"The Japanese army was set up in ambush in advance, and our army could not be used in the forest, and the commander of Zhang only had one battalion, and it was common for him to be suddenly attacked by his brigade and be caught off guard. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info" Lin Yizhe seemed to expect such a thing to happen, and said calmly, "Now what we have to guard against is the Japanese army brigade coming. ”

"Lin Futai said that the Japanese army would dare to come out to fight our army?" Listening to Lin Yizhe's words, Tang Dingkui's eyes flashed with disbelief.

"Does Tang Junmen think it's impossible?" Lin Yizhe asked quietly.

"Hehe, maybe, of course it is." Tang Dingkui felt that the young man in front of him seemed to exude bursts of killing intent again, and said with a smile.

Tang Dingkui was very dismissive of Li Hongzhang's instructions to follow Lin Yizhe's orders after he led his army to Taiwan, but after arriving in the Langqiao sea area, looking at the wreckage of the Japanese ship on the sea and Lin Yizhe with a murderous face, he realized that with the wisdom of his old boss Li Hongzhang, it is not an exaggeration to say such a thing.

On his first day in Taiwan, he saw Lin Yizhe's ability.

After Tang Dingkui's army took the three transport ships of China Merchants Bureau to reach the Langqiao Sea, Tang Dingkui was surprised to find that the transport ship could not dock at all, and there were not a few small boats on board, and it was already late at night when they arrived, and the army could not go ashore at all.

After Lin Yizhe learned that the Tang Huai Army was about to arrive, he expected that the Tang Army might not have small boats, so he made preparations in advance and designed in advance a plan for the small boat detachments to take turns to carry the large army to land, and it was precisely because Lin Yizhe had done enough preparations that all 6,500 people of the Tang Army went ashore in less than half a day, and even the heavy artillery, Lin's machine guns, and grain and grass were also unloaded and landed.

From this moment on, Tang Dingkui and the others no longer dared to underestimate this young governor.

After all the Huai troops had landed, Lin Yizhe went to land and met with the generals of the Huai army, rewarded the three armies with silver money (this was a little too well prepared), and discussed the matter of marching into the army. Tang Dingkui noticed that although this young man spoke very kindly, there seemed to be angry flames beating in his eyes, and there was always a trace of murderous aura on his body, which made the generals of the Huai army feel a little frightened from time to time.

What made him even more uneasy was that the governor not only had a plum pistol (revolver) and a jeweled exotic dagger around his waist, but one of his companions was always followed by a spear with a clairvoyant mirror. The posture of the master and servant is as if they are going to fight with others at any time.

Tang Dingkui privately asked people to inquire about Lin Yizhe's personal entourage, and then he learned that when the governor arrived with the ship, he had seen his concubine jump off the cliff and die because of the murderous persecution of the Japanese.

Hearing such an answer, Tang Dingkui remembered that when he saw the wreckage of the destroyed Japanese ship, he was shocked at the same time, and at the same time, he also understood why the murderous aura on this young man's body was so heavy.

After all the personnel and equipment of the Huai army went ashore, Tang Dingkui asked Lin Yizhe about the situation hastily, discussed it with the generals, and couldn't wait to order the troops to march and attack the Japanese army. The initial offensive of the Huai army achieved some victories, uprooting many small strongholds along the coast of the Japanese army, and annihilating a small group of about 100 Japanese troops, but their own casualties were not much different from those of the Japanese army, and to some extent suffered more losses (for example, Zhang Gaoyuan's attack on the village last night), it was because Tang Dingkui and the generals of the Huai army were anxious to have a decisive battle with the main force of the Japanese army, in order to complete the battle.

"The Japanese army is fierce, at this time foreign aid is cut off, and when we hear that the army is coming, we will definitely fight the trapped beasts, and the Tang army must not take it lightly." Lin Yizhe said, his eyes fell on the map on the table, "The total strength of the Japanese army occupying Fandi now is about 3,000 people, and most of them are samurai of the Satsuma Domain. ”

"This is natural." Tang Dingkui said, got up from the chair, and said to Lin Yizhe with a smile, "Today, Tang personally supervised the battle, and there must be a good news to Lord Futai." ”

After Tang Dingkui finished speaking, he didn't wait for Lin Yizhe to answer, so he turned around and gave an order.

