Chapter 79: Bloody Earth (1)

The first batch of troops from Sichuan were troops from Sichuan. The ones who served as the admiral of a province were Bao Chao, who was known as a powerful general in the Guangwu New Army, nodded to Deng Mao and Chen Yu, who were the first to set out on the expedition, "Fight well, don't let brothers see the jokes of our Sichuan soldiers!"

"Don't worry, the men are all good, they can't lose anyone!"

"Be careful." Bao Chao waved his hand, "Go."

Deng Mao and Chen Yu each led a battalion of soldiers to marches to the water. The target they were to attack was Sanyuan Castle. Like the Guangxi soldiers attacked by the Guangxi soldiers led by Hu Damao, and the Ono Castle attacked by the Fujian soldiers led by Yan Guangru, they are both important towns under the jurisdiction of Hiroshima Prefecture. Among these three landing sites, Fukuyama Castle is the most special. It has a wall structure, and the city is high and the pond is deep, so the attack is the most difficult.

Deng and Chen waded from the left and right sides of Sanyuan City without any danger. With a wave of their hands, the soldiers launched rapid defense in an orderly manner. This was the Qing soldiers who had received many training in the camp, each occupying the beach and the port, but did not take action. Their main task was to create conditions for the subsequent troops to land, and wait for more troops to arrive before they would launch the next action.

Deng Mao waved and called a team in the camp, "Xiao Li, take people three hundred meters away to deploy defense. If the enemy approaches, shoot and greet immediately."

"Yes." Team Li nodded and agreed, leading the troops to advance with guns. He had just walked out without twenty meters. A sharp sound of shells passing through the air came into his ears, "The enemy is firing cannons! Leave down!"

The sound of cannons suddenly exploded in front of the Qing army's positions and beaches. Large swaths of sea sand mixed with shrapnel and smoke instantly harvested the lives of Qing army soldiers. Deng Mao and others fell down at the same time, shouting, "Where is the cannon?"

"It was called from the city! Sir..."

The twenty-four-pound shell fell into the Qing army's position before the Qing army had figured out the situation. The formation suddenly became panic. Deng Mao lay on the ground and shouted as much as possible, "Don't panic! Everyone lie down, everyone lie down!"

A moment later, the Qing army's ships began to cover artillery fire. The power of the carrier-based artillery was far beyond that of mountain artillery and field artillery. Within a few minutes, smoke exploded from Sanyuan City, and the enemy's artillery fire was suppressed.

Deng Mao felt that the artillery fire from the enemy had been sparse, so he got up from the beach, and the Qing soldiers who were frightened by the enemy's artillery fire seemed to have not woken up from the battle just now, "The teams are reporting the damage!"

The Qing army had only more than twenty casualties, and the situation was not very serious; but what was more miserable was that the Li Guzheng, who had just taken the order, had one leg broken by shrapnel, lost too much blood and fainted.

Without any help, Deng Mao had to order people to carry Li team back first, and then appointed his deputy as team leader on the battlefield. "Be careful! Take people up and see where the enemy is? How many people are there?"

The new Zhao team was nodding and agreed, leading a team of soldiers to set off for the second time, but it seemed that God deliberately did not allow the Qing army to complete this landing battle smoothly. Not far ahead, there was a dense tree and bush forest. Team Zhao's mind was calm and his intuition told himself that there was danger here!

Before he could wait for this thought to disappear from his mind, a black light came into his eyes, "If you have an enemy, pay attention!"

As soon as the words fell, the dense shrubs growing by the sea separated from the 'hula' and a horse appeared in front of the Zhao team. The latter was so scared that "ah!" that the Japanese attack was accompanied by this shout, and it started instantly!

The Japanese rider was obviously trained for a long time. With his legs clamped, the war horse under him rushed forward. The horse head knocked the Qing soldier standing in front of him and rushed out. Before he could get up from the ground, the sound of bullets sounded, pushing the unlucky guy to death on the ground!

More and more Japanese cavalry appeared in front of a team of hundreds of dozens of people. Through the gaps in the bushes, I don’t know how many cavalry there were. The infantry hid among them. Gun Zheng Zhao was so scared that he was stunned, “This?”

Since Senggelinqin was killed in the Heilongjiang front in the 11th year of Xianfeng, the Mongolian horses he led and even the cavalry units used between the provinces of the Qing Dynasty have gradually become warts in the army. After the battle between China and France and Vietnam, they have completely withdrawn from the army. But unexpectedly, there are actually some in the Japanese army? Most of the Qing soldiers have not received tactical training to deal with cavalry!

It was time to say that! The Japanese army kept hitting and killing a Qing soldier for a while. After the leader shouted, thousands of horses galloped out of the hidden bushes, and fired rifles in his hand repeatedly, bringing down the Qing army infantry who had not yet woken up to the ground.

More than half of the soldiers in a team fell to the ground in an instant, and the remaining "Oh my God" screamed strangely and turned around and ran away! The rifles in their hands were shot back randomly, but they were not accurate at all, and they all hit the sky.

There were more and more Japanese cavalry, like coaxing ducks, driving the enemy from behind and rushing to the front-line positions. Seeing that the terrain was wide open, it was conducive to the cavalry assault, the Japanese commander pulled out his battle knife and shouted, "Roar!" He urged the war horse tightly under his crotch and galloped.

