After the Shanghai Army Headquarters learned that the British and French allied forces had destroyed the water radium defense in Dinghai County with fishing nets, Li Weiguo was also taken aback, and hurriedly summoned the relevant person in charge of the water radium working group of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to ask for a solution.

However, he was soon disappointed, the current research and development of water radium by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau only stays at the level of trigger detonation technology, and it is impossible for them to develop more advanced electromagnetic, radio proximity and other trigger detonation devices, at least in terms of current technical knowledge reserves.

Li Weiguo can only be regarded as the Anglo-French alliance has gone through shit luck, if the manufacture of water radium is more advanced, they will not want to use fishing nets to destroy water radium.

"In fact, as long as the anchor radium fixed in the sea is discovered by foreign devils, it has lost its value. Because even if the foreign devils don't use fishing nets to destroy it, they only need to take a detour to avoid it, after all, in such a large sea area, we can't arrange all the places with water radium. ”

"You're right!"

Li Weiguo thinks about it, although water radium is the best cost-effective weapon for weak countries to deal with maritime powers, it is not omnipotent, and it also has limitations.

At this time, Wu Yong, who had not spoken, spoke: "My lord, foreign devils sweep water radium during the day, and we can secretly arrange water radium at night." If the Anglo-French forces had focused all their energies on removing the radium we had laid out, it would probably not have been completed in a year and a half, and what they lacked most was time, wouldn't they? ”

"That's right!"

Li Weiguo's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "The most lacking thing for the British and French forces is time, they have traveled 20,000 miles from Europe to expedition against us, which is absolutely unaffordable, and what we lack the most is time, which we can afford." ”

Wu Yong smiled: "My lord can understand this, the water radium tactics we laid out are effective." Besides, we have a lot of new weapons and equipment, and it is estimated that the British and French forces should launch a landing operation on Dinghai County at this time, and there is a radium array waiting for them! ”

Li Weiguo also smiled: "That's right. They have passed the water radium level, and we still have the earth radium array, hoping to surprise them and achieve unexpected results. ”

As soon as the words fell, a communications staff officer in the confidential room reported in, carrying the latest telegram from the Ningbo government.

Li Weiguo saw that the person who came was not Su Sanniang, who he had been thinking about for a long time, so he asked, "Why didn't your secretary general come?" ”

The communications staff officer suddenly hesitated and said, "The secretary general has other things!" ”

It was also in vain to ask, although Su Sanniang was forced by Li Weiguo to serve as his confidential secretary general, the relationship between the two has always been very ambiguous, so Su Sanniang always avoided Li Weiguo.

Wu Yong smiled. He took the telegram from the communications staff officer, read it and sent the other party away.

"My lord, the latest battle report of Dinghai County, after the British and French forces broke through the radium array in the coastal waters, they sent more than 40 warships to carry out saturation artillery bombardment on Dinghai County, and then launched a beach-rushing landing. However, the commander of the Dinghai garrison, Brigadier Zheng Guohong, voluntarily abandoned the beachhead, and then the British and French troops landed successfully. ”

Li Weiguo said: "The beachhead is facing the artillery bombardment of the enemy fleet, and it is impossible to carry the naval guns with infantry artillery, and it is difficult to defend, and the gains outweigh the losses. Zheng Guohong's abandonment of the beachhead is also understandable. ”

Wu Yong agreed. Continue to read: "After occupying the beachhead, the British and French troops marched towards Dinghai County, but were attacked and harassed by our army squads on the way, blocked by the Earth Radium Array, and suffered hundreds of casualties. Before the cut-off of power generation. The Anglo-French forces launched several tests on our army's ground radium array, but failed to break through. ”

"That's good news!" Li Weiguo said with a smile.

Wu Yong sighed: "It's a pity that the foreign devils only sent a small force into the Earth Radium Array, if they enter the Earth Radium Array with a large army, the Earth Radium Array will definitely be able to severely damage them." It would take at least a few thousand of them to get there. ”

Li Weiguo said: "Don't look at the foreign devils, they are not stupid, they can fight all the way from Europe to Far East Asia." It's capable. ”

Wu Yong said to himself: "I don't know how long the Earth Radium Array can trap them next?" ”

"Our radium is similar to radium water, the technical content is limited, and there are a lot of capable people among the foreigners, and it is estimated that they will soon be able to come up with a coping strategy."

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "Dinghai is just a small battlefield for our side to test the strength of the British and French coalition forces, we invest a brigade of troops, and the British and French coalition forces will not invest too many troops, they are also testing our strength, the final battle will not be Dinghai County, but Shanghai and Beijing." ”

Wu Yong asked: "If the Anglo-French alliance fails to attack Shanghai, will they go north to attack Beijing again?" ”

"That's for sure!" Li Weiguo said with great certainty: "Didn't they go north to attack Beijing immediately after suffering a loss in Shanghai last time!" They successfully forced Xianfeng to sign the Tianjin Treaty with them, and there are lessons from the past, and this time it must be the same. ”

Wu Yong thought about it and said: "No wonder the Lord will send the Fourth Town north to lurk near the capital in advance, it turns out that everything is under the control of the Lord, admire and admire!" ”

I usually drink too much and vomit!

