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After a rapid march, the Japanese Ninth Brigade approached the east bank of the Datong River at about 8 o'clock in the morning and camped on a line of undulating hills, which was far away from the Qing army's fortress position at Zhisongyuan two miles away.

Oshima Yoshimasa stood on top of the mountain, looking at the commotion of the Qing army outside the fortress of Zhishoin, and the sporadic sound of alarm gunshots, and a sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

What is 'He Changying', 'Aid Korea', and a family of soldiers, this stupid pig is afraid of death, I want to send you all to hell!

"Command!"

Oshima Yoshimasa roared, and the soldiers of the surrounding Ninth Brigade all 'snapped' and stood upright.

"Takeda Shuzo, your department is the left flank, and Nagata Kame's department has set aside ten artillery pieces under the command of Takeda, attacking the Qing army's fortress position in Songyuan and crushing these Qing pigs."

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

Shuzo Takeda and Kameki Nagata roared at the same time.

"The West Island Auxiliary Righteous Your Department is the right wing, equipped with eight artillery, to clear the Qing Army Pottery Shop, the fortress in the direction of Shuiwan Bridge, and the troops will arrive at the line of Giethoorn Island and search for ships crossing the river."

"Hey!"

Nishijima Sukeyoshi also roared.

"Gentlemen, I hope that you will remember the shame of Dongxian Ridge to the death, and never let the empire be disgraced again!"

"Hey!"

On the hillside, all the Japanese soldiers shouted in unison.

The Yi army planted the fortress position of Songyuan.

After the guard post found the traces of the Japanese army, after the initial commotion, the entire fortress of Plantoin was silent, and all the soldiers hid behind the bunker with their guns in their hands, nervously watching the Japanese troops on the hills a thousand meters away.

"It's moving, the Japanese army is moving!"

With the exclamation of a resolute soldier, everyone was shocked.

I saw that on the top of the hills, the Japanese army divided into two groups of men and horses, one pair headed towards the left flank Jiangwan, and the other pair rushed straight towards the planting pine courtyard.

Huang Minghe, the former Qiu camp sentry officer of the Yi Army, yelled: "Don't panic, it's a man who has his hands steady, and he beats these dog troughs to Lao Tzu!" ”

"Boom!"

In the roar of the Huang Ming River, a cannon sound sounded from the Japanese position in the distance, raising a large puff of black smoke, and the cannonballs smashed towards the fortress of Zhisongyuan with a 'sigh'.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning of September 13, 1894 in the Western calendar, the cannon fire of the battle for Pyongyang finally began!

Pyongyang City, on the Taedong Gate.

Ye Zhichao, Ma Yukun, Wei Rugui, Sun Xianyin and other Sheng Army, Yi Army generals stood on the city wall and looked at the river on the other side, and heard a roar of cannons in their ears.

"The Japanese army actually brought so many cannons? And it's just one of four ways! ”

Sun Xianyin screamed.

"It's not easy to fight, this cannon salvo sounds like there are definitely no less than twenty guns, and there are more than half of our Pyongyang."

Ye Zhichao's face was pale, feeling that he was an old turtle in the big quagmire, and now the Japanese army finally began to catch him.

Immediately, in the direction of the waterbay bridge in the east and the direction of the pine courtyard in the southeast, the gunfire was loud and sent across the Datong River.

"Isn't it just that there are too many cannons, can he still smash the city wall?"

Wei Rugui pursed his lips disdainfully, and glanced at Ye Zhichao, who lost his death last night.

Last night, Wang Xizhi, a member of the Pyongyang Telegraph Bureau, was drunk, and in front of everyone, he told all the private messages that Ye Zhichao had secretly sent to the Governor's Mansion in Zhili.

What's the dizziness and heartbeat disease, please return to Tianjin for medical recuperation. ''The dizziness is getting worse, so please seek medical attention. ’

At that time, Ye Zhichao was so ashamed that he trembled all over, and his face was bloody.

And the generals were in an uproar!

Although his old wife also came to the family and told him to 'spare his life', but after all, it was a woman's opinion, you Ye Zhichao was a dignified admiral of the Qing Dynasty, and you were so greedy for life and afraid of death?

Phew!

What kind of vision do Zhongtang and the imperial court have to make you the president of North Korea's military training?

Wei Rugui turned his head and yelled at his subordinate commander Sun Xianyin: "Don't we also have cannons? Let the pro-soldier artillery battalion bombard his mother; You send two more outposts of infantry across the river to reinforce the Plantatsu Courtyard and the Shuiwan Bridge. ”

"Wow!"

Sun Xianyin replied and ran towards the city.

"The Shuiwan Bridge, the earthware shop, and the fortress of the Songyuan Courtyard are all reinforced with thatched houses, and they can't stop the bullets of the Japanese army at all."

