When the bullet hit his body like a fly, Huang Yida just felt a numbness in his chest, and the heart-rending pain did not follow. But when the hot blood gushed out of the breach, he found that the strength of his whole body was rapidly disappearing, and he wanted to support his body, but he gradually lost feeling every part of himself. The solid ground under his feet turned into soft cotton at some point, and his feet seemed to sink deeper and deeper into this mass of cotton.

Legs, hands, mouth, ears, and finally eyes began to betray him, and Huang Yida was surprised to find that he couldn't move. Many soldiers surrounded him, shouting loudly, Huang Yida knew that they were calling him handsome, but he couldn't hear anything. The battlefield, once filled with shouts and gunfire, fell silent, and for the first time the whole world became so calm, a complete tranquility that nothing could disturb it.

Suddenly, Huang Yida seemed to hear that sad tune again, that is, the Japanese folk songs sung by those Japanese mouths more than two hours ago, the kind of euphemism and low that reminded people of their childhood and relatives in their hometown. At that time, the flanking battle on the perimeter of the defense line was coming to an end, and the battlefield there had largely calmed down, with only the occasional gunfire occasionally piercing the silence. He rode his horse in the middle of the battlefield and watched as his soldiers surrounded the last of the soldiers in yellow uniforms in a small area.

Hundreds of German and Chinese soldiers surrounded the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who had run out of ammunition and food, the bullet boxes on the Japanese belts were empty, and the bayonets on the rifles of many had been broken. These were the only men left in the first group of Japanese attacking troops, but they had no intention of surrendering. The soldiers of the German and Chinese coalition forces did not rush forward, but watched them from a short distance away. Several German machine gunners set up two "Firebird" light machine guns on the side, and with a crisp click, the machine gun bullets were loaded.

The dozen or so Japanese soldiers snuggled up to each other, humming a low Japanese folk song that reverberated over the battlefield and brought tears to the eyes of many soldiers who had lost their comrades and brothers.

Dada......

German machine guns rang out, and mournful singing rang out.

Scenes of the past began to play out in Huang Yida's mind like a slideshow, the blurred faces of his childhood friends in his memory became very clear at this time, the deceased relatives seemed to appear alive in front of him, and the things that once made him proud or sad were now dull. He, a local warlord in Shandong, used a bayonet to destroy more than 60,000 Japanese troops in four divisions with the Germans, then inflicted heavy losses on Yamamoto's division in the field, and finally attacked the Japanese camp besieging Qingdao.

Like Nelson, Huang Yida also fell when victory was in sight.

Nelson is the pride of a country and a nation, and a person respected by the world, but what about him? He achieved China's greatest victory against foreign enemies in a century, but how many people will remember him? These Germans will, those Japanese will, but what about their own countrymen?

Huang Yida suddenly found that for the first time he had such a clear insight into the world, the Xiangma Army had won, but their victory did not represent the rejuvenation of this nation, they were not regular government troops, and they only had the hatred of hundreds of millions of Chinese people against the Japanese invaders. After the end of this campaign, the Chinese would only talk about the largest defeat of the Japanese army since the Naji Restoration, surrounded by the German Far East Task Force and a warlord army in Shandong, China. The German army is really powerful! But why did the warlord army help the Germans? Many small citizens, businessmen and politicians will answer without thinking: money can make ghosts grind!

The dog's honest face has been moistened with tears, Huang Yida really wants to comfort him, but unfortunately his hands have no strength, and his body seems to have fallen into an ice cave.

"Lao Tzu has been fighting all his life, crawling in the pile of dead people, but he didn't expect to die here!" Huang Yida wanted to make the same rough voice as ever, and his lips moved lightly a few times, but he didn't make a faint sound. Watching the Allied soldiers continue to rush into the last camp of the Japanese, he suddenly felt that his death was worth it. Not only did he avenge the suffering Chinese people, but he also won the respect of another group of invaders, although this respect revealed a faint helplessness.

His body has gradually lost all sensation, but his brain is still running desperately, even Huang Yida doesn't know when his thinking will stop, and it is better never to stop, then one day, he will be able to see all the invading troops leaving this land with reverence.

The previous hand-to-hand bayonet battle was really painful, and Huang Yida felt that all his soldiers were good, and in front of the Japanese army and the German army, which represented the strongest army strength in Asia and Europe, the Chinese proved the strength of this nation with their actions. If every Chinese soldier is like these warriors, how dare the invaders set foot on this land, but it is a pity that in this era, people care more about their own interests than the country, and various armies pour each other to resist the enemy, how can the death of one person awaken so many ignorant souls.

