After several hours of preparation, two battalions of the French army, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Chewarier, resumed organizing the offensive.

This time the French learned their lesson, and the stormtroopers also included a group of "sanitation workers", holding two-meter-long, twigy branches, and they had only one task: to sweep the floor. Although those antlers and barricades flew away when they were bombarded by artillery, a large number of bamboo nails could not be solved by artillery, and even if they were damaged and deformed, they could pierce the soles of their feet.

As soon as the artillery was ready, the French rushed to the second trench, and at the forefront were the brave "sanitation workers", who ignored the flying bullets and focused only on the ground beneath their feet, sweeping away the bamboo nails all over the ground and clearing the way for the soldiers behind. If someone falls, the soldiers in the back immediately pick up the branches and continue the cleaning work.

It was evident that the French were advancing faster, and although there were still wounded, the soldiers were no longer fearful.

Seeing that the bamboo nail array could not be stopped, in order to avoid large casualties, Yang Ruishan immediately ordered everyone to retreat to the third trench.

The French army then captured the second ditch, Lieutenant Colonel Chewarier felt that the Chinese only had these tricks, he wanted to kill to the Qiqi River in one go, murderous order to continue to advance, just rushed out of the trench not far away, heard a "whining" sound, rapidly approached from the air, Chewarier a thought came to him: "Broken, it's a shell!" ＂

Before he could react, his eyes were dark, and with a "boom", Chewarier felt that he was light, and then he flew up, and when his eyes turned in mid-air, he found that his body was gone, and a painful thought flashed in his mind: "Now I'm dead." And then there was no consciousness.

On the north bank of the Qiqiu River, the camouflaged artillery group had already aimed at this predetermined area in advance, and as long as there was a signal flag on this side, without making any adjustments, it would directly bombard a platoon of artillery, dozens of Grusen guns, plus a few heavy howitzers, and immediately turn the area a few hundred meters in front of the third trench into a small sea of fire.

Just as Chewarier's head was blown into the air, the French assault unit was also beaten by the oncoming artillery bombardment, and the remaining officers and soldiers immediately jumped back into the second ditch to take refuge and call for help from the rear.

Feeling the cunning of the Chinese, Porier on the mountain outside Bawai camouflaged the artillery, never fired, waited for the French to rush into the predetermined area, and then carried out a precise strike, which was more effective than aimless bombardment, and sure enough, a few platoon guns repelled an attack.

Now that the enemy's artillery positions had been exposed, he immediately ordered the heavy artillery units to extend their fire and suppress the opponent's artillery. Major Durier was ordered to bring a battalion to reinforcements.

Immediately the two sides started an artillery battle across the Qiqi River, shells flew around in the air with a whistling sound, and the fierce artillery battle lasted for a long time, and the Chinese artillery regiment had to raise the angle to counter-suppress the French artillery, and could no longer continue to block the French troops in the trenches.

Sensing that the time had come, Durier immediately ordered another charge, raising his sword and shouting, "Warriors of France, let's go and drive those yellow-skinned monkeys into the river!" After shouting, he was the first to rush out of the trench, and the soldiers immediately launched a charge with shouts.

Since Commander Frey, in order to show his contempt, always called only the Chinese army yellow-skinned monkeys, this disdain also affected his subordinates, and the French army used monkeys to refer to the Chinese.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Yang Ruishan shouted in the trenches: "Brothers, there is no way out, there is a strange poor river behind it, the big guys are fighting with the foreign devils!" ＂

The soldiers shouted to each other, each with wide eyes and a face covered in sweat. Due to extreme nervousness, fear, and anger, all faces appear distorted and hideous.

Maybe it was really a battle against the water, leaving it to death and resurrecting, but everyone calmed down and was able to strictly carry out the order, no one shot indiscriminately, but quietly waited for the order of the peak.

Five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, the position was still quiet, and this strange silence gave the French army a kind of luck: did these cowardly monkeys scare away?

Two hundred meters later, the French officers and men even saw the river not far behind the trench, and they couldn't help but be happy.

One hundred and fifty meters later, Durier, who was at the front, was even more elated, turned around and shouted: "Warriors, these monkeys"

Before the words fell, there was a "pop", a crisp gunshot, Durrier turned his head in astonishment, and almost at the same time, a dense burst of gunfire "bang, bang, bang", like rain hitting plantains, rows of bullets swept like autumn wind sweeping leaves.

Durier didn't know how many bullets he had received, and before he had time to snort, he rolled his eyes and fell down with a thousand holes.

At such a close distance, and a sudden attack, the French army, which was already somewhat paralyzed, immediately suffered heavy losses, and dozens of people who rushed to the front immediately fell one after another, almost without exception.

There was another volley of guns, and the French army fell again, and when they saw that the signs were not right, the commander was also dead, and finally whistled and retreated.

