"God help me, I am the right one, hahaha!" Yimin laughed ferociously. The slight south wind was a big help to him.
The wind cannot be too strong, as it will be blown away, and it will not be able to block the enemy at all. The direction of the wind cannot be wrong. If it is a northerly wind, the smoke and dust will turn around and rush towards your soldiers.
It was best like this. The slight south wind brought the smoke belt and pushed it through like a wall.
The battle became more intense than ever. The rebels seized this rare God-given opportunity and launched an ant attack. The river was densely packed with people. Each shell could overturn more than a dozen boats, and the river was covered with dead bodies.
The bullet rain passes through the smoke belt and the ammunition is poured without purpose. Although it is impossible to aim, it can still cause huge casualties!
The firepower of the imperial army was not dense, but there was a hint of crisis in King Dun's eyes. The resistance of the Yulin New Army and the Xishan Camp suddenly seemed a little panicked.
No matter how dense the firepower is, it can't hold back the opponent's large number of people. Sometimes war is as cruel as an impersonal mathematical formula!
The density of firepower counters the density of human lives. A desperate charge uses mountains of corpses and seas of blood to counteract the density of firepower. Which commander who can fight such a battle is not a cold-blooded animal?
There is a limit to killing. Even the most elite shooter will be frightened, tremble, and tremble after he has slaughtered hundreds of lives!
Especially the Chinese people, who are kind-hearted and educated in their bones, cannot handle such a cruel battle.
Many shooters dared not open their eyes until the end of the battle when they saw the corpses piled up in a hill and the blood flowing into a stream. They screamed and pulled the trigger randomly, and the sight of the machine gun was swinging aimlessly. !
"Ah...ah...don't rush...don't risk your death...I am your ancestor for eight lifetimes!"
Boom boom boom... Explosions sounded one after another on the shore. The continuous barbed wire fence was blown into sections of dead snakes, and the bamboo sticks and other traps that were used to ambush were also used up.
The corpses paved a beach road, and the rebels behind stepped on the corpses and rushed upward!
"Long live Emperor Guangxu...charge...enter the Forbidden City and reward thousands of nobles!"
"If you die, you will look up to the sky, and if you don't die for tens of millions of years... you have to fight hard to survive. If you retreat, you will die!"
"If you rush forward, there is still a way to survive. If you retreat, the nine tribes will be put to death...Kill them, kill them. Everyone is risking their lives!"
Countless mid-level and low-level officers in the rebel army began to boost their morale. At this time, they were really red-eyed. People were no longer afraid. The world between heaven and earth was a Shura slaughterhouse!
The dead soldiers who rushed forward with explosive packs rushed towards the fortifications and trenches like moths to a flame!
The imperial troops who fired guns in the trenches were the most unlucky. Without the protection of fortifications, they had to shoot head-on to fight against these red-eyed lunatics!
Many rebels who were shot lit explosives and fell down in the trenches. With a bang, half of the trenches were blown away!
Each bunker was blasted, and the rebels were like leeches smelling blood, biting the defense line and refusing to retreat!
"Hahaha... Breakthrough, breakthrough... Father, let's break through... six, seven, eight, nine..."
"Eleven...twelve...we broke through at least twelve bunkers! Sure enough, we still have to sacrifice human lives. If we don't sacrifice human lives, we won't be able to defeat this line of defense!"
Zai Cheng jumped up and down excitedly, "If I had known it was so easy to fight, why would I have ambushed Tianjin! We should have gone directly to the capital and killed Hun Jun!"
"Shut up! It's not until the last moment, don't laugh too early!" Yi Xin scolded his son, then turned to Delani and said, "Have you ever experienced such a war? Don't think that our Qing Dynasty will not If there is a war, we will dare to fight!"
Delaney sighed and shook his head, "This scene reminds me of the Crimean War, when I was just a captain!"
"When the soldiers of Tsarist Russia charged, they looked very much like your army... Thousands of people shouted Ula and charged forward without fear of death!"
“But it’s us British who have the last laugh in the end! The will to fight is very important, but what ultimately determines victory or defeat is the power of technology, the popularity of equipment, and the supply of logistics...”
"Don't forget, without the weapons and ammunition we provide, you can't conquer such a defense line!"
The British cynicism extinguished the joy that had just appeared on the faces of Yi Xin and his son. They frowned and ignored him, then looked at the battle ahead.
Since the Yongding River defense line has been burned through, and the flames are soaring into the sky, the Guizi Sixth headquarters can clearly see the situation of the battle ahead. In addition, the messengers continue to bring good news, and the emotions in the headquarters are gradually rising. stand up.
The dark night is not conducive to observation by the defenders, and the smoke from Nanfeng's house blocks the view. In addition, the rebels are trying to kill people at any cost, and the Yongding River defense line is in danger.
Especially in the eastern part of the Marco Polo Bridge, trenches were missed one after another, bunkers were blown up, and some small rebel units even reached the rear and exchanged fire with the reserves.
King Dun was frightened because of this. He trembled with his lips and said, "Send the signal...Hurry up and send the signal!"
Bang bang bang... Three red flares hit the sky. They could be seen clearly for more than ten miles. Guizi Liuyi trembled in his heart when he saw them.
"The highest emergency signal? Who is on the other side? Wang Jue's, is it the fifth brother? Isn't it Zai Chun who is here?"
"What are you doing? Looking for reinforcements?"
King Dun was still asking for reinforcements. After three signal bombs, the reserves on the north bank of the Yongding River began to replenish, and a large number of fresh troops fought against the gap created by the rebels.
The rebels rushed forward wave after wave, and the reserves rushed forward batch after batch. When they reached difficult points, hand-to-hand combat even broke out.
As time passed, every inch of the battle line began to be fought for. The chaotic fighting interfered with the ammunition supply of many civilians. Some bunkers with small space even ran out of machine gun ammunition.
Cheng Beile also rushed to the river. He personally mobilized the rebels to rush forward and cross the river. The Marco Polo Bridge was densely packed with prostrate and attacking rebels, and the wooden boats on the river were already crowded together.
"It's over, it's over, are we going to be unable to hold on?" Morale began to loosen among the imperial army.
Especially those cronies brought by Yi Pei, those weak-minded rabbit masters, who just glanced at the door and were probably going to be deserters in the next second!
Just at the critical moment, bursts of rumbling sounds suddenly came from the east side of Marco Polo Bridge. At 8:30, the rumbling sound of artillery suddenly came from the lower reaches of the Yongding River!
Boom...boom...
The cannonballs made a loud noise in the sky like a train moving. Then one shell exploded on the south bank, and two exploded on the river. The huge explosion swept up water and bodies into the air!
"Gunboats! Our court's gunboats are here... I have mobilized all three of them, and they have been patrolling. We can raise troops for a thousand days and use them for a while!"
The three inland river gunboats that Xiao Letian gave to Zai Chun were now encountered in actual combat. Previously, they had continued patrolling along the Grand Canal around Tianjin and into the Yongding River system.
It's not that the rebels didn't know the existence of these three gunboats, but no one expected that the power of these gunboats would be so powerful!
