After learning that the British and French coalition forces had destroyed the water radium defense in Dinghai County with fishing nets, Li Weiguo was also surprised and hurriedly summoned the relevant person in charge of the water radium working group of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to inquire about the solution.▲∴▲∴,

However, he was soon disappointed. The current research and development of water radium by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is only at the level of trigger detonation technology. It is impossible for them to develop more advanced electromagnetic, radio near-explosion and other trigger detonation devices, at least with the current technical knowledge reserves.

Li Weiguo could only be considered lucky for the British and French coalition forces. If the production of water radium was more advanced, they would not have thought of using fishing nets to destroy water radium.

"In fact, as long as the anchor radium is discovered by the foreign devils, it will lose its value. Because even if the foreign devils do not use fishing nets to destroy it, they only need to take a detour to avoid it. After all, in such a large sea area, it is impossible for us to place water radium on all places."

"You're right!"

Li Weiguo thought about it, although water radium is the best cost-effective weapon for weak countries to deal with maritime powers, it is not omnipotent and has limitations.

At this time, Wu Yong, who had not spoken, said: "Sir, the foreign devils sweep water radium during the day, so we can secretly arrange water radium at night. If the British and French coalition forces focus on removing the water radium we have laid out, it would probably take less than a year or two to complete it, and what they lack the most is time, right?"

"That's right!"

Li Weiguo's eyes suddenly lit up and said, "What the British and French coalition forces lack most is time. They will definitely not afford to come from Europe to expedition 20,000 miles across the region, but what we do not need the least is time, we can afford to consume it."

Wu Yong smiled and said, "Your Masahiro can understand this. The water and radium tactics we have laid out are useful. Besides, we have so many new weapons and equipment. It is estimated that the British and French coalition forces will launch a landing battle against Dinghai County at this time, and the Earth Radiation Formation is waiting for them!"

Li Weiguo also smiled and said, "That's right, after they passed the water radium level, we still have the earth radium array. I hope I can give them a surprise and achieve unexpected results."

As soon as he finished speaking, a communications consultant in the confidential office reported in and brought the latest telegram from Ningbo Prefecture.

When Li Weiguo saw that the person coming was not Su Sanniang who he had been thinking about day and night, he asked, "Why didn't your Secretary-General come?"

The communications consultant immediately stammered: "The Secretary-General has other things!"

It was a waste of time to ask. Although Su Sanniang was forced to serve as his confidential secretary-general by Li Weiguo, the relationship between the two has always been very ambiguous, so Su Sanniang always avoided Li Weiguo.

Wu Yong smiled and took the telegram from the communications officer. He looked it over and sent the other party away.

"Sir, the latest battle report of Dinghai County, the British and French coalition forces broke through the near-sea water radium frontier and dispatched more than 40 warships to carry out saturated artillery bombardment on Dinghai County, and then launched a beach landing. However, the Dinghai Guard Brigade Commander Zheng Guohong voluntarily gave up the beachhead position, and the British and French coalition forces then successfully landed."

Li Weiguodao: "The beachhead position faces the shelling of the enemy fleet directly. With infantry cannons, it is difficult to defend, and it is not worth the loss. It is understandable that Zheng Guohong gave up the beachhead position."

Wu Yong agreed and continued to recite: "The British and French coalition forces occupied the beachhead and marched towards Dinghai County. They were attacked by our squad. They were blocked by the ground radium array and hundreds of casualties. Before the power generation, the British and French coalition forces conducted several tests on our ground radium array and failed to break through."

"This is good news!" Li Weiguo said with a smile.

Wu Yong sighed: "It's a pity that the foreign devils only sent a small group of troops into the Earth Radiation Formation. If their large troops enter, the Earth Radiation Formation will definitely damage them severely, at least injuring a few thousand of them."

Li Weiguo said: "Don't look at the foreigners who are big and thick, they are not stupid. They are capable of fighting all the way from Europe to Far East and Asia."

