The sound of gunfire and artillery rang out on the south bank of the Datong River, and the three fortresses of the Qing army on the south bank were filled with gunsmoke, shrapnel flew sideways, and the sound of killing was endless. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the south bank, on a low hill overgrown with shrubs a mile southeast of the Dawei Fort of Zhisongyuan, Qin Chuan, who was holding a telescope, was lying in the bushes, holding a telescope nervously observing the battlefield situation. In the bushes beside him, Loped, Xu Tong, Yu Guangxi, and Sindelin were also nervously watching the fierce battlefield. In the bushes on the side of the anticline of the hill more than ten meters behind them, the reconnaissance platoon and the battalion of the Renzi battalion sat in the bushes, still whispering excitedly about the battle on the north bank in the morning.

The battle on the North Shore went surprisingly well, and it only took about twenty minutes for the battle to end. None of the Japanese troops in the squadron who crossed the river and attacked by sneak attack escaped the net, except for more than 60 wounded Japanese soldiers who lost their combat effectiveness and were captured, and all the rest were killed. As for the casualties of the Renzi battalion and the Sheng army, there were only a paltry twelve minor injuries and one serious wound, all of which were wounded by stray bullets, and they were all caused by their own people.

This is not because of the low combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, nor because of how strong the combat effectiveness of the Qing army is, but because the power of those ten mines is too great.

After the explosions in the two minefields, hundreds of Japanese soldiers who were at the center of the explosions were killed on the spot, and more than 200 people were shocked to death, and many Japanese soldiers were even blown to pieces, and even their bodies could not be found. The rest of the Japanese soldiers who did not die were either seriously wounded or dizzy from the explosion, and had almost no ability to resist. Later, in the indiscriminate guns of more than 1,000 Qing troops, they fell in pieces, and the Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to survive were stunned and did not have time to stand up.

After the war, looking at the mutilated and bloody corpses all over the ground and the minced meat flying everywhere, Sun Xianyin, who had also experienced the scene of the war, turned pale and was speechless for a long time.

Qin Chuan did not delay much, because the gunfire on the other side was tight, and under the guidance of Sun Xianyin's people, he went far along the river to a hidden river bay five miles to the east, and quietly crossed the river to the south bank with more than 30 fishing boats. Although this place was already seven or eight miles away from the battlefield, Qin Chuan still took these five hundred or so people around in a big circle from afar, and finally came here.

The reason why this hill was chosen is because it is not far from the fortress of Zhisongyuan, which is only more than 500 meters in Qinchuan, and the height is just right. Qin Chuan was lying on the hill, not only could he see the situation in the fortress of the bridge and the pine courtyard, but the entire battlefield was basically within his line of sight.

Another point is that Qin Chuan took a fancy to the dense vegetation on this hill, and his more than 500 people could hide it well.

The dense vegetation of this hill extends to a large area of mature sorghum fields at the bottom of the hill, which originally spread all the way to the fortress of Zhisongyuan, but when the fort was built, the sorghum within 300 meters was cut by the Qing army. Originally, the remaining sorghum would also be harvested in these days, but because of the war, the North Koreans have not had time to do it.

Qin Chuan had always disagreed with the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, but today on the battlefield on the south bank of the Datong River, Qin Chuan was shocked, and he couldn't even believe that on the battlefield under the hills, where the sky was dark and flesh was flying, it would be a Qing army fighting stubbornly with the well-trained Japanese army.

On the hill, Qin Chuan saw very clearly that Oshima Yoshimasa's deployment should be divided into three routes: left, center, and right, and the right flank was the squadron that the Japanese army crossed the river and was wiped out.

The middle lane is the main force of the 9th Mixed Brigade led by Yoshimasa Oshimasa, with three brigades.

On the right flank were two and a half brigades of Japanese troops, and the Japanese artillery had a total of twenty-four mountain guns, according to the establishment of the Japanese army at this time, it should be the size of an artillery brigade plus a squadron.

The Japanese artillery was divided into two parts, two squadrons, that is, twelve mountain guns, established positions in the rear of the main force of Oshima Yoshimasa in the middle, and there was a squadron of Japanese cover. The two squadron artillery on the right flank set up positions at a distance, on a hillside three miles away.

The position of the Japanese artillery position was obviously deliberately located outside the range of the Qing army's artillery fire on the north bank. However, there is an obvious disadvantage of this setup, that is, the Japanese army did not make full use of the advantage of more artillery to suppress the artillery fire of the Qing army, but only wanted to provide artillery support for its own infantry, and the Japanese artillery only made the range of its own artillery cover the three siege forts of the Qing army on the south bank.

Although the Japanese army was divided into three routes, the goal of the main attack was very clear, which was the largest fortress of the Qing army on the south bank. For the other two forts, the Japanese right wing only divided part of its forces to attack it under the cover of artillery fire, and the main purpose was to contain the Qing troops in these two forts and make them dare not rescue Zaesunin.

The hill on which Qinchuan was located was located in the middle of the Japanese attacking force and the middle and back of the right flank, so it was clear to see the entire battlefield.

When Qin Chuan led his troops up to the hill, it was already noon.

