Chapter 004 Surprise

Yisho Azono wrapped up the woman's wound, tidyed up the woman's clothes and trousers, and took a gentle breath, as if he had completed a major project. Then he raised his head and looked at the fort.

On the hillside, the Japanese officers and soldiers who were blown up rushed to the fort in groups.

"Idiot!" Yoshio Asano cursed coldly.

The officers and soldiers who were not killed thought that the battery was a safe place, but they didn't know that those deadly shells were fired from the battery. The Erlongshan Fort had already fallen into the hands of the enemy. They were moths to fight the fire!

"Dad..." A strange gunshot sounded in the direction of the fort.

The Japanese officers and soldiers running in front of them fell down a large area like cut leeks. Before the Japanese army behind them could react, they ran forward desperately. In the sound of gunfire, the Japanese officers and soldiers flew flesh and blood.

Mano Yoshio suddenly stood up.

He saw a tongue of fire spit out on the fort. Wherever the fire tongue went, the Japanese officers and soldiers turned over.

"heavy machine gun!" Yoshio Asano muttered.

That was the fire tongue spewed out by Maxim's heavy machine gun, which ruthlessly devoured the lives of Japanese soldiers!

The Maxim heavy machine gun has just been launched, but many Western countries still have reservations about this weapon. It is generally believed that heavy machine guns have strong firepower, but the consumption of ammunition is huge and a huge waste. Japan is poor in resources and has a negative attitude towards the use of heavy machine guns. Therefore, until now, the Japanese army has not been equipped with Maxim heavy machine guns.

Yishio Asano has heard of the Maxim heavy machine gun, but has never seen a physical object.

Today, he not only saw this legendary new weapon, but also witnessed its great power.

On the hillside, Japanese officers and soldiers are full of corpses.

Under the double blow of artillery fire and heavy machine gun fire, more than 500 officers and soldiers of a brigade were killed and injured.

A lieutenant captain led more than 30 of the last living soldiers, picked up the Murata rifle and charged the fort.

Until now, Japanese officers and soldiers have figured out that the attack came from the fort and the enemy was on the fort.

However, more than 30 officers and soldiers were swallowed up by the fire tongue of Mark Qin's heavy machine gun before they approached the chest wall of the battery.

Yoshio Asano saw that a row of bullets cut across the captain's waist and abdomen and cut the team into two pieces.

The gunfire stopped.

There is a dead silence in the position.

The cavalry brigade was completely destroyed, and more than 500 officers and soldiers were killed.

Sadly, they did not see the shadow of the enemy until they died, except for the overwhelming shells and the tongue of heavy machine guns.

The only one who was lucky to see his opponent was Yoshio Asano.

On the fort, a group of soldiers in gray Western-style military uniforms rushed down. These soldiers held Type 88 rifles with pistols and grenades around their waists. They acted quickly and quickly enveloped the position of the cavalry brigade.

Yoshio Asano smiled bitterly, and he finally understood why the end of the cavalry brigade was so tragic.

Because the soldiers who rushed down from the fort had no braids on the back of their heads.

They are Zhang Jun, and they are Zhang Jun who is armed to the teeth. Their individual equipment even greatly exceeds that of the Western army, which is three times higher than that of the Japanese individual soldiers!

In the bridge river, Asano Yoshio was defeated by the poorly equipped Zhang Jun. Now, Zhang Jun's equipment far exceeds that of the Japanese army, and his failure is inevitable.

That's Zhang Jun's search team cleaning up the battlefield.

Yishio Asano is the only survivor of the cavalry brigade. If he is a prisoner of Zhang Jun, he will be captured by Zhang Jun for the second time!

As a soldier, this is a very disgraceful thing.

Yoshi Mano raised his legs and wanted to run away, but he saw the Qing woman's pale face half leaning under the locust tree and trembled slightly.

Her injury is too serious. If she stays here, she will definitely die.

Yisho Asano leaned over to the woman, and the woman looked at him timidly.

"Yours, don't be afraid, mine, save you."

Mano Yoshio picked up the woman and ran to the valley behind the locust tree.

There was no gunshot behind him. Obviously, no one in the cavalry brigade is alive, and Zhang Jun's search team no longer need to shoot.

......

On the Erlongshan Fort, Guo Erpole is reporting the results to Zhou Charter: "Master, 500 members of a Japanese cavalry brigade have been destroyed by our army."

"Are there any prisoners?"

"Zhang Zuolin went down with the search team. It seems that they didn't catch it alive."

Zhou Charter nodded: "The casualties of our army?"

"A fool got carried away and fell off the chest wall and broke his leg. There are no other casualties. Guo Er pole said.

Zhou Charter took a long breath.

Since the beginning of the Qing-Japanese War, the combat injury ratio between the Qing army and the Japanese army once reached 1:50. In North Korea, Zhang Jun and the Japanese army fought several times, and the best result was also one to one.

Today, Zhang Jun actually annihilated a Japanese cavalry brigade without any casualties!

This is due to the suddenness of the battle, but this also shows that Zhang Jun's equipment and tactical literacy have greatly surpassed the Japanese army.

What is more gratifying to Zhou Charter is that only more than 200 guards of Guo Erzhu participated in this battle, and Feng Guozhang's troops did not participate in the battle.

