211 Counteroffensive Poison Scheme
What made Shan Bin Yuanji even more excited was that the Qing army, which was originally ambushed on the north side, did not attack him, and he thought proudly: This just shows that Lin Yuan's adaptability is extremely poor!
At this moment, from the back of the artillery position of the Qing army, the sound of horses' hooves was heard, and from a distance, in a snow fog, countless cavalry, lined up in three horizontal columns, rushed towards the Japanese troops on the south side!
The cavalry of the Dingwu Army had about 800 people, organized into a battalion, and they also acted with the infantry, Lin Yuan considered that the size of the horse was relatively large, which was not conducive to concealment, so he let the cavalry battalion ambush in the distance, and then rushed out when the guns rang out.
When they were 500 meters away from the Japanese troops, the battalion commander took off the horse pistol from his back, and there was a soldier carrying a red flag beside him.
In doing so, he is actually passing on orders, and people cannot speak on a horse traveling at high speed, because the bumpy road surface is very likely to make the person who speaks bite off his tongue!
The cavalry saw the red flag raised high, they all took off the horse pistol, the war horse continued to advance, four hundred meters, the battalion commander waved the horse gun down, the soldiers around him saw this, and hurriedly waved the red flag to the next one, the cavalry behind saw this, they raised the horse pistol in their hands, raised an angle, and shot at the Japanese army. The bullets splashed a puff of smoke and blood on the Japanese position, and many Japanese soldiers fell to the ground and screamed, and in the screams, the Japanese turned the few machine guns they had to the cavalry!
Machine guns were the great enemy of the cavalry, but before the Japanese could shoot, a few shells bombarded the artillery position, and the Japanese machine gunners and bombardiers suddenly fell down like weeds in the wind, and the only few machine guns were also blown up.
Just when the Japanese thought that the cavalry of the Qing army was about to rush into their formation, the cavalry of the Qing army turned south and outflanked the rear of the Japanese army.
The Qing troops on the north side also began to act at this time, they jumped out of their bunkers, marched in the direction of the Japanese army, stopped at a distance of about 400 meters, and fired at the Japanese army.
Shan Bin Yuanji saw that the strength of the Qing army on the south side had suddenly increased, and the hope of knowing that the Qing army had opened the battle from the south side of the Qing army's artillery position had been shattered, and that this encounter had already gone away, and if he did not retreat early, it was very likely that his more than 1,000 people would be completely annihilated. Taking advantage of the fact that the cavalry of the Qing army had not completed the outflanking, Yamabin Yuanji ordered the order to retreat, and the entire Japanese army retreated to the west.
Lin Yuan did not order the whole army to pursue, but ordered the cavalry to use the fastest speed to capture Zhangyi Station, nearly an hour later, the cavalry of the Qing army arrived at Zhangyi Station, because the defenders in the city have been defeated in the ambush just now, the remaining troops in the city are not strong in combat, so the Qing army occupied Zhangyi Station without much effort.
However, the Qing army did not annihilate too many Japanese troops at Zhangyi Station, because they knew the news of the rout, and many people had already withdrawn in advance, but they left in an unusually hurry, many documents were not burned in time, and a considerable part of the equipment was not destroyed.
Lin Yuan also ordered Liu Dart to lead the soldiers of the former battalion of the Zuo Association to attack the rail artillery base between Xiaowang Village and Xiaowang Village and Zhangyi Station, and the defenders of Xiaowang Village were wiped out after a period of stubborn resistance, and the soldiers of the rail artillery base withdrew towards Mukden after blowing up the rail cannon.
That night, Lin Yuan led the remaining troops to Zhangyi Station, and as soon as he arrived, he ordered that the cavalry and the soldiers of the front battalion of the Zuo Association were on standby to rest, and the others immediately went to Zhangyi Station to repair trenches and fortifications!
Lin Yuan's heart is very clear, Zhangyi Station is only twelve kilometers away from the periphery of Shenyang, this distance, the Japanese army can launch a counteroffensive at any time, Zhangyi Station is a newly built small city, not a strategic place that has always been fought for by soldiers, so there is no decent city defense facilities, if you want to hold here, you must build a large number of trenches and fortifications.
Relying on the terrain, Lin Yuan deployed three defensive circles around the periphery of Zhangyi Station, the first one was two kilometers away from Zhangyi Station, mainly trenches and machine gun fortifications, and the second one kilometer away from Zhangyi Station, mainly relying on several highlands on the periphery, built fortifications, and erected machine guns on these positions, which could form crossfire and kill and injure a large number of invading enemies.
The third line of defense was not trenches and fortifications, but a dozen cavalry squads dispatched, and the role of these squads was simple, patrolling back and forth between Zhangyi Station and Shenyang, detecting the movements of the Shenyang garrison as early as possible and preventing their sudden attack.
After the order was given, Lin Yuan did not have a sense of relief, the Qing army was divided into two parts, one part was repairing fortifications outside the city, and the other was resting in the city, both of which he was not at ease.
Just after a big victory, the soldiers will inevitably relax, so it is possible that those outside the city may not be good at repairing fortifications, and those in the city may not abide by military discipline and pick quarrels and provoke trouble, especially in wartime, soldiers are generally prone to a sense of superiority, and feel that they are a head above others everywhere, which makes them not pay attention to their words and deeds in many cases, so that the image of the army in the hearts of the people is over at once.
So Lin Yuan asked Liu Dart to take people to patrol the night and be sure to strictly enforce military discipline, while he himself took people to the place where the fortifications were built.
Just won a battle but couldn't rest well, such a thing would inevitably be difficult to figure out to anyone, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "The military situation is urgent, and there is no time to gather people to explain patiently now, so let's do the ideological work of the soldiers in the future." ”
So Lin Yuan had a cold face, and walked around the place where the fortifications were being built, and the soldiers dared not speak out, and they were busy all night, and finally, the fortifications were repaired.
Two hours later, a war horse came to the fortifications, the cavalry turned over and dismounted, and said to Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, the Japanese army stationed in Mukden has sent troops and horses to counterattack!" ”
This news was heard by the people around and spread quickly, and after those soldiers heard it, they sighed one after another, Lin Shuai is really like a god, if it wasn't for Lin Shuai's insistence on repairing fortifications last night, he would have been attacked by the Japanese army today. Lin Yuan asked unhurriedly, "How many people did the Japanese army dispatch?" ”
The cavalry replied, "There are more than 2,000 people in all, all of them cavalry." ”
Lin Yuan nodded and ordered: "Dig another deep trench in front of the trench and see how their cavalry comes." ”
Two hours later, the dust raised by the horses' hooves faintly appeared in the sky, and soon, a team of cavalry appeared in everyone's sight, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "The Japanese army must not have guessed that we repaired the fortifications so quickly, and now we can catch them off guard." ”
To Lin Yuan's surprise, the Japanese army did not attack, but set up tents more than 3,000 meters away from the trenches, and some people even took off their saddles and fed the horses.
Lin Yuan frowned and thought, "What kind of tricks are the Japanese going to play?" Aren't you camping in such a place waiting to be served by me? ”
However, Lin Yuan did not order the attack, because the troops were already very tired, and the Japanese army was very mobile, so he might not be able to take advantage of it in a fight.
However, Lin Yuan soon saw the Japanese plan, and as soon as it was dawn the next day, someone reported: "The Japanese have attacked." ”
Lin Yuan picked up the binoculars and looked at it, and thought, "The Japanese actually thought of such a vicious trick!" ”