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Volume One: The Bloody Battle in Taiwan Chapter 229: Attacking Yunlin City

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    Qiu Debiao led the Third Regiment, the Seventh Regiment and the Third Detachment of the Guards, a total of more than 5,000 people, and marched southward in a mighty manner, rushing towards Taichung under the stars and the moon. However, Xu Xiang's Eighth Regiment, which set off from Hsinchu and headed south, set off earlier than Qiu Debiao.  When Qiu Debiao left Taoyuan County, he had already rushed to the foot of Lion Rock, but he was still some distance away from Miaoli, and even further away from Taichung. Far water could not save the nearby fire, but at this moment, the mixed formation of the Japanese Fourth Brigade was  It has crossed Bagua Mountain and is heading towards Changhua.

    Originally, the Ninth Regiment of Wu Tangxing was stationed in Changhua. However, due to the emergency in Yunlin, Wu Tangxing sent most of his troops south to reinforce Yunlin's defenders. Therefore, Changhua has actually become an empty city with only a very small number of soldiers left to guard it. Now  Wu Tangxing was defeated by Nogi Nogi Nogi in Yunlin and fled. The entire Ninth Regiment was disbanded and had no organization left. However, there are different opinions about his whereabouts. Some said he was killed in Yunlin City, while others said he had already died.  After fleeing to Nantou County, some people said they saw him in the Baiguoshan area, and some even said he had returned to Changhua County and was organizing the headquarters to resist the invading Japanese troops.  .

    However, for Li Nan, he could no longer count on Wu Tangxing to provide help. After all, even if Wu Tangxing returned to Changhua as rumored, he would not be able to withstand the aggressive Fushimi Miyazada's mixed formation of the fourth brigade. Both morale and fighting spirit were obvious.  Lost to the Japanese army, even if Wu Tangxing had not experienced the defeat of Yunlin, he would never be a match for the mixed formation of the Fourth Brigade. Troops that had not experienced bloody battles with the Japanese army like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th regiments would not have been able to defeat the Japanese army at all.  It is possible to defeat the new Japanese army that was fully westernized after the changes of the Meiji Restoration.

    Although the telegram from Taipei said that Qiu Debiao's third regiment had set off south, Li Nan could not hope to quench his thirst in the distant water. When he learned that Changhua had been attacked by the Japanese army, the atmosphere in the entire Nantou County suddenly became extremely tense.  , people running on the streets unconsciously stepped up their pace, walking in a hurry, as if dark clouds were pressing down on the city to destroy it.

    Although the first detachment of the Guards far away under Yunlin City had received a message from Li Nan on horseback, he still decided to attack the city first instead of retreating slowly and rushing back to Nantou after crossing the Zhuoshui River for reinforcements.  Li Nan, and although Hu Dongning's first detachment did not have the largest number of people among Li Nan's West Route Army mixed formation, it had the most sophisticated weapons and equipment. His detachment was equipped with a large number of the latest mortars. This is what Yu Xiaocheng thought.  Seeing that the Guards could become famous in this battle, they placed a lot of expectations on them. Of course, Hu Dongning also knew this, so he had already reached the gates of Yunlin City at this time. Even the King of Heaven could not let him stay like this.  If he retreated and didn't rush into the city and conduct a thorough sweep, he would return in vain and would probably be scolded half to death by Li Zhongyi when he returned to Taipei.

    "Attack the city, attack the city for me!" Hu Dongning stood on an undulating earth mound, holding up a telescope and looking towards Yunlin County not far away. Although the entire county was in peace, the smoke had not completely dispersed.  Even so, there was still a layer of misty smoke hanging over the entire county, like a mysterious paradise.

