In the frontal attack, the British and French troops were severely beaten by the artillery of the firearms battalion, and the shells of the firearms battalion were not only aimed at the attacking British and French forces, but even reached the positions of the British and French forces in the rear!

The fierce artillery fire made Saxton and Arman stunned, what a powerful firepower!

Saxton swallowed hard and asked, "Yaman, are you sure that your estimate of the Qing army's artillery technology is accurate?" ”

Yaman clicked his mouth and said with a dry smile: "Saxton, this, my estimate is still a little different from reality, it seems that there are still people in the Qing army who know Western artillery, specially, how is it possible?" Where did they get artillery technology! ”

Saxton suddenly came to his senses and said hatefully: "I understand, ******, it's that Guo Ye again, in order to get the Americans out of the negotiations, he provided the Americans with a purchase case worth one million taels of silver, including a large number of rifles and artillery, this Guo Ye has been training the Qing army with artillery since that time......"

"No, right? Saxton, you have to understand that when the American artillery arrived in Tianjin, Guo Ye had already been transferred to Baoding Town, and when the artillery arrived in Baoding, Guo Ye led an expedition to the northeast, in order to be able to quickly rush back to participate in the war, his elite of Baoding Town rushed back in only twenty days! Do you think they can run so fast with artillery? Moreover, even if they can be trained, it is impossible to have such excellent artillery skills in a short period of time, even if they are inferior to the French artillery now, they have already reached the second-rate level in Europe! ”

Yaman wondered.

Saxton yelled, "Yaman, you're analyzing this now, and there's a piece of?" You know, with or without an elite artillery, the difference in combat power is too great! Now that they have artillery to help, how can we break through the fire line of the opposing artillery positions with the infantry? ”

Yaman's face was embarrassed, and he suddenly came to his senses, pointed to the battlefield and shouted, "Saxton, no, no! You see, the Qing army only has sharp artillery in the middle of the artillery position, and the other artillery skills are far behind, and they can't reach our soldiers at all! The number of people they can control artillery is too limited! ”

Saxton was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly watched the battlefield carefully, sure enough, the three artillery positions of the Qing army, only the artillery position in the middle was extremely strong, and the British and French troops were suppressed, but the Qing artillery on the left and right flanks was so bad that they didn't know where they hit each other!

Saxton was overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted: "The weakness of the Qing army is on the two flanks, flanks!" We don't need to launch an attack from the front, change tactics, order the French 1st Regiment to make a feint on the front, attract the fire of the Qing artillery in the frontal position, and the British 1st Regiment immediately moved to the left flank, and launched a fierce attack on the right flank of the Qing army with the 2nd and 3rd regiments of the British army at the same time! Two hours, you must give me to break through the position of the right flank of the Qing army! ”

Saxton and Yaman are both experienced generals, and once they find a flaw in the Qing army's position, the Qing army will naturally face huge trouble!

For Yang Zha's Qing army, this is also a matter of no way, even if Guo Ye pulls out all the Qing troops who know how to manipulate Western artillery, it is only about 200 people, ranging and adjusting Zhuyuan, transporting shells, shooting, each link needs to be watched by special people, it is not enough at all, it can only take care of the front position, and for the two flanks, it cannot be taken care of at all.

Two flanks, one Shengbao's army, one Ruilin's army, Shengbao is good to say, that is also a member of the late Qing Dynasty, although there is no way to compare with Western generals, but on the battle array, he is also quite experienced, and he has a killing atmosphere; However, Ruilin is far behind, Ruilin is a civilian official who has been transferred to the military department, and he has never been on the battlefield at all.

Seeing Seng Lingqin and Guo Ye commanding Ruoding on the battlefield, he was itching in his heart, and he also wanted to show his hands on the battlefield, but he also had to look at the place, seeing that the British and French troops pounced, Ruilin didn't care about any strategy and tactics, and directly ordered the Qing army to press up and attack! Guo Ye can beat foreigners to the ground, and Lao Tzu can do the same! Unfortunately, there are dozens of earthen cannons behind Lao Tzu!

Ruilin, who lacks heart, buried the entire flank with one order, where can the current green battalion of the Qing army have a face-to-face battle with the British and French coalition forces? Even if he stubbornly defends, he may not be able to hold on, and it is really incredible that he dares to attack directly!

The 3,000 Green Battalion soldiers received Ruilin's order, but launched an offensive against the French army, and then the artillery behind them covered and rushed towards the British and French forces!

Three thousand green battalion soldiers, not to mention rifles in their hands, even if they carry guns, muskets and shotguns, together, there are only two or three hundred, and with such a little firepower, they dare to attack the British and French forces!

When the British and French troops saw the Green Battalion rushing out, they stopped their advance, formed a formation, leaned on each other, and launched a fierce fire at the Qing army! The rain in the sky is still falling, although it affects the performance of the rifle, but it is still much more powerful than the Qing army without firearms!

Three regiments of 3,000 people from the British and French coalition army continued to shoot at the green battalion, and the bullets rained down, and the Qing troops on the charging road fell down one by one like wheat waves, and in just a quarter of an hour, at least hundreds of corpses were thrown down!

Powerful fear once again shrouded the green battalion soldiers, the gap, the huge gap, the second-rate army in the traditional cold weapon era, facing the first-class army in the hot weapon era, how could there be the slightest chance of victory?

The Green Battalion was stunned by the formation in front of them, turned around and ran! If you run slower, I'm afraid you'll all lie on the ground!

The corner of Yaman's mouth in the distance brought a sneer, and he shouted: "Saxton, I'm not wrong, the artillery on their flanks is used to bluff people, and their infantry is also used to bluff people, and they are not vulnerable at all!" Ha ha! ”

Saxton also laughed, it seemed that he was really frightened by that Guo Ye, thinking that all the Qing troops wanted to deal with him like that, this pig-like Qing army general was really too wasteful, and he actually let a group of Qing soldiers charge at his army with big swords and spears, isn't that self-defeating? It's ridiculous!

Saxton shouted: "Okay, Yaman, immediately order the strength of the three regiments to continue to storm the flanks of the Qing army, as long as we defeat their flanks, then we will win!" ”

Yes, once the flanks are routed, the green battalion of the Chinese army will completely lose protection, and the entire Qing army's front will be disintegrated!