"The Japanese have attacked, the Japanese have attacked!"

Suddenly, the Qing troops in the entire inner and outer cities of Shanhaiguan were all screaming in panic, and they jumped out of the warm nest one after another, and they didn't know whether they were frozen by the cold or shivered with shock, groping for clothes and looking for guns. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the 2,300 soldiers of the Shanhaiguan Regiment of the Anti-Japanese Army, who strictly implemented the work and rest order, had already gotten up.

The cooking is cooking, the standing guard is standing guard, and the rest of the soldiers, under the leadership of the officers, do military gymnastics to warm up.

He Changying was inspecting the city with satisfaction.

This is a mixed army of the new army of the Dagu military station, the sheng army of the small station, and a contingent of recruits temporarily recruited from various counties of Yongping Province.

Because it did not go through a series of battles and thousands of miles of difficult treks like the Lushun army, its combat power and cohesion were far inferior to those of the anti-Japanese army in Lushun.

But in terms of the current mental outlook, it is not bad.

"I hope that after this blood station, the surviving soldier can grow into a true Predator; But there must be a lot of soldiers dying here, including myself, and who can guarantee that I will survive the fire? ”

He Changying looked at the fire that suddenly exploded outside the east wing city wall in the twilight sky, and couldn't help but feel stunned.

"Duck into the sandwich wall and under the pine roof!"

Hearing the sound of artillery in the distance, the officers immediately gave a loud order to conceal, and the soldiers in the north wing of the city ran into the anti-artillery wall in the city, squeezing into the section of the wall covered with coarse pine wood to avoid the Japanese grenade bombs.

"Boom!"

With the firing of the second and third corrective shells of the Japanese army, the bombardment of the Japanese artillery group began.

"Boom-"

Heaven and earth were filled with the roar of huge cannons, and dazzling fireballs exploded in the sky above the North Wing City, Dongluo City, and Xiluo City, and the countless projectiles wrapped in the cannonballs screamed and shot towards the city below.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

"Ahh

In the city of East and West Luo, some soldiers who got up late and were running to the pine wood roof of the city on the empty streets of the city were shot into their bodies like locusts by the red projectiles scorched by these gunpowder, and they tumbled to the ground and howled.

And some Qing soldiers who got up late and had some brains were directly under the bed and curled up.

"Puff, puff, pop-"

The violent projectiles easily passed through the thatched roofs of each room, and the projectiles hit the bedboards, furniture, and floors in the room, bounceing and splashing.

The roof tiles of the tiled houses were shattered by projectiles, and they collapsed into the house.

"Whew-"

A north wind howled by, and the thatched huts were ignited by the flames of projectiles and explosives, and then a raging fire burst into flames.

"So fierce!"

Nie Shicheng, who was watching the battle on the main city wall of Shanhaiguan, and a group of Qing generals were shocked.

"Yesterday, the Japanese attacked Guancheng, basically using high-explosive bombs, and the most important thing is that the houses in Guancheng are all blue brick houses, unlike the three cities outside Guan, where thatched roofs account for three or four percent."

Feng Guozhang, Nie Shicheng's military staff, stood next to him and analyzed: "But fortunately, when these houses were originally designed, they were all independent units of each other, separated by streets, otherwise there would be no need to fight this battle today." ”

Although I feel that this young man is talking nonsense, the city that exists as a military town certainly has a design for arson.

However, after listening to Feng Guozhang's words, the generals suddenly felt more relaxed.

"Ahh

In Dong Luocheng, a few Kitayaguchi Qing soldiers who hid under the bed board and refused to go out alive or dead were forced out by the raging fire on the roof, and when they ran out of the house, the clothes on their bodies and the braids on their heads were burned, and they rolled on the ground screaming to extinguish the fire.

Two smart ones jumped directly into the fire vat next to the house and put out the fire with water.

In the North Wing City and Xiluo City, even with the support of the sandwich wall and the pine wood overhead, those projectiles that exploded in mid-air still shot into the crowd in the wall from some tricky angles from time to time, and from time to time some soldiers screamed and fell to the ground.

"Damn, you're paralyzed, it's endless, isn't it?"

On the four walls of the northern wing of the city, 700 soldiers of four companies got into the narrow bunkers formed by thick door panels and pine wood sections diagonally above the battlements.

After ten volleys, the Japanese 15 heavy artillery pieces suspended the bombardment, and the wing commander Sakurai Kuzaburo Osaku climbed onto the top of a six-meter-high wooden observatory that had been hastily erected last night to see the effect of the shelling more clearly.

However, in the morning, the smoke and fire billowing from the three cities of the Qing army opposite obviously explained the approximate results.

- It should have been a relatively successful bombardment.

"Troop Attack!"

Two miles north of the North Wing Castle, the commander of the 16th Wing, Fukushima Yongchi Daisa, who had been waiting impatiently, saw that the artillery had finally stopped bombardment, drew the Oriental knife at his waist, and couldn't wait to give the order to attack.

The Japanese trumpeters immediately sounded the trumpets of the attack, and the loud trumpets could be heard for miles.

"Attack!"

After hearing the sound of the military horn, the three infantry battalions of the 16th Wing of the Japanese Army and the three brigades of the 4th Infantry Wing immediately began to march in great strides towards their respective set goals.

"The Japanese army is attacking, hurry up to the city wall!"

There were no pine bunkers on the walls of the city walls.

Their calculation was very simple, the Japanese artillery bombardment would go down to the city tower to hide, and the soldiers would go up to the city tower again when the shelling stopped, although He Changying thought that his method was more secure, but there was no right to force other troops.

"Except for the soldiers on the city wall, the rest immediately went to put out the fire and rescue the injured brothers!"

Xu Bangdao and Jia Qisheng ran towards the north city wall, and shouted and ordered: "Brothers on the city wall, hold my guns steady and kill these turtle grandsons fiercely!" ”

"Junmen, you've got your eyes right!"

The Qing soldiers who ran up the city wall suppressed the trembling in their hearts with anger on their faces, and yelled to cheer themselves up.

"The medical staff immediately rescued the wounded, and the soldiers of all units put out the fire nearby, and isolated the fire area that could not be extinguished."

Hearing that the artillery stopped, and then there was a faint sound of Japanese attack from the north, He Changying hurriedly ran out of the wall bunker, shouting orders while also running towards the north city wall.

"Today's battle will definitely be more difficult and dangerous than the attack on No. 3, we must hold on!"

He Changying felt his heart beating violently, and the hot blood rushed towards his brain.

"Baga, these Qing troops are so cunning! Bastard, Fukushima Yongzhidai you are also a pig, shall we signal that the shelling is over? ”

Sakurai Kuzaburo climbed up to the high platform and held a telescope to carefully observe the situation of the three cities outside the Qing Army, especially the northern wing city.

Immediately, he discovered that those cunning Qing troops had actually built battlements with wooden planks on the city wall, making sections of bunkers to defend against imperial artillery fire.

Seeing this scene, Sakurai Kuzaburo was angry and angry, and he was about to go down and order the artillery to replace the high-explosive shells, focusing on cleaning up the Qing army bunkers on the city wall of the north wing, when he was shocked to hear the sound of infantry attacking in front.

Sakurai Kuzaburo suddenly turned red with anger, jumped like thunder, and scolded.