A.D. 1**4, August 23rd.

The guns shook slowly, flattening the muzzles. The gunners were all in position, and the ammunition men were holding the shells, nervously waiting for the order to reload and fire. Along a mountainous area in an arc-shaped semicircle to the north of Ruixing Mansion, the Makqin machine guns were arranged in a whole circle, and I was afraid that there would be no forty or fifty of them, and the shooting rulers were all set, all pointing at the head of the city. The shooters crouched behind the machine guns, all waiting with bated breath.

Xu Yifan strode into a civil engineering shelter, which was located on the top of the mountain, only three or four kilometers away from Ruixing Mansion in a straight line, with no obstruction in the middle, and the entire battlefield could be seen without a telescope.

There were already many officers waiting in the shelter department, and they were all together. Seeing Xu Yifan come in, they all stood up and saluted. Chu Wanli, Li Yunzong, the German advisers, and a number of staff officers were all waiting for the final attack to be launched.

The weather had cleared, but the ground was still muddy, and as the sun rose, the fog that had been floating on the battlefield had gradually dissipated.

In this era, needless to say, machine guns, even artillery are also direct-aim weapons. If you see it, you can hit it, and the kind of long-distance artillery bombardment in later generations has no shadow now, and communications, observation, and artillery are all absent. The distance between the artillery and the target is not much farther than that of the Makqin machine guns, which is why the artillery was suppressed by the Maxim when the Fifth Division attacked the 729 heights.

Such good visibility is really quite effective for the support firepower of this era!

More than 20 mountain artillery and forty or fifty machine guns are aimed at Ruixing Mansion. The remnants of the Fifth Division are already swimming fish at the bottom of the kettle!

There was no special movement on the eastern front, and the terrain of Korea was very special, and the mountains running straight down from the north to the south were all inconvenient, and the transportation between the east and west was inconvenient, which was why the Fifth Division had to run straight into the main position of Dongxian Ling -- if they wanted to make a detour, they had to climb over a mountainous area with an elevation of more than 1,000 meters and no roads at all, and they would have to make any detours without supplies, and they should not want to bring artillery with them...... That's a brain disease.

It is precisely for this reason that in this era when there is no wireless telegraph and no telephone, news from the eastern front wants to reach the western front, but it does not come as quickly as domestic intelligence, after all, there are still water and electricity telegraph lines in the country and Pyongyang.

Xu Yifan held the binoculars and silently looked at the battlefield in front of him where both sides were holding their breath. The brain doesn't know why, but it always goes somewhere else...... If the Fifth Division is defeated and the Eastern Front can be maintained, then he will be completely alive. Leave some troops to defend Pyongyang, most of them move eastward, advance and retreat freely, you can fight in Korea, you can also move to the country, you can get a handful, and be enough to savior!

And there is no need to worry about the back road being cut off, even if the devil separates a landing force from the side of the Datong River, he is not afraid, along Pyongyang to Anju, to Tieshan, and then to the Yalu River, covering and resisting every step, see how long you little devil can spend with Lao Tzu! Half of his supplies were gathered in Pyongyang and half in the Anju area, and it was no problem to fight for more than half a year. He spent so much money, most of it was spent on stockpiling these war supplies!

In order to gain this strategic initiative as soon as possible, he strictly ordered the General Staff Headquarters to gather all the troops that could be mobilized, and did not hesitate to spare some of his own surveillance and response forces on the Eastern Front to gain time for the early transfer of troops!

The little devil is nailed to the area of Ruixing Mansion and does not retreat, maybe it is that county or someone who understands this and wants to use his sacrifice in exchange for a breakthrough on the Eastern Front and force their Praetorian Guards into a desperate situation? Or is it that they were defeated so badly that it is difficult to explain, so they simply let the entire Fifth Division accompany them to be martyred to fulfill their reputation as samurai?

Is it really dedicated...... Lao Tzu fulfills you.

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At the same time.

Dozens of small sampans pierced through the fog on the sea surface in the early morning and leaned on the tidal flats at the mouth of the garden of Dalian Bay with a bang.

The sampan had not yet stopped, and the officers and men who were full of it had already jumped off. The first lieutenant officer was a lieutenant officer with a strip of white cloth wrapped around his head and a saber in a crazy manner. The soldiers also rumbled down, looking nervous one by one.

