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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 738: Unfinished Obligations

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    Humen, a place that blocked the invaders more than 20 years ago, has once again shouldered its historical responsibility, and this time the resistance is even more disparate than the last time, and this time it faces both land and sea.  A pincer attack.  ¡Æ, There are many famous blocking battles in Chinese and foreign history from ancient times to the present, and these famous blocking battles have undoubtedly provided a strong guarantee for the final victory of our own army.

    Now there is only one way in front of the British and French coalition forces. In order to escape, the remaining 20,000 people of the coalition army must cross the Humen difficulty.  If the Taiping Army wanted to once again create the glory of annihilating the main force of the British and French coalition forces and completely establish the strategic initiative against the British and French forces, they must stop the enemy at Humen.

    The order brought by the carrier pigeon to Liu Jintang was to stay in Humen for at least 24 hours, which was a whole day, but now Liu Jintang looked at the time and it was already the 30th hour, six hours past the scheduled time.

    "Is there anyone alive? Is there anyone alive?" Several soldiers stood next to Liu Jintang. They were all stained to varying degrees. A battalion commander ran over with his head and face covered in blood.  , he touched his face and said: "Come here a few people, the cannon at No. 19 can still fire, let's go there!"

    The battalion commander obviously didn't notice Liu Jintang. At this moment, Liu Jintang also had a bandage on his face and half of his hair was burned off by the fire. It was impossible to see his original appearance.  After Liu Jintang stood up, the battalion commander noticed the bloody epaulette on his shoulder. He immediately stood at attention and saluted: "Captain, I didn't know it was you."

    Liu Jintang waved his hands feebly and said: "Go ahead, all of you go over and hit us hard. The British guys will think that our cannons have been blown up. Let them know how powerful we are."

    The battalion commander took several soldiers there. Liu Jintang collected several grenades from the dead soldiers beside him. Then several soldiers on the front line shouted loudly: "The enemy is coming up, the enemy is coming up, twenty-sixth  Charge!"

    Liu Jintang looked up and saw densely packed coalition troops rushing up in formation on the road leading inland behind the Humen Fortress.  Thirty hours of persistence.  After repelling enemy charges twenty-five times, the Humen Taiping Army defenders suffered more than two-thirds of their casualties. Liu Jintang no longer had any guards around him. Even cooks, orderlies, civilian staff officers, and health workers were sent to the front line.  Liu Jintang didn't know how long he could keep guard.  The most terrible thing is that they don't have much ammunition.

    "Get closer and hit the officer holding the command knife first!" Liu Jintang shouted loudly, then grabbed a rifle and ducked into the tunnel of the front line position.

    Soon the enemy was running faster and faster, and the annoying sound of Scottish bagpipes was flying on the position. The ones coming up should be the British Scottish Highland Corps.  They all held bayonets and looked at the dilapidated fortress in front of them with some fear. Are there any living people inside?  This is the uneasy thought in the hearts of the coalition soldiers. They always thought that there would be no more survivors in this attack, but the Taiping Army above would surprise them every time.

    This time the surprise came a little later. When they were close to a hundred meters away, the gunshots of the Taiping Army rang out. The middle and lower-ranking officers in the queue were the first to suffer. Every soldier of the Taiping Army had good marksmanship.  Bite the meat.  And they can fire five to six rounds per minute, which is already quite fast.  Then a grenade was thrown out, damn grenadiers. The coalition soldiers now hate these grenadiers very much. Their grenades can always cause great casualties and psychological pressure to the coalition soldiers.

    Liu Jintang threw out all the five grenades beside him. When he touched them again, there were no grenades around him. When he was looking for a few grenades, he heard the soldiers cheering: "The foreign Japanese have escaped again, and again."  Ran!"

    Liu Jintang raised his head and looked.  Sure enough, the enemy retreated like a tide again, and he immediately shouted loudly: "Hurry up and take cover, the enemy is going to fire!" Sure enough, not long after the soldiers hid in the artillery-proof hole in the tunnel, the coalition's artillery fire came.  The Taiping Army position was filled with smoke again.

    Two more hours passed. As time passed, the enemy's trapped beasts charged more and more times. The Taiping Army's ammunition had been exhausted. When the enemy charged for the thirtieth time, the remaining hundreds of Taiping Army soldiers  The soldiers relied on stones and bayonets to repel the enemy.  But soon the enemy realized that the Taiping Army's ammunition had been exhausted, and they should soon organize stormtroopers again.

