On Christmas Eve 1862, a fast merchant ship from the Chinese colonies in Northwest Africa crossed the British blockade and quietly arrived in Ireland, carrying thousands of tons of artillery shells and other supplies urgently needed for the front line. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn the past year, the Sino-Irish coalition forces in Ireland have relied on such supplies to ensure their operations, and in order to ensure the supply of the Sino-Irish coalition forces fighting in Ireland, the Navy and Harbour Administration has even specially designed a kind of fast merchant ship, and this kind of fast merchant ship with a maximum speed of more than 18 knots is replacing it as the main force for transporting supplies to Ireland. High speed was its biggest argument to get rid of British warships.

The merchant ship that arrived at the port at this time was the first high-speed merchant ship to be delivered. It was by virtue of the high speed far exceeding that of the British warships that it was easy to break through the British blockade line and safely transport the supplies to Ireland, almost as soon as it arrived at the port, the workers in the port were busy, and heavy wooden boxes were transported down from the ship, and some of the wooden boxes were written in Chinese and English with the words "dangerous goods", which was not surprising to the workers on the docks, after all, these warships were carrying all kinds of weapons, and those weapons were of course dangerous goods. If there are no accidents, these boxes must be filled with shells.

"Hey man, what's coming this time?"

At the port, an officer in charge of logistics asked the officer accompanying the ship, although this person was wearing a military uniform, but in his opinion, this person did not look like an officer, but if he was not an officer, what was it?

"Cannonballs, of course!"

Ding Yunqi responded casually, and then didn't say anything, his expression was cold, he was different from ordinary professional officers, he was an intelligence officer of the Intelligence Bureau, just temporarily seconded to the troops, to participate in the transportation of materials, in order to arrange the transportation of special materials, the Intelligence Bureau can be said to have taken a lot of twists and turns, and now he is finally relieved, he is worried about the burden along the way, he has even been prepared several times, once an accident occurs, he will immediately blow up the ship,

Blow up the ship!

This is the last option, in any case the British will not be able to get the supplies on the ship, they can get everything, but in no way these "shells".

Now all the worries are superfluous, after all, now that these shells have been safely delivered to Ireland, they only need to be sent to the front and everything is over.

Of course, more importantly, his task is completed, and the rest of the tasks are no longer the time when he needs to intervene, and the army will naturally be responsible for everything.

Soon the supplies were sent on trains to the front lines of much-needed artillery shells, which are now needed more than at any other time because of the Battle of Dublin, where thousands of shells are fired every day. The railway, built by the British before the war, became the most convenient way to transport supplies.

When hundreds of tons of supplies were loaded onto the train and ready to be transported to the front line, a Chinese officer in the railway station looked at the departing train and finally breathed a sigh of relief that the first batch of supplies had arrived!

"Special Bomb 0 has arrived!"

More than 20 kilometers away from Dublin, Wang Lin, who was looking at the map, only answered after hearing the report of his subordinates. As the youngest brigadier general in the army, he was arguably the fastest-promoted officer, from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general, but it took just over a year, and it was all thanks to the war.

Not all of them were willing to come to Ireland, at least at the beginning of the war, not all officers were willing to come here and take risks, after all, the French had a lesson in the past, reminding them that if they failed, they were likely to become prisoners of war, and then they would lose all their honor, and of course they would lose the possibility of promotion, and they would naturally end up in the army.

But he didn't refuse, the reason why he didn't refuse is very simple - he has no way to refuse, maybe others can refuse, but he can't, because to some extent, his father was a loyal minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although he was only a seven-rank Beijing official, but when the rebels conquered the capital, he still chose to commit suicide as a loyal minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and martyred the Manchu state.

At that time, Wang Lin, a native of Hubei, had already graduated from Jiangwutang and was a company commander of the Righteous Army. And his father was a "loyal minister" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which cannot but be said to be a kind of irony.

"Only loyalty and filial piety, each according to his own ambition......"

Thinking of his father, Wang Lin once again thought of his father's suicide note, which was brought back by his father's elder, and in the letter, his father even specially told him that he died for the Qing Dynasty and died a well-deserved death, and also told him that since he is now an official of the Chinese Dynasty, he must also be upright. There was no conflict between father and son. Because his father was a food eater of the Qing Dynasty, he should die......

Perhaps, for his father, the father and son are just "going their own way", but his father's choice has affected Wang Lin, and his promotion has always been affected by this "stain", for the Chinese Dynasty, he is "after the traitor" after all.

Before the outbreak of the war, he was ready to retire after repeated promotions, but the outbreak of war changed everything, and it also gave him a chance, and he was willing to Ireland, not because he could be promoted to the first rank, but because he came here with the worst intentions - even if he was defeated, he would choose to cut himself rather than be a prisoner of the British, and when the time came, his son could tell everyone that his father was a decent hero, not a ......

But fate was always so wonderful, he came to Ireland with the intention of dying, but for the next year or so, he not only persevered here, but also was promoted for his military exploits, and even entered the ranks of generals.

And now, the most important battle of life is about to start again.

Destiny......

Silently muttering these two words in his heart, Wang Lin's pencil paused heavily on the paper, leaving a black dot.

"Is the weather right lately?"

For the No. 0 special ammunition, although he had never come into contact with it, he knew that the particularity of this weapon, with its special dependence on the weather. This weapon would help him defeat the British defending Dublin and allow him to win the battle.

"The front line has been watching the weather and the direction of the wind, but now the front line is opening the passage as early as possible!"

