Chapter 269: The Battlefield Under the Heavy Rain
That was the last time Frost saw Major Oldman, and after that, Frost never saw the Major again. I only heard that he died heroically!
The Qin army officially launched an attack, in the rain curtain, in front of the position, shouts of killing accompanied by artillery fire and gunfire, limbs, rain, blood, mud, flew into the air......
However, an hour later, the large French force was still far away, and Frost could even clearly hear the sound of gunfire coming from the northeast, but he could not see a single French soldier rushing towards him.
At the same time, the soldiers of the Qin army besieging the Frost Department were squeezing in from all directions like a tide! The artillery fire that was not taken on both sides was even stronger than this, and the Qin army was even stronger than the French army because of the grenades.
Heavy rain and mud did not weaken the power of the rockets. Outside the visual distance, at a distance of about one hundred and fifty meters, the Qin army smashed through the first line of defense of the French army with only three rockets.
And then make persistent efforts to constantly press the range of French positions. The French soldiers had charged, and the French soldiers, who were driven crazy by the huge pressure of the rockets, bravely launched a white-knuckle charge against the Qin army with a rifle with a bayonet!
But the Qin soldiers' triangular attack group and Colt revolver told the French that you can't afford to play white-knuckle combat. As a result, the French positions became smaller and smaller, and by the hour and a half of the battle had begun, about three hundred French soldiers, along with their general Flast, were tightly surrounded on a small high ground. Xiang Fa did not command the troops to attack again, but set up rockets, and after three consecutive shots, he directly ordered the French army to surrender unconditionally.
Frost never imagined that one day he would be captured by the barbaric and backward Orientals. But he has seen with his own eyes the power of the rocket explosion, with a loud "boom", a rocket can send all the people within a range of ten meters into the sky, and it can also stir up the mud in the sky, throwing countless stumps and broken arms!
The rocket team with three consecutive shots cleared half a platoon of French soldiers.
Two hours after the battle began, Liu Xian, who was directing the main battle on the front line, received a battle report from Xiang Fa. Frost surrendered, more than 350 French soldiers were taken prisoner, and the rest were corpses!
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The heavy rain wet Liu Xian's clothes, but Liu Xian was very happy in his heart. It's been three years, and since he returned from the war in Xinjiang, he has been carefully storing energy for three years in a row, without wasting it at all. The virtual map had been left unturned on for a record 43 consecutive days, and finally, when he marched into Vietnam, he lit up the first sub-item of the planetary climate prediction in the probe - local climate analysis! A function that can predict the approximate change in climate within a radius of 50 kilometers with Liu Xian himself as the central point.
And then there was this decisive battle on a rainy day!
"Let Xiang Fa reorganize the troops and cut off the retreat of the French army!"
Catch a bait first, and the French have to step forward. and cut off their way back......
Bypassing the battlefield from the left, without any artillery or tents, the Xiang Fa Department bypassed a river one or twenty meters wide, and entered the flank and rear of the French troops, blocking their way of retreat. Liu Xian's gaze seemed to be able to see through the space and see the river seven or eight miles on the flank of the battlefield. The rain was pouring down, and it would rain for two more days, enough for the river to flood and turn what was now only one or twenty meters wide into thirty or forty meters, or even wider, blocking the left exit of the French army.
As for the right side of the battlefield, there is no fast river, no danger, only one - that direction leads to Hue.
The third charge launched by the main force of the French army was repulsed, and Francis. Garnier's strict orders also failed to make the French army and the Blue Belt burst into super energy.
The Qin army and the vassal Vietnamese army resisted step by step with a flexible defensive strategy. The Vietnamese army had enough manpower to dig trenches, and there was no need for regular trenches, just a shallow firing position. This caused the Qin army and the Vietnamese army to suffer greater casualties from French artillery fire. But it also gave the troops behind time to build regular trenches.
