c_t; Kuroki was amazed by the idea of advancing for the Zhen cavalry, and the two men agreed to merge the cavalry wing together to form a cavalry brigade, more than 2,000 people, led by the cavalry wing captain Fugang Tianyou, and went straight to Jinan, passing through Dezhou, and rushing to Beijing.

The rest of the departments stepped up the repair of the fortifications and prepared to besiege the Beiyang Naval Division fleet, but as everyone knows, the repair of the Weihaiwei Fort and the placement of heavy artillery will take two to three days to carry out, giving Zhang Yi and Xu Huaijin enough time to dispatch men.

Two days later, Yuan Shikai and Dong Fuxiang each led their subordinates to gather in Wendeng, and the garrisons of nearby prefectures and counties also rushed over one after another. There are more than 8,000 people in Zhang Yi's headquarters and Xu Huaijin's headquarters; Yuan Shikai's remnants of 6,000 people; Dong Fuxiang's main force is 5,000 people; There were 6,000 troops stationed in nearby prefectures and counties, totaling more than 25,000 troops, which far exceeded the Japanese army's strength of less than 20,000 troops.

Zhang Yi and Xu Huaijin went to the local garrison, leaving behind the strong troops of the local garrison, and nearly 2,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people were all put into the reserve force to be responsible for logistics and supply, and a total of nearly 24,000 people participated in this large-scale battle to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army.

With Yuan Shikai's Huai army as the way, attacking the North Gang Fort from the north, Dong Fuxiang's Gan Army as the whole way, attacking the North Gang Fort from the south; Zhang Yi himself led the third battalion in the center, and Xu Huaijin led Li Bingheng's remnants and local garrisons to supply 8,000 people, blocking the retreat of the Japanese army to the south, attacking the Nanbang battery from the south, and the troops were divided into four routes, completely encircling the entire Weihaiwei.

By the time Kuroki Weizhen and Sakuma Zuo Matthew realized, Zhang Yi had already completed the strategic deployment and completely pocketed the main force of the Japanese army of nearly 20,000 people.

By now, Kuroki Weizhen and Sakuma Zuo Matthew finally understood Zhang Yi's strategic intention to abandon the Weihaiwei Fort, which was a trap dug for fear that the Japanese army would scatter, loot everywhere, and attack everywhere, so as to wait for the main force of the Japanese army to step in and concentrate superior forces. Annihilation in one fell swoop!

Kuroki Weizhen and Sakuma Zuo Matthew's face was gloomy, this is the most critical battle since the start of the Sino-Japanese war, there is no sloppiness, if one is not handled properly, the whole army will be wiped out, there is no possibility of survival, once defeated. The Empire will be devastated and will no longer be able to continue fighting.

Kuroki sneered. said: "Since Zhang Yi's Chinese tiger wants to play a big one, then let's play with her, although the Qing army has the advantage in strength, but the military quality is far inferior to our army, let's rely on the elite division to fight well with the Qing army, the main fleet of the imperial navy, these two days should also arrive, but the sea and land go hand in hand, eat the Beiyang fleet first." Then he turned around and won the game in one fell swoop against the Qing Army! ”

Sakuma Zuo Matthew nodded, and now there is no better way, so he can only step up the preparation of fortifications and fight to the death with the Qing army.

It's just that the Qing army didn't give the Japanese army time to breathe, just when the Japanese army had just placed the heavy artillery of the battery. When the reinforcement was carried out.

Zhang Yi ordered the four Qing armies to launch a fierce offensive against the Japanese army.

Now that the Qing army is in the country, weapons and ammunition from all over the country have been continuously supplied, and the ammunition is sufficient and the weapons are complete. The four groups of men and horses actually gathered more than 100 Krupp heavy guns and launched the most fierce artillery bombardment against the Japanese army.

The shelling of several other groups of men and horses, due to lack of training and poor archery, did not cause much damage to the Japanese army, but the most important thing was the artillery battalion of Zhang Yi's third battalion. But it was the elite who returned from Korea, and the artillery skills were exquisite, far above the Japanese army, and the damage caused to the Japanese army by the firepower of one artillery battalion was almost equal to the sum of the other three battalions!

In just one morning, the Qing army poured more than 2,000 shells on the Weihaiwei Fort, and Zhang Yi was ruthless to completely destroy the fort occupied by the Japanese army in the shortest possible time. The situation of the Beibang Fort was slightly better, because the armies of Dong Fuxiang and Yuan Shikai had slightly worse artillery skills and slightly less destructive power to the Weihaiwei Fort.

The South Gang Fort is miserable, the shells of the integrated artillery battalion of the third battalion are like long eyes, specifically to the key position of the Japanese army, the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division stationed in the South Gang Fort are bitter, Kuroki Weizhen finally saw the Chinese tiger for the first time, Kuroki Weizhen is good at attacking among many generals of the Japanese army, advancing by leaps and bounds, making good use of strange soldiers, but now it has fallen into positional warfare, in the encirclement of the Qing army, his specialty can no longer be played, and he is restrained everywhere, so anxious that she jumps to her feet, I can only pray and pray that the Imperial Navy will come over quickly, as long as the two work together to solve the Beiyang Naval Division, the unimpeded Imperial Navy can recruit more land forces to help in the war at any time.

At the same time, in order to support the Imperial Navy in the next few days to fight against the Beiyang Naval Division, the two divisions of the Japanese army placed a large number of heavy artillery directly on the fort and fixed it, and the Krupp heavy artillery mounted on the fort wanted to turn around and fight with the Qing army, but it was very inconvenient, the Japanese army lost its most powerful firepower, and could only meet it with infantry guns and a small part of the Krupp heavy artillery, the disadvantage was obvious, the Japanese army suffered serious losses in just one morning, and several heavy guns on the fort were also blown up.

In a hurry, Kuroki Weizhen and Sakuma Zuo Matthew lost their cool, made an unforgivable mistake, and ordered the Krupp heavy artillery of the fort to shell directly at the Beiyang Naval Division.

It's just that the heavens are not beautiful, and before waiting for the arrival of the imperial navy, the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division in Weihaiwei Harbor also began shelling. Ding Ruchang ordered more than a dozen main warships, which were close to the north and south banks, and fired at the back of the two Japanese master regiments, and no less than 100 cannons of various calibers were placed on more than a dozen warships, together with large-caliber heavy machine gun fire, and fired at the Japanese batteries.

The unfortunate two master regiments of the Japanese army had not yet tasted the taste of attacking the Beiyang Navy on both sides of the Imperial Navy, and were first attacked by the Qing Army and the Beiyang Naval Division.

The Beiyang Naval Division and Zhang Yi's four-way army formed a perfect closed loop, and began to attack the Japanese army on all sides, and it was even more difficult for the Japanese army to find a hidden strategic fulcrum in Weihai Weijun Port, and it was only exposed to the heavy artillery of the Japanese army, and the casualties of the Japanese army rose sharply.

Just when Zhang Yi commanded more than 20,000 people to step up the siege of the army, Zhang Enyuan hurriedly ran in and shouted: "Instructor, instructor!" ”

Zhang Yi turned around and asked, "What's the matter, Enyuan, what's the matter?" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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