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"This? How is this possible? How could the artillery fire of the Xinhua Army be so fierce? Seeing his soldiers being engulfed by the fierce artillery fire, Song Fuliang was dumbfounded! He has been in the army for more than 20 years, and it is the first time he has seen such a scene. The attack of the elite tens of thousands of Nanjing soldiers was so vulnerable in front of the Xinhua army!

"General! It's the navy of the Xinhua Army! Their battleships moored to the sea are shelling us fiercely! An officer of the Vietnamese army reported to Song Phuc Luong. It is clear that this was at least the shelling of hundreds of cannons. The land forces of the Xinhua Army had just begun to land, and it was impossible to move so many artillery pieces to the shore. In the event of heavy shelling, it could only be a warship from the sea. However, the range of the naval guns of the Xinhua Army still shocked the Vietnamese army! The Vietnamese Army also has two cannons for each guard, and ten for a battalion! However, compared with the cannon of the Xinhua Army, this old-fashioned breech gun is completely garbage!

"Stand back!" Helpless, Song Fuliang had to order a retreat. Otherwise, under the heavy shelling of the Xinhua Army, even if there are more troops, it will not be enough to die.

Under the orders of Song Phuc Luong, the Vietnamese army began to retreat! Of the tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops, only more than 6,000 have withdrawn. In just half an hour, so many troops were lost. made Song Fuliang very depressed, he didn't know how to explain to Emperor Ruan Fuxian! The same. The strength of the Xinhua Army also surprised them. Originally, Song Fuliang and other senior generals of the Vietnamese army believed that although the Xinhua Army was strong, Vietnam's Beijing troops were not bad, and even if there was a gap, the gap would not be too big. But now it seems. The gap between the two sides is completely different!

The active retreat of the Vietnamese army allowed the Xinhua army to land with peace of mind! 9 a.m. The 1st Brigade of the Xinhua Army completed the landing. 6 infantry battalions plus an artillery battalion, all ashore! At this time, Major General Sun Hao, Chief of Operations of the General Staff, gave the order to attack! Although the port is now under the full control of the Xinhua Army, this landing ground is relatively weak. Depth is not enough. If the Vietnamese army were to counterattack at night, it was likely to suffer heavy losses. After all, at night, the Navy could not provide fire support to the landing landing. Otherwise, it is easy to cause accidental injury. Therefore, it was only possible to bring as many troops ashore as possible, and at the same time expand the landing ground and form a more favorable depth of defense!

9:15 a.m. Brigadier General Zhang Wei, commander of the 1st Brigade of the Xinhua Army, led his army to launch an attack on the Vietnamese army on his own initiative. 24 75-mm field guns of the brigade artillery battalion. Heavy artillery shelling was carried out on the positions of the Vietnamese troops. Although, the Vietnamese army had forty guns. However, the maximum firing range of these old-fashioned breech guns is less than one or two kilometers, and they cannot reach the artillery positions of the Xinhua Army at all. Once the fire is fired, it will be found by the artillery of the Xinhua Army, which will attract fierce shelling!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Dense shells exploded in the ranks of the Vietnamese troops, and the bombers turned on their backs. The Vietnamese army did not follow the Xinhua Army, and found a set of tactics suitable for modern warfare. Their tactics are more like the infantry phalanx of Western countries. In the center are shotspearmen, surrounded by spearmen. As for the construction of fortifications and the like, it is equivalent to a blank slate. This directly caused the Vietnamese army to suffer heavy losses due to the lack of fortifications in the face of the heavy artillery bombardment of the Xinhua army. Often an infantry phalanx formed by a guard quickly collapsed in the shelling. And at this time, the infantry of the Xinhua Army had not even launched an attack!

Half an hour of shelling caused heavy losses to the Vietnamese army, but what was more serious was that the morale dropped very quickly! If it weren't for the fact that the Overseers were guarding behind, some of the Vietnamese troops might have turned and fled!

After that, the attack of the Xinhua army began! Brigadier General Zhang Wei threw four of the six infantry battalions in his hands at once. The remaining two are to serve as reserves. Three thousand Xinhua troops, in scattered formations, launched an attack on the Vietnamese army. Moreover, before the complete collapse of the Vietnamese army, the attack speed of the Xinhua army was not fast, but more like a deliberate distance between the two sides! After all, the range of the rifle of the Xinhua Army is a great advantage. Keep your distance and get the most out of this. If this advantage is lost, the combat power of the Xinhua Army will also be greatly reduced!

"Is this the new tactic of the Xinhua Army to defeat the foreigners?" Song Fuliang looked at the attack tactics of the Xinhua Army lined up in a scattered line from a distance, and was a little puzzled. Could it be that the Xinhua Army didn't know what to do, and the musketeers had to be concentrated in order to ensure the strength of the firepower? Spreading it out can certainly reduce casualties, but it is also easy to be defeated because the firepower is not strong enough! Song Fuliang was a little skeptical, if the Xinhua Army defeated the Spanish Expeditionary Force with this tactic, then the Spanish Expeditionary Force would be too rubbish!

