"This little devil seems to have been trained, and this trench is dug very quickly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Schindlin pointed to the Japanese troops below the hill and said with some surprise.

Everyone looked over, and sure enough, the trench dug by the Japanese army more than 200 meters away from the gap in the siege of Zhisong Yuan had roughly taken shape.

The Japanese trenches were divided into three routes, and the distance between the front and rear was twenty or thirty meters, but in the hurry, the trenches had not yet had time to dig a communication ditch.

Although the Japanese trenches were dug quickly and were obviously trained, such trench spacing was absolutely wrong in Qin Chuan's eyes.

Because the wooden-handled grenades equipped by the Qinchuan Chuanzi Battalion can easily be thrown twenty or thirty meters even if they lie on the ground and throw them. If the troops below were not Qing troops but were replaced by the Sichuan battalion, then as long as one trench was captured, the Japanese troops in the two trenches behind could be easily blown out with grenades.

Regarding Schindlin's statement, Xu Tong was very disdainful.

Xu Tong snorted: "The ground by this river is wet, the water vapor is big, and the little devil has dug such a section for half a day, if this was in our salt group, it would have been trained by the commander a long time ago." ”

Although everyone has never seen the salt regiment, they should now ask the people of the Sichuan battalion to dig trenches, but they have all seen the military quality of Xu Tong with that row of people, but the new short gun called the shell gun in his hand hit the head, which made them envious. Therefore, as soon as Xu Tong said, although everyone didn't say anything, they all believed it when they looked at the eyes of several people.

At the beginning, when the Japanese army was digging trenches, the Yi soldiers and Sheng soldiers in the fort were still hiding in the gaps and in the holes of the wall that had not fallen, and kept shooting at the Japanese troops, intending to stop the Japanese troops. It's just that the Japanese army didn't care about the casualties, and dug trenches while returning fire, as the Japanese trenches slowly formed, the Japanese firepower with better cover gradually suppressed the firepower of the Yi Army and the Sheng Army, and the Qing troops who shot at the Japanese army at the gap were killed and wounded a dozen times after a while.

Such a result inevitably made Wei Rugui angry. In the field of vision of the Qinchuan telescope on the hill, Wei Rugui wanted to rush to the gap several times, but was forcibly stopped by Ma Yukun.

Compared with the Sheng Army and the Yi Army, the Japanese army was obviously more well-trained, and the shooting accuracy was obviously higher than that of the Qing army, and the Qing army was completely at a disadvantage when shooting at a distance of 100 meters. In addition to the shooting hole, there are still Qing troops shooting outward, and there are no Qing troops in the gap.

Qin Chuan still rejected the suggestions of several people to rush down the hill and the Sheng army and the Yi army in the fort to flank the Japanese army. Because, Qin Chuan still has to wait for the last opportunity.

Because of the reinforcements, and just now a fierce battle just drove the Japanese army out of the fort, the morale of the Qing army in the fort was greatly boosted, I don't know whether it was Ma Yukun or Wei Rugui's order, the Qing army in the fort under the leadership of the two sentry commanders, even ignored the intensive shooting of the Japanese army, shouted and rushed out of the gap, while rushing to the Japanese trench, while constantly shooting at the Japanese army with the rifle in his hand, suppressing the Japanese army with heavy trenches.

The rifles of the Qing army were all new rifles that pressed a few or even a dozen rounds of ammunition at a time, hiding behind bunkers and firing at the Japanese army, and the Japanese army had time to calmly press the bullets, but once the Qing army launched a charge, the disadvantage of the Japanese army's Springfield-style rifle without magazines was immediately revealed, and the Japanese army basically only fired two shots, and the Qing army, which had killed or wounded thirty or forty people, rushed into a trench at the front.

In the fight in the trenches, the Qing army did not take any advantage.

Because the Qing army did not have bayonets on its rifles, more than 40 people were immediately stabbed to death by the bayonets of the Japanese army, and the Qing army completely relied on the advantage of being outnumbered, shooting from afar, and smashing those who entered with the butts of their guns, and finally wiped out the Japanese troops in the trenches after a few minutes.

During this period, the Japanese troops in the two trenches in the back climbed out of the trenches more than half a person high several times and tried to rush over, but they were all pressed down by the dense rain of bullets from the Qing troops in the fort.