Huang Yida remembered that after the battle under the German defense line, his mood was as refreshing as this autumn wind, the heroism of riding a horse and arrogantly looking at the battlefield, the arrogance of looking at the corpses of countless enemies, the gloom in the face of the deaths and injuries of thousands of comrades, his state of mind seemed to have sublimated more than one level, but it was a pity that when this little bit of great man's temperament just appeared on his body, the god of death was jealous of himself.

When the Yamamoto Division, commanded by Chiki Daisa, appeared in the field of vision of the coalition soldiers, the coalition soldiers began to assemble. According to the arrangement of the commanders of both sides, the German soldiers were in the front, and Huang Yida's soldiers were in the rear.

Even in this kind of field encounter, Huang Yida remained at the forefront with his soldiers, while Lieutenant Colonel Ahrens stood on the defensive side and watched from afar. This is due to the personalities of the commanders of the two armies, and it is also the very different fighting styles of the two peoples. As a commander with this habit, Huang Yida knew that sooner or later he would have such a day, but this day had really come.

Despite having very brave and tough troops, Huang Yida still had a deep envy for the weapons and equipment of the German army. Although the Germans had used up their secret pre-war storage of aerial bombs and had little fuel left, the German planes did not hesitate to fly back into the battlefield given that the battle was almost the last. After inspecting the entire battlefield, the German pilots threw the self-contained earthen bombs of the arms factory on the heads of the soldiers of Yamamoto's division, and the Japanese soldiers still scattered helplessly to dodge, and a small number of machine-gun bullets rose weakly from the Japanese ranks. After strafing back and forth several times, German planes began to circle over the heads of the Japanese troops, leaving the noise and depression to these Japanese.

Under the interference of German planes, it took more than ten minutes for the Yamamoto division to regroup, and although they were distracted by the buzzing overhead, the Japanese soldiers continued to move forward with neat steps.

Huang Yida silently looked at the Japanese soldiers in front of him, the number of the other side was only about 15,000, and there were more than 30,000 Chinese soldiers and more than 4,000 German soldiers on his side. In peacetime, if the Japanese did not have heavy artillery support, their own soldiers could easily annihilate them. But now, after a hard battle, the combat effectiveness of his tens of thousands of soldiers has greatly decreased in a short period of time, and as a revenge division, the Japanese soldiers of that division not only look energetic, but also more oppressive than usual. For the first time after the start of the battle, Huang Yida was worried about the outcome of the battle. In this case, if the two sides engage in hand-to-hand combat, I am afraid that their troops will not have much advantage, and even if they can win, the casualties will definitely be not small.

For Huang Yida and his soldiers, this was the first time they had fought shoulder to shoulder with the German army, and the two sides had not cooperated much with each other when they had been flanking the Japanese in the past. At this time, the Germans chose to stand at the front of the queue, giving Huang Yida and the Chinese soldiers a very unique sense of security.

The German officers shouted out one password after another in an orderly manner, the German soldiers looked very calm, and rapid-fire guns and mortars were all prepared in an orderly manner. More than a dozen rapid-fire guns and more than 30 mortars were placed behind the German infantry ranks, and hundreds of light and heavy machine guns were neatly placed in front of the German columns. Three German soldiers crouched behind a heavy machine gun supported by a tripod, while a light machine gun fed by a chain was lying on the ground, with two German soldiers lying behind it. Judging by the boxes next to the machine guns and artillery, the Germans still had plenty of ammunition.

The Japanese division on the opposite side advanced lightly, with only a small number of cavalry protecting their flanks, while more than two dozen infantry guns and artillery drawn by horses followed closely behind the infantry. Before these Japanese infantry could enter the firing range, the Japanese artillery positions in the rear began to rain shells on the side of the coalition forces.

At first, Huang Yida's troops were a little disorganized, but when they saw the German soldiers digging out improvised one-man soldier bunkers in the ground, the Chinese soldiers also learned to protect themselves in the most convenient way. A one-man soldier bunker is actually a small mound dug in the ground, and the soldier lies behind this mound, a very fast way to avoid the enemy's bullets and shells in the field.

Before the Japanese infantry pressed forward, the Allied forces suffered few casualties, except for some German rapid-fire guns and heavy machine guns that were damaged in the shelling. After the artillery fire on the Japanese artillery positions stopped, the field guns of the Japanese infantry began to wield, and the German artillery returned fire without showing weakness.

