Chapter 333 Landing, the elite British Imperial Army!
The captain of the USS Leeds answered, stayed to share the enemy's gunfire, and fought back against the Qing people's attack with his starboard gun. However, except for the scattered debris outside the fort, their artillery can rarely cause any substantial damage to the other party's fort.
"Return, soldiers, fight back with all your strength, target, starboard side of the warship, shoot, shoot at full speed!" Lieutenant Terry, the commander of the deck artillery, wiped a handful of blood on his face mixed with gunpowder and smoke. He didn't care to see the casualties on this deck. He roared loudly and kicked the human body lying on the deck with his feet. As long as he was alive, he would pull him up and let him return to his battle. Fight in the position to fight, instead of lying on the deck and shivering like a coward.
The other party's shells are like a heavy hammer hitting the body or deck of the warship again and again, making the warship tremble like a bird shuttling in the wind.
The gunners are shouting bravely and trying to return the color. However, the setting of the other party's turret is really desperate. The other party's turret is very high, which makes the British gunners have to shoot at a high angle as much as possible. However, the warship is being hit continuously, and the shaking hull makes it difficult for them to aim accurately. .
However, even if they can accurately aim at the fort, their target is still only those strong fort bunkers and those shooting holes. The shooting holes that want to aim and hit the fort are like standing on the street, raising their heads and opening their mouths, waiting for a pile of bird shit to fall into their mouths accurately. Generally lucky? Or unlucky... At this time, Liang Pengfei's men could finally understand why Liang Pengfei asked to build such an exaggerated fort. While saving yourself, try your best to destroy the enemy's living forces. This is a successful defense. Liang Pengfei boasted proudly about this.
"Young master, look, there are a lot of boats pushing towards the shore over there." At this time, Bai Shusheng, who had been paying attention to the main force of the other party's fleet, shouted loudly to Liang Pengfei, and the sound of gunfire continued to be heard, so that people had to roar when communicating to make the other party understand what they meant.
Liang Pengfei immediately squeezed over. Sure enough, he saw the transport ships and merchant ships in the British fleet beginning to go to Qishan, about three miles south of the Shajiao Fort. It seemed that they were ready to carry out landing operations there. Naturally, it was self-evident that they must have come to the Shajiao Fort.
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"Hehe, I can't hold it anymore. Come on, I have prepared a big meal for them. Monk, send a signal and tell Liang Shuisheng that they can prepare. Liang Pengfei annihirated and laughed a few times. Since the British launched the invasion of China decades in advance, their tactics were still the same as that of another British invaders in time and space. After being hit by the Shajiao Fort, they landed from this area from the shore to the rear and flank of the Shajiao Fort. After the attack, in the end, another British invader in time and space succeeded.
But now, shameless, prophetic, has always been better than a villain than a gentleman, proud of calculating people, and ashamed of not being able to occupy others, came to this time and space out of thin air. Therefore, it is doomed to the failure of these Britons.
"Yes!" Monk Chen nodded, turned around and ran out. After the messenger soldier who had been waiting outside had given Liang Pengfei's order for a long time, the messenger used the flag to type the military command content of Liang Pengfei to the special battalion soldiers in the south.
"Well, tell them that we have received an order to ask them to return to the young master. No matter how many British come, the three mountains will be the cemetery of the British." Liang Shuisheng, who was standing at the top of the turtle's mountain, rubbed each other hard with his big hands. After turning around and following an indistinguishable path, he rushed towards the middle of the mountainside, where the two companies of the Special First Battalion had entered the battle position.
Sanshan Pass, this is just a name given by Liang Pengfei himself, to describe the turtle mountain sandwiched in the north, the flag mountain facing the sea, and the Baihe mountain in the east. These three mountains stand here almost in an equilateral triangle, and in the middle of them is a newly built spacious and flat road. It can be directly connected to the rear of Shajiao Fort from the small fisherman's wharf in the south of Qishan.
The construction of this road began more than a month before Liang Pengfei was ready to rebuild the Humen fort. In order to ensure that the road was wide enough, the British warship was completely completed half a month before it appeared at the mouth of the Pearl River.
