Chapter 217: The Power of Mines
Looking at the rising sun that had just risen radiating infinite heat and dazzling brilliance, Qin Chuan not only secretly admired in his heart, this Japanese officer was not simple, and he actually thought of using the advantage of sunlight to attack. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, it is not surprising that the officers of the Japanese army were all people who had mastered the knowledge of modern culture, and those who had knowledge always had richer minds and more imaginative.
In this regard, the ancient Chinese are incomparable to the Japanese, who have implemented the imperial examination system in China for more than 1,000 years, although in the early days of its implementation, and even for a long time afterward, it did provide a strong guarantee for the political, economic, cultural and other national plans to govern the country, but to a large extent, it also produced an invisible imprisonment on the thinking of the ancestors, imprisoning people's thinking in the Four Books and Five Classics and Huazhang Jiajie, and branding other knowledge as "kitsch and obscenity".
The Japanese are extremely poor in history, and even in Europe and the United States, because of the lack of history and culture, their thinking and thinking do not have so many rules and regulations. From another point of view, this is also a great advantage for them, because there are many blank spaces in their thinking, and their new thinking and new ideas are easier to form, and even easier to accept new things.
For example, if you learn from the West, the Japanese will be more receptive, while the Chinese will be extremely slow to accept it. Because the scholars are fortunate to be "brave" and crowded on the obviously more "bright" road of the imperial examination. As a result, among the Chinese people at this time, there are many people who know the Four Books and the Five Classics, but there are very few people who understand modern scientific knowledge, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are rare.
"Commander, shall we act immediately? It's too late, I'm afraid Sheng Jun will suffer. ”
As Xu Tong spoke, a reconnaissance platoon soldier observing on the edge of the reeds quickly came through the gap in the reeds.
"It was reported that the Japanese left a squad in the reeds to guard the ships, and the rest of the troops were divided into two routes, one squadron each. Of the two Japanese troops, one way west along the river, the target should be the battery; The other road went straight to the Great Wall, and there were almost 300 people on this way. ”
For the Japanese army to cleverly use the advantage of sunlight to launch an attack on the Qing army, not only Xu Tong, Loped, Yu Guangxin, and Xin Delin were anxious, but Qin Chuan was also the same in his heart, and he did not dare to delay any longer.
"Xu Tong, you take a squad to deal with the little devils of the squad guarding the ship."
"Lao Luo, you take two sentries to follow the Japanese army that attacked the fort."
"The rest of the people, follow me to attack the Great Wall."
Xu Tong and Lopet responded in a low voice, and hurriedly disappeared in the reeds with the team, Qin Chuan reached out and took his two shell guns from the guards, moved the guns, and with a wave of his hand, he took the people of the two sentinel Renzi battalions and the soldiers of the thirty or so reconnaissance platoons out of the reeds.
Because the Japanese had already discovered that the Sheng army had discovered their whereabouts, they launched an attack formation as soon as they rushed out of the reeds.
At this time, the Japanese offensive queue was far less ferocious and flexible than it was decades later, and at this time it was still very rigid to follow the horizontal tactics of the Napoleonic period, with small formations drawn into a row, and both Japanese troops were carefully pressed towards their respective targets in several columns, holding bayonet rifles.
The Japanese troops attacking the artillery position of Jiangyouqing were far away from the target, so in order to start at the same time as the attack on the "Great Wall," the Japanese army attacked at a relatively fast speed. On the way to attack the "Great Wall" directly in front of Qinchuan, because it was close to the target, it would soon enter the rifle range of the people in ambush in the "Great Wall", so it was relatively cautious, and the attack formation was also relatively tight.
This gave Qin Chuan enough time, because considering that once the fight started, there was no time to build fortifications, and all the people could only lie down on the spot and shoot, otherwise they would be easily injured by the stray bullets from the Sheng army on the opposite side, Qin Chuan pulled everyone into a row, the people of the reconnaissance platoon were scattered on his left side, and the people of the other two sentinel Renzi battalions were on the far right of Qin Chuan.
Qin Chuan did this, mainly because if the Japanese army wanted to turn back and break through, they would inevitably flee to the river to grab the boat and cross the river, so it was inevitable that the left side of him near the river would be under the greatest pressure. Another advantage is that at the beginning of the battle between the two sides, everyone on Qin Chuan's side can have the space and vision to shoot.
Qin Chuan looked at the flash on the bayonets of the Japanese army that were densely packed a few hundred meters in front of him, bowed and quickened his pace to chase the Japanese army closely, he had to get as close to the Japanese army as possible before the battle started, otherwise their firepower could not pose a threat to the Japanese army.
Although they had already felt that there was an ambush of the Qing army behind the sandbag bunker, and those Qing troops had also discovered them, it seemed that they had been prepared for a long time, but they could see that they were getting closer and closer to the position of the Qing army, and even the muzzle of the Qing army's black hole behind the bunker could not be seen, but for a long time, the Qing army did not shoot, which made the Japanese army a little timid, and the pace of the attack in the front row could not help but slow down.
The distance between the Japanese army and the Qing army's bunker is getting shorter and shorter, but the Qing army still does not shoot.
Three hundred meters, two hundred and fifty meters, because at this time it had already entered the range of the rifle, the Japanese soldier Nakasa who led the team did not hesitate anymore, raised the saber in his hand and shouted suddenly. Under his order, so the Japanese army instantly straightened up and ran quickly to rush to the sandbag bunker.
At the same time that the Japanese army Nakasa gave the order, Qin Chuan also rushed quickly.
