But now the Japanese government in the old capital is in chaos.
Although in the east, Dashanyan led the troops to temporarily suppress the Qing army's attack, he sent back several messages within a day, requesting the dispatch of reinforcements.
In the south, news came back from the Hankou Prefecture at this time. The merchants in the Hankook Prefecture were simply a group of national thieves. They handed over the important industrial and commercial base of Hankook University to the Qing Dynasty without any resistance.
people.
The current old capital is to the east and south, and they are all surrounded by the Qing army. If we don't think of a way, the old capital may not be able to be saved.
Itto Hirobumi still has some brains. He knows that the old capital must not be allowed to fall again now, otherwise the entire country's spirit of resistance will be completely gone.
So in the name of the king, he issued an order to the Kansai states, asking them to immediately send strong men for reinforcements.
At the same time, in order to withstand the Qing attack on the front line, Ito Hirobumi declared a state of emergency in the old capital, and all men over 15 and under 50 years old were gathered together.
After these people were trained for several hours, they were rushed to the front line with bamboo hair and tachi.
As the current top defense commander of the country, Aoki has completely lost the impassioned attitude he had a while ago. Now he just sits in the conference room without saying a word, leaving all decisions to Hirofumi Itō.
On the Dashanyan side, after several night raids at night without any progress, the death-defying actions were stopped.
Then before dawn, he asked all the soldiers to start digging trenches in front of the formation.
These people were very good at their work. When Ye Faguang got up in the morning and observed the enemy's position with a telescope, he was shocked to find that the enemy's position had been dug into a mess.
But now the enemy troops are all hunkering down and hiding behind the trenches. It seems that they are not planning to attack today.
However, from Ye Faguang's point of view, this is normal. Yesterday's attacks during the day and night caused the loss of more than half of the enemy's troops. With such losses, even the most tenacious army in the world cannot continue.
Ye Faguang couldn't just let the enemy rest for a few days to slowly recover their morale. Since the enemy didn't attack, he wouldn't be polite.
Although Ye Faguang is no longer able to get artillery support from the navy, the 122mm howitzers and 155mm howitzers brought by the army are also incredible heavy artillery for the enemy. What's more, the power of modern artillery is not at all the level of the Qing Dynasty.
Artillery can be said to be comparable.
At around 8 o'clock in the morning, the soldiers had already finished breakfast and entered their respective positions.
After this, the Hunan Army's artillery began to roar.
This time, Ye Faguang concentrated nearly 300 heavy artillery pieces and fired rounds of shells at the opponent's position as before.
Although the enemy troops on the opposite side were hiding in trenches, these heavy artillery did not play much role in defense.
As the Hunan Army's artillery became more and more fierce and the time became longer, the losses on the enemy's positions also became greater and greater.
At the end, there was already a flight phenomenon behind the enemy's position.
Dashanyan was helpless in the face of this situation. He believed that these soldiers had done their best.
At this critical moment, the reinforcements sent by the old capital finally arrived behind the position by train.
Dashanyan felt heartbroken when he saw these reinforcements. It turned out that this group of people were no longer retired soldiers who had at least received some training like before.
There are many soldiers coming to Dashanyan now. They are all childish children around 15 years old, and there are also old people who are over 50 years old and have gray hair.
Dashanyan really couldn't bear to let these people go to the position to die, but now he couldn't help but hesitate. As the Hunan Army's artillery fire became more and more fierce, the losses on the position had reached an unbearable level. If he didn't go up to reinforce the people on the position,
The soldiers may collapse and run away.
So Dashanyan could only grit his teeth and cry, letting these people enter the front line to replace the soldiers who had been holding on for a day and a night.
Ye Faguang was on the hill behind the position, using his binoculars to observe the changes in the enemy's position. He only saw another group of people coming up from behind their position. As soon as these people approached the position, they crawled forward and rolled into the trenches.
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Ye Faguang frowned and looked at it, it was enemy reinforcements coming.
"Immediately order the artillery troops to extend the artillery fire to the rear of the opponent's position."
After receiving the order, the artillerymen began to raise the gun barrel slightly, and then began to continue the bombardment.
This round of artillery fired farther and fell right on the reinforcements advancing towards the position.
Now these old people, children, and ordinary citizens who have not received formal training have suffered.
These people didn't know how to avoid the cannon's bombardment. After the cannon fell beside them, they immediately started to flee in panic.
Not only did this not reduce the casualties, but they were exposed to the attack range of the artillery, and soon large numbers of people fell under the artillery fire.
