Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Yingyi Inside, Listen, You're Besieged! (Ask for collection, ask for follow-up)
I saw that the few "third brothers" on the city wall were killed one by one by those "yellow jacket" soldiers who still had braids falling from the sky with shell guns, or were knocked down by bullets fired from airships, or simply screamed and fled. The battle-hardened Major General Elstonefen has finally reacted!
He quickly turned around and ran to his desk, first picked up the headset of a bakelite telephone produced by "Tongling Diantong" on the desk, and then shook the crank on the telephone vigorously, trying to connect to the battalion headquarters of the three infantry battalions stationed in the east, west and south of Peshawar, but after shaking for a long time, there was no response!
An ominous premonition immediately enveloped Major General Elsfenton's mind.
He put down the telephone receiver, opened a drawer with a trembling hand, took out a revolver inside, loaded it with a bullet, and then rushed out of his office with a pistol and headed straight for the dining room. In just a blink of an eye, he had already rushed into a restaurant full of terrified "third brothers".
The "third brothers" did not notice the arrival of Elsfunton, they just stared out the window and listened—watching the fireballs rising from time to time outside, listening to the bursts of gunfire, explosions, shouts, and screams outside...... All of them were dumbfounded, that is, no one remembered to take up arms to resist the invaders!
When Major General Elsfington saw this scene, he was angry!
These Indian mercenaries hold the East India Company and eat the East India Company, and when they are usually training and on duty, they know how to cheat and cheat, and they keep fighting over religious beliefs...... That's it, now that the enemy has come to the door, you mean, shameless, dirty, cowardly Indians don't even know how to fight!
Thinking of this, Major General Elsfington raised his revolver and fired three shots at the ceiling. Then he saw a room full of "third brothers" mostly bravely raising their arms......
Elsfinton almost lost his breath when he saw the arms raised in the room!
But now it's okay, he doesn't have the British elite who fought against Emperor Napoleon back then, and some of them are this Indian mercenary, so he can only use it.
"Bastard!" Elsfenton roared, "You cowards, stupid pigs, what can you do with your hands held high? Want to surrender? Why don't you hurry up and go to battle and get a taste of what my bullets taste like? ”
As he spoke, he pointed the muzzle of the black hole at a group of Indian Ah San who were holding their hands high - the third brother only then realized that it was not the "Yellow Jacket Heavenly Soldier", but their commander, so now is not the time to surrender.
Since it is not possible to surrender, it can only be reluctantly defended by the British Empire.
"Long live the British Empire!"
"Long live the King of England!"
Immediately, the "third brother" with an active mind began to shout long live, and this change came so fast that Major General Elsfinton was speechless.
But he can't shoot at a group of people who are as tall as "Long live the King of England"! This was done by Napoleon's men in the past......
"Quick, get guns and bullets!" Elsfenton commanded loudly, "Then go up to the walls and fight!" ”
"Yes, sir!"
"Yes, sir!"
A group of "third brothers" behaved very actively under the guns and orders of Major General Elsfinton, and they didn't eat, they all held their heads high, and even scrambled out of the house, and this morale looked like it was about to catch up with the white-skinned British soldiers.
Just when these "third brothers" plucked up the courage to attack, several white-skinned officers rushed in a panic. With these officers in command, these "third brothers" suddenly had an organization.
Major General Elsfinton was also a little relieved. He entered the dining room where the Hindu soldiers ate, but he didn't care about going to the dining room of the Heavenly Sect soldiers to "shake people" now, so let's take these "Shiva" to get guns and ammunition first!
Hopefully it's still too late!
Thinking of this, the British major general took a pistol and escorted a group of "third brothers" to their dormitory to get the gun, and after taking the gun, he had to go to the ammunition depot in the basement to get the ammunition.
While Elsfinton was organizing resistance, the battle on the walls of the Peshawar fortress had come to an end.
After Wu Fax and the others were lowered by the first batch of ropes, more than 100 people descended from several other airships, all holding knives in one hand and barge guns in the other, which was really fiercer than a tiger descending the mountain. Where have the three soldiers guarding the city wall and watchtower seen this posture!
In their minds, the advantage in firepower and equipment has always been on their side! They would rely only on the fire support provided by the White artillery of the East India Company, plus the support of their water-cooled machine guns, against the armies of the Indian princely states, which had only a small number of rear-loading guns and relied mainly on front-loading guns. Now the enemy is falling from the sky, and there are machine guns and rifles on the airships that are condescendingly strafing, and they are constantly dropping bombs - it's hard to say what they blew up, but it's scary to look at that fireball and listen to that sound.
In the face of such an enemy, just put a few shots worthy of the East India Company's military salaries, who really fights with them?
Except for the dozen or so unlucky ones who were killed in a daze at the beginning, most of the other Ah San soldiers guarding the city wall and the towers at the four corners of the city wall surrendered with interest.
So before Elsfinton's men could get their guns and ammunition, the battle on the walls was over!
Of course, the guns and ammunition of the Anglo-Indian army were stored separately, and the Anglo-Indian army was very strict about the bullets, and they were personally guarded by white officers and soldiers. Fortunately, the white officers and soldiers who watched the ammunition depot were still very responsible, and did not leave their posts without permission because of the evening banquet. However, they also refused to hand over the bullets to a group of "third brothers" who were in a hurry, although there were already loud gunshots outside, and explosions were heard from time to time.
But a decree is a ordinance and must be followed...... Moreover, who knows that it was the enemy who came, but India and Asan?
It seems that the latter is more likely to be greater!
Therefore, it was not until Elsfington personally appeared in front of the white officers and soldiers that the hungry "third brother" soldiers received the bullets...... One person received ten rounds - this is also stipulated in the ordinance, you have to count and give, you can't just grab one by one! Every time the target is shot like this, otherwise the "third brother" soldiers may have bullets in their hands, guns and bullets, and then it is possible to rebel.
But the number of shots is a bit of a delay. By the time they had received their ammunition one by one and rushed out of the barracks building to support the defenders on the city wall, not only was the city wall completely in the hands of the Dajin soldiers, but even the four city gates had been occupied by those "yellow jacket airborne broadsword soldiers". And these yellow jackets also turned the captured machine guns in a different direction and set them up inward!
As a result, as soon as they set up their machine guns, Major General Elsfinton rushed out of a boxy, celestial-style dome building in the middle of the fortress with a large group of "third brothers".
This is probably the legendary "just hit the muzzle"!
Wu Fax, the king of Pingxi, who had just carried a big knife to kill a round and shot three "third brothers", happened to be standing next to a water-cooled machine gun, and saw a large group of "third brothers" rushing out with rifles.
With a piercing "da-da-da" gunshot, the hot bullets formed a deadly tongue of fire, and the "third brother" who rushed to the front cut down a piece like mowing grass!
Looking at the corpses and blood flowing everywhere, not to mention the "third brother", even Alsfington, who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars, was also instigated, and quickly retracted into the building to avoid bullets. However, those yellow-jacketed airborne troops of the Dajin Kingdom did not let him hide for long, and they had already reached his upper floor and began to blow up the floor with grenades.
I only heard a loud "boom", and the ceiling of a corridor outside the lobby on the first floor where Elsfinten was located had already blown out a big hole, and the air wave of the explosion was still wrapped in smoke and dust that came out of nowhere, and rushed directly into the lobby, making Elsfintong's face full of ashes, and even his mouth was full of ashes, before he could spit out the ashes. I heard "curry-flavored English".
"Yingyi inside, listen, you have been surrounded, hurry up and come out and surrender......"