Colonel Kenny, commander of the 3rd Militia Division in Richmond, held a telescope and stared at the Chinese positions in the distance.

There was some uneasiness in his heart.

The Chinese on the opposite side are too calm.

They're obviously the one who is surrounded, huh?

Why are they so calm?

In the horizon of his telescope.

He could look through some of the trench design holes and observe the expressions on the faces of the Chinese soldiers behind the holes.

Many of them were eating breakfast with buns in their hands, leaning against the trenches with guns in their hands, chatting with each other, and they didn't seem to be in a panic before the war.

Chinese are not fools.

Don't they know that they are surrounded now?

"There must be a conspiracy here!"

Colonel Kenny muttered.

"Whether they have a conspiracy or not, you will only know if you fight first." "Our task is to dismantle the barbed wire fence in front of their positions under the cover of artillery fire." ”

"Artillery cover?" Colonel Kenny shook his head.

The Ming army on the opposite side repaired a turtle shell.

He really couldn't imagine it.

What damage can artillery do to their turtle shells?

As artillery fire fell.

Above the position of the Ming army on the opposite side, there was indeed a flash of fire and gunsmoke.

However.

Most of these shells landed on sandbags, blowing up a pile of dirt.

Damage to Ming positions was limited.

But.

The smoke of gunpowder enveloped the entire position.

Obscured the view.

And the artillery of the Ming army also began to return fire.

The artillery positions of the coalition forces, which exposed the firing positions, were soon hit.

The artillery density of the coalition forces suddenly dropped a lot.

"Get ready to attack!"

Colonel Kenny took a deep breath and gave the order

"Captain, they're coming up!"

Faulcon lay on his stomach in the trench.

Above his head was a gun roof propped up with stout logs and covered with several layers of mud.

Dirt trickled down.

But the bomb that exploded did not lift the top of the sandbag.

It was just that Faulcon and his staff were covered with a layer of sand.

"Bring them closer and fight!"

Faulcon confessed.

The Ming General Staff could certainly guess how the opposite side would attack.

The first few waves of attacks must have been carried out around barbed wire.

Wait until the barbed wire fence is removed.

will launch a general attack!

Before the opponent has not committed most of its forces to the attack.

The soldiers of the Ming army were not allowed to use machine guns, the weapons of mass destruction, which were the secret weapon to give the opponent the maximum surprise blow!

If 50,000 Ming troops can defeat 500,000 enemy troops.

That blow to the morale of the European and American coalition forces.

Undoubtedly huge!

And.

If this scene seems to be the 50,000 elite soldiers of the Ming army surrounded, they can "defend and counterattack", penetrate the opponent's 500,000 army, and come to Chicago!

How much did this shake the entire northern theater of the Americas?

What's more:

If King Qin can really do 50,000 to penetrate 500,000, and even occupy Chicago!

He is really the second Li Shimin!

His Majesty the Emperor handed over the North American battlefield to the King of Qin.

I don't think anyone will say anything more.

Faulcon held his binoculars and stared at the soldiers of the coalition brigade advancing in a skirmish formation on the opposite side.

The soldiers of the 3rd Regiment had already put their guns on the trenches.

Placed the pair of gloves in the notched crosshairs.

Just waiting for the order to shoot.

The rifle in their hands has an effective range of up to 800 meters.

But

Unless it's a one-in-a-million sharpshooter.

Otherwise.

It is very difficult for an ordinary soldier to aim at a target at a distance of 800 meters.

However, the advancing coalition soldiers were soon stopped by a large number of mortars.

In the horizon of Faulcon's telescope.

He could see it very clearly.

His opponents are dodging the shells with great tactical maneuvers.

Sometimes lying down, sometimes crawling forward, then quickly getting up and taking advantage of the intervals in artillery fire.

Wait for the sound of artillery breaking through the air.

They lay down en masse again.

And so it goes.

There are really not too many soldiers who were actually killed by artillery.

"Very elite!"

Faulcon's chief of staff said.

"Of course it's the elite, they've been preparing for today's battle for twenty years!" Faulcan put down the binoculars and said.

"When they are exhausted, the next mobilization soldiers will not be so elite."

Forkan put the dust cap of the telescope on it.

Then he turned around and walked into his command post.

"Ready, free fire!"

Accompanied by the order given.

Bang!

With a gunshot rang out.

The coalition soldiers on the opposite side lay on the ground.

This was followed by an even more intense burst of gunfire.

Although for the time being, do not use the machine gun.

But just the fire of bolt-action rifles.

It's already terrifying.

The dense firepower almost hit the soldiers of the coalition forces and could not raise their heads.

However.

Even in the face of such a hail of bullets.

There were also American soldiers crawling forward and then placing explosive packs on stakes in barbed wire.

Accompanied by a sound of explosions.

The barbed wire stakes were blown to pieces.

Enduring huge casualties.

The first barbed wire fence was quickly breached.

But that's normal.

After all.

The distance is here.

However, from the first barbed wire fence to the second barbed wire, it is a road of flesh and blood.

Dense bullets rained down on the Coalition infantry, stooping forward.

Blood gathers into streams.

But these Americans, Frenchmen, and Britons are really fierce.

They are also worthy of being the race with the strongest military organization ability since the Age of Discovery.

Bear such huge casualties.

The second barbed wire fence is at noon when the sun hangs overhead.

It is announced that it is a breakthrough!

"It went well!"

Ney let out a heavy sigh.

"Pull down the soldiers, dig the trenches forward, and push the positions towards the enemy's positions!"

He calmly gave the order.

It would be unwise to try to break through all three barbed wire fences of the Ming army in one day.

Of course.

It's not impossible to do that – unless you suffer huge casualties.

However, a commander-in-chief who does not spare the lives of his soldiers is by no means a good general.

Ney served as Field Marshal of the French Empire.

He's not incompetent.

Historically.

He was one of Napoleon's three masters.

He did not have the delusion of breaking through the outer defenses of the Ming army in one day.

The range of the rifle now is placed here.

At a distance of five hundred meters from the opponent.

The soldiers could not stand up and move forward with a loud roar.

It's about taking a leap forward.

Part of the soldiers shoots, covering their comrades forward with bullets.

After advancing a certain distance, the forward soldiers have to find cover or lie on the ground, dig out a single bunker with a sapper shovel, and then be responsible for covering the other part of their comrades.

With this method of alternate cover, when you approach a distance of about 100 meters from the enemy, you will start to charge, jump into the enemy's trenches, and start hand-to-hand combat!

This will take at least a few days.

At the same time, there are huge casualties.

Dig the trenches under the noses of the Ming positions.

And then

Unleash another thunder strike!!

With the superiority of troops.

Ney believes that the surrounded opponent has not many options.

They will suffer a lot of casualties, though

As long as Zhu Yixin can be captured.

It's all worth it! (End of chapter)