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Chapter 244 City of Heroes (Second update, please subscribe)
Two days later, the special train from Nanhua passed the famous "Devil's Nose", passed the Yunling Tunnel Group, passed the Andes Mountains, crossed the central valley and entered Linhai City. When the special train entered Linhai City, On the Linhai Fortress, there was a booming salute...

The salute is very loud!
That was the roar of a ten-inch cannon. The sound of the cannon had echoed countless times in Zhu Xianhai's dreams. It was the cannon of the Linhai Fortress!

……

In February 1877, just after the Chinese New Year, shelling from the sea broke the tranquility of the coast again.

Linhai Fortress!

The attack of the Chilean army on the coastal fortress has been going on for a year.

For more than 2.7 days and nights, the [-] soldiers and civilians guarding the bay have never surrendered in the face of repeated persuasion.

There was a deafening explosion, the walls of the fortress trembled, the bricks and rocks collapsed, and the explosion blast overturned the nearby teahouse, throwing several corpses aside, and in an instant, everything was covered by the choking smell of gunpowder smoke. The sulphurous air is suffocating.

"Yilian, Yilian, follow me! Follow me to the front line."

Standing up, Lu Anxue shouted, before the war he was an engineer in a shipyard, his dream was to build a warship, but now, he is an ordinary soldier.

"Pay attention to the sound in the air, you can hear the shells from the sound..."

While running, Lu Anxue said to the dozens of soldiers following him, they were of different ages, male and female, they might have been workers in factories, students, or just traders, or even housewives, but now They are all soldiers guarding the city.

After a year of siege, there are no men or women in the city, no old people or children, only the defenders of the city.

Under his leadership, dozens of soldiers ran out of the city along the streets full of ruined walls.Cannonballs whistled in the air, and explosions continued one after another.

Suddenly, Lu Anxue shouted loudly.

"Lie down..."

The moment he fell down, there was another loud bang beside him, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound. The bricks and stones of the nearby buildings fell one after another, and there was another explosion, one after another, and the continuous explosion rang out. , rumbling explosions, just like the fireworks during the New Year in previous years...

No one can remember how long the shelling lasted. In Linhai, time has no meaning.

When the surroundings began to fall silent, among the ruined walls of the fortress, soldiers once again stood up from the piles of bricks and trenches. They saw the Chileans once again yelling unscrupulously, and began to attack the fortress.

Gunshots rang out again.

After the attack was thwarted, the shelling resumed.

During the shelling, they lay down again under the wall, the earth was moaning, bricks and gravels were falling, the seemingly solid fortress became crumbling under the continuous shelling, and the smell of dust, smoke, and gunpowder was suffocating .

The strength of the soldiers who avoided the bombardment had long been exhausted, and some soldiers almost lost their consciousness, only their bodies were still suffering the shock and blow of the explosion painlessly.

400 days and nights!
In repeated sieges by the Chilean army and navy, Linhai, a seaside town, persisted for four hundred days and nights.

What did their perseverance bring?
It is to defeat the Chilean attack again and again, and it is tens of thousands of corpses!In addition, in the defense of the fortress, the officers and soldiers of the Nanhua Army showed a high degree of spirit and fighting quality, winning honor for Nanhua.

"This is the greatest battle in the history of mankind! The defenders of the fortress shocked the whole world with their unparalleled courage!"

In London, New York, and Paris, almost every newspaper praised the "valiant defenders of the seaside", no matter what their position was, their tenacious fighting won honor for Nan Hua.

But for the people in it, each of them is very clear that the price of all this is death!

"Alive..."

Lu Anxue thought vaguely, his eardrums were shattered, and even in the most violent shelling, the world was still silent to him.

"I'm alive."

But he didn't want to move his body, he didn't want to move for a moment, he felt that the bricks and stones were pressing on his back, and he had a splitting headache, his whole body seemed to be falling apart, every bone was hurting, and his mouth was dry It was swollen again, as if it was on fire, and the burning throat and eyes hurt.

If only I could drink some water.

He touched the kettle, but there was not a drop of water in the empty kettle.

"Chile..."

The sudden shout came from a distance, as if pulling him back from the silent world, but he understood the meaning of the words, he tried to stand up, but he didn't have any strength in his body, in the smoke, he saw a group of Shadow rushed over.

It's Chilean.

Looking at the Chileans getting closer, Lu Anxue, whose consciousness had not yet fully recovered, saw a table of grenades in front of him.

When they saw the box of grenades, a smile appeared on those tired faces full of gunpowder smoke. Although they seemed a little happy, they seemed a little helpless in their happiness.

Tears rolled down his face as the grenade went off.

With a "boom", in the violent explosion, the nearby Chileans were engulfed in billowing smoke.

No one knows how long this battle in Linhai will last.

For four hundred days and nights, the defenders here have been fighting. In 1877, the world is watching this seaside town on the Pacific coast.

But Linhai is only a small part of this protracted war.From the Pacific to the Atlantic, wars never stop.

……

Tears have flowed from Zhu Xianhai's eyes. In the simulator, there are too many similar scenes. He "personally" saw how the best sons and daughters sacrificed themselves on the battlefield. He saw too many sacrifices. I have seen too many heroes.

After witnessing so many sacrifices, the desire for vengeance never faded from his heart.

For more than a thousand years, day and night, he has been longing for the day of revenge, longing for the arrival of that day!

And today!
When he came to Linhai again, he heard the sound of the rumbling gun salute. When the sound of the salute overlapped with the roaring guns in the simulator, Zhu Xianhai knew that the time for revenge had come!

Looking at the platform outside the car window, looking at the people who came to greet him on the platform, there are not only government officials, soldiers, but also ordinary citizens, including Chinese, European, and Mapuche .Everyone stood there beaming, and the military band played military music.

Listening to the cheerful music through the glass window, Zhu Xianhai couldn't calm down for a moment. He said involuntarily when the car door opened, when he stepped onto the platform, amidst the cheers of the people.

"Today, I am very honored to come to this city of heroes once again!"

(End of this chapter)