"The British are really a bit of a ghost!" The faces of the staff officers of the General Staff became a little ugly.

In the latest news at about 8 o'clock in the morning on December 2o, the British who arrived near Foshan did not blindly advance, their 6th Army and the steamship fleet cooperated with each other to set up an anchorage in a wide area of water, and the British 6th Army set up a defensive system near the anchorage. This anchorage became the rear position of the British, and although the British attacking force of nearly 4,000 was advancing, it was evident that it was not completely disconnected from the rear. This kind of advance uses the strength at hand to complete this kind of formation, which can be attacked, retreated, and defended, and if it is the Manchu Qing side, it will not be possible to kill them.

The 5,000-strong troops of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division of the 2nd Army of the Liberation Army were deployed in front of the British, and the numbers of the two sides were almost the same. Behind the 1st Brigade, the 2nd Brigade served as a reserve, and in addition to being ready to reinforce the 1st Brigade at any time, the 2nd Brigade also undertook the task of defending Foshan, especially the Foshan Iron and Steel Center.

In an attempt to completely annihilate the British army, the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Second Army each sent a brigade to move behind the British flank, and when they were ready to arrive near the battlefield, they would attack the British according to the situation at that time. It's just that everyone is worried that the British reconnaissance troops will be sent too far, so according to the plan, the troops may arrive near the battlefield around two o'clock in the afternoon. For six hours, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Third Division of the Second Army was left to face the British attack on its own, as well as a regiment of the First Army, which had been responsible for guarding the steel center of Foshan. Of course, a division plus a regiment has a total strength of 13,000 people. The British numbered just over four thousand, and the troops were very confident of victory.

As the defending side, the Liberation Army has already set up defensive positions. The British clearly did not want to ram into the defensive positions, and they tried to bypass this line and attack from the western side of the battlefield. The 2nd Regiment of the 1st Brigade was responsible for guarding this direction, and the commander of the 2nd Regiment, Wu Liao, proposed to the brigade headquarters that the 2nd Regiment was ready to fight the British head-on. The 1st Regiment could take advantage of the battle between the two sides to cross the line and attack from the British right flank. The British had about 4,000 troops, and the 1st Brigade of the Liberation Army had 5,000 men, which had a certain advantage in terms of troops.

Attacking head-on and crushing the enemy in one fell swoop was the battle that the Liberation Army was most looking forward to when facing the Qing army. As long as the Qing army dared to give the Liberation Army a chance, this kind of battle was always won easily. No matter how Wei Ze described the British army's group of "lobster soldiers" wearing red shirts and white pants as very strong in combat, with such an opportunity to fight head-on, the Liberation Army did not have any sense of fear.

Brigade commander Li Yingfei agreed with this, the neat queue of the British did reveal the momentum that a strong army should have, and the Liberation Army did not regard itself as a weak brigade. The headquarters of the 1st Brigade agreed to Wu Liao's construction, and the 1st Brigade also conveyed its judgment and decision to the division headquarters, telling the 2nd Brigade to be prepared in case the 1st Brigade failed to hold off the British. By this time, the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Brigade was already facing the British troops.

The battlefield has always been tacit to both sides, and no one is a fool, and there is no reason why it has to be fought in a place where the enemy's advantage can be fully exploited. The battlefield was flat, and by this time the rice fields had been harvested, and nothing could stop the attack of both sides. The battle line of the Liberation Army is best suited to be played on such a field.

The first to engage was undoubtedly the artillery of both sides, whether it was the artillery of the British or the artillery of the Liberation Army, both sides used flowering shells without reservation. The cannonballs exploded when they landed on the ground, but after all, this was the humid land of Guangdong, and the power of the flowering shells was obviously not as effective as that of the city walls with hard ground. Of course, this is also one of the reasons why the Liberation Army does not want to defend the city.

The artillery battle was obviously a half-hearted situation, and both the Liberation Army and the British Army suffered a lot of casualties in an instant. Wu Liao, the commander of the Second Regiment, was the first time he had really seen such a situation, when a shell landed, as long as there was an enemy nearby, it would immediately be a casualty. He had wanted to see how much the British had suffered. But after only a few glances, he had to withdraw his gaze and put it back on his troops.

The Guangfu Army had never experienced such a battle, and there were 30,000 or 40,000 troops with Wei Ze moving south, and although a considerable part of them were forced to fill the administrative department, there were nearly 20,000 people who remained in the troops. Of the 100,000 troops, 20,000 are naturally officers at all levels. Most of the grassroots commanders such as squad leaders and deputy squad leaders are also undertaken by the old Guangfu Army. They were all fearless fighters who fought in the north and south, but in such a tragic artillery battle, as long as a single shell came, a squad of troops did not even fire a shot, and all of them were reimbursed.

In the blink of an eye, the Guangfu army lost one or two hundred people. This is an unimaginable loss before, and even in the face of tens of thousands of Qing troops, there may not be such a loss in a battle.

"Onward! Offensive! Although Wu Liao was greatly shaken, he was not frightened stupid, and at this time, it was better to get as close to the enemy as possible than to let the troops lose in vain. Once the two sides have engaged each other, firing shells at both sides will greatly increase the chance of accidentally injuring one's own people. Wu Liao, the commander of the second regiment, firmly believed that without the possibility of this senseless death at any time, the Guangfu Army would be able to fully exploit the combat superiority of its infantry.

