Although the army was defeated in Shandong, Horton's British army and Japanese army were beaten to the ground, and now they can only enter Tianjin City without face and skin. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And Horton also found a good reason for himself, that is, he attacked Shandong and contained China's strongest Lu army on the Jiaodong Peninsula, which made it easy for the Franco-Spanish coalition to take Tianjin City......

Bazin and Morenster rolled their eyes in anger, they had never seen such a cheeky general, and they were still full of words after losing the battle!

The two sides sat down, Bazin said in a deep voice: "Okay, now Tianjin City is already in the bag, now our most important thing is to take Beijing City as quickly as possible, and the worst will be under the city of Beijing, forcing the Chinese government to sign a treaty, now Tianjin is under our control, there is no more soldiers to fight in the Gyeonggi area, it is the best time for us to act!" ”

Horton nodded and said: "Yes, it is true, the so-called soldiers are fast, we just don't give the Qing army any chance to react, we want to transfer troops to help, let them dream of going, take Beijing City, Lao Tzu will let go of these Chinese, in order to avenge the revenge of the Jiaodong Peninsula!" ”

The three senior generals unified their opinions and began to advance the battle line towards the defense line of Beijing City, Britain and France each sent a division of troops, and Spain sent two brigades of troops, a total of 45,000 troops, to march towards Beijing City, and the front of the troops was directed at Wuqing!

At this time, Zeng Guofan gathered all the remnants of the defeated army together, together with the green battalion soldiers scattered around, once again reorganized the strength of nearly 20,000 people, and stationed them in the Wuqing area, in an attempt to block the attack of the foreigners again.

It's just that from Tianjin to Beijing, all of them are plains, there is not even a single mountain, there is no danger to defend, a group of rabble, the generals of the defeated army, want to withstand the attack of the foreigners, tigers and wolves, it is simply impossible.

Zeng Guofan is going to die of worry, such a thing as fighting with foreigners, he will never take it again in the future, the disparity in strength is too great, and he is not an opponent of others at all. said that he was stationed in Wuqing and fought with foreigners again, but how to fight? There is no barrier, I am afraid that if I can't hold out for even a day, the Qing army will collapse again!

Fortunately, in the Qing army, there are still some capable people, such as Liu Mingchuan and Zhang Shusheng, both of whom are veteran generals who have been enemies for a long time, both civil and military, and experienced.

Liu Mingchuan offered a plan to Zeng Guofan, building earthen ramparts, one by one, to block the attack of foreigners, when fighting with the Taiping army led by Li Xiucheng, Li Xiucheng once built a series of earthen ramparts in front of the barracks, to curb the attack of the Huai army, at that time the Huai army was in a dilemma, the Taiping army's camp could not be beaten down at all, twelve earthen barriers, each of which was strong and abnormal, creating huge trouble for the Hunan and Huai armies at that time.

Now Liu Mingchuan was forced by the French army to finally remember this strategy, hoping to curb the crazy attack of the foreigners.

In order to be able to resist the attack of the foreigners, Liu Mingchuan spent two days, mobilized thousands of people, urgently built earth ramparts, requisitioned all the shovels and iron drills of the nearby village chiefs, and built one earthen rampart after another.

"Di Shuai, with these earthen barriers, even if the foreigners have sharp artillery, it is difficult to take Wuqing in a short time!"

Liu Mingchuan said firmly to Zeng Guofan.

Zeng Guofan's face finally improved a little, relying on him, he can only rely on these earthen ramparts, the artillery that the Hunan army and the Huai army have worked so hard to equip is now lost, without artillery, it is almost impossible to compete with the foreigners, even so, how long it can hold out in Wuqing is unknown!

Not long after the earthen fortress was built, the armies of Britain, France and Spain arrived, and more than 40,000 people pressed towards Wuqing.

When the army came to Wuqing, a series of earthen ramparts appeared in Bazin's telescope.

There was a sneer on the corner of Bazin's mouth, a rammed earthen barrier with soil? Can this thing withstand our artillery fire? Joke? If it is poured with concrete, or if it is built with stones, it is still possible, but it is just a layer of rammed earth, if it can withstand the artillery bombardment? The fortifications of these people are really backward enough......

"General Horton, how about leaving this first moment to you?"

Horton sneered: "No problem, it's just a rabble, in one day, I will raze all their earth barriers, and all the Qing troops will be defeated!" ”

"The order, the artillery regiment of the British Imperial Army rushed forward, aimed at the earthen fortress of the Qing army, carried out a fierce bombardment, and ordered the fifteenth brigade and the sixteenth brigade to rush forward, and then under the cover of artillery fire, take the defense line of the Qing army!"

Horton gave the order, and the artillery regiment began to launch a fierce attack on the defensive positions deployed by the Wuqing Zeng State Domain!

An artillery regiment, with a full 120 guns, launched an offensive together, and wave after wave of shells hit the position, landing on the earthen ramparts one after another.

Bazin had a good idea, such an earthen fortress wanted to stop the attack of cold weapons, it was definitely a whimsical idea, whether it was hand-to-hand combat, or bow and arrow shooting, or even musket shooting, it could not break through the defense of the earthen fortress, but with artillery it was different.

When the Huai army attacked the earthen fortress deployed by Liu Xiucheng, there was only one artillery team of Western artillery, and there was also an artillery team's earthen artillery, and the heavy firepower attack was too weak, so it could only attack with manpower and break the earthen fortress one by one, but now the British artillery regiment will show the artillery, and the Hunan army and the Huai army will be beaten down!

How could such an earthen rampart hold off the attack of the British Army? A shell hit the earthen fortress, blowing up the earthen fortress beyond recognition, and in just one hour, three earthen fortresses were destroyed, and the Qing army on the earthen fortress was beaten in a mess and suffered heavy casualties!

The British infantry launched a fierce charge towards the Qing army under the cover of artillery fire, and the strength of the two brigades continued to attack forward, like a violent storm, and at the same time kept shooting, and the gunfire sounded like bursting beans!

The Hunan army arranged a total of five lines of defense, but I didn't expect that in less than two hours, the British army broke through the two lines of defense of the Qing army one after another, and the third line of defense was already in danger!

Later, Zeng Guofan was dumbfounded, the British army, the huge rice-shaped flag will not be wrong, I didn't expect that at this time, the British army would also come to plug in the legs! A French army can't stand it anymore, and I didn't expect that there was a powerful English army behind them!

"It's over! Wu Qing - I can't hold it either! ”

(To be continued.) )