The Japanese soldiers began to advance in a skirmisher formation, while at the front of the German column, light and heavy machine guns were pouring strings of bullets at any cost, compared to the Japanese who were rushing forward at the risk of their lives. The Japanese soldiers, in accordance with their combat doctrine, alternated between two groups of soldiers to cover the advance, but the bullets fired from their rifles were too thin in front of the German machine guns. The shells on both sides came and went, and the sound of machine guns like fried beans was endless.

After a steady half-hour defense, the coalition forces succeeded in reducing the number and morale of the Japanese troops, and when Chiki Daisa decided to defend on the spot, the coalition forces began to attack.

Under the cover of German machine guns, the Chinese and German infantry quickly pressed into the Japanese ranks, while the German soldiers used light machine guns and mortars to support the infantry at close range, which was more advanced than the Japanese rifle cover rifles, and the effect in actual combat was obviously better than that of the other side. Huang Yida was very impressed by this tactic, and he originally planned to ask the Germans for some light machine guns and mortars after this battle, so that the combat effectiveness of his troops could be greatly improved, and the next time he encountered Wang Dashuai and Li Dashuai, they would be able to easily annihilate them.

Behind the German soldiers, a large number of Chinese soldiers also bowed forward. In the face of the outnumbered coalition forces, the Yamamoto division began to retreat, and finally joined forces with Miyamoto's brigade to organize a defense after meeting up with the starting position.

When the coalition soldiers followed the Yamamoto division here, the really hard battle had just begun.

This position not only contained trenches and other fortifications, but also concentrated most of the Japanese machine-gun fire, and Miyamoto's direct brigade was even more relaxed.

Before the German rapid-fire guns arrived, Huang Yida's troops launched a tentative attack on that position, which was also the first time that the Allied forces encountered dense Japanese machine-gun fire.

Huang Yida remembers that he said the last dirty word in his life at that time: "His grandmother's!" These Japanese devils actually hid all their machine guns here! ”

Behind the Japanese defense line, the artillery positions and the Japanese battalion were already in full view, all of which made Huang Yida feel itchy, but he was unwilling to risk the lives of his soldiers to fill the Japanese machine gun bullets. For the first and last time in his life, he waited for the support of German artillery.

After about a quarter of an hour of Allied soldiers firing at the Japanese on the line, the German artillery finally arrived. Rapid-fire guns and mortars concentrated on one section of the Japanese line, and under the cover of artillery fire, the Allied soldiers launched a massive charge in the face of bullets.

Huang Yida felt that although this scene was not the grandest he had ever seen, it was definitely the most spectacular, and perhaps this kind of scene would never appear again from now on: yellow, white, and black people in various costumes rushed forward side by side, although the shouts in their mouths were different, but everyone had a common goal at this time, that is, to storm the Japanese positions in front of them and kill the Japanese soldiers inside.

This is the scene that Chen Tian most expects to see, but unfortunately he can't be there in person, he can only imagine the scene from the black and white photos of the war photographer.

In contrast, Huang Yida seems to be a little luckier.

The corpses of Allied soldiers were strewn in front of the Japanese positions, which further inspired the blood of the living, including the commander of the Chinese army, Huang Yida. Eventually, the coalition forces broke through the Japanese defense line and followed the Japanese rout to the Japanese camp, and Huang Yida also came to his own Trafalgar.

Huang Yida never imagined that when the coalition troops rushed into the Japanese camp, the remaining Japanese soldiers inside were still desperately resisting, and when he and the first batch of coalition soldiers entered the camp, a Japanese soldier fired a vicious bullet at him from a dark corner.

After seeing that their commander was hit, the Chinese soldiers were furious, and although they killed the remaining Japanese soldiers without leaving any of them, they could not save the life of the commander.

In a richly decorated tent in one corner of the camp, Major General Miyamoto Hide, known as the "Flower of the Future of the Imperial Army", thrust his katana into his abdomen, his eyes full of despair.

When the soldiers carried Huang Yida's body out of the Japanese camp, everyone, including the German soldiers, took off their hats and saluted. The battle was over, and the sound of mourning gunfire echoed over the battlefield for a long time.

Without Kemal's strategic and political talent, Lenin's ideological ability and strong party affiliation, Huang Yida was just a bloody Chinese man, and even if he had not died in this war, it would have been difficult for him to reach the top of the country with his character and ability. Dying here may be the best ending.

