In a long period of about 3 hours, the anti-Japanese army had 7 solid shells of 78 caliber heavy guns and 29 solid shells of 35, 40, and 45 caliber small guns against the Japanese army.

The two sides were separated by a distance of about three miles, and they grabbed each other's positions and smashed them back and forth.

The bombardment was on the artillery position, with corpses and blood all over the ground, but the artillery squadrons of Song Zhanbiao's battalion and Tagami Hachiro were all desperate to resist artillery fire.

By this time, only 5 of the 29 small cannons of the Japanese army, which were completely exposed to the field of vision of the observers of the anti-Japanese army, could barely fire.

Because the artillery battalion of the anti-Japanese army was in the blind spot of the direct sight of the Japanese army, there was still an artillery piece that temporarily escaped the Japanese artillery fire, and under the guidance of the command soldiers on the city wall, it continued to fight with the remaining 5 small guns of the Japanese army.

The artillery on both sides suffered heavy casualties.

"Yo Xi!"

Yamaguchi Suchen praised loudly with satisfaction, in this artillery battle, whether it was the caliber of the artillery, the accurate grasp of the position of the enemy's artillery, and the correction of the landing point of the shells, the Qing army had a huge advantage.

It's very good to be able to fight like this now.

“——”

Suddenly, Yamaguchi felt his heart pound violently, tearing his heart apart.

A kind of indifferent coercion, brewing between heaven and earth.

"Boom!"

It was only then that Yamaguchi Sotomi 'really' heard the thunderous explosion rolling through the north.

Like a thick steel mallet, it struck heavily on the drum surface of Yamaguchi Sutomi's eardrum, shaking him cold, his teeth chattering, and he staggered.

"New heavy artillery!"

Yamaguchi Suchen struggled to say these four words, and his face was as pale as a dead man.

The explosion of this kind of artillery roar is obviously different from the crisp thunderbolt of the Qing army's 78 guns just now, but with a thick and dull dull sound, like the kind of artillery sound of the First Heavy Artillery Wing.

At this time, Yamaguchi Suchen suddenly understood that this was the real hole card of the anti-Japanese army.

artillery battle,

That's where it really begins!

"Whoa—"

In the entire silent Qing-Japanese battlefield, the eyes of nearly 20,000 people looked at it from afar, and this huge projectile of 80 caliber shot at the Dongdaying Heights of the 19th Wing of the Japanese Army with a heart-palpitating scream.

Solid bullets, solid bullets, solid bullets –

This is the prayer and heartfelt voice of six or seven thousand Japanese generals and sergeants at this time.

"Boom!"

The high-explosive bomb landed on the edge of the hilltop on the western slope of the Japanese army, sending out a huge thunderbolt.

At this moment of explosion, it seemed that the entire hill of Dongdaying trembled suddenly, shaking the snow on the hillside and freezing corpses, all of which were slightly flicked.

"Whew-"

In an instant, the heat surged.

At the place where the warhead bombarded, the flames and thick smoke instantly melted the snow of nearly 1,000 square meters around it into water vapor.

And the three Japanese soldiers with frightened faces on the drop point didn't even have time to let out an exclamation before they were torn, divided, and blown into countless pieces by the rampaging energy.

"Woohoo—"

Countless metal projectiles, fragments of the projectile body, with a sharp whistle, shot in all directions.

"Ahh

The frightened Japanese soldiers screamed miserably, and large swaths of their bodies exploded with clouds of blood, mist, rotten flesh and bones, and some were directly hit off the ground by the majestic shrapnel, splitting and dismembering in the air, throwing out a rain of blood.

In the place where the earth-shattering screams passed, with the huge crater hit by the projectile as the center, there was no longer a standing Japanese soldier in the hilly area of more than 2,000 square meters.

More than 40 Japanese soldiers either died instantly, or they howled and rolled on the muddy ground, shaking off large pieces of rotten flesh on their bodies, exposing their internal organs and bones, and shooting out a large amount of scarlet blood.

On the mountainside, a section of the horse-resisting pile has long been broken and disintegrated by the rapid projectile, turning into thousands of sawdust.