Ma Yukun said with a tense face: "Why don't you let them retreat to the three heavy forts by the bridge, concentrate their forces, and rely on the heavy forts to resist the Japanese army?" ”

"You can't retreat, this first battle, as soon as you retreat, your morale will collapse!"

Zuo Guigui ran from the north side of the city wall out of breath, and immediately shouted to stop him when he heard the words.

"Why are you here?"

Seeing Zuo Guigui coming, Ye Zhichao couldn't help frowning.

This old bastard is really getting more and more out of place, and he actually sent someone to watch outside his Admiral's Mansion this morning, what do you mean, afraid that I will escape?

"I just received news that the Japanese army arrived at the Wonsan Avenue ferry last night, and it is estimated that they will be able to reach the north of Pyongyang today; There are also North Korean officials on the side of Pingcheng who have just passed through the Xuanwu Gate to send information to the Min Jian Division, and last night the Japanese army was densely packed with no less than six or seven thousand people stationed in Pingcheng, and now they may have gone to Shun'an Station, cutting off our connection with Anzhou. ”

The generals of the Qing army all over the city wall looked at each other in horror, which was exactly the same as the information sent from Seoul, and now they were waiting for the main force of the Fifth Division to appear in Nancheng.

"Boom-"

After measuring the trajectory of the artillery battalion of the Sheng army, the artillery immediately ignited, and a cloud of black smoke suddenly rose from the artillery position on the riverbank, and more than a dozen shells shot with a scream at the Japanese artillery position on the hillside four miles away.

"Boom!"

A shell slashed across a long arc and smashed into the infantry defensive position in front of the Japanese right flank artillery battalion, and the shrapnel tore the two unsuspecting Japanese soldiers into bloody pieces.

"Yaga!"

Oshima Yoshimasa jumped angrily and shouted at the artillery position on the right flank: "Artillery on both wings, don't care about the pigs in the broken grass house, give me all their artillery positions!" ”

"Hey!"

Nagamata looked ashamed and angry, and yelled at the artillerymen: "Calculate the trajectory, you stupid donkeys, aren't you even as good as clearing pigs!" ”

Huang Minghe, the former Qiu camp sentry officer of the Yi Army, was lying on a dirt platform, holding the Mauser and grabbing it, staring at the movement outside the thatched house.

The Japanese shells were not very accurate, and they fired three salvos, but only two shells smashed into the dozen or so thatched houses in the Plantatsu Temple.

Three were killed and one seriously injured.

Then after the artillery battalion of the Sheng Army on the right side of the river opened fire, the Japanese army began to shoot at the artillery of the Sheng Army, and no longer cared about these thatched houses that leaked on all sides.

"It's coming!"

Chen Erniu, who had a loud voice, roared, Huang Minghe's heart thumped, and he saw a group of Japanese soldiers lined up in a line of skirmishers and wearing black military caps in the bushes a hundred meters ahead.

"Hit!"

Huang Minghe shouted a 'bang' and shot over, and the Japanese soldiers who had just walked out of the forest fell to the ground one after another when they heard the sound and raised their guns to shoot back.

"Bang bang bang-"

The sound of exploding gunfire rang out like a series of rapid cannons, and the bullets cut through the air with a heart-pounding sound, and for a time there were heavy gunshots on both sides of the enemy and us, and from time to time soldiers were shot and fell screaming.

Almost at the same time, the earthenware shop defended by the left battalion of the left army of the Sheng army, the first line of the simple fortress of Shuiwan Bridge, also burst into gunfire.

After the previous artillery fire, the infantry finally started to fight in close combat.

At this time, the whole city of Pyongyang was silent, and everyone listened attentively to the sound of guns and cannons from the east.

In the battlefield of Zhisongyuan, the Japanese army invested nearly 400 troops in two squadrons at one time, and the thatched huts, which had almost no substantive defense capability, could not stop the bullets of the Japanese army at all.

After nearly half an hour of blocking, the Huangminghe outpost, which only has one outpost of 100 troops, has already lost more than 30% of its troops.

It's not that they're afraid that they'll be beheaded if they flee back, these righteous soldiers are just afraid that they will have already broken up and fled for their lives.

Although he didn't dare to run away, the speed of the gun became slower and slower, and the hit became more and more inaccurate.

"The Qing soldiers are dying! Shoot! ”

Feeling that the gunfire of the Qing army in the thatched hut fortress in front of him was getting weaker and weaker, the commander of the 21st Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, Takeda Shuzo Nakasa, couldn't help but be overjoyed and shouted.

"Bang bang bang-"

As a result, the Japanese soldiers, who were encouraged, burst out more intensively with gunfire in their hands.