The Mongolian horse team under the command of Seng Lingqin repeatedly rushed and killed under the leadership of the banner under artillery fire, but the Anglo-French army had completed the reloading of breech-loading rifles with fixed ammunition, and the rows of cavalry were shot and fell to the ground in the rain of bullets, and the artillery fire of the British and French forces more effectively blocked the reinforcement and continuous attack of the follow-up cavalry.

In the end, some of the cavalry stubbornly broke through to a distance of forty or fifty meters from the enemy, and some even rushed to the vicinity of the headquarters of Lieutenant General Meng Toban, and after an hour of fierce fighting, the tenacious Qing army also killed and wounded hundreds of allied troops.

However, the Qing cavalry suffered a large number of casualties due to the dense fire of the allied infantry fighting in the trenches and the bombardment of the enemy's artillery grenades and shrapnel shells.

Subsequently, the 2nd Brigade of the main force of the French army on the south road poured a large number of shells on the Bali Bridge, and dealt a heavy blow to the Shengbao Division, which suffered heavy casualties and could not cope with the frontal counterattack of the Seng Lingqin Division, when the two forward companies of the French 2nd Brigade rushed to the bridge, the Qing soldiers guarding the stone bridge bravely rushed out of the trench and launched a bloody battle with the enemy. Shengbao bit his braid and held a Guan knife to continuously slash several officers and soldiers of the alliance, and then retreated from the battle formation because Shengbao was injured by a bullet, and the deputy general led the army to retreat to Dingfuzhuang.

When the battle began, Seng Lingqin learned that it was the enemy army on the south road, not the enemy army on the west road, who was attacking the Bali Bridge. In order to make up for the mistake of decision-making before the battle, Seng Lingqin commanded the horse team to intersperse between the enemy's south and west roads while the Shengbao Department was fighting with the enemy on the southern route, in an attempt to divide the enemy, and then used the infantry team to cooperate with the Shengbao Department to surround the enemy on the southern road and annihilate the enemy's main force. Due to the rout of Shengbao's headquarters, Seng Lingqin's combat intention could not be realized, so he fought a heroic and fierce battle with the British army on the western route, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing that the horse team suffered too many casualties, Seng Greenqin supplemented his 500 guards, cobbled together 3,000 men, and attacked the British and French forces from the flank, and then ordered the infantry battalion to attack the British and French positions head-on.

In the face of the order issued by Monk Lingqin, Zhang Zheng's head suddenly slammed, and he followed Lin Haijiangguang to take advantage of the battle, this kind of hard-fought battle Zhang Zheng is still the first time he has encountered it? Sortie or disobedience? Zhang Zheng hesitated for a moment, stayed on the position and was under artillery fire, while attacking on foot to attack the battle front of the British and French forces without artillery cover?

In the face of this situation, Zhang Zheng believes that even if Lin Haijiang is in command, he will have a headache, and he can't withdraw if he retreats, and he can't fight it? This is tantamount to tying one's own hands and feet to fight more enemies? What kind of bastard court is this? What bastard will?

Trumpet! The whole team! Get on the bayonet and get ready to attack!

The attack of the Qing army's infantry battalion could not distinguish the direction and flow of people at all, and the dense formation brought the grenade power of the British and French troops into full play, and the broken limbs and flags were blown into the sky from time to time, and the wounded fell to the ground wailing as the earth and rocks fell, and the stunned people were muttering in place until they were hit by bullets, while the living were bravely moving forward through the smoke of gunpowder.

For the Qing army, who had already killed the red-eyed, they only had one breath in their hearts at the moment, that is, to rush over and kill each other, but how long this courage could be maintained, I'm afraid no one can know.

The marines who followed behind the Qing army brigade kept a neat pace and trotted forward, although from time to time someone was hit or shot and fell to the ground, but the latter would immediately make up for it.

The 2nd Brigade of the French Army, commanded by Corinneau, performed the most well in this engagement, and Gro repeatedly expressed his desire to ask His Majesty the Great Emperor for his credit, and seeing that he had blasted out the Qing infantry, Corinno transferred most of his artillery fire to block the Qing cavalry on the flank.

The previous British dragoons had a fierce battle with the Qing cavalry, and after the dragoons' guns were too late to be replaced, the battle situation changed from the Qing army to the British army.

Rows of Qing infantry brandished swords and guns and fell in front of their positions with unwilling faces, and the corners of Kolinno's mouth were full of disdain, because in his opinion it was simply a massacre, not a war at all, and the pleasure and honor of this conquest seemed to come too easily?

Mrs. Brown's tight white dress, her long blonde hair, or the war that stimulates a man's desire for a surname? Corinneau found himself distracted on the battlefield?

Suddenly, Kolinno noticed that there was a neat arrangement in the crowd of Qing attackers who had suffered heavy casualties?

After lowering the binoculars, Corinno knew that it might be a real opponent who had appeared, and that if they were defeated, the battle would be over.