The battle lasted until dusk, and the French army was repulsed by Yang Ruishan in several attacks. The resolute resistance of the defenders, combined with the impact of a large number of obstacles on the battlefield, prevented the French from completely capturing the south bank of the Qiqiu River at the cost of hundreds of casualties.

As the sky slowly darkened, the French army also stopped attacking, both sides occupied the trench, and faced each other all night at a distance of seven or eight hundred meters, so close to each other, like two samurai fighting with swords, staring at each other, and even hearing each other's heavy breathing, just waiting for the sun to rise and fight to the death.

The night was incomparably long, and the French Major Regas became the new commander of the front, bringing with him a batch of Haggaeus machine guns, which greatly strengthened the offensive firepower.

In order to prevent the other party's sneak attack, both sides invariably divided the troops into several shifts and took turns to sleep, but the night was unexpectedly quiet.

As soon as the sky was bright and the sun showed a glimmer of light, the French artillery began to bombard, but last night, the Chinese army had already changed its artillery position, and the French army only bombarded the open space for a long time.

Rhaegas then began to command the attack, but soon fell into the fire of the Chinese army, and the dense rain of bullets forced the French to return to the trenches.

The French really couldn't figure it out, after a day of fierce fighting yesterday, the Chinese defenders still had very sufficient ammunition, and even added some Green guns to the position, which definitely had not appeared before, and was undoubtedly just transported from the north bank last night, which was strange, because the hot air balloon did not find any bridges on the Qiqiu River, and there were no ferries in the river. So how did these supplies get here?

In fact, Yang Ruishan had already sent people to build two hidden bridges in the east and west sides of the Qiqi River in advance.

The so-called hidden bridge is to drive round wooden piles into the bottom of the river, and then nail wooden planks on top of the wooden piles to form a wooden plank bridge. But the bridge deck of this kind of bridge is lower than the water surface, people walking on the bridge, the river water can flood to the calf, people seem to be walking on the river, if you do not walk to the river, it is difficult to find with the naked eye.

It was through this hidden bridge that Yang Ruishan's troops could receive a steady stream of supplies, and even transported some of the wounded back to the north shore.

Soon, the battle was already going on into the afternoon. Porier was already feeling the pressure, and Frey began to get a little impatient when he saw that the south bank of the Chipoor River had not yet been captured after two days of fighting.

Porije simply came to the front line to command, he pulled the main force of the first brigade up, let Regas command two battalions to storm from the east flank, in order to attract the attention of the defenders, and he led a regiment plus an Algerian infantry battalion, and quietly waited on the west flank.

With the rumbling of artillery, the French army began to bombard the trenches on the east side, and for a time sand and rocks flew away, smoke and fire, and dust flew up. Taking advantage of the situation, the French charged again, and by the time the defenders raised their heads from the trenches, they were no more than a hundred meters away. By the time a platoon of guns was finished, and before it was time to fire a second shot, some French soldiers were already shouting "Long live France!" "Jumped into the trenches.

Yang Ruishan got the report and felt that the east side was very likely to collapse, so he personally rushed to support with a battalion. The two sides launched a white-edged battle in the trench, because a lot of stumbling ropes were pulled up in advance, the French army was not familiar with the situation under their feet, it was easy to be hooked, and suffered a great loss in moving, several hand-to-hand fights, the Chinese had the upper hand, and when close to the hand-to-hand combat, the Chinese prepared in advance of the combat knives, appeared very flexible, the French rifle bayonet was loaded, up to 1.88 meters, and could not be used in the trench.

After fighting for a while, Regas felt bad, the French soldiers had to die two to replace one, so it was not a way to go on, so he had to order the troops to retreat first.

Zuihou Yang Ruishan successfully held the position and bombarded the French army back. Looking at the embarrassed figure of the French army, before he could catch his breath, a soldier crawled to report that the west side of the defense line had been lost, and as soon as Yang Ruishan led people away, a large number of French troops pounced on it, and after a chaotic battle, it was really impossible to resist, and the rest of the troops were retreating in this direction.

Yang Ruishan scolded: "Dog's day, still playing east and west." ＂

He knew that by this time, the position could no longer be kept. After two days of struggle, the task has been completed. He himself led a battalion to stop the enemy, and ordered the rest of the troops to withdraw to the north bank along the hidden bridge on the east side.

The battle continued until dusk, when Yang Ruishan retreated, and when the French thought they had cornered the enemy, a group of Chinese ran back to the north bank along the dark bridge, and even the wounded were carried over.

Watching the Chinese on the river, fluttering and stepping on the water, rushing all the way to the opposite bank, the French soldiers who arrived first were about to fall out of their eyes, and they even forgot to raise their guns to shoot.