"Bastard, this Li Hongzhang is really ambushed here...... Lao Tzu still underestimated him, didn't expect Huai Jun to be so strong?" Xiao Letian saw the bright red in front of him, and scolded angrily.

Now he is at the entrance of the ambush pocket array, which is also the position where the enemy's troops are the most projected, and when the Huai army saw that there were officers on horseback, they subconsciously concentrated the rain of arrows on Xiao Letian.

There was a dense sound of the bowstring, and the sharp jagged wolf tooth arrow fell from the sky and pounced on Xiao Letian, thanks to the dragon master who woke up and jumped from his own horse, blocking Xiao Letian with his body.

Long Ye shook off the cloak behind him, and the cloak soaked in rain was picked up with great force, and the bow and arrow shot at Xiao Letian were rolled up and emptied, "My lord, get off the horse, there will be a salvo ...... behind"

The guards around Xiao Letian were not the only ones, the other guards pulled Xiao Letian off the horse, and at this time, the second round of arrow rain had already been shot.

"Your Excellency...... The enemy's bowstring does not remain elastic for too long, and there can only be three salvos...... Let the brothers counter the charge ... You can't be beaten in the same place......"

Long Ye's reminder is also the only thought of the commanders of the new army at the moment, what is a strong army? An army that can subconsciously launch a counter-charge in the face of a sudden attack by the enemy is a strong army.

"Charge...... Counter-charge... Suppress the enemy...... The Forces nouvelles are not in the habit of being beaten in vain...... The squad leader, platoon commander, and company commander with their soldiers quickly rushed towards the place where the bow and arrow were fired, and the copper-shelled bullets in the cowhide magazine were stuffed into the chamber, and the sound of Mauser and Spencer's burst fire resounded.

Those officers who have experienced the baptism of the European battlefield have gradually developed the temperament of famous generals, and everyone is not chaotic in the face of the attack, and everyone is organizing their brothers to start attacking.

Tian was shot in the left arm, and he endured the pain and cut off the shaft of the arrow with his bayonet and shouted, "This is a jagged wolf's tooth arrow, which cannot be pulled out...... Hold back the pain and leave the arrow in the flesh, and just go back and let the military doctor prescribe a minor operation...... Damn, are our new army still afraid of pain?" After speaking, Mauser raised his hand and snapped, and a headless Huai army on the opposite side was opened.

"The wounded brother stayed...... Set up a shooting bunker for Gatling...... My brother, who was not injured, rushed after me...... Crossfire cover, flintlock grenades against the enemy...... "This is also Jiang Lie, who has returned from the European battlefield, and the platoon of soldiers he led is now approaching the ditch where the ambush is located.

One by one, the grenades flew towards the Huai army's position with white smoke, and the delayed fuse hidden in the grenades was not afraid of protection at all, only hearing the sound of explosions with bang bang, and the opposite position suddenly screamed.

At this time, Noheita and Hyotaro were already crazy, and they divided into two teams with the sword drawing team, like crabs' double pincers, and attacked an ambush position, "Duck give ...... Whiteblade Assault ...... Behead their heads to cast the Jingguan..."

The four hundred sword-drawing team members didn't care about the wind and rain and the mud on the ground, and they ran like the wind one by one, and rushed into the ditch with their knives.

The sword flashed in a pool of blood, and the elite of the Huai Army and the members of the knife drawing team suddenly collided together, this group of Huai Army was not a waste, and they were not afraid in the face of the knife drawing team members who jumped down, and the two sides were immediately involved together.

The sound of wind and rain was mixed with the tearing sound of cold weapons slashing into the body, the steel knives embedded in the bones made a squeaky grinding sound, and a group of red-eyed soldiers fell into a tumbling splash.

Nohei Tai and Hyotaro were crazy, and the knives in their hands rolled like wheels, and the torrential rain couldn't wipe off the blood on their bodies.

"Offense...... Even if they all die... We are the sharpest steel knives in the hands of the Prime Minister...... Pierce the enemy's ...... Ahh

Xiao Letian was already coerced by more than a hundred guards at this time and began to retreat, they wanted to take the prime minister out of this ambush pocket, no matter how Xiao Lotian beat and scolded, Long Ye would not let go.

"Let me go...... I am the commander of an army, and I am going to command the battle...... Damn, Nohei is going crazy again, it's a needless increase in casualties, what about their grenades, what about rifles? why not...... Stupid..."

"Send people to fire support, our brothers' lives are 10,000 times more valuable than the enemy's gold, and we can't die here in vain...... Let go of me, let go of the fuck ......"

Xiao Letian's fist smashed desperately on Long Ye's back, he wanted to rush out, watching his brothers sacrifice and retreat himself, this is not his style.

"Prime Minister, if you kill me today, I won't let you in...... You are our soul, you don't just belong to the Forces nouvelles, you belong to the whole country, and fighting the war is just one part of all your missions......"

"What about the ironclad warships you promised us, what about the huge industrial base, what about our mines, steel mills, and arsenals? All of this will have to wait for you, Prime Minister......

