Chapter 378 Rush! River!

After the New People's Army surrounded the British and French forces, they quietly rested, ate, found the people nearby, and spent some money to dig a simple trench to prevent the coalition forces from breaking through.

Yang Dongfang came back from the Dagu Fort by the way, and went around to the Zhongtong River from the southeast to send ammunition and artillery heavy weapons to the various departments.

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"Commander, we are ready to attack at any time."

At the headquarters of the forward position of the Zhongtonghe offensive, Feng Zicai asked Yang Dongfang for instructions, indicating that all the preparations for the attack were in place.

Yang Dongfang said: "Don't worry, you are the main attack, first let the troops in the east and west feint to attract the coalition forces, and then you will break through the Zhongtong River and enter the concession, remember that I have only one request, kill all the people in the concession who still have the ability to resist, whether he is a foreigner, or other two dogs, or a rich merchant or a landlord or something."

It doesn't matter if you smash the concession, we don't need to keep any bullshit buildings inside, these shameful churches, and any bungalows are all blown up, so Lao Tzu will not keep them as any tourist attractions in the future, what Chinese and Western characteristics. ”

"Yes!"

Now Feng Zicai is relieved, according to the meaning of the big handsome, everyone in the concession can be killed, and the houses can be burned down, so there is no need to worry about anything, just fight, just bombard! There are no innocent people anymore.

Soon the troops on the east and west sides attacked, and rows of artillery roared at the coalition positions. Strive to take the concession as quickly as possible and eat the 10,000 allied troops.

The artillery bombardment of the New People's Army on the east and west sides was very fierce, and the coalition forces also used artillery bombardment, and the artillery battle began the first round of exchanges, which lasted more than two hours, and the two sides fired more than 3,000 ammunition alone.

Worthy of the name, it is burning money and bringing everyone a vigorous fireworks show.

Subsequently, the New People's Army, with the cooperation of artillery, launched an attack on the east and west, and the infantry began to advance.

With British soldiers on both sides, their casualties began to increase rapidly, and the pressure on Gruyuri increased dramatically, and he was left with only more than 3,000 men left, and he had to defend the east and north, and he was still holding part of the west, and his troops were overstretched.

So he ran to Mai Meng and asked, "General Mai Meng, how are you doing here, is there any movement in the southwest, or some people will be transferred from near the racecourse to the west." ”

Mai Meng shook his head and said: "No, there has been no movement on the horse farm, the New People's Army has placed the main force in the west, our casualties are very large, and we have lost a defensive line." ”

Mai Meng is no longer as relaxed and comfortable as he was at the beginning, this time he has seen the power of the New People's Army Makqin, and he is becoming more and more worried.

The two didn't know Yang Dongfang's battle plan, so they naturally thought that the west was the main direction of attack, after all, it was close to Tianjin City, and it was more convenient to attack.

"Alright! It seems that for the time being, the Zhongtonghe New People's Army will not attack from time to time, after all, it is not easy to cross the river there, so I will transfer a regiment over. The plan for the transfer of troops agreed to by Mai Meng was really a helpless move, because once the west was lost, the first to suffer was the French Concession.

Tongzhou, which was still under siege, found that after Yang Dongfang's troops disappeared, he did not act rashly, but sent scouts, but only half of the soldiers who went to reconnoitre returned, which puzzled him.

Fortunately, the squad in the direction of Jizhou advanced normally, and it was about to hit the city of Jizhou, and the troops rushing to Shanhaiguan also successfully reached Lulong County, and also began to advance towards Jizhou, trying to eat the 52nd Regiment of the New People's Army.

Except for the direction of Beijing, everything is developing in a good direction, he was thinking about whether he was too suspicious, the New People's Army set up a dragon gate formation in Tongzhou, at this time the deputy hurriedly ran in, followed by the accompanying French colonel, the French colonel held a letter in his hand.

"Commander, we were fooled, the New People's Army went to Tianjin, and the New People's Army in front of us, they went to Tianjin."

