'Nine Mile Valley', a large slope bordering the mountain crossing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Captain Hideo Fukuda, deputy squadron leader of the 1st Squadron of the 5th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army, rode on a war horse, listened to the monstrous gunfire from the north, and anxiously waited for the news brought back by the cavalry detachment sent to reconnoiter the canyon.

This time, Hideo Fukuda led two cavalry squads to explore the way with the first brigade of the battalion and a household guard as an advance team.

He would never have imagined that these timid Qing troops would abandon all the key strongholds all the way and would actually ambush on this big slope.

Now Fukuda Hideo is eager to immediately lead the cavalry squad to the big slope to strike at these Qing troops who don't know whether they are alive or dead, but he hesitates and doesn't know how many troops the Qing army has, and whether there are any Qing ambushes in his rear 'Jiuli Valley'.

Otherwise, once he gives up the exit and is occupied by the Qing army, then the more than 1,000 soldiers of the entire advance team are likely to fall into a desperate situation because of their recklessness.

"Boom-"

At this time, there was the sound of horses' hooves on the post road of the large slope, and then at the bend, a cavalry detachment sent by Fukuda Hideo ran out, and one of the horses rode a horse with a total of Yamaizumi Erhiro, the adjutant of the Household Guard Shaosa.

"Captain Hideo Fukuda, Shaozo orders you to immediately lead a cavalry squad to attack the Qing army blocking our army's retreat."

Yamaizumi Erhao jumped off his horse, in his opinion, since the Qing army had intercepted the retreat of the imperial army, then all Captain Fukuda's cavalry squad had to do was to rush over with their horses and trample those Qing army ants lying on the post road, trying to stop the imperial army, into bloody mud!

Hideo Fukuda glanced back at the empty 'Nine Mile Valley' behind him, and then looked up at the sky, at this time it was close to seven o'clock in the evening, and the sky had already shown the color of night, and at most, the valley would fall into darkness for a day.

"Captain!"

Shanquan Erhao couldn't help but urge anxiously.

Looking at the eager eyes of the imperial soldiers around him, Hideo Fukuda's face turned pale, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and at the same time he pulled the reins of the horse with his left hand, and held the Murata Type 18 rifle high in his right hand: "Shout, for the sake of the emperor, all attack!" ”

"For the emperor!"

All the horsemen raised their rifles in their hands and shouted and drove their horses towards the large slope post road.

A line of Tianbei Pass.

Hearing the sudden sound of fierce gunfire from the south, the face of Masaha Kosaka, the leader of the third squad of the first squadron of the fifth brigade of the Japanese cavalry, changed greatly.

The horses under the crotches of the cavalry all stirred uneasily, and several irritable horses had raised their necks and neighed.

"All on alert, don't move!"

Kosaka Masakin ordered loudly, staring at the post road at the corner one hundred and fifty meters in front of him, thinking in shock: Will there be an ambush from the Qing Kingdom here, and how many people from the Qing Kingdom have come in total in this ambush?

Immediately, the pupils in Kosaka Masahma's eyes shrank suddenly, and he saw a group of Qing soldiers wearing red military uniforms rushing out of the corner of the post road with shouts.

"Shoot, shoot!"

Kosaka Masakin roared and raised his rifle in his hand, and with a 'bang', shot towards the Qing troops who were rushing over.

"Iijima Shingo, go back to the mouth of the South Gorge and tell a family of guards and ask for support!"

The fifty cavalrymen of Kosaka Masaka obviously do not have the advantage of positional defense, and the first-line Tianbei Gorge Pass is related to the life and death fate of the large army.

While ordering his subordinate Iijima Shingo to ask for reinforcements at the mouth of the South Gorge, Kosaka Masoka shouted: "Gentlemen, for the sake of honor and for the sake of the emperor, serve and die!" ”

"Serve death, serve death!"

The Japanese soldiers of the cavalry squad shouted loudly, raised their rifles as they walked, and sat on their commotion horses one by one without fear of death and raised their guns to shoot.

"Bang bang bang-"

"Brothers, charge me and kill these Japanese soldiers!"

