Chapter 379: Eat it all, eat it all

Although the weapons used by the 18th Division were the same as those of the French army, all of which were front-loaded Mini rifles, they were superior in numbers and had a momentum like a rainbow, and they rushed forward like wolves and tigers.

The French army gradually fell into disarray, the horse farm was lost at once, or the pioneer battalion opened the way, and a battalion lost a third of it was also extremely miserable, and still rushed to the forefront, and along the way hundreds of soldiers fell to the ground bleeding and never got up again.

It didn't take ten minutes to rush to the Jin River, and pushed along the Jin River to the Hai River as planned.

Before the sun set, the French army was finally separated from the British army.

Several other battalions of the 18th Regiment followed behind, expanding the occupied area, while the 118th Regiment cleared the British and French troops who had come to counterattack, and pulled the artillery over, and began to extend the shelling of the French troops.

At this time, the French army had already lost about 2,080 troops from the original 5,000 men, and the morale of the army was already unstable.

Moreover, it was necessary to divide the forces to fight behind him, and suddenly let the frontal attacking New People's Army in the west seize the opportunity, and carry Ma Shuting Keqin to the front of the battle line, and the rain of bullets was fired, so that the French army did not dare to look directly, and there was no counterattack, so that the New People's Army broke through in one fell swoop.

At one point, gunfire erupted in the French Concession, the French army running, the pursuing New People's Army, the smoking houses, the burning warehouses, and finally the prisoners who kept throwing guns and raising their hands.

From the east and west to the 18th Division's invasion of the French Concession and the complete disintegration of the French Concession, it took more than five hours to fight until dark, and the torches were bright, reflecting the dilapidated French Concession.

The rest of the British army was very strong in the concession, after all, they did not have a history like the French army, and they had surrendered more than 10,000 people, so they didn't feel anything.

They are just different, they are the overlords of the sea, the masters of the world, they think they are the best in the world, of course they will not surrender so quickly.

In addition, it was already dark at this time, and the various units of the New People's Army turned into regiments to surround the British Concession, and then rested, after all, they had been on the road for a day and a half, and they had been fighting for half a day, and they were really a little tired.

Therefore, Yang Dongfang agreed that they were attacking the British Concession at dawn the next day.

After dawn the next day, the New Nationalist Army attacked on all sides, and the artillery blew the concession into pieces of ruins, and did not rush into close combat, but continued to compress, shelling with captured French shells, and suppressing the fighting spirit of the British army.

In the end, the 52nd Regiment broke through and crossed the river in the south of the Haihe River, and then the New People's Army in the east also attacked from Jianshan, all the way to the headquarters of Gru.

Gru had to raise the white flag, surrender completely, and order the soldiers to lay down their arms, because at this time, he had more than 1,700 wounded soldiers, and there was only one battalion that could stand up and fight.

It was a great victory to wipe out 10,000 allied troops in a day and a half, but the casualties of the New People's Army were also very large, the vanguard battalion of the 18th Regiment was disabled, and the 118th Regiment also suffered a battalion of casualties.

There were eight or nine hundred people in all of them.

In terms of weapons, the consumption of Makqin bullets is huge, and the shells are even more huge.

Of course, they also gained a great harvest, capturing 7,500 Enfield rifles, 6,300 French rifles of the M1858 and M1860 types, more than 120 pistols of various colors, and 96 cannons of various calibers.

2.6 million rounds of ammunition, 180,000 rounds of artillery shells, and a number of other munitions.

"No loss! The Tianjin ammunition supply depot of the coalition army was terminated, and now all the coalition forces were going to panic. ”

Looking at his subordinates sorting out the list of goods that had been cleared, Yang Dongfang showed a smile that was not warm and sunny, there was no way, fighting a war is burning money, and most of his inventory could be wiped out at this time.

Fortunately, the arsenal in California is constantly being built, and the federal arms that have been started and purchased at full capacity on the Union side are also being started and purchased, otherwise it will be embarrassing to run out of ammunition.

Although a lot of weapons and ammunition were captured in the Americas, but after fighting for so long, supporting the Iron Thirteen, these consumed a lot of money, which made people worry, which was one of the reasons why he asked the 12th Division and the 13th Brigade to stop advancing, and these two divisions had no ammunition available.

Wait a minute, the Chengdu Arsenal, the Guangzhou Arsenal, the Jinling Arsenal, and the Shanghai Machinery Bureau are fully up, the number of skilled workers has increased, and any weapon can be made independently, and it will be possible to do a good job and go to Europe in one go.

