After the destruction of Oshima Yoshimasa's main force, the remaining direction of attack was naturally Takeda's partial division. After leaving some people to clean up the battlefield, Nie Shicheng immediately led the main force of about 3,000 people to Jialongli Village. And Takeda is also depressed now, after realizing that the village opposite is not something he can capture, he decided to immediately abandon the original battle plan and lead his troops to move closer to the main force. As a result, he and Nie Shicheng's support troops happened to go against each other. Neither side expected this, and an encounter broke out unexpectedly.

Nie Shicheng's vanguard was a company of the Chinese assault battalion and half a battalion of the old Beiyang army, about 400 people, while the Japanese forward was slightly smaller. This is the first encounter between the two sides since the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the first white-knuckle battle, whether it is the Chinese, or the old Beiyang army, or the Japanese army, after a short round of fire, they entered a close hand-to-hand combat. And at this time, the difference in the training level and the will to resist of the two sides is fully apparent. Relatively speaking, the Japanese army inherited the French in the technique of fighting bayonets, and the French were known as the invincible army of European bayonets. And the tactical coordination is very good, 3 back-to-back Japanese troops can completely block the attack of 5 to 6 Beiyang old troops, and although the stabbing skills in the old army are barely qualified, they have not received special coordination training. You must know that this bayonet is not based on personal skills. The so-called masters could not be stopped under the repeated attacks of 3 bayonets. And the old army had little experience in coordination. In this way, when the number of people is equal, the Japanese army's group tactics began to gradually show their superiority. And the old army, which was not strong in resistance, obviously lost morale when they realized that the other side was a hard bone, and was stimulated by bright bayonets and splashes of blood. The whole battle has evolved from a lack of support to a rout. But on the other side, in the face of the Chinese pioneer battalion composed of former Chinese armed men with rich experience in street fighting and group fighting, the Japanese army understood for the first time that it was still played like this in close combat!! There is such a sentence on Xu Jie's plane, which is called hooligans know martial arts, and the police can't stop it. What's more, this group of Chinese with such rich experience in group fighting still have pistols in their hands! As a former gang member of Peng Haifeng, no one is still worthy of a pistol, and in Nanyang, they have no less fights with local natives with balemon knives. At least in terms of actual combat experience and mental endurance, it is obviously much stronger than those soldiers of the Japanese army who have never cut people. In addition, he has received rigorous training and has experience in cooperation since Nanyang. And most of them are subordinate soldiers, which also has an absolute advantage in cooperation.

When the two sides were fighting, the Japanese army was injured by mistake in order to prevent rifle bullets from penetrating too much at close range. So people honestly put the bullets back. Then he howled and rushed up. And the Chinese over there, how to say, also threw away the rifle very honestly?! That's right, you read that right, most of the Chinese threw away their rifles and took out all kinds of melee weapons that they had prepared privately, from broadswords, sabers, balem knives and even scimitars. And the other hand, holding an 1889-style combat pistol designed by Xu Jie or a self-defense pistol! The Japanese charged, bayonets like a forest, shining in the cold light of the sun. And the blue roasted blue of the combat pistols in the hands of the Chinese armed men who rushed to the first row shimmered in the sunlight. And this batch of pistols is still a repeating gun with a fast and slow machine after Xu Jie's improvement! In the Beiyang Arsenal it was called the MK2 version of the 1889 combat pistol! It's an internal version! Not for sale! You can't buy it in Europe either! With less than 50 meters to go, the two sides are already fighting each other, a situation that anyone with a brain can imagine. A rain of bullets from a wave of chopping instantly extinguished the Japanese army's passion for fighting bayonets! , a salvo of at least 20 combat pistols of the 1889 style MK2 version in the first row. With 20 rounds per gun, a full 400 rounds are fired in 20 seconds at a distance of less than 50 meters! The entire front row of the Japanese army was directly destroyed. The Japanese soldiers who fell after being shot also blocked the charging route of the second row, and the entire charging sequence was immediately confused, and at this time, the Chinese soldiers with knives in one hand and self-defense pistols in the other hand directly crossed the first row of gunners and covered the past. A burst of knives and guns. The two sides are fighting in one place! When encountering a group of Japanese soldiers, they shot directly and broke up, and when they encountered a single one that was relatively close, they went up and cut it directly. Different from the triangular coordination or back-to-back coordination of the Japanese army, because the Chinese army introduced the "pistol" as a large-scale killing weapon, the melee process also became a row of tops, the front one finished firing, took a step back to change the bullets, and then the second row went up, and so on. White-knuckle warfare has always been very bloody, even with such a thing as an automatic pistol, in the end both sides still inevitably have to use knives to speak, although most of the knives on the Chinese side are not as long as the other side, but I don't know from which martial artists learned the various moves really make the Japanese army who are accustomed to regular assassination training very unsuitable, and compared to the old army that was mixed with soldiers, the fighting spirit of these soldiers is undoubtedly more tenacious. And the Chinese soldiers, who were accustomed to seeing blood, were even more fierce under the stimulation of blood. Accompanied by the splash of blood and the dying struggles of the wounded and the crunch of knives slashing to the bone. Of course, it was more about the sound of spot fire and bullets from the 1889 series of pistols, and the battle situation between the Japanese avant-garde and the Qing avant-garde became, with the Chinese chasing the Japanese army and the Japanese army chasing the old army. This kind of scene made Nie Shicheng, who rushed to the battlefield, feel bitter when he saw it. …,

