The Wavebreaker is the flagship, and three clipper ships surround it, all with full sails. The forward deck is filled with fully armed New Army soldiers, rows and rows as neat as tofu cubes.
All the soldiers had firm eyes and calm demeanors. There was no fanaticism before the battle, but only the unique calmness of veterans who had fought hundreds of battles. How could they not be calm? Among these soldiers were officers who had participated in the Battle of Sadua and veterans of the Ryukyu Defense War. In their eyes, the battle in Tanggu was completely a piece of cake.
"Move forward with full sail... collide and prepare for a boarding battle... capture the Roma, capture the Lyra... these two battleships are gifts to the Prime Minister..."
On the decks of the four ships, the officers were boosting the morale of the brothers. The roars one after another naturally had a solemn air of war.
"Brothers... these bandits from Europe think they can conquer us with advanced foreign guns and cannons... Now we have to use actual actions to prove to them that we Chinese can kill them all even with bayonets. In the sea…”
"The new troops put on bayonets... let them know what the bravest soldiers are... use bayonets to kill the enemy's life and their will to fight, so that they will never dare to face our military flag in their lives..."
"The assault team is ready to seize the beach... The Dagukou fort is burning. This is where the British and French forces landed in 1967. The Dagukou fort was not defended at that time. The Manchus did not defend it. This time we are here to defend it... "
"Full sail ahead...Full sail ahead..."
Getting closer and closer, Xiao Letian could already see the chaos on the Roma and Lyra clearly with the naked eye. The excited Prime Minister Xiao of Donghai suddenly grabbed Molière's arm and laughed wildly.
"Look... Is this what you call an elite navy? The positions of the two battleships are all wrong, and the gun doors are not opened. They are as stupid as two pigs... Hahaha..."
Moliere's face was ashen and he lowered his head without saying a word, but Xiao Letian obviously didn't want to let him go. "Nohira, hold his chin, pinch his eyelids, and let him see with his own eyes how his fleet was destroyed. , let him see how we captured the French warships... Hahaha, give me two frigates for free, Napoleon III is really too generous..."
"That's enough, Mr. Xiao, you are also the prime minister of a country, please don't be such a rogue...please be a gentleman..."
Before Molière could finish his words, he heard a crisp sound and his left cheek turned red. He looked closely and saw that it was the lambskin gloves on Xiao Letian's hands that had hit him hard. face.
"You..." Molière was furious.
"What are you doing? What do you want, a prisoner of your rank? Go and sue me, sue me to your emperor, sue me all over Europe. I won't admit it anyway, and you won't have evidence... …”
"What are you looking at...Look at me whipping you again and again...Did you talk to me about human rights? That's okay. It's only the 19th century and you're going to do this to scoundrels? What kind of human rights did you talk about when you led troops to massacre the city?" Now that it's your turn to be beaten, you want to shove me into the pile of gentlemen?"
"Nohira kept a close eye on him, let him see with his own eyes how his soldiers died in our hands..."
Noheita is now Xiao Letian's most loyal hunting dog. After experiencing that trip to Europe, all the members of the Ba Dao team have been sublimated. The pride tempered on the Pu-Austrian battlefield has made them no longer afraid of any Europeans.
Nohira stretched out his hand and pinched the back of Molière's neck, forcing him to watch the upcoming war. "The Prime Minister tells you to watch, and you must watch. If you don't watch, I will cut off your upper eyelids with a sword... Don't worry." , my hand is very steady and the knife is very sharp, it will never hurt your eyeballs..."
When Molière heard this, he was so frightened that his eyes widened and he stared at the two familiar battleships in front of him. To be honest, he was not afraid to death, but he was really afraid of the horrible and perverted torture method of cutting off his eyelids.
Molière's heart was bleeding. He really couldn't imagine how the colonial elite he had brought out performed so poorly today. The two warships were crossed and misaligned, unable to fire salvos of artillery, and they also lost their maneuverability, as if they were trapped in a quagmire. Two pigs are entangled together.
"Bruce...Bruce...Is this your plan? Let our soldiers take off their military uniforms and become pirates? What effect will this method of pretending to be deaf and mute have? As long as Xiao Letian captures a group of prisoners, as long as he gets When it comes to the latest confession, what’s the use of wearing military uniform or not?”
Molière really scolded General Bruce wrongly. In Bruce's plan, Xiao Letian had no navy, and the Qing Dynasty had no navy. In fact, the two warships had no opponent at all. If they couldn't defeat them, could they still escape? How could they be defeated? The prisoners.
But no one could have imagined that Xiao Letian dared to transform a clipper ship into a battleship, and he also dared to attack at night. What was even more unbelievable was that he actually wanted to capture these two battleships, and he actually wanted to fight hand-to-hand.
Since ancient times, there has been a proverb that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. At the moment when every nation is just rising, there are always shining stars and talented people. Emerging forces are full of vigor and vitality.
