Chapter 448: The British Army is Frustrated
The battle off the coast of Guangzhou, ended with the fiasco of the British army, the news was transmitted to Beijing, Luo Yang was elated, and immediately released the news of the victory to the whole country, and, the officers and soldiers of Guangdong, Qiu Yuancai, the commander of the Guangdong Military Region, was promoted to a first-class military rank, and all the officers and soldiers who participated in the war were rewarded with heavy money. He felt that it would cause a psychological imbalance among the people and other personnel, and it was only conveyed within the army.
At this time, the war against Britain began in full swing, Luoyang mobilized the people in the coastal area, formed a militia, assisted the regular army to participate in the war, in just a few days, the enthusiasm of the people in more than a dozen coastal provinces were mobilized, and 300,000 militia were organized, they looked at the frontier, defended the road, inspected pedestrians, and the focus was to prohibit all kinds of traitors from possible foreign contact, these people, although the military discipline is much worse, the style is very rough, but the loyalty to the country, and the army is no different, even, More pure than those former Qing troops who surrendered and absorbed,
The arsenal started production day and night, at full power, and at the same time, it manufactured production equipment, launched new machines, and started the process of the world's earliest production line in accordance with Luo Yang's meaning.
The 100,000 elite troops of Chengnanyuan in Beijing, trained under the personal command of Luo Yang, organized into a large army, carried out large-scale military exercises, and could go to the battlefield anytime and anywhere to reinforce various places.
The Chinese government announced that in order to celebrate the victory of the Cantonese side in the war against the British, the administrative organs of the whole country would have a three-day holiday, and the day on which the news of the victory came was designated as the Chinese Army Day.
Previously, on the day of the elimination of the first American fleet, the day of the year was set as the birth festival of the Chinese special forces.
After the news of the ground battle in Guangzhou reached the British side, the repercussions caused can be said to be very huge, before that, the British were convinced that they could definitely defeat China easily, although the country's weapons and equipment have improved a lot, and there is a strong experience of attacking and defeating the American fleet, but Britain is the world's first power, they believe that as long as they can prevent the sneak attack of the squadron, the people fight opposite each other, the British army will continue the glorious history of the past.1 They can easily win the victory,
When Rear Admiral Nelson set out from India, it was the British Admiral who gave him the order, and the old lord said proudly, I have won you an opportunity to be promoted quickly, I hope you cherish it, even Rear Admiral Nelson, who also regarded dealing with the Chinese Navy as a piece of cake, did not take it to heart at all, so after the thousand barracks troops were annihilated, he would break down emotionally, command abnormally, and fight to the end,
The Viceroy of India was the first high-ranking official to be convinced of the defeat, and retreated to the British Vanguard in Malacca, where, using the British facilities in Singapore, first sent a report to the Viceroy of India, because nominally he was their superior, and as a result, this strong, forty-five-year-old popular official, almost suffered a heart attack, and if it weren't for the Indian maid next to him who came forward in time to rescue him, maybe he would have hung up directly,
"It's going to fail, it's going to fail." He was incredulous and asked himself,
He urged the telegraph operator to contact the fleet again, lest the telegram was wrong, that a careless fellow had made a mistake.
The fleet called back again and reported the truth,
"It's horrible." The Governor General was so shocked that even the capital of men has undergone a qualitative change, and in the future, he can no longer provide a source of happiness for the equipped female secretaries of India.
More than 5,000 British troops, all of them were transferred from India, from the eyes of the Governor-General, this is all elite, even stronger than the army that went to fight in the territory of the former Qing Empire in China eight years ago, entered Beijing, and burned the Old Summer Palace. It's tougher than the real British army.
"That's it." He knew that the good days of his Indian governor were over, and that his rivals were eyeing him for an opportunity, and that he was not giving the enemy a bomb.
"Damn Nelson, you have lived up to my expectations of you." Lord Marcory, the governor, waved his fists angrily, as if he had cultivated peerless high-level martial arts, and his fists squeaked,
He announced that he would immediately remove Major General Nelson from his post of commander and take him to India for his interrogation, and that he would take revenge on this bastard for dishonoring the entire British Indian colonialist regiment,
After the telegram was sent, he was roaring and burning, and the call back soon arrived, and when he saw it, he was dumbfounded.
"God, how can this be." Tears flowed from his eyes,
Rear Admiral Nelson, commander of the British advance naval fleet, has fallen into a coma because he was hit in the body by a piece of shrapnel, which caused an infection.
Malacca, also known as Singapore, was an important British fortress in the Far East, with a large number of troops, fleets, and well-established fortress facilities, and was an unsinkable real aircraft carrier, but there was no concept of aircraft carriers at that time.
The commander of the Far East Army, Barry, is an Irish nobleman, and it is not easy to mix this level in the British ** team that values seniority, this is a deep general, despite this, after seeing the miserable condition of Nelson's fleet with his own eyes, he still can't believe that this is actually a British fleet,
The mortar of the squadron, of course, is not large, but the frequency of firing is quite high, and the British fleet on the coastline is stunned, and the British ** team is easily afraid to open fire, because there are still 100 British soldiers on the beach, and more than a dozen gunboats on the shallow sea, as a result, the British army is completely one-sided and passively beaten,
On the decks of many warships, bullet scars were left behind, leaving the damage caused by the terrible bombardment waves, and in this fleet only two battleships had ironclad packaging, and the rest of the cruisers were wooden, therefore, in the face of the bombardment, the damage was quite serious, one by one large holes, pieces of fire and burning, as embarrassed as they were,
General Barry gasped: "Our naval guns of such power are not opponents of the enemy, so how many cannons do the Chinese have." ”
Far more shocked than the front line was the British government, the queen and the Parliament, after the British government learned the news of the defeat at the front, immediately announced the establishment of a team to investigate the causes of the defeat in this war, although it was the loss of the vanguard, in them, it was unprecedented,
In fact, in the face of China's strong development momentum in recent years, they have no hope that this fleet will be able to destroy China, but it is always possible to capture Guangzhou, who knows, 7,000 troops have lost more than 5,500, and they have not even occupied a single coastal beach.