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Will there be a morning fog tomorrow morning? Xu Guangyuan has always been convinced of his staff Ma Jingqi, after seeing the evening clouds and repeatedly touching the leaves, Ma Jingqi told Xu Guangyuan with great certainty that after midnight there will be a heavy fog tomorrow morning at the latest!

If there is really fog, then thank God, at least I can take the opportunity of the fog to give the Chinese Imperial Führer Division a surprise attack, first the cavalry mark, then the whole suppression, and when the enemy is entangled and engaged, the artillery mark shoots fiercely, and all the flowering shells carried by themselves are shot out!

In Xu Guangyuan's view, he used his tenth town to fight to the death with the head of state division of the Chinese Empire, no matter how he calculated, he took advantage. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sure enough, in the early morning of June 24, 1862, the thick morning fog drifted in the air, and the fragrance of the dirt field made people feel relaxed and happy, Fang Guohua, who had not slept all night in the Wucheng Temple, was quietly looking at the map, he had just inspected the positions and fortifications in the north and south directions, compared to the south of the Wucheng Temple, the relatively flat north side was a little easy to attack and difficult to defend, until now, Leng Tianfan, the commander of the 1st Brigade, was still leading his troops to cut out three steps of more than three meters with blasting and manpower on the entire gentle slope in the north.

Otherwise, the gentle slope that extends more than 300 meters will easily allow the cavalry to rush up, if too many machine guns are concentrated, then it will lead to an imbalance in the firepower of the remaining three sides, for the Wucheng Temple, which is very likely to be attacked on all sides, it is really not a wise move for a whole division to concentrate in this projectile land, you must know that the Führer Division did not carry 75 mm field artillery, but carried a large number of mortars, mortars are unable to suppress the artillery fire of the Beiyang New Army and the Russian army, so many troops are crowded in a small space, Any shell that falls will be a disaster.

Leng Tianfan's worries were also Fang Guohua's worries, so Fang Guohua ordered the first line of defense to be set up two hundred meters away from the foot of the mountain, even so, the entire Wucheng Temple was like a military camp, the whole mountain was dug with thousands of holes, and the houses in the two nearby villages with more than 100 households were all demolished by the Führer's division, and all the materials that could be used were all pulled back to build fortifications.

It can be said that the current people are frightened by the war, the head of state division has just arrived at Wucheng Temple, and the people nearby have run away, causing the troops to demolish the house and want to compensate the owner of the house, if they can win Fang Guohua believes that the division logistics department will naturally compensate those villagers, if the head of state division is wiped out in this battle, then this account will naturally not be counted on their heads.

In a small mountain col a few kilometers away, Xu Guangyuan waved his hand, the 10th town of Beiyang is a standard army with a full formation in terms of establishment, and the Beiyang New Army uses the town as a basic strategic combat unit.

Taking the tenth town as an example, each town has jurisdiction over two infantry associations, each association has jurisdiction over two standards, each standard has three battalions, each battalion has four teams, each team has three platoons, each row has three sheds, and each shed has 14 soldiers. The first artillery standard has three battalions, each battalion has three teams, each team has three platoons, each row has three sheds, each shed has 14 soldiers, and each battalion is equipped with 18 British-made six-pounder Armstrong field guns.

The cavalry subordinate to the town has four battalions, each battalion has four teams, each team has two platoons, each row has two sheds, and each shed has the same fourteen soldiers. The engineering battalion has four teams, each team has three platoons, each platoon has three sheds, and each shed has 14 soldiers. The baggage barracks has four teams, two rows per team, three sheds per row, and fourteen soldiers per shed, about 750 people in the town, including the chief of the town and the secretary, and more than 10,000 normal soldiers. This is also what makes Xu Guangyuan very proud.

Offensive! After Xu Guangyuan said two words that were like a thousand catties to him, he also sat back on the ammunition box with a sense of relief!

It can be said that Xu Guangyuan is a little helpless at the moment, the head of state of the Chinese Empire has been frantically building fortifications, and the scope is getting bigger and bigger, Xu Guangyuan knows that if they are allowed to build it unscrupulously, I am afraid that Wucheng Temple will really become a hard bone that cannot be gnawed.

The first to attack from the morning mist were the cavalry of the Tenth Town,

Unlike the division-level combat units of the Chinese Empire, most of the cavalry of the Chinese Empire, especially the cavalry attached to the infantry units, adopted the establishment of reinforced companies under the battalion system directly under the division level, and the cavalry battalions under the division had jurisdiction over three to four cavalry companies, totaling more than 560 people.

The main reason is that the officers of the Beiyang New Army have an understanding of the cavalry on the battlefield is still in the Napoleonic era, and their instructors are all from Russia, so they have brought the backward cavalry model of the Russians to them, which is basically the same as the way Monk Greenqin used cavalry.

