Before Captain Thatch could react, his company was caught in a hail of bullets, and the sharp Mini rifle bullets tore through several gaps in the company's formation, and every now and then someone fell to the ground, not to mention a grenade exploding in their formation.

There were twenty or thirty casualties in an instant, and when the French retreated in disarray, they found that they had pursued too quickly, and fell into the ambush circle of the Rainbow infantry, and the French army was defeated without even containing the wounded, and could only watch the wounded groan in pain helplessly in front of the Rainbow Army's improvised position.

Captain Thatch's defeat provoked the fury of the regimental commander, Colonel Yomi, who swung his fist vigorously: "You don't have long eyes, a whole two hundred rebels are mercilessly shooting your infantry right under your nose, and you ran back without even firing a shot, and even lost half of your company!" Give me back and kill these Chinese!"

Captain Thatch glanced at the rebel ranks, who had only formed improvised positions, and nodded with difficulty: "Give me an artillery company, and I will wash my Waterloo." ”

"This is Joan of Arc, fuck your Waterloo, I'll give you an infantry company, you must take down these rebels in the shortest possible time!"

Captain Thatch clenched his fists, and he cried out: "Francis, for Joan of Arc, we charge!"

He now had two infantry companies, supported by an artillery company, and after the artillery fired dozens of shells, he led two infantry companies to charge towards the rebels.

Rushing to the rebels' breastwork and stabbing them with a bayonet will cause them to abandon their positions and banners and flee.

The assault of the two infantry companies was hampered from the start, not only did the rebels fire with their Mini rifles with great accuracy, causing a lot of trouble in the formation, but their twelve-pounder mountain howitzer fired a grenade or solid bullet from time to time, shattering the formation.

It was really an unsuccessful attack, stop-and-go. At one point, the two sides turned into a confrontation, and Colonel Yomi found the accusation in a loud voice: "Thatch, this is Joan of Arc's Orleans, not your Waterloo." Unless you want to go to court-martial!"

In order to avoid the fate of court-martial, Captain Thatch picked up his saber and stood up: "Follow me, follow me!"

With Captain Thatch taking the lead, the soldiers of both companies roared angrily, charging forward with blood stains, and they were about to rush into the chest wall of the rainbow army. Captain Thatch couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

His company fled back at this time, and many soldiers shouted: "Cavalry, cavalry! It's the cavalry of the Chinese!"

That's right, it was the cavalry that had lured Captain Thatch into the encirclement at the beginning, and they skillfully appeared behind the two French infantry companies and began to launch a merciless attack on the French with revolvers and sabers.

They had only twenty or thirty dwarf Mongol horses, but the threat they posed was that the entire French offensive was taken down, and some of them even knelt on the ground with pale faces and raised their rifles. shouted in very unfamiliar Chinese: "Surrender!" Surrender!"

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, this small cavalry team returned to the position of the advance team with prisoners and booty, and Zheng Fengxing, the commander of the advance team, said with a smile: "The two wings will be handed over to you." Let's see what new routines the soldiers have next time! But no amount of routines will work, and we will make them turn over in pain. ”

The cavalry officer on the horse said happily: "No problem, the two wings will be handed over to me, please rest assured, I will tell you good news!"

"What's the news?" Zheng Fengxing inspected his troops.

This is a reinforced company of the first regiment of the first division, there were 200 people when it was dispatched, and more than a dozen soldiers were killed and wounded in the battle, but it was still the top company of the entire Hong Army, but a lot of ammunition was consumed in today's battle, and the wounded officers and soldiers could only be simply dealt with by two health soldiers. …,

"The second battalion of the independent regiment has already arrived. One of their reinforced platoons would arrive in another hour or two. ”

"Good!" This added a lot of confidence to Zheng Fengxing: "Although we can do it, it is great that they can send ammunition and medicine, and I am sure of victory." ”

The cavalry officer shook his head, this is the self-confidence of the first division, do they think they are Xiang Yu? With only two hundred men, he wanted to block an entire French infantry division, so he said unceremoniously: "There will be no problems on both flanks." The key is whether the front can withstand it! It's up to you. ”

"The two wings are my concern, there can be no problems on the front, see that there is no ......"

Zheng Fengxing proudly looked at the dozens of corpses abandoned by the French army.

……

"You've wasted an entire afternoon, and you can't even take a position for an infantry company?" Mentoban almost smashed his cane on Colonel Yomi's face: "God, you are a soldier of His Majesty the Emperor!"

Colonel Yomi defended himself with a heartfelt voice: "The enemy has a whole infantry battalion, a lot of artillery and well-constructed positions, and we have achieved great results and, of course, have paid a lot of sacrifices!"

