"The brothers have cooked the meal, and sent it to the cavalry brothers on the river bank first, it is really hard to Sheng army brothers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Ma Yukun and Wei Rugui walked out of the heavy fort with a smile, and seeing that his subordinates were cooking, Ma Yukun reminded everyone with a smile: "There are also brothers from the Sheng Army's pro-soldier infantry team in the courtyard, I let you cross the river early in the morning to reinforce, and I, Ma Yukun and the brothers of the Yi Army, thank you." ”

Because the war horses could not enter the heavy fort, Wei Rugui's team of 100 personal cavalry rested on the riverbank behind the heavy fort.

"Okay, thank you to the guards, thank you to the brothers of the Sheng army!"

The soldiers of the Yi Army, who were cooking, laughed and agreed.

"Sheng Jun Yijun, one of us is in a small station and the other is in Rehe, we are all of the same origin as the Huai Army, and we are neighbors; You don't have to see each other like that. “

Wei Rugui laughed.

"Newspaper—"

Suddenly, two cavalry cavalry rushed along the riverbank path, shouting outside the trench: "A group of Japanese troops who took refuge in the reeds of Sheephorn Island last night are now trying to land on the bank of the Changqingmen River, and Sun Fentong is leading his troops to resist the enemy; In addition, a large number of Japanese troops appeared on the south bank of the ordinary river, and Ye Junmen recruited adults to rush back to Suzaku Gate to discuss matters. ”

Although these two news were expected, Wei Rugui and Ma Yukun couldn't help but be shocked when they heard it.

I won't mention the fact that the main force of the Japanese Fifth Division appeared on the south bank of the ordinary river, but it was just a soldier coming to block it.

Otherwise, let them capture the Suzaku Gate, and everyone will have to finish playing.

However, the small force of Japanese troops who landed on Giethoorn now seemed to be nothing more than a disease of scabies; However, once they can gain a firm foothold on the riverbank, then the riverbank artillery battalion, the right bank of the bridge bridge, including the Changqing Gate and the Datong Gate, will all be under the potential attack of the other side.

The entire East City and South City will not only be as uncomfortable as a wooden thorn on the sole of the foot, but may even become an opportunity for victory or defeat at a critical moment.

Therefore, this small group of Japanese troops must all be beaten back to Jiangzuo.

"I'll go back to Jiangyou immediately, and the three forts on the left side of Jiangzuo will be taken care of by my brother."

Wei Rugui opened a marching pot, reached out and took a steamed sorghum nest from it and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it in three or two bites, and ordered Qu Decheng, the sentry officer of his horse team, and Wu Ruisheng, the sentry officer of the infantry team:

"You have to honestly listen to Ma Junmen's dispatch, and if you are disobedient, I will not peel your skin when I go back!"

"Wow!"

Qu Dechenghe and Wu Ruisheng yelled at the same time and agreed.

Pyongyang City, on the bank of the Jangyeongmun River.

Giethoorn Island is only 300 meters away from the right bank, with a slight belly bulge and two ends and a dense vegetation of reeds and willows.

At five o'clock in the morning, the 11th and 12th squadrons of the Japanese army had already landed on Giethoorn Island, and when they didn't pay attention, more than a dozen Korean shipwrights on board jumped off the Datong River and slipped away.

The angry commander of the Japanese left flank, Okuyama Yoshiaki Shaosa, had no choice but to order his first-class soldier Cao Wakida to take the Japanese troops who knew how to swim back to the left bank, and to recapture a dozen or so Korean men in the nearby villages, and drive them to Sheephorn Island to row across the river.

It was not until near nine o'clock in the morning that five ferries loaded with half a squad of soldiers of the 12th Squadron began to cross the right bank of the river from Giethoorn Island.

The Sheng Army guard sentry, who had been paying attention to the direction of Giethoorn Island, immediately reported the news to Sun Xianyin, the commander of the Changqing Gatehouse.

Immediately, Sun Xianyin led two outposts of the Qing army, lay on the dirt slope by the river, and shot at the Japanese troops who had already sailed to the middle of the river, only 150 meters away from the shore.

At this time, there was a sudden burst of gunfire on Giethoorn Island, and the Japanese soldiers in the bunkers and grass on the island also raised their guns to shoot at the Qing troops on the shore.

Sun Xianyin obviously didn't expect that there were so many Japanese ambushes on Sheephorn Island, and while fighting back, he asked his own soldiers to order the Sheng troops of the right battalion of the right army to come over and fight.

