Nogi Noshinori, who was in the command position in the distance, glanced at Imazu Takanori with disdain, and his eyes clearly said: "See, the Qing army has long been scared away!" ”

Jinjin Xiao thought to himself: "It seems that I am really worried, even if the Qing army has changed a commander, but the cowardice of the people of China has dissolved into the bones, what can Lin Yuan do!" ”

The Japanese soldiers were getting closer and closer to the city gate, Nogi Noshinori smiled, he was already thinking about the celebration banquet, countless reporters surrounded him, and the magnesium lights kept flashing...... The reporters who accompanied the army would invite him to take a group photo at the gate of the city, and the next day, the photo would be published in the "Osaka Asahi Shimbun" (now the Japanese "Asahi Shimbun", one of the three largest newspapers in Japan), and those photographers with the army would also ask the soldiers to make a look of climbing the city wall, and then they would take pictures to promote the bravery of the Imperial Japanese Army, just like they did in Jinzhou and Dalian!

Just when Nogi Noshinori's dream was about to come true, that is, when the Japanese army running in the front was less than 20 meters away from the city gate, the sound of "da-da-da" suddenly came from the open city gate!

It was the nightmare of every soldier on the battlefield - the sound of the Maxim heavy machine gun!

An 11.43mm bullet, at a distance of 20 meters, is enough to break a person into a mess of minced meat!

As mentioned earlier, the Japanese army attacked the city gate with a storm troop of 20 people, which was not a small number, which could ensure flexibility after entering Jinzhou City; There are also no less, at least it is possible to form a numerical superiority locally and create conditions for large troops to enter the city. Don't look at the five thousand defenders, but they can't all be piled up at the gates!

At such a close distance, the Japanese soldiers who attacked did not even have time to shoot, and soon the first and second groups of Japanese troops who attacked all fell in front of the city gate, which was only about five meters wide, such a width was blocked by the Japanese soldiers, and it was impossible for the Japanese machine guns behind to support, because as long as they fired, they would hit their own people.

Looking closely at the spirit of bushido, almost every sentence is full of "death means glory", so the Japanese army is famous for not being afraid of death when fighting, but the Japanese army is not stupid, the third batch and the follow-up Japanese army saw the machine gun of the Qing army in the city gate, and knew that rushing up could only be a dead end, so they retreated.

Nogi Noshinori scolded "Yaga" (the meaning of "bastard" in Japanese, which is quite a vulgar term), I have to say that Nogi Noshinori's style of play is correct, and his judgment of the Qing army is also correct, but he forgot that the current commander in the city is Lin Yuan, an excellent officer from China in the 21st century.

Lin Yuan knew that the Japanese loved to attack the city at about two o'clock in the morning, when people were most tired, so he came up with a method, that is, every day, at least half of the soldiers have to go to sleep, people are not some animals, it is impossible to sleep 24 hours a day, sleep for a day, and it is strange to want to sleep at night.

But during the day, it is not easy for people to fall asleep, so Lin Yuan came up with a way to let people cover the windows of the barracks with black cloth, and then burn the fire wall warmly, and then make something good for the soldiers on duty at night to eat, so that the soldiers who are full of food and drink will run to the warm black room, and what else can they do without sleeping, so there are energetic Qing soldiers on duty every night.

As for when the Japanese army began to bombard, the Qing army did not return fire, it was also Lin Yuan's idea, Jinzhou is a military town on the Songliao Plain, and has always been the gateway to Beijing, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty had repeatedly fought with the Ming Dynasty in this area before entering the customs, so the city wall of Jinzhou City is high and thick, Lin Yuan carefully studied the performance of the Japanese artillery, and knew that it was difficult for their artillery to break through the city wall of Jinzhou, so it was expected that they would definitely bombard the city gate.

So Lin Yuan ordered that when the Japanese bombarded, they should not counterattack first, and when the Japanese bombarded the city gate and rushed into the city, they would be attacked with machine guns.

