Although the two groups of British soldiers who landed on the pier set off almost at the same time, the time of landing was slightly different, because the Johor Bahru Fort was more prominent than the wharf, so the British troops who landed on the Johor Bahru Fort also went ashore earlier, and when the British soldiers here reorganized their ranks and climbed the cliff, the British soldiers who landed at the wharf had just arrived on the shore. At this time, the small wharf had already become a ruin under the bombardment of the British warships, except for the burning broken wooden planks and the large craters all over the ground, not even a single figure was seen, and the British officers who landed did not even bother to sort out the formation, and together seventy or eighty British officers and soldiers were just giggling and walking towards the town of Johor Bahru on the slope, not to mention the sharp soldiers who sent out to explore the way, and the vast majority of the British soldiers did not even level their guns.

The slope connecting the pier and Johor Bahru Town is not too long, that is, the distance of about 100 meters, of course, it is not wide, that is, up and down 15 meters, and the slope is not large, about 35 degrees, the originally smooth road is already potholed at this time due to the British shelling, which is not easy to walk, which makes the British soldiers very dissatisfied with the navy's "small fuss", and many soldiers laugh at the navy's "prudence" while walking around the crater.

This group of British officers and soldiers lazily crawled on the slope for a long time, and suddenly heard dense gunfire and explosions from the Johor Bahru Fort, and the bewildered British officers and soldiers suddenly huddled together, and in a panic, they suddenly heard an incomprehensible roar from the cliff overhead, and then a large number of long strips of things fell from the sky, and before the British officers and soldiers could figure out what these hail-like things were, a violent explosion sounded under the feet and above the head. The flying shrapnel swept the British officers and soldiers to the ground like the sickle of death.

Survivor? No, not a single one, not a single one of the British officers and soldiers huddled together survived the baptism of nearly two hundred grenades, and the English sailors who were chatting on the small boats at the docks watched the fatal salute in amazement, and for a moment forgot to turn the bow of the ship and escape. It wasn't until I don't know which sailor let out a terrible scream that the sailors on seven or eight dinghys frantically turned their bows, collided with each other, and fled towards the battleship in the distance.

"Haha, cool! Evacuate! Wu Haoming, the commander of the second company, who had just ordered the grenade to be thrown, came out from the top of the cliff, looked at the pile of corpses on the slope below, waved his hand very proudly, and ordered the officers and men of the second company to withdraw from the trench and retreat to a distance along the communication trench. Only a few observation posts were left on the forward positions.

Shock, absolute shock! Although Major General Regan had a hunch that things would never be so simple, he never expected that the attacking English Army would be defeated so badly, more than 150 officers and soldiers attacked, and only 18 people could come back alive, and they didn't even see what the enemy looked like, so they were defeated, this kind of shame was intolerable to Major General Regan.

"Colonel. Let your cannon speak, boom! Boom me! "Rear Admiral Regan lowered his telescope and headed towards the commander of the English cruiser, Mike; Colonel Green roared wildly.

"Oh, well, as you wish......" Colonel Green said. There was a sudden halt - the roar of cannon rang out at the Johor Bahru battery, and eight huge cannonballs whizzed towards the English fleet, and Colonel Greene, an old naval officer, knew that it was a roar of heavy artillery as soon as he heard the whistling of the shells. If such heavy artillery fell on the cruiser, the cruiser's thin planks would not be able to withstand many cannons at all, and Colonel Green at this time did not have time to pay attention to Rear Admiral Reagan's complaints, and ordered in a loud voice: "Set sail!" Full sails! ”

Before the English sailors could raise their sails, eight huge cannonballs fell with a whistling fall, splashing huge waves around the flagship "Greenwich", and the huge hull of the "Greenwich" shook by the huge waves set off by the near misses, and Colonel Green was fortunate that all eight cannons that were obviously aimed at the "Greenwich" were empty! With the order of Colonel Green was conveyed to the ships. All the English cruisers immediately raised their sails and moved at full speed, and the gunners of the ships, which had been idle, immediately put into a state of intense loading and firing.

