Brother 770 chapters, a humiliating failure
Hood ordered the gunboats to prepare for artillery fire for nearly half an hour before ordering the landing of 2,000 elite men. At the same time, gunboats were ordered to follow the landing force to approach, ready to support at any time. Horatio, who was watching the battle in the rear, saw Hood coming cautiously step by step, looking unhurried and impatient, and his heart was depressed and annoyed, he originally expected that Hood would carelessly land and fight with a large army as soon as the enemy came up, and at that time, there was a chance that he would be attacked by the enemy's strong counterattack and finally be deflated, in that case, it would be his turn to laugh at him! But Hu De was not in a hurry or impatient, and he did it step by step, but he was afraid that after many days of attrition, Yan Yunjun would really not be able to resist his onslaught!
Two thousand elite sailed through the wrecked beach in a flat-bottomed boat and landed. Until this moment, the Ming Army still did not appear. Nelson and the others stared wide-eyed from afar, but they wanted to see how the Ming army, which was so terrible as Horatio said, would fight?
The 2,000 elites landed smoothly, and then divided into two teams, one in front of the other, and advanced to the island under each other's cover.
At this moment, the figure shook in the distance, and two or three hundred people appeared. Nelson and the others came to their senses and hurriedly stared at them. It's not really real when you see it from a distance, but you can faintly see that the enemy is dressed in full black armor and holding sharp weapons, and it feels very strong.
When the two thousand elite England saw that the enemy had finally appeared, they couldn't help but get excited, and immediately rushed forward with a shout. The Ming army also shouted to meet them. In the blink of an eye, the two sides bumped into each other, and a fierce scuffle ensued. Soon the Ming army was defeated, and they fled away from the battle and fled towards the island.
Horatio couldn't help but turn pale when he saw that the Ming army couldn't resist the attack of Hu Dejun's army and fled. When Hood saw such a scene, he laughed proudly and said loudly: "I thought how powerful the Ming people were, it turned out to be so vulnerable!" Of course, he knew that the Ming army would be so vulnerable, firstly, because the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, and secondly, and more importantly, because they had consumed too much in the fierce battle with Horatio for many days before, and there was not much combat power left. Hood knew these things, and he still spoke like this, which was nothing more than deliberately raising his prestige in front of his subordinates and destroying Horatio's ambition. The officers and soldiers next to him couldn't help but laugh when they heard Hood's words.
Hood ordered his men to shout loudly for the landing force, and for a moment, the shouts echoed between the sea and the sky, although it gave people a sense of chaos, but it did greatly increase the momentum of the landing force.
The landing force pursued the fleeing Ming army all the way into the only forest on the island. In an instant, the trace of the Ming army was lost. The general who led the team was very anxious, worried that the Ming army had escaped, and immediately ordered his soldiers and horses to search separately. Two thousand men scattered through the forest, searching in all directions. If two thousand men and horses stood on the flat ground, it felt like a lot, but scattered into the forest, it was like a drop of ink dripping into a basin of water, and in an instant it disappeared without a trace; The English teams soon lost sight of each other, and the forest was silent, except for the occasional chirping of unknown insects and birds, and only the occasional sound of the tide on the sea in the distance.
A burly captain led his men in a search through a dry ravine, lined with tall trees and dense foliage, and although the sun was shining outside, it was gloomy here. After searching for a long time, they couldn't help but get anxious, and a soldier couldn't help but shout: "You cowards, where are you hiding?" Come out quickly! If we find you, we'll cut off your heads! Another soldier laughed and said, "If you talk like that, they won't dare to come out!" ”
There was a burst of laughter, and the soldier who had spoken earlier shouted again: "If you come out and surrender yourself, we will spare your lives!" ...... "Whoosh! A sharp sound broke through the air, and almost at the same time, the croaking soldier was pierced through the neck by a wolf's arrow, and the sound stopped abruptly. Everyone was shocked, and before they could react, they only heard a sharp sound of breaking the sky sounding all around at the same time, and everyone who was walking in the ditch fell to the ground one after another, and the screams rang out. When everything calmed down, the two dozen or so English soldiers were all confused.
At the same time, dozens of English soldiers on the other side searched and advanced on a relatively flat terrain in the forest, their feet on the soft ground formed by thick fallen leaves. Suddenly, the surrounding dead branches and fallen leaves surged, and dozens of black shadows suddenly emerged from the ground. The English soldiers were startled, and before they could react, those black shadows slashed at them with swords and guns, and in an instant, the dozens of English soldiers fell in a pool of blood. And those Ming soldiers quickly disappeared into the forest.
The general who led the army heard the screams of exclamation and screams nearby, and his heart tightened, and he hurriedly rushed over with more than 100 sergeants under his command. However, when they arrived at the scene, they only saw the corpses of their own soldiers, and the enemy did not even have a ghost. The crowd was furious and shouted and cursed. Suddenly, there were screams and exclamations, and everyone hurried over. However, when they arrived at the scene, they saw only the corpses of their own soldiers in one place, and no enemy figures. As the anger subsided, but the fear grew stronger, and one soldier finally cried out in fear: "They are not people, they are ghosts!" ”
Sensing that the situation was not right, the general hastened to order the detachments to withdraw from the woods and retreat to the seashore. At this time, the officers and men of the army were already frightened, and many of them had already evacuated without waiting for the order to retreat.
The English army fled from the woods in a hurry, and the general was shocked to find that only five or six hundred of the two thousand men who had entered the forest had left! The fear in his heart consumed his heart like a demon, and he no longer dared to obey the order, and fled to the shore in a hurry!
At this moment, the war drums on one side rumbled, and the fleeing English army was shocked. Immediately, I saw a very terrifying Ming warrior leading many fierce Yanyun soldiers to rush to kill. One part of the English army turned around and ran, while the other subconsciously met the battle. Wang Gu led dozens of soldiers under his command to crash into the middle of the enemy army, slashing fiercely, and for a while, only to see flesh and blood flying, the English soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and the terrible screams rang out! Seeing that the English army couldn't resist at all, they turned around and fled for their lives, and Wang Gu led the soldiers to chase all the way to the shore! The Englishmen on the ship couldn't help but be shocked when they saw their own men and horses being driven out by the other party's slaughter of chickens and sheep!
When Horatio saw this scene, he couldn't help but be excited and frightened.
Hood came to his senses and hurriedly ordered the gunboats to bombard the enemy. With a loud roar, smoke billowed from the island. After the smoke and dust dissipated, the trace of the Ming army disappeared without a trace. All the English people couldn't help but feel in their hearts, those Ming people really seemed to be ghosts!
The rout fled back one after another, and Hood held his breath and had nowhere to vent, and when he saw that the leader did not come back, he angrily shouted at a rout officer: "What about Charlie? The officer said with a look of horror: "He, he was beheaded by that enemy general!" Hood was startled and was speechless for a long time.
Nelson ordered a halt to the assault and summoned the generals to the meeting.
In the flagship cabin, the atmosphere was depressing, and everyone frowned and looked solemn. Hood was embarrassed when he saw Horatio sneering at him.
Nelson said, "We underestimated the enemy too much, and they were much more powerful than we expected!" Better than any opponent we've faced in the past! Everyone nodded their heads and whispered.
Nelson raised his chin and said with infinite pride: "But no matter how powerful the opponent is, he will inevitably lose in our hands!" Our Great England Navy is invincible and invincible! Powerful enemies can't stop us, they will only add glory to us in the end! The generals couldn't help but lift their morale and howled.
Hood said loudly: "Generalissimo, I want to attack Kunlun Island again!" This time, I must completely destroy the enemy and occupy Kunlun Island! ”
Horatio sneered: "I'm afraid that the generalissimo will give you another chance, and the result will be the same!" Hood was furious, glared at Horatio, and shouted: "Horatio, you have fought for so many days and lost for so many days, I just lost one game, what right do you have to laugh at me!" Horatio sneered: "Don't you let people say that you lost the battle?" You've only lost one game, isn't it glorious? Hood was so angry that he went up and beat people. Several generals next to him hurriedly grabbed Hood, and Hood couldn't do anything, so he scolded, and Horatio was afraid of him, constantly sneering at each other, and the other generals continued to persuade both sides, and the scene was like a vegetable market.
"Enough!" Nelson snapped out.
The generals' hearts sank and they quieted down.
Nelson glared at Hood and Horatio, and then said angrily, "We have to find a way to defeat the enemy, not fight here!" Don't you two feel ashamed? The two of them couldn't help but feel ashamed in their hearts.
Nelson pondered: "Judging by the Horatio report and today's battle, the enemy is not only very strong in combat, but also very cunning. They had deliberately behaved like they couldn't resist in order to lure our men into an ambush circle in the forest. They had already set up traps in the forest. The generals nodded their heads, feeling that what the generalissimo said was very reasonable.
Nelson pondered, "It is not a problem to destroy the enemy on the island with our military strength, but I am afraid that it will pay a great price. The best thing to do now would be to make it impossible for them to hide on the island. ”
Early the next morning, the lookouts, who were in charge of watching the movements of the English army, noticed that the enemy fleet was moving, and many warships left the main formation and approached the island to surround it. The lookout sensed that the enemy was about to attack, and immediately reported the situation to Wangu, who was resting. When Wangu received the report, he immediately rushed to the heights, and sure enough, he saw hundreds of enemy warships surrounding the island. But to say that the enemy was going to attack was not like that, because although the ships surrounded the island, they were limited in number, and they were all ballistae, and there were no flat-bottomed ships suitable for landing.
