Chapter 003 Shells Falling from the Sky
January 25, 1895, the first day of the lunar calendar, 10 a.m., Erlongshan Fort, northwest side.
Yoshio Asano, the commander of the cavalry brigade of the Third Division, was awakened by a noise, rubbed his painful forehead, and hurried out of the fortress where the brigade headquarters was located.
Last night, Yoshio Asano drank all night's stuffy wine. When it was almost dawn, he climbed on the table and fell asleep.
After receiving the order to stop boarding the ship, the cavalry group gathered and stood on the dock, looking at the tall mast of Yaju Mountain disappearing on the sea level in the distance. The team of more than 500 people was so quiet that even their horses did not hiss.
The cavalry brigade rushed from Lushun Port to Erlongshan Fort overnight. On the way, there were curses in the team from time to time, and the soldiers were full of resentment.
The officers and soldiers reached a consensus that this is a unit looked down on by Shangfeng and friends and neighbors. The reason is that the commander of the army is a defeated general! This unit does not have the right to participate in the battle. For soldiers, being deprived of the right to fight is tantamount to depriving them of everything!
After the cavalry brigade arrived at Erlong Mountain, it entered the designated assembly site, the northwest circular fortress of Erlong Mountain, which is a model of the military engineering of the Qing Dynasty. The permanent fortress made of reinforced concrete can withstand the bombardment of artillery. The ring chest wall of the fortress is covered with countless shooting holes. In front of the fortress is a gentle slope, with It is conducive to the cavalry charge.
After the cavalry brigade entered the ring fortress, I don't know who opened the wine bottle, and the smell of wine permeated the whole ring fortress.
The whole army inexplicably entered a state of binge drinking.
This is a serious violation of military regulations. However, the military regulations seem to have lost their effect on the officers and soldiers of the cavalry brigade, and the officers and soldiers are expressing their dissatisfaction with the officers in their own way!
There were drunk officers and soldiers everywhere, and Yoshio Asano completely lost control of the army. Finally, Yoshio simply found a bottle of wine, sat alone in the brigade headquarters, and drank a muffled wine.
The war is too far away from this army! Glory and merit are also far away from this army!
The wine is not good. It is a local sorghum wine. Some of them are staggering.
The north wind roared, and the lead clouds were dense. On the Erlong Mountain Fort, there was a bleak. The trenches were full of officers and soldiers who were drunk. Their horses, in the stables not far away, snapped their noses and swept their tails lazily.
The noise came from under a huge locust tree in front of them, and a group of soldiers surrounded the locust tree, making bursts of curses and laughter. The voice was mixed with women's crying.
Yi Mano dragged his heavy steps and came to the locust tree and separated the crowd. He saw a well-dressed soldier Cao jumping on a Qing woman and tearing the woman's clothes. The woman cried and protected her body desperately, and the Japanese soldiers around him sprayed alcohol and bursts of laughter.
Asano Yoshio grabbed the back of the military Cao, grabbed him from the woman's body, and slapped him in the face: "Eight grids! What are you doing?"
The military Cao covered his face, staggered and stood up straight. He saw clearly that it was Asano Yoshio, but there was a burst of laughter: "Welcome the captain to join the soldier's game!"
"Presumptuous!" Asano Yoshio waved his hand to Cao Yiquan.
Jun Cao was knocked to the ground, but stood up stubbornly and stared at Yoshio Asano coldly.
Yoshio Asano walked to the woman, and the woman stalked under the locust tree and timidly protected her body.
"Yours, get up." Yoshio Asano said.
The woman shook her head in pain, and there was blood on her thigh, which was stabbed by the bayonet of the Japanese soldiers.
"Wrap her." Yoshio Asano said.
The soldiers around all looked at Yoshio Asano coldly, and no one obeyed the order.
And the soldiers around them squinted at their officers. Under the locust tree, there was a breathless dullness.
Ano Yoshio knew that he could no longer let these Japanese soldiers obey him! Because of him, the soldiers lost the opportunity to land in Rongcheng and make achievements!
Yoshi Mano took off the dressing bag from his waist, squatted down, took out the gauze with one hand and pressed the woman's thigh with the other.
The woman suddenly howled and didn't know where her strength came from. She grabbed the sword hanging from Asano Yoshio's waist, took the sword out of its sheath and cut into Asano Yoshio's neck.
Yisho Asano closed his eyes in despair.
A funny idea appeared in his mind - the cavalry captain of the Great Japanese Empire died at the hands of a Qing woman!
But listening to the woman's painful moan, Jun Cao's bayonet stabbed into her shoulder, and the sword in the woman's hand fell to the ground. Hot blood spewed from the woman's shoulder and splashed on Yoshio Asano's face, which made him tremble.
The army Cao smiled and held the bayonet tightly and slowly slid the tip of the knife under the woman's ribs. The severe pain twisted the woman's face and opened her mouth to make a sound. Yoshio Asano heard the sound of bone breaking, and the woman's whole left arm was cut off from her shoulder by a bayonet.
