After some emotional agitation, Qin Chuan set off first, hunched over and trotted all the way to the edge of the bushes, squatting down behind a half-man-high boulder. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The squad of the reconnaissance company, following closely behind Qin Chuan, quickly found cover on both sides of Qin Chuan, took out the four grenades in the grenade pouch on his waist, unscrewed the safety cover behind him, and pulled out the string and placed it beside him.

Jin Jiu and several of his subordinates all carried revolvers, bowed and followed Qin Chuan left and right, each finding a good shelter and bowing down.

Gao Jishan also ran forward with Qin Chuan, and the guard of Qin Chuan, who was responsible for protecting Gao Jishan, stopped him several times but didn't stop him, so he had to follow Gao Jishan all the way to Qin Chuan, so that he had the opportunity to pull Gao Jishan down behind a big tree.

Although it was blown up by the sudden artillery bombardment, the Japanese army soon discovered that the shells were only concentrated near the ferry, and heard the shouts on the side of the hill, knowing that the Qing army was on the side of the hill, so a large group of Japanese troops in a pot of porridge rushed along the river bank to both sides.

The shelling area of several hundred meters quickly ran out, and the large group of embarrassed Japanese troops just breathed a sigh of relief, but they did not want to shoot a burst of dense bullets from the darkness, and the dense bullet rain instantly knocked down dozens of people, under this sudden blow, the dizzy Japanese troops panicked, and the Japanese troops in front of them were like a swarm of hornets, "buzzing" and turned their heads to run back to the shelling area, and suddenly collided with a large group of Japanese troops who rushed out of the shelling area behind. A large group of disheveled Japanese soldiers, and even many naked Japanese soldiers, suddenly huddled together.

"Pap, papa, pap" In a burst of dense bullets from behind, the Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground in pieces.

Although there were only about 300 officers and men of the Renzi Battalion on both sides, they all had Winchester rifles in their hands, and they were the latest models with seven rounds. Although it is still necessary to pull the bolt to load after each shot, it is much less time than reloading and then reloading on the leash. This multi-round rifle with a magazine was called a repeating rifle at this time, and the rate of fire was about five or six times that of a rifle without a magazine.

It is said that in Europe and the United States, as soon as this rifle with a magazine appeared, it was widely favored by people, because his rate of fire was as high as 28 rounds per minute, so that in the American Civil War, the 1600 Northern Army using this rifle defeated a Southern Army unit of 5500 people in head-to-head fire. Therefore, although there were only about 300 officers and men of the Renzi battalion on both sides, the density of bullets seemed to be about 1,000.

The Japanese army's Springfield-style rifle was a rifle that had to be reloaded every time it was fired, and the rate of fire of this rifle was only a pitiful 3 rounds per minute.

It can be said that at this time, in terms of the degree of advanced weapons and equipment, the Beiyang Army was much more advanced than the Japanese army. Of course, not all of the millions of troops in the Qing Dynasty could be equipped with this kind of rifle, and even the vast majority of troops did not even have a few of that kind of old-fashioned rifles.

In fact, the equipment of the Renzi battalion is not the best in the Beiyang Army, and the best equipment is Wei Rugui's Sheng Army, half of which is a thirteen-round loaded rifle.

The only thing that made Qin Chuan feel a little regretful was that the people in the Renzi battalion were also like all the Qing troops at this time, and they had to shoot at a distance, and if they put the large group of panicked and unorganized Japanese soldiers closer and shoot them, they would inflict more casualties on the Japanese army.

Fortunately, the Japanese army was densely crowded, and although the people of the Renzi battalion shot from a distance, as long as the bullets could hit the crowd, some people would be shot and fall.

Because they rushed out of the shelling area in a panic, not only only a small number of Japanese troops rushed out with rifles, but even many of them did not have time to put on their clothes, although some Japanese soldiers with weapons in their hands shot back, but the firepower of the large group of Japanese troops was still far less dense than that of the people in the Renzi battalion.

The people of the Renzi battalion on both sides were in the dark, and behind the Japanese army was the burning camp, coupled with the flash of the shells that kept exploding behind the Japanese soldiers, the people of the Renzi battalion saw the Japanese army very clearly, but the Japanese army could not see where the people of the Renzi battalion were. It's like standing alone outside a lighted window in the dark, and the person in the dark sees him clearly, but it is difficult for him to see the other person.

