"General Li, a small boat comes from the sea!" A sentry in the Yuewei Fortress rushed to an elderly general with a full helmet and knelt down and reported.

"Da" standing on the top of the high turret, General Li pulled the monocoque Qianli Milestone and stared at the small boat with a white flag coming from the sea. Finally, he looked at the gunboats behind the small boat. He lowered the Qianli Milestone and ordered: "Don't fire the cannon, let it go ashore."

"Yan Pei, why not fire?!"

Before Li Yanpei finished speaking, a stern reprimand came from behind him. He turned his head and bowed quickly. However, it was Ruan Jiang, the imperial envoy of the Ruan Dynasty, who arrived. This was the emperor's uncle, who was specially sent to urge the extremely dangerous capital Xiangjiangkou to defend.

"Your Highness, they should be informed by foreigners. It's better to let them come over and see what they say. After all, General Li's marine naval army has just been wiped out..." Li Yanpei said.

"Don't you! Foreigners in Annan land cannot step on the shore with one foot!" Ruan Jiang shouted loudly, pointing at his feet and shouting: "Are the Shun'an Fortress Fortress Group and the Jingyuan Fortress Group on the other side of the shore all decorations? Didn't you say that you have done the best? Then why should you put them up?! What if they see our army's virtual reality?"

Li Yanpei looked at the huge stone-built turret inside and outside, and the Anwei Fort has 40 cannons, and 6 guards are usually guarding. Not long ago, after receiving the diplomatic letters of France, the Western and Song dynasties that have been put into pressure, the defenders immediately soared by nearly three times, reaching 160 people. Now this huge fort is crowded with 329 soldiers, and there are 90 local urgently hired farmers as civilians. The fort is already crowded, and it seems that they can't move their feet as if they are watching a show. Annan's defense has indeed reached the limit of what they can do.

Ruan Jiang said proudly: "There are all turrets, and our soldiers are no longer able to be installed. This matter has been commended by the emperor. If foreigners see that our army is so full and cannot increase troops on the turret, wouldn't they be proud? In the future, the turrets will be built larger."

The general general of Shun'an Fortress, Li Yanpei, thought more than that. He nodded and said, "Then listen to His Highness the Prince." He loudly ordered a line of artillery on the beach under the fort to bombard the small boat.

Qin Mazi sat among the paddlers of the boat. While the boat was rushing forward to the ground, he looked at the French envoy in front of him excitedly and looked up at the shore. He reached out and pulled the corner of the other party's clothes, and gestured to let him sit down. This was safer.

"No. They won't attack the envoy..." The Frenchman smiled and said in English to his friends. Before he finished speaking, there was a loud bang on the shore, and a huge column of water suddenly jumped up in front of the boat.

"Fuck! Fire!" Qin Mazi screamed. He was stunned for a moment. He pushed a few Manila (Philippines) soldiers on the boat next to him and shouted: "Come on. Let's go back!"

"Can't go back! Keep rowing!" The French envoy raised his body in the cabin. He pulled out the white flag inserted at the bow of the ship with one hand. He stood up and waved vigorously at the cannon on the shore.

The Manila sailor was stunned for a moment and continued to row forward. "Boom" this time the water column jumped up on the side of the boat. The boat bumped violently. Qin Mazi almost pulled off the boat with no face.

He screamed and pulled out his arms as he inserted into the sea water. He turned his head and saw another line of smoke rising from the beach in front. Qin Mazi threw the wet letter in his hand and rushed forward. He pressed the Frenchman standing in the boat arrogantly waving the white flag and pressed under his body. Two shells pounced on their backs with howling roars. Two terrifying water columns immediately exploded at the stern of the boat.

"Do you think they are a country of etiquette?!" Qin Mazi pinched the Frenchman's neck and pressed him under him. He turned his head and shouted at the sailors: "Go back! back! back!"

The Manila sailors were not fools either. They turned the bow of the boat, and everyone was rowing their own faces as if they were earth-colored. The envoy boat was splattering with water columns in panic, and fleeing towards their invading fleet.

