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The holy soldiers of the fort were condescending, and hundreds of bird guns and raised guns fired a volley, and suddenly, the group of Manchu mercenaries fell more than 130 or 40 people on the spot, and the rest of the crying father and mother hurriedly retreated. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because he was too panicked, he couldn't hold his feet, and he also trampled and rammed into the Baigui pro-military camp behind him, which provoked Baigui to order a shot, killing more than ten people before he stopped his feet and stopped fleeing.

Major Charles contemptuously told Bai Gui and the mercenaries to get out of the way. He led 1,200 British marines, armed with foreign guns, to clear the way; He also asked more than 100 Hong Kong Islanders who accompanied the army to push and pull the artillery on the wooden wheel frame.

Slowly, step by step, the British army marched forward. At a distance of 300 meters from the battery, Les ordered the British to disperse in three groups, attacking the battery from the rear and flanks of the battery at the same time.

The British stood still outside the range of the shotguns on the battery.

Charles gave the order: "Shoot"!

More than a dozen holy soldiers who came out of the trench under the fort had never fought with foreigners, and they were hit by two or three hundred foreign guns and killed instantly. The rest of the holy soldiers were now hiding in the deep ditch in front of the fort, and no one dared to come out.

Charles asked the Hong Kong Islanders behind him to push out more than a dozen field guns hundreds of meters away from the battery.

At this moment, more than 30 small and medium-sized guns began to fire fiercely on the east side of the Shajiao Fort and in the trenches, preemptively bombarding the field guns that had just been launched.

Except for a few frightened people, the rest of the people who pushed and pulled the field artillery scattered to both sides and hid in panic. The British soldiers were also all prostrate on the ground, guarding against artillery.

After the First Opium War, the Manchu court repaired and strengthened the Shajiao Fort again. The battery was divided into east and west ends.

The fort at the west end faces the river and is the main fort, and most of the guns set up are medium and heavy coastal guns with long range.

The eastern fort, on the other hand, is in the shape of a ring, with a small number of small and medium-sized guns, and some shooting holes to defend against enemy troops attacking by land.

However, Chen Yucheng received a special reminder from Feng Yunshan, telling him to collect artillery to prevent incoming enemy troops from attacking from the side and back of the fort.

Therefore, Chen Yucheng transported some of the artillery captured from the Admiral Yamen and the Red Dan Boat and placed them in the fort and trench at the east end. These guns did not have a long range and could not attack the warships on the river, so they were all set in the direction of the eastern end.

In addition, since Chen Yucheng occupied the fort, he organized the holy soldiers and the rebels to dig a one-person deep trench under the fort, so that the holy soldiers could hide in the trench to defend. In addition, bamboo sticks, thistles and other materials were buried in the grass and soil in front of the trench to prevent the enemy from sneaking up in the middle of the night.

However, it is said that as soon as the British field artillery was launched, it was bombarded by the artillery on the eastern end of the battery.

However, the accuracy of the artillery of the Holy Army was too poor, and only three or four of the more than 30 shells hit the field artillery of the British army. However, even if only three or four shots hit, the two field guns were damaged, especially the wooden wheel mounts, which were scattered all over the place, and the field guns on them also rolled down.

In this round of shelling, 2 British field guns were damaged, and while the batteries were fired, Charles ordered the British artillery to return fire, and at the same time, the British troops on both flanks also attacked!

The remaining dozen or so British field guns, most of which were solid, and a small half, fired grenades.

This grenade was not a direct shot, but a parabolic trajectory, two of which fell behind the fort, followed by an explosion, and more than ten holy soldiers behind the bunker were blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, and died tragically on the spot.

Zhu Hong, the commander of the fort, lay in the trench, only to feel the buzzing in his ears.

A cannonball had just landed not far from him, and as soon as he was glad that it had not hit his brothers, the cannonball exploded.

He only remembered that just a moment ago, the two old brothers who had been following him beside him subconsciously pounced on him and blocked the debris that had blown up for him. Thinking of this, he ignored the sharp pain in his calf, looked behind him, and found that one of the old brothers had been blown to a bloody blur, and the other face was covered with some mud, he quickly helped him up, crying: "Huzi, wake up."

"The second master, take care of the family for me!" Huzi squirmed his mouth, and waited for Vermilion to be close to his mouth before he finished saying it with difficulty, and then he stopped breathing.

Vermilion felt a great pain in her heart! In order to save himself, two old brothers who have followed him for many years died tragically!

Huzi's title of the second master before he died summoned him to the Maple Village at the junction of Daozhou and Jianghua to be a bandit.

Zhu Hong was originally the second leader of Jianghua Fengshu Village, and after taking refuge in Luo Xuan, he started from the head of the army, and after more than a dozen battles, he was later transferred to Chen Yucheng's account, and his official position was also promoted to the commander of the division.

This time, he was ordered by Chen Yucheng to guard the Shajiao Fort. I thought that nearly 100 artillery pieces, thousands of soldiers of the Holy Army, and an impregnable fort would definitely be able to hold it.

Unexpectedly, the artillery of the foreign warship at the western end was so fierce, and the heavy artillery hidden in the bushes and woods on the bank of the river under the fort was all knocked out after only three or four rounds of fire, and dozens of gunners were also seriously damaged. The heavy coastal artillery on the Shajiao Fort was also blown up by the foreigners' warships, and the holy soldiers hiding behind the fort bunker were also killed and wounded by hundreds.

Seeing that the firepower of the British warships was too strong, Zhu Hong thought that Chen Yucheng had said that he would try his best to break the masts of the foreigners' warships, and at the cost of the entire Shajiao Fort, and lose two warships.

Zhu Hong understood Chen Yucheng's intentions. The foreign warship was hard and sturdy, and one or two shots of the guns on the turret could not seriously damage the enemy ship, but if it hit the mast, one shot would be effective. Without the mast, it will be difficult for the foreigners' warships to sail, and they will not dare to easily enter the inland rivers where the wind is light.

The loss of two warships would make the foreigners' fleet much smaller, and if they entered the other batteries behind them and damaged one or two more ships, the foreigners would not have enough troops and would not dare to attack the city of Guangzhou. In this way, the goal of intercepting foreigners can be achieved.

Therefore, after almost completing the task, seeing that the brothers were killed and wounded too tragically, although there were still a few heavy coastal guns on the battery, Zhu Hong no longer let the brothers open fire to attack the warship, but let the brothers dodge, and waited for the critical moment when the foreigner warship was closer, and then opened fire and aimed at the fire.

Hearing the news from the east end of the battery, the group of more than 2,000 people landed to attack, he hurriedly called people to come to the east end of the battery, enter the trench, and command the battle.

Looking at the two brothers who had followed him from Maple Village who had died tragically in front of him, his eyes were red, and the anger of hatred burned in his chest.

He clenched his fists and muttered, "Brothers, you guys are good to go!" You don't need my old Zhu to take care of the family for you, the Holy King will take care of it! Lao Zhu will only avenge you! ”

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