"Your Excellency the Governor, get down!" Gavina was in a state of horror when one of the officers realized that something was wrong and immediately threw himself down with him in his arms, only to hear a whizzing sound overhead, a crisp sound on the parapet, and then looking up again, the solid granite was smoky from the bullets.

"Your Excellency the Governor, it's too dangerous here, let's hurry back to the Governor's Palace." The officer pulled Gavinner and was about to run back.

Gavinner is a civil official, just now when his life was hanging by a thread, to be honest, his legs are weak, but the British have a strong sense of honor, and would rather be defeated and surrendered than flee, and if they escape, they will live forever in criticism and shame.

Perhaps it is a cultural difference, the Chinese pay attention to rather die than surrender, rather than die rather than run, the shame brought by surrender is far greater in the eyes of the Chinese than to flee, because there is a famous saying in China, stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, people die for a hundred, alive will have a chance to make a comeback, on the contrary, Europeans are accustomed to surrender, being a prisoner is not ashamed, and even going home has the opportunity to be heroically received.

Both Eastern and Western cultures have their own advantages and disadvantages, and it is impossible to say who is better than the other.

At this time, Gavina forced to shout: "No, I am the Governor of the Straits appointed by Her Majesty, and I am also the commander of the Singapore garrison, I can't go, I will hold on until the last moment." ”

Gavenner's so-called last moment was the more than 20 fortified fortified forts, which were enclosed by boulders, with only a horizontal opening and a small door for entry and exit, and the defense was extremely strong, and it was difficult to destroy the 152 mm cannon, which was the most powerful cannon of the Democratic Alliance Navy.

However, his shortcomings are also obvious, first of all, his limited vision. The near-enclosed space is also difficult to quickly receive orders from the commander, and secondly. Although the fort has several flues, it is difficult to get the smoke out in a short period of time. Finally, the deafening loud noise could not be dissipated, forming an echo inside the turret, even if the earbuds were plugged in, the ears would buzz continuously, and operating in such a turret for a long time would bring great damage to the body.

But in those days, human life was like a mustard, and even life was not worth much, how could anyone still care about health problems, and Gavinner just regretted that the fort was built too little. Many of the artillery guns deployed in the open air and only guarded by the parapet wall were destroyed one after another, and only the 20 or so batteries were still fighting back.

However, by this time, the NLD soldiers who had climbed the parapet had already launched an attack on the fort.

"Bang bang bang ~~" A few muzzles suddenly stretched out from the battery, and the soldiers behind the battery opened fire, although the soldiers of the Democratic Alliance Army lay down in time, but they were stacked down on the spot.

"Good! Well played! Gavina screamed loudly, and his heart tightened, in fact, there were pros and cons for the NLD army to storm the parapet. The advantage is that the battle is pushed to the last moment, and the disadvantage is that because their own soldiers have climbed the parapet, the ship's guns will no longer be able to bombard the battery, and the battery can continue to attack the warship. As long as they hold on long enough, these 20 or so heavy guns can completely destroy the ships of the Democratic Alliance Army one by one.

As soon as he blurted out the good words, Gavenna's complexion changed again. The NLD army opened fire on their stomachs, knocking down a dozen of them on the spot.

"Humph!" An officer snorted from the side, "Your Excellency the Governor, don't worry. The NLD forces need to stand up and load their bullets, and the parapet is unobstructed. They could only be killed by bullets from the turret. ”

"That's not right!" Gavinner roared, because through the telescope, he could see clearly that the NLD did not stand up and load the bullet, but lay on the ground, pulled a horizontal link on the side of the gun, withdrew a yellow cylinder, and then continued to shoot.

"Repeating rifles?" Gavina felt his mind disorganized and looked carefully at the NLD soldiers.

This look, it is really extraordinary, first of all, there are two rows of yellow and clear armed belts hanging on the body, and the bullet casing and the warhead are integrated, which is clearly no longer a paper shell bullet, but a pure copper bullet, correspondingly, the standard passage of the infantry is gone, and there are three grenades on the left and right sides of each person's waist.

The second was that he was carrying a boxy package on his back, he didn't know what it was doing, but at least it could block the bullets coming from his back.

Then there was an iron pot on his head, and he could see it clearly, an iron pot suddenly recessed a little, which was obviously hit by a bullet, but it was not pierced, and the soldier was not particularly injured except for a slight upward movement of his head.

Gavinner couldn't help but gasp, compared with the Democratic Alliance army, armed to the teeth, the British army has nothing but a Minny gun, just like this is a primitive man.

But then, his eyes widened like brass bells, because he saw an incredible picture, the NLD soldiers still did not stand up after firing five shots in a row, but broke the gun horizontally on their stomachs, filled it with five bullets, and then continued to shoot!

"Rear-loading repeating rifles?" Gavina had a ghostly expression.

In fact, as early as 1848, it was no secret in Europe that rear-loading rifles, such as the Dreiser rifle, which was installed by the Prussian army under the name M1841, but, perhaps because of the concept, many people were against rear-loading rifles.

