Xiong Kaiyu's face turned blue and put down the telescope in his hand, but in less than ten minutes, except for a few small batteries that were still occasionally roaring, the southern artillery group had been easily defeated by the Japanese ships.

He felt that there was no ordinary bitterness in his mouth, he had always listened to the soldiers who had withdrawn from Lushun to recuperate from their wounds tell about the tragedy of the Battle of Dalian Bay, and only now did he truly realize how tragic this tragedy was!

You must know that the artillery group in Dalian Bay fought with the Japanese ship group for nearly two days.

Almost all the artillery pieces were destroyed, and the Huangshan Fort was almost completely destroyed under the double blow of the Japanese ship's high-explosive shells washing the ground and the armor-piercing shells bombarding the foundation!

In this kind of competition of asymmetrical forces, the Arthur Corps was able to fight to the death until there was no artillery to fight in the end, and then withdrew from the battle.

It can also be seen that when Xiong Kaiyu left Pyongyang and returned to Jinmen, the reinforcement army that was still accustomed to fighting skillful battles had already increased its willpower amazingly when he was in Dalian Bay.

"Thanks to the brainstorming! Hope it helps. ”

Xiong Kaiyu's heart let out a groan, praying secretly.

When they saw the Japanese warships appear in the morning, some wounded soldiers who had experienced the artillery battle in Dalian Bay came to Xiong Kaiyu for advice.

For example, Lei Fangzheng, the commander of the right sentry post of the Gongwei Army artillery battalion and the current training leader of the 3rd Brigade of the Anti-Japanese Army, proposed to prepare a large amount of dry and fine soil to extinguish the fire, and at the same time use sacks filled with mud to pile up into strips of dividing areas, insert thick bed boards between the sacks, and iron sheets to prevent shrapnel from splashing.

Lu Xianbing, the training officer of the 1st Brigade of the Recruits, proposed to lower his head and chest as much as possible, and the lower the pressure on his head, the better, at least lower than the anti-artillery wall around the fort, so as not to be shot in the head by the Japanese machine guns.

Sun Wenya, the instructor of the 5th Brigade of the recruits, proposed that a large amount of water and damp cloth should be prepared on the fort, and cotton sleeves should be stuffed in the ears, and all orders should be expressed with gestures, and not shouting at the top of the throat.

The members of the night inspection team of the military station proposed that there should not be too many people piled up on the fort, and that the guns should be fired when they were busy, and that if they were really idle, they would honestly lie on the ground.

Xiong Kaiyu looked at the southern artillery group shrouded in yellow smoke and flames, and he didn't know how useful these measures were, but since Dalian Bay could carry it for two days, how could he, a recruit who had been trained hard, survive today, right?

Absolutely!

"Put! - Boom! ”

"Put!"

"Boom!"

In the arms of the commanders of each artillery position who waved decisively again and again, the soldiers of the northern artillery group gritted their teeth and intensified their fierce bombardment at the Japanese ships.

Because they all understand that once they wait for the Japanese ship group to counterattack, it is basically impossible to think of such a distracted aim and bombardment.

Hurry up and try to inflict as much damage as possible on the Japanese ship!

The distance of 3,000 meters, about 1.61 nautical miles, is already a relatively close distance in modern naval warfare, even if the accuracy of the soldiers of the northern artillery group is still not high, but it has been able to hit the Japanese ships from time to time.

The shrapnel that bounced and split was always harvesting the lives of Japanese soldiers.

From this, it can be imagined how ferocious the Japanese naval group with more powerful firepower and higher accuracy will be once it begins to attack!

What Xiong Kaiyu didn't know was that in the Battle of Dalian Bay, because the Qing Dynasty had a large number of more than 200 heavy guns, the Japanese ships had been firing at a distance of 6.5 kilometers.

Therefore, the Japanese army's terrifying 120 Armstrong rapid-fire gun has never really been used.

In this naval battle, Ito Henyoke already knew that the Dagu artillery group did not have this kind of Western large-caliber heavy artillery that had fatal damage to the capital ships of his team, so he chose to strike and wash the ground at close range.

In fact, in this naval battle, everyone on both sides of the Qing and Japanese sides knew the final outcome, but the current anti-Japanese army, just like Wu Hongluo of the Southern Artillery Group just now, did not know what kind of terrible blow they were really going to face.

If the Battle of Dalian Bay was a lesson from the Japanese Combined Fleet to the anti-Japanese army, under the equal difference in absolute strength, no matter how brave the resistance was, it would be futile.