The high-explosive bomb, the king of the war now, finally showed its ferocity and ferocity vividly on the bare and unhindered hills and highlands of Dongdaying.

A huge black mushroom cloud rose into the sky and could be seen for miles.

"Wow-"

A mouthful of blood, almost in no particular order, spurted out from the mouths of Yamaguchi Suchen and Kuri Iihara Tsuneyo.

Despair filled their faces in an instant.

At this time, whether it was Yamaguchi Sotomi, Okubo Toshisada, Nakaki Noue, and Hayashi Yoshitaro who were watching the battle on the Great Wall, or the Japanese soldiers on the Higashidaying Heights in the north and east hills.

They all understood in an instant why the Qing army's formation today was so strange.

"Yaga, Yaga! They want to swallow the 19th Wing, as well as the Fukushima detachment in the eastern stronghold! ”

Yamaguchi Suchen was full of blood, panting heavily, and roared out of breath with an order: "The West Great Wall is broken, the main city army, immediately attack the East and West Luo City and the south breastwork, and go all out to attack the south breastwork, and must destroy their artillery positions!" The 4 squadrons of the East Fracture will make every effort to open up the connection with the East Stronghold Fukushima Division, and then continue to attack the East Daying! Order the western stronghold Okadabe to immediately attack and rescue! Once the goal is achieved, the order must not be entangled, and the whole army will immediately return to the pass to defend! ”

At this time, the commander of the 16th Wing in the eastern stronghold, Fukushima Yongzhi Daisa, looked at the inner city one mile to the west, removing the pine branch camouflage, and pointing directly at the Krupp artillery facing the sky, and bit his lip angrily.

"Order, all the army attack! Attack the artillery positions in the eastern corner of the Qing army's eastern breastwork! , smash their artillery"

Fukushima Yongzhi shouted the order, and made it on the spot, a decision that was completely unexpected by the staff of the anti-Japanese army.

Neither aided the eastern camp, nor did they break through to the south and escape.

Instead, he ordered 5 infantry squadrons and nearly 800 soldiers to completely abandon their positions and go directly to attack the core of the success or failure of this battle,—— 80 Krupp artillery positions.

"The whole army is attacking westward, attacking!"

With the shouting of the officers of the 16th Wing of the Japanese Army, nearly 800 Japanese troops began to hold long planks and rush towards the horse-resisting piles on the mountainside of the western slope.

"The Japanese want to attack the artillery battalion positions! Plug them up! Order all troops to stop besieging the stronghold on the East Hills and withdraw all to block it! ”

Li Fengrui, who was in charge of the attack on the eastern stronghold, immediately guessed Fukushima Yongzhi's intention, and shouted and ordered the 2nd battalion of infantry in his hand to shrink the defense.

East Daying.

"All assemble, all assemble, break through with the squadron as a unit! The cavalry brigade assaulted south and broke through the blocking line of the Qing army! ”

At this moment, the commander of the 19th Wing of the Japanese Army, Kuriihara Tsuneyo Osa clearly knew that if he stayed in Dongdaying, he would only have the tragic end of the annihilation of the whole army.

He didn't care about wiping the blood from his mouth, endured the monstrous horror in his heart, and yelled to give the order to break through.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom-"

Suddenly, there was one roar after another from the south, which shook the whole world of Chestnut Rice!

The Krupp rapid-fire artillery battalion of the anti-Japanese army, where could the 19th Wing be given this chance to escape?

After the observer soldier reported the test firing effect and correction data aloud.

Xiao Ligang did not carry out the second corrective test firing at all, so he resolutely ordered the artillery battalion to immediately open fire, carry out uninterrupted fire and bombardment, and smash all 160 high-explosive bombs.

"Woohoo Woo

A sharp roar swept over the entire three cities outside the Guanwai.

"Lie down! Lie down! ”

"Dodge bullets!"

The Japanese officers above the East Camp changed color and yelled one after another!

"Keep your head down! Submit! ”

Including the anti-Japanese soldiers who were trapped in the Japanese army around, they all pressed their heads to the ground to avoid bullets; And the cavalry battalion, as early as the first cannon fire, had already driven the horses to retreat a hundred meters west again.