"Boom!"

In this shelling, the 80 Krupp Tube Retreat Battalion of the Anti-Japanese Army completely changed the storm-like blow that was like a storm when it bombarded the high ground of the 19th Wing of the Japanese Army in the morning.

Instead, it is always unhurried, and it is a precise bombardment shot by shot.

It took a full half an hour to smash these 110 80-caliber high-explosive shells into the Japanese defense line.

The main city of Shanhaiguan and the two Great Walls in the east and west were in a mess.

In this short period of 30 minutes, the Japanese troops in the main city of Shanhaiguan and the line of the fractures on both sides seemed to have gone through a long century.

During this period, there were unlucky Japanese troops, who were smashed into their improvised artillery bunkers by riotous high-explosive shells, and were sent to hell one by one.

"The artillery at the No. 1 gun position immediately moved forward, carrying 10 high-explosive shells, and the target was 500 meters in front of the break of the East Great Wall of the Japanese army."

After the shelling was completed, Xiang Shaolong immediately issued a new combat order.

At this time, at the West 80 Artillery Position, Xiao Ligang, the commander of the artillery battalion, also issued a similar order at the same time.

Since the artillery of the Japanese army has been completely defeated, even if the artillery of the anti-Japanese army is against the head of the Shanhaiguan Yamaguchi Suchen, they are helpless!

February 11 of the Western calendar, the fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, 13:15 pm.

Shanhaiguan.

The sky after the blizzard is as clear as a wash, the blue makes people palpitate, and the golden sunlight generously shines on the cold winter land of this pass.

Yamaguchi Suchen stood on top of the Great Wall at the east break with a cold face, looking at the silver-white mountains and rivers in the north, as well as the columns of anti-Japanese troops wearing Western-style military uniforms, and the Qing army in red old-style military uniforms.

The east wind was blowing, and Yamaguchi Suchen's heart was inexplicably sad and indignant.

He and his 3rd Brigade were abandoned here by the commander of Shan County, but the reinforcements that should have arrived were delayed, leaving him alone to face the treacherous and cunning jackal of the anti-Japanese army!

At this time, the shelling from the 80th Artillery Battalion of the Anti-Japanese Army in the north had completely stopped, and only the 78-caliber solid gun always emitted a rumbling cannon every two or three minutes.

smashed a scorching solid projectile into the Shanhaiguan defense line of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army.

This is the officers and men of the artillery battalion of the anti-Japanese army, taking this rare opportunity to take turns to conduct live-fire training in battle.

"Baga, it's really too deceitful!"

The 16th Wing Commander Fukushima Yongzhi Daisa, who was standing next to Yamaguchi Sochen, was scolded in annoyance by the useless projectiles that exploded from time to time.

Who would have thought that seven days ago, it had been the Imperial Army attacking, the Shanhai Pass was defended by the Qing Army, and the Imperial Artillery wantonly bombarded the Qing Army's city, but the Qing Army had no choice but to do nothing.

Then there were the heroic imperial soldiers who went down to Shanhaiguan in a battle and almost completely annihilated the Qing army in the Shanhaiguan defense line.

Today, it is shameful that the Qing army is attacking, the imperial army is defending, and the artillery group of the Qing army is wantonly bombarding the defense line of the imperial army, but the empire has no choice but to have no plan.

And looking at the intention of the Qing army now, it is obvious that it is also to take Shanhaiguan in one fell swoop today!

"This kind of large-scale exchange of positions is a rare occurrence in the history of warfare; Today's Battle—"

Yamaguchi Suchen said in a low voice to the generals around him, such as Fukushima Yongzhi and Okubo Toshisada: "Gentlemen, prepare to die in a bloody battle, there is naturally incense and a place for you and me to live in the shrine!" ”

Fukushima Yongzhi, Okubo Toshisada, Hayashi Yoshitaro, Eda Kunirong——, a group of Japanese soldiers are all dark and iron-blue.

Just before today, the generals were still bathed in the supreme glory of breaking the Shanhai Pass of the Qing Dynasty, and the empire was about to take Yanjing in an instant, capture the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and make the Qing Dynasty a vassal to Japan.

It's just half a day, but they all fall into a desperate situation of death!

"Commander, I will lead three squadrons to block the attack, and the rest of the troops will immediately retreat south with enough rations for ten days, or the imperial fleet will definitely arrive in two days, and then fight a decisive battle with the Qing army!"

Fukushima Yongzhi himself didn't feel that for the anti-Japanese army in the north, he used the word 'decisive battle' this time, instead of using the words 'annihilation', 'crushing' and 'powder' with contempt like before.

