A thousand-strong contingent of new imperial troops, facing the lead bullets fired from the front, after losing two or three hundred people in a row, finally rushed to a position less than a hundred paces away from the mountain beam.

Because of the continuous losses of the troops, Mr. Qian, who had long been holding back a fire in his heart, opened his mouth and ordered without thinking about it: "Raise your gun and prepare to return fire...... Shoot right away, shoot ......"

When the order was given, the sound of gunshots like bursting beans sounded directly around Mr. Qian.

Although it was not clear whether the lead bullets he fired caused damage to the enemy, the crackling gunshots, like a tranquilizer, quickly stabilized the turbulent morale of the soldiers under his command.

It's as if as soon as you shoot, the Haw Par Army in front of you will be scared away, and victory will be your own.

Perhaps it was good luck that suddenly sided with the court, just when they were full of confidence and fantasized that victory was beckoning to them. The independent regiment of hundreds of soldiers in front of them was really "defeated" by themselves as they imagined.

Of course, this is only the idea of the official army. In fact, the hundreds of soldiers defending the mountain beam were not defeated, but took the initiative to retreat and go to the next blocking position, continuing to consume the strength of the new imperial army.

However, the new recruits of the imperial court who were on the offensive were unaware of the conspiracy.

The gunfire on the hill beam a hundred paces away was heard getting weaker and weaker, and finally disappeared completely.

The new army, which still had more than 600 people left, rushed towards the already empty mountain ridge with a roar as if it had been beaten with chicken blood.

When Mr. Qian finally stepped on the position of the Independent Regiment, hundreds of soldiers of the Independent Regiment had already retreated to the official road more than 100 steps away.

Not only that, but the whole retreat is on the way. A number of muskets were also found that were directly discarded by the Separate Regiment......

Plus the large number of stretchers that were faintly visible in the retreating crowd of the independent regiment. An idea came to Mr. Qian's mind directly.

"The musketeers, the quintessential of the guerrillas, were defeated by themselves. And there are huge losses...... Otherwise, they would not have fled for their lives in such a mess, and even lost the muskets that the soldiers never left their hands. ”

With such a big victory, of course Mr. Qian will not hold back......

Immediately take the muskets that his subordinates have just captured, find the commander-in-chief, and report the good news to the commander-in-chief......

With more than a dozen powerful muskets as proof, the commander-in-chief of the New Army approved of his subordinates' report after only a brief contemplation.

Subsequently. In a good mood, he immediately ordered his soldiers to continue to advance, chasing the guerrilla deserters and attacking the docks all the way.

Xiang Hu, the leader of the independent regiment with the idea of boiling frogs in warm water, would let them attack all the way to the dock so easily? The answer is obvious.

The general soldier of the new army with his officers and men had just chased out less than two miles away, and another chest cavity blocked the official road.

"What do the guerrillas want to do...... Do they intend to continue to slow down our attack until they completely withdraw from the docks......" said the general of the New Army, whose brows were furrowed, subconsciously spoke.

But. The expression disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Not only that, but a look of unprecedented determination. It also quickly appeared on the face of the general soldier.

Facing a few thousand presidents beside him, he said in a very affirmative tone: "It must be like this...... Use the advantage of the musket to block us layer by layer...... In this way, they can drag us down the offensive path with minimal or no cost......"

Speaking of this, Mr. Qian, who had a firm face, directly shifted his gaze to Mr. Qian.

Subsequently, he decisively ordered: "Mr. Zhou Qian...... This line of defense of the guerrillas will be handed over to you...... For you, Ben will have only one requirement, to take down this line of defense in the shortest possible time...... The elite of the guerrillas are concentrated in front of us, and as long as we can kill the dock in a short time, the remaining more than 1,000 guerrillas will not have anything to worry about. When the time comes, victory will be ours......"

The final result was undoubtedly the new army of a thousand men, although it did not take long to occupy the line of defense that stood in front of it, and repulsed the independent regiment of hundreds of musketeers who stood in the way......

However, of the 1,000 musketeers, less than 700 were able to continue fighting in the end.

As long as such an attack is repeated again, the new army of more than 5,000 people in the imperial court will lose a thousand-man team before they really see the dock of the sailor.

However, there was clearly more than one line of defense on the miles they needed to continue their attack.

After breaking through the four lines of defense of the Independent Regiment in succession, losing more than 1,200 people, the total number of troops of the New Army was once again blocked by a line of defense. The commander-in-chief of the Forces nouvelles finally realized that something was wrong.

However, in the face of the sailor's wharf, which is already close at hand, in the face of victory and military exploits that are about to be reached.

The impulse in the heart of the general soldier finally prevailed over the shred of reason that had just risen in his heart.

There is no doubt that the whole offensive is like an exercise that has been carried out many times.

After the new army of the imperial court lost more than 300 lives, as soon as they came into contact with hundreds of soldiers of the Independent Regiment, hundreds of soldiers of the Independent Regiment quickly abandoned the defense line and put on a posture of fleeing for their lives in the direction of the dock.

Faced with the almost identical battle in front of him, the general soldier finally became impatient.

Facing a group of subordinates, he said with a dissatisfied face: "These guerrillas are too cunning to give us a chance to destroy them...... We're almost at the docks, we can't let them escape anymore, we must kill him before they get back to the docks......"

"Now that the dock is close at hand, we don't need to rush...... ordered, and then encountered the guerrilla defense line, the artillery team immediately attacked, and used flowering shells to blow up these guerrilla elites, all of whom were killed on the defense line...... As long as these elites are eliminated, the rest of the guerrillas will not have to worry......"

On the remaining road to the dock, there was indeed a separate regimental defensive line.

However, what the commander-in-chief of the New Army did not expect was that this line of defense was not only the last line of defense he encountered today, but also a trap that the independent regiment had prepared for them. One is not good, he will die here today.

Soon, a similar line of defense stood in front of the new imperial army.

In several successive attacks, the commander of an artillery team, who had no chance to perform, immediately ordered the artillery to arrange artillery positions less than 300 paces from the defense line with a burning and excited face.

It stands to reason that with the effective firing range of more than two miles from the redcoat artillery, the safest artillery position should be at a distance of 400 to 500 paces from the defensive line.

However, not knowing that the guerrillas had been reorganized into an independent regiment and equipped with a large number of artillery, the artillery team of the new army of the imperial court, in order to ensure the hit rate, directly placed 20 red-coated cannons less than 300 steps away from the defense line.

Faced with this situation, Xiang Hu, the regiment commander who personally guarded the defensive line, did not say a word because of this. However, the smile that suddenly appeared on Xiang Hu's serious face directly explained that what the new army of the imperial court had done was just developing in the direction of its intended battle. (To be continued......)