In the morning light, the red morning glow dyed the eastern sky, and the eastern sky added wisps of bright red, but in the red, the morning was very quiet. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoA few morning birds skim over the fields.

Between several continuous tombs on the field, a simple forward defensive position is scattered around the tombs, which seem terrifying, but for soldiers, they are the best cover in the field, and any recruit soldier who has received three months of recruit training and three months of basic tactical training is naturally no stranger.

Because of this, the grassroots squad platoon commander often chooses the tomb as a stronghold, although it is early in the morning, but this seemingly calm land has begun to be busy - the chest wall of the Qing army in the distance has been clearly visible, that is the habit of attacking the Hunan army, good to build a base, but now this base has become a chest wall trench, but unlike the deep trenches of the new army, the Qing army only builds a wall on the front to prevent bullets, and it can be clearly seen from the telescope that the artillery positions of the Qing army are set up between the infantry chest wall trench network, defending each other and helping each other, even as an opponent, Many junior officers of the New Army also expressed their admiration for the Qing Army's position setting -- quite in a disciplined manner.

Well! That's the only evaluation, that's all.

From the forward position, you can clearly see the cavalry of the Qing army, running around the rear of the battle line, not knowing what they are doing. Song Lao Liu moved his limbs that were almost stiff, and stayed in the half-human deep trench for a few hours, which was indeed not very comfortable, but now they did not receive the order to attack or retreat, so they drank a sip of sorghum wine that was hot in their arms, carefully put it in their pockets, and began to make routine rounds in the trenches.

The soldiers of a company scattered around the tomb were all preparing in the trenches. Naturally, they were busy with their own work. Some are smoking cigarettes. Some were looking at literacy manuals, some were lying on their stomachs checking their guns, and some were holding a canned food box looking for a place to.

A bird was napping on a tomb in the middle of the position, and seemed to be startled by the sound of the soldiers' movements, and flew away with a clatter, and the fluttering wings gave the dead position a little life.

"The Qing army has moved!"

Just as the sentry shouted, suddenly, Song Laoliu, who was patrolling the position, saw clouds of smoke spewing out of the Qing army's position. There was a deep tremor in the earth, and the sky was filled with a rumbling reverberation, and in an instant, the morning glow on the horizon seemed to be torn apart by strings of flames.

"Shelling!"

When shouting this sentence in his throat, Song Lao Liu's whole person fell down in the trench violently, and completely stuck the whole person to the bottom of the trench, everyone was like this, and more people even began to chant the gods and Buddhas loudly to pray for the blessings of the gods and Buddhas, although they were also "battle-hardened". But this is the first time. The first was shelled.

Dense artillery shells with whistles smashed like hail in the middle of summer at the improvised positions of the First Division of the New Army, and the fierce shelling of dozens of marching battalions and Green artillery made it seem as if they were trying to cover up the positions of the New Army.

In the face of nearly 20,000 elite Qing troops, even if he no longer looks down on the Qing army, Shang Dequan, who knows the truth of "beating the old master to death with fists", as the commander of the first division of the new army, he did not recklessly mobilize the main force to attack, but chose to deal with it cautiously, after all, for the new army, this is the first battle after the landing.

As far as the new army is concerned, Liaoyang not only has the main force of the Fengtian training army, but also has four troops, including the Ma Yukun division of the Yi army, the Wei Rugui division of the Sheng army, and the Jilin training army.

Because of this caution, after approaching Liaoyang, he immediately ordered the troops to go into the defense, and at three o'clock in the morning, the two cavalry platoons located in the front-line outpost called to say that they had been attacked by a large-scale night attack by the enemy, and they could not hold on until they retreated, Shang Dequan's intuition told him that the Qing army was going to counterattack!

For Shang Dequan, who only had two regiments in his hands and a 17th regiment adapted from the police brigade, his instinctive reaction was to defend, after all, the strength of the Qing army was twice as large as his own, and Shang Dequan accurately predicted the coming of the typhoon.

From more than 3 o'clock in the morning, the outpost was attacked by the Qing army's horse team, and the troops immediately organized a defense on the spot, and in the early morning, the main force of the Qing army appeared in sight and began to build positions, and this prediction finally became a reality at 7 o'clock in the morning.

The sound of cannons and the explosion of cannonballs was earth-shattering, and Shang Dequan used it as a civilian house for the headquarters, and every time the shells landed, the dirt on the walls would fall, and the maps spread on the table could not be wiped clean.

"Sir, now we line up from east to west. The right flank is Li Da Datun, that is, where the headquarters is located, the center is Hanshantai, the third regiment is stationed here, the center is Shendanbao, which is the seventh regiment, and the seventeenth on the left flank is guarding Heigoutai......"

He Zonglian said while sweeping away the dust that fell on the map from time to time, and the artillery bombardment of the Qing army was concentrated in Li Datun, which really frightened Shang Dequan.

