"What are you all doing around me? Are we about to land? This time I will be the first to rush to the beach... Don't any of you fight with me!"
Just when everyone thought that this young man from Guangxi was suffering from epilepsy and would be unable to participate in the upcoming landing battle, Yang Xiuqing suddenly recovered and shouted to take the lead like a normal person.
"Xiuqing, are you okay?" The lieutenant company commander looked at Yang Xiuqing a little worriedly, "Would you like a military doctor to take a look at you?"
Yang Xiuqing looked surprised: "What's wrong with me? I'm fine...why do I need to see a doctor?"
How is this going?
Is the story broken due to epilepsy?
"Xiuqing, you really don't remember? Just now you..."
"Just now? Oh, I dozed off just now and had a dream."
"What did you dream about?" asked the lieutenant.
But Yang Xiuqing smiled and said, "This is a secret, and the secret must not be leaked... In short, I have become invulnerable today. When the hatch opens, I will be the first to rush out. I can't die if I keep it!"
The lieutenant frowned: "Okay, okay, then you go first... That's almost it. Get in the car quickly and aim better when you turn back to fire the machine cannon!"
"Okay! Just take a look!"
Yang Xiuqing saluted, then turned around and waved to a few older soldiers: "Company Commander Lu asked our No. 1 crew to take the lead. Let's get on the train quickly!"
After saying that, he was the first to walk towards the two 6-wheeled A-11 assault gun trucks parked against the hatch in the cabin - it turned out that he was the gunner of the A-11 assault gun truck, responsible for operating a 30mm rapid-fire cannon. .
...
January 6, 1833, 6 o'clock in the morning, Robbers' Beach, north of Brisbane Penal Colony.
This is a beach with extremely beautiful scenery. Sunshine, sand, blue sea, and blue sky can be seen everywhere. Not far away, there are undulating green hills covered with green plants. In the future, people may call this beach a sunny beach or a beach. golden beach. But in 1833, the British exiles living in the Brisbane Penal Colony simply called it Robbers' Beach - because the first people to land on this beach were a group of robbers from London! Next to Robber's Beach are Murderer's Beach, Arsonist's Beach and Kidnapper's Beach...
In short, how could anyone be exiled to the Brisbane Penal Colony in Australia by the efficient, ruthless British judicial system that believed in Social Darwinism (Darwin is not yet famous, but Social Darwinism actually predates Darwin) Good guy? Don't say that good guys won't come, even civilized criminals, such as non-violent thieves, polite fraudsters, artistic counterfeiters, smugglers who are good at escaping and interpersonal communication, etc., generally will. Sent to exile in Sydney where conditions were better.
As for the criminals with rich medical and chemical knowledge, the slave traders who sold black slaves to the United States, and the arms dealers who sold arms everywhere and instigated war... they are still respected figures under Social Darwinism. Successful people are the guests of parliamentarians, ministers and nobles, and will not come to the Australian penal colony.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
Explosions as dense as rolling thunder continued to echo over the Robbers' Beach, and the beautiful beach was filled with gunpowder smoke.
The exile militias (also known as the "thieves' army") who came from the Brisbane penal colony suddenly discovered that their desire to keep the enemy out of their penal colony was simply absurd and fatal!
They have no support from the naval fleet, nor do they have a solid fort that can house coastal defense artillery - there is no such fort in the entire Brisbane!
The British didn't even have time to lay mines off Brisbane - because no one expected the Ming Navy fleet to arrive so quickly!
And... how could the lives of a group of robbers, murderers, arsonists, and kidnappers be more valuable than mines? In fact, aristocratic members of the British Parliament have always believed that hanging them on the gallows was more economical, more merciful, and more in line with social justice than spending huge sums of money to send them to Australian penal colonies. However, the group of capital spokesmen in Parliament took bribes from slave traders and voted to spend British taxpayers' money to hire the excess transportation capacity of the slave industry to transport British criminals to Australia for resettlement... and they also called it euphemistic. "Developing new territories" and "humanitarianism, reducing the death penalty".
However, in the view of General Hugh Gough, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in Australia, this generation of robbers, murderers, arsonists, and kidnappers came to Australia not to be exiled, but to die in a different way.
They could have been hanged comfortably in the UK, but now they were crammed into slave ships like sardine cans, endured hardships, traveled tens of thousands of miles to Australia, and were placed in trenches on the beach. , waiting for "cannon death" and "shooting death"... Of course, their deaths are still valuable to the British Empire. At least they can delay the landing Ming army a little, and prepare for the defense and defense of Brisbane Fortress. Buy a few days to clean up surrounding farms and residential areas.
Brisbane Fortress is an ancient fortress, more than 10 miles away from the coastline. The long-range artillery deployed in the fortress can cover the beachhead and port area, but it cannot support the robber beach.
According to Hugh Gough's plan, the "thief troops" distributed on various beaches around Brisbane can delay the enemy for at least 3 days, and using these 3 days, Brisbane's garrison headquarters can systematically destroy all possible Facilities used by the enemy to march and fight.
Without those facilities, it would be difficult to transport heavy artillery and artillery shells to attack the fortress around Brisbane Fortress, and the landing Ming army would also be prone to supply difficulties, and the siege of Brisbane Fortress might become lengthy and ineffective.
In this way, the Army Mobile Corps stationed in the Grand Fortress area of Sydney can rush to participate in the decisive battle along Highway 1 from Sydney to Brisbane at a high speed of 30 miles per day.
The total length of Highway 1 from the Sydney Grand Fortress to Brisbane is about 450 miles, so Admiral Hugh Gough's army only needs 15 days to arrive, and 15 days is enough time to besiege the Brisbane Fortress. The Ming army was exhausted and might even have used up most of its supplies...
But for the British bandit troops who were placed in positions near the beach to be "cannoned", the dozens of square miles of Ming warships densely spread on the sea were really terrifying. Even the double-barreled 60mm high-level dual-purpose cannon and the 120mm short-barreled rapid-fire howitzer (specially used to support landings) installed on the landing ship are not something that the "thief troops" can resist.
So everyone lay down in the trenches near the beach. No one dared to raise their head. The entire Robbers Beach was filled with only the sound of explosions and wailing.
Evans, a robber from Manchester, lost miserably at cards last night, so today he can only act as a frontline observer, guarding a phone that he doesn’t know if he can still get through, and squatting in a pit at the forefront. Inside, through a periscope artillery mirror, you can watch countless warships on the sea riding the wind and waves, firing guns and rushing towards the beach.
What is this for? Directly use a large ship of several thousand tons to beach?
Evans was stunned by this scene... In his impression, shouldn't landing be a way of sending people to the shore in small sampans? This will make it easier for the guns on the shore to fire! Now we are driving the armored ship directly to the shore. How can we fight?
But he couldn't care less, so he quickly grabbed the phone and shouted: "Report, the Chinese have landed, and their armored ships rushed directly to the beach..."
