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In the south of Xuzhou, the artillery shells of the Fu Han army accurately fell on the positions of the Qing army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The city wall of Xuzhou, which is more than three zhang high, has fallen to the ground like a tumbling dragon, and the entire city wall is twisted and collapsed. In these days, although the Fu Han army left a lot of spare strength, it still carried out the blasting of the Xuzhou city wall, especially the southern city wall and its urn city, which was focused on.

The nearly five-mile-long southern city wall is now only a few hundred zhang long, and the city wall is still standing hard, and it is still divided into five or six long sections.

The moat has long since been filled.

Compared with Jining in the same time period, if Jining is still a cake that has been scraped off the cream and then cut several times, Xuzhou City is a cake that has been grabbed and squeezed by people for ten minutes!

Twenty or thirty cannons lined up on the artillery positions directly south of Xuzhou, much more powerful than the contemporaneous Battle of Jining, some of which had been transported through the Yellow River in recent days. The Yellow River was deliberately destroyed by Li Shiyao, and the water level dropped a large section, although it did not cause a major disaster, but the difficulty of shipping is true.

Artillery and mortars, solid and flowering shells, and a few rockets from time to time.

The artillery bombardment of the Fu Han army was still very powerful. And the cannonballs were also relatively accurate, because there was also a balloon ball ball that was transported to Xuzhou, with a hot air balloon floating in the air as an 'eye', and a column of blue-black smoke rising from the south of Xuzhou City in ruins, from time to time there were broken limbs that were blown apart and flew around.

Li Xingyuan had already gone to the front line, holding the telescope in his hand and watching the battle with a gloomy face. Chen Wei is really powerful, there are twenty or thirty cannons lined up outside the south of the city, and this is not fifty cannons if you add mortars? !

And how many cannons are left in the entire city of Xuzhou?

And they still have a batch of heavy artillery behind that hasn't fired, or they haven't had time yet.

And now such firepower has occupied an absolute advantage on the battlefield. As soon as the artillery of our own army bombards it, the artillery position will be exposed, and the artillery of the Han army will immediately cover and bombard it -- there is a damn balloon floating in the sky, and you can't hide it if you want to. This thing is really 'cheating', it's a headache!

Even at night, you can see a ghostly fire floating in the sky. Once the 'prey' is caught, there are as few as a dozen guns on the opposite side, and dozens of artillery pieces bombard in clusters, and the burst of fire seems to have turned the position into a thunder pool.

Thirty minutes of artillery fire was about to end in a blink of an eye, and the position was covered in gunsmoke, but everyone knew that the infantry charge would begin after the artillery fire! Li Xingyuan hurriedly gave the order and ordered all troops to enter the combat position! The Fu Han army is about to come up.

A battalion of the Fu Han army was thrown into the battlefield. They've already received orders, they don't need to play anymore, fight! What a hit! Hit hard!

Battalion officers shouted slogans. It was a battalion-wide offensive. Battalion officers, adjutants, staff officers, instructors, and so on all walked in the formation with their heads held high.

"Take Xuzhou!"

Hearing the roar of their battalion officers, more officers squeezed the same cry out of their chests. More than 400 soldiers of the battalion straightened up, each holding on to their bayonet-mounted rifles, and strode forward with the sab-wielding officers.

The soldiers were boiling like a tide. As you move forward, you pull out the formation and set up a standard skirmisher line!

Such a large-scale skirmish attack was rarely seen on the European battlefield of this era, and it may have been unique. However, on the Chinese side, the generals of the Fu Han Army other than Chen Ming did not have much insight into the bone marrow of the platoon shooting, and Chen Ming himself did not have a good impression of the platoon shooting. So don't talk about a whole battalion-sized skirmisher attack, don't be surprised if there is a whole regiment-sized skirmish attack in China one day.

This time, the team attacked from the south of Xuzhou City, taking the second gap in the west as a breakthrough, which was not a casual attack order issued by the commander, but was set by Chen Ming himself. He didn't know what the reason was, anyway, the morale of the Qing defenders in that gap was very low, and looking at the scale of 'morale', the number of people there was quite small.