"Where is the main force of the Qing army, have they started to attack? What's the news from other places? ”

Because of the heavy shelling of the defensive line, Shang Dequan realized that the Qing army's attack must be imminent, but the question is, where will they choose as a breakthrough? Although his own strength is only 10,000, Shang Dequan will not drag it to the point where Zuo Guigui, a veteran of the battle formation, will attack on all fronts like a sesame seed, even if he is replaced to attack, he will also concentrate on attacking a little bit with firepower, and at the same time transfer troops to break through, but the question is what Zuo Guigui is thinking?

Biting the pencil in his hand, Shang Dequan let the dust fall on his head from the impact of the explosion, staring at the map with his eyes, as if trying to guess his opponent's plan from the fog of the battlefield.

"Order the artillery team to keep **, when the cannonballs are finished, the court will naturally transfer it to us!"

Zuo Guigui, who was holding a monocular, looked at the anti-army front whose vision was completely shrouded in gunsmoke, and commanded proudly, the people were still interested in the government, and the information sent by several local gentry a few hours ago asked Zuo Guigui to immediately adjust his tactics and carry out a fierce artillery bombardment of Li Datun on the right flank of the rebel army, but it was only an artillery bombardment, so as to disturb Shang Dequan's feeling in battle.

"The headquarters of the thief is in Master Li's tun!"

Compared with last year's extermination of the Jindan Sect, Zuo Guigui showed unprecedented caution, after all, this rebel army is a new army stationed in Korea that has been trained by foreign teachers for a long time, and its weapons and ammunition are even far superior to those of the official army, so naturally he can't be cautious.

"My lord, the enemy outpost retreats!"

From the telescope, he had already seen that the thief rebel outpost began to retreat between the shelling, but Zuo Guigui nodded slightly, and said secretly in his heart.

"This business virtue is also a talent, but it's a pity that ......"

Sighing in pity, Zuo Guigui ordered Feng Sheng'a beside him.

"Commander Feng, now the thief retreats against the outpost, this president leads the spring order to control the battalions, and now orders the camp to immediately advance two hundred zhang, and one more zhang leads the troops and officers to behead them, do you understand!"

Feng Sheng'a naturally responded again and again, and watched as the Shengzi battalion began to push towards the outpost abandoned by the rebel army, but Zuo Guigui looked in the direction of Shen Danbao on the left flank

"Fushan, it's almost time for you to do it over there!"

Whether it was the step-by-step advance of the Shengzi battalion or the continuous artillery bombardment of Li Darentun, Zuo's purpose was not to attack, but only to contain the rebel army, so as to make the attack on Shendanbao easier, and even in order to avoid the rebel army in the direction of Heitaigou from reinforcing Shendanbao, he also sent a battalion of infantry as a suspicious soldier.

Jiang is indeed old and spicy, in fact, Shang Dequan, who has never actually commanded a brigade or regiment-level battle, also fell into confusion for a while because of his lack of experience, and even began to be affected by it.

"Sir, the enemy infantry is advancing!"

The news from the communications officer made Shang Dequan's brows furrow.

"Isn't the enemy's main direction of attack here Master Li?"

Because according to common sense, the fierce shelling was to pave the way for the charge of the infantry cavalry behind---- so it should be. Although he felt so in his heart, Shang Dequan felt a little uneasy in his heart, what was wrong?

"Chunjiang, now you and the staff section are in charge of the headquarters, and I'll go to the front line to take a look!"

Looking at He Zonglian, the chief of staff of the division who is only 21 years old, Shang Dequan can be regarded as relieved, but in fact, there is nothing uneasy about this, most of the high-ranking officers of the new army are military students who were selected and transferred by adults and the instructors of various battalions, and the oldest is only in their thirties, and the few are only fifteen or sixteen years old. And now it's a battalion long.

"Please be careful, sir!"

As the chief of staff, He Zonglian did not prevent the division commander from going to the front line, but just told him that he could not intuitively understand the situation of the battlefield in the rear, and the command headquarters was only a long way away from the front line.

He was in the rear of the battlefield, as soon as he went out, he saw a cloud of black smoke in the sky, which was a smoke ball of grenade explosions, and the Qing army's camp artillery was mainly howitzer shotguns, not at all like the new army, which was dominated by high-explosive bombs.

"Sir, the enemy infantry has been found again in the direction of Shendanbao and Heigoutai!"

The use of field telephones enabled Shang Dequan to understand the situation on the left and right flanks at the first time, and the news from Heigoutai in Shendanbao made Shang Dequan's brows furrow, and his eyes were fixed on the Qing army that had stopped attacking.

"They are firing at Master Li's place, as if to contain us. Zuo Guigui's real purpose should be Shen Danbao or Heigou Terrace, or one of these two ......"

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