Several flares emitted a blinding glow in the ranks of the Japanese troops, and in an instant, the dark night turned into day. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This sudden change of scene made the Japanese soldiers on the ground bent forward stunned, not knowing what was going on.

The Japanese soldiers who were facing the flares were unlucky, their eyes were directly stung by the dazzling light, and many Japanese soldiers covered their eyes and shouted, knowing that the flares can sometimes be used as flashbangs.

"Fire!"

Da! Da! Da!

Fire snakes flew out from the Han army's position, and the next moment, the Japanese soldiers who had not yet reacted were swept down in a large area.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

60-mm mortars and 75-mm field guns were also in full swing, mortar shells fell on the west bank of the river, and field artillery shells fell on the east bank of the river, and a large number of Japanese soldiers gathered on both sides of the riverbank, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were killed or injured when a single shell fell.

"Ahh

The guns of the Han army and the groans of the wounded Japanese soldiers. The groans finally woke up the stunned Japanese soldiers.

"Charge!"

The middle and lower-ranking officers of the Japanese army on the west side drew their command knives and ordered their subordinates to charge according to the previous combat deployment, as long as they rushed to the Han position, the victory belonged to the Japanese army.

However, the Han army's firepower was so fierce that the Han army's heavy machine gun shooter's finger never left the trigger, and the heavy machine gun bullets fired at the charging Japanese soldiers with a rate of fire of four or five hundred rounds per minute.

Rows of Japanese soldiers were harvested like wheat.

"No!" On the land on the east side of the Yalu River, General Youpeng of Shan County roared angrily.

When the flare of the Han army illuminates the night, the mind of Youpeng in Shan County is as blank as this world, and when the guns of the Han army sound, Youpeng in Shan County also sobered up, and the next moment he understood the plan of the Japanese army.

Shan Shan Youpeng wanted to give an order for the Japanese troops attacking the Han positions in front to withdraw, but it was too late, and the Yalu River blocked it, and the more than 16,000 Japanese soldiers who attacked the Han positions on the west side basically could not escape the fate of death, unless they were lucky enough to swim across the Yalu River.

The Japanese troops on the east side of the Yalu River were also uncomfortable, and the target of the Han army's 75-mm field guns was them, and the rate of fire of the 75-mm field guns was not much slower than that of the 60-mm mortars, but the field guns had a longer range and did more damage.

Not long after, the 105-mm howitzer regiment deployed on the defense line of the Yalu River also began to exert its might, and the Japanese troops on the opposite side suffered heavy casualties and were almost defeated.

Fortunately, the commanders of the Japanese army issued an order to retreat, and the Japanese soldiers on the east side of the Yalu River spread their legs and ran back, but the range of the 75 mm field guns and 105 mm howitzers was more than five kilometers, and the Japanese soldiers on the east side could not run out of the range of the Han artillery in a short time, but the Japanese soldiers were also scattered, resulting in a lot of less effective shells.

After the Japanese commander, the Japanese troops on the east side retreated, and as for the Japanese troops attacking the Han positions on the west side, they had completely given up, and in the face of the powerful firepower of the Han army, the Japanese troops on the west side were able to escape to the east side of the Yalu River, I am afraid that only a handful.

Of course, there were still a small number of Japanese officers who had an idea in their hearts: maybe they could rush to the Han position.

The gaze turned to the west side of the Yalu River.

In the face of the current situation, the Japanese officers understood that only by continuing to rush forward could they have a chance of survival or even victory, and once they turned around and fled, they would only die faster, and now they could only fight with their backs on their backs.

"Charge! Charge! ”

The Japanese officers brandished their command knives and ordered their men to bravely rush forward, and then they were knocked down by the bullets of the Han rifles and heavy machine guns.

None of the Japanese soldiers could or rushed closer to the Han position, and the two-hundred-meter line was a Japanese death blockade, and advancing was death.

The light from the flares on the ground was about to fade, and the night was covering the land again, and some Japanese officers almost laughed when they saw this, but the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and the Han mortars fired another round of flares, and the light still dispelled the night.

On the battlefield, the corpses of the Japanese army piled up, and the Japanese soldiers who were still alive stepped on the corpses of their compatriots and continued to attack the Han army's position, and then also became part of this mountain of corpses.

The Japanese soldiers who were close to the Yalu River were already frightened by the tragic scene in front of them, and feared that they would also fall on the battlefield, and many Japanese soldiers jumped into the Yalu River as if they were fleeing for their lives and swam to the opposite bank.

However, the width of the river in this area where the Japanese army crossed the river was at least 100 meters, and those Japanese soldiers who were not good at water would stay in the Yalu River forever, and only a small number of Japanese soldiers with good water quality who were lucky enough to avoid the Han army's shells and bullets could reach the east bank of the Yalu River.

Five minutes later, tens of thousands of Japanese troops had fallen on the battlefield, but the firepower of the Han army was still not weakened, and at this time, the remaining Japanese soldiers no longer dared to rush to the Han position, they either jumped into the Yalu River, or used the corpses of their compatriots as cover to avoid the bullets and shells of the Han army.

The die is cast.

……

Of the 55,000 Japanese troops who had gathered on the east side of the Yalu River eight years ago, only about 28,000 remained, more than half of whom were killed, and many of them were wounded.

With such a heavy loss, it was impossible for the army to hide it any longer, and the top brass and Emperor Meiji finally learned the news of the defeat of the Japanese army at the front, and Emperor Meiji was furious.

As the commander of the Japanese army at the front, in order to evade the responsibility for the defeat, when he reported to the above, he exaggerated the combat effectiveness of the Han army in various ways, as if the Han army was the most powerful army on the earth, and the Japanese army would fail not because he had no way to command, but because the enemy was too strong.

When this war report reached Emperor Meiji and the Japanese high-level, the Meiji Emperor and the Japanese high-ranking were extremely horrified: how could the Han army be so powerful?

Emperor Meiji and the Japanese high-level still couldn't believe it in their hearts, because it was Yamaguchi Aritomo who deliberately exaggerated the strength of the Han army in order to escape the responsibility of the defeat, but when the news of the defeat of the British army and the French army reached them, they finally believed that the Han army was really strong, and even the armies of the Western powers could defeat it.

Yamaguchi also explained to Emperor Meiji and the Japanese top brass that in order to defeat the Han army, the army must also be equipped with more advanced weapons, and with the weapons now in the hands of the army, no matter how many more people are added, it will not be able to break through the Han army's defense line on the west side of the Yalu River.

Emperor Meiji and the Japanese top brass then had a heated discussion, and the first thing that was determined was to mobilize more troops to Korea, and the losses in front were so great that once the Han army attacked, Korea was likely to be lost.

The second question is whether or not to equip the army with more advanced weapons, because after all, China cannot produce more advanced weapons at present, so it can only buy them from Western countries.

Emperor Meiji consulted with the Japanese top brass and decided to communicate with Britain and France before discussing the next step. (To be continued.) )