Li Hongzhang sneered at Ka Lin, as if he was looking at a prey that was about to die, his eyes were so cold, and he went straight to people's hearts.Garin also smelled a hint of something wrong, held the handle of the knife with his right hand, and retreated towards the door step by step, "Come on, cut down Kalin, the dog officer, and pull him to the front line to sacrifice the flag" Li Hongzhang's face changed suddenly, and the murderous aura all over his body leaked out, and he shouted at the door.At this time, the two soldiers are fighting, and in order to boost morale, it is common to slaughter livestock in front of the command flag and pray to the heavens.Sometimes, they would kill the emissaries of the enemy army and sacrifice the flag, all in the final analysis, to boost morale.In the lobby, dozens of soldiers rushed into the house from outside the door, all of them pulled the bolts, and the foreign guns in their hands were aimed at Garin in a daze.Dozens of gunshots rang out outside the courtyard at the same time, and after a crackling sound, a dozen of Garin's men all fell in a pool of blood."
Li Hongzhang, your courage is too big, don't you want to rebel?"
He scolded Li Hongzhang with trembling lips, and trembled at Li Hongzhang's personal soldiers with a knife."
Kalin, you are just a Jilin capital, you dare to be lawless because you are a chaplain, you don't distinguish between respect and inferiority, and openly ask for bribes from the old man to put up with you for a long time, I wanted to send you away, but I didn't expect you to run back by yourself.Just take your sacrificial flag today to boost the morale of the soldiers under the old man.You are arrogant and domineering, and you will provoke the anger of the public, and the old man will not leave you" Li Hongzhang snorted coldly, and waved his finger at the soldiers without any scruples.Now that the Huaxing army has blocked the sea route, there is no need for Li Hongzhang to accommodate Kalin.Anyway, I don't know if it's dead or alive, and slaughtering this villain before dying can also boost the morale of the soldiers.If you can hold Taiwan, then send a letter to the imperial court, saying that Kalin was sunk by the Huaxing army in the sea, and the imperial court will not send someone to investigate in detail anyway, and the most important thing at the moment is to hold Taiwan."
Bang, bang, bang" Suddenly more than a dozen foreign guns in the hall let out an angry roar, emitting dazzling sparks, and the billowing smoke of gunpowder temporarily diffused in the air.Garin didn't even snort, and in an instant, his skin was cut open by the bullet, and his flesh flew sideways.The saber in his hand fell to the ground with a "clang", and he looked at Li Hongzhang with wide eyes, and his fat body finally fell heavily to the ground, and he didn't close his eyes until he died.Before the gunshots rang out, he suddenly understood why the Queen Mother didn't let Li Hongzhang return to the Kwantung garrison.He was a wolf, a wolf in sheep's clothing.The front line of Kaohsiung Port in Tainan.Liu Mingchuan ran on the battlefield with Kalin's head across the horse and shouted, "The corrupt official Kalin has been corrected, and the marshal wants to live and die with the island of Taiwan."
Desperate Battle, Defend Taiwan" "Desperate Battle, Defend Taiwan" The regimental warriors on the position all raised their arms and shouted with high momentum, they had long seen that the Kalin was not pleasing to the eye, and the most unaccustomed thing was the Manchurian officials.Garin would never have thought that his death would still have a certain effect.If he had a spirit in the sky, he knew that the Huai Legion on the front line would be demoralized for his death, and I don't know if he could turn a blind eye.Since the Dutch established a colony in Taiwan, the port of Kaohsiung has been exploited.After hundreds of years of construction, it has become the largest port in Taiwan.In particular, Taipei has not yet been developed, and the port of Kaohsiung also occupies the most important military position in Taiwan.The port has more than 100 batteries and more than 200 large and small guns.Compared with the small-caliber guns equipped on the warships, all the guns of the fort were newly cast by Li Hongzhang's arsenal in Taiwan.Among breech guns, it was already the best in performance.All of them weigh thousands of pounds, imitating the Shenwei General artillery made by Lin Zexu when he resisted Britain and France.The firing range is more than 2,000 meters, but the biggest flaw is that it cannot be aimed, and can only shoot fixedly.After the victory of the South China Sea Fleet at Bass Bay, it entered the port of Kaohsiung in the afternoon.Before attacking Taiwan, the air brigade had a clear reconnaissance of Taiwan's military installations.The fleets also developed targeted tactics, spreading out on two flanks outside the port of Kaohsiung, while simultaneously carrying out precision strikes on the port's batteries.The artillery commanders adjusted the firing angle of the guns according to the specific parameters, and after Wang Zhenyuan, commander of the South China Sea Fleet, gave an order, they all pulled the bolts."
Boom, boom, boom" For the first time, such a huge sound of artillery rang out along the coast of Taiwan, as if it was about to collapse the sky, and the huge impact force rushed straight into the port fort.The cannonballs smashed intensively on the fort built by the boulders, and in an instant there was a roar that tore through the heavens and the earth.The rumbling explosions enveloped the entire harbor, and the rubble flew and the smoke filled the air, as if the heavens and the earth were about to collapse."