"The land of the Qing Kingdom, we have stepped on! It's worth dying at this time! ”

Captain Squadron Leader Kozaki of the First Squadron of the Cavalry Brigade directly under the 1st Division of the Second Army was holding a saber and his eyes were already full of tears. Looking back, on the sea after the fog cleared, the figure of the fleet of the Japanese army in this landing operation was clearly recognizable. Cruisers and gunboats are cruising to and fro, troop ships and freighters are changing ships, and large numbers of soldiers are climbing down the rope nets and up to all sorts of small boats. When they had just finished disembarking, the sailors who were working on the sampans had turned around and returned to the sea, and the next group of barges and landings were gone.

On the sea, there is not a single boat or boat of the Qing Kingdom to obstruct it!

The main forces of the Combined Fleet covered the ship regiment with the 1st Division as the backbone, and after a few days of circling on the sea and at anchorage. Finally pounced on the booking target Dalian Bay!

Officers like Captain Ozaki did not know the reason why they hesitated for a few days at the Yuyindong anchorage outside the Datong River. The tragic situation of the troops in Yama County finally could not be concealed from the commander of the Second Army, Dashan Yan, and the reporting ships shuttled back and forth in those days. General Oyama Iwa and the base camp had a fierce dispute for several days, and even caused controversy within the base camp. Is it whether the Second Army will continue the Dalian Bay Raid operation, or will it turn to the Datong River to land to rescue Youpeng in Shanxian County and break the Praetorian Guard?

In the end, it was finally strongly subdued by Ito Hirobumi, and the Second Army continued the Dalian Bay Raid operation, achieving results that could shock the Qing court! It is said that Ben does not have the ability to fight a war of attrition in North Korea! This has never been the strategic goal of the base camp!

The army reluctantly complied, but in exchange it was that once the Dalian Bay offensive went smoothly, the DPRK would also have an opportunity to take advantage of -- for example, the Third Division would achieve considerable results. Then the army must transfer its troops to the Datong River to land, annihilate the phastorian guards boasted by the Qing State, and save face for the army!

When it came to this, Ito could only reluctantly agree. This exchange of letters and telegrams, and the shuttle of the notification ship, delayed for a few days. When the Dalian Bay Raider was launched again, up to Dashanyan and down to the low-level officers, they were even more worried. The huge fleet ships docked at the anchorage, not necessarily always able to keep it secret, these days, if the Qing [***] team has the most basic quality, I am afraid that the defense of the Dalian Bay area has been strengthened! Didn't the base camp report? These words, in Lushun and in southern Liaoning, the Qing State has successively concentrated dozens of battalions of troops, but I am afraid that as soon as they go ashore, they will encounter a considerable degree of resistance!

The team led by Captain Ozaki, in the process of flooding, in the sea fog, was afraid that bullets would come from the tidal flats. First, because it was a flooding smuggling, and second, because the sea fog made the shooting line of sight poor, and there was no artillery support from warships, the whole of the First Division counted on their selected elites to control the landing field with a brave infantry attack, and they were also prepared to pay sacrifices. But until they stepped onto the beach, not a single shot was fired!

Captain Ozaki, who was dizzy with excitement for only a moment, gave a loud order for the soldiers to hurry up and plant a small flag on the tidal flat where they had just landed to mark the landing ground. Then, with a wave of his hand, he led more than 100 soldiers to rush towards a hill that controlled the tidal flats in front. According to intelligence, there was a battalion of infantry troops in this area known as the Jiesheng Battalion of the Qing Army, which was a garrison sent by Lianshun, the deputy capital of Jinzhou (now Dalian), and in addition to being equipped with foreign guns, there were also three army guns. Although there has been no movement at all so far, once they open fire, there will be a huge threat to this landing field!

More than 100 soldiers clenched their rifles and rushed desperately towards the hills. The soft tidal flats made their footsteps unfast, and everyone was sweating profusely in the blink of an eye, and the distance of several hundred meters seemed to be impossible to run.

Captain Kosaki rushed to the front, his heart beating like a drum. It's time to fire, right? It's time to fire on the other side, right? If they said that their flooding landing was under the cover of sea fog, and Qing [***] couldn't react yet, then now that they have landed and launched an attack, they should shoot and resist, right?

If so, he is also the Imperial warrior who died at the forefront!

