If it were really covered by artillery fire, I would become a barbecue.

Everyone lay down on the beach without Gao Jiu's orders.

This can effectively avoid those choking smoke!

After about ten minutes, the smoke finally dispersed.

Li Jiu wetted a towel with sea water and covered his face, finally resisting the invasion of the thick smoke.

Facts have proved that the Gurkhas are not as stupid as legend says.

They followed suit, and soon they also imitated Gao Jiu and covered their faces with wet towels.

The navy may have seen the signal flare and did not continue the artillery attack.

The landing craft also left to transport the second batch of landing personnel.

Gao Jiu and his men carried rifles with bayonets in their hands and advanced inland amidst the gradually dissipating smoke.

Along the way, we saw many fortifications of the French Foreign Legion!

There were also Maxims that were badly damaged. Without the cover of the Ming army's superior artillery fire, these Maxims might very well have become the sickle of death that harvested their lives.

Inside each fortification, there were three or two corpses.

Inside the largest fortification, five corpses were lying.

Some of the corpses had been burnt, with smoke still rising from them.

Some bodies are still burning, and a human-shaped mass can be seen burning.

Some corpses were relatively intact, except that their mouths, noses, eyes, and ears were bleeding.

These should have been beaten to death during the sudden artillery fire attack.

The Gurkhas don't seem to have any good feelings towards anyone with a similar skin color to them!

When encountering those who were still alive, the bayonet was inserted directly into the chest.

Some people even like to insert themselves into people’s heads!

Gao Jiu is not surprised. This is much better than when they were in the Middle East.

When these Gurkhas first arrived in Damascus, they liked to chop off the heads of their dead enemies.

There were even fights over heads!

Gao Jiu didn't understand it at first, but later he understood it. They thought that the way of recording military merits in the Ming Dynasty army still focused on the number of people who contributed.

It was not until later when the Gurkhas discovered that beheading had nothing to do with military exploits that they stopped beheading people.

Gao Jiu discovered that there were very few white people among the corpses.

Most are black, and some have obvious Central Asian characteristics.

Gao Jiu even discovered a cultist wearing a white hat.

Anyway, there are everyone here.

There were several smoking corpses with bulging breasts, and Gao Jiu deeply suspected that these were women.

The march was extremely boring, and almost all the mines on the ground were detonated by artillery fire.

Anyway, Gao Jiu and the others didn't step on a single landmine.

As for the French army, they all looked like frightened mice.

Even a few brave ones who fired to block the attack were quickly shot to death by the Gurkhas.

About a kilometer away from the beach, the land is scorched black. The floating soil near some craters can be as deep as a person's ankles. If you grab a handful of soil, there will still be hot shrapnel in it.

Gao Jiu roughly estimated that the French troops defending here were almost two companies, or at most about one battalion.

Their equipment was very poor, and the rifles they used were old-fashioned bolt-action rifles.

There are several cannons, but the barrels are now twisted and twisted out of shape.

The mortar position was relatively intact, but the people inside were beaten to death.

About ten meters away from the mortar position, Gao Jiu discovered a huge shell crater.

He deeply suspected that the shell crater was the work of a 480mm howitzer.

It was really unlucky to be hit by something like this ten meters away.

Not to mention that the mortar position is just a pit, even a reinforced concrete bunker cannot protect them.

After advancing two kilometers, no enemy counterattack troops were seen.

Gao Jiu felt that he could no longer leave, so he ordered the Gurkhas to dig bunkers on the spot or use the French bunkers to organize defensive positions.

"Second Master! News from the front says that the landing went well.

However, the number of enemies annihilated was not large.

Judging from the front, they have almost a battalion of troops."

Chen Laohu took the battle report with a very proud expression on his face.

So far in this landing operation, only four landing craft and less than a hundred Gurkhas have been lost.

Chen Laohu saw that this was incredibly smooth.

Originally, they thought that if they set up a battle array to attack, the French would fight them to the death on the beach.

Both Chen Laohu and Li Xiu were prepared for the complete destruction of the Gurkha army.

As a result, not only did they successfully capture the beach, they also established several outpost defensive positions two kilometers away.

"Tiger, don't be happy so early.

I always feel like something is wrong!

Although we are the navy, we should also know that a battalion has to defend a beach that is fifteen kilometers long and two kilometers deep.

In any case, this small amount of troops is not enough!

The French have placed so few troops on the beach, where are their remaining troops?

Where is it hidden?

Are you saying that you want to start a street fight with us in Trevignano?"

"Street fighting? That would be a big trouble. I heard that the commander-in-chief was fighting with the French in Tsaritsyn.

The enemy's and ours' armies were so closely intertwined that our artillery superiority could not be used at all.

An average of 1,200 casualties occur every day!

If we also fall into street fighting, then...!" Chen Laohu glanced around.

The staff officers saw the look in his eyes and immediately retreated far away.

"Second Master, we don't have enough troops for street fighting. We only have two divisions in total, and we won't be able to defeat them all even if we fight for a long time."

“This place cannot be compared with Tsaritsyn, which is a big city with a population of 600,000.

But Tavignano is a small town of thirty to fifty thousand people.

Not so evil!

But I don’t want to engage in street fighting, as that would cause too many casualties.

We don't have as much capital as our big brother, so I feel bad for one more person to die.

Do you think it's possible that our artillery fire was so powerful that the French were frightened?

After all, they are the Foreign Legion, people who are paid to do things, and no one wants to risk their lives here."

Li Xiu thought for a while and asked.

"Second Master, what do you mean...!"

"Have you got any prisoners?"

"This...not really."

"These Gurkhas know how to kill people.

Let the front line capture a few alive and find someone to interrogate them.

In addition..., think of a way to see if you can contact the leader of the Foreign Legion.
Chapter completed!