The desperate shooting of the soldiers caused a large consumption of ammunition. After repelling three Japanese charges, the soldiers' ammunition was at the bottom. Facing a new round of charges launched by the Japanese soldiers, the company commander had to order the soldiers.
Put on your bayonet and prepare for hand-to-hand combat.
The Japanese soldiers brandished their muskets and howled as they rushed toward the guard company's position. All the soldiers in the guard company clenched their rifles, ready to drive the Japanese soldiers away with their bayonets. Just as a hand-to-hand battle between the two sides was about to break out.
At that moment, intensive gunshots came from the city gate. At the critical moment, Wei Lihui finally arrived with a large force.
More than 3,000 Defense Force soldiers carried Type 91 rifles and charged while shooting. The Japanese soldiers only persisted for a few minutes in the face of intensive firepower before retreating. Some Defense Force soldiers climbed onto the city wall and began to attack the other two along the city wall.
They moved forward to capture the other three city gates. A regiment of soldiers, led by Wei Lihui, grabbed hold of the long and parallel team and chased and beat them fiercely.
The sudden blow caught Commander Matsuda by surprise. Seeing the opponent's superior force appearing in the city, Commander Matsuda knew that the situation was over. He did not dare to stay in the city longer, and did not organize a counterattack. He had to pass through the city and escape through the north gate.
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The attack speed of the defense forces was very fast. As Matsuhiracho was escaping, the SADF soldiers who caught up from both wings blocked him from the side. The Japanese soldiers who followed Matsuhiracho fell one after another in the hail of bullets, and finally escaped with him.
The Japanese soldiers who left the city, plus the North Gate defenders who retreated with them, only had less than 300 people left in total.
Occupying Hanjing City did not make Wei Lihui too happy. He knew very well that if the tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers on the front line knew that their logistics base had been occupied, they would immediately turn around and attack Hanking. Therefore, he had just taken control of the entire city.
He ordered the soldiers to renovate the city head position and prepare a large number of heavy objects at the four city gates, ready to block the city gates in case of emergency.
King Li Xi of the Hanping Kingdom was taken back to the palace again. He thanked Wei Lihui and Qiao Fei profusely, and Wei Lihui also comforted them with kind words. After walking out of the palace, Wei Lihui and Qiao Fei looked at each other and said with a smile:
"This Li Xi is really a good puppet."
Qiao Fei nodded and said: "Yes, the young master originally planned to replace him if he couldn't control it." Wei Lihui said: "We can't have any luck. We must control the government of Han Pingguo. Mr. Hua should be asked to send more people.
Come on, it's best for us to reorganize the Hanping Army." Qiao Fei nodded: "We don't need to worry about this, I think the young master has already arranged it."
After receiving the news of the fall of Hanking, Youpeng in Shanxian County was filled with bitterness. Now he was already riding a tiger. The attack for more than ten days had already caused the Japanese army to lose more than 20,000 people, and there was already a shortage of ammunition and food. Even now, the Japanese army
Turning around to attack Hankyung would also face many problems, not to mention the possibility of being attacked from both sides. All he could do now was to wait for reinforcements and pray that the Japanese troops who had landed at Busan Port would be reinforced quickly.
Compared with Shanxian Youpeng, Du Guangting on the opposite side is much more stable. He relies on the deep defense position to build a camp step by step and defend one after another. Although he has lost three lines of defense these days, he has blocked the opponent's attack at a very small cost. If he hadn't not
Artillery and Du Guangting all had the idea of counterattack. However, the situation has changed. A large number of Chinese defense forces who entered Hanping Kingdom by land have arrived in Liujing.
"Commander Lin, why are you here?" Du Guangting was a little surprised when he saw Lin Yangchun, commander of the First Army, standing in front of him. Lin Yangchun smiled and said: "Why haven't we seen each other so well in a few days? We are all old brothers.
Just call me by name."
Du Guangting immediately changed his title with a smile: "How is that possible? Why did you come here so fast, Lao Lin?"
Lin Yangchun smiled and said: "We came by train. Because of the relationship between the young master and Marshal Xiahou, the Imperial Navy allowed us to pass. This time it's not just me. This time, except for Xue Boling's Sixth Division and Xiao Jun's Artillery Division, we defend
The troops are coming."
Lin Yangchun asked with a smile: "How is the recent situation?" Du Guangting said: "It may be because the retreat is cut off, the Japanese soldiers are hunkered down in the occupied defense line and cannot come out, and I have no artillery and cannot attack. Fortunately, the other side
Our supplies are running low, and I believe they will starve to death if they don’t come out in a few days.”
Lin Yangchun muttered: "We don't have a few days left. The 100,000 Japanese reinforcements are not far from Hanjing. If we can't eliminate these enemies as soon as possible, they will probably escape. After all, there are only three of us in Hanjing."
More than a thousand people." Du Guangting said: "If we insist on attacking without artillery, I'm afraid there will be too many casualties." Lin Yangchun said with a smile: "We already have artillery, and it's a cannon designed to bomb trenches."
"Is there such a gun?" Du Guangting followed Lin Yangchun to the new troops in confusion. Lin Yangchun pointed to an iron pipe and said: "This is the first batch of products from the arsenal called mortars. They are specially equipped for infantry.
Even though we only brought 200 firepower this time, it was enough to surprise the Japanese soldiers."
Du Guangting looked at this simple iron pipe with doubts. Although he was a little confused, he was full of confidence in Fang Xiaoyu, because now the commanders and soldiers in the army have a consensus that as long as the weapons equipped by the young master to the troops will be useful."
Seeing Du Guangting wandering around the mortars, Lin Yangchun laughed and said: "There is also a Type 90 heavy machine gun that is also the latest equipment. It is going to be assigned to the platoon level as fire support. Don't be surprised when you see its power later.
." Du Guangting said: "Does the young master spend so much money to solve the Japanese country once and for all?" Lin Yangchun nodded: "That should be true, as long as most of the elite military forces of the Japanese country are eliminated, we can deal with them no matter what we want?
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Lin Yangchun's arrival naturally took over the command from Du Guangting. After a day's rest, the three newly arrived divisions replaced the exhausted fourth division's defensive troops. The Japanese soldiers on the opposite side did not know that,
Their opponents have changed.
At two o'clock in the morning, following Lin Yangchun's order, two hundred mortars began to attack. Those shells with curved trajectories directly hit several trenches occupied by Japanese soldiers, causing heavy losses to the Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard. The Japanese soldiers suffered heavy losses.
It was already very difficult for the soldiers to load their muzzle-loading guns in the trenches, and they became even more panicked when they were suddenly attacked.
Although the new gunners' skills were relatively unfamiliar and their accuracy was not high, the Japanese soldiers still suffered considerable losses due to the high rate of fire of the mortars. After ten minutes of shelling, the infantry began to charge under the cover of heavy machine guns.
Fang Xiaoyu equipped the defense force with an improved water-cooled machine gun similar to the Vickers heavy machine gun. The rate of fire of up to 600 rounds per minute made Du Guangting, who was watching the battle, almost stare out of his eyes.