Xu Dajun was very incomprehensible to Xu Dajun because he was here but outside the attack range of the position, this kind of action was very different from the situation when the Japanese started a war as soon as they came up.

After Xu Dajun sent the situation of the Japanese to the headquarters of Jiulian City through a telegram, Duan Qirui, who was in the headquarters, was also puzzled, could it be that the Japanese would change their personality today?

While thinking like this, Duan Qirui took out a clairvoyant mirror and walked to the city wall of Jiulian City, on the city wall, Duan Qirui took the clairvoyant mirror and looked at Tiger Mountain in the distance.

At a glance, there were a large number of Japanese troops stationed in the distance of the Hushan position, but these Japanese troops had no desire to attack at all, they were just stationed there and didn't know what they were doing?

As Duan Qirui's gaze continued to sweep over the Japanese position, he finally found something wrong.

On the Japanese position, there were always several officers standing behind with clairvoyant mirrors in their hands, constantly looking towards the position of Hushan, so that Duan Qirui's doubts were suddenly solved.

These Japanese were hurt by the beating at the Anping Ferry, and this time they knew that they should observe carefully before fighting, so it is no wonder that these Japanese troops stopped at a distance from the advance to the Hushan position.

Duan Qirui, who knew what was going on, immediately sent the situation to Xu Dajun through a telegram, and after Xu Dajun got the telegram sent by Duan Qirui, he learned that the Japanese were acting like this in order to observe their position first.

In view of this situation, Xu Dajun can no longer change the current position deployment situation, in case when the deployment situation is changed, if the Japanese take advantage of the time to change the defense to launch an attack, it will be enough to catch Xu Dajun off guard.

Therefore, after Xu Dajun learned of the movements of the Japanese, he did not change the deployment of the position, and all the activities on the position remained the same.

Curling smoke rose from the Hushan position, and the Japanese position on the opposite side also rose with cooking smoke, and there was no sense of tension at all, knowing that after both sides had finished breakfast, the Japanese army finally began to assemble.

After seeing the Japanese army assembled, the defenders of Hushan finally breathed a sigh of relief, the Japanese army must maintain a high degree of vigilance if it does not attack, and even these soldiers are a little unbearable for a long time of high vigilance, and now that the Japanese army is ready to attack, it is natural that they can relax and teach the Japanese a good lesson with the rifle in their hands.

This time, the Japanese army came to carry out a tentative attack with two brigades, totaling more than 2,400 people, and the purpose of the test was simply to test the firepower of the Hushan position and the weak area of the position.

"I'll pay attention to Lao Tzu for a while, wait until Little Japan gets closer and then fight, don't shoot at such a distance, it's all nonsense who is a waste of bullets, don't blame Lao Tzu for the bear man after the fight."

While the Japanese were still in line, several pipe bands in front of the position were reprimanding the soldiers under them.

"Okay, how dare we not listen to your words, you can see it in a while."

As soon as one of the pipe bands finished speaking, a soldier below said to this pipe belt.

"You bunnies, I'll settle accounts with you after the fight."

The pipe band also said a little fiercely, and after saying that, the pipe band found a place and began to look ahead.

After such a commotion, the originally tense atmosphere on the front line suddenly dissipated a lot.

After a while, the Japanese army arrived within the attack range of the Hushan position, and the two sides opened fire almost simultaneously, and after the battle, the two captains of the Japanese army were outside the scope of the battlefield with clairvoyant mirrors to analyze the battle situation on the battlefield.

"Fujiwara-kun, what did you see about the Qing army's offensive in China?"

The captain of the group who asked the question was called Muto Shin, and both of them were tasked with testing the Qing army in the Hushan position.

"I can't see anything for the time being, but this time the firepower of the Qing army in China is a lot stronger, especially the number of machine guns in the middle and right of the position is still relatively large." The captain, Fujiwara-kun, said to the soldier next to him who was in charge of recording after taking a look at the current battle situation.

The soldiers on the side immediately wrote down what the commander had said.

At this moment, the soldiers on the position were also quite depressed, and after these Japanese troops entered the attack range, they did not advance to the front, but all lay down and fired at each other.

In this way, both sides were engaged in meaningless fire, and there were no big casualties at all, especially after the Japanese troops lay down, it was even more difficult to fight.

It's summer, and the ground is full of grass, and it is difficult for these Japanese soldiers to aim at the position as soon as they lie down.

After fighting like this for half an hour, Xu Dajun saw that if this situation continued, it would not have much effect, so he began to order the artillery on Hushan to carry out a small-scale artillery bombardment.

The shelling had an effect from the very beginning, and many Japanese troops began to be forced to move the area covered by artillery, so that many Japanese troops were hit by the defenders above the position as they moved.

After the effect of the artillery bombardment was seen by the two Japanese officers in the rear, the officer named Fujiwara once again said to the soldiers next to him: "The artillery of the Qing army is arranged on the top of Tiger Mountain, and when attacking, it must pass through the central area at a very fast speed, so that its artillery will lose its ability to suppress on the battlefield. ”

At the end, Muto Shin added that it is best to mobilize heavy artillery to suppress the artillery above Tiger Mountain, and you can also use the method of sneak attack to let the soldiers touch Tiger Mountain from behind to launch a necessary destruction attack on the artillery above.

The soldiers on the side faithfully recorded the words spoken by the two captains.

"Send five more squadrons to launch a tentative attack on the left side of the Hushan position." Muto Nobu found that the firepower on the left side of the Toriyama position was somewhat weak, and he needed to test it further.

Immediately another 600 troops pressed up, and carried out a tentative attack on the left side of the Hushan position, and the defenders of Hushan were also a little aggrieved after the battle, and the Japanese were just blindly trying to attack and not really attacking, as if they had hit the cotton with all their strength, and it was ineffective.

After this situation lasted for an hour, the Japanese army slowly pushed out of the battlefield under the orders of the two captains, and the total battle losses of both sides of the attack this time were only seven or eight hundred losses, but the Japanese army first preliminarily understood the firepower of the Hushan position.

At the same time, the main force of the Japanese army, which was originally stationed at Anping Ferry, also began to move. (To be continued.) )