The gunshots that Kozaki was waiting for never rang out, and more than a hundred soldiers rushed up the hill like a whirlwind. As far as the eye can see, there are three well-set camp guns, and the ammunition boxes are scattered there. The shooting breastwall on the hill is only half repaired, there are several barracks with wooden and grass roofs at the anticline, the flag of the Qing army is still there, the barracks are messy all around, weapons, ammunition and uniforms are thrown everywhere, and then raise your eyes and look into the distance, you can see hundreds of figures, fleeing in the direction of Jinzhou in the southwest! The officer's horseback rushed to the front, almost disappearing into the distance.

These hundreds of victorious troops didn't fire a single shot, and after seeing the shadow of the warship, they didn't hesitate to pull out their legs and ran away!

The strict training made the more than 100 soldiers under Kosaki's command subconsciously squat on the ground, raise their guns and set a ruler there, just waiting for Kosaki to give an order and pursue with firepower. Captain Kozaki held his hand in the air, and put it down in a smile for a while. He was ready to donate his life for a long time, but what he was waiting for was such a result! Shooting again at this time is a waste of bullets. He yelled at the soldier in charge of the flag: "Give a signal to the sea, I have landed, the landing ground is safe, the country is clear, there is no army to fight!" ”

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North Korea, Wonsan Port. Early in the morning of August 23.

The gunshots rang out sporadically, and there was never a time to stop. The sea off Wonsan Port is also a scene like the sea off Huayuankou, where dozens of ships are barging and transporting supplies for the flooding army. The port was already under the control of the Japanese army, and the Janissaries were not strong enough to stretch their defenses all the way through Korea, from Pyongyang to Wonsan. It's completely empty and unprepared.

The army was working as if they were crazy, and no one rested all night on land and sea. The infantry of the two wings had already landed, and the supplies had begun to be transported, and Kawakami Yoroku and Katsura Taro were also at the landing ground all night, personally commanding the landing.

The brigade and brigade have begun to assemble and expel to consolidate their positions. Although the Praetorian Guard did not put troops here to defend, they still put a small number of cavalry sentry guards. They had been harassing and firing their guns all night long, trying to contain their landing movements, and there was no doubt that they had also reported the situation to the Praetorian Guard headquarters overnight as fast as possible!

At the end of the night, Kawakami and Katsura Taro's eyes were red. Sitting on top of a pile of ammunition boxes, listening to the staff officer's report on the landing.

"Your Excellency, on the 24th, the main force of our third division can all go to land and attack forward!"

Katsura Taro nodded with satisfaction, and the entire division was transported in two days, which was already a miraculous speed. The Third Division has done its best to rescue Youpeng in Shanxian County!

Kawakami frowned: "It's too slow......"

Katsura Taro looked at him in surprise, and Kawakami Yoroku lightly calculated to him: "On the 24th, the attack will advance to the eastern front guarded by Xu Yifan of the Qing State, and if the entire division moves, how can it be after the 30th, and Xu Yifan received the news of our landing, and transferred the troops, no matter how slow and slow, the 20th ** can also be reached...... Gui Jun, I have seen Xu Yifan's reaction speed, his soldiers rushed to Seoul in five days! We can't give him time to react and let him calmly break us down one by one on the inside! ”

"So what? My Nagoya Corps, I've done my best! ”

Kawakami blinked tiredly: "Aren't there already two wings on land?" Pack light, pack light! I personally led them to attack and advance, and within three days, I would be able to pounce in front of Xu Yifan's flank! ”

"Attack Pyongyang?"

"No, it's too late, I'll lead troops to attack Anzhou! Cut off Xu Yifan's retreat and let him be trapped in a corner of North Korea! ”

"Anzhou? Not Pyongyang? ”

"This is the order of the base camp!" As the chief of staff of the army in the base camp, Kawakami Yoroku, who personally landed in Wonsan with the 3rd Division, replied lightly.

Seeing that Katsura Taro's face was pale, he quietly explained: "The fiasco of the Fifth Division has made it impossible for us to continue to stubbornly storm Xu Yifan's Pyongyang base, God knows if he has become a fortress there!" We just need to close him off on the Korean battlefield, cut off his back roads, leave him alone and without supplies...... Moreover, I guarantee to Gui Jun that as long as such a favorable situation appears on the Korean battlefield, the Second Division, which was originally the general reserve of the Second Army, will also land on the Datong River and completely crush Xu Yifan! Although His Excellency Ito forcibly continued to push forward the Battle of Dalian Bay, in exchange, when a fighter appeared in Korea that could save the face of the army, he also had to let the Second Division join the Korean battlefield...... Only then did the Army bear the choice of sacrificing the Fifth Division! For this reason, we had to attack Anju, which is the whole reason why I followed the 3rd Division to Wonsan! ”

Kawakami's voice fell, Katsura Taro's face had turned pale, his hands trembled, and he muttered, "I need a written order from the base camp, I need a written order from the army staff headquarters......"