As soon as Qin Chuan's footsteps moved, the reconnaissance platoon immediately followed. The two sentinels of the Renzi battalion were much behind, and by the time they accelerated their speed and ran, they had already opened a distance of more than ten meters from Qin Chuan and the reconnaissance platoon.
Qin Chuan led the more than 200 people to run, and suddenly the sound was loud, and the Japanese army Zhongzuo heard a voice behind him, and hurriedly looked back, his face turned pale suddenly, knowing that he had fallen into the trap of the Qing army, he turned his head again, raised his saber and shouted hoarsely. With the shouts of the Japanese army, all the Japanese soldiers who attacked the "Great Wall" instantly rushed towards the Qing army's bunker with their bayonet rifles in their hands.
It can be said that this decision of the Japanese army Nakazo is still correct, if he stops and turns around to break through, he will inevitably be flanked by the Qing army in front and rear on the open river bank, and regardless of the Qing army behind him to resolutely attack the Qing army in front, it is possible to break through to the bunker in one fell swoop, and then rely on the bunker to counterattack the Qing army behind, the chance of victory will be greater.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom"
Suddenly, several huge explosions sounded in succession, and the Japanese soldiers charging in the smoke and dust were like scarecrows thrown into the air and torn apart by the shock wave of the violent explosion, and countless Japanese stumps, broken arms and broken flesh filled the air in the explosion area, and then mixed with dust and dirty blood were scattered on the bodies and faces of the surviving Japanese soldiers who were stunned by the explosion.
These five mines were used to blow up a warship that was made of fine steel all over its body, and how could it withstand the explosion of flesh and blood.
To blow up and sink a warship with thick skin and flesh and armed to the teeth, one mine has a charge larger than dozens of shells, let alone five mines exploding at once. Moreover, the power of the simultaneous explosion of a large number of explosives is far from comparable to the power of the explosion of dozens of shells with scattered explosions. The smoke from the explosion of these five mines, completely covering the charging Japanese troops.
"Lie down."
At the moment when the explosion sounded, Qin Chuan shouted and fell to the ground with the force of the forward rush.
When the task was arranged, Qin Chuan had already given an order that as long as the explosion sounded, everyone must lie down. Because of the explosion of a mine with a heavy charge of several hundred kilograms, the range of impact is not comparable to the killing range of a shell of tens of meters, and it is normal for such a powerful explosion, fragments and debris to fly 100 meters away.
Although the two sentinels of the reconnaissance platoon and the Renzi battalion all lay down in time to take cover, the debris and dirt that were blown up still fell on everyone with a "whoosh", and even Qin Chuan felt the "whooshing" shrapnel and gravel flying overhead.
Originally, along with the explosion, the Sheng army inside the "Great Wall" should have shot and shot, but the explosion sounded for a long time, and Qin Chuan didn't hear the gunshots, which made Qin Chuan feel strange.
When he looked up, Qin Chuan realized that the Sheng troops who were hiding behind the bunker were all frightened by the huge power of the explosion, and they didn't relax for a long time.
The Japanese army was even more unbearable in the center of the explosion, and the large group of Japanese troops did not see a single person standing after the explosion, but it was not that the Japanese army was killed and wounded in the explosion, because the Japanese troops in the center of the explosion were either torn to pieces by the huge shock wave of the explosion, or they were thrown high and thrown to the ground by the huge wave of air generated by the explosion, or they were swept away by the air wave.
In such a scene, even the well-informed Qin Chuan couldn't help but be a little stunned.
Seeing that some of the Japanese soldiers who were swept away by the air wave trembled and got up on the ground, and this distance was not within the range of the rifle where Qin Chuan and the others were, Qin Chuan couldn't help but shout at the Sheng army on the opposite side.
"Shoot."
But Qin Chuan shouted several times, not only did the Sheng army on the opposite side not react, but even the reconnaissance platoon and the people from the Renzi battalion around him did not shoot.
Qin Chuan was about to have a seizure, but suddenly felt his eardrum buzzing, and then he remembered that such a huge explosion had already shocked everyone, even if the eardrum was not broken, his hearing was at least temporarily deaf.
In a hurry, Qin Chuan raised his hand and raised his shell gun to shoot at the Japanese soldiers who had just gotten up. Qin Chuan's move, those soldiers of the Renzi battalion also reacted, and then they shot at the Japanese army "crackling". It's just that the Renzi battalion is too far away from the Japanese army, and it is basically on the edge of the firing range, although the gunfire is very dense, but there is no one who has fallen down after those Japanese soldiers who have climbed up. However, this also has an advantage, as soon as the Renzi battalion fired, the Sheng army on the opposite side also woke up, and there was a burst of random shots at the Japanese soldiers who got up. Although the Qing army hurriedly opened fire in fright, and there was almost no accuracy, but a burst of guns of hundreds of people, not to mention many big people, even a rabbit could not escape, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were immediately defeated.
After being shaken by a huge explosion, people's minds have to be slow to react for a while, just like the Japanese army at this time, many people almost never thought that they would be shot by the Qing army, and the Japanese soldiers who did not die got up from the ground in a trembling manner, which was completely instinctive, even if the people around them were constantly shot, they were not moved.
It should be said that it was no longer a fierce battle between the two sides, but only a one-sided massacre, and it was only a matter of time before the Japanese troops who crossed the river were completely annihilated.
"Boom, boom, boom"
There were a few loud noises on the riverside, Qin Chuan looked at the riverside, and the Japanese troops who attacked the fort were also covered by the smoke and dust rising into the sky。。。。。。