"It's a pity!" Li Mingming, the leader of the platoon, scolded very regretfully, and waved his hand: "Withdraw." "Leading a platoon of officers and men to run towards the trenches in the back hill - fighting the hundreds of guns of the English fleet with eight guns, heroic is heroic, but it is foolish bravery, it is almost like sending to death, anyway, the task of the Marine battalion is to hold Johor Bahru. As for whether those bulky old guns can be saved. It has nothing to do with the Marine Battalion.

The battery is always the weapon that poses the greatest threat to the battleship, and there is a famous saying in the English Navy that only a fool would use a battleship against the battery. The reason is very simple: the shore defense artillery is generally heavy artillery, if the strength of the two sides is almost the same, it is difficult for the wooden battleship to resist the bombardment of the shore defense heavy artillery, this confrontation is often the result of the defeat of the battleship, but this sentence is not all right, if the number of shore defense guns is insufficient, the outcome of the war is naturally the victory of the battleship, at this time there were only ten guns on the Johor Bahru Fort, two of which were damaged by the gun mount, and the gun port could not be adjusted at all, and there was no difference with waste, In this case, taking eight coastal defense guns to fight to the death with the English fleet can only sacrifice the lives of the defenders who are not many in vain, and Chen Yaowu will never do such a loss-making deal.

The four English battleships that felt the threat immediately entered the cruising state, and the four battleships covered the Johor Bahru Fort with artillery fire like cannonballs without money, and bombarded four rounds in a row, and hundreds of shells plowed the entire battery over and over again, until it was confirmed that the Johor Bahru Fort had no backhand power, and more than a dozen boats full of British Army soldiers slowly rowed in the direction of the battery, and the English fleet always maintained a state of alert, and more than 100 cannons pointed directly in the direction of the battery, Ready to provide artillery support to the landing British troops.

"Phew. Chen Yaowu spat on the spittle full of mud and sand, shook his head, shook off the dust, and stood under a big tree whose top had been cut off by shrapnel, carefully observing the every move of the English army, and his heart was full of anger - although most of the shells fell on the fort in the shelling just now, some of the shells fell on the back hill. Although the Qing officers and soldiers were hiding in the trenches, there were still some casualties, and counting the casualties of the first shelling, the first company had already killed eight people and wounded more than 20 people, and this battle had just begun, and it had not survived half of the first day.

This time the British did not divide their forces, and all the boats rushed to the battery. The English soldiers on the boat no longer had the laughter of the first landing, and all looked nervously in the direction of the battery, and before the boats had landed, more than one hundred and fifty English soldiers all jumped out of the boats, stepped on knee-deep water, and went to the shore on guard, and when they reached the shore, they did not form a whole formation. All the officers and men held their guns, widened the distance between the front and the back, and carefully climbed the path up the cliff.

The actions of the British army all fell into the eyes of Chen Yaowudi, who saw that the British army was scattered at this time, and the guns of the English fleet never left the top of the cliff. Chen Yaowu cursed in a low voice, then waved his hand and said, "On the first row, pay attention to the firing time and get closer." Aim and hit, just don't let the Brit rush to the top of the cliff! Li Mingming, the platoon commander, replied, and led more than 50 soldiers under his command to rush along the communication trench towards the forward position, and all the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were in place and waited for the British army to come up and send them to death.

The British army walked very slowly and carefully, and after a long time, they finally arrived at the place where the previous wave of British troops was ambushed, and seeing the blood and stumps and broken arms all over the ground, many British soldiers began to weaken their legs and feet. His hands were shaking enough, and even the gun was about to be unstable, so anxious that the British commander kept scolding his mother, kicking and pushing, and finally drove more than a dozen sharp soldiers to climb to the top of the cliff.

