Chapter 251 The first day of junior high school continues to beat the British and French little pot friends to greet everyone for the New Year!

Kill! Kill! Kill!

The sound of killing in the sky above Bailian Town shook the sky, and the 358th Regiment fought with thousands of British and French troops, with red bayonets and fierce fighting.

It is inconceivable that the bayonet fighting technique that Westerners should be best at has become more aggressive in the hands of the Easterners, and it is incredible that the physically strong Westerners have suffered a loss when they fight with the relatively weak Orientals.

"How is that possible?"

Payne and his friends were stunned, the tall British and French soldiers couldn't do the short Orientals, and they couldn't even do a one-to-one exchange, and nearly 4,000 people couldn't kill the other party's 1,500 people, which was also too embarrassing.

"Don't push back!"

"Kill me!"

Payne roared and drove back the soldiers who tried to retreat, but it only lasted half a minute before his men were beaten back again.

To be exact, they were completely frightened, because they had never seen such a fierce army, and the bayonet fighting skills were so superb that the British and French troops were playing with a big knife in front of the 358th Regiment as if Guan Gong was playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong, which was a huge gap between recruits and instructors, which caused heavy casualties to the British and French troops.

What collapsed the British and French troops even more was that when the soldiers of the 358th Regiment were about to die, they directly pulled the radium on their bodies, pulled the British and French soldiers around him as cushions, and buried themselves in the explosion together.

Does this Nima dare to be more ferocious!

The retreating British and French soldiers panicked and called the 358th Regiment the devil.

In a fierce battle, the 358th Regiment annihilated more than 6,000 enemies with more than 1,500 people, and lost more than half of its own, which can be called tragic.

Payne retreated with the remnants of his army, fearing that the 358th Regiment would take advantage of the victory and counterattack.

It's just that what Payne didn't know was that at this moment, the 358th Regiment was also running out of oil and running out of lights, repelling the advance team of the British and French forces. Having completed the task on time, the regimental commander then ordered a retreat.

Liu Qi, the commander of the first battalion, fought the most fiercely, and personally created a brilliant record of fighting and killing 25 enemy soldiers, but he was also seriously injured and carried off on a stretcher.

"Regiment commander, will our battalion show its face today?" Liu Qi pulled the placket of the regiment leader and asked.

"How's your injury?" The head of the regiment did not answer, but cared.

"Regiment commander, will our battalion show its face today?" Liu Qi insisted on begging for nothing.

The regiment commander had no choice but to say: "Show your face, you still have your battalion, I will ask you for first-class merit when I go back!" ”

According to the standards of military merit of the Nanyang Army. In any battle, if more than half of the casualties are suffered or the enemy is destroyed several times, the collective first-class merit can be awarded.

Obviously, in this battle, the first battalion played a majestic battle, and the results of the battle have exceeded the role of the battalion-level unit, and it is natural to award the collective first-class meritorious service.

Liu Qi was so happy that he suddenly touched the wound and passed out in pain.

When Payne realizes that he missed a good chance to return to White Lotus again. The 358th regiment had already withdrawn.

Payne was furious and led thousands of remnants of British and French troops to chase after him, but he was ambushed by the 358th Regiment and suffered heavy casualties.

Payne is cunning, though. When the main Allied forces arrived, Klaus and Raymond asked about the battle, but Payne lied that he had been stubbornly blocked by the 129th Division. Although it lost six or seven thousand people, it inflicted heavy losses on the 129th Division and opened up the strategic point of Bailian Town.

Klaus and Raymond naturally didn't know the truth. Instead of blaming Payne for losing too many troops, he rewarded Payne for encouragement.

"A whole 129th Division was actually crippled by our vanguard army, and the Nanyang Army is really weak!" Klaus laughed wildly, the victory in the Battle of White Lotus Town made the British and French forces open the important wharf on the east bank of the Huangpu River at once, which was crucial to the next operation.

Hearing Klaus's words, Payne felt very ashamed and wanted to tell Klaus that he had not disabled the 129th Division, and was even blocked by only a 358th Regiment, losing six or seven thousand people, and the other party was only the second-line troops of the Nanyang Army. Even the second-line troops of the Nanyang Army are so powerful, so how murderous will the regular troops of the Nanyang Army be?

Payne didn't dare to think about it, looking at Klaus and the others still looking down on the Nanyang Army, Payne wanted to tell them the truth and prevent the entire British and French alliance from being defeated because of the light enemy, repeating the fiasco of the last Battle of Songhu, but when the words came to his mouth, Payne still couldn't speak, and finally just sighed, people don't kill for themselves.

At this time, Klaus and Raymond had reached an agreement, and the army quickly advanced along the east bank of the Huangpu River, looking for a suitable place to cross the river and prepare to cross the river to attack the downtown area of Shanghai on the south bank of the Huangpu River.

Claus and Raymond concentrated 100,000 troops to advance southward, preparing to capture the Jinshanwei fortress, open the sea passage between the Huangpu River and Hangzhou Bay, and connect the British and French fleets into the Huangpu River, and cooperate with the British and French forces to attack Shanghai.

