Chapter 244: Victorious Evacuation

"The brothers of the Beiyang Fleet are here to pick us up, everyone work hard, and we can go home." Ma Yukun said excitedly. When the reconnaissance team returned, it reported that it heard the sound of heavy artillery fire coming from the sea. Ma Yukun realized that the Beiyang Army was saved, and this army, which had been fighting in Korea for more than half a year, could finally go home. In front of them, there is a distance of less than 16km! If you break through this line of defense again, you should be able to see the Beiyang Fleet on the sea and the brothers who greet them.

"The brothers of the fleet have come to pick us up." "It is said that the sea has been swept away by Admiral Ding Xu, and the Japanese can't even get out of the military port." "We can finally go home." For a while, joy, excitement, and excitement filled the entire Beiyang Army, and when the hope of returning home was so close to him, the morale of the Beiyang Army, which was already low, immediately exploded. There is a proverb that says, "Don't stop an army that comes home." "And the Japanese are trying to stop such a force.

"Brothers, fight the last battle in Korea. After the meeting, I invite you to drink. Shao Yu said as he waved the combat pistol in his hand. Later, in a cheer, Shao Yu personally led the team to prepare for an assault on the Japanese position.

After withstanding nearly 20 minutes of shelling in the second line of defense, the Japanese troops finally felt that the shelling outside was gradually thinning out. The smoke gradually dissipated under the wind, and the vibration of the ground gradually decreased. This is the precursor of the opposing artillery to stop suppressing, and this is the precursor of the opposing infantry to launch a charge! Experienced commanders quickly led their men from hidden locations to forward positions. Prepare to meet the charge of the opposing infantry.

"Uh, what's going on?" Shortly after the Japanese army entered the position, what was waiting for was not a charge from the Beiyang Army, but a new round of shelling! Many soldiers were still lying on the edge of the trenches and looking around, looking for possible Qing troops. A grenade shot is coming! Shells disintegrated in the air, and then rained down steel balls across the entire line. With the sound of crackling steel balls, a wolf-like howl suddenly came to mind on the battlefield.

"If you can hear someone screaming, then there is hope that person will live. Because he still has pain. If you see a man lying on the ground, bleeding from his body. Crawling aimlessly, then his life can already be counted in minutes, because he has lost most of his consciousness and does things entirely on instinct, and the most fortunate are those who are directly beaten into a sieve by the rain of bullets, because they can no longer face bayonets, combat pistols and grenades. After the war, Nozu Michikani saw such a description in a tattered record of the battle.

"The Qing army charged." Just when the Japanese army was once again crawling and crawling to escape to the bunker, they suddenly shouted out of sight. Then you hear the bullets breaking through the air and the characteristic screams of mortars. Looking through the smoke of gunpowder, a group of blurred figures appeared in the field of vision. Unlike the previous infantry charges. The Qing army's attack was not fast, they were very cautious, and the various groups covered each other's advance under the command of the squad leader.

The Japanese who reacted quickly set up Gatling machine guns and mortars to fire at the Qing army, and the Qing army used light machine guns and grenadiers in their hands to fire at the Japanese army. The bullets from both sides weave into a dense sheet of fire that covers the entire battlefield, and if you lift your head slightly, or expose a certain part of your body, you have a good chance of winning. Both sides try to keep their bodies as low as possible, and at the same time search for the opponent's firepower, and see the opportunity to fire a grenade at the other.

Although in terms of automatic weapons, the Beiyang commandos have the advantage. However, the Japanese still had the upper hand in the counter-fire, and the bunkers reinforced with large pieces of wood could easily block the fire of 60mm mortars. After the Japanese soldiers in the bunker found that the mortar fell on the bunker and could only leave a small pit, they relieved themselves and smiled at the machine gun in the operator's hand to name the Qing army one by one! …,

"Slow down, don't be in a hurry, don't be discovered by the pirates." Under the command of artillery commander Shen Tianming, a modified 57mm camp gun was slowly pushed out of the bunker. "See? That's, there's a machine-gun bunker there. A soldier pointed to a dark castle in the distance that was spitting tongues of fire in the // book lover building. Okay, you see. The gunner slowly turned the handwheel, adjusted the gun, locked the bunker tightly, and pulled the gun rope. Accompanied by the back seat of the artillery, a 6-pounder shell smashed into the opponent's bunker. A cloud of smoke rose in the distance. Half of the bunker collapsed.

"Hurry up, do it again." Just as the gunners were about to fire a second shot, a string of bullets flying from the other side knocked the gunners down by two. The rest were either lying on the ground or hiding behind shields. The sound of bullets hitting the gun shield made the gunners shudder.

