Guangzhou, the southern gate of China, and sent a fierce general Qiu Yuancai, a veteran Zeng Shihe, it can not be said that it does not pay attention to it, but the complexity of the matter far exceeds everyone's estimates,
The battle was very fierce, the Chinese and British armies violently poured shells, bombarding the enemy, the number of shells, the frequency of firing, the size of the shells, etc., all became the key to the victory or defeat of the battle, this battle, lasted thirty minutes, until the squadron of the Big Horn Battery, most of them died,
The deputy commander of the artillery regiment on guard was blown into dust by the enemy's shells, and more than 300 officers and men, seventy percent of them were killed and wounded, and only more than 90 officers and men, seeing that the enemy's artillery was too powerful, chose to retreat very wisely and got out of the land of right and wrong.
More than a dozen coastal guns, because there was no long-term combat training, the hit rate was not high, so, under the bombardment of the British army, all of them were destroyed,
These cannons are the kind of bulky cannons that can only be fired by igniting gunpowder, so the frequency of firing is not high, and the power is insufficient.
It's not that Luo Yang doesn't want to be equipped with enough cannons, but the new cannons, which have not been produced so much, in the defense of general batteries, the tactics of the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom are flexible and mobile, not to defend to the death, but to equip the newly developed cannons to the field corps,
The price of the British army was not small, a battleship was hit by four shells, the deck was hit with several large holes, the rolled iron sheets were very horribly exposed, this kind of deck with steel skin, and iron ribs, still suffered heavy damage,
A cruiser was sunk, half of the British soldiers on board were killed and wounded, and due to concentrated fire, the unlucky cruiser was hit and sank in less than a minute, so many of the soldiers did not have time to escape,
On the battleship, the commander of the British fleet, Rear Admiral Nelson, turned pale with anger, he did not expect such an ending,
On the battleship where he was, he also received several shells, all of which were armor-piercing, but unfortunately, the hit was not critical, so that the ship pierced several holes, and the only flowering shell shot a large piece of shrapnel on the side of the battleship, and several British soldiers were wounded,
Two more cruisers were also wounded, with more than thirty officers and men killed and wounded,
"It's strange that the resistance of the Chinese is still so fierce." Nelson looked at the traitor beside him, which made this indigenous Mr. Buck terrified,
The purpose of the vanguard was to clear the batteries on both sides of the Pearl River estuary, so it was necessary to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so as not to be attacked by the fleet that arrived one after another in the future, so more than 300 British troops landed under the cover of gunboats,
The British army, having the experience of the Shajiao Battery, was extremely careful, and after landing, they first sent a few people to observe, and then attacked, and occupied all the positions, which was just a large area of ruins.
"The Chinese fled."
"yes, they fled so fast that they didn't even leave a body behind."
"These 3 cannons are terrible, on the ship, I heard the whistling sound and my soul flew in fright."
"Hahaha, it's good that the shell didn't hit your head."
While chatting by chance, the British soldiers searching in front let out a scream, which frightened the British troops on the fort, and they hurriedly attacked.
The five British soldiers who extended the search were all stabbed to death outside the woods, and as soon as the British troops arrived, they were disturbed by the dense gunfire and huge air waves.
The remnants of the Chinese artillery of more than 90 people, shooting with new-style rifles, with a firing rate of five or six rounds or even more than ten rounds a minute, made the British understand what a modern rifle is.