Chapter 207: The Battle of Shanghai (1)

"Attack, go out of the city and fight back!"

Yang Dongfang immediately ordered Cui Chenghao to rush out of Beicheng with a regiment of guards, and Song Jingshi also led a thousand people to follow the counterattack against Yang Dingxun, Yang Dingxun's department had just been repaired by artillery bombardment, and now it was suddenly killed by the New People's Army guards one by one, and the whole line was defeated, and even the base camp was lost. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Haha, too hidden, too hidden! All the anger I have suffered in the past few days has returned, and it is worth it! Song Jingshi, the bold Shandong man, applauded, and returned in a bloody suit, he had never fought such an exciting battle, a little reluctant, if it wasn't for the guards to give up the pursuit, he still wanted to keep killing.

However, Song Jingzhi asked a little incomprehensibly: "Marshal, why did we wait for the artillery to focus on Yang Dingxun, you must know that the Huai army of the Shuzi battalion is the elite, and most of the soldiers brought by Yang Dingxun are soldiers from Shandong, it would be better if Zhang Shusheng was beaten just now." ”

"Hey, because I don't like him." Yang Dongfang smiled, which made Song Jingzhi feel that this laughter was a little weird, Yang Dongfang gestured to the disabled Yang Dingxun and said: "It's because he brought the soldiers of Shandong, if he doesn't fight, what will he do to guard the front line of Shandong, and the army seems to have arrived in Bozhou, such a good opportunity for them, it depends on whether they cherish it or not." ”

After ending the artillery and artillery of the Huai army, in a short period of time, Xuzhou City was stable, and before Yang Dongfang left, he did not forget to help Song Jingshi transfer a pile of stones from Chengdu and throw them into the collapsed city wall, repair this gap, and transfer the sacks filled with soil to defend the position.

After finishing this, he returned to Shanghai with a group of guards.

At this time, the French warships arrived in Shanghai, and the Huai army Guo Songlin and 20,000 Wu Yi troops were also transferred to the front line of Shanghai by Li Hongzhang, and landed in Jiangyin and rushed to the counties on the outskirts of Shanghai, and the British, French, and American merchant ships transported troops and food for them free of charge.

The French army of 10,000 men advanced along both sides of the Huangpu River from Li Weili, Guo Songlin's base camp was set up in Jiading, attacking from the direction of Jiading Qingpu, and Wu Changqing attacked from Huating in Songjiang Prefecture and the upper reaches of the Huangpu River.

In this siege, after simple communication between the Huai army and the French army, both sides believed that only 1,000 cavalry of the New People's Army were combatable divisions, and the rest were rabble, and the east and north were concessions, so they focused on attacking this side.

Yang Dongfang's side made such an adjustment to the troops, and let Feng Dazhao take a battalion of cavalry to put it on Wu Changqing's side, considering that Wu Changqing had few troops, and there was also a Shanghai County in front of him, so Wu Changqing was destined not to be his main battlefield here.

Then the first and two battalions of the guard regiment were used to deal with Guo Songlin and the French army respectively, one battalion of cavalry was used as mobile support, and the 6,000 newly recruited security militia regiments were directly placed on the third line of defense (a total of four roads were repaired).

The French were the first to attack, and their river warships were still going up the Huangpu River, but they still wanted to attack directly into the concession from the wharf, and this time the number increased to twenty, most of them gunboats, at the forefront, with light cruisers in the middle and warships with lower draft tonnage, and armed transport ships behind.

Soon they reached the waters of the Yangpu section, and the light cruisers behind began to arrogantly shell the artillery positions of the New People's Army on both sides of the strait, providing long-range fire because of their large guns and long range.

In fact, this is Yang Dongfangxiu's fake artillery position, with a painted wooden cannon and a little gunpowder, it really looks like that when it is hit.

Seeing that the New People's Army did not fight back, thinking that it had eliminated the pitiful artillery of the New People's Army, the French army rushed up, and the French army did not know that it was defeated here, and most of the gunboats in front of it were all fine.

When the light cruiser behind passed by, it turned out to be a cup, and it was not small and ran aground, and it was held up by the dark village, and it did not dare to move.

"Hit!"

At this time, the threat of light cruisers was too great, and the heavy artillery on it could smash into the concession and Shanghai County at any time, so Yang Dongfang had to play some tricks and set up the artillery positions blocking the Huangpu River in the public concession.

"Boom, boom!" The shells fired from the public concession were all aimed at the position of the light cruiser, and with a heavy explosion, that section of the water area was blocked in an instant.

The hapless naval cruisers, under such intensive shelling, were quickly hit by one, and the rest retreated.

"Dog / Die! The despicable Chinese actually put artillery positions in the British concession. Captain Redbanek of the French ship jumped to his feet and scolded with the captains of the Jonkiyere and others.