Seeing the chaotic Huai soldiers on the beach begin to get up under the orders of the various battalion officers, forming a line and preparing to kick out, Lin Yizhe sighed secretly in his heart.

Tang Dingkui turned over and got on his horse, arched his hand to Lin Yizhe, and then galloped forward, and behind him, several soldiers with the "Tang" pennant hurriedly flew horses to follow.

Lin Yizhe watched Tang Dingkui and the commanders of the Huai Army gradually move away, turned back to a personal entourage and said, "You go back to the 'Fujing', find the shell pipe to pass on my orders, and order all ships to gather foreign gun teams and go ashore to obey orders." ”

"Yes, sir."

"Tell the shell pipe belt again, dismantle the two five-barreled machine guns, and send them to the shore."

"Yes, sir."

At noon, a thin mist rose in the babbling valley, and the surroundings were unusually silent, and even the birds, which were usually the most lonely, stopped crowing.

Captain Yasumi Oji crouched behind a low wall to observe the enemy. In his binoculars, a figure that appeared and disappeared quietly in a circuitous way towards his left flank under the cover of the morning fog.

Yasumi Oji is a native of Kagoshima Prefecture and a graduate of the Japanese Army Reserve Non-commissioned Officer School. He has always dreamed of making a career in war, because soldiers in war are very different from peacetime, soldiers in peacetime can sit in a high-class room like politicians and talk about intrigues, and soldiers in war use their military exploits and achievements to pave the way to success as generals. What Oji Yasujun yearns for in his heart is obviously the latter.

But since following Saigo Congdao to Taiwan, he has discovered that military exploits are not so easy to obtain.

Since Xixiang Congdao led the Japanese army to land from Langqiao, it has launched a fierce battle with the people of Taiwan. Although the Japanese army has successively attacked the Peony Society, the Gaoshi Buddhist Society, the Nu Milk Society, the Bamboo Society, and the Guishan Society, the people still have not given up resistance, and the Japanese army is still attacked from time to time.

At this time, the Japanese army had successively captured more than 50 societies in southern Taiwan and fought with the Qing army in Taiwan. The Qing army was backwardly equipped, had no fighting spirit, and collapsed at the first touch, which made the Daiji Yasumi and the Japanese officers and soldiers full of contempt for the rotten Qing army. But the Daiji Yasujun did not rejoice for long, because the naval escort fleet covering the army was completely annihilated under the blow of the Qing navy.

Now, if the country does not send a naval fleet to support it, the sea return route of the Japanese army in Taiwan will be cut off.

After the victory of the Qing navy, a large number of land forces were soon transported. The first batch of Qing troops had already landed in the Langqiao area, and its vanguard troops had occupied many of the strongholds established after the Japanese landing. For this reason, Saigo ordered the Japanese army to build a position and defend on the spot. According to the reports of Japanese scouts and lion-headed people, the Qing troops who came this time were very numerous, far outnumbering the Japanese troops, and all of them were equipped with foreign guns, in addition to artillery.

Seeing that the Qing troops that appeared in front of him were indeed all equipped with American-style rifles, Oji Yasuchun frowned slightly.

Judging from the map, the current position of the Japanese army is close to the Shakou of the river in front of the river, and the back is at the foot of the mountain, which is the only place where the Qing army landed to cut off the rear road of the Japanese army. Fortunately, it was less than ten miles from the sea, the terrain was steep, and it was completely outside the cover of the powerful artillery fire of the enemy ships. When attacking Fanmin, the Japanese army forcibly detoured from here, captured the commanding heights and then detoured to the flank of Fanmin, resulting in a complete defeat and retreat of Fanmin of Gaoshi Buddhist Society.

After being ordered to defend this area, Oji Yasujun personally led his subordinates to observe the terrain. He found it surrounded by ditches and streams, suitable for the concealed movement of the infantry, and a mile away there was a grove of trees, and the small river in front of and behind the woods was covered with dense reeds. With the intuition of a professional soldier, he foresaw that the Qing army would launch a sneak attack on the Japanese army, and that the woods and reeds would become the only way to cover the enemy's sneak attack.

