The Shanghai Shanghai Army Command, staff from various departments were very busy, and the telegrams kept ringing.

"Report! Ningbo Prefecture Telegram!"

A telegram with an emergency military situation was sent over, which was one of the telegrams Li Weiguo ordered.

"The British and French coalition fleet has arrived at the Mopanyang waters outside Ningbo Prefecture. Its advance reconnaissance fleet attempted to break into the waters near Dinghai, but was attacked by our army's preset water radium. Four frigates were sunk, and the enemy fleet then suspended its operations."

"Very good! It's a good job!" Li Weiguo was very happy when he heard that the water radium sank four enemy frigates.

Wu Yong, Chen Jingnan, Lin Jiyun and others came to the front and read the information one by one.

"Congratulations, the water radium you designed has played a huge role. Now it not only sank the four enemy frigates, but also blocks the possibility of the enemy fleet's direct attack on land from the sea!"

"Yes, I originally thought that if we didn't send out the navy, we would lose control of the sea and affect our local defense. Now it seems that even if the enemy has control of the sea, their warships will not be able to approach us."

Hearing everyone's praise, Li Weiguo also felt a light on his face. He proposed that the weak country should rely on water and radium to defend against a strong maritime country. Now that he has achieved the victory, he is also happy from the bottom of his heart.

However, Lin Jiyun, the commander of the Navy's East China Sea Fleet, looked complicated. He smiled and said, "It's up to you to plan and win thousands of miles away. Huye has given up. From now on, he will stay on the Yangtze River to deal with the Taiping Navy."

Li Weiguo asked Lin Jiyun: "Do you know the naval war between Russia, Türkiye and Britain during the Crimean War?"

Lin Jiyun replied: "The Russian Navy destroyed the Turkish Navy, and the British Navy destroyed the Russian Navy!"

Li Weiguo smiled slightly and said, "The Turkish Navy and the Russian Navy both used wooden sail warships. The difference is that the Russian Navy used powerful flowering bullets on the warships, which damages the wooden hull dozens of times that of traditional solid bombs, so the Turkish Navy was wiped out. The British Navy threw in new warships wrapped in iron and armor. So they blocked the Russian flowering bullet attack. In turn, the Russian wooden warships were killed by the British flowering bullets and were eventually wiped out. What does this mean?"

Lin Jiyun thought for a while and replied: "The traditional wooden sail warship has no ability to resist in front of the flowering bullets, but the warship is wrapped in iron sheets to prevent the flowering bullets."

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "You can also see that in front of the British iron shell warships, the traditional wooden sail warships are vulnerable. Since that's the case, why do we still have to hit the stone with eggs?"

Lin Jiyun understood what Li Weiguo meant and said seriously: "I was a little confused before, but now I suddenly realized a lot after hearing what the adults said. I just don't know when our navy will defeat the British navy on the front battlefield."

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "Don't worry, this day will not be too far away. When our large steam engine test run is successful, we will also build iron armored ships. At that time, we will not only have advanced warships, but also have people who are skilled in operating warships. This is also the real reason why I don't let you go out to sea to fight the enemy. I don't care about losing a few ships, what I really care about is naval talents like you."

These words are sincere and sincere, which made Lin Jiyun feel warm and grateful.

Seeing Lin Jiyun's heart knot untied, Li Weiguo turned to Wu Yong and said, "Although there is water radium to defend the near sea, that is not absolute. It is said that foreigners cannot find a way to crack it. Pay close attention to the news about Dinghai. I want to know how many enemies our Shanghai army can block."

Wu Yong said: "I think the firepower of one brigade of our Shanghai Army is enough to support the firepower of the foreigners. I just don't know how much foreigners plan to pay for casualties to seize Dinghai County."

"At least 50,000 people!" Chen Jingnan, who was standing beside him, suddenly accepted the answer.

"The war loss is 10 to 1. If this is the case, our army will only need to pay the price of two towns and four brigades to consume 200,000 British and French coalition forces!" Wu Yong said with a smile.

Chen Jingnan shook his head and said, "It doesn't take so much! Dinghai County is isolated overseas, and we cannot provide support and supplies for large corps. Therefore, the 29th Brigade guarding Dinghai consumes at most 50,000 British and French coalition forces when the entire army is wiped out. If the battlefield is on the mainland, we have enough troops and supplies. At most, we can consume one brigade's troops to eliminate 200,000 British and French coalition forces. The combat losses are 40 to 1, which is in line with our current combat effectiveness level."

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "I love to hear these words!"