Shoot back, fire back immediately" Liu Mingchuan braved the artillery fire on the front line to direct the battle, and originally wanted to wait for the Huaxing army battleship to enter the artillery range before giving the order to open fire, who knew that the Huaxing army would open artillery in clusters three thousand meters away.This completely disrupted Liu Mingchuan's plan, and the cannonballs fell like raindrops, wave after wave, and there was no room for relaxation at all.In desperation, Liu Mingchuan no longer cared whether the range was enough, and directly ordered the artillery to fire.The artillery on the "boom, boom" fort also made a sporadic cannon sound, and the solid shells flew out with a whizz, smashing down one by one on the sea hundreds of meters away from the Huaxing Army.But the sound of the cannon fire also quickly revealed the direction, and the captains of the ships immediately organized an artillery strike.Before the battery's artillery could fire for the second time, several shells fell from the sky, as if they had eyes, and they fell into the battery accurately.The huge impact force tore the fort to pieces in an instant, and thick gunpowder smoke rose above the fort.None of the artillery on all sides were spared, and all of them were blown up by the scattered shrapnel.After half an hour of shelling each other, the two sides finally blew up all the hundreds of batteries, but not a single shell hit the warships of the Chinese Xing Army.In this short period of time, the 10 warships of the Huaxing Army fired nearly 10,000 shells, cutting the entire Kaohsiung port in half.The artillerymen suffered heavy casualties and fled to the infantry positions behind them.Liu Mingchuan saw everything in his eyes, and did not stop the fleeing soldiers, and quickly retreated to the second line of infantry defense, preparing to block the landing of the infantry of the Huaxing Army.Ten warships of the South China Sea Fleet immediately entered the harbor and were on board the giant Huashan at the same time.Ten airships rose into the air at the same time and began to conduct high-altitude reconnaissance of the ground defenses.When the airship approached the sky above the Huai Army's infantry fortified position, the infantry on the position let out a burst of exclamations, and all looked up at the sky.I don't know what kind of demon magic Huaxing army has used, and it can fly into the sky.After the airship finished its reconnaissance, it was also unkind to the soldiers who were deployed below, and the bombardier quickly dropped the first bomb.Soon, the ten airships threw all the bombs in the basket from the top of the Huai army.The Huai troops on the position were in a panic, and they jumped out of the trenches with their heads in their hands to hide.The Huai troops on the periphery all raised their guns and shot at the sky, trying to knock down the monsters flying in the sky.However, the maximum height of the bullet reached 300 meters, and the bullets fired from the periphery rained down like drops in the middle.Because of the acceleration, the warhead is not less powerful in the slightest.When it fell from the sky, it was like a knife, and for a while, thousands of soldiers in the central defense were smashed and their brains burst.Ten airships threw thousands of shells at the positions below in a matter of ten minutes.These shells are filled with yellow phosphorus, which emits a huge amount of smoke when they explode.The smoke bombs used in later generations were made of this substance, and the use of such bombs by airship troops also provided effective coordinates for the fleet at sea.Sure enough, the smoke rose on the ground within a few minutes.The guns on the coastal warships were all fired in an instant, and hundreds of shells flew out at the same time, falling in a parabola on the Huai army's position.The Huai army has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers at this high and low, and even the trenches have been continuously built after more than a year, layer upon layer, and there are countless hidden forts.Before the Huaxing army attacked, everyone thought it was impregnable, but now it is caught in a field of artillery fire.Flying shrednel continued to harvest the lives of the Huai Legion on the battlefield, and when they really faced death, everyone's only thought was to save their lives.No matter how strict the commander insisted, they all jumped out of the trenches and withdrew in the direction of Tainan Prefecture.The defeat was like a mountain, Liu Mingchuan saw the advantages and disadvantages of the Huaxing army's artillery, and also understood that the coastal defense line could not stop the pace of the Huaxing army's attack.In order to avoid more casualties among the soldiers, he took the initiative to blow the horn and retreated with the regiment that was lucky to survive.The South China Sea Fleet finally docked at the port of Kaohsiung, and the 100,000 soldiers on the battleship landed on the thick ground.Under the command of the commander, they quickly seized the various heights on all sides of the port to strictly prevent the Huai army from counterattacking.The South China Sea Fleet is responsible for transporting 100,000 troops from the Guangzhou Military Region, and the East China Sea Fleet is responsible for transporting 100,000 troops from the Nanjing Military Region.The Guangzhou Military Region was personally led by Commander Chen Bingwen, and the veteran Feng Zicai's main task was to ensure the stability of Southeast Asia, so he generally did not participate in battles in other places.Deputy Commander Xu Desheng was full of Li Hongzhang's Huai soldiers, so he was not suitable to participate in this battle.The Nanjing Military Region was commanded by Chief of Staff Chen Yucheng, who and Chen Bingwen were both from the Taiping Army and had a feud with the Huai Army.Qiao Zhiqing put the generals from the Taiping Army in charge of the battle, also considering that they were not involved with Li Hongzhang, and they would not be afraid to move.The 200,000 soldiers all came from Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other coastal areas.Taiwan is still in an undeveloped state, only Tainan has been reclaimed, and most of the place is full of miasma.If the northerners come here in a hurry, they will not be able to accept the hot and humid climate here.Not only that, Qiao Zhiqing also specially prepared enough Chinese and Western medicines for the treatment of malaria.Each regimental headquarters has an accompanying military medical office, and the logistics department also has to ensure that the soldiers have absolutely healthy drinking water and food.He put in a lot of effort this time, and didn't give Li Hongzhang a chance to breathe
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