"What are you all doing around me? You're about to land, right? I'm going to be the first to hit the beach this time...... Don't fight with me! ”

Just when the big guy thought that this young man from Guangxi had gone crazy and couldn't participate in the landing battle that was about to start, Yang Xiuqing suddenly recovered, and shouted like a person who had nothing to do to take the lead.

"Xiuqing, are you okay?" The lieutenant company commander looked at Yang Xiuqing a little worriedly, "Do you want to find a military doctor to take a look at you?" ”

Yang Xiuqing looked surprised: "What's wrong with me?" I'm fine...... Why do you have to see a doctor? ”

What's going on?

Crazy and broken?

"Xiuqing, you really don't remember? You ...... just now."

"Just now? Oh, I just dozed off and had a dream. ”

"What did you dream about?" The lieutenant asked.

Yang Xiuqing grinned, "This is a heavenly opportunity, and the heavenly opportunity cannot be revealed...... Anyway, I'm invulnerable today, and as soon as the hatch opens, I'll be the first to rush out, and I can't keep it dead! ”

The lieutenant frowned: "Alright, alright, then you go first...... It's almost over, hurry up and get in the car, and aim a little when you turn around and shoot the machine gun! ”

"Okay! Just take a look! ”

Yang Xiuqing saluted, and then turned around and beckoned to a few soldiers who were older than him: "Company Commander Lu has asked our No. 1 car group to take the lead, let's get in the car quickly!" ”

After saying that, he walked to the two 6-wheeled A-11 assault gun trucks parked against the hatch in the cabin - it turned out that he was the gunner of the A-11 assault gun truck, and was responsible for operating a 30mm rapid-fire gun.

......

January 6, 1833, 6 a.m., north of the Penal Colony in Brisbane, Robbers Beach.

It is a very beautiful beach, full of sun, sand, blue sea, blue sky, and not far away rolling green hills covered with greenery, which may be called Sunshine Beach or Golden Beach at some point in the future. But in 1833, the British exiles living in the Brisbane penal colony called it Robbers' Beach – because the first to land on this beach were a group of robbers from London! And right next to Robbers Beach are Murderers Beach, Arsonist Beach and Kidnappers Beach......

In short, what good people can be exiled to the Brisbane penal colony in Australia by the efficient, ruthless, and social Darwinist system of the British judicial system (Darwin is not yet famous, but social Darwinism actually predates Darwin)? Not to mention that good people will not come, even the more civilized criminals, such as non-violent thieves, polite fraudsters, artistic counterfeiters, smugglers who are good at escape and interpersonal communication, etc., are generally sent to Sydney for exile in better conditions.

As for the d-criminals who have a wealth of knowledge of medicine and chemistry, the slave traders who trade black slaves to the United States, and the arms dealers who sell arms everywhere and fan the war...... He is still a respected figure, a successful man under social Darwinism, a guest of parliamentarians, ministers, and nobles, and will not come to the Australian penal colony.

"Boom, boom......"

The sound of thunderous explosions constantly echoed over the robbers' beach, and the smoke filled the scenic beach.

The exile militia (also known as the "Bandits") who had arrived from the Brisbane penal colony suddenly discovered that their desire to keep the enemy out of their penal colony was simply absurd and fatal!

They did not have the support of a naval fleet, nor did they have a strong battery for the sea defense guns - there were no such batteries in the whole of Brisbane!

The British didn't even have time to lay mines off the coast of Brisbane - because no one expected the fleet of the Ming Navy to come so quickly!

And...... How can the lives of a group of robbers, murderers, arsonists, and kidnappers be more expensive than mines? In fact, the aristocratic members of the British Parliament had always thought that it was more economical, merciful, and socially just to hang them on the gallows than to spend a lot of money to send them to penal colonies in Australia. But the spokesmen of capital in Parliament took bribes from slave traders and voted to spend British taxpayers' money on the surplus capacity of the slave industry to transport British convicts to Australia...... It is also called "developing new territories" and "humanitarianism and reducing the death penalty".

However, in Australia the commander-in-chief of the British Army, Hugh. In Admiral Gough's view, this year's robbers, murderers, arsonists, and kidnappers did not come to Australia to be exiled, but to die in a different way.

They could have been hanged comfortably on British soil, but now they are crammed into slave ships like canned sardines, suffering tens of thousands of miles to Australia, where they are placed in trenches on the beach, waiting to be "shot" and "shot...... Of course, their deaths were still valuable to the British Empire, at least to delay the landing Ming army a little, and buy a few days for the defense of the Brisbane fortress and the clearing of the surrounding farms and settlements.

Fort Brisbane is an old fortress more than 10 miles from the coastline, and the long-range artillery deployed in the fort can cover the beachhead and harbor area, but not the robber beach.

According to Hugh. Gough's plan was that the "thieves" scattered on the beaches around Brisbane could hold off the enemy for at least three days, and that Brisbane's garrison command could systematically destroy all facilities that could be used by the enemy to advance and fight.

Without these facilities, it would have been difficult to transport the heavy artillery and shells attacking the fort around the fort, and the Ming troops who had landed would have been prone to supply difficulties, and the siege of the fort would have been long and inefficient.

In this way, the Army Mobile Corps, stationed in the Sydney Fortress area, can rush along the Sydney-Brisbane Highway 1 at a 30-mile high speed every day to participate in the decisive battle.

The total length of Highway 1 from Sydney's Great Fort to Brisbane is about 450 miles, so Hugh. Admiral Gough's army would have arrived in just 15 days, and 15 days would have been enough time to exhaust the Ming army besieging the Brisbane fort, and possibly even exhaust most of its supplies......

But for those British thieves who were placed on positions near the beach to be "shelled", the dozens of square miles of Ming warships densely spread across the sea were really terrible. Even the double-barreled 60-mm high-level dual-purpose guns and 120-mm short-barreled rapid-fire howitzers (specially designed to support the landing) installed on the landing ship are not something that the "thieves and armies" can withstand.

So everyone lay down in the trenches near the beachhead, and no one dared to look up, and the whole beach of robbers was left with the incessant sound of explosions and wails.

Evans, a robber from Manchester, lost a card game last night, so today he can only act as a front-line observer, guarding a phone that I don't know if I can get through, squatting in a dirt pit at the forefront, watching countless warships on the sea through a periscope artillery mirror, riding the wind and waves, and rushing towards the beachhead while firing guns.

What is this for? Directly hit the beach with a large ship of several thousand tons?

Evans was stunned by the scene...... In his impression, shouldn't the landing be a small sampan to send people ashore? In this way, the guns on the shore can be easily fired! Now he is directly driving the ironclad ship to the shore, how can he fight?

But he couldn't care so much, so he quickly grabbed the phone and shouted: "Report, Chinese landed, and their ironclad ship rushed directly to the beachhead......