Chapter Seventy-Nine: Luring the Serpent Out of the Hole
The current predicament of the British army is very unfavorable to them, although they have entered Hong Kong, but the current situation for them can be described as a tiger in front of the road, a lion chasing after them, all the way to abandon weapons and equipment and run away, but when they ran about to vomit blood, they found that their retreat had already been crotched by them, and it was impossible to return to Hong Kong unharmed.
At this time, the Hong Kong Governor of Hong Kong, Bu Li, was sitting in the garden of the Governor's Mansion drinking afternoon tea, and the four seas did not realize the dangerous taste.
"Oh my god, these special forces grandsons are too ruthless, aren't they? Look at what it has become to bully people, the British, and the Indians? Zhang Tianfang held his own pole and walked to the previous position of Huang Xiaomao, looking at the piles of corpses below and nearly a hundred frightened and trembling captives.
Seeing such a tragic war scene, Zhao Yu turned around and squatted down, his stomach rolled for a while, and he howled and vomited, the corpses of thousands of people, hundreds of corpses could no longer distinguish their appearance, and their internal organs were scattered on the ground like this, and you and I couldn't tell whose it was.
Even Zhao Yu, who has seen the big scene, doesn't dare to imagine what kind of battle he experienced here just now, he was fortunate to see the Russian War, although the fight was very miserable, but compared to here, it is a small thing, a full hundred people, only a hundred people swept more than 3,000 people, and only special forces have this ability in terms of strength, right? Compared to what they have been chasing after just now, this is the real hell, giving you hope for life, but making you desperate, the people above are really ruthless.
"I said you guys have nothing to do, don't you? Hurry up and help clean up the corpses, in case there is a plague in the future, it will be our loss. Qiu Jiyun was going to the brigade headquarters for a meeting to arrange the next battle plan, and before he went, he saw Zhang Tianfang and a few people standing here looking at the scene below in a daze, and reminded him for a while.
"Is this too ruthless?" Jin Cheng shook his head.
"What's ruthless? Why didn't I see your turtle son talking ruthlessly during the Opium War? Have you seen it all, this is the army of the great powers, it only took us one morning to make them like this, do you know what level you are now? Qiu Jiyun stopped.
"What level? Don't tell me that the great powers are grandsons in front of us, you can keep this and fool others. Zhang Tianfang's loud voice rang out.
"Hey, don't you really say it, the great powers are really grandsons in front of us, you can beat them like this now, and when the reorganization is over, why don't you beat them back into the fucking crotch? Look at the equipment in your hands, and then go to the ground to pick up the equipment of the British army and compare, I don't need to say which is good and which is bad, right? Fire dragon type, so light, can be used as a heavy machine gun and light machine gun, it is much more comfortable to use than Makqin, 102 heavy guns, 120 howitzers, 155 heavy howitzers, how powerful is it Needless to say, you have all seen it, does the British army have it? Why don't I go and tell the artillery gang to let your Northeast master taste this too? Qiu Jiyun shook his head and no longer paid attention to Zhang Tianfang and the others.
"This guy is saying the same, our equipment looks much better than the British guys." Zhang Tianfang scratched his head and muttered to himself.
In the headquarters of the 110th Brigade, the commanders and deputy commanders of the three regiments have already arrived, and the brigade commander will let them all go back after arranging the next offensive tasks, after all, there are still tens of thousands of corpses left on the battlefield now, how can they dispose of those corpses first and then continue to attack, otherwise the corpses will already stink when they come back. What's more, there are a lot more troops on his side than the British army, and it won't take much time for two people to deal with a corpse, let alone a mass grave?
At two o'clock in the afternoon, after the various units had disposed of the corpses of the enemy, they continued to set out, and the troops pointed directly at Hong Kong, since Wang Lin had come, he naturally would not go back easily, he not only had to give the British a hammer on land, but also drove them out of Hong Kong. Now that the war has begun, let's make a comprehensive move, at least drive you out of China completely.
In Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong, more than 20 large and small ships of the British Far East Chinese Fleet are docked in Victoria Harbor, most of the soldiers are still on the warships, if it is peacetime, they would have gone ashore to have fun, but now it is wartime, although they think that this will not be any threat, but the mission of the soldiers tells them that until the end of the war, they can not relax their vigilance, after all, the army is not a navy, the navy of the British Empire is the most powerful fleet in the world, No one should be allowed to act in any way to provoke the British Empire.