As soon as the order was given, a part of the troops had already begun to attack. From the perspective of time, Wu Liao was able to conclude that the commanders who were at the forefront did not attack after receiving the order to attack, but that they could not stand the shelling of the British army, so they bravely chose to attack.

I don't know whether to praise the troops for their bravery or reprimand them for their reckless actions. Moreover, Wu Liao had no other thoughts at all at this time, such a cruel battlefield was something Wu Liao had never thought of. The Guangfu Army once used such advanced weapons and ferocious firepower to make the Qing army accumulate corpses. Although the Liberation Army has also had some exercises, everyone has more of a mind to act during the exercises. Everyone believes that as long as they follow Wei Ze, the Guangfu Army will always be the one who will be slaughtered, and it will never be the one who will be slaughtered.

Almost at the same time that the troops of the Liberation Army began to advance, the British ** team, which was under the heavy bombardment of the 12-pound mountain howitzers of the Liberation Army, also began to march. Not only did the Liberation Army have to face the fierce damage of the flowering shells, but the British army was also suffering from the fierce damage of the Liberation Army's flowering shells. For the commander, the best choice at this time is to move forward or backward, and continue to stand in place and be hit by the enemy as a target, that is the most undesirable choice.

Both armies tried to maintain the front, but neither army was able to maintain the front. Everywhere the bullets went, the infantry on both sides were knocked down in rows, and the junior officers and soldiers did not mess with their positions, and it was already a rare heroism to hug their heads. It would be impossible to expect them to be able to immediately adjust the line of maintenance through the guò queue.

The two sides began to approach each other, and there was no doubt that the British could better maintain their battle lines, while the battle lines of the Liberation Army were already clearly inconsistent. The troops that broke out at the front were the ones that began to advance without receiving orders, and they were also relatively concentrated units under British shelling. It was a battalion of the 2nd Regiment, and it was a unit with outstanding achievements. Like most of Wei Ze's troops, this unit once followed Wei Ze to sweep Anhui and cross the Yellow River to Shandong and Hebei in the north, and also had considerable combat exploits when attacking the camps in Jiangnan and Jiangbei.

At present, the full force of more than 600 people has only less than half of the number left, and the array of these two or three hundred troops is almost shattered, and the queue is divided into two sections with relatively large differences. Seeing that the British troops on the opposite side had entered the firing range, the troops in front had already stopped and began to organize firing.

Of course, Wu Liao knew that such a choice could not be miscalculated, but as the commander of the regiment, Wu Liao could not help but admit that the shooting was still a little early. If only I could walk twenty more steps! No, fifteen more steps, and then you will have a better shooting effect.

Although Wu Liao's mind could still make such a judgment relatively clearly, his body was already trembling uncontrollably. On a battlefield where bullets are flying, taking one more step can mean killing you on the spot, and if you can shoot early, you may be able to kill an enemy sooner. In such a battlefield where artillery is flying everywhere, it has become a matter of God's will to really want to fight for your life, kill one to be enough, and kill two to earn one.

"Order the artillery, prepare the advancing position, push the artillery as far forward as possible while the cannon is cool, and fire as close to the British as possible!" Wu Liao gave the order.

After giving this order, Wu Liao immediately turned his gaze back to the battlefield, obviously, the British side also entered the shooting distance, but the British army did not fire immediately like the Guangfu Army, Wu Liao could see clearly, even if some people in the British ** team were shot in the first battalion and fell to the ground, but the British army endured such losses and continued to approach the Guangfu Army.

The Guangfu army did not resist the pressure and walked an extra twenty steps, but the British army, which Wei Ze called the lobster soldiers, not only walked twenty more steps, but even braved the rain of bullets and bullets to walk an extra twenty-five steps. Then the British began to shoot.

The experience and training of the two sides showed a gap at this time. Not only did the British keep their formations better, but their troops traveled better distances. It was only when the British stopped that Wu Liao saw the way. The queue of the Liberation Army at this time was incomplete, and there was a bit of disconnection between the front and back. Although the British army had the same problem, they were able to use the march to make the troops that were firing at the Liberation Army very stable, and using this as a key point, so that more troops would have an advantage in firing at each other.

Regiment commander Wu Liao could see clearly that a small number of troops of the Liberation Army were relatively advanced, although they were the first to fire. But their numbers were too small to make a fatal impression on the British at all. Compared with this small number of troops, more of the Liberation Army troops were confronted by a dense rain of bullets from the British as they continued to advance and tried to level the front. These units had to stop for a moment and then fire at the British.

In the past, the Liberation Army was able to withstand the indiscriminate shooting of the Qing army, approaching the Qing army "regardless of casualties", and calmly opened fire at a distance suitable for shooting. Now I didn't expect the British army to be better, compared with the British, the Liberation Army at this time looked like the Qing army.

"Commander, we can't wait! Continue to send troops to attack and stabilize the front! Chief of Staff Wei Bosheng shouted anxiously in Wu Liao's ear.

Wu Liao didn't speak immediately, let alone give an order immediately, a thought was tumbling in his heart at this time, "What Wei Zedu said is true!" Foreign devils can really maintain a calm combat command ability in such a tragic battle situation! ”

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