Zhangzhou battlefield.

The Qin army, which had only three marine brigades to rely on, did not stop its pace after taking Xiamen Island. One brigade was left behind to guard Xiamen and Kinmen, and the other two brigades quickly conquered Haicheng under the command of Jiao Wenbin, and then the troops pointed directly at Longxi, the capital city of Zhangzhou.

But with the rapid pressure of the Chu army's Fu Xianzong department. Facing seven battalions of his department, more than 5,000 troops. Jiao Wenbin quickly gave up his plan to attack the capital city of Zhangzhou and contracted his forces to hold Haicheng County. Then Wang Debang's troops also arrived in Zhangzhou.

After two years of enrichment, Wang Debang's Dingbian Army has made considerable progress. Its division changed from eight battalions to twelve infantry battalions, one artillery battalion, and one cavalry battalion, with a total strength of more than 12,000 men. It is one of the largest battalion leaders in the Chu army. But he needed to leave part of his troops to defend Quanzhou, and the men and horses who went south to Zhangzhou only had five infantry battalions, a part of the artillery battalion, and a cavalry battalion of more than 600 cavalry.

After Fu Xianzong and Wang Debang joined forces, the total strength of the Chu army was as high as nearly 10,000. If they don't attack and fight, Jiao Wenbin will naturally not take the initiative to provoke himself. If there is to be a war, then it will have to wait until Taiwan's follow-up troops arrive before fighting. Now that Taiwan's troops have arrived in Xiamen, there is not even a battalion, and most of the troops are still resting, Jiao Wenbin is not stupid!

Therefore, during the period when the Mawei Military Port was trapped, the battle in Zhangzhou slowly changed from fierce at the beginning to a silent battle. Until now, the attitude of the Chu army changed suddenly, and the cannon roared, completely moving the real character.

Jiao Wenbin doesn't know why this is yet. But the Qin army was not afraid of war. If the Chu army wants to fight, then fight! The two brigades of the Qin army in the defensive posture, on the one hand, contacted the troops in the rear to prepare for reinforcements, and on the other hand, they did not avoid the direct top Chu army on the other side.

Shima Town.

The sound of gunfire was no longer loud, and the billowing smoke was drifting away with the sea breeze.

The Qin army retreated, and the Chu army opened the road to face the county seat of Haicheng. But Wang Debang and Fu Xianzong did not see a trace of happiness on their faces.

"Five hundred! Hitting a small stone yard town will cost us 500 people. This is to spell the sea ,......."

Fu Xianzong's face was filled with bitterness. Wang Debang on the side also looked sad.

Because the sacrifice of 500 people of the Chu army in exchange for the fruits of the battle is too small. There were only twenty-two corpses left by the Qin army in the entire battlefield, plus two wounded who were buried under the fortifications and houses and were picked up by the Chu army.

Perhaps the Qin army still had a group of wounded, and the bodies of some soldiers were pulled away by them. But if you can't see it, there is no evidence, how can you let Fu Xianzong and Wang Debang be counted?

"Kunting [Fu Xianzong's character], we have lost five hundred elites, and the results of the battle are only twenty-four. A certain has been in the army for more than 20 years, and the firearms of the two armies are equal, and there has never been such a disparity in casualties......"

"Duke Zuo ordered the two of us to recover Haicheng and capture another batch of prisoners of war...... This, this is easier said than done! ”

Wang Debang knew that Zuo Zongtang had a good face. The so-called king humiliated his ministers to death, as a cadre of the Chu army, he was also willing to serve Zuo Zongtang to save face. But the first battle in Shima Town really broke his heart and liver.

The Chu army had 30 steel cannons and more than 20 front-loading smoothbore guns, and it had an absolute advantage in firepower, not to mention the superiority in troops. But after half a day of fighting, the Qin army took the initiative to retreat, and at such a small price, the Chu army paid such heavy casualties.

Fu Xianzong thought of the hardships of Haicheng County, and his face became even more embarrassed. "Brother Langqing, Zuo Gong's order, I dare not disobey. I just want Zuo Gong to dissipate his anger as soon as possible, we will fight hard, and the casualties of the sergeants can make Zuo Gong pity......"

The two generals who commanded thousands of armies were so lost in the battle of Shima Town. The middle and low-level officers and the low-level soldiers under the Chu army were even more shocked and suffered.

Wide trenches, muddy puddles, dense firepower, those bunkers made of reinforced concrete......

Except that the barbed wire was not taken out, and not enough artillery firepower was exposed, the position of the Qin army was almost up to the standard in the First World War.

But fortunately, the lower-level officers and soldiers of the Chu army did not know what the reason for the sudden change in the attitude of the top bosses was. If you know about it, I'm afraid that morale will drop faster.

The shipmaster and sailor, the 'Zhenhai Divine Needle' in the hearts of the Chu army soldiers, stayed well in the Mawei Military Port, and was almost killed by the Qin army. If it weren't for the fact that people didn't mean it at all, it seemed to be a destination with an 'ulterior', which would be easy to judge. is Zuo Zongtang's 'getting back face', and it is not trying to clear the suspicion of Chu Jun. Then the pride of the entire Chu army for many years will no longer exist.

