Chapter 090 The Great Marshal
The soldiers guarding at the entrance of the village were stunned by gunfire, and more and more soldiers threw down their weapons and escaped from the position.
Some people keep being shot and fall to the ground, almost all of them with back guns when they escape.
Zhou Charter was stunned by the scene in front of him and had long known that the Qing army was a coward, but he really didn't expect that he would be a coward.
The Japanese army is still 200 meters away, and these Qing soldiers don't even have the courage to shoot a shot!
"Come back, all the fuck back!" Zhou Charter shouted.
"Bum bang..." Several shots were fired, and several Qing troops ran in front of them and fell to the ground.
Lai Chuanwu shot at the deserter!
The running Qing soldiers were stunned and looked at the smokey rifle in Lai Chuanwu's hand, all of whom looked pale.
Lai Chuanwu held a rifle, and his face was twisted like a fierce ghost: "Go back to the position! Whoever runs and kills him!"
An old soldier with a wine-smash nose cursed: "Dastar Lai Chuanwu, what do you think you are..."
With a bang, the wine lees nose fell to the ground, the forehead was opened by a bullet, and the brain splashed on the earthen wall beside him.
The soldiers trembling back to the position, picked up their guns and shot at the Japanese army.
Zhou Charter gave a thumbs-up to Lai Chuanwu, but Lai Chuanwu was ungrateful. He sneered at Zhou Charter and shot a Japanese soldier who rushed into the entrance of the village.
The second sentry finally stabilized its position and fought with the Japanese troops rushing to the entrance of the village.
However, more Japanese troops rushed over, and the Japanese army had realized that the main force of the Qing army had retreated to Tian'an through Niu Xieli. It was a small force guarding the village. The task of this small unit was to buy time for the main force to retreat.
Of course, the Japanese army will not give time to the Qing army!
Zhou Charter jumped into a private house, which was the tallest building in Niuxi. Fortunately, he escaped the shelling of the Japanese army. Now, the Japanese army rushed into the village, and the Japanese artillery was afraid of accidental injury and stopped firing.
Zhou Charter lay on the roof, condescending and had a broad vision. The 1888 Committee's rifle bullets were in vain, and seven or eight Japanese soldiers who rushed into the village were killed in a row.
Looking up, from the direction of Nanshan, the Japanese army was almost overwhelming.
Behind the Japanese army of the three squadrons is followed by a Japanese brigade, and behind a brigade headquarters mixed into brigades, only a few hundred meters apart.
The mixed brigade came out, and Oshima Yichang wanted to combine attack and pursuit into one!
Suddenly, a strange scene appeared in front of Zhou Charter.
On the hillside about 400 meters away, the Japanese army running all over the mountain suddenly stopped and dodged to both sides and gave way a main road. A group of cavalry roared over. Where they passed, the Japanese officers and soldiers who had been advancing quickly stopped and stood up to salute the cavalry.
The cavalry rushed to a hill, stopped moving, and unfolded in a fan shape. In the middle, a snow-white tall horse appeared. The horse was not an oriental horse, but a Western horse with pure blood. The horse's head was high, strong, and four hooves were strong.
On the back of the horse sat a general in a pure white military uniform. The general's hair must be white, his face was gloomy, and his deep concave eyes emitted a breathtaking cold light.
There is a big star on the general's shoulder!
On the hill, the soul of the Japanese army, the originator of the Meiji New Army, the army marshal, and the commander of the First Army, Shan County, were spurning his horse and proud of the smoke-rolling battlefield.
The white horse hissed and the wolf smoke rose everywhere. At that moment, the gunfire in the cow stopped, and all the Japanese officers and soldiers stopped charging to pay tribute to the great Japanese marshal.
Without friends in Shan County, there would be no Meiji New Army that shocked the world!
Without Yamagata, there would be no Japanese rise!
Without Yamagata, there would be no government around the Japanese military!
Without friends in the mountains and counties, there will be no war!
It was him who promoted Japan's war machine. In a sense, the emperor and Hirofumi Ito are just his executors.
Shan County is shrewd, cold, arrogant, domineering, patient and decisive!
His thought is action, and action is thought!
annex North Korea, defeat the Qing Dynasty, defeat Russia, occupy Manchuria, move the capital to Fengtian, and enter the Central Plains! Yamagata Aritomo designed a grand plan that almost copied Nurhachi for the island country of Japan.
For this grand plan, some friends in Shan County have devoted their lives.
For this grand plan, he can endure humiliation, bear heavy burdens, and even go bankrupt.
He put up with the American gunboats, British opium, Russian intimidation, and French clamors!
Eliminate strong vassals, overall westernization, develop industry, revitalize education, new judicial policies, enrich the country and strengthen troops, build a new army... All of these are promoted step by step according to his design. Don't be impatient, steady and steady.
Now, Japan has finally embarked on a prut road according to his design. Just like the rising sun on the East Sea, it shines dazzlingly.
Now, Japan can finally take action!
The action is cautious, and Japan, which has just started up, is still very unconfident. Can the Western powers allow an Eastern power to appear?
From Ryukyu to North Korea, Japan has carefully tested again and again and has achieved exciting results again and again.
The Americans retreated, the British shut up, the Germans watched coldly, and the Russians were powerless! The Qing Dynasty shouted around and returned empty-handed.
When Higashigo Heihachiro sank Britain's Gao Shenghao, Yamagata finally confirmed that the Western powers recognized a strong Japan!
All this depends on strength!
And strength is the result of decades of humiliation.
For the first time in his life, Yamagata felt the strength of Japan, the strength of the West, and the weakness of the Qing Dynasty.
You can start from the Qing Dynasty! That is the lifelong wish of friends in Shan County.
Cung Huan is the first shot fired by the Japanese army into the Qing Dynasty! Some friends in Shanxian County don't want to miss this opportunity to make history!
He rode to the forefront, wearing his dazzling pure white marshal's uniform.
His subordinates dissuade him from wearing a marshal's uniform, which was so conspicuous that he would become the target of the Qing army's shooting.
The arrogant friend of Shanxian refused the dissuasion of his subordinates. He didn't believe that those East Asian sick people who were hollowed out by opium could hit him in the chest!
Yamagata Yupeng is going to perform a grand costume performance to witness the first battle between the Japanese Army and the Qing Army! Witness the first great victory of the Japanese Army's foreign war!
Zhou Charter doesn't know any friends in Shan County, but he knows his marshal's uniform.
The first army of the Japanese army, the highest commander of the Japanese garrison, appeared in his shooting field.
The visual distance is 400 meters, with good visibility and breeze.
For most soldiers, this distance is too far, but that is the best distance for the effective lethality of the 1888 Commission rifle. The bullet can penetrate into the target's body and cause a large area of tearing by rolling, and eventually remain in the target's body instead of drilling out.
At this distance, the lethality of a bullet has been invisibly doubled.
Zhou Charter raised the 1888 committee rifle and aimed at the eyebrows of the general.
He won't miss!
However, Zhou Charter's rifle was mute.
The magazine is empty! Zhou Charter hurriedly pulled out the magazine and touched the bullet bag, which was also empty.
"Bullet! Give me a bullet!" Zhou Charter shouted under the eaves.
A headless Qing soldier threw his bullet bag on his body on the roof. Zhou Charter opened it and his heart was half cold. There were still three bullets left in it, but it was the bullet of the Caspsburg rifle, which did not match the committee rifle.
On the hill, the gloomy eyes of a friend in Shan County shot two provocative cold lights at Zhou Charter. He saw a Qing soldier lying on the roof in a hurry, but his body was more straight and motionless like a white jade statue.
"Bullets, bullets for the rifle of the Laozi Committee can also be made by Hanyang!" Zhou Charter shouted.
Several bullet bags were thrown up. There were a variety of Mauser, Tunaide, Henry and Spencer, but there were no bullets of the committee rifle.
The army of the Qing Dynasty is equipped with a variety of weapons, and the British, German, French and American firearms are almost all the most advanced weapons. Entering the barracks of the Qing Dynasty is like entering the World Expo, which is dazzling and overwhelmed.
The Qing army keeps up with the world trend in terms of equipment. The officers of the Qing Dynasty believed that as long as their soldiers were armed with the best guns in the world, they could be invincible.
However, a variety of firearms use a variety of bullets. There are so many varieties that even the battalion officers can't figure out what guns are in the camp and how many kinds of bullets should be equipped.
The officials of the Qing Dynasty did not realize that the bullet of a good gun was complete, which was equivalent to a fire stick!
When one gun came out, any of the Qing army's guns were no less than the Murata rifle of the Japanese army. However, the Murata style of the Japanese army is a unified equipment, and the whole army only needs one bullet. The bullet of the Japanese soldiers is empty, and it is the applicable bullet.
But the soldiers of the Qing army want to go all over the world to find the bullets that can be fired by the gun in his hand!
Zhou Charter threw the messy bullet bag down the roof, and Lai Chuanwu ran over and threw a musket.
Zhou Charter kicked down the Mauser gun. The distance between friends in Shanxian County is beyond the effective killing range of Mauser.
Only Zhou Charter's committee rifle and Yao Xi's Winchester can reach that distance.
Zhou Charter stared with two blood-red eyes and looked at the white jade-like mountain county on the hill.
The eyes of friends in Shan County are contemptuous.
However, soon, his contempt disappeared, and Zhou Charter's eyes made him feel a little scared.
That's a strange feeling. After living for decades, he has never felt timid, even in the face of the butcher's knife of the Satsuma Lord.
However, in an inconspicuous small village in North Korea, among his most contemptuous Qing army, he found a pair of eyes that made him subconsciously pull the reins, as if he were grabbing a life-saving cable in the vast sea.
He remembered the unruly eyes on the roof!
A friend from Shanxian raised his right hand.
The white horse hissed.
Countless shells roared to the roof with a pair of terrible eyes.
The violent explosion made the houses split apart. The smoke dissipated, and it became a flat land.
The Japanese army rushed into the cattle break like a trend.