    Liu Jintang was stabbed in the abdomen by a British soldier's bayonet. The injury was not serious. Two Taiping soldiers simply bandaged him. Liu Jintang endured the pain and looked at the two soldiers who were crying. He smiled bitterly and said, "Tell everyone, Qian  Don¡¯t even think about surrendering. The foreign devils will torture you and then kill you. You will die anyway, so it¡¯s better to die standing.¡±

    As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier on the front line shouted loudly: "Enemies are coming up with white flags." Liu Jintang said coldly: "Let them come up."??¡±

    The ones who came up were Captain Morse and Lieutenant Bao Bell of the British Army. They were ordered to come to persuade the Taiping Army to surrender, because the British generals found that the enemies in the Humen Fortress had no ammunition. According to their ideas, it seemed that they could persuade the Taiping Army to surrender.

    What Morse and Bao Bell saw along the way were shocking corpses of various shapes. The corpses of many Taiping soldiers were entangled with the corpses of coalition soldiers. Morse murmured: "Oh God,  Are we fighting a group of madmen?" Bao Beier said: "Captain, they are not madmen, they are a group of determined soldiers, soldiers worthy of our respect!"

    More than 20,000 people took turns attacking, supported by artillery fire from the maritime fleet, and coordinated by 2,000 marines, but they were unable to defeat the Humen Fortress. The Taiping Army who held on here was indeed worthy of people's respect.

    The two were brought in front of Liu Jintang. Both were amazed at the youth of the enemy commander. The older Morse even felt that the young man in front of him was about the same age as his son who was far away in England.

    After paying a military salute to Liu Jintang, the two of them explained their intention. Morse said gently: "Your Excellency, Commander, you and your army have completed the obligations of an army. Now your ammunition has been exhausted. According to our Western  According to the customs, you can surrender very honorably, and we guarantee the safety and dignity of the surrendering soldiers"

    Before Morse finished speaking, Liu Jintang interrupted him and said calmly: "Our obligations have not been fulfilled yet. Unless your army completely withdraws from our land, our obligation is to defeat you unless you surrender to us.  "

    Bao Beier couldn't help but interjected: "Your Excellency, you have no ability to resist." Liu Jintang suddenly laughed and said loudly: "As long as we are still alive, we will fight until the last breath! Please go back, we will wait here  You attack again!"

    With a sonorous and forceful rejection, there was no room for maneuver. Morse and Bao Bell looked at the soldiers around them. Their faces were full of determination, and no one showed any fear.

    On the way back, Bao Bell said weakly: "We may fail, Captain, I feel that we are facing a group of people who cannot be conquered." Morse nodded and said: "I feel the same, but out of respect for the enemy  , our next attack will be even more intense.¡±

    When the coalition forces headed for Humen, the commanders of the coalition forces also asked the rearguard troops to conduct a blocking battle. However, because they had deep defenses, they implemented a layer-by-layer resistance strategy. The commanding skills of Field Marshal Baron Seton were also improved.  Give full play to it.  After the coalition forces retreated from Dongguan, the two rearguard forces alternately covered each other and fought the retreat step by step. After the two main forces of the Taiping Army, Lin Qirong and Hu Linyi, joined forces, they pursued them all the way regardless of fatigue. Now both the Taiping Army and the coalition forces are  They were exhausted, but they were all scrambling for time and exerting their last willpower.

    It was precisely because of the coalition's section-by-section resistance tactics that the Taiping Army slowed down, but soon they had rushed into Baihao Village, less than five miles away from the Humen Fort, where the coalition's blocking troops were making their final resistance.  Both sides gritted their teeth and persisted. The soldiers' physical fitness had reached its limit, but the Taiping Army had the last laugh.

    At exactly two o'clock at noon on the second day when the Humen Blockade broke out, the Taiping Army's pursuit troops broke through the blocking position of the coalition forces in Baihao Village. Most of the coalition rearguard troops were annihilated. Many people fell to the ground and were too tired to get up.  After being captured, the Taiping Army marched southward and defeated the main force of the coalition forces in one fell swoop between Humen Town and Humen Fortress.

    When Lin Qirong led the soldiers to the Humen Fortress, they were stunned by the scene in front of them. The entire Humen Fortress was filled with dense layers of corpses, and almost no living person could be seen.  And it was in front of this unyielding fortress that the coalition forces were blocked from escaping, and were finally surrounded and annihilated by the Taiping Army in this narrow area.

    In the end, the Taiping Army found 26 survivors of the Humen Fortress garrison from the sea of ????blood. All of them were injured. The body of their leader Liu Jintang was also found later. He had seven bayonet wounds on his body. Finally, he  One hand was still squeezing the throat of a coalition soldier.

    On the sea in the distance, when Dundas saw the flag of the Taiping Army once again erected on the Humen Fortress, he knew that the army was finished. He could not figure out why the coalition forces had an absolute advantage in strength and firepower.  But could not break through the Humen Fortress.  His incomprehension is the same as in later history, the United Nations military generals did not understand Songgu Peak, Shangganling and other places.  In the end, the allied navy was unwilling to fire a few shots at the Humen Fortress and evacuated. The Battle of Humen ended with the Taiping Army's victory.  (To be continued.)
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