The morning breeze in early autumn is not cool yet, and it brings a dull feeling to people. It seems that there will be a heavy rain in the next few days.
"The trenches are going to be deepened. Don't we still have water pumps imported from the United States in our warehouse? Prepare them in advance. They will definitely be used when the time comes..."
"By the way, the Chengfeng flying shear ship that just arrived yesterday imported a batch of new models of American cement. They said they wanted us to test the effect. If it doesn't work, we could use it in the bunker..."
"Okay, let's do it like this...it's daylight, let's eat something first..."
One of the two people speaking was the grey-bearded General Liu Lang who kidnapped Xiao Letian in Taihang Mountain, and the other was Tietoutuo who had played tricks on Xiaowangzhuang. The two of them are now the two highest-ranking generals in Tanggu and the backbone of the entire garrison.
In front of them was the Tanggu Industrial Zone, which was known as the Iron Hedgehog by the Qing Dynasty. This place was no longer what it was a year ago. Xiao Letian faithfully carried out the plan he specified. He wanted to turn the industrial zone into a large industrial zone. The prison is definitely the number one prison in East Asia.
The nine-meter-high cement wall is all gray and white. It is not much shorter than the wall of the Forbidden City. There are crenels for shooting on the top of the wall and a continuous barbed wire. That is to say, the generator has not been invented yet. If there is a small Lotte will definitely install it.
Outside the wall are three parallel trenches and traffic trenches, with a depth of two meters. Soldiers have to step on special wooden stands to shoot. Permanent bulletproof fortifications are built every few dozen meters in the trenches. The outside of the trenches is full of traffic. The long ones are barbed wire.
A layman can see the excitement, and an expert can see the doorway. If another military friend comes through, he will be able to tell at a glance that the style of this trench is exactly the same as during World War I.
In an era when there were no aviation weapons or assault weapons such as tanks, trench positions were the army's most powerful defensive weapon. Now it is short of heavy machine guns. If there were a few Maxims mounted on the trenches, the Manchu Qing Dynasty would probably be drained. Don't even think about breaking through even if you lose blood.
The defeated general of the new army, Mailer, was the commander-in-chief of the Eight Banners in Tianjin. The originally aggressive and motley army with tens of thousands of ragtag troops thought they could catch the Tanggu Industrial Zone off guard, but when the vanguard of the army saw this iron hedgehog defense line After that, the forward Eight Flags team suddenly collapsed.
The Eight Banners and the Green Camp just have little knowledge, which does not mean they are idiots. Faced with such a hedgehog formation, more than 10,000 people suddenly didn't know what to say.
After all, Mailer was a military commander with traditional education. When marching and fighting, he still followed the Eight Banners' customs. What he was best at was to contain the infantry and then charge the cavalry into the formation, trying to create a breakthrough with dead bodies.
When Mailer's army arrived in Tanggu, the general who wanted to prove his defeat in front of the Queen Mother ordered the entire army to attack.
"Brothers... the Queen Mother has given us a fatal order. The prosperity and wealth for the rest of our lives will depend on today... Don't be afraid of these caltrops. The ancestors in the Forbidden City have already personally inquired about the news. There are only 200 people in Tanggu Industrial Zone. The New Army, let’s use our numbers to flood them upwards, and we’ll drown them too…”
"Xiao Letian is dead. This group of demon army has no backbone. Xiyi's demon magic has been dispersed. Let's go according to the original plan..."
Maybe it was because the enemy only had two hundred fierce soldiers, or maybe the news of Xiao Letian's death dispelled the soldiers' worries. Under Mailer's command, three thousand infantrymen rushed towards the position with a loud killing sound, and these three thousand The infantry had the luxury of using all front-loading muskets.
This was really the most powerful army of the Manchus in the Qing Dynasty besides the Hunan Army. Although the three thousand muskets were old, they were among the top stocks in Beijing. It was Cixi's generosity to be able to use them for Mailer.
However, this group of soldiers who had just put down their swords and spears obviously had not received formal musket training. The charging crowd was still a hundred meters away from the trenches. Before the officer gave the order, the gunshots started.
Bang bang... There was white smoke everywhere on the battlefield. Soldiers, you hit yours and I hit mine. Those who were loading ammunition were loading ammunition. Those who were too lazy to use muskets also pulled out their swords. The battlefield was in chaos.
"Okay, okay, as expected, the momentum is like a rainbow... The cavalry is ready. As long as the iron caltrops are removed, the cavalry will rush in for me..." Mailer's level is only so high. In his eyes, such a chaotic battlefield is actually momentum. Like a rainbow.
This group of Qing soldiers was really well prepared. Many of the 3,000-strong team removed door panels from fellow villagers’ homes, and some were holding vise-head pliers. They were preparing to clean the barbed wire fence, but they never expected that the special zone The defenders actually insidiously planted a large number of mines outside the position.
The Qing soldiers were only fifty meters away from the barbed wire fence. The New Army hiding in the trench lit the fuse. There were no step-type landmines at this time, so the New Army could only hide the fuse in a dry bamboo tube. To ensure that it does not get wet.
