Chapter 582 "Warm Current Action" (21)

Vancouver City, which once once flourished, was now dilapidated.

There are few complete buildings in the city, filled with endless smoke of gunpowder, unburned flames everywhere, and the dead bodies of incomplete Vancouver civilians can be seen everywhere.

But despite this, although he had just suffered heavy losses in the recent confrontation with Taiping Tian** team, all this seemed to not affect the British army's defensive will.

After all, no matter how dilapidated the buildings are, they can still withstand the bullets fired by their opponents. The bodies of civilians who had been frozen hard in the cold wind of November can just provide them with many convenient materials when building barricades.

More importantly, they did not believe from the bottom of their hearts that the cavalry of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who could only rely on war horses to show off their power, would do what else after leaving their horses?

But soon, the British officers and soldiers entrenched in Vancouver City learned this truth: the cavalry of the Red Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were all authentic "amphibious" figures.

At midnight on the 12th, a tent in the Red Cavalry Army Field Hospital set up in the refugee camp, several medical staff were busy nervously.

Ms. Catherine, who was just nine months pregnant, was severely hit by the loss of her husband in Vancouver City three days ago, and showed signs of premature birth.

The mother is bleeding continuously!

Several of Catherine's friends who gathered outside and kept making crosses on their chests were in great pain. They had begun to believe that the miserable Catherine would probably not be able to escape this disaster.

At this moment, with the sound of horse hooves rising, a team of fierce Red Army cavalry galloped over. Soon, a long row of nearly a hundred Red Army officers and soldiers lined up in front of another tent near Catherine's "ward".

Faced with such an extremely strange scene, Ms. Catherine's friends were extremely surprised. They didn't understand why the doctors of the Red Army, who were so kind, were so unjustly attracted such a large group of men?

At two o'clock in the morning, as the blood from the Red Army officers and soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom kept flowing into the blood vessels of the British Ms. Catherine, a crisp cry of a baby suddenly rang in the cold night sky.

"I'm a cute boy, mother and son are safe!"

When Catherine's friends heard the news, they were extremely surprised at first, and then they finally smiled relaxedly.

"Just call this little baby John Red, which can not only commemorate his father John, but also make him remember this moment forever. As for that Wiffle (Ms. Catherine's already-dead husband named John Wiffle), let's get out of his egg."

"That's great, John Red, what a beautiful name. Let God bless our John Red baby grow up happily and happily forever, and let God bless our benefactors..."

When these brisk laughter rippled in the night sky of the field hospital for a long time, the British soldiers who were hiding in the broken buildings or surrounding the piles of burning flames and sleeping in the biting cold wind could no longer laugh.

Because what God has given them now is horror.

At 2:30 am on the 13th, the dense artillery fire of the Red Cavalry Army began to plow the Vancouver City, which had been plowed countless times by the British army.

The fierce shells exploded at key points guarded by the British army. They were once very comfortable with bombing others with their own artillery fire, but now they began to taste the feeling of being overwhelmed by others.

After half an hour of artillery fire, the red knights of the First Cavalry Division immediately made the British officers and soldiers who had already been bombed and were scared to death and saw that even if they left their mounts, they were still heroic.

The Red Army troops emerged from the night sky on three sides, rushed into Vancouver again, and quickly divided the British troops in the city.

The sound of gunfire like beans, the explosion of dense grenades and the shouts of killing, the sound of iron tools colliding with each other and the heart-wrenching wails resounded throughout the Vancouver night sky.

Faced with such a chaotic scene, it is not until this dark night, even in the bright daytime with clear sun, General Geoffrey's warships that were still floating on the sea of ​​Vancouver Harbor, even if they wanted to pull their brothers on the shore, they could only stretch their necks and stomp their feet and stare at them, but they didn't use any strength.

The British army was so dazed that no one knew when the soldiers of the First Cavalry Division had withdrawn from the battlefield. They only knew that when the morning glow at dawn dispelled the once extremely gloomy night, Vancouver became even more ragged, and apart from the bodies of their fellow citizens who had become stiff, or were becoming stiff, as if nothing had happened.

In just one day and one night, more than 10,000 people landed on the shore were actually damaged by almost half. If we continue to do this, if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom people will play the old tune again next night...

Not to mention the British officers and soldiers who were in the dire straits of Vancouver, even Admiral Geoffrey himself dared not continue to think about it.

withdraw!

Since that's the case, why bother to compete for the gains and losses of this city and one place?

So, the British troops who came from Vancouver Island fled from the hellish city of Vancouver again.

Liu Mingyuan did not return to Vancouver City, nor did he agree with the residents who had escaped from Vancouver to return to their homes. After all, as long as the British fleet stayed there for a day and did not leave, the so-called reconstruction of the home is completely equivalent to empty words.

Of course, it is not possible to rebuild your home. With the arrival of the severe winter, if tens of thousands of civilians always stay in temporary ventilated shacks, it will never be a solution.

After a few days of careful inspection, Liu Mingyuan finally selected a place for Vancouver refugees, which was about six or seven miles northeast of Vancouver's old town, even the most powerful naval guns of the British army could not reach, and rebuild their homes.

Just as the soldiers of the popular cavalry army and the citizens of Vancouver were working together to happily start planning and building Vancouver's new city, General Geoffrey rubbed his temples with great headaches in his headquarters in Victoria.

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Chapter completed!