On the front line of Tangcun and Wanjia Village, more than 100,000 elites of the Nanyang Army launched a general attack on the whole line.

More than 1,000 artillery guns fired a salvo, the momentum was shocking, overwhelming the mountains and the sea, and destroyed the artillery positions of the British and French forces in an instant.

The sea of fire was vast, and the British and French forces, which had lost artillery support, could only retreat into the temporarily dug trench positions, passively accepting the ravages of the Nanyang Army's artillery fire.

Boom!

The shells rained down like drops and exploded violently, instantly shattering the trench positions of the British and French forces, and also shattering the arrogance and self-confidence of the British and French soldiers, forcing them to run away like lost dogs.

Twenty minutes later, the first round of shelling ended, and the artillerymen of the Nanyang Army were cooling down the artillery, cleaning the chambers, bringing in shells from the rear in preparation for the next round of shelling.

At this time, taking advantage of the slight cessation of artillery fire, Zhang Xiaoliu, commander of the First Front Army, did not intend to give the enemy a respite, and immediately ordered the towns of the First Front Army to charge.

I saw that the Nanyang Army launched an attack on the British and French positions in a large column formation of stragglers, with horizontal intervals ranging from one meter to four meters between individual soldiers, and one meter to three meters between the front and rear columns.

Compared with the shock formation of the Nanyang Army, the dense queue attack tactics of the British and French coalition forces were simply like being used as a live target, and they were weak.

This alone was an eye-opener for the Anglo-French troops in the trenches.

Klaus and Raymond were shocked, they were both men who knew how to fight, and they were well aware of the revolutionary changes that the new tactics had brought to the army, and they were envious and jealous.

Why in their eyes, these backward Oriental natives can always shock them, it was the advanced weapons and equipment that educated the British and French troops fiercely. The fiasco of the first Battle of Songhu made the British and French forces pay enough tuition, and they thought they could take revenge, but unexpectedly the second Battle of Songhu was a fiasco, and this time, the Oriental natives in their eyes once again used advanced war tactics to educate the British and French forces.

The same advanced armament. The tactically backward Anglo-French forces were bound to be extorted a huge amount of tuition.

It's a pity that although Klaus and Raymond understand the root cause of the huge power gap between the two sides, they don't have time to prepare, because they have lost time at the moment, and then lost the war.

However, the British and French armies were accustomed to pride and always had their dignity, that is, to fight to the end.

"Prepare for war!"

"Defend the position!"

Klaus and Raymond gave the order almost in unison, urging their own soldiers, who had just been hit by artillery fire and had to hide, to return to their positions and prepare for battle.

However. Soon they found out that they had been tricked by the Nanyang Army again.

Boom!

Five minutes later, the second round of shelling of the Nanyang Army began.

"Nima!"

Klaus and Raymond immediately scolded, they thought that the Nanyang Army was going to launch a ground infantry charge, so they ordered the soldiers to quickly enter the position, but unexpectedly, the infantry of the Nanyang Army charged to the point that they all lay down and lay down halfway, no longer charged, and were replaced by a new round of shelling.

The cannonballs that came from the sky exploded, sending up rows of fiery red mushroom clouds. It's like the end of the world.

The positions held by the British and French forces were repeatedly ravaged by heavy artillery fire, and in an instant they became a scorched earth, and a large number of British and French soldiers were killed and their corpses were strewn all over the field. Rivers of blood.

Two consecutive rounds of shelling completely broke the morale of the British and French forces, and there were originally nearly 50,000 troops, after two rounds of shelling. More than half of the dead and wounded, and the remaining more than 20,000 soldiers were also wounded. And there are obvious signs of mental collapse, it is really the artillery fire of the Nanyang Army that is too ferocious.

The artillery fire was extended, the charge horn sounded again, and the soldiers of the Nanyang Army lying on the ground stood up again, holding rifles, cats on their waists, shooting and advancing, and their steps were all three steps to the left and three steps to the right.

At the same time, a Mengatling machine gun, also pushed by the machine gunners, approached the British and French positions. Every twenty or thirty meters of advancement, they stopped and strafed, so that the British and French soldiers on the position did not dare to show their heads, and then covered the infantry of the Nanyang Army to attack.

Bang Bang Bang ......

The dense gunfire was getting closer and closer, proving that the Nanyang Army was getting closer and closer to the positions of the British and French forces.

In the face of this situation, the British and French forces were also helpless, they only had rifles in their hands, and they could only fire one shot at a time, striving to shoot more Nanyang troops.

It's just that the Nanyang Army has a large number of Gatling machine guns, and a single strafing will cause a large number of casualties among the British and French forces, resulting in a continuous increase in the battle loss ratio between the two sides.