"Here you go." Kawakami was silent.

"It's gambling! Your Excellency, on the front line of Anzhou, according to intelligence, Nie Shicheng's headquarters of the Huai Army is also covering, advancing with two wings of light troops, insufficient supply and ammunition, and attacking Nie Shicheng's position...... In case it doesn't work, Xu Yifan's troops will turn to attack, and what awaits us is another fiasco! ”

Kawakami retorted lightly: "Huai Army? It was precisely because Nie Shicheng was in command of the Huai Army that His Excellency Ito and the Army agreed to my plan...... His Excellency Ito believes that there will be miracles, and I believe that there will be miracles...... The whole battle was originally a gamble for the Empire! Can we change the fate of the empire because of Xu Yifan's army? The Korean war situation must be calmed down with resolute combat! We have to bet everything! ”

Katsura Taro looked up at his Nagoya Corps scattered around, these silent soldiers were doing their best to bring more soldiers and more supplies. The essence of twenty years of upbringing, it is said that Ben has already gambled on it all.

"Kawakami-kun, I follow the orders of the base camp...... In addition, as far as one request is concerned, the troops that broke into Anzhou this time were led by themselves. ”

Kawakami laughed, stood up and patted Gui Taro's shoulder: "Gui Jun, this is my grudge with Xu Yifan, since I left Seoul, please let me fight him to the death in North Korea!" And the victorious one must be our great empire! ”

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Lando Bhattoni crossed his legs and stood in front of the artillery position. As far as the eye could see in front of him, it was Ruixing Mansion.

These said that the army had perfected their fortifications as much as possible, and the trenches filled with muddy water, the front of the trench was a deer barrage, and behind it was a trench dug out of the city. The walls were also dotted with points of fire, which could be fired down to support the entire line of trenches. In the city, the barricades can still be vaguely discerned, and it seems that I am determined to fight in the streets.

He was not satisfied that his artillery support mission was so heavy, and he was not left enough time! Destroying obstacles, sweeping the fire points of the city walls, and even punching a couple of gaps in the low walls with these light guns of his came out, without enough ammunition, without a long enough time to prepare for fire, it is simply impossible to complete the task!

He didn't have siege artillery, and although the ammunition was desperately being sent from the rear, it was not enough to support the huge amount of ammunition needed for the siege, and the artillery preparation time was not long! According to the vision of his professional artillery officer, to achieve all these goals, six to eight siege guns of more than six inches were needed, and they had to fire repeatedly for a long time until most of the obstacles were cleared, the points of fire were eliminated, and the walls were crumbled. Although the position of this army is far from being called a fortress, he also has no things to need!

In the vicinity of the artillery positions were thousands of troops holding their breath and preparing for the assault. There is no doubt that from the very beginning of the Praetorian Guard, the officers were to rush to the front. He really liked these Oriental lads - it wasn't that he hadn't dealt with Orientals. But these well-educated, upright, intelligent, and idealistic young people in the East, he has never seen them before!

The wave of nationalism in Europe has been raging since the beginning of the Napoleonic era. Countless countries have emerged heroes of their own nation, and at this time, it is finally the turn of this central country! He is aware of the role of these young people in the process of the rise of a nation, and sincerely hopes that they will not be sacrificed too miserably.

He was a man who had lost his homeland, and in Austria he could not find a sense of belonging. In the mother country of Italy, the tide of national rise was only a wave, and it quickly fell silent after the great powers compromised with each other to achieve the status of reading power. He wandered in the East, but he didn't expect to join such a team!

He also directly approached Xu Yifan to protest that such an order was irrational and did not meet the requirements of military science. But Xu Yifan replied lightly: "What if Garibaldi ordered you to charge?" ”

At this time, Lando could only look at the pocket watch in his hand, and the hour hand was about to point to the Roman numerals at eight o'clock. He strode back to his command position, snatched the command flag from one of the artillery commanders, held it high in the air, and after a slight pause, waved it violently: "Fire!" Gentlemen! Unleash all your strength until the end of the world! ”

The artillery group composed of twenty-four mountain artillery shook violently at the same time, the fire first spewed out, followed by the thunderous cannons, the smoke was filled, and in the blink of an eye, the smoke pillars and earth stones rose everywhere in the position of the Ruixing Mansion of the army!

