In the steep spring breeze, two Chinese blue pigeons fluttered their wings on the north coastline of the Ludong Peninsula and flew lightly over Weihaiwei and Yantai Port.

Then Fold the feather to the north, take a short rest on Xiaozhushan Island at the mouth of the Bohai Sea, and continue to fly directly to Port Arthur along Cheyou Island, Tangji Island, Daxiaoqin Island, and Huangcheng Island in the sunset in the west.

"Fluttering—"

"Goo, goo."

At about 10 o'clock on the night of the 7th, two carrier pigeons flew to Port Arthur one after another.

Immediately, the staff headquarters of the Lushun Regiment of the New Army, which was originally lit with only a few oil lamps, lit up one by one in the large dark courtyard.

Immediately afterwards, with the General Staff as the center, the sporadic candlelight spread in all directions towards Port Arthur.

"Doot, doot, doot-"

In the silent night, with the roar of the high-power generator on the west bank of the Lushun Dragon River, all the barracks and mountaintop batteries in the entire Lushun became bright.

"Hum—"

At the Xigang Wharf, Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Jiyuan, Jingyuan, Laiyuan, Pingyuan, Guangbing, Zhennan, Zhenbei, Zhenxi, Zhendong, Zhenzhong, and a formation of ten torpedo boats headed by Zhongjia began to raise anchors and raise fire and pressurize.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!"

One after another, fireworks that ordered an all-out attack rose from Baiyu Mountain on the east bank of the Dragon River, and exploded one after another brilliant fireworks in the sky.

"Whoa, whoa—"

Then, in the north of Baiyu Mountain, the big case mountain, the small case mountain, the chair mountain, the pine mountain, the Erlong mountain,—— clusters of fireworks compete in the night sky.

Immediately, seeing the fireworks in the city, the temporary headquarters of the Lushun Regiment of the New Army also began to set off large fireworks.

"All Running Attack!"

"All the artillery, the artillery carts, all the mules and horses, march in formation."

"Run forward, run forward!"

With the issuance of orders one after another, more than 7,000 troops of the 3rd Brigade of the Arthur Regiment began to launch a full-line attack on the front line of Yingchengzi.

The field artillery regiment of the regiment Cheng Moyi followed suit.

"Yoxi, it's really a beautiful firework; These pigs know that they have escaped the dog's life, and these days they are setting off guns and fireworks, which is really shameful! ”

The captain of the 1st Brigade of the 14th Brigade of the 12th Brigade, who was responsible for the first-line defense of Xiaoxigou, Kurosawa Shozo Shaozo, said with disdain: "The fertile land of this continent is specially occupied by the warriors of the empire!" ”

"Shaozuo, why am I not looking at the west right?"

Captain Ito Mitsuki, the leader of the 1st Squadron, who was sitting next to Shozo Kurosawa and roasting the fire, looked at the darkness to the west with a puzzled face.

"What could be wrong?"

Kurosawa Shozo turned his head to look west disapprovingly.

At this time, the fireworks of the Qing army in the west had stopped being set off, and under the starry sky, they were originally in the fields in front of Yingchengzi, Jiangzi Mountain, and Dianzi in the northwest.

There should have been a little flash of fire (that was the Qing army's alert illumination line), and everything fell into darkness.

"Looks like they were all on before the fireworks were set off, right?"

Kurosawa Shozo was also a little unsure for a while, and looked at several Japanese lieutenants by the fire with a puzzled face.

"Shaozuo, it's lit, I just looked at it and it was on."

Second Lieutenant Hideo Takeda, the leader of the Japanese squad, had a little trembling in his mouth, feeling that tonight's events seemed too weird.

From Shishangou to Jiangzi Mountain, Yingchengzi, Wang's compound, and Dianzi in the northwest, in this distance of six or seven miles, in just a few minutes of setting off fireworks, sixty or seventy piles of warning flames of the Qing army were extinguished at the same time.

If there are no ghosts in this, then it is really evil.

And it's a big ghost like the Yaki Orochi!

"Yaga! What do these clear dogs want to do? ”

Kurosawa Shozo stood up suddenly, and shouted with a look of surprise: "Haven't you already signed a contract, what are you doing, do you want to die!" ”

The surrounding Japanese soldiers looked up in surprise, and Captain Kurosawa Shozo didn't know why he was so angry.

