The 11th Infantry Wing of Hiroshima Jindai, the captain of the 1st Brigade, Ichito Shosa, was sitting on a large rock, his legs in his high riding boots were wide apart, and he stuck his Oriental sword in the weedy rock between his crotch, and rested with the hilt of the knife in both hands. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After this glimmer of heaven, they camped at night on the side of the North Mountain Pass.

Tomorrow, when they occupied Huangzhou City, north of Huangzhou City to the left bank of the Taedong River in Pyongyang, there was a smooth road along the way, and this advance mission of their first brigade could be regarded as a complete and brilliant completion.

Before the battle of Nie Shicheng, a family guard and the soldiers below him never imagined that this 'Heavenly Empire', which had been regarded as a model for their Oriental people for thousands of years, would be so fragile and vulnerable.

These Beiyang Army, known as the most elite in the Qing Dynasty, are simply a group of papier-mâché door gods, which can be broken with one stab!

"Nozawa-kun, these two thousand miles of rivers and mountains in North Korea will be the pasture of the descendants of you and my Yamato nation in the future; It's a great pride to be a part of this great event! ”

Nozawa Eisaku was also excited: "Since His Majesty the Emperor ascended the throne, he has put forward the wise decision of 'breaking away from Asia and joining Europe' with great foresight, which has made our great Oriental national strength grow day by day;

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

Suddenly, there was a frightened scream from the top of the cliff at the mouth of the gorge, and Ichito and Nozawa Eisaku both changed color abruptly, and looked up at the place where they shouted.

"Bang bang—"

Immediately, a chaotic gun rang out in the dense forest at the border between the big slope and the mouth of the first line of Tianxia, and the military cao on the top of the cliff who was dancing wildly with his arms and shouting in fear shook his body, turned over and fell off the cliff.

"Drag, drag!"

Captain Yoshida Shoichi, the squadron leader of the 2nd Squadron of the Japanese Army, who had just led the team into the canyon, heard the gunfire coming from the cliff top in the direction of his back, shouted from his mouth to stop the march, and then pointed to the mouth of the South Gorge with a furious face:

"Baga, the Hui army will wipe out all these Qing pigs!"

The Japanese soldiers who were resting on the mountains on both sides of the post road on the big slope at the mouth of the gorge were suddenly stunned by the sudden shouts and the dense gunfire, and they all jumped up nervously, holding Murata rifles tightly in both hands, at a loss.

Where did these Japanese troops fight before?

In the battle of Chenghuanyi, in addition to being ambushed by Yu Guangxin and Zhou Xianzhang of the Armed Forces Academy in Anchengdu, he led two small teams of twenty Qing troops and was caught off guard.

After that, he always attacked Cheng Huan, but he fired a few shots indiscriminately, and the Qing army ran away in the wind.

Therefore, at this time, the Japanese soldiers on the post road were shocked by this sudden shout and gunfire, and everyone was stunned, looking around, you look at me, I look at you, and my heart trembled and I didn't know what to do now.

"Bang!"

A household guard gritted his teeth and drew the saber in his hand and shouted: "The whole army is scattered, the 123rd Squadron will block the enemy in front of the slope, and the 5th Squadron will defend the left flank post road, each looking for a blocking point to shoot." ”

Hearing the roar of the captain, the stunned Japanese soldiers came to their senses one after another, and ran towards the rocks and slopes on both sides of the post road with a clattering voice, looking for cover to take refuge.

"Nozawa, you go and send an order to Yoshida Shoichi, lead the canyon army to the north with all your might, and establish a solid defensive line at the exit of Kitayama; Yamaquan Erhao—"

A household guard shouted an order to his adjutant: "You take a detachment of soldiers to the 'Nine Mile Valley' and order the cavalry to establish a defensive line at the mouth of the big slope; if the Qing army tries to block the rear road of the main force, immediately launch an all-out attack and reinforcements, and in the rest of the situation, stand by on the spot!" ”

As an excellent Japanese officer, Ichito made almost the most correct decision in this instant.

"Rush!"

