Early in the morning, the British army got up and went about their work. The musketeers lit fires and cooked, and the cavalrymen patrolled and guarded. Thirty four-pounder guns, twenty nine-pounder guns, ten twelve-pounder guns, and five eighteen-pounder guns were all pushed out by the soldiers, and they came 700 meters outside Xiaoqingshan to start building an artillery position. Thirty three-pounder cannons sold to the Indians were pushed out, and the whites knew how to build artillery positions.

That's right, Clark didn't plan to rely on the number of people to attack, that would be too much of a loss. In the previous contact with the Yanhuang Trading Company, he was the defender, and the cannon was damaged by the Yanhuang Trading Company before it could exert any power. And this time, the offense and defense changed positions, and they attacked, and Xiao Lin defended. There were 95 cannons in his hand, 15 heavy guns, and the power of the twelve-pounder and eighteen-pounder guns, and Clark knew it, so he was very confident.

Xiao Lin was also resting at the headquarters above the Xiaoqingshan position last night, and he also got up early in the morning. There were hundreds of observers, still in three shifts, and the movements of the British troops had long been discovered. Since the enemy wanted an artillery battle, Xiao Lin was naturally ready to fight. It seems that he had only seventy cannons in his hands, and forty of them were small cannons of three pounds and six pounds. However, the other thirty cannons, Xiao Lin felt, could kill them.

The range of the Heavy Punch Formula can be said to be where to hit within a thousand meters, but Clark didn't know that the Heavy Punch One Formula existed. Last time he thought that the mortar shells were gone, and even if they came again this time, I am afraid that there would not be many. Clark naively thought that as long as the fort defenses could be built, the 95 cannons would definitely not be completely destroyed. Xiao Lin's gesture of buckling the rope had an unexpected result.

The enemy is still building batteries, so the convoy artillery cannot open fire. At this time, shooting can only kill a few ordinary soldiers at most, but it will startle the snake. In this regard, Apache is a little weak-hearted.

"Boss, it's not good to just let the enemy do whatever he wants in front of us. ”

"What are you afraid of, I just want them to be able to build fortifications there with peace of mind, and firing a cannon in advance will scare them. ”

"Oh, that's what you said you can't startle snakes, right?"

"No, the grass still has to be hit, but it can't really be hit. ”

Seeing Shawlin's eerie smile, Apache was completely confused. Following Shoren to the artillery position, a few minutes later, the three-pounder guns began to fire frantically with a sense of impatience. The shells hit the artillery positions that were being built, apparently because the artillery did not have enough range.

Clark was already startled by the shelling of the convoy, and when he saw the results of the shelling, none of the people who had built the artillery positions in front of him were injured. Clark smiled happily, he was worried that the mortar would have shells, and after it was fired, it would cause damage to the soldiers building the defenses. However, the enemy used only the three-pounder guns that had been captured from them, and the range was not enough, only five or six hundred meters. Now, he is not worried at all.

By noon, the artillery positions had been built. This time, Clark was very demanding, and the entire fort around the fort was made of a mixture of strip stones and lime mortar. This kind of turret has more than one stronger defense than the previous turret made of wood. After lunch, the British officially pushed the artillery into the battery facility and began to prepare for firing. With a sense of resentment, the soldiers wanted to use their weapons of destruction to teach the enemy on the other side a lesson.

Why, it's not because of lunch. This is so immortal, the wind is blowing, blowing the fragrance of 2,000 people cooking instant noodles on Xiaoqingshan below. When did a group of British soldiers who just nibble on hard bread and drink some thin soup have seen this taste. The greedy one, his whole eyes were red, he was really envious, jealous and hateful. Clark, who happened to take advantage of this opportunity, said that as long as he penetrated the enemy, he could grab a lot of good things, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers was very high.

And Xiao Lin stayed in the artillery position and waited for this time. Seventy cannons, all aimed at their own targets, this time the gunpowder is fully loaded, there is no problem of range, even if it is a three-pounder gun, it can also be a target more than 700 meters away. They weren't powerful enough, so they printed the small cannons that the natives operated. Twenty heavy fists and ten mortars, two by two, were ready to destroy the fifteen twelve-pound and eighteen-pounder cannons before the enemy could react.

No sooner had the British soldiers advanced the cannon into the battery than they heard the distinctive sound of shells flying through the sky. With the previous example of the three-pounder gun, these people thought that the enemy was trying to bluff and scare them. However, these thoughts are wrong. Solid shells arrived first, shattering the fortifications that had not yet fully solidified. Mortar shells arrived immediately after, completely destroying the entire battery. Before Clark and the soldiers in the battery could react, the second batch of shells had already arrived.

