At that time, the artillery of the Chinese army had nothing to do against the Zhenhu army and the Jianghuai New Army, which relied on trench defense, and finally could only rely on the large number of casualties of the auxiliary defense army to drive them out of the trench by hand-to-hand combat.

And now the artillery fire against the British and French forces is more intense, but it does not exceed the limits of this era.

In the face of trenches, not to mention the extremely rudimentary types and power of shells and shells in this era, even if they are replaced by mature heavy artillery from the First World War, it is still of little use.

Although the heavy artillery bombardment of the British and French forces inevitably caused some casualties to the Chinese army, this casualty was acceptable and did not affect the overall defense.

But if you look at it from the outside, then you will find that under the heavy shelling, the trench where the Chinese army is located is dead silent, and no one can be seen.

Many foreign officers thought in their hearts that even their own troops would not be able to withstand such a fierce shelling, and they must have run away a long time ago.

With a relaxed mind, they advanced step by step to the beat of the drums, and when the distance was less than 500 meters, the coalition forces began to change from columns to horizontal formations.

"The speed of this formation change is fast, and it shouldn't be able to be practiced in three or five years!" Looking at the rapid change of the British and French forces, Qu Panyun also commented silently in his heart.

Although the two sides have not yet entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat, since the arrival of the British and French troops in Guangzhou six days ago, the frequent artillery battles and many skirmishes between the two sides have fully proved that these British and French forces are the strongest enemy troops Qu Panyun has encountered since he joined the army.

Although he was unwilling, Qu Panyun still had to admit that he had a deal with them. Your Royal Army is still slightly inferior.

But in the face of a strong enemy, if you don't fight, do you have to turn around and run? Definitely not. Qu Panyun did not allow himself to do this, and the headquarters did not allow him to do so.

Auxiliary forces such as artillery are not counted. With more than 4,000 Royal Army infantry in battle, and nearly 4,000 musketeers from the Allied Defence Army armed with arquebuses or flintlock muskets, he could not believe that he could not stop the 3,000 men.

Time approached little by little, and when the Anglo-French infantry entered the distance of 400 meters, the four-pounder light guns under the jurisdiction of the infantry battalions of the Royal Army were quickly pushed up from the trench through the ramp, and the soldiers were ready to reload and then fire at the approaching British and French soldiers.

But as soon as I went up, I was suddenly subjected to a dense burst of covering grenade shots, and in just thirty seconds, at least dozens of grenades or grenades were fired accurately. Under such heavy shelling, the artillerymen of the four-pounder infantry guns suffered heavy casualties, and only two guns were reloaded and fired.

Seeing this scene, Qu Panyun clenched his fists!

I secretly said in my heart, damn it, these foreigners had expected that we would use infantry guns to shoot at close range, otherwise they would not have shelled so quickly and accurately, but unfortunately these four-pounder infantry guns did not play a big role and were lost.

The plan to kill and wound the enemy with infantry artillery failed, and now all they had left was to use the trenches for the final shots.

Five hundred meters. Four hundred meters, followed up, ready to reload and shoot!

Just as the soldiers of the 10th Infantry Division were waiting for the enemy to come within 300 meters of the firing range to fire the first salvo, they suddenly heard shouts from outside. When I looked up again, I saw that the foreign soldiers did not reload or shoot. It turned out that he rushed up directly with a bayonet!

This scene made the officers of the 10th Division who commanded the battle a little stunned, what was going on?

Shouldn't you stop at a distance of two hundred to three hundred meters? Then reload and shoot at us? Why didn't you fire a single shot and directly launch a bayonet charge, this is not in accordance with the rules. I have never told them in the military academy that this situation will still occur today!

Obviously, although the Chinese army, which imitated the foreign army, has imitated the armies of the European powers, it is only similar, but to be honest, it is only similar, how can it be so easy for students to beat their teachers, not to mention that most of the retired foreign military officers who teach in the Chinese army are also unsatisfactory lower-level officers, and they themselves have not been able to get in touch with too advanced tactics, and these instructors come from various countries, and the military concepts of each country are different.

Coupled with China's current specific environment, the Chinese army has faced mainly cold-weapon enemies, and the occasional enemies of the new army are also learning from their own Chinese army, which is very easy to deal with.

But now when faced with the genuine modern European army, we will find that some of the tactics that were often used in the past suddenly came to naught and became useless.

Although they did not understand why the British and French forces would launch a bayonet charge directly from a distance of 300 meters, the officers who commanded the battle still carried out their orders firmly.

When the enemy enters a distance of 300 meters, it is to order a salvo one after another, and then it is to reload the troops.

It takes between forty and one minutes for a well-armed soldier to cover about 300 meters, while it only takes about twenty seconds for a veteran to reload, and even a new soldier rarely takes more than thirty seconds.

That is to say, during the charge of the British and French forces, the Royal Army soldiers of the Chinese Army can shoot at least two more volleys, plus the first round in front, then they can shoot three salvos before and after.

But this is only a theoretical statistic on paper, on the battlefield, the so-called theoretical rate of fire is useless, because how fast the rate of fire in the battle will be greatly affected by the external environment, if it is their own side has a great advantage, the soldier can easily reload and fire like a walk, then you can reach the theoretical rate of fire of three rounds per minute, but if you face disadvantages or other disadvantages, then the soldiers will be greatly negatively affected, and the reload speed will drop again and again, until you throw down the gun and run away.

And now, the state of the 10th Division is a little bad, in the past, even in the face of tens of thousands of Qing troops, they could easily reload and shoot, and then rush directly with bayonets, but today in the face of these British and French troops who suddenly launched a charge, those bright bayonets look so dazzling, making people feel a sense of fear from the bottom of their hearts.

Before the 3,000 soldiers of the British and French troops launched a charge and reached a distance of 100 meters from the trench, the musket regiment of the 27th Auxiliary Defense Division could not withstand the pressure of the battlefield and collapsed directly.

And the collapse of such a thing has always been that if there is a first, there will be a second, and it was not long before the musket regiment of the 33rd Auxiliary Defense Division also collapsed.

Only 4,000 soldiers of the 10th Infantry Division were left to hold their ground!

At this time, the 4,000 Royal Army soldiers who had already conducted the second round of salvo fire had already quickly inserted their bayonets, and Fang Anyun, the commander of the 10th Division who was in command on the battle line, had already pulled out the command knife on his waist!

"Kill!"

The officers and men of the 10th Division did not wait for death in the trenches, they launched a counter-charge with rifles with bayonets!

And just twenty seconds later, the armies of the two sides were already colliding with each other, and blood instantly covered the entire sky! (To be continued......)