Li Weiguo just wanted to say this sentence, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed it back, because his daughter-in-law Fu Shanxiang had been reminding him to pay attention to his words when he spoke, after all, he was already the governor of Liangjiang, and he had to have majesty and demeanor in front of his subordinates, and his usual mantra could not be said nonsense in front of his subordinates.

"Today's achievements are thanks to you sages who are by my side on weekdays and often urge me to study!"

It is rare that Li Weiguo can be humble once, and Wu Yong is even more satisfied with him in his heart.

Outside Dinghai County, with a series of loud noises, more than a dozen ground radium exploded, killing most of the hundreds of British and French troops who came to test, and the rest fled back in embarrassment.

On the sea, the flagship of the coalition army looked upstairs, and the senior commanders such as Erjin and Glo had solemn faces.

"If this continues, the fighting spirit of the soldiers will be completely lost!"

"What can I do? There is radium everywhere, do you want me to use the lives of my soldiers to go to radium? ”

"Then you can't just wait?"

"Yes, our navy and army have a total of more than 220,000 people, and the daily consumption of various materials such as grain, fresh water, coal, and medicine is an astronomical amount.

"Damn, we finally got the water radium, and there are mines coming out again, will there be thunderstorms when we attack the city?"

The crowd soon began to argue, and the quarrel made Ergin and Glo's heads several times bigger.

Ultimately. An engineer said: "The Shanghai Army's ground radium and water radium are the same principle, both are triggered explosion weapons, probably because they have just been invented, their ground radium and water radium are relatively rough workmanship, using the most primitive trigger explosive device." I have carefully studied it, and I can use shells of more than 32 pounds to blast a passage to the county seat of Dinghai. ”

Ergin nodded and said: "Our intelligence department was destroyed half a year ago, and before that, we didn't know that the Shanghai army had weapons such as ground radium and water radium, presumably they were indeed developed recently, and their production capacity will definitely not be too much, and the focus will be used to guard the surrounding areas of Shanghai." Although Dinghai is important, there will not be too many, maybe the shelling will work! ”

Ergin had no better way, so he immediately nodded in agreement.

As a result, with a wave of the flag, the battleships of the British and French coalition forces loaded their shells again and began carpet shelling on the official road outside Dinghai City.

Knock knock knock!

The Anglo-French fleet launched a fierce artillery bombardment, which was so great that the mountains shook in an instant. The entire Dinghai County was filled with a sea of fire, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, covering the sky and the sun.

Such a large-scale artillery bombardment immediately alarmed Zheng Guohong in the city. He hurriedly climbed the drum tower and observed the movements of the enemy troops through his binoculars.

"Look, the foreign devils took the wrong medicine and didn't attack the city wall. Instead, they hit all the shells in the open space outside the city! ”

Hearing the shouts of the Shanghai soldiers beside him, Zheng Guohong almost thought so, but soon found that the ground radium buried outside the city had been detonated by the shelling. It also exploded along with it.

"It's not good, foreign devils, this is using cannonballs to rip radium!"

"Damn, foreign devils are shrewd enough, they can come up with this kind of bad trick!"

"Inform the brethren to prepare for battle, the foreign devils will soon attack the city in a big way!"

After Zheng Guohong complained a few words, he immediately realized that the war was about to start and hurriedly deployed.

Sure enough, half an hour later, the naval artillery fire of the British and French forces began to extend, and a large number of shells began to pour onto the city wall of Dinghai County.

This was artillery cover, followed by thousands of British infantry rapidly approaching Dinghai County.

None of these British soldiers wore traditional bow hats, but their heads were wrapped in white cloth, like a lump of white, which was none other than the Indian Sikh soldiers.

Obviously, this is a cannon fodder unit, and the British commander used them to test whether there was any residual ground radium that had not been detonated, and also used them to test the distribution of the firepower of the Shanghai army in Dinghai County.

"Report the distance!"

"Eighteen hundred meters!"

"Let the city cannon prepare!"

"Fifteen hundred meters!"

"Fire!"

The order was given, and twenty British 24-pounder guns on the east city of Dinghai County opened fire one after another.

Knock knock!

The shells whistled and exploded in the ranks of Indian Sikh infantry, causing them to run wild.

On the small high ground in the distance, Lieutenant General Scott saw through the telescope the positions of artillery fire in Dinghai County, and he immediately smiled.

"The Qing army is always so stupid, exposing its artillery position so early!"

"Order the 4th Mountain Artillery Regiment to quickly lock on to the enemy's artillery position and teach them a hard lesson!"