After the completion of this road, Liang Pengfei strictly blocked the road. Except for the soldiers of the Liang family army, no idle people appeared on this road, because this road was specially built to facilitate the British to attack the Shajiao Fort by land.
Although most of the subordinates are quite firm about Liang Pengfei's behavior of labor and money. However, under the insistence of Liang Pengfei, they still resolutely implemented it, and now, this road has finally come in handy.
British armed merchant ships and troop carriers aimed their artillery at the Qing army on the shore for several rounds of bombardment, and the Qing army fled to the rear almost at a speed of hearing the starting gun.
This cowardly behavior finally made Major General Ford, who had seen the real Qing [***] human style, secretly breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed that only those enemies who fought bravely on the fort only relied on the strong fort to have the courage to fight face to face with the British navy. And the small wharf used by the fisherman really didn't have much strategic value, so they didn't station many soldiers or build forts, which was equivalent to giving the British an excellent opportunity.
"God is still on our side." Seeing that the army of the British Empire ran away the Qing army stationed at the small dock smoothly, and Macartney, who began to land, drew a cross on his chest. At this time, he found that his palm was full of sweat.
"Of course, God will be on our side." Stone East smiled and clenched his fists: "We excellent soldiers will win under the protection of God and His Majesty the King. And we will become witnesses of history.
"Of course I hope so..." Macartney frowned inexplicably. He turned his eyes back and fell on Liang Sanhuai, who accompanied Xiao Sidangdong standing on the front deck of the flagship. He always felt that this guy's conversation with him just now was full of sadness. It seems that the British are not optimistic about attacking Guangzhou.
Moreover, he also mentioned the name of a Qing general. Thinking of that name, Macartney felt that his cheeks were hurting, which was caused by the pain of clenching his teeth too hard.
"Liang Pengfei..." Yes, it was this guy, this butcher, without a trace of pity, executed nearly 600 British people twice, not even living. Although Macartney has reservations about opium, a drug smuggling, it does not prevent him from being a politician of the British Empire. Look at this kind of smuggling from the perspective of this kind of smuggling.
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Smuggling is indeed illegal, especially opium smuggling, but as a person who watches the trade deficit between the British Empire and this huge Qing Dynasty is shockingly terrible, which is something that every politician who loves the British Empire cannot tolerate.
"All this is for the benefit of the empire." Macartney made the final defense of her psychological activities. However, Liang Sanhuai just told himself that the butcher's defense area is here. Although the butcher's reputation is not well known in the capital of this empire, in Liangguang, Fujian, Zhejiang and even Macao, almost all Western businessmen have a sense of resentment and fear for him. Of course, this is related to him. The merciless smuggling activities have a lot to do with cruelty and killing.
This made a cloud appear in Macartney's heart, although he had told the news to Major General Ford. However, for General Liang, who once greeted them in the sea of Annan, Major General Ford had only three views on him: despicable, greedy, and his soldiers were simply a group of undisciplined robbers.
At that time, Major General Ford only said reservedly that he would be more cautious in command and did not care too much, and Macartney also did not care too much.
However, after being tricked by his opponents in a row, which damaged the warships of the British Imperial Navy, as an excellent politician, he still felt that Liang Zongbing did not seem to be an easy role to deal with.
So, he agreed that Major General Ford would shift the attack target to land, instead of exchanging the lives of precious British Imperial Navy warships and soldiers for each other's turrets.
Now, Major General Ford has treated his opponent as a strong enemy, so he has sent a total of 2,500 army soldiers, including a whole battalion of 500 elite British soldiers.
With these elite infantry escorts who have experienced many battles, I believe that those Indian mercenaries who have also been trained for a long time and have won many victories in the battle with the land kings of India should have enough courage and confidence to occupy the Shajiao Fort, which is horizontally blocked from the Pearl River to the mouth of Guangzhou.
"As long as we can occupy the fort full of heavy artillery, we can use their heavy artillery to bombard the Qing Fort of Dajiao Mountain and let them perish under our own muzzle. I don't know what the expressions of those Qing [***] people will become at that time. Well, I think it must be very interesting. Sdangdong said with a cheerful smile.
(to be continued)