The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

Chen Zhaochang quickly explained: "There is no intention to start a war..."

Wu Luzhen interrupted him: "This is the territory of the Qing Dynasty. You have crossed the border brazenly and violated the principle of peace between the two countries. Our Beiyang Army is the army of the Qing Dynasty. Do we need to report to you Japanese somewhere?" "

The Japanese soldier's expression froze and he was speechless.

Wu Luzhen turned her head, looked around at the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Army behind her, and said proudly: "There is not a single coward among the soldiers present today. If you Japanese army want to start a war, Wu has nothing to fear!"

After listening to his words, the people behind became commotion, eager to try.

When a soldier is raging, a general will be raging, and vice versa.

The Japanese soldier's face changed slightly, and it was his turn to explain: "We are just here to suppress bandits, and have no intention of starting a war with the Qing Dynasty."

Chen Zhaochang was a little confused.

Things were not quite what he thought.

Wu Luzhen glared at the Japanese soldier: "Since you don't want to start a war, what the hell are you doing to show off your power with me? Go back and tell Saito Kijiro that Wu has a duty to defend the country, and I will be here today to watch how you suppress the bandits." "

The Japanese soldier was sweating coldly and bowed slightly: "Sorry, I was rude."

The officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Army felt particularly relieved when they saw this.

At this time, they were convinced by Wu Luzhen.

I'm afraid that even if Xu Shichang were present, he wouldn't be more domineering than him.

But the Japanese soldier said: "Counsellor Wu, please use the telescope to look ten miles behind our first brigade."

Wu Luzhen frowned, but still raised the telescope hanging around his neck and looked behind him.

At this sight, he took a breath.

It turned out that behind the Japanese army, there was another brigade hanging far away.

Although the Japanese soldier's attitude was much more respectful, his gaze remained unyielding. He pressed Wu Luzhen and said: "In order to prevent accidents, we have brought two groups of troops today. We will attack the rebels in the front and guard against the intervention of other forces in the back."

The other force is naturally the Beiyang Army.

Wu Luzhen pinched her cheeks, put down the telescope, and gritted her teeth and said: "Very good! It just so happened that Wu also brought a number of troops today. You go back and tell Saito Kijiro that we will work with him to prevent accidents. Raising troops for a thousand days, using them for a while .Commanders, is there anyone who is afraid of the battle and shrinks back today?"

"No!"

The Beiyang troops behind them roared together, full of energy.

The Japanese soldier's cheek muscles trembled, he bent down again, then turned around and left.

Chen Zhaochang was worried: "Will this anger the Japanese?"

"I don't know if it will anger them. Anyway, I am very angry now!"

Wu Luzhen put her hand on the handle of the command knife and said coldly: "If Kijiro Saito wants to fight, then Wu will accompany him to the end today!"

"You..." Chen Zhaochang was shocked: "In this case, how can you go back and explain to Governor Xu?"

"The governor has given Wu the power to make decisions on the spot. Wu will be responsible for all the consequences and Mr. Chen will not be in trouble!"

"The trouble that Zhao Chuanxin caused is so unreasonable that he should be allowed to wade into troubled waters. Just wait, the court will not let him continue to cause trouble."

Wu Luzhen was noncommittal: "Haha, the court? Prince Qing or the Queen Mother? Or the Regent?"

Chen Zhaochang was stunned when he stroked him like this.

I, Cao... Prince Qing and his son were kept submissive by Zhao Chuanxin, and the Queen Mother was so frightened by him that she jumped out of the window. It was a great shame and humiliation in the history of her power.

Only the regent Aixinjueluo Zaifeng currently has no direct conflict with Zhao Chuanxin.

However, Chen Zhaochang felt that as long as Zaifeng dared to say that he wanted to punish Zhao Chuanxin, Zhao Chuanxin might dare to go to the capital to bombard the regent.

Chen Zhaochang stopped talking.

When Wu Luzhen saw this, a trace of sarcasm appeared on her lips.

That's it?

What are you talking about here?

The two were talking when suddenly there was a sound of cannon fire below.

The war has begun!

Wu Luzhen saw an artillery shell explode on the left side of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army immediately set up their formation, loaded the artillery shells, and fired towards the opposite side.

Both sides began a long-range artillery fire.

Wu Luzhen and Chen Zhao often took binoculars and stared at the battlefield.

He muttered: "I heard that the fighting ability of the rebel army is not very good. What if they are defeated in one attack?"

"Just watch." Wu Luzhen said. "Then Liu Shanzi has expanded the rebel army to 1,000 people, so it should not be so easy to defeat."

It’s just that I don’t feel confident enough to say this.

