【The third shift is delivered】

Sino-Indian battlefield

Major General Dennis did not believe that the Han army was so powerful, and in less than a minute, he wiped out more than 1,200 people in the vanguard regiment, and you must know that the Han army on the opposite side was only more than 1,000 people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Major General Dennis then launched two more attacks on the Han positions in Longtu Mountain, the first time directly into two Indian regiments, and the second time into one regiment of the British army, but both attacks ended in their own defeat, and very few were able to escape alive, and the rest were either killed by the Han army or captured by the Han army.

Unable to break through the position of the Han army in Longtushan, Major General Dennis could only announce a retreat, retreat to Zhemengxiong to rest, and then consider what to do next, whether to continue to storm the position of the Han army in Longtushan, or change the road into Xiqiang.

However, the previous British army launched an attack on the Han army's position in Longtu Mountain, which made Major General Dennis discover a very serious problem, if this problem is not solved, Major General Dennis feels that even if he leads his army into Nishizo, there will be big trouble.

China-Burma and China-Vietnam battlefields

The 5,000 British troops led by Brigadier General Claude, the 20,000 Indian servants, and the 20,000 French troops led by Lieutenant General Kirsi marched to Yunan at the same time, and the 4th Division of the Han Army intercepted the British and French troops in two ways.

In the Sino-Burmese battlefield, after losing nearly 2,000 British troops and 9,000 Indian servants, Brigadier General Claude had to announce the withdrawal of his troops.

On the Sino-Vietnamese battlefield, the French army found that the short distance of a few hundred meters was the road of death for the French army after paying 6,000 lives, and some French soldiers refused to embark on the road of death, and the French army could not launch an attack on the Han army position again, and Lieutenant General Kirsi had no choice but to announce the withdrawal of the army.

However, Brigadier Claude and Lieutenant General Kirsi also found a very serious problem.

Guangdong Battlefield

Lieutenant General Frederick Roberts, commander-in-chief of the Four-Nation Alliance, personally led 4,000 British troops north to launch an attack on the 1st Division of the Han Army in Xin'an County.

After leaving more than 1,800 corpses and hundreds of wounded on the battlefield, the British army fled back to Hong Kong in panic under the leadership of Vice Admiral Roberts, and the ships of the British and French combined fleets stationed at the docks in Hong Kong started as soon as possible.

After returning to Hong Kong, Lieutenant General Roberts, like Major General Dennis, Brigadier General Claude, and Lieutenant General Kirsey, also found that very serious problem:

Although the number of Han troops is small, it can resist the attack of the British army or the French army several times that of its own, and the Han army exchanged the weak casualties for dozens or even hundreds of times the casualties of the British and French troops, and the fundamental reason is that the Han army is equipped with weapons.

Lieutenant General Roberts, Major General Dennis, Brigadier General Claude, and Lieutenant General Kirsey were able to say with certainty that the weapons of the Han army were far more advanced than those of the British and French armies.

All four of them believed that the Han army's greatest lethal effect on the British and French troops was a weapon similar to the Maxim heavy machine gun, which appeared in 1883, and as senior British and French officers, all four of them knew the existence of the Maxim heavy machine gun and the powerful power of the Maxim heavy machine gun.

It's just that Britain and France have no purchase plan because the Maxim heavy machine gun consumes too much ammunition, and even if they purchase the Maxim heavy machine gun, it will not be equipped in the colonial armies of Britain and France in a short time, but will be equipped in the front-line armies of the homeland.

The Han army was equipped with a large number of weapons similar to the Maxim heavy machine gun, which made the British and French pay a lot of casualties but returned in vain.

In addition to the most important heavy machine guns, the rifles used by the Han army, and the four of them learned from the survivors of the battlefield that the rifles used by ordinary soldiers of the Han army had a significantly faster rate of fire than the rifles equipped by the British and French armies.

The rifles equipped by the British and French armies are all "singles one" rifles, and the Martini-Henry rifle equipped by the British army, the Martini-Henry rifle is relatively fast in the "singles one" rifle, but it is still not as good as the rifle equipped by the Han army, and the rifle equipped by the French army is worse than the Martini-Henry rifle equipped by the British army.

The four believed that even if the Han army was not equipped with heavy machine guns, but only equipped with rifles with a "super fast" rate of fire, the British and French troops would not be able to defeat the Han army opposite them.

In addition to guns, there were also artillery of the Han army.

The artillery of the Han army is obviously more advanced than that equipped by the British and French colonial armies, with a fast rate of fire, a long firing range, and great power.

By the way, there is also the kind of artillery with a shorter range, which has a faster rate of fire, and can also give great damage to the British and French troops at close range.

In general, the weapons and equipment of the Han army are more advanced than those of the British and French colonial armies, even if the British and French troops attack the Han army's position with several times the strength of the Han army, they cannot be overcome, and the Han army in the opposite position does not have many casualties, but the British and French troops have suffered heavy casualties, and if the retreat is slow, I am afraid that the whole army will be annihilated.

Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Roberts, Major General Dennis, Brigadier General Claude, and Lieutenant General Kirsi understood that there were only two ways to defeat the Han Kingdom.

The first is to dispatch the navy, the navy of the Han Kingdom is inherited from the Manchu Qing, the navy of the Manchu Qing is the first in East Asia, in fact, the Western powers do not look at this weak navy in their eyes, and send a fleet over "at will", which can defeat the navy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and of course it can defeat the navy of the current Han Kingdom.

Although the navy was able to defeat the Han Kingdom, it did not play a decisive role in completely defeating the Han Kingdom, after all, the Han Kingdom was a land power with a huge territory, and warships could not sail on land, and in the end, only the army could completely defeat the Han Kingdom.

So there is a second way, which is to equip the British and French armies with more advanced weapons.

Thinking of this, the commander-in-chief of the British army, Lieutenant General Roberts, and the commander-in-chief of the French army, Lieutenant General Korsey, respectively sent telegrams to their own countries: We need more advanced weapons!

"We need more advanced weapons!" This is the beginning of the telegram, and the other two also briefly described the battle situation in the telegram, detailing the weapons and equipment of the Han army, proving that the Han army is strong, and only the British (French) army is equipped with similar weapons and equipment to the Han army or more advanced weapons and equipment can defeat the Han army and destroy the Han Kingdom.

When the two telegrams were sent to Britain and France, respectively, the huge repercussions in Britain and France were not seen by the senior officers of the two armies who are currently in Asia.

In fact, the four of them also understood that the strength of the Han army was not only due to the weapons it was equipped with, but also that the elite level of the Han soldiers was no lower than that of the British soldiers and the French soldiers.

From the Han soldiers holding rifles and guns to hit the enemy's vital points, to the accurate long-range fire strikes of the Han artillery, all of them show that under the same weapons and equipment, the Han army is no worse than the British army and the French army, of course, the four of them are unwilling to admit that the Han army is stronger than the British (French) army.

[By the way, thank you for the reward of {☆Zimu☆} and become the fourth helmsman of this book! (To be continued.) )