The Lyra and Roma were indeed almost out of ammunition and food. Although Mailer could replenish them with some gunpowder and solid shells, the most lethal explosive shells were one shot less, and there was no supply at all in the Bohai area. The place.
Now even Europe has not popularized explosive ammunition, let alone backward East Asia. The two French warships must either go to Shanghai to buy from merchants in the concession, or go directly to Hong Kong and the British Navy to purchase them. There is no other way. .
Why do the two French captains and Mailer attach so much importance to the Dagukou Fort? The reason is here, because the Dagukou Fort not only threatens warships, but also stores a large amount of gunpowder, which is urgently needed by the French.
More importantly, the Green Battalion soldiers cannot modify cannons, but these French pirates have professional engineers. As long as the fort is captured, they can modify it and turn the artillery pointed at the sea ninety degrees to bomb industries. Special District.
Coastal defense artillery is powerful and has a long range. If the thick cement wall of the Special Economic Zone is bombarded by coastal defense artillery, it will be as easy as hammering tofu.
For the Dagukou fort, Mailer and the French captain had all their tricks up their sleeves. Two groups of suspects from the east and west besieged the special zone. They then secretly attacked the military formation and lurked to the west side of the fort, waiting for the defenders to lose their concentration and deliver a fatal blow.
The configuration of the sneak attack team can be described as a luxurious lineup, with 300 French veterans, more than 1,000 Eight Banners elites, and finally 500 cavalry to kill. Such a team is simply not something that the Green Camp soldiers can resist. What does the defender of Dagukou look like? Merle knows better than anyone.
But something evil happened tonight. It has been more than two hours since the sneak attack. The gunshots and shouts of death in Dagukou have not stopped, and each wave is louder and more intense than the last. Could it be that these Green Camp soldiers are all possessed by evil spirits? .
Time is precious for the two French warships. The bombing of the industrial zone has gone on for too long. They do not have so much ammunition to consume. Finally, the captain of the Lyra, Kraft, made a bold decision. He wanted to move the battleship directly in front of the Dagukou fort and use salvos of artillery to support the army's battle. If that didn't work, he would let the soldiers land ashore and join the battle directly.
The Lyra began to send light signals to the Roma, expressing its strategic intentions. The captain of the Roma, Molde, was not Kraft's superior, and he could not dissuade him and could only cooperate with him to adjust the posture of the battleship.
Operating a sailing warship to make short-distance maneuvers in the dark is a test of sailor skills. The two current warships both have their bows pointing south, and the warship's starboard gun port shoots at the Special Administrative Region.
The Lyra was in the north and the Rome was in the south. If Kraft wanted to sail to the fort, he would inevitably have to bypass the Rome. When the two ships were parallel, the artillery must not be fired to prevent accidents.
On the pitch-black sea, sailors were carefully controlling the windward area of the sails, and busy sailors were jumping up and down on the mast.
The Lyra's changes could not be hidden from the veterans in the special zone, let alone the foreign merchants who retreated to the deep sea. During this war, countless foreign cargo ships have always strictly maintained neutrality. Some left early, and of course some merchant ships chose to stay. Because only Lotte & Co. can eat the valuable cargo on their ship.
When two French warships suddenly attacked, the remaining merchant ships fled in fear. After all, Kraft and Molde are Europeans, and they also have a certain affinity for the same European merchants, especially since there are many Spanish, Portuguese, and British merchant ships among the merchant ships. No matter how brave they are, they would not dare to deal with these merchants. Merchant ships start.
Just like this, a very strange scene appeared on the Bohai Sea. Two French warships were desperately bombing the special zone, and further east, behind the warships, more than a dozen European merchant ships were moored on the sea to watch the excitement.
Of course they wanted to leave, but the valuable equipment in the merchant ship belonged to them. If it was not successfully sold to Lotte & Foreign Company, they would lose everything on this trip.
"Look... the Lyra has started to move! He must want to support the battle at Dagukou Fort. What should we do? The Chinese will not be able to hold on..." "What else can we do? Send a signal to the shore to remind These Chinese...oh God, are these French bandits forcing me to go bankrupt?"
In the dark night, more than a dozen merchant ships suddenly blinked their eyes together, and the watchman on the mast operated the signal light and began to flash the signal.
The light of the signal lights can shine very far in the night. There are many soldiers participating in the special zone and Dagukou Fort who can understand the light signals. The news that the Lyra is preparing for a sneak attack spread instantly.
"Look at the foreign merchant ships on the sea... They are sending signals to us... There are enemy ships preparing to attack Dagukou. A French warship is preparing to move south. They are going to bombard Dagukou..."
"Clean the artillery...load and prepare for resistance..."
There was a roar from the fort, and now it has really reached the critical point of collapse. Both the enemy and ourselves have become exhausted, and both sides have no backup. The SAR can no longer divide their troops.
The panting green soldiers began to run towards the cannon. They threw away the dead bodies on the barrels, searched for gunpowder and shells from the mess, and prepared to resist the enemies at sea.
How could the Eight Banners' cavalry and infantry allow them to organize resistance? Howling and screaming, they rushed forward and killed the soldiers who were operating the artillery.