Whether it was the Japanese soldiers lying on the river bank or kneeling to fight back, and the Japanese soldiers who were running around without weapons in their hands to avoid the bullets, they were knocked down again after a while.

It's just that the Japanese army is still well-trained and has weapons in their hands, and they are all under the command of the officers, resisting and returning fire, covering the retreat of the unarmed Japanese army.

Under the intensive fire of the Renzi battalions on both sides, the Japanese troops retreated step by step. However, the Japanese troops who had just escaped from the shelling area did not dare to retreat back to the shelling area, but retreated along the edge of the shelling area to the direction of the middle road where Qinchuan was located. Some Japanese soldiers, who did not have weapons in their hands, had even run to the main road.

Seeing that there were Japanese troops rushing over, regardless of whether the other party had weapons in their hands or not, the people of the two sentinel Renzi battalions guarding on both sides of the road with Qin Chuan, without waiting for Qin Chuan's order, had already opened fire with "crackle, crackle, crackle, crackle". Although the background of the Japanese army was shining, so that the people of the Renzi Battalion in the dark could clearly see the Japanese soldiers running over, first, because the distance was a little far, and second, the accuracy of these people was still a little poor, so that although the gunfire continued, not many Japanese soldiers fell.

Qin Chuan wanted to stop it, but looking at the people in the Renzi Camp who were fighting happily, he had no choice but to give up with a wry smile.

However, although the hectic shooting did not cause many casualties to the Japanese troops, it can be seen that there were also interceptions at the intersection, and the Japanese troops who rushed over empty-handed retreated to the ferry. It's just that they only stopped halfway back, because if they retreated, they would have to enter the shelling area again, and they had just escaped from somewhere. If you retreat, you may be killed by the flying shrapnel.

At this moment when the Japanese army hesitated, the number of Japanese troops on both sides who retreated to the middle road became more and more, and under the intensive fire of five or six hundred people led by Lo Peide and Wu Bingwen on both sides, hundreds of remnants of the Japanese army soon gathered in a small area centered on the main road, because the personnel were so dense that every row of bullets hit, rows of Japanese soldiers would be killed and wounded.

In the confusion, someone in the Japanese crowd shouted loudly in Japanese.

Qin Chuan was observing the battle situation while thinking about how to completely annihilate this Japanese army in his heart, and Jin Jiu on the side suddenly said to Qin Chuan.

"Lord Qin, the Japanese army thinks that there are few people on our side, and they want to rush our mountain pass."

Qin Chuan saw that sure enough, as Jin Jiu said, the two or three hundred Japanese troops with rifles in their hands had already assembled on the main road, and it seemed that they were going to organize an offensive queue and prepare to break through the mountain pass and get rid of the predicament of the enemy on three sides.

As for the reason why the Japanese army suddenly chose to break through the encirclement along the main road, Qin Chuan immediately figured it out.

This is because the Japanese army heard the gunfire in this direction as densely as in the other two directions, and believed that the Qing army was the weakest here. However, if these hundreds of Japanese troops rushed over, they would really not be able to stop them by relying on the two nearby sentinels, you know, he didn't have automatic weapons such as Makqin in his hands now.

Qin Chuan was a little worried, there was a noise behind him, and when he looked back, he saw Xu Tong running down the hill with someone.

"Gather your men at once, and go to both sides of the road to stop the Japanese army."

Xu Tong agreed, reached out and took out a copper whistle from his pocket, put it on his mouth, and blew it vigorously.

"Toot, toot"

The whistle of the brass whistle was very sharp, and the whistle was still very clear in the "boom" explosions and the dense gunfire. Such a whistle, one for all company commanders and platoon commanders in the salt regiment, is so that they can call their troops on the battlefield in time.

Qin Chuan originally wanted to arrange the people from the Renzi battalion who came down from the mountain to the vicinity of the main road, but the two sentry commanders had already led the people to shoot at the Japanese soldiers who had already begun to charge.

With the fire support of these forty or so people, the gunfire on this side suddenly intensified.

Although the Japanese could sense from the sound of gunfire that the forces in the direction of the junction had been strengthened, they were already in a dilemma. Because it is no longer possible for them to reflexively attack any flank, not only that they have just withdrawn from those two directions, but that no matter which direction they want to attack at this moment, the Qing troops in the other two directions will immediately follow and cover. Moreover, the longer the time drags on, the greater their casualties will be, and the tighter the Qing army will surround them.