The distance between the bank of the Datong River and the wall of Changqingmen was about one mile, but before the Sheng army that received the order rushed out of Changqingmen, the five ferries of the Japanese army had already rowed to the riverbank.

"Retreat to the wooden fence outside the city to defend!"

While Sun Xianyin ordered the troops to retreat, he was secretly grateful to the Korean army in his heart.

It is precisely because they camped outside the Changqing Gate not long ago, so on both sides of the Changqing Gate, people carrying horses and camels brought a large amount of wood, and formed a square camp more than 300 meters long and 150 meters deep along both sides of the city gate.

Sun Xianyin was ready to lean on these wooden fences and block the Japanese army inside.

Otherwise, the entire eastern part of Pyongyang would be flat, and Sun Hyun-in would either retreat to the city, stand on the city wall and beat him blindly with bullets, and watch the Japanese army go to disrupt the artillery camp on the riverbank.

Either it is a face-to-face confrontation with the Japanese army without cover, but whether the opponent has this kind of courage and whether the camp will be broken, Sun Xianyin really has no confidence in his heart.

"The front, middle, and rear posts give me to shoot in front, the left guard the left fence, and the right fence; The brothers beat me hard, and I must not let them go ashore to attack the artillery battalion on the riverbank! ”

Sun Xianyin hid behind a wooden fence, his heart suddenly relaxed, and he put the rifle in his hand on the horizontal branch in the gap of the fence, waiting for the Japanese army to walk up to the embankment.

On the right bank of the Datong River, there are silt swamps everywhere, and boats cannot dock, and people who go down to the mud are killed in an instant.

Only the area around Changqingmen and the area of Toulao Island downstream are hard sand and stone structures.

However, at the head of the boat bridge on Toulao Island, the Qing army deliberately set up a Green gun to defend the bridge, if the Japanese army dared to take a boat down the river to seize the bridge, five small ferries could sink all into the river to feed the fish with a shuttle shell.

Therefore, the Japanese army could only land on the riverside outside Changqing Gate, and then go up to the high place on the bank, so that they could move to both sides.

Sun Xianyin held his breath and waited for the Japanese army to show up.

After about five or six minutes, three or four tall black hats popped up from the embankment.

"Bang bang bang-"

Before Sun Xianyin could speak, the soldiers at the three outposts under his command opened fire almost simultaneously, beating the four black hats to pieces, and the red, red and white were full of blood and brains.

"Beautiful!"

Sun Xianyin happily patted the wooden stake in front of him and shouted: "Brothers have done a good job!" ”

"Look, my lord, how many kings are showing their heads today, let's beat him and feed him fish!"

The first battle was completed, and the soldiers of the Sheng army all shouted happily, all of them were heroic and full of courage.

"Yaga!"

Captain Sugiyama, the leader of the 12th Squadron, who had just jumped off the ferry, was startled by the sudden roar of gunfire, and then saw that the four Imperial soldiers who had just poked out of the embankment at the front were all shot in the head by countless bullets and rolled down.

"Lying on the shore, prostrate and shooting; Destroy these pigs! ”

Sugiyama couldn't help but scream in anger, and lay on the sloping slope of the embankment with his rifle in his hand, moving upwards little by little, while shouting orders.

The rest of the Japanese soldiers gathered up the fear in their hearts, and they all lay on the embankment and slowly climbed up towards the embankment.

"Hit!"

Seeing the black hat of the Japanese soldier showing out again, Sun Xianyin yelled and raised his gun to shoot.

"Shoot!"

Captain Sugiyama, who was lying on the embankment, also yelled and ordered his soldiers to shoot back.

For a time, the gunfire outside the Changqing Gate was loud, and more than 500 Qing troops from the right battalion of the Sheng Army's right army and the Japanese troops of the two squadrons collided fiercely.

Jiang left, right wing.

Hearing the gunfire on the other side, Captain Tadachi Yamamoto, the leader of the 5th Artillery Squadron, and Captain Sakuramoto, the leader of the 6th Squadron, looked at each other and smiled.

"The artillery position is moved forward, and the target is two hundred meters of sorghum field."

Yamamoto Tadashi shouted and ordered his artillery to pull the twelve 70-mm mountain guns directly to the sorghum field less than 200 meters away from the Qing army's right fort.

Prepare to lower the muzzle of the gun and fire flat, and directly destroy the column breastwall of the Qing army's right flank and the heavy fort in the middle.