Yang Jiansheng held the fast spear imitated by the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau, rushed to the front, and shouted while raising his gun to shoot at the Japanese cavalry at the mouth of the canyon.

"Bang bang bang-"

For a time, gunfire rang out at the mouth of the Tianbei Canyon on the first line, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and soldiers on both sides continued to be shot and fell to the ground.

"Hao Tiansheng, Zhou Zhongsheng!"

Lin Yunyu saw a group of Japanese troops marching along the left side of the canyon, shooting at the flank of the reinforcement army, and marching high up the hill with all their might.

And the dozen or so soldiers at the mouth of the gorge on the flank, who were suppressed by the intensive shooting, could not shoot back at all, so Lin Yunyu yelled at Hao Tiansheng and Zhou Zhousheng on the right: "Your second company, the outpost of the army, go and beat this team of Japanese troops down for me, and then seal the mouth of the gorge for me; The rest, all forward and shoot! ”

"Second company, give it all to me!"

Hao Tiansheng roared, led a dozen or so people from the company who were squatting beside him to snipe the Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain, and rushed towards the Japanese troops on the left slope first.

"Brothers, kill these widows!"

Zhou Zhongsheng, the outpost officer of Yang Jiansheng's department of the Feng army, also stood up with a fierce face, and roared while running wildly.

"Kill these dogs~日儛羍!"

The soldiers of the Second Company of the Korean Reinforcement Army, who had received the order, and the Feng army, who were at the sentry in the middle of the week, stood up one after another and rushed towards the hillside on the left.

A line of heaven left cliff.

Yuan Sikai led a row of men and horses to fight fiercely with the Japanese army on the top of the cliff, and the Japanese army on the top of the cliff on the opposite side of the nearly 30-meter-wide cliff was also lying in the chaotic stone forest, constantly attacking the right flank of a row.

He Changying stood in the bushes on the hillside, looking at the Korean reinforcements who were beaten on the post road below and couldn't lift their heads, and couldn't help but sigh again and again.

The reinforcement army he led was the most elite cadet soldier in the Qing Dynasty, and in the confrontation with the ordinary elite soldiers of the Japanese army, he was still at a disadvantage?

If it weren't for the geographical advantage today, the fight was a tired army, and it was a surprise attack, this battle would not have been able to be fought at all.

"Battalion commander, battalion commander!"

Xiong Kaiyu, who was observing from the top of the hillside, ran down with an anxious face: "The Japanese cavalry is rushing here!" ”

"Why is Liu Guangyan so slow!"

He Changying roared angrily: "Mao Chao, you lead the first platoon to continue to snipe at a high level, and the second platoon will rush down for me to stop the Japanese cavalry!" ”

If the Japanese cavalry were allowed to penetrate the blocking position of the reinforcement army below, not only would it bring great casualties to the reinforcement army below, but it would also be possible for the entire army to withdraw to the 'Nine Mile Valley'.

It would be good if Liu Guangyan's cavalry sentry could hold off the Japanese troops on the big slope post road without fear of death, otherwise once the Japanese troops of these four squadrons were withdrawn to the 'Jiuli Valley' to form the Beishankou defense line.

Not only did He Changying's plan be completely played, but Liu Guangyan's sentry cavalry, which was cut off and blocked in the 'Nine Mile Valley', ended up absolutely unlucky.

"You're here, I'll go!"

Mao Chao didn't talk nonsense with He Changying at all, and shouted with a pistol: "Second platoon, let me go to the post road to meet the enemy!" The reinforcement army under the mountain, are you paralyzed all turtles? Shrink your head and don't show your head! ”

"Do you hear me, are you shrunken turtles? If you don't shoot back at Lao Tzu, if you are afraid of death, if you are afraid of death, you will get out of the Korean army, and I will not be a bad seed for the Korean army! ”

Shen Zhaoao below yelled, while quickly reloading, a 'bang' shot, killing a Japanese soldier who was shooting with a gun, and at the same time quickly retracted his body.

"Bang bang."

Suddenly, three or four rifle bullets hit the stone in front of Shen Zhaoao, splashing a large number of flying stones.