"Horn, Horn, Horn"

I think that the commander of the Japanese army was very aware of the situation he was in at this time, and hurriedly commanded the large group of Japanese troops who had assembled, and did not have time to organize in a step-by-step manner, and launched a charge towards the intersection in a dense formation 200 meters away.

The Japanese army's shooting was relatively more accurate, bursts of dense bullets hit Qinchuan, and the branches and leaves of the trees on the edge of the woods they were sheltered fell "poof", and the rocks that were concentrated by the bullets flew wildly.

A few screams were heard, and it was a few soldiers of the Renzi Battalion who were happy to fight and did not cover themselves well were shot and fell.

"Pap, papa, pap, horn, horn, party"

Although the Japanese troops who charged in the group were too dense in formation, and the soldiers who rushed in front of them kept being shot and fell down during the shooting, because of the large number of people and knowing that only a desperate blow could they escape, the Japanese soldiers did not hesitate at all because of the screams of their companions who kept dying, and they didn't even care about wiping away the blood of their companions splashed on their faces, nor did they care about the loud screams of their companions who were shot and fell to the ground and not yet dead, but they just stepped on the bodies of their companions without hesitation. Lunging forward without hesitation.

The two Qing troops on Qinchuan's side, when they were far away from the Japanese army, were still fighting well, but as people around them continued to be shot, watching the large group of black shadows swoop over frantically, the dense gunfire suddenly seemed a little messy. Fortunately, the Japanese did not want to rush into their positions and kill them all, but were bent on escaping the encirclement, and just rushed towards the intersection.

At some point, the moon emerged from the clouds, and the cold moonlight shone on the riverbank, which improved the sight of both sides, and the Japanese took advantage of this opportunity to shoot more accurately, and the number of people who were shot in the Renzi battalion also increased.

In the blink of an eye, the Japanese army had rushed to a distance of more than fifty meters from the defense line of the Renzi battalion, and there were already individual soldiers of the Renzi battalion ready to turn around and flee, Qin Chuan finally loudly ordered Xu Tong's platoon that had not been shot.

"Grenades."

With Qin Chuan's shout: "Dozens of black things flew out of the air from the bushes and behind the rocks, rolled in the air and fell into the middle of the frantically charging Japanese army, and in an instant, a ball of fire and explosions broke out in the dense ranks of the Japanese army.

Although the sound of the grenade explosion is far less than the sound of the shell exploding, the grenades of the salt regiment are prefabricated with fragmentation grooves inside the shell, and the fragments produced after the explosion are very uniform, and they explode in the ranks of the Japanese army, and the killing effect is not much smaller than that of the artillery shells. After the explosion of the first batch of forty grenades, a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded.

It's not that the grenades of the salt regiment are terrifyingly powerful, but that the formation of the Japanese army is too dense.

Seeing that he was about to rush to the intersection, he didn't expect that the Qing army still had dozens of "small cannons" here, looking at the dead and wounded comrades, the Japanese army who did not die couldn't help but stagnate. At this moment, another batch of black and slimy things rolled and flew into the crowd of Japanese soldiers.

With a series of explosions of "boom, boom, boom", the Japanese soldiers who were blown up and flesh were killed and wounded.

"Hit"

With Qin Chuan's shout, more than 60 shell guns on both sides of the intersection suddenly shot a more dense rain of bullets, and a large number of Japanese troops in front were shot and fell to the ground.

Xu Tong's reconnaissance platoon now has only more than 40 people, but some of them are carrying double guns, and many of them are playing with shell guns more than Qin Chuan, although they dare not say where to shoot, but it is still no problem if the guns do not miss the target. The distance of more than 50 meters is the best range of the barge gun, and the Japanese army is very dense, and many soldiers have not finished firing a magazine, and the Japanese army has thrown down a large number of corpses and retreated like a tide.

It's just that at this time, they have no way to retreat, and Loped and Wu Bingwen have already rushed over from both sides with the people of the Renzi battalion, and surrounded the remnants of the Japanese army on the periphery of the explosion area from three sides. At this time, the Japanese army no longer had the intention of breaking out of the encirclement, and the Japanese soldiers, whether they had guns or not, lay on the pebble ground on the riverbank, and used the rifles in their hands to barely shoot at the Renzi battalion surrounded on three sides.

