The Blood Remnant Flag is no longer an ordinary flag, it is a legend of the Chinese people!
Although most Europeans do not know what this flag represents, there are a group of people in the well-informed military and political circles who know the origin of this flag!
The residual blood flag was born along with the Chinese. During Xiao Letian's bloody battle to liberate Ryukyu, this flag sprayed with his blood inspired 100,000 Chinese and Shimadzu troops to fight in a bloody battle.
A group of unarmed people, inspired by the ten flags, completely shattered the brutal rule of the Shimadzu family and successfully made Ryukyu the birthplace of the Chinese nation.
Because these ten recognition flags have gathered the blood of many warriors, especially the blood of Xiao Letian, they are respectfully called the residual blood flags and have become sacred objects in the Chinese army!
The largest blood-remnant flag was carried by Xiao Letian himself during that war, and it was that flag that was stained with the most blood!
It is a flag that cannot be separated from the head of state. Although there is no law to determine the rights of this flag, any Chinese soldier knows that the residual blood flag represents the supreme authority of the head of state. In fact, the residual blood flag can really Mobilize the army!
Ten blood-remnant flags of different specifications are kept in different armies. These ten flags can only be ordered to be used by elders like Xiao Letian or the Four Heavenly Kings.
Because the raising of the residual blood flag represents the beginning of the decisive battle. Under this flag, there is only a fight to the death and no retreat!
Back then, in the Shiqiao Highlands, the flag of residual blood had flown once, but the Austrian troops surrounded Xiao Letian, even though he was still alive and his teeth were broken, he still failed to capture that small highland!
That battle shocked the European military circles. At that time, there were even comments like "the Chinese are good defenders"!
The bloody flag is a tradition, but Xiao Letian is unwilling to let this tradition become an iron rule, because this flag is too violent. Once this flag is flown, it is destined to be bloody!
It was Xiao Letian's principle to use this violent spirit with caution, but he underestimated the fanaticism of the Chinese soldiers, especially the navy. They actually made their own bloody flag without the authorization of the head of state!
All participants in the stormtroopers donated their blood. Xiang Ying even pierced his own palm with a knife and spilled blood on the flag!
The navy also has its own blood-remnant flag. Once the blood flag is raised, the war has reached a point where both the enemy and the enemy will be destroyed!
The Duke of Newcastle knew the goods. He had long heard the legend of the Blood Flag. When he saw the flag fluttering in the storm, his soul was shocked. He knew that what the Reach wanted today was to be destroyed by the French fleet. !
"These Chinese people have no intention of going back alive. They want to use their own sacrifices to exchange for the biggest battle losses of the French fleet!"
"Terrible Xiao Letian! How did you train the army? They want to completely destroy the pride of the French in one battle!"
"They want to forge their own fighting spirit in one battle. They want to show off their power all over the world! They want to tell the world that the Chinese are not easy to mess with!"
"Betting the lives of a ship of people with the statement of a legendary warship, just to demonstrate to the world... How much resentment and grievances are hidden in their hearts!"
The Duke is right. Whether it is the navy or the army, every Chinese soldier has resentment and grievances hidden in his heart. This is the sadness of the decline of China's national destiny for thousands of years!
This huge country once stood at the pinnacle of the world's nations, but why has it become like this now? It has turned into a yellow-skinned monkey and a pig with its tail in the mouth of Europeans!
The foreign invasions and failures have seriously damaged the self-confidence and pride of this nation. If this continues, this nation may have a huge negative impact on its own civilization!
This is the most terrifying thing. When Chinese people have a negative attitude towards China’s thousands of years of civilization, it means that Chinese civilization has died in the hearts of these people!
The more such people there are, the more China's national destiny will decline. If everyone has such denial in their hearts, then the extinction of the kingdom will be inevitable!
Of course, this trend is not obvious at the moment. The Chinese nation, which has not experienced the Sino-Japanese War, can still retain some of its pride, but the trend has been formed and the danger is getting closer!
Xiao Letian can feel the existence of this trend, so how can his direct disciple Xiang Ying ignore it? Compared with Xiao Letian's calmness, young people like Xiang Ying are more impatient and excited!
For the British, this naval battle was just a good opportunity to observe new warships!
For the French, this is a duel for revenge on the Reach!
For the Chinese soldiers, this naval battle was a desperate counterattack to completely wash away humiliation and rebuild national self-confidence!
A smart person can naturally tell the difference between them at a glance!
Because of this, Xiang Ying raised the bloody flag of death. He had sworn with all the officers and soldiers on the ship that the only thing he could do today was to die in battle!
Sacrifice Xuanyuan with my blood! This is the fate of all Chinese soldiers!
At this time, the Zhiyuan's speed had reached the limit of 18 knots, and it pierced the French battle formation without hesitation. At this moment, Hough's battle fleet was in chaos after losing the Banshee and the Pyrenees. .
The Pyrenees is retreating towards the shore, its power is getting weaker and weaker, and it is dying as if it is about to hit the rocks!
The Banshee was even worse. It was half buried in the ground at the moment. The hull had rotated 30 degrees counterclockwise, and it was about to completely capsize in the next second.
There are no other cruisers to fill the two major gaps in the battle formation. The Zhiyuan's speed can completely penetrate the formation before they have time to react!
Hof looked at the Zhiyuan getting closer and closer, unable to suppress the look of horror in his eyes. The Glory he was on was on the port side of the Zhiyuan. Once the Zhiyuan passed through the formation, the distance between the two ships would not be More than 100 meters!
Such a distance can no longer be described as a bayonet fight on the sea. This is a face-to-face dance with the god of death!
At a distance of one hundred meters, the main guns of both sides can hit each other without aiming!
But what is the power of the Zhiyuan's cannon, and what is the power of its own cannon? Hof knew it very well!
"Damn it! Full left rudder! Avoid the enemy's shelling!"
At the most critical moment, Hof gave the most selfish order. He actually let his battleship ignore the chaos of the formation and use the left rudder!
He was afraid of damaging the three 210mm main guns, because none of the French warships at the moment could withstand such a caliber of giant cannon!
A brilliant ride! Covered in gunpowder smoke and scars, the Zhiyuan rushed into the French battleship formation without hesitation, firing its three main guns and all the rapid-fire cannons on both sides at the same time.
At that moment, the Zhiyuan at sea was like an aggressive hedgehog, exploding all its spikes in an instant!
