Knock knock......

Knock knock......

Thousands of artillery guns on both sides fired a salvo, and the sound was like thunder, resounding through the sky.

Shells whistled and rained down.

In an instant, a sea of fire, and the smoke of gunpowder obscured the sky.

Whether it was the artillery on the side of the Shanghai army or the artillery of the British and French forces on the opposite side, both sides received orders to bombard and kill the enemy's top commander, but they never expected that the plans of the two sides would be the same.

In the artillery fire, the war horses galloped wildly, Li Weiguo had never tried such an exciting scene. But he knew that no matter how fast the horse was, it was not as fast as a cannonball, and one shell after another exploded around him, and the shock wave almost swept him away.

At this time, a cannonball exploded in front, which frightened Li Weiguo's war horse, and he no longer obeyed the call in the neighing, and skewered everywhere.

Li Weiguo was shocked, seeing that the front had been swallowed up by artillery fire, and the howling above his head was continuous, and one shell after another chased the soul.

At the last moment, Li Weiguo decisively jumped off his horse, rolled into a nearby pit that had just been blown open by a cannonball, and hid on the spot.

The sound of artillery rumbled, explosions came and went, Li Weiguo, who was lying in the pit, was shocked to the ears roaring, and the hot air wave swept against the ground and swept his back, burning with pain.

Li Weiguo did not dare to move, he knew that this was his only chance to live, because theoretically, the probability of shells falling into the same crater one after another was very low. The artillery of the British and French forces was not a rear-loading rapid-fire gun, and it took about a minute to a minute and a half for the middle artillery to reload the propellant and shells after a salvo and before the second round of shelling, which was enough for Li Weiguo to escape back.

It's just that the scene of Li Weiguo jumping off the war horse made the Shanghai officers and soldiers on the opposite side see it. They all thought that Li Weiguo was hit by artillery fire, especially Su Sanniang, who was like a crazy tigress at that moment, rushing out directly. wants to save Li Weiguo.

This is a moth to a fire, but Su Sanniang still did it, because at that moment she really realized how important Li Weiguo was to her.

"Charge the whole army!"

"All artillery units quickly cover the enemy's artillery positions!"

After a brief shock, Chen Jingnan, Wu Yong and others saw that it was not good, and immediately ordered the whole army to charge, and at the same time ordered the artillery unit to immediately attack the artillery position of the British and French forces to prevent the other side from bombarding Li Weiguo with artillery fire.

The other side. Erjin was not as decisive as Li Weiguo, he did not find a gun pit to hide like Li Weiguo, but rode all the way back. As a result, he was hit by a cannonball, and he and his horse were blown away in an instant.

"Ah!!h

Ergin's legs were blown off, and he screamed in pain.

The Anglo-French troops on the opposite side, like the Shanghai army, originally thought that they were plotting against Li Weiguo. As a result, I never thought that the other party also opened fire and plotted against their commander-in-chief, Ergin.

Seeing Ergin being blown away. His legs were broken, blood was dripping, and if he didn't do an emergency bandaging within a minute, the blood loss alone would kill him.

Scott was in a hurry, and immediately ordered the British and French artillery to shoot at the Shanghai artillery with all their strength to prevent the Shanghai artillery from continuing to shell Ergin, and at the same time he was in the same mood as the Shanghai army, in order to save Ergin. Scott also ordered the entire army to charge.

Glo didn't care about Scott's overstepping his command at this time, he just secretly rejoiced in his heart. Ergin and Li Weiguo had better be blown up, then the Anglo-French alliance would be under the command of Ta Glo, and the Shanghai army would be in turmoil if it lost Li Weiguo, and the victory of this decisive victory was in hand.

"Kill !!!"

"Kill !!!"

Whether it was the Shanghai army or the Anglo-French army, both sides launched a full-front charge almost simultaneously.

I saw that the soldiers on both sides were holding weapons in their hands, and they were charging forward with a scream, and they were shooting at the same time.

The Shanghai Army's Patriotic Breech-loading rifle showed a huge advantage in equipment at this moment, and the charging Shanghai soldiers only needed to pull the bolt to withdraw the bullet after each shot, and then they could quickly carry out the next shot. The front-loading muskets used by the British and French soldiers needed to stop and reload the propellant and projectile after firing, and the firing speed was obviously five or six times slower than that of the Shanghai army.

During the period when the loading was not completed, the soldiers of the British and French forces could only be beaten passively.

Bang bang......

Under the intensive fire of the Shanghai soldiers, the British and French troops fell one by one, suffering heavy casualties.

At this time, the artillerymen of both sides almost tacitly agreed that they would no longer shell the middle area, but attack each other's artillery positions, and a fierce artillery battle began.

