No matter whether it is the era of cold weapons, the age of modern muskets, or the era of World War I and World War II, no matter how the tactics and weapons used change, the most cruel and most test of an army's will to fight is still hand-to-hand combat.

Faced with the collapse of friendly forces one after another, facing the fear that the soldiers under his command began to have never felt before, and on the verge of collapse.

Fang Anyun, the commander of the 10th Division, who was at the forefront of the battle, adopted the most direct and effective way to try to save the situation of the war!

I saw that this thirty-one-year-old who had become the commander of the main division rode on a brown Arab horse, and then decisively drew his command knife, controlled the horse over a gentle slope and out of the trench, and then stood on the edge of the trench and launched a horn of counter-charge!

"Kill!" Fang Anyun seemed to shout these two words with all the strength of his body!

At this moment, it seemed that there was only Fang Anyun on the entire front, and the soldiers of the 10th Division who were still in the trench looked at their commander in front of them, holding high their command knives and issuing orders for counterattack!

The already fearful psychology was quickly suppressed, and then a surge of blood surged into my heart!

In modern warfare, high-ranking generals are on the front line and lead the soldiers to attack, which has a very great effect on the morale of the troops.

The soldiers of this era do not have as much autonomy as the soldiers in modern warfare, and the soldiers who are illiterate are far more dependent on officers than modern soldiers are on officers, and the appearance and command of officers have a great effect on the persistence of an army.

And now, Fang Anyun's only role is no longer to make tactical arrangements, his only role is only. That is to be on the front line to boost morale!

As Fang Anyun's counteroffensive order was issued, the middle and lower-level officers of the 10th Division also drew their command knives. The company commanders blew the brass whistles that hung on their chests.

"Kill!"

"The Chinese army is invincible!"

The officers were the first to climb out of the trench, and then, brandishing their command knives, led the soldiers out of the trenches one after another. Then launched a counter-charge towards the Anglo-French forces rushing towards the opposite side!

Thousands of soldiers crawled out of the trenches with rifles loaded with bayonets and rushed over shouting slogans!

The distance between the two sides was only a few tens of meters, and it didn't take long for the bayonet phalanxes of the two sides to collide together!

"Kill!" A first-class soldier shouted and ran forward, and then quickly sent the bayonet in his hand, and the next moment the bayonet stabbed a blonde and blue-eyed foreign soldier in front of him, but before he could show a happy expression because he had stabbed the enemy, the next moment another foreign soldier on the opposite side stabbed him in the chest with a rifle bayonet.

hit the heart, he didn't even say a word, the whole person fell to the ground, and he lost his life before he even had time to close his eyes.

And next to him. The soldiers of the Chinese army and the Anglo-French army were like wild beasts, stabbing their bayonets out continuously, hitting one enemy after another, until they were also hit.

Zooming in on the entire front, thousands of soldiers were scuffling together, and every second countless soldiers fell, and the ground beneath their feet gradually became wet, dyeing from earthy yellow to red.

When the most brutal and fierce hand-to-hand combat of bayonets broke out on both sides. Whether it was the Chinese army or the senior generals of the Anglo-French coalition army, they all watched the battle situation with their eyes wide open.

Qu Panyun looked at the soldiers on both sides who were fighting together, and at this time, just from the naked eye, it could be found that his own soldiers were more killed and injured than the foreign soldiers on the opposite side.

Qu Panyun looked at the increasing number of corpses and wounded on the ground, and he closed his eyes. In today's battle, how many casualties did the 10th Division have to pay? 1,000 or 2,000 or annihilation?

Liu Hetao next to him looked at the scuffle between the two sides in front of him, which was no longer enough to describe as tragic, Rao is a veteran soldier who has been in war for a long time. He had also seen thousands of soldiers killed and wounded, and he couldn't help but tremble his hands slightly.

These are all soldiers of the Royal Army, and each one of them is hard-won. They are the foundation of the empire's struggle for hegemony in Kyushu, and the number of casualties on weekdays is enough to make these officers feel heartache. But how many dead and wounded are there today?

Although only a minute had passed, the loss of bayonets on both sides was very fast, and when he saw that the corpses and wounded on both sides on the ground had exceeded a thousand, a lieutenant colonel next to him finally couldn't help it, and saw him take two steps to Qu Panyun: "Commander, you can't fight anymore, quickly order them to retreat!" ”

"These soldiers are the foundation of my empire, and they are all my Shaoxing disciples!" As he spoke, the young lieutenant colonel was already with tears in his eyes!

The 10th Division is a little different from other Chinese armies, that is, the 10th Division was formerly the 10th Mixed Regiment, and then slowly expanded into the 10th Mixed Brigade, and then to the 10th Infantry Division, and this unit is also the second unit in the Chinese Army in addition to the 1st Division, with Shaoxing Mansion as the recruiting place.

Among them, the 28th Infantry Regiment was recruited in Yuyao County, the starting place of the Chinese Army.

The middle and senior generals in the Chinese army, eight out of ten are from Shaoxing Mansion, and even more of them are from Yuyao County.

These soldiers and officers are basically the same townsmen and clansmen, and how can these people's hearts feel good when they see the children of their fellow villagers and clans falling in pieces.

Although the other school officials hadn't spoken yet, they all looked at Qu Panyun one by one!

