Chapter 382: The Wounded French Cavalry

Langfang!

"Commander! There was a New People's Army in Langfang City blocking our way. ”

Bahrain returned from Tongzhou with 6,000 infantry troops, and he didn't want Langfang to appear in the way, so he asked: "How many new people's troops and cavalry troops are there!" ”

"The commander of the New People's Army said that there were two or three thousand people, and after General Heyman discovered the enemy, he took the initiative to bypass Langfang and continue to rush to Tianjin."

"Hmmm! That's good, General is a man who can fight well and is full of strategy, and he is not mistaken. Bahrain wanted to take the test, and then said: "There are two or three thousand new people's troops in Langfang, so we can't ignore them, otherwise the road will be threatened, and our artillery will not be able to pass, so let's destroy this new people's army first, and rush to Tianjin as soon as possible." ”

Soon 6,000 British and French troops began to attack the New People's Army Security Brigade in Langfang.

Brigadier General Heyman with 2,000 cavalry soon passed through Wuqing, and the New People's Army detective reports also continued to be transmitted, and various units continued to move, focusing on hiding troops to the west of Tianjin City, while the 52nd Regiment fell out of the concession and detoured back to the rear of the British cavalry from the northeast.

Brigadier General Hayman also seemed to know the situation in Tianjin, and there were many large rivers in the northeast, so it was not easy to support the concession, so he had to drill to the southwest. Attempt to move to the northwest of the concession.

However, he didn't know that the big net prepared by Yang Dongfang was tightening little by little.

The front team of the French cavalry, which was hurrying on the official road east of Bazhou, suddenly exploded several times, overturning several war horses, more than a dozen people were injured of varying degrees of severity, and two died directly.

Caused panic in the French army!

"Hell, there's an enemy, there's an ambush! Get ready for battle! ”

The French soldiers, who were nervous, holding their guns and pulling the reins, were vigilant all around, but for a long time, there was no abnormality around, and there was no shadow of the enemy.

"Damn! Keep on your way! Hell yes! ”

Since there was no ambush, they could only carry the wounded and continue on their way.

After walking less than two miles, there were a few more bangs, and the front team was once again attacked by mines, and the French cavalry was on alert again, but there was still no movement around, and the hot wind of midsummer blew through, but it made people feel a chill.

There really are ghosts!

The enemy is not far away.

This invisible and untouchable enemy made the French cavalry feel a little frightened, and of course more aggrieved.

But they had to go on, and sure enough, they didn't go two miles before they were hit by a landmine and wounded seven or eight people.

"Don't go down the official road! Take the trail! ”

The French officer was not stupid, and immediately let the Qing army who led the way find a small road and prepared to take a detour to Tianjin.

And it takes longer to take the official road to stop and go.

"Haha! It's still comfortable to walk on the trail! ”

After walking for five miles without any problems, the French army relaxed and urged the horses to run faster.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, there were more than a dozen sounds on the path, the path was rugged and narrow, and this wave of sudden chain link explosions directly reimbursed seventy or eighty French soldiers, and more than 100 people were injured, and they wailed for a while.

The French army did not expect that there were also mines here, and there were more than ten chain link mines in one explosion, and the casualties were several times more than the three times on the official road combined, and they were dumbfounded for a while.

"Damn, that's too bad! Hell, are we still going to Tianjin? ”

For a while, the French army complained again and again, their faces were not very good, and they were reluctant to advance.

What to do? What to do?

The French commanders gathered together, discussed it first, brainstormed, and some immediately proposed to wait for the infantry to go together, let the infantry go to the mines, but this bad idea was quickly denied, after all, this is not a long-term solution, and the infantry may not have arrived in Bazhou, so if it is consumed like this, doesn't it mean that the cavalry is very incompetent?

The cavalry has always been highly valued, and the treatment is higher than that of the infantry, and it is rumored that they are very shameless.

Erli Town in front of the trail! The cavalry regiment was resting here, and their purpose was to prevent the French army from approaching Wuqing, so they were especially attentive to this path.

"Our goal is still to let the French cavalry take the official road, force them to cross the Zhongting River and Xiaomiao Donggan, and force the French cavalry to a place with water as much as possible, so that the Guangzhou troops and the 18th Division in Tianjin can better surround these red-haired ghosts." Li Yutai told his subordinates a thousand times, and someone came to report it from time to time.

"Commander, the red-haired ghost really walked the path, and just hit our mine behind him, and injured a large area?"

Everyone smiled knowingly, and finally knew the power of the mine, this thing is really a good thing for the pit people, and they themselves will have to be careful in the future, if someone else uses this thing against them one day, it will be a big trouble.

"Did the red-haired ghost stop and not leave, or did he return to the official road and go to Dongduan Township."

The person who reported the news shook his head and said: "No, the red-haired ghosts are elf, they sent dozens of squads, two people per squad, and then went ahead first, it is estimated that the death squad is going to the thunder." ”

"****, red-haired ghosts are not stupid." Niu Hongsheng scolded, and everyone's brows furrowed, this is a battle of wits and courage, and secretly said that the French army is also very ruthless, and when you encounter such a character, you may be careful.

Li Yutai touched his face and muttered: "In this case, the delay is to drag the French army, and it has bought time for the commander and them to kill the British devils, but it has not achieved the effect of exhausting the enemy!" The merits of our cavalry regiment are not visible. ”

The Buddha fights for a stick of incense, people fight for a breath, the cavalry regiment naturally does not want to be seen by other brigades, and then it will be talked about.

Niu Hongsheng stood up directly, pulled out a knife and poked it on the ground, and said impassionedly: "Lao Li is like this, I will take my battalion to kill these red hairs, didn't he send ten squads?" Lao Tzu also has a team of twenty people, specially intercepting his death squad to see what he can do to go to the thunder. ”

Well! Lao Niu's idea is good, but Li Yutai is still a little hesitant, Lao Niu, the five rough, the battle is too fierce, don't kill too much, Niu Hongsheng is really a rough and bold master, and said: "Don't worry, I know it's powerful, I'll run if there are more red hairs, and lead them to a place with mines, but you bury mines in front, remember to let the people in the engineer battalion make a grass mark, don't hurt us." ”

Li Yutai was no longer stubborn, so he nodded and agreed, Niu Hongsheng's battalion was divided into several teams, and the squad specializing in the French army was haunted on various roads, but it could be hidden in the grass and small hills, and so on among the small villages of the panicked mountains and villages.

Li Yutai's battalion and the engineer battalion were scattered on the trails and official roads that the French army had to pass, and they planted mines every now and then, of course, sometimes deliberately made a fake mine in a place where there were no mines, revealing flaws and delaying the time of the French army.

In this way, the true and the false, fought and walked, so that the French army was exhausted, the speed was greatly delayed, and the wounded gradually increased, and when they reached the Xiaomiao Dongganhe, 400 people were injured and more than 50 people died.

The wooden bridge over the river had already been demolished, and the boats had long been taken away, so they could only look for shoals to wade into the water, but there were cavalry regiments and engineer battalions on the opposite side to block them.

Fortunately, the infantry soon caught up, and after more than 400 casualties, the cavalry regiment and the engineer battalion had to give way to the shoals and let the French cavalry cross the river.

Because at this time, their resistance had been perfectly completed, and the British cavalry was all surrounded and annihilated in the area of the Ziya River, and the great hero was also a large number of mines that smashed the way of the war horses.

Later generations were called the most unkind weapons, and since then they have been famous far and wide.