    "Hu Detachment, Nantou City is in danger. Commander Li requested to quickly withdraw across the Zhuoshui River and reinforce Nantou City. Otherwise, the Japanese pirates' 4th Brigade will go south to attack Nantou and our army will be in danger!" Seeing that Hu Dongning insisted on attacking the city, the messenger saw that Hu Dongning insisted on attacking the city.  Unwilling to withdraw his troops, he couldn't help but become anxious. He couldn't help but raise his voice an octave and hissed, "There are only 1,000 troops in Nantou County, but the Fourth Brigade where the Japanese pirates landed from Wuqi has more than 10,000 troops."  People, one to ten, Commander Li"

    Hu Dongning didn't even wait for the messenger to finish his words. He waved his hand and slapped his riding crop hard on his face. A blood mark immediately appeared on his face. The messenger was caught off guard and screamed in pain, almost falling down.  On the ground, Hu Dongning roared loudly: "Shut up! Now that I have killed the damn Yunlin City, whoever the hell dares to stop me from attacking the city, I will light his sky lantern. If you know the truth, you can  Go back and tell Commander Li that after I attack the city, I will come back to save him. So what if 100,000 people come here? I only have 1,000 soldiers, so I still have to chase the chickens and beat the Japanese ghosts!"

    The ordering soldier turned pale with fright, stumbled back, and hissed: "I'm crazy, I'm really crazy, everyone is crazy! If you still disobey orders at this time, I have to go back and report to Commander Li!" With that, he turned around and headed back.  He ran where he stopped his horse, looking back while running, for fear that Hu Dongning would be shot in the back.

    "Get the hell out of here!" Hu Dongning viciously spat at the back of the orderly soldier, then grabbed a Medellin light machine gun from a soldier nearby and shouted at the surrounding soldiers, "Today  Whoever is the first one to break into the city, I will promote him to an official position and mark him with first merit, which will shine through in the history of our Guards!"

    "Long live! Long live the Guards! Long live the leader!" All the Guards roared like thunder almost at the same time. Everyone held up their Mauser rifles and rushed towards Yunlin City. Soon, there were shaking figures and figures everywhere.  A sharp bayonet.

    ?There was a "boom", and the cannons in the city began to roar. The first shell exploded in front of the Guards, blasting a big hole in the soil and shaking the ground, but it did not stop it from boiling.  The Guards, countless people with bayonets in hand, quickly rushed through the crater and continued to attack Yunlin City.

    "Boom, boom, boom!" The cannons in the city fired one after another outside the city, and several shells exploded in the charging ranks of the Guards. Fortunately, the Guards strictly followed the instructions of instructor Hans Jahn and dispersed.  The troops charged forward and did not pile the crowd together. Therefore, although these cannons caused the Guards to fall over, they did not cause serious casualties. The crowd was still advancing towards the city in a huge surge, as if it was a massacre.  Like the incoming waves, even thunder and thunder can never stop the progress.

    The 60mm caliber light mortar he brought from the Taipei Manufacturing Bureau this time immediately exerted great power in this siege battle, because this gun has a total combat weight of only 20 kilograms and a range of up to 1,500 meters. It is extremely powerful.  It is helpful for the infantry to shoot and kill the target while advancing forward.

    When the Gatling gun in the city had not yet had time to fire a net of fire at the advancing Guards, its effective range was only 1,000 meters. When the Guards set up a mortar 1,000 meters away, the city  The prematurely exposed Gatling gun firepower point was immediately attacked by the Guards mortars. Because the mortar has a large firing angle, a curved trajectory, and is easy to operate, it is very suitable for shooting at targets behind shelters and anti-slope targets.  Therefore, many Japanese soldiers hiding behind the city wall bunkers were blown up by the rain of mortar shells before they understood what was going on.

    "What the hell is that?" A Japanese soldier stared blankly at the flashes of arcs above his head and couldn't help shouting, "Is it that person's cannon?"

    "How is it possible? How can such a heavy cannon be carried by the Chinese without horses?" Another Japanese soldier raised his head and frowned at the arc passing in the air and said, "Could could it be the Chinese?"  Grenade?¡±

    "Nonsense, how could the Chinese grenades be thrown so far and so powerful? They are simply artillery shells, not grenades!" A Japanese officer next to him was mid-sentence when his face suddenly changed because he saw it.  An arc was shooting towards his bunker, and he couldn't help shouting, "The shell is coming!"

    There was a loud "boom", and he had just finished speaking when a mortar shell dropped from the sky and landed right at his feet, immediately exploding a scorched crater and his body was torn into pieces by the violently flying shrapnel in an instant.  The fragments and bright red corpses were flying everywhere like exploding watermelons. The four surrounding Japanese soldiers also suffered a bloody disaster. During the explosion, they were either blown into the air or blown into pieces and fell to the ground.  .

