However, because the muzzle of the cannon was pressed too low, almost all the shells fired smashed on the hillside in the middle of the hill, on the earthen beams, and occasionally fired a high fire, also against the scalp of everyone, whistling to the rear. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"The Japanese are trying to break down the earthen wall, shoot, hit their artillery!"

The officers of the anti-Japanese army in various positions immediately guessed the Japanese army's intentions and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to shoot at the Japanese artillery at a distance of about 500 meters.

"Bell, bell—"

"Ahh

Although it was a long distance, it could not hold back the group fire of many bursts of fast guns, and from time to time bullets hit the artillery, splashing out fluffy sparks, and shrapnel screamed and shot down the gunner next to him.

"Bombardment!"

The commander of the 1st Wing of the Tokyo Field Artillery, Takanori Imazu, stood in front of a steel-shelled artillery of the Qing army captured on the Shimenzi Heights in Jinzhou and shouted: "Break their city walls!" ”

"Boom!"

The Japanese artillery constantly adjusted the height of the artillery, and finally accurately hit the earthen ramparts of the anti-Japanese position.

At such a close distance, a solid projectile of 80mm caliber easily smashed a section of earthen wall into a big hole.

"Yo Xi!"

"Victory!"

At this time, the sky was already able to see the details on the opposite side, and when they saw the breaking of the city wall, the Japanese troops here were all shouting excitedly.

"Boom-"

At this time, behind the camp city, there was a sudden explosion, and the two artillery battalions behind began to fire back.

"Leave them alone, keep bombarding!"

Under the orders of the captains of the Japanese artillery squads, the front earthen walls of the anti-Japanese army were constantly knocked out of big holes.

A section of the earthen wall of about five or six meters in Jiangzi Mountain was hit by two shells in a row, and it collapsed with a bang.

"Victory!"

The Japanese troops in front of the Jiang Zishan position jumped and jumped even more when they saw this surprising scene.

"Boom-"

At this time, the artillery of the Warrior Battalion and Cheng Moyi's battalion finally began to fire back, tilting the projectiles around the five Japanese guns.

"The artillery pulls away the artillery, and the infantry charges to attack!"

Seeing that the desired effect had been almost completely achieved, the Japanese commanders of the various teams ordered the artillery to quickly withdraw the precious artillery, and at the same time ordered the infantry to charge.

"Charge!"

With the order of the Japanese officers, more than 3,000 Japanese infantry, on the width of nearly 12 miles of the Yingchengzi defensive line, divided into five offensive clusters and rushed to the anti-Japanese army position 500 meters away.

"Boom-"

In front of Dianzi in the northwest, a solid bullet struck the straggler line of the Japanese infantry, and the hard and frozen earth provided enough rebound kinetic energy for the scorching projectile to smash a terrifying hole in the abdomen of a Japanese soldier.

The two Japanese soldiers next to him were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they were glad that the Qing army did not have grenade bombs, and the two of them were absolutely finished.

Camp City.

Wu Weiyang, Shen Zhaoao, and Chen Shijie stood on a two-story earthen building in Yingchengzi Town, watching the Qing army's artillery attack on the Japanese army that was charging.

"There are no grenade shotguns, even if the overall performance of the steel-shelled artillery is better than that of the bronze artillery, but the artillery is used to destroy the city wall like the Japanese army, or attack the Japanese artillery positions, and use the tearing effect of their bronze cannon body to produce a large number of fragments to kill the Japanese army; Otherwise, these solid bullets are almost useless. ”

Wu Weiyang has been in Germany for many years, and his knowledge is still beyond everyone else: "The grenade bomb was invented in France four years ago, and in less than four years, the Japanese artillery has already used the grenade bomb as the main equipment, while the artillery shells of the Qing Dynasty are still solid shells; That's the gap. ”

"It's not a shame to say it, this kind of artillery shell, don't say you've seen it before you go to Pyongyang, even if you hear it, I haven't heard of it."

