Akiyama Yoshiko led the remnants of the defeated army and quickly retreated northward, and after a short time, he encountered the forward troops of the Japanese army and joined them.

Akiyama Yoshigu saw the chief of staff of the First Division, Terauchi Masayi, from a distance, urged the horse to run over, and asked urgently: "Your Excellency General, what's going on, what's wrong?" ”

Terauchi Masayi saw the embarrassed Akiyama Yoshiko, his face was shocked, and he asked, "What's the matter, your cavalry wing was also attacked?" ”

Akiyama sighed and said in an astringent voice: "That's it, our Japanese army has completely fallen into the trap of the Qing army this time, when I led the cavalry wing to march in a hurry, the Qing army blocked the back road with rolling wood and stones, and the left and right sides of the front were blocked by the fire of the Qing army's heavy machine gun team, and were suppressed in a small space, just over half an hour, the entire cavalry wing suffered a fierce attack by the four cavalry battalions of the Qing army, our army could not be used, the main force was annihilated, and only more than 300 people escaped, I'm afraid the rest have already died in that depression! ”

A feeling of sadness swelled in the temple's heart, and he said sadly: "This time we are completely wrong, it must be that our battle plan was obtained by the Qing army in advance!" At the right time, half of our army has just passed through Zinan Mountain, and when it was marching, the Qing army suddenly killed, I don't know how much explosives were buried underground, and the whole mile distance was completely blown up, and most of the 53rd and 54th Wings on the march were directly blown into powder, and there were no bones! Four or five thousand people, in an instant, all died in that narrow strip......"

Akiyama Yoshiko and Terauchi Masashi cried loudly, this is the lives of thousands of compatriots, and they are gone in an instant, how can they not be sad.

Akiyama Yoshiko asked, "What happened to Your Excellency the General, Your Excellency the Commander and Your Excellency the Division Commander?" ”

Terauchi Masayi replied: "Fortunately, Your Excellency the Commander and Your Excellency the Division Commander have just arrived at the edge of that area, and they haven't had time to set foot on it yet, otherwise, they will definitely have to be broken there." However, His Excellency the Commander was so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood and fell unconscious, and now that the division commander was in command, we had just put our men and horses in order, and were about to return to join the main forces behind......"

Akiyama Yoshiko said: "No, we can't have two armies in one place, in this case, the space is too narrow, we don't have room to maneuver at all, it's best for us to defend on the spot, the distance between the front army and the rear army is only two or three miles, our cavalry is used to transmit information back and forth, rely on each other, and jointly resist the enemy." ”

Terauchi Masashi nodded, what Akiyama Yoshigu said is quite reasonable, if the troops are combined at this moment, then the situation of the Japanese army will be even more dangerous.

As soon as the two of them finished summing up, Bagan led the Qing cavalry battalion to clean up the remnants of the cavalry wing, clear the obstacles, and rush towards the forward troops of the Japanese army.

However, at this time, the Japanese army had already prepared a defense, and dozens of machine guns opened fire in unison, forming a powerful fire network in front of them, blocking the Qing cavalry hundreds of meters away.

Bagan was not in a hurry, and ordered the cavalry to hold their positions and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Seeing that the Qing army was no longer advancing, Akiyama Yoshiko said to Terauchi Masatsuki: "Your Excellency General, while the Qing army has not launched an attack now, I suggest that I lead a small group of cavalry to meet the division commander to see how to coordinate the defense, or contact Limi-kun to come to support, what do you think?" ”

Terauchi Zhengyi nodded and said, "Okay, without further ado, you act immediately, and I will command here!" ”

Akiyama didn't care about resting, turned on his horse, and with a small group of cavalry, ran directly towards the way he came.

Less than an hour later, the two battalions of Li Gang and Ma Yukun, who were originally at the foot of Songyue Mountain, with nearly 10,000 troops, rushed straight to the foot of Zinan Mountain, and the forward and Bagen joined together.

Bagen was elated, dancing, and pointed to the Japanese soldiers in front of Li Gang and said, "Lord Li, I finally waited for you." Now that the defense of the Japanese army has been arranged, if our cavalry assaults now, it cannot be fully deployed, it is too dense, and it will become a live target for the Japanese army, I need you to suppress the Japanese army's firepower, and then, my four cavalry battalions can reach them with a charge under the cover of fire, as long as they are killed, then the Japanese army is a lamb to be slaughtered, and can only wait to be slaughtered! ”

Li Gang nodded excitedly, and immediately ordered: "The artillery battalion will immediately launch an artillery bombardment on the Japanese army on the opposite side and implement comprehensive fire coverage; Wu Peifu, arrange all your heavy machine gun battalions at the high points on both sides, and suppress the fire on the opposite side; Bagan, you put the cavalry battalion in order and prepare to charge! ”

On the opposite side of the temple Zhengyi saw the Qing army's brigade from a distance, he couldn't help but be surprised, look at the posture, this has to have tens of thousands of troops, he has less than 8,000 troops here, and he has just encountered a surprise attack, morale is low, heavy artillery suffered the last blue wolf raid, and this raid, the damage is too serious, the entire front army is now only a dozen or so heavy artillery, in terms of firepower, strength and morale, their army has completely fallen into the disadvantage, this battle is difficult to fight.

Terauchi Masashi hurriedly redeployed the defenses and ordered to prepare for battle.

Moments later, the combat deployment of the Qing army was completed.

Li Gang and Ma Yukun gave an order, and the artillery battalion and the heavy machine guns opened fire together, and the shells and machine gun shells were intertwined in the air to form a three-dimensional fire network, pouring towards the Japanese army.

Although the Japanese army fought back with all their might, the lack of heavy artillery seriously limited the ability of the Japanese army to fight back, and the Qing army temporarily suppressed the limelight.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Bagan roared angrily: "Cavalry battalion, the whole army is attacking!" ”

Four cavalry battalions, more than 1,000 horses formed a dozen pairs, like a torrent of steel, towards the Japanese front, crushed the past, the distance between the two sides is only a thousand meters, for the cavalry, only two or three minutes, can rush over, and when the Japanese army reacts and prepares to block the fire, it is too late.

The Qing cavalry crashed into the Japanese position and began a bloody massacre.

The Qing army opened the way with cavalry, followed by infantry, and thousands of infantry also charged.

The Japanese army was rushed into position by cavalry, and it was difficult to organize an effective large-scale counterattack as before.

Bagen's cavalry was like a thunderbolt, galloping across the country, and the Japanese troops were smashed to pieces, and Terauchi Masayi only had a cavalry squadron of less than 200 people left by Akiyama Yoshiko, and was overwhelmed by the Qing cavalry in just one shot.

Terauchi Masashi led the Japanese army to retreat one after another, and it was impossible to organize an effective defense at all, and the various departments had lost contact with each other, and the rout was difficult to reverse!