Chapter 74: Can We Win?

Boom Boom!

Solid iron bombs bombarded the shore defense batteries that had not been established much by the Han Imperial army, and more than a dozen sail battleships, lined up in battle lines, bombarded the shore defense batteries with only old-fashioned artillery......

Guan Yu put down the monocular in his hand and sighed helplessly, he didn't expect that the other party's artillery range could easily crush him......

Knowing this, those artillery might as well be placed inland, used to resist the British infantry after landing!

It seems that the idea of resisting the British army on the shore is a completely wrong choice, and the fire of the enemy's naval guns alone can make their own soldiers lose the psychology of resistance......

A hint of decisiveness flashed in Guan Yu's eyes, and he gave the order for the whole army to retreat to the second line of defense!

Zhao Xin, who was running backwards with the hula of the soldiers of the brigade, held his iron helmet with his hand to prevent it from falling, and carried a spear and an arquebus cross-body behind him, with two small pockets pinned to his waist, one containing gunpowder and the other containing projectiles. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

He gasped and complained to Galen beside him: "Oh mom, Brother Lun, didn't you see it, the cannonballs fired from the ship are the size of my head, if this hits people, even a corpse will not be left......"

Galen replied angrily, "Oh? Zhao Xin, your eyes are good, can you still see clearly from such a distance? ”

Jiawen added angrily: "Zhao Xin, he was frightened when he saw that our fort was blown down!" ”

"Hey, hey, Gavin, who are you talking about cowards, don't forget that I'm going to kill you!"

The company commander who led the team in front turned around impatiently and shouted: "What are you shouting, if you have that strength, you will get to the place in a while, stay and go desperately with the British!" ”

Zhao Xin and Jiawen closed their mouths in disagreement, Galen still had that calm expression, but he glanced at the Britons who landed in a small boat on the sea in the distance with a solemn face......

1 hour later, Zhao Xinyi sat behind a low wall, his whole body was paralyzed on the ground, panting like a soil dog: "Oh mom, I'm tired of Lao Tzu, this Nima is a long-distance running training or a war, this is for Lao Tzu to run, the basket is about to shake off......"

Without waiting for Zhao Xin to finish complaining, the captain of the company happened to patrol here, and when he went up, he gave Zhao Xin a kick: "Hurry up and prepare for battle, when is it, still lying lazy, be careful that the Britons will come over and make you an adult stick!" ”

Zhao Xin pouted and stood up, and after the company captain left, he spat on the ground and said disdainfully: "Hmph, if Lao Tzu is afraid of death, he won't come to be a soldier to eat food!" ”

Jiawen leaned into Zhao Xin's ear with a lewd smile on his face and said: "I heard that the Britons love men's style, tsk, Zhao Xin, you are so handsome, if the Britons on the other side really come, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to die, haha......"

Zhao Xin covered the chrysanthemum in horror, and asked in a trembling voice: "True~true~fake~ Jiawen, don't scare me......"

Galen looked at Zhao Xin, who was holding a chrysanthemum, speechlessly, and said: "Don't worry, even if you are as beautiful as a flower, when the Britons meet you on the battlefield, their first reaction will definitely be to shoot, not take off your pants!" ”

"Haha~ Hahaha, I'm laughing to death, Zhao Xin, you are so classy, haha......" Jiawen looked at Zhao Xin's embarrassment and laughed unabashedly.

"Don't laugh, the Britons are coming!"

Galen stopped Gavin's laughter and began to order his squad to stand in a combat position!

I saw that a group of British infantry wearing red military uniforms, white leather pants and tall bearskin hats lined up in a horizontal phalanx, and in the sound of the drums and bagpipes of the military band, they walked towards the defense line of the Han Imperial army with 'goose steps'!

Between each infantry regiment were a number of more richly dressed cavalrymen, who were responsible for directing the adjustment of the horizontal phalanxes so that they remained more or less on the same column.

The line infantry of Great Britain stopped only when they were out of range of the muskets of the Han Imperial army, and they didn't seem to care that at such a close distance, the Han Imperial army on the opposite side, which was staying behind the breastwork, would rush out......

Blatant contempt!

Admiral Gordo of the British Empire Expeditionary Corps, the commander-in-chief of the entire expeditionary corps, put down the monoculars in his hand, and said to the generals around him with a smile: "This Han Empire is still using old-fashioned arquebuses and spears, it seems that the next battle will be extremely easy, haha, the stragglers can rest in the back, to deal with such an enemy, we don't need to let those elites do unnecessary consumption, the artillery starts to bombard, a few more rounds, I'd rather see how much courage the backward army on the opposite side had to resist the artillery bombardment! ”

Amid the jokes of the generals of the British Expeditionary Force, several heralds conveyed Admiral Goldo's order, lined up field guns similar to Napoleon's 6-pounder infantry guns, and launched rounds of artillery bombardment under the waving of the command flag of the artillery officer!

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Although the 6-pounder infantry gun fired iron projectiles, it could still smash small craters on the ground, and even the seemingly thick breastwork was smashed into gaps by the shells that didn't hit much!

Galen watched the cannon muzzle on the opposite side continue to roar, so he had to crouch behind the breastwork with his arquebus, mentally praying that he would not be so unlucky and be hit by the cannonball......

Thinking of this, Galen couldn't help but laugh to himself, when did he become so timid, is it because of the power of the cannon that he had never seen before?

However, when Galen saw Zhao Xin lying on the ground, holding his head in his hands and trembling, Galen suddenly felt that he was really the most courageous man in the world!

In order to soothe the trembling heart liver that was bombarded by artillery, Jiawen stepped on Zhao Xin's chrysanthemum who was lying on the ground and pouting his buttocks, and pretended to laugh out loud with ease: "Our Zhao Xin warriors, lying on the ground, is this praying before the war?"

However, the posture of praying to the Spartan god of war doesn't seem to be like this, haha, if the priests of the Spartan temple see your prayer appearance, they will definitely burn you at the stake! ”

Zhao Xin, who was originally shocked by the sound of the field cannon and couldn't find the north, heard Jiawen's ridicule, and suddenly burst out of courage from nowhere, shrunk his pouting buttocks, and a carp stood up, looking directly at Jiawen and said: "Look at Lao Tzu, dare to stand like this and wait for the bombardment from the opposite side, you are a wreck, what kind of man is squatting there!?" ”

Zhao Xin looked around and found that all the soldiers were squatting behind the breastwork, and suddenly felt that he was so manly, however, the corner of Zhao Xin's eyes suddenly drifted to a corpse that was scattered by a cannonball not far away, his eyes were dark, and he fainted on the ground...... (To be continued.) )