Lin Yuan organized those young people who wanted to join the army to do earthwork, the purpose was very simple, to dig out the trenches that were forcing the Japanese army!

This is easy to say, but when you do it, there will be a lot of difficulties.

The first is to dig the soil, in February in Mukden, the average temperature is about minus 10 degrees, this temperature is enough to freeze the moisture in the soil, so the ground is very hard, and the trench dug must be at least as deep as a person's height, because when you get closer to the position of a few hundred meters away from the Japanese trench, the Japanese will not watch you dig towards him, he will do everything to block it.

Machine guns are an excellent choice, and the effective killing range of the Maxim heavy machine gun is more than 1000 meters, so the person who performs the earth work must stand in the trench to effectively avoid casualties.

If you want to dig a deep pit, you can't use a shovel, because the ground is very hard, and when the shovel digs the soil under the shovel, you must first put the edge of the shovel on the ground, step on it with your feet, and dig the soil, so the force is very small, not enough to dig up the hard soil, even if you can dig it, it will consume a lot of physical strength, and it will take time. So, if you want to dig a deep pit, you must use a pickaxe.

The head of the pickaxe is very sharp, it looks like a quadrangular pyramid with a curve, when it is used, it must be picked up, giving it a great falling speed, the pickaxe head smashes on the ground, pierces into the soil, and then people lift it up again, the soil can be loosened, but to dig out a deep pit, the loose soil must be transported away, which requires someone to shovel away the loose soil on the side.

But it was also very dangerous, because the man was very close to the person who took the pickaxe, and if he was touched by the pickaxe, he would be injured at least and killed at worst.

So Lin Yuan came up with a way, the five young people who carried out the earthwork work were organized into a group, one was digging in front with a pickaxe, in order to grab time, this person was required to use all his strength in a short time, and when the strength was exhausted, he would withdraw and rest, and during the rest time, the other two people stepped forward to shovel the soil smashed down into the soil basket and put the soil into the soil basket, such a simple thing, if there is no full support from the people, it is also difficult to do, because any army will not have so many baskets, so, The power of the people's war can be seen from such a small matter as big as a sesame seed.

After putting the soil into the basket, the remaining two people carried the soil away, and there were hundreds of such groups of five, and each group did not work for a long time, but it could ensure that they worked in the best condition, so the Qing army dug the trenches very quickly.

Nogi Noshinori at the head of Panjin City couldn't believe his eyes, in one day, the trenches of the Qing army advanced a thousand meters! Forty longitudinal trenches, like forty vipers with their heads held high and spitting letters, stood before him!

Nogi Noshinori couldn't help but think, "What do the people want to do?" Do you want to dig into our trenches and fight us hand-to-hand? As for this, our samurai of the Great Japanese Empire have never been afraid of anyone! Nogi's self-confidence is not unreasonable, because in this era, the Japanese army paid attention to learning the advanced techniques and tactics of Western armies on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also paid attention to the training of hand-to-hand combat.

But Nogi Noshinori was wrong, the Qing army's trench stopped at a distance of 200 meters from the Japanese trench, and some Japanese troops organized personnel to storm the Qing army's trench, but before they could rush to the front, they were beaten back by the Qing soldiers!

What worries Nogi Noshinori even more is that the food is about to run out! When the Japanese army saw that the food supply was not enough, they began to rob the grain of the people in the city, but Panjin was not large, and the food of the people was quickly robbed. Nogi Noshinori had the intention to lead the troops to withdraw to Liaoyang, but he couldn't get the order of Dashanyan for a long time!

On the battlefield, any sluggishness will pay the price of blood!

On the night when the trenches of the Qing army stopped digging, twenty guards thunder cannons were transported into the trenches, followed by more than a thousand Qing soldiers, at two o'clock in the morning, a red fireworks lit up the sky, and the Qing army's attack began!

The artillery had already calculated in advance to shoot Zhu Yuan, and as soon as the order was given, they poured artillery fire into the Japanese trenches, and for a while, near the Japanese trenches, a group of flames rose into the air, like a giant tree shining with flames, and the pungent smoke of gunpowder shrouded the night with the smell of death.

On the high ground in the distance, Lin Yuan held a telescope in his hand, stared at the situation on the battlefield, and looked at the Japanese soldiers who were suppressed in the trenches and did not dare to show their heads, he couldn't help but feel a burst of relief, because in his history, in the battles between China and Japan, it was always the Chinese who were pressed in the trenches by the Japanese artillery, and they did not even dare to raise their heads, and today, this situation has been reversed!

After the artillery fire, more than a dozen Qing soldiers picked up large knives, threw off their long robes, and charged at the Japanese army with all their strength in the bitterly cold winter night, wearing only a short coat and a pair of single pants!

200 meters, for a well-trained young man, it is not a problem to run in 30 seconds, it is these 30 seconds that will determine the life and death of these dozen soldiers.

Lin Yuan pointed the telescope at them, and he knew that if they rushed into the Japanese trenches, half of the victory would be in hand, the walls of Panjin were low, and the protection came from the three trenches outside the city!

There are only thirty meters left from the trenches! Victory is at hand!

At this moment, a terrifying gunfire rang out in the trenches of the Japanese army, and the dozen or so Qing soldiers were knocked to the ground in an instant!

Lin Yuan suddenly understood that he had made a mistake in this battle, that is, he thought that the Guards Thunder Cannon could cause a lot of damage to the Japanese soldiers in the trenches, but the fact is: the Japanese trenches were very narrow, and the shells that fell outside the trenches rarely landed in the trenches and exploded, and the shells that fell outside the trenches caused very limited damage to the Japanese troops, and the Japanese soldiers also dug hiding holes in the trenches to avoid artillery fire, so this wave of shelling did not cause great damage to the Japanese army!

Lin Yuan didn't have time to regret it, because the Qing army detachment that rushed to attack was defeated by the Japanese army, and the momentum of the entire battlefield was in the hands of the Japanese army in an instant, if he couldn't take measures to save the situation, the development of the war situation would be difficult to control.

At the critical moment, Lin Yuan suddenly thought of a weapon - that is, the explosive bag throwing barrel that showed his skills in Jinzhou City!

Lin Yuan quickly gave the order: transport the explosives package projectile barrel into the trench, and advance the trench where the projectile barrel was about to be placed sixty meters!

At the command of the order, the various units moved nervously.

At this moment, the machine guns on the Japanese position rang out, and when the Japanese army loaded the machine gun shells, they loaded a tracer bullet every five pieces, the so-called tracer bullet is to coat the shell of the warhead with a layer of chemicals that can emit color when burning, such as magnesium, barium, etc., these substances will undergo oxidation reaction in the process of friction with the air, which is commonly known as combustion, and then emit a bright light, which can indicate the direction of the warhead in the dark night.

And the Qing army was not equipped with such tracer bullets, although the machine guns of the Qing army were also returning fire, but in the eyes of ordinary soldiers, there were only Japanese bullets on the entire battlefield!

At this time, twenty explosive cannon projectile barrels were transported into the trenches!