Chapter 1046: The White Flag

"These sons of bitches, the officers, they ran away and left us here to die," a Coalition soldier shouted in despair.

Then, he yelled to the other soldiers, "Don't believe their lies; there is no second evacuation. Those left behind are the abandoned ones; I heard it with my own ears."

Some soldiers and low-ranking officers were not stupid either.

They knew very well that what this soldier said was true.

It was just that they had the opportunity to withdraw, so naturally, they did not mention this matter.

But now, suddenly abandoned, they immediately fell into a rage.

"Take us back!"

"I'm going to kill all of you."

"I can't leave, and none of you are going to leave either."

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"..."

The soldiers who had not managed to evacuate immediately fell into chaos.

Some chased after the ships, trying to climb aboard, while others stood on the shore cursing.

Still other soldiers chose suicide in their despair, and some even pulled the trigger on their own warships.

Wesley and Ma Fu'er pretended not to see the chaos happening on the shore.

Because that was all they could do.

"Has Gaole'er withdrawn?" Wesley asked Ma Fu'er, trying hard not to listen to the soldiers' cursing.

"He has," Ma Fu'er said.

The defense on the south side of the strait had also failed, and the situation was much the same as Wesley's.

Terrified, he had naturally agreed to the evacuation as well.

Wesley nodded, feeling a bit more at ease.

Since Gaole'er had made the same choice, the responsibility for the defeat at Malacca would not fall on him alone.

"Bang! Bang! Bang..." The sound of gunfire coming from the shore grew more intense; it seemed more soldiers had fallen into hysteria.

Wesley's hands trembled slightly, but he only looked straight ahead.

At this moment, the warship he was on slowly left the port and sailed west.

As one warship after another departed from the port, the abandoned Coalition soldiers grew increasingly desperate.

At the same time, these soldiers who had not successfully evacuated spread the news.

The soldiers in the trench fortifications learned they had been abandoned, and a massive fury swept through everyone.

At this moment, they only wanted to demand an explanation from Wesley and had no heart left to fight the Da Song army.

Just as they were cursing and going mad, the cannonballs that had been bombarding the port suddenly stopped.

The battlefield suddenly fell silent.

The Coalition soldiers were immediately filled with confusion, but their psychological defenses were completely destroyed shortly after.

It turned out that Qin Shan, seeing the Western Fleet withdraw, had ordered the artillerymen to adjust their aim and bombard the enemy's trenches, preparing to completely crush the remaining Coalition soldiers.

With the Western warships leaving the port one after another and heading west, he naturally understood that the Westerners had evacuated.

And the Coalition soldiers left behind were, of course, abandoned.

Attacking them now would surely cause their morale to collapse instantly.

Just as Qin Shan had anticipated.

The fact that they had been abandoned made the Coalition soldiers deeply frustrated and unwilling to fight.

The retreat of core commanders like Wesley had caused them to lose their backbone.

Now that the Da Song army had officially launched their attack, they not only lacked any fighting spirit but had also completely lost all organization.

Facing the Da Song army's bombardment, no Coalition soldier was willing to stay and wait for death; they scrambled out of the trenches and rushed toward the port.

At this time, the warships were not yet far from the port, and they still harbored the delusion that they could catch up to them.

The chaotic, undisciplined scene of the Western Lands Allied Forces caught the eyes of Qin Shan and Guan Tong, and the two became even more determined to launch a full-scale assault.

"Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo..."

A melodious charge bugle sounded over the battlefield.

The soldiers of the Azure Dragon Army and Vermilion Bird Army charged forward.

The number of Coalition soldiers was already less than the combined total of the two armies.

They had suffered heavy losses at the first line of defense, and this time, a portion had already evacuated.

The remaining Coalition soldiers numbered only a little over twenty thousand.

The rest were Tianzhu indigenous soldiers.

In the eyes of Qin Shan and Guan Tong, they were nothing and did not need to be counted.

"Bang! Bang! Bang..." Da Song soldiers, nearly five times the number of the Coalition, launched their attack.

For a time, the sound of gunfire erupted across the battlefield.

Seeing the dense mass of Da Song soldiers rushing over, the Coalition soldiers fled from the trenches regardless of anything else.

The soldiers of the Azure Dragon Army and Vermilion Bird Army occupied the entire trench fortification with almost no effort.

Then, they continued to charge toward the port, like a bag being pulled tighter and tighter; the space for the Coalition soldiers was constantly compressed, crowding them into the port.

"Da-da-da..."

At some point, the sound of machine guns began to ring out from all directions.

Under the strafing fire, the huddled Coalition soldiers fell in rows like wheat being harvested by a sickle.

Such a terrifying scene terrified the Coalition soldiers to the extreme.

Their warships had left; there was no hope of escape.

Facing the Great Song army, which outnumbered them several times over, the only result of their resistance could be death.

Having lost all hope, soldiers immediately took off their uniforms, stripped off the white shirts underneath, hung them on their Rifled Muskets, and held them high.

At first, only a few soldiers raised white flags, but soon there were more and more, creating a vast expanse of white.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Azure Dragon Army and the Vermilion Bird Army ceased their attack.

They ordered the surrendering soldiers to drop their Weapons and walk forward.

At this moment, Wesley's warship had already traveled quite far.

To the east, the Great Song fleet slowly appeared outside the harbor.

On the Warship, seeing that the Coalition soldiers in the harbor had chosen to surrender, Zhao Xu let out a cold snort.

Looking toward the Coalition Sailing Warships vaguely visible in the distance, he said, "Order all Sailing Warships towed by Steamships to sortie; even if they cannot catch up to their Steamships, they must annihilate the warships that are not being towed by Steamships."

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