550 Naval battles with bayonets
The Wavebreaker was the flagship, surrounded by three clippers, all sailed on the front deck full of heavily armed New Army soldiers, row after row, as neat as tofu blocks.
All the soldiers had resolute eyes and calm expressions, without the fanaticism before the battle, and some were just the calmness peculiar to the veterans of a hundred battles. How could they not be calm, among these soldiers were officers who had participated in the Battle of Sadowa, and there were also veterans of the Ryukyu defensive battle, and in their eyes, the battle here in Tanggu was completely a piece of cake.
"Full sails...... Crash into it and prepare for the broadside battle...... Capture the Roma, capture the Lyra...... These two warships are gifts to the Prime Minister......"
On the decks of the four ships, the officers were boosting the morale of their brothers, and the roars one after another naturally had the solemn spirit of a battle.
"Brothers...... This group of robbers from Europe thought that they could conquer us with advanced foreign guns and cannons...... Now we have to prove to them with practical actions that we Chinese can pick them all to death in the sea even with bayonets..."
"The new army on the bayonet ... Let them know what it means to know what the bravest soldier is...... Pick the enemy's life with a bayonet, provoke their will to fight, so that they will not dare to face our military flag in their lives......"
"The assault team is ready to seize the beach...... The Dagukou Fort is burning, and the British and French troops landed here in six or seven years, and the Dagukou Fort was not held at that time, and they were not held by the Manchu Dynasty, so we came to defend the ...... this time."
"Full sails...... Full sail forward......"
Getting closer and closer, the chaos on the Roma and the Lyra Xiao Lotian can already be seen clearly with the naked eye, and the excited Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea suddenly grabbed Molière's arm and laughed wildly.
"Look...... Is this what you call an elite navy? The two battleships are all in the wrong position, the gun doors are not open, they are stupid like two pigs...... Hahaha..."
Molière's face was gray and he lowered his head and said nothing, and Xiao Lotian obviously didn't want to let him go, "Noheita, pinch his chin, pinch his eyelids, let him see with his own eyes how his fleet was destroyed, let him see how we captured the French battleship...... Hahaha, give me two frigates for nothing, Napoleon III is really too generous......"
"Enough, Mr. Xiao, you are also the prime minister of a country, please don't be such a scoundrel...... Please gentleman..."
Molière didn't finish his words, only to hear a crisp snap, his left cheek turned hot red, and he fixed his eyes to see that it was Xiao Letian's hand, and the pair of lambskin gloves slapped his face.
"You ......," Morie furious.
"What are you? What do you want to do as a prisoner? You go to sue me, go to your emperor to sue me, go to the whole of Europe to sue me, anyway, Lao Tzu won't admit it, and you have no evidence......"
"What to see...... Look at Lao Tzu's stubble and pump your ...... Tell me about human rights? Yes, it's only in the 19th century that you will be a scoundrel? What kind of human rights did you talk about when you led the troops to slaughter the city? Now when it's your turn to be beaten, you want to stuff Lao Tzu into the gentleman's pile?"
"Nohei is too close to him, let him see with his own eyes how his soldiers died at our hands..."
Noheita is now Xiao Letian's most loyal hound, after that trip to Europe, all the members of the sword drawing team have been sublimated, and the pride tempered on the battlefield of Puao has made them no longer afraid of any European.
Noheita reached out and pinched the back of Molière's neck, forcing him to look at the upcoming war, "If the prime minister asks you to see, you must watch, if you don't watch, I will cut off your upper eyelid with a knife...... Don't worry, my hands are very stable and the knife is very sharp, and I will never hurt your eyeballs......"
Molière was frightened when he heard this, his eyes were round, and he stared at the two familiar warships in front of him, to be honest, he was not afraid of death, but he was really scared of the horrific and perverted torture method of cutting off his eyelids.
Molière's heart was bleeding, he really couldn't imagine how the elite of the colonies he had brought out could be so bad today, the two battleships were misaligned and could not fire artillery salvos, and they lost their mobility, like two pigs in a quagmire.
"Bruce... Bruce...... Is this your plan? Let our soldiers take off their military uniforms and go as pirates? What effect can this method of pretending to be deaf and dumb have, as long as Xiao Letian captures a group of prisoners, as long as he gets the latest confession, what is the use of wearing military uniforms or not?"
Molière really scolded General Bruce wrongly, in Bruce's plan, Xiao Lotian did not have a navy, and the Qing Dynasty did not have a navy, and the two warships actually had no opponent at all, if they couldn't fight, they could escape, how could they be captured.
But no one could have imagined that Xiao Letian would dare to use a flying clipper to transform into a battleship, and he would dare to attack at night, and it was even more unbelievable that he actually wanted to capture these two battleships, and he actually wanted hand-to-hand combat.