At this time, Pierre, who was escorting Xiao Lotian to retreat, also spoke: "Prime Minister, please calm down, what your soldiers said is right, your army has become an army, they already have the pride of soldiers in their hearts, and their morale does not need to be motivated by you personally...... You're going up now, you're just causing trouble for the soldiers..."

"If you get stuck on the battlefield, then the soldiers will have to break the formation to save you, which will kill many people...... Please be sensible..."

Pierre's stern tone finally calmed Xiao Lotian down, and he gasped and said, "Stop...... I promised you not to go to the battlefield, but now that I have left the ambush circle, my command center is set up here, and my flag is raised, and I will see the victory of my brothers with my own eyes..."

Xiao Letian's flag was quickly erected, and at this time, the three salvos had ended, and countless Huai troops suddenly jumped out of the ambush ditches and woods, and began to form a military formation to charge the new army.

It is also strange to say that Sima Yun, Luo Huo, and the commanders of Yeping Tai, who had just slaughtered more than a hundred people, ordered to stop at this moment.

"All units gathered wounded soldiers...... Rifle cover firing ...... The seriously wounded gathered to the prime minister ...... "With the issuance of the military order, the new army began to shoot alternately, covering each other's retreat.

Mauser and Spencer crackled, and the waves of Huai troops charging on the opposite side were repulsed one after another, and puddles on the ground were filled with rain.

"Damn, is it possible that Xiao Letian uses copper-shelled bullets for all his magnificence? Why is he so rich......" Li Hongzhang almost dropped the telescope in anger.

In 1866, it was the era of the transition from sub-loading bullets to fixed-loading bullets, and copper-shelled bullets were not popularized in this era, and the Qing people could not understand what industrial mass production was like, and in the hearts of many people, through-shell bullets were the playthings of the aristocracy, and the price was too high.

They had no idea that Prussia had already begun to produce bullets with industrial power, that the Western powers were working on smokeless gunpowder with even more explosive power, and that even Mr. Nobel was now preparing to open his gunpowder factory to the Ryukyus.

The torrential rain could not affect the firing of copper-shelled bullets at all, and the dense rain of bullets repelled waves of Huai soldiers, and the dead bodies were scattered all over the ground.

"Damn, damn it, this Xiao Letian's army is so strong? Not only is it equipped with copper-shelled bullets, but it can also carry out counter-charges if it is not chaotic in case of attack...... No wonder Mailer suffered a big loss, this kind of army, armed to the teeth, could not be defeated without ten times the number of troops......"

At this moment, another hundred and ten grenades rose into the air on the battlefield, blowing up a huge hole in the left flank of the Huai army, and more than 300 new troops suddenly made a very beautiful counter-charge with the cooperation of friendly firepower.

"Damn, they're going to tear the encirclement, they're going to tear our battle formations...... Let the reserves go up..."As soon as Li Hongzhang gave the order, the six hundred reserves that had been hidden on the left flank rushed out of the canal, and the raiders met the troops who broke through.

Li Hongzhang's Huai army was also hard-headed, and they had also expected the enemy's firearms to be powerful, so they specially made a batch of thick wooden shields, but due to the sudden rainstorm, they did not use these shields.

However, after paying for three or four hundred lives, they finally woke up and rushed to the camp to carry a large number of shields and distribute them, and the soldiers began to use the shield cover to fight with the new army, and the mortality rate was greatly reduced.

"Where's our Gatling? Why hasn't it fired yet...... I'm leaning on the enemy in front, what's the matter with you putting the Gatling firing position next to me?" Seeing that the battlefield was burning again, Xiao Lotian was extremely irritable.

Around Xiao Letian's command center, four Gatling heavy machine guns were actually distributed in a circle in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and it was clear that the enemy was in the west, but two Gatlings were placed in the northeast and southeast directions.

"What's going on? who's suing me what's going on......

"This is our arrangement...... Wang Huaiyuan and Pierre said in unison, "Don't you see, my lord, there are only more than 2,000 enemies attacking us on the opposite side, and the number of enemy troops shown in the intelligence is 3,000, where did the remaining 1,000 go?"

"In addition, don't forget that since Cixi gave Li Hongzhang a secret decree, he has the right to mobilize the Zhili garrison, and he will not collect local garrisons when he comes from the northeast of the mountain......?

Xiao Letian was secretly ashamed in his heart, could it really be that he was carried away by a series of victories? Why was his brain so drowsy in commanding the battle this time.

At this time, Long Ye suddenly spoke in Xiao Letian's ear, "My lord, you have been running around Europe for the past year, and your focus is on international intelligence...... You don't know as much about the situation in the country as you do about the situation in the country, don't forget that he has been holding on to our base camp after we left, and the command of this war should be given to him......"

"Prime Minister, what you have to think about is what will happen after you take us into Beijing City, and this is your heavy responsibility in the face of the artillery fire in the imperial court...... Now, please rely on Wang Huaiyuan..."

Wake up from the dream with a word, Xiao Letian looked at Wang Huaiyuan, who was coordinating various troops in the rain, and suddenly felt very indebted to him, obviously a famous general seed, just because he liked his rigor and was transferred to manage and spy carefully, which was actually unfair to Wang Huaiyuan.

"Huaiyuan, I'll leave this battle to you... All of us will not forget your credits......"

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