The fighting on the south bank continued from the early hours of the morning until this point, because the gunfire never stopped. The Japanese army seemed to be tireless, charging the Qing army again and again without stopping, but again and again they were repelled by the dense fire of the Qing army in the fort, and each time the Japanese army would drag the corpses and wounded back in disarray. Once the Japanese army withdrew, it would be fiercely shelled by the mountain artillery commanded by the Qing on the north bank of the river, and the Japanese army could only get out of the artillery control area of the Qing army by retreating far away to the bend of the road one mile away. During this period, the Japanese mountain artillery also continued to shell the fortress from both sides, but as soon as the attacking Japanese approached the fort, the Japanese artillery fire had to stop, because the Japanese were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people.

Although the artillery fire of the Japanese army was far more fierce than that of the north bank of the Qing army, the three forts were filled with gunpowder smoke and flashing fires, and the tents of the Qing army inside were blown into pieces and flew and burned in the air. This scorching smell is the smell of the Qing soldiers who were killed by Japanese artillery fire.

In the fortress of Zhisongyuan, there was a battalion and a half of Ma Yukun's army, more than 700 people, under the command of Ma Yukun, the fight was very tenacious, although under the heavy bombardment of the Japanese artillery on both sides suffered heavy casualties, but every time a group of people were killed or wounded, some people rushed to the wall inside the fort and shot out of the hole with the rifle in their hands.

Although the Japanese artillery fire was very fierce, the stone wall of the Songyuan was more than a zhang high, and the shells continued to explode inside and outside the fort, but it had little effect on the strong stone wall, unless a shell hit the stone wall directly. It's just that the ballistics of the mountain artillery are all curved shots, and it is not easy to hit the stone wall.

The Japanese artillery fire was fierce, the Qing army's rifle rate of fire was much higher than that of the Japanese army, and the rain of bullets fired was far more intense and dense than that of the Japanese army, and there was a wall to cover it, and the two sides were inseparable for a while.

Under the heavy rain of bullets of the Qing army, the charging Japanese troops once again retreated to the distant road like a tide, and under the hoarse shouts of several Japanese officers, another group of Japanese troops gathered again to prepare for the next attack.

"Boom, boom, boom"

The Japanese artillery once again began to carry out fierce artillery bombardment on the fortress of Zhisong Yuan, the Japanese mountain artillery are all 75mm French Hatch Kais mountain guns, although the caliber is not large, but more than 20 mountain guns fired continuously, the momentum is still very amazing, suddenly in the fortress of Zhisongyuan exploded a group of fire, shrapnel, gravel flew wantonly, a large cloud of smoke and dust will be planted in the fortress of Zhisongyuan tightly enveloped tightly, from time to time in the smoke and dust came the screams and howls of the Qing army.

The time of each shelling by the Japanese army was not very long, only about ten minutes.

Qin Chuan judged that this was because the Japanese troops who had been attacking Pyongyang for a long time did not carry much ammunition, and because although the Japanese army controlled the Korean king and supported Daewonjun, the Japanese army was unable to take care of the local government of Korea for the time being, and there were many civilian resistors, so the logistics of the Japanese army could not keep up.

With the end of the Japanese artillery bombardment, a squadron of the Japanese army, which had been assembled on the main road a mile away, began to attack again with tired footsteps, braving the artillery fire blocked by the Qing troops on the north bank.

As the smoke and dust that shrouded the fortress gradually cleared, the plantation that had been devastated by artillery fire gradually became clear.

It's just that Qin Chuan and the others, who were sheltering on the hill this time, couldn't help but widen their eyes in surprise, because this shelling actually blew down a section of the walled wall more than 30 meters wide. At this time, that section of the stone wall that was originally more than one zhang high, only more than one person high, most of the collapsed stones were scattered in the gap, and the Japanese army did not even need to climb, and the scattered stones could directly cross the wall and rush into the fort.

Under the command of a Japanese lieutenant officer, the charging Japanese troops immediately ran briskly with shining bayonets and pounced on the blown up gap.

The Japanese troops hiding at the corner of the main road in the distance, four of the original five squadrons took turns to attack the fortress of Plantusin, and the other Japanese squadron seemed to be the reserve of the Japanese army and never participated in the attack. Seeing an opportunity, two more squadrons of Japanese troops rushed out of the assembly area and rushed along the main road under the fire of the Qing artillery.

Under the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army, the Qing army had already suffered heavy casualties in the fortress, and it was able to support it until now, relying on the tall walled wall to block the onslaught of the Japanese army, as long as the Japanese army rushed in, it was difficult for the Qing army without bayonets to block the Japanese army, and the pine courtyard was likely to be missed.

"My lord, let's rush down!"

Lopet pulled out his waist knife with a "click", and asked Qin Chuan for instructions with an anxious face.

The reason why Qin Chuan has not made a move is that he is waiting for an opportunity, he wants to attack the Japanese army from behind when the Japanese army is exhausted and launches a fierce attack on the Qing army with all his might, so that he will give the Japanese army the greatest blow, and even crush the Japanese attack in one fell swoop. It's just that such an opportunity has not appeared for a long time.

