Nogi Noshinori showed rare joy, and he immediately ordered: "The first cavalry brigade immediately enters Jinzhou City through the gap. ”

The captain of the cavalry brigade, Akiyama Yoshiko, immediately led the cavalry towards the gap, and five hundred fast horses, carrying the Japanese cavalry like wolves and tigers, rushed to the gap like the wind.

While Akiyama Yoshiko led the cavalry to rush to the gap, the Japanese engineer detachment carried out a second blast on the gap.

Although the first blast blew up the city wall, the city wall was 12 meters high, the city base was 13 meters wide, and the top of the city was 10 meters wide, and a gap of more than five meters long was blown up, and the stones and soil fell down as much as more than 600 cubic meters.

The Japanese demolition detachment rushed to the side of the gap, and carried out a second blasting at the root of this trapezoid, blowing up the slope of one of the hypotenuses of the trapezoid, so that the cavalry could rush up the slope, and after the blasting was completed, the demolition detachment put the firewood brought on the edge of the gap, poured oil on it, and lit the pyre, and the fire burst into the sky in an instant.

Fifteen minutes later, the Japanese cavalry followed the fire to the gap, Akiyama Yoshiko looked at the gap through the bright firelight, and scolded Tamura Yoshiichi, the chief officer of the engineering brigade, in his heart, the five-meter-long gap, the gap was full of gravel, and the cavalry could only enter Jinzhou City through the gap one by one, such a refueling tactic has always been a taboo for soldiers.

There is an old saying in Chinese soldiers: "The opportunity must not be lost, and it will never come again." Akiyama Yoshiko also understood this truth, and he also knew that the Qing army in Ludao City would rush to this gap at any time and establish an effective defense here, so he didn't have time to think about it so much.

The tactical literacy of the Japanese army is very high, the squadron below the brigade, the commander of the squad saw the shape of the gap, and without Akiyama Yoshiko's order, he automatically changed the formation and entered the city one by one, and the first cavalry jumped on the gap first, but when he jumped off the gap, an accident happened.

As mentioned earlier, the height of the trapezoidal at the gap is more than four meters, and the sappers blew up the outside of the city gently, but they have no way to deal with it in the city, and in addition to the darkness in the city, the cavalry can't see the situation clearly, thinking that there is a gentle slope in front of it, so it does not slow down, and the horse's vision is very poor, and the war horse jumps directly from a height of more than four meters.

When the horse jumps from a height, the rider and the horse have a high falling speed at the same time, when the horse lands, the ground bears the impact of the horse, so that the horse stops, the rider's impact will be borne by the horse, according to the principle of action and reaction, the rider will also bear the same force.

At this time, the rider should clamp the horse's belly with his legs, so as to slow down the impact between the body and the war horse at the moment of landing, but the cavalryman did not think that he fell directly from a height of four meters, and only felt that his body was light, and then the buttocks and the weakest part of the man's body hit the saddle hard, and the great pain made him faint in an instant.

Then he fell off his horse, the Japanese army was generally equipped with Mongolian horses, this kind of horse is very short, and falling from a horse is generally not a big problem, but unfortunately, one of the horseman's feet got stuck in the stirrup, and when he landed, the horse was still running forward, and in an instant, the horse's hind hooves stepped directly over his body.

The horse felt that something was wrong, so he stopped, but the cavalryman's ribs had been broken several times, and the broken bones pierced into the heart and lung lobes like spears, and the cavalryman was killed instantly.

The cavalry behind saw the one in front and jumped down at once, knowing that the slope was quite steep, so they pulled the reins of the horse, and the impact speed of the war horse slowed down, and they came down smoothly along the steep slope.

The cavalry behind had learned their lesson, so the steep slope did not cause much trouble, and they quickly assembled on one side of the gap, and according to the original plan, they would run to the south gate closest to the gap, and then open the south gate to join the Japanese forces outside the city.

Just when the wishful thinking of the Japanese army crackled, a deafening explosion sounded in the cavalry pile entering the city, shattering the Japanese army's sweet dream.

Several cavalrymen were blown to pieces by the huge explosion in an instant, and a squad leader came in behind, who knew that he had to pass through the gap as quickly as possible, because "light and dark" had always been a taboo situation on the battlefield.

The so-called "bright and dark" means that I am in the light, the enemy is in the dark, this situation is extremely dangerous, the current Japanese army is in such a situation, the flames outside the city illuminate the Japanese cavalry undoubtedly, and in the dark city, but I don't know how many Qing troops are hidden in the road.

At this moment, a big burden of darkness flew towards the Japanese squad leader, he was stunned, the burden had fallen into his arms, and then, a thunderous explosion sounded in his arms, and the strong flash of light made his eyes pitch black, and the visual cells on his retina could not adapt to the huge light, and he lost the ability to perceive light for a moment, and that flash was also the most obsessed thing he saw in his life.

The massive blast tore through his sternum and spine in an instant, and the last sound of his life would have been the crunching of his bones.

If the flash hadn't destroyed his retina, he would have been able to see the person who had killed him, a few Qing soldiers in the darkness more than a hundred meters from the gap, fiddling with a large vat.

They methodically put some small explosive packets into a large vat, which was made of iron sheets. They dug a pit in the ground, half of the tin bucket sat in the pit, half exposed, the mouth of the bucket aligned in the direction of the gap.

After several Qing soldiers put the small explosive bag away, put a huge explosive bag into the barrel, if you look closely, you will find that the explosive bag is covered with cowhide, and the outside is tightly wrapped with iron wire, and then the Qing soldiers stuffed a fuse into a hole in the back of the barrel, and then lit it, the fuse quickly burned out, the small explosive package exploded, and the large explosive package was pushed out of the barrel mouth, and when the small explosive exploded, the fuse of the large explosive package was ignited immediately, and the large explosive package fell into the Japanese army and exploded.

Needless to say, this thing is naturally Lin Yuan's masterpiece, in the history that Lin Yuan knows, it has a resounding name - Flying Thunder Cannon, this thing was great in the Huaihai Campaign.

Lin Yuan thought that the Japanese army might blow up the city wall and then attack from the gap, so he thought of this weapon, this weapon is very simple in structure, only a large iron bucket and a number of explosives are enough, so it can be manufactured on a large scale, and the power is huge, and it is not troublesome to carry, just use a horse to carry it.

However, the disadvantages of this weapon are also extremely obvious - the range is too close, how far the explosive package can be thrown, depending on the amount of explosives used for ejection, these explosives can not be put too much, otherwise the barrel body can not stand it, so the distance is more than 100 meters, this distance is the distance at which the rifle exerts its power, so on the battlefield, the enemy will not let this weapon have a chance to use.

However, Lin Yuan still insisted on building such a batch of weapons, because he judged that the Japanese army would definitely blow up the city wall at night, and at night, it would be difficult for the infantry to see the target clearly at a distance of 100 meters, so once the Japanese army blew up the city wall and entered the city, the Qing army carrying this weapon would quickly arrive and use this weapon to kill and injure the enemy in large numbers.

After a few explosives were packed, the Japanese army did not dare to enter the city, and at this time, Lin Yuan gave another astonishing order.