The French soldiers, crouching in the field trenches just above their knees, began to reload their ammunition, and the second, third, and fourth rows of soldiers began to slowly take their positions.

Zhang Zheng leaned the command knife on his shoulder, taking a deep breath with every step, he had never been so nervous as today since Rong, and the bullets that whizzed and flew over his head made him feel as if he was being hit in the next moment.

Zhang Zheng had always thought of himself as a very brave person, but today he realized that bravery is also relative.

At a distance of 100 meters, Zhang Zheng commanded the troops to form a whole line in the bullets of the French army, and from time to time soldiers were shot and fell to the ground, but the overall formation was not chaotic at all!

"Steady! Shoot! Zhang Zheng waved the command knife fiercely.

Unlike the French, the Marines fired in four platoons at the same time, and the bayonets in front of the guns gave the British the illusion that they were about to charge after the shot.

In the crackling shot, a large number of French troops were shot and fell to the ground, and a gap was suddenly gnawed out of the neat defensive line, and the French officers behind the defense line desperately waved their command knives to drive the troops to fill the gap.

As a result, another round of four volleys was ushered in, and the French troops who were changing ammunition and preparing to shoot suddenly fell again, and then less than five seconds, the opponent sounded the sound of intensive fire again, and the complete defense line of the French army had been punched out of a large gap of more than 200 meters.

Only then did Corinno remember that Lieutenant General Ma Gaixian had mentioned to himself in Hong Kong about a new rifle that could hold five bullets at a time?

With the artillery fire of the French army, Zhang Zheng immediately issued the order to charge, and the remnants of the Qing army that had broken down on the two wings before were organized by Monk Greenqin, who knew that this would be his last and only chance, so Monk Greenqin rode his horse straight to the enemy position.

The remaining 400 or so cavalry of the 3,000 cavalry, who had repeatedly tried to storm the flanks and artillery positions of the French 2nd Brigade on the flanks, finally rushed into the French artillery positions, and after the crackling shots, the screams of the French artillery rang out.

On the frontal position, at a very close distance, the marines of the Nanyang Naval Division and the French army exchanged fire and fighting, and the three troops wearing different uniforms were mixed together, and broadswords, spears, bows and arrows finally came in handy, even so, the French still resolutely resisted with bayonets, and the gunshots that rang out from time to time also made the Qing officers and soldiers and marines fall to the ground.

Mentoban had already noticed that Corinno's second brigade was in a melee, and just as he was about to send the fifth brigade to reinforce the second brigade, suddenly, a huge explosion sounded in the rear, and the black plume of smoke that rose into the air twisted and slowly rose and spread?

Damn it! Lieutenant General Meng Tuoban's figure flickered, and the direction of the explosion was in the ammunition and baggage storage area of the coalition forces, a small village called Zhangjiawa.

In the end, the cooperation of Seng Lingqin and Zhang Zheng only achieved the result of defeating the second brigade of the French army, and the fifth brigade of the French army, which was slowly pressing, did not give Seng Greenqin the opportunity to expand the results, except for the Baliqiao battalion was still in the hands of the Qing army, and the positions on the left and right flanks were lost.

Along the Bali Bridge camp until the front of the British and French forces, the east, west, and south directions were full of corpses of men and horses abandoned after the battle, although the sporadic gunfire was still there, but there were many nearby villagers, who wandered on the battlefield.

Zhang Zheng commanded more than half of the losses of the Marine Corps in this battle, although the British and French troops temporarily retreated, but everyone knew that today's defeat was their own side, Zhang Zheng took advantage of this opportunity to begin to collect the remains of the dead officers and soldiers, in the face of some fools who tried to strip their dead officers and soldiers of leather boots, military uniforms, and even searched pockets to find gold teeth, Zhang Zheng immediately ordered to kill, and shot more than 100 people in a while, but what shocked Zhang Zheng was that the rest of the foolish people did not seem to be afraid of death, after several shots, They began to avoid touching the corpses in black Marine uniforms, and concentrated on searching the corpses of the Qing and French troops.

Fortunately for Zhang Zheng, a platoon of scouts was sent to decisively blow up the ammunition storage site of the British and French forces at a critical moment, and he believed that it could relieve the pressure caused by the British and French offensive to a certain extent.

The first thing Monk Lingqin who had returned to Yanjing City did was to write a plea, although the marines of the Nanyang Naval Division had blown up the supplies of the foreigners, but at present, his 30,000 elite soldiers were not left, and there were no available troops near Gyeonggi, in case the British and French forces attacked the capital in a desperate way, the consequences were likely to be the end of the jade burning.

The apprehensive Monk Greenqin could only pin his hopes on the Nanyang Naval Division, because Monk Greenqin believed that with Lin Haijiang's personality, he would definitely not put his elite soldiers in a desperate situation and ignore them.

