The morning breeze in early autumn does not feel a trace of coolness, and it blows on people with a feeling of stuffy tide, and it seems that there is a great possibility of a heavy rain in the next few days.

"The trenches are going to deepen, don't we still have pumping machines imported from the United States in our warehouse? Prepare in advance, and we will definitely use them when the time comes......

"By the way, didn't the Chengfeng clippers that just arrived yesterday import a batch of new models ......of American cement?

"Okay, that's it...... It's getting light, let's get something to eat first......"

One of the two people who spoke was the gray-bearded general Liu Lang who had kidnapped Xiao Letian in Taihang Mountain, and the other was Tie Toutuo, who had pretended to be a ghost in Xiaowangzhuang, and the two of them were now the two highest-ranking generals in Tanggu and the backbone of the entire defenders.

In front of the two of them, is the Tanggu Special Industrial Zone, known as the iron hedgehog by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this is not what it was a year ago, Xiao Lotian faithfully implemented the plan he specified, he wants to make the Special Industrial Zone into a big prison, which is definitely the first prison in East Asia.

The nine-meter-high cement wall is gray and white, which is not much shorter than the wall of the Forbidden City, and there are shooting battlements and barbed wire at the top of the city wall.

Outside the wall are three parallel trenches and communication trenches, with a depth of two meters, and soldiers have to step on special wooden shelves when shooting, and the trenches are built with permanent bulletproof fortifications every few tens of meters, and the outside of the trenches are full of long barbed wire.

The layman looks at the bustle, the insider looks at the doorway, and if another military comrade crosses over, he can see at a glance that this trench style is exactly the same as during the First World War.

In the era when there were no aviation weapons and tanks, the trench position was the most powerful defensive weapon of the army, and now there was a shortage of heavy machine guns.

The defeated general of the new army, Mailer, is the Eight Banners of Tianjin, who was originally fierce and with tens of thousands of miscellaneous troops who were caught off guard by the Tanggu Industrial Zone, but when the army forwards saw this iron hedgehog defense line, the forward Eight Banners team suddenly collapsed.

The Eight Banners and the Green Battalion are just less knowledgeable, it doesn't mean that they are stupid, and in the face of such a hedgehog array, more than 10,000 people suddenly don't know how to speak.

After all, Mailer is a military general from traditional education, and the march and battle are still the set of eight banners entering the customs, and the best thing to play is to contain the infantry and then the cavalry to charge the formation, trying to use the dead corpses to make a breakthrough.

When Mellor's Chinese army arrived in Tanggu, the general, who wanted to prove his defeat in front of the Empress Dowager of the West, ordered the whole army to assault.

"Brothers...... What the Queen Mother gave us was a death order, and everyone's glory and wealth in the second half of their lives will depend on today...... Don't be afraid of these thistles, the ancestors in the Forbidden City have already personally inquired about the news, there are 200 new troops in the Tanggu Industrial Zone, let's use the number of people to drown them, and drown them......"

"Xiao Letian is dead, this group of demon troops has no backbone, Xiyi's demon law has been dispersed, everyone is on the original plan, ......"

Maybe the enemy only had two hundred fierce soldiers, or maybe the news of Xiao Letian's death dispelled the soldiers' concerns, and under the command of Mailer, three thousand infantry rushed to the position with a murderous voice, and these three thousand infantry actually had the luxury of using front-loading muskets.

This is really the most powerful army of the Manchurians in the Qing Dynasty except for the Hunan army, although the three thousand smoothbore guns are old, they are also the top inventory in Beijing, and they can be used by Mailer, which can be regarded as Cixi's generosity.

But the soldiers, who had just laid down their broadswords and spears, had apparently not been trained in a formal musket queue, and the crowd of charging men was still a hundred meters from the trenches, and the guns had already begun to sound before the officers had given the order.

Bang Bang Bang ...... There was white smoke on the battlefield, soldiers, you hit yours, I hit mine, loaded ammunition, those who were too lazy to use muskets drew their waist knives, and the battlefield was chaotic.

"Okay, good, it's really like a rainbow...... The cavalry prepares, as long as the thistle terrestris is removed, the cavalry will rush in for me...... "Meller's level is so high, and such a chaotic battlefield is actually like a rainbow in his eyes.

Many of the 3,000-strong soldiers removed the door panels from the villagers' homes, and some of them were pinching tiger head pliers to clear the barbed wire, but they never expected that the defenders of the SAR would insidiously lay a large number of mines outside the positions.

The Qing soldiers were only 50 meters away from the barbed wire, and the new troops hiding in the trenches lit the fuse, which at this time did not have stepping mines, and the new troops could only hide the fuse in dry bamboo pipes to ensure that it was not damp.

More than a dozen tongues of fire were burning on the ground, and the soldiers who rushed to the front already felt the danger approaching.

