After the first battalion successfully took control of the wharf, more than 8,000 officers and men of the 27th Division of the Northern Yindu Command Division had already polished their steel guns on the "Yu Shaobao" troop carrier.

The 27th Division is a Type B light infantry division.

Since the secret meeting of the Three Emperors Alliance determined their respective combat obligations, the Ming royal army has expanded from 400,000 to 880,000 and from 880,000 to 1.22 million twice.

The 27th Division of the Young Northern Yin Command Division was newly established in the second round of army expansion.

Although the Ministry of War and the Generalissimo's Office have repeatedly emphasized that the A, B, and C divisions are only different in the division of tasks, and they are all good men who serve the emperor and shed blood for Zhuxia, and there is no distinction between high and low, but the 27th Division has always held its breath.

And today, they have finally waited for their chance to prove themselves.

Division B is also a combat division.

It's completely different from the C-breeder who can only raise pigs!

Division Commander XXX held a loudspeaker and made the final mobilization to the comrades who got along day and night:

"Comrades-in-arms, the British ghosts and French animals ravaged Yinzhou, slaughtered the people, and occupied the dove's nest, and we and other Xia soldiers are responsible for protecting the territory and the people, and the righteousness of revenge and hatred, these Li Xundao have told you, and I won't say much about this rough man.

What I want to say is that all along, many people, even some of our comrades in the division, feel that our Division B has poor soldiers, backward equipment, and a small division and regimental establishment, and is a foil to the Division A.

But I want to tell you that your physical fitness when you enlisted in the army does not represent your current physical fitness, and the cultural level when you enlist in the army does not represent your current cultural level!

And the light infantry will not be eliminated, the infantry will always be the indispensable king in land warfare!

Previously, Zhang Shilang of the Ministry of War revealed that the Beiyin Theater would select five expeditionary divisions.

I don't dare to ask or think about where, when, and how the expeditionary division will be recruited, but what I do know is that among these five places, there should be a place for our 27th division!

In my hometown, Hu Jian has an old saying, called 'three points are destined, and seven points depend on hard work'!

We, the 27th Division, have been waiting for an opportunity, a chance to prove ourselves!

We've been waiting for this opportunity for a year, think about it, how we got over this year!

Suffer more, sweat more, train more!

Today, before this fortress of the British and French alliances, we must hand over the scrolls that will satisfy the emperor, satisfy Zhang Shilang, and impress the people of the Ming Dynasty!

Whoever drops the chain for Lao Tzu, I'll let him clean the toilet for the next month! Disembarked! ”

With a wave of his hand, the boys of the 27th Division went out to sea like dragons, jumped off the "Yu Shaobao" one after another, and stepped on the pontoon bridge that had been built in the first camp.

Although the pre-war mobilization was very morale-boosting, most of the recruits were still nervous with rifles in their hands.

Fortunately, the solid training allowed them to at least follow the military maneuvers repeatedly practiced in the Royal Army Military Drill Code without saying a word.

They knew that at this moment, the 3rd, 13th, and 23rd Divisions, which were the Ace Division and the Ace Armored Division, were taking advantage of the chaos to launch artillery bombardment on the Milwaukee-Madison Line from the front.

Who can put the sun and moon flag of the Ming Dynasty on the roof of the fortress command building at the first time is a competition related to honor.

Of course, the so-called competition can only be a healthy competition.

If you don't want to be punished in a post-war military investigation, or even handed over to a military court, it's better not to do the stupid thing of risking human lives to steal war merits.

This is still very clear to XX.

Due to the small number of people and the fact that they also carried engineering equipment such as pontoon bridges, cables, and ground nails, it was impossible to carry out a comprehensive clearance of the eastern part of the fortress.

Therefore, the first duty of the officers and men of the 27th Division is to clear the enemy army, and the second is to pursue and attack the fortified positions.

Especially the British sailors who hid in the wreckage and resisted.

The guys even coldly attacked the landing pontoon bridge with the secondary guns of the British ships, which had not yet been completely destroyed.

Although it didn't hit, it made people break out in a cold sweat.

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Milwaukee-Madison is more than 80 kilometers long.

Although it was much shorter than the 400-kilometer-long Maginot Line and the bald Yangtze River Line, it was still an extremely large military facility in this era.

"Defeat the Chinese with the Great Wall", this was the slogan put forward by Field Marshal Hugh Wells, commander-in-chief of the British Great Lakes theater of operations.

But not many people know that the real writer of this plan was a young French soldier named Joseph-Jacques Césaire Chauffeur.

He was an exchange student from the Fontainebleau Military Engineering School.

Since the literary path was strangled by Master Victor Hugo himself, Xia Fei's personality has undergone some minor changes.

For example, he no longer believed in romantic poetry and literature, did not believe in those ethereal things, but made steel and cement his beliefs.

"Only mathematics and mechanics do not lie, do not betray!"

Inferiorly obsessed with engineering, Xia Fei has grown by leaps and bounds thanks to his talent and experience as an engineer.

By chance, he pitched himself to Hugh Wells and proposed the "Great Wall of France" plan.

Hugh Wells was convinced.

In addition to changing the name of "Great Wall of France" to "Great Wall of Great Britain", Hugh Wells submitted the plan to Congress as it was.

He pointed out that with only one-tenth of the clearance funds, a perfect defense line 300 kilometers long and 10 kilometers deep could be built around Chicago.

As long as Chicago is kept, then the Great Lakes will be free of worries, and the Great Lakes will be free of worries, and North America will be full of war.

After reading the proposal, Prime Minister Churchill was very happy and supported the ambitious plan, ready to persuade Parliament to approve the budget.

Of course, he also enthusiastically recommended the best friend of his uncle's brother-in-law's second grandson, who happened to be an experienced builder, to take on the project.

It's just that people are not as good as heaven.

The sudden mega-crash disrupted the UK's financial markets, and the budget was eventually cut in half.

Coupled with the small contribution of the second grandson of Churchill's uncle's brother-in-law's family, in the end, 80 kilometers of this line of defense remained, and the depth of 10 kilometers became 3 kilometers.

It may not seem like much of a reduction, but the area is a multiplication, and the actual cost is only 8% of the total budget.

The budget was cut in half due to the impact of the stock market crash, and it was only reduced by 50%.

Where the difference between them went, it is not very clear.

But even so, it worked.

The money was spent in vain, but not completely in vain.

At least for the moment, thanks to the hardened ground in the defensive line, a team of cavalry, artillery, infantry, and a small number of vehicles was desperately advancing in the direction of the grain lake.