Wu Jie did this cannon that he was dismissed from his post and investigated, and he did quite effectively, and after retreating alone, he didn't dare to launch any offensive for eleven days. Why didn't Guba dare to come, the Qing army didn't know, but everyone's confidence in taking the initiative to face the battle was firm, and after Liu Bingzhang personally sent a message to instruct the strategy, Ouyang Lijian, who had been cowering, also began to firmly advocate taking the initiative to attack the enemy.

On the one hand, he was short of fuel and continued to wait for supplies from the rear, and on the other hand, he was reassessing the strength of the Qing army. During the first artillery battle between the two sides, the firepower of the French Qing army battery was a little fierce, but the distance between the French ships was still farther away, and the Qing army fired a lot of shells, and this feeling was not so obvious. This time it was felt at a very close range, and the Bachar still hit the soul, and the impact was obvious. The strength of the Manchurian artillery made the French army a little frightened, they did not have battleships that could overwhelm the fire of the battery, and there were not many armored cruisers with strong defense of their own, and the results of the storming of the battery were not optimistic.

"Their Manchurian artillery may not be very many, otherwise their offensive will be more fierce, I guess that there may only be a few Manchurian artillery on the batteries of the Qing army, and the others must still be old-style artillery!" Li Shibis did not want to give up, and he did not think that the Qing army would have the opportunity to equip Manchurian artillery on a large scale, and the technical blockade of Manchuria had always been very tight.

Lee's speculation is very reasonable, but it is basically wrong. The Manchurian Empire exported weapons to any country in the world, and it had to retain a generation difference of two or three generations, and it also had to cut corners and play the monkey version, but for the Qing court, Manchuria still would not cheat its own people. Except for the fear that the Qing Dynasty would leak secrets, the weapon generation gap and some casting secrets are still maintained, and all weapons and quality are absolutely normal. Moreover, except during the conflict between the two sides, Manchurian weapons have always been open to the Qing Dynasty, and as long as the Qing Dynasty wanted to buy them, Changchun did not refuse.

Along the way, the French army encountered uneven equipment of the Qing army, not because Manchuria did not sell, but because the Qing side was unwilling to buy it. The weapons procured by the Qing Dynasty were limited, and there were factors such as the strength of the imperial court and the weakness of the branches, as well as the factors of different understandings of the chief officials in various places. The current military system of the Qing Dynasty is very complicated, with regular imperial armies such as the Eight Banners and Green Battalions, as well as local troops such as regimental training and the Righteous Army, and they are also independent in terms of weapons procurement. The regular army near Gyeonggi was Manchurian-style equipment in Yishui, and the main forces of the Huai, Hunan and Chu armies were the same, all of which were paid for by the imperial court, and the troops in other places had to figure out their own methods. In remote places such as the Dian Army and the Gui Army, the awareness of officials is not improved, and the equipment is naturally much worse, and most of them are eliminated by the main force. Only Feng Zicai's Cui Army and He Huan's Le Army, with the personal knowledge of the chief officer and the old relationship with Manchuria, were slightly better equipped. Zhejiang can be different from the southwest, here is the Jiangnan trade zone and Manchuria contact is very close, Liu Bingzhang, Xue Fucheng is also enlightened people, equipment is naturally a water Manchurian style.

"Let's try again!" After studying the seriously wounded Bachar as a specimen for more than ten days, Guba still gave the order to attack again.

Gu Ba still suspected that Zhenhai was a pit, but he was really unwilling to retreat. Li Gen drove a clipper to him when he was fine, and it was clear that he wanted to see his jokes, and France couldn't afford to lose this person. France's position as the world's second most powerful country has long since changed hands, and when the pride of the Gallic rooster is inviolable, Lone does not want to let the ugly Orientals see France all over because of himself.

The French fleet has made a comeback, and the momentum is indeed turbulent, but how to look at such a weak heart. Wu Jie's cannon caused a great psychological shadow on them, and the French army, which was showing off its might, did not dare to approach the shore of the Zhaobaoshan Fort at all, but only fired from a distance with artillery. However, the battle situation made Guba even more embarrassing, the French bullied China's range advantage for decades, and disappeared in front of the Zhenhai batteries, and the range of the Qing army's coastal defense artillery was fiercer than that of the French naval guns.

The superiority in equipment was no longer there, and the two sides engaged in a close battle, and the French army would not have played at that time. Not only was the Qing army on the fort fierce, but even the Nanyang Five ships, which had been running away before, also entered the battle, maneuvering back and forth at the mouth of the river, constantly launching artillery bombardments on the French ships. After half a day of fierce fighting, many French ships were shot and wounded, and the captain of the Tanak, Milu, was killed on the spot, which can be described as a heavy loss, and Guba had to order a retreat.

"We need to change our tactics, blindly attacking is no longer suitable for fighting against the Qing Kingdom!" After returning from the setback, Guba did not hang his head like Li Shibis, but actively planned a new offensive.

In the past battles against the Qing army, the French army has always adopted the method of blindly attacking by force, because the French army has a huge advantage in equipment and can bully the Qing Dynasty like bullying the African natives. However, the Qing Dynasty is not an African native after all, they have a deep heritage, and they are never very poor in money, they can buy a lot of very advanced equipment. The Qing Dynasty had the strength to fight back, and the French army had to change its concept and use tactics to win, otherwise it would be forced to retreat as it is today.

