c_t; Seeing that the cavalry of the Qing army began to retreat, Kuroki Weizhen looked at Fugang Tianyou, and said: "Fukuoka-kun, it's up to you, lead the cavalry wing, attack the Qing cavalry, and impact the position of the Qing army from the side, remember that as long as you hate them for a while, don't fall in love with the war, once the Qing army reacts, it will be difficult for the cavalry wing to get cheap, after all, their strength is still very strong, and it is not the time for us to launch a decisive battle!" ”

"Hay!" Fugang Tianyou nodded fiercely, led the cavalry wing to rush out of the position, and pursued the Qing army.

As soon as the cavalry of the Qing army showed the movement of retreating, the cavalry wing of the Japanese army rushed over like a storm, and more than 1,000 Japanese cavalry were not joking.

Li Yingnian looked at the overwhelming Japanese cavalry, his face was bloodless with fright, he only had less than 400 cavalry, and the opponent's strength was three times his own, so it was impossible to stop it.

Li Yingnian yelled: "Retreat! Fall back! Fast! ”

The cavalry battalion of the Qing army retreated towards the Qing army position in a panic, and the Japanese army pressed up tightly, and with the powerful impact force, it was fiercely inserted into the Qing army's position again......

The heavy machine guns and infantry guns of the Qing army were concentrated in the frontal position to resist the frontal attack of the Japanese army, without heavy machine gun fire, the rifles held by the Qing army were too slow to be blocked at all, and the cavalry in the formation could not be stopped.

The Japanese cavalry rushed into the Qing army's position again, rampaged, sabers flew up and down, scattering the Qing army and fleeing, and the flank positions were in chaos.

Li Yingnian yelled: "Go to Taiwan, hurry up and give an order, order the pikemen to hold spears and block the onslaught of the Japanese army!" Hurry up and mobilize heavy machine guns! ”

Li Bingheng said angrily: "Fart, now the Japanese cavalry is on our position, using heavy machine guns to strafe, how many people do we have to die!" Why don't you hurry up and send your cavalry up, stare at the onslaught of the cavalry, order the soldiers, and return fire with a rifle! ”

Li Yingnian stomped his foot in hatred. Alas!

Your own infantry is all reads;!

Li Yingnian was helpless and led the cavalry to storm up again.

It's just that Fugang Tianyou did not make contact with the Qing cavalry, and he rushed to kill, and the Qing army was terrified, quickly turned the horse's head, and quickly rushed out of the Qing army's position.

Coming and going like the wind, uncertain whereabouts! Two storms of Japanese cavalry. suppressed the morale of the Qing army to the extreme, and the Qing army was on the position. There was an air of sadness and despair, so that the Japanese cavalry could come and go freely, taking people's lives like picking up grass and mustard, how could they fight?

Li Bingheng was angry and anxious, there was nothing he could do, and finally he roared angrily: "Damn, don't care, order all the artillery in the battalion to attack the Qing army with maximum firepower!" We must beat down the arrogance of the Japanese army! ”

The infantry artillery on the Qing position, including mountain artillery and field artillery, all opened fire. Launched an artillery bombardment towards the Japanese army, Kuroki Weizhen looked at the shells flying all over the sky, and the smile on his face was even stronger, the artillery technology of the Qing army was too poor, and it was difficult to threaten the important position of the Japanese army, and for these veterans of the Japanese army, dodging the shell bombardment was even more experienced. It's hard to create a big threat.

Kuroki breathed a sigh of relief for Zhen and said, "It's time to clean up the artillery positions of the Qing army. The order was sent to the artillery wing, which quickly locked the artillery positions of the Qing army and carried out a saturation attack, so that the artillery battalion of the Qing army became history completely! ”

A few minutes later, the earth-shattering sound of artillery was heard from the Japanese artillery position. Hundreds of 75-mm large-caliber heavy guns were sprayed out in just a few minutes. Whistling and flying towards the artillery positions of the Qing army.

When the artillery of the Qing army was still desperately firing shells, a huge disaster fell on their heads, the Japanese artillery shells seemed to have long eyes, all fell on the artillery positions of the Qing army, and the huge destructive power brought by hundreds of artillery shells was revealed at once, and the Qing troops on the artillery positions were blown up to the flesh and blood, and hundreds of artillery and logistics troops were blown up into the sky in an instant. Numerous cannons were also blown up by shells. The artillery positions were full of mourning and miserable, like purgatory on earth.

Li Bingheng watched the artillery position being bombed to the ground, and suddenly said in his heart, it's over! The artillery battalion is over, such an intensive attack, even if he doesn't understand military affairs, he also knows that there are too few Qing troops who can escape under such intensive firepower, Li Bingheng's distressed old tears are rampant, this is thousands of Qing troops, and dozens of heavy artillery, just like this, how can he still have the face to meet Lafayette and the emperor!

Li Bingheng shouted: "Order, withdraw from the army, withdraw from the army, if it goes on like this, we won't be able to do it for long, and we will all collapse!" ”

Li Yingnian hurriedly stopped him and persuaded hard: "Lord Futai reads;!" Lord Futai, by all means, now that the army's heart is shaken, and the army retreats under such a passive situation, once the Japanese army follows and pursues, then we will not be able to form an army, and there is a danger of annihilation. ”

Li Bingheng looked at the artillery position of Yuanchuan and roared angrily: "If you don't retreat, do you see these soldiers dying in vain, do you have a better way?" ”

Li Yingnian was full of bitterness, and said in his heart: "It's because you don't know about military affairs, and you don't listen to me, if you attack when the Japanese army is not stable, where will you be so passive, even if you can't win, you won't be so embarrassed." ”

However, Li Bingheng is the governor of Shandong, Li Hongzhang is not in Shandong, he is the highest military commander, and he is a cavalry commander and a guerrilla general, what can he do?

Li Yingnian persuaded bitterly: "My lord, let's hold on, if we retreat now, we will definitely be caught up by the Japanese army, and one or two thousand cavalry will definitely rush us to pieces, and we have no way to restrain the team!" We can only hold on, as long as we survive these few days and wait for reinforcements from the north to arrive, we will be safe. ”

Li Bingheng also knew that he was at this level, and he didn't know anything about fighting, so he had to temporarily follow the advice of Li Yingnian and other generals, hold on for the time being, and wait for reinforcements.

After several rounds of artillery bombardment, the Japanese artillery finally quieted down, and the Qing army often breathed a sigh of relief, and the Qing army had to be driven crazy if it continued to fight like this, even so, the Qing army was frightened, and there was no longer the determination to fight to the death.

As the night fell completely, Li Bingheng ordered all departments to patrol and defend in batches and take precautions.

In one night, the Japanese army launched three attacks, and the Qing army had never experienced such a battle, and it was unspeakably miserable and bitter.

Li Bingheng and the generals are also tired and listless, what should I do?

The vigor of a cadre of soldiers has long been exhausted in the course of a day and a night.

In the distance, in the temporary headquarters of the Japanese army, Kuroki Weizhen and the generals under him sat in front of the map, discussing the battle together.

Kuroki Weizhen smiled: "Okay, the Japanese army has no morale now, and it is vulnerable." We are all in one go, we must defeat the Qing army today and advance to Weihaiwei! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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