"Concentrate your firepower and hit the enemy's burst of muskets first!"

Klaus hurriedly gave the order and tried to knock out the Gatling guns of the Nanyang Army to alleviate his own casualties.

However, it was useless, and he soon discovered that the Nanyang Army's Gatling machine gun was equipped with a shield, which was a somewhat rudimentary-looking steel plate that seemed to have been temporarily installed, but it was enough to block the rifle bullets of the British and French troops and protect the machine gun shooters behind.

Without artillery support, he tried to defeat the Gatling gun.

"It's over!" Crowston was sad, and suddenly he was dozens of years old.

Just when Klaus was in despair, he suddenly noticed a dense gunfire in the rear of the Nanyang Army.

Raymond saw the French flag fluttering in the distance from the telescope, and was overjoyed, guessing that it was Guba who had led the army to reinforcements.

"It's the French army who has come to reinforce it!"

Crawton shouted excitedly, and the remnants of the British and French soldiers seemed to have been stimulated, and even the wounded soldiers seemed to be resurrected with full blood.

"Hold on!"

"Victory is ours!"

I have to admit that Klaus is still very good at boosting morale, even if it is flickering, it is very powerful.

It was indeed the French army that suddenly appeared in the rear of the Nanyang Army, led by Guba himself, and indeed rushed to reinforce it.

Before, Guba was very shrewd, and chose to flee directly back to Sanjia Port and join the British and French combined fleet, avoiding the doom of being ambushed or besieged by the Nanyang Army.

However, when Zhang Xiaoliu gave up the pursuit of the French army, Gu Ba had an idea, thinking that the Nanyang Army must go all out to encircle and kill the remnants of the British and French troops led by Claus and Raymond, so he played a trick to secretly Chen Cang, so that the 10,000 French troops disguised as 60,000 troops retreated to Sanjia Port, but he himself led 50,000 French troops to leave quietly at night. made a detour and appeared in the rear of the Nanyang Army.

Guba is a military master, he wants to sneak attack the First Front Army from behind, if he succeeds, he can not only severely damage the Nanyang Army, but even rescue the besieged Klaus and Raymond and others.

If he was replaced by other generals to command the First Front Army, Gu Ba was indeed very likely to succeed in the sneak attack, but unfortunately he met Zhang Xiaoliu and did not understand Zhang Xiaoliu's personality traits at all.

Zhang Xiaoliu was born in the Li family and joined the army halfway, although he is now sitting in a high position as a lieutenant general, he does not have too many military exploits. This is because Zhang Xiaoliu's character itself determines his future. He is Li Weiguo's most trusted confidant, and he doesn't need to work hard, as long as he doesn't make mistakes, his promotion and fortune will not be affected at all. In this way, when Zhang Xiaoliu commanded the army, he had always been steady and steady, and if you let your grandson monkey change seventy-two times, Lao Tzu would not be tempted and push all the way down. Sooner or later, I can kill you.

This kind of character led to Zhang Xiaoliu's mentality of not seeking merit but seeking no fault when he commanded the First Front Army, and no matter when, the base camp always left the elite troops of the two towns. As a reserve, respond to unexpected events that may arise at any time.

In Zhang Xiaoliu's own words, as long as he remains undefeated, it is a victory.

Zhang Xiaoliu is both military age and age. It is indeed not as good as Gu Ba's old scheming, so Gu Ba's plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea successfully deceived Zhang Xiaoliu.

It's a pity that when Guba appeared in the rear of the Nanyang Army. When he thought that he could defeat Zhang Xiaoliu's First Front Army in one fell swoop, he suddenly found that he had kicked the iron plate.

The sudden attack of 50,000 French troops did cause chaos for a period of time to the Nanyang Army that was on the attack, but when Zhang Xiaoliu quickly transferred the first and ninth towns of the reserve army, Gu Ba was dumbfounded.

It turned out to be the first town of the Nanyang Army's trump card, known as the elite of the elite of the ninth town, these two troops, but they are both famous troops, both participated in the first Battle of Songhu, the Anglo-French army killed that year was full of blood, Lone has long heard of it, and when he saw the other party's banner at this moment, he wanted to die.

Does this Nima dare to pit a little more!

The most elite ace troops did not go to the main attack, but kept them as reserves!

What a hell of a life!

It's a pity that Lone doesn't understand Zhang Xiaoliu's character, if he knows that Zhang Xiaoliu is honest and has no ambition, and he will make himself invincible at any time, then he will understand why Zhang Xiaoliu will keep the most elite ace as a reserve instead of sending him out to play as a striker.

"Attack!"

"Fire!"

Guba pulled out his command knife and roared incessantly, commanding 50,000 French troops to launch a full-line charge.

