Chapter 24 Killing Doesn't Pay for Death
For the first time, Liu Jun went to the outskirts of the city in full armor, and this time, he would personally direct the battle against the Japanese 11th Brigade, and the location was outside the Great Wall.
There was no extra speech, just watched quietly for a while, and Liu Jun gave the order to march. This time, he is confident that he will have a good fight with the 11th Brigade, and he has hole cards. Gatling guns and modified guns without conscience.
This time he was very grateful to Li Hongzhang, among the materials sent by Li Hongzhang, there was actually a Gatling machine gun, although in Liu Jun's eyes, this always hand-cranked machine gun was compared with what Maxim and the Czech Republic in World War II, but although the sparrow was small, there were still intestines. Even this Gatling can also make the Japanese army unable to eat and walk.
This time, the bag of explosives in the No Conscience Cannon was not explosives, but pieces of broken iron were placed inside. The original unconscionable cannon only produced a powerful vibration to the surrounding people to hit the enemy, and this time, after the explosion, the pieces of iron flying everywhere would be the death of the Japanese army.
Liu Jun understands that the quality of the Japanese army has not yet reached the time of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression of the Republic of China, and the difference between the quality of the troops of China and Japan is so big, and now, it is almost at the same level.
Braving the bitter cold, the army reached its destination after a few hours of marching, and began to prepare for battle.
It is not far from the Great Wall, and from the top of the hill, you can faintly see the houses of the Great Wall. A dirt road winds its way from the direction of the Great Wall, passes under the mountain, and climbs south at Arthur.
Liu Jun scolded, went straight to the highest point, picked up the telescope hanging around his neck, and observed everything here. To the east was a flat land, and to the south and west there were several mounds of two hundred meters high, which were not conducive to defense, and the slope was too gentle, but it was suitable for an attacking battle.
At the foot of the mountain, the artillery is really pulling the field artillery down the mountain, and as for running without conscience, because it is light, it can be moved by one person, so it has already been placed on the top of the mountain and is being installed.
The artillery position is placed in the north, and after the Japanese army enters the ambush, all the artillery will be desperate to hit half the base number of shells first, as for the unconscionable artillery, there is no limit to this.
Liu Jun glanced at the Qing army who was digging trenches with shovels. Looking up and down again, down the mountain, more than a dozen Qing troops were dividing into several waves, digging pits on the façade and burying primitive mines. This was something Liu Jun came up with on the spot.
The fuse of the explosive package is about 10 meters long, then the fuse is wrapped in oilcloth, and then the explosive bag is buried, and the person who detonates it digs a pit in another place, jumps into it, hides it, and lights the fuse when the Japanese army is halfway through the march. And then boom, it's not worth killing people.
Liu Jun knew that the march of a brigade and the footsteps of the march could drown out the sound of the fuse. On the sly. However, because it was too close, Liu Jun still repeatedly reminded the Qing army that detonated it, immediately plugged his ears after igniting, grew his mouth, squatted in the pit, and never climbed on the ground.
Seeing that a Qing army jumped into the pit, several Qing soldiers were helping to cover the cover, and after checking the side to make sure that there was no trace, they were put back into the position.
The winter sunset has been slowly descending in the west, Liu Jun knows that this will be the warmest and calmest night, and tomorrow, this will be a deadly battlefield.
At seven o'clock in the morning of the 25th, more than 3,000 people of the 11th Brigade of the Japanese Army left Dalian on time and advanced to the Great Wall.
Oji Yasumun, who was riding on a horse, was in a very bad mood now, and before leaving today, he went to the 12th Mixed Brigade to kindly remind Hasegawa that the Qing army of Lushun should not be underestimated, but he was ridiculed for a while, scolding him for being frightened by the Qing army, and saying that he had lost the face of the empire and was not worthy of being a soldier of the empire. In this way, the great temple Anchun was very annoyed, and he returned to his camp in a hurry, assembled and left Dalian in advance.
As soon as the troops arrived at the Great Wall, Oji Yasujun sent a platoon of sharp knives into the town to search, and as he expected, the town was empty, like a ghost town.
The army did not stop, but passed through the town and continued to advance.
On the mountain, Liu Jun could already see the Japanese striker wearing a black military uniform and a rifle in his hand from the telescope. Looking back at the Qing army in ambush, everyone had a head ring woven from dead branches and weeds on their heads, and if they didn't look carefully, they would have seen it instinctively at all.
The Japanese army of more than 3,000 people, the forward has already left the city for a kilometer, and the rear team slowly walked out of the town. Zhong Lin, who was crawling next to Liu Jun, looked at the Japanese soldiers who were like black snakes, and asked a little anxiously: "Head, the Japanese army has such a long queue, let's fight that part." ”
"Let go of the strikers and strike the enemy's baggage in the middle and tail with all your might." Liu Jun said lightly.
