McMahon was surprised to find that the Ming troops did not rush to attack when they arrived, but instead began to dig trenches and build barbed wire fences on the spot, preparing for a long-term siege of the Santa Ana fortress.

"Cowardly Chinese, who will only tremble under the cover of the Great Wall, will not fight without the fortifications!"

"Sure enough, barbed wire is the reason why the Ming army can succeed in North America!"

McMahon was dismissive of the conscientious Ming engineers in the distance.

He thought that the Ming sappers were just a little more industrious than their Mexican servants and Algerian slaves, and that there was no essential difference in the quality of the work.

At the same time, taking advantage of the fact that the Ming people were not firmly established and building fortifications, McMahon chose to take the initiative.

He didn't move the nest, but just let the 2nd Cavalry Division in his hand go to test the clouds and rain for the first time, relying on mobility to try the depth of the Ming army.

Of course, there were also two Mexican infantry regiments that were not distressed when they were dead, sweeping on both flanks.

The French cavalry division was actually the mainstream dragoons of this era, and some Berber rangers were mixed together.

In this era, there is still a certain market for sabers to cut people, but the tactical scenarios in which sabers can play a role have become more and more demanding.

In the words of the European Continent, after 1813, the impact was far less important than firepower.

This was even more true in 1866.

·

Several generations of improved excellent military horses, stepping on the afterglow of the cavalry era, the maximum sprint speed of the French cavalry division can reach 30 kilometers per hour.

This speed is not slow, and the speed of the Ming old man Le series tanks is not much faster, of course, the old man is long-lasting.

However, as a test, the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division, Lamidel, kept his sanity and did not have the idea of using the horse team to directly attack the positions of the Ming army.

Instead, they slowly advanced under the coordinated protection of the Mexican infantry regiment, and at a distance of three kilometers from the Ming fortifications, they stopped their horses.

Then, the military band began to play.

The dragoons turned over and dismounted, sang the Marseillaise, picked up their Chasebo rifles, and continued to advance to the beat of the drums.

The Berbers, who were knightly servants, helped the French lords to lead their horses.

After all, the Ming army on the opposite side had 40,000 people, while the French army had only 10,000, and Lamidel was ready to run away at any time.

Originally, digging earth and building walls was a happy time for the warriors after planting vegetables, but they were ruined by these Gallic chickens.

The Ming sergeants, who were digging in the soil, were very upset when they heard the French playing Yale.

The Marseille march is not as good as the galleries of the Roman barbecue.

·

Bao Tie'an is 47 years old.

He is older than when he shelled Xinji two years ago.

He never thought that his old bones would be able to follow the army all the way south to recover several cities on the west coast, and he could also go to the ocean with the army to pacify Fusang, and now he accepted Zhu Tianzi's call to cross the Colorado River to plow the court and sweep the caves, and pacify the Nanban.

Fifteen from the army, eighty years to return.

Daofeng villagers: Who is there in the family?

Bao Tie'an still remembers that when he was recruited into the Wusong Green Camp, he happened to be 15 years old.

In the blink of an eye, the green silk has become white hair, and the Manchu soldiers who begged for a good night's food have now become the commander of the artillery battalion of the Ming Dingguo Army.

In fact, after subduing Xinlu, Bao Tie'an wanted to apply to the Ministry of War for retirement.

He still remembers how excited he was in that battle, when Da Ming's cannon was finally able to hit the enemy's position.

Bao Tie'an wanted to write a memoir to record this.

It is not only to tell the story of the martyrs of the Ming Dynasty who have won the rejuvenation of the nation, but also to pay tribute to the spirit of General Chen Huacheng.

However, with the repeated expansion of the army in the Ming Dynasty, the shortage of grassroots officers is getting bigger and bigger, and Bao Tie'an, who wants to submit a discharge report every time, can't help but stay.

Although his level of mathematics is still not as good as that of a young man, more than 20 years as a gunner has given him valuable experience and keen intuition.

In addition, he paired up with the boys of Guozijian and became school companions, and Bao Tie'an's mathematics level was also diligent and could make up for his clumsiness and improve a lot.

With his outstanding performance in several battles, he became the commander of the artillery battalion.

"Battalion Commander Bao, the military department ordered, Commander Mo asked us to find a way to the chicken!" The herald hurriedly delivered Mo Bai's order.

·

"Whoosh! Rumble! ”

With a sharp sound of falling shells, a [Eagle 005] howitzer shell hit the target accurately.

The French army fell in large swaths, and their iconic blue pants were blown into the air by the cannonballs.

Perhaps it was the blessing of General Chen Huacheng in the spirit of heaven, or perhaps the phalanx advanced by the French in unison was the best target, and the artillery battalion hit the enemy at the first start.

The French did not expect that the range of the Ming artillery could reach more than 3,000 meters, let alone such accuracy.

Their 12-pounder guns have an effective firing range of less than 2,000 meters, and if you don't count the artillery secretly developed by Prussia at this time that can hit more than 3,500 meters, the French artillery should be invincible in the world!

It's a pity that Prussia can have a secret weapon, and so can I.

I, Da Ming, is truly invincible in the world!

