The Qing soldiers who set up the formation at Bali Bridge had as many as 20,000 to 30,000 people in the shadows, many of them were cavalry. They were all deployed by Senggelinqin on the plains, with a large arc circle, with a front line of about 5 kilometers and strong wings. In the center of the Qing army's front line, on the Bali Bridge axis, the Qing army relied on the Bali Bridge village as a solid support point, and a large number of infantry equipped with artillery were left behind the village as reinforcements.

On the left wing, General Corino personally led his troops to advance, including one company of engineers, two companies of light infantry, one company of artillery and two companies of Indian Sikh cavalry. General Corino was in the center. General Ranman led his troops to follow the left wing, including one battalion of light infantry, fuze, the 12th Artillery Team and the 101st Battle Regiment.

After the march began, the vanguard of Corino's vanguard was a little disconnected, and their speed of movement was much higher than that of the left wing troops, so their central troops became prominent. Senggelinqin seemed to have discovered this detail soon and reacted. A large group of Qing horses flocked to the front and surrounded the left wing. At that time, the British army had not arrived yet. Seeing this situation, General Ke ordered the troops to stop, form a hollow square formation, set up cannons, and prepare for the fight.

The Qing soldiers fired first, with great momentum, but their muskets could not be far away, and the artillery lacked accuracy, and the shells flew behind General Colino's phalanx. Immediately afterwards, the Qing cavalry galloped in dense formations until they were only about fifty meters away from the French frontier positions. All this was silent and there was no command order. This scene was indeed surprising and nervous. Erisson said in surprise: "All movements are all marked by the flags shaking up and down from left to right. It's like a sea signal."

The coalition soldiers opened fire quickly, and they were surrounded by many excellent subordinate officers, most of whom were veterans who had experienced the Crimean War. They had rich combat experience and knew how to crush the advantages of the cavalry, just like they did against the Russian Cossack cavalry.

In an instant, the Qing cavalry was attacked by fierce fire and fell to the ground one by one, but the teams of people and horses followed one after another. They were crowded and powerful, trying to submerge the French outpost led by General Corino.

The situation was severe and danger was imminent. Around the coalition front, there were rough shouts. The enemy horses galloped in. Large swaths of dust were raised everywhere, sometimes as if they were trying to surround these coalition soldiers, sometimes as if they were constantly stepping over them. Thanks to the violent bombardment of the coalition artillery, the enemy was panicked. General Corino was able to retreat.

The retreat of General Corino's troops slightly made the coalition front loose. The Qing army found another weak link on the coalition front, namely, there was a gap between the French Corino's troops and the British Sutton Brigade. So the Qing cavalry swarmed into this space. Unexpectedly, the British army commanded by General Sutton laid a tight matrix hollow square formation early. Although there were many gaps in it, the hollow square formation was arranged in a staggered shape. The passage in the middle was an excellent area for artillery and infantry bombardment, while the Qing cavalry that had not formed a formation could not break through the bayonet formation of the coalition hollow square formation. Therefore, the Qing cavalry that broke into the Qing army was trapped in a siege.

But General Sutton knew that this move was a bit risky. If the Qing army increased its manpower, several hollow square formations might eventually fail to withstand the impact of the crowd and disperse. The collapsed infantry would be chased by a medieval cavalry, so the battle situation was very delicate.

On the right wing, Montauban wanted to rescue Corino, but the Qing soldiers suddenly surrounded him from his right wing and were forced to fight back. The Qing cavalry on the right wing rushed over and tried their best to surround us. Their purpose was to restrain Montauban. Seeing that there were few soldiers in the coalition vanguard troops, the Qing cavalry became bolder and shouted roughly. The fierce Tatar cavalry leaned over and rode their horses, hiding their bodies on the side of the war horses without falling off, so as to avoid guns and bullets. After approaching the coalition front, they waved swords and guns, fired their bows and arrows, and showed off their power...

General Ran Man, who had already followed the middle, received an order to attack the right wing, but the Qing soldiers rushed towards him. General Ran Man could only stop and fight back. Soon the Qing army took full advantage of their numbers to the fullest, and the Qing army on all fronts were tenaciously attacking the coalition's front.

Lieutenant Draglange recorded: "The gunfire guns and bullets were like they could not defeat the Qing soldiers: they seemed to be resurrected from the dead, fighting tenaciously, and sometimes rushed to the front of our cannons about thirty meters. However, our artillery fire became more dense and fierce, and they were knocked back one by one and fled everywhere..." The artillery of the coalition has always supported the entire front line. If there were no fire support from the artillery, the coalition might have collapsed long ago.

Corino and his subordinates were always in front of the front, and the Qing soldiers launched continuous offensives. General Corino even led his subordinates to fight three bayonets, which shattered the opponent's multiple charges.

On the left, General Grant finally led an artillery unit to arrive, and he immediately ordered the artillery to open fire to relieve the pressure on the French army. Among the troops led by Grant were elite British cavalry and Queen Dragoons!

But the Queen's Dragoon did not attack, their number was too small, and several Armstrong heavy artillery in the artillery unit brought by Grant played an important role, although it came later and was timely. The coalition artillery completely suppressed the Qing army's artillery in terms of accuracy, range and power. Soon the Qing cavalry was intensively bombarded by modern artillery and fled backwards.