The British and French forces set up artillery and shelled the downtown area of Shanghai on the south bank of the Huangpu River, in a vain attempt to deter the will of the Shanghai army and people to resist. However, soon the Huangpu River patrol fleet arrived and attacked the artillery positions of the British and French forces.

The two sides fought fiercely many times, and each other won and lost.

In the end, the artillery of the Anglo-French army was forced to relocate, abandoning the attack on this side of the city, but moving to other places, and continued to repeat the shelling of the city.

Such a tug-of-war was only delaying time and concealing the true intention of the main force of the British and French forces to leave the Huangpu River and go straight to the Jinshanwei fortress.

However, Klaus never expected that at this moment, more than a dozen elite main forces of the Nanyang Army had been assembled in the Jinshanwei Fortress, including the first army with whom Li Weiguo started the first and was known as the elite of the Nanyang Army.

This time, Zhang Xiaoliu personally supervised the battle, and Li Weiguo appointed him as the commander of the First Front Army, under the jurisdiction of the first town, the ninth town, the tenth town, the eleventh town, the seventeenth town, the eighteenth town, the nineteenth town, and the twenty-sixth town, 30,000 soldiers of Jinshanwei Town, 10,000 soldiers of Hangzhou Town, 10,000 soldiers of Fengxian Town, and 3,000 garrisons of Shanghai Town, with a total strength of more than 153,000 people.

The information that Klaus got was outdated, and he thought that Jinshanwei only had 30,000 troops to defend the town, so he dared to attack Jinshanwei Fortress with 100,000 British and French troops and heavy siege artillery.

Since the defeat at the last Battle of Songhu, the British and French military have been studying the reasons for the defeat, and finally summed up the reasons for insufficient equipment and insufficient preparation for war, including the fact that the British and French forces did not prepare heavy artillery for attacking the fortifications around Shanghai.

But this time it was a long-planned retaliatory action by Britain and France, and in order to capture Shanghai, it was necessary to uproot the Wusongkou Fortress and Jinshanwei Fortress Forts that defended Shanghai. Therefore, Britain and France prepared 4 100-pounder British fortress guns and 6 280 mm French fortress guns respectively to destroy the fortress fortifications.

Klaus and Raymond can be said to be well prepared, but unfortunately Zhang Xiaoliu in Jinshanwei Fortress is also well prepared.

At noon the next day, 100,000 British and French troops arrived at the Jinshanwei fortress, and Klaus and Raymond immediately ordered the siege of the city, in order to give the defenders of the Jinshanwei fortress a dismount.

Without waiting for the British and French forces to prepare, Zhang Xiaoliu ordered the artillery of Jinshanwei Fortress to open fire and bombard the enemy who was slowly approaching from a long distance.

Knock knock!

The long-range large-caliber main guns on the batteries of the Jinshanwei fortress opened fire, and one 280-millimeter caliber shell fired at the British and French forces, exploding with a bang. In an instant, a great earthquake trembled, dust flew, and huge mushroom clouds rose into the sky.

The blast wave of the explosion wrapped in sand and gravel, like a sandstorm, and swept the British and French soldiers into the air, falling dozens of meters away.

What a scary fortress cannon!

The soldiers of the British and French forces were terrified.

Klaus was speechless, he wanted to give the Jinshan Guard a dismount, but unexpectedly, they made the first move, and came first to take down the horse.

"Don't panic. We also have cannons! ”

"Engineer team speed, put our siege artillery mounted."

Large-caliber artillery is not easy to move, and the large-caliber siege artillery brought by the British and French forces also needs to be assembled. It was even necessary to improvise gun mounts and bases before attacking.

This takes time, obviously the defenders of the Jinshanwei fortress will not give the enemy time, how can the enemy easily set up the siege artillery?

Boom! Boom! Boom!

280-mm fortress guns fired. Every time a shell falls and explodes, it is like an earthquake of magnitude 8, and the mountains shake.

The batteries of the Anglo-French army were constantly blown up. The sappers suffered heavy casualties.

Klaus complained, they are all 280 mm caliber, why the British and French 280 mm guns can only hit 3 km, but the 280 mm guns of the Jinshanwei fortress can hit 6 km?

It is true that the Jinshanwei Fortress has a geographical advantage, but it would be good to increase the range by 1 km at most, and it is unscientific to increase the range by a full 3 km.

Klaus didn't know that the propellant used in the guns of the Jinshanwei Fortress was a ladder NT, which was far more powerful than the hey poison used by the British and French forces.

Raymond frowned and said: "There must be some secret we don't know about this artillery, whether it is the power of the explosion or the range far beyond us, the problem should be the propellant." ”

Marin smiled bitterly: "It's a pity that we didn't get their propellant at the beginning, it is said to be smokeless gunpowder, in our Europe, this smokeless gunpowder is still unstable, it is easy to explode, and the cost is high, so our army has not been equipped." ”

"Now is not the time to discuss this issue, let's think about how to push our siege guns into range!" Klaus interrupts Raymond and Marin's conversation.

