In just twenty minutes of ambush, more than half of the two battalions of soldiers were killed and wounded, and the rest became frightened rats and never dared to go to the battlefield again.
Luo Huo spat in the face of the first surviving deputy battalion commander, "Get out! Go back and wait for the trial of the military court! Look at what kind of bullshit battle you are fighting..."
"Build an artillery firing bunker...let me advance step by step..."
Luo Huo and Sima Yun had realized that they could not be polite to these Belgian soldiers. They began to skip the senior Belgian officers and directly give orders to the grassroots officers and soldiers.
I can't command your battalion and regiment level commanders, so why can't I also command my company platoon commander?
"Damn bastard, don't you know how to carry sandbags in a war? Quickly set up a bunker for artillery fire!"
The artillery of this era was not equipped with bulletproof decks, and the personnel were very vulnerable to enemy attacks during operation, especially the tactic of using cannons and bayonets. When artillery rushed to the front line, they almost always fired within the range of enemy rifles. .
It is very dangerous, extremely dangerous, and friendly forces must be available to cover it at this time.
These frightened Belgian troops did not dare to resist under the intimidation of the Chinese officers and soldiers. One by one, they carried sandbags and withstood the enemy's firepower and began to build artillery fire bunkers on the long street.
The artillerymen hid behind a sandbag wall that was one and a half meters long. The muzzle of the gun was adjusted at a small angle in a small gap in the sandbag wall. The engineers behind it were ready to charge at any time, and there were many Belgian soldiers carrying sandbags back and forth.
Boom boom boom... The Krupp steel cannon fired almost at the closest distance. A big hole was blasted out of a small building more than 200 meters away, and half of the wall collapsed.
The sniper saw the French soldiers hiding in the room at a glance. Before they could escape, the bullets pierced their hearts as if they had eyes.
"Well done... Let the follow-up troops continue to push the artillery up! Time is our best ally. We must fight this battle steadily rather than hastily!"
The troops of Sima Yun and Luo Huo formed two huge pincer-shaped offensives at the northern city wall of Sedan. Two sharp triangular protrusions had been formed in the attack area of more than 800 meters.
Each triangular protrusion is a shooting position composed of more than ten artillery pieces. The two protrusions cover each other, almost demolishing the house bit by bit with artillery shells.
The French troops in the bastion were already crazy. Although they had strong bunkers and were not afraid of direct artillery fire for the time being, they could not do anything to these Chinese.
The heavy machine guns were firing, but the sandbag wall that broke in little by little blocked the rain of bullets. The artillery firepower on the city head was simply insufficient and could not suppress the power of the new Krupp cannon.
Often the Prussian army fired a single volley, and the shattered shrapnel could kill and injure a large area of the defending French army!
Taking advantage of the moment when the French firepower was suppressed, the Romanian Fire Department quickly sent soldiers to dismantle the sandbag wall and quickly rushed forward fifty meters, and then began to build a new shooting position at the risk of huge casualties.
When Luo Huo's troops began to press forward, Sima Yun's troops directed the artillery apex to clear out the most threatening French targets, providing fire cover for Luo Huo's artillery.
More than a hundred soldiers were killed in the battle. The new position of the Luo Fire Department was finally set up. The artillery shells were carried up. More than ten artillery pieces opened fire again, causing the defending French army to howl like ghosts.
When the Luo Fire Department gained a firm foothold, Sima Yun's Department immediately dismantled the artillery bunker and began to advance a distance of more than 70 meters. Under the cover of friendly artillery, Sima Yun's Department only lost more than 80 people before re-establishing a fire department. position.
The two troops began to move forward like the two pincers of a crab. Although it was slow but very steady, these two troops also became the troops with the lowest casualty rate in the entire battle of Sedan.
The Chinese's steady attack naturally attracted the attention of the French commander. From the moment he saw the Chinese's flag, McMahon began to secretly deploy troops.
"Alfred's unfinished mission must be completed for him. Your comrade died in Xunyi. This revenge must be avenged..."
"Come on! Inflict maximum casualties on these Chinese before the end of the war, and let those Belgians who dare to declare war on France have a taste of their power!"
"Frossard! You were defeated in Saarbrücken, and you were defeated in the Spicelin Heights... Now that Sedan is an isolated city, do you still want to retreat?"
"The mission is entrusted to you! Go take revenge!"
Frossard stood at attention and saluted, facing the marshal with a murderous look on his face and said, "I am willing to die serving the empire!"
"Assemble the team and prepare for counterattack, targeting Beicheng..."
In Saarbrücken and the Spicy Forest Highlands, there may be some excuses for Frossard's retreat, such as conserving strength, being outnumbered, etc.
But now that everyone is retreating to this isolated city, he has no excuse to retreat anymore, he can only fight to the death!
“How far have the Chinese advanced?”
"Reporting to the commander, we have advanced to less than 300 meters away from the No. 5 Bastion in the North City... It is estimated that there are only 2,000 Chinese people, while the Belgian army exceeds 20,000 people!"
"Very good... very good... In this battle, we have to use the cowardly Belgians to disrupt their formation!"
"Has our tunnel been exposed?"
"No sir!"
"Let our engineers set off and the cavalry prepare for battle..."
As a large military fortress, Sedan naturally requires a variety of defense methods. Although there is no underground tunnel system extending in all directions, there are still many short-distance soldier hiding caves.
In the hidden military camp, countless secret entrances were opened, and the French engineers carrying weapons went deep into the damp and cold passages and quickly advanced towards the North City.
They simply could not accurately locate the location of the enemy troops above their heads. They could only make a rough guess. Anyway, the main purpose was to disrupt the enemy's formation and create an opportunity for Frossard's army to attack.
Not caring much anymore, these engineers estimated the distance and began to set up guns. The ends of the three tunnels were filled with hundreds of kilograms of strong guns.
"Damn the invaders! Go to hell..." The torch was lit*, and more than a dozen engineers turned and fled.
Perhaps they were too impatient, and these engineers made a mistake in calculating the length of the gun. Before they could dig out the tunnel, they heard a loud bang behind them, which shattered all their eardrums.
The shock wave knocked them to the ground, the entire tunnel was destroyed, and a group of engineers were buried alive underground.
Xiao Letian in the rear saw three plumes of smoke rising into the sky through his telescope, just like small mushroom clouds.
"No! There is actually a tunnel in Sedan City? The explosion must have been caused by a large number of bombs. It cannot be artillery shells at all!"
"It's almost noon, and this battle has turned into a stalemate... Damn it!"
"Send the signal... for Zeppelin to pick me up!"
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