There was a slight shaking of the ground, and the Japanese striker did not pay attention to this low top, and was walking forward under the noses of the Qing army. From time to time, Japanese cavalry would pass by at a rapid pace. Run in the direction of Lushun.
Liu Jun took a look, the Japanese artillery was actually with the baggage, although these field guns were not a very big threat to the Qing army, but they were always a threat.
With a loud bang, the Qing army lit the fuse and detonated the explosive bag in the middle of the road. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were around were killed in an instant by the shrapnel flying indiscriminately, and those who did not die kept wailing.
Boom, boom, boom, and several loud bangs one after another, and the Japanese troops in front of them also saw the same situation.
This sudden explosion made the Japanese soldiers panic for a while, and they all left the road as fast as they could, looking for cover, and searching for the enemy everywhere. And shoot blindly, this bouncing is so lively.
Oji Anchun, who was in the rear team, heard the explosion, thought he was ambushed, hurriedly jumped off his horse, looked for a bunker and hid, but after fighting for a long time, he didn't hear anything except the sound of shooting on his side, he felt strange, picked up the binoculars to observe, it was true, and quickly asked the soldiers to stop firing, and he came to the explosion site under the leadership of the guards,
I saw more than a dozen Japanese soldiers lying on the ground with their flesh and blood that had been blown up, and smoke was rising from a pit tens of centimeters deep where the explosion occurred.
Oji Yasuchun thought that he had been attacked by the Qing army, but what puzzled him was that except for the explosion just now, the whole place, except for the Japanese soldiers crawling on the ground and the dry grass blown by the cold wind, there was no movement, and he picked up the binoculars and took a closer look at the mountain, but he still didn't find any shadow of the Qing army. Oji Yasujun felt like he was hitting a ghost. The Qing army didn't know where to buy the secret weapon, and they lost more than 100 people without seeing a single figure. Hateful indeed.
Seeing that there was no movement, Oji Yasujun asked the Japanese soldiers to carry away the corpses of the Japanese soldiers and continued on their way. He also turned on his horse and, under the protection of the guards, went to the rear.
Liu Jun on the mountain saw that the Japanese army first stopped for a while and fired blindly around, and then became frightened again and marched again. That's what he wanted, to deplete the Japanese army's ammunition.
Long before the arrival of the Japanese troops, he had given a strict order that no matter how the Japanese troops shot before the attack signal was issued, they were not allowed to shoot back.
The time has come to give the signal of attack, and the signal is simple, it is a strafing Gatling gun.
Tata Tata Tata Tata The characteristic sound of the Gatling gun rang out, and the Japanese soldiers on the march fell like wheat.
The sudden gunfire made Oji Yasumun, who was in the rear team, stunned at first, and then he immediately understood, only to see that he was ambushed.
With a bang, he heard the terrible sound of naval guns again, and it was a continuous bombardment, listening to that sound, there were at least a dozen of them.
The sudden attack overwhelmed the Japanese army, and after a little stunned, the Japanese army who reacted began to crawl on the ground to attack, but it was easier said than done to attack in this small place, thousands of Japanese troops were crammed into a small space, and the shells that fell from time to time exploded in the crowd,
Seeing his troops being bombarded by the enemy like this, the cold sweat on Oji Yasumun's face also broke out, but as the brigade commander, he still reacted quickly and transferred the field artillery behind him to suppress the artillery positions of the Qing army, so that the panicked Japanese army could stabilize its position.
The 11th Brigade was worthy of being the main force of the 6th Division, and it was attacked so suddenly that it took less than 10 minutes to stabilize its position.
Liu Jun, who was observing the situation on the battlefield, saw that the Japanese army reacted so quickly that it took less than ten minutes to establish a defensive position. Moreover, the Japanese cavalry who had just walked to the front turned back and was sprinting towards the Qing army's position on the side.
"Zhong Lin, take the machine gun squad, block the enemy cavalry, enter the firing range and open fire immediately." Seeing this, Liu Jun shouted loudly.
The cavalry is highly mobile, and if you don't block it from a distance, let the cavalry rush over, and use infantry against cavalry, then the losses cannot be calculated numerically.
Zhong Lin ordered the street, quickly called the Gatling machine gun, and rushed in the direction where the Japanese cavalry was running.
"Tell the field artillery to concentrate firepower and destroy the Japanese artillery positions first, and the second unconscionable artillery team will immediately open fire and bombard the Japanese defensive positions when the Japanese artillery positions are destroyed."
Due to its short range, the conscienceless cannon was arranged by Liu Jun on the mountainside, just to take care of his range.
A series of orders came out of Liu Jun's mouth, and then the signal soldiers conveyed them everywhere.
Boom, boom, the field artillery that received Liu Jun's order aimed all the guns at the Japanese artillery position. After a while, most of the Japanese positions were destroyed, but there were still a few field guns firing desperately. Caused a lot of casualties to the Qing army.