Although Fukushima Yongzhi will never admit it, the truth is that in his heart, he is already afraid!

At this time, he was not optimistic about the Shanhaiguan Battle at all, and thought that it was the wisest choice to flee south immediately.

Yamaguchi Suchen didn't make a sound for a while, and then suddenly looked at the eastern sky and sighed loudly: "I really want to see the camellia in my hometown Kasama next year!" ”

The surrounding generals felt a 'sigh' in their hearts, knowing that Major General Yamaguchi had a will to die and decided to fight to the death.

"The artillery of the Korean army——, what do they want to do?"

At this time, the captain of the 4th Wing, who was responsible for the defense of the eastern fracture of the Great Wall and its perimeter, Eda Kunirong, stared at the snow-covered land to the north with a ghostly expression.

Yamaguchi Sotomi, Fukushima Yongzhi, Okubo Toshisada, Hayashi Yoshitaro, all looked north trembling when they heard this, and their hearts palpitated and thought what kind of moths were these damn artillerymen going to do?

And then

Everyone was stunned!

I saw that in the heavy snow, the black pressed a large group of anti-Japanese artillerymen, drove the mule to pull two heavy guns, and the loading cart shakily headed south.

"Poof—"

Yamaguchi squirted a mouthful of blood under the Great Wall.

"Hachiro Tanagami, you bastard, return my little cannon! Give back my little cannon! - What a deception! ”

Yamaguchi Sotomi yelled with a twisted face.

At 13:50 in the afternoon, two 80-barrel rapid-fire guns from the east and west of the Great Wall arrived at a new position one mile north of the east and west breaks of the Great Wall, and arranged positions to level the elevation angle of the artillery.

"Boom!"

The first high-explosive bomb in Xiang Shaolong's position hit the Great Wall 30 meters west of the east fracture, shaking the ground and shaking the mountains.

At this moment, all the Japanese soldiers were like ashes!

14:00 p.m.

"Tick Tick Tick Tick-"

A clear and loud military trumpet sounded from the north wing of the city, a bright red flag was erected high above the south wall of the north wing city, and the five trumpeters blew the military trumpet in their hands at the same time.

"Rush!"

With the sound of the military horn, from the foot of the eastern slope of Jiaoshan Mountain to the foot of the western slope of Huanxi Ridge, as well as the area of the old dragon head by the sea east of Huanxi Ridge, nearly 9,500 Qing allied troops, carrying long ladders and wielding spears in their hands, rushed towards the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan.

The remaining 3,100 Japanese soldiers who survived the shelling were lying quietly on top of the bricks on the Great Wall and the broken pass, raising their guns and aiming.

"Yaga, warriors of the Empire, shoot, shoot!"

"Long live the Emperor!"

"Bang, bang, bang—"

"A company squatted to shoot the Japanese army on the Great Wall, and a second company and a third company set up a long ladder!"

"Brothers, rush me, go up to the city wall and draw a big knife to chop up his mother's Japanese soldiers!"

"Bang, bang, bang—"

Suddenly, in less than 5 minutes, the entire line of the Great Wall of the Three Customs, except for the east and west two fractures, was 'crackling'.

The Luo Minglei battalion, Yang Guangying, Liu Yufu battalion, and Zhou Zhongsheng battalion, who were responsible for breaking through the east-west fractures, were all prostrate 200 meters in front of the port, quietly waiting for the two 80 guns of the artillery battalion to tear open the two Great Wall fractures.

"Captain, do you want to withdraw the troops from the broken pass and the Great Wall on both sides first, and wait for the Qing army to shell before returning to the position?"

At the west break of the Great Wall, Captain Yuji Sano, the leader of the 5th Infantry Squadron, was lying in the bricks, looking at the black and shiny cannon a mile ahead, feeling that his pants were wet, and tremblingly persuaded Yamada Tadazaburo Shaoza beside him.

"Baga, what about your guts, these artillery soldiers of the Qing army are a bunch of waste, can they hit this gap? If you talk nonsense, I'll shoot you! ”

Tadazaburo Yamada's pants were actually wet inside, but he had no choice now.

Once the soldiers withdrew from their positions, they didn't even have to resist the artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, and the Qing troops 200 meters in front of them rushed hard, or less than 40 seconds, they could break through this gap and completely smash this mountain and sea defense line.

"Boom!"

At this moment, Yamada Tadazaburo suddenly felt the flash of fire from the cannon a mile in front of him, and then a huge thunderbolt was in his ears.