"Their battery firepower is very strong, but the Qing army's land and melee strength has always been relatively weak, as long as they don't encounter the tenacious Eight Banners, our marines can quickly annihilate them." Lesbian made a good discovery.

Since the First Opium War, the Qing army's melee combat ability has been criticized. The Qing army could fight the enemy in the fort until the whole army was destroyed, but as soon as the enemy approached the fort, they would collapse immediately. Except for the Eight Banners who seem to have problems with their brains, as soon as the foreign soldiers land, no matter how powerful the battery is, it will quickly be lost. Only the Eight Banners stationed in various places are very tenacious, and they will die to the last man. Of course, in the battle between Britain and France against the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners could only cause them a little trouble, because the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners was really poor, and these guys had almost no advantages except that they could stand up to death.

Summing up the successful experience of the past and analyzing the deployment of the Qing army in Zhenhai, Guba and Li Shibis absolutely gave up the attack of the large fleet and turned to transport troops by small steamers to break through the Qing army's batteries with landing battles. Then the shortcomings of not having a navigator were exposed, and the French had a good idea, but where to land near Zhenhai, Gu Ba and Li Shi Bis had no idea at all. Where the hydrological and land conditions are suitable for launching a landing battle can not be seen by looking at the map, and without a navigator, you can only go to the field to investigate. Guba and Li Shibis could only send small boats to secretly probe in the coastal zone at night.

The French felt that their survey was very secretive, but the truth was that they were stealing the bell. Wu Ankang, who lived on the ship every day, was the first to discover the movements of the French army, and then Qian Yuxing knew, Ouyang Lijian knew, Xue Fucheng knew, and finally even Liu Bingzhang knew. Ouyang Lijian meant not to deal with the French army, as long as the French army did not attack, they would do whatever they liked. However, Liu Bingzhang and Xue Fucheng disagreed with him, and the civil official felt that he should give the French a little color. Liu Bingzhang and Xue Fucheng are older than Ouyang Li, and in the end, their opinions will naturally prevail.

Liu Bingzhang directly sent over the eight 105-millimeter new guns that Li Gengang had brought to him at the beginning of the month, and Xue Fucheng also transferred the Gatling heavy machine gun at the bottom of his box. Qian Yuxing even took his deputy general Wang Litang to set up a death squad of 1,200 people, urgently arranged the position, and took the weapons supported by two adults to hide in the sea salient under the Qingquan Ridge in the north corner of Jinji Mountain on the south bank. The reason why Qian Yuxing chose such a place was because all of them knew that there was only one place near Zhenhai that was suitable for landing.

Three days later, the lonely reconnaissance boat finally locked on the landing site, and the whole French division came and quietly began to land. It's also bad luck to be alone! How could he have thought that the mouth of the Yongjiang River, which had been sealed for more than ten days, had been opened at this time, and if the French army rushed over, they would be able to break through into the inland river in one fell swoop. Two thousand French soldiers crept to the beach, they were assembled, in formation, ready to launch a surprise attack on the sleeping Qing army, and then a few meteor-like extremely dazzling things rose into the sky on the high ground not far away.

"Flares!" Lieutenant Colonel Li Weilin, who once again became the commander-in-chief of the Marine Corps, had his jaw on the ground, and this scene can only explain one problem - there is an ambush!

"Da Da Da ......" Countless fire snakes spit out from the grass, sweeping through the crowd of French soldiers like a whip of God, and the dense artillery fire was even more like the world was turned upside down, and Li Weilin's shout was drowned in the rumbling cannon. Seeing that the landing force was in ambush, Lone Ba hurriedly ordered the fleet to open artillery to cover it, trying to fish out the encircled French troops. It's a pity that at this moment the entire French fleet has been exposed, and the batteries on the north and south banks launched a fierce artillery bombardment of the French army at the same time, and many battleships were shot and caught fire, not to mention the reinforcement of the landing force, they couldn't even take care of themselves.

"Aim for that one, that one is big!" Wang Litang on Qingquan Ridge saw that the French landing force had been dispersed, and immediately aimed the Bamen Treasure at the battleship in the sea. Wang Litang didn't know much about warships, and he couldn't see that the battleship was the main force of the French army, so he randomly picked one that he looked pleasing to. I have to say that Wang Litang's vision is still good, and he chose the Baya, the flagship of the French army. The Baya is not an armored cruiser, just a wood-clad iron, but there is a bonus, Guba and Li Shibis are both on the Baya.

The distance between the two sides was so close that in the first salvo of eight guns, five shots were hit, three were missed, and the Baya's conning tower, main mast, and bow were all hit. The badly wounded Bayard had to be the first to withdraw from the battle, after which the French ships retreated, and of the 2,000 landing force, less than 300 were able to escape back to the warships. The next day, Liu Bingzhang got a good news, the Qing army annihilated more than 1,700 French troops, sank one French warship, five small steamers, and seriously damaged two warships, and won a great victory in Zhenhai! And there is a very important news, Lone is dead.