Chapter 144, guarding Beitang

"In fact, if the Eagle Army persists, we may not be able to win. Jiang Mingyue said, "The battery has suffered heavy losses, and there may not be many shells." Relying on the shotguns and cavalry in his hand, he may not be able to beat others. ”

"In this way, they are also afraid of death. Li Shucheng said with a smile.

"However, the people of the Eagle Country have suffered a loss, and they will definitely retaliate. Jiang Mingyue said, "The war may be expanded next year." "It will take months to send back the news from here, and then organize the army to come over.

"Well, the Eagle Army still has eleven warships left, so let's go to sea and sink several of their warships into the sea to relieve some pressure first. Li Shucheng said.

As night fell, the two of them shot at the same time, intercepting a large area of sea water under the flagship of the Eagle Army, and the surrounding sea water rushed over, and a large whirlpool appeared.

Seven or eight warships nearby were involuntarily carried into the whirlpool by the seawater, and then the two removed the seawater, completely burying nine warships in the sea. The people above were carried to the depths by the whirlpool, struggling in vain, without the breath of life.

Sailing late at night, the boat was naturally lit by lights, and the people on several nearby warships watched the whirlpool appear, and the soldiers on several warships screamed and cried in panic, turned and accelerated, but still couldn't get out of the whirlpool.

Watching his eight warships sink to the bottom of the sea, an Eagle soldier muttered, "It is we who have violated God's will, and this is God's punishment for the Great Eagle Empire's disobedience." ”

"Shut up!" the officer next to him scolded, "It's just a disaster, a tsunami." If you dare to talk nonsense, shake the morale of the army, and shoot you! This kind of sea disaster has been encountered many times by the navy of our Great Eagle Empire, but we are getting stronger and stronger, and one day we can conquer the entire ocean, and the tsunami will not help us. ”

Having said that, the officer also began to mumble in his heart. When the sea calmed down, the highest-ranking officer on the Eagle Warship asked the Weight Army and the Mi Army to help salvage and rescue.

Back at the place where the warship sank, there was a body floating on the sea, and not a single surviving soldier remained.

"Let's find the Minister and the Commander first. The officer commanded.

Having said that, it is necessary to start the salvage from the corpses on the side, Minister Prus and the commander of the fleet, Heb, are on the same flagship, but the bodies of the two are far apart.

After recovering the body, the officer decided to wait until dawn to send his soldiers to sneak down to find the warship, if only he could get some guns. However, this is impossible, the warship sank into the sea more than 100 meters deep, and at this time, there was no good diving equipment, and there was no way to salvage it, so the Eagle Army could only take the corpse and go.

After the warship left, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue came back and dived into the water to get guns and ammunition, and these things can still be used for maintenance.

The Eagle Army suffered a crushing defeat at Dagukou, the warship was sunk in the Yellow Sea by a tsunami, and the news that the new Minister to the Qing Dynasty, Pruss, and the fleet commander Heb, had died in the tsunami, and the Eagle Government was furious and clamored for the expansion of the war. Bruce and Gro were once again appointed plenipotentiaries, with Clinton as commander of the Eagle Army's expedition to the Qing Kingdom, and Meng Douban as the commander of the Weight Army, leading the Eagle Army of 9,000 men and the Weight Army of 8,000 men, for a total of 17,000 people on the expedition to the Qing Kingdom.

And Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue took care of the salvaged guns and sent them out, and then crossed the entire Qing country to the southwest, came to the Indian Ocean, and waited for the invading army to sink them when they came.

However, this time it was unlucky, the two fleets were scattered, and they were sailing in shallow waters, and although they sank two warships, they only lost more than twenty men. And this kind of thing must not be repeated, otherwise people will be alert.

The Eagle Weight coalition successfully reached Hong Kong, resupplied and then headed north along the coast to occupy the Zhoushan Islands. Then take a break and continue north.

Li Shucheng once again went to Tianjin to report the news, but at this time they did not know that the Zhoushan Islands had been occupied by the Eagle Weight coalition army a month ago, and the two armies had already gone north, and the war was about to start again.

However, after the news was reported, Xianfeng fantasized about making peace with Yingwei, and instructed the monks Greenqin and Hengfu to "not still have the intention of fighting first and then making peace, so as not to cause trouble among the soldiers, and there is no time limit for the end of the day, and it is always necessary to take the situation as the priority", and sent Hengfu to negotiate with the British and French envoys.

But the Yingli coalition army was rushing to fight the Qing State first and then get what it wanted, occupied Yantai and Dalian Bay, directly blocked the Bohai Bay, and then approached Dagukou.

Because of the last victory and Xianfeng's instructions, Seng Lingqin thought that the enemy was not good at land warfare, so he only buried some mines in Beitang and defended the Dagu Fort.

"What does this kid think? Do you really think that the enemy is a fool?" Li Shucheng shook his head and said, "The enemy wants to go ashore from here, and these mines will not do anything." After going ashore, the Dagu Fort will be outflanked, and the water and land will be coordinated, and Dagu will not be able to be saved, and then the people can drive straight to the capital. ”

"Hmm, there's a foreign devil, a ghostly one, who seems to have come to spy on the military. Li Shucheng looked at a foreigner in the distance and looked around as he walked, and said.

"When I came here at this time, I must have come to spy on the military. Jiang Mingyue said.

"Hey, who are you, what are you doing here?" said Ignachev, who was approaching the coast, when suddenly a man came out of front of him to restrain him.

"I ...... I am the Russian envoy Ignachev. "I'm here to ...... I want to watch this war. ”

"Oh, watch this war!" Li Shucheng said with a smile, "Then don't come here to observe, this is now a military stronghold, and no one is allowed to enter." ”

"Ah, that's right, then I'll leave now. Ignachev said.

"You are a Russian envoy, not a person from the Eagle Country and the Weight Country who are about to go to war, but the next time you are caught, you will die. Li Shucheng said.

After Ignachev left, Li Shucheng said: "I don't know if he will go and tell the Eagle Weight Army that there are people stationed here?"

"In terms of aggression against the Qing Kingdom, they are in a group, and they will definitely go to tell the Eagle Weight Army. Jiang Mingyue said, "However, it may not be long to fool around." It is not easy for them to attack the Dagu Fort, and they will still send troops to force the landing from here later. ”

"I just hope that after we fight here, the Qing army behind will be able to hear the movement and rush over to defend. Li Shucheng said. At this time, when it comes to talking about this, Monk Lingqin will definitely not believe the judgment of the two.

Sure enough, after a few days of fighting the Dagu Fort without any progress, the Eagle Weight Army still decided to attack Beitang and outflank the Dagu Fort after landing on the shore.

"The warship escorted the troop carrier. Li Shucheng said, "Let's fire a few cannons first, aiming at the troop carrier, so that we can kill a few more." ”

Didn't even go to camouflage, adjusted the angle, and opened fire as soon as the troop carrier came into range. The troop carrier had a large target and a slow speed, which was a good target for artillery shelling, and three of the six shells in the first round actually fell on the troop carrier, blowing up a piece of stumps and broken arms. The warship also fired back, but the accuracy at the beginning was not high, and the two of them could avoid the impact point and fire, but after three or four rounds, there was no chance.

The two of them then withdrew from the range of the ship's guns, entered the dug position, and waited for the Eagle Weight Army to come over.

An hour later, the Eagle Weight Army slowly drove over, Li Shucheng got up and took a look, then retracted and sat down, leaned back, and said, "They have discovered this position, and they are going to open fire next." ”

After a while, there was a whistling sound, and then it landed on the ground and exploded. Li Shucheng didn't pay attention, and a nearby cannonball lifted the dirt and fell all over.

"These bastards, it's not good to shoot the cannon, why are you blowing me up!" Li Shucheng scolded, got up and tidied up, it turned out that there was hay under his buttocks.

Jiang Mingyue said with a smile: "People originally wanted to blow you up. ”

Shaking off the soil and re-laying the hay, Li Shucheng used his strength, and the true qi formed a wall of qi, isolating the soil, and even the sound of the explosion was greatly weakened. The shrapnel exploded from the shells that fell into the trenches from time to time, and even the defense formed by the true qi could not pierce it. And even if you pierce the True Qi defense, you can't hurt the two of them.

Li Shucheng looked at the shrapnel that touched the True Qi Defense and said, "Their shells can't hurt us, are we bullies?"

"Count, but they also bullied people first. Jiang Mingyue said with a smile, "We just report and report." ”

After a few rounds of shells, Li Shucheng said: "The artillery has stopped, and the next thing is the infantry charge, and it is time for them to see our marksmanship." As he spoke, he bent down and ran to the other side.

The distance between the eagle weight army was 100 meters, and the two of them shot at each other, and the speed of shooting and loading was too fast, and the two of them were stunned to feel more than ten or twenty people. And the marksmanship was accurate, and the charging eagle weight army fell one by one.

Hearing the dense gunfire, the charging Eagle Weight soldiers hurriedly lay down and shot, but it was useless, even if they climbed to the ground, they were killed by a single shot.

For Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue, the lying Eagle Weight Army is easier to fight than the standing one, although the standing target is big, but the gunpowder can only hit the heart and head with one shot, but they are running, and it is not easy to fight. Now lying on the ground and not moving, the size of the target does not affect the accuracy, and it is very simple to shoot one shot at the head.

After a while, the commander on the opposite side noticed that something was wrong, and the artillery bombarded again, suppressing Li Shucheng and the others, and the soldiers of the Eagle Weight Army lying on the ground had to retreat.

The first charge used 200 men, and the commander thought that after some artillery bombardment, there were few people on the opposite position, and 200 men would just charge up to clean up the battlefield. Who knew that there were so many people on the other side who could fight back? Seeing that there were less than a hundred soldiers retreating, the commander regretted it. He decided that after this shelling, all the infantry rushed up and took the position.

After the artillery bombardment, the infantry all pressed on, and the dense enemy, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue didn't need to aim, they just shot directly, but there were too many enemies, and seeing that the distance was getting closer and closer, the two lit the grass put in the trench, retreated along the communication trench to the second line of defense, and continued to shoot.