In the early morning fog, Japanese soldiers wearing black military uniforms, white cloth leggings, cowhide cross-slanted shoulder straps, and carrying Murata Ichihachi rifles lined up in the most standard dense attack formation, surging forward all over the mountains and fields like a swarm of rats during a rat plague.

But fortunately, they have had a painful lesson before, although they are still in a dense formation, but they have somewhat distanced, after all, no one can stand the tragedy of a bullet stringing two people.

Thus began their death charge of the six thousand Japanese troops.

The first thing to greet them was naturally the artillery shells, the current artillery of the Qing army, the technique is already very mature, and the attack is clearly layered, the longest-range Krupp 75 elements battalion gun and the Bofors version of the 82 mortar are the first to attack, the shells filled with nitrocellulose and antimony and antimony are constantly whistling at a rate of hundreds of rounds per minute, and then explode in the Japanese army, and countless fragmented corpses are flying all over the sky in the firelight.

As the distance between the Japanese army narrowed, other small-caliber artillery and the Hanyang Gun Factory version of the 82 mortar began to join the shelling, although these artillery guns had a short range, but they had a terrifying number, Zhang Gaoyuan had to have hundreds here, and the sufficient supply of shells made the artillery almost shoot the rate of fire of rifles, especially those Ha Qi Kaisi Tube Cannons, five barrels bundled together, spraying the flames of death outward at a rate of sixty rounds per minute, and the dense shells often even did not explode to directly break the Japanese soldiers into two pieces.

Lieutenant General Michikani Nozu still looked at the soldiers who were overwhelmed by the flames of the shell explosion with a resolute expression, but the saber in his hand trembled a little.

The loyal and brave warriors under His Majesty the Emperor, with the grief and indignation of humiliation, and the longing for wealth, women, or being able to eat well, ignored the cannonballs falling around them and the flesh and blood of their companions splashed on their faces, and charged forward without hesitation in the slogan of Banzhi, and at the same time carefully aimed and shot with the rifles in their hands, trying not to waste precious bullets, but their shooting was basically useless, Zhang Gaoyuan was almost vomiting blood by the proportion of those 4,000 bullets to destroy an enemy, and there was no order before the war to order anyone who dared to shoot on the spot. So at this time, the Qing soldiers hid in the trenches and did not show their heads.

At the same time as the Japanese infantry charged, the bronze field guns and mountain guns on the artillery positions in their rear were also using the maximum speed they could reach, constantly firing at the Qing army positions in front, especially the wire and wooden stakes in front of which according to the spies in Tianjin belonged to the new weapons, to be honest, Nozu Daoguan directly ignored this thing, and he had not seen the barbed wire, and it would be a pure joke to say that this thing could be used in battle, looking at the barbed wire that had been blown up in a mess from the telescope, he had a little smile on his face.

Of course, his smile quickly froze, because he saw the black torrent in the charge, which suddenly stopped like a rock on the coast, and the soldiers behind didn't even have time to react before they crashed into the soldiers in front, and the six thousand Japanese troops were crowded in front of the barbed wire, and the shells that kept exploding in the middle of them immediately magnified the killing effect to the limit.

"Run, bastard! That's barbed wire, not a wall!" Nozu Michikani brandished his saber in the distance and roared angrily, and the whole person seemed to be crazy.

He was right, it was barbed wire, not a wall, and if it was a wall, it would be easy to do, but if it was a barbed wire array that was entangled and intertwined by shells and more than 50 meters deep, unless the tanks were driven, there was absolutely no hope of passing, and the dense Japanese soldiers were struggling in those vicious iron thorns, as if they were stuck in the mire.

And at this time, the real hell began, with the sharp sound of the Western trumpet, on the opposite side of the Qing army's position, suddenly spewed out countless bullets, and the Japanese troops crowded in front of the barbed wire were like suddenly collapsing ground, and a large area collapsed in front of the black attack group.

The killing continued, the Japanese army at this time was completely a pile of lambs waiting to be killed, thousands of soldiers were falling at a terrifying speed, blood on the ground even began to converge into a stream, corpses piled up, a pair of godless eyes were dead, this small area became a real meat grinder, the surviving Japanese soldiers struggled in blood and fire at a loss, and then waited for their destined destination, the dead bodies accumulated more and more, and even some places had blocked the range of machine gun fire at the end of the day.

At this time, not to mention the Japanese army, even the Qing army machine gunners in the fortress were frightened by the killing they made, and the gunfire in several fortresses even began to weaken, but fortunately, there were a sufficient number of shooters in it, and they were all equipped with officers who supervised the battle.