Wu Yong said to himself: "I don't know how long the Earth Radiation Array will trap them?"

"Our ground radium is similar to water radium. The technical content is limited. There are many capable people among foreigners. I guess they will be able to come up with a response strategy soon."

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "Dinghai is just a small battlefield for us to test the strength of the British and French coalition forces. We invested a brigade's troops. The British and French coalition forces would not invest too much troops. They are also testing our strength. The final battle will not be Dinghai County, but Shanghai and Beijing."

Wu Yong asked: "If the British and French coalition forces failed to attack Shanghai, would they go north to attack Beijing again?"

"That's certain!" Li Weiguo said with great certainty: "The last time they went north to attack Beijing immediately after suffering losses in Shanghai! They successfully forced Xianfeng to sign the Tianjin Treaty with them, and there was a lesson in the past. This time it must be the same."

Wu Yong thought about it and said, "No wonder the adults sent the fourth town to the north to lurk near the capital in advance. It turns out that everything is under the control of the adults. I admire it!"

I usually vomit if I drink too much!

Li Weiguo was about to say this sentence, but he swallowed it back when he was at his mouth, because his wife Fu Shanxiang kept reminding him to pay attention to his words when speaking. After all, he was already the governor of Liangjiang. He should have majesty and demeanor in front of his subordinates. He should not talk nonsense in front of his subordinates.

"We can achieve what we have today, thanks to you wise men who are always by my side to urge me to study!"

It is rare that Li Weiguo can be humble once, and Wu Yong is even more satisfied with him.

Outside Dinghai County, accompanied by a series of loud noises, more than a dozen earth radium exploded, killing most of the hundreds of British and French coalition forces that came to test, and the rest fled back in a mess.

On the sea, the coalition flagship looked upstairs, and senior commanders such as Erkin and Grolo looked solemn.

"If this continues, the soldiers' fighting spirit will be gone!"

"What can I do? There is radium everywhere. Do I want me to use the lives of the soldiers to go to radium?"

"Then you can't wait like that?"

"Yes, our navy and army has a total of more than 220,000 people. The daily consumption of food, fresh water, coal, medicine and other materials is an astronomical figure. We have been delayed for a small Dinghai County for more than half a month. It won't work if we continue like this!"

"Damn it, I finally got the water radium, and there was another landmine. Will there be thunder when we attack the city?"

Everyone quickly started arguing, and the arguing made Erkin and Grou's heads grow several times.

Finally, an engineer said: "The Shanghai Army's ground radium and water radium are the same principle, both of which are trigger explosion weapons. Perhaps because they were just invented, their ground radium and water radium are relatively rough in workmanship, and they use the most primitive trigger explosion device. I have carefully studied it and can use more than 32 pounds of artillery shells to open a passage to Dinghai County."

Erkin nodded and said, "Our intelligence department was destroyed half a year ago. Before that, there was no idea that the Shanghai army had weapons such as ground radium and water radium. I believe they had been successfully developed recently. Their production capacity will definitely not be too much. The focus will be on guarding the surrounding areas of Shanghai. Although Dinghai is important, there will not be too many. Perhaps artillery bombardment will work!"

Erkin had no better way, so he nodded immediately to agree.

So, with the order flag waved, the battleships of the British and French forces loaded shells again and started carpet-style shelling at the official road outside Dinghai City.

Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong!

The British and French Allied Forces launched a fierce shelling, with great momentum. In an instant, the earth was shaking. The entire Dinghai County was covered with a sea of ​​fire, and the smoke filled the sky and the sun.

Such a large-scale shelling immediately alarmed Zheng Guohong in the city. He hurriedly climbed the Drum Tower and observed the enemy's movements from the telescope.

"Look, the foreigners took the wrong medicine and did not attack the city wall, but instead hit the shells on the open space outside the city!"

Hearing the Shanghai soldiers beside him shouting, Zheng Guohong almost thought so, but soon he found that the ground radium buried outside the city was detonated by artillery bombardment and exploded together.