"Oh"

nodded silently, and then Wang Lin stopped talking, maybe others didn't know what the "No. 0 Special Bomb" was, but he knew very well what it was, it was a new weapon, a weapon that could change the war.

But unlike ordinary weapons, there are many restrictions on the use of this weapon, of course, he does not have any psychological pressure on the use of this weapon, how can there be pressure? All you need to do is win the battle.

Win the battle!

For Wang Lin, he didn't have any other ideas, he needed to prove something through the victory of this battle, he needed to change the minds of outsiders about him and his family through this battle, and he hoped that when people mentioned him again, they would no longer say it in a contemptuous tone.

"Your father is the one who can't be a slave enough?"

Don't be enough of a minion!

Perhaps there is no more shameful evaluation than this, but as a son, he must respect his father's choice, but as a soldier, he is ashamed of his father's choice.

"Father, if you had a spirit in heaven, would you still make that choice when you saw today?"

Although Wang Lin, as the son of his father, he didn't know what choice his father would make until now, in fact, he had a vague memory of his father, after all, his father had been an official outside for many years, but no matter what, it was always his father.

"Your mistakes, I'll make up for them!"

Silently thinking in his heart, Wang Lin believed that he could make up for all this by now, as long as he won this battle.

Once China won the battle, the course of the war would change, and he would be one of the greatest heroes of the war for China, and the whole of China would forget that his father was a "loyal slave" of the Manchus, that his father was a traitor, because he could make up for it.

"Hope ......"

In his heart, Wang Lin wrote his name on an order......

There was no fighting on the whole front, and for China and Britain, even though they knew that Dublin had become some kind of symbol, but for various reasons, the two sides had fallen into a kind of stagnation here, and for the Allied Command, the reason why they were delayed in launching an offensive was because the British defense line was too solid.

Barbed wire, mines, and trenches constituted a much stronger defensive system than the rest of the time, and the Chinese army certainly did not recklessly hit the Irish if they were wounded head-on.

It is precisely this subtle stability that makes the two armies face each other, but there is no fierce fighting, and at most it is a small-scale tentative offensive.

However, there was always an end to this silence, and the tentative attacks of the past finally had some results, allowing the attackers to know the weaknesses of the British defense.

Nearly 20,000 people died on the defensive line outside Dublin, but the war did not stop because of the tragic deaths of 10,000 people, the war was still going on, and the deaths were still going on.

Perhaps, it was once a pasture, and the grove in the war zone is so intimate, with crosses and broken buildings in between.

This is a cemetery, a cemetery belonging to the local population, which has been transformed by artillery fire, and now, in this cemetery, there are dozens of soldiers lying on their stomachs.

"Holy shit, this Englishman's ......"

Suddenly the shouting was not over, and a hissing sound approached from the sky, and the whistling sound was so......

"Lie down!"

In the sharp whistle, Tang Haoming roared again while knocking down, and in the next moment, more than ten meters in front of him, a burst of fire accompanied by black smoke and loud sounds rushed straight into the air.

A few seconds later, with another roar, the branches and grass flew through the woods, and three or four trees were uprooted and rushed to the top of the trees, and then they were dismembered and torn apart, and the fragments of shells flying across the forest sizzled and jumped, and the screams of people could be heard from time to time as the dense shrapnel flew through the forest.

"Lie down, lie down ......"

Tang Haoming, who was huddled in the cemetery, endured the dirt and branches that kept smashing on his body, and at the same time, he kept shouting loudly, and there were people around him who kept shouting loudly.

"Hidden! Hidden ......"

Except for the graves between the graves, there was no cover here, and everyone stuck their bodies behind the graves, lying motionless and waiting.

In the woods, black smoke rolled and whistled steel fragments whistling through the black smoke, rushing and roaring over people's heads like the Grim Reaper, and the light of the explosion lit up a flashing light over the cemetery from time to time.

This was a tentative shelling, coming and going faster, and after the shelling was over, Tang Haoming immediately ordered the soldiers in the platoon.

"Quick, ...... now"

When the words fell, Tang Haoming walked forward with his waist bent, and after walking out of the cemetery, he once again used a lightning detector rod -- which is actually a thin steel bar -- to stab the mines buried in the ground, and after discovering the mines, he removed them.

Mine-clearing operations like this have not stopped in the past few months, and they have to clear a way for the attacking forces to attack.

Perhaps the attacking troops could send commandos to cut the barbed wire with pliers before launching an attack, but the mines need to be cleared by sappers in advance.

In this battle, the sapper is more important than ever. While Tang Haoming led a platoon of soldiers to clear a passage in the minefield for the attacking troops, behind him was a trench dug by close quarters, where the sappers were also busy.

"Hurry, hurry!"

In the trenches, the officers kept urging, while the soldiers ran quickly in teams of two, carrying a steel cylinder.

"Boom!"

With the sound of the collision of cylinders in the trench, everyone was startled when they saw the cylinders fall to the ground, and immediately a veteran rushed up and slapped the soldier.

"You fucking want to die, don't you! Tap the action! ”

Thanks to the efforts of the sappers, nearly 10,000 cylinders that had just been transported from China were placed in the tunnels in front of the trenches, and each cylinder stood there at an angle of 45 degrees to the sky, waiting for an order to play their role.

But what role will they play? These sappers did not know that as soldiers, they only obeyed orders, and only followed the order, sent the cylinders to a place two hundred meters away from the front line of the British army, and activated the fuse by charging electricity.

While they were completing these preparations, the dawn came again......

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