Zheng Zhihu asked: "Aren't the generals of the 'Red Banner Army' taking the lead?" Without a general to lead the charge, how to motivate his subordinates to fight bravely? ”

Huang Xinquan said: "The 'Red Flag Army' is different from the old army of the Ming Dynasty, it is a knowledgeable and young new army, emphasizing that each performs its own duties, and the vast majority of the officers who take the lead in the charge are the hundred generals, general flag officers, and small flag officers.

Involving officers of the rank and above in the charge would only happen when the army was fighting. Your position is the pipe belt of the Longwu Naval Division, which is equivalent to the actual commander of the army, and it is of course a violation to participate in the jumping state to take over the board.

The vast majority of our army are young intellectuals, and everyone understands their responsibilities and does not need to be supervised or demonstrated by their superiors. ”

Under normal circumstances, when the company commander and below charged, the battalion commander and regiment commander should have fought very brutally.

The total number of the "Red Banner Army" is 300 and the total number of regular soldiers is less than 400, which is not far from the number of a battalion in later generations, and the total number of battalions is equivalent to the battalion commander, the thousand generals are equivalent to the regiment commanders, and the commander of a battalion should be the level of brigade commander.

Zheng Zhihu sighed: "How can you feel the strength of the 'Red Flag Army' without being there, this strength is not only equipment and firepower, but comes from the strong heart of every regular soldier." ”

Huang Xinquan said with a smile: "So you have come to the right place to join the 'Red Banner Army', and one day we will lead the warship formation into the hometown of the English." ”

Zheng Zhihu said confidently: "There will be a day, and I estimate that it will not be far away." ”

At this time, Zheng Zhihu found that the special bed crossbow of the "Liaoyang" shot out several steel spears carrying cables and drove them deep into the hull of the Charlie, and more than a dozen sailors were already struggling to pull the cables and prepare to drag the Charlie closer to capture it.

After only a moment of engagement, under the overwhelming artillery fire of the Longwu Naval Division, the artillery on the six main ships of the English was basically dumb.

Either the guns were knocked over on the deck by direct hits from solid shells, or the gunners were sieveed by tens of thousands of shotguns fired by the last three rounds of the Fran cannon.

Although the English lost their resistance, the Long Wu Sailor did not give up and continued to attack with scattered bullets, with obvious intentions, just to kill!

The battle lasted only a little more than two minutes, and the English could not even try to escape because the six main ships of the British army, either mainmast or auxiliary masts, had lost more than half of their power.

The surviving English, hiding in their cabins and lying on the deck, were no longer able to return fire and were completely subjected to one-sided shelling.

Many of the wounded crew members were unable to find cover in time and were completely beaten by the successive scatterbomb attacks, and their appearance was really terrifying, which made many crew members lose the courage to fight again.

Before the broadside battle began, knowing that if they resisted stubbornly, they would face the fate of being killed, the English, who were afraid of the soft, raised the white flag.

The surviving half of them, led by Captain Wilson, surrendered with dignity while Weddell, who had been wounded by artillery fire and was being operated on by the army doctor.

Huang Yong was not happy, and the consequences were very serious, because during the artillery battle, the Longwu Naval Division suffered 100 casualties and more than 80 casualties, among which more than 60 intellectual young soldiers became martyrs.

Wilson did not expect that the English did not gain dignity after the dignified surrender, and they were lined up on the deck by the surviving officers, and the arquebuses, waist knives and other weapons were neatly stacked in front of the line.

Who knew that after the Ming army boarded the warship, they were indiscriminately pressed down one by one, and then tied them into zongzi and threw them on the deck, without giving them a sip of water or a piece of bread for half a day and a night.

The day after the end of the naval battle, including the crew of the warship captured by the English, a thousand or several hundred prisoners were taken to the Humen Battery.

There are no wounded or sick here, and the "Red Banner Army" will not waste medicine to treat the Xiyi invaders, and cutting off their heads is their fate.

The news of the total annihilation of the English and the capture of all the warships by the Longwu Naval Division had already spread on the same day, and that was because of the battle at the mouth of the Pearl River, which was a densely populated area.

The cannon roared on the sea, and many fishermen and merchants saw the dragon flag fluttering and told each other, and came to the shore to watch, and thousands of people witnessed the awe-inspiring battle of annihilation at sea.

The vast majority of the Ming troops stationed at the Humen Fort were locals, and when they found that the English executioners who had attacked the Ming Dynasty for no reason and caused the death of their relatives were all captured by the "Red Banner Army", they were immediately indignant.

The survivors of the town burned by the English and the families of the crew members of the merchant ship who were attacked for no reason all received the news that the perpetrators were defeated and captured by the Longwu Naval Division under the command of the captured general, and they also knew that the chief general of the Longwu Naval Division was Huang Yong, the brother of the Duke of Liao.

As soon as it passed ten, ten passed on hundreds, the crowd near Guangzhou all poured into the Humen Fort, and they knelt down and begged General Huang Yong to avenge their relatives.

The bound invaders were terrified when they saw tens of thousands of avengers who gritted their teeth, and Wilson hurriedly protested loudly, demanding that General Ming treat the prisoners of war well, saying that their country would definitely give a large ransom.

Huang Yong did not understand English, and Ensign Marseille Laus, who had been working for the Longwu Naval Division, made a translator.

The generals of the "Red Banner Army" present including Zheng Zhilong's subordinates laughed when they learned that the English were asking for forgiveness, and Zheng Zhilong scolded:

"I have a lot of treasures, gold and silver treasures, can I afford a little ransom from your country? Today is to wait for the dog's life to pay tribute to the souls of the dead who have been killed by you. ”

Seeing that the Ming army's intention was to massacre nearly a thousand prisoners of war, Marseille Laus couldn't help but change color on his face, and he translated Zheng Zhilong's words to the English.

Suddenly a small half of the invaders despaired, they tore their throats and cried, and Wilson hurriedly quibbled:

"Your Excellency the General is merciful, we are all soldiers, we must obey orders, the attack on the fort, the burning of the Ming merchant ships and the town are all orders given by the commander Weddell, we are just executors."

The crowd of onlookers raised their arms and shouted: "Blood debts and blood are repaid, and the invaders cannot be forgiven, please ask the generals to avenge the soldiers and civilians who died in vain......

At this time, the governor of Liangguang, the prefect of Guangzhou, the general army of Guangdong, and other civil and military generals hurried to Humen, and Noretti also came with a few retinues, and a few Portuguese compradors also came to see how to deal with the English.

The Portuguese foresaw that the Long Wushui Division had arrived, and the English would definitely not be pleased, but they didn't expect the retribution to come so quickly and so thoroughly, and it seemed that none of the English had slipped through the net.

Huang Yong, impatient with the English, met with the governor of Liangguang and the officials of Canton, and asked them to observe how the prisoners of war were to be disposed of.