Chapter 597: Twenty-six minutes of city-breaking battle
"Bang, bang, bangβ"
"Ahh
"I've been shot, save me!"
"Ahh
The accurate shooting of the Japanese soldiers soon killed and wounded Lu Yong on the city wall.
Where did these recruits experience a real fight again?
Seeing that the comrades-in-arms around him were drenched in blood, and their brains were broken and they fell to the city wall and could not die anymore, their trembling legs and hands suddenly became frightened, and they didn't dare to show their heads to shoot.
Under the elimination of each other, the Japanese army under the city soon suppressed Lu Yong on the city so much that he could not raise his head.
"Yaga!"
"Dead, dead!"
As the Japanese soldiers climbed the city wall one by one, they worked in pairs and killed Lu Yong on the city wall with bayonets, and soon suppressed and divided Lu Yong, who was full of terror and collapsed, on top of the city wall in sections.
"Shoot, shoot! Kill these wretches! β
Seeing this scene, Mei Dongyi was so angry that his teeth cracked, and he led a few personal soldiers to rush out of the city tower to reinforce, when a grand tremor suddenly came from the city wall under his feet.
The Qing troops above fell to the ground one after another.
"Boom!"
The explosives package placed by the Japanese sappers blew the gate of the Nine Gates Water City to pieces, and the ice below was also blown into countless ice chips, revealing a large area of lake water.
"The city is broken!"
"Run!"
I don't know which place shouted first, after hearing the blasting sound at the city gate, Lu Yong on the Great Wall at the Nine Gates suddenly lost his fighting spirit, and he threw down his heavy guns, took the rifles in his hands, and fled towards the city.
And those Lu Yong, who was on the city wall, was blocked by the Japanese army with fierce bayonets at both ends, and jumped directly off the city wall of six or seven meters with a heroic look of death.
Most of them were either thrown to death, or their heads were broken and their hands and feet were broken.
And those who were lucky, jumped off without damage, and trotted all the way away, became a role model for Lu Yong, who was full of despair in the city, and continued to jump over the wall to escape like dumplings.
The gunfire on the city wall soon stopped, and the Qing army, who did not dare to jump over the wall, had to honestly kneel and surrender and beg for mercy.
The Qing army, which was lucky enough to escape, fled from the city of Jiumen like a swarm under the fierce pursuit of the Japanese army, and ran towards the post road of Shimen Village in the west of the city.
"The whole army continued the pursuit, abandoning all the horses, taking away all the fine Mauser rifles, and discarding all the miscellaneous items; The goal is to go straight to Shimen Village! β
Lijian Shangwen looked at his pocket watch, from the attack at eight o'clock to the current city break, the minute hand has only walked for twenty-six minutes, just like the previous battle in Liaodong, these Qing troops are simply vulnerable.
However, the stupid sappers actually blew up the ice in Shuicheng, so that the empire's war horses could not pass through the nine gates, so they had to give up.
"Commander, what about the Qing troops on both sides of the mountains, and there are so many prisoners?"
Fukushima Yasumasa was looking at the Qing troops who were fleeing to the peaks of the Great Wall on both sides, and it was estimated that there were no less than three or four hundred people.
"Our goal is not to occupy the Nine Gates, let alone to occupy Shimen Village; Instead, through them, they attacked around the flanks of Shanhaiguan. β
Immediately, Shang Wen strode towards the Great Wall: "All the captives are shot!" Those remnants of the mountain peak, when the 19th Wing of Kuri Fan exterminated the bandits in the mountain, they would naturally carry out a second cleanup! β
"Shoot them all!"
"Shoot!"
"Bang, bang, bangβ"
"I'm Cao Nima, the wall dog, the Uyi!"
"Lao Tzu fought with them!"
"Bang, bang, bang,ββ"
Nearly 600 surrendered Lu Yong, and within ten minutes, he was shot clean by the Japanese army, and blood flowed all over the city walls and the streets and alleys of the city.
Seeing the Qing army that fled to the mountain peak twice, everyone was frightened and cursed.
And Mei Dongyi, who ran to the north peak, was even more angry and tearful, yelling to rush down the mountain peak and fight with the Japanese people, and was hugged by the generals around him.
