Time Travel to 1859: The Iron-Blooded Soldier King

Bali Bridge.

A team of British troops was escorting a convoy towards Zhangjiawan. In order to transport these things safely to Tianjin as soon as possible, the British and French forces decided to transport all the looted property to Tianjin via the North Canal.

This is already the second batch. The first batch has been transported to Zhangjiawan, and this batch will also be delivered to Zhangjiawan before dusk. The entire convoy is escorted by 30 British soldiers, including dozens of civilians hired by the British army. The British soldiers never expected that they would be robbed here, and the ones being robbed are them!

Zhu Hai here has already made preparations. Although he missed the first batch of goods, he must not let the second batch go!

Zhu Hai saw clearly through the monocular telescope that there were twenty large trucks, all loaded with valuables!

grab!

If we don’t grab it now, when will we?

Zhu Hai shouted, "Brothers, mount your horses! Charge!"

A company of one hundred soldiers rushed towards the British army in the distance!

As the British army was marching, they suddenly heard the sound of hurried horse hooves in the distance, and saw a cavalry from the north galloping towards their camp!

It's the cavalry!

Second Lieutenant Morse shouted angrily: "Everyone prepare for battle immediately!"

Thirty British soldiers raised their rifles one after another. However, by the time they raised their rifles, the cavalry in the distance had also raised their rifles and started shooting at the British soldiers!

bang bang bang...

The gunshot sounded like popping beans, and Morse was shocked!

How could this be possible? There was actually a Qing cavalry unit equipped with Western rifles! Weren't they already wiped out by the Anglo-French forces in the Battle of Gaobeidian? What was going on? Could it be that they weren't suited to the Qing army, but were instead some other type of armed force?

However, it was too late to think about these things at this time. Chen Hai's cavalry had a hundred people on fast horses and sharp guns, while the British army on the opposite side had only thirty people. How could they resist with such a small number of people?

In an instant, more than ten British soldiers were knocked down, and the accompanying farmers scattered and hid in the nearby fields. Morse was shocked. No, he had to retreat quickly. He was definitely not the opponent's opponent. If he insisted on fighting here, he would only die!

Seeing that the enemy cavalry was less than two or three hundred meters away, Morse roared, "Send the order, retreat, retreat quickly!"

The remaining twenty or so people didn't dare to continue resisting and turned around to run. If they didn't run now and waited for the enemy cavalry to rush to them, they would really have no way to survive!

The British troops scattered and ran away, leaving twenty carts on the road.

Zhu Hai's cavalry arrived quickly and slightly pulled back the canvas on the carts. There were twenty carts, each loaded with either gold, silver, or antiques. There were also two carts of silk and satin. The minimum value of the items in these two carts alone was over one million taels of silver!

Zhu Hai laughed and said, "Haha, that's great! Brothers, immediately get in the car and quickly retreat north, straight to Huairou!"

A group of people drove a carriage and ran towards the distance!

Morse looked back in the distance and saw that the other horse team had no intention of continuing the pursuit and just drove away all the carriages. Morse was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. Twenty carts of treasures, once these things were shipped back to Europe, they would be worth millions of pounds, and all of them were gone like this!

Morse's second batch of goods was snatched up!

That first batch of goods would also have difficulty arriving in Tianjin safely!

The large ship carrying goods from Zhangjiawan had just set sail when it was spotted by Gao Qi. There was no way of escaping once you got on board!

Gao Qi rushed to Zhangjiawan and broke directly into the headquarters of the Zhangjiawan Cao Gang. Dozens of guns were placed on the chest of the Cao Gang leader. He robbed three large ships in one breath and rushed to the southeast with dozens of brothers.

The British Captain Domaraeus and the French Lieutenant Hume personally escorted the two ships on the North Canal. The two led two platoons of soldiers to provide strict guards on the two large ships.

Each of these ships was carrying priceless treasures. As soon as he boarded the merchant ship heading south to Tianjin, Domaras thought he was safe. No one had dared to rob the Anglo-French forces on the canal. Now the Anglo-French flag was the best sign. None of the bandits and pirates dared to approach. It was a joke. Even the most elite Mongolian cavalry were no match for them, let alone some motley crowd of bandits?

However, what Tomás hadn't expected was that there would actually be Qing soldiers disguised as bandits! And these Qing soldiers were actually the most powerful Baoding Town Army and Firearm Battalion soldiers! Even in a one-on-one battle, each of them was no less powerful than the British and French forces, let alone in a situation where they were outnumbered?

As they were marching, a soldier came over quickly and said urgently, "Captain, something's wrong! Look, there are three large ships to our northeast, approaching us, and they seem to be surrounding us!"

Domaras was startled and quickly picked up the monocular telescope to look into the distance. Sure enough, there were three large ships, one directly behind him and two on both wings, which seemed to be sandwiching his two ships!

Immediately, Tomás smiled and replied, "What are you afraid of? They're just a bunch of bandits and pirates. Are they any more formidable than the Mongol cavalry? As soon as our muskets fire, they'll scatter! Pass the order, all two platoons, go into combat mode. If the enemy ships approach, open fire!"

The British and French forces took emergency action. Just as the soldiers were ready for battle, three large ships approached the two large ships. Relying on their huge size, they rammed the two ships of the British and French forces!

The sailors on the ship hurriedly maneuvered the ship to avoid the disaster and unknowingly entered the reed marsh by the river!

The British and French forces began shooting, trying to kill the people on the straw boats, but how could it be so easy?

boom!

The big ships finally collided with each other, and Gao Qi began to command his brothers to attack Domaras's ship!

One by one, the disguised Qing soldiers jumped onto the big ship and began to attack the British and French forces!

The two sides engaged in a fierce battle on the big ship!

The Anglo-French coalition forces had only fifty people, but the Qing army had as many as one hundred people!

Over the past few days, the brothers have been pent up, and they have been launching fierce attacks on the British and French forces like wolves and tigers! How could the two platoons of the British and French forces withstand the attack? They were beaten back and had no choice but to hide behind the big ship. However, there was water on all sides. Where could they escape?

Thomas and Hume were also dumbfounded, but no matter what, they could not be captured by these bandits, otherwise they would die without knowing how!

Let’s dive in!

The British and French soldiers were forced to jump into the North Canal and escape!