At the same time, the commander of the British army, Lieutenant General Ewan MacGregor, wanted to use the defensive positions on the outskirts of Guangzhou to cut off the connection between the First Field Division of the Chinese Army and Hong Kong, and to compress the First Field Division of the Chinese Army and the two garrison divisions in Guangdong, so as to strive for total annihilation!

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"Defend the President! Defend China! "A young man, a modern school uniform, similar to the school uniform of the original historical Republic of China, this is the clothes designed by President Meng, all of them are small lapels, clean, easy to wash, the young man holds a small flag, shouting!

"Defend the President! Defend China! A group of young people echoed, the voice was majestic, boys, girls, men, women, everyone's eyes were extremely determined, in the face of foreign aggression, the nation, is the strongest whole, everyone is so united.

The conservatism of the British commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Ewan McGregor, is in the hands of the president.

President Meng changed his plan and ordered the First Brigade of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army to be one unit, the Second Brigade and the Third Brigade of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army, plus two artillery regiments and five regiments of garrison troops to launch a general attack on Qingyuan and Fogang at the same time as one unit.

Although the direction of the First Brigade was a feint, the first brigade and the strong assault ability of the Hongpu Military Academy Teaching Brigade caused great pressure on the Anglo-Qing coalition forces in Qingyuan, which made the commander of the British army, Lieutenant General Ewan McGregor, think that the Chinese army in the direction of Qingyuan was the main force at the first time.

However, when the 2nd Brigade and 3rd Brigade of the 1st Field Division of the Chinese Army in the direction of Fogang, plus two artillery regiments and five regiments of garrison troops, with more than 60,000 people, plus strong artillery support, Lieutenant General Ewan MacGregor, the commander of the British Army, naturally understood that Fogang was the main direction of attack of the Chinese army.

The commander of the British army, Lieutenant General Ewan MacGregor, decisively ordered the defenders of Fogang to retreat in the direction of Guangzhou, and sent reinforcements to block the Chinese army in the second line of defense.

The two sides fought inch by inch, and the Chinese army suffered heavy casualties, falling in units of thousands every hour.

Although most of the Chinese army are recruits, but under the leadership of veterans, veterans of the Huacui Party, recruits are hiding behind, and at the same time, such a cruel war has a particularly obvious effect on people's spiritual baptism, and the army has always maintained a formation and has no scattered phenomenon.

President Meng's visit to the front line in Fogang also greatly boosted the morale of the whole army.

After two days and four days and nights of fierce fighting, the Chinese army completely annihilated a brigade of the British defenders in Fogang, with more than 2,000 people, killed more than 12,000 Qing troops, captured more than 8,000 people, and occupied Fogang.

At the same time, after learning the news of the victory in Fogang, the First Brigade of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army, Xuan Jianzhang's Division, also broke through the Qingyuan defense line, annihilating more than 1,500 people in two regiments of the British army, annihilating more than 8,000 Qing troops, and capturing more than 14,000 Qing troops.

The three main infantry regiments of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army lost more than 8,000 people, and the two garrison divisions lost more than 23,000 people, and more than half of the Chinese troops died.

The casualties on both sides were about the same, but it was only three days, and such a large-scale mortality rate shocked the commander of the British army, Lieutenant General Ewan MacGregor, he did not expect China to be able to fight such a war, and he did not expect such a speed at all, and he could not keep up with the rhythm of President Meng.

At this point, the 1st Brigade of the 1st Field Division of the Chinese Army, the 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Field Division of the Chinese Army, plus two artillery regiments, and five regiments of garrison troops have approached Guangzhou from the east and north.

There is chaos inside and outside the city of Guangzhou.

British commander-in-chief Lieutenant General Ewan McGregor is actually moderate in the entire command, and has not made tactical command mistakes, his experience is far richer than Xuan Yuemeng, but the biggest mistake made by British commander-in-chief Lieutenant General Ewan McGregor is in the overall strategy, that is, because British commander-in-chief Lieutenant General Ewan McGregor does not understand the terrain and does not understand the Chinese.

The Chinese army was all Han Chinese, and in the eyes of the Chinese, this was an internal war in China, and the main force in the Anglo-Qing coalition army was the British army, even if the main force was not the British army, it was also an outsider.

Psychologically, the Han people must identify with the Han people, this is because the rule of the Qing court in Guangdong is very stable, otherwise, it would have collapsed long ago.

Lieutenant General Ewan McGregor, the commander of the British army, had a problem choosing the battlefield, so he should not fight a decisive battle in Guangzhou, but should directly attack Hong Kong, drive the Chinese army in the direction of Hong Kong, and fight the Chinese army in advance.

Now, although he owns the important town of Guangzhou, but Guangzhou has been out of control, the people began to take to the streets, many unemployed people who have not enough to eat happen to collude with some second bastards, smashing and looting, the Qing army is less than 10,000 people, and it is necessary to send people to the streets to maintain law and order, and the British army is completely isolated.

This is something that the British commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Ewan McGregor, could not have imagined before the war, and this war process, in fact, was still within the scope of the British commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Ewan McGregor, and was not beyond his control, but how could it be like this?

Lieutenant General Ewan McGregor couldn't figure it out.

Guangzhou is still in the hands of the Qing court, how poor is the field control ability of such a court?

Guangzhou had become a huge hell, and before the Chinese army had attacked, the city was already in flames and crying.

President Meng knows the Chinese best, and the Chinese need national organizations too much! Once they enter a state of disorder, people who are already lacking in morality will be like wild beasts, crazy looting, unstoppable!

The semi-encirclement of Guangzhou was completed, and a defensive line built by the British army in the early stage was obviously a joke now, and President Meng ordered the 1st Field Division of the Chinese Army to stop the offensive and camp on the outskirts of Guangzhou to prepare for the attack.

At this time, President Meng has already released all the two incomplete garrison divisions and gone to various cities in Guangdong to establish a public security system, and President Meng is already using means to fully take over the power in Guangdong.

Fighting a war in China without fully considering the topography of China will certainly not work.

Fighting a war is by no means a game of military chess.

On the night of February 11, the commander of the British army, Lieutenant General Ewan McGregor, had to convene an emergency joint meeting of the Anglo-Qing coalition forces to discuss the next plan.

The commander of the British army, Lieutenant General Ewan MacGregor, actually had a premonition that Guangzhou could not be defended, and once it was out of the protection of Guangzhou, he could only retreat to Hainan Island, and Lord Ruilin, the governor of Liangguang, also had plans to retreat to Guangxi with the remnants of his more than 10,000 people.

Before the meeting began, the two sides split in their own minds. (To be continued.) )