Time passed by minute by minute, and soon entered the second half of the night. This was the time when people were most relaxed in their day, and it was also the darkest time before dawn. At this time, outside Beining City, black figures were slowly approaching the city wall.

Liancheng was Lianmei's son, but in the Black Flag Army, he had to lead the way. At this time, he was quietly sliding into the moat with his own personal soldiers.

Wooden ladders passed over the soldiers' heads and then placed them on both sides of the moat in the night. At the same time, countless black flag soldiers quietly swam through the river several meters wide under the cover of the night.

‘其’, the first gunshot suddenly came, and in an instant, the entire Beining was submerged in the dense gunshots!

"What happened?" the French commander who had just been awakened asked loudly.

"It's Chinese! They..."

The soldier's answer was interrupted by gunfire, and then, from the darkness, there were countless figures with white cloth strips wrapped around his head and rushed towards the city gate!

"Guard the city gate! Don't let the Chinese occupy the city gate!"

There are more than 2,000 defenders in Beining. In addition to the troops stationed in the city, there are only more than 800 defenders in the four gates, and only 200 people in one gate. The Black Flag Army has more than 100 whistles, and it is caught off guard. Where can it be blocked?

Chen Shangfa and his soldiers quickly controlled the west gate. As the city gate slowly opened, countless figures rushed in from the darkness, and while running, they pulled out white cloth from their arms and wrapped around their heads.

Liancheng found Chen Shangfa, "Uncle Chen, how is the situation of establishment?"

Chen Shangfa said: "I have arranged two posts to control the barracks in the city, and another post attacks the French ammunition reserve warehouse. Where is the general?"

Lian Cheng pointed back: "At the back, Uncle Chen arranged a guide for me, and I will take people to reinforce the ammunition depot first."

Chen Shangfa immediately called out: "Missive third son!"

Soon, a young man ran over. "Sir..."

Chen Shang pointed at Liancheng, "Take Mr. Lian to reinforce the ammunition depot!"

The mistress responded and then said to Lian Cheng: "Young Master, come with me!"

Immediately, a team of people ran to the city...

The soldiers of the Black Flag Army were still pouring in. As the number of soldiers entering the city continued to increase, the French army's resistance became less and less. When morning glows appeared in the sky, the gunshots in Beining City also stopped.

Taiyuan.

At the intersection of Yin and Mao, more than 2,000 Black Flag Army, with the five hundred elite troops led by Liu Wenqian as the core, replaced the Yunnan Army soldiers who had guarded all night. An hour later, the figure of the French army appeared in the wilderness in the distance.

Poriye did not choose night attack. He knew that his advantage lies in his firepower while the enemy's advantage was his troops. Although night attacks can make his soldiers closer and easier to play the advantages of hand-to-hand combat, they will also lose the advantages of firepower.

On the first night of the battle, he didn't have to do so.

Even if he had never read "Cao Gui's Debate", Poliye, who had been in the army for many years, knew the principle of "going out again and losing three times" and "declined three times". So this time, he planned to invest all his troops at once, take advantage of the Chinese soldiers' slow reloading speed to seize the opportunity to violently attack the enemy's positions, and force the enemy to surrender with bayonets.

Moreover, he carefully studied the previous battles of the Black Flag Army, especially the Battle of Shanxi, which also defended the city. Poliye studied it repeatedly. He believed that if Courbet had been defeated by all his troops at the beginning, the Black Flag Army might collapse on that day - at most the next day. It was precisely because of Courbet's "adding tactics" again and again that the French army suffered a large number of casualties and morale sluggishness.

Of course, Poliye did not intend to make the same mistake, so he decided to suppress all his troops today and make a decision in one battle.

But today's battle situation was a bit unhappy from the beginning.

The troops were still 150 meters away from the enemy's position, and the Chinese began to shoot. The monkeys hid in the trench like ground mice, with less than half of their bodies exposed on the ground. At such a long distance, it was almost impossible for even the well-trained French army to hit the target.

Poriet was not in a hurry at the beginning.

At such a long distance, your soldiers cannot hit the other side, and it is also difficult for the other side to hit the other side.

