Bang!

Finally, the sound of shelling rang out.

This made Liu Mingchuan breathe a sigh of relief.

The sound of the shelling was far away, indicating that the British did not spot their ambushed unit, but shelled false targets set up by other battalions.

If they want to turn the muzzle again, it will be difficult to calibrate the shells.

As long as the British get a foothold and throw all the grenades into the vanguard of the British army, the mission is half the battle.

Liu Mingchuan cautiously poked his head out and looked outside.

At this glance, he was dumbfounded.

I saw that the smoke was filled, and it was not a dock position, but a British ship.

To be exact, it was not the reinforcements of the British army, but the ships of the Cape sailors who had fled in a hurry......

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"Sink them all! Damn, this is a tactic by the Ming people to capture the old people, deliberately let them hinder us from turning around, and soon Zhu Fugui will come over with his super huge Shenzhou ship! ”

Aboard the Prince of Wales, John Churchill, in his capacity as Viceroy and Vice-Chancellor of India in the British Empire, ordered the Anglo-Indian fleet to fire on the Cape Town Navy.

After two rounds of cannons, these small steamships and wooden-hulled galleons were drowned in the sea.

Without restraints, the Anglo-Indian fleet hurriedly turned around and prepared to run away.

Suddenly, there was a "bang", and John Churchill was thrown to the ground by the huge shaking of the deck.

He clutched his bleeding forehead and shouted, "What's the matter, Akito's navy has arrived?" Or did their shore artillery shoot at us? ”

The captain hurriedly replied: "Lord Marquis, no, it was those damned Cape towns who made Hanako ruthless, and they drove the boat into our port side!" ”

The captain hurriedly sent someone to check the situation, and soon came to a conclusion.

"Lord Marquis, that damn ship, though not of much tonnage, has caused us serious damage, and because of the impact, we have yawed and are about to hit the shore, and it is a reef coast with no berth!"

"Damn, what are we going to do then?"

"Lord Marquis, order everyone to prepare for the landing! We have to give up the Prince of Wales, and ......"

"Got it! That's it! ”

John Churchill understood the captain's meaning in seconds.

Because the number of troops was 50,000 at this time, every ship was stuffed to the brim, and even the decks were covered with bunks.

There were 3,700 soldiers on board the Prince of Wales.

With so many people, it is impossible to load them all onto another ship anyway.

In other words, some of the burdens must be discarded.

John Churchill showed the genius of the Churchill family at this time, quickly made a judgment and gave the order.

As the bottom of the ship and the reef continued to collide violently.

Probably with the blessing of the Prince of Wales' Green Will, the Prince of Wales eventually ran aground one after another and was badly damaged, but it did not move completely until it hit the shore headlong.

It's a rocky shore far from Cape Town's marina, full of reefs that are not suitable for boats at all.

John Churchill ordered everyone to disembark at once, and they had to get to a berth before other ships could save them.

By this time, the sea water had already frantically poured into the battered bottom of the ship.

The British soldiers, who were crammed into the bottom compartment like sardines, had long since drowned alive.

The rest of the people hurriedly climbed off the side of the boat and jumped towards the shore.

Fortunately, they were well-trained regular troops of the British Empire after all, and the discipline was not comparable to those of the Cape Town militia.

So John Churchill, the Governor-General, was not knocked over the side of the ship with an iron fist, but was well protected and the first to disembark.

Thanks to the fact that the Southern Tang side did not know that the Indian governor in his heart was on this ship, he did not send out to encircle and suppress it.

On the contrary, the Southern Tang Army, which was bombarded by the British army and I hit you with a series of operations, did not react at once.

And when the ship was a partial division of the legendary grounded landing.

The main force of the Southern Tang Dynasty was still firmly staring at the dozen or so remaining troop carriers on the sea, in case they were diverted from the mountain.

As a result, just when Liu Mingchuan had 300 warriors waiting for the enemy's main attack, it turned to a ragtag army of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the most elite British and Indian reinforcements of the British army.

This army is a militia group formed by the gentry of Jiangnan who donated their families.

Its combat effectiveness can be imagined.

But he had long been frightened by Zhu Fugui's notoriety, and experienced a shipwreck, and the panicked British army was also disheartened.

Especially when they jumped ship, many British soldiers did not even carry guns.

John Churchill was taken aback by this sudden appearance of the "Ming Army".

Although their clothes look different from the legendary Ming Butcher Army, there is no doubt that these black-haired and black-eyed guys are the Ming Army.

"Heaven is going to kill me!"

John Churchill took out a pistol and stuffed it into his mouth and was about to cut himself, but the person on the side hurriedly stopped, "Your Excellency the Governor, Your Excellency the Governor, don't shoot, Ming Army...... The Ming army seems to have fired three shots indiscriminately, turned around and ran? Do we want to chase? ”

"Don't be fooled!"

John Churchill shouted: "This must be Zhu Fugui's trick to lure the enemy, I have read their military books, these Orientals are very cunning!" Run, run north! ”

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In the end, the 300 warriors of the inscription battalion, who were determined to die, squatted in the sand pit and ate the ashes for a long time, and the British fleet turned and slipped away.

The heaviest losses in this battle were actually the militia of the Jiangnan squires.

In a short exchange of fire with the British army's "partial division", the gentry, Zou Liangbu, who did not retreat in time, was hit by a stray bullet and unfortunately died, becoming the first victim of the Chinese conquest of South Africa.

In normal fighting, the militia lost three people and wounded one hundred and seventy-five.

Among them, Li Fugui, the head of the Jiangnan People's League, was knocked to the ground by a frightened zebra on the way when he was escaping, and his body was fractured in many places, and the blood did not stop.

This made Nantang clearly realize that the enemy was strong and he was weak.

Yingyi is fierce, and there is indeed a reason why they can conquer the world.

If it weren't for the all-Ming armed forces, there would be no way to confront Yingyi head-on.

So in the end, it is the most important thing to determine whether you can become a farmer in South Africa.

Whether this South Africa is a dead place or a treasure land is completely in the thoughts of Daming's father.

Therefore, restoring contact with the mother country as soon as possible and resuming tribute to the Ming Dynasty is the first priority of the Southern Tang Dynasty today.

But on the whole, the heroic soldiers and civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty withstood the surging attack of the evil British colonizers, and took a solid step towards recovering the glory of the Three Treasures.

At the same time, this strongest army in the southern hemisphere also created a miracle in human military history that sank more than 10 enemy ships without firing a single shot.

The 300 warriors of the inscription battalion who fought 800,000 heroes in the bloody battle at the Cape Town pier were also compiled into Huangmei Opera, which became a popular repertoire among the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the future.

Later historians have pointed out that the Battle of Cape Town was the prelude to the protracted Quadrilateral War in South Africa.