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"Captain! There is movement in Qingxian, and it is estimated that foreign devils are coming. ”

Li Yutai and Niu Hongsheng, who were already drowsy, immediately opened their eyes, looked at each other, and then said to his subordinates who were sleeping with guns: "The handsome man expected it to be right, the brothers are all awake, it's time for us to take action and entertain this group of foreign devils." ”

The cavalry regiment that was originally in Hejian had already quietly moved to Dacheng County according to Yang Dongfang's intentions, and then intercepted the British troops who returned to Tianjin from Cangzhou to support, and the first place they chose to block was Liuheji on the official road north of Qingxian.

This is a three-fork pass, with Dacheng County to the west, Tianjin to the north, and Qingxian County to the south, and only their cavalry regiment can move here in the most mobile.

However, the actual location of their ambush was in the horse factory ten miles away from Qingxian County, and there was a large open meadow nearby for raising horses, and there was also a tall reed, suitable for hiding.

In addition, there are few people in this vicinity, which is suitable for doing this kind of thing, so after beating them, they will leave, and then go to Liuhe to set a position to block it.

Li Taiyun, Niu Hongsheng and others came over early, killed the flag soldiers of the horse guarding factory, and waited for most of the night, who would have thought that the enemy would come so late.

The British army in Cangzhou hurried overnight to support Tianjin, accompanied by 700 Mongolian cavalry, which Yinghan endured to help the foreign lords, for which the British army left 1,000 people in Cangzhou, and only 3,000 people returned to Tianjin.

The sky was bright, the horses galloped in the distance, and the rumbling sound came, and the seven hundred Mongolian cavalry who opened the road were ten miles ahead of the British army, of course, they did not go very fast, after all, the sky was not completely bright, even if they arrived in Tianjin in advance, they could not play much role.

This was something that Yang Dongfang did not calculate, and it was also something that Li Yutai and Niu Hongsheng did not expect, so their original plan to ambush the British army went bankrupt.

Li Yutai and Niu Hongsheng are similar and smile bitterly.

"It's really a narrow road."

"Then kill these Tartars, we're retreating."

"Good!"

Since it was the Mongolian cavalry that took the lead, Li Yutai and Niu Hongsheng naturally would not let go, they had a deep hatred with these Mongolian cavalry, and now the opportunity for revenge came, and now the subordinates began to surge, rubbing their palms, hanging up their horse rifles, and jumping on their horses.

"The time has come for revenge, brothers, kill me, kill the Tartars, remember to withdraw if the foreigners come, if not, let me die, and chase me if I run." Niu Hongsheng raised his gun and finished speaking, his legs clamped the horse, the war horse knew what he wanted, and ran up, and the soldiers of his battalion replied with a bang:

"Yes!"

Niu Hongsheng's people rushed out first like arrows, which really startled the Mongolian cavalry who were hurrying, and the tall reeds suddenly rattled, and then rushed out of hundreds of war horses.

In fact, the Mongol cavalry already knew that there was a situation, but they did not know what was in the reeds, and thought it was pheasants, ducks, or something, and when they saw that it was a horse that rushed out, they realized that it was the enemy.

But at this time, the reaction was a little late, because the gun went off.

"Bumper bumper . ."

The sound of gunfire intensified as the number of rushing horses increased, and the Mongol cavalry continued to be shot and fell.

In fact, these 700 Mongol cavalry were already equipped with British muskets, but they were not yet proficient, and they were still on their backs when they were in a hurry, and they were shot down before they could open the insurance.

By the time they counterattacked, Niu Hongsheng's battalion had already slashed from Zeyi to the rear like a sharp arrow, and the formation of the Mongolian cavalry had been disrupted.

Here ushered in the attack of Li Yutai and others, and for a while the abdomen was attacked by the enemy, and more people fell.

"There is an ambush, retreat!"

Don't think that the Mongolian cavalry is very tough, in fact, the nomads prefer guerrillas, and they are most afraid of losses, so they will not be passively beaten, and they will flee one after another, so they will not fight with you with bayonets, bloody battles or something.

It's always been a run when you encounter an ambush, and then gather to kill and come back to fight, which is full of routines.

Of course, that was before, that was the cavalry's method of dealing with the infantry of the Central Plains, but now when I meet the cavalry using muskets, I am already frightened, and I can only say thirty-six strategies, brother run quickly, you don't look back, my sister chases hard, and I follow the ends of the earth.