Chapter 517: The War Resumes
Zhang Yihu is definitely very concerned about the war, although he is not personally commanded, but as soon as he heard Zhang Yi's order, this guy did not delay for a moment, and ran to the General Staff and asked Zhang Xiaohuai to send the telegram out, Zhang Xiaohuai was made to cry and laugh by this guy. [Ran^Text^Library] []. [774] [buy]. [com]
Xu Huaijin, who received the telegram order, did not delay for a moment, and summoned all the important generals overnight to arrange an emergency offensive: the fourth and fifth divisions were dispatched to hold the two flanks respectively, and all the key roads between Pyongyang and Changlin Tongpyeong were blocked, and the first, second, and eighth divisions and independent divisions, four divisions plus two artillery brigades were ordered to concentrate all the artillery fire and attack Pyongcheng with all their might!
Xu Huaijin has long wanted to do it, but now that the negotiations have just begun, Xu Huaijin is not good to directly attack Pingcheng, in that case, the pressure of international public opinion faced by Li Hongzhang and others will continue to increase, and now that Zhang Yi has given the order, what is there to hesitate!
Today's Pingcheng only has the strength of one and a half divisions, and the remaining four divisions are all placed in Pyongyang and Changlin, and it is a triangular position to see Shangwen's wishful thinking, and the three parties can support each other at any time, and at the same time can avoid being surrounded by Xu Huaijin's army in one fell swoop, which is indeed a double win.
But Lijian Shangwen ignored one point, now Xu Huaijin's army is too strong, Pingcheng's troops are too small, and now Pingcheng is almost seventy or eighty miles away from Pyongyang, such a large distance, for mutual support, the distance is a little far.
Xu Huaijin has long seen the problem, most of the current Japanese troops are concentrated in Pyongyang, Pingcheng and Changlin each have a division and a half to defend, and Pingcheng is only a small city, how can it withstand the combined attack of Xu Huaijin's several divisions?
Four divisions and two artillery brigades marched overnight, and by three or four o'clock in the second half of the night, the army had already reached the foot of Pingcheng. The army almost had an artillery division's cannons, firing at Pingcheng together, in an instant, Pingcheng fell into a sea of fire, thick smoke rose into the air, just ten minutes, Pingcheng's north city was bombed beyond recognition, originally this is the most commonly used tactic of the Japanese army to launch a surprise attack before dawn, but this move was moved by Xu Huaijin intact.
The Japanese army on the flat city was in chaos, they didn't know how many scouts they sent to the north these days, and they were all killed by the blue wolf and the bloody blue wolf, and finally the Japanese army did not dare to send scouts outside the city, and the Japanese army without scouts is now like a blind man.
Xu Huaijin's army approached the city, and the Japanese army at the head of the city found that before the Japanese army could send a letter to the headquarters, hundreds of artillery pieces began a series of strong attacks, and Kuroki Weizhen and Kodama Gentaro in the city were all beaten a little stunned. In the middle of the night, now that Mukden was still negotiating, they actually launched a fierce attack, what is this! [311591 King of Special Forces Crossing the First Sino-Japanese War, King of Special Forces Crossing the First Sino-Japanese War]31 First Launch: King of Special Forces of the First Sino-Japanese War, 517
Gentaro Kodama hurriedly ordered the Japanese army to return fire, but how to fight back now?
Xu Huaijin completely concentrated all the elite main forces under the city of Pingcheng, so many cannons, just relying on the strength of one division and regiment, how to resist, the artillery on the head of Pingcheng City, not long after they began to fire, was the artillery of the two artillery brigades, the artillery of the north city was broken up, not only the artillery was scattered, but also the city wall has been blown up a lot!
Xu Huaijin did not hesitate, and when he saw the artillery fire on the head of Pingcheng, he decisively ordered the two brigades of the First Division to charge towards the head of Pingcheng, that is, to be strong! It is to completely hurt the strength of Japan!
The small city wall of Pingcheng was simply unable to block such a fierce shelling, and the head of the city collapsed, and the Japanese army had to rely on the heavy machine guns on the watchtower to strengthen the defense.
Many of the fighters of the 1st Division were knocked down by heavy machine guns, and in the face of a huge network of fire, the fighters of the 1st Division had to retreat and prepare to organize a second wave of offensives.
Xu Huaijin coldly watched the battle situation, and shouted: "Order, all the blue wolves are ready to go out, give me the right to fight, and you must give me the heavy firepower of the Japanese army!" Each of the four divisions sent a reinforced battalion, carrying grenades, to recharge me! ”
After some arrangement, the forward troops rushed to the city again, this time, the Japanese army is estimated to repeat the enactment, still with heavy firepower to suppress, but, at this time the blue wolves are rushing up, each of them is a stunt, a long time to the enemy, not a long time, has rushed to the city near the city, each looking for a position, the rifle aimed at the watchtower of the heavy machine gun gun gun began to shoot, but it is still difficult to kill the Japanese heavy machine gunner, after all, even if their marksmanship is accurate, can enter the watchtower, but can shoot the Japanese army, Still a problem.
Zhang Shengqi looked at the Japanese heavy machine gun fire, which had not weakened much, and shouted: "Give me a closer look, and greet them with grenades!" ”
Dozens of blue wolves followed the collapsed buildings, approaching the watchtower, one grenade after another, beckoning towards the watchtower, and at this moment, the heavy machine gun fire of the Japanese army was finally temporarily suppressed.
The four reinforced battalions in the back saw that the fire was weakening, roared wildly, and rushed forward, and by the time the heavy fire of the Japanese army rang out again, the soldiers had already rushed to the front of the city wall, and the submachine guns in their hands roared angrily and sprayed forward.
The four main divisions, each with a reinforced battalion of a hundred submachine guns, which is a sharp knife of each division, is specially used to attack the fortifications, and it plays the greatest role at this time!
The Japanese troops in the city cavity could not withstand such a large attack firepower at all, and they retreated one after another, leaving behind the seven or eight watchtowers in the city wall.
The soldiers of the reinforced battalion have already thrown the grenades in their hands together at this time, this is not a blue wolf, the blue wolf only has a few dozen people, scattered in different corners, the soldiers of the reinforced battalion have hundreds of people, hundreds of grenades within a minute, all flew to the watchtower, the power is too great, all the watchtowers in the north city are blown up, and it is difficult to play the slightest role. Kodama Gentaro in the city was already red-eyed, and he roared and ordered: "First Brigade, give me an attack, no matter how much you pay, you must drive the Qing army down to me!" "But now the head of the city has been shared by China and Japan, the main force of the first division behind saw the head of the city taken down, a set charge, rushed to the bottom of the city, and attacked the front, at this time the Japanese army did not say that the opponent was driven down, it was simply impossible to suppress the attack of the first division!
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