The smoke and dust put on a layer of cover for the attacking Fu Han army, and the Qing army could not make a detailed observation of the attacking troops of the Fu Han army. Li Xingyuan, who was standing on the front line of the Qing army, and several equally experienced officers, watched all this with ice on their faces!

Ice is cold, heavy, but also solid and calming.

Fragmentary gunshots rang out. The Qing army in Xuzhou City is moving slowly, and now even when they are moving, they must be careful to avoid the 'eye' of the sky, because they have been divided by sudden artillery bombardment when their troops are assembling twice in the past few days, and the whole team has fallen into a sea of fire and hell. It's the damn hot air balloon!

Although the cannon's flowering shells are far less lethal than the howitzer [Mortar], you can't resist their density and speed. Whistling shrednel can turn a staging ground into a life-devouring morgue in an instant.

After suffering two losses, the Qing army did not learn the truth of obedience.

And so on until the distance is close to a distance of 200 meters. The soldiers of the Qing army only began to shoot. The Fuhan army was attacked again by three rounds of shells, and the attacking troops began the final charge under the loud orders of the battalion officer.

"Rush!!"

There is no passionate and high-pitched shout, just a simple cry of killing, and then there is the most shocking 'tiger!' Tiger! Tiger! ’

The Qing army that stood up from the ruins came up with swords and guns, and the sound of fighting between the two sides resounded through Xuzhou. Then, as Chen Ming expected, the two sides had just fought, and the Qing army guarding the gap was defeated and retreated, and the soldiers of the Fu Han Army who were still stained with blood were like a group of fierce gods and evil ghosts rushing out of hell, slaughtering the Qing army and quickly occupying the Qing army's position! Then Chen Ming saw a reddened 'morale' and quickly sent reinforcements to the fighting place.

Chen Ming ordered the artillery to bombard immediately, but the effect was not great. He didn't continue to give instructions, which would be too 'unreasonable'.

"Hit!" Li Xingyuan rushed over with his troops, and he held a handcuff in his hand to aim at a Fu Han Army officer wielding a saber is a shot! But it didn't hit!

Then a wave of grenades was thrown. The attacking forces of the Fu Han army were hit head-on, and the soldiers fell one after another screaming, although they were accompanied by more Qing soldiers.

Li Xingyuan's extremely cruel style of fighting made the Fu Han army hate it so much, thirty or forty soldiers fell to the ground, and the casualties of the attacking troops so far in the battle were less than this number. But this did not frighten them, but only aroused the fighting spirit and burning anger of the fighters. A bayonet to tell the Qing army the answer! Behind them, the second group of troops, still a battalion, was advancing rapidly!

The Qing army behind Li Xingyuan was very heroic, whether it was the flag soldiers wearing cotton armor or the Qing soldiers wearing uniforms, one by one, brandishing swords and guns, viciously pounced on the Fu Han army.

The bullet grazed Li Xingyuan's cheek, leaving a bloody mark, and Li Xingyuan in the battle did not feel pain at all.

The second batch of Fu Han troops pounced from behind, and Li Shiyao also sent another gold medal fighter under him, Fengshan.

"Hit, hit me hard!"

Chen Ming was standing at the artillery position at this time, and he heard the high-pitched shouts of the artillery commander in his ears.

Light and medium artillery in the front, heavy artillery in the rear, with all their strength and rapid fire. The sound of artillery was accompanied by gunsmoke, and he wanted to annihilate the entire Xuzhou.

"One, two, three......"

There were a total of three reinforcements before and after the selected breach, two small and one large. The small 'morale' is solidified and red, while the big 'morale' is not only loose, but also pure white.

Chen Mingzhan has fought so many times, and he has a deep understanding of the bug of 'morale', which doesn't seem to be very effective.

Red or white is a sign of high morale. If the morale of the Han army is restored, it is almost impossible to see white, and the worst garrison is also light red. And now the Qing army is mainly white. And if there is a sudden black in the morale of the troops on either side, it is that someone wants to rebel against the water and rebel.

Of the three forces reinforced by the Qing army, two were obviously elite soldiers, and then one was a large army. Morale is loose like cotton wool!

