Under the bombardment of the new artillery of the Huaxing Army, the British trenches were quickly torn open from front to back.In this bombing zone, which is more than 100 meters long, gunpowder smoke is billowing and sand and dust are filled.The shrapnel went on a rampage, destroying everything that stood in its way.The British soldiers in the trenches lay dead on the ground, completely frightened by the roar in their ears and did not dare to raise their heads.There were constantly unlucky soldiers whose flesh and blood were blurred by shrapnel, and the whole position was filled with wails in an instant.The Huaxing army took advantage of the situation to launch an attack, and in front of this 100-meter bombing area, it was hardly blocked at all.The first line of defense of the British army was quickly broken through, and the Huaxing army took advantage of the situation to place mortars and completely cover the positions on both flanks of the bombardment area.After the new artillery of the Huaxing Army stopped bombing, the British troops had not yet caught their breath in the trenches, and dense mortar shells fell from the sky.Ten British positions on the central line of defense, each position had a dense salvo of two or three hundred mortars from the Huaxing Army.The shells were as dense as raindrops, and although the power of a single artillery was not as great as that of the new artillery, it was numerically able to completely cover the British positions.In the end, under the cover of artillery artillery, it quickly broke through, and the battle lasted less than ten minutes, but the first line of defense of the British army was completely destroyed by the Huaxing army.When the artillery fire gradually stopped, the British commander quickly ordered his men to counterattack.There was a huge disparity in strength between the two sides, with only a thousand soldiers defending each position of the British army, but the Huaxing army was twice as strong as theirs.After the artillery bombardment, the Huaxing army had already rushed to a distance of less than fifty meters from the British trenches.The British had just emerged from the dust, and before they were ready to shoot at the edge of the trenches, a thousand iron bumps had fallen from the sky.All the soldiers looked at the iron lump curiously, and before they could react, they heard a rumbling sound ringing in their ears again.The iron bump was the grenade thrown by the Huaxing army, this time the British army was not so lucky, at such a close distance, the grenade did not deviate at all, and rolled into the trench with a few jumps.The grenade's fuse burned out, and soon after, it let out a violent roar.The British troops in the trenches were blurred by the iron bumps in an instant, the stumps and broken arms were splashed everywhere, and the commander of the British army almost vomited blood in depression.There were only more than 1,000 people defending the position, but now they were blown up by shells, and almost all of them were damaged.At this moment, the military newspapers of the various defense lines continued to converge to the British army headquarters, and Thomson finally understood that the main defense line of the Huaxing Army was the middle line.Although the left and right lines were also attacked, it was usually the soldiers in the trenches who returned fire that all the attacking enemies turned around and fled.The military uniforms on their bodies are obviously different from those of the Huaxing Army, and they are all wrapped in white cloth on their heads, and they are completely local Indians.Tom could guess that the enemy on both flanks of the attack must be the Tamil rebels.He hurriedly ordered the soldiers and horses on the left and right flanks to come and support, but at this moment, the sound of gunfire was clearly heard in front of the headquarters."
Colonel, the big thing is not good, the positions on the middle line are almost undefended, let's retreat quickly in the direction of the two wings" Thomson's lieutenant Andrew hurried down from the front line, his whole body was smoked by bombs like an African refugee."
Can't be withdrawn, once the middle line is lost, the direction of the two wings will definitely be broken by the Huaxing Army, and we will have no hope of winning anymore, you hold on for another ten minutes, and the reinforcements will definitely come within ten minutes" Thomson's eyes were blood-red, and he kept looking around the front line with a telescope, and three or four of the ten positions had been lost."
Yes, my subordinates obey orders" Andrew was stunned, stomped his feet helplessly, and then went to the front line and defended it strictly.At this moment, the two sides are already in a stalemate, the Huaxing army has completely broken through the first layer of the British trenches, and the follow-up soldiers continue to follow up, jumping into the trenches one after another, and then quickly expanding the results on both sides.The British army desperately resisted, and without Thomson's orders, no one dared to retreat without permission.The Huaxing army kept throwing grenades and flying indiscriminately, and the waves of explosions came one after another, which made the British troops in the trenches suffer a lot, and there was no way to deal with it.If you don't pay attention to it, you will be blown up by a grenade, and it will be difficult to put a shot on the position.The British had the intention to rush out of the trenches to counterattack, but the machine guns of the Huaxing army continued to strafe, and their brains were splashed by dense bullets as soon as they appeared.With its absolute superior firepower, the Huaxing army broke through the British army's trench defense system layer by layer until the attack reached the last layer.When the reinforcements were still thousands of kilometers away from the position, the British commander could no longer bear this kind of stimulation and fled from the position with his men.Thomson scolded angrily in the rear, seeing that the ten positions in the middle line were lost one after another, but he had nothing to do to stop it.He also saw the fierceness of the battle on the position, and they did not have an advantage in terms of firepower or numbers.There were more than 15,000 soldiers defending the ten positions on the center line, and now it is estimated that only two or three thousand people remain.Thomson did not expect that the firepower of the Huaxing Army would be so fierce, and it completely took the middle line position in less than an hour.In advance planning, no matter which direction is attacked by the main attack, the other directions have full time to support, and then leave the enemy in a three-sided encirclement.Now the situation has changed dramatically, and the two wings have just received a notice to close to the central line, but the direction of the central line has already been captured by the enemy.Thomson's lieutenant Andrew, did not come down from the battlefield.In the chaos just now, he ordered his men to retreat.In the midst of the rain of bullets, a bullet flew out of nowhere and hit him in the chest.After his death, the entire defensive position of the central line quickly collapsed.In order to save their lives, the soldiers of the British army ran away with their legs screaming, who wanted to die in a foreign land.After the Huaxing army occupied the position on the central line, under the command of Pei Renkai, it quickly cleaned up the battlefield and deployed it in the trenches dug by the British army.The strength of the two sides immediately reversed, and the British army was originally more than 30,000 people, which was more than 10,000 more than the Huaxing army.But now in the middle of the battle, the British army lost more than half, and only more than 15,000 people remained.The damage of the Huaxing army was almost negligible, and with the addition of 10,000 Tamil soldiers, it had completely surpassed the British army in numbers.Thomas was a sober-minded man, and after the loss of the midline, he had the reinforcements on both flanks abandon the plan to close the siege.Now that the offense and defense are reversed, the Huaxing army not only has an advantage in numbers, but also has an advantage in weapons.They turned from offensive to defensive, and if they attacked in a hurry, they relied on their powerful firepower and geographical advantages, and they were completely impregnable.The Huaxing army was waiting for the British to attack on the position, who knew that they had just rushed to the halfway point in a hurry, and before they could get into the range of their rifles, they all turned around and retreated
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