More than 1,700 horsemen slowly began to attack in the direction of Wucheng Temple in the fog, and the horses' hooves rumbled on the ground, like thunder from far and near! The officers and soldiers of the Chinese Empire who were on the outer positions north of the Wucheng Temple immediately entered the fortifications, but the unexpected morning fog made their visibility less than ten meters.

As the sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer, a dense burst of explosions rang out, the screams of people mixed with the neighing of horses, and the machine gunners of the defenders of the Chinese Empire on the perimeter began to fire fiercely in the direction of the mine explosion, and the bullets flew wildly in the morning fog.

Although the bullets rained down for a while, there were still cavalry constantly rushing out of the fog, shining sabers waving with splashing blood! The rapid firing of Mauser's pistols and the firing of Imperial II rifles also resounded, although the cavalry of the 10th Town of the Beiyang New Army was very tenacious, but due to the strong firepower of the defenders, most of the cavalry died in front of the battle with hatred.

Due to the fog, the whole cavalry fell into excessive chaos after stepping on the first mine, most of the cavalry who lost their unified command were fighting separately, and the attack was not concentrated on a few points and surfaces, and the infantry that followed behind was too much to follow the wrong direction, from the north foot of the Wucheng Temple to the south of the periphery of the position before launching an attack, it was a very chaotic morning, the Chinese Imperial Führer Division was taken by surprise, The 10th Town of the Beiyang New Army also failed to gather enough superior forces to expand the results of the battle.

The fog also affected the artillery effect of the Beiyang New Army, the artillery of the Beiyang New Army was much larger than the cavalry, and it adopted the 18-gun artillery battalion establishment that is now rare in the world, while the European countries mostly used the 12-gun artillery battalion establishment, which was only a little smaller than the 24-gun artillery battalion of the Chinese Empire, which shows that the Beiyang New Army still attaches great importance to the output of firepower.

The fierce battle lasted until about eight o'clock, when the morning fog dissipated, the Beiyang New Army wiped out more than 1,700 cavalry of a whole target, and the corpses were all over the entire northern defense line, and some cavalry even rushed to the temple gate of Wucheng Temple? Compared with the stubborn cavalry, the attack of the infantry of the 10th Town seemed to be more like a farce, and under the heavy fire, the infantry of the 10th Town made a detour to the so-called flank in order to avoid frontal fire, and this detour turned into a circle around the Wucheng Temple and being beaten.

The fog dissipated, and the attack of the Tenth Town came to an end, and the terrain gap between the north and south sides of the Wucheng Temple made Xu Guangyuan's Tenth Town pay the price of more than 3,000 people, of which the horse mark of the Tenth Town was wiped out, and the Führer's division also suffered more than 300 casualties due to the fog.

Xu Guangyuan's artillery mark in the tenth town began to pour ammunition on the front line of Wucheng Temple, but the artillery mark of the tenth town did not carry many flowering shells, and many had been fired before, and most of the bullets that would be fired were solid bullets that were not effective.

According to the normal tactics of the Beiyang New Army in the past, the first attack of the Beiyang New Army must have been tentative, and no one expected that there would be a thick fog in the early morning, and the tenth town of the Beiyang New Army took this opportunity to press the whole army? This is a way of fighting, Fang Guohua knows that the Beiyang New Army is going to fight hard this time!

Zuo Zongtang, who urged the troops to open in Nanjing, also received a report from the reconnaissance cavalry, and the special location of Wucheng Temple made Zuo Zongtang also break out in a cold sweat, not so much worried about the Russians or the elite soldiers of the three towns of Beiyang, but rather that Zuo Zongtang was worried about the safety of Zeng Guofan, because Zuo Zongtang knew that once Zeng Guofan had an accident, then it would mean that Beiyang was at the end of the road!

Zuo Zongtang knows that now the army of the Chinese Empire may have launched a counterattack, and the most likely place to launch a counterattack is Hangzhou, the territory of the Chinese Empire is almost impossible to pierce with a knife, and the water cannot be poured in, so how many troops has been gathered by the Chinese Empire, Beiyang has never known at all, although the Wucheng Temple place is inconspicuous, but if it does not pass by the official road there, the large group of men and horses will have to cross the mountains and mountains, so it will soon fall back into the encirclement of the Chinese Empire's bandit army that is speeding along the main road!

Therefore, it is imperative to remove the nail of Wucheng Temple! Zuo Zongtang is already mentally prepared for a hard fight, if the seven towns of Beiyang under his command can't even take a small Wucheng Temple? He, the admiral of the new army, doesn't have to do it anymore!

(To be continued)