In two hours, the French army launched three charges, each of which could make the Qin army and the Vietnamese army retreat uncontrollably. However, the saddest thing for the French army was that there was always a new trench behind the retreating Qin army and the Vietnamese army, and there was always a new force to meet them.
Once, twice, three times......
It wasn't until the location of Liu Xian was not far in front of that an absolutely regular trench was excavated. It should be said that the thousands of Vietnamese guards that Liu Xian collected when he sent out his troops, as well as the sapper shovels he had people specially built, played their role.
Again and again, again and again, and again and again, and again and again, and again and again. The French army is not a machine and can not be tired.
After three attacks, the heavy rain poured over their heads, and for more than two hours, the Gallic roosters couldn't help but cry bitterly. Even if they knew that not far away, a French general was waiting to come to his rescue.
As a result, the Blue Ribbons were no longer the main force of the fourth charge, and they were no longer auxiliaries to the French army. Thousands of blue soldiers were involved in this charge. And behind this wave of blue belt soldiers, thousands of blue belt soldiers are also preparing for a second attack. The French are in a hurry!
After Liu Xian saw the layout of the French army clearly, he smiled. Also, a major general fell to the front, just like Qi Dalin, Liu Zhuo and others in the Qin army, if they were trapped in that place, if Liu Xian had the strength, he would also rush forward to rescue regardless of his desperate efforts.
What's more, what is now fighting with the French is the Orientals, who are despised by the European and American world, and they are yellow and race-like.
The French began to attack in waves regardless of casualties, even if they no longer looked at the lives of the Blue Ribbons, it was a last resort.
"Janolin, prepare your battalion. Always ready to attack—"Just as the first charge of the Blue Ribbon was launched, Francis . . . Garnier said to a French major beside him.
"Don't worry, General. Our warriors are ready to fight! ”
When a whole battalion of French soldiers, dragging behind the second wave of charging Blue Ribbon soldiers, also entered the battlefield, the battle line of the Qin-Yue coalition army was in a hurry. After all, the Qin army that Liu Xian put in the trenches only had a complete brigade.
Half an hour after the battle began, the coalition forces had gradually lost some of their positions! However, to Liu Xian's relief, and to Wu Zhongping's annoyance, all the positions lost on the front line were lost by the Vietnamese army, and the Qin army guarded their place well from beginning to end.
In the improvised trenches, the soldiers of the Qin army were covered in mud and the smell of gunsmoke, squinting at the waves of explosions of grenades in front of the position!
The French army was not equipped with grenades, which was the greatest advantage of the Qin army. Far away made the gun hit, and went into throwing grenades. A brigade of Qin troops, like a boulder and a nail, caused the French army's charge to suffer a heavy setback again!
The front of the position was quickly filled with bloody corpses! There are both blue ribbon soldiers, French soldiers, and Qin soldiers! Francis. Garnier soon received a report that almost every Chinese soldier on the battlefield was equipped with a rattan cuirass, which gave them a great advantage when fighting the French with bayonets! Francis. Garnier was unwilling to give up this opportunity, he once again sent a battalion of French soldiers into battle, and Liu Xian's side naturally sent a large group of Qin soldiers to the position, as well as 2,000 old Vietnamese troops.
On the staggered position, a chaotic situation of "you have me, I have you" has already been formed, no matter who can't support it first, or even shakes a little, a collapsed situation will be formed! The second regular trench of the Qin army has not yet been dug and ready, and they must withstand this battle.
The battle was fought to a fever pitch. In the face of the French army, some red-eyed Qin soldiers picked up grenades and rushed straight into their crowd. Under the fierce fighting spirit and the passionate atmosphere, many wounded and trapped Qin soldiers pulled grenades among the French troops.
In the roaring explosion, it was a kind of spiritual sublimation, the mud turned into blood red, and the tenacious will to fight of the Qin army made the French soldiers dumbfounded! Of course, there were also some Qin soldiers who were almost stupid, and even a few began to try to secretly retreat, or smear mud on their faces, and lie on the ground slyly and pretend to be dead! R1152