When the cannon sounded, Chen Jinping also trembled. He was also in the trench at the point where the attack was launched, and the trench was full of soldiers and officers, and when they heard the sound of cannons, the soldiers couldn't help but subconsciously bow their heads. The officers all straightened up from their trenches and looked forward. Chen Jinping is also one of them.

Huge pillars of smoke and flames rose from Ruixing Mansion, and the fragments of the artillery shells swept through the entire position of the Japanese army like a storm. The fragments of the deer obstacle flew in all directions, the muddy water in the trench splashed more than ten meters high, and the masonry at the head of the city fell straight down. The smoke enveloped the entire front in an instant, and at first you could see people running around in the city to avoid the artillery, and then in the blink of an eye, it was lifted half a day high. Then it faded into obscurity.

He waved his hand violently: "Shoot!" ”

First, the machine guns around him suddenly roared, the cartridge belts shook wildly, and strings of machine guns poured out like a river of fire with great power, and as the machine guns around him fired, the machine guns on the entire front roared. The rain of bullets washed over the positions of the Japanese army, especially some of the machine gun positions erected on the hills, and it was simply a rain of bullets covering the head of the Japanese army. Two hundred and fifty rounds of cartridge belts hit the head in an instant, and then another one, each machine gun has twenty cartridge belts, and it will be replenished at any time later, and several cartridge belts must be laid in the early stage of fire preparation for shooting!

The artillery fire was still roaring, as if it had not stopped, and the machine guns had boiled the water tank, and gradually stopped. On the wall of the trench where the troops were located, the earth fell in a row.

Although it is only a preparation for light artillery and machine gun fire, such a density still gives people the feeling that the sky is falling apart!

Half an hour of fire preparation seemed like a long time, and it seemed like a short time, and it passed in one fell swoop. The smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield is breathless. When the time came, the artillery fire stopped abruptly, and the machine gun, which had cooled the barrel for a while, roared again in a frenzied manner.

Following several fixed firing routes, the fire flowed like a tide. The open space between the machine-gun firing lines is the infantry's assault line.

Chen Jinping held a command flag in his hand, and the flag was still a signal flag he brought down from Zhiyuan. He jumped out of the trench and planted the flag on the ground as a command line for the assault, while raising his arms and shouting: "Praetorian Guard, forward!" ”

Zhang Xuzhou made a name for himself with his leading charge, and in a blink of an eye, he was promoted from a student soldier to an equal footing with him. Today, he will definitely not let Zhang Xuzhou say any more gossip behind his back, for the sake of Zhiyuan, for the sake of Lord Deng, he will also personally pick and kill a few devils!

First the officers flipped out, then the soldiers. I don't know who it was, I grabbed him by the waist, and threw him back into the trench with all his strength: "Lord Chen, don't take the opportunity to sell your life with us!" ”

Chen Jinping waved his hands and feet, and scolded to stand up. His horse didn't hold him down just now, Xu Yifan had already explained, it's enough for the Praetorian Guard to have a madman, don't have another madman Chen! Now that he is holding him down, the officers and soldiers of the Right Alliance of the Praetorian Guards around him are pouring out in an endless stream, and the voice of the slogan shouted by Chen Jinping has resounded throughout the battlefield: "Praetorian Guard, advance!" ”

All officers, rush to the front!

Under the cover of the machine-gun firing line, the first wave of the Praetorian Guards hit directly north of Ruixing Mansion, which was also the place where the artillery fire was the most fierce just now. The deer barricades have been beaten to pieces, and the northern city wall is also in tatters. A section of the city wall collapsed from the waist, revealing a few grinning teeth, no more than two meters above the ground, the bricks had collapsed, and the hard layer of rammed earth inside was also exposed.

The troops of the first wave of attack, carrying the door panels and bamboo ladders, shouted loudly forward, and the circle of trenches in the starting position was only about seven or eight hundred meters away from Ruixing Mansion in a straight line. The first wave of shock teams did not spare their strength, and at the beginning they attacked with all their might, and the machine-gun covered bullets swept past them, hitting the small earthen pillars above the trenches opposite, and only the sound of bullets chirping into the dirt could be heard. The soldiers in the trenches had already begun to fight back, and one by one their rifles stretched out and began to shoot, but under the suppression of machine gun fire, they did not appear to be very dense. The officer and the soldiers rushed to the front of the deer herd in one breath, and the speed began to slow down, and casualties appeared, and the soldiers carrying these portable equipment kept falling, and someone immediately took their place.