Last night, when the New Year came, Zhou Charter's troops began to act.

The goal of Zhou Charter is Lushunkou, which is a logistics support base for Japanese troops to operate in the Qing Dynasty, a temporary anchorage for Japanese transport fleets and joint fleets, and a distribution center for Japanese logistics materials. Military supplies sent from Japan to the battlefield must first arrive at Lushunkou, and then from Lushunkou to various battlefields. Similarly, the Japanese Shandong battlefield combat troops and the logistics support of the joint fleet are also based on Lushunkou. Once the Lushunkou is occupied, it is equivalent to the old nest of the Japanese army.

There are two key points to control Lushunkou. First, it is Erlongshan Fort, which is the land portal of Lushunkou. Once the Erlongshan Fort is occupied, Zhang Jun can** and enter the harbor. The second key point is the Golden Mountain Fort. The Golden Mountain Fort is located on the northwest side of Lushunkou, guarding the port waterway. The coastal defense artillery on the Golden Mountain Fort can cover the whole Lushun Port and waterway and seize the Golden Mountain Fort. Zhang Jun does not enter the harbor, but can also use the large-caliber Armstrong Coast gun above to control the whole Lushun Port.

Erlongshan Fort and Golden Mountain Fort rely on each other.

The Erlongshan Fort is a land defense fort. Its main function is to guard the rear of the Lushunkou to resist attacks that may come from land. Therefore, when the Qing Dynasty built the Erlongshan Fort, it mainly deployed light artillery with small caliber and strong mobility on the fort. The Japanese army After occupying the Erlongshan Fort, a mountain artillery squadron was deployed on it. The artillery fire of Erlongshan Fort can cover the surrounding areas 360 degrees.

The Golden Mountain Fort is a coastal defense fort. Its main function is to resist attacks from the sea. When the Qing Dynasty built the Lushun Fortress, it ranked the sea attack as a key defense object. Therefore, on the Golden Mountain Fort, there are two 30cm British Armstrong cannons, as well as German 15cm cannons, 8cm vault guns, and 15cm mortar guns, all of which are long-range guns. Among them, the Armstrong Coast gun with the strongest firepower has a range of 20,000 meters, and the shell can penetrate the iron armor of the armored cruiser, but this huge cannon cannot be turned and can only face the sea. In addition to Armstrong artillery, most of the other artillery on the Golden Mountain are also facing the sea, and only a few small-caliber artillery can turn around.

The weekly charter divides the troops into two parts. He personally led the guard company. Riding the night, he quietly touched the jungle area in the southwest of the Erlongshan Fort. Feng Guozhang's direct battalion quietly followed the guard company.

Erlongshan Fort is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Erlong Mountain is not steep. It is just a small hill surrounded by dense forests. However, the fort built a five-meter-high chest wall, and the chest wall is densely covered with a fortress. There is only an exit on the south side, and a tall iron gate is set up at the exit, which isolates the fort from the mountains around Erlong Mountain. This makes Erlongshan Fort an independent military fortress higher from the surrounding terrain.

Only 136 officers and soldiers of an infantry squadron were deployed on the Erlongshan Fort. Last night, Shanji received an order from the commander of Dashanyan and ordered him to strengthen the defense force of Lushunkou. Then Shanji transferred the cavalry brigade originally under the Third Division to Erlong Mountain and deployed it on the northwest side under the fort.

According to reason, a squadron of infantry and a brigade of cavalry have a total strength of 800 people. In addition to the original artillery on the fort, the strength and firepower configuration on Erlong Mountain are enough, and even greatly exceeded.

You should know that the war at this time* is that in Liaodong, the front of the Japanese army has advanced to a sea city 300 kilometers away from Lushun. According to the idea of local governance, there is no need to have such a large-scale troops in Erlong Mountain. It was only because of the order of Commander Dashanyan that he reluctantly transferred the cavalry brigade to Erlong Mountain. The task of the cavalry brigade is not to assist in defending Erlong Mountain, but to stay here for a short time and then transfer to Jinzhou. On the Lushun defense map of the mountain, Jinzhou is the focus of Lushun defense.

The idea of local governance also affected the defenders of Erlong Mountain. The Japanese troops stationed on the Erlongshan Fort did not expect that a Chinese army would fall from the sky on Chinese New Year's Eve.

At 4:00 a.m., it was the coldest time of the day. The guard went out of the jungle and touched the chest wall.

The soldiers set up the human ladder, and Zhou Charter took the lead and was the first to climb to the chest wall.

Subsequently, Guo Erbar climbed up the chest wall with sharp knives, and they easily solved the sentries on the chest wall - each Zhang soldier was equipped with a sharp dagger, which was also a new product of Hanyang Arsenal.

The sharp knife row opened the gate of the fort, and the guards filed in.

Half an hour later, the guard company quietly rushed into the Japanese barracks and solved a squadron of Japanese troops in the quilt with daggers. The whole battle was only a gunfight at the fort headquarters. The squadron commander and his two guards were killed in the headquarters by Zhang soldiers with pistols, and the headquarters was underground. The gunfire was dull, and the cavalry brigade under the fort was drinking wildly. They didn't notice the three dull shots at all.