Horton was completely dumbfounded, completely caught in a dilemma, and went on the offensive? It can't be said that Horton didn't have the ability and grasp to capture the two peaks, but this price is definitely not something Horton can bear, three days of fighting, it was already the British army that lost thousands of people, and at the same time there were more than 20,000 Japanese troops who took a small life, and now the Qing army has increased thousands of troops again, and wants to eat these thousands of people and take two peaks, but I am afraid that the British army will at least pay the loss of an infantry brigade again, or even more!

Tens of thousands of casualties, just to open the passage from Rongcheng Bay to Weihaiwei, who knows how many Qing troops are behind, and if the losses are serious, Horton is not sure that he can fight from Rongcheng Bay to Weihaiwei with the strength in his hands, and then from Weihaiwei to Beijing!

Just, retreat? It's good to say, I boasted about Haikou in front of Mozak and Morenster, at least two days or more than five days, and took Weihaiwei, but five days have passed, instead of taking Weihaiwei, it is a loss of troops, and nearly half of the 60,000 troops have been killed or wounded! When you see two people, how can you hold your head up?

Horton is really difficult to ride a tiger, and launching an attack again, it inevitably seems inadequate, and the four days of fierce fighting have already made the British army extremely tired and demoralized!

, no matter what, no matter what, you have to try what kind of strength the Qing army came to help this time, and retreat to the sea like this, it would be too hot!

"Order, concentrate artillery fire again, and launch an attack on Red Mountain!"

Horton gave the order to fight again with difficulty, and the artillery of the British and Japanese forces moved again, and one shell after another roared out of the artillery position, heading straight for Red Mountain!

At this time, on the Red Mountain, the third brigade had just entered the position, Long Tao saw Duan Zhiqiang, and also saw Zhang Suimou, but at this time Zhang Suimou was already dying, and he was shot several times. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Brigade Commander Long, it seems that Lao Tzu is no longer good, please tell Ming Shuai and Yiwang, Lao Tzu has followed the two of them in this life, this life is not in vain, die for the country, die without regrets......"

Zhang Suimou said with difficulty.

Long Tao's face was heavy, and he said in a deep voice: "Brother Suimou, don't worry, if you say something, I will definitely tell Ming Shuai and the Wing King, this revenge, our second division will definitely get it back!" ”

As he spoke, the British troops under the mountain attacked again!

Long Tao was furious and shouted: "Artillery, artillery!" Shoot me back immediately, hit me hard! Let them know that we know how powerful our Lu army is! ”

Long Tao is different from Zhang Suimou, and he is not the same as Duan Zhiqiang, this is a fierce general brought out by Guo Ye personally, especially good at artillery battles, Luo Bicheng's cavalry, Long Tao's artillery, everyone has something special!

Long Tao gave an order, and the remaining artillery of the second brigade and the third brigade were all thrown into the fierce battle, and the combat power was even worse than the previous two days!

The artillerymen with their eyes blazing constantly fired out the shells, and engaged in a fierce confrontation with the British army! The artillery technology of the Lu army is better than that of the British army, as for the artillery of the Japanese army, it is not enough to see at all, however, no matter how strong the artillery of the Lu army is, it is also very difficult to fight more with less, and the artillery of the Anglo-Japanese alliance is even more than three times that of the Lu army, if it is not for the impact of the cavalry just now, so that a large number of artillery casualties are heavy, the British and Japanese coalition forces are definitely besieging the situation of the Lu artillery, even so, it is also very difficult, after all, it is not as good as the beginning, the fortifications on the Red Mountain, almost all collapsed, Without the fortifications, it would be impossible to compete with the Anglo-Japanese forces.

Inevitably, the Lu army gradually fell into disadvantage!

"Order, the 16th Brigade will press me up and launch a full-scale attack!"

Horton's face was really not good-looking, although he suppressed the artillery fire of the Lu army, but he used hundreds of artillery pieces, but the other party, but forty or fifty artillery! Two against one, after such a long time, it was able to gain the upper hand, and the artillery technology of the Lu army was too strong!

A brigade of infantry pressed towards the top of the red mountain again!

It's just that this time the heavy machine guns brought up by the 3rd Brigade were powerful, the same forty Gatling heavy machine guns, and they began to shoot wildly, shoot!

The entire southern foot of the Red Mountain has been completely covered by heavy machine gun bullets, the British troops in the charge were swept down piece by piece, and they could not advance at all, in just over ten minutes, the British army suffered hundreds of casualties, and the momentum of the British army's charge was completely contained, and they lay on the mountainside one by one, not daring to move half a step again!

I rub!

Horton was so angry that he almost vomited blood, this heavy machine gun is the nemesis of the special infantry, this is dozens of heavy machine guns, if hundreds of heavy machine guns are placed here, I am afraid that the strength of one of my brigades will not be able to rush to others at all, and I will have to be reimbursed for everything!

The Anglo-Japanese coalition and the Lu army fought fiercely for another day without progress.

Horton is completely stupid, he can't bite the red mountain at all, and if he continues to fight like this, he can only suddenly increase the casualties! It's too bad, the lives of the soldiers of the British Empire are very valuable, such a large casualty, I am going to be the commander of the end!

"The order was given, the divisions retreated back, and the 15th Brigade was cut off in the rear, ready to withdraw to the sea, and approached the Tianjin Guard ...... with the fleet."

In the end, Horton also had to bow his head and make concessions and continue to fight, 30,000 British troops will definitely be buried here, and the strength of the Lu army is really not comparable to other armies!

In particular, their heavy machine guns are simply the biggest killer weapons of the Lu army in the land war, shooting wildly, it is difficult for anyone to break through the defense of the heavy machine guns, if you want to win, you must have an absolute advantage of artillery, although the artillery of the British army is also very strong, but in the case of reinforcements from the Lu army, it has a geographical advantage, and it is difficult to occupy an absolute advantage!

More than 20,000 British troops and thousands of Japanese troops, under the cover of the 15th Brigade, had to retreat to the rear and returned to the beach, ready to board the battleship and withdraw from Rongcheng Bay!

When Dundas got the news that the Anglo-Japanese forces were going to withdraw to the sea, his face was full of shock, and he couldn't believe it was true!

"What the hell is ****** Horton doing! It's been four or five days, and you're going to retreat to the sea again? Did he have in his head? ”

Dundas thundered and cursed.

However, now that Horton has sent a request, Dundas has to accept it, the Anglo-Japanese alliance has suffered heavy casualties, which is already expected, and now he can only accept such passivity.

(To be continued.) )