Similarly, the Type 59 infantry guns of the Shanghai Army, as breech-loading rifled guns with short barrels, fired five or six times faster than the artillery of the British and French forces.

The Anglo-French army used a front-loading smoothbore cannon with a long barrel, and the artillery needed to clean the chamber immediately after firing once, reload the propellant and shells, because of the lack of brake and retreat machine, the gun body would produce a large amount of displacement after each shot, and it must be recalibrated before re-firing, which was very time-consuming, and it was this time when the British and French artillerymen were pressing, because the Shanghai army's 59-type infantry gun was fast to load, and the brake and retreat machine was installed, and it was almost impossible to re-correct the position of the gun to fire, Therefore, the artillery of the British and French coalition forces who were forced to suffer could only passively be bombarded indiscriminately by the artillery of the Shanghai Army at this time.

Artillery warfare is different from infantry combat, although the fire rate of the Shanghai infantry is seven or eight times that of the British and French infantry, but the British and French forces adopt a three-row line rotation tactic, and the continuous fire of the Shanghai infantry cannot interrupt the counterattack of the British and French infantry.

On the other hand, the artillery battle was different, when the British and French artillerymen re-installed their guns with propellants and shells, and recalibrated the shooting targets, the continuous shelling of the Shanghai artillery would cause the British and French artillerymen to be unable to complete, or to be delayed to complete the second firing mission.

When the two sides engaged in an incentive artillery battle, soon the fire of the artillery units of the British and French forces was suppressed, and even suffered a devastating blow and lost its combat effectiveness.

Li Weiguo was lying in the gun pit, and when he noticed that there were no more shells falling around, he just wanted to climb out, but he heard the constant swishing sound in his ears.

This was a dense burst of bullets, not only from the British and French forces, but also from the Shanghai army.

"Damn it!"

Li Weiguo complained. At this time, as long as he shows his head, he will definitely be beaten into a beenet's nest. He didn't want to touch his head, so he had to continue lying in the pit.

Due to the smoke of gunfire all around. Li Weiguo couldn't see the situation at all from 10 meters away, his ears were buzzing from the explosion of the shells, and he could only vaguely hear the shouts of killing from both sides of the enemy and us approaching.

"Xianggong, where are you?"

Suddenly, a coquettish voice came, Li Weiguo shook his head, listened carefully, and suddenly heard Su Sanniang calling him.

"I'm here!"

Li Weiguo responded loudly. Soon a group of female cavalry appeared in the smoke of gunpowder, led by Su Sanniang, who was looking over with an anxious face.

"Xianggong!"

Su Sanniang saw Li Weiguo. Immediately rushed over, a team of female cavalry very tacitly propped up the stainless steel shield, surrounded Li Weiguo's position, and suddenly made a clanging sound after the bullet impacted.

"Xianggong. I knew you had a big life. Surely it won't be blown up! ”

Su Sanniang cried with joy, and when the horse came to her, she immediately bent down and stretched out her hand to pull Li Weiguo on the horse.

Li Weiguo felt both familiar and warm in this scene, the last time he was on the way to Yuhuatai retreat, Su Sanniang personally came to save him, and this time it was the same.

Li Weiguo's heart warmed, and he hugged Su Sanniang tightly and said: "Lady, you are finally willing to call me a father-in-law, and this time you saved me again." In return, I promised to do so with my body. ”

"You know how to bully me...... Ay. Forget it, let's talk about it when you go back alive! Su Sanniang suddenly cried and laughed angrily, and wanted to clean up Li Weiguo, but knew that now was not the time, so she hurriedly evacuated the battlefield.

Escorted by a team of female cavalry, Li Weiguo quickly broke away from the battlefield and returned to the command post on the main position of the Shanghai army.

Wu Yong, Chen Jingnan and others were relieved when they saw Li Weiguo coming back safely, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet them.

"It's all skin trauma, it's not in the way, what's going on?"

Li Weiguo sat down, and his own military doctor stepped forward to bandage his wounds, there were more than ten places, but fortunately, they were all skin wounds, and there was no major problem.

Wu Yong replied: "At that time, the artillery fire was too fierce, and it was already a miracle that the adults could come back intact, but just now because the gunpowder smoke was too strong, I couldn't see you, so the soldiers of the whole army thought that something had happened to you, and they were furious, and quickly launched a full-line charge, vowing to avenge the adults." ”

Chen Jingnan continued: "We were plotting against Erjin, but we didn't expect that Erjin was also plotting against you, my lord, because our subordinates were not considerate. And the other side did not expect that we would shell Ergin, when Ergin was engulfed by artillery fire, the British and French side also went crazy, they launched a full-line charge almost at the same time as us, it is estimated that the enemy and us should be in close contact at this time. ”

Li Weiguo suddenly frowned and said: "Hand-to-hand combat is not the way we want to fight, because then it will not be able to give full play to the equipment advantages of our army's advanced rifles and artillery, and order Zhang Xiaoliu to stop the charge, feign defeat and retreat, and implement the No. 1 battle plan." ”

"Yes!" The commanding officer quickly went to deliver the order.