"Not good. Foreigners are using shells to radium!"

"Damn it, the foreign devils are smart enough. You can think of such bad tricks!"

"I inform the brothers to prepare for battle, and the foreign devils will soon launch a large-scale attack on the city!"

After Zheng Guohong complained for a few words, he immediately realized that the war was about to begin and hurriedly deployed.

Sure enough, half an hour later, the gun fire of the British and French forces began to extend, and a large number of shells began to pour onto the walls of Dinghai County.

This was artillery fire cover, followed by thousands of British infantry quickly approaching Dinghai County.

These British troops did not wear traditional bow hats. Instead, they were covered with white cloth on their heads, like piles of white shit, which were Indian Sikh soldiers.

Obviously, this is a cannon fodder unit. The British commanders used them to test whether there was any residual earth radium that had not been detonated, and at the same time they also used them to test the distribution of the firepower of the Shanghai army in Dinghai County.

“Report the distance!”

"One thousand eight hundred meters!"

"Let the city guns be prepared!"

"One thousand five hundred meters!"

"fire!"

The order was issued, and twenty British 24-pound cannons on the east city of Dinghai County opened fire one after another.

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

The shells roared and fell into the Indian Sikh infantry team and exploded, which immediately made them run away with their heads in their arms.

On the small high ground in the distance, Lieutenant General Scott saw the firing positions of artillery fire in Dinghai County from his telescope, and he immediately smiled.

"The Qing army was always so stupid, and it exposed its artillery position so early!"

"Order the Fourth Mountain Artillery Regiment to quickly lock in the enemy's artillery position and teach them a lesson!"

With Scott's order issued, the British Fourth Mountain Artillery Regiment, which was ambushing in the recess of the right wing, quickly prepared artillery fire, with a total of 120 mountain artillery pieces aimed at the locations of the Shanghai Army artillery on Dinghai County.

Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong!

The British mountain artillery fired and fired shells through the large elevation angle of the pit, causing the shells to have a certain curvature and land on the top of the city.

In an instant, more than one hundred shells accurately hit the Shanghai artillery positions on the top of the city, exploded with a bang, and a fire-red cloud of mushrooms rose.

Most of the twenty artillery guns on the top of the city were instantly blown up. Fortunately, these artillery guns were not infantry guns of the 29th Brigade, but artillery guns that were eliminated earlier. Otherwise, more than half of the artillery would have been destroyed, and Zheng Guohong would definitely feel distressed.

"The artillery of the foreign devils is indeed powerful. He killed more than half of it in one round of volleys!"

"But I can't take the same loss for the second time!"

"This time I will let you taste the power of my cannon ball!"

On the Drum Tower, Zheng Guohong sneered. He suffered a great loss from the British artillery regiment in the First Opium War, so this time he did not let the 29th Brigade artillery regiment take the lead in firing, but instead set off some bait, which indeed led to the British artillery regiment.

"In the southeast, there are hundreds of light spots and smoke columns at 1,800 meters. It is initially determined where at least one British artillery regiment is! It is impossible to directly observe the opponent's artillery, and it is probably hidden in the depression."

Zheng Guohong snorted coldly and said, "Do you think we can't hit them if we hide in the depression?"

Because the Shanghai Army's Type 59 infantry cannon was short and could fire grenades with curved ballistics, even if it was hidden in the depression, it could not escape the attack.

"That's great. Fire the fire quickly. You must take a litter of them!

"yes!"

The messenger waved the flag, and the 58th Artillery Regiment of the 29th Brigade, hidden behind the city wall, began to prepare for firepower.

First, three shells shot at the target. The first shell was more than 100 meters away, and the second shell was more than 50 meters away. After the third shell was corrected, it landed at less than ten meters below the British mountain artillery regiment.

Ten meters of distance is enough for the cannon ball fire volley.

"fire!"

Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong!

One hundred and eight types of infantry artillery fired volleys, and the shells whistled at the British mountain artillery positions.
To be continued...