Dai Because of this incident, Ding Ruchang and Dai Zongqian had a quarrel for a while, even to the point of not talking when they met.

In the end, with Ding Ruchang leading the Beiyang Naval Division to patrol, he ran to Lushun Military Port and did not come back, which was considered to be a temporary end.

As a result, it has now been proved that Ding Ruchang was right, but the Beiyang Navy Division had fled, and Dai Zongqian, who insisted on not disassembling the steel ring and explosives, had to swallow the bitter fruit he had planted with his own hands.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the 6th Wing of the Japanese Army climbed Longmiao Mountain, accompanied by a large number of 120mm, 150mm, 240mm caliber artillery steel rings, gun bolts, and other vulnerable accessories.

What Ding Ruchang and Dai Zongqian didn't know was that what the two of them, the important ministers of the Qing Dynasty's coastal defense, were chattering about, and the Oriental Military Department had already prepared a plan.

When the Japanese Second Army landed at Huayuankou to open up the battlefield in southern Liaoning, the Japanese military headquarters had the idea of using the captured Qing artillery to bombard the remaining batteries in the battle for Dalian Bay and Arthur Fortress.

Therefore, the artillery of the Second Army has always carried these accessories, and this time Kurose Yoshimen and the 6th Artillery Wing participated in the Weihaiwei attack battle, so they moved with the army to the Kitty Hawk torpedo boat and brought it over.

In other words, unless Ding Ruchang's concept of 'explosives' is implemented, no matter how the Longmiaoshan artillery is, it will not be able to escape the sad fate of the 'capital enemy'.

After the Japanese artillery boarded the Longmiaoshan Fort, they immediately began to nervously adjust their fire, pointing at the Qing Army's Lujiaozui Fort.

Among the 37 guns in the 5 Nanbang batteries, the Longmiaoshan Fort was the only one that hung alone outside the Weihaiwei defensive circle.

In the east of Weihai Weijun Port, Zhaobeizui Fort, Lujiaozui Fort, and Soabuzui Fort are only four miles apart from each other, and they are three-legged.

The Yangfengling Fort connects the north and south forts and responds in the center.

6 batteries with 62 guns from the Liugong Island artillery group at sea and 8 guns from the Ridao battery blocked the attack from the sea in the north.

The North Gang artillery group to the north also has 5 batteries, 24 coastal defense guns, and 10 new 80 Krupp rapid-fire guns.

Although because of Dai Zongqian's conceit, he did not blow up the Longmiaoshan Fort and gave the Japanese army the convenience of 'borrowing artillery', but even if there was no such thing, it was a matter of course that the defeat would be carried out just by relying on these 8 battalions of garbage shore defenses.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese artillery began to shell the Lujiaozui Fort, and in the thunderous roar, the Qing troops in the entire Weihai Weijun Port were all discolored.

Dai Zongqian was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, so he ordered his own soldiers to find Liu Chaopei to settle the account, but a group of personal soldiers found it dark and searched the entire Southern Gang artillery group, but there was no trace of Liu Chaopei.

It turned out that after Liu Chaopei retreated to the Zhaobeizui Fort, he saw the Japanese artillery bombarding Lujiaozui near the Black Army, so he guessed that Dai Zongqian was going to trouble him, and he was also full of despair about being able to hold the Nanbang artillery group.

In the darkness of the night, Liu Chaopei secretly rowed a small boat with two personal soldiers and fled to Liugong Island, hiding in the hometown of Lin Langzhai, wanting to use several torpedo boats on the island to wait for an opportunity to escape to Yantai.

On the night of the same day, the Lujiaozui Fort, the Soabuzui Fort, and the Zhaobeizui Fort were lost one after another.

Dai Zongqian ordered the 3rd Battalion of Suijun to go to the south to reinforce the artillery group, but was easily dispersed by the Japanese infantry in the night and escaped cleanly.

At 5 o'clock in the morning of February 11 in the Western calendar, the Japanese artillery stationed in the Lujiaozui Fort, the Sobuzui Fort, and the Zhaobeizui Fort, and began to shell the Yangfengling Fort.

At the same time, the five 240 and 280 giant cannons on the Soabuzui Fort were mobilized to fly over Weihai Harbor, across Ridao and Liugong Island, to bombard the Weihai Weibei Gang Battery Group.

Chen Wanqing, the deputy general of the Yang Fengling Fort Battalion, led the army to fire back with artillery, but the ammunition depot was suddenly hit and exploded, and the Gong army had already suffered more than half of the casualties, so Chen Wanqing had no choice but to lead his troops to evacuate the fort and go in the direction of Yantai.