The obstacles here have been partially cleared by artillery fire, and due to the lack of time for the preparation of the army, not to mention the barbed wire, even the depth and breadth of the deer barricades are far inferior to those laid by the Praetorian Guards in front of the Dongxian Ridge position. However, these officers and men were carrying equipment, and the speed of the crossing was greatly affected at the same time, and the formation had to disperse. Some machine-gun firing lines were obstructed, so they had to cease fire, and the counterattack fire in the trenches was immediately strengthened, and bullets rained down in the deer area, and even a group of soldiers carrying ladders were completely wiped out!

On the deer, there were hanging corpses everywhere, but more people were still bravely climbing over. Some officers had already begun to organize their firepower and began firing with rifles at hand. At this time, the German Army's teachings originally attached great importance to suffocating the opponent's line of fire with intensive rifle fire in front of the local front. The shooting instructors of the Praetorian Guards are also very strict, and the new rifle with a five-round magazine type has a rate of fire far exceeding that of the opponent's old Murata single shot.

Under the cover of their own infantry firepower, the officers and men carrying the equipment finally crossed the deer barricade. An officer who rushed to the front was the first to run to the muddy ditch and waved vigorously: "Build a bridge!" Before the roar stopped, he had already been hit by several bullets, and he rolled over and fell into the muddy water without humming, making a big splash. The officers and soldiers in the back then rushed up, ladders were put up, and door panels were paved again. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen improvised bridges have been erected.

At this time, even the firepower of the city began to be down-fired, and the troops from other places also moved here. The officers and men who built the bridge were killed and wounded, and under the command of the officers, the soldiers endured the rain of bullets and fired on the spot. Strictly enforce the teachings, attack in front of the enemy, and suffocate the opponent with firepower! Moreover, after such a long and unsparing impact just now, they did not have the physical strength to further impact, and the crowd was dispersed, unable to form a dense skirmish line with a huge impulse.

Just as the first wave of officers and soldiers had just entered the Luqi area, the second wave of officers and men also shouted loudly and jumped out of the trenches one after another. This was already a magnificent formation of two battalions, all rifles with bayonets, and under the leadership of the officers, they marched forward. The brothers in front have already used counter-fire to attract the opponent's firepower, what they need to do is to maintain their formation, and in the last hundred meters of the charge, with a huge momentum, break through the trench line of the devil in one fell swoop, and rush all the way to the city wall!

Nearly 1,000 bayonets of the two battalions were lined up in a shining dense skirmish line, more than ten columns deep, rolling forward. The Civil War in the New World, in the midst of the Anglo-French-Russian melee in the Crimea. The troops who dare to attack are all lined up in such a dense skirmish line! Endure the opponent's fire to advance until it is within the impact range, and under the cover of firepower, use flesh and blood to decide the winner with a white blade!

The army was already diverting their fire as much as they could, and the bullets whizzed in, making large and small gaps in the bayonet thicket. However, because the rifle fire of the first wave of Praetorian Guards officers and soldiers in front of them was contained, the firepower projected at them was not very dense. Moreover, recently, the artillery of the Syrian army has not fired a single shell, and it is estimated that the ammunition has run out. Such an enemy fire blockade is far from being above the limits of the Praetorian Guard's endurance!

The bayonet rolled forward, over the deer, and into the trench. The first wave of Praetorian Guards officers and men who fired on the spot were already heavily wounded. After the officers rushed out of the Luqi area, they had already given orders loudly, and they took the lead and spared no effort to make the final charge! Two battalions of stragglers, roaring and shouting, rushed along a dozen temporary bridges, bayonets surging above their heads. Such a huge impulse cannot be stopped by the shooting of a single-shot rifle of the Chinese army, and in modern warfare, victory or defeat has often become a simple mathematical problem, and the density of firepower exceeds the density of troops, and the attack fails. The density of troops exceeds the density of firepower and a breakthrough is achieved -- of course, there is a premise in the first place, that this army must dare and be able to endure the cruel calculations of this mathematical problem! (PS: When the density of forces could not exceed the density of firepower in any case, a new revolution in military affairs began...... Oscar notes. ）

Chen Jinping was pressed by his horse, and at this time he could only pat the trench: "Breakthrough!" Breakthrough! Which point is the right association worse than the left association? ”

The city bricks suddenly fell, and on the city wall of the north gate of Ruixing Mansion, dozens of city bricks were pushed down at the same time. The muzzles of two Hessesen guns were exposed, and the rammed earth behind the bricks had long been hollowed out, and the two guns were hidden here!