In fact, it doesn't matter if the Japanese army rushes into the city gate, Jinzhou City has two layers of city walls, one is the outer wall, which is the city wall that the Japanese army is attacking now, and the other layer is the inner wall, between the inner and outer walls is a large open space, when there is no war, here is a small market for businessmen to sell things, once the war starts, this place will become a slaughterhouse to kill the enemy.

In fact, Lin Yuan could also put a lot of Japanese soldiers between the inner and outer cities, and then attack them from both sides, but he didn't dare to do this, because he was still not very at ease with these Qing soldiers, for fear that they would hear about it: "The Japanese army has entered the city!" So he threw down his gun and fled.

Nogi Noshinori sneered and thought, "This opponent is good, it's interesting to fight such a battle!" ”

So Nogi Noshinori ordered the artillery to bombard the city, and the infantry was ready to attack the city at any time.

On the other hand, many Japanese soldiers have begun to pile up sandbags, their purpose is to pile up a pile of sandbags about the same height as the city wall, and then set up machine guns on it, and use it to suppress the fire of the defenders at the head of the city.

Xiong Tiesheng, who was commanding at the head of the city, saw the tricks of the Japanese army at a glance, so he ordered his subordinates to shoot at the sandbag position of the Japanese army, which was almost more than two kilometers away from the city, although the range had exceeded the Mauser 1871 rifle and Makqin heavy machine gun equipped by the Qing army, but the Qing soldiers were condescending, and there were still many bullets flying above the heads of the Japanese army, so the speed of the Japanese army's sandbags was also slowed down.

Imatsu Takashi knew that Lu Dao was now absolutely not allowed to give orders to attack the city, because there were many defenders on the city, and there were a few fortress guns, although these fortress guns were front-loading smoothbore guns, and the red-coated cannons of the Ming Dynasty were not much different, although they were ancient and the process was near, but the iron sand flying out of the huge cannon mouth was a sharp weapon to kill and injure the siege infantry.

Imatsu Takashi couldn't help but look at Nogi Noshinori worriedly, although there was a disagreement between them, but when facing the Qing army, the position was still very consistent, he knew that Nogi Noshinori's temperament was stubborn, for fear that he would order a forcible siege, in that case, the casualties would be large.

But Nogi Noshinori looked at the battlefield leisurely, looking unhurried, as if everything was under his control, it turned out that Nogi Noshinori had already had a clever plan to break the city in his heart.

The east gate was in full swing, and by the dark night, a team of nearly a hundred people, everyone in this team was dressed in black robes, and by the dark night, quietly touched the root of the city wall between the south gate and the west gate.

The city wall with a circumference of more than 20 kilometers cannot be guarded by people at every point, because then the troops will be insufficient, so the Qing army can only deploy heavy troops at a few key points, and in other places, they have to send people to patrol, once they find that the Japanese army has an attempt to attack the city in other places, the rest of the people will immediately rush to prevent the Japanese army from attacking the city.

On this cloudy night, the patrol at the head of the city failed to spot the Japanese detachment that had sneaked up. In the hands of the Japanese soldiers, they all held sapper shovels and carried a huge burden on their backs, Lin Yuan had proposed the method of pouring water on the city wall to freeze, and the water flowed to the ground, and a layer of ice was formed on the ground, if they used shovels to chisel the ice, the sound would attract others.

I saw them take a big kettle from their backs, and when the lid of the kettle was opened, there was a burst of white vapor coming out of it, and it turned out that the pot was full of hot water, and they poured hot water on the ice, and the ice was very open, and they took advantage of this opportunity to shovel away the ice that had melted into water, and began to dig the ground, and soon dug a big hole in the ground near the root of the wall.

Then they put the explosives they were carrying on their backs, drew out the fuse, knocked down the safety wire, lit the fuse, and the sound of "bang" was gone, and the earth-shattering explosion resounded in the night sky.

Nogi Noshinori at the east gate could not have heard the explosion, because the battlefield was so noisy, but a herald rode a fast horse and reported: "The wall between the south gate and the west gate has exploded a big hole!" ”