In the end, it was the attacking troops of the Fu Han army that withdrew from Xuzhou City. There were too many people pouring in from the Qing army.

But after the Fu Han army retreated, the entire vicinity of the breakthrough was already full of dead bodies. The corpses of both sides were stacked on top of each other, and although the retreating Fu Han army did not want to discard the remains of their comrades, they also had to withdraw from the city.

Even if a few soldiers were caught in the Qing army and could not get out, they did not have the slightest idea of surrendering in their minds.

The country's military salaries and fields are not so easy to get. If he was captured because of cowardice, or surrendered voluntarily, then even if he was still alive after the Qing army in Xuzhou was finished, he was destined to go to a military court and be punished according to the severity of the situation. As for all the preferential treatment and military merits they have received because of their service in the army, they will also be deprived of everything.

Not only will their parents and families have to go back to living a hard life, but their relatives and friends will also be labeled as 'traitors'. Everyone will 'look the other way' at them, and the family may not even have the hard life of the past.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Fu Han Army are fighting with their lives, completely in a crazy attitude, the sword and gun are dropped, and they wave everything they can catch in their hands, and the only thing they think about is to put the person in front of them to death, no matter what way they use!

The entire Battle of Xuzhou has been fought for so long that the Qing army has hardly captured any soldiers of the Fu Han Army who have ever lived. People learn war in war, and for the soldiers of the Fu Han Army, at the most critical juncture, even if they kill themselves, it is better than being captured. Although everyone is greedy for life, there are too many 'things' in a person's life that are more important than life.

From time to time, the sound of grenade explosions could be heard in the ruins. That's the choice of fighters!

Maybe at this time, they did this, to a large extent, out of the 'protection' of the military merit field, but the Fu Han Army has only been rising for a few years? When Chen Han sits firmly in the country, when the time of the establishment of the Fu Han Army spans five years and ten years, this will become the tradition of an army and the backbone of a strong army!

Many of the grenade explosions were the kind of grenades that had already been seriously injured or had reached the last moment, and the soldiers of the Fu Han Army pulled the grenades on their bodies.

This is the end of a hard-fought contest.

Two battalions of soldiers of the Fuhan Army attacked under the cover of artillery shelling, and then retreated under the cover of shelling. Chen Ming didn't know how many enemies the two battalions had killed in total, but he knew that the two battalions had lost a total of 112 soldiers in this battle. Those soldiers who failed to keep up with the ranks and quit the battle could all be represented by sacrifices.

On a high ground outside Xuzhou, Perrier held up a telescope to look at the dilapidated city of Xuzhou, and next to him stood Álvaro Martín, the Spanish commercial representative in Nanjing, with an ugly face.

The two men had just seen a heroic scene, two soldiers of the Fu Han Army who had not had time to retreat at the last moment pulled grenades, and the flames of the explosion tore apart their corpses, taking the lives of the Qing soldiers around them, and they were speechless for a long time to the shock of Perrière and Álvaro Martin.

"This is a brave army. The Chinese regard surrender as the greatest shame for soldiers! "Although Perrier did not understand this, why this ancient country, this ancient civilization, was so disgusted with 'surrender', but he had to express his admiration for such soldiers.

Álvaro Martín was silent.

At this time in Europe, soldiers had no choice but to surrender and return to their own country through ransom or prisoner exchange, although it was not a very honorable thing for commanders, but it was also very normal. China......

Time turned to the evening, and a force appeared in the south of Xuzhou City, which was still the second gap from the west.

Shi Meng looked at the soldier in front of him, and his eyes were dyed with a hint of nostalgia. This battalion, which still retains the tank battalion, is also a unit formed on the basis of the original tank battalion, and many of the previous soldiers have been dispersed to the army as the backbone or middle and low-level officers, and there are only about 200 veterans in this battalion at present, but it has always been the fist unit of the Guards Brigade.

At the beginning, Shi Meng could still wear heavy armor and lead the tank battalion to charge, but now, as a senior officer, he can only honestly wait behind, watching the soldiers rush to the battlefield.

There are more than 500 soldiers in this battalion, and the height is generally more than 1.8 meters, which can be called a giant battalion in China in this era!

