Under the order of Lijian Shangwen, another round of artillery strikes fell on Duan Qirui's position, so that the soldiers on the position had to start dodging the falling shells.

After Tsumi Shangwen gave the order for an artillery attack, the Japanese soldiers who had been suppressed by Duan Qirui's side began to prepare to charge again.

After this round of artillery strikes, the soldiers who crawled out of the cat's ear hole once again saw the yellow crowd of people charging in the distance, and suddenly the two sides began to exchange fire with the goal of defense and attack.

As soon as the two sides fought each other this time, the sound of artillery came from the city of Jiulian, and as soon as the sound of artillery appeared, the yellow flow of people in the distance of this position suddenly stopped and began to dodge in all directions, except for some soldiers who did not dodge, all the other Japanese soldiers lay down to avoid the unwarranted shells.

After these cannon sounds passed, these Japanese soldiers who were lying down suddenly found that no shells had fallen, and Duan Qirui and the soldiers on the defensive side of the position were also a little inexplicable after seeing this phenomenon.

Duan Qirui remembered that he had asked the artillery to attack the Japanese artillery position, why did these charging Japanese soldiers suddenly stop, and he didn't let the artillery attack these charging Japanese soldiers, why did they all stop?

The soldiers in the front-line positions just watched the Japanese army's comical behavior, and not a single shell fell, and they all lay down to avoid these unwarranted shells.

The soldiers held back their inner laughter as they shot at the soldiers who were still standing in the middle of the Japanese army.

The reason why these Japanese soldiers stood was because these soldiers were veterans and judged that the target of the artillery was not their own attackers, so they naturally did not dodge.

But these Japanese veterans stood there, looking out of place with the soldiers who had fallen down next to them, and suddenly became the targets of the defenders' attacks.

Under the torrent of bullets, these Japanese veterans fell one after another, and the soldiers who also reacted that the shells were not falling on their side also reacted at this moment, and then these Japanese soldiers who had already made a big joke began to attack again.

At this moment, Limi Shangwen also saw this phenomenon at the back of the battle line, the whole person's face was dark, and after putting down the binoculars, Limi Shangwen immediately ordered the artillery to attack the enemy's position.

However, the news from the artillery made Tatsumi Shangwen very annoyed, the shells just now were aimed at the artillery positions on his side, and some of the shells fell in the artillery positions, and the artillery positions are currently being transferred, and artillery support cannot be provided for a period of time.

Although Lijian Shangwen didn't say anything after hearing this, he still had some slight words about the artillery in his heart, but this artillery was all in trouble when the soldiers on the front line needed artillery support the most, how could Lijian Shangwen not have a little opinion!

Immediately, Shang Wen did not force the artillery to carry out an artillery attack at the risk of being hit by the enemy, but asked the artillery to notify him after completing the transfer of positions.

In Lijian Shangwen, he saw from the telescope that this attack was the same as before, the firepower suddenly began to increase when he was about to approach the position, followed by the confrontation of the two armies.

As the sun began to sink in the west as the two armies faced each other, Tsumi Shangwen realized that it was almost evening, but his soldiers had only eaten breakfast, and had not eaten lunch yet.

At this time, the artillery behind came with the news that the artillery position had been transferred, and immediately saw Shang Wen and ordered the artillery to cover the retreat of the infantry.

This time, the artillery of the Immediately Saw Shangwen finally played their role, and the infantry was covered very smoothly and came back without any incident.

After Lijian Shangwen announced the order to retreat, Duan Qirui also issued an order for a ceasefire, and this battle has been fought until now, and the soldiers on both sides are hungry, and it is meaningless for both sides to fight like this except to waste bullets.

How can a hungry soldier exert his full combat effectiveness?

Therefore, Duan Qirui followed the order of Lijian Shangwen and also issued the order of a ceasefire, and the men in the city began to send the food prepared at noon to the soldiers who had just retreated from the position.

These soldiers and the Japanese have been fighting since the morning, and they have naturally been hungry for a long time, and they have eaten rice one by one.

Taking advantage of the meal, Duan Qirui also came to the top of the position, and saw that the position baptized by the Japanese artillery was full of potholes, and some soldiers were eating in a hurry.

The soldiers of the baggage battalion, who did not participate in the battle, were now reinforcing their positions and filling all the craters. The trenches are also being reinforced

At this moment, the battle loss statistics are also in the hands of Duan Qirui, and there are more than 2,000 people in the battle loss in one day today, although some of them are due to the wounded caused by the shelling, but some are caused by the soldiers of the Japanese army.

According to the statistics, a considerable number of officers said that although today's battle was not very fierce, they found that the Japanese army's shooting was quite accurate, and it was on a par with the sharpshooters on their side.

On the one hand, the reason why the Japanese soldiers shoot quite accurately is not unrelated to their training, the most important of which is that the Japanese army has fought in the First Sino-Japanese War, and there are not a few soldiers in the Russo-Japanese War.

As for the estimate of the casualties on the Japanese side, it is about 5,000, and it is not without any reason that the Japanese army suffered 5,000 casualties in today's attack alone.

The artillery attack alone caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese, not to mention that the Japanese often braved the rain of bullets when they charged, and such casualties were already a very objective estimate.

After reading this, Duan Qirui looked at the Japanese army position again, and when he saw this, Duan Qirui suddenly had a good idea in his heart.

Bursts of cooking smoke rose from the Japanese position, which was obviously produced during cooking, and if the artillery was allowed to shell in the direction of the cooking smoke, it would definitely be able to take it by surprise.

This thought took root in Duan Qirui's mind more and more, and then Duan Qirui found his own opinion from Wu Peifu, the commander-in-chief of the artillery.

Wu Peifu's eyes lit up after listening to Duan Qirui's words, and immediately said that the artillery only needed to move the artillery to the top of the city wall to do this.

So half an hour later, on the wall of Jiulian City, a piece of artillery aimed its muzzle at the place where the Japanese cooking smoke rose, and then bursts of artillery suddenly rang out, and the shells fell towards the place where the cooking smoke rose. (To be continued.) )