"Damn, this must be a stray bullet, a stray bullet, keep going!"

Ramidel cried out as he tugged at the reins.

The French soldiers showed the military qualities of the world's first army, and after a slight confusion, they immediately regained their advancing morale. They believed that if they came within 1 kilometer, victory would belong to France.

The self-confidence of the French army has capital.

Capital is a rifle in their hands.

The French Chasebo rifle is one of the most outstanding rifles of this era.

If the Prussian artillery of the Franco-Prussian War shone brightly, then the rifles of the French were clearly superior.

With a range of 800 meters, the French Chasebo rifle is 1.5 times that of the Prussian Desele rifle and even better than the rifles of later generations, making it the strongest rifle in Europe today.

And due to the feedback on the battlefield in Japan, the Chasebo rifle has also used brass bullets in advance instead of paper-wrapped bullets, making it more powerful.

In fact, like skirmishers, the technology of processing brass bullets matured as early as the Napoleonic era.

It's just because of the mindset that they have not been popularized for a long time.

The copper-shelled bullets, like the barbed wire, were considered by the French military advisers who had escaped from Scallop Island to be a trick of the Ming Dynasty, and they reported it to the War Department in detail.

So the Chasebo rifle of this era had brass bullets, which were stronger than the historical Chasebo rifles.

It's a pity that before the advent of tanks, the king of land warfare was already not a rifle, but an artillery!

Just like the anti-Japanese war in North Korea in the year of Bingchen, the Ming Dynasty was good at artillery, and the Japanese were good at arquebuses, and the balance of the final victory was tilted to the Ming Dynasty.

The same was true in the Franco-Prussian War.

It's the same as described in the milk joke "French rifle, brand new, never used, only thrown to the ground once".

When the Franco-Prussian War ended, Prussia seized a mountain of supplies, including more than 600,000 brand-new Chasebo rifles.

·

Whoosh - whoosh - whoosh -

Since the first cannon sounded, the low-speed breaking sound on the battlefield has shown no signs of stopping.

The shells fell one after another, with terrible accuracy.

Digesting gunpowder and shrapnel have become a terrifying killing machine.

After even hitting more than a dozen shots, Lamidel didn't dare to say what kind of stray bullet this was, this was the Grim Reaper's bowling!

Akito's artillery is much more ferocious than expected!

Can't go any further!

You must retreat immediately!

Although it was very humiliating to retreat without firing a single shot, although it was a few hundred meters forward and a dozen shots were taken in vain, this was already the best choice!

Ramid was very decisive, he pulled the reins and raised the hooves of his horse, ready to convey the order for all men to mount and retreat.

However, at this moment, he suddenly felt something pass through his body.

Then, the power is quickly eroded from the body.

He could see the lieutenants yelling at him, and he wondered what they were shouting, but he couldn't hear them clearly.

Then, he lost consciousness.

In the era of rifled guns, the commander dared to dress up in fancy clothes and ride a horse to perform maneuvers in front of the battle, which can only be said that he still thinks that he died fast enough.

The Daming [Dewu two-year system] rifle was born from the Japanese 38-type infantry gun.

Although this kind of gun has been used by the People's Liberation Army and the Volunteer Army to the Korean battlefield, in fact, its background color is the same as the Hanyang Type 88 rifle, which is a rifle at the end of the nineteenth century, and the craftsmanship does not surpass this era too much.

The main thing is that the design concept is more advanced, which makes it more reliable, accurate, and even used as a sniper rifle.

It's a pity that the scout who hit Lamidel is still too far away from his position, a full 1,000 meters.

At this distance, it is difficult to fatal a penetrating wound made by [Dewu 2nd Year].

In the anti-Japanese drama, he was shot several times and did not die, and the source of inspiration may be the bad performance of the Type 38 infantry guns in the lethality rate of those years.

There was even a scene where the Japanese and the Eighth Route Commander were shot at the same time, and a week later, the two led their troops to continue firing at each other.

But in any case, this shot managed to paralyze the enemy's chain of command.

The French, who were not given the order to retreat, still chose to advance.

By the time the adjutant took over command and ordered the whole army to retreat, it was too late.

Although the combat goal of the Dingguo Army is to encircle the point and send reinforcements, how can it not be reasonable not to eat the meat that is delivered to the mouth?

Seeing that the enemy was about to get on his horse and flee, the two teams of cavalry rushed out like the wind behind the Ming array.

In order to support the Wumu army to complete the blitzkrieg, the Dingguo army distributed a part of the vehicles and supplied a group of cavalry.

These cavalrymen were naturally the Sioux Foreign Legion.

"Yu—"

One by one, the Yin cavalry, whose faces were painted red, intercepted the enemy's rear like a gale.

The Yin cavalry was not dragoons, but a relatively rare carbine cavalry, which also used sabers.

The first to stand in the way of the Yin cavalry were two sweeping Mexican infantry regiments.

They had already been hit several times, their will to fight was very low, and they were slamming with inferior rifles, and only a few unlucky Sioux Yin people were hit.

In fact, in the Mexican infantry regiment, there are many people with a good face.

However, the sabers of the Yin cavalry did not hesitate in the slightest.