As expected, his prediction was confirmed.

In the binoculars, the long figure was still moving silently, and its spearhead had already crossed the woods and began to detour to the side of the Japanese army's position. An ensign whispered beside him, "...... There are a lot of enemies! Do you want to strengthen it a little more? ”

Oji Yasumi shook his head, yesterday he only put a small force into the woods, and an ambush in front of the position to intercept the enemy's retreat. He expected that the sneak attack would only be a small group of assists, and the main attack direction would still be in front of the position.

"Wait for the enemy to enter the ambush circle and open fire at my command...... Be sure to catch a few live bites! ”

According to the experience of Yasumi Oji, the resistance of the Banmin is rather frenzied, they often fight to the last man, and even the wounded will try their best to kill themselves once they are captured. This kind of war spirit of swearing to the death once became a myth in the Japanese army, and the performance of the Qing army was just the opposite, when encountering a small number of Japanese soldiers, they shouted and swarmed together, and every Japanese soldier killed rushed to cut off their heads to receive a reward, and when they met an officer, they would cut off their arms and take armbands, but if they encountered a large group of Japanese soldiers, they would let go of a burst of guns and then flee in all directions, and they ran extremely fast, and rarely caught prisoners.

Oji Yasumi couldn't understand why Fanmin was willing to submit to such an army.

Although there were quite a few enemies who appeared in front of him who only attacked the troops, and all of them were American-style rifles, which looked more powerful than the Qing troops stationed in Taiwan, Yasumi Ohji, who was full of confidence, was still determined to defeat these enemies.

"Whoosh!" As a signal rocket lifted into the air, the silence of dawn was immediately broken by the sound of heavy gunfire. The enemy was ambushed, leaving behind many corpses and fleeing backwards. Japanese officers and soldiers came out of the ambush in all directions, shouting and pulling the triggers, as if beating the water dogs or chasing and intercepting thieves, chasing the encircled enemies everywhere with bullets, knocking them to the ground one by one.

At this time, the mountain wind blew and the fog dissipated, and Daji Yasuchun was surprised to find that the number of Qing troops was much larger than he had originally expected.

"Up! Give it to me! A Qing officer shouted loudly, brandished the waist knife in his hand, and drove the Qing soldiers who were already in chaos under the attack of the Japanese army's platoon guns to charge forward, but he had just driven a group of people forward, but the people in front had already turned around and ran back, so anxious that he jumped there and scolded, but no one listened to him.

The Qing officer was in a hurry, and slashed a Qing deserter who ran past him with a sharp swing of his knife, which may have caused some deterrence, and some of the Qing soldiers turned around, unaimed and placed their guns indiscriminately, while hunched forward.

The Japanese army shouted and kept putting their guns, and the bullets rained down towards the Qing army, and the formation of the Qing army was very dense, one person next to another, and as a result, under the fire of the Japanese platoon guns, a large number of people fell in an instant, and the morale of the Qing army suddenly collapsed, and no longer ignored the shouts and threats of the officers who supervised the battle, turned around and ran towards the road from which they came.

At this time, the Japanese mountain artillery rang out, and one after another shells flew over and landed in the rear of the Qing army, and the Qing army was immediately killed and wounded. Seeing that the way back was cut off by Japanese artillery fire, the Qing army became even more chaotic.

And at this moment, with bursts of shouts and killings, the Japanese army rushed out and launched a counterattack on the retreating Qing army.

Saigo held a telescope from the road, observing the battle situation, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth unconsciously.

After the arrival of the Qing army, they launched a large-scale attack with great momentum, and the Japanese army basically took a defensive position, but this time, it was an exception.

In the face of the Qing army's attack, the Japanese army quickly figured out the tactics of the Qing army after several confrontations with the Qing army. Gu Gancheng summed up his experience and said that the core of the Qing army's tactics was, in a word, to take the initiative to attack, and like the Japanese, the word "offensive" was also respected by the Japanese Army, which was modeled after the Prussian Army. However, the Achilles heel of the Qing army's offensive was that the tactics were rigid and similar, and they rarely changed flexibly, such as where to attack, often returned the same way, and refused to easily change the route. According to the characteristics of the Qing army's operations, Saigo Congdao and Gu Gancheng, Li Xiande and others carefully designed a battle plan to "lure the snake out of the hole", preparing to lure out the main force of the Qing army and destroy it.