"Coward!"
Immediately saw Shang Wen standing on the top of the city wall at the Nine Gates, looking at the Qing army on the peaks on the north and south sides, and ordered loudly: "The whole army is leaving!" β
"All the troops are leaving!"
"Move on now!"
Soon, nearly 3,000 Japanese troops crossed the Great Wall through wooden ladders and disappeared into the post road to the west.
"Whew-"
I don't know when, the mountain wind blew the wolf smoke pillars on the cone mountain ridge, drifting far to the west.
The spring breeze is steep and extremely cold.
In the lake outside the Nine Gates, there were twenty or thirty corpses of Japanese soldiers lying alone, as well as a dozen war horses.
In the mountains and forests on both sides, there are also the corpses of Japanese soldiers lying in the east and west.
In addition, there was silence.
"The Japanese are all gone, don't they want the nine gates?"
The Qing army standing on the top of the mountain was stunned, and couldn't understand why the Japanese army had spent so much effort to capture the city, and it was actually lost when it arrived.
"They're going to hit Shanhaiguan! The old man is a sinner, and there is no redemption for a hundred deaths! β
As Mei Dongyi spoke, he was about to jump to the cliff below the peak.
"No military gates!"
"Military Gate!"
A group of generals hurriedly hugged Mei Dongyi and comforted loudly: "Think twice about the military gate-; There are 30,000 or 40,000 elite soldiers in Shanhaiguan, pointing to these more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers, they really dare to go over, and they are also sheep into the tiger's den, and they will definitely die! β
The north tributary of the Jiujiang River, the fork of the two rivers on the side of the door.
Nearly 1,700 foot cavalry of the Japanese army's northern flank detachment arrived at the fork of the two rivers at the upper reaches of the northern branch after a rapid march of forty minutes.
"Dazuo, continue to march fifteen miles to the northwest, which is Qiupi Lake, and five miles to the northeast is Qingsong Lake; The scouts had completed their reconnaissance of the waterfront of Qingsong Lake last night, but found no trace of the Qing army, and the scouts in the direction of Qiupi Lake had not yet returned. β
"Continue to send out scouts to scout the surrounding area; In the direction of Qiupi Lake, send a squadron of cavalry to search around the lake, and once you find the Qing army, drag them down! β
The commander of the 19th Wing, Awaiihara Tsuneyo Daisa, said in a deep voice: "Since you haven't come back, the possibility of being ambushed is very high; If that's the case, and we know about them, they should know that we can infer their existence from the Scout's disappearance; The whole army immediately accelerated, aiming for Lake Qiupi! β
"Boom-"
At this time, a majestic thunderbolt rolled from the southwest and stirred among the river valleys and mountains.
"What is this sound? How could the small cannon of the Qing army captured by the empire make such a bang! β
Su Fan Yuan Changshi suddenly turned his head to look south, his eyes were full of horror.
"And in this direction, it's not the Nine Gates;"
As an excellent cavalry general, the captain of the 5th Cavalry Brigade, Kimura Shigeshosa, has a more acute sense of direction about the source of sound.
He rode on the war horse, hurriedly opened the marching map, compared the terrain, and said in shock: "This direction seems to be in the area of Biyun Temple, and there is still a certain distance from the nine gates; Could it be that the Qing army is setting up an ambush to block the attack? However, how could the Qing army be there, how could it be possible to arrange such a huge artillery group? β
"It's not a cannon group, it's explosives! The cannon group did not roar in unison, and it was just that; It may be that the Qing army buried a large number of explosives bags near the river, Baga, this group of cunning Qing dogs! β
Hearing the roar that did not follow, the captain of the infantry brigade, Fujimoto Tai Shaozuo, scolded with red eyes: "These mountain rats have always been scheming, and they have never had the guts to have a real duel. β
Hearing Fujimoto's analysis, the eyes of Inahara Tsuneyo and Kimura Shigege also began to redden.
"Yaga!"
Kimura Shige was even more angry and scolded: "This group of shameless clear dogs is simply the sorrow of soldiers!" Coward, coward! β