"A bunch of bastards!" The officer was Charlie, the new captain of the British fleet who succeeded Hebo, who was killed by the bombing, and I saw that his goatee was cocked up, and his nose was puffing, "This Ergin, whose brain is in the water!" Charlie cursed loudly, "With more than 10,000 people, even if they are caught as pigs, it will take days, right?" He actually just lasted until the evening, less than a day! Yes, in less than a day, the whole line was defeated, and I also gave this fool a few cannons on ships, if the Chinese had a few more powerful fleets, and the Far Eastern fleet like Russia, I would not dare to anchor in this bay like a duck, this is a target that does not miss at all! That's good," Charlie raised his hands and made a downward striking gesture, as if the obnoxious Earl of Ergin were in the air, "I and my navy men have paid such a great price in exchange for the result that you told me that the armies of the two nations were defeated?" I can't accept it at all! ”

The captain of the musketeer squad who came to the news was drenched in sweat, but he did not dare to raise his hand to wipe his sweat, who knows if the commander of the fleet under the anger will throw his rude self into the cold water to let those Chinese fishermen pick up the cheap, ten taels of silver, in China can probably buy ten pigs, but recently, their squad stationed in Dagukou, a stronghold that was bombarded by their own army, no longer dares to rob food from the Chinese at will, because every **** team of Chinese will shine a strange light in their eyes, looked like a hungry wolf, and at first he didn't think about it, until the grain route to Tongzhou was cut off, and a few soldiers who went out alone disappeared. The camp was also attacked by a group of unidentified militants, and then several small groups of defeated troops fled back to this stronghold, telling the squad leader in horror that the Anglo-French army had been defeated!

The squad leader was taken aback and hurried to the fleet to report the bad news. Captain Charlie, who originally had such a relaxed and happy day as basking in the sun every day on the ship, drinking wine, and personally proofreading the artillery and hitting a few Chinese sampans, heard such bad news, how could he not be furious.

The captain, who had been listening silently to the captain, stepped forward to the poor squad leader's angry first mate, "Mr. Captain, what are we going to do next?" Do you want to send troops ashore to rescue? ”

"No, no, no. Let's not say that we don't have many troops. Know that the Navy relies on the Navy's fleet and artillery, not on us poor soldiers! Charlie denied, "We went ashore and left the weapons and equipment we were best at. There is only one dead end. Charlie barely calmed his anger. Wave at the squad leader. "Sergeant, you give me to guard the mouth of Dagu and prevent the Chinese from attacking again." As long as you hold the fort anywhere, even if Ergin is rubbish," Charlie had a disgusting expression on his face, "he can always return to Tianjin." ”

"We just wait here and wait and see," Charlie was a little helpless, "Wait until the damned army has a definite news, we will make plans, originally I hoped to return home with the Chinese's silver," Before the words fell, the squad leader who had just gone out rushed into the room again, his face turned pale, "Mr. Captain, there is news from Tongzhou that Count Ergin has been besieged by the Chinese!" ”

"What!"

Ergin raised the position under the telescope, the telescope has been hit by an unknown hard object into a deep depression, the originally extremely particular Count Ergin in the past as long as there is a little flaw to abandon and use, now must not be so particular, after all, in this small mountain bag near this Tongzhou besieged by the Chinese, the materials should be careful not to waste.

A new herald came over to tell him that the Earl had just asked him to count the exact number of people, "Your Excellency, count it, and there are 2,536 people in total. ”

Probably a few hundred people were lost, Ergin shook his head, "How many people are injured?" ”

"There are about eighty or so people who are slightly injured, and more than ten who are seriously injured, Mr. Earl, we have no medicine."

Hearing the bad news, Ergin sighed, "Then you can only take good care of it," a horn sounded under the mountain indicating the attack, and Ergin hurriedly ordered loudly: "Hold their respective positions, and don't let the Chinese attack it!" ”

After more than an hour, the squadron that tried to attack the mountain was repulsed again, and several tired British soldiers hurriedly lay down to rest, and Ergin didn't have time to ask how the casualties were, so he hurriedly called someone to prepare food, and the herald came over again to say, "The monks in the temple have been tied up, do you want to kill them." ”

"Don't want it for the time being, and you can't let them go, otherwise the hateful Chinese below will know our details, and the translator is not there, and we can't handle Chinese food," Ergin lamented, "go and warn them with actions, and then ask them to cook for us, or kill them!" ”

"Yes!" The monks of the monastery on the hill had no choice but to cook the food and supply it to these foreign devils who should go to hell, Erjin just pulled a few mouthfuls of rice with chopsticks with clumsy movements, and a thunderous cry sounded at the foot of the mountain, the horn whimpered, and Erjin cursed, "These damned Chinese are harassing us again!" Alert! Get ready to attack! ”……

The smoke rising from the mountain frowned slightly, "What, do these Britons still have a lot of food?" ”

"Back to the prince's words, no, I just asked the local elders, saying that there is a temple on this mountain, but there are more than ten monks, and it is estimated that the monks are stockpiling food for the winter."

"It's okay," Monk Gelinqin didn't care, "I don't think there is much food, all the troops take turns to fight, we must not let the foreigners have a chance to breathe, and then pass the order Yongtong Bridge, quickly come to support the siege of the foreigners, muskets and artillery are used by the king, take the British to practice and train the soldiers, if anyone drops the chain, it is not enough to attack for half an hour, and the king's military law is engaged." After Monk Lingqin finished speaking murderously, the heralds ordered each department in turn.

"Also, send a team of cavalry to Tianjin Wei to take a look, if the foreigners send reinforcements by sea, this side must know as soon as possible!"

"Wow!" ……

"Command the fleet," Charlie heard the bad news from the squad leader with a gloomy face, and was silent for a long time, and after more than ten minutes, he gave the order to the first officer, "The fleet turned its rudder to the north and left Dagukou. ”

"Mr. Commander!" The captain was shocked, "Please send troops to rescue the Earl!" "And not to turn somewhere else!

"Get this unlucky bastard off the ship, you guard that damn battery, how many routs will come around." The captain was taken out, and Charlie said to the first mate, "The army is useless, we can only rely on us, we will go to Yantai, and then to Lushun, we must make the Chinese panic, otherwise we will have no possibility of victory in this war!" (To be continued......)

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