    The shock wave of the explosion surged everywhere, and the Japanese troops crowded behind the broken wall were suddenly blown up to howling and swaying. Many people lay on the ground and vomited blood and water. Some simply held their limbs that were blown off and howled loudly.

    But this is not the worst part. When the Japanese army's Green Cannon position hidden behind the city wall was bathed in the raindrops of mortar shells, it became a terrifying hell. Some Japanese soldiers were blown into the air and their waists were cut by shrapnel.  It was broken in two, but before it fell, another mortar shell fell. The huge shock wave blew up the two corpses and threw them up again. The lower body was cut into three pieces by the sharp shrapnel, and fell around. The entire Green  The artillery position was completely shrouded in death, and there was not a single complete body left.

    "The Orochi Army is coming, the Orochi Army is coming!" The first person to get up from the pile of corpses was a Japanese squad leader. His face was covered with blood and he couldn't tell where the blood was coming from.  The blood of the people around him still splashed on his face, but when he saw the dense shadows of the Guards soldiers who had rushed to the city, he couldn't help but scream, but he soon fell to the ground with his mouth open, because he didn't know  The stray bullet shot from nowhere hit his mouth and penetrated the back of his head. Blood and brain matter shot out like arrows. When his body fell, it also hit a companion behind him who was struggling to get up again.  Crushed to the ground.

    But what frightened the Japanese army the most was the rain-like grenades of the Guards. When they rushed under the city wall, they threw grenades behind the city wall one after another. Since Yunlin City had already been violently attacked by the Japanese army when it was guarded by Wu Tangxing,  Most of the city wall is seriously damaged, and some places have completely collapsed into a large gap of more than ten meters, which is only slightly covered with earth bags. Therefore, such places are most vulnerable to grenades from the Guards, and the Japanese army has basically piled up its troops.  here.

    Since the soldiers of the Second Division guarding Yunlin City had no experience fighting the Red Brand Army, unlike the Guards Division, which had fought more than ten fierce battles with the Red Brand Army, they were very familiar with the tactics of the Red Brand Army.  , known to like to throw grenades in large numbers in melee combat, combined with??Machine guns carried out charge attacks, so they could take precautions in advance and reduce casualties. However, the Second Division completely mistook the Red Label Army for the Qing Army. In addition, when they fought against Wu Tangxing's Ninth Regiment, they found that except for the morale of the Qing Dynasty,  The Red Label Army was more expensive, but its tactical strength was very average, so it did not take the Red Label Army seriously. When they encountered Hu Dongning's Guards on the first day of the year, they were immediately beaten to heavy casualties, with corpses strewn all over the ground.

    Nearly a small group of Japanese troops were piled up behind a gap in the city wall in the southeast of Yunlin City. When they saw the Guards approaching, they threw a dozen grenades into the gap in the city wall in one breath, and their faces turned purple with horror.  The grenades exploded one after another in the crowd, completely turning the Japanese army into a pot of paste. The ground was covered with a thick layer of minced meat, and blood accumulated in pools.  The whole scene was so horrific that it was even up to the heels. Broken limbs and arms were spread all over the floor, and the smell was so fishy.

    But the worst thing was the soldiers who were trampled alive by their comrades and pressed under the pile of corpses. They didn't even understand what was going on, so they were trampled under the feet of the panicked crowd, and their bones were trampled "crackling"  "Bang" all broke off, and it took a long time to slowly die of pain. It was more painful than those who were killed on the spot.

    "Kill! Kill them all!" A Guardsman holding a Mauser rifle bayonet was the first to rush into the wider gap in the broken wall, but when he saw the broken rafters  There was a thick layer of corpses behind the wall, and he couldn't help but be shocked. He stood among the piles of corpses and looked around blankly, but he couldn't find any enemies still alive and charging towards him.

    "I am the first person to rush into Yunlin City, I am the first person to rush into Yunlin City!" The Guardsman suddenly found that no comrades around him were following him, and he couldn't help but excitedly waved his bayonet and shouted wildly.

    Amid the wild shouts, more and more Guardsmen ran past him, charging at the Japanese troops in the city with shining bayonets. No one expected that the heavily defended Yunlin City would be so destroyed by Hu Dongning's army.  The first detachment broke through the city wall and entered the city, but the more bloody battle had just begun.  [(m) No pop-up window reading]

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