"Damn it, when I heard that Xiao Zuye, who was born in a stall, wanted me to listen to the French, I knew that nothing was good!" Qin Mazi splashed into the sea water on his body like rain, gritted his teeth and thought: "How can Annan and the Qing Dynasty be different? The cannon didn't say anything. You want me to die! Fortunately, the cannon was fired early, and if it went up, it might be even if it was Lingchi!"

"Report to sir, the enemy has fled!" Annan's soldiers ran to the fort and reported, "Good fight!" Ruan Jiang smiled, and after saying that, he pulled Li Yanpei aside and said, "Lao Li, we have made great contributions again this time."

Li Yanpei was stunned when he heard this and asked in surprise: "The enemy ships gathered on the sea, and our sea navy army was wiped out. How did we make great contributions?"

"Didn't you just kill the enemy?" Ruan Jiang was as surprised.

"Is that considered an enemy? It's just a small boat with a white flag." Li Yanpei said.

"Is that a small boat?! General Li, you are old and your eyes are not good enough! I plan to report to the emperor: Fa, two large enemy soldiers, one steamer ship, and dozens of three-plate boats, and countless small ships carrying soldiers, rushing into the mouth of Xiangjiang River. I was eager to drive straight into Hue, and the Annan soldiers in my Shun'an Fortress were desperate, stacking more than a hundred cannons, sinking two large-scale three-plate boats, breaking one main mast of the large-scale warship, killing many French Song soldiers, drowning countless soldiers, and the others were afraid to retreat and dare not go to Hue again! How about it?"

Li Yanpei breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "What the Prince said is so true, my subordinates just saw it."

"Hey, don't, you have to help me see, don't make any mistakes." Ruan Jiang said.

"Don't worry, Your Highness." Li Yanpei smiled and said, "I wonder how Your Highness talks about General Li's defeat on the sea?"

"Of course, I was fighting hard to die in the country and wiped out several Francs. The others were said to have encountered strong winds, which caused the Victory Fleet to sink!" Ruan Jiang clapped his hands suddenly, and then he looked at Li Yanpei with some concern and said, "Yan Pei, as long as you fight, you will be able to make achievements, but you must be able to defend the Shun'an Fortress Group. As long as you can keep foreigners outside the mouth of Xiangjiang River, I promise you will be promoted and rich this time!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness." Li Yanpei brought Ruan Jiang between two copper cannons on the fort, pointing to the vast river with misty waves not far away, and said: "I have placed dozens of iron chains on the river surface. If the enemy wants to attack Shunhua, they must drive straight into Xiangjiang. These iron chains will not stop them, but they can stop and delay their advancement. You must know that the coast is full of fortresses, and more than a dozen forts forming Shun'an Fortress lock on both sides of the estuary of Xiangjiang. The fortress and the garrison are 11,000 people, and 600 cannons pointing at the Xiangjiang River. No matter how powerful the opponent's fleet is, it will be smashed by us! In addition, there are 20,000 troops to support the kings towards Shun'an Fortress. The king's capital, Hue is as safe as a rock!"

Under the fierce artillery fire of Annan, the envoys with white flags ran away in a hurry and were beaten back. The fleet seemed to quietly acknowledge this move. After nightfall, on the slightly swaying American Steamer William, who hired troops to transport troops, American journalist Smith asked his slaves to move the table and oil lamp to the deck, and began to write today's report on the military:

Today, our peace envoy was beaten back by the damn Annan people. Do they know the etiquette? The generals and officers in the fleet were very angry with this behavior. Fortunately, Mr. Renault from France was not injured. Mr. Qin, the agile envoy of the Song Dynasty, saved his life in the artillery fire. Now on the William where I was sitting, the giant can see the stern of the Song Dynasty Haiti. There is a bright light, as if music and laughter can be heard faintly. Now captains and generals of various countries gather there for dinner and agreed to fight tomorrow.

What a pity, I was not invited.

But I sincerely hope that they can teach Annan people a lesson tomorrow.

Here, we would like to mention our main force of the jihad army - the Song army. Today I saw the crazy Song navy on the French warship. They were simply using the Annan Navy as a target. Although the Annan Navy was very clumsy and had no tactics or threats, the bravery and dedication of the Song navy still left a deep impression on everyone. Their efforts to eliminate pirates in the past two years were jointly verified by merchants from all countries.

