I saw the few "Three Brothers" on the city wall being beaten to death one by one by the "yellow mantle" soldiers with pigtails who dropped from the sky with rifles, or were knocked down by bullets fired from the airship, or simply screamed. To escape. The battle-hardened Major General Elston Fenn finally reacted!
He quickly turned around and ran to his desk. He first picked up the headset of a Bakelite telephone produced by "Shingdentsu" that was placed on his desk. Then he shook the handle of the telephone vigorously, trying to answer the call. He called the headquarters of the three infantry battalions stationed in the east, west and south of Peshawar, but after shaking for a long time, there was no response!
An ominous premonition immediately enveloped Major General Elsfenton's mind.
He put down the phone receiver, opened a drawer with trembling hands, took out a revolver inside, loaded it with bullets, and then rushed out of his office with the pistol and went straight to the canteen. In just a blink of an eye, he had already rushed into a restaurant full of frightened "Third Brother".
The "third brothers" didn't notice Elsfenton's arrival. They just stared out the window and listened - watching the fireballs rising from time to time outside, and listening to bursts of gunshots, explosions, shouts and screams outside. The sound...everyone was stunned, but no one thought of taking up arms to resist the invaders!
Major General Elsfinton was so angry when he saw this scene!
These Indian mercenaries take and eat the East India Company's food. They even know how to cheat and cheat when they are training and on duty, and they are constantly fighting over religious issues... This is why Forget it, now the enemies are coming, you despicable, shameless, dirty, cowardly Indians don’t even know how to fight!
Thinking of this, Major General Elsfinton raised his revolver and fired three shots toward the ceiling. Then he saw most of the "third brothers" in the room bravely raised their arms...
When Elsfinton saw the raised arms in this room, he almost lost his breath!
But there's nothing he can do now. He doesn't have the elite British troops who fought against Emperor Napoleon back then. What he does have are these Indian mercenaries, so he can only make do with them.
"Bastard!" Elsfenton roared angrily, "You cowards, stupid pigs, what can you do with your hands raised in the air? Do you want to surrender? Don't you hurry up and fight, don't you want to taste my bullets? "
As he spoke, he pointed his black gun at a group of Indian Asans with their hands raised in the air. Only then did the three brothers realize that it was not the "Yellow Jacket Soldiers" who came, but their commander, so they were not surrendering yet. when.
Since we can't surrender yet, we can only reluctantly defend the British Empire.
"Long live the British Empire!"
"Long live the King of England!"
Immediately, the quick-thinking "Third Brother" began to shout long live. This change came so fast that Major General Elsfinton was speechless.
But he couldn't shoot at a group of people who were saying "Long live the King of England!" This was done by Napoleon's people in the past...
"Quick, get the gun and bullets!" Elsfenton ordered loudly, "Then go up to the city wall and fight!"
"Yes, sir!"
"As you command, sir!"
A group of "Third Brothers" behaved very actively under the guns and orders of Major General Elsfinton. They didn't even eat, they all held their heads high and even rushed out of the house. This morale was amazing to see. It's almost time to catch up with the white-skinned British soldiers.
Just when these "third brothers" mustered up the courage to attack, several more white-skinned officers rushed over in a panic. With the command of these officers, these "third brothers" immediately became organized.
Major General Elsfinton was also a little relieved. He entered the restaurant where the Hindu soldiers ate, but now he didn't care about "shaking people" in the restaurant of the Tianfang Sect soldiers. Let's take these "Shiva" believers to get guns and ammunition first!
I hope it’s not too late!
Thinking of this, the British major general took a pistol and led a group of "third brothers" straight to their dormitory to get the guns. After getting the guns, they had to go to the ammunition depot in the basement to get bullets.
While Elsfinton was organizing resistance, the battle on the walls of Peshawar Fort was coming to an end.
