"It's time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info," Webb said.

Shepard turned to his left and looked at an advisor named Todd. "Signal?"

"Wait...... See, beautiful fireworks! He called, and then said, "You can get started, Shepard." ”

Shepard stood up and, along with Webb and a few other advisers, walked up to the interpreters and the New Army officers who were whispering in a circle, and announced to them, "Go on, gentlemen. ”

The Forces nouvelles officers quickly fell silent. Without saying anything, they immediately turned and walked out of the command; This was followed by Webb and several consultants. "Major, keep an eye on our ass, don't let the Germans touch it." They laughed loudly, joked, and walked out the door of the command.

Outside, the soldiers had been assembled under the orders of the officers - including one hundred cavalry and seven hundred infantry, in accordance with the orders issued in advance, two infantry battle groups of equal size and one cavalry battle group - and seeing that the advisers had appeared, they began to march outward along the passage between the trenches and the barbed wire.

This process took some time, and as soon as the last cavalry left the passage, it was immediately sealed, and at the same time the troops were divided into three parts: one infantry battle group continued to advance, the other turned to the right, and they were clearly aiming at Alpha and Beta; The cavalry battle group turned to the left and hid in the woods near the headquarters.

This arrangement was quite confusing to the chief referee - Captain Harris was a typical British soldier, which meant that his tactical thinking was more rigid than that of his German counterpart, and of course the captain had not lost his basic judgment, so he felt that the Americans' arrangement was tantamount to telling the adversary, "I have nothing at home, come and kick my ass" - the problem was that two hundred infantry could never hold off two hundred cavalry, even if they were hiding in a trench.

Captain Harris didn't see what the barbed wire could do, and he cast a regretful look at Mahan and Yi Shui, while Ryusuke Ito seemed in a happy mood.

"Mr. Nakasa, it looks like your advisor is about to lose." As a referee, he shouldn't have said that, but Yi Shui didn't care.

"Whoever has the last laugh will laugh the best." He shrugged his shoulders and went back to listening to the reports on the dynamics of the battlefield.

The arrangements of the Germans also became quite clear, and instead of immediately sending infantry, Graberman sent thirty cavalrymen to three points to reconnoitre. For the referee and other observers, this is a safe thing to do, and it is worth affirming, but Yi Shui knows that Graberman is making mistakes.

His scout cavalry would soon find that Shepard and Webb had sent the vast majority of their forces, with only two hundred infantry left to defend Point X, and, in his and his colleagues' thinking, they would feel that this was an opportunity to win outright, and then attack with all their mobile forces—with two problems: first, barbed wire and trenches would cause their troops to suffer heavy losses; Secondly, because of too much confidence, they may forget to capture the last remaining Charlie Point, which will be fatal.

Without Charlie Point, the lost troops could not be "resurrected", but the more serious problem was that by the time the Germans attacked Point X directly, Charlie Point might have fallen into the hands of Shepard and Weber, and the battle would be over in thirty minutes, during which time the Germans would not be able to capture any point.

They don't have enough troops, and they ......

Yi Shui turned to a second lieutenant standing behind him and whispered, "Help me confirm if the troops sent by Mr. Shepard have brought shovels and sandbags." ”

"Understood, sir." The second lieutenant saluted and left.

Then he sat back down and continued to listen to the reports.

The rest of the time was a little dreary. Initially, Shepard's infantry and Geraberman's cavalry were on their way, and then, about five hundred yards from Beta, the Scout Cavalry met the first infantry battle group, and then the cavalry sent to Alpha met the infantry four hundred yards away.

Of course, no battles took place. Although the infantry immediately stopped advancing and lined up with bayonet formations after seeing the cavalry, both cavalry chose to retreat. Thirty to one, and the opponent is well-organized and determined, even the cavalry of European countries will not attack rashly, and the cavalry of the new army, which is still not good enough, is even more so.

Neither the referee nor the observers made any comments, except for Ryusuke Ito, who was laughing. "If it was a valiant Imperial Japanese cavalry, at least a tentative assault would have been launched."

Yi Shui knew that this was a speech aimed at him, otherwise Ito Shaozo would not have used broken Chinese, but this argument made no sense at all.

"Only the cowardly Qing cavalry will retreat directly" still does not make any sense.

Ito was a little discouraged, but wanted to try again. At this time, however, a new piece of news came. "The troops of the American advisers have occupied Alpha and Beta, and the soldiers are rushing to repair the fortifications."

"Rush to repair the fortifications?" The referees all looked confused, and Captain Harris almost screamed. "How to repair it?"

The officers were not unconceptualized about the construction of fortifications, although they scoffed at it. By standard understanding, the construction of fortifications was only the task of the sappers, and it took a great deal of time, at least a few hours, to dig trenches or anything else, during which time the German troops would have conquered these points - if they had decided to do so.