However, this situation ended quickly, and with the arrival of Nie Shicheng with the main force, the Takeda detachment, which only had a total of 600 people, could not withstand the attack of several times the Qing army, no matter how powerful it was, not to mention that there was also a Chinese pioneer battalion with pistols in hand-to-hand combat? The armies of the two sides were entangled, and Takeda's troops could not be withdrawn, so he planned to run away from the troops that did not go up on a different path, but as soon as he turned around, he ran into the Qing army chasing from Jialongli Village. There was no way to retreat, and Takeda, who was defended by several times the Qing army, had only two options to choose from, either die in battle or surrender. However, at the critical moment, before the Japanese officer had time to choose, a mortar shell fell next to him, and a huge explosion directly knocked him unconscious. Then, when he woke up, he found himself in the field hospital of the Qing army! As for the 600 men, what happened? Do you still need to ask about this? Surrounded by more than 3,000 people, there is no possibility of escape! (In fact, the Qing army began to fight fairly well in history, for example, on the first day of the Battle of Pyongyang, the Japanese army suffered 705 casualties, the number is from page 107 of the "History of the First Sino-Japanese War" written by Mr. Qi Qizhang.) And in this book, more than 5,000 Qing troops, with the help of new weapons and Chinese pioneer battalions, attacked the 3,000 Japanese troops with no backup and lack of supplies and demoralization, which is not too much)

The Battle of Chenghuan ended in 2 days, and the Oshima Yoshima Brigade, which lacked supplies and heavy weapons, encountered more than 5,000 Nie Shicheng troops with absolute superiority in the process of retreating. There are more than 3,000 people in the whole brigade, except for a few scattered breakthroughs. Annihilated, wounded, and captured about 2,500 people. However, Nie Shiben himself did not feel easy, and he had absolutely superior weapons and troops, and he occupied a favorable position. More than 5,000 Qing troops were killed and wounded, and more than 1,000 were wounded. In stark contrast, half of the Chinese battalion suffered less than 50 casualties, although considering the difference in weapon points, it still made Nie Shicheng feel very ashamed. He could clearly feel that the old army often had a mentality of coping and conforming to the herd in battle. The so-called coping is not that they are not brave enough in battle, but that they are too mindless in battle. And this is not just a matter of rigid thinking, the German advisers taught a lot of everything, but the old army was generally unable to understand the essence of it, but fought by instinct or habits developed over the years. And the so-called herd mentality is even simpler, it is not a mistake to conform to the herd when the wind is favorable, but once it encounters a headwind, perhaps in the case that the overall fighting spirit has not been lost, the entire front will be defeated because of the shaking of a small number of people! This is what Nie Shicheng is most worried about, as for the soldiers' will to fight, Nie Shicheng has not had much hope for these soldiers who have the purpose of serving as soldiers and eating food since the beginning of the war. It's good to make money, but saving your life comes first. Before the war, you may be full of morale, but after experiencing the cruelty of the war, your morale will drop immediately, especially when you encounter hard bones, you can't rely on it at all. This thing has been in existence since the establishment of the Huai Army, when the Huai Army first fought in Shanghai, if it was not for Li Hongzhang personally supervising the battle, in the face of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's offensive, the Huai Army could not win at all. In Nie Shicheng's eyes, apart from the threat of death and a large bounty, it was difficult for him to come up with any other way to motivate his subordinates. But this is not enough. As for the tactical level. Nie Shicheng did not have too many requirements, judging from the current situation of the old army, the shooting level was not as good as the Japanese army, and the Japanese army was even worse than the new army, the same machine gun, the old army in addition to strafing, the bullets were exhausted, the accuracy was really poor, and the new army was mainly point shooting, using long and short points to shoot alternately but suppressing the other party, and this is the right time, you can also shoot indirectly, this thing was shocked when Nie Shicheng saw it. With only the understanding and calculation of ballistics, a rain of death was thrown on the front. Its lethal effect is not lower than that of direct fire, and the striking distance is actually about 1500 yards. This level will never be cultivated without a long period of hard training and pondering.

After realizing the gap between the two sides, Nie Shicheng decided to talk to Shao Yu, the commander of this new army, to discuss the real source of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese new army!

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