Raymond nodded, he knew the priorities, so he said: "It's very simple, send troops to attack from the flank, the enemy's artillery fire will definitely be diverted, just take the opportunity to advance the siege artillery to within range." ”

Klaus nodded, felt that it was feasible, and immediately ordered it to be carried out.

Tens of thousands of Anglo-French troops began to attack the Jinshanwei fortress from the flank, but it was useless, because there were enough troops and artillery in the Jinshanwei fortress, and there was no need to call the main guns of the large-caliber fortress, and it was enough to be close to some infantry guns.

Soon, the Anglo-French forces were constantly repulsed, suffering heavy casualties.

Klaus made a black line, but fortunately, the siege gun was assembled and took the opportunity to advance into range.

"Attack!"

With the help of heavy siege artillery, the British and French troops who had been repulsed suddenly rose in morale and reorganized the attack.

The 280 mm guns of the Jinshanwei fortress were a great threat to the Anglo-French forces, but the heavy siege guns of the British and French forces were also a great threat to the fortifications of the Jinshanwei fortress.

Sure enough, as soon as the cannon sounded, it shook the earth, and many fortifications of Jinshanwei Fortress were quickly destroyed by the heavy siege artillery of the British and French forces.

Looking at the British and French allied forces, Zhang Xiaoliu snorted coldly, and immediately ordered all towns to assemble behind the fortress, and then went to the flank battlefield of the Anglo-French allied army, preparing for a field battle.

"Report, the Jinshan Guard defenders have taken the initiative to fight a field battle with our army!"

"What? Is there such a good thing? ”

Klaus was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed, he was worried about how to break through the Jinshanwei fortress, even if there were ten large-caliber siege guns, he would have to pay a considerable price to break the city. Now that the defenders of Jinshanwei have taken the initiative to fight in the field, there is no better news for Klaus.

"Why did the defenders of the Jinshan Guard abandon the fortifications of the fortress and take the initiative to engage in a field battle with us, this is not scientific!" Raymond was more cautious and raised his doubts.

"What else could it be? It must have been frightened to see our heavy caliber siege artillery! You must know that even the strongest fortifications can hardly withstand the bombardment of 280 mm heavy guns. ”

"But they are stupid and take the initiative to fight us in the field, and they are no different from sending them to death."

Klaus and Marin said excitedly.

Raymond couldn't think of any problems for a while, and could only trust Klaus and Marin's judgment.

"Line up!"

"Let's teach the Orientals how to fight!"

"Let's teach those yellow people a lesson and wash away the shame of the Battle of Songhu!"

Klaus, Raymond and others made a pre-war mobilization order, and then mobilized a large army to line up and attack the Nanyang Army out of the city.

The artillery of both sides exchanged fierce fire, and both wanted to be the first to destroy the other side's artillery positions.

This time Klaus brought more than 500 infantry support guns, and after the imitation and upgrade of the Type 59 infantry guns, the infantry guns used by the British and French forces also became rear-loaded, and the firing speed was almost equal to that of the Nanyang Army.

However, because of the short imitation time, Britain and France only succeeded in copying 80 mm caliber infantry guns, which had a certain advantage over the 75 mm infantry guns equipped by the Nanyang Army at the moment. Unfortunately, they never expected that the infantry support artillery of the Nanyang Army was more advanced, and already had 125 mm infantry guns and 155 mm heavy howitzers.

At the beginning of the artillery battle between the two sides, they were fighting hard, gathering about two kilometers together, and killing in the dark.

Vaguely, the artillery superiority of the Nanyang Army became more and more obvious, and the artillery fire of the British and French forces became weaker and weaker.

Klaus and Raymond looked at each other, both feeling shocked and troubled, but instead of halting the infantry attack, they ordered to intensify the assault and try to crush the Nanyang Army in one fell swoop before the two sides could decide the victory or defeat in the artillery battle.

Bang Bang Bang! Bang Bang Bang!

Gunshots rained down.

When the Nanyang Army and the British and French forces gathered at a distance of 100 meters, they opened fire one after another, and both sides were equipped with new rifles, and their combat effectiveness was almost the same. However, the Anglo-French army was the attacking side, and the Nanyang Army was the defending side, so the casualties of the former were relatively more.

But Klaus didn't care, he saw that the strength of the Nanyang Army was only tens of thousands, and he thought that the entire defenders in the Jinshanwei fortress had come out, and they were happy to annihilate the other party in one fell swoop, and he didn't care about the cost of casualties.

The two sides are getting closer and closer, and the British and French forces are getting more and more excited, and they seem to have regained their self-confidence and washed away the shame of the year.

However, just when the two armies gathered more than 20 meters away, the Nanyang Army suddenly began to retreat, and the garrison from the Shanghai Town Guard Mansion showed their secret weapons, a mighty Gatling machine gun lined up one after another, and the main shooter began to aim, the first first archer raised a long arch chain, and the second archer held the crank and waited for the order.

The Nanyang Army quickly jumped to the rear, leaving enough range for the Gatling machine guns to fire.

"Ready—"

"Shoot!" (To be continued.) )