Well, Yang Dongfang was a little shameless this time, not only put the artillery position in the British concession, but also tied up dozens of British merchants who didn't like it (mainly some opium dealers who sold opium. It was placed next to the Huangpu River in the concession, and very friendly reminded the French warships not to cause international disputes.

The French army did not dare to shell the British concession, they were not Japanese, and they did not have the courage to poke chrysanthemums, so all the French gunboats had to flee in the desert, and were sent away by the New People's Army with a burst of artillery salute, and ended in failure at the cost of losing one cruiser and two gunboats.

As soon as this news came out, it was not the French army that wept the most, because they had suffered too much at the hands of the New People's Army, and they were used to it.

It was Robert, the commander of the British ship, who scolded Yang Dongfang for being unkind, he didn't participate in the attack anymore, and he also took advantage of the British Empire, gritted his teeth with hatred, and secretly worried that after this war, the British in the concession would be killed by Yang Dongfang.

"It seems that the honor of the empire still has to be defended by our army." The attack of the river warships, which had high hopes, was defeated in this way, and Li Weili drew his command knife and issued an order to all departments, and the French army's forward-loading artillery began to shell Songnan, the outermost front of the New People's Army.

The rumbling cannon sounded, the mountains shook for a while, and hundreds of cannons exploded at once, which was a terrifying scorched earth, and the French army really liked to cooperate with the cannons the most.

However, it was useless, the first front was given to the French, because Yang Dongfang didn't want to fight the French army here, what was he doing with so many fronts, it was to exchange space for time, and the only ones that were blown up by the French were some flags planted with bamboo.

Songnan is too close to the Huangpu River, the mouth of the sea, will be attacked by French warships, so take the initiative to abandon.

The 1st Regiment of the Guards retreated to the heights of the 2nd Front, and the French occupied the 1st Front, Songnan, cheered, and then attacked the 2nd Front.

"Hit!"

Only then did the New People's Army, which was guarding here, open fire. The French army had a numerical advantage, and as soon as it was pressed by one division (the smallest division in France in this era was 2,000 men, and the maximum was 5,000 men).

There was no way, who told the French not to upgrade their muskets, and in the face of a breech-loading gun that had a quarter more range than them, coupled with accuracy, it was quickly repaired by the New People's Army. He left three hundred corpses behind and retreated.

"Damn! Shelling continues. Li Weili was already mentally prepared, he had not seen the strength of the New People's Army in Vietnam, but now that a group of cavalry was so powerful, he was puzzled, what kind of team was this.

"Air defense! Back off! Withdraw from the second line of defense. Tell the recruits of the third line not to be afraid, not to move, and to stay honest. ”

Yang Dongfang gave the order to continue to abandon the defense line, retreated a thousand meters, Wan Lei obeyed the order, and retreated with people.

The French artillery had a bye again, and then the French army continued to advance to occupy the second line, at this time Li Weili learned to be obedient, no longer letting the French attack, and saw that there was another line of defense in front, and immediately asked people to push the artillery to the front line, because the original artillery position could not accurately shell the third line of defense of the New People's Army, and the ballistic deviation was too far.

Pulled closer, and then continued the shelling, but this time Yang Dongfang did not let people retreat, the defense line here has been refined, there are Zhan Hao, and there are hiding holes inward, which can avoid some shelling.

But there were a thousand recruits here, and when they heard the bombardment, the ground shook and trembled, and everyone in the guard battalion took care of the two recruits, so that they should not be afraid, and comforted.

Some of the recruits couldn't stand it anymore, and rushed out of the hiding hole and ran out of the trench with a scream, some were forcibly held down by the veterans, and some could only fend for themselves, running under artillery fire and being blown into stumps.

The reality is very cruel, but Yang Dongfang still let the recruits experience the taste of this kind of shelling, how to see the rainbow without experiencing wind and rain, veterans have grown up on the battlefield, and he does not expect all recruits to become truly qualified soldiers.

Almost a tenth of the last 1,000 people were either killed, or they scared themselves to death, or they were frightened into ruins, and they did not dare to carry a knife or a gun, let alone kill the enemy.

But the future that can be carried down are all good soldiers, at least they can exert some combat effectiveness in the next battle.

After a round of artillery shots, Lee Willy allowed the infantry to attack.

"Pick up your guns and give me a fight, the red-haired ghosts have come to occupy our land, slaughter our people, plunder our property, and humiliate our sisters, what are you waiting for, give me a fight."

"If you don't want foreigners to be powerful in Shanghai, call me! If you don't want to be killed by foreigners, you have to fight! Think about Zhou Xiuna, you are a good hero in Songjiang, a first-order woman, dare to do something, not afraid of life and death, what else do we have to be afraid of, eighteen years later, we are still a hero. Kill! (To be continued.) )