Now it seems that the ploy has worked. When the Qing army launched an attack without distinguishing between the false and the real, the Japanese army first opened fire with rifles to give the Qing army a head-on blow, and then shells fell from the sky, blocking its retreat and falling in the preset area, causing the Qing army to cry wolf and suffer heavy casualties. Then the infantry charged.

The battle soon reached a fever pitch.

Kishida Ginka "Taiwan Battlefield Record":

“…… Second Lieutenant Maeda said: Many of our troops are new recruits, and many of them were suddenly urgently assembled during training at the training camp, and then drove to Nagasaki overnight to board a ship and come to Taiwan. Most of them were children of peasant families, but their bravery in the face of the enemy was no worse than that of soldiers who were born as samurai. ”

"The position we defended was to the east of Checheng, which was first developed by Fujian immigrants. After Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan from the Dutch, he sent the general Chen Wenhua to lead an army to garrison the famine; After Taiwan was conquered by the Qing Dynasty, a large number of Fujian people moved here to reclaim, when they built the city wall, first with purple wood as the wall, and then with ox carts to set up the array, so there is the name of the purple city or car city. The hot spring water here is abundant, and the water contains a variety of minerals, which are effective for arthritis and chronic stomach diseases. We could have enjoyed the soothing and wonderful hot spring baths here, and we could have tasted the delicious products of the area. A unique seafood is produced here, called the mountain shrimp, which has strong feet that can support its body and walk on land after leaving the water. It is said that if the place where the shrimp lives is out of water, it can even go over the mountains to find a place with water, hence the name of the shrimp. The shrimp is not only tender in meat, but also has a good health care effect in soju shrimp boiled with some herbs. Shallots are also one of the main agricultural products here, and there is a unique way to eat them, which is to cut them into shreds, soak them in sugar and vinegar, and then add mashed fish, which tastes crisp and refreshing, and has the flavor of fish. These things are our food when we are short of food. ”

"This is the only way for the enemy's main force to rescue the besieged forward troops and enter Fandi. The recruits entered the position in the afternoon, and the so-called position they saw was actually a small ridge about 300 meters long. The officers drew a line in the air behind the position with their horsewhips to warn that no one was to retreat, and that those who fled without permission should be punished on the spot. ”

"The first thing a recruit does when he goes to war is to dig fortifications."

"Murakami soldier Cao pointed out to the recruits and said, you can't be lazy in building fortifications, dig deep to hide, otherwise you will have to be dead on the ground as soon as the cannonball goes off, and the Qing people's artillery is very powerful. Because it was a rugged mountain battle, the fortifications were not easy to dig, so they had to rely on danger, and everyone took turns working all night to connect the position with the trench. ”

"The battle broke out early in the morning of the third day."

"For recruits and people like me who are on the battlefield for the first time, war is an unimaginably strange experience, even a little unbelievable, like an earthquake in your sleep, the enemy has not yet appeared, there is a strange noise in the air, and the shells are shaking and exploding on the ground before people can react. It was a breathless burst that shattered the night like glass. The recruits lay on their stomachs in trenches or caves, their hands tightly clasped over their heads, eager to find a hole to burrow into. A samurai from Kagoshima Prefecture shouted to me, 'Damn the Seikoku cannon has broken a lot of people's ears...... I heard that some troops were crushed by artillery before they could see the enemy. ’”

"Just after the shelling, the sound of the soldiers flew into the ears of the recruits like a mosquito, making it feel strange and unreal. He commanded: 'The enemy is attacking...... Get ready to shoot! ’”

The recruit quickly raised his head, and through the thin light, we saw that there were indeed many faint things slowly wriggling in the woods ahead. This was the first time that the recruits faced the vicious and cruel Qing soldiers, and without fear or timidity, he raised his rifle and pulled the trigger at those black shadows. The recruits only buried their heads in shooting, until Bing Cao shouted a loud reprimand, only to realize that the enemy was long gone. ”