According to the scouts, the Qing army was probably less than 5,000 people, and Shibano Yoshihiro judged that the Qing army was going to capture Pyongyang City, and he knew that the Qing army must have been well prepared, so he did not rush to attack.

Shibano Yoshihiro can't contact the base camp, these days he is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, he wants to cross the Yalu River, but unfortunately the food, grass and ammunition are insufficient, and he wants to retreat to Seoul, but he doesn't dare. Seeing that the troops of the Qing army were attacking today, they could only hold Pyongyang first.

So in the entire battlefield, the only place to fight is the Peony Terrace.

The Japanese army, with more than 1,000 men, surrounded Peony Terrace and launched an attack from the southern slope.

The slope of the hill is more than 1,000 meters long, and the bottom of the slope was originally densely forested, and many trees were broken and charred during the Battle of Pyongyang, but despite this, these trees became a barrier for Japanese troops to hide and cover.

Chen Fei carried out Lin Yuan's order: attract the enemy, and then the Qing troops brought by Lin Yuan annihilate the enemy, so he did not let the Qing troops in the fortress bombard Pyongyang City.

Eight hundred meters away from the fortress, the dark blue uniforms of the Japanese army appeared and disappeared in the sparse forest, and Chen Fei opened fire from the gunners of the Qing army.

These captured Qing soldiers were not less bullied by the Japanese army, and as soon as they heard the order, they hurriedly took action, measured the range, adjusted the gun position, and the first cannon sounded, and the first round was mainly used to correct the deviation and prepare for the next round of accurate strikes.

Of course, the Japanese troops in the woods also understood this, and they knew that accurate artillery fire was coming soon, but they were not afraid, because the rate of fire of the artillery was very low, and after one shot passed, it would take a while before the next shot would come in, and they could predict the landing point according to the sound of the shells and dodge in time.

Nine 75-mm guns fired first, and the shells flew towards the woods where the Japanese troops were located, and the Qing army's shells exploded in the air over the trees, and the dense shelnel fell like raindrops, and the broken branches and leaves were knocked to the ground, and the Japanese soldiers hid behind the trees, so they did not cause much casualties.

At this time, the Japanese army increased the speed of their march, and it took only three minutes from its position to the four hundred meters between the space, and in these three minutes, the artillery fired more than a dozen times, killing and wounding more than 100 Japanese soldiers.

The reason why the Japanese army was able to attack the fortress during the Pyongyang campaign was that after occupying the outer fortress, they used the heavy artillery there to break the wall and rush in through the gap, but now, the heavy artillery of the outer fortress has been destroyed by carrier-based aircraft, so the Japanese army carried the ladder and prepared to climb the wall.

Chen Fei on the fortress saw the Japanese army resisting the ladder, and felt funny, this scene reminded him of the costume film he had seen, at this time he gave the order to attack, at a distance of 400 meters, a person is just a small black spot, so the assault rifle in the hands of the marines is difficult to use, at this distance, the machine gun is the most deadly weapon.

Chen Fei had considered that the Japanese army would take advantage of the numerical advantage to launch a charge, so he brought all the machine guns in the hands of the Beijing shipboard marines, three 12.7 mm heavy machine guns and 12 7.62 mm light machine guns, forming a fire network along the fortress wall.

The soldiers of the Qing army took advantage of this opportunity to come to the emplacement of 250 mm heavy guns, which were used by the Japanese army to bomb Pyongyang after occupying Mudodae.

The Japanese army in the city was bombarded, and Shibano Yoshihiro immediately ordered to gather more than 4,000 people, including the 9th Mixed Brigade and the 10th Infantry Brigade, to seize Peony Terrace at all costs!

At this time, there were 60 marines and 40 gunners of the Qing army in Peony Taizhong, a total of 100 people, and they were about to fight against an enemy forty times their size!

Chen Fei counted the amount of ammunition in the fortress, half of the machine gun ammunition was consumed in the battle just now, and the rifle ammunition was not consumed, despite this, Chen Fei in the fortress was not panicked, after all, they had the biggest advantage, the sky, they could call for air support at any time, and their combat goal was to lure the Japanese army to dispatch, with Peony Terrace as the center, to annihilate the enemy.