Ye Faguang nodded with satisfaction at the position and saw the situation, and then ordered the troops to start charging.
So the frontmost division of the Hunan Army immediately followed Ye Faguang's order and launched a wave-like attack on the enemy's positions in regiment units.
In front of the opposite position, they had already suffered heavy losses. At this time, facing the attack of the Qing army, they had no resistance at all. They were quickly rushed into the position by the Hunan army, and then swept them away. These people were almost
The dead and wounded were all gone, and the remaining people who had not died had recovered from the fever of war. They were now kneeling there, not daring to take any action, and obediently accepted the other party's prisoners.
Dashanyan was behind the position and saw that the front position had been breached. If they were not stopped, they would all be doomed.
So now he didn't care about feeling sorry for these children and old people. He directly ordered his soldiers to drive these people forward and drive the Qing army from their positions no matter what.
So these old people and children rushed towards the position desperately, driven by their own soldiers, with a desperate mood.
But their charge was just a waste of lives and would not have any effect at all.
When Ye Faguang saw that the soldiers had broken through the opponent's position, he immediately increased the stakes and directly ordered the two divisions to charge together.
With the addition of large troops, the Hunan Army finally consolidated the newly occupied positions, but before they could repair them, the enemy's death squads had already charged forward.
Faced with this situation, the soldiers of the Hunan Army already had rich experience. They immediately pushed all the light and heavy machine guns to the position and fired continuously.
The Type 56 semi-automatic rifles in the hands of the soldiers kept pulling the triggers, forming fiery snakes on the position.
Ye Faguang, who was in the rear, received intelligence from the front and knew that the enemy had launched a desperate charge. In order to reduce the pressure on the front, he ordered all the heavy artillery to start bombarding, and also asked the divisional artillery of each division to join the attack.
This time, the charging enemy troops no longer faced large-caliber artillery. Many small-caliber mortars also began to fire shells non-stop. Compared with large-caliber artillery, they were powerful, but had the disadvantage of slow firing. These small-caliber mortars
The artillery can fire at least 20 rounds per minute.
The divisions in front of the entire position had hundreds of these small-caliber artillery pieces, so they fired five to six thousand rounds of artillery shells in one minute.
These artillery shells directly covered all the enemy troops in front of the position in artillery fire. After all the smoke cleared, there was no one standing in front of the position.
But at the big mountain rock behind the enemy's position, seeing such a tragic situation, a mouthful of blood spurted out without holding back.
Dashanyan's orderlies rushed over to help him and wanted to take him to the rear.
But Dashanyan gritted his teeth and pushed the soldier away.
Then he pulled out his command knife and said to the volunteers composed of ordinary citizens, old people and children who were scared out of their wits behind the position: "We have reached the most dangerous time. If we don't fight to death now, we will
The women and children behind you will be ravaged by the opponent, so now I ask you to fight to death."
After Dashanyan finished speaking, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times to these old, weak and remnant soldiers.
Although these people were scared in their hearts, they were also infected by the tragedy of Dashanyan. Each one of them trembled and summoned up their last courage, followed Dashanyan with their crude weapons, and launched the final charge like the Qing Dynasty's position.
This time, Dashanyan really tried his best. He kept charging at the front of the team, holding his tachi and roaring as he moved forward.
Dashanyan now launched the final charge with the determination to die.
But the Hunan Army didn't care how tragic or pitiful the other side was. When they saw the dark crowd rushing over at once, they immediately fired their guns and artillery fire.
Then there was another similar massacre. The Qing army's side fired cannons and guns, while Dashanyan's side relied on its own will and launched rounds of charges against the Qing army's positions with their flesh and blood.
With such determination to die, in the end, the enemy miraculously rushed to the Qing's position.
But this was just a flashback. Although these death squads, who had been baptized by artillery fire and guns, rushed to the Qing's position, they were at the end of their strength. With a burst of gunfire, these last warriors also fell on the position.
Just like this, the gunpowder smoke slowly dissipated, and all the sounds of rushing and killing stopped. The Hunan Army soldiers on the position seemed to have just woken up from the crazy killing. They looked at the front, rear, and inside of their positions.
They are all human corpses.
Some soldiers couldn't bear it anymore, so they hid aside and started vomiting non-stop.
Even the biochemical people who served as company commanders had a flash of sadness in their eyes when they saw such a scene.
Today's soldiers of the Hunan Army also admire these warriors who dare to die.