Lin Yuan's order was: "Wu Yuankai's cavalry troops attacked from the gap and the west gate at the same time to attack the cavalry troops of Akiyama Haogu."

So Wu Yuankai's cavalry troops were divided into two routes, one with more than 100 people attacking from the gap, and the other with more than 900 people attacking from the west gate to attack the cavalry of Akiyama Haogu.

Wu Yuankai's cavalry was in the center of the city, and the distance from the city walls was about the same, so it took less than ten minutes to reach the gap, and during this time, the Japanese cavalry outside the city was in a state of dilemma.

Akiyama Yoshigu is notoriously cautious and cautious in the first division, he doesn't know what strange weapons the Qing army has used, he has never heard the huge explosion, can produce such an explosive shell, I am afraid that it will take a large caliber artillery to fire, does the Qing army really have such a weapon?

However, Akiyama was reluctant to give the order to retreat, so he was so deadlocked, the commander was undecided, and the soldiers below didn't know what to do? Although they were not artillerymen, they knew the power of the huge explosion, and they had even begun to imagine that a large number of nightmare heavy artillery was about to be launched in the city to bombard them.

Ten minutes passed quickly, and when the cavalry of the Qing army reached the gap, there were already Qing soldiers who had set up planks on the slope of the gap, and the cavalry of the Qing army rushed up the planks and fought out of the city through the gap.

The cavalry of the Qing army used the short-barreled Mauser 1871 rifle, which was also known as the horse pistol, which shortened the barrel to make it more suitable for cavalry.

The first Qing soldier who rushed out fired at the Japanese cavalry group, but he didn't aim at all, because the Japanese army was piled up near the gap, so these shots still hit a few Japanese soldiers, and the cavalry at the front of the Japanese army was less than fifty meters away from the gap.

The Qing soldier threw his gun on his back, took off his mace from the saddle bridge, and rushed into the Japanese camp without blinking an eye.

There are no spikes like wolf teeth on the mace, if the sharp spikes are installed on the stick, the processing process is too complicated, which is not conducive to mass production, and the spikes on it are easy to stab horses, and most importantly: these spikes may get stuck in the enemy's bones, which is not good on the battlefield.

So the thorns on the mace are just raised iron bumps, such a weapon completely relies on the kinetic energy of the swing to kill and injure the enemy, the effect of force is mutual, you hit others, others are also hitting you, so when this mace smashes on the opponent, it is also a big test for the user's arm.

Therefore, the mace of the Qing army is equipped with a glove-like thing, and the Qing soldier puts his hand into it, and the glove is like a lock to connect the hand with the mace, and the experienced soldier can release his hand at the moment when the mace hits the opponent, which can reduce the vibration, and the glove can prevent the weapon from falling at this moment.

With the increase in the rate of fire of automatic weapons, cavalry is already a sunset arm in this era, and only the Qing court still holds the creed of "cavalry and archery is the foundation of the country, and it cannot be abandoned" to develop cavalry weapons.

It really corresponds to the old Chinese saying, "the ruler is short, the inch is long", in today's dark night melee, the Qing army's cold weapons unknowingly, the advantage is exhausted!

The cavalryman slammed his right arm, and the mace hung on the wind, and smashed into the Japanese soldier in front, the Japanese soldier saw a cavalry rushing out of the firelight, and thought it was his own people, and when he saw that it was the enemy, the mace was also in front of him, he instinctively raised the rifle in his hand to block, and with a "click", the rifle was smashed in two.

The mace smashed into the face of the Japanese soldier with the debris falling from the barrel of the gun, and his head was carried backwards by the mace, and his cervical vertebrae could not withstand the huge speed, and broke into two with a click, and the Japanese soldier fell under the horse before he could scream.

The Qing soldier did not accept it, but took advantage of the castration of the mace to slap it around his head, and threw it at another Japanese soldier again. Never seen before! He didn't raise his gun to shoot, he threw the gun directly at the Qing soldiers, and casually drew the saber on his waist.

The Japanese soldier figured it out: when the Qing soldier saw the gun thrown at the door, he would inevitably resist with a stick, and with this effort, he would be able to draw his knife and shoot back, but the Qing soldier was very fierce, and he didn't dodge or dodge in the face of the flying gun, allowing it to cut a big hole in his face, and smashed the Japanese soldier off his horse with a stick......

There were more and more Qing soldiers in the back, and the two sides immediately launched a white-knuckle battle, and the numerical advantage of the Japanese army could not be brought into play at all, because the people behind were blocked by the people in front of them in terms of vision and shooting angle, and even some Japanese soldiers did not know what was happening in front of them.

After fifteen minutes of scuffle, more than 900 cavalry of the Qing army arrived, and Wu Yuankai simply ordered the cavalry to detour to the two flanks of the Japanese army, wanting to encircle the Japanese army in one fell swoop.

A fire set by the Japanese engineering detachment not only allowed the Japanese army to see the location of the gap clearly, but also allowed the Qing army in the city to see the number of Japanese soldiers clearly, but for the Japanese army, the Qing soldiers were like a group of devils emerging from the darkness, and they didn't know how many roads there were.

Akiyama Yoshiko then ordered a retreat.

There is a fundamental difference between retreat and rout, and when a well-trained army retreats, it will inevitably leave the elite troops behind to prevent the other side from pursuing. The Japanese army was the same, when they heard the order to retreat, they immediately organized a detachment to suppress the opponent, and the Qing army was under the fire of the opponent, and it was not easy to continue the pursuit, so they organized a fire counterattack on the spot.

When he walked with the station, he suddenly heard the sound of gunfire behind the Japanese army, and a sparkling torch in the darkness pressed up like a sea of fire, and Akiyama couldn't help but panic in his heart, because he could see clearly that it was the cavalry unit of the Qing army that pounced up!

The reason why Lin Yuan ordered Wu Yuankai to attack instead of Xiong Tiesheng was because of his deep meaning, he had already seen that this Xiong Tiesheng had never suffered defeat by relying on himself, so he felt that he was superior to Wu Yuankai and was the first in everything. Moreover, this Xiong Tiesheng is warlike, and he shouts every day to go out of the city to clean up the Japanese army.

Lin Yuan had a plan to let Wu Yuankai go out of the city to attack, and sure enough, this order made Xiong Tiesheng full of anger, he found Lin Yuan, and said angrily: "Lord Lin, how can you let that defeated general go out of the city to meet the enemy!" ”

Lin Yuan deliberately ignored him, beckoned people to deploy city defenses, and looked very busy, estimating that Wu Yuankai was going to fight the Japanese army, so he said: "Isn't this worried that Lord Xiong is in danger in front of the devil?" ”

Xiong Tie was so angry that his face turned purple, and he said angrily: "Are you saying that I am not as good as Wu Yuankai?" ”

Lin Yuan saw that the method of agitating the generals had been completed, so he said: "Then ask General Xiong to go out of the city from the south gate and attack the Japanese army at the gap." ”

Xiong Tiesheng held back his strength to compete with Wu Yuankai, and rushed to take the order, went out of the city from the south gate, and just happened to meet the retreating Japanese army, the Japanese army saw the ambush, and the retreat suddenly turned into a rout, and the Qing cavalry rushed towards the position where Nogi Xidian was.