Saxton slammed the table fiercely, and said hatefully: "This is not enough, far from enough, in order to ensure that we capture Dagukou as soon as possible, I decided to divide the troops into two ways, one way is still storming Dagukou, and the other way, from the north side of Beitang to implement landing operations, where the terrain is gentle, easy to attack and difficult to defend, the most important thing is why we attack, once we complete the landing, the army will launch an attack from Beitang towards Dagukou, sea and land together, absolutely can defeat the defenders of Dagukou in a short time, so that Dagukou is destroyed!" ”

Meng Daban's eyes lit up and exclaimed, "Good! General Skerston, you are right, land and sea! I will lead three warships and 5,000 French troops to launch an attack at Beitang, and as for the generals, I will stay at Dagukou and continue to storm Dagukou to attract the attention of the Qing army! Three days, within three days, take Dagukou and occupy Tianjin Wei! ”

The next day, in the middle of the night, just before dawn, Meng Daban led the French army to attack Beitang!

Beitang is only more than 30 miles away from Dagukou, now the main energy of Monk Greenqin is all on the Dagukou side, Beitang is Shengbao led by 2,000 Beijing battalions to guard the safety of Beitang, Shengbao can also be regarded as a famous general of the late Qing Dynasty, but the Beijing battalion under his command is in the waste of very much, most of them are the rabble formed by the children of the Eight Banners, and they have long lost the spirit of a hundred years ago.

At four or five o'clock in the second half of the night, when people were most tired, the Qing army had already fallen asleep one by one, and even the Qing soldiers guarding had begun to doze off, dozing off with their blades!

At such a time, the French troop carrier quietly came to Beitang and stayed on the coast!

Meng Daban thought that he would encounter fierce resistance again, and now that the British and French coalition forces are pressing the border, the Qing army should be tightly defended, but what he didn't expect was that the fleet had already been moored, and the Qing army had not yet reacted! It's really speechless, can such a Qing army still fight?

Meng Daban sneered in his heart, China is such a beautiful country, such a rich product, such a magnificent river and mountain, there should not be such a corrupt government to rule, and leaving it to France to rule is the best ending! Wait, one day, France will swallow the whole of China!

As soon as Meng Daban gave an order, five thousand French troops began to rush towards the shore!

At this time, the Qing army woke up from their sleep, and vaguely saw a group of soldiers on the shore rushing towards the Qing camp in Beitang.

One by one, the Qing soldiers woke up from their dreams, looked around blankly, and a team of Qing soldiers on duty shouted in panic: "Oh no, no!" Foreigners rushed up! Foreigners rushed up! ”

At this time, Shengbao also walked out of the military tent and shouted, "What's the matter? ”

The Chinese military management band hurriedly said: "Keshuai, it's not good, the foreigners have landed from the sea!" Thousands! Advancing towards our camp! ”

Yes!

Shengbao was shocked and scolded angrily: "Damn, who is on duty today? Can't you see such a big battleship and troop carrier? Damn, I'm going to cut him off! Hurry up, gather your forces now, and prepare for battle! ”

Shengbao was really panicked, if the foreigners hadn't landed, with the artillery battalion in their hands, they would still be able to resist for a while, and now that the French army has rushed up, how can they resist? , I was really killed by this group of pigs!

The entire camp was completely in chaos, screaming, shouting, scolding, and chaos!

On the coast, the 5,000 troops of the French army were rapidly assembling together, not only all the soldiers had landed on the shore, but also twenty or thirty artillery pieces were pulled up from the troop transport!

Meng Daban sneered for a while and shouted: "Order, the artillery is facing the barracks of the Qing army, firing with all their might, let's let the Qing army often have the taste of shells!" ”

The French artillery battalion immediately went into action, and shells roared out of the artillery and rushed straight to the Qing army!

Boom Boom!

Clouds of gunpowder smoke rose into the air, the flames of war were flying, and the Qing army was even more chaotic!

Katsuho roared angrily: "Artillery, artillery! Give Lao Tzu an immediate counterattack! Fight back! ”

The panicked Qing army hurriedly pushed the cannon and began to fire back, but they ran all solid bullets, all small-caliber earthen cannons, and the French artillery was completely different! In front of the artillery battalion of the French army, it is not even a dish!

Under the sharp artillery attack of the French army, the Qing army was completely confused, and Shengbao felt a burst of despair, it's over, it's over! According to this trend, his Beijing camp is definitely not someone's opponent!

Shengbao roared angrily: "Order, all the big battalions, temporarily retreat five miles, stand on the high ground on both sides, defend on the spot, and trap the foreigners here!" ”

Shengbao's vision is still there, there are two high ground on both sides of the rear, which is condescending, which is the best place for defense, but he ignores that the Beijing camp under his command is not the elite of the year! Once you retreat, where can you hold your ground?

The soldiers thought that they were completely defeated, and they ran away one by one, and there was no organization at all!

Meng Daban took the telescope in the distance and looked at it carefully, and he was so happy that his snot was about to flow out, these shitholes, he had just fired a few shots, and they were all so frightened that they turned around and ran, what a bunch of waste1

"Command! The whole army is attacking, speed up the offensive for me, we must wipe out all the Qing troops in front of us before noon! ”

Meng Daban roared excitedly.

The French army launched a tidal offensive towards the position of the Qing army, and the sound of guns shook the sky!

Katsuho felt a burst of bitterness in his heart in the distance, it's over, it's over! If you want to keep Beitang now, it's tantamount to a fool's dream! There are too many foreigners, and there are four or five thousand of them!

Sheng Bao said in a trembling voice: "Quick, immediately send someone to report to the monk king, Beitang has encountered an attack by thousands of foreigners, and ask the monk king to mobilize troops to rush to help!" ”

When the generals around him heard this, they immediately got on their horses and ran in the direction of Dagukou.

Shengbao gritted his teeth, there is no other way now, he must not retreat, the more he retreats, the faster he will lose!

"Order the elite horse team, assemble immediately, and launch a surprise attack on the foreigners!"

Katsuho shouted.

Groups of cavalry began to assemble, this is the only army in Katsubo's hands that can be handled, two cavalry battalions, close to 800 people, are the main elite of the elite, and there is still a little combat effectiveness.

"Charge!"

Shengbao gave the order, and the cavalry began to charge the French army!

In the Crimean War, the Cossack cavalry of Tsarist Russia made the British and French armies suffer a lot, and the British and French armies conducted special research for this purpose and developed a set of effective strategies.

That is to form a circle formation, shoot in turns, and annihilate the cavalry within the range of the rifle!