Time goes back to two days ago.

After the Qing army's night attack failed, the leading troops of the Northern Navy pursued them to the vicinity of the first trench of the Ningguta camp at noon that day, which was less than three miles away from the Qing army camp.

The Beihai Navy platoon leader who was running in front saw the defeated Qing troops hundreds of meters away jumping into the trench with urine on their buttocks, and then there was no movement, so he became vigilant.

"Pass it on, everyone spreads out in pairs! There's something weird ahead!" Following the officer's order, Bei Haijun, who was running in front, slowed down and formed groups of two, with each group fifteen meters apart.

Cover the advance.

Suddenly, a drumbeat like a rain shower sounded from a few hundred meters ahead. The experienced veterans of the Northern Navy hurriedly pulled their companions, lying on the ground like a dog eating shit, shouting: "Get down! Take cover!"

Rumble!!!

In an instant, the entire Qing army's defense line was like rolling thunder, white smoke rose, and countless roars sounded. The two men deployed on the first trench carried back the artillery, the strange artillery set up on the edge of the trench, and the second general

The cannons fired together. Immediately afterwards, thousands of musketeers emerged from the trenches, holding muskets, and fired another volley.

The commander of the Qing army at a victorious artillery position saw two soldiers of the Northern Navy who could not avoid being hit by shotguns and fell to the ground. He shouted excitedly: "Hit! Hit!"

The artillery battalion's cavalry school commanding nearby smiled and said: "Well done! Reward..."

Before he finished speaking, a hail of bullets hit from the opposite side, and the Qing army commander and several Qing army gunners were shot to death.

At this time, several Qing army gunners who had loaded the shells saw a Beihai navy carrying a small leather bag rushing to the place where the wounded soldiers were, and taking out something from the bag. They quickly aimed their guns there.

, just as he was about to take aim and fire, he heard someone behind him say in a deep voice: "You can't hit!"

The gunner of the Qing army looked back and saw that it was the riding schoolman.

"Sir, why is this?"

The Knight Riding School stared at the ambulance soldier in the distance with complicated eyes, and said meaningfully: "That is the traitor specializing in rescuing the wounded, so you can't fight!"

"Ah? What do you mean, that's a doctor?" Several gunners said to themselves that this is really strange, even the doctors who treat patients have gone to the battlefield! But then again, how does this gentleman know so clearly?

In the flash of lightning, the Cavalry School recalled the days when he was a prisoner in Beihai Town; when he was captured on the battlefield of Fuldan City, without these rescuers, he might not be alive today.

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The Qing army took advantage of the trenches to keep firing, and during the intervals between shooting, some Qing army archers fired from the trenches. The problem was that the two sides were more than 200 meters apart, whether it was bows, arrows, matchlocks or flints.

When firing a gun, it has no lethality against the scattered Northern Navy soldiers; the only thing that can cause damage to the Northern Navy soldiers is the artillery.

However, the firing frequency of these small forward-loaded artillery deployed on the front line was too slow, which gave the North Navy an opportunity. They took off the engineering shovels from their backs and began to dig hard to build simple fortifications.

They first dug a small pit for themselves to lie down, and then piled up soil and stones in the direction facing the Qing army. After that, the soldiers continued to expand the simple bunker, and gradually expanded it into a one-meter-deep "U"-shaped bunker.

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This is what the North Navy has done well in daily training. In addition to U-shaped bunkers, there are also W-shaped, V-shaped, and various curved deformation bunkers evolved from these three types.

The advantage of the U-shaped bunker is that if a position is bombarded by enemy artillery, soldiers can quickly move to another position to avoid it based on prediction.

When the Northern Navy completed the digging of bunkers and established several machine gun fire points, the casualty rate of the Qing gunners in the trenches suddenly increased. Those Qing soldiers who dared to show their heads and fire were all eliminated one by one by machine gun fire.

At this time, the Qing army was paralyzed. They could only hold the loaded muskets and the two men high with both hands, and blindly shoot at the outside. The gunners could only glance outside and then shoot at random.

