Chapter 43: The Battle (2)

Europe has always been a knightly demeanor. This bad habit lasted for many years, especially on the battlefield. The Chinese had long stopped playing single jumps between generals and leaders, and Europeans were having fun. Even in modern times, when fighting, the officers were wearing straight and special uniforms, and their leather shoes were shining brightly, which was easy to recognize. The blockers almost didn't have much effort to knock down many low-level officers. Even if the coalition's charge troops were in chaos, the soldiers could no longer hear the commands and shouts that the officers were used to, and they began to feel a little dizzy.

The Chinese are too despicable. This is the unanimous view of the coalition officers after the war. How could there be such a war? Where did the Chinese write rifles with long ranges like this? This may be the answer that the coalition forces want to know the most.

The chaotic coalition was soon punished, and the large coalition forces hesitated more after they were not commanded by the officers. This moment of hesitation made the coalition soldiers once again become the best targets for the Chinese army.

Fortunately, the coalition forces were all soldiers who had been through battle. After a group of soldiers fell down, some of them and soon took over the command of the officers. The coalition forces began to curse the barbed wire again, and the solution they came up with was not very good. It was too difficult to cut the barbed wire with axes. One or two axes could cut the barbed wire with strong toughness. Before they could cut the result, the soldiers holding the axes were knocked to the ground by the Chinese army. Everyone behind knew that if they did not break this unlucky thing, everyone would have to stay here today. So the coalition soldiers became brave and had the spirit of continuing to cut the barbed wire.

However, the wooden boards are quite useful, but they have to climb very high, and it is much easier for Chinese soldiers to fight. However, there are many people coming up this time, and although many of them were knocked down, many soldiers still crossed the barbed wire. At this time, the axe finally completed the task, and the first barbed wire was cut down. The coalition was relieved to see it.

In Li Xiucheng's words, there are not too many barbed wire mesh, but less. On the outer positions of Tianjin City, Li Xiucheng asked someone to pull five barbed wire mesh. If it weren't for the fact that the barbed wire mesh could not be found, Li Xiucheng would have wanted to pull a few more.

After thousands of casualties, the coalition forces finally found that there was no barbed wire in front of them. It seemed that artillery fire was still useful. The two dense artillery fires destroyed the barbed wire in some areas.

The coalition soon faced a new problem. Almost all the soldiers who launched a full-scale attack were completely suppressed by the Chinese with firepower. It was impossible to get close to the Chinese positions. The Maxim machine gun is worthy of being a famous weapon. It set a record in World War I, and it wiped out five divisions of British and French troops in three days to 70,000. This time, the Maxim machine guns did not disappoint the Chinese. Li Xiucheng deployed all 215 machine guns on the position. These Maxim machine guns were almost like the coalition's life impermanence. The coalition was like cutting wheat, and the machine gun rifles were in pieces.

The firepower net formed fell in front of the firepower net. In some areas, perhaps Li Xiucheng had few machine guns arranged by him. The coalition forces could barely approach the trench twenty or thirty meters, but the grenades in the sky smashed the head and face. In Zhou Xingchi's words, "this thing will explode." Although a grenade exploded, it was hell for the coalition forces. There was almost no shrapnel after the grenade explosion. The coalition forces, which had never seen a powerful grenade, did not know that they would lie down at first, and almost all shrapnel pierced into the bodies of the coalition soldiers.

Taking a desperate bet may be the only opportunity for the coalition to fight for victory or defeat. The two marshals issued an order very quickly. The troops were repaired for three days. During the renovation, the troops were ready for the subsequent battle and notified the navy's warships to remove part of the cannons from the warships to support the army's operations, and also let the navy prepare for all the retreat. Once the attack failed again, the coalition immediately retreated.

Since it was the last battle, the coalition forces had nothing to keep. For three days, the coalition forces kept bombarding the Chinese army with artillery fire at positions. Anyway, it was tiring to take them back if they could not finish the shells.

The unreserved bombing of the coalition forces gave Li Xiucheng a lot of headaches. The casualties of soldiers on the position increased rapidly, and the sound of the position could not even be delivered to the food. The worst thing was that news had been heard that more than a dozen machine guns were broken by artillery fire, which made Li Xiucheng feel very distressed.

During these three days, the people of the Chinese stretcher team showed great courage. Although the coalition forces still fired a few shots at night, the stretcher team members were always active in various places. Their excellent performance greatly reduced the mortality rate of the Chinese army's failure. In this battlefield, many heroic stretcher team members paid a blood price. The successful guards of this position also brought the blood and sweat they paid. It was also in this war that the Chinese army exposed the backwardness in medicine, and many soldiers died because they did not receive timely and effective treatment. This was also the reason why Yang Yi vigorously developed medicine after the war and improved the physical fitness of the whole people.

Three days passed quickly, and the coalition forces that were trapped in beasts also burst out with strong combat power, but this may be the last struggle of the coalition forces, and many coalition commanders and soldiers realized this.

After the military roar, another solemn morning came. The coalition soldiers walked out of the camp, lined up and made the final preparations before the war. The five hundred artillery pieces brought from the naval warships were also in place. The artillery gate was making the final measurements before the war, and the first batch of charge troops were silently waiting for the beginning of death. After the second battle of ego, there was such a saying in the coalition that the rushing ahead meant death. Although the soldiers were unwilling to die, the military orders were as good as a mountain. The soldiers who had been accustomed to obeying orders for a long time still chose to execute orders silently, obey orders, and resolutely, which had penetrated into their bones.
Chapter completed!