Kuroki felt a chill for Zhen. Looking at the attacking Qing army with some fear, Kuroki Weizhen recalled the meeting at Dashan Rock.

Attacking Lushun twice, both times failed, making Dashan Yan extremely angry, after scolding the divisional brigade officers of the Second Army. He also began to investigate the commander of Lushun, and the battle was fought twice, and he didn't even know who the other party was, which was indeed a bit sad.

The intelligence department of the Second Army also counted the face of Dashan Yan, pointing out that it took three days for the intelligence department to investigate and find out that the current general of Lushun is called Liu Jun, and this person was only a small captain not long ago, and in this short period of one month, he has been named a general by the Qing court.

After Dashanyan got the information, he never dreamed that the Qing army, which had lost thousands of people in his fight, was actually a man in his early twenties. However, Dashanyan did not despise Liu Jun, but held a special meeting to analyze Liu Jun, the guard of Lushun. And warned all armies that when encountering the Lushun army, they must be extremely careful.

Kuroki and the Qing army did not fight once or twice, in his opinion, the Qing army is a virtue, as long as a charge, the Qing army will drop a lot of equipment and flee.

But now he looked at the Qing cavalry outside the city, which had already surrounded his cavalry. It's really different from other Qing troops.

Yingkou City, the winter sun has hung in the west, and it is about to fall into the horizon, but now the east gate of Yingkou is still full of gunfire, and the entire east gate is full of shouts and explosions.

Many Qing troops swarmed up, lifted the ladder, and under the cover of the Qing army behind, they ran towards the Yingkou city wall.

The bullets on the city wall fell like hailstones, and many Qing soldiers carrying cloud ladders were shot and fell to the ground. However, just after the Qing army carrying the ladder fell, a Qing army would take the ladder and rush forward again.

Luo Dacheng's cavalry did not live up to Liu Jun's expectations, and simply wiped out all the cavalry units that left the city, and gained a foothold outside the city, occupying the position of the Japanese wing.

Due to the Japanese artillery attack, the Qing army suffered heavy losses, and Liu Jun had to order to abandon the occupied positions and retreat outside the range of Japanese artillery bombardment.

After the subsequent arrival of the second division, Liu Jun ordered the troops to be stationed, and began to order the attack on Yingkou and the encirclement of Yingkou at the same time.

All the artillery of the artillery regiment was placed outside the city, aimed at the camp entrance and began to bombard. After the shelling, a regiment of the 2nd Division began to storm under the command of the regiment commander Ran Xu, but was pushed back by the Japanese army. And so it was attacked three times. They were all taken back by the heavy artillery fire of the Japanese army. This made Zhong Lin, who was the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, scold in front of the position, and personally led the troops to charge. However, the resistance of the Japanese troops who retreated to the city was too stubborn. The 2nd Division simply did not get close to the wall.

Seeing that the troops were beaten back again, Zhong Lin suddenly put the military hat on his head still on the ground: "What did Ran Xu do to eat, why was he beaten down again?"

After the cavalry eliminated the Japanese cavalry wing, Liu Jun came down and attacked the east gate with the main force of the troops, which was relatively easy to break, and the other three gates were just surrounded and bombarded with artillery. For this reason, Liu Jun gave the first regiment that the second division could fight the most to the east gate, but now, after fighting for several hours, he didn't even touch a single brick.

Before he finished scolding, Liu Jun's voice sounded outside: "Zhong Lin, what the hell are you doing?" I have been fighting paralyzed for several hours, but I still haven't broken through the city gate. ”

When Zhong Lin heard that it was Liu Jun's voice, he hurriedly picked up the military hat from the ground and put it on his head. He knew that what Liu Jun hated most was the untidy appearance of the army.

watched Liu Jun walk in in with a black cloak in a military uniform and a blank face. Zhong Lin hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Head, I'll organize an attack immediately." "With that, he rushed out of cover.

Liu Jun stopped Zhong Lin, who was about to run out, picked up the binoculars and looked at it for a while, and said to Zhong Lin: "Stop fighting, stop attacking." The Japanese artillery fire was too fierce, and the impact could only increase the casualties of the troops. ”

The attacking Qing army heard the retreat order and retreated, and Ran Xu, the commander of the first regiment of the second division, saw that the attack had stopped, and was very unconvinced and wanted to come to Zhong Lin to ask why he stopped the attack, but when he came in and saw where the military seat was, he also stayed honestly and didn't dare to talk more.

Liu Jun looked at Ran Xu and asked, "What about the casualties?" ”

"Report to the military seat, more than 400 casualties. My regiment still has combat effectiveness, and I ask the military seat to let our regiment attack, and I promise to take the camp entrance. ”

In less than half a day, the first regiment suffered more than 400 casualties, and Liu Jun now only has more than 20,000 people in his hands.

