Chapter 157 Eve of the Great War

Lifting the gun is the only self-designed and manufactured firearm in the Qing Dynasty. The gun is nearly 3 meters long and requires two people to operate at the same time. One carries the barrel in front and the other aims at the rear. Lifting the gun is extremely bulky, but the firepower is also strong, some similar to gun grenades.

However, modern warfare pays attention to speed and mobility, and to a large extent, firepower has to make concessions for mobility. Because of this, the Japanese army abandoned wild guns and used mountain cannons to ensure mobility.

The Qing army carried a large number of equipment to carry guns, but it was contrary to this theoretical idea and abandoned mobility in order to improve firepower. What's worse, the firepower of lifting the gun is not as powerful as expected. In the actual battle between Pyongyang and Chenghuan, its slow loading speed is fully exposed.

Lifting the gun did not stop the Japanese charge. The Japanese soldiers who jumped off the war horse were immediately mixed with the mud. The embarrassment on the horse's back was swept away and replaced by a flexible individual soldier leap forward.

In less than ten minutes, the Japanese army advanced 200 meters, and the face of the defenders was vivid on the earthen.

There were no casualties in the two hundred meters of advance. In the face of the fast-moving target, the shooting accuracy was greatly reduced. However, the Qing army guarding the earthen kept being shot.

The advantage of Japanese individual combat has been brought into play.

The resistance of the Qing army is getting weaker and weaker.

With 50 meters left, Yoshio Amano pulled out his sword and issued a charge order.

Five minutes later, Yoshio Asano stood on the earth wall.

However, he didn't see a Qing soldier!

The ambush Qing soldiers have pulled out of the enclosure first. To Yoshio Asano's surprise, they withdrew neatly and did not throw down the bodies of the dead!

This is completely different from the Qing soldiers in his mind before. In Seoul, Chenghuan and Pyongyang, once the Qing army fails in the battle, it will immediately turn into a defeat. The officers and soldiers scramble for their lives, and no one pays attention to their dead companions.

However, today, this enemy withdrew from the battlefield with the bodies of their companions!

This shows that this is a strong and cohesive army.

A cohesive army is terrible!

However, cohesion cannot be cultivated overnight. Yoshio Asano can't imagine that the Qing army will undergo substantial changes in just one month.

The only explanation is that it is not the Qing army!

However, Yoshio Asano clearly saw a braid on the back of the guard's head.

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From Dongguli to the foot of Taili Peak Mountain, the resistance gradually intensified, and the defenders fought with the Japanese army relying on the gradually rising terrain and muddy roads. However, unlike the Qing army in the past, their tactics are very flexible, not a simple mechanical resistance, but more like delaying tactics.

This is very different from the previous performance of the Qing army. In the past, the Qing army always gathered heavy troops and launched a positional battle with the Japanese army. Once it was broken through, the whole front immediately collapsed.

However, this time, the obstruction and retreat of the Qing army were more like a premeditated attack. The retreat was not resolute, and the retreat was not panicked, and they were intercepted step by step.

Under the interception of the Qing army, it took half a day to mix into a brigade from Dongguli to the foot of Tuili Peak Mountain.

Aokigen ordered the troops to stop moving forward. Under the peak of the fetus, the soldiers are divided into two ways.

The mixed brigade has two regiments under its jurisdiction. One team launched an offensive formation on the spot and completed the encirclement of the tire peak, while the other unit gathered south of the tire peak and prepared to go to the Qiaochuan River.

Aokiyuan, the head of the brigade, is determined to pull out the nail hanging alone on the south bank of the bridge and Sichuan.

intelligence shows that the one stationed at Taili Peak is a regiment of the Qing army. The regiment is the first of the Qing army. It is said that after Zhou Charter was appointed as the general of Yizhou by the imperial court, he abandoned the traditional formation of the Qing army and adopted the German army.

Aokiyuan expressed a reserved approval for such a reform.

In the iron-plate military system of the Qing Dynasty, such a strange flower appeared, and Zhou Charter was able to make a difference. Aokiyuan praised this.

However, compilation is only a form, and the connotation contained in the form is the real essence. The formal reform and connotation reform of an army are often two different things. The reform of the Japanese army, from form to connotation, has lasted for nearly 50 years, and it is extremely difficult for Zhou Charter to achieve it overnight. Therefore, Aokiyuan's approval is with reservations.

Aokiyuan is generally contemptuous of the defenders on the peak of the fetus.

In fact, Aokiyuan has long had a clear understanding of Zhang Jun's deployment. Although Zhang Jun is large, his strength is insufficient, and two-thirds of this unit is still using cold weapons.

However, Zhou Charter actually divided his troops to defend. There are two regiments in Qiaochuan, one regiment in the tire peak, and the two troops are ten kilometers apart, separated by a big river. It is incredible that such a division of troops to defend.

Zhou Charter, who was stunned in Hufeiling, would use such a faint trick!

Aokiyuan soon found the answer: there is no danger to defend outside Yizhou, and the only thing Zhang Jun can rely on is a river and a mountain. Zhou Charter has no choice.

Moreover, intelligence shows that Zhou Charter's wife died, which made him distracted and made the wrong choice, which was inevitable.

Since the enemy can divide the troops to defend, the mixed brigade can also divide the troops to attack!

The Japanese army has gained experience from past battles. The combat effectiveness of a Japanese squadron of more than 100 people and the combat effectiveness of a 500-person battalion of the Qing army. This is due to the advantages of the Japanese army's equipment and training level.

Now, the two regiments of the mixed brigade are divided into two troops. Each regiment is about 2,000, which is enough to compete with the 5,000 Qing army, while there are only more than 2,000 defenders in Tailifeng, and there are more defenders of the Qiaochuan River, but it will not exceed 4,000. The Japanese army has a huge advantage in both directions - fish and bear paws can be both. Get it.

The encirclement of the fetal peak progressed smoothly, and the second squad responsible for attacking the mountain quickly cleared the enemy's guard post at the foot of the mountain and surrounded the fetal peak like an iron barrel.

The first team responsible for crossing the river is ready to go.

The sky is approaching dusk, and under the peak of the fetus, sporadic gunshots sounded from time to time. As the sky became darker and darker, the gunshots gradually subsided.

The peak in the autumn rain has become a huge dark shadow.

Aokigen ordered the troops to rest in place and start operations after dawn.

The drizzle rained all night, and the two armies were swordstaking!

However, there was no sound at the foot of the mountain. In the dark night, only the sound of sand rain resounded all over the mountains and valleys.

Aoki Gen knew that it was the silence before the war.

It's a creepy silence and awe-inspiring silence!

In the rainy night, thousands of officers and soldiers of the two armies did not close their eyes!