At this time, the remaining battalion of the Sui army in the Beibang Fort had already fled at night, and when Dai Zongqian arrived angrily, there were only 19 Qing troops, staying in the barracks of the artillery group with 5 batteries, 24 coastal defense guns, and 10 new 80 Krupp rapid-fire guns.

Dai Zongqian was very compassionate, and after sending the last telegram to Jinmen, under the persuasion of his subordinates to repeatedly 'weep blood', he rushed to Liugong Island in a small boat to fight to the death.

At this point, the entire Weihai Weijun Port, except for the lonely Liugong Island and the deserted Abandoned Reef Island, all the other positions fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

Not counting the various coastal defense heavy artillery that cost tens of millions of taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty, just the 10 new 80 Krupp tube retreat rapid-fire guns, and a large number of He Changying needed to dig tunnels to steal 306 imported high-explosive bombs, which can make people feel distressed.

Immediately, the Japanese land and shore artillery, combined fleet, began to attack Liugong Island together.

The cannon is loud again!

February 11 of the Western calendar, the fifteenth night of the first month of the Chinese calendar, Weihaiwei.

The moon is shining brightly, and the galaxy is splendid.

Throughout the Weihai Weijun Harbor,—— coast, islands, and open seas, artillery roared and artillery fire flickered.

The Qing and Japanese armies, taking advantage of the bright night, were engaged in a fierce artillery battle.

Weihai Weinan Gang Battery Group.

"Crunch, squeak—"

Prince Akihito Komatsumiya, Lieutenant General Kuroki Yuzhen, Army Major General Okuhoko, Army Major General Oji Yasumi, and Second Army Artillery Minister Major General Yoshimon Kurose,——

A group of Oriental Army generals climbed the Soabuzui Fort in the darkness of the night, stepping on the thick snow.

Looking at the north four miles away, across the sparkling waves, the Qing army's Liugong Island fort group was full of artillery fire.

"Ready——, release!"

As the artillery of the 6th Artillery Wing shouted again and again under the commanders of each artillery position, the Krupp coastal defense giant guns of the Southern Gang Battery Group continued to send out thunder, shooting huge high-explosive projectiles imported from the West towards the twin islands.

In the open sea of Weihai Wei Harbor, the main ship group of the Combined Fleet was also roaring to bombard Liugong Island with high-explosive shells filled with Shimose gunpowder.

Liugong Island, an island suspended in the blue water, was already the last stronghold of the Weihai Wei Qing army.

All the batteries on the rest of the coast fell into the hands of the Japanese.

At this time, the Qing artillery on Liugong Island was also constantly firing back with their cannons, smashing imported high-explosive shells into the Nanbang artillery group and the Japanese warship group on the sea in the tongue of fire spewed out by the tunnels.

"Whoa—"

"Boom!"

A huge scorching projectile made a red streamline in the sky, and accurately hit a 240mm Viwasel rack on the top of the Antlermouth Battery.

A huge fireball instantly tore more than a dozen Japanese soldiers around the artillery to shreds.

And the rare artillery with an advanced hydraulic reset system in the Weihaiwei artillery group was also completely scrapped.

"Yaga!"

A group of Japanese generals, including Prince Akihito Komatsumiya, all watched their hearts jump in distress.

The Qing army's bomb went down, and at least fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver captured by the empire were smashed!

There are a total of 5 coastal defense heavy guns, 2 280mm caliber and 3 240mm caliber coastal defense guns in this soapbuzui fort of the Nanbang artillery group.

It is the sharpest battery of all the batteries.

Among them, these two 35 times 280mm caliber new giant cannons, the whole cannon weight is 87 tons, 84 rifling, the gun length is 13.9 meters, and the firing range is 19,760 meters, which is the crown of Weihaiwei group artillery.

In addition, only the Hulishan Fort in Xiamen, known as the 'gateway to Fujian and the key to Tiannan', spent 100,000 taels of silver in March of the first year of the First Wu Dynasty to buy a 40 times 280mm coastal defense gun that could surpass it.

"Continue the fierce bombardment, and we must capture Liugong Island as soon as possible;"

Prince Akihito Komatsumiya fiercely ordered: "If you can't completely take it before 5 o'clock in the morning, you will immediately use the army to seize the beach and land for operation!" ”

"Hey!"

Major General Yasumi Tera, commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Yoshimon Kurose, chief of artillery of the Second Army, and Seisa Kawai, commander of the 6th Artillery Wing, all responded loudly.