Fire in the direction of observation.

In the trenches of the Qing army, several Qing soldiers who had narrowly escaped from the night attack had some free time. They kept chewing white flour pancakes in their mouths and cursed: "These rebels have been fighting all night.

Not tired!"

These broken soldiers fought fiercely from early morning to noon. They were already hungry and thirsty, not to mention that the previous escape had made them exhausted. But if they knew that the soldiers of the North Navy on the opposite side were hiding in the bunker and chewing delicious compressed biscuits and meat.

If you do it, you'll probably be starved to death.

A few defeated soldiers ate the cakes and drank some water, and then they felt alive. One of them looked around for a while, and whispered to a man: "Brother Ergui, why am I always not at ease? Why am I so uneasy?"

Why don’t we run to the camp?”

After hearing this, the man angrily slapped the opponent on the head and cursed in a low voice: "Run away, mother! I didn't see that there were more than a dozen people chopped down over there!"

In order to prevent the front-line soldiers from escaping without authorization, Mingliang sent a team of supervisors to guard the entrance to the retreat of the front-line trenches. Anyone who dared to escape would be caught with a knife. Those soldiers who did not know how to die were all caught, beheaded, and squirted from the neck.

The blood flowing out of the ejaculation has gathered into a red and black puddle.

In the North Navy fortification opposite, the company commander leading the team was using a walkie-talkie to request artillery support. The order received from the regiment headquarters was for them to defend on the spot and gradually expand the scope of the bunker. Follow-up troops would quickly come to support.

"What's this? It's something that can be solved with just one bombardment!"

Hearing the officer's complaints on the walkie-talkie, Lu Shoushan, who was sitting on the hill behind him, said: "What nonsense are you talking about? Just execute the order!"

As the Northern Navy continued to dig fortifications frantically, the entire battlefield suddenly fell silent. The Qing troops in the trenches confusedly thought they had defended, and the soldiers in the vanguard of the Northern Navy were also confused.

The Northern Navy suddenly stopped advancing, which surprised the Qing commander Fucha Mingliang and his generals.

"Why don't they attack? What are they waiting for?"

Behind the second line of defense of the Qing army, Mingliang held up his clairvoyance for a long time and had a bad feeling in his heart. He had already been fully prepared and was waiting for the Northern Navy to continue their attack and rush into the first trench!

"Commander, has our plan been discovered by Zhao Thief's men?"

"Absolutely impossible!" A general in charge of executing the plan said categorically: "This has been prepared for a year, and we did it at night, so Zhao Thief's men can't detect it at all!"

Mingliang frowned and thought for a long time, then said slowly: "If they don't attack after two hours, we will withdraw our troops to the second trench!"

At this time, the headquarters of the North Navy West Road Column had moved behind a slope five miles away from the battlefield. More than 2,000 members of the Fifth Regiment were cutting down trees in the surrounding fields. The branches and vines of the cut trees were removed.

, and used a saw and ax to trim it into a log more than one meter long.

"This famous general from the Fucha family really has a lot of tricks up his sleeve! If we hadn't been prepared in advance, we would have fallen into his trap."

After hearing Liu Sheng's words, Fan Tong also became happy and said with a smile: "These guys never dreamed that we could see everything clearly from the sky."

Bright's strategy is to attack with water!

Mingliang had thought of this since the trenches were dug a year ago. In order to facilitate concealment, the Qing army always constructed the trenches at night. Not only the first trench, but also the two subsequent trenches were already connected with Shangjian on the north and south sides.

The Hualan River and the Hualan River were dredged and sluices were set up. If the Northern Navy invaded the trenches, the Qing army would open the sluices and release water in turn.

The Hulha River and its tributaries are currently experiencing spring floods. Once the sluice gates are opened, the swift and violent river water will quickly turn the wide ditch into a moat. No matter how powerful Zhao Ni's troops are, they can't swim and shoot at the same time, right?