Seeing that the Qing army began to escape, Grant immediately dispatched the dragon cavalry led by Fanner and Probin to rush over and chase the Qing cavalry. Although the dragon cavalry was small, there would definitely be greater gains when chasing.

The Ran Man Brigade showed his might in the face of the Qing army artillery. The precise coalition artillery silenced the Qing army artillery positions one by one, while the Qing army artillery shells were never accurately hit, and the advantages of rifled artillery were revealed at this time.

On the far right, the 101th battle regiment was attacked by the Qing soldiers. They also relied on the intensive shooting of bayonets and rifled muskets. The coalition defended the positions. Soon the French artillery fought back fiercely, and the Qing soldiers were severely attacked and advanced and retreated.

At this moment, the subsequent coalition forces arrived one after another, taking advantage of the enemy's turmoil, General Montauban ordered a full charge. Corinthian's troops drove the Qing troops to Baliqiao, Ranman's troops attacked forward, and Colonel Pug led the 101st Regiment to attack, preparing to capture the village located at the core of the Qing army's position.

The Qing generals shook the military flag and gathered their soldiers at the Bali Bridge. The Senggelinqin flag was still flying high on the bridge. So General Ran Man led his troops to advance there. For the French army, it was at Bali Bridge that showed the "most outstanding merit" of the war. Because, as long as the last obstacle was passed, there was nothing to stop the victory of the Chinese Empire's capital.

Soon, the Bali Bridge and its exquisite marble sculptures were displayed in front of the coalition soldiers. The Qing army had retreated across the Bali Bridge. Through this exquisite stone bridge, the elite troops of the Qing Empire were still very morale and wanted to defend the bridge to the death.

Kelino led his troops from the left to pass through the woods that hiding Jingya cemetery. Suddenly, gunfires and a Qing ambush opened fire at them. The coalition lost more than a dozen people, but soon they organized an effective counterattack. The Qing army seemed to lack the courage to charge, and the Qing army quickly dispersed in the coalition's counterattack.

General Colino immediately commanded his troops to leave the woods. He was afraid of being attacked by the Qing army again, so they soon entered the canal bank. After arriving at the canal bank, General Colino immediately ordered the artillery to set up cannons to shoot at the bridge, while Colonel Benzmann led another artillery to shoot at the bridge and asked the 12th artillery company to aim at the enemy battalion with large-caliber artillery positions.

Ten thousand artillery fired at the same time, and the sound of sounds blowing the bridge railings flying. The enemy camps and the artillery positions in the villages on the other side quickly fell into a sea of ​​fire. The Qing army's artillery was backward in tactics and slow to react. They seemed so powerless and helpless in front of the elite artillery of the coalition forces. Therefore, the Qing army was defeated under the bombardment of artillery, and the performance of the Qing army's artillery was very different from that of Dagukou. After this battle, the answer was obtained from the captured Qing generals. The well-trained artillery of the Qing army was wiped out with the fall of the Dagukou Fort. The subsequent substitutes were insufficient to train. Therefore, although there were a lot of artillery in the Qing army, they failed to play their due role.

The battle continued, General Corino was still wearing the big straw hat and led a small group of people to rush up to Bali Bridge. The bridgehead was blocked by dead and wounded soldiers and overturned cannons, and their roads were blocked.

The coalition soldiers watched General Colino run in front of the horse and whip, and his subordinates could not follow closely. When he rushed to the height of the arch bridge alone, the other soldiers met with him. The heroes of the Battle of Malakov were the first to rush to the bridge in the rain of bullets and advanced towards the camps on the opposite bank of the canal. General Colino's bravery inspired all the soldiers present, and the French charged on the bayonets, as the British praised, "What a hand-to-hand battle."

In this way, Bali Bridge was captured by the coalition forces, but the Qing army did not give up resistance. They resisted stubbornly in the bombarded camp. The coalition engineers ventured to clear the obstacles on the bridge deck in the rain of bullets and set off for the follow-up troops. General Colino was blocked from the enemy camp across the river. After crossing the bridge, they set up a bridgehead and stood there to meet and cover the coalition troops who had crossed the bridge one after another.

Captain Charles, the son of the general Montauban, entered a temple and prepared to set up a temporary command center. Unexpectedly, he encountered oncoming bullets. Thanks to his boss Usman and a row of light infantry rescued, he miraculously survived. Later, a soldier from the Second Regiment told this little story: Montauban and Ranman Brigade had just crossed the bridge and learned that his son was almost in trouble, he pointed at his nose and threatened: "You want to do that, and you will not bring you again!" The son replied: "That's it, maybe you are not as good as me!"

The coalition continued to cross the river to expand its front, and the Qing army was shaking. The victory of the battle seemed to be close to the coalition. At this moment, a shocking cheer came from the Qing army camp. General Montauban raised his telescope and looked at it. He saw countless flags and horses appearing in his sight. He couldn't understand the Chinese characters on the big flags. After reading it, Colonel Dupan said: "It was the emperor's personal soldiers from the capital of the Qing Dynasty who came..." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

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