Li Weiguo couldn't sit still, and immediately pushed away the military doctor, didn't care about bandaging the remaining wounds, and hurriedly came to the small high ground of the headquarters, condescendingly, and looked at the entire battlefield.

The military doctor was trying to persuade him, but Su Sanniang immediately stopped him, took the gauze bandage in the other party's hand, came to Li Weiguo's side in person, and continued to bandage his wounds, looking at those wounds, although they were not serious, they seemed to hurt in her heart.

On the 30-kilometer-long front, more than 200,000 troops of the Shanghai army and the British and French allied forces fought each other, with great momentum and fierce battles.

When Zhang Xiaoliu received Li Weiguo's order, the Shanghai army vanguard had already been in close contact with the British and French army striker, and the two sides fought fiercely.

The Shanghai army dispatched the elite, after more than seven or eight years of rigorous training, with advanced bayonet fighting ability; The Anglo-French army was not weak, physically superior, plus it had just finished the Crimean War and had a lot of combat experience.

Both sides were the main elite, and when they fought together, they were suddenly extremely tragic, and more than 10,000 corpses fell in just half an hour, and the blood flowed like a river.

"Alternate cover retreat!"

Li Weiguo's order was conveyed to the battlefield, and the Shanghai army quickly and organized began to retreat.

When the British and French troops saw the retreat of the Shanghai army, they thought that the Shanghai army was afraid of them, and under the command of Scott, Bronce and other officers, the British and French troops tightly bit the Shanghai army's forward and wanted to eat it in one bite.

However, they were soon dumbfounded, only to see that the Shanghai soldiers retreated very fast, and the Shanghai soldiers who usually strengthened their armed off-road were best at running, and they were free from the entanglement of the British and French forces in the blink of an eye.

"Chase!"

Scott and Bronce gave the order almost in unison, Glo did not understand military affairs, but he was also happy to see that the Shanghai army seemed to be defeated, so he did not raise any objections.

As a result, the British and French forces then chased after them, and they were all very excited.

Soon, the Shanghai army withdrew to the intended position, which was a deep trench designed to defend against the cannons of the Anglo-French army.

Because the cannons used by the British and French forces at this time were basically completely direct-fire artillery, the shells flew fast and hit the target almost in a straight line.

Now that the Shanghai army is engaged in field battles with the British and French forces, there is no city wall to protect them, and the Shanghai soldiers are easily injured by this direct artillery fire.

Therefore, for the first time, Li Weiguo took out the classic trench tactics during World War I as a secret weapon to deal with the high-powered cannons of the British and French forces.

I saw that the soldiers of the Shanghai army quickly jumped into the trenches, and then launched a counterattack, and in an instant, rows of bullets were fired at the British and French troops who were chasing after them.

Bang bang......

The soldiers of the Shanghai Army lying in the trench opened fire fiercely, and at this time, the British and French troops standing in the distance became live targets, and they were shot and killed one after another.

Scott and Bronce were also surprised, but the first time they saw this tactic, they didn't think of a way to deal with it, but just ordered the infantry to continue to charge, and strive to rush forward for a white-knuckle battle, overwhelming the Shanghai army with a numerical advantage.

At the same time, the artillery of the Anglo-French forces also shifted their positions and again shelled the positions of the Shanghai army.

However, the Anglo-French cannon did not seem to be doing much, and the direct fire artillery to attack the trenches below the horizon was obviously not very effective.

From the telescope, Scott soon saw that the Shanghai soldiers in the trench had suffered few major casualties.

"Fire!"

At this time, the artillery positions of the Shanghai army also completed the transfer of positions. When the British and French artillery opened fire, the Shanghai artillery found their position, and some of them suppressed their fire, and the other part of the artillery carried out artillery fire on the charging British and French troops.

Boom Boom Boom ......

The exposed British and French soldiers had no shelter to resist the shells of the Shanghai army, and they were blown up on their backs in an instant, suffering heavy casualties.

After an hour of attacking, Scott and Bronce's faces finally changed, more than 30,000 British and French troops were killed and wounded, and the Shanghai soldiers on the opposite side suffered very few casualties because they were lying in the trenches.

The original decisive battle between the two sides in the field, in fact, the Shanghai army hid in the trenches, and it turned into an offensive and defensive battle, and it was obvious that the British and French forces as the attacking side suffered a big loss.

"Stop attacking!" (To be continued......)