The Japanese cavalry that appeared on the other side of the Anping estuary became the last straw that crushed the Qing army at the estuary. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

All the Qing troops screamed in surprise, turned around and drilled into the mountains and forests behind the river, or desperately rushed into the waist-deep Anping River, wading towards the north bank and escaping.

"The whole army runs forward, controls the direction of the left flank, and expells all the Qing troops upstream!"

With Miki Kamio's order, all the Japanese troops in the river no longer shoot, but strode through the river and rushed towards the shore.

"All of them go to the fort and give me a gun and beat me hard; Turn the muzzle of the cannon and bombard them with a cannon! ”

Urdu yelled, telling the Qing troops who had escaped from the Anping River to go up to the fort on the high slope of the bank, and condescendingly shoot at the Japanese soldiers who were coming ashore on the opposite bank.

"Boom!"

The artillery on the north bank of the Anping estuary quickly adjusted the muzzle and bombarded the Japanese soldiers on the other side of the river.

"Bang bang—"

The Qing troops who crossed the river also squatted on the forts one after another, raising their guns and shooting at the Japanese soldiers on the beach three or four hundred meters below.

"Which fort to go to, and fight against the Qing army!"

Miki Kamio had already seen the depth of the water at the mouth of the Anping River just now, and if he led the army to forcibly wade across the river at this depth, and was hit by the Qing army on the other side of the river, there would obviously be great casualties.

She saw the empty battery on this side of the estuary and immediately ordered the Japanese to go over and fire the artillery.

"Lieutenant, we are all infantry, do you want the artillery on the other side to come and fire?"

Second Lieutenant Maruyama, the leader of the Japanese infantry squad, stood on the beach, looking embarrassed.

"Baga, how can the empire raise a bunch of idiots like you! Won't you be able to shoot? ”

Miki Kamio scolded angrily, and then said to the stick that had been following her firmly: "Go, third, go to the fort!" ”

Immediately, under the leadership of Miki Kamio, a group of tiger cottage silkmen rushed to the fort.

Miki Kamio glanced at the mortar cannon and began to shake the wheel and turn the muzzle.

"He Changying's mother-in-law, what does she want to do? This damn female spy! ”

Urdu saw that on the other side of the Anping River, Miki Kamio, who was wearing a big red jacket, was shaking the muzzle of the cannon, pointing to this side, and couldn't help but shout angrily: "Shoot, kill them!" ”

"Shoot the pig!"

At the fort on the opposite bank, the stick yelled and ordered his men to shoot at the Qing army on the other side.

"Boom!"

As a puff of flame erupted from the mortar of the battery on the opposite bank, a cannonball slammed into the edge of the battery on this side of the river.

The shrapnel that split apart suddenly tore the flag soldiers of the two Chunzi battalions into flying pieces of meat.

"Bang bang—"

On the opposite side of the fort, the surging fire fired by the silks also made the Qing troops on this side scream, and soldiers were constantly shot and killed.

"Run!"

On the dusty fort, I don't know who shouted first, and the rest of the Qing army also shouted 'escape', and some of the timid ones had already turned around and ran off the fort and drilled into the mountains and forests to the north.

"Urdu, if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave."

Camp officer Simon's face turned pale with fright, and his hands and feet were weak.

"Bell ——,-"

A projectile hits the barrel of the mortar cannon, sending out a spark and a sharp chirp.

Then it deformed and exploded, and it spun and rebounded at high speed, turning an unlucky gunner into a bloody man rolling on the ground and howling.

Frightened, Urdu's face changed greatly, his lips trembled, and his guts were about to crack.

"Retreat, retreat!"

With Simon's roar, the remaining Qing troops around the fort also turned around and fled from the fort, walking, riding horses, and fleeing towards the mouth of the Pushi River upstream.

The battle then ended.

On October 24, in the battle of crossing the river at the mouth of the Anping River, the Japanese army and the crossing of the river took less than an hour in total, and the defending Qing army collapsed on all fronts, and retreated towards the Pushi estuary upstream.

In his battle, Japanese soldiers killed and wounded 19 Qing soldiers, captured two mortars, 21 rifles, 15 horses, and nearly 10,000 catties of military rations.

On the Japanese side, only two locks were torn to pieces by mortars, one was slightly wounded by a gun, and two Japanese soldiers were shot and killed while crossing the river.

It was a battle, and the Japanese army won a great victory.

The sound of artillery at the mouth of the Anping River shocked all the Qing troops in the defense line of the entire middle reaches of the Yalu River.

Wu Heng, who was smoking a big cigarette, heard the roaring cannon, and the bluffing smoking gun fell on the bed.

This cannon sound that is almost close to the ears is obviously not the cannon sound from Hushan and Jiulian City, so it can only be the Anping and Delicious area.

Previously, Wu Heng had 10,000 reasons to convince himself, and Wu Yi Taijun would only honestly attack Jiulian City, or cross the river at Shahezi at the mouth of the Yalu River.

However, now just this cannon has ruthlessly shattered all of Wu Heng's dreams.

"Commander, what should I do?"

Wu Heng's staff master, Master Shaoxing, Jiang Youwen, who was in his early fifties, ran in in a panic and asked for advice.

"How do I know what to do now? You ask me, Lao Tzu, who do I ask! ”

Wu Heng, who had just smoked half of the cigarette, was dizzy and fluttering, he yelled at Wang Youwen angrily, and only after half a loud voice did he shout loudly: "Master Wang, you quickly send someone to Changdian to ask for help from Yijunmen." ”

"Commander, what should Simon do now, should I hurry up and send reinforcements?"

Wang Youwen is an old scribe who is familiar with the "Thirty-six Strategies", and according to the experience he has gained from books, the most important thing to do at this time should not be to ask for help, but to send troops to reinforcements quickly.

"Send troops, where do I have soldiers?"

Wu Heng's forehead suddenly looked like a wild cat that had been stabbed in the ass with a wooden stick, and jumped up with a sharp voice: "These three thousand training troops, each battalion head has its own defense area, if you take the liberty to reinforce Ximeng's forehead, what if the Japanese soldiers cross the river from other battalion heads, who can take this responsibility?" ”

Wu Heng sent a burst of anger at Wang Youwen, and his heart was finally smoother, and he tried to tell Wang Youwen in a calm tone: "You send a few more spies to the Anping estuary to investigate, and tell them not to fight rashly; When they found the Japanese soldiers, they quickly came back to make a report, and then made a long-term plan. ”

Changdian City, the camp of the army on the edge of the town.

Hearing the sound of cannons, Iktanga, who was eating, strode out of the general's camp in shock and looked southwest.

Then there were a few more cannon shots, which 'rumbled' across the sky.

"It's the estuary side, and the Japanese soldiers are really going to fight Liaoyang!"

Iktanga exclaimed.

"Click-"

Standing at the door of the big tent, Yiktang'a, who had a cloudy face, heard a horse's hoof, and saw two brothers, Shoushan and Yongshan, with their respective guards, galloping on horseback.

"See the military gate."

Shoushan and Yongshan were dressed all over, and they knelt down on one half knee in front of Iktanga with excitement on their faces.

The seventh grandson of Yuan Chonghuan, the white flag of the Han army, the third-rank replacement candidate Langzhong Wailang Shoushan, and his younger brother hereditary fourth-rank third-class guard Yongshan.

The two grew up in Beijing since childhood, and were favored and preferential by the imperial court.

At this time, the two brothers, who were eating, heard the sound of cannons at the mouth of the river downstream, threw the bowl directly, and hurried to the military camp on the edge of the town to ask for battle.