When the Japanese army surrounded like ants, Chen Fei couldn't help but wonder why the Qing soldiers led by the captain didn't attack.

How could Chen Fei know that Lin Yuan was suddenly unexpected!

Lin Yuan saw that the Japanese army was dispatched, and was just about to persuade Ye Zhichao to go to the army, when a telegram from the Qing court came, ordering Ye Zhichao to stop all military operations and retreat to a safe place, because the Qing court was preparing to negotiate peace with Japan!

The Japanese base camp has not been idle since the United Fleet lost contact, and while they are inquiring about the whereabouts of the Combined Fleet, they are actively thinking about countermeasures, but the whereabouts of the Combined Fleet have not been found out, and the contact with the Japanese army on the Korean Peninsula has also been cut off, although the Japanese cannot imagine the arrival of an aircraft carrier, but they know that they should stop fighting with the Qing court.

Therefore, the Japanese, through the British minister, sent a request for peace talks to Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, the minister of Beiyang trade, and a scholar of Wenhuadian University.

Li Hongzhang did not dare to slack off, and immediately reported to the Empress Dowager Lafayette, Lafayette was preparing for his 60th birthday, and her old man naturally did not want to celebrate his birthday when there was still a war at the door of his home.

So Li Hongzhang sent a telegram to Ye Zhichao to stop all military operations. Lin Yuan actually didn't know what to do, Ye Zhichao also had his own little abacus, that is, he had received a secret report that Song Qing's troops set off from Lushun by boat, crossed the Yellow Sea, and did not enter North Korea through Dadonggou, the mouth of the Yalu River, but went straight to the mouth of the Datong River.

Ye Zhichao refused to send troops, and something that worried Lin Yuan even more happened-dark clouds accumulated in the sky, and they were getting thicker and thicker.

Lin Yuan hurriedly ordered the helicopter on the ship to take off and pick up the marines and Qing troops in the fortress, as soon as the order was issued, a thunder rang out in the sky, and it rained heavily!

The black clouds pressed the people on the ground and couldn't get through, this cloud was only 200 meters from the ground at most, at this altitude, the plane would never dare to fly, because the air flow near the ground was very unstable, if the plane would shear and stall, then only the plane would be destroyed and people died. Not to mention that it was still raining heavily, and it was even more difficult for the plane to fly.

At this moment, the sound of artillery rang out on the Japanese position!

The Japanese launched more than a dozen artillery pieces and launched an artillery attack on the main fortress of Peony Terrace.

Where did these cannons come from? It is also necessary to start after the end of the battle of Pyongyang, a Japanese artillery squadron was very cherished of its equipment, and in order to prevent the artillery from being exposed to the sun, it cut down a lot of branches and built a shed for the artillery.

First of all, they could not find the artillery positions of the Japanese army, because the radar of our army's air police 2000 early warning aircraft works in the L-band, that is, the 15-30 cm band, which cannot complete the mapping of equipment of such a size as artillery, and they cannot use the laser designator to indicate the direction for the air force, because heavy rain and dense clouds will absorb a large amount of laser energy.

The J-25, which can barely complete reconnaissance and mapping, has an active phased array radar that works in the 3-centimeter band, but because of heavy rain, it cannot carry out reconnaissance and mapping.

In the face of the Japanese infantry, the carrier-based aircraft were also helpless, because they were too close to the marines, and there was a considerable chance that the aerial bombs would fall on the heads of the marines without laser guidance equipment.

A Japanese artillery shell fell next to the 250-mm heavy gun, and the shrapnel of the high-explosive grenade instantly detonated the shells piled aside, and the deafening loud sound made everyone's hearts tremble, and the power of the explosion was so great that it actually collapsed a small half of the city wall from above.

Chen Fei's body was covered with muddy water, he looked at the Japanese troops who were pressed up densely, he turned his head to look at his subordinates, and shouted: "Brothers, from the moment we step on the helicopter, we are doomed to be surrounded, destined to rely on the guns in our hands to kill the bloody road!" Brothers, knock the little devils down! Nanjing's hatred! The account of a thousand years, today it is settled! ”

The marines and Qing soldiers shouted in unison, welcoming the most tragic battle!