Early in the morning, Ding Yuntong got up from the bed, shook his head, and was a little groggy. He raised his eyes to look at the side, Wang Xuehui leaned on the chair next to him and fell asleep.

As the commander of the guards, Wang Xuehui did not wear guard clothes, a water-sleeved gown, black hair, fluttering bangs, cheeks like a red apple, looking extremely charming, but Ding Yuntong knew that there were two pistols under her gown.

In the past few days, Ding Yuntong doesn't know what's going on with him, he always can't sleep well, he must stay by Wang Xuehui's side to squint for a while, in the end, he is still under a lot of psychological pressure.

Japan in the north, Siam in the south, and there is a Blackstone Society by his side, Siam is not enough, Japan and Blackstone are inside and outside, which makes Ding Yuntong nervous and does not dare to be sloppy at all.

Since experiencing Lai Yuying's assassination, Ding Yuntong has paid more attention to his own safety, especially after deciphering Ji Changxing's "password" and mastering the identity of "Wu Dog", he no longer trusts everyone, except Wang Xuehui.

Because logically speaking, Wang Xuehui, as the leader of the personal guards, gets along day and night, and carries weapons, it is easy to kill him, and he is still alive, which shows that Wang Xuehui is trustworthy, and emotionally speaking, Ding Yuntong is also willing to trust her.

Seeing that she was sleeping soundly, Ding Yuntong was reluctant to wake her up, so he quietly put on his clothes and went out. He came to the main hall of the Heart Cultivation Hall and began to read the telegrams sent from the northern and southern battlefields. These were routine reports of the situation, and if it was an urgent telegram, it should be transmitted to the dormitory immediately, no matter how late it was.

Judging by the telegrams, the battle for Pyongyang is about to begin, it will be a battle of unprecedented scale, and the Guards will undoubtedly be put to the test.

But Ding Yuntong has great confidence in his precious army, because the Guards not only have a tenacious will, sophisticated equipment, but also a brand-new concept, and are fully capable of repelling the Japanese attack. He thinks more about the future, whether Japan will land on the Liaodong Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula like in the previous life and attack the hinterland of China, at this point, Ding Yuntong is not sure, this is also why he weishenme put the first, third, fifth, and eighth divisions of the Guards in North China, and did not send them to the northeast.

In the early morning of the 16th, it was a nightmare moment for Major General Michikani Nozu, commander of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army. He had experienced the Sa-British War, the Boshin War, and the Southwest Battlefield, and it can be said that he had experienced a hundred battles and was accustomed to seeing death, but what he saw from the telescope at this moment still made him tremble.

Thousands of Japanese infantry rushed forward along the avenue with shouts, each officer and soldier had a white cloth tied to their heads, and the roars and rumbling footsteps were like thunder, and the Japanese army firmly believed that under such a huge momentum, any defense would be crushed like a devastation.

But when approaching a distance of about 400 meters to the Chinese position, a huge metal storm suddenly swept towards it without warning.

More than 30 37mm five-barreled machine guns played a terrifying symphony of death, and the hundreds of Japanese infantry who rushed in front hysterically were like paper paste, and were torn to pieces in an instant by projectiles weighing 1.1 kilograms. Such a scene immediately made the Japanese troops behind lose their courage, and their fanatical minds were like being poured from their heads by a basin of ice water, and they involuntarily retreated.

For the first time in his life, Nozu Michikani saw such a tragic scene, the Chinese actually concentrated on the large-scale use of machine guns, and the surging firepower was really unheard of, this was not a battle, it was a massacre, it was a harvest. He had to order the troops to retreat and suspend the offensive.

Subsequently, the Japanese changed their tactics, abandoned the central breakthrough, and divided their forces to launch an assault on the fortress groups on the left and right sides of the avenue, but a large number of infantry of the Guards were gathered on both sides, and the fire of Mauser guns and field guns was equally fierce, and the Japanese attack was quickly disintegrated.

The fierce battle here was only a prelude, and at the same time, the Japanese Sixth Division was also storming Peony Terrace from the northeast.

Peony Peak is a high ground in the Pyongyang area, from which you can overlook the entire city of Pyongyang, so it has also become a main direction of attack for the Japanese army.

The Japanese army first used 70mm field guns to continuously bombard the fortress on the Peony Platform, but the Japanese artillery fire was limited and could only destroy some small fortresses, but could not damage several large core fortresses.

The construction of these forts is similar to the Mawei Fort, and the building materials are made of ash, sand, and soil mixed with glutinous rice pulp, which can only be blown up by heavy artillery, while the light bronze cannons of the Japanese army can only leave white marks on them.

The artillery on the Chinese positions also continued to counterattack, and the guns and cannons on both sides were extremely blazing, and the smoke of gunpowder mixed with the morning fog, making it difficult to distinguish things almost as far as a stone's throw away.

Under the cover of this confusion, the Japanese army dispatched a large number of sappers and began to clear the mines in front of the Peony Peak.

The Japanese General Staff Headquarters carefully studied the Sino-French war and held that the French army's offensive was ineffective mainly because of the obstruction of landmines, so it imported a large amount of mine-clearing equipment from before the war. In addition to the general mine detection rods and rods, a large number of the latest mine detectors were specially imported from Germany.

