119 Japanese minefields
Nogi Noshinori, who was feinting at the east gate, looked expectantly to the west, waiting for the news that the cavalry had successfully entered the city, and then watching the Qing army at the head of the city in chaos, he could attack the city with all his might.
When Nogi Noshinori saw a Japanese cavalry rushing over by the light of the fire on the battlefield, his heart couldn't help but sink, because the Japanese cavalry was covered in blood, he looked extremely embarrassed.
The Japanese cavalry rushed towards Nogi Noshinori, and his men hurriedly stopped him, and Nogi Noshinori was so anxious that he shouted, "Let him come." ”
As soon as the cavalryman saw Nogi Noshinori, he said: "The Qing army didn't know what powerful weapons Lu Dao used, and the cavalry that entered the city was blocked, and the cavalry of the Qing army actually killed them from the city!" ”
At this time, someone came to report that the Japanese cavalry in front was besieged by the Qing army and was retreating!
When Nogi Noshinori heard that the cavalry had retreated, he knew that he had miscalculated, and the trick of blowing up the city wall did not work, but he never expected that the Qing army would dare to attack out of the city. From the very beginning of the fight against Manchuria, until today, I have never seen the Qing army take the initiative to attack!
For the first time in his decades of military career, he felt that he could not figure out his enemies, that the Qing army was like a trick, conjuring up a new weapon from time to time, and that the Qing soldiers in the opposite city seemed to be different from what he had seen before! Does all this have anything to do with that Lin Yuan?
Nogi Noshinori then ordered a retreat, and the Japanese battalion was three kilometers away, which only took about thirteen minutes to run, which was enough time for the Japanese infantry to withdraw.
The Japanese infantry retreated, but the cavalry was miserable, especially the 500 cavalry of Akiyama Yoshiko, under the attack of nearly 2,000 Qing troops, suffered heavy casualties, and when Akiyama Yoshiko fled back to the camp to count the number of people, the 500 cavalry only came back less than 50.
The cavalry of the Qing army marching at high speed rushed straight to the Japanese camp, at this time most of the Japanese army had retreated to the camp, Xiong Tiesheng knew that there were no antlers outside the Japanese camp, so he ordered the cavalry to rush directly inward, but Wu Yuankai remembered something, and shouted loudly to order his subordinates to stop attacking.
On the battlefield, the sound of horses' hooves and roars was deafening, Wu Yuankai's order was not heard by few people, Wu Yuankai hurriedly ordered the riders to wave the flag to let the cavalry stop, but Wu Yuankai was in the middle and rear of the team, and Xiong Tiesheng's command flag in front of him waved vigorously to the front, and more than half of the Qing cavalry lined up a fan and rushed towards the Japanese battalion.
When I was a thousand meters away from the Japanese camp, I could already see the lights in the Japanese camp, and victory seemed to be in sight!
At this moment, a dull explosion sounded in the cavalry, and a war horse neighed and fell, and everyone looked and saw that the war horse's belly was full of holes, blood and intestines flowed all over the ground, and the rider on it was also covered with blood, lying on the ground, unconscious.
At this moment, the explosions rang out one after another, Xiong Tiesheng knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered the flag bearer to wave the flag and let the troops retreat, but where was the fast horse in the march so easy to stop, the rider who saw the flag first strangled the horse, and the rider behind had no time to stop, and collided with the one in front, and the formation was suddenly chaotic.
Wu Yuankai and Xiong Tiesheng had no choice but to collect their troops and go back, and when they arrived at Lin Yuan, Xiong Tiesheng shouted: "I don't know what is strange outside the camp of the Japanese army in Ludao!" Why is it still exploding inside? ”
Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "It's not surprising, the Japanese army must have laid mines around the camp. ”
Wu Yuankai sneered: "You see that there is neither a trench to block the cavalry nor a deer antler tied with wood outside the Japanese camp, there must be something strange outside the camp, you don't think about it, so you order to rush up!" ”
Wu Yuankai finally caught an opportunity to tease Xiong Tiesheng, so naturally he wouldn't miss it, and Xiong Tiesheng was full of lust in two sentences!
Seeing this, Lin Yuan hurriedly said, "Okay, don't quarrel." Tonight, the two generals fought bravely to kill the enemy, and they should make the first contribution, go back to comfort the wounded soldiers, the Japanese army will not attack in a short time after this battle, organize personnel to rest well, and at the same time strengthen vigilance! ”
Wu Yuankai and Xiong Tiesheng left stupidly.
The next day, Lin Yuan walked up to the city, used a telescope to reconnoiter the Japanese camp, and found that the Japanese camp had changed a lot! That is, their camp, the distance between the tents has increased significantly.
The Japanese army had more than 6,000 troops, and there were more than 100 tents, arranged in a fan shape, and what surprised Lin Yuan the most was that the distance between the tents was 60 meters.
At a time when radio stations were not assigned to the squad and platoon level, the command mode of the army at the grass-roots level often relied on sound, which is exactly in line with the saying that "communication basically depends on roaring"; the essence of sound is the vibration of the air, and the propagation distance of sound is affected by many factors; in the open field, when talking to people 10 meters away, it is basically necessary to roar, and if it is on a chaotic battlefield, the roar breaks through the throat, and people may not be able to hear it.
The distance between the Japanese tents turned out to be seventy meters! At this distance, it is basically difficult to convey orders by shouting. Lin Yuan quickly thought of the Japanese army's intention to do this, when attacking the Japanese army in Korea, the effective killing radius of aerial bombs used by the carrier-based aircraft of the Beijing ship was about 60 meters, and the strike of the carrier-based aircraft on the Japanese army caused a lot of damage to the Japanese army, so now the Japanese army has opened the distance between the tents, the purpose is not to let one bomb destroy several tents at the same time.
When Lin Yuan saw this, he sighed in his heart: "It is not unreasonable for the Japanese to leap from a small country that is closed to the outside world to a powerful country on an equal footing with the Western powers, they are very good at learning war from war." ”
A sneer appeared at the corner of Lin Yuan's mouth, and he thought to himself: "Do the Japanese think that there is no way for us to distance the tent!" ”
Lin Yuanzhi said that there are also bombs with a larger diameter on the Beijing ship, and the so-called circular diameter is a unit of mass that indicates the size of the bomb, and the larger the circle diameter, the greater the power. When I was in North Korea, in order to be able to bomb several more targets in one flight, the planes were loaded with bombs with relatively small diameters; Moreover, Beijing ships also have an even more powerful weapon - cluster bombs.
Because of the great power of cluster bombs, in 2010, many countries in the world signed the "Convention on the Prohibition of Cluster Bombs", which stipulates that the member states that signed the convention will no longer produce and use cluster bombs, and destroy existing cluster bombs within a certain period of time, the United States, Russia, Israel, China and other countries have not signed this convention, so Beijing ships are still equipped with a certain number of cluster bombs.
"It's a pity to throw such precious cluster bombs here to the little devils, the Japanese camps are far apart, if they can break through their mine defense positions and attack from all directions, the Japanese will not be able to care about each other, and then the Japanese will be miserable!" Lin Yuan thought in his heart.