You may see the Navy's Marine Knife Legion's actions tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to it!

But if I could see the actions of the Army Sharp Spears established by the European army, I would also look forward to it. This puts me in a dilemma. Which boat should I board?

The emperor Zhao, who was still engaged in civil war with the Qing Dynasty, pulled his army away from the mainland battlefield to join the holy war, and his unilateral hope of peace with the Qing Dynasty, made all countries respectful. I think if all countries in the Far East were like the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, then world peace was just around the corner.

However, there is a behind-the-scenes story. The French captain was deeply shocked by the fact that the Christian faith was dominant in the Song Dynasty. The Hong Kong Han Association where Mr. Luo Xiuquan, the teacher, was located, almost took over most of the positions of priests in the Song Dynasty. Whether in the army or the navy, few believe in Catholicism. I personally still have a greater favorable impression of this situation. Thank God. However, many French captains claimed to use their personal charm to pull these Song Dynasty soldiers into the sacred Catholicism, hoping that they would succeed.

Finally, I wish the seven French missionaries locked in Hue and the citizens of the Song Dynasty on the Yaro to be saved safely. The light of God shines on the Far East!"

The next day, the three largest warships, led by the Song Dynasty flagship Da Songhai, France and Spain, jointly sailed towards the Anwei Fortress on the south side of the Xiangjiang River estuary. This is the outermost fortress in Shun'an Fortress. 150 naval guns were shooting wildly towards the Anwei Fortress, which had only 40 artillery guns.

There are three turrets on the estuary of Xiangjiang River, which face the sea, but the three turrets cannot support each other. Moreover, the artillery of the nearest Anwei Fort cannot hit the three giant beasts on the sea, while the other turrets can unscrupulously bombard this solid stone platform.

This is the gap in technology.

"Ah! What should I do!" The gunner on the turret shouted in a hurry as his shell could only hit the water in front of the three ships.

At this time, another curved shell, like a meteorite falling every day, smashed straight into the Anwei Fort without a roof. The gunner and swordsman who blocked it suddenly flew with blood and flesh, and the splattered gravel flew across the fort like bullets. Even two copper cannons were bombed out, one was in the cannon window, with its butt off the ground, and the other was pressed on the chest of a gunner, who spit out the blood and brushed the yellow cannon body covered with black marks of gunpowder.

Half an hour later, the Annan Anwei Fortress, filled with soldiers, was already covered in scars. The soldiers might be able to block the torrent of the enemy with cold weapons, but the other party simply used fire and iron to ravage the flesh and blood body.

"Boom!" With a sound of "Boom", a heavy shell hit the outer wall of the turret. The wall made of solid stone strips could not withstand the giant cannon fired from the sea, and collapsed into the inside, revealing a face full of horror and fear.

"The artillery was hoarse. Landing assault!" Davidson put down his telescope, and his grim smile made him reveal two big gold teeth that made the Chinese sea chill.

Immediately, the three large warships dropped their boats one after another. This time, they were no longer envoys holding the white flag, but were fully armed soldiers: the Dashen Legion, the French Expeditionary Legion and the sailors, and the soldiers of the Spanish and Philippine Legion shouted horns and rowed the sea water together. The small boat group seemed to rush out of the cave and roared towards the Anwei Fort.

After passing the sea without any resistance, the Three Kingdoms tigers and wolves flipped off the sampan, fucked the bayonet rifle, howled and charged, while unscrupulously slapped the bullets and rushed towards the gap in the Anwei Fortress.

Stepping through the bodies of Annan soldiers who were bombarded and staring at the fearful faces in the gap, the commando was almost unresisted. They were like kicking Annan people in the butt with bayonets to drive them out of the fort. All the injured or dead were shot or stabbed in the back.

Twenty minutes later, Anwei's fortress fell, and this time was just the time it took for fully armed invader soldiers to rush into the fort from the beach to run with all their might.

At the same time, the Jingyuan Fortress, which was across the river from the Anwei Fortress, was also attacked violently.

