Chapter 20: The Flames of War

The allied forces bombarded the positions built by the Black Dragon Society outside Beijing for two whole days, and only after the stock of artillery shells had dropped to a dangerous level did they begin to send infantry to attack on a large scale. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, those Manchu nobles who had been arrested for almost half a month were stuffed into various positions by the Black Dragon Society. There are some powerful people among these people, but there are also many weak people, and one thing these people have in common, that is, they are all unorganized and undisciplined guys.

For such people, Chen Cheng did not dare to integrate them into the army. Even if he raises this group of people, he will feel that it is not worth it. Because these guys are lawless, they do less and eat more, and they will make trouble at every opportunity. According to the meaning of His Excellency Mengchu, the black dragon ****, either they will put all these people into their black-hearted small coal mines, and it will be a disaster to keep them.

But Chen Cheng is used to careful calculations, and feels that these 20,000 people can still play an effect in some cases. For example, filling trenches or something, it's good to think of it as cannon fodder.

"I doubt your thoughts," Lin Mengchu said to Chen Cheng, "Those guys estimate that a cannonball will come over, no, there is no need for a cannonball." As soon as the foreigners on the opposite side charge, they will immediately collapse. ”

"Well, you're talking about normal situations." A mysterious smile appeared on Chen Cheng's face, "And human beings will burst out with unimaginable potential in many cases. Especially during the defense of the city, the miscellaneous fish troops will also perform miracles. ”

"Hmph, even if the defense of the city in the era of cold weapons can be equivalent to the defense of field fortifications in this era, I don't believe that this group of waste materials can create any miracles." The girl said, "But since you mentioned the normal situation, are you in an abnormal situation now?" ”

"In the world now, in China now, if you want to say that it is not so easy to find a normal Ken, abnormal situations can be seen everywhere......... Okay, I know what you're asking. Even if the current situation is normal, we can create abnormal situations. ”

"We create it ourselves? I want to think about it,............ Hmm, are you going to give them doping? ”

"No," Chen Cheng denied the girl's idea, and said, "Stimulants are controlled drugs, and our own soldiers may not use them, let alone use them for these cannon fodder." Give them something else when they use it. ”

"Something else? Could it be the things we seized when we raided the opium parlor? ”

"That's right! That's it! ”

"To the soldiers...... Well, even if they are not soldiers I put them in, they only have obligations but no rights.......... Even so, it's not good to turn them into opium ghosts, right? His Excellency Lin Mengchu said that this was not good, but the expression on her face showed that she thought it was funny.

"It doesn't matter," Chen Cheng shrugged, "if they die, forget it, the dead won't speak." If they survive and do their best, they will be promoted to overseers or run mines and prisons. ”

With a burst of clouds and fog on the battlefield, the addicts who had been boiled for several days rushed out with various weapons and fought to the death with the infantry of the coalition army after they had a good time. These guys with broken heads became fierce after inhaling enough smoke, ignoring the flying bullets and flesh to beat the foreign devils to the ground. Although they also suffered heavy casualties, this situation knocked down the morale of the coalition side again.

Doping soldiers has been popular in Europe for a long time. In the Franco-Prussian War, the Prussian officers gave the soldiers a lot of powerful pills and other things that they knew would have sequelae. For the officers, soldiers are consumables in the first place, and they are not expected to fight ten in a row, as long as they defeat the opposite side before the sequelae erupt.

The Prussians did this, and so did the later beacon of democracy. The so-called battlefield sequelae are mostly due to drug abuse. And even more unbounded were the French generals in World War I, who deliberately sent them to their deaths in order to prevent the soldiers from rebelling, and then let the Overseers use heavy machine guns to kill all the soldiers who fled from behind.

But in the Far East, doping soldiers and the like is still a novelty. This is not to say that the generals in East Asia have higher moral values than their European counterparts, but that doping also costs money. For countries where IC is insufficient, it is better to recruit more soldiers than to dope them. Anyway, those infantry are not worth much, and the situation of the Japanese government to recruit a soldier for just one stamp and one envelope is quite good.

Therefore, the fact that the black dragon will smoke a lot of cigarettes for the miscellaneous soldiers is not too outrageous. Even if you are scolded by others, you will not lose anything. Moreover, for the generals of this era, they have done more things without a limit.

Lieutenant General Wadsey felt his brain ache again. The loss of the Battle of Tianjin before he arrived in China can still be blamed on the unlucky guy of his predecessor, but after he arrived in China, there were heavy casualties in several consecutive battles, and no one was willing to bear this black pot for him.

Not to mention those small-scale raids, just a few battles near Langfang cost the coalition side nearly 20,000 more casualties. You must know that the total number of coalition troops led by him is only 120,000, and the casualties of nearly one-sixth are too high. Fortunately, most of the people who died were Russians and Japanese, so he was not blamed more.

However, now that they have all hit the city of Beijing, the casualties are so high. Well, it was the Americans who charged this time, and it doesn't matter if you die or die. However, this time, the troops on the opposite side were basically miscellaneous soldiers whose weapons and clothing were not uniform. This kind of enemy can't be defeated in one go, and it really makes Wadshi's face gloomy.

It was only after the overnight interrogation of the captured prisoners by the coalition forces that the coalition forces figured out the details of the team that had been fighting with them for a day, and realized that there were some smoking rabble on the other side.

Made, the officers on the coalition side who knew about this couldn't help but curse in their hearts. Although the Americans are looked down upon by the Europeans, everyone is in a trench, and you guys will make everyone look bad for them.

Wadsey made up his mind that tomorrow he would not use the Americans who could only brag, but the Germans themselves. Presumably, under the blows of their German soldiers, the scum on the opposite side will definitely be swept away.