The problem, however, was that Webb and his comrades needed not a complete trench, but foxholes for a maximum of two soldiers—for which they purchased many shovels at their own expense and distributed them to the soldiers; But in addition to the foxholes, each soldier carried many small sandbags, and the dug up dirt was all packed up, piled up, and reinforced with sandbags to form a fortress that could be used improvised.

"Unless cavalry or someone uses field artillery to fire at these forts, a few soldiers hiding inside will be able to stop ten times more enemies." Webb told the interpreter that he would relay it to the officer. He was skeptical that they really understood, though, because the only expression on these guys' faces was a silly smile.

He shook his head, and continued, "Of course we also have a three-pounder field gun. But I'd prefer a couple of machine guns. ”

Still the same result. Then Weber realized that the Chinese basically did not know what a machine gun was, so he had to give up the idea of continuing to explain, waved the officer away, and turned to the position of point Y.

"Let's hope the Germans will act according to the pattern we expected." He drew a cross.

At this time, Geraberman was discussing with his colleagues the next course of action, whether to fight the Americans for the main points or to attack the American command directly. The opinions of the officers were not unanimous, with some advocating the direct destruction of the opponent, while others thought of the barbed wire fence in front of the American positions and felt that it might be safer to seize the key points.

After all, based on the results of the last time, the Americans had a greater probability of shrinking most of their forces behind barbed wire, seizing only a point with a small number of troops to prevent them from a direct victory.

The officers debated, and no one noticed when the interpreter had entered the room, but he was saying something to Geraberman, and the captain laughed. "Gentlemen, the argument can be over, let's attack point X directly."

"Why?"

"The scout cavalry brought back the news that the Americans had put three hundred and fifty men at the 'Adam' and 'Betty' points, so that they were left with only two hundred infantry and a hundred cavalry to defend Point X, and we could take it directly."

At first, the German advisers were all dumbfounded, and the stupidity of the Americans was something they had never expected, but then they began to get angry. "How can the Americans think that only two hundred infantry and a hundred cavalry can hold us back? Because they're all hiding in ditches? ”

"And barbed wire -- gentlemen, we're going to teach those Yankees a lesson." Grubeman waved a clenched fist and hissed in a hoarse voice. "Attack with the whole army and raze Point X."

As soon as his words fell, his colleagues sprang into action. It didn't take long for a force of two hundred cavalry, four hundred infantry, and four three-pounder field guns to begin advancing towards the enemy's headquarters.

The news quickly reached the ears of the referees and observers.

"I think we should go to point X and watch the game." Captain Harris announced. So everyone left their seats and began to move towards point X. In the process, more news is coming.

"German forces are approaching Beta Point."

"German troops occupy Beta Point, American forces disperse, casualties on both sides, zero."

"The German troops passed through the Beta point, leaving no troops to defend."

"U.S. forces regroup and recapture Beta Point."

"German troops are approaching point X."

When the last news came, the referees and advisers had actually seen the troops commanded by the German advisers, six hundred men, lined up in a neat formation in front of the barbed wire fence of the Americans, and the field guns were also pushed forward. But more attention was directed to the positions of the Americans: barbed wire, trenches, fortifications piled up with sandbags, soldiers who were hurrying into their positions...... A thorough tortoise shell.

"A cowardly soldier led by a cowardly officer." Ryusuke Ito was still grunting, but that was the unanimous opinion of the judges.

And another completely unanimous opinion is that the Germans want to conquer the positions of the Americans, which will seem difficult. In addition to the positions themselves, there were also the cavalry of the Americans.

"Did the Germans inspect the nearby woods?" Another British referee asked Harris, and the captain shook his head slowly.

"I now think that Americans are actually very cunning." But now it was too late, he added, and the Germans had already begun to attack.

The first was the shelling, and at the same time the infantry began to fire a volley of guns, but it was obvious to everyone that there was no point at all, the soldiers under the command of the Americans were all hiding in the trenches, and neither shells nor bullets could hurt them. Even if Ryusuke Ito wanted to come up with a number, he could only shake his head and sigh now.

"A cowardly soldier led by a cowardly officer." He repeated.

"Cowardly Yankee!" Captain Graberman cursed as well, and then ordered: "Infantry and artillery stop firing, cavalry charge!" ”

The carefully selected 200 cavalry was his greatest reliance, in contrast, the Americans not only selected 100 cavalry, but they were all ordinary characters. Now, hoping that these cavalry would bring him a breakthrough, Graberman watched intently as the cavalry slowly moved forward, watched them gradually accelerate, watched them rush to the positions of the Americans, and watched them ...... Abruptly stopped in front of the barbed wire.

