Immediately, the baggage team members who had just dug the trenches took their positions, loaded their rifles with bullets, and took aim while lying on the ground. The two heavy machine guns on the commanding heights also had their safes turned on.

"shooting…"

Following the captain's order, the rifles and heavy machine guns in the trenches opened fire together, flying towards the pursuers like locusts.

"Bang bang bang..."

"Ta da...ta da da..."

"..."

The bullets landed accurately on the pursuing cavalry.

A large group of pursuers in front were shouting and shouting happily with sabers and were unprepared. They were shot and fell off their horses one after another. The pursuers behind were unable to rein in their horses and collided with each other.

"Where did the heavy machine gun come from..."

"Ouch..."

"Ouch…"

"..."

The scene suddenly fell into chaos.

The cavalry behind them finally reined in their horses and stopped. Ouch...the horses stood up with their horses neighing. Some fell to the ground and were injured, but it was better than two horses colliding together.

"retreat!"

Pursuing troops call for gold and retreat.

Without asking, these pursuers knew they were from the Dangtu Mining Security Brigade.

When it comes to the Tu Mining Security Regiment, its soldiers are all locally recruited Qing nationals, but their company officers and above, including the regiment's staff officers, are all Japanese soldiers.

This unit currently belongs to the First Brigade of the Dangtu Security Wing. It has about 500 strictly trained security team members. The Japanese commander of the brigade is named Xiao Linjue.

He just graduated from the Artillery Department of Tokyo Army University and was a student of Yosuke Shiro, the chief instructor of Anhui Armed Forces Academy.

He joined the Dangtu Security Wing on the recommendation of Yosuke Shiro.

One day ago, Xiao Linjue was ordered by the military headquarters to lead the first brigade to Hengshan. According to the arrangement of his teacher Yosuke Shiro, he sent a company to dress up as black warriors and ambush a small group of Black Dragon Society members on the mountainside trail.

He personally led two combat companies, as well as a field artillery squad and a mortar squad to ambush on both sides of the ancient road above, waiting for the enemy to enter the pocket.

Unexpectedly, the enemy chief Chen Tianhua was very cunning and took a trail halfway up the mountain.

Xiao Linjue never expected that the enemy chieftain Chen Tianhua could calmly cross the mountain road and lead his troops to escape to Yingpan Mountain.

What surprised Xiao Linjue was that on this Yingpan Mountain, the enemy actually had an ambush and two Gatling heavy machine guns?!

Of course, Xiao Linjue led the main force to ambush on the ancient road. He had no idea what was going on on the trail below. Naturally, he did not see the fact that a baggage team passed the ambush point and arrived at Yingpan Mountain in advance.

They only know the tragic result of the ambush on Xiaoshan Road:

More than one hundred and fifty dead soldiers in black were wiped out. Among them was a small group of Japanese ronin who were good at using Japanese swords and members of the Black Dragon Society.

Xiao Lin, who had always been aloof and arrogant, couldn't understand how the ambush battle on this trail was fought? The defeated side was actually his own side that took the initiative on the battlefield and was condescending?

The ambushed party actually launched a counter-ambush at a very small cost and achieved a complete victory. It is really incredible.

This is a unique case in the ancient and modern war history taught at Army University.

Xiao Linjue, who was furious, not only ordered artillery bombardment, but also sent out all the troops ambushed on the ancient road to pursue the enemy.

Just as they were about to catch up and annihilate them, they didn't expect that even more strange and exotic herbs appeared again. There was actually an ambush they had set up in advance on Yingpan Mountain?!

This is really unbelievable. Is it the enemy chief Chen Tianhua who has a clever plan, or has the enemy obtained accurate information in advance?

Several things came together, forcing Xiao Linjue and his Japanese commanders to face a terrible fact:

That was the enemy chieftain Chen Tianhua, who had known in advance that there were ambushes on the ancient roads and mountain roads, and he formulated a countermeasure plan.

So, someone leaked the information?

Who is it?

It can only be people from the Military Academy.

It is said that the Japanese commander Xiao Linjue saw that the enemy chief Chen Tianhua had a plan. He did not dare to organize the troops to charge again, so he had to surround Yingpan Mountain, block the exit, and make a decision after discussion.

…

"Quickly...quickly, rescue the wounded!"

The tired divisions of the New Army, who had escaped the disaster, rode up to the top of the mountain, causing the wooden planks on the trenches to rattle.

Although Chen Tianhua was covered in blood, his piercing eyes could not be concealed.

Next, Yingpan Mountain was in a mess, and the soldiers who had rolled off their horses collapsed on the ground, breathing heavily.

The logistics team members brought drinking water and food, followed by anti-inflammatory powder, gauze, cotton pads and bandages.

A temporary treatment tent was set up, and several military doctors accompanying the team began to treat and operate the seriously injured.

For other ordinary wounded soldiers, soldiers smeared and bandaged each other's wounds.

Because it was a face-to-face hand-to-hand fight, most of the injuries this time were stab wounds, and almost everyone was injured to varying degrees.

Chen Tianhua's cheeks and shoulders, and Fei Ge's arms and back all had knife marks and cuts.

Knife wounds are easier to deal with than bullet wounds, which mainly involve anti-inflammation and bandaging of the wound.

For various anti-inflammatory drugs and medical consumables, such as anti-inflammatory powder, anti-inflammatory ointment and disinfectant, medical gauze, bandages, medicinal sponges, etc., the autonomous region, under the leadership of medical expert Xiang Dong, has established a pharmaceutical factory.

Chen Tianhua himself paid special attention to battlefield rescue. He listed battlefield rescue items, food, and ammunition as the three magic weapons on the battlefield. Every soldier must carry them, and military supplies and supplies must be prepared in sufficient quantities.

The setting sun in the sky is like blood, and the sun sets in the west.

Unknowingly, the battle on the mountain road has been going on all day, starting at a little after seven in the morning, and it is now half past five in the afternoon.

Looking at the enemy formations at the foot of the mountain, there is no sign of an immediate attack. It seems that they are waiting for something?

Artillery, field mountain artillery!

Chen Tianhua's head turned, and it was not difficult to think of this key point.

"Post officer, inform officers above the platoon leader to gather here for a meeting." Chen Tianhua informed the communications officer beside him.

"Understood." The communications officer and communications soldiers immediately dispersed to inform.

After a while, all the officers above the platoon leader gathered around, and Chen Tianhua gave everyone face-to-face instructions in a temporary tent in the back mountain.

The main point he talked about was how to save yourself during enemy bombardment.

First, immediately mobilize everyone to build fortifications, dig deep trenches, and form crisscross trench lines to facilitate troop mobilization, casualty transfer, and ammunition replenishment.

The second is to require forward positions to dig personal bunkers on the side walls of trenches so that they can hide in the bunkers when the enemy suddenly shells them.

The third is to organize people to go to the back mountain to cut down branches and vines and make rattan hats and rattan tags to prevent shrapnel damage.

In addition, he divided the entire unit into main battle defense teams, reserve teams, and logistics service teams based on injuries.

I just counted the number of people and found that after one day of fighting, a total of twenty-two soldiers were killed, including guards, action teams, and combat platoons. Eighteen of the seriously wounded were temporarily incapacitated, and the remaining lightly wounded were not counted.

Those who could actually be put into actual combat, including the logistics and baggage teams, were slightly injured and could not leave the firing line, a total of 103 people.
Chapter completed!