Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God

There were also many 1200-ton cargo ships following behind. These ships looked extremely solid, like a mobile fortress, giving people a feeling of being unshakable.

On the Chongming Navy side, although there were more than 500 warships of various sizes, there were only more than ten Fuchuan warships with a maximum tonnage of only tons, and the rest were small demolition ships, about in total. Such a scale and equipment were dwarfed by the enemy.

Mu Tingyi looked at the invading enemy in despair, and a feeling of powerlessness surged in his heart. He knew very well that it was almost impossible to defeat the enemy in such a situation where the enemy was so outnumbered.

Unless...Mu Tingye suddenly thought of something and his eyes lit up.

Unless he has a powerful ironclad ship like the Heaven and Earth Federation! But this is obviously just a luxury. The current situation is that he has no way to deal with the crisis at hand.

At this moment, a bold idea suddenly appeared in Mu Tingluo's mind.

He thought that if he could lead the enemy ships to Jinxia Island and then ask for help from the rebels on the island, there might be a glimmer of hope. After all, the rebels were also Chinese, and in the face of foreign invasion, they should stand up and resist together.

This idea gave Mu Tingye a glimmer of hope, but it was also full of uncertainty.

After all, it was still unknown whether the rebels were willing to lend a helping hand. But at this moment, he had no choice but to go all out.

After making up his mind, Mu Tingye acted decisively and dispatched five small blasting boats to act as a suicide squad, which bravely sailed towards the enemy ships in order to delay the advance of the enemy fleet.

At the same time, he personally led the main fleet of the navy to detour to the enemy's rear from the direction of Qidong Peninsula, trying to break out of the encirclement of the multinational fleet.

On the flagship of the multinational fleet, the Alexander of the Dutch Navy, the fleet commander-in-chief, General de Friant, the Dutch Minister, stared at the five oncoming demolition boats with a scornful smile on his face.

He gave the order: "Navy warships stop advancing, battleships form a formation, and sink these five flies for me."

The flag signalman quickly sent out flag signals, and the multinational naval warships in front immediately responded and quickly formed a neat battleship fleet.

The flagship Alexander opened fire first, followed by the surrounding warships, with bullets raining down on the five demolition ships.

The five demolition ships seemed extremely vulnerable under the dense iron bombs. They were simply unable to withstand such powerful firepower.

Although the soldiers on the ship were brave, their efforts were insignificant in the face of such fierce bombardment.

The shielding on the top of the ship could not bear the heavy weight and was eventually smashed down, and the soldiers on board fell into despair and fear.

The soldiers rowing below were either crushed to death by the iron eggs or jumped into the water. Not long after, the gunpowder barrels on the five blasting ships were hit one after another, and the hot iron eggs instantly detonated the gunpowder barrels.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Five small demolition boats exploded one after another, and the huge noise spread far away.

Mu Tingye put down the telescope, silently took off the general's helmet on his head, and observed a moment of silence for the fifty soldiers rowing the boat.

When DeFrian saw that the Chongming navy wanted to escape, he was secretly delighted and immediately launched the second combat plan.

In fact, after the Yangzhou Incident, these dozen or so Western countries, which were originally not united, believed that the time had come to divide up this great Eastern power, so they united together and gathered all the naval warships, cargo and combat ships, and mercenaries that could be mobilized in the surrounding areas to form such a multinational coalition.

De Friant took the initiative to serve as the commander of the corps. The first combat plan he formulated was to encircle and annihilate the Chongming Navy, then land at Wusong, occupy the entire Shanghai County of Songjiang Prefecture, and then negotiate with the Qing Dynasty in an attempt to occupy Shanghai for a long time, strangle the Yangtze River estuary in China, and make the Qing Dynasty subject to the control of others so that they could be slaughtered at will.

However, the Chongming Navy chose to escape, which surprised Defrian, but he quickly adjusted his strategy.

His second plan was to split the troops into two groups, sending more than 20 multinational naval warships to pursue the Chongming Navy, while the remaining more than 100 ships were responsible for occupying Wusongkou. Three thousand marines composed of sailors, naval soldiers and mercenaries would land at Wusongkou, quickly launch operations, and occupy the entire Shanghai County with thundering force.

Soon, the fleet was divided into two parts. One part, with multinational navies, set sail to pursue the Chongming Navy, while the other part, with more than a hundred multinational ships, sailed towards Wusongkou.

However, the artillery batteries at Wusongkou and Changxing Island were destroyed by ships from many countries a few days ago and are still under repair and cannot be put into use.

On the Wusongkou Fort, the captain looked towards the sea in horror, only to see a large number of multinational ships heading towards them.

Thinking of the Yangzhou incident that happened a few days ago, he immediately realized that this was a retaliatory action by ships from many countries. He did not dare to take it lightly and quickly ordered the soldiers to light a smoke signal in the watchtower to warn the enemy and ordered all officers and soldiers in the fort to withdraw to the foot of the fort to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

After the ships of many countries arrived at Wusongkou, they didn't care whether there were people on the artillery position and launched artillery fire without hesitation.

Iron bombs fell like raindrops, and the "boom boom boom" sound of the explosion was deafening.

The forts on Changxing Island and Wusongkou were hit hard again and became unrecognizable, as if they had been swept by a terrible storm.

Immediately afterwards, a landing force of more than 3,000 people consisting of naval forces, sailors, mercenaries and bandits from various countries went ashore.

Each of them held a hair-raising gun in his hand. They were organized into teams according to their respective groups. They got off the boats and went ashore at the Wusongkou pier. Then they formed a square formation and marched towards Songjiang Prefecture to the beat of drums.

The commander of the landing force was a British baron named John Wilson. He was a major in the British Marine Corps, experienced and ruthless. After landing, Major John gave an order without mercy: "Eliminate all resistance elements!"

The inspection dock at Wusongkou was originally occupied by officers and soldiers stationed at the coastal defense artillery battery. Just as the multinational ships were firing, they had received orders from the captain and quickly assembled at the foot of the battery mountain.

At this time, the commander had already discovered through the telescope that thousands of multinational soldiers were landing at the dock. He felt nervous and realized that the seriousness of the matter was far beyond his expectations. This was no longer just a simple shelling incident, but a multinational joint invasion.

Qian Zong knew that behind the Fortress Hill was Jianghaidao, where there were countless houses and unarmed civilians. No matter what, they had to resolutely resist these invaders and buy precious time for the safe evacuation of the civilians.