But he soon realized that he was wrong. The opponent's shooting accuracy was obviously higher than that of yesterday's soldiers. The troops had already begun to suffer casualties. What worried him the most was that the enemy's shooting rhythm was wrong.

That's right, it's the rhythm.

A well-trained army is like playing music when shooting, with its own rhythm. Only the gunshots from the mobs will be scattered. A general who has been through the battlefield can tell whether he has encountered a strong enemy or a mess based on the gunshots of his opponents.

Although the troops in charge of defense yesterday could not be called a mess, today's troops were obviously an elite force.

This gave Poriet a bad premonition about the battle situation today.

"The enemy's rhythm must be disrupted!" Poliye thought. The enemy was hiding in the trench, and it would definitely be difficult to achieve the effect of infantry shooting, so it could only rely on the suppression of artillery fire.

"Order all artillery units to place firepower as much as possible to the enemy positions in front of the city!"

"Yes! Your Excellency General!"

The messenger quickly brought Poriet's order to the artillery through flags and the French army's shooting targets quickly made adjustments.

The suppression effect of the 1.65-inch rapid-fire gun was not ideal, because the range was limited, and the position of the rapid-fire gun was completely exposed to the firepower of the Qing army's Hatchkas machine guns at the top of the city. When the French army began to adjust the secret position, the rapid-fire gun position was also suppressed by the Qing army's artillery fire.

The same fate also happened to the 65mm battalion gun position. The Qing army also had some 65mm battalion guns, and there were also a few 75mm Krupp mountain cannons. The range of these cannons was around 5,000 meters. The French army's battalion gun position was naturally their focus.

Fortunately, Poliye also had the 80mm 1877 cannon with a range of 8,000 meters and the 9,700 meters 1877 cannon with a range of 9,700 meters 1877 cannon. These cannons were all arranged in places that the Qing army's artillery fire could not reach, and now they have become Poliye's biggest reliance.

Taiyuan city.

Looking at the positions outside the city that were bombed by French artillery fire, Ding Huai said with concern: "Liu Junmen, should General Wu's ambush come out now? The artillery fire of the foreign devils is too powerful!"

Liu Yongfu looked at the city and said with a gloomy face: "It's not the time yet, and the enemy's artillery fire is only denser in the first two rounds. With our artillery fire suppressing the close-range enemy artillery, the troops outside the city can withstand it only rely on the slow-firing large-caliber cannons."

The artillery of the Black Flag Army and the Yunnan Army is far from the French artillery in artillery, but even so, it can interfere with the shooting of the French artillery positions. As long as the French rapid-fire cannon cannot exert its maximum power, relying solely on the large-caliber cannon with huge power but slow fire speed, the Black Flag Army outside the city will be able to withstand it for a while.

After all, deep trenches were even more effective than heavy walls for the large-caliber Cannon run to defend against the French army.

From 150 meters to 50 meters. This time, the French army suffered much more casualties in the attack than yesterday.

Like yesterday, the Qing army once again emerged from the city gate, preparing to block the French army's charge. However, under the strong interference of the French artillery fire, the shooting accuracy of the newly emerged Qing army was greatly reduced.

Thirty meters.

In order to avoid accidental injury, the French artillery had stopped shooting at the positions under the city and instead suppressed the firepower of the Qing army at the city. Liu Yongfu finally ordered the entire line to attack Wu Fengdian's troops who had been ambushing for a long time.

The Qing army carried out another round of volleys, and it should be the time for them to get on the bullet. With the training level of the Qing army, it took about 8 to 10 seconds. It took such a long time, enough for their own soldiers to run to the trench!

That's now!

"Charge!" With the orders from the officers, the French soldiers who were originally cautious rushed up and rushed towards the Qing army position in front of them as fast as possible.

At the same time, the Qing army rushing out of the city did not continue to be bombed, but instead installed bayonets and rushed towards the oncoming French army.

But this is not important anymore. Poliye believes that the powerful French soldiers will definitely use bayonets to subdue the cowardly Chinese. Although they still have the courage to be penetrated by bayonets one by one, when blood begins to erupt and wails cover the four fields, their pitiful courage will be lost, and then they will be defeated like Beining.