"Fire!" Li Mingliang saw that the dozen or so British soldiers had climbed not far from the top of the cliff, and gave a battle order in a loud voice, and in an instant, more than fifty rifles rang out at the same time, and the gunfire was like fried beans. The dozen or so hapless English soldiers bounced off in a rain of bullets as if they were dancing a swing dance. The corpse, which had been beaten into a bloody gourd, tumbled down the cliff and smashed most of the British troops behind. Frightened, the following English soldiers could no longer pay attention to the officers' orders, turned around and fled to the foot of the mountain, they were greeted by a rain of grenades, and in the fierce explosion, the slower British soldiers had to become one of the broken corpses on the ground, and the remaining hundred or so British soldiers rushed down the mountain crying wolf.

"Open fire, target the enemy position at the top of the cliff. Rear Admiral Green, commander of the cruiser's fleet, put down the monocular in his hand, smiled and gave the order to open fire, and in an instant, more than 100 guns on the four cruisers roared, turning the Qing army's clifftop position into a sea of fire, and the first row of officers and men who were cheering for repelling an enemy attack were suddenly caught off guard by this artillery attack, although there was the protection of the trenches, but still suffered heavy casualties, and the whole platoon of 53 people remained intact after this shelling, only more than 20 people remained, 18 people died, and 12 people were wounded.

"Damn it!" Chen Yaowu angrily smashed the big tree beside him, his heart ached, he had long known the hardships of this battle, but he didn't expect that in such a short period of time, the first row had already lost more than half, and it was only three minutes at this time, it was still early before dark, and the Qing army without artillery support had no way to threaten the cruiser, if he took human lives to fill it, if he wanted to fill it for three days, even if the two hundred people in his hands were all gone, it would not be enough.

"Tell Li Mingliang that Lao Tzu has no reinforcements for him, let him hold on, and no matter what, he can't let the British rush to the top of the cliff!" Chen Yaowu resisted the urge to increase troops, and ordered the communication soldiers beside him with a gloomy face.

"Yes. The herald saluted, rushed down the traffic trench, and quickly came to Li Mingming's side, panting to convey the order.

Li Mingliang was grazed by a piece of shrapnel in the artillery bombardment just now, and at this time the wound was bandaged, and the blood on his face was too late to wipe it, looking extremely hideous, and when he heard the order clearly, he replied without hesitation: "Resolutely complete the task!" ”

"Platoon commander, the yellow-haired monster is up again!" A lookout shouted loudly, and all the officers and soldiers who were still alive in the Qing Dynasty became nervous, the bullets were loaded, the caps of the grenades were unscrewed, and the revolvers on the ground were drawn from their waists and placed on the edge of the trench in front of them.

This time the British army came quickly, the two walked side by side, the spears in their hands were all aimed at the top of the cliff, ready to fire at any time, fifty meters, forty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters, the British army advanced to twenty meters from the head of the cliff and stopped, waited for a long time but never waited for the Qing army to shoot the movement, they all thought that the Qing army should be annihilated or frightened away by the artillery bombardment just now, the English soldiers who were originally bowing down relaxed a lot, shouted and rushed to the top of the cliff, just when they thought they were winning, Li Mingliang shouted: "Call me!" Suddenly, dozens of revolvers rang out at the same time, and the dense rain of bullets covered the English soldiers who were caught off guard, and the English soldiers who had not seen such a dense rain of bullets suddenly fell a large number, and the rest did not care about the dangerous terrain of the cliff, and turned around and ran without a price, many British soldiers stepped on empty feet in the escape, screamed and fell off the cliff, and fell into a puddle of flesh, and the Qing soldiers once again used grenades to send off the British army.

This time, the Qing soldiers did not wait to be bombed in the trenches, repelled the attack of England, and immediately retreated to the rear along the communication trenches. In this way, the British battleships opened their guns and the Qing army withdrew, and the artillery fire stopped and returned, and the British army launched several attacks all of them were ruthlessly crushed, except for leaving more than 160 corpses but found nothing, it was late, and the British troops attacking the fort had to withdraw to Shan Ma Xi in frustration, and the first day of the difficult day was over, and at this time the surprise attack on Malacca also kicked off......

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