Deng Mao was commanding the troops to collect the dead and wounded people who had just been bombarded. The dead were not mentioned, and the injured had to be sent back to the ship for treatment. Unexpectedly, the people in front shouted and neighed, and the group was lively. Looking up, the Japanese cavalry was behind, and the team he sent was in front, and the desperate price retreated here, "Sir..., Sir, they are the enemy's cavalry!"

"Shoot!" Deng Mao was the first to pick up his rifle and began to shoot at the cavalry that was swarming in. This was a very fierce attack. Thousands of Japanese war horses carried their drivers, running forward and shooting with rifles. The distance between them was quite close. Within a few breaths, the cavalry reached the forefront of the Qing army's position.

The Qing soldiers were on the battlefield for the first time and had almost no combat experience. Seeing the enemy and his horse attacked, the big nostrils of the war horse and the fierce face of the horse knight were clearly visible. They were all scared and at a loss. They held a rifle in their hands, but even forgot to raise the shooting. They stood there steadily until they cut the throat of the Japanese saber, and they realized that they had pressed the wound with both hands and collapsed in the sequel of blood!

The first battalion of soldiers led by Deng Mao was defeated by the Japanese army as soon as they got into the battle! If there were no timely joining the third battalion led by Lin Fengtu who followed them, I was afraid that the entire army would be wiped out!

Despite this, the Qing army's first move on the battlefield could not be recaptured so quickly. The defeated soldiers of the second battalion combined with the combat power of the third battalion and the gunshots were extremely fierce, but the Japanese army showed no sign of retreating and were not even dispersed.

The Japanese cavalry had huge targets. Some Qing soldiers could gradually begin to relax and fire bullets calmly. Every time a shot was fired, it could almost cause casualties to the other party to a rider or war horse. However, more and more Japanese troops rushed up and rushed up like locusts, without fear of death at all.

The Qing army's front-line positions were severely tested and were forced to retreat step by step by step by step by step by step by step. In the end, they could only rely on wooden boxes of different materials piled on the shore to form a simple position to block the enemy. The Japanese cavalry did not dare to be too close, "Those who hold their own position and leave the position without permission shall be shot immediately!"

Deng Mao walked a few steps behind the scattered line and shouted loudly. When the officers and soldiers of the first battalion saw Lord Guantai, they gave up their actions of dodging guns and guarded themselves. "Stand in line, aim at the eye army, and guard them all!"

The battle soon entered the **. As the Japanese army entered the range of the Qing army's rifle, the powerful firepower of the Qing army began to work. However, the Japanese army then bullied the infantry and pressed up. Bullets were spilling down on the defense line, hitting the wooden box and making a thud. Some of the unlucky ones penetrated the box, hitting the body, and fell down and shouting for help.

The blood was instantly swallowed by the beach, leaving only a red ball, which looked brilliant and cruel under the sunlight. The accurate heads of the Qing soldiers increased more than before. At this time, the first battalion of soldiers led by Lin Fengtu finally strided across the deep water area, scrambled to the mudflats, and came behind the second battalion.

The Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, but it seemed that they were intentionally trying to compete with the Chinese team for bravery. Every time a Japanese soldier fell, his teammates would immediately fill his position. The Japanese cavalry rushed to the front of the defense line and suddenly spread out to the wings, leaving a passage at least five meters wide in the middle. The Qing army officers and soldiers on the defense line were first shocked, and then they saw the Japanese infantry behind them rushing towards them with their guns as if they were mad!

Deng Mao and others immediately knew that the Japanese army's fatal blow had arrived. "Stand by, aim at the Japanese, and fire!"

At this moment, the soldiers on both sides of the battlefield had forgotten themselves and lost their sense of self. On this huge battlefield, they were all very inconspicuous part of themselves. What they could do was to fight according to the officer's destiny, and to continuously shoot bullets in the rifle at the enemy that was coming.

A distance of two hundred steps. For these soldiers, it was only more than ten seconds. This was enough for the gunmen on the Qing army's scattered line to shoot out fifteen bullets in their magazines. Even the time to replace the magazines was not paid, so they opened the simple defense line they built with wooden boxes for the fierce impact of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army's yellow khaki uniforms instantly ran over the Qing army's positions like a tide, leaving only the bodies of both the enemy and us all over the ground! The soldiers of the two battalions of the Qing army were all destroyed by the enemy on the tidal flats within an hour at the beginning of the war!

A very small number of Qing soldiers who escaped to the sea were shot and killed in the sea water one by one as if they were shooting targets. As the waves floated and sank, the sea water under them was dyed dark red.

Bao Chao could see clearly on the Wansu number and closed his eyes in pain, "Fire the cannon, why not fire?"

"Bao Junmen, the enemy and our army are entangled. At this time, fire artillery will blow all our people to death?"

"Fuck! Are you blind?" Bao Chao cursed in anger and pointed at Fang Boqian, "The surname of Fang, I have so many brothers killed them on the beach by the little Japanese. What are you talking about to me? **Your ancestor!"

Fang Boqian was well-educated and did not argue with him. He looked at the mudflat for a few times, turned around and ordered, "Order the entire ship to prepare for artillery fire, and three rounds of rapid fire!"

The Japanese army came and went like the wind, and it was not as powerful as the Qing army's ship-based artillery. They turned on their own and disappeared quickly behind the mudflats. However, the Qing army knew from top to bottom that if there were no more powerful means, if they adopted this tactic of adding fuel, they would probably encounter the same dilemma!

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