Chapter 342: Battle Tiger Mountain IV

"Enemy attack, there is a Qing army in the west, 9 squadrons, 10 squadrons, responsible for blocking it!"

Yoshijiro Ohara suddenly heard a strange string of bugles in his ears, and he felt that something was wrong, but before he could react, he was frightened to hear a shout from the southwest, followed by a dense burst of gunfire. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"The Qing army is coming!"

Yoshijiro Ohara's brain was buzzing, and while gritting his teeth, he ordered the troops to divide their troops to block the attack, and shouted at the soldiers on the bridge: "Run forward, run forward!" ”

"Rush!"

In less than three minutes, more than 1,600 people from the main force of the Korean reinforcement army completely rushed to the side of the Japanese army's bridge, and almost all the Japanese troops in close to five squadrons were already facing each other.

The reinforcement army and the forward soldiers of the Japanese army were instantly entangled.

"Charge!"

At this time, He Changying also roared loudly and ordered the reinforcement army of less than 400 who could still stand to charge and attack.

"Fade the bullet and put the bayonet on!"

Yoshijiro Ohara saw that the two sides were already in a state of melee, and hurriedly gave a loud hand-to-hand combat order.

At this time, the engineer squadron of the reinforcement army, which was desperately charging towards the bridge, finally reached the side of the bridge after more than ten people were killed.

"Down the river!"

Li Yuan roared and jumped down the middle river, threw himself into the icy water, and rushed towards the middle of the river.

"Baga, what do these Qing Pigs want to do?"

The Japanese soldiers on the bridge looked confused, cursed, and rushed quickly towards the shore.

When he ran into the waist-deep river, Li Yuan saw that there were no piers in front of the bridge, and shouted: "Ignition!" ”

The remaining 20 or so sappers who heard the order took out matches one after another and lit their cotton clothes with 'hula'.

"Yaga! Clear the pig to burn the bridge, clear the pig to burn the bridge, stop them, stop them! ”

At this time, the Japanese troops on the bridge really changed color and panicked, and they shouted to stop their steps and raised their guns to shoot at the Korean reinforcement sappers in the river.

"Bang bang bang-"

At such a close distance, the soldiers of the reinforcement army were shot one after another, but before they poured into the river, they threw the burning cotton clothes in their hands on the bridge.

"I'm coming!"

Luo Dali, the bearded man who stood up at the Gangdong Bridge store in Pyongyang and supported Li Bohu to block the Japanese army, wrapped a large jar of fire oil in his hands, and yelled in his mouth: "Die, dog Japanese army!" ”

The thin-walled jar of thirty or forty pounds crossed an arc high in the air and smashed heavily on the bridge, shattering with a bang.

"Boom-"

The splashing oil met the open flame of the cotton clothes, and then 'hulala' burned violently.

"Ahh

Two Japanese soldiers, who had been splashed with fire oil and set on fire, jumped into the river screaming and screaming.

"Yaga! Kill them! ”

The Japanese soldiers on the bridge were so angry that they shouted angrily, gritted their teeth and raised their guns to shoot at the sappers of the Korean reinforcements in the water.

"Dive away, dive—"

Li Yuan's shouting almost alarmed all the Japanese soldiers on the bridge, and they turned their guns one after another, shooting their anger at Li Yuan.

Second Lieutenant Li Yuan, the captain of the engineer corps of the Korean Aid Army, was hit by more than a dozen projectiles in his upper body.

Looking at the burning bridge, with a satisfied smile on his face, Li Yuan slowly poured into the Zhongjiang River and drifted down the river.

"Jump the river, jump the river!"

At this time, there was a frightened shout from the Japanese army crossing the bridge, and the wires and ropes that helped the bridge board were immediately burned by the raging fire, and the bridge overturned and threw down the river, and the Japanese troops on it fell into the river one after another.

"Kill the Waiyi!"

At this time, more than 1,000 Luyu defense troops personally led by Nie Shicheng finally rushed over and immediately joined the chaotic boiling pot battle group.

"Kill the Woyi!"

