When the British warship sailed into the Yangtze River Estuary, a fierce quarrel was taking place in the official residence of the Governor of Liangjiang (the highest official of Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces) in Wusongkou.

The 70-year-old Jiangnan Admiral Chen Huacheng said excitedly: "Sir Governor, what will happen if we are not prepared and foreigners come?"

"Foreigners are coming, we "We can't fight," Governor Niu Jian said in a weird voice, "How fierce the fight between Guan Tianpei and the foreigners is, but Humen has not been lost."

Chen Huacheng saw that Niu Jian was a traitor who was greedy for life and feared death. Knowing that it was useless to persuade him, he left the governor's residence angrily. When he was leaving the gate, he said to Niu Jian: "Since the Governor does not dare to fight, I, Chen Huacheng, have no choice but to defend Wusongkou with my life!"

Since leaving Guangzhou, the British army burned, killed and looted along the way. It has caused heavy disasters to the Chinese people. Although soldiers and civilians everywhere resisted heroically, Xiamen, Zhenhai and Ningbo were all lost due to official corruption. Now the British ship has arrived on the Yangtze River at Wusongkou. There are two forts in Wusongkou, the east and the west. The two forts are personally guarded by Chen Huacheng.

As soon as Chen Huacheng returned to the fort, he heard the rumble of cannons coming from the river. He looked into the distance and saw countless British warships rushing towards the fort. "Get ready immediately to drive away the foreign devils." Chen Huacheng gave the order while he and the gunners adjusted the cannon and aimed at the river in the distance.

The British warships are getting closer and closer, and even the Union Jack (British flag) on ??the mast can be clearly seen. Chen Huacheng yelled: "Fire the artillery!" "Boom--" With the roar of the shells, the several warships in front immediately emitted smoke, and the Union Jack flag hanging high on the ship was also broken into pieces. In the smoke, Flying away. "Boom-boom--" Another dense burst of artillery shells hit Jiangnan. The warships in front sank into the river before they had time to escape.

At this time, the Qing soldiers in the East Fort were deeply encouraged and they also opened fire fiercely at the foreign Japanese. The shells rained down on the enemy ships, and Pottinger had to order the British fleet to retreat quickly. Niu Jian was about to sneak away when he heard that Chen Huacheng had repelled the foreign attack, and he immediately became energetic. However, what he was thinking about was not how to completely defeat the foreign devils, but to seize the opportunity to grab some credit. He got into the eight-carriage sedan and led the people in a hurry toward the fort.

When Niu Jian came to the river, the British fleet launched a second attack. As soon as Pu Dingcha saw a large group of people appearing on the river bank, he ordered the cannon to be fired on the bank. With the loud explosion of the shells, the team immediately became chaotic. One cannonball lifted half of Niu Jian's sedan chair. This guy was thinking proudly of good things, but unexpectedly he was knocked to the ground. He thought the foreign devils had washed ashore, so he rolled and crawled into the noisy crowd regardless of the pain in his bones from the fall. When the soldiers saw that the officials were afraid of death, they fled in all directions. Even though this idiot Niu Jian is incapable of fighting, he is quite good at escaping. He threw off his court uniform and the flower feather on his head, took off the clothes of a Qing soldier who was killed in the bombing, and put them on him.

The Qing soldiers guarding the East Fort saw that the Governor was only trying to escape for his own life, so they had no energy to resist the foreigners. One by one they scrambled to escape from the fort. When some Qing soldiers from the West Fort saw this scene, they turned around and wanted to run away. Chen Huacheng angrily slashed one of them to death with a knife, and then shouted loudly: "Whoever dares to escape will suffer this!"

The Qing soldiers did not dare to move, but at this time the shells came out again question. Many shells failed to fire at all. The British warship took the opportunity to rush towards the fort crazily. At the same time, some foreign devils came ashore from the unguarded East Fort and surrounded Chen Huacheng from behind.

Seeing that there were enemies in front and behind, Chen Huacheng encouraged the soldiers and said: "Brothers, the emperor gave us the cannon. If we are alive but the fort is lost, how can we have the face to see the emperor? And the fellow villagers! Today, even if we die, we will die on the fort." As he said, he pulled away a sacrificed gunner, aimed at an approaching British ship, and fired the cannon. Unexpectedly, the shell did not go out, but exploded in the barrel. The cannon exploded, and Chen Huacheng's face and chest were injured. Even his eyebrows and beard were stained purple with blood.

At this time, the foreign devils rushing from behind had already rushed to the fort. They screamed strangely and came towards Chen Huacheng to kill him. Regardless of his own injuries, Chen Huacheng brandished his sword and fought with the enemy. He killed three foreigners in a row. When he was rushing towards the fourth, a shell suddenly exploded in front of him.

The 70-year-old hero fell in a pool of blood.

"Avenge Mr. Chen——" Seeing Chen Huacheng's heroic death, the Qing soldiers were filled with passion and indignation. In the end, all the soldiers died heroically. The bright red blood dyed the fort red, and also dyed the Jiangnan area around the fort red.