The Chinese fleet in the Far East of the British Empire is a fleet composed of more than 20 large and small ships, but the warships of this fleet are relatively old, although only 10 new ships were replaced in 1886, but the equipment has not been replaced with the development of industrial science, it can be said that the current British Chinese fleet is vulnerable to any fleet between the two fleets under Wang Lin. (Note: Since I can't find detailed information about the British Chinese fleet in 1902, I can only use the ships of the Chinese fleet that were replaced in 1882 and 1886.) Fleet Commander Philimant, I hope that naval fans who know the inside story will not spray me. )
On the watchtower of the flagship of the British Far East Chinese Fleet, a British lookout boredly smoked a cigarette he had recently bought, and then held a clairvoyant mirror to watch the situation in the surrounding seas. He had lost ten pounds in the gambling last night, and he was even more angry that he had not been able to sleep all night, and was still in a lethargic state when he stood guard.
Is there a fleet coming here? The British lookout looked at the black smoke rising from the horizon in the distance, and it seemed that something was wrong. Not good, that's the fleet. The lookout immediately sounded the alarm, and his hands kept shaking, hoping to alarm everyone on the flagship.
"Soldier, what's the matter?" A British officer looked up at Jim, the lookout standing on the watchtower.
"Report to the sir, a fleet is heading towards us." Jim replied loudly.
When the officer heard this, he hurried to the bottom of the watchtower, picked up his clairvoyant and looked at it, because of the different positions, the officer could only see black smoke in the distance, but Jim could see it very clearly. But even so, he still sounded the battle report, because the soldiers at this time were not in the battle position, they needed time to enter the battle position, if they saw clearly whether the other party was the fleet to pull the battle report, then waiting for them could only sink here.
Although the ships of the British and Chinese fleet are a little old, the combat quality of the soldiers is good, and even on the old ships, they can still get to their positions as quickly as possible and are ready for battle.
On the Dingyuan ship in the distance, Captain Liu Buyun stood in the control tower, took a telescope and looked at the British Far East Fleet that was still docked in the harbor, and his task this time was very simple, that is, to lead a total of four warships, namely the Jingyuan Ship, the Zhiyuan Ship and the Pingyuan Ship, to provoke the British fleet in Victoria Harbor and lure them out, so as not to cause unnecessary accidental injuries in the subsequent battle.
The four warships of the Indian Ocean Fleet were moving at full speed, and the gunners of all positions were ready to open fire, and the muzzles of the guns were all aimed in the direction of Victoria Harbour, and now they could open fire at the first order.
The Indian Ocean Fleet stopped when it was still seven or eight miles away from Victoria Harbor, and although these warships were all old ships in the fleet, the guns on them were not old at all, and these were all new guns made with the technology of tube retreat.
As for the range, there was no need for them to stop at seven or eight miles, they could have stopped at a distance of ten kilometers, but in order to impress the British, they still moved a little further.
"Open fire." Liu Buyun sighed.
With a loud bang, the main gun of the Dingyuan ship spewed out a burst of fire, and the shells flew directly in the direction of Victoria Harbor. The shells fell and exploded a few hundred meters from the entrance to Victoria Harbor, which was not a technical problem of the gunners, let alone an artillery problem, but because they did not want the shells to explode in Victoria Harbor, because they understood very well that in the next period of time, the whole of Hong Kong would become Chinese, and now that such an important port was damaged, then they would have to spend a lot of money to repair it in the future, and the money would have their own use.
"**, go out, go out, sink them for me." The commander-in-chief of the British fleet, Philmante, cursed ** in his mouth, while directing the fleet to go out to meet the battle.
More than 20 British [***] ships poured out, they were bound to make dumplings for each other, so that they could not run away, but the other party's actions made Phileeman very sad, when they just left the port, they still fired at themselves without any scruples, but after firing two shots, they began to turn around and run back, angry Philmante scolded the other party's bastards, and then had to order an all-out pursuit, their actions have challenged the authority of the British Imperial Navy, since they have done so, Then it must disappear from this world, otherwise it will be a disgrace to the British Empire, and it will not allow it to happen.
An angry blushing and thick-necked chaser chased together, and an excited kicking nose and smiling eyes fled according to the predetermined plan, and the two fleets gradually had a feeling of hide-and-seek at sea. Unconsciously, the British fleet had chased more than 30 nautical miles in one go, and at this time they also discovered that the four warships did not seem to have run away.
"Dingyuan ship? Isn't he already sunk? Philmante looked at the Dingyuan ship parked in the distance, he had stayed in China for a long time, and naturally had some understanding of China's affairs, this warship built by the Germans was naturally clear to the British, didn't he say that he had sunk in Hainan a few years ago? How did it end up here?
"Oh buy ga, the Jingyuan ship, and the Zhiyuan ship we built." Another officer yelled as he pointed to the British-built Zhiyuan.
"General, I seem to have seen something, you'd better come and see it for yourself." An officer on duty walked into the control tower and said in disbelief that he really didn't believe that there could be such a huge warship in this world.
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