The city of Beijing is now full of mountains and rains, and Naha in the Ryukyus has already been flooded. It has been four days since the day the French fleet appeared. The situation of these four days of war is no longer tragic and can be described in two words, for both sides of the enemy and us, it is a contest of wills.

In the past four days, the two sides have been fighting each other, the artillery fire has not stopped for a day, and the French army assembled in Guotou Village has soared to more than 1,000 people.

The entire French fleet was split in two, with the flagship Glorious and three heavy cruisers cruising the city, carrying out strategic bombardments of the city every day, and always looking for an opportunity to prepare for a landing.

The remaining four cruisers all went north to support the battle at Kunigami, and each French army charge was supported by strong artillery fire.

During these four days of fighting, the French officers led by Molière and Bruce commanded very well, and the ingenious strategy of rushing to attack the country was enough for them to be proud of.

The French Army was the strongest in this era, and in the face of the proud soldiers of the North Mountain Trenches, they launched charges again and again, and almost missed five trenches under the cover of artillery.

More than 200 guns of the four cruisers poured ammunition like crazy, and before the army charged, they had to bombard it violently, and after a slight defeat, they had to continue to bomb it when they retreated, and even deliberately disturbed the people in the middle of the night to bombard it again, and in four days, the Beishan trench area was actually flattened by more than two meters.

The French bombed desperately, and the Ryukyu soldiers dug desperately, and whenever there was no war, all these soldiers automatically became sappers, and they worked one day to dig trenches.

Of course, Cai Mao and Liang Kun knew the importance of the Beishan defense line, and in the past few days, they have not only replenished more than 300 veterans, but also sent more than 1,000 militia regiments, and in the end, the number of people guarding the Beishan defense line has exceeded 3,000.

This is already the limit of the strength that the Ryukyu Kingdom can squeeze out, when the three thousand people were in place, Liang Kun once said very sadly, "This is the last batch of reinforcements, the pressure on Naha is even greater, and the rest of the beaches must also be defended by troops, if you can hold it, I will go to the prime minister to ask for credit for you, if you can't hold it...... I won't punish you, so let's die together..."

This is not Liang Kun's alarmism, this is the current reality of the Ryukyu Kingdom, all the men who have received military training have all been organized, and the rest are children and women except for the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Chu Zhao and Luo Monkey never thought that they would command so many people in their lives, three thousand people is the strength of a reinforced regiment, which makes the two company commanders and deputy company commanders feel pressure, needless to say, just organizing grassroots officers has already given them a headache.

This is the case with the army, it does not mean that if you have more people, it will work, but if you have a large number of people, you must also have an organizational structure; do you have a group of battalion commanders, company commanders, platoon commanders, and squad leaders under you as a regiment commander? Without these organizational structures, you would not want to command.

In desperation, Chu Zhao and Luo Monkey could only choose the most conservative tactic, that is, desperately digging trenches for defense, in the past four days, they actually expanded a one-line trench to four parallel trenches, and there were even dozens of bunker fortifications inside to avoid bombing.

These trenches were connected by complex communication trenches, forming a huge iron net against the French.

The French Army is called a depression, it is said that they are all top elites, whether it is marksmanship, the coordination between soldiers, and the coordination between infantry and artillery, they have reached the peak of that era.

How many times the brave French army had already broken through the first trench, and even partially occupied the second trench, but this group of Chinese and Ryukyuan people was too good at digging, and countless dead soldiers quickly rushed out from the third and fourth trenches, and came to hand-to-hand combat with bayonets.

This almost rogue style of fighting made the French soldiers miserable, and many battles that were clearly guaranteed to be won were reversed by these Chinese with hand-to-hand combat.

What's worse is that these Chinese are too good at using grenades and Molotov cocktails, and they don't know where Xiao Letian's design ideas come from, and he actually produced more than ten models of grenades for the battlefield.

Molotov cocktails are the least standard, and high-explosive grenades filled with explosives are not uncommon at all, and Xiao Lotian actually designed a lot of pepper grenades, smoke grenades, and gas grenades...... There are even phosphorescent grenades that burst into a bright light when ignited.

We have never seen such a positional battle in many French soldiers, just broke through the first trench, followed by two phosphorescent grenades, and after the two groups of dazzling white light, the vanguard troops were all blind, if it weren't for the follow-up troops to protect this group of people, they would all die here.

It's not just all kinds of bizarre gadgets that give the French a headache, but what is even more terrifying is the crazy will of this group of Asians to fight.

No one could have imagined where the will to fight of this group of inferior people came from, during the day they either fought or dug pits, and at night this group of people actually dared to launch a night attack on the French army, hundreds of silent soldiers crawled forward, once they approached Guotou Village, they would rush forward with crazy shouts.

