"An unprecedented blow!"

Thinking about the words of the Yue Jun in the tactical order, Lu Guangquan thought to himself, I'm afraid it's you who are really going to be injured!

He thought, sneering, staring at the military map in front of him and thinking in his heart.

The reconnaissance company had already figured out the deployment of troops in the vicinity, and also found a group of remnants of Song Qing in Laowozi Mountain, about 400 people, which were temporarily pressed back and reorganized into two reserve companies by re-sending commanders.

Generals, there are many in the Huguang camp.

In the cold, a dense artillery sound sounded in the distance, and in the sound of the rustle, those shells exploded on the position, and the rumble continued.

After confirming that Liu Mingchuan's troops had concentrated on Yuanbao Mountain, the general offensive of Yueben finally began, and a large area of troops rushed across the Yalu River like a sea tide and converged along the shore pass.

Because of the lack of manpower, and in order to make the Yue army more dense, Lu Guangquan withdrew the defense line relatively deep, forming an arc defense line, and retaining two infantry columns and Ma Jinxu's division as reserve forces.

After crossing the Yalu River all the way unimpeded, the Yue army had confirmed the conclusion reached by the scouts -- the Qing army Liu Mingchuan's unit was gradually abandoning the defense line along the river, and Dashanyan was also full of confidence in this, so that the three divisions and regiments could compress the battle line at the same time, and strive to take Jiulian City as the base camp for the follow-up attack.

After crossing the Yalu River, at least six infantry wings of the army, with more than 20,000 troops, reorganized the line, divided into four routes, crossed forwards, and covered each other.

Lu Guangquan's troops retreated very deeply, and dug a large number of individual pits in the woods, carried stone walls, and used the sentry posts and pillboxes abandoned by Zuo Guigui and Nie Shicheng to form a hidden defensive line.

War is a struggle of physical strength and life, but also a struggle of intelligence and courage.

Lu Guangquan carefully calculated that the position that Liu Mingchuan asked Ma Jinxu to defend was reasonable, and once the army occupied the position and transported the 155mm caliber howitzers, it would be completely possible to bombard Liu Mingchuan's left flank troops, that is, the strong offensive front that Zuo Guigui was responsible for.

Therefore, he deliberately gave up this position, so that Dashanyan and the other commanders of the army had at least 50% chance of occupying this fast position, and it was a rapid deployment of artillery units.

Luck finally sided with Lu Guangquan, and Dashanyan decisively believed that the Qing army had been defeated on a large scale like Song Qing and Yiketang Abe, and immediately let the artillery wing of the Sixth Division cross the river and occupy the most advantageous position, preparing to carry out an artillery attack on Liu Mingchuan's troops in Yuanbaoshan.

Three infantry wings, one artillery wing, and two infantry wings of the Second Division had crossed the river and began to search deeper into the front.

Until this time, during the period when the artillery wing of the Sixth Division had not gained a firm foothold, Lu Guangquan also decisively commanded three artillery columns to carry out artillery bombardment of the Majinxu position.

Dashanyan's intelligence was wrong, he didn't know that Liu Mingchuan's department had a second artillery battalion, and although the firepower was not as fierce as the first artillery battalion of Liu Mingchuan's department, it was faster.

In the midst of the indiscriminate bombardment, the artillery wing of the 6th Division suffered heavy damage, and Oyama Iwa could only let Lieutenant General Nozaki Sadasumi personally lead his troops to assault, and it was necessary to seize the opponent's artillery position.

Two whole infantry wings attacked the artillery position, nearly 10,000 troops were squeezed into a small area, and the reconnaissance team of the army at the front was quickly counterattacked, and it was impossible to exact the exact number, and an infantry brigade of the main force was the first to charge.

Although the overall equipment of the army is not the most advanced at present, the entire system is established according to the model of the German army, and the long, medium and near artillery is fully equipped, and the counteroffensive is organized on the spot.

Again, the situation in the Huguang battalion was much the same, but with some slight changes to the German model, especially the increased deployment of machine guns.

Since there was only one infantry brigade, at best there were only more than 500 people, Li Kaiye's troops, who bore the brunt of the attack, did not use machine guns, but only fired a series of rounds to repel the opponent.

With the increasing losses of the artillery wing, it was simply impossible to organize an effective counterattack, and Dashan Yan had to let the two infantry wings of the 2nd Division outflank from the southwest flank and let the artillery wing of the 2nd Division reorganize their positions for a counterattack.

From Dandong to the south, the entire Korean region is a flat land, as long as you stand guard on Wulong Mountain and Jiulian Mountain, you can clearly see all the actions of the Yue army, and the information is quickly fed back to Lu Guangquan's hands.

Unable to use the fort of Jiuliancheng, Lu Guangquan immediately adjusted the firepower of the two artillery columns and launched an all-out attack on the new position of the Second Division.

With this trend, Dashanyan could no longer retreat, so he could only let the two divisions break through the opponent's defensive line with all their strength and occupy the opponent's artillery position, and it must be in the shortest possible time.

He carefully figured out that it was impossible for the opponent to have more troops for infantry defense, and as long as he relied on the superiority in numbers and captured the position in one go, the opponent's artillery unit would lose the defensive line.

He calculated that the opponent was stupid, and organized a circular defensive line with a small number of troops, which seemed to have a wide defensive area, but in fact every area was a weak link, as long as he broke through a gap, the opponent would die and have no place to be buried.