There are two reasons for this, which are very unexpected for Qin Chuan: one is that the wall of the Qing army is very strong, and the firepower is very fierce, and the Japanese army has never had a chance to approach; The second reason is that Qin Chuan never expected that the Yi army commanded by Ma Yukun would be so tenacious, although there were heavy casualties, Ma Yukun did not have the slightest intention of fighting, although his soldiers were almost all wounded, they still did not retreat, and withstood the Japanese army's onslaught in turn.

This made Qin Chuan couldn't help but be surprised.

In later generations, it is no wonder that there were several opinions on the Qing army in the First Sino-Japanese War, first of all, almost unanimously said that the Qing army's weapons and equipment were better than the Japanese army. This point should be said to be correct in the Beiyang Army, but in the case of the Beiyang Naval Division, it is biased. The reason for the defeat is not surprising that there are two arguments, one is that the Qing generals were incompetent or cowardly and afraid of death; Second, it is said that the Beiyang Qing army lacked training and its military quality was extremely poor.

Originally, Qin Chuan believed in these arguments, but after looking at the performances of Yijun and Ma Yukun, Qin Chuan almost completely overturned the view that existed in his heart. In his current view, neither of these views is entirely accurate. Although the generals of the Qing army are extremely lacking in understanding modern warfare, they are not lacking in courage and heroism on the battlefield, such as Ma Yukun has always insisted on being at the forefront.

As for the lack of training of soldiers, Qin Chuan doesn't think so now, originally he only thought that the training of Sheng Jun and Ye Zhichao's Lutai army training was very good, and the other Beiyang troops were much worse, but now at least the quality of the individual soldiers of the Yi Army is good. In addition to the fact that the Qing army did not attach importance to hand-to-hand combat, was not equipped with bayonets, and did not have corresponding training, other combat skills were also reasonable. As for those who do not perform well in the future, most of them are non-Beiyang troops who are poorly trained on weekdays or temporarily recruited by Beiyang.

Now, because the Japanese army blew up the wall of the fortress of Zhisongyuan, Qin Chuan was also very anxious, but he thought that now was still not the best time for him to appear, he believed that with the heroic performance of the Yi army in this more than half a day, he could still withstand the attack of the Japanese army, and he had to wait until the Japanese army used all its strength, and that was the moment when he suddenly attacked.

Qin Chuan did not answer Loped, but nervously observed the situation inside and outside the fort.

Sure enough, there were already dozens of ragged Yi soldiers gathered in groups in the fort to the gap, and fired fiercely at the large group of Japanese soldiers who rushed over, and the Japanese troops also continued to shoot at the Qing army, and the Qing army's new rifle once again showed extraordinary power, and the rate of fire was obviously much faster than that of the Japanese army, and the Japanese troops who rushed in front were knocked down in rows, while the Qing army was killed and wounded by the Japanese army was much less. It's just that the Japanese army is quite tenacious, the front one fell, and the one behind did not hesitate to cross the corpses of their comrades and continue to rush.

The Japanese army's resoluteness finally got the effect, and the repeating rifle bullets in the hands of the Qing army were quickly empty, and it was naturally too late to suppress the bullets, and the Japanese army soon rushed into the fort along the gap and started hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army. As soon as they entered hand-to-hand combat, the Yi army was quickly defeated, although the Japanese army was short in stature, but the stabbing skills were very skillful, and after only a while, more than a dozen Yi soldiers had blood arrows on their chests and abdomen and fell under the bayonets of the Japanese army. The rest of the Yi army retreated to both sides along the wall of the fort around the big mound that was still smoking, and the Japanese army lost no time in chasing after the Yi army with bayonets.

"Smack, smack, smack"

Another burst of gunfire rang out, and the Japanese soldiers who were chasing the Yi Army with bloody bayonets were shot and fell to the ground. The guns in their hands shot at the Japanese soldiers one after another, and more than 20 Japanese soldiers who were chasing after the retreating Yi soldiers were either killed or wounded. It's just that the Japanese troops who rushed into the fort along the gap and fought back, and the Japanese troops chasing around the mound had a chance to withdraw.

The Japanese troops who rushed into the fort were divided into two groups, along the edge of the mound, while looking for cover to attack on both sides, and at the same time firing at the Yi army, and for a while the dense gunfire in the fort rang out again.

Hearing the constant gunfire in the siege, the road commanded by Oshima Yoshimasa also began to launch another onslaught on the siege of Plantatsuin. The Yi army in the siege was already suffering heavy casualties, and at this time, it had to fight on both sides, and the situation was very critical.

Qin Chuan sighed secretly, knowing that his plan didn't seem to work, he turned around and handed the binoculars to the guard, and took his two shell guns from behind, he wanted to lead the team to kill the fort from behind the Japanese army before they came up.

"Commander, look."

Without waiting for Qin Chuan to give an order, Xu Tong suddenly pointed in the direction of the bridge and exclaimed.

Qin Chuan hurriedly took the telescope and held it up in front of him to look at the bridge of the boat, and the scene in his field of vision made Qin Chuan stunned。。。。。。