More than a dozen tongues of fire were burning on the ground, and the soldiers at the front had already sensed the approaching danger.
"What the hell, draw your knife and cut it off..." As he shouted, more than a dozen waist knives somersaulted and flew over. Unfortunately, sections of bamboo tubes protected the fuse, and the flames continued to rush forward.
The distance of tens of meters passed in a flash. When the charging Qing soldiers ran to only more than 20 meters away from the barbed wire fence, they heard several loud bangs and more than ten small mushroom clouds suddenly rose from the position. The Thousand Army Formation was blown to pieces.
Then rows of rifles suddenly appeared in the trenches, and Spencer's continuous gunfire immediately caused a wailing in front of the position.
"Charge forward... The first one to break through the thorns will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver... Anyone who retreats without mercy will be killed without mercy." Mailer was so shocked that he almost fell off his horse. He didn't expect that the information was wrong. There is actually artillery in the special zone, but why is there no sound of firing?
There was no time to think too much on the battlefield. Under the threat of high reward and death, the remaining Qing army launched a desperate attack. Door panels were put on the barbed wire fence. Those vise-head pliers also played a role to some extent. Gaps were opened one by one.
But the sacrifice was also huge. Three thousand Qing soldiers actually disabled half of more than a hundred Spencers. The battlefield was full of corpses and seriously injured soldiers. After the last round of grenades was thrown, the remaining two Qian Qingbing could no longer hold on and turned around and ran away.
"Damn it, why are you like this? The enemy only has a small number, and you can defeat it... spread out and attack more..."
Mailer, who had learned his lesson, divided into four thousand-man teams and launched an attack on the Special Administrative Region from different areas. He thought he would be able to catch the new army off guard, but what he never expected was that there were actually many foreign Japanese attacks coming from the trenches. sound.
"Protect our property. Here is our American investment. We cannot allow bandits to plunder it..."
"God punishes these thugs. Our British property cannot suffer any loss. The Qing government's undeclared war is illegal..."
Even if Mailer was killed, he would not have expected that there would be hundreds of foreigners fighting side by side with the new army in the trenches. They were all engineers and businessmen from Europe and America. The investment here was almost all of their property. It was expected that Returning home naked and dejected, it is better to fight with these bandits now.
At this time, the Qing Dynasty had become accustomed to fearing foreigners. When the Qing soldiers saw that the foreigners were shooting at them, they were at a loss and turned around and ran away. The second attack failed again.
Mailer was completely crazy this time. The first battle did not go well. How could he fight in the future? He had issued a military order to the Queen Mother, but the foreigners were coming. Did he really want to kill the foreigners?
In the end, a staff member accompanying the army came up with a solution: "General, Xiao Letian used the power of the evil demon from the west to disrupt our Qing Dynasty. Now that he is dead, the power of the evil demon will naturally be loosened. If we can If you find some dirty things and throw them over to destroy their evil spirit, you will naturally come back victorious..."
"Really." Mailer couldn't believe it. "I remember that the Guangzhou general did this in the first few years. He used women's menstrual cloth to hang on the city wall to defend against foreigners. It turned out to be useless."
"Otherwise, otherwise... the general doesn't know something. If Xiao Letian is still alive, then the evil demon's formation eyes are still there, so these unlucky things will not be very effective. But now that Xiao Letian is dead, the enemy formation is in chaos. This Maybe there will be a miraculous effect when the time comes..."
At this point, this sour scholar who was invited from nowhere came to the general’s ear and said, “Why don’t you give it a try? Anyway, the morale of the brothers is a bit unstable after two small losses. Let them go to the village to collect some dirty things.” , by the way..."
Mailer understood the words without saying anything. He looked around at the soldiers who had hesitation and fear in their eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "That's all, I'll just listen to you..."
The general's order was naturally a bit aggressive. Thousands of soldiers dispersed and began to raid the villages along the perimeter of the industrial zone. This group of murderous soldiers snatched black dogs, feces and urine, women's pants, menstrual belts and even small feet. A woman's footcloth.
Anyway, they robbed whatever was disgusting. For a time, the entire village near Tanggu was robbed like crazy, and the people who didn't have time to escape suffered.
Since ancient times, fighting with soldiers has been like fighting with bandits. It is impossible to count how many women were raped and how much wealth was robbed during this robbery. There were even civilians who tried to resist, and these tiger and wolf soldiers attacked them with random swords. Hacked to death, all the villages near the special zone turned into Shura hell.
"Oh God, why do they want to kill the people of their own country? What is the identity of this army?"
"Damn it, who else can we do besides that group of pure monsters? They can't defeat us, so they just rely on massacring the people to boost their morale. They're just a bunch of beasts."
There were scoldings in the trenches, and at this moment, Mailer, who had reorganized himself, launched a third charge. This charge was destined to go down in history, because there were already six foreign merchants in the trenches. camera.
"Are these Chinese really not lying to me? This photo can really be sold at a high price in Europe. Will the newspaper really accept it? Well, I'd better give it a try. This group of magical new troops can always give us surprise……"