Shen Zhaoao looked at the Japanese troops who had already charged to the position about 300 meters away, and said happily: "Fortunately, the Japanese artillery wing was disabled, otherwise just think about the defense of Jinzhou, the grenades that burst above the head of the Japanese army make people's scalps tingle." ”

"The grenade bombs purchased from the West, as well as a batch of large-caliber high-explosive bombs, are estimated to arrive in the first month of next year; The question is how to get in? ”

Chen Shijie frowned and said: "As long as the Japanese army places a gunboat outside the Lushun Pass, cargo ships will not be able to enter, and the rest of the harbor wharves can only go ashore when the coastal ice ends in the spring of next year." ”

"Hehe, have you forgotten the ace spy of the Japanese army, Shen Chuan? He has just made a great achievement, and it is not a problem to send another piece of information or two. ”

Shen Zhaoao smiled extremely treacherously.

"Plug the hole and aim and shoot!"

At the earthen wall of the camp, the officers of the anti-Japanese army shouted and ordered the soldiers to block the hole with wooden planks, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to stand on the earthen wall and aim and shoot.

"Go low, aim and shoot!"

The Japanese commanders of all teams also shouted one after another.

A fierce offensive and defensive battle immediately began.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army paid a lot of casualties in the Jiangzishan position, and finally poured into the Jiangzishan position from the collapsed section of the earthen wall.

The anti-Japanese army and the Japanese army immediately launched a fierce confrontation in the position.

After nearly 20 minutes of fierce grabbing, the fierce Japanese army finally forced the anti-Japanese army out of its position step by step.

All the anti-Japanese troops immediately withdrew from the Jiangzishan position.

However, before the Japanese army began to cheer, the two battalions of artillery of the anti-Japanese army began to concentrate artillery fire on the Jiangzishan position.

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

Although it was only a solid bullet, it could not hold the narrowness of the position and the density of artillery fire, and the violent artillery roar rolled and echoed in the earth, and countless projectiles rained into the position, and sections of the earthen wall collapsed violently, causing the Japanese soldiers inside to cry wolf.

"Retreat, retreat!"

At eight o'clock, the Japanese troops, who had been suffering for more than half an hour, could not bear the rain of bullets from the artillery of the anti-Japanese army, and left more than 150 corpses in the Jiangzishan position, fleeing in disarray.

Immediately, the Japanese units also began to slowly withdraw their troops and retreat to the previous defensive line.

The fighting then stopped.

The anti-Japanese army, which had withdrawn before, immediately reoccupied Jiangzishan and cleared its position amid cheers.

"Report to the commander, in the Jiangzishan position, the Qing army did not establish any anti-artillery bunkers at all, not even a cannon wall or a cannon trench; The troops simply could not hide from the shelling of the Qing army. ”

The captain of the 24th Wing of the Japanese Army, who led the attack on Jiang Zishan, Yoshida Seiichi Nakasa, had a gloomy face.

Although the artillery shells of the Qing army were not very powerful, they could not hold much longer.

In today's attack, 181 soldiers were killed, and the 16 seriously wounded who were barely carried down were also unlucky.

That is to say, in this attack, the detachment led by him had 700 troops, and lost nearly 30% of the troops.

Although the remaining four attacking teams did not achieve a breakthrough, the largest number of attacking battalions in the city was only 53 killed and 4 seriously wounded, and the loss of their own troops was close to that of the remaining four combined.

At this moment, Kiyoichi Yoshida was ashamed and wanted to commit suicide by disembowelment.

In fact, there is no need for Yoshida Kiyoichi to report, standing on the high slope of Xiaoxigou Village, Dashanyan, he has already seen everything.

At this time, the earthen wall on the position of the Qing army in Jiangzishan was almost completely blown down, and the layout inside was clear.

On the hillside, except for the tents, almost all of them are empty, and even the bunkers in the positions are very scarce.