The cavalrymen had to stop their advance, and even if they did not, their mounts would have stopped at a very obvious obstacle and threw them over the barbed wire—and indeed there were people who were so unlucky as to fall on the barbed wire and scream after scream; Only a handful of horsemen skilled enough to maneuver their horses to make a perfect leap, but they soon found themselves trapped, caught between two barbed wires, unable to move forward or backward.

To make matters worse, the enemy had poked a head out of the trench where they were hiding and fired wildly at them with their rifles. Although they fired blank shells and didn't actually kill people, the referees were counting the death toll.

"I think ......," said Ryusuke Ito first, with great reluctance, "the cavalry lost twenty percent." ”

"At least thirty percent." Another referee, a Russian lieutenant, said, "You only count the cavalrymen caught in the middle of the barbed wire and those who fell on the barbed wire, but the bullet can't just hit them." ”

"Yes, and I think the soldiers' hit rate should be increased a little bit, at least forty percent." The third referee said, and the English referee who asked Harris the question just now agreed.

In the end, all eyes are on Harris, and everything depends only on his judgment. The captain thought for a moment. "Forty percent." He decided to agree with his comrades, partially, "but if the cavalry still stands there stupidly, I will judge them to be annihilated." ”

The gaze was turned back to the cavalry, however, only some of the cavalry retreated to the starting point, and the rest did not retreat, but circled around the barbed wire, trying to find a breakthrough. As a result, all these cavalrymen were "killed".

"Eighty-three percent of your cavalry has been lost." Grubanean was so angry that he was told the heralds: perhaps this should have been regarded as a bad omen, but he was disgraced - the observers from seven countries were watching, and there were Frenchmen among them!

And there were also calls for retreat. "Since we can't break through the positions of the Americans, perhaps we should seize a point and resurrect our cavalry."

"No, we should try again with infantry." Graberman gritted his teeth and said, "The infantry should be able to get through, and the Americans will let their soldiers hide while we fire, which can buy some time." ”

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure retreating now will make us look stupid."

In fact, it was the real stupidity to continue the attack, but at the insistence of Captain Geraberman, the infantry nevertheless advanced under the cover of artillery. This is a sign of a fiasco, Yi Shui shook his head secretly, the firepower of four three-pounder field guns is too much, and this kind of artillery is a flat-fire gun, and no one can block it in front of the trajectory, that is to say, all the shells fell on both sides of the infantry ranks, but the soldiers in the trenches were on the front of the infantry...... Shelling did not work at all.

At such times, mortars are most suitable for use. Yi Shui thought for a while, this may bring a new business opportunity, in addition to the Chinese army, the military of other countries can also consider licensed production.

He thought more carefully, and his attention was temporarily off the battlefield, anyway, what was happening had been expected for a long time: the infantry was also blocked by barbed wire, and they could neither step over it, nor bypass it, nor pass through it. When someone tried to crawl from below, the barbs on the barbed wire immediately hung on their clothes, making them neither forward nor backward, as the cavalry had just done.

And the soldiers on the other side are also constantly shooting, not stopping for a moment, and the number of casualties counted by the referees is rising.

Finally, when Geraberman gave the order to retreat and all the soldiers left the effective range of the rifles, that figure had risen to fifty-five percent.

And it was a discounted figure - Ito insisted that the shooting accuracy of the Chinese soldiers should not be too high.

"But even so, the Germans still lost." Captain Harris said.

"It's just the first round." Shao Zuo said.

Harris did not want to say more, but the French major among the observers laughed. "You obviously haven't realized the problem with this kind of game, Shozo Ito." He gloated, "The Americans already have two main points, they can quickly replenish their losses, the Germans lose permanent losses, their soldiers will only fight fewer and less, and the rule says, 'Occupy three points and hold on for thirty minutes is victory.'" ”

"Independence advisers can still occupy one of the remaining points." Ito insisted.

"I don't think the Americans will give them a chance." As if to prove the French major's point, a herald came running up and reported: "American forces occupy Charlie Point. ”

"You see," laughed the major, "as I said, the Germans will not have a chance. And I suspect that their troops here will not have a chance to withdraw either. ”

"Yes," Harris interjected, "gentlemen, the cavalry of the Americans has already rushed up. ”

Ryusuke Ito raised his head slightly, just in time to see the American cavalry break through the interception of the German cavalry and pounce on the artillerymen who were scattering and fleeing. He clenched his right hand into a fist and called out in a tone that bordered on grief and indignation: "Cowardly soldiers led by cowardly officers, how can they win?" ”

Yi Shui came back to his senses and just heard this sentence.

He started laughing. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )