As soon as those vats were brought into the trenches, they began to exert their power.

Through rapid earthwork, the Qing army's trenches advanced a few dozen meters, and the barrels were pushed to the front of the trenches, and as soon as the propellant ignited, the explosive packs were ejected.

For the Japanese army, it was difficult to see that on this dark night, an explosive bag was thrown out, and the huge explosive bag pounced on the Japanese army like a silent death.

The fuse of this explosive package is a fuse, not like many shells that use a trigger fuse, so even if this explosive package falls to the ground, as long as the fuse is not burned, it will not explode, Lin Yuan specially asked the operator to lengthen the fuse, so when the explosive package landed, it did not explode, but the explosive package still moved forward, so the explosive package did not stop, but rolled towards the Japanese trench like a naughty ball.

When the explosive bag fell into the trench, it would not roll anywhere else, so the explosive bag exploded in the Japanese trench, and the huge explosion force blew up the hiding holes dug by the Japanese army, and the Japanese soldiers inside were killed and wounded.

More than a dozen explosive packets were thrown over, and the Japanese defensive firepower was suddenly opened a huge gap, and another group of Qing army death squads rushed forward with machetes.

Lin Yuan found out before that many Qing army commanders like to let the soldiers shout loudly when ordering the soldiers to charge, so as to deter the enemy, this is no problem during the day, but when charging at night, this is to tell the enemy their position and attract bullets for themselves!

Therefore, Lin Yuan specially instructed the generals of the Qing army not to let the soldiers talk during the night battle, to be quiet no matter what they do, and try not to expose themselves!

These dozen Qing soldiers with the intention of dying quickly jumped into the Japanese trench, and one of them swung his knife and cut the head of a Japanese soldier in half the moment he fell into the trench!

Lin Yuan overestimated the role of the Guards Thunder Cannon at first, and similarly, Nogi Noshinori also overestimated the power of the Japanese army's sword technique, the so-called gun sword, which is the name of the bayonet in Japan. The trenches were very narrow, and the Japanese soldiers were more than 170 centimeters long with guns and bayonets, and such a length was inevitably impossible to turn around in the trenches.

In contrast, the machetes of the Qing soldiers had the advantage, when they rushed into the trenches, the Japanese soldiers had to turn the muzzle of the gun to meet the enemy, it was too late to shoot, and they could only use the bayonet on the gun, but when the muzzle of the gun was turned, either the bayonet was stuck on the wall of the trench, or the butt of the gun hit the people around them, and the speed was slowed down, and the head was cut off with the machete of the Qing soldier!

When the Japanese soldiers saw that the rifles with bayonets were too long and could not be turned around in the trenches, they simply unloaded the bayonets from the muzzles and used them as daggers to fight with the Qing soldiers.

These dozen Qing soldiers are carefully selected, all have martial arts roots, in the Chinese martial arts knife technique, when cutting the enemy is not cut at will, because the human skeleton is very hard, and after millions of years of evolution, the skeleton in many parts of the human body has formed a perfect force system, can withstand a lot of impact, once the knife is cut in these places, it is very likely that the blade will collapse or directly stuck on the bone and cannot be pulled out!

But this night, what little of their martial arts foundation was wiped out by the life-and-death battle in the blink of an eye, and all that remained was the instinct to survive, and everyone was trying their best to wield the broadsword, either to be stabbed to death by the enemy, or to cut him down before the enemy's bayonet stabbed him!

There was a Qing soldier's knife cut diagonally from the neck of the Japanese soldier, the muscles and carotid artery were cut into two like a thin piece of paper under the blade, if this soldier is a master of the knife, he will withdraw the knife at this moment, not let the blade touch the collarbone and ribs below, but unfortunately this soldier does not understand this, the huge impact force cut off the collarbone and the first rib under the knife, the knife is not finished, the blade cut through the lung lobe, cut on the sternum, the sternum is the famous hard bone on the human body, the blade is embedded in the knife can not be pulled out! So the soldier simply threw away the knife, picked up the bayonet on the ground, and then fought with the Japanese.

There is also a soldier jumped out of the trench, waved the broadsword, Tarzan pressed the top of the general to a Japanese soldier, the Japanese soldier instinctively raised the rifle to block, the broadsword cut off the barrel, the Japanese soldier's head from the middle of the cut in half, the broadsword can cut the barrel, because the barrel is a thin-walled piece, but it is also very hard steel! Where the blade touched the barrel, how could it withstand such a large force, the steel on the blade suddenly collapsed, and when the soldier cut several Japanese soldiers in a row, the blade was already too bald to be used......

For a while, flesh and blood flew in the trenches, and strange screams were repeated......

The reason why the Qing army was able to prevail also had a great deal to do with food!

On the battlefield, if the Japanese soldiers could not eat the traditional Japanese food - rice, sushi, etc., their combat effectiveness would be reduced, not to mention that these days, many Japanese soldiers have run out of food, they are like a swarm of locusts in Panjin looking for food, eat up the people's grain and run to the fields to find food, some soldiers even boiled the straw burned by the people in winter.

Fighting is already a great drain on physical strength, and the Japanese soldiers can't eat food, so how can they have the strength to wield bayonets and fight desperately with the Qing army!

In fact, the logistics supply of the Qing army is also very poor, and the transportation is not effective, plus many officials in the rear are jealous of Lin Yuan, afraid that he will make a great contribution, and deliberately find an excuse to delay and not deliver food to Lin Yuan, so the food of the Qing soldiers is not much left, but the Qing army has compressed biscuits that Lin Yuan "plagiarized" from the 21st century, which is very convenient to carry and transport, so everyone in the Qing army has a lot of them, and they rely on compressed biscuits to maintain their physical strength in battle.

The death squad opened the gap, and the follow-up large troops poured into the first trench of the Japanese army like a tide, and Nogi Noshinori hurriedly ordered the soldiers of the second trench to go out and recapture the first trench that had been lost.

There were five communication trenches between the two trenches, but the narrow trenches were not enough for many Japanese soldiers to pass, so the Japanese soldiers in the second trench received the order and jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the first trench.

The distance between the two trenches was a hundred meters, and in this open space, the Japanese army cut down the trees and shrubs in order to clear the shooting boundary, which was supposed to carry out their own firepower during the defense, but they did not expect it to become their lifeline at this time, because the Qing army's guard thunder cannon sounded!