Chapter 442: The British Army is cautious
The British army still uses the traditional Mauser gun, which needs to be tamped through, loaded with gunpowder and bullets in front, and the kind that needs to be cleaned up after a few shots, the strongest firing in a minute, but five bullets, and the ordinary one is three rounds.
In terms of the speed of shooting, the squadron was several times that of the British army, so although there were only more than 90 people in the squadron, the fort was destroyed, and there were many casualties among comrades, which aroused everyone's anger, and everyone decided to fight to the death.
The attack started from the woods, the crops, and the bushes of the nearby hills, handsome claimed more than 300 people, but under the first round of attacks, more than 40 people hung up, the rifles were fierce, the bullets were flying, and the British army screamed.
The rifle jerked for a while, and the Chinese officers and soldiers ignited the grenade and threw it over, and as a result, the British army could not bear it.
The explosion of more than 30 grenades in a row blew more than 70 British soldiers away.
The British team has always looked at the world as a winner, so the improvement of their weapons and equipment is very limited, after Huaxia Tian** was equipped with a large number of grenades, the British army did not, although they also knew the bomb manufacturing technology, they still felt that they would not use it for the time being, so as not to let the enemy learn it and intensify the arms race.
The remnants of the Chinese artillery, in the tactical collision of the army, with their own skillful defensive warfare, superior weapons and equipment, beat the British army very passively, and then, a company commander, commanded all the officers and soldiers, divided into two route armies, counterattacked the British army, after the grenade opened the way, the dense bullets, the British army could not raise its head,
"How many are there in the squadron." The British were blinded, such a dense number of bullets, already beyond their imagination, and according to experience, such a level of shooting, at least hundreds of enemies,
The squadron attacked fiercely, and as a result, it was done face to face with the British army, and the firing speed of the bullet became the biggest factor in victory and defeat, and the British army was completely defeated, and more than 200 British troops faced more than 90 Chinese troops, unable to support, so they had to turn around and flee,
The British army is in good shape and tall, and as a result, isn't it quite good as a target for strikes?
Another burst of fire knocked more than seventy British soldiers to the mud.
The British fought and fled, and finally fled to the shoreline, shouting loudly, asking for advice from the gunboats,
Seeing that the situation was not good, the British gunboats hurriedly bombarded, and more than a dozen small guns on several gunboats fired together, interrupting the path of the middle **, and more than a dozen middle ** soldiers were killed, and they stopped the charge,
The British Marines fled to the gunboat in despair, and then, urging them to escape, unfortunately, at this moment, the rifle of the black ** was aimed and hunted more than twenty, and even several gunners on a gunboat were killed, and their heads burst and died.
The British gunboats quickly fled, bombarding indiscriminately, and finally escaped the coastline for hundreds of meters.
The squadron was not reconciled, continued to come out, still shooting, within a range of five or six hundred meters, chased and killed eight British soldiers, the British officer who commanded the landing, Major Ergin, was killed, lying in the ship with blood bubbles, shamelessly holding up a big word, over,
Only then did the Huaxia army return to the ruins of the fort, and it turned silvery white, because the British battleships began to bombard again.
Major General Nelson heard the gunshots and knew that there was a fierce battle on the shore, but he was very contemptuous of the resistance of the Chinese **, thinking that it was just a remnant of the defeated army, and it could be easily pacified.
The British army finally fled back to the fleet, and as soon as Rear Admiral Nelson inquired about the situation, his face was purple with anger, and more than 300 British troops who landed were able to escape back safely, only 100 of them were killed or wounded.
He ordered the battleships to bombard the Bighorn battery violently in retaliation, and all the British troops were angry and opened fire one after another, as a result, the ruins of the Bighorn battery were plowed again,
The battle of the Pearl River Estuary Fort, the British army won and destroyed the Chinese ** battery, but the British army also consumed a lot of shells and suffered a lot of casualties.
You must know that at the Bali Bridge in Tongzhou, the Anglo-French army wiped out more than 15,000 elite Qing troops, and they lost less than 50 people, and now, they have lost more than 200 people at once.
The British army was the vanguard, mainly to probe and also occupy part of the area, so they hastily evacuated the Big Horn Battery, transferred part of their forces to the Shajiao Battery, and established a military camp there,
The British army of more than 1,000 people made full preparations in Shajiao, dug many ravines, erected a lot of fences, and set up a small military camp, and then, a large number of supplies were also transported ashore.
Major General Nelson convened an emergency meeting to discuss a new plan for the war against China, and the powerful combat capability of the Chinese Army was infinitely magnified through the rendering of the officers and soldiers who fled back.
The general was sensible, and after questioning the officers and men at the front in detail, he immediately sent a cruiser back to Malacca, where he was to report to the commander of the British troops, who were approaching, and he also wrote a letter about the ins and outs of the battle, and then warned: "Before the distribution of hand-thrown bombs and rifles of the new rate of fire, our army fought on land, and was not a medium-class opponent, and these people were far from being looked at with the eyes of twenty and years ago." ”
The British army had a huge sense of anxiety, in the military camp in the Shajiao area, also very cautious, originally, they had a good story after destroying the two forts, directly attacked the Humen fort, and then approached Guangzhou, eight years ago, the British fleet was from here directly into the Qing Dynasty's Guangzhou City, captured the Qing court's Liangguang Governor Ye Mingchen, the shameless magnate, without a fight, not fleeing, not defending, is a typical idiot 205, to the modern Chinese nation, a stain in heavy color,
The British decided, waiting for reinforcements,
In the evening of the same day, Qiu Yuancai, the general of Guangzhou, China, learned about the battle report, the news that an artillery battalion of the Shajiao Fort had been wiped out, which made him extremely angry.
Qiu Yuancai, as the former Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's fierce general, is highly valued by Luoyang, Guangzhou is an economically developed area in China, therefore, the garrison here is extremely important, under the command of Qiu Yuancai, there are several famous generals of the former Taiping Army, such as Chen Xing, Wang Haiyang, Liang Chengcai, etc., among them, Qiu Liang's troops are equipped with new weapons of the elite, and the rest of the troops belong to the garrison force,
Qiu Yuancai urgently summoned the generals of various ministries to discuss countermeasures, and after the meeting, he immediately arranged it.
That night, an independent mixed brigade of 4,000 men, infantry, artillery, and cavalry, urgently set out from Canton and marched to the Shajiao Fort, while at the same time, the troops stationed in the cities of Canton concentrated on the provincial capital.
Of course, the information at that time was not so convenient, the garrison in the area near Guangzhou, in the middle of the night, was notified and set off immediately, and the rest of the cities a little farther away, the heralds were galloping,