"Captain, they just put out the fire, this, this seems ,—— weird, but we can't make trouble with the Qing army because of this."

Although the first squadron leader, Captain Ito Mankaji, was also surprised by the Qing army's actions, but he was not too surprised: "Maybe the Qing army is going back to the Qing Dynasty, so-"

For the following reasons, Ito Mankaki can't go on.

It can't be said that the Qing army was so kind when they got out of the way, and they put out the fire, right?

You must know that on this defensive line, the Japanese army put a total of two infantry brigades, nearly 2,000 troops; However, it is only a visual estimate in peacetime that the Qing army on the opposite side is definitely not less than the strength of a wing.

So many people are full of food and support, come to set off fireworks, extinguish bonfires and play?

'What exactly does the Qing army want to do?' ’

What do they want to do! ’

A vaguely crazy thought, even they couldn't believe it, rolled and roared in the minds of every discolored Japanese soldier.

"Bang!"

On the guard post one mile in front of the Japanese defense line, a cold gunshot suddenly broke out, shaking the hearts of the 2,000 Japanese soldiers in the dark night.

"Kill!"

"Bang, bang, bang—"

Suddenly, in several Japanese outposts in the darkness ahead, a large number of gunfire and shouts rang out.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

At this time, even a pig can understand what is going on, and in an instant, from Xiaoxigou to Xidianzi, two thousand Japanese soldiers shouted and shouted.

"Pick up the gun and go to the earthen fortification!"

"Quick, quick!"

The first captain of the 24th Wing, Kurosawa Shozo, and the second captain, Murakoshi Chiyoyoshi Shaosa, both shouted angrily and ordered the troops to enter the linear earthen fortress position to block the Qing army's surprise attack.

"Tick Tick Tick Tick-"

A loud trumpet sounded in the dark night, and the sound spread for more than ten miles.

"Kill!"

In the midst of the roar, the 7,000 infantry of the 3rd Brigade of the New Army instantly overwhelmed the six secret posts of the Japanese army, and then held the rifles with military stabs in both hands and pounced on the Japanese defense line in the east.

"Shoot, shoot!"

In Xiaoxigou, Xiaowentun, Shagangzi, Xidianzi, and the various Japanese defense lines, the angry shouts of the commanders of the Japanese positions sounded everywhere.

"Bang, bang, bang—"

Suddenly, countless gunfire rang out densely under the bright moon, firing into the darkness to the west.

"Rush!"

Under the shouts of the officers of the battalions and companies of the 3rd Brigade of the New Army, the 7,000 New Army slammed into the Japanese position like a wave.

"Kill!"

Suddenly, the sound of gunfire, the sound of knives on the Japanese position, and the heart-rending shouts after being stabbed filled the entire heaven and earth.

"On the bayonet, on the bayonet!"

At this time, the commanders of the various positions of the Japanese army woke up to the fact that the single-shot Murata 13-type rifle and the bayonets of the Qing army were fighting each other in the dark night, and they were simply looking for death, and they shouted and ordered the soldiers to immediately put on the bayonets.

"Kill the dogs!"

"Ahh

"Yaga, Yaga!"

"Bang!"

In the moonlight, on the dark earth field, above the seven-mile-long Japanese front, 7,000 new troops violently strangled 2,000 Japanese troops, and everywhere there were gunfires and desperate screams.

At this time, the Japanese squadrons stationed on alert from Muchengzi to Youjia Village and Lizishan Village were trembling in horror by the dense gunfire coming from the west, as well as the charging horn of the new army that they still remembered.

Then they all yelled angrily: "Bastard, bastard, didn't you say you were ready to surrender?" Words without faith, words without faith! ”

At the same time, he hurriedly galloped to Nanguanling to report the attack of the Qing army in Lushun.

At 10:55 p.m. on the night of the 7th, more than 7,000 troops of the 3rd Brigade of the New Army launched a fierce attack like a storm against the 2,000 Japanese troops of the two brigades in the Japanese positions east of Yingchengzi.

At 11:30, after holding out for nearly half an hour of stubborn resistance, the Japanese infantry finally could not resist the murderous strangulation of the 3rd Brigade.

Leaving behind a position full of corpses, the whole line collapsed.

The Forces nouvelles then gave full pursuit.

At 11:50 a.m., torches were lit up on the entire line of the original Japanese army, reflecting every excited face.