The high mountains on the periphery, except for the banner mountain, were all taken by the revolutionary army, and Tanaka Yu's ferocity caught the revolutionary army who had just occupied the hilltop position by surprise. Originally, the troops were trying to take advantage of the little effort that the Manchus did not respond to rush to repair the fortifications and stock up on ammunition, but they were smashed by a shell, and although they had gas masks, they still suffered heavy losses, and finally had to retreat to the outside of the mountain to avoid the artillery fire of the Qing army.

The Qing army's mountain artillery opened fire, and the revolutionary army's artillery resolutely suppressed it, but many of the Qing army's artillery were arranged in mountain nests, and the artillery in the north did not have a firing angle for a while, and the mountain artillery on the high ground on the east and west sides had not yet gone up the mountain, and although the peripheral positions in the south were occupied very smoothly, it took time for the two mountain artillery battalions to be deployed, which is not to say that it took time for the artillery positions to be arranged, but that it took time for the artillery radio station to be deployed -- it took time for the electron tube to heat up, and because the artillery radio station weighed 100 kilograms, it needed to be hauled by mules. Under the bump of the mule's back, the capacitance and inductance parameters will change to a certain extent, so if the radio wants to communicate normally, it must be carefully adjusted after it is turned on. In the past, the standard deployment time of the entire station was one hour, but now it is unpredictable whether it can be brought forward.

An hour is not too long for the entire encirclement, but it is enough for the Qing army to rush to the high ground everywhere, although the artillery of the revolutionary army is constantly intercepting in front of the high ground, but it cannot be observed in the dark, let alone shelled to the top of the mountain, so it can only be blindly hit at the foot of the mountain, and the artillery gap left naturally allows the Qing soldiers to bypass the bullet area and rush up the ridge.

The soldiers of the revolutionary army under the ridge only felt that the Qing artillery bombardment had stopped, and when they loaded their bayonets and jumped to the ridge position. The Qing army also came up. In addition to the Liangguang soldiers, there were also Manchu and Mongolian new troops disguised as patrol battalions. The tall and short men rushed to the ridge position, and suddenly met the revolutionary army at the top of the hill in the dark night. It only took both sides by surprise. Ying Wei, the company commander stationed at Meiling Pass, only heard the "ah" of the black shadows on the opposite side and rushed up, so he also led people to meet them with bayonets, but the revolutionary army was silent.

In the night white-knuckle battle, the first must be brave, and the second must be silent. Courage is the essence of white-knuckle combat, and this essence is even more important in the dark. According to the summary of the analysis of the General Staff. Soldiers who have not experienced real night battles often fail to stab the enemy with their bayonets when they stab, or even if they do, they do not stab deeply. Get to the bottom of why. Or is it because people have a sense of self-protection in the dark, afraid that they will be injured if they rush too forward, so the soldiers often have already stabbed the target, but in fact, most of the bayonets only stop at a millimeter in front of the target. So. Fighting bayonets at night is more courageous than during the day.

In addition to being more courageous, the other is to be more careful, there are not a few soldiers who shout courage in the night, but only those who do not speak can listen to the sound and follow the sound to assassinate, and the more they are assassinated, the more chaotic the side that suffers will be. Just wait for them to vent their courage, and then the battle will be won.

The company commander should be guarded, and at this time, he was bent on his waist and holding a bayonet to kill the enemy. In the dark night, the Qing army at the front was just a row of shadows shouting and screaming, and many people were indiscriminately shouting and fighting with bayonets, and they didn't distinguish between friend and foe at all, but the more such people were, the faster they died. Just waited for the wave of short Qing troops in front of them to lose everything, and the tall Qing troops in the back rushed up again. These people were different from the garbage before, as soon as they fought, Ying Weizheng felt that these people and the patrol battalions stationed on the top of the mountain were all the way, and they were obviously trained in systematic night combat, but they were not yet proficient.

The black shadow was getting closer and closer, and Ying Wei struck a muffled hum, and after retreating, he quickly stabbed past. He was not sure, but he was rarely sure of the night battle, especially in the face of these tall Qing troops, he felt that he still had to strike first. Sure enough, after he stabbed straight to the target, he felt that the bayonet of the Qing army on the opposite side only grazed his waist, obviously he was a step faster, endured the sharp pain in his waist, and in the screams of the Qing soldiers, Ying Wei quickly pulled out the bayonet and retreated, and then he subconsciously checked to the right, and the gun body shook violently, and he just blocked the knife from the right.

But the right side is blocked, but the left side is not blocked. The black shadow rushed closer, Ying Weishu felt a cold thing tear through his cotton clothes and pierce into the left ribs, between life and death, he let out a false sigh, while shrinking back, while retracting the bayonet, trying to block the enemy's stab, but it was still too late, the bayonet had already squeezed into the gap between the ribs, and was heading towards the heart. Just as Ying Wei thought he was going to confess, the bayonet suddenly paused, and then retracted.

"Rookie!!" Knowing that he had escaped death, Ying Wei cursed with joy, and then shot back, the bayonet only stabbed into the heart of this rookie Qing soldier, and the moment he drew the knife, he was suddenly sprayed in the face by a warm thing, which was the blood of the Tartar soldier.