After Wu Zhenfa and others were lowered by the first batch of ropes, more than a hundred people were roped down from several other airships. Each of them held a knife in one hand and a shell gun in the other. They were really fiercer than a tiger descending a mountain. The soldiers guarding the city walls and watchtowers, Ah San, had never seen such a posture before!
In their consciousness, the advantage of firepower and equipment has always been on their side! They would only rely on the fire support provided by the white artillery of the East India Company, plus the support of their water-cooled machine guns, to deal with the armies of the Indian princes who had only a small number of breech-loading guns and mainly relied on front-loading guns. Now the enemy is falling from the sky, and there are also machine guns and rifles mounted on airships to shoot down from above, and they are also throwing bombs downwards - it is hard to say what the explosion is, but seeing the fireball and hearing the sound is really scary.
Faced with such an enemy, it would be enough to just fire a few shots to match the few military pay of the East India Company. Who would really fight them?
Except for the dozen or so unlucky guys who were muddle-headedly beaten to death at the beginning, most of the other soldiers guarding the city wall and the towers at the four corners of the city wall wisely surrendered.
So before Elsfinton's men could get their guns and ammunition, the battle on the city wall was over!
The guns and ammunition of the British and Indian Army were of course stored separately, and the British and Indian Army took bullets very seriously, and they were all personally guarded by white officers and soldiers. Fortunately, the white officers and soldiers guarding the ammunition depot were very responsible and did not leave their posts without permission because of the evening banquet. But they refused to hand over bullets to a group of noisy "third brothers", even though there was loud gunfire outside and explosions were heard from time to time.
But doctrine is doctrine and must be obeyed... Moreover, who knew that it was the enemy who came, but Indian Asan who rebelled?
It seems that the latter is more likely!
Therefore, it was not until Elsfinton appeared in person in front of the white officers and soldiers that the hungry "Third Brother" soldiers received bullets... Each of them received ten rounds - this is also stipulated in the doctrine. , you have to count them, you can’t just grab them one by one! Every target practice is like this, otherwise the "Third Brother" soldier may have bullets in his hands, and if he has guns and bullets, he may rebel.
But the number of rounds was a bit delayed. When they received their ammunition one by one and rushed out of the barracks building to support the defenders on the city wall, not only was the city wall completely in the hands of the Dajin soldiers, but even the four city gates had been parachuted by those "yellow jackets" "Big Swordsman" was occupied. Moreover, these yellow jackets also turned the captured machine guns and mounted them inwards!
As a result, as soon as they set up the machine guns, Major General Elsfinton led a large group of "Third Brothers" out of a square building in the middle of the fortress with a Tianfang Cult-style dome.
This is probably the legendary "hitting the muzzle of the gun"!
Pingxi Wang Wu Zhenfa, who had just killed three "third brothers" with a big sword, happened to be standing next to a water-cooled machine gun. When he saw a large group of "third brothers" rushing out with rifles, he was suddenly excited to kill. He got up, immediately blasted away a "yellow jacket" who was playing with a machine gun, and then personally operated the machine gun and pointed it at the "third brother" below, and fired a round!
With a burst of piercing "click-click" gunfire, the hot bullets formed a deadly tongue of flames and cut down the "third brother" who was at the front like a piece of grass!
Seeing the dead bodies and blood flowing all over the ground, not to mention "Third Brother", even Alsfenton, who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars, became intimidated and quickly retreated into the building to hide from the bullets. However, the airborne troops in yellow jackets from the Golden Kingdom did not let him hide for long. They had already arrived upstairs and started blowing up the floor with grenades.
Only a loud "boom" was heard, and a large hole was blown out in the ceiling of a corridor outside the lobby on the first floor where Elsfinton was located. The air wave of the explosion was still carrying the air that appeared from nowhere. The smoke and dust rushed directly into the lobby, making Elsfenton's head and face covered with ash, and even his mouth was filled with ash before he could spit out the ash. "Curry-flavored English" came to my ears.
"The Yingyi inside have heard that you have been surrounded. Come out and surrender quickly..."
