Dashan Rock also knows that the opportunity must not be lost and will not come again, now that the Korean war situation is ever-changing, if you don't hurry up, once there is a change in Seoul, there will be no place to cry at that time.

Daesan Rock concentrated all the Japanese troops in the direction of Kaesong, concentrated on attacking the west gate of Kaesong, except for the Daeqiang Shangmin Department on the Prancing Horse Mountain, all the other armies were thrown into the attack, and the two artillery wings took turns to launch a non-stop artillery bombardment of Kaesong.

The offensive and defensive battles in Kaesong had reached an extremely fierce level, and on the first day, the Qing army had lost more than 3,000 casualties, countless wounded, and the Japanese army was not much better, with thousands of casualties.

The next day, the Japanese army still launched a fierce attack, the Japanese army continued to attack the head of Kaesong, the city wall of Kaesong finally could not withstand the artillery bombardment for several days, a large area collapsed, together with the two forts were completely destroyed, the Japanese army began to storm the head of Kaesong, Nie Shicheng ordered Tang Keqiang to organize a death squad of 1,000 people, a rush to kill, the Japanese army was blocked from Kaesong, and finally when it was dark, the Japanese army had no choice but to retreat.

In two days, now the new army led by Li Gang has already arrived at Huoshan, less than sixty miles away from Seoul, it is very steep here, Li Gang looked at the steep valley, nodded secretly, this is the only way from Kaesong to Seoul, and it is also close to the middle position from Kaesong to Seoul, which is the best position to ambush the Japanese army.

Li Gang ordered the army to immediately hide on the mountains on both sides, waiting for the arrival of the Japanese army.

After just over an hour, the advance of the Japanese army had already arrived at Huoshan, and the 17th Brigade had marched more than 8,000 people all the way to Seoul.

Li Gang looked at this force coldly, in half an hour, the troops had marched to nearly halfway, Li Gang waved his big hand, and shouted: "Fire!" ”

5,000 rifles, heavy artillery, and mortars fired at the same time, and suddenly turned this valley into a sea of fire, and the Japanese army who were anxious really did not find that the main force of the Qing army was hidden on the mountain peak, and the shells poured down on the heads of the Japanese army like rain, blooming everywhere, and the Japanese army was like a fly turning around, being dizzy, and hurriedly scattered, each looking for cover, ready to return fire.

The hapless brigade commander Hideo Yamada happened to be in the middle of the brigade ranks, and was hit by a shell, and he was seriously wounded at that time, and the entire brigade was leaderless and in chaos.

Li Gang looked at the Japanese troops who were in a hurry below, and was happy in his heart, and shouted: "Order the artillery battalion, don't spare the shells, all artillery, full coverage of the shelling, blow up their ****!" ”

The chaos of the Japanese army lasted for more than half an hour, the whole valley was full of dead bodies of Japanese soldiers, wounded Japanese soldiers wailed again and again, in just such a short time, the dense Japanese army was killed nearly 2,000 people, and the Japanese army that reacted began to organize a counterattack, but by now, the Japanese army had already been in chaos, and the artillery team had already galloped wildly because of the frightened horses, making the artillery carriage messy, and people turned over on their backs. It was really difficult to withstand the attack of the Qing army by simply relying on rifles to return fire.

Li Gang shouted: "Heavy machine gun fire suppression, submachine gun team forward, impact!" ”

Li Hongzhang equipped the new army with a hundred light machine guns and equipped them with the Qing army.

This new army stormtrooper charged directly down from the mountain, followed by the Qing army with rifles, and the three-dimensional offensive formation beat the Japanese army without the slightest power to fight back, and the Japanese army that was originally concentrated could not withstand the attack of the Qing army in a hurry.

The deputy brigade commander Yamada Hatono had no choice but to order a wing to block the Qing army, and led the main force of the brigade to begin to retreat in the direction of Seoul.

Fortunately, the Japanese army was well-trained, and there was a degree of advance and retreat, otherwise, the Qing army, which was in full swing, would definitely make the 17th Brigade and Regiment suffer great damage, even so, the 17th Brigade and the 7th Wing also suffered heavy casualties, and more than 2,000 Japanese corpses were left at the foot of Huo Mountain forever.

Li Gang looked at the Japanese troops who were evading in a hurry, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he ordered: "Stop the pursuit, clean up the battlefield, and after an hour, quickly evacuate Huoshan and advance towards Songyue Mountain!" ”

The new army of Tadabe and Yibu quickly cleaned up the battlefield, sorted out the captured materials, and began to advance rapidly towards Songyue Mountain.

At this time, Kaesong had entered the third day of the offensive and defensive battle, and the Qing and Japanese armies were mixed together in the west of Kaesong, and they were all red-eyed and did not give in to each other.

At this time, the 5,000 new troops of the Haozi Department and the Dangzi Department also happened to arrive at Incheon.

Zhang Yi didn't dare to stay for a moment, although the new army took a boat all the way, and a large part of them were unwell, and they couldn't take a break. The whole army immediately set out and began to rush to the southwest of Kaesong, less than a hundred miles away, Zhang Yi marched all the way, and arrived in the southwest of Kaesong in just one day's time, which is also fortunate that Dashan Yan thought that Zhang Yi's army was all killed in Hancheng, and there were no more reinforcements, and all the Japanese troops had been concentrated in the west of Kaesong, and all the reconnaissance and ambushes along the way were withdrawn, so the Qing army had to move so quickly.

Zhang Yi stopped the team, and now the gunfire on the Kaecheng side is still continuous, and it is more than ten miles away, although the battle is fierce, but the final victory and defeat are still not distinguished.

Zhang Yiqiang calmed down and ordered: "The whole army will rest for ten minutes, and then quickly advance into the Japanese army, and launch a fierce attack on the back of the Japanese army!" ”

Zhang Yi gave an order, 5,000 Qing troops rushed towards the Japanese army like a tiger descending the mountain, and now the Japanese army is in full swing, and the Qing army and the Japanese army in front have been completely mixed together, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.

At the anxious moment of Dashanyan, bursts of artillery suddenly sounded in the rear, and dozens of shells flew over from the rear and fell straight into the Japanese position, blowing up the Japanese position, and there was a great chaos.

Watching the battle, Dashan Yan, Limi Shangwen and Mountain Genji were shocked, where did this heavy artillery come from? Where did the Qing army come from?

Dashanyan shouted: "What's the matter, where did the Qing army reinforcements come from, haven't the Qing army reinforcements already rushed to Seoul?" ”

Seeing that Shangwen was bitter in his heart, he said: "Your Excellency Commander, I'm afraid this is the Qing army's plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, one of our integrated brigades and a wing was transferred, and the Qing army led the main force to kill back, Your Excellency Commander, I am afraid that the situation of our army is not good, please give an order to evacuate the battlefield quickly, once the Qing army is forced to the front, if the front and rear are flanked, our army will have no chance of winning!" ”

Seeing that Shang Wen's words did not fall, the second wave of artillery shells of the new army bombarded down, and on the Japanese position, the Japanese army was in chaos, and the enemy was attacked on the back of the abdomen, which was a taboo for soldiers.

Lijian Shangwen shouted: "Your Excellency Commander, evacuate quickly, evacuate in the direction of the Prancing Horse Mountain, as long as we get rid of the current situation of being attacked by the enemy on our backs and merge with the Great Forced Shangmin, we still have a chance of victory, once we are surrounded, we will be in danger!" ”

Da Shanyan was helpless, and roared unwillingly: "Order the whole army to evacuate to the north and move closer to the Prancing Horse Mountain!" ”