On the third day after the victory at Hushan, the incomparably calm defense line of Jiulian City finally showed a trace of waves, like a stone falling on this calm water surface, striking ripples that continued to spread.

Jiulian City is in the west of the mouth of the Yalu River where the Aihe River flows, the city is built on the hill, the Aihe River flows under the hill, the old dragon head and the Tiger Mountain stand in the east and west of the city, quite a situation, so Duan Qirui will use it as a base to deal with the Japanese army.

Although the defenders of Hushan had retreated, the Japanese troops occupying Hushan had to pass through the Aihe River if they wanted to get from Hushan to Jiuliancheng.

The Aihe River is divided into two branches from the chestnut garden, one is one hundred zhang wide, the other is more than 70 zhang wide, "the river is deep and the horse's belly", "the bottom of the river is rocky and the water is urgent, it is very difficult to cross", so Duan Qirui has arranged a simple defense line on the west bank of the Aihe River to prevent the Japanese army from attacking from here.

It's a pity that Lijian Shangwen didn't have the desire to attack reactionarily from Hushan, but wanted to attack Duan Qirui from the front.

The Japanese army began to appear in front of the defense line of Jiulian City one after another, and after the Japanese army appeared in front of the defense line of Jiulian City, they began to divide into three ways and launched an attack on the defense line under Jiulian City in a fan shape.

After the Japanese army launched an attack, the defenders defending Jiulian City were not to be left behind and began to counterattack the Japanese army, and this time the defenders of Jiulian City finally tried the pain of the soldiers under Xu Dajun before.

This time, the Japanese troops were just trying to test the distribution of firepower in the position, and naturally they would not rush up, but when they rushed to a distance of one or two hundred meters from the position, they began to crawl down and shoot while crawling forward, while the officers in the rear were counting the distribution of firepower.

The purpose of the Japanese army's attack this time, as the soldiers above the position, understood this, even some middle-level officers did not understand this, although these officers had more or less spent some time in the Fengtian Lecture Martial Arts Hall.

However, these ordinary middle-level officers are far from understanding the problem from a strategic level, and these middle-level officers tend to only support each other during the offensive and make some superficial tactical arrangements.

Therefore, after the Japanese army began its tentative offensive, these officers naturally ordered to resist the Japanese offensive, and what these soldiers thought was much simpler.

When the enemy attacked, it was natural to fight back with all his might, and the word counterattack was already deeply imprinted in the minds of these ordinary soldiers at this time.

The general headquarters in Jiulian City, Duan Qirui knew that the Japanese army had started an attack after hearing the sudden gunfire outside, and the first time he heard the gunshots, Qirui came to the rear of the position, and observed the situation on the battlefield through a clairvoyant mirror from a fortress.

As soon as he saw the situation on the battlefield, Duan Qirui knew that this time it must not be a large-scale attack launched by the Japanese army.

Judging from the situation on the battlefield, although the Japanese troops participating in the attack this time were divided into three directions to attack, after carefully observing the Japanese offensive, Duan Qirui found the doorway.

Although it seems that the Japanese attacked from three directions, a closer look reveals that the number of Japanese troops involved in the attack was extremely wrong.

There were a total of more than 30,000 patrols in two towns and parts of the city on the defense line of Jiulian City, but the strength of the Japanese army only dispatched one wing was really abnormal.

After thinking about it for a while, Duan Qirui knew why.

Previously, when Xu Dajun was defending Hushan, he and Duan Qirui told the Japanese army through a telegram that this tactic was to test the firepower of their own side and the weakness of their position.

It was precisely because Xu Dajun took advantage of the Japanese army's blind belief that the position on the left side of Hushan was the weakest in defense and launched an attack rashly, but he did not expect that now the Japanese army began to repeat his old tricks.

After thinking about this, how could Duan Qirui let the wishful thinking of the Japanese play well, when even if he ordered all the soldiers on the position to stop such dense firepower, for the light machine gun, Duan Qirui directly ordered the light machine gunners to stop attacking the Japanese army.

In fact, to be honest, the Japanese are really not very brainy, and after a tactic is discovered by the enemy, they have to implement it a second time, and this group of Japanese thinks that they are the smartest in the world, as if everyone else is stupid.

After Duan Qirui's order went down, soon many soldiers stopped firing output, but fired a bullet from time to time, and the light machine guns all stopped, and only the heavy machine guns continued to attack.

After this situation was seen by the officers in charge of observing the Japanese army, they did not care, but simply thought that it was because the defenders on the position of Jiuliancheng were suddenly attacked, and these soldiers naturally shot out the bullets in their hands regardless of the cost in a panic.

Now that he had gotten used to it, he began to slowly slow down the speed of the attack, and the officer in charge of recording thought to himself as he recorded it.

The Qing army in China really did not have any basic training, and as soon as the war began, they only knew how to shoot bullets, which was not at all like the imperial soldiers who knew how to judge the situation.

As the firepower of the Qing army began to decrease, the officer in charge of recording immediately tore off the paper he had recorded before, and the content of this paper was completely the dense firepower caused by the panic of the defenders of Jiulian City.

This content is different from the distribution of firepower of the Beiyang Army, which has been slowed down, and if it is transmitted, it says that he did not do his best, so the officer began to re-observe the record.

The most important thing is that this officer did it alone, but this officer was very kind to tell what he thought and several other officers who were in charge of recording, and after listening to this officer's words, the other officers all felt very reasonable.

One by one, according to this officer's method, they began to record the firepower of the position of Jiulian City again.

If Lijian Shangwen knew about this officer's actions, it was estimated that he would vomit three liters of blood, no wonder the Japanese army would make a big mistake in Hushan.

The Japanese army's fire test lasted for a whole day, testing all aspects of the position of Jiulian City, and even taking into account the fatigue of the soldiers.

And Duan Qirui's side has always suppressed the firepower output of his side, and even for the sake of authenticity, the soldiers who had nothing to do on the position all day were pretending to attack the Japanese army in the trenches with guns.

In the barracks of the Japanese army at night, the assessment of the firepower of the Beiyang Army defending Jiulian City today was placed in front of the table of Lijian Shangwen, and the discussion of the attack plan began. (To be continued.) )