Having rushed out of the blockade area of the artillery, they prepared a whole squad for an attack under the organization of junior officers!

But at this time, a slightly long sound came from the air, the speed of these shells was very slow, as long as people looked up, they could see the fall in the air, "The strength of the two brigades, even if you use people to fill it, is enough to smooth the Nine Links City" Immediately saw Shang Wen looked at the small city in the distance and said. Under the cover of a small number of artillery pieces and hand-cranked Gatling guns, the two brigades launched a series of attacks, each of which was attacked in 2 brigades, about 1500 people!

THE 6 75MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS IN THE REAR ARE CONSTANTLY SPITTING OUT A RAIN OF BULLETS, BUT MARKENSEN DIRECTLY USES THE ARTILLERY FOR DIRECT AIMING OPERATIONS, SCHMIDT'S ARTILLERY IS DEPLOYED IN THE REAR, AND THEN BY CONTROLLING THE DELAY OF THE FUSE, THE SHELL EXPLODES IN THE AIR, THIS EARLIEST "AIR BOMBING" SHELL IS NATURALLY NOT AS POWERFUL AS THE VT FUZE BOMB OF LATER GENERATIONS, BUT RELYING ON A MORE CURVED TRAJECTORY AND ULTRA-HIGH RATE OF FIRE, IT STILL CAUSES GREAT DAMAGE TO THE ATTACKING JAPANESE ARMY!

Because of the terrain restrictions, the front of the Japanese attack was relatively narrow, and within about 600 meters close to the position, the attack surface was quickly narrowed, and all the artillery locked the strike area here! Shells exploded in the air from a few meters to dozens of meters above the ground, and countless steel balls fell from the sky like raindrops, and these steel balls formed an oval killing area on the ground, in this area, whether you are standing or hiding, you will be pierced by hundreds of steel balls per second!

Standing on a high vantage point, the dense artillery shells raged back and forth in the attack area like a rolling flame storm, and the Japanese troops were swept down in pieces as soon as they entered the starting position, and turned into a pile of minced meat under the fierce blow.

The remaining Japanese artillery did want to cover their infantry and tried to suppress the artillery at the head of the city, but the ultra-slow rate of fire and the terrain disadvantage made their attack useless, and the gunners of the blue army only needed to see where the opponent fired, and then compared to the demarcated map to easily calculate the distance and the elevation angle of the artillery, after just a few minutes of rapid fire, the opponent's artillery was either destroyed or forced to evacuate!

From the build-up of the Japanese army to the launch of the attack, they will move forward in a rain of bullets with every step, and once driven to the battlefield, whether they advance or retreat, they will be attacked, in this case, the Japanese survival instinct makes them forget their fear for a while, when most of them fall to the shells, but these guns seem to fire faster than rapid-fire guns! Shells soon exploded next to the newly assembled Japanese troops. The lethality of the projectiles forged from cast iron was no worse than that of steel balls, and these cheap shrapnel easily blew up half of a squad of Japanese soldiers, while the rest of the people were trembling and lying on the ground, no matter how much the commander scolded and punched, they couldn't stand up!

However, even so, the Japanese attack was still advancing steadily step by step, and a steady stream of reinforcements from the rear rushed to the opponent's position with the front team, and at a distance of 200 to 300 meters, the Japanese army encountered the most severe test!

If the Katsura Taro division on the flank was blocked by sporadic machine-gun fire, then in the frontal attack, the Japanese troops of the two brigades faced a combined fire attack of machine guns, mortars and grenadiers! THE FEROCIOUS FIRE OF MORE THAN A DOZEN MACHINE GUNS SHOT OUT PIECES OF BLOOD IN THE CHARGING JAPANESE TROOPS, AND THE GRENADES THROWN BY 8 80MM MORTARS AND DOZENS OF GRENADIERS SENT A LARGE AMOUNT OF SHRAPNEL TO THE TOP OF THE JAPANESE TROOPS EVERY MINUTE!

After a series of grenades fell, a platoon of Japanese soldiers quickly disappeared into smoke and flames, perhaps the number of shrapnel was relatively small, but the impact of the oversized charge of the mortar grenade was even more terrible than the steel balls of the howitzer!

The flames and high-pressure air with the breath of death slapped at the unprepared Japanese soldiers like an invisible wall, and the simple shock wave could cause serious damage to the internal organs through the clothes and skin, and the hot air in the smoke and the poisonous gas after the combustion of picric acid completely destroyed the remaining soldiers' lungs! Many Japanese troops were not directly hit by shrapnel, and they still lost their combat effectiveness under the impact of the air wave. They were frantically tearing their throats, trying to get more air, and the scorching air hurt their lungs even more! Eventually fell on a foreign land.

When the Japanese rushed to the last 150 meters. Firepower poured in from all directions like a tidal wave, completely blocking the Japanese army that could succeed in front of the trenches! The dense rain of bullets from various side attacks and backward positions easily harvested lives, and the continuous fire of semi-automatic rifles was also unfolding at the same time, although not as good as submachine guns, these semi-automatic rifles were still a sharp weapon in close combat!

Often, 3 semi-automatic riflemen can block 2 squads of Japanese pigs! The three soldiers took turns shooting, quickly shooting the bullets in the magazine, and a series of gunshots like bursting beans made the last hope of the Japanese army come to naught! Even if some of the quickest or lucky guys were able to use their bayonets to deal with their opponents, they were quickly smashed into a sieve by bullets flying from all around.

"The Germans were very few in number, and the arrangement of the multi-layered line of defense further reduced the density of troops! But their firepower compensated for the numerical inferiority! Their squad of firepower can easily overwhelm one of our platoons! The bravery and bayonets of the Imperial servicemen were useless under a rifle that could shoot continuously! Except to be knocked down by a dense barrage of bullets. There is no use in making the corpses outside the trench pile higher and higher! The Germans committed no more than a thousand troops on the front, but they blocked 4 massive attacks by our two brigades! ”

Immediately, Shang Wen smelled the strong smell of blood mixed with the gunsmoke, and looked at the corpses on the ground in the distance, as well as the weapons that still spewed tongues of fire. He completely succumbed! This battle can't be fought! If the fight continues, what if the Japanese army of two brigades can capture this place? How can a division that has directly broken its skeleton continue to fight? You know, crossing the Yalu River is only the first step! There's a lot of battle ahead!

By 4 p.m., when the Japanese attack had finally stopped, and the Blue Legion as the defender had been exhausted from the day's fighting, Baron Schmidt admitted that if it had not been for a supply depot and almost no ammunition wireless, the Japanese could at least push off the two layers of defense outside and attack the city! On this day, the Blue Army suffered more than 300 casualties, including more than 100 in battle. And the casualties paid by the Japanese troops on the opposite side were at least 7 times that number!

"At least one brigade of the Japanese army was beaten badly! And tomorrow we will receive a regiment of Russian support! As long as we can hold on for one night, then the Japanese army will have no chance! That evening, Mackensen returned to the headquarters to discuss the next battle plan with Baron Schmidt.

"Up to 2 days! We must evacuate! Schmidt's opinion shocked Mackensen and others, although their own losses were not small, but most of them were Qing troops and Russian troops, and today's battle had broken a tooth of the Japanese, why go?

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