The life and death of the soldiers at the head of the city, the success or failure of the attack and defense of Shenyang, depends on whether the Japanese army can enter the city before the Japanese army takes the city gate back, the cavalry of the Kaizi army is called the Fengzi battalion, the cavalry of the iron army is called the Lei battalion, and the cavalry attacking the city is the elite drawn from these two battalions!

The Japanese troops in other directions of the city fired at the charging Qing cavalry, and constantly people or horses fell, they did not slow down, everyone knew that they would win by rushing through the city gates!

Liu Yufeng originally planned to come down from the city after sending the news and guard the city gate together, but they were soon surrounded, and the Japanese troops outside didn't care that there were Japanese troops between them, so they shot at them, and the city was empty, how could there be a place to hide! Seven or eight fell at once.

Liu Yufeng knew that he had to die if he went on like this, he turned his head, and just caught a glimpse of the platform behind him, as mentioned earlier, the platform was three meters higher than the city wall, when the enemy attacked the city, people could hide in it, and rely on the platform for defense, at this time it just gave Liu Yufeng a great opportunity! Liu Yufeng danced the steel knife, opened a bloody road, and led people into the platform, but in this way, the Japanese counterattack was pressed on the dozen soldiers at the city gate.

The Japanese army in the city also knew that as long as the city gate was taken back, the road could be blocked without closing the gate and a few horses, and the Qing army would not be able to attack the city, so the Japanese army rushed to the Qing army at the gate like crazy.

The marksmanship of the dozen or so Qing soldiers is one of the best, and one shot can knock down a Japanese soldier, but there are too many Japanese soldiers, and they can't hold on, at this time, what people didn't expect was that it was the dozen mule carts that helped!

The Japanese army shot at the mule's side, the mule was frightened, so they scattered and ran away, this run, just crashed into the formation of the Japanese army's impact, the mule pulled dozens of pounds of carts, and then ran, where can people stop it! Several Japanese soldiers could not dodge it, and were hit solidly, falling to the side, unconscious. The mule felt that he had hit something, and his guts were almost frightened, and he ran more happily, and the Japanese soldiers were ruthless, and raised their hands to shoot at the mule, they thought that it would be okay to knock down the mule, but unfortunately they miscalculated, and the cart pulled behind the mule was not upside down!

The nails were scattered, and as soon as the nails landed, they became a big thorn group, and people couldn't go, and when the Qing soldiers saw it, they suddenly came up with an idea, lifted the box that could not be filled with nails around them, lifted the lid, and threw it at the Japanese army.

The nails fell all over the ground like a goddess scattering flowers, several Japanese soldiers were pierced by the nails, screaming in pain, some of the steps were taken out, could not be recovered, were pierced by the nails on the soles of the feet, fell to the ground in pain and screamed, this fell to the ground, but sat on the nails, for a time embarrassed, taking advantage of this period of Japanese army was blocked work, the cavalry of the Qing army rushed to the door.

Liu Yufeng saw his subordinates scattering nails in the city, and shouted angrily: "A group of stupid people, don't you hurt your own people if you scatter nails?" Mu Er said on the side: "Don't worry, such a few nails can't hurt the horseshoe." ”

Liu Yufeng said in his heart: "The nail is made of steel, and it stands on the ground, so go immediately and don't break the hooves." He looked down at the city, and saw the horses rushing into the city and into the pile of devils, unaffected by the nails on the ground. Liu Yufeng asked, "What's going on?" ”

Mu Er smiled: "This nail is not quenched, it is soft, and it can't pierce the iron palm on the horse's hoof." "Quenching" is a heat treatment process that can change the metallographic structure of steel, thereby increasing the hardness. The two of them were still talking, only to hear the sound of "whooshing" wind in their ears, the masonry around them was dusty, Liu Yufeng pulled Mu Er, and instinctively squatted.

Kiji asked, "Why is this bullet coming from behind us?" "It turned out that after Lin Yuan ordered the cavalry to enter the city, he ordered more than a dozen Grimm fast cannons to move in the direction of the city wall, and when the cavalry rushed into the city, the attention of the Japanese troops on the city head turned around, and these Green fast cannons immediately rushed forward, put the city head into their own firing range, and then opened fire together.

The cavalry in the city was divided into three groups, a group to protect the position of the city gate, a group dismounted to attack the city, and the rest raised their guns to shoot at the Japanese troops in the city.

The defenders at the head of the city could not resist, so they could only retreat in the direction of the small north gate, and after the Qing army captured part of the city wall, they relied on the horse face and the platform to build a temporary defensive position, and the rest began to attack the city.

Lin Yuan's style of play was: first to the north to capture the small north gate and the big north gate, and then to the south, to meet the Dingwu army in the south, so after the Qing army entered the city, it launched a fierce attack to the north of the city.

The Japanese troops in the city all knew how strong the city defense of Mukden was, barbed wire, trenches, defensive trenches, machine gun bunkers, non-inverted nails, and tall city walls, which made the Japanese army think: Fengtian is unbreakable! But they never dreamed that the defensive positions on the periphery would be breached overnight, and only two days later, the Qing army entered the city, which made them lose a lot of momentum.

The Qing army was wrapped in the power of breaking the city, and quickly attacked to the north, the battle situation was almost developing in a one-sided direction, the Qing army advanced step by step, the Japanese army retreated in defeat and retreat, and soon attacked the commanding heights of the northwest city, the bell and drum tower.

Many big cities in ancient times have bell and drum towers, bell towers and drum towers are generally separated, used to tell the time or hold major celebrations, the bell and drum towers in Xuzhou even have the function of reporting fire alarms, which direction of fire will ring the bell in which direction, everyone is good to go to fight the fire, but according to the local chronicles, it has not reported a fire alarm, and they were almost burned by the fire.

In urban warfare, the high ground is very important, especially in this era, there are not many buildings and not enough to provide cover, so a few machine guns on the high ground are enough to crush the enemy and not raise his head.

The bell tower and the drum tower of Fengtian City are separated by a street, the east and west face each other, the front is all open ground, the Qing army rushed twice, to no avail, is the attack is in a stalemate, the Japanese army of the small north gate of the reinforcements arrived!

As soon as this new force arrived, the Qing army's attack vanguard was suddenly a little unable to parry, and retreated three streets in a row, fortunately, Yu Lu saw the Fengzi Battalion and the Huozi Battalion who then entered the city, so he stood on his heels, and the news was reported to Lin Yuan's headquarters, Xiong Tiesheng and Wu Yuankai were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, Xiong Tiesheng couldn't wait to go into battle in person!

Lin Yuan didn't panic at all, he didn't seem to care about the battle situation in the city at all, but instead ordered the Dingwu army to launch a feint attack on the outlying positions of the Japanese army in the southwest.

Wu Yuankai asked vigorously on Lin Yuan's side: "Lin Shuai, now the battle situation, success or failure is on the bell and drum tower, if we can't fight, the Japanese army will take advantage of the situation to counterattack, and we will lose all our efforts." ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "General Wu doesn't need to panic, wait, there will be news soon." ”

Before the words fell, only the sound of eager footsteps outside the tent was heard from far and near, and the tent curtain was raised, and the herald did not care about saluting, and said: "The bell and drum tower has been captured!" ”

Xiong Tiesheng hurriedly asked: "Which one is so good at fighting, Lao Tzu has to worship him!" ”

The herald said: "They came up from behind the bell and drum tower, and they copied the back road of the reinforcements from the small north gate. ”