At the same time, those infantry lying in the trenches are also causing death at a speed that is not inferior to machine guns, and the current Japanese army is completely a group of live targets, not to mention aiming, even with their eyes closed, only to put the muzzle flat, pull the trigger is a result, watching the enemy fall under their guns one by one, these Qing soldiers are also gradually maturing, like the previous aimless waste of bullets will never appear again, now they can already know where it is easier to hit the road aiming.

In the distance, Nozu Michikani was already sitting on the ground in despair, his attack failed again, and the courage of the Japanese army, which was finally inspired, has now collapsed again, although there has not been a rout, but it is impossible to attack again, the remaining soldiers are lying behind the corpses of their comrades trembling, and some are shooting at the Qing army.

At the same time that the Qing army is growing, these Japanese troops are also growing, they know that they are fleeing in this situation, and they are absolutely not lying in place for safety, of course, this kind of safety is only relative, this distance is behind the Qing army's defense line, the best attack distance for those self-produced mortars of the Hanyang Gun Factory, these 82 mortars with a maximum range of only two kilometers are all hidden in hidden bunkers, and even the muzzles are not exposed.

In addition to mortars, other direct-aim artillery all over the position is also constantly pouring shells into the Japanese army, as for those long-range Krupp guns and Bofors version of mortars, they began to turn their targets to the Japanese artillery, the range of the Krupp gun is slightly higher than that of the Japanese bronze gun, the Bofors mortar is almost the same as it, but it is better than concealment, the advantage of the Japanese army is that the artillery is more accurate, and the artillery battle between the two sides can be said to be evenly matched, but the problem is that both sides are not at the same level at all in terms of number and rate of fire, As a result, it didn't take long for the two dozen mountain cannons and field cannons in Nozu Michiguan's hands to stop moving.

At this time, Nozu Daoguan could no longer hold on, although he claimed to use the corpses of soldiers to fill in the Qing army's defense line, but that was just talking, and his soldiers could not reach the Qing army's defense line at all, and there was no point in fighting again, so the remnants of less than 3,000 Japanese troops finally heard the call to retreat.

At the same time that Nozu Michikan was unlucky, the Japanese troops in the other two places also suffered heavy losses, more than 1,000 of Oshima Yoshimasa's subordinates hung on the barbed wire in front of Nie Shicheng's position, and half of the Japanese army in another place that was restraining the attack also hung more than 500 people on it, but in this battle, they were counted with brilliant results.

Because when the dazed Xu Bangdao retreated, he actually personally commanded his subordinates to chase and kill the enemy, but the Japanese army who was forced to a dead end turned around and shot accurately, and beat back the Qing army that was blocked by their own barbed wire, and in just a short period of time, Xu Bangdao lost more than 200, more than Zhang Gaoyuan on the main battlefield.

This also poured cold water on the other three generals, and those who were originally eager to launch a counteroffensive immediately shut up, obviously with the combat effectiveness of their soldiers, if there was no protection from trenches and barbed wire, it is estimated that the end of going out to the field is not much better than attacking their own Japanese army.

Besides, this style of play is very good now, just wait comfortably for the Japanese army to die, anyway, they can't get around here anyway.

The windfall on the southern front also put Nozu Michikan, who was already ready to run, at ease, knowing that all his current troops add up to only six thousand, not to mention attacking, even defense is very dangerous, but since the Qing army's attack power is so weak, there is no need to run away, the two sides continue to stalemate, and wait for the first division to arrive.

At this time, the 1st Division was already heading north along the Luodong River by boat, and on the same day, Song Qing and Liu Shengxiu of the Northern Front also arrived in Anzhou.

After receiving the good news sent back by Ashan, Li Er's devil was happy but also had a headache, so it is impossible to only defend and not attack in any case, but if it is attacked, with the current combat effectiveness of the Qing army, it is estimated that there is no four or five times the strength of the troops, and it is absolutely not enough for the Japanese army to clean up. But where do you want four or five times the number of troops to come from, and now you are already stretched, you can't send those green battalions with zero combat effectiveness, and the only way now is to continue to recruit troops.

"We have to recruit troops again, and we have to recruit at least forty battalions, is it so difficult for a small country to deal with? The older this Li Hongzhang gets, the less courageous he becomes, and he has to reuse Liu Mingchuan, I really don't know what to do with that bandit? Cixi didn't know what Lu Dao was during this time, and her mood had not been very good, and there were more than a dozen palace maids and eunuchs who were killed with a cane, looking at Li Hongzhang's request to reactivate Liu Mingchuan's recital.

"Lafayette, what about this movement?" Shi Duo hurriedly said.

"Forget it, now when the war is going on, let him be, and send a message to Iktang, don't let people laugh at our lack of heroes in Manchuria." Cixi said with a sneer.