The British Royal Navy was a very unyielding fleet. The British Royal Navy was an army with a long history, so none of the 12 warships surrendered. Of course, after all the warships were sunk, when the Chinese Navy went to rescue the people who fell into the water, the Royal Navy was very obedient and was picked up by the Chinese Navy.
Bravely fighting until the warships were sunk, this was the courage and duty of the navy. Of course, they didn't refuse when they were rescued, this was the choice made after the warships sank. Returning to the motherland alive and continuing to serve the navy, this was also the tradition of the British Navy.
Watching the British warships disappear in the sea, the Chinese Navy warships cheered thunderously. However, this naval battle led to a case in the later naval history. That was, did the Chinese Navy run 21 knots? This matter was finally cleared up after a few decades. At that time, the highest altitude of the Chinese warships was 18 knots, and the heavy cruisers ran 19 knots. One of the heavy cruisers, Tong Cheng, as an experiment, ran nearly 20 knots under pressure. According to the judgment of the Chinese and the British, it was estimated that a current at that time played a role in adding fuel to the fire.
Purely from a military point of view, this matter was actually not that important. In this era, being able to exceed 18 knots was already better than all the main warships at that time. There was no special difference between 18 knots and 20 knots, the result was that the enemy couldn't escape. In the message sent by carrier pigeon before the warships were sunk, the British Navy only said that the Chinese Navy ran nearly 20 knots. The problem was when China and Britain exchanged prisoners of war, or in other words, when China unilaterally returned the prisoners of war.
At this time, the Chinese Navy didn't think too much about it. After killing the British Fleet, the next action was to board Ceylon. At dawn the next day, the large boarding ships lowered the boarding ships. Boarding Team 6 boarded this simple-looking warship and headed towards the predetermined beach.
Second Lieutenant Qi Rui and his platoon sat on the fast-moving boarding ships. Everyone tightly grasped the handles on both sides of the boarding ships. Before the war, everyone had gone through beach boarding training, and today's weather was very good. Many soldiers couldn't help but vomit.
Although his stomach felt fine, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui still felt his heart beating like a drum. The smaller boarding boats were lowered into the sea by the cranes on the larger boarding boats. These boarding boats were made of steel plates that were more than a meter tall. As long as they were not hit by the enemy's cannons, they would not be able to damage the boarding boats. The door of the boarding boat, which was propelled by a gasoline engine, was located at the bow of the boat. Once the boarding boat stopped on the beach, the door would open downwards. The boarding troops rushed out of the boats, crossed the beach, and attacked the enemy on the shore.
Second Lieutenant Qi Rui knew that this was a piece of equipment based on the basic design proposed by his father, Vézé. Now was not the time to think about these major events. Second Lieutenant Qi Rui tightly gripped the Type-76 rifle that his father, Vézé, had developed and produced, and waited for the boat to dock. Although there was no sign of the enemy on the other side, the beach of the sixth stage was calm. But could there be enemies hiding in the forest and behind the rocks by the shore? Second Lieutenant Qi Rui did not have the slightest bit of confidence.
In all kinds of imagination, the boarding boat suddenly shook, and everyone felt dizzy. Before everyone could completely recover, the front cabin door opened, and the captain shouted, "Disembark! Disembark! "
They had already experienced this kind of training many times, and the troops on the boat did not think too much. Everyone carried their weapons and rushed into the waist-deep sea. They held their rifles horizontally and carried heavy backpacks. The troops strode forward towards the shore with all their might. There were already more than ten ships of soldiers that had been released from the several kilometers of the sixth stage, and everyone was doing their best to advance in the sea.
This long ten minutes was the first real battlefield test that Second Lieutenant Qi Rui had experienced. When the troops occupied the sixth stage, built a defensive position, and confirmed that there were no enemies on the shore, all the troops that had boarded the sixth stage cheered. That feeling was even more exhilarating than winning a battle.
Occupying the sixth stage was just the beginning. The troops began to set up the sixth stage. There were more than 20,000 boarding troops, and the equipment, ammunition, and supplies of these 20,000 troops had to be sent to the beach. To Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's great surprise, more than 400 monks wearing kasayas and holding monk staffs were also sent to the beach. As a materialistic army, the Liberation Army had its own political system. The fear of death in war was naturally the responsibility of the political department, and it was impossible for the monks to interfere.
It was only when the troops escorted the monks into action that Second Lieutenant Qi Rui understood what had happened. Ceylon was a Buddhist country with a deep Buddhist tradition. When a group of highly nervous Chinese soldiers walked around Ceylon with weapons in their hands, the local people could only feel fear.
A group of monks wearing kasayas and holding monk staffs first visited the abbot of the temples in the surrounding area. They used Sanskrit to communicate cordially with them, and soon received the approval of the local temples. Everyone was a monk, and China's monks guaranteed that the Chinese army would not harm the local temples and would not kill the people. The Ceylonese monks would rather listen first.
The temples had a great influence in Ceylon, and the local monks helped the Chinese army to buy food, so the people were not so afraid. China took out silver to buy food, which made the local people feel more at ease.