The fifteen large-caliber guns that had just been put on the ground were all hit by shells. One of the forts was also unlucky, and the gunpowder placed near the fort was ignited by the high temperature, and the entire fort was blown into the sky. Clark was stunned, with the brains of white Europeans, how could they understand the horror of the thirty-six tactics of the Chinese Art of War. Show bewilderment, then wait, and the final blow is fatal. This is also the reason for the asymmetry of intelligence, the last time the hundred cavalry outposts were completely annihilated by the second battalion in the valley, and the two families did not send new ones.

I didn't know the existence of the heavy punch style, and I thought that the mortar shells were gone. As a result, this came at a heavy cost. In three shellings, fifteen large-caliber guns were killed, leaving only a pile of debris. The next thing is that the small-caliber artillery suffers, if it weren't for the fact that Poppy has been preparing to catch Clark's mistake in order to regain command, so he reacted in time and let people drag out the rest of the artillery, I'm afraid that none of them will be left.

Seeing that the enemy had run a thousand meters away, Wei Xiao also ordered the artillery of the escort team to stop firing. The only thing he was worried about was the fifteen large-caliber guns in time. Others, even the nine-pounder cannon, could not exert much power in front of a complete trench. Poppy's final count showed that out of 95 cannons, only 21 remained. Fifteen of them were three-pounderers, four were six-pounderers, and the last two were nine-pounderers. At the same time, there were one hundred and seven whites, seventy-three Indian warriors, who lost their combat effectiveness.

Now, Clark is miserable. His previous guesses were all wrong, causing the entire artillery unit to lose more than seventy percent of its combat effectiveness. Bobby, who has always been looked down upon and ignored, is in trouble this time. In the command tent, in front of all the middle and high-ranking military attachés, Clark was criticized for nothing. And Clark, who caused this situation, was originally confused, and he didn't know what to say at all. Therefore, this command was taken away by Bobby.

At present, the great enemy, there is still a mental struggle for power and profit, and infighting, which is worthy of being one of the most terrible bad nature of human beings. On this day, there was no new movement of the entire British army. Bobbi thought she had to reassure people and rekindle their morale. However, he did not appease everyone. He appeased the middle and high-ranking officials, and then handed over the task of pacifying the people below to the military attachés who had been pacified by him. Not everyone has the talent of a political commissar, and many military attachés only have a few pale words.

Not to mention the slightest appeasement, it also made the low-level soldiers even more afraid of the Yanhuang Guard. If Poppy had sent a large army to attack that afternoon, his morale would not have fallen much. Now this kind of practice, in the eyes of people who don't know the truth, is just afraid. On paper, this is the only consequence.

The next morning, Poppy deliberately brought out the meat and prepared for the soldiers to make a meal, and then began to storm. The impact of this behavior is good and bad, the morale of the soldiers who have no scheming has risen a lot after eating, and the scheming soldiers feel that this is a severed meal, and their morale has decreased a little. Poppy also knew that the enemy had a lot of artillery, so he did not attack with a musket array. Instead, skirmisher arrays were used, with a considerable distance between each soldier.

The soldiers also knew that there would always be such a day when they would be soldiers, and they would not become deserters at this time. Holding the brown bass rifles, they scattered close to Xiaoqingshan. The artillery of the convoy was also ready, except for the mortars, they were all loaded with shotguns. As soon as the enemy reached a distance of three hundred meters, all artillery immediately began firing. The entire front of Xiaoqingshan was almost filled with scattered projectiles, and the British soldiers who rushed to the front were suddenly shot out of blood flowers, and they fell to the ground without screaming.

Fortunately, because of the use of straggler queues, there were only a little more than a hundred dead and wounded in the first wave of shooting. This loss is very good. If you advance in a neat array, the casualties will at least triple several times. At a distance of 300 meters, the artillery fired four waves, causing a total of more than 500 casualties. When you set foot on Xiaoqingshan, you will not be fired by heavy artillery, only the three-pounder cannon is still firing. The power of heavy artillery is too great, and I am afraid of accidentally injuring my own people.

However, without heavy artillery, rifles, submachine guns, and even machine guns were added. In order to ensure the hit rate, Xiao Lin deliberately ordered that the design should be carried out within a range of 100 meters and 50 meters. The gap of thirty meters also caused heavy casualties to the British sergeants. When they reached 120 meters, they began to fight back. The sound of the firing of the brown bass muskets began to ring on the battlefield. However, the soldiers of the convoy can have trenches and sandbags as defenses, and the target lying on it is too small to be hit at once, even the special forces snipers cannot do it with front-loading muskets.