"Boom-"

"Boom-"

The second corrective firing of the Japanese ship group, with which, began. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, on Nanguan Ridge, in addition to some camouflage made of the corpses of Japanese soldiers killed many days ago, there are also some dummies filled with straw branches, which have long been empty.

"Boom-"

After three corrective test firings, the Japanese fleet's artillery group immediately began a fierce bombardment.

Suddenly, on the entire nearly three-mile-long defense line of Nanguanling, yellow smoke was filled, and many big trees, as well as the grass and dead leaves that had accumulated for years, were easily ignited.

A raging mountain fire was ignited.

Twenty minutes later, the shelling stopped, and the entire Nanguanling defense line was plunged into a sea of fire, especially the large number of horse-repelling piles built by the anti-Japanese army before, all of which were pine wood with extremely high resin content, and it was even more 'crackling' when burning.

"Yo Xi, burn all these stupid pigs to charcoal!"

Dashan Yan put down the telescope in satisfaction.

This bombardment, because the fleet can visually measure the effect of the bombardment, so the accuracy is much higher than the bombardment of Jinzhou, under such a violent shelling, Dashanyan believes that few Qing troops can survive the position.

"Launch an attack, enter the Qing army's position from the edge of the sea of fire, intersperse directly backwards, and destroy everything that blocks the Qing army along the road."

Oyama Yan ordered: "Order Masao Baba's Fifth Engineer Brigade to quickly dismantle the wall in front of the Nanguanling Post Road and dredge the attack road. ”

At 9 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the fire at Nanguanling was gradually extinguished, and the Japanese Second Army occupied the ruined Nanguanling without a single bullet.

On the top of the mountain, it was burned black, and there were huge craters scattered everywhere.

Immediately, the units of the Japanese Second Army continued to advance along the Guanling, and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the vanguard troops arrived at the defensive position of Wu Weiyang's division in Yingchengzi, and a skirmish broke out.

The battle lasted about half an hour, with the two sides firing at each other in concealment from a distance.

Although the fight was lively, it was only two or three hundred meters apart, and the hit basically depended on luck.

Wu Weiyang refused his subordinates' request to attack and annihilate the Japanese army of about half of the infantry brigade, and strictly ordered all units to hold their positions and not act rashly.

As soon as the order was issued, more than 500 cavalry troops of the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army arrived at Yingchengzi and waited from afar.

And the follow-up Japanese infantry also began to arrive in large numbers.

At 5:35 p.m., the Japanese advance troops, feeling that the Qing army was well defended, left behind more than 20 corpses and hurriedly evacuated.

Wu Weiyang, Hao Tiansheng, Ma Decao, Peng Qianyan, Qu Desheng, Lu Tiejiao, a group of officers and staff officers of the anti-Japanese army, stood on a hillside two miles behind the camp city.

Behind them, in the low valley of the slope, a thousand cavalry of the cavalry regiment, carrying large blades on their backs and holding Mauser rifles, waited for an attack.

Wu Weiyang, who got the battle report, was surprised to find that the number of dead and seriously wounded in the anti-Japanese army was close to 30.

"The accurate shooting of the Japanese army was originally higher than that of the anti-Japanese army; Our advantage is that the guns and artillery of the anti-Japanese army are more advanced than those of the Japanese army. ”

Peng Qianyan said: "The terrain in this area of Yingchengzi is gentle and open, since the effective range of the Mauser rifle is 800 meters, and the effective range of the fast gun is also more than 500 meters, I recommend shooting at a distance of 400 meters; Hehe, anyway, the bullets can't be finished. ”

Peng Qianyan's words, a local tyrant breath came to his face.

The anti-Japanese army ate the arms reserves accumulated in the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and suddenly completed a qualitative leap.

More than 600 new guns were sealed in the warehouse of Dalian Bay, plus nearly 1,000 rifles discarded by Huang Shilin, Zhang Guangqian, Wei Rucheng, and 2,000 fleeing soldiers.