The focus of the battlefield instantly changed from the battle for the fort to the battle for the artillery. The green battalion soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers rushed up layer by layer. At the end of the war, it was a group of savages fighting, and each cannon was twisted into a person. The lumps and desperate roars went straight into the sky.
Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun's bayonet formations had long since disappeared. In the chaos, everyone was fighting based on instinct. When the snipers saw that the morale of the green camp soldiers had gone crazy, they no longer needed to encourage them in hand-to-hand combat, so they all chose My old profession is long-range sniping.
The snipers began to disperse and began shooting at the enemy. Even at such a close distance, they were still deadly with their guns even without scopes. However, when the shooting lasted for five minutes, a desperate situation was placed in front of everyone. The bullets had already been fired. Empty.
"Running out of ammunition and food, this is called running out of ammunition and food..." Ye Qiu took out the bayonet from his waist and prepared to put it on the muzzle of the gun again, but found that the bayonet had been bent in the fight just now.
"Damn it, you are forcing me to hit it with my fist..." Ye Qiu looked around, taking in the entire fort. He saw countless people twisting together, fighting with fists, daggers, and even teeth and fingers. Ye Qiu Actually laughed.
Yes, that was a smile of despair. He knew that this was already the last battle. Both the enemy and us had exhausted their last bit of vitality. Now they were no longer human beings, they were just fighting with the instinct of beasts.
"Hey... Farewell to my parents, farewell to the New Army, farewell to the Prime Minister... I will leave my more than one hundred kilograms here today..."
Pang Chaoyun turned around and glared at him fiercely, "What are you so flirtatious about? If you kill a few more Tatars when you have time to talk nonsense, I don't believe that we have already fought so hard and we will lose? The Prime Minister is a hidden dragon, so we Everyone knows that Yinlong’s career has just started, how could he lose!”
"You're coward, I don't have one... Isn't it just a French battleship? I don't believe it can crush us!"
When Ye Qiu heard this, he twisted his mouth and started to say, "Shit, who are you talking about being flirtatious? We can die, and our thousands of defenders can be sacrificed, but the Prime Minister's career will not be lost!"
"I firmly believe that the Prime Minister will definitely take revenge on us. Even if he dies, there will still be a tablet of mine in the Ryukyu War Temple..."
The two were bickering, but there was a reluctance to part with comradeship in their eyes. They knew that time was running out. When the French battleship's gunfire rang out, it might be the day they said goodbye to this world forever.
When life can only be measured in minutes, bickering is not a way to commemorate leaving this world.
Dagukou is burning, the special zone is burning, the trenches are burning, even the sea is burning, wait... How can it be burning on the sea? What happened across the sea.
Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun were busy bickering and did not take a closer look at the changes on the battlefield. Now the sea to the east suddenly became brightly lit, and waves of noisy shouts came with the sea breeze.
The two looked at each other and knew something was wrong on the sea. Although they didn't know what happened, they always had a strange premonition in their hearts. Could it be that the darkest moment before dawn has passed?
Yes, their intuition was not wrong at all, because four strange large ships suddenly appeared on the sea, traveling rapidly from east to west, and they seemed to be deliberately hiding their identities. The large ships did not light any lights. He rushed over secretly.
After the ship almost approached the foreign merchant ship, the four large ships seemed to have heard some signal, and they lit up countless torches at the same time. The whole sea was bright, no wonder it gave people the illusion of suddenly burning.
"What the hell is this... Is this a battleship? God... They are about to collide. We don't have time to lift anchor. Hurry up and send a signal to tell them that we are a merchant ship..." The foreign merchants on the sea were in chaos.
The speed of the four large ships was extremely fast. Before the shouts of the foreign merchants stopped, they had already passed by. The moment the two ships intersected, all the foreigners saw a scene that shocked them.
"Soldiers! There are soldiers in blue uniforms on all the ships... They are the new army of Ryukyu. This must be the arrival of Xiao Letian's reinforcements... Our business is saved!"
At this time, Kraft and Molde also saw the four warships that suddenly appeared, and the first one was extremely familiar to them.
"The Wavebreaker... is our Wavebreaker! Damn it, that's the captured Wavebreaker... Xiao Letian's soldiers are chasing us! Adjust your posture and prepare to shoot..."
Kraft and Molde shouted out the name of the Wavebreaker almost at the same time. This light cruiser that had embarrassed them now appeared in front of them. There was only one possibility: Xiao Letian's main force was back.
That's right, the Wavebreaker is now the flagship of the Ryukyu Navy, and Xiao Letian is sitting on it. There are three modified clipper ships on the left and right of the Wavebreaker, which are full of new blue-clad troops.
Xiao Letian looked at the burning Tanggu with a stern face, and beside him was a dejected Frenchman, the captured special envoy Molière.
Xiao Letian gritted his molar teeth and said, "Fortunately, I set off one day early. If it had been one day later, my special zone would have been divided by you... Mr. Molière, you have once again pushed yourselves to the disadvantage. I'm afraid you French people won't get any benefits from future negotiations..."
"Pass my order, send a signal to the special zone, and say that I, Xiao Letian, am back, and I am back alive!"
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