The anti-Japanese army used the design to make the Japanese ship group shell Jinzhou, annihilated the Japanese army's Tokyo 1st Engineer Brigade, and slapped the Japanese army in the face, telling them that in the face of wisdom, even if the two sides have an unequal strength ratio, they can still do a lot of things.

Then, Ito Hyungyou is going to teach the young anti-Japanese army another lesson today,—— absolute strength difference is an absolute strength difference, which cannot be surmounted, and of course, it is even more impossible to reverse!

"Woo-"

Seeing that the Nandagu artillery group had fallen into a sea of fire, and that the artillery of all the batteries was dumb, Shark Island nodded with satisfaction and pride, and ordered the signal soldiers to send a message to the main fleet, requesting the next order.

The flag given by the Matsushima, the flagship of the Combined Fleet, said, 'Continue to monitor the Southern Artillery Group and stand by.' ’

"Boom!"

Another 120mm armor-piercing projectile hit the port wall of the Matsushima, sending out a loud tremor and a sharp sound of metal drilling.

At a distance of nearly 2.5 kilometers, the huge kinetic energy of the Krupp 120 shore defense gun allowed the armor-piercing projectile to easily penetrate all parts of the armor of the Matsushima except for the engine part (outer armor thickness 125mm) and turret (armor thickness 300mm).

Just listening to the vibrations and sounds, Ito knew that the shell had hit the inside of the Matsushima again.

If it weren't for the fact that the Dagu Fort did not have large-caliber Western heavy artillery, in today's naval battle, Ito Shoyo really did not have the courage to order the ship group to be sailed so close to the Qing army's battery.

Not to mention the damage to the turbine system, but in the event of a huge tear hole under the waterline, the raging sea water could bring a huge and irreparable disaster.

"Report, Qing artillery shells pierced armor one meter below the waterline."

Matsushima Commander Matsumi Tomoyoshi ran over and reported to Captain Omoto.

"Baga, go and block the water immediately, do you still need my order? Bastard! ”

Omoto knew that he was so angry that he scolded.

"Don't be so angry, a 120 armor-piercing bullet can't sink this ironclad ship of the empire."

Ito Hyungwoo looked at the approaching Dagu North Artillery Group, and said with a smile: "Order the warships to attack, now it's time for the Imperial Navy to perform!" ”

"Boom!"

In the loud noise that shook the sky, Matsushima, Chiyoda, Itsukushima, Hashidate, and the port side of each ship were filled with thick smoke and loud noises.

25 artillery pieces of various types, 8 47mm Haqikaisi single-barreled rapid-fire guns, fired almost simultaneously, roaring the position of the northern artillery group of the anti-Japanese army.

At a time when the Japanese fleet was going to give the anti-Japanese army a good lesson, a bloody and cruel lesson.

The Jinmen Brigade of the Shanhaiguan Regiment of the Anti-Japanese Army also began to fight hard, intending to teach the 11th Brigade of the Oriental Army, the Japanese soldiers who had not really seen blood and did not know the cruelty of war, a good lesson.

On the morning of February 18 in the Western calendar, the Jinmen Brigade was stationed in the Ninghe camp.

Near noon that day, Bian Changsheng learned that the Jinmen Brigade was carrying a large number of rifles.

The commander of the Zhili Battalion Office, the new deputy general of Lutai, after Lian Shun led his troops to Shanhaiguan in Xu Bangdao, he was ordered to recruit recruits from the 1st Battalion to garrison the Ninghe battalion, and ran to Liu Gangzhi to ask for a gun.

Bian Changsheng Zixiechen, a native of Gaochun, Jiangsu, was born as a martial artist, and joined Li Hongzhang when he founded the Huai Army in 1862; Under the auspices of Li Hongzhang, he was the first batch of students from the Qing Dynasty who studied in Germany in 1877.

Although it was a failed study abroad, after returning, Bian Changsheng's official luck was barely good, and he became a battalion officer in the right wing of Dagu Fort, and he was Luo Rongguang's descendant.

In Bian Changsheng's view, it must not be a problem to build two or three hundred rifles.

However, Bian Changsheng, who found Liu Gangzhi, waited until he finished telling his intentions, Liu Gangzhi rolled his eyes and said that it was no fun.

Bian Changsheng, who entered the Dagu Fort 18 years ago, almost watched Liu Gangzhi's kid grow from a hairy child to today's 'bar head', and was immediately furious, and he was going to catch Liu Gangzhi alone.