As a result, the anti-Japanese army had sufficient reserves of guns and was able to replace the damaged guns in the hands of some soldiers in a timely manner.

The sixteen battalion guns obtained from the warehouse made He Changying build the warrior battalion into a mountain field artillery battalion, so that the anti-Japanese army had three artillery battalions, and completely crushed the second army of Dashanyan on the artillery fire.

And a large number of shells and bullets made the anti-Japanese army completely free of logistical pressure and could squander bullets at will.

This is something that the Dashan Iwa Department has a large number of military resources in stock, and one bullet is missing one bullet when it is fired, which is incomparable.

"Do so;"

Wu Weiyang nodded in agreement, and then said to Qu Desheng beside him: "Your cavalry regiment is temporarily disbanded, and the Japanese army is becoming more and more cunning now, it seems that it is difficult to be easily fooled." ”

Qu Desheng opened his mouth and said: "Deputy commander-in-chief, I suggest that you don't make up for the dry mines and let the Japanese army in; This open terrain is most suitable for cavalry assaults. ”

"Don't worry, the Japanese should still have a few artillery pieces in their hands now, and they have to grind until they can't help but expose the artillery positions and destroy them; At least until the beginning of spring next year, the Japanese army will no longer have the strength to attack, and at that time, it will be the time for us to counterattack little by little, until the time to finally crush them. ”

The accurate fire of the Japanese artillery, coupled with the grenade shells, caused extremely strong damage to the fortifications of the fortress, and the reason why Pyongyang's left precious troops lost the entire Beicheng District in half a day was because the grenade bombs hit too painfully.

The defense line of Yingchengzi, including the Tuchengzi behind, is all gentle, and the bunkers are only simple earthen wall defenses, and Wu Weiyang is always a little worried about not luring out the Japanese artillery.

Without artillery support, the Japanese army only relied on a large number of single-shot Murata rifles to shoot at the anti-Japanese army, and wanted to attack Lushun, which was simply a dream.

Near night, the headquarters of the Japanese Second Army arrived at the Muchengzi Reservoir, which was five miles away from the defense line of the Qing army camp, and the rest of the troops also began to establish an improvised defense line along this line.

"The Qing army's defense in Yingchengzi was far less tight than that of Nanguanling, but it was only in Jiangzi Mountain, West Huangling, Mengou Village, Yingchengzi, and Northwest Dianzi, and five places were established to defend the ring-shaped earthen walls, or the houses of the successive villages; There was a large amount of open area in between, which was left to the Imperial army to calmly intersperse and detour. ”

Listening to the reports of the staff officers who followed the advance team on the march, Oyama Iwa and a group of Japanese generals stared at the map hanging on the wall and thought about it repeatedly.

"The Qing army's Yingchengzi defense line is the peninsula headland in the north, the northwest Dianzi position is just stuck in the west of the headland, the south is a large area of mountains that extend to the Yellow Sea, and the West Yellow Ridge is also stuck at the foot of the mountain; The five positions are connected into a bead-like defensive line, and behind this defensive line, I wonder if the Qing army still has a backhand? ”

Dasi Anchun opened his mouth and said: "The area around this camp city is open and more than twelve miles wide, and the terrain is flat, and the defense line mode of Nanguanling is not suitable for use here at all. ”

"Tomorrow we will use the military strength of a wing to test it, but don't attack it."

Da Shanyan's gaze looked towards the southern part of the Huangshan Ridge, where there were mountains more than forty miles wide, connecting Port Arthur and Dalian Bay at the east and west:

"The reason why the Qing army was unwilling to spend a lot of labor to build fortifications was because it could block the camp city, but it could not prevent the imperial army from calmly bypassing the southern mountains and attacking its rear flank, or directly attacking the defensive line around Lushun."

At this time, Dashanyan did not have any relaxation in his eyes, and his heart was full of bitterness.