Chapter 23: Unfriendly exchanges

The traversers slowly surrounded them from all sides, and everyone moved cautiously, both to beware of the dying counterattack of the British troops and to be careful not to step on the pool of blood on the ground. Five or six guns were pointed at the man who shouted for surrender at the same time, and he sat up obediently amid the shouts of "don't move, stand up slowly". Blood had ruined his face and brightly colored uniform, but it wasn't his blood, or he would have gone to God. The handkerchief in his hand was still shaking gently, and his voice trembled slightly. "Oh! For God's sake, help these poor people! The sentence was in English, and he could no longer consider whether the other party could understand it.

Ma Angelica walked up to him, looked at him condescendingly, and asked in English, "Report your identity?" ”

The man stood up slowly, straightened his military hat, pulled the military uniform on his body, tidied up his appearance, and then solemnly gave a military salute to Ma Angelica and said: "I am Lieutenant Richard Winters, the commander of Company H of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the British Army, and the commander of this unit. I declare that I now surrender to your ministry, but I demand that I and my men be treated humanely. The neat uniform, sophisticated equipment, full spirit, and Ma Angelica's fluent English made him understand that this was a modern and civilized army, so he put forward what he thought was a reasonable request.

Ma Angelica replied, "I am Major Ma Angelica, commander of the First Brigade of the First Army of the Chinese Liberation Army (the total strength of the Liberation Army is only 12 platoons, which is considered a full battalion, but there is no company establishment, Ma Angelica wants to paralyze the British, not only known as an army to the outside world, but also self-proclaimed brigade commander. )。 Looking at Winters' slightly raised chin, he ordered in an unquestionable tone: "I accept your surrender!" I now order you and your men to surrender your weapons, and then follow the command of my department. I can guarantee that you will be treated humanely! But the standard of "humane treatment" is up to us, he added in his heart.

"China recovery (with the English level of Ma Angelica, he used the word recovery) army? Are you Chinese? Winster couldn't connect the mighty and tall soldier in front of him with the Chinese soldier in his image, "You are the Chinese government army?" ”

"No, we are anti-government forces. We have a hostile relationship with that government in Beijing. Ma Angelica proudly announced.

"Oh God! The anti-government army is even more regular than the government army? "Winters thought it was incredible. However, he still took off his saber and pistol, held them in both hands and handed them to Zhang Pan. Some of the British soldiers who were still alive stood up one after another, threw away their weapons, and walked out of the bloody pile of corpses with their hands raised, which seemed to be only half of the original number, and the rest were either dead or dying.

Ma Angelica took it casually, took the Colt revolver in his hand and looked at it, he really had no interest in this old antique, turned around and handed it to the herald behind him. A man dressed as a civilian recorded the historic moment on DVD next to him. The photographer is the self-appointed "deputy director of the Propaganda Department" Du Lali, who is a native of Guangdong and used to be a tabloid reporter, and this time he joined the task force as a professional photographer, intending to use DV to record the work procedures of the task force, which can also be used as evidence to prove that the Liberation Army is a "civilized and mighty army" in the future. By mistake, a historical event was recorded.

After filming a simple surrender ceremony, Vice Minister Du began to photograph the scene of the battlefield of the Liberation Army. The British army originally had more than 70 people, and after a sudden fire attack, there were still 33 people alive and still moving, they were the lucky ones who walked at the back of the line, and they lay on the ground immediately after the gunshots were fired. A bloody corpse was carried to the drying field, and the surviving British soldiers could not help but feel sad and happy when they looked at the horrific and mutilated corpses of their comrades. It is sad that the British Imperial Army suffered such a defeat and suffered such heavy casualties; The joy is that it is not oneself who is dying, and living is more important than anything else. Five or six wounded British soldiers with wounded limbs received basic assistance, and the Liberation Army soldiers gave them simple bandages, and surgeries such as surgery to remove bullets or amputation could not be carried out until they returned to the base. The British soldiers, who were so badly wounded that there was no hope of treatment, were directly placed with the corpses, some silent, some moaning in pain, all slowly waiting for the arrival of death, but unfortunately there was no priest to give them a deathbed confession. Durari filmed all of this, and the rows of corpses reflected the glorious achievements of the Liberation Army, and the treatment of the wounded reflected the humanitarian spirit of the Liberation Army. The tragic scenes of the villagers were also filmed in order to expose the atrocities of the British army later.

Winster was not arranged to carry the body, and Ma Angelica took him aside for interrogation. Mr. Lieutenant maintained the last vestiges of dignity of the soldiers of the British Empire, and said nothing about the question of Ma Angelica, but the British soldiers were not so dignified, and the sergeant who had abused the wounded villagers was also shot in the thigh, and Ma Angelica treated him in his own way, and when he stepped on his wound with his boot, he told everything he knew. After learning that there were still five British soldiers left on the beach to guard the ship, Ma Angelica immediately sent a squad to solve the problem. Unfortunately, in the end, they were a step too late, and the five British soldiers had already discovered the situation here, and they chose to leave their comrades behind and escape. When the Guangfu army arrived at the seashore, they had already rowed their boats and ran away, and the pursuers could only look at the ocean and sigh. Regarding the situation of the British army's strength on Hong Kong Island, the sergeant also gave an explanation, and Ma Angelica knew that Hong Kong's defense was now very empty. After the British and French forces went north, there was only one battalion of more than 300 people left in the Hong Kong garrison, commanded by Major General Charles Stopbinzi, and now most of the company has been wiped out, and the strength is even more stretched, and Ma Angelica is not afraid that they will send troops to the rescue.