A target Qing army fought fiercely with a crippled mountain battalion of the revolutionary army at Meiling Pass, I don't know how many people had been killed, and only one of them staggered to the ground in the end, and he was already out of strength. When he was about to get up and fight again, he suddenly remembered with a whistle behind him, and a wave of reinforcements rushed up in time, only to stabilize the gradually retreating revolutionary army front.

"Fuck Zhang Yueyun!" Ying Weizheng scolded happily, and the soldiers around him heard his voice, and only pounced, and without saying a word, they picked him up and dragged him down the mountain, they thought he was seriously injured.

Raid the position and fight for the reinforcements of the Qing army, the first regiment and one battalion of the 29th brigade that assaulted the Meilingguan Heights were basically exhausted, and they were replaced by Zhang Yueyun of the first regiment and the second battalion. As soon as the Qing soldiers went down, the battalion commander Zhang Yueyun asked the soldiers to return to the west of the mountain to prevent the Qing army from shelling again, but he obviously overestimated the coordination ability of the Qing soldiers.

In the headquarters of the Qing army, all the living town commanders, assistant commanders, and standard commanders who are not on the front line have arrived. Hey...", everyone stared at Tanaka Yu, who was sitting in the center. There were revolutionary troops everywhere, the high ground on the top of the hill was completely unconnected except for the banner mountain, and the Bagu Bridge was even broken through by the revolutionary party, and the revolutionary army like a tide only stirred up the whole valley in chaos, shells and grenades exploded everywhere, and the 26th town, which was closest to Baguqiang, had completely lost its command, and after the rupture, the chaotic soldiers were everywhere. The only thing that can be maintained now is the second trench after the Bali Bridge, which is guarded by the Sixth Association of the Manchurian and Mongolian New Army, and if it is broken through here, then the entire army will be finished.

Without the heart to care about everyone's vision, Tanaka Yu asked the communication soldier who was contacting the front line: "Is there still no news from Meiling Pass?" The reinforcements sent should also go up the mountain. ”

"Report to the marshal, the reinforcements sent over the phone call will not work." The communications officer was sweating profusely, and there was no way to contact him, "It is estimated that the telephone line was blown up by the revolutionary party again." ”

"Hey!" Tanaka Yu slapped his thigh and said: "For today's plan, it's better to open up a retreat and retreat immediately, now the revolutionary party is blocked at Jigong Bridge, but the artillery fire over there is so fierce, I can't see that the revolutionary party will be killed at dawn." ”

"But retreat isn't a solution." Zhentong Tiezhong said, "Meiling Village, Zhutangkeng, and Leiwuyuan, which you 25 towns guard in the south, aren't there no news?" I see that those places have been occupied by the revolutionary party, and I don't know what happened to the Meiling Pass, so the banner mountain is still guarded. In my opinion, it's better to wait for Cai Yi's reinforcements. He had already received the wireless telegram, and he would arrive at dawn at the latest. ”

The Qing army was also equipped with a radio station this time, but it was a spark gap type, weighing hundreds of kilograms, and the antenna was pulled all the way to the heights of Anshan Temple, and before the revolutionary army occupied this place, a telegram asking for help from Cai Yi's department had already been sent, which was actually the reason why Tie Zhong dared to accuse Tanaka Yu's 25 towns of losing their southern peripheral positions. He thinks that as long as the Jigong Bridge is defended now, then when Cai Yi arrives at dawn, the revolutionary party will naturally retreat, and even if Cai Yi does not arrive, when he can see it in the daytime, those chlorine cannons will be enough to repel the revolutionary party.

At that time, the corpses of the revolutionary party were all over the ground, but it was the credit of his iron loyalty, but he remembered how Zaitao explained to him before entering the mountain, that is, to kill the revolutionary party well, and then also take pictures of their tragic scenes and show them to the foreigners. For this reason, when Zaitao came, he also brought a camera team to Feng Guozhang, just to shoot a movie about the defeat of the revolutionary party.

"The revolutionary party's artillery does not need to be less than ours, I dare to conclude that their artillery team is not only the north mark, I am afraid that they will also set up artillery on the top of the mountain, and then we will be pressed and beaten by them." Seeing that Tie Zhongzhi, who had come to his senses, wanted to make meritorious service, Tanaka Yu only slapped his thigh angrily. If it weren't for Tie Zhong's high rank, he would have broken through when the revolutionary party did not fully control the southern checkpoint. At that time, as long as the revolutionary army in the south is wiped out, Meiling Pass and Qihao Mountain will be occupied, and the revolutionary party will be completely suppressed.

"Blindly retreating at night is simply a taboo for soldiers, once the soldiers are in the camp, what should be good? At night, I couldn't see my fingers, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find the way out. Tie Zhong didn't have the appearance of the six gods without the owner just now, and the more he said, the more he felt reasonable, "This matter, I still have to blame the military commander for being too light on the enemy at the beginning, if my town is left outside Meiling Pass, then we can attack and retreat and defend, and it will be the current field." ”

Tie Zhong said that Feng Guozhang was not good, but he sat in the field fortifications that Feng Guozhang forced to excavate, which only made the officers and staff officers around him angry, but now the command is indeed in his hands, and he said that if he does not retreat, he naturally cannot retreat. (To be continued......)