549 Fire on the Sea
The Lyra and Rome are indeed out of ammunition and food. Although Meller can replenish them with some gunpowder and solid shells, the most lethal flowering bullet is to fire one less and one less. There is no place for supply in the Bohai Sea area.
Now even Europe has not popularized the flower bombs, let alone backward East Asia. The two French warships either went to Shanghai to buy them with merchants in the concession, or went directly to Hong Kong and the British Navy to purchase them. There was no other way.
Why did the two French captains and Meller attach so much importance to the Dagukou Fort? This is the reason, because the Dagukou Fort not only threatens warships, but also stores a large amount of gunpowder, which is urgently needed by the French.
More importantly, the Green Camp soldiers will not modify cannons, but this group of French pirates has professional engineers. As long as the artillery is taken down, they can transform them and turn the cannons that are facing the sea to 90 degrees to bomb the Industrial Special Zone.
The shore defense artillery has great power and long range. If the heavy cement wall in the Special Administrative Region is bombarded, it will be as simple as a hammer hitting tofu.
For the Dagukou Fort, Meer and the French captain had all the mechanisms. Two groups of suspicious soldiers from east and west besieged the special zone, and then sneaked into the west side of the fort. They waited for the defenders to relax their attention and let out a fatal blow.
The configuration of the sneak attack team is a luxurious lineup, with 300 French veterans, more than 1,000 elite Eight Banners, and finally 500 cavalrymen. Such a team is not something the Green Camp soldiers can resist. Everyone knows what the defenders in Dagukou look like.
But it was a weird thing tonight. It has been more than two hours since the sneak attack. The gunshots and shouts of killing at Dagukou have never stopped, and they are more and more intense. Are these green camp soldiers all possessed evil?
Time is precious for the two French warships. The bombing of the Industrial Special Zone has lasted for too long. They do not have so much ammunition to consume. In the end, the captain of the Lynx, Kraft, made a bold decision. He wanted to move the warship directly in front of the Dagukou Fort and use the volley of artillery to support the army's battle. If it really doesn't work, let the soldiers land on the shore and participate in the war directly.
Lyra began to send light signals to Rome and expressed its strategic intentions. The captain of Rome Molde was not Kraft's superior, and he could not dissuade him and could only cooperate with him to adjust the posture of the warship.
Operating sailing warships in the dark night for short-range abnormal movements is a test of sailor skills. Now both warships are bowed to the south, and the warship's starboard gun doors are firing at the special zone.
The Lyra is in the north and the Rome is in the south. Kraft will inevitably have to bypass the Rome if he wants to drive to the fort. When the two ships are side by side, the cannons must not be fired to prevent accidental occurrences.
On the dark sea, sailboats carefully control the windward area of the sail, and the masts are busy sailboats.
The abnormal movement of the Lyric Zodiac was not hidden from the veterans in the Special Administrative Region, nor could it hide from the foreign merchants who retreated to the deep sea area. In this war, countless foreign cargo ships have always been strictly neutral, and some left early. Of course, some merchant ships chose to stay because only Lotte Foreign Company could eat the valuable cargo on their ships.
When two French warships suddenly attacked, the remaining merchant ships were frightened and fled in all directions. After all, Kraft and Molde were Europeans and were somewhat incest towards the same European merchants, especially among the merchant ships, there were many Spanish, Portuguese and British merchant ships. No matter how brave they were, they would not dare to attack these merchant ships.
In this way, a very strange scene appeared on the Bohai Sea. Two French warships were desperately bombing the Special Administrative Region. Behind the butts of the warships further east, more than a dozen European merchant ships were moored on the sea to watch the fun.
Of course they wanted to leave, but the valuable equipment in the merchant ship was their lives. If they were not sold to Lotte Foreign Company, they would have to lose all their money this time.
"Look, look... the Lyra zodiac has begun to move! He must be trying to support the battle at the Dagukou Fort, what should I do? The Chinese cannot hold on... " "What else can I do? Send a signal to the shore to remind these Chinese people... Oh God, are these French robbers forcing me to go bankrupt?"
In the dark night, more than a dozen merchant ships suddenly blinked their eyes together, and the lookout hand on the mast operated the signal light and began to launch signals.
The light of the signal lights in the night can shine far. There are many soldiers participating in the special zone and Dagukou Fortress. The news that the Lynx is preparing to attack the sneak attack spread instantly.
"Look at the foreign merchant ships on the sea... They are sending us a signal... An enemy ship is preparing to attack Dagukou. A French warship is preparing to move south. They are going to bomb Dagukou..."
"Cleaning the cannons... loading them to resist..."
There was a roar on the fort, and now it has really reached the critical point of collapse. Both the enemy and us have now become exhausted soldiers, and neither side has any help. The Special Administrative Region can no longer divide the troops.
The panting green camp soldiers began to run towards the cannon. They threw away the dead bodies on the cannon barrels and searched for gunpowder and shells from the mess, ready to resist the enemies at sea.
How could the cavalry and infantry of the Eight Banners let them organize their resistance? They rushed forward and killed the soldiers who were carrying artillery.