"Boom" At this moment, another 57mm gun fired. Destroy the machine gun that was firing at the first gun. "Thanks, brother over there." Shen Tianming said to the friendly troops next to him. "57 cannon power or not? p>

Sad! After the stupid cannonball hit, the bunker over there was still insisting on shooting, and Shen Tianming was a little depressed. "Let's do it again." As he spoke, the loader loaded the third shell into it. "Be careful." At this moment, a comrade-in-arms next to him quickly knocked Shen Tianming down. All that was heard was the sound of the steel plate being torn. A loud bang followed. A gun crew not far away was ended? p>

"There are still remnants of 75mm field guns on the opposing position? What did those kids do with heavy artillery? A gunner said angrily. In fact, this really can't be blamed on the artillery responsible for suppression, no matter how fierce the fire suppression, there are fish that slip through the net. "Hurry up and find the target and destroy them." The sudden appearance of this 75mm howitzer completely disrupted the formation of the Beiyang assault artillery unit, some of them searched for the target and moved the gun with difficulty to aim, and some of them seemed to withdraw to the bunker.

"Don't mess around, shoot y. You can run past the cannonballs! Shen Tianming said angrily. Finally, at the cost of 2 57mm guns and a machine gun, the annoying 57mm gun was finally sent to the western sky. "It's not going to work. The shooting of those without cover and those with cover is really a loss. Shen Tianming said a little depressedly, although it was possible to clean up the firepower points in time, but the opponent's howitzers could easily kill these artillery pieces that fell outside under the protection of the bunker, and in time to face the machine guns, the protective area was still too small.

However, after all, the Japanese army has never seen such a fight, at most, they will pull the field artillery into the bunker of the front line to shoot, and they will never expect that someone will use 57mm guns to accompany the infantry impact, and in order to deploy quickly, there are really not many 75mm level guns on the defense line of Nozu Road. Coupled with the profligate suppression of the Beiyang heavy artillery forces. These already small artillery pieces were basically scrapped, so in the face of the tactics of 57mm guns aiming directly at the bunkers and the machine gun mortar group covering the charge, Nozu Michikan's defense line was still breached.

As for reinforcements? When the defense line was breached, the Japanese did think about reinforcements, but the Beiyang heavy artillery unit was firing, turning the broken position into an island, and then the large force rushed over, quickly occupied all the points of the trenches, the passage was opened, and the Beiyang Army, which threw away all the pots and pots, finally opened the biggest obstacle on the way home.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, what should we do?" A staff officer asked.

"We can't stop the Beiyang Army in Pyongyang, what have the red deer in those base camps done! The Beiyang Fleet has added 3 10,000-ton warships, and I don't know what to do! Let's intercept Nie Shicheng's troops under naval artillery, don't we send the loyal warriors to their deaths? These people should all be disemboweled! Nozu Michikan, who got the news, finally couldn't help but burst out and was furious in the command post. He knew that no matter how hard he tried, he could not stop the withdrawal of the Beiyang Army under the attack from both sides. What's more, once it gets close to the sea, it will be the world of the Beiyang Fleet's naval guns! A powerful army group was also powerless in the face of a large number of large-caliber naval guns. …,

"Tell the commanders on the front line that after a little resistance, they can choose the moment to evacuate on their own." Nozu Michikan said weakly, this order is so helpless, the army has not been able to completely annihilate the Qing army in Korea for more than half a year. After paying a huge price, he actually let the other party slip away at the moment when victory was in sight! What a tragic thing this is! But there's no way around it. You can't use a 120mm cannon or even a 75mm camp gun to get along with an 8-inch or even a 10-inch naval gun, right? No one with a brain would do that!

With Nozu Michigu's order to release water, the Japanese troops who had no intention of fighting immediately deployed and retreated. Playing head-on is not courageous and weak, but it doesn't mean that it won't do some small actions, such as flanking harassment or something. But overall, this blockade is no longer meaningful. It was only a matter of time before Nie Shicheng's troops withdrew from North Korea.

There was also a small episode in between. When Nie Shicheng's troops and the receiving troops finally converged, a cavalry brigade of Yuanzhi in the mountains suddenly inserted diagonally from the flank, and at this time, Nie Shicheng's retreating department was also a little negligent in guarding the flank, thinking that under the deterrence of naval artillery, the Japanese army would not dare to launch a new attack. But the generals of the Qing army forgot one thing, that is, for the cavalry moving at high speed, it was only a matter of minutes to cut into the opponent's formation. Fleet fire support takes reaction time, and by the time you react, people are already fighting with you, and the naval guns will naturally lose their target. As a result, this cavalry assault became the last battle fought by Nie Shicheng's troops in Korea. In the face of the sudden cavalry, the Beiyang Army paid a certain price, and also drew an imperfect end to the entire evacuation.

"Lord Nie, what are you looking at?" As the supreme commander of the Beiyang Army in Korea, Nie Shicheng boarded the Tianjin, the most powerful warship of the Beiyang Fleet, and looked at Nie Shicheng, who was a little depressed, Xu Jie asked.

"I'm ashamed, my Beiyang Army has been fighting in Korea for more than half a year, with nearly 10,000 casualties. In the end, it ended up being a defeat. Nie Shicheng looked at the troops who were boarding the ship and said.

"It won't be long before we're back on North Korean soil. The Japanese have not succeeded before, and they still won't. Xu Jie comforted.

Today's double watch ended all the war in North Korea. For the sake of the author's hard work, let's help~~~. (To be continued)