Chen Ming still made a breakthrough in the old place, this time it was not because there were few defenders there and the morale was still weak.

On the contrary, at this time, the Qing army garrisoned at the second gap in the west of the southern city was the most morale of the Qing army's position in the gap of the three city walls of Xuzhou, and the strength was relatively strong.

If the attack of the day is to avoid the real and attack the false, then now that Chen Ming has dispatched the tank battalion, it will be crushed from the strongest point of the Qing army even stronger!

"Attack—"

Under the cover of artillery fire, the tank battalion officer waved the big knife in his hand and shouted.

Five hundred soldiers in iron armor, like an ancient army resurrected from the long river of history, strolled towards Xuzhou City.

Perrier swallowed a mouthful of spit, surprised by the appearance of the five hundred iron-clad soldiers. It's like medieval European knights resurrected before him. The soldiers threw away their muskets, took off their cuirasses, put on another suit of armor, and held in their hands such a savage cold weapon as a broadsword and iron rod, and a force of savage to the extreme, appeared.

This unit is very primitive, purely cold weapons, and even grenades are only equipped by a few people. But you can never deny their superior hand-to-hand combat abilities. Especially at night when the firepower is inconvenient, if this army is in close contact with the Qing army......

Perrière remembered what he knew was the outfit of the Qing soldiers, and then gave a deep chill. Slaughter, that's a total slaughter!

Gunshots rang out in the sparse air. In the midst of the artillery fire, the soldiers of the tank battalion rushed closer to the gap. The Qing soldiers with muskets in their hands had already prepared their bayonets early in the morning, and the musket birds were useless in the dark, while more Qing soldiers skillfully handled their knives and guns. But this is not half a bird use!

Li Xingyuan's tiger mouth was torn, his waist knife fell to the ground, and the next moment he was thrown aside by his own soldiers, and then his whole person was quickly carried back by his own soldiers. Li Xingyuan's eyes kept staring ahead, watching the giant man in iron armor wielding a big knife and killing the five or six personal soldiers who were covering him. He was born as a martial artist, and he didn't put down his bows and horses on weekdays, but today he was so defeated that he had nothing to say.

After the giant man wielded a broadsword and slashed two more Qing soldiers to death, a gunshot rang out, and the projectiles that erupted from the flames not far away hit the iron armor on his chest. With a 'bang', I saw that his whole body seemed to have been punched heavily, and his body fell back three or four steps, and fell on a section of the bust wall stacked with sandbags. But just when Li Xingyuan thought that the giant man was dead, he stood up again, touched the iron armor that had been pierced by the projectile with his hand, but the person seemed to have done nothing, and reached out and took the big knife in his hand.

In addition to the outer cuirass and iron sheets, the iron armor of the tank battalion is also wrapped with a layer of cotton armor, which is made of cotton skin and silk sandwich, and has strong bulletproof ability.

Li Xingyuan was desperate.

Brutal hand-to-hand combat! The elite of the Qing army under Li Xingyuan rapidly decreased in number, the sound of pistols and muskets had long since subsided from the battlefield, and the Qing army guarding the ruins by small groups was crushed by the tank battalion soldiers with absolute combat power.

He Wenxiu, a teacher in the camp, was stabbed in the thigh and back, just twenty-two years old, the father of three children, lying on this land forever. Although the big men of the tank battalion are generally very painful about the 'teaching', when they see He Wenxiu's corpse, I don't know how many people feel like they have been stabbed in their hearts.

The battalion officer raised his head and looked around, he was wounded everywhere, but he didn't feel any pain at all, he was seriously looking for the Qing army.

Fengshan came with troops to support, and then Fengshan was not good.

In desperation, Li Shiyao gathered his subordinates to rush to plug the hole, if he could do a little, he would not have wantonly assembled troops in the dark night, it was purely to send heads to the artillery of the Fu Han army. And if the team is not gathered wantonly, and only let the officers below lead people to the hole mouth for reinforcements, it would be good if ten people could reach the upper half. And the arrival time is different, it is likely to add fuel to the war! (To be continued.) )