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Chapter 965 Arriving at the Port City

Faced with Tepuqin's statement that he had withdrawn from Shengjing City first, Shengbao immediately smiled bitterly:

"We are in the light, and those rebels are in the dark. This place is hundreds of miles away from Shengjing, and many people will be killed by black guns along the way.

Should he take the initiative to withdraw his troops and go back in despair?

But don't forget what the situation is like for you and me now; if we withdraw our troops at this point, no one will be able to get a good deal from Lord Xianfeng and the court. "

Under Shengbao's statement, Tepuqin also smiled bitterly.

The former is guaranteed to win. Since the last defeat in the Battle of Baliqiao, he has not been held accountable by the court. It was only because of his injuries that day that he escaped such a disaster.

If they were defeated and fled again this time, and Xuangeying and Tianshuigouzi were allowed to continue to grow outside the pass, the end would probably be quite miserable.

As for Tepuchin himself, a large piece of the land governed by his command had just been ceded by Mao Zi in the "Sino-Mao Capital Treaty".

Even though the main responsibility for this matter lies with the imperial court and Lord Xianfeng; but Hei*jiang has been continuously penetrated by Maozi in recent years, and he, the general, also takes part of the responsibility.

Anyway, the result of this battle is another big defeat, or a big defeat with such a huge military advantage.

After the court blamed him, his official role was wiped out. It was the greatest luck to have a small life left alive.

After some thought, with Te Puqin's wry smile, Shengbao gritted his teeth and said fiercely:

"In my opinion, it is better to continue to advance at a faster pace tomorrow. If any Eight Banners cavalry disobeys orders and goes to guard the surroundings, then military law will be dealt with.

Let’s see if they are willing to be chopped down by us and their families become slaves from now on, or if they are willing to die gloriously in battle.

As long as we persist in casualties for a few more days, we will find these people's lair after we arrive in Liaodong.

At that time, if these people don't want to be killed by us, they will have to fight us head-on. They can't run away with just one shot. We can also take advantage of the army to kill hundreds of them.

At the same time, I also told the soldiers that after capturing the Tianshuigouzi camp, they will not seal the sword~"

Under the influence of his official position and future, after hearing this, Tepuqin quickly made a decision in his heart and said firmly:

“Things have reached a point where this is the only way it can be.

However, you must be on guard at night and set up cannons in the camp; if the prediction is good, they will come to shoot black guns at night. "

Shengbao nodded with some sympathy and solemnly said

"That's natural. I will personally lead people to keep vigil tonight; as long as they dare to show up, I will use cannons to bombard my mother..."

In this way, after a day of harassment by the Daqing army, they set up a very tight camp. After dinner, the exhausted soldiers went to bed early.

But secretly, Shengbao and his elites were on secret alert, adopting a posture of being tight on the outside and loose on the inside.

It was a pity that until the second half of the night, those people from Xuange Camp did not show up at all. This night turned out to be extremely peaceful.

It was as if he had seen through their arrangement and didn't dare to come at all.

Actually? How could Yang Dongli and others not take the opportunity to make a sneak attack?

You must know that after many missions, Yang Dongli and others have strong individual combat capabilities; in special operations such as infiltration, assassination, and black guns, their level is as high as seven or eight buildings.

In previous tasks, the performance in this aspect was not very impressive.

The fundamental reason is just that the system is intentionally restricted by Sun Tzu, and there is no way for them to play freely like this time.

Nowadays, it is not easy to encounter such a good opportunity, so there is no way to let it go easily.

They didn't shoot in the first half of the night. On the one hand, they were recuperating their physical strength and spirit; on the other hand, they just didn't appreciate the killing effect of black guns and wanted to do something bigger.

No! After three o'clock in the morning, their operation officially began.

Lao Hei, Huang Yizhi, A Li, Han Jiang, Yuan Hai, and Lao She were divided into two groups. Carrying two large buckets, they quietly reached within a hundred meters of the Qing Army camp.

With careful movements, he quietly dug a pit and set up the large barrel without conscience.

Finally, at four o'clock, accompanied by two huge roars, two 20-kilogram explosive packets drew an arc in the dark night and successfully smashed into the military camp. The moment the explosive package flew out, Han Jiang and Yuan Hai, who were wearing gloves, each picked up a large bucket and ran away quickly with the others.

As for Shengbao, who had red eyes, and Tepuqin and others who had just woken up.

After arriving at the location of the explosion, I looked at the terrifying large pit on the ground.

As well as the tattered tents and broken limbs near the big pit; and a little further away, there were young soldiers who had no wounds on their bodies, but were constantly vomiting blood and unable to live.

Under the great fear, my heart kept falling rapidly towards the abyss.

It's a pity that they have no choice but to know that in this battle, apart from continuing to move forward and seeking a decisive battle with Xuange Camp, they have no chance to turn back...

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Time: March 3, early 20:1 noon.

There are only 11 days left before the side mission of the team in the magic city is completed, and the mission deadline is about to come.

After six days of sailing, the Xuange Camp fleet finally completed a journey of more than 1800 miles and arrived outside Victoria Harbor in the port city.

Such a short journey takes such a long time.

Mainly because on the way here, the fleet was constantly cooperating with the drills, and it was considered that they conducted drills on many maritime subjects one by one.

On the other hand, the port city is already quite prosperous as the current logistics base for the Great Yin Empire's operations in the east.

Coupled with the nearby Yangcheng, foreign trade is now quite developed.

Therefore, the closer we get to the port city, the more various merchant ships there become.

In order to form the Xuange Camp fleet of these three armored warships, even if the imperial concubine and the others worked hard in the Demon City, they almost spent the last copper on hand, and now they are extremely poor.

After seeing these merchant ships, what are you waiting for?

Of course, after turning on full power, they rushed all the way towards these merchant ships, which were powered by sails.

And a group of merchant ships, even some of which were armed merchant ships with a certain degree of defense, saw the iron-clad warships with metal reflections on the entire ship under the sun, charging towards them like a monster on the sea, emitting black smoke.

The captain above was almost scared to death.

The only option at that time was to escape as fast as possible under full sail.

However, after burning the boiler to the maximum, the armored battleship reached 18 knots. In front of the sailboats of this era, the terrifying speed was enough to make them despair.

There was no suspense at all and they were caught up soon after.

They didn't even use the 150mm caliber main gun to fire, they just used the 20mm caliber special Gatling to fire a bunch of bullets at them.

Under a shower of sawdust from the superstructure on the deck, these merchant ships wisely hoisted their white flags.

Then, of course, after Hu Biao and the others boarded the ship and found out that it was Daqing's ship, they took a symbolic payment of three to five hundred taels of silver and let them go directly.

After they are fully loaded, their speed is only six or seven knots.

There is no need to worry about going to the port city in advance to report the news, thereby exposing the news that they are on their way there.

But if it was a foreign devil's ship, no matter which Guo Jia it was, everyone who had no good impressions of these powers would tie up most of the people and lock them up, and a small number of people would follow in the boat under escort.

What to do next will be discussed after the battle in the port city is completed.

So at this time, except for the three armored warships of the Xuange Camp Fleet.

Behind them, there were a total of eleven captured merchant ships, large and small, floating outside Victoria Harbor. It seemed that they were already quite powerful.

At the same time, the Yin army on the shore saw the sudden arrival of the unknown fleet and the Xuan Ge camp's skeleton flag flying on the mast.

For them, the extremely terrifying memories once again emerged, and suddenly the whole city was in a panic with the sound of bells...

(End of this chapter)