Just because the Shanghai Army has advanced weapons and equipment leading the world, such as rifles, artillery, hand radium, ground radium, etc., it is a completely advanced generation ahead of foreigners. It is not an exaggeration to have a battle loss of 1 to 40.

You should know that during the French-Prussian War, the German army equipped with firing guns had a war loss ratio of up to 1 to 45 against the French army, not to mention that the Shanghai army's rifles were much more advanced than those of the German army.

In any case, Li Weiguo placed a brigade's troops in Dinghai County, and it was not ruled out that he had the intention of testing the firepower and combat effectiveness of the British and French coalition forces, so as to estimate the actual combat effectiveness of the enemy and us and calculate the cost of the war.

With telegrams, it is convenient. The situation in Dinghai County can be quickly transmitted to Shanghai through the Ningbo Prefecture Telegram Office. If it were the case before, it would take more than half a day to use a carrier pigeon. The power of technology showed its powerful power at this moment.

At this moment, in the Mopanyang Sea, the British and French forces sent more than a dozen frigates to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the waters around the Dinghai Sea, and found that any waterway was laid out.

Three days ago, the British and French Allied Forces sent engineers to try to dismantle water radium, but the water radium laid by the Shanghai Army was relatively complicated, and it was full of tentacles. If you accidentally touched it, it would explode and cause casualties. In addition, whenever the British and French engineers tried to dismantle water radium, Shanghai scouts would secretly fire cold guns on nearby islands or sandbanks to prevent the British and French engineers from dismantling water radium. After a while, there were a large number of casualties in the British and French engineers, while the British and French expeditionary forces did not bring too many professional engineers, so they quickly gave up this method.

Next, the British and French coalition forces came up with new tricks. They quickly got a large number of fishing nets and sent small boats to drag them back and forth near the channel. The fishing nets would cause an explosion if they trapped the water radium. Using this method, they quickly opened a safe channel and approached Dinghai County.

Zheng Guohong, the commander of the 29th Brigade who was inspecting the secret artillery position of Xiaoluoshan, received the news, and his expression suddenly became solemn.

Without the barrier of water and radium, the warships of the British and French coalition forces would approach Dinghai County to launch a land shelling, thereby covering the British and French coalition forces to launch a ground attack.

This is not good news. When the Opium War broke out, the British army did the same. Their powerful naval guns destroyed all the Qing army's resistance.

Zheng Guohong was passionate about killing the enemy back then, but unfortunately his weapons and equipment were too poor and vulnerable to the British army.

Now it’s different. After becoming a brigade commander of the Shanghai Army, Zheng Guohong was confident. He had five thousand well-equipped tiger and wolf soldiers and a gun regiment, equipped with thirty-six latest Type 59 infantry cannons. Because of the importance of Dinghai County, the headquarters equipped twelve Type 59 infantry cannons, which made Zheng Guohong have forty-eight Type 59 infantry cannons in his hand.

If it were before, Zheng Guohong could not imagine that he would have such a powerful artillery force one day.

"The water and radium defense line has been broken through, and the land battle will be held next. I want you to lurk well. You must not expose the artillery position unless you have to."

"I understand, brigade commander, don't worry!"

Xiaoluo Mountain is an inconspicuous island outside Dinghai. However, it is located on the back slope of the east city of Dinghai County. Zheng Guohong secretly deployed a company of four infantry artillery artillery on the top of the mountain, preparing to give a fatal blow to the British and French coalition forces at a critical moment.

Zheng Guohong was a man who fought the first Opium War. He fought with the British army several times in Dinghai. He knew that the British army would choose Dongcheng as the main attack direction every time, and their logistics supplies were basically stockpiled near the seaside not far from Dongcheng. Just under the eyes of Xiaoluoshan, the range of the Type 59 infantry cannon was enough to cover it completely.

"What if foreigners search for mountains?"

"Report to the brigade commander, we first hide the cannons in the dug cellar, but the Guan Baoyang devils cannot find it. When they leave, we are building artillery positions."

Zheng Guohong nodded. This is the safest way.

Afterwards, he ordered some contact signals and operation details, Zheng Guohong quickly went down the mountain and returned to Dinghai County.

As soon as Zheng Guohong returned to Dinghai County, he heard the rumbling sound of cannons coming.

"Report, the foreign battleships have come in and are carrying out artillery fire strikes on the East City!"

Zheng Guohong was not surprised by what was expected, so he immediately brought the guard platoon to the Drum Tower and climbed up to look out.

I saw dozens of warships with the flags of Britain and France on the sea were firing in turn, and the ships were lined up with cannons, and the fire was shining. Every time they fired, hundreds of shells were roaring and shooting towards the east city of Dinghai County.