With the trenches as their backing, the more than 100 Qing troops in the trenches thought that they knew the shortcomings of not having bayonets in a narrow space, and did not try to rush over and take the next trench, but only began to shoot at each other with the Qing troops who were also hidden in the trenches on the opposite side.

Shooting at each other in two trenches twenty or thirty meters apart is almost like pointing each other's muzzles at each other's heads and pulling the trigger, and such a close-range shooting is not only a comparison of shooting skills, but also of courage and courage. If either side climbs out of the trench and escapes, it will be shot by the other side immediately, and the current situation can only be that both sides hold on, depending on who can't hold on first.

With the sound of "ping-pong" shooting, people were constantly shot, and as long as they were shot, they would undoubtedly die, and there would be no wounded soldiers at all. Because both sides were shot in the head, a gunshot would shoot a red and white mass on the opposite side, which was a mixture of brain pulp and blood.

Although the Japanese army's marksmanship was accurate, it was no longer an advantage to shoot at such a close distance, and even without good training, it was difficult to shoot bullets away. Although the intensive shooting of the Qing army pressed the Japanese troops in the opposite trenches and did not dare to raise their heads easily, often the Japanese army suddenly emerged from the trenches, and there would be a Qing army that was beaten and the brains burst. Of course, the Japanese soldier's head was immediately hit by a few bullets.

For a while, the two sides were evenly matched, but everyone knew that there was only one possibility to continue fighting like this, and that was to end up together.

This near-suicidal shooting made the faces of everyone on the hill change color.

Qin Chuan's heart was also extremely shocked!

It is said that the well-trained Japanese army can do this, but the Qing army can also do this, which Qin Chuan never expected.

Qin Chuan secretly sighed in his heart, these people below are the elites of Beiyang, but after all, there are still too few such elites, if it is a new recruit who has just expanded in China, in such a scene, I am afraid that it will have already collapsed.

Realizing that their troops were in danger, the commanders of both sides sent reinforcements to respond.

Qin Chuan on the hill condescendingly saw very clearly, the first to act was the Japanese army, because the situation was critical, the Japanese army put all the reserves into it at one time, but the assembly area of the Japanese reserves was far away from the battlefield, and as soon as they appeared on the main road, they were blocked and fired by the Qing artillery on the north bank.

However, although several cannons of the Qing army kept bombarding, the number of artillery was too small to cause too many casualties to the Japanese troops who ran quickly along the road in a straggler formation.

The Yi army and the Sheng army were not to be outdone, because the Japanese army and the Qing army in the trenches were engaged in life-and-death shooting, and the broken stones of the walled wall at the gap in the fortress hit by stray bullets flew indiscriminately, and the two sentinels who went out to reinforce the Qing army went out from the walled gate.

Reinforcements from the Japanese and Qing armies approached the trenches fought by the two armies almost at the same time, and in order to prevent the other side from entering the trenches first, both the Qing and Japanese troops ran and shot at each other. At first, the distance was too far, and it was a hasty shot in the run, and the whizzing bullets did not pose much threat to both sides, but as the distance decreased, people on both sides of the reinforcements were constantly knocked down by bullets. Eventually, reinforcements from both sides could no longer bear the casualties at a distance of 100 meters from the trenches where the bullets were fired, and began to lie down on the spot and shoot at each other.

Although the Japanese army had more reinforcements than the Qing army, the Qing army's rifle rate of fire was much higher than that of the Japanese army, and the dense firepower still pressed the Japanese army to the ground and could not raise its head.

"Boom, boom, boom"

A rumbling cannon sound suddenly exploded on the other side of the fortress, Qin Chuan turned his head to look over, a mile away from the small hill, Oshima Yoshimasa's Japanese troops in the middle must have heard this fierce battle, and began to attack the fortress again.

Qin Chuan couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart, thanks to the poor coordination of the attack of the Japanese army's two troops, otherwise when the Japanese army broke through the siege fort, Oshima Yoshimasa launched an attack, and the siege of Songyuan would really be dangerous.

"Commander, let's do it."

Xu Tong couldn't help but ask Qin Chuan, and Qin Chuan nodded and said.

"It's time for the little devils' reserves to be pulled out, and it's time for us to play."

"My lord, look at the little devil's artillery."

Just when Qin Chuan decided to prepare to attack, Yu Guangxin suddenly shouted in surprise.