Punch.

This is the choice made by Dashan Yan, and it is also his best answer.

In order to increase the oppressive force and constantly strain the opponent's forces, Daesan Am even transferred two brigades of the Korean Rebels to the front line and let them follow the flank of the 6th Division to attack.

This decision made Oyama Rock ...... Single-handedly caused a real massacre.

As the troops on both flanks and in front became more and more dense, with thousands of troops in each charge, Lu Guangquan realized...... The right reality has arrived, and the Maxim water-cooled machine gun can be used.

With his order, each platoon removed the canvas cover on the outside of the machine gun and erected it on the front line, because the Maxim machine gun was too heavy, many of them were modified into a frame type, with four wheels and a steel armor baffle, which could be pushed and used to charge.

The entire Huguang battalion carried 250 Makqin machine guns to the north, of which 105 were converted into frames, and in order to retain some of their spare strength, they are currently equipped with 65 frame-type machine guns and 130 ordinary Makqin machine guns on the front line.

On average, three per platoon, the artillery column itself also carried machine guns, only in smaller numbers and was used only to guard artillery positions.

After the battalions mounted their machine guns one after another, the army began a new round of offensive, throwing in four infantry wings and a brigade of the Korean Volunteers to attack the arc-shaped defensive front with a total length of no more than 1,400 meters from six sides.

This seemed to be the limit of General Oyama Yan, who could no longer tolerate the situation where nearly 30,000 infantry continued to be blocked by such a weak front, and two artillery wings were suppressed by one artillery wing.

A large number of troops rushed forward, and each platoon began to counterattack with rifles from the stars, luring the opponent to continue forward.

Li Kaiye threw himself on the position, holding a telescope to watch the dispersion of the opponent's troops, although one of the opponent's infantry wings was being dispersed into three brigades, constantly approaching his line in a roundabout way, crackling and covering the indiscriminate shooting, and the position hit by thousands of bullets per round was messy, he was still thinking cautiously.

The terrain around Dandong, and even the terrain of the whole of Korea and Northeast China, was firmly in his mind, and he knew very well that on the bank of the Yalu River, which was thirty kilometers away from him, there was a mountainous area in the past, and the deployment of troops there was not strong.

If he could resist the attack here during the day, he could lead an infantry column to smuggle through at night, use the cover of the mountains to penetrate deep into the enemy's hinterland, cut the opponent's retreat route, and form a blockade on both sides of the Yalu River, so that the army could not be withdrawn.

The situation was so tense that he could not continue to think, and the opponent's troops of four or five thousand men detoured back to the front of his position.

"Hit!"

As soon as he gave the order, he shot first from himself, using the fire speed of the Jiangnan rifle to carry out a cross attack.

The soldiers he led himself, he knew very well in his heart that none of them were afraid of death, and there was not a single fool among the commanders, and each company arranged cross-firing and round-robbing and installing bullets to force the opponent to retreat.

The army could not retreat at all, and could only rely on the superiority in numbers to carry out an overwhelming assault and storm, and thousands of troops were taking advantage of the last few hundred meters to rush wildly, completely abandoning cover and exchanging their lives for positions.

It was only at this time that the Makqin machine gun suddenly burst out with ferocious firepower, and according to Li Kaiye's order, each company was only allowed to fire one machine gun first, suppressing the opponent's attack and continuing to consume the opponent's numbers.

Only nine machine guns opened fire on his front, but it was enough to have a great suppressive effect on the Japanese army.

The sudden outbreak of fire caused the entire front line of the Japanese army to be stunned, and the soldiers of the Syrian army constantly tried to flee back, but they were hit even more deadly.

On a front of no more than 1,400 meters long, the army was like encountering nine life harvesters, and most of the troops of thousands of people were damaged in a few minutes and had to be withdrawn again.

With only nine machine guns, Li Kaiye forced his opponent back to the same place and began to organize the offensive again.

From then on, the Yue army began a tug-of-war attack, they pushed both brigades of the Korean rebels to the forefront, and the Yue army pressed the formation in the rear, and anyone who dared to retreat was killed, forcing more than 14,000 Korean soldiers to charge forward.

The North Korean soldiers rushed up like a sea water, but they were met with more machine gun fire, and in the dense firepower, the North Korean soldiers quickly fell more than 1,000 people and began to flee frantically.

The army pressed them forward, and under the back and forth, more North Korean soldiers died at the guns of the army.

As a last resort, the commander of the 6th Division, Lieutenant General Sadasumi Nozaki, could only let the troops continue to withdraw to their original positions, waiting for new orders.

On the southwest front, Sun Yuanheng encountered the 1st Tokyo Division and was not killed at all, and the commander of the 1st Brigade, Major General Nogi Noshinori, was simply a butcher, forcing all the soldiers to rush forward with bayonets.

Dashanyan did not give up, and continued to attack the entire position, hoping to exhaust the opponent's living forces, and also mobilized all artillery to attack the front line, but his artillery line has not been able to organize, and the two artillery wings have been almost disabled, and they have retreated to the south bank of the Yalu River one after another.

Having lost the cover of artillery, it was no longer very rational to charge this front.

After attacking four times in a row, losing more than 13,000 people, almost losing a single brigade of the Korean rebels on the front, and more than 6,000 soldiers on the line, Dashan Rock had no choice but to suspend the plan, shrink back to the south bank of the Yalu River, and abandon the existing position.

(To be continued)