Since ancient times, there has been a proverb that the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger, and at the moment when every nation has just risen, it is all a star that is full of talents, and the emerging forces are full of vitality.
In the eyes of all the new army, as long as there is a prime minister, nothing is impossible, and the new army has been stepping on miracles since its formation, and today will not be an exception.
As the four ships got closer and closer, the two French ships were already in complete disarray, with sailmen yelling on masts, gunners running down deck, and two captains even pulling out pistols and firing into the air to quell the chaos.
But it was useless, the full sail of the battleship was extremely fast, and before the gunners could finish loading, the four battleships had already crashed into it with an unbeatable momentum.
"Brothers, hurry up...... Preparing for the shipboard...... Prepare for hand-to-hand combat...... "At the last command, two of the four battleships on the left and right slashed into the wings of the French warship, and the muffled sound of timber crashing sounded on the sea.
The fierce friction of the sturdy deck made a tooth-acid clicking sound, and the huge vibration of the hull shook off many soldiers, crackling down like dumplings, and the huge impact force made the two battleships that were originally facing north and south directly turn ninety degrees, turning into an east-west direction.
At the moment of the collision, Xiao Lotian was standing on the high stern of the boat, if it weren't for Hyotaro grabbing his belt with his quick eyes, it is estimated that Prime Minister Xiao Cheng of the East China Sea would have to drink a few sips of seawater. But just like that, Xiao Letian's ribs also hit the side of the boat, and his head was sweating from the pain.
"Sail down...... Anchor ...... Brothers, kill it......" Xiao Letian shouted like a madman.
The four battleships of the "Kill ......" were full of more than 2,000 new officers and men, and in front of them was a huge gap that had been knocked out, and the sailors inside the enemy ships were looking at them in horror.
A tidal wave of soldiers jumped out of the gap, firing as they swept away the enemy compartment by cabin, and more recruits stood on the mast and jumped up the enemy deck with ropes in hand, while more soldiers pulled up the rope ladder and climbed up like army ants.
Killing erupted on the two French warships, and the red-eyed recruits shouted in French, "Surrender your guns or kill them...... Kneel down to live...... Your envoy is in our hands..."
The group of French troops who listened to the French from the south to the north were confused, and it took a quarter of an hour to understand what these Chinese were shouting, and they did not expect that the envoy was also on the ship, and the Chinese actually threatened them with the envoy as a hostage.
In this sudden attack, the morale of the French army fell like an avalanche, while the morale of the new army rose like a hot air balloon.
The smell of blood suddenly wafted on the sea, and Molière's nose fell with two hot tears.
"What's the matter? I can't help it, it's easy to do, you call them out, use your capacity as an envoy to order them to stop fighting, I can promise not to kill the prisoners......"
"How can I trust you, what credit do you have?" Molière glared angrily.
"Whatever, do you like to shout or not, anyway, now I have a lot of people, and there are few of you, so I should listen to one if I kill one......" Xiao Letian looked indifferent.
That was the end of Molière's insistence, he shook his head, put a horn in his hands, and shouted to the battlefield, "I am the envoy Molière...... Now I command you to cease the resistance...... Surrender to these new soldiers, don't die in vain......"
After shouting three times in a row, the shouting on the battleship was significantly quieter, and after ten minutes, Kraft and Captain Molde had no choice but to surrender.
The navy was originally a technical service, sailman, deck man, maintenance man, artillery shooter...... Although the soldiers in these professions can fight with guns, they are still much inferior to the professional army, especially the crazy soldiers of the new army, who gave up resistance after just one face.
"Barbarians, they're all barbarians...... Five or six people fight one, and they stab one by one like wild beasts, it's too terrifying, they are too terrifying...... this is the common sentiment of all sailors after the war.
After ending the battle at sea, Xiao Lotian stretched out his hand and pointed to the southwest, "The Wave Crusher is south...... The assault team is ready to land, and what about Lao Tzu's sword drawing team? Are you ready......
"Obey the Prime Minister's order..."An army on the deck of the Wave Breaker has been assembled, they have not participated in the hand-to-hand combat just now, and this group of soldiers has only one mission, that is, the Dagukou Battery.
The Wave Breaker began to pierce the waves and rush towards the fire at the mouth of Dagu, and the deck was filled with the roar of battle, the commandos led by Luo Huo and Sima Yun were singing, and the sword drawing team led by Noheita was shouting long live the board load.
"The Dagukou Fort is right in front of you...... Prepare a dinghy to grab the beach......"
One after another, the dinghy was lowered to the surface of the sea by ropes, and a strange shape was wrapped in a tarpaulin on the dinghy, and the soldiers around them surrounded them as if they were protecting their own lives.
On the dark sea, more than a dozen small boats began to row towards the shore, and more soldiers chose to wade forward, and soon an iron current appeared in the sea.
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