Chapter 364 In vain attack!
The dense and crisp sound of gunfire echoed in the mountains and forests. The green trees covered the lush Jiulong Mountain, and there were more than a dozen British [***] and Indian mercenaries in extremely conspicuous bright red military uniforms. Their blood flowed out of the burning guneyes, soaking the bright red military uniforms. Even the yellow-green meadow was dyed dark red.
And more British mercenary soldiers continued to move forward tremblingly under the loud drive of the white-skinned and high-nosed British, raising their guns to counterattack the smoky mountain, but failed to achieve any results.
And the counterattack on the mountain will always make the advancing soldiers fall to the ground one by one, moaning or twitching. This charge was still at the foot of Jiulong Mountain, and was once again stabbed under the ground by the damn, annoying, but helpless sharp wooden piles, revealing their sharp end and building a line of defense that prevented the British army from advancing.
And in the bunker dozens of meters behind the defense line, the enemies who had never even been exposed were still there with the weapons in their hands slowly to the soldiers standing in front of the barbed wire and didn't know how to cross them one by one, and fell on the yellow-green grass.
Some mercenaries tried to lower the height of their bodies, and then carefully tried to cross the sharp and messy wooden pile defense lines. Some stood outside this defense line and aimed at the bunkers. However, the shooting holes between the bunkers were too narrow, unless their Shiva showed Spirit, otherwise, there is no way to hit the target within such a distance. At least, the musket in their hands is not as accurate as that.
After paying the price of nearly a hundred corpses, the courage of the Indian mercenaries was once again exhausted. Despite the officers behind them waving the commanding knives in their hands, shouting or scolding there, they turned around and fled to the rear in a hurry.
"His god, do those guys think they can capture our position with such a charge?" Liang Shuisheng yawned boredly and put away his telescope. This was the tenth day that the British colonial fleet was trapped in Kowloon Bay.
The British once thought of cleaning up the mines arranged in the water, but there were too many, and the other party's artillery used flowering bullets.
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In order to reduce the loss of ships, the British can only put down the sailors from a long distance, and they use their own boats to row to the minefield. For artillery, although it is difficult to hit small targets like people, it does not prevent them from killing. As long as someone approaches the minefield, there will be dozens of doors. The long-range artillery fire, the flying shrapnel after the explosion of the shell can definitely tear any creature near the bullet point into pieces.
The minefield can't be destroyed, and the warships of the British colonial fleet can't rush out safely at all. Don't forget that the other party can leisurely set up an attack formation outside the minefield to work for others. After rushing out with huge losses, there is still only a dead end.
So, after several failed attempts to clean up the minefield, the British desperately found that unless they broke through at all costs, and then sent themselves to the other party's gunfire to take a hot shower. In the end, I'm afraid they can really escape, no more than four at most. One of them, even if they really rushed out of the encirclement, if the other party can escape to Penang by relying on the ranks of a large number of warships, I'm afraid there is only one-tenth left at most, and this is the most optimistic estimate obtained by naval officers after many deductions and discussions.
Under the situation of food decreasing day by day, the British's anxiety is getting deeper and deeper. After searching for a grain of food on Hong Kong Island, they shifted the focus of the search to the north. Although they knew that such a move was likely to arouse the vigilance of the Qing Dynasty, now, he They can't care so much. Besides, they think that the Qing army is as bad as the navy, so they don't worry too much.
But what they didn't expect was that a tight line of defense had been built by unknown enemies on the main pass from the Kowloon Peninsula to the mainland. In the past few days, no less than 500 Indian mercenaries and 200 excellent British soldiers had fallen at the foot of Kowloon Mountain.
Coloe Henry stood on a hillside a mile and a half away from the battlefield. Looking at the bright red figures that had been retreating like a tide, Henry angrily threw the monoculars in his hand into the grass and cursed the timid Indian mercenaries fiercely.
"Let these cowards go back and launch another attack. They have been so close to the opponent's position, but they have retreated back. These idiots, is the distance of dozens of yards so insurmountable?"