Just like Nelson, it ends at the worst of life!

Eventually, the Chinese army silently returned home with their beloved commander. Many years later, this Xiangma army, which had left an indelible mark in the history of China's resistance to foreign enemies, disappeared into the tide of mutual conflict and revolution like other warlord troops.

Qingdao was defended, and more than 30,000 soldiers of the Sino-German coalition army sacrificed their precious lives, and the huge sacrifice was not only the result of killing and wounding more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers, but also forcing the Japanese military to reconsider the Qingdao strategy.

"The lives of 100,000 soldiers, I really can't give an account to His Majesty the Emperor!" The elderly Prime Minister Okuma looked depressed.

"Yes, more than the losses we lost in the attack on the fortress of Arthur! You must know that there were 100,000 Russian troops in the Lushun Fortress back then, and the small Qingdao was only 10,000 German defenders, which was really sad for the imperial army! War Minister Yusaku Uehara also had a sad face, as an army veteran, he knew very well that the strength of the army was declining in the hands of these young officers. It's a pity that he has no way to say it, the young Zhuang faction officers who have the power of the army are just letting themselves be their spokesmen, and without their consent to any policy, it is useless for him, the minister of the army, to say it.

"I'm sorry, but our Navy didn't help! Without planes, we are afraid that it will be difficult for us to confront the Germans! The Minister of the Navy, Jaitengshi, did not blame the Army, on the contrary, he blamed himself, and the two Navy's and Army Ministers still rationally chose to unite in the face of the huge defeat.

Yusaku Uehara quickly put away his bitter gourd face, "Germany is already unstoppable in the European theater, I think my country should get rid of this war as soon as possible and set our sights on the Northeast!" Regardless of whether Russia is ruled by the revolutionary party or by the new tsar, Russia's strength will be greatly damaged, so we can take the opportunity to drive the Russians out of the entire Northeast! ”

"Your Excellency is talking about peace talks with Germany and then withdrawal from the war?" Foreign Minister Takaaki Kato was a little surprised.

"That's a great idea!" Okuma swept away the frustrated expression just now, "I also feel the need to make up for the losses we suffered in Qingdao from other places!" As that Churchill said, it is quite possible that Germany will sweep Europe out in a short time, and sooner or later their tentacles will reach into Asia. Rather than confronting Europe as a whole, we should change this hostile relationship. Russia is different, they have just undergone a great change, the position of this country is still unclear, it is possible to continue to maintain the status of the Entente or withdraw from the war! A country is weakest after a civil war, and when we occupy Northeast China and consolidate there, even if they recover, they will be helpless against us! ”

"High! It's really high! Your Excellency Prime Minister is truly admirable! Everyone who knelt down bowed deeply to Okuma.

"What about the Chinese army that helped the Germans? Do we need to put pressure on the Chinese government to punish the perpetrators? Uehara still seems to be thinking about the battle.

Okuma smiled and waved his hand, "The pressure is needed, but it is not to severely punish the murderer, but to obtain more benefits from the Chinese government!" For example, railways, mines, etc., the details will be handed over to the cabinet to discuss! As for the Chinese army, it is said that it is only a local armed force, to be exact, a bandit, what is the use of destroying them, the Germans wave gold, who can guarantee that other bandits will not be tempted! ”

"That's what the Prime Minister said!" Uehara should be in harmony.

"Prime Minister, then we withdraw from the Entente and make peace with Germany?" As Minister of Foreign Affairs, it was necessary for Kato to clarify his position before acting, "What about the 100,000 soldiers who died at the hands of the Germans in the Battle of Qingdao?" How do we account to the people? The Germans also lost quite a few troops, will they promise peace talks with us? ”

"Kato-kun, that's not right! Those soldiers died for the country, and the people should be proud of them! The Germans have greatly damaged their strength in Tsingtao, and I don't think they want to fight us any longer. As for the peace talks with Germany, I still need to report to His Majesty the Emperor, but I don't think His Majesty will object to it! Okuma narrowed his eyes, and the expression on his face was like an old turtle, "We are not withdrawing from the Entente to negotiate peace with Germany, but holding secret talks with Germany, and withdrawing from the Entente as a condition in exchange for peace between the two countries!" If necessary, we can also consider joining the Allies! ”

"High! It's really high! The crowd bowed again.

Oh ho ho ho ho!

Okuma covered his mouth with a fan and laughed.