At the same time, Ma Angelica also learned from the British sergeant the reason for the conflict between the villagers and the British army. It turned out that two British soldiers had come to the vicinity by boat yesterday afternoon to fish, and later went ashore to hang out, and happened to meet the daughter of a villager who was washing clothes by the river. The two British soldiers had been in the monk for too long, and when they saw the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, they were tempted to do something wrong to her. As soon as he pulled the little girl into the grove by the river, she was surrounded by villagers who heard the little girl's cry for help. As you can imagine, two British soldiers were beaten up and then detained, and the village chief's plan was to negotiate with the British the next day, but he didn't expect the British army to come to the door the next day. The British army in Hong Kong found that two soldiers had returned from the end of the night, and before dawn they sent two messengers out to inquire, and an hour later they learned that the two fellows had been arrested by the villagers for playing hooligans. Knowing the situation, Major General Charles Stobinzi assigned Lieutenant Winters to deal with the incident, and considering that there were three or four hundred villagers, Major General asked Winster to take his disorganized company with him in case of a conflict. After the British arrived at the walled village, the villagers returned the two British soldiers who had been detained, and the villagers demanded that the British soldiers apologize, while the British demanded that the villagers be released unconditionally. The two sides could not reach a consensus, and the argument developed into a quarrel, from a quarrel to a threat, from a threat to a push, and finally the powder keg was ignited. The villagers, armed with a small number of gunpowder guns, knives, spears, poles, hoes, and fishing forks, were crushed at the touch of a touch in front of the modern army armed with flintlock pistols, and the high morale could not make up for the gap in weapons and equipment, and the British army easily won the first victory.

The devastating offensive of the Guangfu Army not only surprised the British army, but also the villagers of Anchangwei felt incredible, didn't it mean that these short-haired thieves had collusion with foreigners? Why did their accomplices fight with each other? Seeing that the British were solved by the Guangfu Army by dividing five by two, the patriarch of An Changwei felt that the rumors were wrong. After some deliberation, the heads of several houses in his various ethnic groups decided to send someone to contact the Guangfu Army.

Ma Angelica Guizheng and Zhang Pan were inspecting the seized trophies, there were more than 70 pre-loaded flintlock pistols seized, Zhang Pan picked up one and took aim, the total length of this gun was about one meter, the black and shiny barrel and bolt, the walnut barrel, and the three-edged bayonet were about 40 centimeters long.

"Burke-type front-loading smoothbore flintlock pistol, gun length 1.16 meters, range 200 meters, rate of fire 2-3 rounds a minute. It's currently, oh, I'm talking about the most advanced rifle of 1858. Durari said.

"You know?" In the image of Ma Angelica, Vice Minister Du should be classified as "military blind", but I didn't expect that he still knew these antiques, which had to make people feel strange, at least Ma Angelica himself didn't know it.

"The comrades of the culture and history group have specially collected materials, and now they finally have real objects." Du Lali didn't dare to plunder the beauty of people, so he had to let Zhang Pan and them continue to despise it. Although the Burke front-loading smoothbore flintlock pistol was advanced to people in the mid-nineteenth century, it was indeed an antique for the survivors of the twenty-first century from another time and space.

Other military supplies such as backpacks, water bottles, shovels, bugles, and snare drums were all stacked haphazardly, and only the British Army flag stood out in the middle. The flag has a blue background, with a British flag pattern in the upper left corner, and a British Army insignia in the lower right corner - a lion standing on a crown and a pair of crossed swords behind its back. Zhang Pan took it in his hand and waved it twice, "This is the first military flag captured by our army, and it is very commemorative." ”

Durary said with a smile: "The French Invalides is hung with the Qing army flags captured in the 'Second Opium War', and we will also build a special showroom in the future to hang the military flags of the great powers." ”

"Okay, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy, and Austria are all part of the alliance!" Ma Angelica was also arrogant at this time.

At this time, a soldier came to report that there were villagers in An Changwei asking to see him. Ma Angelica looked at a middle-aged man in his thirties who was following the soldier and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Although the visitor was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, his face was ruddy, his skin was fair, and he did not look like a manual laborer. He secretly looked at the leaders of the "short-haired anti-thieves" in front of him, knelt on the ground, and replied cautiously: "General Hui Bing, the little Luo Guihe, is a villager from Anchangwei, and I came to greet the generals at the behest of my Luo family patriarch. There is also a batch of Lao Jun's wine and food, which will be delivered later! ”

"Get up! Our Guangfu Army is not happy to bow down, you get up and speak! When Luo Guihe looked at the three of them, Ma Angelica was also looking at him at the same time. Seeing that he is neither humble nor arrogant, his words are clear, and his status in Anchangwei is not low.

Luo Guihe slowly got up, patted the dust on his knees, and arched his hand: "General Gao Yi, save my whole village from fire and water, great kindness, toothless and unforgettable!" After speaking, he bowed deeply. I just don't know what the generals are going to do next? ”

"What are you going to do? Are you afraid that the British will come to you for trouble? Don't worry, no matter how many they come, I'll tell them to come one to die, and two to die. Zhang Panniu said with a bang.

"Yes, yes, I just don't know how those Yangyi want to retaliate! I hope that the adults will guide us and we will be ready to deal with it! Luo Guihe said with trepidation, this is the most concerned thing for the patriarch and the villagers in the village, An Changwei can't deal with the British alone, so he can only hold on to the big tree of the Guangfu Army.