The soldiers under Liu Dart couldn't believe their ears, and they all thought to themselves, "What order did the co-commander just give?" Running back, running back, isn't that an escape! Escape from the battle, don't talk about beheading! ”

The soldiers thought they had heard it wrong, standing in place, neither advancing nor retreating, and at this moment, Liu Dart took the lead in turning his head and running towards the back.

Although the soldiers were the second King Kong, they were confused, but when they saw that the co-ordinators, who had always been strict in governing the army and loved to take the lead, they all ran to the back, and they also ran backwards.

It turned out that Liu Dart's escape was part of Lin Yuan's strategy, and the sound of the military horn that no one understood just now was the code that Lin Yuan and Liu Dart agreed on.

The reason why Lin Yuan sent this signal was because he found from the telescope: the Japanese troops on the opposite high ground had pushed the artillery out of the tunnel, and the Japanese army specially waited until the Qing army rushed closer to push out the artillery in order to make the shrapnel more effective.

Lin Yuan then gave the second order: the artillery battalion fired at the intended target.

The artillery of the Dingwu Army uses a pull-fire firing pin, when the gunner fires the shell, he only needs to pull the cowhide rope on the gun, the shell whistles away, raising a cloud of smoke and dust, the gunner opens the bolt, the smoking cartridge falls out of the chamber, one ammunition hand with a thick glove moves the cartridge to the side, and then the other ammunition hand loads a shell again.

Although the artillery of this era did not have the gas-hydraulic recoil brake, reentry machine, and reentry brake of modern artillery, it was also equipped with a relatively simple elastic gun mount, and its performance was much higher than that of the rigid gun mount artillery, so the gun did not produce a great recoil displacement, and the gunner simply re-aimed it and fired again.

The gunner shouted while pulling the rope: "The direction given by Lin Shuai is on the top of the Japanese brain, can you hit it?" ”

The observer held the telescope in his hand and said, "What are you anxious about?" Am I not watching? ”

When the observer saw the Japanese position, he immediately understood why Lin Yuanwei would give those strange orders.

The observer saw through the telescope that the shell with the delayed fuse did not explode the moment it touched the mountain, but was embedded in the mountain, after which the explosives in the shell were detonated. There are many types of mountains, generally speaking, there are earth mountains or stone mountains, the high ground where the Japanese army is located, it happens to be the stone mountain, the huge explosion shattered the stones of the mountain, and the gravel was pushed by the high-speed gas generated by the explosion, stabbing at the Japanese position like a flying knife!

If it was a gravel from another position, it would not be able to hit the Japanese army, but Lin Yuan's designated shooting position was carefully calculated by him, and the falling gravel just smashed on the top of the Japanese army's head!

In this way, it is equivalent to hundreds or thousands of shrapnel exploding on the heads of Japanese soldiers!

The first to bear the brunt of the Japanese artillery position, the artillery commander was cut off in the first wave of rubble rain, the ammunition hand was also beaten like a sieve, the position was full of blood and stumps for a while, several large stones smashed on the barrel of the artillery, and the tube was smashed alive from the gun carriage, and the others hurriedly hid in the tunnel, for the Japanese army, the only luck was that the picric acid explosives filled in the Japanese shells and the nitroglycerin explosives used as propellants were stable, and there was no explosion under this impact.

The observer shouted happily: "Lin Shuai's order is too right! As soon as he finished shouting, Lin Yuan's other order came, and the firing position moved seventeen meters down.

The observer also understood Lin Yuan's purpose, he wanted to use gravel to attack the Japanese infantry position at the bottom of the mountain!

Lin Yuan commanded the artillery at the same time, but also mobilized the infantry, he ordered the infantry to advance towards the Japanese position, the Dingwu Army under the jurisdiction of three battalions, each battalion under the front, left, right, rear four teams, the infantry divided into two groups, respectively to attack the Japanese positions on the two heights.

The infantry advanced to a stop at 200 meters, and at this distance, they could see that on the Japanese position, a storm of gravel swept the Japanese troops in the trenches, and the bodies of the Japanese soldiers were smashed in this crazy stone rain!

Each team of infantry is equipped with four Makqin machine guns, these machine guns are mounted on the flanks, used to support the impact of the infantry, Lin Yuan ordered, the infantry attacked, the Japanese position was built about ten meters from the ground, from the ground is a steep slope, there are few places that can attack on foot, if there is no Lin Yuan to use the gravel fighting method, the loss of hundreds of people may not be able to fight down.

The soldiers of the Dingwu Army soon entered the trenches, and the Japanese soldiers had already hid in the tunnels in order to avoid the rubble, and now they saw the Qing soldiers entering the trenches, and they left the tunnels one after another to counterattack, but the Japanese troops were too small, and in the face of the superior strength of the Dingwu Army, their resistance disappeared like dew drops in the sun.

Lin Yuan advanced the command post to a place 600 meters away from the Japanese position, from which he could clearly see the progress of the battle on the high ground, and from the telescope, Lin Yuan could clearly see that the Dingwu Army had basically occupied the trenches on the periphery of the tunnel.

Lin Yuan began to think about whether to enter the tunnel to attack the Japanese soldiers inside, and he asked Chen Fei beside him: "When you reconnoitred in advance, how did you reconnoiter the situation in the Japanese tunnel?" ”

Chen Fei said: "The reconnaissance situation is basically zero, and all we can do is to analyze the situation inside the Japanese army's tunnels according to the basic principles of tunnel excavation." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Could it be that the Japanese army relied on their own strength to dig tunnels?" Didn't the Japanese army find locals to work? ”

Chen Fei sighed and said, "We went to the nearby village to ask, the Japanese did arrest a lot of people to work in the nearby village, but none of these people came back, and the Japanese probably killed them all in order to prevent the structure of the tunnel from being known to outsiders." ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said: "I don't know what the structure of the Japanese tunnel looks like, in case I rely on the tunnel to resist stubbornly, it is very likely to cause us heavy casualties, although casualties on the battlefield are unavoidable, but for such a tunnel, people who have lost too much can't make it." ”

Chen Fei said: "That's true, the situation inside is likely to be extremely complicated, you can't know whether there is a trap or a trick mine in the next turn of the road, even if I take the marines on the Beijing ship in, I will have to pay a lot of casualties, and I may not be able to knock down the tunnel in the mountain." ”

Lin Yuan thought for a moment and gave the order to stop the attack.

After a while, Liu Dart rushed back in a hurry, and Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "How is the battle going?" Are there many casualties? ”

Liu Dart raised his voice and shouted: "Lin Shuai, we have already controlled all the outer trenches, and we can enter the cave in just a moment, why do you want to give the order to stop the attack?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The situation in the tunnel is unknown, and it is definitely unwise to attack rashly. ”

Liu Dart said: "Lin Shuai, isn't it just a cave? Japanese people can even play with flowers in it! I took someone inside, and it didn't take me an hour to get out the Japanese eggs inside! ”

"Egg" is the meaning of **, Chen Fei couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard Liu Dart's words say so rudely.

Lin Yuan smiled: "There is no need for this, if my judgment is not wrong, the Japanese will soon give up the tunnel to us!" ”