The previous performance of the rebel army was not very good.

But while fighting, the two were surprised to find that the Japanese troops were retreating.

"This..." Chen Zhaochang was confused. "What happened? Why did the Japanese troops suddenly retreat?"

Wu Luzhen explained to him: "The Backwater Army chose Laoyinggou to garrison because of the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain. The Backwater Army waited and waited, while the Japanese artillery positions were completely exposed. In addition, although the Backwater Army's cannons should have a small caliber, their number was There were multiple, simultaneous bombings from multiple directions, and the Japanese army had no trenches to cover, so it was not surprising to retreat.”

From the beginning of the war, it was far beyond the two people's expectations.

The rebels who had had small-scale conflicts with the Japanese army before and were beaten on the ground turned out to be so sharp this time.

Wu Luzhen thought: Are all their soldiers artillery?

He was right. The Lugang Town Insurance Team had always looked down upon the rebels.

However, Zhao Chuanxin equipped the rebel army with a large number of 75-caliber field guns and mountain guns, all of which were Krupp. A lot of time is spent practicing artillery, regardless of the cost of ammunition.

It was of no use before, but today it is the real show.

The Japanese army retreated in embarrassment. They also did not expect the artillery of the rebel army to give them a head-on blow as soon as they made contact.

Moreover, Saito Kijiro discovered that the number of artillery of his own troops was far less than that of the rebel army.

He withdrew in disgrace.

When passing Wu Luzhen's troops on the hillside, he glanced this way.

Wu Luzhen sneered: "That's good now, let him show off his power with me again!"

On the other side, Liu Yonghe looked excited: "Good fight! I have enough meat tubes for extra food today!"

There were cheers from the artillery.

Ge Yunpeng stood beside a Krupp cannon and said to his companions: "I just hit the Japanese position, isn't it awesome?"

"What a cool guy, I hit a lot of them."

"Fuck, what do you know? According to Captain Zhao, I hit the tenth ring. If Mr. Zhao were here, maybe he would reward me with another horse card beater. That thing is called exciting!"

"Mr. Zhao's canned pudding is so delicious. I would rather have a hundred cans."

"What are you thinking? The Japanese have withdrawn temporarily, but I guess they will bring more people over."

"What are you afraid of? Damn it, we have plenty of artillery shells. We will blast him for ten days and ten nights."

Ge Yunpeng shook his head and was not so optimistic: "The little devil has a large-caliber mountain cannon, and it will not be so easy to shoot it by then."

Ge Yunpeng was right. Saito Kijiro directly moved the brigade behind to defend the Beiyang Army to the front line.

He pulled in a 120mm Krupp howitzer and brought up all the artillery fire from the reserve team.

Saito Kijiro looked at the west hillside again, hesitating.

Someone came to report: "Shinoda-kun is here."

Saito Kijiro almost burst into tears.

"Bring him here quickly."

Shinoda-kun is very vicissitudes of life, very haggard, fully demonstrating the decadence that an old lovelorn should have.

Even Saito Kijiro saw that his eyeballs were swollen, and he had to wonder if he secretly pulled up the curtains and hid in a corner to cry alone.

"Saito-kun, I'm sorry, I couldn't help you."

"This is not the time to apologize. There is a problem before us now. Looking at the western hillside, a target Beiyang Army led by Wu Luzhen is watching there. We now have the strength of two brigades. I want to take a gamble, but for Wu Luzhen Not without worry. What do you think?"

Bet, the Japanese are serious.

Big battles and big bets, small battles and small bets.

Shinoda Haruse lowered his head and pondered. Just when Saito Kijiro thought that Shinoda Haruse's head had been numbed by the so-called love and could not move.

Finally Shinoda Haruse said: "I think we can just ignore them and take a gamble!"

In the past, with the tacit understanding between the two, Saito Kijiro would have surrendered his trust without hesitation.

But at this time, he hesitated: "What's the reason?"

"Chen Zhaochang didn't have the courage to fall out with us. Although Xu Shichang was stubborn, he didn't dare either. I guess Wu Luzhen came here just to intimidate us. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone to the west hillside, but would have ambushed us with the backwater army, or attacked us. Conduct a pincer attack.”

Saito Kijiro's eyes lit up: "Shinoda-kun, you should return to your previous state, and you can't continue to be decadent. Both I and the Tongyao Police Station need you as you were before."

Shinoda Haruse lowered his head in shame: "I was wrong, Saito-kun."

Kijiro Saito swept away his disgraceful look and let out a hearty laugh: "Listen to my order, build trenches, and attack the old camp ditch."

