After serving in the Imperial Royal Army for thirty years, he has always felt the invincible glory of the Imperial Royal Army, and the ruthlessness of pride and refusal to admit defeat finally defeated cowardice. Campbell was not surprised to see the enemy charge.

The enemy troops rushing on the opposite side were not as numerous as their own, but they were quite numerous, and the key thing was that the rifles in their hands were much better in range and rate of fire than their own Enfield rifled rifles. Originally, these enemies could easily defeat themselves as long as they kept a distance of 800 yards. Unexpectedly, the enemy commander was so stupid that he did not keep his distance but charged over, which was a great opportunity for his own side! As long as he was within the range of his own army, Campbell believed that with the military quality of the soldiers of the British Empire, he would be able to resist the enemy's attack, and even defeat the enemy army by virtue of numbers!

So, Campbell immediately and decisively ordered: "All the warriors of Great Britain, bravely rush to the yellow-skinned monkeys of the East, tear their formations, and destroy them!" ”

The commander of the Royal Welsh Infantry Brigade was stunned, but then he also came to his senses, shouted to charge, clamped his horse at the waist on the spot, and took the lead in riding his horse to rush towards the enemy.

The British soldiers on the front line kept being shot and falling. In just a few tens of yards, more than 1,000 people were lost.

The British officer constantly reminded the soldiers in front: "Whoever is wounded, whoever he is, ignore it, don't think about taking the wounded." If anyone had done such a thing, his family would have waited to receive a death notice. The most important thing is to rush over, crush the enemy army, destroy the enemy army, and then these wounded compatriots can be rescued! ”

The commander of the Welsh Infantry Brigade also passed on his combat experience to his Welsh countrymen through the guard company: "Don't be in a hurry to open fire, bear the price, you have to rush into the best range before doing so." Your officers will issue orders for you to fire and shoot. Stay in formation, stay calm, keep your guns down, victory will be ours in the British Empire! ”

And Campbell himself rode his horse into the ranks of the British charge. Just as in the Crimean War a few years ago, he led the Scottish legion to defeat the Russian army, and he braved the enemy's bullets at any time, and he rode his horse and shouted loudly to inspire his men. It's clear that Campbell is ready to take the plunge and win or lose.

The British troops who rushed to the front kept falling, but the soldiers behind did not hesitate to advance under the impetus of the huge formation torrent. Several British officers rode war horses, shouting orders back and forth, urging the British army to move forward bravely. The front lines of the two armies are constantly getting closer, 700 yards, 650 yards, and it seems that it is about to reach 600 yards.

At this time, the commander of the Royal Welsh Infantry Brigade, who rushed to the front, categorically ordered: "Free...... fire！ Suddenly, smoke rose from the battlefield. On the other side, many soldiers of the Chinese Empire fell one after another, and many were shot.

At the same time, several bullets fired from different angles hit the commander of the Welsh Infantry Brigade, who fell off his horse with a sharp drop. Immediately afterwards, in the ranks of the British army, several officers on war horses also fell to the ground one after another, and suddenly the British army was a little scattered, and the pace of the charge was full.

But the inertia of the advance of the armies of the two sides still caused the opposing lines to face each other at a distance of less than 600 yards, and exchanged fierce fire.

The British used dense horizontal formations, and the infantry firepower and agility were strong, but the depth of the array was insufficient, but the number of four infantry brigades offset this shortcoming, and the battle line spread over the battlefield for more than three kilometers, with as many as four or five platoons. At this time, the usual training allowed these excellent soldiers, most of whom were transferred from Europe, and the good level of training and discipline ensured that they could unleash fierce volleys while marching.

Campbell, who had retreated to the back of the battlefield, was pleasantly surprised to find through the telescope that a large number of enemy troops on the opposite side had fallen in one fell at once, and more than two or three thousand soldiers had disappeared from the battlefield!

Before he could celebrate, Campbell suddenly realized that something was not quite right!

At this moment, a violent burst of gunfire rang out, and at the same time, there was a small number of artillery shots.

Campbell suddenly found that behind the thin smoke of gunpowder, the enemy's forward line, on the ground where the soldiers had just disappeared, suddenly appeared a tongue of fire, gunpowder smoke rose into the air, and the enemy opened fire fiercely!

There, it turned out to be a trench!

The hateful Chinese army had already set up traps, calculated the battle distance, pretended to charge, and when they were about to enter their own range, they hid in the trench and used the protection of the trench to exchange fire with their own soldiers! And the enemy soldiers behind were still outside their best range!

And at this time, is it ordered to continue to rush over hard, or to retreat? Campbell had the toughest choice!

Retreating, fighting and charging in front, the loss of three or four thousand British soldiers was in vain. His invincible prestige will also be gone, and he will be ridiculed by the soldiers. Moreover, it is not so easy to retreat, such a long front, such a large team, how can it turn around and withdraw for a while and a half? Moreover, the range of the enemy's rifle is terrifying, and if you retreat, you will suffer damage from the enemy's fire from behind for at least 200 yards! It's going to be a big defeat! Moreover, after such a big defeat, morale is completely lost, and it is almost impossible to redeem it.

Instead, he continued to rush forward, calculating that as long as he rushed 100 yards, even 50 yards, the enemy troops in the trench or even behind the trench would be able to enter his best range. As long as the enemy loses the advantage of range, Campbell is confident that with the well-trained soldiers of Great Britain, he will be able to defeat the opposing formidable opponent!

At this point, Campbell no longer regarded the commander of the opposing Imperial Chinese Army as a fool, but saw him as a formidable opponent.

Fight! Campbell no longer hesitated and ordered the whole army to attack!

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The Chinese army that rushed over fiercely was the 6th Infantry Division of the 6th Field Corps.

The division commander Tazib rode a maroon horse to Rome, brandished the shining command knife in his hand, and shouted loudly, inspiring the guard battalion around him to keep moving forward. In the first step, the commander of the regiment took the lead, leading the officers and men of the whole regiment to gather in four neat queues with a length of about two or three hundred meters, constantly shooting and advancing.

For this battle, Tabuqi didn't close his eyes all night last night, and quietly dug a trench 2 kilometers long on the battlefield of Lingren, and pulled more than 10 small field guns into the trench overnight, covering the surface with tree branches.

The trench battle has penetrated deep into his bone marrow. Despite believing that his infantry division could defeat all opponents, Tazib still had to dig trenches overnight.

When firing at the counterpoint, he deliberately made the soldiers ignore their range advantage and seemingly stupidly charge at the enemy, but in fact, he adjusted the distance to the position of the trench. And here, he will show his lore, because his goal is not only to defeat the British army, which has more troops than himself, but to completely crush or even annihilate them completely.

At this moment, seeing that the enemy army was still rushing desperately, Tazib knew that the time for the final decisive battle had come!

Skilled in horsemanship, he simply stood on horseback, holding a command knife in his hand, and waved and shouted in the direction of the enemy: "Warriors of the 6th Division, follow me to fight bravely to kill the enemy." Kill one British soldier, you can break away from the foreign race, enter the Chinese Miao nationality, kill two British soldiers, enter the Han nationality, and enjoy the whole family! ”

Suddenly, the officers and men of the 6th Infantry Division of Liuye let out a roaring cry: "Kill, kill, kill!" ”

Bullets flew sideways, occasionally a few howitzers, blasted into the group of British soldiers rushing over, the British soldiers lined up in a dense formation in the process of charging, kept falling, the front row of the line gradually thinned out, and when they rushed to the 500 yards of the trench, there were only one or two hundred people left.