Unlike Anwei who was destroyed by the devastating bombardment of heavy warships, the invaders here were composed of the light warships of the Song Dynasty. They were led by the first Western warship to join the Song Dynasty Navy, the Stephen of the Great Golden Tooth, but at this time they had been renamed "Knight of God".

The three of their warships are now very weak, and the mainstays of the Song Dynasty Navy, with only 42 guns. However, as light warships with light tonnage, they can sail into the inland river of the Xiangjiang River mouth and bombard the Jingyuan Fortress with a better position.

"My toads, let's see you perform well this time." Ding Yuzhan sat cross-legged on the deck of the "Knight of God". A square groove was dug out from the deck in front of him. Four short and thick golden mortars lay inside like four toads.

This mortar cannon has a high ballistic trajectory, but it can be used with heavier and larger shells. It is a devastating siege weapon for personnel and buildings. It fires smoke from the cannons wrapped around the hull, and squats along the heavy bomb trajectory of the Jingyuan Fortress along the toad doors. Ding Yuzhan raised his neck high and lowered his neck. What he saw in front of him was the smoke from the majestic turret.

This Jingyuan Fortress is larger than Anwei, and is the largest in Shun'an Fortress. There are 60 guns installed, but what's the use? The Annan artillery is the same as the Qing artillery. It is stuck in the gun mouth and can hardly turn its head flexibly. Therefore, facing the enemy in any direction, only one-quarter of the artillery can be fired, but this outdated earth cannon may not cause any damage to the opponent. It just tries to fulfill its responsibilities towards the three Great Song warships shaking in front of it.

At the same time, four steamers on the north side of the Jingyuan Fort three kilometers away from the Jingyuan Fortress were towed the transport ship and secretly docked.

Zhuang Lizhong rolled over from the boat and walked to the beach with his feet in his leather shoes. His flag bearer followed him up and inserted three red spears into the ground military flag next to the legion commander.

Not long after, Zhuang Lizhong straightened his feathers, put his high military cap on his head, pulled out his sabre and shouted in the direction of Jingyuan Fortress: "The whole army ran forward!"

The 2000 Sharp Spear Soldiers immediately stabbed the sword in the direction pointed by the place where the sword pointed.

The 500 defenders in the Jingyuan Fortress and the 2,000 garrisons in the camp behind the Fortress were all attracted by the three arrogant Song ships at the entrance of Xiangjiang River. No one noticed that behind a sneaky invaders was landing, and they were circumventing towards them.

"Rare!Rare!" The new recruits of the artillery company were sweating profusely and pulled six field artillery against the hillside. Beside them, their comrades made a shocking sound of killing. A silverfish-like bayonet passed by them like a tide and rushed to the horizontal top of the mountain behind the Jingyuan Fort, where there was a temporary military camp of the Annan people.

"Ah!" An Annan soldier fell behind his chest, holding the spear in his hand tightly. Unfortunately, the spear was as clean as new and not covered with blood. Facing the group of Song troops who suddenly appeared on countless occasions, the first thing they greeted was not the heroic swords, but the flying bullets. Only the bird guns, the guns and the sharp weapons passed down from the founding emperor. The old French rifles 50 years ago could slightly block those guys.

But how could the sporadic roar of gunpowder stop the Song army, who seemed to be advancing against the smoke wall? When it reached dozens of steps, the other party did not shoot, and rushed forward with a shiny bayonet to demand hand-to-hand combat.

However, the flesh and blood of the comrades beside him was not cold. It was seen by Minnie's bullet that the ground was still bleeding from the big hole. Who was fighting for? For Emperor Side? Forget it, isn't it just for the soldiers to be a soldier just for the sake of having a meal? Who was the soldier to die?

Facing the group of bayonets rushing up like silverfish, the leader screamed, threw down his waist, turned his head and ran down the mountain. Suddenly, he wailed the Annan defenders following him to the barracks behind Jingyuan, throwing the high ground to the sharp spear group that rushed up. Their 200 defenders were unfortunately killed 7 or 8 people, but these cold-armed officers did not want to fight against the Song army for bayonets.