Time seemed to stand still for a moment, and then two shells whistled out and exploded on the most crowded temporary bridge, this cannonball was still a grenade, bursting open, it was countless whistling small steel balls! It's almost a zero-line shot, and there's no time for people to react!

The shells exploded, and flesh and blood flew on the two temporary bridges. Several officers standing behind the bridge to grasp the queue fell to the sky without humming. The officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Guard, who had gathered in one place, fell into the trench along with the bleed-up bridge, and the screams rang out. The two guns continued to roar and sweep across the Praetorian Guard brigade as they crossed the trench, and a mist of blood filled the air. As if encouraged by this, the rifle fire counterattack of the Yue army became more and more intensive, and some of the ragged officers and soldiers of the Yue Ben even jumped out of the trenches, babbling and shouting, to tear off the remaining temporary bridge! The firepower of both sides was intertwined across the trench, and the dead bodies kept falling into the water of the trench, and on both sides of the trench four or five meters wide, the corpses were paved together in an instant. Perhaps blinded by the grenade shots, the Praetorian Guard was in disarray, retreating slightly, allowing dozens of outlaw imps to rush up, tear off the door panel, and draw the bamboo ladder to their end. The temporary bridge erected with more than 100 casualties was completely destroyed in a blink of an eye!

Chen Jinping in the trench had blood-red eyes, and desperately pushed the horse beside him away. The third wave of Praetorian Guards, who were preparing for the attack, had also assembled in the starting position, waiting for orders.

Chen Jinping jumped up and raised his arms and shouted: "Praetorian Guard, fight to the death and never retreat!" Let's bridge again! ”

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In Xu Yifan's shelter department, everyone held binoculars and watched the battle of forgetting life and death. Chen Jinping's shouts were also heard. Li Yunzong shook his head lightly first: "The spirit has been frustrated, the little devil has used these last few cannons well!" Let's take it down and tidy it up first, and watch Chen Jinping. After preparing with firepower, then attack. ”

The General Staff is the highest person in charge of planning, and Li Yunzong is the highest person in command of tactics to the letter. Xu Yifan never interfered with him. He made such a decision, everyone had no opinion, they were all pale, and the herald had to go down immediately to convey the order. The flag of retreat will be sounded, and the trumpet of retreat will be sounded.

Xu Yifan also wanted to put down the binoculars, it was too cruel, he was so distressed that his liver trembled! If there was a little other force that could help him, those forces that would not hold him back, and were a little more reliable, how could he force the Praetorian Guard, the children he had raised with his own hands, the young men he had painstakingly collected from the South Seas, from the North Seas, to make such sacrifices?

Before he put his binoculars, he saw an officer in the front line, already standing up, with a pistol in his left hand and a bayonet in his right hand, and a somewhat childish voice resounded throughout the battle line: "Praetorian Guard!" Fight to the death! We are not here to accept failure! ”

In the midst of the rain of bullets, he had already taken the lead in jumping into the deep and roofless trench filled with muddy water, and swam all the way to the wall of the trench on that side, and dug up the soft earth with his bayonet, to cut out the path that he could tread on and rush up!

More officers jumped out of the crowd, and the soldiers followed, and it is not known how many jumped except those who remained on the trench and continued to fire on support. Bayonets, shovels, hands, everything that could be used. Everyone watched with binoculars and wide eyes. Li Yunzong had already stopped the heralds from blowing trumpets and waving flags. Chen Jinping has already assembled the team and began to organize the third wave of impact.

It can be said that these young officers are reckless, impulsive, and even unscrupulous. But this is indeed what Xu Yifan brought them, from the beginning of the establishment of the Praetorian Guard, it is from victory to victory, and any officer he personally brought out will not let this honor end in their hands!

Xu Yifan's almost ruthless order was to capture Ruixing Mansion in less than two days. Although these young officers at the grassroots level did not reach the strategic decision above, they could also feel that this attack could only move forward with indomitable progress, and if they retreated slightly, they might have to bury the victory of the Praetorian Guard in their own hands! They gathered from everywhere, and Xu Yifan handed over to them the supreme martial arts and honor of destroying the Fifth Division and capturing the flag, and they would rather exchange their lives for it!

