At six o'clock in the afternoon of April 6, 1912, Qiao Zhen, the commander of the Nantong garrison, sat in the temporary headquarters and drank cold water in large gulps. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info he was originally a person who was relatively easy to get excited, as a former Qing Dynasty martial artist, Qiao Zhen can be regarded as both civil and military, and even performed martial arts in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Qiao Zhen is not a native of Nantong, he is a native of Shaanxi, and after winning the Wujinshi, he was assigned to the green camp in Jiangsu to be a general, and later went to the daughter of a large local family in Nantong, which is considered to have taken root here. Cixi's administrative reform, the green battalion was abolished, some were assigned to the patrol battalion, and some went to the yamen, it happened that the chief catcher of the yamen of Nantong County resigned in old age, and Qiao Zhen's father-in-law spent a lot of money to dredge up the relationship with him, and jumped from the green camp to the county yali with more than 20 brothers, and he was the chief catcher.

This Qiao Zhen is also a capable person, his father-in-law's family has a good relationship in the local area, especially with Zhang Jian's family, so Qiao Zhen has been in the position of the head catcher in Nantong County for several years. A few years ago, the patrol room was abolished and the police system was established, and Qiao Zhen became the chief police officer of Nantong County without exception.

Qiao Zhen is forty-one years old this year, if it weren't for the Japanese attacking Nantong, I'm afraid he wouldn't have had a big career in this life, but because of the arrival of the Japanese, he became the leader of Nantong's resistance against Japan, and entered the eyes of Wang Yongan and other Jiangbei gentry. Qiao Zhen's old father-in-law was relieved, and said that he didn't choose the wrong person back then, and his son-in-law didn't say anything about both civil and military, so he was good at judging the situation and sizing up the situation, and he was the backbone of the nation, and he was never afraid in the face of the powerful Japanese.

In fact, it would be a lie to say that he was not afraid, but Qiao Zhen understood better that if he wanted to make a difference and go further, he couldn't be the same as others. Therefore, he was even more busy, and he had not rested for a moment, and he had just taken a few sips of water at this time, when he suddenly heard a sharp sound of breaking through the air.

"It's a cannonball, little Japan is firing again, dodge the cannon!" Qiao Zhen shouted loudly.

The garrison was bombarded by the artillery of the Japanese warship in the morning, and when they heard the sound of artillery at this time, they immediately ran into the bunker to avoid the cannon, and Qiao Zhen also hid in the bunker with his henchmen.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom ......"

The continuous explosion above their heads really made their hearts almost jump out of their throats, at this time it was a stroke of luck, if anyone's luck was directly hit, then it would be considered his bad luck. And many people were not killed by the explosion, but were shocked to death by the shock wave, and it seemed that there was nothing to the person in the blink of an eye, but when you pat this person, you will find that this person has bled from seven orifices.

Qiao Zhen asked people to collect the corpses in the morning, and found that many of the garrisons were dying like this, but he didn't actually feel the horror of being bombarded by cannonballs on his head. But now, Qiao Zhen finally understood why the two regiment commanders left their troops and fled, and why they would rather be scolded than run, because the continuous naval artillery bombardment is not only a kind of physical torture, but also a kind of psychological torture.

The horror of death lies in the unknown, and what is more terrifying than death is waiting for death to come, the explosion and vibration above his head made Qiao Zhen feel that he was very likely to die in the next second.

At this time, he suddenly thought of his wife, his wife is a gentle southern woman, compared to the heartiness of a woman in the northwest, his wife has the gentleness of a Jiangnan girl, she always speaks softly, even if she criticizes the child, she never reprimands loudly, but softly reasons.

His three sons are Qiao Long, Qiao Hu and Qiao Bao, the three stinky boys are each as strong as a calf, originally his wife did not agree with what his son was called Longhu Leopard, but Qiao Zhen was willing, and his wife had to follow him. These three stinky boys followed him, bold, dared to do anything, dared to play anything, and at a young age, he actually stole his own gun to hunt in the woods, and almost let the badger bite him. The little brother went home and discussed whether to tell his father, but he didn't expect Qiao Zhen to smell the smell of gunsmoke on his body, so he hung the little brother and beat him.

Thinking of the little brother and his wife, Qiao Zhen couldn't help laughing, in the deathly silent anti-artillery hole, Qiao Zhen's laughter made everyone feel that there was something wrong with the chief?

Half an hour later, the Japanese Navy finally stopped shelling, the warships lowered their boats, and a group of members began to land in the port of Langshan. In fact, Langshan Port is just a quagmire, and later Zhang Jian's company built Langshan Port in order to transport goods upward, and the reason why the Japanese chose this place is because the water depth of the harbor is suitable, and Zhang Jian has been operating for many years, which is more suitable for landing than other seaports.

The Japanese Brigade in China was ready when the shelling entered the final stage, due to the limited number of transport ships, they could only land 300 people at a time, but fortunately, it was enough to land all of them in four times, Araki Samasa pulled out his command knife, stood on the bow of the boat, and shouted: "Imperial の男たち!" 身を立てるする時が来ました! (Men of the Empire, the time has come to make a contribution!) ）”

The standard equipment of Japanese soldiers is the golden hook rifle, which has a long range and strong stability, and there are very few wind and sand fields in the south, and there will be no rifle jams like the north, so although the 17 main divisions of the Japanese army have eliminated the golden hook rifle, but in the navy and reserve forces, the golden hook rifle is still a standing standard weapon. And this group of retired veterans, apparently more familiar with the Golden Hook rifle, after they disembarked from the battleship, half of them rowed and the other half shot.

On the other side of the river, the Langshan Harbor was ablaze, and all the obstacles set up by Qiao Zhen, the commander of the Nantong garrison, were blown to pieces, and only five minutes after the enemy's shelling stopped, people came out of the air-raid shelters one after another.

Qiao Zhen shook his head after he came out, he couldn't hear anything at all when his ears were buzzing, and he couldn't hear what the other party said until someone pointed fingers in front of him, it turned out that what the guards said was that the Japanese army was coming.

"Damn, what are you still stunned about, return to the position, prepare to shoot, don't wait for them to go ashore to fight, it'll be too late."

"Yes."

"Also, when I met a deserter, I was fucking killed!"

"Yes!"

Qiao Zhen thought for a while, and then instructed his henchman brother: "Go and save the people in the bomb shelter, see if there are any alive, mother!" Don't suffocate yourself by the hole you dug yourself. ”

"Yes."

Qiao Zhen thrust his waist, staring at the sea with a frown, and only saw dozens of small boats rowing towards the shore in the dark, but he couldn't see anyone, it is estimated that there is still a distance of more than a thousand meters, wait a while and then fight.