At that moment, Zheng Guohong seemed to have returned to the first Dinghai Battle. The earthen walls of Dinghai County were collapsed after three firepower volleys of British naval guns. The powerful British artillery fire caused Zheng Guohong's subordinates to suffer heavy casualties and blood flowing into a river.

But this time it was different. Dinghai County was highly valued by Li Weiguo. The collapsed earth wall was re-poured with reinforced concrete, which was taller and thicker, and became very strong.

One round of shells hit the city wall and exploded, but only small pits were blown up, leaving a charred area that could not break the city wall.

"This time, I see how you capture my Dinghai County!" Zheng Guohong smiled, his confidence increased.

When the Shanghai soldiers in the Tibetan Bing Cave in Dongcheng saw that the British and French coalition guns could not break the city wall, they all smiled because this city wall was their hearts defense line.

In the distance, on the deck of the coalition flagship, Erjin quickly saw through the heavy black smoke that the shells seemed to be ineffective against the city walls of Dinghai County, and he frowned.

"Damn it, Dinghai County is so strong!"

"The flowering bullet has no effect on the city walls, let them try changing to solid bullets!"

Subsequently, the British and French ships began to bombard the city walls of Dinghai County with solid bombs, but the effect was still not obvious. The round solid shells in this era were a large iron ball, which was ineffective against reinforced concrete buildings more than three meters thick.

The British and French Allied Forces launched a whole morning and poured out more than 20,000 shells. Except for dozens of shells successfully embedded on the walls of Dinghai County, no obvious results were achieved.

Finally, Erjin sighed bitterly and had to order the shelling to stop.

"It seems that we can only use the traditional way to attack the city!"

When Gro came to Erkin, both of them looked bitter.

Soon, Erkin and Groo ordered the fleet's artillery fire to cover the British and French Marines to carry out landings.

Zheng Guohong did not deploy anti-landing infantry positions because he knew that under the saturation of the powerful naval artillery of the British and French coalition forces, any anti-landing infantry positions would be free to deliver vegetables, so Zheng Guohong did not touch the bad intentions.

However, Zheng Guohong would not let the enemy land safely. He sent a small team of sharpshooters from each company and platoon, and basically could shoot and kill the enemy within 100 to 150 meters.

When the British and French forces arrived ashore, their naval guns stopped bombarding, so the Shanghai army squad began hunting and harassing operations.

"Bang! Bang bang!"

Three gunshots followed, and three British soldiers were shot and killed, and their bodies fell to the ground.

"On the left, fire in the first row!"

What followed was the muskets of a row of British soldiers, but the three Shanghai soldiers who fired the gun had already moved to the ground, and the British muskets did not hit them at all.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

On the other side, more than a dozen Shanghai soldiers took the opportunity to attack another team of British soldiers and killed more than 30 people in a row.

This is a typical tactic of playing against the west.

After suffering several losses, the British learned to be smart and no longer fooled. They gathered together and moved forward steadily to consolidate the fortifications on the beach.

Seeing that this team of Shanghai soldiers had no idea how to start, and there were more and more British and French soldiers ashore, so in order to avoid being surrounded, they chose to retreat.

Although the Shanghai army did not fire the cold guns of the British and French coalition forces, the British and French coalition forces did not get a moment of peace. Soon they encountered another secret weapon of the Shanghai army, radium.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the first radium buried by the Shanghai army trampled on a miserable French soldier. The violent explosion instantly blew the French soldier's flesh and blood, and the incomplete corpses fell at the feet of several companions. The bloody scene immediately scared them.

Immediately afterwards, there were another series of loud noises, and British or French soldiers stepped on the ground, killing and injuring hundreds of people in an instant.

The sudden change frightened the soldiers of the British and French coalition forces. They didn't know what it was. Out of fear of unknown things, they retreated to the beach, and some even cried and wanted to return to the warship.

"What happened again?"

On the flagship, Erkin, who was happy to successfully land on the beach, frowned again after receiving the report.

"I don't know what it is!"

"It seems like a bomb buried in the soil, which functions similar to the water radium we encountered before. As soon as our soldiers stepped on it, they would explode. In just a few minutes, hundreds of people were killed or killed."

"Damn it, why is this happening!" Erjin was almost collapsed. Since he arrived in the Far East, nothing has gone well, and it is extremely unlucky.

Gro's will was not firm, and he said in horror: "It's so terrible! They not only developed the water radium to deal with our warships, but now they also have the ground radium to deal with our soldiers. It's so terrible! I really doubt whether we can defeat this war!"
Chapter completed!