The Majinxu Department of Hushan, which was closer to the battlefield, was originally a little hesitant to ask Wang Shizhen for troops, because the Japanese artillery on the other side was not only numerous, but also very sharp.

After several counterfires, the two artillery positions that Ma Jinxu had arranged in Hushan were razed to the ground by Japanese artillery fire, and the artillery battalion suffered heavy casualties.

However, when Ma Jinxu saw Nie Shicheng, who was farther away, he actually rushed through the foot of his defensive line with a brigade of soldiers and pounced on Zhongjiang, Ma Jinxu's body was suddenly full of courage, and he roared and ordered all the Ming troops of the remaining three battalions to charge and enter the battle.

As a result, on the right bank of the entire Yalu River, the Qing army concentrated more than 4,500 troops and strangled more than 1,000 soldiers from 5 squadrons of the Japanese army crossing the river face-to-face.

The Japanese troops on the left bank of the river were so angry that they could only shoot and support across the river.

However, after two rounds of volleys in a row, Tomita Harubi was horrified to find that his men had shot more imperial soldiers than the Qing army.

The reason is that the remaining more than 600 Japanese troops were squeezed by the 4,000 Qing troops on the riverside, so the density of Japanese troops standing by the river was much greater than that of the Qing army.

"The 11th squadron contracted the line, blocked and covered, and the rest of the squadron all jumped into the river and retreated!"

Looking at the dense Qing army in front, Yoshijiro Ohara gave the order to jump into the river and escape in despair.

The Japanese troops, who had received the order, twisted and jumped down the icy river in groups and swam towards the opposite bank.

The Japanese soldiers in the river were so cold that they screamed, and some soldiers who were not very good at swimming fluttered weakly in the water and sank into the river.

"Rescue in the water!"

The captain of the 5th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Masaba Masaka, jumped into the river with a sad and angry face to rescue the Japanese soldiers who jumped into the river on the opposite bank.

"Shoot, shoot!"

Seeing that there were no Japanese troops standing on the other side of the river at this time, Tomita Harubi Shaozo hurriedly shouted and ordered the soldiers of his six squadrons to shoot at the opposite bank.

"All prostrate, shoot at the Uyi!"

The salvo of 1,200 rifles instantly knocked down more than a dozen Qing troops on the right bank of the Zhongjiang River, and Nie Shicheng and Ma Jinxu yelled and ordered the troops to lie down and fight back.

"Adjust the muzzle of the gun and bombard the right bank of the river!"

Major General Kuroda Hisataka, head of the artillery of the First Army of the Qing Dynasty, after commanding the artillery group to level the artillery positions of the Qing army in Hushan and Liziyuan, looked at the river bank with a gloomy face for a long time, and immediately issued a new combat order after seeing the imperial army leave the battlefield: "Avenge the infantry and kill these Qing troops!" ”

"Avenge the infantry and kill these pigs!"

The Japanese artillery on the high ground roared one after another, while quickly adjusting the artillery.

"Don't lie down, retreat, retreat, the artillery coverage of the Japanese army is coming; Carry back all the wounded and killed comrades! ”

Seeing the Japanese army out of battle, He Changying, Lin Yunyu, and Wu Weiyang all shouted and gave orders.

The soldiers of the reinforcement army carried the reinforcement army that fell to the ground around them, Wu Yijun, and Ming army soldiers, and hurriedly retreated towards the third river.

"Retreat, retreat!"

Being reminded by the reinforcement army, Nie Shicheng and Ma Jinxu also shouted orders to retreat.

"Boom, boom—"

As soon as all the Qing troops fled to the surface of the Third River, the Japanese artillery exploded and smashed into the right bank of the Zhongjiang River.

Suddenly, the highlands on the right bank of the Zhongjiang River in this area were almost completely covered, and the rocks, stumps, and dust and smoke shrouded the entire highlands.

"It's dangerous!"

Seeing this heart-wrenching scene, all the Qing troops broke out in a cold sweat.

What if it's a few minutes late?

"Run back to the other side immediately!"

As the officers shouted, all the soldiers let go of their steps and ran towards the riverbank.