"I don't believe it, what can be the trump card of the ace of the Nanyang Army, our army of the French Empire is the strongest! Defeat them and show the Orientals a ......"

"Report—"

The signal corps interrupted Lone's self-talk.

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, our army has been defeated on all fronts!"

"Very good, I will say that our great French Imperial army is the strongest, and the first town of the Nanyang Army is a floating cloud in front of our French army!"

"No, Your Excellency Commander, you heard me wrong, what I said is that our army has been routed on all fronts!"

"What? That's impossible! ”

Gu Ba suddenly burst the beans, what a lot of effort, he didn't finish talking to himself, how could his 50,000 French army be defeated.

However, when Lone picked up the telescope and looked at it, he was dumbfounded.

A minute ago, the French army was still on the way to charge, and a minute later, the French army was routed on all fronts, only to see that tens of thousands of French troops on the battlefield were being chased and beaten by the Nanyang Army like rabbits, and there was no longer a formation, and they were fleeing to this side.

It turned out that when the French army launched a full-line charge, it also used the old infantry line tactics to charge in a neat formation. As a result, it was hit by heavy artillery fire from the first and ninth towns of the Nanyang Army, with heavy casualties, and the formation suddenly became chaotic.

Originally, this was a normal situation, and it only took a minute or two for the French army to regroup.

However, the officers and soldiers of the first and ninth towns are known as the trump cards of the Nanyang Army, and Jingru among the elites, which is not called in vain, and its combat effectiveness is quite strong.

Before the artillery fire stopped, the officers and men of the first and ninth towns launched a counter-charge, which was very unexpected for the French army, because they could hardly imagine that someone would launch a charge when the shelling was being shelled, you must know that the shells do not have long eyes, and they will accidentally injure their own people.

As a result, before the French army had time to form a team, it was rushed up by the Nanyang Army, and all the formations were scattered at once. The first and ninth towns are elite, and each soldier doesn't know how many enemies he has killed, which is quite tough.

I saw that the soldiers of the Nanyang Army used the fastest and most ruthless bayonet technique to assassinate the French soldiers one by one in an instant, and the blood was splashed, like a tiger entering a flock, and that kind of ferocity suddenly made the French soldiers frightened. However, the soldiers of the Nanyang Army not only had strong individual bayonet skills, but also fought in groups of three and five in a small team, and the team killing the enemy was far more ferocious and fast than killing the enemy alone, while the French army was in a chaotic formation, and had no experience in team bayonet skills in this area, so they could only fight separately, and the result was a one-sided slaughter.

So the French army held out for less than a minute, and then the whole line was routed.

One by one, they shouted that the enemy was too cruel, and began to flee for their lives like a wolf.

The lone in the rear was in a petrified state until he was shaken awake by the adjutant next to him.

"Sir, we've been defeated, what's next?"

What to do? Chilled salad!

Guba knew very well that this situation was a defeat that could not be reversed by manpower, not to mention that he was an admiral, just a temporary commander, if it wasn't for the rescue of Raymond, most of the French army would not listen to him. In this case, it was a fool's dream to turn the tide, so he could only choose to retreat, retreating with his guard battalion, because this was the last fully formed force he could control.

It is said that the battlefield is changing rapidly, and this moment is vividly expressed, because it only took a few minutes for the Nanyang Army to defeat the lone 50,000 French troops, creating a miracle since the modern war, of course, the French army will be defeated by the Prussian army in a few years, and the whole world will know that the French army has been reduced to a second-rate army. However, at this time, even if the French army is a paper tiger, it is still a first-class army in front of the world, and the Nanyang Army, which can defeat the French army, is destined to shine brightly and rank among the world's first-class armies.

The lone French army of 50,000 was defeated, and was chased and killed by the first and ninth towns of the Nanyang Army for most of the day, and finally the whole army was annihilated, more than half of them surrendered in desperation, and the other French troops were either killed by random shooting or lost and disappeared.

Guba is looking at ambition, yes, it is indeed ambition. For he was standing in a field and looking around.

At the most critical moment of Nima's escape, he was lost, and he wanted to shoot the scout who was leading the way with a map and a compass.

"Where are we now?"

"I-I-I don't know!"

The French scout with the map was already flustered, frightened by the solitary pull, and completely stunned.

"Report, we are surrounded, and there are enemy troops on all sides!"

"Report, the enemy is coming to our side!"

Guba's heart was suddenly cool and cold, and he was also drunk, and this Nima stuffed his teeth when he drank cold water on his back!

looked at the guard battalion beside him, it had become a guard platoon, and it had already been broken up by the Nanyang Army all the way after being chased and beaten all the way just now.

Sitting down, if you don't leave, you can't go, and surrender is the only way out. (To be continued.) )