Chapter 8: The Battle of Humen (1)
The Humen soldiers held out for nearly a month, at this time the Humen soldiers were less than 100 people, thousands of soldiers held hard for a month, many people died under the British artillery fire every day, if it were not for the British army far away from the homeland and the lack of ammunition, the British army was probably standing under the city of Guangzhou at this time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Zhang Yuanzheng looked at this blood-red land and thought: "My China has never lacked bloody men, and we vow to shed the last drop of blood for the nation."
The hot-blooded man used his body to block the enemy's muzzle, think about the four great inventions of ancient China, gunpowder was invented by us, but foreigners developed and used it, and cast advanced firearms to deal with us, which is a national shame.
The 5,000-year-old development history of the Chinese nation and its excellent cultural precipitation are now being beaten like this by a small island country.
Zhang Yuanzheng drew his sword and pointed to the sky and swore: "The destiny of the nation will change from now on."
The banner of Humen Fort was unfurled, and tens of thousands of outstanding sons and daughters gathered here, Zhang Yuanzheng walked to the Dianjiangtai and looked at the tens of thousands of soldiers under the stage.
"Brothers, today we are gathered here to defend against foreign insults, the British want to kill my sister and rob me of my money, you say, can we agree?"
"No, no, no," the crowd shouted in unison.
"Brothers, behind us are our relatives, we have no way out, we only have one battle." Zhang Yuanzheng drew his sword and pointed it to the sky.
"Kill, kill, kill, kill ......" At this moment, all the soldiers aroused the hidden blood in their hearts, and the morale of the soldiers increased greatly.
In recent days, the British army has been replenishing supplies, and has not attacked, Zhang Yuanzheng led people to survey the terrain, deploy men and horses, Humen is the gate into the interior, as long as Humen is held, you can curb the British army's attack on other places.
The British began to attack again, and the British shells smashed desperately at the Qing army as if they didn't want money, and many soldiers were killed by shells before they could make close contact with the British army.
On the first day, the battle was quite fierce, the Qing army and the British army engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat, some soldiers lost their weapons, they used their teeth to bite, some soldiers still bit the enemy's ears when they died, and the stumps and broken arms flew on the battlefield, and someone died in every encounter.
The boy is determined to go out of the mountain pass, not to destroy the enemy, he will not return it, why should he bury his bones, and there are green mountains everywhere in life. Blood debts must be paid with blood, and the blood of hot-blooded men will never be shed in vain.
At the end of the day, the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, more than 3,000 people died, and the British army suffered 1,000 casualties.
"Wang Yong, the casualties will be too great if you continue to fight like this, you can take someone to do it tonight and sharpen the temperament of the British army."
"Order." Wang Yong replied. Zhang Yuanzheng ordered someone to call Xu Zhi again.
"Xu Zhi, you take people tonight to force the British warships out of the offshore sea, and it is best to blow up a few warships." Zhang Yuanzheng said to Xu Zhi very cautiously.
Zhang Yuanzheng waited anxiously in the barracks, very worried about tonight's action. Waiting was the most tormenting, suddenly there was a fire on the sea, followed by a loud noise, Zhang Yuanzheng guessed that it should be the sound of the warship being bombed, and the British military camp was also in chaos.
The next day, the British warships withdrew from the offshore waters, and the previous night's sneak attack caused the British to suffer extremely heavy losses. The oil on the sea was still burning, and the British attack today was destined to be without the full support of artillery, and last night's sneak attack not only forced back the warships, but also blew up the British artillery.