In the face of the crazy attack of the French artillery, Zhang Shusheng and Liu Mingchuan were both beaten stupid, too fierce, if they continue to fight like this, the entire Tianjin city will be razed to the ground in less than five days, it is inevitable that there will be more than 100 artillery, and there will be more than 100 artillery pieces in the east, in the Qing Dynasty, when did you encounter such a situation, and then when you fought with Shi Da of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the other party only dispatched fifty or sixty artillery pieces, and now it is okay, the Franco-Spanish coalition army has mobilized more than 200 artillery pieces!

Don't say that now there are only two main forces of the Huai Army, Zhang Shusheng and Liu Mingchuan, even if all the main forces of the Huai Army are gathered here, 60,000 people may not be the opponent of others!

However, the two of them also have no way to retreat, there is the victory of the Shandong battlefield there, if Tianjin City is lost again, then as the main general in the army, I am afraid that it will be unlucky!

Fortunately, the two of them didn't reward for too long, just before noon, Bao Chao led the Hunan Army, the Green Camp and the Eight Banners of the Han Army to Tianjin City!

One night and half a day, walking and stopping, more than 30 miles away, just walking for such a long time, Bao Chao was so angry that he jumped like thunder, but there was no way, except for the Hunan army under his command, no army was willing to drive to Tianjin City quickly, that was to fight, to die! The Green Battalion and the Eight Banners of the Han Army are not as good as the equipment of the Hunan Army!

In this way, nearly 20,000 green battalions of the 8,000 Hunan army all came to the city of Tianjin, because Dongcheng was fighting, and the anxious Bao Chao did not enter the city, and led nearly 30,000 troops to the east city, trying to repel the French army first!

Bao Chao is worthy of being a fierce general in the world, at least he has never confessed to cowardice on the battlefield, even in the face of a famous general like Shi Dakai, he has never surrendered, and he will not be afraid in the face of foreigners, the general will inevitably die in battle, death, there is nothing to fear!

Bao Chao commanded the army and pounced, nearly 30,000 Qing troops against 20,000 French troops, in terms of strength, the Qing army still has a certain advantage, but in terms of combat power, even if it is 10,000 French troops, it can easily defeat the Qing army in front of them!

It's not that the Hunan army is incompetent, it's that their teammates are too incompetent!

Bao Chao put the Hunan army in the center, the Qing army in Fengtian was on the left, the Qing army in Shanxi was on the right, three thousand in unison, especially the two green battalions still had a cavalry, and they were driven to the front and launched a frontal charge towards the French army!

Offensive!

Bazin looked at the Qing army from afar, and there was always a sneer on the corner of his mouth, such an army is not worthy of France's opponent at all! Vulnerable, not vulnerable at all!

"Order, artillery, let go of the attack for me, launch a full-scale artillery bombardment towards the Qing army, Lao Tzu wants to use 3,000 shells in exchange for the collapse of 30,000 Qing troops!"

Bazin's order was given, and two French artillery regiments launched a full-scale attack, totaling more than one hundred and thirty guns, and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the Qing army!

The Qing army still has artillery, the Hunan army has two artillery battalions, and there are dozens of artillery together, and the green battalions in Jilin and Shanxi also have artillery, but their artillery is not worth mentioning in front of the French army, and they are at an absolute disadvantage in all aspects!

The accuracy and rate of fire alone are too far behind the French army, the French army can fire a shell a minute, but even the Hunan army needs nearly three minutes to fire a shell! As for the Green Battalion, their artillery is all old-fashioned earthen artillery, and in less than five minutes, the shells will not be able to fly out of the chamber!

It was the Qing army that only launched one wave of artillery bombardment, the second wave of artillery bombardment had not yet begun, the French army had already launched five waves of offensives in succession, thousands of shells fell on the three arrows fired by the Qing army one after another, the violent explosion sounded non-stop, clusters of flames rose into the air, gunpowder smoke filled the sky, and the sound of artillery was deafening!

Bao Chao's heart is very full, and he will fight with all his strength, even if the 30,000 Qing army can't defeat the 20,000 French army, it will be no problem to hold on for at least two days, as long as he can prevent the foreigners from directly attacking the city with artillery, it will be his own victory!

However, Bao Chao really overestimated the strength of his teammates, and the green battalion soldiers in Shanxi also fought the Taiping Army once, exterminated some bandits, and did not experience a decent war for more than ten years; As for the Fengtian army, even the Taiping Army has not been beaten, not even the bandits, they are all a group of cockfighting dogs, idle rabble, such an army will scare the common people and make do, in the face of the shells flying all over the sky, not to mention the green battalion soldiers, first Ge Buqi and Gong Yuan, the two members from the first product have already panicked!

Listening to the explosion of the cannonballs around them, one by one the Qing troops were blown up into the sky by the shells, and the retreat of the two people was already so frightened that they couldn't take a step, and their bodies trembled like a sieve!

Fortunately, there is still a cavalry under their hands, although it is not elite, it is always stronger than nothing, which is also their only backbone, but when they saw that the cavalry and even the war horses were blown up into the sky, the two of them were completely frightened and peed their pants! This is not a battlefield at all, this is the eighteenth layer of hell! It's tragic, it's tragic, it's horrible, it's horrible!

Under the cover of French artillery fire, the French army actually launched a charge towards the Qing army, and the rifles in their hands continued to shoot, harvesting the lives of the green battalion!

Looking at the overwhelming French offensive, Gong Yuan and Ge Buqi were so frightened that they could no longer keep their composure, turned their horses' heads and fled towards the falling flowers behind them! Cowardly before fighting, fleeing without a fight, what good soldiers can such two generals bring?

The leading admiral and deputy capital have all run away, what are these little soldiers still doing here? Fuck it, the dead friends don't die and the poor don't die, whoever is the emperor can't let himself be a marshal, right? Run!

On the two flanks, 20,000 green battalion soldiers only held out for less than a quarter of an hour under the bombardment of French artillery, and then completely collapsed, moving mountains and fields full of fleeing Qing troops in all directions!

Bao Chao was so angry that he jumped like thunder, and scolded, cheating daddy, too cheating daddy, Lao Tzu has already thought of you very useless, but you stand on Lao Tzu's feet, cheer and cheer, you turned around and ran!

The advantage of strength that existed just now became 8,000 Hunan troops facing 20,000 French troops in the blink of an eye, and all the advantages were gone! Not only that, the collapse of the two flanks inevitably had a huge impact on the Hunan army, the friendly army ran away, leaving themselves on the battlefield to play for their lives, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

The cohesion of the military spirit inevitably loosened, and the morale immediately slipped, no longer playing, no longer playing!

It's just that Bao Chao has a very high prestige among the Hunan army, Bao Chao is immovable, even if the Hunan army is afraid and dissatisfied, he dares to turn around and run, fight, now he can only play his life once! (To be continued.) Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info)