Three days were spent on temporarily communicating with the local people. The troops set up a defensive line near Colombo to prevent the enemy troops from Colombo from attacking. There were not many British troops in Colombo to begin with, and the Chinese army did not take the initiative to attack, so they did not dare to come out.
Three days later, the fleet turned south and met up with the second wave of troops. This time, 40,000 troops were transported to the sixth stage near Galle, while Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's troops escorted the monks all the way south, and finally met up near Galle.
During the escort, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui was completely sure that it was his father Vézé's plan to send the monks. Twenty percent of the monks were qualified monks selected from famous temples in China, and the remaining eighty percent were graduates of Buddhist schools. These people were proficient in Sanskrit and were familiar with Buddhist scriptures. In addition, this group of people had also studied Buddhist materialism.
There were two types of monks in Sri Lanka. One type came from Siam, and they only dealt with the rich. The other type came from Myanmar, and they mainly dealt with ordinary people.
The pursuit of Buddhism was the spiritual realm of liberation, but human beings were the foundation of matter, and pure consciousness could not exist independently. Before Socrates died, he asked his friend to offer a rooster as a sacrifice to the God of Medicine. He said, "Death cured my desire." The old man was referring to the instinct brought about by desire, and the influence of desire on the mind was finally eliminated by death. The fifth volume of the "Mahayana Righteous Chapters" said, "Outside the five desires are tainted with love and greed." This was what it meant.
Chinese monks mainly preached the Diamond Sutra. There were four verses in the Diamond Sutra, "If you see me with your looks and seek me with your voice, you are walking the evil path and cannot see Tathagata." This realm was even higher. Not only did it require the believer to have a goal, it also required the believer to have a realm. This style of doing things made Second Lieutenant Qi Rui feel a sense of familiarity.
The Galle garrison refused to surrender, and more than sixty thousand China troops were distributed between Colombo and Galle. Ten thousand guarded Colombo, ten thousand were responsible for communication, and the remaining forty thousand were responsible for attacking Galle. Second Lieutenant Qi Rui knew very well that a real war was just around the corner. Because his father Vézé was still alive after experiencing so many battles, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui once felt that war was not that scary. When he was really going to enter the war, he could not help but feel excited and nervous.
The troops had already transported 150 howitzers, and on the 15th of October, the battle began. Second Lieutenant Qi Rui originally thought that there would be a very detailed analysis, but the command center quickly issued the order to fight.
The more conspicuous things in Galle City were the 12 redoubts that guarded the city. From the perspective of current military technology, these tall buildings did not pose any real threat. However, those tall buildings still gave people a considerable sense of oppression.
After the observation balloons rose high, the 150 howitzers began to bombard the redoubt. After a few test shots, finally a shell hit the redoubt. After the smoke dissipated, everyone found that the redoubt was not directly blown up, only a large hole was made in it.
At this time, there were already soldiers who began to cheer, but seeing this situation, everyone quieted down. The artillery could not easily destroy the enemy's fortifications, which was different from what everyone had expected. For the entire morning, the artillery continued to destroy the redoubt. After all, the redoubt was old, and a single shell could not knock it down, but a dozen or dozens of shells could still destroy these old buildings. With the destruction of the last redoubt, the infantry attack officially began.
Second Lieutenant Qi Rui was in the second wave of attacking troops. Not long after the first wave of troops left, there was the sound of gunfire in front of them. The gunfire was intermittent, and after fighting for nearly an hour, the first wave of wounded soldiers were sent down. The soldiers who were waiting to enter the battle stood up and looked at their comrades on the stretchers. The wounded soldiers temporarily received emergency medical treatment, and their wounds were all wrapped in gauze. There were a few stretchers that were completely covered with white cloth, and under the white cloth, there was a vague human figure.
Even if he could not see the situation under the white cloth, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui could guess that his comrade had most likely been sacrificed. A tremor involuntarily arose in Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's heart. This was war! Stepping on the battlefield could mean death. Although he had heard his father Vézé talk about life and death on the battlefield many times, and even Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's mother talked about the war she had seen and the deaths on the battlefield. But for the first time, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui understood that he actually also feared death.
However, when this thought almost occupied Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's heart, he felt a kind of anger. It was anger at the fact that he feared death. Before joining the army, there were too many people who told Second Lieutenant Qi Rui about war and death. At that time, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui did not feel anything. Now that he saw people really die in battle, he was scared to this extent? Forcefully rubbing his face, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui turned his head away and did not look at the wounded and sacrificed comrades. He shouted to his comrades in the platoon, "Everyone, hurry up and check your weapons. I estimate that it will not be long before we go up."
At this time, the faces of the comrades in the army were already quite unsightly. After hearing this, some comrades' faces became even more unsightly. Some soldiers began to do the final check of their weapons according to Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's instructions. Some soldiers did not react at all. They still stretched their necks to look at Garrett City and the wounded.
Second Lieutenant Qi Rui immediately shouted, "Now I order the platoon to start checking their weapons. Squad leader and deputy squad leader, hurry up and urge the comrades to start! "
The order was effective, and the troops began to check their weapons. Through the inspection, Second Lieutenant Qi Rui quickly recovered his mood. In less than half an hour, the messenger brought the battalion commander's order. Second Lieutenant Qi Rui's company began to advance into Garrett City.
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