A Swiss military delegation once visited Prussia, and the Swiss general, who inspected the Prussian rear-loading troops, shouted as he walked: Eating with the mouth is noble, and Swiss shooters would never be so humble as to shoot with a tail-loaded enema gun.

Of course, the lack of popularity of rear-loading guns in Europe is not just discrimination, in addition to converting the flintlock pistol into a Mini gun is more economical and cost-effective, the main problem is that the paper shell bullet can not provide sufficient airtightness, the chamber pressure is not enough, and there is no Mini gun to shoot far, although compared to the Minny gun has the advantage of fast loading, but what is the use of not faring?

What made Gavenner unbelievable was that the Chinese actually solved this problem, replaced the paper shell bullet with a luxurious all-copper bullet, loaded five rounds at a time, and put it into actual combat.

Under the telescope, the NLD army loaded and fired extremely smoothly, and in general, it takes several years for a rifle to go from design to experimentation to finalized production, what does this mean? It shows that the Democratic Alliance has long designed a rear-loading repeating rifle.

The rear-loading repeating rifle has a clear advantage over the Minnie gun in individual combat, and Gavinner's intuitive hunch is that this battle may not be optimistic.

After destroying all the gun emplacements of Guolu, the navy of the Democratic League moved the focus of the attack to several warships of the Strait Fleet, and in the rain of bullets, all four frigates of the Strait Fleet had sunk, and only one cruiser was still struggling to support it, but it was also covered in smoke and flames were burning in many places.

Under the blow of the battery, the navy of the Democratic Alliance sank eight transport ships and two gunboats, that is, corvettes in the eyes of Europeans, one frigate captured from the British, and the rest of the ships were also more or less wounded.

Although the NLD army was sunk by eleven ships, which was a good result, Gavina did not have the slightest joy, but his heart sank more and more, and gradually sank to the valley.

The huge gap in the guns of the two sides made the soldiers in the fort have no chance to fire a second shot after firing a shot, as long as the probe is indeed, it will inevitably be exploded, and even if it is forcibly fired, it will have no effect, because the soldiers of the Democratic Alliance Army are fighting on their stomachs, the target is small, and they still have an iron pot on their heads, and the chance of being killed is very small.

This is still inside the fort, and the soldiers who use the fort as a cover are even more unbearable, and the body hit by the dense rain of bullets does not dare to probe, such tactics completely subvert Gavenner's worldview, that is, he does not care about the ineffective consumption of bullets, nor does he aim to kill and injure the enemy, but only plays a role in suppressing firepower, but the effect is quickly apparent.

The Democratic Alliance troops who came up from behind carried mortars, and unfolded the artillery mounts in an orderly manner, and one after another shells hit the rear of the battery, and after a series of explosions, all the Democratic Alliance troops pressed on, and several of them took out grenades, bit the strings, and threw them into the battery.

"Bang Bang~~" With a few muffled sounds, there was no movement in the fort.

This is more than one place, you know, the number of the Democratic Alliance Army is enough, the mortar is an infantry artifact, easy to carry, easy to deploy, the rate of fire is extremely fast, can hit the target behind the fortifications, the thousands of defenders in Singapore only hold Mini guns, at most with some grenades, even if they use the terrain to hide behind, they can't last long, and soon the bombed people turn on their backs, not to mention that although the naval guns of the Democratic Alliance Army can't hit the battery, they can bring great damage to the stragglers, and in a short period of time, the British army has shown a situation of not being able to support it.

There were more than 1,000 NLD troops attacking the parapet, and dozens of people surrounded a fort and stormed it, and Gavenna alone saw that at least eight or nine forts were dumbfounded, and in a few minutes at most, all the forts would fall, and so would Singapore.

"Hey~~" Gavina sighed heavily: "Surrender under the white flag." ”

The people around also understood that they couldn't hold out for long at all, and if they didn't surrender, they could only die, and the herald immediately waved the white flag.

In fact, it is not too humiliating to surrender to the Democratic Alliance forces, because they are not the first, from the very beginning of the British, French, and American coalition forces, to the East India Company, to the consul of Guangzhou, Pashali, and the Governor of Hong Kong and Minister to China, Pauling, who has not surrendered? It's just that I'm very unconvinced, if there is no damn guy like Monlev to lead the way, where will the Democratic Alliance have a chance to land?

But the process of the war is not important, what matters is the result, victory is victory, defeat is defeat!

In the remaining forts, there was a special person looking in the direction of Gavenna, and when he saw the white flag being raised, he hurriedly took a bamboo pole and picked a piece of white cloth, stretched out to the outside of the fort and shook it vigorously.

As if there was a tacit understanding between the two sides, the sound of guns and artillery stopped abruptly, and the battlefield instantly became quiet, Xian Yunying also breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The British shore artillery is indeed very fearful, but fortunately, he finally surrendered, let's hurry ashore." ”

"Let's go!" Boss Chen nodded and led the top echelons of the fleet outside. (To be continued......)