109 Fierce battle on the Daling River
Then I heard a "click", the ice where the war horse was located suddenly shattered, the horse plopped and fell into the water, it turned out that the horse's back was carrying more than 150 pounds of shells, and the horse's hooves were so thin, the pressure on the ice surface was extremely strong, so the horse fell into the water first.
The theory of solid mechanics proves that when a solid cracks, the stress near the crack is much greater than in the other parts, and the horse crushes the ice surface that has been damaged by the stress wave, and then the surrounding ice surface crumbles one after another.
The ice surface shattered into a huge ice block, which was stepped on by the people above and stood upright directly on the water surface, and a Japanese soldier above wanted to grab the ice block and not be slid down, where could he catch it, and fell into the water with a "plop", unfortunately, the water under the ice was flowing, and the impact of the current brought him under the ice surface that did not break.
The Japanese soldier instinctively held his breath, but soon his breath was running out, and he desperately slammed into the ice, trying to carve out a hole to expose his head to the water, which exacerbated the lack of oxygen in his body, and soon, suffocation, caused him to lose consciousness and sink like a stone to the bottom of the river.
Some soldiers fell into the water in an instant, many who couldn't swim struggled for a while and sank to the bottom, and some soldiers who could swim tried to catch them, but they were grabbed by the soldiers who were extremely panicked, and they were also taken to the bottom; There are also soldiers who are not very good at water, and if they fall into the water in normal times, they may be fine, but now it is winter, and the soldiers are wearing thick cotton clothes, which are full of water, and they are as heavy as putting on an iron suit for the soldiers, and these soldiers flutter for a while and sink to the bottom.
The water close to the ice was about zero degrees Celsius, which was not too cold to describe as biting, and the sudden cold stimulation caused some soldiers to spasm violently in the gastrocnemius muscles of their legs, and the intense pain made them unable to paddle in the water and sink to the bottom.
The soldiers who did not fall into the water on the surrounding ice wanted to reach the opposite shore quickly, so they involuntarily accelerated their marching speed, so that the ice broke faster, and some soldiers stepped on the ice and fell directly on the ice, the sharp ice edges cut his body fiercely, and blood rushed out unscrupulously.
In a panic, a squadron leader shouted, "Get down." "The pressure is equal to the pressure divided by the contact area, and when the person lies down, the contact area increases, the pressure becomes smaller, and the ice surface is not easy to break.
Many soldiers hurriedly climbed on the ice and crawled towards the opposite shore, when an unsettling vibration sound was heard on the ice.
The Japanese soldiers raised their heads and vaguely saw a group of cavalry on the opposite bank!
It turned out that after intercepting Lin Yuan's telegram, Yuanzhi in the mountains came up with a plan, that is, to let the Japanese army in Jinxian County attract the Qing army on the periphery, and when the reinforcements from Panjin arrived, they immediately joined forces with the outside and carried out a counter-encirclement of the Qing army with the reinforcements, and the Qing army in the mountains was less than 3,000 people, and the combat effectiveness was far inferior to the Japanese army, so once the counter-encirclement was formed, it could quickly annihilate the Qing army, and then capture Jinzhou.
Therefore, the mountain Yuanzhi ordered the Japanese troops in Jinxian not to go out of the city to attack the Qing army, and the telegrams between the Japanese troops in Shenyang, Panjin, and Jinxian were all in Lin Yuan's control, so Lin Yuan ordered that a battalion of 500 Qing cavalry quickly bypass Jinxian and rush to the vicinity of the Daling River to wait for Chen Fei's signal.
As soon as the ice shattered, Chen Fei sent a signal, and the cavalry of the Qing army immediately rushed over.
The 100-meter-wide ice surface, the length of the Japanese army's queue was about 300 meters, and at this time about 100 Japanese troops had already walked across the ice and reached the land, and some Japanese troops remained on the opposite shore and did not walk on the ice.
The first to walk across the ice was the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Brigade under the 18th Wing, and after they found that the ice was broken, Squadron Leader Yamashino thought that the Qing army might have a follow-up force to attack.
Yamashitano ordered the squads to build defensive positions based on the terrain of the riverbank, so two Makqin heavy machine guns were installed on the dirt slope near the riverbank.
In the distance, Yamashita Ye saw the smoke and dust splashed by the Qing cavalry, and experience told him that the Qing cavalry was only 400 meters away from this hillside position, and such a distance would take less than thirty seconds for the cavalry marching at high speed.
Yamashitano immediately gave the order, and the machine gunner was ready, and he knew that when facing the cavalry, it was difficult for the rifle with a relatively slow rate of fire to play a role, and these machine guns with a high rate of fire could give the cavalry the greatest damage.
Suddenly, one of the machine gunners screamed and fell to the side holding his right hand, a bullet broke his right hand, and immediately blood gushed out.
Yamashita Ye couldn't help frowning, the soldiers of the Qing army didn't shoot, where did the bullets come from? But he didn't have time to think about this, because the Qing cavalry was already approaching, and he shouted as fast as he could: "Change one!" But the next Heavy was shot and knocked to the ground.
At this moment, the machine gunner of the other machine gun also fell, and there was a bloody hole in his eyebrows! In this short period of ten seconds, the cavalry of the Qing army was only 100 meters away from the hillside.
The cavalry of the Qing army released their grip on the reins, clamped their legs on the belly of their horses, took off their fast guns from their backs, and hundreds of people raised their muzzles to the top of the hill, and fired a volley at the Japanese troops on the hillside.
At this distance, with so many guns, accurate aiming is no longer meaningful, and a rain of bullets fell on the dirt slope, and the Japanese troops on it fell one piece.
The living Japanese soldiers hurriedly looked for a place to hide, but the dirt slope on the river bank was very empty, and there was no place to hide!
Some of the cavalry of the Qing army continued to shoot at the Japanese soldiers on the hillside, and some turned their guns and began to shoot at the Japanese soldiers who had just climbed ashore like chickens in soup.
Yamashitano drew his katana at his waist, pointed at the rushing cavalry, and shouted, "Shoot!" ”
As soon as the remaining soldiers raised their guns, Yamashita Ye suddenly felt something pass through his chest, and then a sharp pain came, he roared, lowered his head, and saw that there was suddenly a bloody hole in his chest, and he knew that this bullet was definitely not fired by this group of Qing cavalry, but came from another direction, and the bullet that hit the three machine gunners was the same.
He gritted his teeth so that he could not let himself scream in pain, for an army, a commander's injury, especially such a fatal wound, was a devastating blow to morale, and the commander had to hide his injuries as much as possible. Just like when Chu and Han were fighting, Liu Bang was shot in the chest by an arrow but said that he was shot in the toe.
Yamashitano felt difficult to breathe, he knew that the bullet had a cavity effect in his body, and his lungs had been greatly damaged, and soon his consciousness was blurred, and when he was dying, he raised his head and looked at the direction of the bullet, hoping to find the person who killed him, but the direction of the bullet came from was only a dense bush......