However, the Anglo-French army, which had already returned to the vicinity of Tianjin, was much more difficult than Zhang Zheng had expected, and due to unprofessional logistical supply, all the supplies and ammunition of the Anglo-French army were hoarded in a small village, and as a result, the fire caused by the explosion burned all the supplies and food cleanly.

Although Corinno sent two brigades of troops to find and collect food on the spot, this amount of food was a drop in the bucket for tens of thousands of troops.

Gro and Elgin have been working with James overnight. William made contact with James. William sipped the wine and read a telegram sent to him by a young lady in Hong Kong, and then absentmindedly said that he would send a fleet back to Hong Kong after dawn to transfer all the remaining supplies and temporarily allocate most of the ship's food to the army.

James. William told Gro and Ergin that the reinforcements of the Second Detachment from the mainland would arrive at Dagu Pass in the near future as planned, and that the situation would change at that time, and asked Gro and Ergin to hold on for a few days.

James. Although William was saying the so-called good news, Gro and Ergin's ears were full of sarcasm and schadenfreude.

Especially James. William's smug look, Gro and Ergin indignantly returned to the port of Tientsin, where the army was to accept the navy's generous handouts.

From late at night until the early hours of the morning, the generals of the army waited for the sleepy-eyed fleet supply officer, and the generals who were holding back their bellies were silent as they looked at the sky that had appeared in the distance, and they were very unsure why they had to ask these commanders to do it themselves. Many people see this as an insult in disguise.

The battered Corinno got into an argument with the fat naval supply officer while receiving supplies, and Corinno angrily yelled, "God will curse you damned bastards, and you'd better sink your battered ship with a lightning bolt and feed you!" ”

As soon as Corinno's voice fell, boom! A bang! An orange-red ball of fire rose into the air, and the entire bridge of the Thorn anchored at the dock of the harbor was blown away, and the battleship turned into a blazing bonfire.

The stunned Corinno looked around and said, "I didn't do it!" I really didn't do it! ”

It's an enemy attack! The fat supply officer pointed in the direction of the port with a trembling hand, and as the sky became more and more white, six smoke-emitting battleships had completely blocked the entire port, and in the continuous sound of cannons, British and French warships continued to be shot and caught fire.

The patrol formation patrolling outside the harbor was surrounded by three behemoths, and soon a dozen gunboats of the two vigilant patrol fleets sank into the sea, leaving only a few fragments of wood and a few corpses of British and French sailors.

Lin Haijiang stood in the bridge of the Zhiyuan, looking at the orange-red fire ball sprayed out by the front main gun, his face was unconsciously filled with a smile, it seems that the news of the destruction of the British home fleet has not yet reached Dagukou, and his surprise attack has miraculously succeeded.

James. William was awakened from his sleep and looked out the window at the burning wreckage of the ship, he didn't know what was happening, but he knew very well that the roaring cannon was definitely not a twenty-four-pounder Armstrong gun.

The fleet was attacked? In a backward and barbaric country in the Far East, the fleets of the British Empire and the French Republic were attacked? Wouldn't that be ridiculous? Or is it a real dream?

When James. William came to the bridge and faced the scene in front of him. William took a deep breath, he had no words to describe what he saw, the burning battleship, the corpses floating on the sea.

His proud fleet was anchored, like fish on a chopping blockade, fighting the enemy in the harbor that had completed the blockade? From hoisting the sail to the ropeline, it takes at least an hour and a half to turn the rudder and set sail, while the adversary only needs a few tens of minutes to be able to send his own fleet to the bottom of the sea.

Half an hour later, James. William ordered the white flag to be raised, and all the officers and men abandoned the ship and landed ashore! Then James. William ordered Colonel Braun to take a transport boat under a white flag and demand a dialogue with the opposing commander to explain the despicable and egregious attack.

Lin Haijiang, who was in the command position in the Zhiyuan ship, smoked his cigar leisurely, and from the moment the fleet arrived and fired the first shell, Lin Haijiang already knew that he had won, and the arrogant British and French fleets only sent a small number of patrol ships.

It's James. William's arrogance ruined the British and French fleets, because in the eyes of almost everyone, if Britain and France did not provoke the forces of the old port, the forces of the old port should hide and steal fun, and no one expected that the other party would take the initiative to knock on the door? Lin Haijiang has never been a timid and fearful lord, nor is he a person who sits idly by.

At this moment, one of the horsemen jumped off his horse and handed a translation of a telegram to James. William's hand, James. William's face turned pale after seeing it, and he convulsed and spurted out a mouthful of blood, and then passed out.

Ergin, who rushed to the side, picked up the telegram and looked at it: The home fleet has been suddenly attacked by the forces of the old port, please immediately raise your vigilance, and after completing the transportation task, concentrate the main force to turn around and annihilate and eliminate the forces of the old port! The sender was Bao Ling, and when he saw that the date was with James. The love letter that William had received before was from the same day, and none of the more important pieces of information were ......

(To be continued)