Defending the 23rd heights was the Yamazaki Brigade of the Mercenary Division, and the captain of the brigade was Yamazaki Solemn. Yamazaki's stern and rigid dogma was well known in the Dalian area, and this old-fashioned samurai regarded the abridged version of the "Infantry Manual" as a golden rule, and everyone in his brigade had to scrupulously implement the rules of the "Manual".

Early this morning, Yamazaki began to inspect the position in accordance with the provisions of the "Manual." Although the snow on the mountain made it impossible for the Russian army to attack, Yamazaki still asked his subordinates to be ready for battle at any time, because this is also stipulated in the "manual". And when he was on patrol today, Yamazaki also paid special attention to the appearance of the soldiers, and the division commander Asano Munehide was coming in a while, and Yamazaki wanted to give the commander enough respect.

The narrow path that had barely cleared out behind the mountain was clearly visible to Asano and his party, and Yamazaki sorted out his outfit and greeted him. But when the soldiers looked at their captain, they felt more and more strange, the captain who was less than 1.6 meters was actually getting taller and taller, as if he had walked up a hill in a trench. Then the soldier lowered his head and saw that the earth was cracking, and the earth and snow were churning together, as if a great beast was about to break through the ground.

Yamazaki got higher and higher like a surf, and then the huge waves in the soil finally broke through the ground. The people on the high ground lost consciousness in an instant, but Asano, who was halfway up the mountain, could see clearly. Flames erupted from the earth, and dirt, snow, severed limbs, corpses, weapons, everything was thrown into the sky. The huge shock wave spread in all directions, and the floating figures were torn off their clothes, and even Asano, who was a few hundred meters away, was knocked down and plunged into the snow.

As Asano struggled to get up from the snow, everything around him turned a terrifying color, gray red, and a dark black in red. Asano was helped to the top of the mountain by his own soldiers, and except for the wounded who were crying and rolling and some lucky ones who were a little demented, the entire Yamazaki Wing's position was gone. The hill on the 23rd Heights seems to have been bitten hard by a giant beast from the void, and only a third of the mountain remains, and the place where it should have been a mountain is now a strange pit.

"Buzz...... Boom...... Rumbling...... "A familiar and unfamiliar voice came from the direction of the Russian army, but this voice was very shaky, and it seemed to be far, far away from Asano and the others.

Asano's telescope, which had been thrown somewhere in the explosion just now, was like the corpses of Yamazaki and many soldiers. Asano could only hold his sword and look in the direction of the enemy with difficulty, but unfortunately the black-red fog blocked everything. Asano seemed to be able to see black dirt and bright red blood, but in reality he couldn't see anything. Finally, a banner with a double-headed eagle broke through the fog, and then the endless head, like a flood that burst the embankment, rushed to the twenty-third height, which was only a little left.

"Asano is ashamed of the general!" Asano looked up to the sky and sighed, then knelt on the ground and drew his sword, he prepared to kill himself.

Asano, who has been training in the army for many years, can see at a glance that the number of Russian troops rushing towards him is definitely not less than 30,000, and the boundlessness is like a monstrous wave. On the 23rd height, if you add up all the people who can breathe, you can't get together three hundred people, and in the face of the enemy's charge of this scale, Asano is powerless. Position 23 is the commanding height of the eleven nearby high grounds, and if it is lost here, the other ten high ground will also lose its defensive value. If the Russian army breaks through the defense line formed by these 11 heights, the road for them to break through will be opened, and not only will Goxinga's plan to block the Russian army fail, but even Goxinga's safety will be in danger. Asano, who had made a promise in front of Goxinga, had no shame to see Goxinga again, and he only had to die to apologize.

"Hurrah, General!" Not only Asano, but also several high-ranking mercenary officers who came with him were all ready for seppuku, and even shouted the dying slogan.

"Asano-kun, quickly transfer troops! Old Maozi is dead! Uesugi Yuyuki didn't have a seppuku, he was also frightened by the terrifying torrent of the Russian army just now, but he stared at the Russian army and gradually discovered a very important problem.

How the Russian army made Heights 23 like this, Uesugi Yuyuki is not clear, but he is sure that when the Russian army formulated its offensive plan, it definitely did not know that Heights 23 would be bombed like this. Because Uesugi Yuyuki found that the direction of the Russian army's attack was still on the main position of the original Yamazaki brigade, and that place had just been blown up, and now there was only one big crater. The explosion certainly did not create a cliff, but a dirt slope with a slope of more than 70 degrees was not much better than a cliff.

The smoke screen formed by the dust not only obscured Asano's vision, but the rushing Russian troops could not see anything clearly, so it was not until the sharp soldiers in the first row hit the southern wall that anyone found themselves in a dead end. Just like a series of rear-end chases, the spearmen had no way to inform the people behind them that they were going the wrong way, and then the spearheads who braked urgently were hit by the earththen wall by their compatriots who were charging behind them. The team of tens of thousands of people is struggling to rush, but it is not something that can be stopped by hitting it, and the latecomers are like waves of the sea. Those who found something wrong wanted to turn around, but the people behind only knew how to rush forward, and the big pit on the site of No. 23 Heights was immediately crowded into cans like buses and subways during the morning rush hour. And they can play with their lives more than the people who squeeze the bus, this desperate squeeze, even the horses can be squeezed to death, let alone these poor soldiers.

"Hit, hit, hit me! Bring up the reserves and kill them all! Seeing that the Russian troops below were like fish in a net, Asano immediately got up and shouted, and even picked up a Gatling machine gun that had been blown off the bracket by himself, and began to shoot at the crowd.

The reserves of the only two squadrons of the mercenary division all rushed to the 23rd heights and began a massacre against the dense Russian army. They don't need to aim anymore, and they can kill at least three enemies with a single shot downward. * Don't throw it down like money, in the past, one * could kill three or four people if you were lucky, but this time you can kill more than a dozen people if you throw it in a place with few people. The Russian army is so dense that if you throw it down, you can't fall to the ground, it's either stuck between two people, or it's on the shoulders of the Russian army.

The panicked Russian army also tried to open fire and resist, but they were not only condescending, but also too crowded. A person who wants to stand steadily for a while can't do it, and the bullets fired are completely inaccurate, and nine out of ten fly into the sky. They also only had one chance to shoot, and the environment was so crowded that they had no chance to reload at all.

As the artillery of the reserve was lifted up to the 23rd height, the artillery of other heights also began to fire support, and the tragedy of the Russian army being slaughtered in pieces really began.