Stop Ran Xu from talking. Liu Jun asked Ran Xu to go down and rest first. Then came to the bunker mouth, Zhong Lin saw this and hurriedly handed the telescope to Liu Jun.

Looking at the cannon fire and gunfire that erupted from time to time on the city wall, Liu Jun lowered his head and pondered for a while, then handed the telescope in his hand to Zhong Lin and asked, "Why don't you use artillery to collapse the city wall?" ”

Zhong Lin had a bitter face: "Head, use it, the field artillery is not so powerful at all, can't it be opened?" ”

"Isn't it useless to have no conscience?"

"The range of the unconscionable cannon is too close, and the city wall cannot be hit here, and I have also tried to move the unconscionable cannon forward, but it will be destroyed by Japanese artillery fire as soon as it is erected."

This is indeed not good news, after listening to Zhong Lin's words, Liu Jun picked up the binoculars and looked at the east gate of Yingkou again.

Outside the East Gate, a day's bombardment and stampede had already broken the snow into snow, and the entire East Gate was full of mud. Where is there still frozen land.

What should I do, Liu Jun closed his eyes and searched carefully in his head.

"Hey, if only I could open the tunnel"

Tunnel, Zhong Lin's words suddenly reminded Liu Jun, Liu Jun remembered a later big battle, the opponent tens of thousands of people were surrounded in several villages, but the artillery fire was too fierce, the opponent could not fight, and finally the commander carried out tunnel tactics, and dug the tunnel to the front of the house dozens of meters, and then launched an attack.

"That's right." Liu Jun slapped this thigh, stood up, and told Zhong Lin the way.

After Zhong Lin heard this, he smiled and went down to make arrangements.

Liu Jun's method is very simple, that is, from here, let the soldiers start digging tunnels and form a zigzag to move forward. Until you get into range of the Unconscionable Cannon.

After Zhong Lin went out, he urgently transferred a regiment of troops and began to dig a tunnel.

On the city wall, Daji Anchun saw the piles of corpses of the Qing army under the city, he is also frightened now, today Kuroki Weizhen handed over the command of this place to him, every time the Qing army charged, he was terrified.

The Qing army rushed to the city wall in groups, the people in front fell, and the people behind stepped on the corpses and moved forward, if it weren't for a few cannons and a few Gatling guns deleted from his own city wall, he really didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to hold this place.

"Brigade commander, what do you see the Qing army doing?" The chief of staff, who had been standing next to him, asked after looking at the Qing army outside the city by the faint light.

Hearing the chief of staff's question, Yasumi Oji hurriedly picked up the binoculars and began to observe.

Outside the city, the cold wind like a wolf howl came into the ears of Anchun of the Great Temple, and there were a lot of sprinkled sounds, he raised his binoculars to look at the source of the sound, and actually saw a lot of dirt being pulled out, and he could vaguely see a lot of Qing soldiers digging with rifles on their backs.

"What is this for?" Oji Anchun put down the binoculars in his hand and looked at the Qing army outside the city suspiciously.

One way or another. The Qing army did this, it was definitely not good for itself, and after thinking about it for a while, he ordered the artillery on the city wall to open fire and stop the Qing army.

Boom, the artillery on the walls began to roar again. However, what makes Oji Anchun helpless is that the artillery on the city wall has fired, and the other party will stop digging, as soon as you stop the shelling, the Qing army will start digging, which makes Oji Anchun also feel helpless. also felt a little uneasy, he always felt that the Qing army was definitely not full of food and had nothing to do where to dig the soil.

Hmph, watching the Japanese army eat deflated, Liu Jun, who was crawling on the observation port, snorted coldly and stood up, he didn't believe in this method, at that time, hundreds of thousands of weapons and many more powerful weapons than now were helpless. Not to mention the Japanese army now.

Standing up reassuringly, Liu Jun threw the binoculars onto the table next to him that had been piled up with ammunition boxes.

Taking the boiling water sent by Zhong Lin, Liu Jun warmed his hands, and just put the water to his mouth, Liu Jun asked, "Where are the cavalry of Shoushan?" ”

"Already at Simon," he said.

Well, Liu Jun nodded before blowing and drinking the water into his mouth.

The Qing army of Shoushan, coming from Haicheng, is four-legged, if it can't reach Yingkou today, I'm afraid that the title of Shoushan, a famous hero, will plummet in Liu Jun's place. However, hearing Zhong Lin's reply, Liu Jun still nodded with satisfaction.

After all, if a hero of a famous nation is greedy for life and afraid of death, then this nation has nothing to be proud of.

After drinking the tea, Liu Jun once again observed the Qing soldiers who were digging in the earth, turned his head, and said to Zhong Lin, who was standing beside him: "Be sure to finish it before dawn tomorrow." ”

"Don't worry, I'm sure to blow up the city gates tomorrow."