Montoban knew what was going on, and according to the information provided by several officers, the strength of the rebels was no more than three hundred, but Colonel Yomi first committed an infantry company, and then another infantry company when this infantry company failed, and then another infantry company after another defeat, and the result was not a decisive victory, but waited for the rebel reinforcements, and was forced to end the battle today.

"I should bring you court-martial, and I warn you for the last time that this is a decisive battle in the East, the equivalent of ......"

"Orleans, the equivalent of Joan of Arc, tomorrow I will personally organize the entire infantry regiment to take the banner of the rebels." Colonel Yomi doesn't think he's made much of a mistake: "Today was just an accident. ”

"An accident?" Meng Toban knew that it was more than an accident, and he was furious: "If you can't take the rebel flag tomorrow, then wait for the court-martial!"

"Commander, Commander!" Just when Mentoban was furious, there was another bad news from there: "Major Raymond Jr. sent Chinese soldiers to ask for help, he was attacked by at least 10,000 Chinese rebels, and now he is in an extremely difficult situation, I hope you will send at least one infantry battalion to support him, if one infantry battalion is not good, even an infantry company is fine!"

"No way!" Meng Toban refused without hesitation: "I don't have an infantry platoon, but I can send some Chinese who have fallen behind to meet them." ”

He bets all his hopes on tomorrow's attack: "Yomi......"

Mentoban's tone became polite, but Yomi was a little afraid: "Your Excellency, Commander, I will use all the infantry and artillery tomorrow, and I will be able to deal with the enemy in one morning!"

"The enemy is coming." Montoban correctly estimated the situation: "The rebels who will arrive on the battlefield tomorrow will be more than just an infantry battalion, and I suspect that the rebels will throw all their forces into the battlefield, so we will put all our forces at once, and then simply deal with them!"

"Got it!" Yomi exclaimed, "I don't need extra support. ”

……

For the reserve infantry regiment, the news of Zheng Fengxing's encounter with the enemy was like a spark, with both excitement and trepidation.

If we talk about the history of the army, the reserve infantry regiment can be said to be one of the oldest infantry brigades of the Rainbow Army, when they were established, they were almost the first wave of infantry brigades of the Rainbow Army, and they also played the role of the general reserve of the Rainbow Army.

But who would have thought that the reserve brigade would actually become the first unit to be demoted in the history of the entire Rainbow Army, and this blow dealt a fatal blow to the morale of the entire infantry brigade. …,

Although the officers and men of the reserve infantry regiment made many excuses and pointed out that the history of their unit had many past glories, the downgrade was an indisputable fact, so the whole unit awaited this day.

This day came too suddenly, including Yu Lingdong himself, they were not ready, they only wanted to fight the French army or the Qing army, but the intelligence was clear, it was the main force of the entire French army, according to the calculation method of the Hong army, that is, a whole reinforced division, and there were 10,000 Qing troops behind.

In front of this trend, there were only a small number of cavalry detachments, a reinforced company of the 1st Division, and a battalion of the Zhejiang Independent Regiment, and the rest of the battle was all the reserve infantry regiments, and the whole army set off many waves at once.

This is really a mockery of fate, fortunately, Yu Lingdong's prestige in the army is enough, so that there will be no large-scale escape, even so, after the dispatch, the entire infantry regiment has more than a dozen people fled, and Yu Lingdong also made a straight face, with a murderous aura to let the troops speed up.

Later, good news finally came, the first division and Cai Yunnan's brigade would rush over to support, and they only needed to withstand it for a day.

Just when they were thinking this, further news came that Zhou Xiuying was here.

Zhou Xiuying did not come alone, she also brought two elite cavalry companies, which greatly strengthened the morale of the reserve infantry regiment.

"Hello! Salute!" Yu Lingdong rushed over with the officers in the regiment to greet Zhou Xiuying: "Welcome Brigade Commander Zhou!"

It's just that when he thought that Zhou Xiuying was only a cadre in Xianfeng for five years, and now he had become a cavalry brigade commander, but he was demoted to an infantry regiment commander, he felt sad: "What instructions does Brigade Commander Zhou have?" ”

Zhou Xiuying also asked unceremoniously: "Tomorrow's battle, Guan Jian will look at the reserve infantry regiment, what I want to ask is, is the reserve infantry regiment ready?" What are the troops, weapons, and morale now? ”

"Our regiment is ready!" Yu Lingdong replied: "This is the essence of an entire infantry brigade, although there is no major supplement in the Battle of Fengjing Town, but this is the best infantry regiment of the Hong Army!"

"Is there a combat strength of an infantry battalion?"

ps: There was an accident, I thought two more didn't do it, try to make it up tomorrow (to be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )