In the three cities outside the Guan, more than 7,000 Qing soldiers hid at the head of the city, and more than 4,300 infantry from nearly 4 infantry brigades of the Japanese army were stuck together. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Japanese army relied on the accurate shooting mastered by several years of rigorous training, and the Qing army relied on the superiority of being numerous, powerful, and condescending, and the two sides were about 150 to 200 meters apart, and they carried out fierce fire without yielding an inch.

In the Qing and Japanese armies, soldiers were constantly shot and killed.

The wounded soldiers of the Qing army will soon be transferred to the city wall for treatment.

In the face of the heavy gunfire of the Qing army, the Japanese field doctors could not get up at all to withdraw the wounded soldiers from the front line, so they had to crawl over to carry out some rough bandaging, and let those Japanese soldiers who were seriously injured by bullets slowly bleed to death on the battle line.

"Bang bang bang-"

Between heaven and earth, the explosion of guns and bullets was filled, like a majestic rain.

He Changying leaned against the southern side wall of the 6-meter-wide north city wall, holding a telescope and looking around.

This is the blind spot of the Japanese army's 200-meter firing zone, which is convenient for him to command on the spot, and at the same time can observe the situation in the remaining two cities in the left and right rear.

In his telescopic lens, whether it was the Luyu Defense Army of Xia Qingyun's Department in Xiluo City, Xu Bangdao's newly recruited recruits, or Jia Qisheng's Sheng Army, Renzi Army, Nie Pengcheng, Shen Zengjia's Beigukou training troops, and even the Feng Army who could not escape all the way back, they were all on the city wall and bravely shot at the Japanese troops under the city.

In the meantime, once a soldier was shot and fell, the soldiers who were sitting on standby against the south wall behind them would rush up without hesitation, take over the battlements defended by the original soldier, and raise their guns to shoot.

"Baga, these clear pigs, what bastards!"

Fukushima Yongzhi saw the Qing army in the three cities outside the Guan, not as he imagined, and when he saw the brave imperial soldiers, he immediately abandoned the city in panic and fled.

Instead, they dared to resist like a car, so that the imperial army not only could not easily capture the three cities outside the Guanwai, but was also suppressed under the city, with continuous casualties.

Fukushima Yongzhi felt very angry.

And this kind of shooting is obviously very unfavorable to the imperial soldiers, although Fukushima Yongzhi does not have an accurate figure, but just by visual inspection, he can estimate that the casualties of the imperial soldiers are definitely not lower than the Qing army at the head of the city.

And in Fukushima Yongzhi's heart, the shooting of these garbage Qing soldiers and imperial soldiers is at least three to one, which is the value he can accept.

We can't go on like this!

Thinking so in his heart, Fukushima Yongzhi immediately ordered loudly: "Order the Ikedabe sappers to immediately blast the north gate, and Eda will send two squadrons to cover." ”

"The thirteenth and sixteenth squadrons, all stand and advance to attack; The rest of the squadron covers the attack! ”

The first captain of the 16th Wing of the Japanese Army, Kunei Eida, heard the order conveyed by the herald and stood up with a loud shout.

"A squad of sappers, carrying explosives bags, blasting the north gate!"

At the same time, Naoji Ikeda, the commander of the 2nd Engineer Brigade of the Japanese Army, who received the order, also stood up and shouted orders.

"Attack!"

Immediately, more than 400 infantry of two Japanese squadrons and more than 50 Japanese sappers mixed in with explosives bags in them, under the command of the squadron leaders, got up and ran towards the north gate of the north wing of the city, shooting at the same time.

"The Japanese army wants to blast the city gates!"

The soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Army, who had been reminded by the officers before, saw this scene, especially the Japanese soldiers who were holding explosives bags in it.

The soldiers of the anti-Japanese army who shot in Beicheng shouted reminders one after another, and one by one they no longer fired a shot to dodge bullets.

Instead, he lay directly on the battlement, desperately shooting to stop it.

"All up and shoot!"

With the shouting of Li Fengrui, the commander of the first battalion, the soldiers of the anti-Japanese army who were sitting on the southern edge and waiting for their substitutes ran to the edge of the north wall, put their guns on the horizontal wall tiles between the battlements, and raised their guns to shoot.

"Bang bang bang-"

The gunfire in the northern wing of the city suddenly became dense, and even He Changying couldn't care about watching the battle situation in the East and West Luo City anymore, and ran to the battlement to watch the situation under the city.

In an instant, more than 450 Japanese soldiers ran forty or fifty meters, and the forty or fifty meters of the road was full of the corpses of Japanese soldiers and the howls of the soldiers who were shot, but the remaining 100 meters of distance was obviously instantaneous.

He Changying's mouth was straight and dry, and it seemed that the situation at the north gate was about to be exposed.

Although the north gate of the three cities outside the gate has already been sealed in advance, leaving only the south gate behind to enter and exit, even if the Japanese sappers blast the north gate this time, they will not be able to enter the north wing city.

However, the Japanese army broke through the north gate in one charge, exposing this matter in advance, which was obviously what He Changying did not want to see.

"Push the gun cart up and kill them!"

Liu Mingyang, deputy head of the Shanhaiguan Regiment of the Anti-Japanese Army, did not personally command the battle this time, and handed over the defense of Beicheng to Li Fengrui, for the sake of the present moment.

When he was on Laolong Island in Pyongyang, it was Liu Mingyang who used his steady hands to open the Green cannon heartily without getting stuck.

With just one Green gun, the entire squadron of the Japanese army was suppressed on the bridge and could not raise its head.

This time, Liu Mingyang took the initiative to ask to be the commander of this green artillery, which is to make another miraculous feat at a critical moment.

At the same time that the Japanese army stopped the shelling and launched an infantry attack, Liu Mingyang's artillery crew members began to carry the parts of the Green cannon hidden in the city wall to the north city tower.

Then he assembled it slipperily, pressed the cloth bullet chain, and waited for the attack.

"One, two, three, hello!"

"Boom!"

In the winter sun, the Green Cannon, which shone with bronze metallic texture, was quickly and steadily pushed to the edge of the north city wall by the artillery crew.

The wheels slammed lightly against the edge of the wall, and the gleaming barrels protruded right out of the battlements, pointing at the Japanese troops who were rushing straight ahead.

Liu Mingyang had already run behind the Green Cannon, held the handle of the Green Cannon with his left hand, lifted it slightly upward, and tilted the cold muzzle slightly, pointing directly at the Japanese troops rushing below.

Immediately, Liu Mingyang's right hand held the wheel of the Green Cannon steadily, and rotated steadily and evenly.

"Dada-Da-"

Suddenly, a long tongue of fire erupted from the muzzle of the Green Cannon, and countless bullet casings bounced and sprinkled on the ground, making a crisp 'clanging' sound.

The scorching bullets, like a chain of light bursting with sparks, cut towards the Japanese plough below.

"Ahh

The forward part of the Japanese troops who were charging under the northern city was suddenly beaten into a cloud of blood mist by the rampant Green artillery bullets, and the bloody limbs and flesh were torn apart by the bullets and splashed in all directions, and the screams and howls were heartbreaking, like a ghost domain.

After Liu Mingyang easily knocked out the protruding front of the Japanese shock team, there was no trace of abnormality on his calm face, and his right hand continued to rotate the wheel of the Green Cannon steadily and uniformly, and his left hand was slightly raised.

"Da Da Da-"

The bullets then fired towards the Japanese troops piled up in the center.

"Ahh

The Japanese troops fifty or sixty meters below the city were all huddled together, not daring to advance, not daring to retreat without orders, but screaming in despair with horror on their faces.

The huge kinetic energy of the Green cannon bullet, at such a close distance, could even easily pass through the bodies of two Japanese soldiers, and for a while, the entire Japanese assault team was scattered like a remnant after rain.

"Eight-"

Captain Toshiyoshi Ikegami, the squadron leader of the 13th Squadron of the Japanese Army, was so angry that he only had time to curse when he was hit in the head by a sharp bullet, and the red, white and white tofu brain flew over his bare neck.