Soon, Song Fuliang knew that he was wrong, and he was very wrong! The performance of the Exocet rifle of the Xinhua Army completely offset the disadvantage of this formation dispersion, and even with a skirmish line, it was enough to ensure the strength of firepower. In addition, mortars that accompany the infantry, as well as grenades carried by the infantry, can provide powerful fire support for the infantry when attacking! And these are all useless for the Vietnamese army!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "When there were still 400 meters away from the Vietnamese army, the mortarmen of the Xinhua army stopped, set up the mortars with losses, and opened fire on the Vietnamese army at the maximum rate of fire! The maximum rate of fire of the Thunderbolt mortar has reached 10 rounds per minute, which is beyond the reach of other artillery. It's a pity that the power of the Thunderbolt mortar is a little too weak. The research institute of the Xinhua Army has begun to develop more powerful explosives that can replace black powder. If it succeeds, it will inevitably bring the power of the various weapons of the Xinhua Army to a higher level! In addition, it is the development of a larger-caliber mortar, a mortar with a caliber of 60 mm, which can only be regarded as a light mortar. Larger caliber 80-mm medium mortars and 120-mm heavy mortars are also being developed. It's just that because of the materials, the progress is not fast, but it is estimated that there will be a maximum of one to two years before these weapons can be equipped with the Xinhua Army! When the time comes, the combat power of the Xinhua Army will soar again!

The Vietnamese army was subjected to heavy artillery bombardment by the Xinhua Army, which once again caused them heavy losses! It was originally ravaged by the 75mm field artillery of the Xinhua Army once before, and this time it was hit by a violent storm again, which made the Vietnamese army almost collapse!

"What about our artillery? Fire! Kill those Xinhua troops! Song Fuliang yelled angrily!

Soon, the forty artillery pieces hidden by the Vietnamese army opened fire one after another, and what made people speechless was that the shells fired by these guns were actually solid shells. After the cannonball is fired, it bounces on the ground and relies on huge kinetic energy to kill and injure the enemy.

Some of the more unlucky Xinhua soldiers were hit on the spot, and their whole bodies were broken in two by shells, and their deaths were very miserable!

Fortunately, after the Vietnamese artillery opened fire, they were exposed. The artillery battalion in the rear of the Xinhua Army quickly suppressed the Vietnamese artillery! Although the artillery battalion of the Xinhua Army has only 24 75mm field guns, the rate of fire of one round per minute is far stronger than that of the Vietnamese artillery! In less than ten minutes, the Vietnamese artillery fire was suppressed, forty cannons, more than half of the losses were lost, and the artillery also suffered heavy casualties, so they had to stop continuing the shelling! At this time, the soldiers of the Xinhua Army who were crawling on the ground began to attack again! The Xinhua Army, which was killed by Vietnamese artillery, was only a few dozen!

When the soldiers of the Xinhua Army approached less than 300 meters to the Vietnamese army, they had already entered the effective range of the Exocet rifle at this time! It's just that most soldiers' marksmanship can't guarantee an accurate hit at this distance!

"Bang! Bang! Bang! "The soldiers of the Xinhua Army opened fire one after another, and they advanced as they fired, and began to shoot the Vietnamese army with powerful firepower!

"Shoot so far away? Are these Xinhua troops wasting bullets? Song Fuliang said a little strangely. But then, seeing that the Vietnamese army was constantly falling to the ground, he had no words! Obviously, it was the Vietnamese army who were all shot!

"Damn! How could the rifle range of the Xinhua Army be so long? Song Fuliang yelled. And this is also the thought of those Vietnamese soldiers who were shot before they died.

The Xinhua Army, with four infantry battalions, steadily advanced in a skirmish line, relying on the range and rate of fire of the Exocet rifle, the Xinhua Army firmly held the absolute upper hand. The Vietnamese army is not an opponent of the Xinhua army at all!

Although, as the elite troops of Vietnam, their will to fight is very strong! However, no matter how strong the will to fight is, in the face of huge casualties, it will gradually disappear, and it will collapse at the very least. Now the Vietnamese army is like that! When the comrades around him were shot one by one, the Vietnamese army began to collapse. At first, the Warlords were able to stop it, but as more and more soldiers started to flee, the Warlords couldn't do anything!

"Retreat!" Song Fuliang saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to order a retreat! If this continues, the Vietnamese army will pay even more casualties!

The retreat of the Vietnamese army soon turned into a rout. The 1st Brigade of the Xinhua Army launched a pursuit, and the pursuit was only three kilometers away from Hue before stopping. Further ahead, it is the place heavily guarded by the Vietnamese army, and if you continue to pursue, the strength of the 1st Brigade of the Army will be slightly insufficient! (To be continued......)