The 120-caliber Krupp howitzer has less than half the range of the Krupp 75-caliber field gun, but is more powerful.

Saito Kijiro asked the small-caliber field artillery to shoot at the rebel army from a distance, covering his own artillery's advance.

Liu Yonghe immediately noticed the Japanese army's intention and commanded: "Forts 1 to 8 will continue to bombard the Japanese base camp, and batteries 9 to 16 will bombard the Japanese forward artillery positions. Don't let them get close."

Since the backing army had divided half of the firepower, and the Japanese backup team increased the number of artillery pieces, the balance of firepower this time tilted towards the Japanese army.

Liu Yonghe held a telescope and saw the bombed Japanese soldier pulling a 120mm howitzer in front of him flipped over. Someone immediately took up his position behind him. He was also surprised by the Japanese's willingness to die.

If you put yourself in their shoes, if you were your own troops, you might just abandon your artillery and retreat.

An artillery position of the backwater army was hit by the Japanese field artillery. Several artillerymen were blown away by the air waves. Their limbs were riddled with holes from the fragments of the artillery shells. The condition was extremely miserable.

Ge Yunpeng, who was nearby, was frightened when he saw it, and his hand loading the cannonballs was trembling.

The teeth of the comrade beside him were chattering and chattering.

He adjusted the angle of the muzzle, and his voice wavered: "What should we do if the cannonball hits us?"

Ge Yunpeng forced himself to calm down: "Captain Zhao said that it is difficult for artillery shells to hit the same crater. If it exploded near us this time, it will definitely not happen next time..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw a shell hitting the small position that had been hit by no one again.

Ge Yunpeng: "..."

Colleague: "..."

Ge Yunpeng gritted his teeth: "You can't be a deserter anyway, you must hold on."

He pushed away his comrade and went to calibrate it himself, clenching his fists to stop the trembling of his palms.

boom……

An artillery shell accurately landed in the Japanese position pushing a 120-caliber howitzer.

The howitzers were blown up to pieces, and the surrounding Japanese troops suffered.

This artillery was useless, and the remaining Japanese troops set up Bao-type machine guns and fired at the mountains to suppress fire.

They shot at an elevated angle and at a long distance. Only the unlucky soldier of the rebel army in one position showed up to check whether the shells he fired had hit the enemy. He was hit in the neck by a 6.5mm caliber machine gun bullet.

The bloody Lao Gao.

The companions next to him were determined to treat him, but they felt they had no way to start. They could only watch as the injured man's face turned from red to white, and soon he was bleeding to the point of twitching.

The adjutant asked Liu Yonghe: "Batalion Commander, do we want to compete with stun guns?"

The German-made Maxim heavy machine gun that Zhao Chuanxin provided to the rebel army has a maximum range of an astonishing 3,000 meters, and the effective range is only about 2,000 meters. To ensure accuracy, it must be more than 1,000 meters.

In fact, the Japanese army's 120mm caliber Krupp howitzer has a range similar to this.

Liu Yonghe muttered: "Let the machine gun team find a way to go to the front and pay attention to concealment. If the Japanese artillery team comes up, within a distance of 2 miles, they don't need to obey orders and just shoot directly."

He watched the Japanese troops advancing one after another, their fighting spirit was so tenacious that it was ridiculous, and he wanted to give himself a backup plan.

In the first battle, even if it is not an overwhelming victory, it must at least be fought equally, otherwise morale may be severely damaged.

After all, they are the defending side. Although their strength is twice as bad, they have a geographical advantage.

If he still couldn't hold on, he wouldn't be able to explain to Zhao Chuanxin in the future.

His precautions were necessary.

The Japanese army was unafraid of death, but after the number of casualties on the enemy's side increased to a certain number, the density of artillery fire weakened significantly.

Liu Yonghe took a look with his binoculars and saw many people lying directly behind the bunker, shivering and not daring to show their heads.

He was furious, but there was nothing he could do.

Two Japanese 120mm caliber howitzers have been pushed to a reasonable range, and their artillery is loading ammunition.

At this moment,

The machine gun team of the rebel army opened fire.

Because the distance was a little too far, the ammunition of the Maxim heavy machine gun hit the ground and was obviously shifted at an angle.

The observer held the telescope and commanded: "Off 10 degrees to the left, press down 5 degrees. After passing it, go back a little. OK, it's a hit. I'm going to fall over!"

However, the 50-round bullet feed plate also ran out of bullets. After reloading the bullet feed plate, it needed to be fine-tuned again.

This is the difference between Zhao Chuanxin's shots and ordinary people's shots.

Zhao Chuanxin does not need an observation hand and can calibrate instantly.