In the eyes of all the New Army, as long as the Prime Minister is here, nothing is impossible. The New Army has experienced miracles since its formation, and today will be no exception.
As the four battleships got closer and closer, the two French battleships were in complete chaos. The sailman was yelling on the mast, the artillery crew was running around below the deck, and the two captains even took out their pistols. Shoot in the air to quell the chaos.
But everything was of no use. The warships with full sails were extremely fast. Before the gunners could finish loading, four warships had already collided with them with an arrogant momentum.
"Brothers, hurry up... prepare to join the ship... prepare for hand-to-hand combat..." In the last command, two of the four warships on the left and right fiercely cut into the wings of the French ship, and with a bang, the sound of wood hitting the sea was heard. Muffled sound.
The strong deck of the ship rubbed violently, making a sour clicking sound. The huge vibration of the ship's hull threw many soldiers away, and they fell like dumplings. The huge impact force caused the two warships originally heading north and south to directly Turned ninety degrees, it became east-west.
At the moment of the collision, Xiao Letian was standing on the high poop of the ship. If Hingtaro hadn't grabbed his belt quickly with quick hands and eyes, Prime Minister Xiao of Donghai would have had to take a few sips of sea water. But just like that, Xiao Letian's ribs were hit by the side of the ship, which hurt so much that he sweated on his forehead.
"Lower the sail... lower the anchor... brothers, go up and fight..." Xiao Letian was jumping and shouting like a madman.
"Kill..." The four battleships were filled with more than two thousand new officers and soldiers. In front of them was a huge gap that was knocked out. The sailors inside the enemy ship were looking at them in horror.
A wave of soldiers jumped in from the gap created by the collision, firing and clearing the enemy cabin by cabin. There were more new troops standing on the mast, holding ropes and jumping onto the enemy's deck, and more The soldiers pulled up the rope ladder and climbed up like army ants.
The two French warships suddenly erupted in the sound of killing. The red-eyed New Army shouted out the French words that had just been learned: "You will not kill if you surrender your gun... Kneel down and you will live... Your special envoy is in our hands..."
The group of French soldiers were confused by the French with a southern and northern accent, and it took them a full quarter of an hour to understand what the Chinese were shouting. Unexpectedly, the special envoy was also on the boat, and the Chinese actually threatened them by using the special envoy as a hostage.
In this sudden attack, the morale of the French army dropped like an avalanche, while the morale of the new army rose like a hot air balloon. The fresh army was so pumped that they didn't even bother to shoot, and their sharp bayonets were flying up and down. Enemies who did not surrender were picked to death.
The strong smell of blood suddenly wafted over the sea, and Molière's nose became sore and two tears fell.
"What's wrong? You can't bear to leave? It's easy to handle. You shout to them and use your identity as a special envoy to order them to stop fighting. I can promise not to kill the prisoners..."
"How should I trust you? What credibility do you have to guarantee..." Molière glared.
"It doesn't matter, you want to yell or not. Anyway, I have more people now and you have fewer people. If I kill one of them, I will just let it go..." Xiao Letian looked indifferent.
Molière's persistence ended here. He shook his head, put a trumpet in his hands and shouted to the battlefield, "I am special envoy Molière... Now I order you to stop resisting... surrender to these New Army soldiers, Don’t sacrifice in vain…”
After shouting three times in a row, the shouts on the battleship were obviously much quieter. Ten minutes later, Captain Kraft and Captain Molde had no choice but to surrender.
The navy is originally a technical branch, including sailors, deck officers, maintenance workers, artillery shooters... Although the soldiers in these professions can carry guns and fight, they are still far behind the professional army, especially the new army. A group of crazy soldiers who gave up resistance after just one encounter.
"Barbarians, they are all a group of barbarians... five or six people beat each other, and stabbed each one like a wild beast. It's too scary, they are too scary..." This was the common sentiment of all sailors after the war.
After the battle at sea, Xiao Letian stretched out his hand and pointed to the southwest. "The Wavebreaker is heading south... The commando team is ready to land. Where is my sword-drawing team? Are you ready..."
"I obey the Prime Minister's order..." An army has been assembled on the deck of the Wavebreaker. They did not participate in the melee fight just now. This group of soldiers has only one mission goal, and that is the Dagukou Fort.
The Wave Breaker began to pierce the waves and rush toward the fire at Dakukou. The roars of battle were heard one after another on the deck. The commandos led by Luo Huo and Sima Yun were singing, while the sword-drawing team members led by Noheita and the others were singing. Long live onboarding.
"The Dagukou Fort is right in front of you... prepare your boat to seize the beach..."
One after another, small boats were lowered to the sea by ropes. On the small boats, a piece of oilcloth wrapped a strange-shaped object, and the surrounding soldiers surrounded them as if to protect their own lifeblood.
On the dark sea, more than a dozen small boats began to row towards the shore, while more soldiers chose to wade forward, and an iron current soon appeared in the sea.
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