If you look at it from the air, the black ditches scattered among the green, these ditches are very conspicuous, and near the ditches, there are people who look like ants, and they are working hard there - digging ditches. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Five days earlier, Dublin and nearby villagers had been forcibly requisitioned by British troops, and men were forced by the British to dig trenches with shovels, and in some places the ditches were not ordinary ditches, but zigzag ditches like the battlements of the city walls.

Fortunately, these ditches were not dug deeply, only 4 feet deep and 3 feet wide, and then thick breastwalls were piled with soil on both sides of the ditches, but there were more than a dozen ditches like this, and they were connected one by one, so that Dublin now seems like a city surrounded by ravines.

This is the fortification that the engineer from London designed for the British army to defend Dublin, unlike any fortification in modern times, this fortification seems to many people to be a little too simple, but in the battle against the Chinese, the Chinese have used similar fortifications to break up the British attack again and again, and sometimes simple things are just as effective.

"It's barbed wire!"

At the edge of a ditch that had been built, Henry held a piece of wire in his hand, pointed to a piece of barbed wire in front of him, and said to Earl Cardigan.

"This barbed wire, if I am not mistaken, must have been invented Chinese, for when I was in London, I noticed that it was mentioned in the newspapers......"

The British army's memory of the barbed wire fence is not painful, because they rarely attack, but even so, the impression can be described as profound, because the limited few contacts, they have paid a heavy price, under the barbed wire interception, hundreds of British troops trapped in the barbed wire like live targets were knocked to the ground,

"This barbed wire is the most effective way to block the enemy's attack, Chinese when fighting, they are always accustomed to charge, and then close, and when they get close to about 50 yards, they start throwing thousands of grenades, their grenades have beaten us again and again, with this in mind, I set up the barbed wire fence between 60 yards and 100 yards in front of the trench......"

Henry pointed to the extremely complex defense system of barbed wire piles in front of him, and as an engineer, he had learned the lessons of previous battles for some time, and tied everything together to ensure the effectiveness of the fortifications.

He even took into account the distance of the enemy's grenades, and of course his own people, and now the British army is also armed with a large number of grenades, which are an extremely cheap, but very effective weapon. It is the most hated and favorite weapon of the British, and the reason why they hate him is because the Chinese will drop grenades like raindrops on them on the battlefield, and the Irish will throw grenades on them everywhere from time to time. As for the reason for liking, it is very simple, because with a grenade, it means that everyone has a cannon in their hands, a cannon that is not inferior to a 9-pounder gun!

"In the event of a Chinese attack, our soldiers can ...... in the perforations behind the breastwork"

As Henry explained, Earl Cardigan looked at the holes in the breastwork, which were made of wooden planks, like the gun windows of a battleship, but here almost every soldier had his own gun window.

“…… These breastworks and perforations will protect our soldiers to the greatest extent, and when anyone from here attacks the general, they will suffer a devastating blow, first of all, the barbed wire will slow them down, and when their speed slows down, our soldiers will be able to hide behind the breastwork and shoot them through the perforations, just like hunting......"

When entering a bunker located next to the trench, Earl Cardigan did not even look at the fortified roof overhead made of logs, which was the bunker for the soldiers, where the soldiers hid from the shelling, so as to ensure that they could survive the Chinese fire and give the enemy effective casualties when the enemy attacked.

It's like a fortress!

Just like Vienna under the attack of the Turks, eventually the city became a whole fortress, and Dublin is now a fortress as well.

"At the same time, the fleet will also provide artillery support to the army in Dublin Bay, and in order to ensure this, each infantry battalion will be connected to a telegraph line to communicate with the rear through the telegraph line......"

As an engineer, Henry was better at using many of his current inventions than the generals, and he was the first to pull the telegraph line all the way to the front, not just the telegraph line, but he even set up minefields - a large number of mines were laid on the front line.

When he showed his inventions one by one, everyone, including Count Cardigan, was stunned by his invention, they did not think at all that the war could be fought in this way, and even they had imagined what would happen if they attacked such a "fortress" themselves, and when the time came, blood would completely stain the land red!

"So we can beat them? You know, they can withdraw at any time! ”

The Earl of Cardigan said with some curiosity, now the whole of London knows what he is doing in Dublin, in order to realize Henry's design, he has spent nearly a million pounds, all this is enough to make the politicians in London point fingers one by one, after all, until now, he has not launched an attack on the Chinese.

"Beat them?"

Shaking his head, Henry replied truthfully.

"Your Excellency, I have already told you before this that the fortifications of Dublin are not to defeat the Chinese, but to bleed the Chinese, and when the Chinese cannot bear the sacrifice, they will naturally withdraw their troops, and at that time, victory will be just around the corner!" After all, their forces are limited, and they can't afford to take too many casualties! ”

Meeting the gaze of Earl Cardigan, Henry continued.

"What we need now is time, we need time to adapt to the new way of warfare, to adapt to the difference between man and machine fighting, compared to the Chinese, our biggest advantage now is that we are fighting in Ireland, while China is far from here, as long as we adapt to this kind of war, then, soon we will defeat them, then, victory will inevitably belong to us, and then, we can use Ireland as a starting point to defeat the Chinese elsewhere!"

Henry, as an engineer, did not think that he could win the war by relying on this fortress alone, he thought of time, and what Britain needed now was to hold this place, and to prove to the world that the Chinese army was not invincible through a victory!

"As soon as the Chinese retreat from Dublin, then the whole world will see that their power is not as strong as people think!" Britain will defeat these Chinese again, as it defeated Napoleon! ”

Henry was more of a statesman than the Earl of Cardigan and others, and he saw what the Dublin victory meant for Britain.

Withdrawal!

For Britain, the withdrawal of the Chinese from Dublin was already a victory, but the Earl of Cardigan wanted more than Henry's relatively limited goals.

"When they retreated, it was like the moment when we attacked!"

Inside the somewhat damp, earth-smelling bunker, Earl Cardigan watched as Henry spoke his mind.

"Dublin is very important to the Chinese because the city has a special meaning to the Irish! You know, this is the largest city in the whole of the United Kingdom outside of London, and the Irish have even decided that this is the capital with their future,"

The special significance of the city led London to support the Earl of Cardigan's insistence here, and for the Irish, they also wanted to take the city, as far as Chinese......

“…… They need to prove to the world that they can beat us by taking Dublin, so they're going to keep attacking here, again and again, and that means ......"

After a pause, Earl Cardigan said with some smugness.

"It means that they will pay a very heavy price, and when they decide to retreat, I think that by that time, their casualties will be extremely heavy, and they may even lose more than half of their army here, and then we can launch a counteroffensive and completely wipe them out in Dublin through a counter-offensive......"

"General, I'm not an officer!"

Henry looked at Earl Cardigan, who looked expectant, and replied truthfully.

"So, I don't have any say in the military command, but I think right now, the most important thing we should think about is how to further strengthen the defenses here, and I think that if it is necessary to put it, we should lay more mines here!"

"More mines, more barbed wire!"

Without any hesitation, Earl Cardigan said bluntly.

"As long as you need it, I will give it to you, as long as you can defeat the Chinese!"

As he walked out of the fortifications, looking at the seemingly calm position in front of him, Earl Cardigan seemed to have seen tens of thousands of Chinese, the Irish were knocked to the ground, they were struggling between the barbed wire, and even blown to pieces in the explosion of mines, and when they charged, they would be shelled from land and sea, and the land would become a boiling ocean.

As for Britain, this battle will be won! No, it's the victory in this war!

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