The focus of the battlefield instantly changed from a battle for artillery to a battle for artillery. The Green Camp soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers rushed up one by one. At the end of the war, a group of savages were fighting. Each cannon was twisted into a human lump, and the roar of despair soared into the sky.
Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun's bayonet formations have long been gone. In the chaos, everyone is fighting with instinct. When the snipers saw that the morale of the Green Camp soldiers was already in a state of madness, they no longer need their hand-to-hand motivation, so they all chose long-range snipers in their old careers.
The snipers began to disperse and began to shoot at the enemy. Even if they didn't have a scope, they were still fatal when the shooting lasted for five minutes. However, when the shooting lasted for five minutes, a desperate situation was placed in front of everyone and the bullets were exhausted.
"It's too much ammunition and food, it's just that it's too much ammunition and food..." Ye Qiu took out a bayonet from his waist and prepared to put it on the muzzle again, but found that the bayonet had already been bent in the battle just now.
"Damn it, I'm forcing me to smash it with my fist..." Ye Qiu looked around and saw the scenery of the entire turret. Seeing countless people twisting together, fighting with their fists with daggers and even their teeth and fingers, Ye Qiu actually smiled.
Yes, that was a desperate smile. He knew that this was the last battle. Both the enemy and us had tried their best to do their last bit of energy. Now they are no longer humans, they are just fighting with the instinct of wild beasts.
"Oh... I'll leave my parents forever, I'll leave the new army forever, I'll leave the prime minister forever... I'll explain this here today..."
Pang Chaoyun turned his head and glared at him fiercely, "What's the love? If you have nonsense, kill a few Tartars, I don't believe that if we fight for this, we will lose? The Prime Minister is Yinlong, we all know that Yinlong's career has just begun, how can he lose!"
"You kid are so scared, I don't... Isn't it just a French warship? I don't believe it can crush us to death!"
Ye Qiu tilted his mouth and started to push him, "Bad, who do you think is a slut? We can die, and all our thousands of defenders can sacrifice, but the prime minister's career will not lose!"
"I firmly believe that the Prime Minister will definitely avenge us. Even if he dies, there is a tablet of mine in the Ryukyu War Temple..."
The two were bickering, but their eyes were filled with reluctance to leave. They knew that time was too long. When the fire of the French warships sounded, it might be the day when they and the world were separated forever.
When life can only be calculated in minutes, fighting and quarrel is also a commemoration of leaving this world.
Dagukou is burning, the special zone is burning, the trenches are burning, and even the sea is burning, etc... How can the sea be burning? What happened over the sea?
Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun were fighting each other, but they did not carefully observe the changes in the battlefield. Now the sea in the east suddenly became brighter, and there were still bursts of noisy shouts as the sea breeze came.
The two looked at each other and knew that something was wrong at the sea. Although they didn't know what was going on, they always had a strange premonition in their hearts. Could it be that the darkest moment before dawn had passed?
Yes, their intuition was not wrong at all, because four strange big ships suddenly appeared on the sea, coming from east to west, and they seemed to be deliberately hiding their identities, and the big ship rushed over without any lights.
Until the ship approached the foreign merchant ship, the four large ships seemed to hear some signal, and at the same time lit up countless torches and lighted up. The entire sea was covered with snow, no wonder it gave people the illusion of sudden burning.
"What the hell is this... Is this a warship? God... they are about to hit it and there is no time to start anchoring. I quickly send a signal to tell them that we are merchant ships..." The foreign merchants on the sea were in chaos.
The four large ships were extremely fast, and the foreign merchants had already passed by before they could stop. At the moment when the two ships intersected, all the foreigners saw a scene that shocked them.
"Soldiers! All the soldiers on the ship are in blue uniforms... They are the new army of Ryukyu, and this must be Xiao Letian's reinforcements... Our business is saved!"
At this time, Kraft and Mold also saw the four warships that suddenly appeared, and the one they were at the forefront was extremely familiar with.
"The Broken Waves... is our Broken Waves! Damn it, that's the captured Broken Waves... Xiao Letian's soldiers are chasing him! Adjust your posture and prepare to shoot..."
Kraft and Molde shouted the name of the Wavebreaker almost at the same time. The light cruiser that made them lose all their face now appeared in front of them. There was only one possibility that Xiao Letian's main force will be back.
That's right, the Breaking Waves is now the flagship of the Ryukyu Navy, and Xiao Letian is now sitting on it. There are three modified fly-scissors around the Breaking Waves, which are filled with new troops in blue.
Xiao Letian looked at the burning Tanggu with a very cold face, and beside him was a dejected Frenchman, the captured envoy Molière.
Xiao Letian bit his back teeth and said, "Fortunately, I set out one day in advance. If I were one day later, my special zone would have to be demolished and flattened...Mr. Molière, you once again pushed yourself to the disadvantaged side. You French may not get any benefits in the future negotiations..."
"Transfer my order and send a signal to the Special Administrative Region, saying that I, Xiao Letian, are back, and I am back alive!"
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