The first attack on Taiyuan went bankrupt because of the cunning Chinese and cowardly French soldiers who surrendered early. This time was actually the first time that Poliye truly fought head-on with the Black Flag Army.

He had to admit that the previous rumors were indeed true. This army, which was also composed of Chinese, was different from the army he encountered in Beining, and the resistance he encountered in any colony in the world. The Black Flag Army was more tenacious, braver, calmer and more difficult to deal with. At least when his shells entered Taiyuan City, they did not flee in all directions like the Qing army in Beining.

But that's all.

Poriet was more confident in his soldiers. When the French army began to fight hand-to-hand, that is, victory came.

Thirty meters, 5 seconds, three breaths.

The situation changed instantly! The dense gunshots suddenly came from the front of the position, and Poliye's face changed drastically!

Among the 500 elite soldiers led by Liu Wenqian, 400 were the old camp of the Black Flag Army. These veterans who had lived for a hundred battles were the elites of the Black Flag Army. Some of them even participated in the first Paper Bridge Battle. The remaining 100 were selected from the two thousand soldiers. Each of them had participated in at least one battle with the French army, and everyone had military achievements.

There are five hundred people like this, with two guns.

Liu Yongfu didn't have so many short guns in his hand, so less than 200 elite soldiers were equipped with Colt revolvers, and more than 300 people were equipped with an m1878 in addition to the Grass 1874 rifle.

When the French attacked to a distance of 50 meters, more than 300 soldiers equipped with m1878 consecutive rifles had replaced the faster-firing m1878 after firing bullets in the chamber of the Glass rifle. In the last five seconds when the French army began to charge, each of them was able to fire at least 3 bullets.

The Colt 1873 single-action revolver has a fire rate of two shots per second in the hands of a well-trained soldier.

A distance of thirty meters, 5 seconds, and two thousand bullets.

Facing the French army's dense assault queue, the shooting at such close range was almost completely shot. A large piece of space immediately appeared in front of the Qing army's positions, because all the French troops that were originally there fell to the ground.

Poliye carefully studied the Battle of Shanxi, and he clearly saw the devastating effect achieved by the Algerian infantry when they launched hand-to-hand combat against the Fusha Village position where the Qing army was stationed. At the same time, he also clearly saw how the Qing army was rushing back again and again with bayonets when they launched a counterattack on the positions guarded by those indigenous Algerian soldiers.

It is precisely because of this that Poliye firmly believes that when his warriors launch hand-to-hand combat, he will definitely win.

However, he ignored the last battle, and in which battle, the Black Flag Army regained its position.

In fact, this cannot be blamed for Poliye, because in order to beautify the French army, the clerk who was responsible for writing the battle only briefly mentioned to the battle, "The Chinese continued to shoot in hand-to-hand combat despicable and shameless, causing major casualties in the indigenous infantry battalion, and the position was eventually re-occupied by the Chinese."

Poriye did not know what the so-called "continue shooting" concept was, because the indigenous infantry on the position at that time were wiped out, and he could not go to Courbet to verify the situation at that time.

So he took it for granted that it should be the suppression of rapid-fire weapons from the city wall. Therefore, in today's battle, he specifically instructed his Hatchkas machine gun and Green machine gun to suppress the rapid-fire firepower on the enemy's city wall at the last moment.

His soldiers firmly carried out the commander's orders and successfully suppressed the firepower on the city wall, but none of them expected that the Black Flag Army had another move.

At the same time, the Yunnan Army soldiers gushed out of the city gate quickly crossed the trench and rushed towards the terrified French army.

The French army's rear team, the artillery positions are very easy to find. Now that smokeless gunpowder has not been implemented, the white smoke rises the most, and there is naturally the main artillery position.

When the black Qing army shook the flag and rushed towards its artillery positions, Poliye was completely disappointed. Then, Poliye, who had almost lost his judgment, was surrounded by guards and fled to the east of the city with other defeated soldiers. Behind them were tens of thousands of Qing soldiers who were killed.

In this battle, the Black Flag Army, with a total force of more than 16,000 troops, blocked the French army from inside and outside, encircled and annihilated, pursued, and killed them, captured more than 3,000 French troops. In addition to the damage on the first day, the French army suffered unprecedented heavy damage.
Chapter completed!