Zhuang Lizhong used a telescope to observe the Jingyuan Fortress covered with smoke, and then kicked the table in the small military camp away. The smoke gun that officer Annan had not had time to take away rolled down the hillside. He turned his head and shouted, "Pull up the field cannon!"

Soon, the six field cannons on the top of the mountain began to roar towards the Annan Army camp where the tent overlapped at the foot of the mountain, as if the wolf teeth were biting the soft abdomen of the lamb.

Jingyuan General Li Taiguo pointed his knife at the ocean cross flag on the river with amid the deafening sound of cannons, roaring after roar: "Break these invaders!"

The thick smoke from the roar of the artillery smoked the white-faced general into a black face, and a large hole was made by a piece of explosive debris on his forehead. Blood wrapped in black smoke and ash rolled up his chin, making the brave general's expression even more ferocious.

But at this moment, an Annan soldier hurriedly ran up and knelt down in front of him. He pointed behind him with tears in his face and shouted: "General Li, the enemy troops appeared on Foye Mountain behind him! The camp was already in a mess!"

"What?" General Li almost rushed to the side of the river, and the three strange blood spear flags dancing in the wind on Foye Mountain on the low mountain almost made him faint on the cold stone slab.

"What should I do? Sir!" The informant soldier cried and moved his knee to the Sir.

"What should I do!" General Li grabbed the soldier and shouted: "Let Pan Zhongjun guard the camp behind him! Those who escaped before the battle will be killed without mercy!"

Pan Zhongjun, the guard of the camp behind, was so arrogant that the soldiers were dragging the extremely heavy artillery behind the chest wall of the camp. Before the cannon was in place, they couldn't wait to yell and fight back at Foye Mountain.

"I will kill anyone who is fucking messy!" Pan Zhongjun yelled as the soldiers who were storming like headless flies running around the camp.

"Start the cannon! Let it go quickly! Arrange the array and block all the way to the back camp!" Pan Zhongjun jumped and shouted.

Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound in the camp in his body. The terrible shock wave smashed Pan Zhongjun underground, and a violent explosion occurred in a tent behind their camp.

It was a warehouse where gunpowder and shells were piled up for the turrets in front. After being placed in the camp for safety, who would have thought that when they were in residence and then encountered an enemy attack, why did those damn invaders come in from Xiangjiang without being upright? Instead, they sneaked around behind them! This warehouse was originally the farthest from the battlefield and the safest, facing the artillery shells shot from Foye Mountain behind them, which was exactly the most dangerous front line. A shell from the Song army caused an ammunition explosion.

The fire fragments in the splashing area flew all over the camp, and countless tents burned together. The camp caught fire. The already chaotic Annan army collapsed!

"Play military music and the whole army advances." Zhuang Lizhong put down his telescope and was the first to walk down towards the enemy camp at the foot of the mountain.

"Little Knife, fight with grandpa! It's awesome to Sakyamuni." Ding Yuzhan, who was sitting on the boat, bit a half of the cigar, pulled a ladder from the boat, resisted on his shoulder, jumped into the water, carried the big knife behind him, and wade towards the Jingyuan Fortress, which was attacked from both sides.

The 300 Little Knife Legion went down into the waist-deep water like dumplings, holding swords and guns, carrying ladders, and rushing towards the trench in front of the turret with a fierce fire on the turret on the turret.

Because they have landed on the pirate's territory countless times, facing bird guns, rifles, bows and arrows, and even cannons, the war-torn little sword soldiers did not take this Annan people's fort seriously.

The first one to rush to the deep trench, Ding Yuzhan threw the ladder on his shoulder into the trench, but immediately he jumped and cursed: "Damn it, this is the ladder given by a bastard from the court!"

The trenches of the Annan people were too wide. The ladders were not long enough and floated in the water in the trenches, but they were not reachable at both ends.

The birdie who followed him immediately carried Sharps behind him, knelt on the ground and pulled the ladder out of the trench, turned his head and asked, "Boss, why don't two ladders tied together...ah!"

Before he finished speaking, a lead ball shot from Annan musketeer on the fort was hit on the ladder, which scared the birdie.
To be continued...