"What the hell, draw a knife and cut it off...... more than a dozen waist knives flew over with their heads in the shout, but unfortunately a section of bamboo pipe protected the fuse, and the tongue of fire continued to rush forward.

The distance of several tens of meters flashed by, and when the charging Qing soldiers ran to a distance of only more than 20 meters from the barbed wire, they only heard a few loud bangs, and more than 10 small mushroom clouds suddenly rose into the air on the position, and the 3,000 army formations were blown up in scattered places.

Immediately after that, rows of rifles suddenly appeared in the trench, and Spencer's burst of gunfire suddenly caused a wail in front of the position.

"Rush up...... The first one to break through the thistle terrestris will be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver...... There is no forgiveness for retreating without permission..."Mellor was so shocked that he almost fell off his horse, he didn't expect that the information was wrong, and there was actually artillery in the SAR? But why didn't he see the sound of firing?

There was no time to think about it on the battlefield, under the threat of high rewards and death, the remaining Qing troops launched a decisive attack, and the door panels were erected on the barbed wire, and those tiger tongs also played a role to some extent, cutting the gaps one by one.

But the sacrifice was also huge, 3,000 Qing soldiers actually disabled more than 100 Spencers, and the battlefield was full of corpses and seriously wounded wounded soldiers. After the last round of grenades were thrown, the remaining 2,000 Qing soldiers could no longer hold it anymore and turned around and fled.

"Damn, how did you make it like this...... Just a little bit of the enemy, this can be defeated...... Spread out, multi-point offensive ......"

Mailer, who had learned his lesson, divided into four thousand-man teams and launched an attack on the SAR from different locations, thinking that this would catch the new army by surprise, but what he never expected was that there were many voices of foreign devils in the trenches.

"Protect our property, here is our American investment, we can't let the robbers plunder ......"

"God punish these thugs, we British property can not suffer any damage, the Qing government's undeclared war is illegal......"

Killing Mailer didn't expect that there were hundreds of foreigners in the trenches fighting side by side with the new army, all of them were engineers and businessmen from Europe and America, and the investment here was almost all their property.

At this time, the fear of foreigners had become a habit in the Qing Dynasty, and when the Qing army saw that the foreigners had shot at them, they immediately turned around and ran away, and the second attack failed again.

Mailer is completely crazy this time, the first battle is so unsmooth, how will he fight in the future? I made a military order for the Queen Mother, but the foreigners have come up, do I really want to kill the foreigners?

In the end, it was actually a staff member who accompanied the army to give a solution: "General Qiyu, then Xiao Letian followed the power of the Western demons to disturb my Qing Dynasty, and now that he is dead, the power of this evil demon will naturally be loosened, if we can find some filthy things to splash over and destroy their demonic qi, we will naturally be able to return with a great victory......"

"Really?" Mailer couldn't believe it, "I remember that in the first few years, the general of Guangzhou did this, using women's menstrual cloth to hang on the city wall to defend against foreigners, but it didn't work..."

"No, no...... The general doesn't know, if Xiao Lotian is still alive, then the demon array is still there, so these bad things don't work very well, and now that Xiao Lotian is dead, the enemy array has been in chaos, and there may be a miraculous effect at this time......"

Speaking of this, this sour Xiucai, who didn't know where to invite, leaned into the general's ear and said, "Why not try, anyway, the morale of the brothers is a little unstable, let them go to the village to collect some filthy things, by ......the way"

Needless to say, Melle had already understood, he looked around at the soldiers who were hesitant and frightened in their eyes, and gritted his teeth and said, "That's it, I'll listen to you......"

The general's order was naturally a bit of a tiger's power, and thousands of soldiers dispersed and began to sweep the villages along the perimeter of the special industrial zone. This group of murderous soldiers snatched black dogs, poop and urine, women's pants and menstrual belts, and even footcloths for women with small feet.

Anyway, if something is disgusting, they will rob it, and for a while, the entire village near Tanggu let them rob the chickens and dogs, and the people who didn't have time to escape could be regarded as suffering.

Since ancient times, soldiers have been like bandits, and there is no way to count how many women have been raped and how much wealth has been looted in this robbery, and there are even those people who tried to resist, so that this group of tiger and wolf soldiers were hacked to death with knives, and all the villages near the Special Administrative Region became Shura hell.

"Oh God... Why do they want to kill the people of their own country? What is the identity of this army?"

"Damn, who else but those Qing demons? they can't beat us, so they rely on slaughtering the people to boost morale, this is a group of beasts..."

There was a lot of scolding in the trenches, and at this moment, the newly organized Mailer launched a third charge, and this charge was destined to go down in history, because six foreign merchants had already set up cameras in the trenches.

"Are these Chinese really not lying to me? Can this photo really sell for a high price in Europe? Will the newspaper really accept it? Well, I'll try it, this amazing new army can always surprise us......"

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