At this time, the trumpets on the sea sounded one after another. There seems to be movement on the enemy's warship. Immediately, I saw countless fireballs flying up from the warship and heading towards the island. When Wang Gu saw this scene, his face changed.
Fireballs flew from all directions, and raindrops generally fell into the forest, grass, and buildings on the island. The climate on Kunlun Island is dry and lush with vegetation, and countless fires rise on the island in an instant. In a few moments, the flames had spread in all directions, and the forest began to burn fiercely, as if a huge fiery red tent had been raised, and the grass was blazing, and as far as the eye could see, it looked like a sea of fire, and the buildings on the island were transformed into huge pillars of fire.
The Ming army was unable to extinguish the fire at all, so they had to retreat towards a place where the grass and trees were sparse and there was no flame. However, the flames spread rapidly, and even sparsely planted areas seemed to be about to be overwhelmed by the flames soon. Wang Gu had no choice but to lead everyone out of the center and retreat towards the port, and hundreds of people hurriedly retreated to the port on the shore.
However, in this way, Nelson fell into Nelson's hand. When he saw that all the Ming troops had retreated to the shore, he immediately ordered gunboats to bombard.
In an instant, a huge roar resounded through the sea and sky, and the whistling shells kicked up smoke and dust in the harbor, and the unsheltered Ming army was completely under the bombardment of the opponent's artillery, with flesh and blood flying and heavy casualties! Wang Gu urgently ordered everyone to disperse and hide, and everyone used rocks and buildings as cover to hide. The English gunboats kept bombarding until they had swept the harbor several times before the shelling stopped. At this time, the flames had almost completely engulfed Kunlun Island, leaving only the harbor without flames. In the empty port, except for the corpses everywhere, there was not half a figure, and I don't know if Yan Yunjun was already dead.
Without waiting for the fire to be extinguished, Nelson ordered Hood and Horatio to attack the port with a landing force of four thousand.
More than 100 flat-bottomed warships immediately left the huge ship formation and rushed towards the harbor. A moment later, the flat-bottomed boats rushed to the beachhead, and the four thousand elites jumped onto the shore one after another, divided into two teams, Hood led the two thousand elites on the left, and Horatio led the two thousand elites on the right, and rushed towards the harbor.
When the tide of English soldiers flooded into the port, a rain of arrows suddenly flew in front of them, and the English soldiers who rushed in front did not expect that there were still enemies alive, and they were caught off guard and were shot over dozens of people, all of them were shocked! Immediately, I saw more than 100 bloodstained and tattered enemies rushing out from the front, and everyone couldn't help but get nervous!
Hood raised his axe and shouted, "Kill! The officers and men of England only felt the blood rushing to their heads, and they couldn't help but shout and swarm up.
The Ming army crashed into the middle of the English army, and everyone was like a mad tiger, fighting desperately. The long knife slashed through the armor and body of the enemy, the blood gushed wildly, and the spear pierced the enemy's chest, screaming and screaming; Although the English army was dozens of times larger than the Yan Yun army, it was not even half cheap. The English soldiers were terrified, but they were also ruthless, howling and fighting desperately, and the soldiers of both sides continued to rush forward, and the blood of the soldiers on both sides flew all over the sky, and the soldiers on both sides fell in a pool of blood.
Although the Ming army is brave and invincible, the English army is not a bad species, and their numbers are too many. At the beginning, the Ming army seemed to have a little upper hand, but soon, the battle situation became more and more unfavorable for the Ming army! Every soldier of the Ming army was surrounded by more than a dozen or even dozens of English warriors, and they still fought endlessly under serious injuries, and they also had to pierce the spear into the enemy's chest with knives and guns, roaring and shouting like tigers and dragons, like madness, in the vicious battle, they were bloody, exhausted, and fell in a pool of blood! The Ming warriors tried their best to sacrifice their lives and forget about death, but the manpower was limited after all, and this time they were obviously unable to create miracles anymore!
Nelson looked at such a scene of crazy battles, shocked, he didn't understand why the Ming army had reached such a desperate situation, and there was such combat effectiveness?! How are they not afraid of death, they all seem to want to die in the war!?
I don't know how long it has been, it seems to be very long, and it seems to be very short, the Ming soldiers have all been killed, and only Wang Gu remains. Wang Gu fought frantically in the enemy army like a mad tiger, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere with a big sword, and no one could stop him!