The soldiers around him laughed again.
Mano Yoshio grabbed the clothes of the army Cao, slapped the army Cao fiercely, took the opportunity to lift the army Cao up and fell to the ground fiercely. The army Cao got up from the ground, danced a bayonet, pointed to Asano Yoshio and cursed: "Lost general!"
Yushio Asano grabbed the sword on the woman's broken arm and used his strength to cut at Jun Cao.
At the beginning of the knife light, the military Cao's head was separated, and a cavity of dark blood sprayed on the snow, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of blood.
The soldiers around looked at Jun Cao's body in a daze.
The north wind blew, and snowflakes floated in the sky.
"Loser!" There was a deep curse in the group of soldiers.
All the soldiers clenched their swords and stared at him viciously.
The severe pain and blood loss put the woman in a semi-coma. Yoshio Asano threw away the sword, ignored the angry soldiers, squatted beside the woman, skillfully unwrapped the bag, and bandaged the woman's broken arm's shoulder.
"Kill him, he is a traitor!" Someone howled furiously.
The soldiers raised their swords, and Lin's swords were raised in mid-air, emitting cold light in the fluttering snowflakes.
Mano Yoshio carefully wrapped the woman's wound, completely ignoring the scolding of the soldiers and the beating of the knives. He just found it funny. A major captain was cut into mud by his subordinates, which was also a strong mark in the military history of the Japanese Empire!
The harsh beep came through the air.
A shell exploded in a stable not far away. In the roar, a horse head cut off by shrapnel flew over and landed beside Yoshio Mano.
The soldiers' swords stopped in mid-air, and all the soldiers stared at the stable ignited by shells. A raging fire broke out in the stable, and the injured horses sounded in despair. The living horses struggled desperately to get rid of the reins tied to the manger.
However, more shells roared, and the violent explosion engulfed the stables, covering the entire position garrisoned by the cavalry brigade.
In the explosion, there was a hysterical howling of Japanese soldiers: "We have been attacked!"
The bodies of the blown horses and people flew around the position.
The panicked soldiers hid aimlessly - no one knew where the attack came from. Erlong Mountain was not in Shandong, Linjinjiang, or Haicheng, and the nearest Qing army was at least 300 kilometers away.
Death made a frightening roar over the position, and dense shells covered almost every corner of the position. The Japanese officers and soldiers who hid into the trenches and fortress, together with their bunkers, were blown into the sky, and their broken arms were scattered everywhere.
All the soldiers were running away. Under the locust tree, only Asano Yoshio and the semi-conscious Qing woman were left.
Yeo Asano seriously wrapped the woman's wound and turned a deaf ear to the explosions and dying screams around him.
The woman moaned in pain.
"Don't be afraid, that's a 7.5cm wild gun." Yoshio Mano muttered that as a soldier, he could distinguish the model of the Qing army's artillery.
Another shell exploded not far away.
"The light Krkbershan cannon, with a caliber of 5.5 cm, should be a product imitated by the Qing Dynasty." Yoshio Azano tightened the bandage on the woman's shoulder and was surprised. The attacker was extremely well equipped, completely different from the Qing army he had encountered in the past.
Another series of roars, and the explosions were mixed with shells fired by the Japanese 7cm mountain cannon.
"7cm mountain cannon at Osaka Arsenal!" Yoshio Asano muttered.
He suddenly heard clearly that the attacker's shell was originally fired from the Erlongshan Fort!
The position of the cavalry brigade is below the northwest side of the Erlongshan Fort. Erlongshan Fort can overlook the position of the entire cavalry brigade. In other words, there is no dead angle to bombard the cavalry brigade from the fort.
The whole cavalry brigade was completely exposed to enemy fire.
The enemy has already occupied the fort, and the defenders on the fort were completely annihilated by the enemy without realizing it. Now, the enemy is attacking the cavalry with captured Japanese artillery.
That's an enemy falling from the sky!
Yoshio Asano accurately judged the enemy's position and firepower. However, as the captain of the cavalry brigade, he suddenly found that the war had nothing to do with him.
His current task is not to command the troops to fight, but to bandage the poor Qing woman in front of him.
Because he no longer thinks he is a soldier, let alone an officer. The Japanese army no longer recognizes his military status from officers to soldiers!
Asano Yoshio wrapped the woman's shoulders and began to wrap the woman's thighs again.
Probably lost too much blood. This time, the woman did not resist, allowing Yoshio Asano tore open the cotton trousers on her thigh, and Yoshio Asano carefully removed the blood stasis around the wound.
The sound of gunfire and dying screams sounded around Yoshio Asano.
The whole position is shaking. Only under the big locust tree, between Yoshio Asano and a strange Qing woman is surprisingly quiet, as if it were a pure land.