But Qu Panyun took a deep breath, and his eyes were still sharp, as if he didn't have any feelings: "Those who dare to shake the hearts of the army will be severely punished, gendarme!" ”

The gendarmes behind him immediately rushed up, and without saying a word, they immediately took the lieutenant colonel away!

Qu Panyun didn't pay attention to the lieutenant colonel who was captured by the military police, but continued: "Immediately order the 30th Infantry Regiment to urgently reinforce, and the cavalry company is ready to storm their flanks!" ”

"And the hand-to-hand combat units of the Auxiliary Defense Force, let them attack immediately!"

Qu Panyun took advantage of the pheasant moat on the city wall with both hands, and his eyes were still on the scuffle between the two sides outside the city!

With Qu Panyun's order issued, although the other officers had other thoughts, they also had to obey the order one by one. On the city walls, the 30th Infantry Regiment, which served as a strategic reserve, was already trotting out of the bunker under the walls. Then trot forward.

The scuffle between the two sides not only brought great pressure to the senior generals of the Chinese army, but also brought heavy pressure to the generals of the British and French forces such as the Earl of Ergin on the opposite side.

"How could it be. How can they hold us back? "Ergin couldn't believe his eyes since he saw the Chinese army on the opposite side launch a counter-charge towards his attacking troops.

And when the troops on both sides broke out in bayonet hand-to-hand combat, and more than a minute had passed, the Chinese army on the opposite side still did not collapse, and he was even more surprised.

This is the most test of the army's will to fight bayonet hand-to-hand combat, how can the army of these Far Eastern barbarians meet the elite soldiers of the British Empire without collapsing?

Although he also saw that in the bayonet hand-to-hand combat, his own casualties were far smaller than the casualties of the Chinese army on the opposite side, but his total strength was far less than these Chinese troops, even if he killed and wounded a hundred people, and the other side died a thousand people, it would be a big loss, after all, his total strength was only 6,000 people. On the other side, the Chinese army has tens of thousands of people.

What's more, in the bayonet melee between the two sides, although it is said that their side has the advantage, the casualty rate is far from reaching the terrifying ratio of ten to one, not to mention ten to one, five to one, in fact, there is not even three to one, at best it is only two to one.

And if this ratio is just that, doesn't it mean that the Chinese army in front of you will be annihilated, and the coalition army under your command will also be disabled?

And when he saw that more than 1,000 Chinese troops came up with bayonets to reinforce them. On the other side, when a cold weapon force of nearly 3,000 people rushed over, he hesitated.

"I have such a big advantage, there is no need to engage in a cruel war of attrition with them!" Ergin, who did not want his troops to suffer excessive casualties, finally could not bear the pressure in his heart after seeing that his own troops had lost at least a quarter. After a deep sigh, he waved his hand and gave the order to retreat!

As Ergin gave the order to retreat, the British and French soldiers who were still fighting with bayonets did not hesitate at all, and immediately turned around and ran. At this time, the artillery units that were supporting also began to fire on a large scale, apparently to cover the retreat of the infantry.

Those large-caliber guns in the rear are okay to say. But when the small guns of four pounds or less that accompanied the attack fired scattered shells at close range, it also forced any pursuit attempt by the Chinese army.

From the moment the Anglo-French forces retreated. First Class Private Li Erkui was stunned, he hadn't woken up in a short time, was this a win?

After a few seconds, Li Erkui came to his senses, and then showed a look of ecstasy: "We won!" ”

Qu Panyun on the city wall watched the retreat of the foreigners, and he was also relieved, before the foreigners retreated, he did not block the confidence of the foreigners, he was even ready to completely fight the two infantry regiments, and then let the 30th Infantry Regiment reinforce the plan to clean up the mess, if it is still defeated, then it will retreat to the trench, and even the city wall will be abandoned, and then continue to resist stubbornly in the city.

But now, these foreigners have finally retreated!

"We won!" Liu Hetao also looked a little incredulous, just a few minutes ago the situation was still so dangerous, he even thought that the 10th Division would be killed and wounded in this battle, but he did not expect that they would actually block the attack of the foreigners, but in the most dangerous bayonet hand-to-hand combat, they blocked the enemy's attack.

"I, the king of Great China, is really invincible, and even the foreigners are invincible!" Bai Gui, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, from the panic at the beginning, to the current shock, he didn't quite understand that the foreigners who had leveled Guangzhou several times and made him afraid of tigers still be repelled?

And when many people were immersed in the joy of victory, fighting at the front line, Fang Anyun, who was hanging down with one left arm hanging down, and a large amount of blood was flowing from his shoulder and left arm, looked at the corpses almost all over the ground, listening to the screams and moans that kept coming into his ears, what he thought about was not victory or defeat, but how he should face his hometown when he returned to Shaoxing one day and returned to his hometown in Yuyao.

Of the 4,000 soldiers who launched a counter-charge, there are less than 2,000 soldiers who can still stand, and how should he explain the death and injury of the 2,000 soldiers to his hometown fathers and elders, as if he saw the scene of Yuyao's family hanging white flags and crying all over the city after the battle of Si'an in northern Zhejiang.

Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Fang Anyun's whole person seemed to be in a daze, and a few seconds later, he fell directly from the horse. (To be continued......)