With Scott's order, the British 4th Mountain Artillery Regiment ambushed in the recess of the right flank quickly prepared artillery fire, a total of 120 mountain guns, and the muzzles of the guns were aimed at the positions of the Shanghai artillery in Dinghai County.

Knock knock knock!

The British mountain artillery opened fire, firing shells at the large elevation angle of the pit, causing the shells to have a certain curvature and fall on the city.

In an instant, more than 100 shells accurately hit the artillery position of the Shanghai army on the head of the city, exploding violently, and a cloud of fiery red mushrooms was raised.

More than half of the 20 artillery pieces on the head of the city were blown up in an instant, but fortunately, these artillery pieces were not the infantry guns of the 29th Brigade, but the artillery that had been eliminated earlier, otherwise more than half of the artillery would have been destroyed, and Zheng Guohong would definitely have to die of distress.

"The artillery of the foreign devils is really powerful, and most of them were killed in one salvo!"

"But it's impossible to eat the same loss for the second time!"

"This time, I will let you also taste the power of Lao Tzu's artillery regiment!"

On the drum tower, Zheng Guohong sneered, he suffered a big loss from the British artillery regiment in the first opium @ film war, so this time he did not let the 29th Brigade artillery regiment take the lead in firing the artillery, but put some bait out, and sure enough, the British artillery regiment was fooled.

"To the southeast, at 1,800 meters, hundreds of points of light and pillars of smoke, it is preliminarily determined where at least one British artillery regiment is! The opponent's artillery could not be directly observed, and it was estimated that it was hidden in the hollow. ”

Zheng Guohong snorted coldly and said, "Do you think we can't beat them if we hide in the hollow?" ”

The Shanghai Army's Type 59 infantry guns could fire grenades with curved ballistics because of their short barrels, so even if they were hidden in the hollows, they could not escape the blow.

"Great, speed fire, you must take their dog days!"

"Yes!"

The herald waved the command flag, and the 58th Artillery Regiment of the 29th Brigade, hidden behind the city walls, began to prepare fire.

First of all, the first shell was more than 100 meters away from the point of impact, the second shell was more than 50 meters closer, and the third shell was corrected and fell less than 10 meters away from the British mountain artillery regiment.

At a distance of ten meters, for a salvo of artillery fire, it was enough.

"Fire!"

Knock knock knock!

One hundred and eight Type 59 infantry guns fired a salvo, and the shells whistled and fired at the British mountain artillery positions.

Bang bang!

A 70-millimeter shell exploded violently, and the huge explosion power instantly swept through the lives within a distance of more than ten meters around it.

The British mountain artillery regiment was suddenly bombarded, which made Lieutenant General Scott dumbfounded.

"W-what's going on?"

"Haven't their artillery been crippled by us?"

Scott was stunned, only to see a bright parabola drawn in the sky over Dinghai County again, and a whistling sound followed.

"How is that possible? This cannon is also too fast! ”

In just half a minute, the second round of artillery salvos from the Shanghai artillery came over, which instantly subverted Scott's understanding of traditional front-loading artillery.

He can't understand it anymore!

No, he didn't have time to understand!

Because he found that the position of his mountain artillery regiment was already in a sea of fire, and the sound of explosions was endless, except for the explosion of shells falling from the air, the British artillerymen, who had always despised the Shanghai army, placed shells and propellants very casually, and the results were all detonated.

In an instant, the entire mountain artillery regiment's position shook, the flames were surging, and the smoke covered the sky and the sun.

In just a few minutes, the 58th Artillery Regiment of the Shanghai Army poured ten rounds of shells on the position of the British Mountain Artillery Regiment, totaling 1,080 shells, destroying the entire British Mountain Artillery Regiment, and none of the more than 1,500 British artillery soldiers survived, and even the corpses were blown apart, even if they came to the, they would not recognize it.

It's really miserable!

The Indian Sikh soldiers who were marching towards Dinghai County were all stunned by the loud explosion, and they were a little overwhelmed by the constant tremors of the earthquake under their feet.

At this moment, the 58th Artillery Regiment of the Shanghai Army adjusted its muzzle and began shelling the Indian Sikhs.

Hearing the whistling sound overhead, these Indian Sikh soldiers were immediately dumbfounded, and they turned around and ran back, but they still couldn't outrun the shells, and were soon given a free ticket home.

Half an hour later, Scott gathered the remnants of his army on the seashore, and the 3,000 Sikhs fled back with less than 1,000 men, and more than 2,000 were killed by the horrific shelling, and not a single person from the mountain artillery regiment returned, and the whole army was wiped out.

With such a huge loss, Scott's face was gloomy, and he glanced back at the flagship on the sea, as if he sensed that the commander-in-chief above was pointing at him and scolding.

"Fack!"

Scott cursed, and then sighed, like a defeated rooster, sitting on the beach in a daze. (To be continued......)