Everyone watched as the officers and men of the Praetorian Guard carved out the walls of the trenches one by one, climbed up with mud and water, and slammed into the trench line with rifles and bayonets, and even more tragic hand-to-hand combat broke out again. The two hidden guns were silent, and I don't know if they had finished firing the last few shells or were frightened.

Chu Wanli was the first to put down the binoculars, and his tone was cold: "My lord, you can take Ruixing Mansion on the twenty-fourth." ”

Xu Yifan's voice was also very flat: "I know." ”

Chu Wanli touched his chin: "I don't know what the situation on the Eastern Front is like, and the news hasn't been reported yet." It is said that the domestic army has not started to launch an attack on Haikou, and Shaochuan and Xiangcheng in Pyongyang have not reported the information to the General Staff Headquarters......"

His tone gradually became a little sneering: "We are really enemies on all sides, and we are struggling to fight for time with our lives...... Never die, never retreat...... What the fuck are you doing at home? Why the fuck are we nervous, busy, and desperate? What the hell are those people doing in the country? In addition to pulling the hind legs, you don't want to fight seriously and resist seriously? I dare to predict that as soon as I land in Haikou, those guys will only collapse! Why can't they get down to business? ”

Xu Yifan replied coldly: "Is it useful to scratch the hair?"

Chu Wanli no longer had a lazy look at this time, and looked at Xu Yifan with the kind of seriousness that he had never had: "My lord, at this time, I just want to invite my lord, don't forget the excerpt I gave you when we defected!" We're all waiting! ”

Xu Yifan also put down the binoculars, Li Yunzong's eyes also turned over, and the staff officers present, and even the German adviser officers who didn't understand Chinese very well, all looked over.

Xu Yifan's expression couldn't be said to be solemn: "I only want to tell you one word, I don't forget it from time to time!" ”

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A.D. 1** 4th year August 23rd.

It is said that the 1st Division of the 2nd Army of the Qing Dynasty landed at Huayuankou, and the 6th Division landed at Liziwo. The Qing army, which was deployed in this area, was defeated when they heard the wind, some retreated in the direction of Fuzhou Avenue, and some retreated to Lushun, Jinzhou. When the news broke, the government and the opposition, who were still optimistic about the war situation, suddenly fell into an even greater shock, which was much greater than when Seoul fell.

The army has already stepped into the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, if Lushun falls, then the Bohai Bay will be completely open to the army, and they can land in Zhili at any time!

The imperial court sent telegrams again and again, appealing to Li Hongzhang, and issuing more telegram instructions in an even more frenzied number, asking all localities to make further preparations. He also asked Li Hongzhang and the three generals in the northeast to come up with countermeasures to defend southern Liaoning, consolidate Lushun, and severely suppress the army's landing headquarters. And there is a series of strict decrees issued, if Lushun does not abide by it, the civil and military attaché concerned will be beheaded!

The Beiyang Navy Division quickly reported the situation, how about the ship repair? How's the morale? What about ammunition? Can you go to sea to fight and wash the wheel of transporting troops on the ocean?

The imperial court also sent a telegram to Pyongyang through the telegraph line to inquire about the war situation, asking Xu Yifan when he could end the Korean war and whether he could send a force to help Neidu?

Between the government and the opposition, there are already calls for Xu Yifan's entire army to return to King Qin, and the land of the foreign domain of Korea can not be defended. There is also a faint voice coming out, is it possible to negotiate with the little devil? It's too old to spend money on defense, and I don't know how much it will cost to fight again, not to mention the sacrifice of human lives, and there are places where there is erosion. However, under the situation that the imperial party is in charge, the whole country is in charge, and there is Xu Yifan's victory in front of him, this kind of voice is only faint and does not appear on the stage. Everyone is anxiously waiting for the good news from North Korea. On the one hand, it can stabilize people's hearts, and on the other hand, the imperial party figures are also ready to take advantage of the victory of North Korea and the defeat of Liaonan, which is defended by Beiyang, to completely collapse this Beiyang force!

No matter what angle you look at, everyone is waiting for the news of North Korea's victory!

On the same day, the 3rd Division also launched a lightly armed advance to the flank of the eastern front of Xu Yifan's Praetorian Guard.

And Xu Yifan's Praetorian Guard Division, with the Right Association as the main force, launched the final attack on the Fifth Division of the Yue Army, and the battle was extremely fierce.

(To be continued)