In the dark of night, foreign guns are of no use at all, and often after two or three rounds of shooting, they quickly turn into brutal hand-to-hand combat.

In four days, the village of Guotou had become a sad place for the French, and although their beach-grabbing position had not been lost, everyone's hearts were full of doubts and a trace of fear.

Molière was so annoyed by the impasse that he had already roared more than once, and in the dark night the captain's room of the Glory had become a hell for the officers of the expedition.

"Idiot...... Pigs...... You are all a disgrace to the Empire...... It's been four days, four whole days have passed, and you have not won anything, and you should all be court-martialed..."Molière smashed the wine on the table, and the glass ballast even cut General Bruce's cheek.

The rear admiral did not dare to complain in the slightest, he stood respectfully in front of the envoy, bowed his head and was trained like a third grandson.

"Your Excellency, please calm your anger... It's not that our brothers don't give their lives, it's that this battle is too hard...... For the past two days I've been circumnavigating the island aboard the Lyra, and only by seeing it with my own eyes do I know how steep the mountains are..."

"The whole island is only suitable for the landing of large soldiers in the port and the village of Kunigami, and the other beaches are either small or closed by large mountains, and we really can't find a better assault position......"

Listening to the rear admiral's defense, the other senior naval officers also spoke one after another: "Please forgive the envoy, we have really tried our best, in the past four days, the navy has knocked out five coastal defense batteries, and the remaining five enemy batteries are obviously not firing smoothly......

"Look at the port of Naha again, a third of it has already been blown up by us, and the enemy's losses are more than ten times greater than ours..."

"Shut up," Molière went completely insane, "this is your record? Blowing up some houses is a credit? Let me ask you, how much ammunition does our fleet have in reserve? Is it enough for a quarter?"

"Look at Guotou Village again, the dignified French Army was actually suppressed by several trenches for four days? This is a shame, a great shame......

In the face of the envoy's madness, Major General Bruce had to explain, and if Molière continued to scold like this, he might not cause a mutiny.

"Your Excellency, please calm your anger, our expeditionary force has done its best, and I think you should think carefully about what a navy is... We are alone on the ocean, tens of thousands of miles away from our home country, and our supplies are already difficult...... Didn't you study at a military academy?"

"The advantage of the navy is its mobility and strong explosiveness, not to fight a protracted war, after all, we have no continent to rely on......"

"That's enough," Molière angrily interrupted the general's rebuttal, "You have to remember, His Majesty the Emperor wants victory, and your enemies are just a group of East Asian barbarians, if you can't even solve them, what use is there for France to raise you?"

Molière's eyes were about to erupt into flames, and he couldn't take out a stone in his heart, "You are all the elite of the French navy, don't you think about it, if we lose the battle with Chinese...... What face do we have to go back to Europe?"

"Even if His Majesty doesn't punish us, will you still have the face to live? You must know that this is East Asia, and we are facing the Ryukyus, which are weaker than the Manchus..."

Molière had already said it thoroughly, and the officers present could no longer refute it. Yes, if the French Expeditionary Force couldn't even defeat the Ryukyus, it would really become a laughing stock in Europe.

Who would have thought that a small backward Ryukyu would be able to possess the most advanced coastal defense artillery, the most advanced breech-loading rifles, and countless unimaginably strange weapons and equipment.

What's even worse is that I don't know how Xiao Letian brainwashed this group of people, this group of weak ethnic groups actually broke out with a fighting will far beyond the regular army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this kind of tenacious spirit is really not like Asians.

Molière looked at the silent officers in front of him, clenched his fists and continued to cheer them up, "Let's do it harder, the enemy is far more painful than us, we can attack them casually while cruising on the sea, but these barbarians can only be beaten passively, I can guess that the love of this group of barbarians is already at a critical point, maybe tomorrow will be when they collapse......"

"Isn't it just the problem of ammunition? It's easy to solve, I've already contacted the British fleet officers in Hong Kong, and they've promised to sell us plenty of munitions...... If I'm not wrong in my guess, there should be British warships coming to us in Shanghai, China, and the supplies we urgently need will be delivered..."

With a bang, the officers present all smiled happily, since the British are willing to be logistics supply officers, then what is there to be afraid of, just continue to bomb, until the sky is dark, the sun and the moon are gone, these barbarians will always collapse one day.

"Please rest assured, Your Excellency, as long as there are enough arms and supplies, we are confident that we will win the final victory, even if it is a complete destruction of this city......

Just when a group of people were showing their loyalty, suddenly there was a sharp knock on the door outside the captain's room, "Report to the captain, the ship's lights suddenly appeared in the southwest direction, and it was a large ship that was visually detected, and the unknown was approaching us......"

The people were all stunned, the news of the war in the Ryukyus had already spread in East Asia, and even if there were merchant ships passing through this sea, they would all hide from them, so how could any ships automatically approach?

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