The Foreign Legion is a very special group among the Chinese. These mercenaries were originally composed of Japanese ronin, bandits, and pirates, but they have demonstrated their outstanding combat effectiveness in battle after battle.
This is a group of outright war maniacs. They are not afraid of fighting, let alone life and death. What they are afraid of is that there will be no wars to fight, because without war, they have no chance to improve their social status.
This is a group of murderers who only have masters but no national consciousness. As long as you can pave a visible promotion path for them, then even if you raise the threshold of promotion to abnormal, these people will rush up with enthusiasm.
On the night of the Naha uprising, these mercenaries killed their own people even harder than the Chinese. On the Prussian-Austrian battlefield, the jungle of these foreign legions' swords completely frightened the sturdy Austrian Army. The bullshit noble officers were born. Killed and become a lost dog.
It is precisely because of the special nature of this unit that they are the only army among the Chinese army that is allowed to retain medieval weapons. Only the Foreign Legion can wear tachi, a weapon that is incompatible with modern warfare.
Xiao Letian's positioning is very obvious. The foreign legion should be placed on the battlefield of hand-to-hand combat. Breakthrough battles are their performance stage.
Today, these mercenaries who came out of Fuso once again used their swords to cut a bloody path.
"Kill, kill, kill... chop off the horse's legs, kill the war horses... seize the weapons of these grandchildren..."
"We don't kill people, but we can kill horses, right? I'll kill one of your horses today and give you three back tomorrow, okay? This way there won't be any diplomatic conflict..."
"Hey, your grandson still dares to fight back? Our kendo, judo, and karate are all practiced in vain? Take off his arm, remove his jaw...yes, yes, throw them over the shoulder and kill them..."
War is always fought with preparation and without preparation. The Chinese army has never forgotten actual combat. The amount of training they conduct every day is terrifying, and all kinds of close combat are their special skills.
The French side never thought that the Chinese would dare to land on the mainland from the beginning. They did not have any plan for facing conflicts in their minds, so they suffered a loss as soon as they started.
The sharp sword slashed the horse's head and removed the horse's legs. Blood splattered all over the ground. The out-of-control cavalry fell to the ground and was hit with a black eye by the oncoming fist before he could react.
"Counterattack...Imperial soldiers counterattack..." The commander screamed twice before being thrown to the ground by two sword-drawing members. After a sharp pain, his arms were removed from the mortars, and the weapons on his body were also removed. Taken away.
Two hundred against one hundred is already a sufficient advantage. In addition, the cavalry does not have the advantage of speed. The two sides have been entangled just now. Without the advantage of speed and formation, there is no reason not to be beaten.
Viscount Ferdinand was so frightened that he was covered in cold sweat. The smell of blood hit his face. The hell-like chaotic scene was completely beyond his expectation.
"Crazy! These Chinese people are crazy! Xiao Letian is a lunatic...Does he really think France dare not die with him?"
"Stop shouting, sir, let's retreat first..." The two military attachés beside him dragged the horse's reins and fled back with the consul.
At this moment, twenty more small boats appeared on the sea, and the second batch of landing troops had begun to support them.
The entire Great Bitter Lake was in chaos. The sound of artillery and the shouts of killing were earth-shattering. The British soldiers closest to the battlefield were jumping and screaming.
"The attack... was well done... beat him up and let the French suffer some pain... if you dare to fire at us, this is what will happen!" The proud Royal Navy soldiers were still very aggrieved by the friendly fire incident just now.
What was even more shocking were the merchant ships. The merchants, captains, and sailors from various European countries all lost the ability to speak at that moment. Everyone stared blankly at the conflict between the Chinese and the French, and the inexplicable shelling.
"Is this how the war starts? God bless, please don't block the canal..."
"Are these people really Chinese? If they are so talented, how come they can't even protect the capital?"
"Look...the Zhiyuan's main cannon is moving...which cannon is spinning..."
The shelling has been going on for twenty minutes now. It seems that the ammunition behind the dunes has been almost exhausted. The density of the shells fired at this moment is no longer as good as before.
The Zhiyuan was hit by six shells in a row, but only two cooks in the entire battleship fell and were injured due to the shock of the explosion. One of them had his buttocks scratched by an unfixed disk fragment.
Only these two unlucky wounded people were left unscathed, and the rest of the crew was completely unscathed. Xiao Letian used his epoch-making design and Prussia's most rigorous shipbuilding technology to finally create the Suez Miracle in naval history.
Withstanding the enemy's artillery fire, the Zhiyuan remained motionless and as calm as a mountain. The man sitting in the command cabin looked at the French consul who fled in the light of the fire and curled his lips in contempt.
"It seems that this French gentleman still has some illusions... In that case, let's answer him with our cannons!"
"Xiang Ying, I allow you to fire a cannonball as a deterrent... Damn, I wasted more than 50,000 silver dollars again!"
The heavy 21o caliber main gun finally began to rotate. Since the sand dunes are only two kilometers away from the river, the trajectory must be extremely straight. The effect of firing under such conditions is very low. The sand dunes in front of the field artillery position can block it. Keep the trajectory of the projectile.
But it doesn't matter. This artillery is just to show the French the powerful force of the Chinese people and to crush all their conspiracy attempts. This is Chi Guoguo's deterrence!
Ferdinand was going crazy. He never imagined that these Chinese would be so tough. "How dare they land on our French colony? How dare they dare to fire on our territory? Why..."
Boom... a flame suddenly lit up in the night, and the shock wave of the explosion instantly spread like a strong wind, and the deafening sound made people deaf.
In a flash of lightning, a cloud of sand suddenly burst out from the sand sea directly to the west. Half of the entire sand dune was blown up out of thin air, and the yellow sand in the sky fell like a heavy rain.
With just one shot, the area around the Great Bitter Lake suddenly fell into deathly silence. It turned out that the Chinese really dared to fire!
After only ten seconds of silence, the town at the fifth stop and the Chinese warships on the sea suddenly erupted into thunderous roars.
"Long live the Chinese! Long live the Yuan! Attack..."
The four hundred and six soldiers ran wildly, stabbing at the enemy's attack position like a sharp knife. At this moment, no French soldier dared to stop them. They thought they had planned everything, but the reality gave them a loud slap in the face.
Ferdinand's face was as red as a monkey's butt.