On the battlefield, this gap can be a huge, insurmountable chasm, causing his enemies to feel paralyzed.

The machine guns on the Japanese side were not idle either. When they found a heavy machine gun position on the mountain, they immediately turned their guns and fired in this direction.

The rebel army did not have many heavy machine guns, only two.

One of the Maxim heavy machine guns also fired at the Japanese machine guns.

The bullets of the Maxim heavy machine gun are 7.92mm Mauser rounds, which are much larger than the machine guns in terms of range and power.

A stray bullet hit the circular shield of the water-cooled sleeve. The machine gunner was startled. He tilted his head to see that the circular shield was crooked. He put his forehead against his shoulder to wipe away the cold sweat and said quickly: " Change the position, put on the 250-round bullet belt, 50-round bullet plate is not enough, fuck the little devil!"

The battle lasted for twenty minutes, and the Japanese artillery at the front was finally repulsed.

The Japanese infantry carried Type 30 rifles to avoid being concentrated by artillery fire, and dispersed to charge uphill.

Maxim, who was on the back of the enemy, needed two people to carry him and run, but the Japanese machine gun had wheels, and the four of them pushed it, walking as fast as flying.

Although they were tired and panting exaggeratedly as if they were going to die at any moment, and even though one or two people were mowed down by the heavy machine guns of the rebels from time to time, they just refused to retreat.

Instead, it was the machine gun team of the rebel army who backed up the machine gun with a thick wet rag, and the two of them quickly retreated with it.

Seeing that there was no benefit from attacking the artillery, the Japanese army prepared to use a pig charge to overwhelm the morale of the rebel army.

Liu Yonghe sighed: "Pull the artillery back, don't leave it to the little devils, the infantry will take up positions and prepare for battle."

Both sides began regular rifle attacks and defenses, and from time to time someone fell down and never got up again.

Liu Yonghe also held a Lee-Enfield box-type rifle. His marksmanship was perfect and every shot was sure to hit.

When the soldiers of the Backwater Army saw how brave their regiment leader was, their morale which had just dropped slightly improved.

On the western hillside, Wu Luzhen watched the battlefield closely.

Seeing the overwhelming artillery fire from the Japanese army, they were gradually regained by the Japanese army. The Japanese army began to attack all over the mountains and plains, and the rebel army actually fought with them.

Only then did I feel relieved.

"It seems that Zhao Chuanxin trained the Beihui Army well. At least it is much better than when Liu Shanzi trained it himself."

In fact, even the soldiers who backed the water army discovered it themselves.

Let’s not talk about marksmanship, but at least you won’t be so panicked on the battlefield that you can’t even load bullets.

Their reloading movements seemed to be engraved into Zhao Chuanxin's bones during that period of practice, and they were even faster than the Japanese army.

Ge Yunpeng loaded a bullet and raised his gun to aim.

boom!

He actually hit a Japanese soldier, which refreshed Ge Yunpeng's spirits.

Sure enough, Mr. Zhao did not lie to them, and his strength had indeed increased.

The fighting continued until dark, with the enemy troops retreating while fighting. It seemed that they were repulsed by the Japanese army, but in fact the Japanese army did not take advantage.

The two sides rearranged their positions and faced off.

The advantage of the backwater army is that sections of their positions have been prepared in advance.

At this time, there is no need to carry sacks as a cover. The trenches are also ready. After retreating, they can just rest.

The Japanese army occupied the original position of the rebel army and was also resting and recuperating.

The two sides agreed to a truce, and the night was peaceful except for preventing each other from attacking and stealing towers at night.

the next morning,

Zhao Chuanxin and the God of War team have arrived in the Yanbian area.

He heard the rumble of cannons coming from the direction of Laoyinggou in the distance, and narrowed his eyes.

At this point he had something to say.

Turning around, he said to the members of the God of War team who were still confused: "I really envy you!"

Everyone was stunned.

What are you envious of?

Zhao Chuanxin laughed: "I envy you. When you first get here, you have the opportunity to show off."

"..."

Zhao Chuanxin had his sniper rifle in his hand. He slowly raised it and said, "In front, there should be Japanese troops attacking Laoyinggou. Are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid!"

Half of the people here had followed Zhao Chuanxin to participate in the flesh and blood mill in Gulujiling.

They have absolute trust in Zhao Chuanxian.

Zhao Chuanxin continued: "We came here in the rain from Jemulpo, and that night, the blood of the Japanese I led you to kill was like a river.

Today, I will take you through the mud and let the little devils in the Yanbian area see what the God of War Squad is!

Let's send them down to meet Ito Hirobumi!

kill! "

"kill!"