But how should the Chu army approach Haicheng County, or how should it approach. However, after the first battle of Shima Town, the Qin army also changed its combat mode, no longer only fighting positional warfare, but changing to a combination of positional sniping and disturbance warfare, the former is more important to the latter as a target attraction.

Major Nevich, military attache of the Russian Legation in China, walked out of the residence rubbing his sore and swollen eyes.

Too bad, it was too bad last night. The sound of guns and cannons continued, and the Qin army was constantly harassing the Chu army all night.

This kind of harassment is shameless, but it is also something that people have to work hard to deal with.

Nevich is familiar with this mode of operation. When Liu Xian was fighting in Xinjiang, he was very good at using such shameful means to consume the morale and energy of the Russian army.

And as an elite of the Russian army, Nevich can also see that this tactic is different from the depth - the combat effectiveness or deterrence of the caster, and the impact on the harassed party is also different.

If the Chu army is replaced by the Russian army, the enemy on the opposite side is any Chinese army other than the Qin army. The Russian army is not afraid of them at all, and in the eyes of the Russian army, the Chinese army is not good at fighting except for bravery. And bravery does not mean combat effectiveness.

Therefore, the harassment of the Chinese army will only make the Russian army angry, although it can consume some energy, but in the short term, it will not consume the morale of the army, let alone fear and fear.

However, if the opponent is replaced by the Qin army, no army in Europe and the United States now dares to say that they look down on the combat effectiveness of the Qin army. The Germans, who are just starting to reach the pinnacle of continental Europe, are no exception. Otherwise, their military observer group would not have been personally led by a lieutenant general, and there would have been so many, so fast!

The Russian soldiers will have a sense of vigilance against the Qin army, which defeated them in Xinjiang. Now even if the European armies recognize the combat effectiveness of the Qin army, they can't talk about being afraid.

And it is this kind of vigilance mentality, in the constant harassment of the Qin army day and night, it will become irritable and angry, and then the fear will retreat after the anger subsides.

People have brains. The opponent is not weak, but a strong army like himself. I was harassed day and night, and my spirit was not as good as before, that is, I felt that my state was not as good as before, that is, my combat effectiveness was declining. In this case, of course, the feeling of retreat will appear in the hearts of the soldiers!

The nerves of the brain, which are tense for a long time, can cause big problems.

When the desire to retreat appears in the hearts of the soldiers, but the officers do not give the order to retreat, fear arises in the face of the constant bullets fired from invisible places day and night.

Yes, it's fear! Just like the current soldiers of the Chu army.

This can be seen in their indiscriminate shooting during night harassment. They have fear in their hearts!

It can also be seen from the fact that the generals knew that the opponent was deliberately attacking and harassing and did not dare to be careless, they had fear in their hearts!

From the corpse of a soldier who died from cold guns and mines, the eyes of those who are still alive can also see the existence of fear.

And this, this fear in the heart, the retreating heart, in the eyes of Nevich is the brand of failure. It is the disappointment of countless soldiers in the war!

The Major walked up to the embankment, and the eastern position was clearly visible, and the sun on the eighth day of the first month of November shrouded it with a golden glow, and of course over the countless soldiers.

"Ah......h He didn't get a good night's sleep after a noisy night last night.

Nevich was born into a noble family, living in comfortable conditions, and although he graduated from a military academy and served in the Caucasus, he did not suffer much. His only flaw now is probably his lack of experience in brutal warfare. However, he has a flexible mind, has a relatively fast ability to absorb new military ideas, and has a keen observation. So he is now a well-deserved elite in the Tsarist Russian army. The kind of staff elite who can definitely talk on paper. If you can train properly, you can also become a good actual combat general.

In the foreign observation group of the Chu army, an officer like Xiang was not an individual. On the contrary, it is another kind of army elite who is 'broken iron clothes on the battlefield of a hundred battles', which is relatively rare.

That kind of soldier, such as the German who was also in the Chu army, was also Ferdo, who also had the rank of major. Bernhardt. A soldier who has been in the army for more than ten years and has fought in the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War.

For example, the Japanese army Shosa Nogi Noshinori. The current captain of the Japanese Emperor's Guards has experienced the bloody battle in Japan two years ago.

But Nevich doesn't find it shameful. As a nobleman, as an officer, he had the right to a comfortable life. The unbearably smelling marching tent was the place where the gray cattle of the ground lived, not his glorious aristocratic officer.

Therefore, just after the yawn, Nevich muttered: "Damn yellow ghost! "It made him sleep hard at night, and he lost energy during the day.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency! The Qing army was about to launch an offensive, and it would soon become a war zone. Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton asks you to return to the Military Observation Area immediately. Most likely, there will be shells falling here! An ensign adjutant shouted to him from afar.

Military observation zone? Theater? Cannonball! Nevich shuddered.

He was just taking a walk, not trying to walk in the battlefield area. "Damn the Chinese, they attacked so early!"

Not only was last night's sleep ruined, but even this morning's breakfast was ruined.

Nevich walked briskly. He had to rush to the military observation zone as soon as possible. That's the safe place! R1152