"Colonel, let them have a rest. There have been two attacks since this morning. The soldiers have been haggard to the extreme, and their continuous failures have also made their morale very low. I don't think another attack can achieve better results now." Next to him, Major Crouch picked up the telescope that Colonel Henry smashed at his feet and persuaded him.
"Forget these Indian idiots, let them take a break first, give them a full meal, and rest for two hours before launching the attack." Colonel Henry cursed discontentedly, but he still agreed to his subordinate's suggestion. After looking at his pocket watch, Colonel Henry ordered the messenger behind him to walk down the hillside again. I don't know how many times he went up and down the hillside in the past three days. Every time he walked down the hillside, his mood was like that. Frustrated.
Major Crouch looked at Colonel Henry's back, and then looked back at the Jiulong Mountain, which has now returned to silence, which looks so green and beautiful. After three days of hidden danger under this seemingly calm scenery, Major Crouch has deeply understood it.
In addition to the attack launched by British soldiers and Indian mercenaries at dusk yesterday, which once broke through the defense line, but before they cheered happily, a dense gunfire hit their hope and excitement back into their assholes.
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Although it was known that the other party had arranged artillery positions on the hillside on the first day of the attack, so many guns could be deployed on the hillside, which requires more manpower and material resources and time.
What does this mean? It can only show that the other party seems to have calculated that the British would fall into their encirclement a long time ago, so it will let the Qing people of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula clean up one of them, so that they can't get a grain of grain of grain, and they have built an incomparable here. A headache defense line.
Unless a large number of artillery are mobilized, it is difficult to break through, but the problem is that the Kowloon Peninsula is as wild as Hong Kong Island. The barbaric is characterized by sparse people. Moreover, there are only signs of human activity in areas near the sea, which makes there no road between these two places in the island at all. Without the road, there is no way for artillery to reach the foot of Jiulong Mountain. Without artillery, such an attack... If it was not for the purpose of breaking through the other party's blockade and getting supplies from the Qing Dynasty, they should not have taken the lives of soldiers to death. Although he will have no pity for the casualties of Indian mercenaries, what should we do after these cannon fodder die? Thinking of this, Crouch frowned deeply, sighed, and turned around and walked down the hillside.
"Your Excellency, it's been ten days, and they haven't surrendered yet. What should we do? Shall we attack them by land?" Sun Shijie is not very good these days. Every day, he collects and sorts out the information transmitted from everywhere, and nervously monitors all the situations near Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. If there is something abnormal, he must respond in the shortest time.
This job is not easy to do. After ten days, Sun Shijie lost at least five or six pounds. Therefore, his resentment against Master Liang's strategy of trapping the enemy but not attacking is the most serious.
"It's Shijie. Why don't you go to rest and come to me again?" Liang Pengfei's eyes fell on Sun Shijie's face and couldn't help laughing.
"Where can I rest? If there is a slight difference before the end of the matter, it will be a loss of work." Sun Shijie sat on an empty chair and took a cup of hot tea from Ni Ming next to him with a smile. After the rolling tea soup entered his throat, he couldn't help but be refreshed. But when he thought of his task, Sun Shijie's face stepped down again.
"Don't worry, there will be no problems in Guangzhou. As for Fujian, there will be no problems. I just received the news that the rest of the sailors in Nan'ao Town have gone to Quanzhou Port for repair. The rest of the little shrimp, not to mention coming to cause trouble, I'm afraid I'll be scared if I smell the British. He crawled back. Besides, the matter of the British seemed very uneasy now. Do they still want to annoy the British and sign a Zhenjiang treaty? Liang Pengfei stretched out and sat down, and his young and handsome face was also full of fatigue.
Because he is also very worried, but the direction he is worried about is a little different from that of Sun Shijie. What he is worried about is that if the British really wants to break the net and take all those warships into mines to play, then his arrangement is a waste.
You should know that in addition to those warships that he aspires to get, those British are also the chips that Liang Pengfei hopes to hold in his hand. If it's just a cold corpse, it's useless for Liang Pengfei, but if he can capture nearly 10,000 British prisoners of war, it will be different, because Liang Pengfei has always been a person who takes three steps.
(to be continued)