The so-called mine detector is composed of a large box and a mine detection circle, the box is carried by the sapper, and a small motor is loaded inside, and the mine detection circle is actually an inductive coil with a magnetic core, after being energized, a small magnetic field will be formed. At this time, the mines are all made of iron, and when the mine detector approaches, the metal will interfere with the magnetic field and make a subtle noise.

The Japanese sappers were all strictly trained and very skilled, and more than 200 people worked together, and after half an hour, the smoke cleared, and the sappers had raised thousands of mines and cleared a large area of safe passage.

Subsequently, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on Peony Terrace.

The 6th Division, also known as the Kumamoto Division, was mainly composed of poor peasants from Kyushu Island, and serving as a soldier was a very important way out for the locals. The people have always been strong, barbaric and ferocious, brutal and ruthless, so there is a saying in Japan: the first Japanese soldier in the world, and the first Japanese Kyushu soldier.

This army had inflicted heavy losses on the Su Yuanchun Brigade on the Han River and carried out the massacre of Seoul, and it had long been bloodthirsty and arrogant. At this time, he rushed along the hillside to the peony platform, screaming wildly, densely like a large wild boar in estrus, and his round eyes came up with red eyes.

Guarding the Peony Terrace was the 3,000 Guards commanded by the brigade commander Chen Jia, and at this time it was also unequivocal, relying on the fortress and using fierce fire to continuously kill and injure the opponent. The Japanese attacking troops were exposed to the open ground in front of the fortifications, without cover, and suffered heavy casualties. Taro Saito, an officer of the Japanese Inspectorate, ordered "I'd rather die than retreat", brandishing his saber to drive away the soldiers, and constantly desperately attacking.

At this time, Kato Masaya with the remnants of the Takashima Brigade of more than 1,000 people, joined the attack, the Japanese infantry attacked the Peony Platform from three sides, a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed, the corpses filled the trench, and the troops finally rushed to the front of the Peony Terrace. Waeling a katana and shouting "All Assault", Taro Saito Nakasa was the first to jump onto the peony platform.

At this moment, a 78mm field artillery shell hit him directly, and it turned out that he actually jumped in front of the battery on the peony platform, and this time he really hit the muzzle, and with a bang, he was immediately beaten into powder, and only a piece of meat the size of a copper coin was left in place.

At this time, a thousand reinforcements sent by Jin Shun also rushed to the peony platform, and a row of guns immediately beat dozens of Japanese soldiers who rushed the most fiercely into a sieve, which greatly boosted the morale of the defenders, and the Japanese army immediately hesitated and retreated.

Seeing that the army's heart was available, Chen Jia led the guards to immediately launch a counter-charge, condescendingly rushing towards the enemy.

The spirit of counter-charging in a positional position often brings a huge psychological burden to the attacking side, so that the enemy does not dare to get too close to our army's position. For example, in the Korean War, in the Cheorwon Blockade Battle of the 63rd Army of the Volunteer Army, there was only one battalion of the 559th Regiment of the 187th Division, and when there were only 100 people left, they dared to take the initiative to launch a counter-charge against a reinforced battalion of the 3rd Division of the attacking US Army. Since then, the pace of the US offensive has slowed down significantly, and it has always been repeatedly hovering 150 meters in front of our position, which shows the great psychological effect!

The fierce onslaught caught the Japanese by surprise and had to retreat. The commander of the division, Major General Gu Gancheng, was so angry that he jumped to his feet, he once held on to Kumamoto in the Southwest War, so that the rebels of Saigo Takamori were helpless, and he had always been known for his bravery and good fighting in the Japanese army, but today he kicked the iron plate, his head touched Nanshan, and he was stunned and could not rush to the Peony Terrace.

Akiyama Yoshiko, who was next to him, had experience in fighting the Guards, and thought that such a frontal charge would cause too many casualties and was not the best policy, so he suggested stopping the attack first and thinking about other countermeasures. This made Gu Gancheng, who prides himself on his bravery, very unhappy, and felt that this was purely cowardice and weakness, and it was a loss of the bushido spirit of the imperial army

His indignation also inspired his subordinates: "I am now leading my troops to fight the enemy thousands of miles away, if I can't trap this mountain, what face will I return to my emperor Bixia?" I am determined that in today's battle, I will raise the whole army to advance to the mountain, brave the enemy's bullets, and climb the chest wall. Victory or defeat in one fell swoop! Our army is fortunate to be trapped in the mountain, and I am willing to do it; If I fail, I will be buried at the bottom of the mountain! ”

Subsequently, Gu Gancheng personally led the reserve to join the attack, and gathered tens of thousands of people at the foot of the mountain, all of whom were loaded with bayonets, gritting their teeth and opening their eyes with anger!

With the sound of the trumpet, the Japanese army launched a general attack, tens of thousands of people shouted the slogan of "broken jade", surging like waves, Gugancheng shouted "Long live the imperial country", and led the army to rush to the peony platform.

The Japanese are going to fight hard.