Obviously, the 600-mile expedited messenger had already told him about the situation in Tianjin.

Balin raised his eyebrows, took the letter, and found that the French army was even more unhappy when he found that the person who left the money was the French army, but he didn't say much, and looked at what was written in the letter.

"Fack! How is this possible! It's too cunning, this group of monkeys is too cunning. ”

Mai Meng was afraid that Bahrain would not believe what was happening in Tianjin, and deliberately exaggerated it, and Bahrain jumped so angry that his face turned purple after seeing it, and then he was short of breath.

This is a tricky thing to do! I never expected that the New People's Army would have such a big appetite and want to swallow Tianjin, and it was at this time.

He didn't understand why the New People's Army dared to go to Tianjin, knowing that if all the coalition forces returned, the New People's Army attacking Tianjin would be attacked by the enemy and make dumplings.

Yes, it's the kind of stuffed dumplings that Orientals eat.

"Go back to Tianjin, rush back to Tianjin immediately, I want to see how the New People's Army died in front of God, they are too big."

Without much thought, Bahrain made a decision.

No matter how Tianjin is to be kept, there are 90 percent of the ammunition of the allied forces and replacement guns and cannons, which are the lifeblood of the allied forces.

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"Commander! Just after receiving a hint from the friendly forces, the resistance to the attack from the west has increased, and the artillery of the French army has increased. ”

Feng Zicai nodded: "In this way, the French army in the racecourse has been transferred to the west, it's our turn to attack, let Feng Zhaojin's 18th Regiment get ready, Yang Ruishan's 118th Regiment sent a battalion to start the attack, attack for ten minutes and then retreat, the artillery observer marks the enemy's fire point, and follows the enemy's artillery position." ”

Soon ten minutes passed, the tentative attack achieved some results, and learned some basic French army layout, Feng Zicai kept drawing something on the map, and then drew a line from the middle of the British and French concessions, looked at the sky, and then threw the pen:

"The 18th Regiment took the lead, and after crossing the river, I was inserted directly here and here, dividing the British and French concessions, and then the 118th Regiment followed up to expand the wedge area, eating the weak French army first, as for the British army. and other brigades to do it together. The credit cannot be left alone by our 18th Division. ”

The order was conveyed, and all the artillery in the artillery position roared in unison, shelling the French defense of the Zhongtong River, and for a while it was as bright as fireworks, and the two hundred artillery pieces added up to more than one hundred soon wiped out the Zhongtong River defense line, and several French artillery pieces were also destroyed.

The pioneer battalion of the 18th regiment pushed out the twenty wooden boats that Yang Dongfang had brought for them, and the soldiers of the pioneer battalion jumped on them one by one and rowed hard.

The French noticed the anomaly, and on the orders of the commander, stretched out their rifles, pulled the trigger and fired.

Dozens of soldiers of the pioneer battalion were shot and fell into the river.

However, the Zhongtong River was conquered by the soldiers of the pioneer battalion, and the soldiers jumped down one by one, threw themselves on the shore, found cover, and pulled the bolt to shoot at the French.

And began to push forward, jumping into the French positions that had just been shelled by artillery.

More and more soldiers of the vanguard battalion rushed across the Zhongtong River, then joined the battle group, and soon captured the riverside position, providing cover for the soldiers who crossed the river behind.

More than 20 boats were quickly arranged in a row, and the soldiers quickly tied and fixed them with ropes, and then the soldiers of several other battalions of the 118th Regiment put down the planks that had been carried long ago, and suddenly erected a pontoon bridge dominated by boats.

"Rush! River! ”

The 118th Regiment rushed along the pontoon bridge at a fast pace, but soon the surviving artillery of the French army also hit, and the water surface of the two pontoon bridges set off huge waves from time to time, and the shore positions did not enter the mud and sand, and the grass and trees flew, and dozens of people were injured by stray shrapnel.