Lin Yunyu took the lead and led the reinforced company to rush towards the Japanese army at the bottom of the mountain, holding a Webley revolver in his hand, and ordered loudly: "Yuan Sikai, you guys go and pull out all the nails on the top of the cliff for me; Others rush with me! ”

"Bang bang bang-"

For a time, on the post road nearly 400 meters long at the mouth of the Tiannan Gorge on the first line, there was a loud gunfire, and the Japanese soldiers who had found a good hiding place and hid behind the rocks and trees also held rifles and shot at the approaching Qing troops on the mountain.

It's just that the shrubs on the mountain are scattered, and the Qing soldiers are running back and forth between them, and it is difficult to catch them with guns.

Nearly 1,000 Japanese soldiers were lying on both sides of the post road on the mountainside, and nearly 1,000 people were concentrated on both sides of the short 400-meter-long post road, densely packed with people everywhere.

In the eyes of the condescending Chinese soldiers, it was as clear and easy as hitting a fixed target.

"Bang bang bang-"

In just one photo, seven or eight Japanese soldiers were shot and killed, and no less than a dozen were wounded.

"Yaga!"

A soldier was so angry that his eyes were on fire, he hid behind a big rock on the side of the post road, raised his saber and pointed to the high place of the big slope and shouted: "The first and second squadrons move in the direction of the slope to block the attack, and the third squadron will go up the mountain from the mouth of the gorge, cooperate with the army on the top of the cliff, and attack the flank of the Qing army in a roundabout way!" ”

When the 1st Reinforcement Company rushed to a distance of about 100 meters from the mountainside post road, the close distance caused several soldiers of the reinforcement army to be caught in the crosshair by the Japanese troops below the mountain and hit the body.

And the huge momentum made two of the soldiers who were not seriously injured because they couldn't stop their steps, and one of them tripped over the rock, and hit the stone fiercely, and his brain was shattered.

The other was rolling all the way down the steep slope, and finally hit a big tree, soft and motionless, and it is estimated that it is also more auspicious.

"Stop the charge, dodge and shoot freely!"

Lin Yunyu saw that if he rushed down again, the high advantage of the reinforcement army would be greatly reduced, and he shouted orders.

A company of soldiers who received the order looked for cover nearby and began to shoot 'crackling' at the Japanese troops on the mountainside post road.

Subsequently, the second company of Hao Tiansheng's division, the third company of Li Zhenhua's division, Zhou Zhongsheng Whistle, and Ma Decao Whistle immediately filled this nearly 400-meter-long and 100-meter-long soldier line, and fired at the Japanese troops on the side of the mountainside post road.

For a time, the sound of gunfire rolled throughout the valley, and the smoke of gunfire rose loudly.

On this section of the ambush line, nearly 900 Qing troops condescendingly attacked more than 400 people of the first and second squadrons of the Japanese army below, and the Japanese troops were suddenly unable to raise their heads, and from time to time the Qing troops shot bullets into the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, harvesting the lives one by one.

And He Changying and Shen Zhaoao led the guard team, reconnaissance platoon, sniper platoon, and Mao Chao's fourth company, rushed down the southern section of the post road on the big slope, blocked the retreat of a family of guards on the post road and the hillside, and exchanged fire with the Japanese Fifth Squadron, which was responsible for the safety of the rear road.

Mao Chao's Fourth Infantry Company was a small formation of three squads and two platoons, with a full strength of only 156 people, plus 74 people from the reconnaissance platoon and sniper platoon of the Guards, and the total strength of the reinforcement army in the southern section of the post road was less than 240 people.

The 5th Squadron of the Japanese Army was fully manned with 220 men, which was almost on par with the military strength of the Korean reinforcements.

Although the reinforcement army only used one-third of the soldiers lying on both sides of the post road, the rest of the troops were deployed in Banpo, taking advantage of Banpo's location to block the attack.

However, the accurate shooting of the Japanese army still made the guards, reconnaissance platoons, and sniper platoons on both sides of the post road miserable.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the blocking troops on both sides of the post road of the reinforcement army had already suffered heavy casualties, and some timid cadet soldiers even kept their bodies tightly behind the bunkers, not even daring to risk their heads, let alone shoot back.