Chapter 287: Vertical Landing
This asymmetrical attack tactics of the special combat team of the Huaxia Army made the Japanese troops guarding the position not know where the enemy came out, and they were at a loss and at a loss, and they could not use the firepower network of the Lushun defensive battery system to block the enemy's offensive route.
Major General Toshihiko Matsuda, commander of the Lushun garrison of the Japanese army, was so angry that he had no choice but to personally lead a mobile force of no more than 1,000 people to rush to the battery with the most intense gunfire in an attempt to drive out the sneak attackers.
The special combat team had long been prepared for the counterattack of the Japanese army, and as soon as the mobile unit under the command of Toshihiko Matsuda was dispatched, it was accurately sniped by snipers hidden in the dark.
The special combat team was born for the purpose of surprise attacks, and its personnel were all selected by thousands of people in the Chinese army, and the quality of individual soldiers was extremely high, the training was extremely strict and cruel, and they were equipped with submachine guns, sniper rifles, pistols, and other weapons, all of which were far higher than those of the major European and American powers.
As soon as Matsuda's mobile troops clashed, they felt a completely different pressure from the battle against the Qing army: in the dark, as long as the Japanese soldiers moved, they would inevitably provoke accurate sniping, or as long as they fired a shot, the muzzle flame exposed the position, and they would definitely die.
In the face of such an enemy, the troops led by Toshihiko Matsuda were not elite, but only second-rate troops used to garrison in the Japanese army.
In the process of retreating, the snipers took the opportunity to snipe and killed another 100 Japanese soldiers.
After stabilizing the retreating team, Toshihiko Matsuda was dismayed to find that the team of nearly 1,000 people had been killed by the not very dense gunfire.
"What kind of enemy is this?" Toshihiko Matsuda understood that Lushun's defensive garrison alone could no longer hold the position, and while ordering the news to be sent out immediately and reported to the commander-in-chief of the Qing Army, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, he issued a "jade shattering" order, demanding that all Japanese soldiers, as long as they could still pick up arms, must fight to the death.
Toshihiko Matsuda was worried. He was powerless to save the attacked battery positions, so he had to hope that the sky would soon brighten up, so that he could take advantage of the heavy artillery fire network on the battery group and bombard the attacking enemy fiercely.
But. The offensive of the special combat team became more and more fierce, and the Japanese soldiers on several forts were able to successfully capture them without even firing a single shell, which caused countless holes in the originally intersecting firepower net.
Gradually, after dawn, the Japanese army found that the sea was full of warships and ships. At least a hundred ships are approaching the shore of Arthur.
Toshihiko Matsuda, who was shocked, ordered the battery to immediately suppress and bombard the sea.
If the fort defense system was intact and a cross-fire network was formed to block the sea, the Huaxia Army's fleet and transport fleet would inevitably suffer heavy losses.
However, at this time, the fort defense system had been torn apart by the special combat team, and it was no longer possible to organize an effective firepower network to block the sea, and the Japanese army could only watch as the ships of the Huaxia Army rushed to land on the beach one after another, transporting countless personnel and materials to the shore.
Toshihiko Matsuda was in a hurry for a while, and he couldn't control his emotions, pulled out his command knife, and shouted "Assault." Charge! "Rushed out to the Huaxia army.
The Japanese army behind Toshihiko Matsuda saw that the generals who commanded him had personally charged, and they also charged without their lives.
It's just that this charge is no different from sending to death.
At this time, it was already dawn, and the snipers of the Huaxia Army saw the enemy's activities very clearly, and fired at the Japanese army one by one with the sniper rifles in their hands.
With a bang, Toshihiko Matsuda felt that his whole body flew backwards, and then his chest was hot, and a blood flowed down.
"It's over!" Toshihiko Matsuda was shocked to realize that he had been shot.
But it was too late, and his consciousness quickly faded.
The strange thing is that when Toshihiko Matsuda fell backwards to the ground, a stray bullet flew from nowhere and burrowed into his skull. Burst his head like a watermelon.
"General, General!" The guards around Toshihiko Matsuda were shocked when they saw this, and rushed up to take a look, only to find that Toshihiko Matsuda had blossomed in his chest and his head burst.
Toshihiko Matsuda's guards didn't linger for more than thirty seconds. He was also sent back to the country of Wa with a bullet to see Amaterasu.
The Japanese soldiers who followed Matsuda Toshihiko to charge frantically were killed in just ten minutes, and the rest were nimble and fast, but they also lost the will to continue fighting.
As soon as Toshihiko Matsuda died, the Japanese troops on the defensive position in Lushun could only fight on their own.
In the hard tortoise shells of the defensive positions. The will to defend the Japanese army also seemed to be hardened, and some Japanese troops refused to flee from their positions even if they died, and used the heavy artillery on the batteries to bombard indiscriminately outward, although it was only a scattered bombardment that was not systematic, but it also caused a lot of trouble to the landing operation of the Chinese army.
Cui Jinfeng, the commander-in-chief of the Huaxia Army's landing in Lushun, was holding a telescope on a transport ship on the sea to observe the situation in Lushun.
As a high-powered commander-in-chief, Cui Jinfeng can no longer be like Ma Shaohao, personally leading the first batch of special combat teams to land (in fact, as the supreme commander of the special combat team, Ma Shaohao also found an excuse to land with his subordinates), and his heart itched as if he was constantly scratched by dozens of cats, and he was so uncomfortable that he almost vomited.
Seeing that Lushun's defense system had been smashed to pieces by the special combat team and naval guns, and the Japanese army was no longer able to form a crossfire network to block the landing path, but the remaining Japanese troops in some batteries were still resisting stubbornly, Cui Jinfeng was furious and decided to activate the backup plan, and ordered: "Start the vertical landing plan immediately, and smash all these turtle shells into powder for me!" ”
The order was quickly communicated by radio to the twenty airships floating in the air.
This morning, a light breeze was blowing on the sea, and the wind force was below three levels, which was a good time for the airships to fly in the air, and after receiving the order of the landing commander, the twenty airships immediately began to lower their posture and fly towards the Japanese army fort that was still resisting.
As soon as the officers of the Japanese army saw the black and oppressive airship group flying over, they had a way to deal with it in their hearts and ordered their subordinates: "Attention, pay attention, these airships will drop bombs downward, hurry up and dodge!" ”
In fact, the so-called countermeasures of the Japanese army are not much, just hide and not be bombed, at most they use rifles to shoot into the sky.
When the Japanese soldiers heard from the officer that the big guy flying in the air would on the ground, they all hugged their heads and ran around, looking for a bunker where they could hide, and continued to shoot and fire through the shooting hole to block the landing of the Huaxia Army.
However, this time, the airship is not only going to and pull bombs to the ground, but also to pull people down! (To be continued.) )