If the Northern Navy tries to build a bridge to pass through, it will first be violently hit by the heavy artillery of the second and third line Qing troops. Secondly, the dozens of Yaksa warships staying on the Hulha River will also sail into the Hualan River and Shangjian River respectively, attacking

The North Korean Navy was surrounded by artillery fire from three sides.

In fact, the remaining 2,000 shotgun cavalry and 3,000 forward battalion cavalry of the Qing army have quietly moved north along the east bank of the Hulha River and entered the mountains and forests to hide and wait. By then, they will cross the river from the upper reaches of the Hualan River to the south to avoid being attacked.

The North Korean Navy launched a surprise attack from behind.

The heavy artillery deployed by the Qing army behind the second and third line trenches included 50 Wucheng Yonggu general cannons, 150 red cannons, 120 Yanwei cannons, and more than 30 sky cannons; in addition

In addition, there are hundreds of returning cannons, strange cannons, winning cannons, mother-and-son cannons and dragon cannons.

Some of these artillery were transported from the Beijing Armed Forces Academy, and some were cast at the Jilin Artillery Factory in the past two years. The overall number was several times greater than when Fukang'an sent troops to Fuldan City.

The above is the reason why Mingliang dared to face the attack of the North Navy directly.

However, after last night's sneak attack, Mingliang has learned that the North Navy has an unknown cannon that can hide in invisible places and fire, and there is almost no sound when shooting. It is simply killing people invisible. This makes him again

There was another layer of worry, not knowing how many cannons our side would have left after this battle was over. If it was a disastrous victory, Qianlong would really have a hard time explaining it.

After noon, the Qing troops hiding in the trenches first noticed a few strange black dots flying westward from the sky, and could faintly hear a buzzing sound like a wasp; then, these small dots flew to the Qing Dynasty.

They stayed above the heavy artillery positions of the army for a while, and then split up and flew in the north and south directions.

At noon, that is, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the artillerymen of each regiment coming from behind entered the artillery position, the Northern Navy began to take action.

Liu Sheng's plan was to first remove those new artillery strongholds, and then send out his "surprise troops" to catch the Qing army by surprise.

With a "boom" explosion, a black fusiform iron bullet fell in front of the Qing army's artillery position one kilometer away, and then a puff of red smoke rose, which immediately caused the surrounding Qing army gunners to be caught.

He was startled and hurriedly hid behind the gun emplacement.

But after a while, several Qing army gunners leaned out and saw that there was only a sudden burst of red smoke coming from the place where the bullet fell, and there was no other movement. They couldn't help but look at each other.

They already know that the North Korean navy's artillery shells can explode, but what's going on? It just emits smoke to scare people?

The Qing army general who was hiding behind the artillery position suddenly stood up and laughed loudly: "What a fucking stinker! Get up! Get up!"

The general pointed at a gunner holding a shovel and said, "Go and cover that thing with soil!"

"Me?" The Qing soldier who was named pointed at his nose and was stunned.

"Isn't it just you! Do you still want me to go?! Bastard!"

The Qing soldier walked over tremblingly, and when he was several meters away, a shovelful of soil came and was thrown towards the smoke...

On the artillery position of the North Navy, the commanding officer of the North Navy heard that the aiming was completed and immediately ordered the four mortars to open fire.

"Attention everyone! Start shooting, target No. 101 is the enemy's firepower point, four cannons are loaded one by one. Prepare~~fire!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

"Target No. 102 enemy firepower point..."

"No. 103..."

In an instant, flames rose from various artillery positions of the Qing army, and the fire was radiating everywhere. The Qing gunner who was shoveling the earth was blown to pieces, and the Wucheng Yonggu General's cannon behind him was also blown up, leaving death and injury everywhere.

The Qing troops on the battlefield were all frightened! Is this even possible?

The sound of bombings rang out one after another, and the Qing army's General Wucheng Yonggu's cannons were blown up one after another. When the Qing troops guarding the gun emplacements saw what they saw, their faces turned pale and they prayed for God's blessing.
To be continued...