On the west coast of the mouth of the Tang River, the reeds are swinging.

"Why is this kind of person, the Japanese fleet is very poor, can't you put more sampans on the ships?"

Liu Gangzhi put down the telescope in his hand, although the fishing was successful, the fish on the hook was a little small, and he couldn't enjoy it.

"It is estimated that there will be some losses when Weihaiwei lands, and there should be a small amount of spare on the rest of the ships, but it is too late in time, otherwise there must be at least more than a hundred;"

Shi Weiyuan said with a strange face: "The Japanese army is not ready to land again?" ”

Liu Gangzhi was slightly stunned, and followed Shi Weiyuan's line of sight to see the empty boats moored on the edge of the ice belt, and then understood the meaning of his words.

"This Japanese commander is really a hopelessly stupid pig! - What a good business, forcing him to make a hammer deal. ”

Liu Gangzhi scolded angrily and looked at the abrupt three-story masonry fortress in Jianhe Village, two miles to the northeast.

At this time, the sky was clear and the morning fog dissipated, and the two signal soldiers standing on the top of the fortress were already clearly visible.

A signalman was already swinging towards the reeds and waving a small bright yellow flag with the artillery ready.

The other signal soldier was waving his flag towards the northern plains, indicating the direction of the bombardment.

At this time, the 14 artillery pieces of the Jinmen Brigade had already arrived at the predetermined positions and were waiting with bated breath.

These temporary artillery positions were deliberately selected for the rare barren high slopes of the plains in this area, and the low ones were also three or four meters high, and the highest Situo slope position was crowded with three artillery pieces, and the altitude was 14 meters above sea level.

Through the binoculars, the commanders of the various gun emplacements could see the coastal ice line and the Japanese ships stationed farther out to sea.

If the shelling in this field of view is used to bombard a fixed target, it does require several rounds of corrective fire to achieve the desired effect.

However, for the approximate bombing of sea ice, this kind of work that does not require accurate head-to-head is not necessary to try in advance.

For artillerymen, it was simply a small problem that was not worth mentioning.

An 80-caliber high-explosive bomb arbitrarily bombarded a certain place on the ice near the sea, first with a violent ramming of the warhead, and then with a roaring explosion of the projectile body violently squeezing the surrounding ice.

Immediately afterward, the body of the projectile broke through the ice and entered the sea, the roaring kinetic energy of the huge water wave generated in the afterburst, and the air explosion of a large number of churning bubbles.

It can easily tear tens of thousands of square meters of ice into dense broken cobwebs.

And more shells were smashed in the inordinate concentration of the nearshore ice belt, countless cobweb cracks tore and pulled each other, and the sea water turbulent broke and collided fiercely.

You can easily turn a large strip of sea ice into a large pot of churning cold 'boiling water'.

This is also why in Shanhaiguan, Song Zhanbiao's artillery battalion bombarded twice a day, morning and evening, and it didn't take long to hit the nearshore ice belt around Laolongtou into a maze of dangerous areas full of traps.

The Japanese army's attempt to run around the sea was easily blocked.

Liu Gangzhi's battle plan was to use infantry to defeat the more than 1,400 Japanese infantry ashore, and at the same time lure the Japanese infantry on the ship to land for reinforcements.

Then they used artillery to assault and bury all the Japanese troops on the ice into the icy sea.

In this way, it was possible to prevent the Japanese army from reinforcing it, concentrate several times the superior forces, and annihilate the Japanese army that came ashore.

At the same time, through artillery shelling, a large number of Japanese infantry were killed without much effort.

Although this plan was redirected by the Japanese cavalry to attack the mouth of the Shahe River, the 3rd Battalion suffered heavy casualties, and there were many twists and turns in the middle.

However, the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, with their own iron blood and courage, killed nearly 260 Japanese infantry and defeated the combined attack of nearly 700 Japanese troops at the cost of nearly 230 soldiers.

Then, the fleeing Japanese cavalry was completely annihilated in the middle of the Green artillery position.

At this point, after these changes, the progress of the battlefield basically returned to Liu Gangzhi's design.

The only two things that Liu Gangzhi did not expect were that the Japanese army landed less than 700 infantry.

And more than 200 soldiers of the 5th and 6th Infantry Squadrons have boarded the ice belt of death and are about to accept the final judgment of the anti-Japanese army!

Liu Gangzhi saw the signal corps on the fortress of Jianhe Village, signaled that the preparations were completed, and ordered the artillery signal corps on standby beside him: "Order the artillery, start shelling immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

The artillery signal crew, who had been waiting for a long time, responded loudly, ran to a conspicuous open space next to it, and began to wave the signal flag.

- Immediate shelling!

"Immediate shelling, immediate shelling!"

The signal soldiers of the anti-Japanese army standing on the top of the three-story earthen fort of the landlord of the Zhou family saw the signal of the reeds, and hurriedly jumped and shouted excitedly, waving the flag towards the north.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

It seems that at the same time, the commanders who had been holding binoculars and staring at the various gun emplacements of the earthen fort shouted with all their might: "Smash the shells at me without stopping!" ”

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom-"

Suddenly, the 14 guns of the anti-Japanese artillery roared one after another, spewed out long tongues of fire, and let out a huge explosion, blasting the shells out fiercely, shooting at the coastal ice belt six miles away.

"Whoa, whoa—"

In the screech of the shells, 14 warheads swept through the sky and slammed into the ice near the sea.

"Boom, boom—"

"Snap-"

Suddenly, on the ice in the area of the Tang River estuary, which was nearly two miles long, 13 huge fireballs and a snow-white column of water exploded.

The violent explosion caused the roar of huge waves in the seawater, and the ice in the offshore ice zone exploded one after another under the ice, and the huge ice blocks of thousands of square meters were blasted out at the cracks, shaking violently in the seawater.

"Yaga! Is the Navy crazy? ”

The nearly 900 Japanese infantrymen who were marching on the ice were all shocked and cursed loudly, and the cracks that exploded under their feet almost broke their courage.

"Bastard, asshole, pig!"

Kamada Yoshimasa, the captain of the 2nd Japanese Army, looked angrily at the Japanese ship group in the southern sea, and scolded: "A bunch of damn things! ”

"Boom, boom, boom—"

At this time, the thunder like a relay race exploded again, shaking the heavens and the earth.

"Brutes, pigs and dogs, stop the guns! Stop! ”

At this moment, the more than 900 Japanese soldiers who were staggering on the ice were all pale and frightened.

It was only two or three hundred meters from the shore, but a lot of ice was already raised high on the road ahead, reflecting a terrible white light in the sun.

The road ahead is already impassable, and more deadly ghosts are falling from the sky and swooping down!

"Lie down!"

At this moment, the frightened Kamada Yoshimasa had no choice but to shout and order the 900 frightened infantry soldiers around him to lie on the ice and obey the fate of heaven.

"Boom-"

An 80 high-explosive bomb hit the middle of the cracked ice block of tens of thousands of square meters where the 900 Japanese troops were located, and in the huge monstrous explosion, seven or eight Japanese soldiers lying on their stomachs were directly blown into pieces, half of which were thrown into the air, and half of which were smashed into the sea.

"Snap-"

The entire huge block of ice was shaken and jumped suddenly, and the eight or nine hundred Japanese soldiers lying on it like toads were all bounced and jumped high in an instant.