The men in Xu Tong's reconnaissance platoon were all short guns, and as soon as the Japanese retreated, they exceeded the range of the shell guns in their hands, and at this moment they could only watch the Renzi battalion and the remnants of the Japanese army shoot at each other "crackling, crackling, crackling, snapping".

As soon as they distanced themselves from the Japanese army, the people of the Renzi battalion settled down again, and the shooting gradually became orderly.

Loped and Wu Bingwen with hundreds of bullets fired from both sides hit the Japanese troops on the riverbank unable to raise their heads and were crushed to the ground.

The river bank covered by the Japanese army is slightly lower than the terrain on their side of Qinchuan, it is a gentle slope, although the slope is very small, two hundred meters away is still a lot lower than Qinchuan here, which makes the Renzi battalion take a great advantage, plus the seven rifles in their hands, the shooting speed is obviously faster than that of the Japanese army, although the condescending shooting is not accurate enough, but in the row of bullets rain, the Japanese army is constantly hit by stray bullets.

Originally, Qin Chuan didn't have much hope for annihilating the Japanese army of more than 1,000 people, but he just wanted to kill and injure as many Japanese troops as possible, but he didn't expect the battle to go so smoothly, and now it seems that it is only a matter of time before he wants to annihilate this Japanese army.

Although Qin Chuan fought with the Japanese army in Seoul for more than a month, it was the first time he had experienced such a large-scale battle. He already had a full understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army.

In Qin Chuan's view, although the Japanese army was already a completely Westernized modern army, it had just changed from the old army, and although the Japanese army in this period was relatively well-trained, it did not have the strong spirit of bushido in later generations, and the will to fight was not very tenacious. This is also one of the reasons why, in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing army, which was equal or even smaller, was often able to fight-for-tat with the Japanese army, and after a few decades, the defeated Japanese army could chase thousands of national troops. Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that the Japanese army's weapons and equipment are not better than those of the Qing army.

Qin Chuan didn't want to delay this successful and unexpected night attack for too long, he had no interest in this battle, which was already equivalent to a one-sided slaughter.

Qin Chuan glanced at Xu Tong: "Don't be stunned, use your grenadier to give the little devil a few hits." ”

Because of the limited ammunition belt of the grenadier, Qin Chuan was only allowed to shoot a few rounds in each battle, and as soon as he heard Qin Chuan's words, Xu Tong suddenly shouted at the top of his voice.

"Grenadier."

In fact, several grenadiers have been following behind Qin Chuan, and when they heard Xu Tong's order, they immediately rushed out of the edge of the bushes and knelt on one knee, lined up, and several grenadiers held the grenadiers with one hand, stretched out one hand in front of their eyes, and used their thumbs to visually measure the distance, and then pulled the leather rope under the grenadiers. The ammunition hand on the side quickly put the ammunition into the grenadier barrel.

"Ready, put."

With Xu Tong's command, several rounds of grenadier ammunition were fired "bang, bang, bang", and they accurately dripped down and exploded in the Japanese sheltered area.

Although the grenadier ammunition is not very powerful, but the shock to the Japanese army is very great, the grenadier ammunition fell on the river bank full of pebbles, and suddenly exploded a large piece of rubble, sharp shrapnel and gravel large pieces of large pieces of flying up, the nearby Japanese soldiers were drenched in blood, and some Japanese soldiers who were blinded by the explosion covered their bloody and miserable faces, and ran around in pain, but he only stood up for a while, and was knocked to the ground like a hornet's nest by the bullets.

The Japanese troops on the river bank were so pressed by the dense bullet rain of the Qing army that they couldn't raise their heads, not to mention, they also had to bear the condescending blows of the Qing army, and more than a dozen people would die in every burst of bullet rain, and at this time, there were small artillery shots from the Qing army, and the Japanese army's will to fight soon collapsed completely, and the gunfire of the change of season suddenly thinned out, and most of the Japanese soldiers just lay on the ground tightly.

Qin Chuan, who was relaxed, suddenly remembered Gao Jishan, hurriedly looked around, and forgot about Gao Jishan as soon as he fought.

I haven't heard Gao Jishan's voice for half a day, this literati who has never been on the battlefield, don't have any accidents.