Wang Gu saw an enemy who looked like a general standing behind the crowd and kept shouting for command, and immediately brandished a big sword and killed him. The sword light flickered, the corpse blood flew, Wang Gu stepped on the corpse blood and kept moving forward, and the heavy crowd couldn't stop him alone!
After a while, Wang Gu killed through the enemy group and rushed in front of Hood. Hood raised his eyebrows, mustered up his courage, and swung his axe to meet him. Wang Gu swung the big knife, Hood swung the big axe, and there was a loud bang! Hood's strength is beyond imagination, and Wang Gu has been exhausted at this time, where can he block the other party's huge force, under the collision of the weapons of the two sides, Wang Gu's big knife was bounced away! Hood was overjoyed, laughed, and immediately swung his axe to take advantage of the situation.
I saw Hood's big axe slashing straight down at Wang Gu, but Wang Gu didn't dodge! It seems that Wang Gu is exhausted and unable to dodge.
Burst! Hood's battle axe slammed into Wanggu's left shoulder, and Wangu snorted. Hood grinned at Wang Gu, but when he saw the madness in the other party's eyes, he couldn't help but be stunned. At this moment, the cold light in front of him suddenly rose, and the opponent's big knife was squeezed straight towards his chest! Hood was shocked and hurriedly let go of the big axe to dodge, but where did he dodge, only to hear a loud bang, the big knife hit Hood's chest hard, and Hood screamed and fell backwards to the ground! The surrounding English soldiers were so frightened that they forgot to attack for a moment.
Wang Gu frowned, withdrew the big knife, slammed it to the ground, and stopped moving.
The English soldiers saw him standing there with his broadsword, like a black rock in the wind of the sea and in the light of the fire. Everyone was terrified, and they did not dare to come forward.
Horatio shouted: "Shoot the arrows!" Shoot him! Only then did the crossbowmen react, and hurriedly bent their bows and arrows to shoot at Wang Gu, who was standing there like a rock. The rain of arrows roared away, and he was shot into a hedgehog when he landed, but to everyone's horror, he was hit by so many arrows and still didn't fall!?
The two sides held each other for a few more moments, and Horatio commanded his men and horses to slowly approach. When I got closer, I found him standing there, his head hanging down, as if he didn't make a sound at all, and I couldn't help but feel if he was dead. But despite this thought in his heart, no one dared to step forward. Finally, a warrior cautiously walked towards Wangu, and when he was only two steps away from him, he screamed and poked his spear in his hand! With a thud, the spear smoothly pierced into his chest, and the warrior's eyes widened in surprise, he probably didn't expect it to be so easy to pierce his chest! The warrior retracted his spear with his hands back, and Wangu fell backwards.
Seeing this, the officers and men of the English army couldn't help but burst into cheers.
Horatio ran to Wang Gu's body, only to see that Wang Gu was covered in scars and shocked, and he had already lost his breath. Horatio did not feel the joy of victory at all in his heart, only a fear, a fear in the face of an invincible enemy! Such a huge army of their own side faced a small island, only a thousand enemy troops, actually fought for so long, such a big loss, it was not easy to defeat it, if it encountered the main force of the Ming army in the future, what would be the result? Horatio didn't dare to think any further!
Hood walked over with the support of his own soldiers, glanced at Wang Gu's corpse, and scolded with a look of fear: "These Orientals are simply crazy! ”
Horatio nodded sympathetically, glanced up at Hood, and said with a mocking smile, "I thought you were dead!" ”
Hood didn't sneer at each other this time, his face showed a palpitating look, he pulled open the robe on his chest, revealing the plate armor that had been deeply dented by the war knife, and said fearfully: "It was really dangerous just now!" If I hadn't added this plate to myself before the battle, I would have died by now! ”
An officer rushed to Horatio's side and excitedly said, "General, we have captured a prisoner!" Horatio was overjoyed and said, "Immediately take it to the generalissimo for interrogation!" ”
Soon after, Horatio personally escorted a scarred prisoner to the flagship to meet the Generalissimo. Horatio ordered the captive to kneel in Chinese, but the captive glanced at Horatio contemptuously and scolded: "The barbarians of the dog day, if there is a seed, kill me!" ”
Horatio was furious and shouted: "You have been completely annihilated, you have become our prisoner, what else do you have to be rampant!" ”
The captive laughed out loud and said contemptuously: "You have such a huge force, fighting a small island with only a thousand troops, fighting for so long, and losing so much, you dare to brag nonsense in front of your grandfather!" Fuck, what the fuck! Then he proudly glanced at everyone present, and said: "You dog-day barbarians, if you want to live, it's best to tie yourself up and go to Bianliang as soon as possible to ask our Majesty for guilt!" Otherwise, our Ming elite will come to take revenge one day, when the jade will be burned, the chickens and dogs will not be left, and it will be too late for you to regret it! ”
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.