Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God

Finally, he raised his voice and solemnly announced: "It is now the Chen hour. We must complete the reorganization of all units within one hour and attack on time at noon!"

"Yes!" All the generals responded in unison, and then took the order and left, ready to carry out their respective tasks.

After the generals left, Suo Etu said to Li Chengdong: "Brilliant, brilliant. Cao Cao said: If you want to attack the enemy, you must first make plans. This integrates the various arms and gathers the best weapons in one place. General Li's move is brilliant."

He Yu on the side interjected, "General Li has been approaching Shanghai County for many days. In your opinion, what are our chances of winning today's battle?"

Li Chengdong bowed to the three people sitting to the side and said, "Master Zhongtang, Master Shangshu, and Master Governor, as the saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy means you can fight a hundred battles without danger. The Western devils have about 3,000 firearms and 32 ships in Shanghai County.

Their infantry advantage lies in the fact that their muskets can fire over a hundred meters without exploding and are highly accurate.

His naval guns can fire farther and are more powerful than our red cannons.

Last night they used kerosene again, which prevented our troops from capturing the west gate."

Hearing this, everyone's faces turned serious.

Li Chengdong then began to talk about his side's advantages. He said: "Our first advantage is the number of people. The military strategy says that if you have ten of them, you should surround them; if you have five of them, you should attack them; if you have twice as many of them, you should fight them. Today, I have nearly 20,000 troops, six times the enemy's. I am confident that I can attack the city.

Secondly, our army's various red cannon battalions have a total of 56 guns and more than 80 mobile cannons, which are enough to knock down the city gates.

Finally, our army has cavalry, which can move around and shoot under the city, suppressing the firepower of the Western devils to the maximum extent.

In the end, the chances of our Qing Han camp winning are much greater."

"Okay, then let's wait and see today and look forward to General Li's victory." Soetu said.

By noon, all preparations had been completed and the soldiers from various Qing army camps stood in neat rows about 5000 meters outside the west city gate.

Li Chengdong stood on the high platform of the central army, holding a telescope to observe the situation of the west gate, and issued an order to move the five infantry battalions forward as a whole to a position 3000 meters away from the gate, and sent cavalry to suppress the flanks. The other two artillery battalions also followed and advanced to a position 3000 meters away from the gate.

Since the effective range of the Red Cannon was only over 3,000 meters, and the range of the Tiger Cannon and the French Cannon was only about 1,000 meters, Li Chengdong ordered the troops to move forward as a whole.

After about a quarter of an hour, the fifty-six red cannons in the Qing army's artillery camp launched a fierce attack, accompanied by earth-shaking noises, "boom, boom, boom...", the sound of the cannons was deafening.

This time the shelling still adopted a three-stage bombardment method to ensure that the shells could be output continuously.

At this moment, the city wall was under intensive artillery attack, sparks flew, rubble on the wall flew everywhere, and dust was raised all over the sky, making it impossible to see the situation on the wall clearly.

On the high platform of the central army camp, Suo Etu put down the telescope in his hand and said with emotion: "Although these Western devils are powerful, they are still mortals after all. Facing such intensive artillery fire, they can only hide under the city wall and dare not easily show their heads."

"With Lord Zhongtang here in charge, those Western devils will be beaten to a pulp!" Fu Lata took every opportunity to flatter him.

At this time, Li Chengdong ordered the infantry, cavalry and mobile artillery battalion to continue advancing to one thousand meters under the artillery fire.

At this distance, many artillery pieces such as the Tiger Cannon, the French Machine Gun, and the Chain Gun could be used. All of the more than 80 small cannons of the mobile battalion opened fire. Bullets flew all over the city walls, and not a single Western devil dared to raise his head.

The battlefield was filled with smoke, flames, and the sound of artillery fire, as if the whole world was in chaos.

At this time, the artillery attack range left the passage at the city gate and only attacked the city walls at both ends of the city gate. The 2,500 soldiers of the vanguard battalion rushed towards the city gate with various weapons in their hands.

At this time, 500 soldiers armed with muskets were divided into three rows under the city wall and fired at the city wall in three stages. They hoped to suppress the enemy's attack on the city wall through this intensive firepower.

However, surprisingly, one group of sword and shield soldiers was not attacked at all, not even by the kerosene that poured down from the city wall last night. This group rushed into the city gate without any hindrance.

The city gate was blocked by sandbags, but there were not many of them. Each soldier only needed to carry one bag of sandbags, and the city gate was quickly cleaned up.

At this moment, Li Chengdong showed a puzzled expression on his face. He originally thought that there would be a large number of Western devils on the city wall, but he found that there was none. This made him very confused because he wasted so much precious gunpowder and artillery balls, but did not get the expected return.

"What a shame. Li Chengdong issued an order to enter the city: "Everyone enter the city!"

After entering the city, what came into view was a ruin. The city was full of broken walls and ruins, and the corpses on the ground had begun to turn black and rot, emitting an unpleasant stench. The whole city was filled with a rotten smell that was unbearable.

Faced with such a tragic scene, the soldiers bandaged their noses tightly and continued to move forward with difficulty. They were filled with sympathy for these innocent people, but also felt extremely angry at the cruel behavior of the Western devils.

Seeing this once prosperous city now turned into a ruin, the brothers in the Han camp were filled with strong indignation. They witnessed the suffering of these people and were determined to avenge them and make those hateful Western devils pay the price.

The county town was in deathly silence as the soldiers of the Han camp advanced cautiously from west to east.

On the Bund of the Huangpu River, more than 3,000 Allied Forces soldiers from different countries gathered densely, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Qing army.

Major John stood on a 500-ton ship, holding a telescope and carefully observing the movement of Qing troops in Shanghai County.

When he saw that all kinds of artillery such as the Red Cannon, Tiger Cannon, and French Cannon were within the range of the ship's guns, he immediately gave orders. Suddenly, more than 30 ships opened fire at the same time. Each ship was equipped with 30 to 60 cannons. Thousands of cannons roared in unison, and dense iron bullets hit the Qing army like raindrops.

For a time, the Qing army fell into chaos. The Red Barbarian Cannon Battalion and the Mobile Cannon Battalion were hit the hardest, and loud noises of gunpowder barrels being hit and exploding could be heard from time to time.