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At 8:59, the commander of the Sakura Infantry Wing, Ise Chiyoshi Osa, who received the order, immediately issued an order, and the more than 3,500 troops of the wing began to assemble the team and prepare to march in the direction of Dalian Bay.

At 9:03 a.m., a cavalry detachment of eight horsemen, which was responsible for bypassing Jinzhou City and going to the east shore of Xiaotuozi Bay to observe the situation in Dalian Bay, followed the foot of the mountain west of Dadong Mountain and came to a distance of less than two miles from the seaside of Dalian Bay.

However, the road was blocked by a pool of turquoise water.

The cavalryman Cao Nagamaru Yama Ding, who led the team, rode on his horse and looked at the sea surface of Dalian Bay exposed in the gap between the woods on the opposite side of the small lake.

He moved his frozen thighs, listened to the roar of heavy artillery in front of him, pulled the reins of his horse, and ordered, "Round the small lake to the east." ”

What Maruyama didn't know at this time was that this small lake, which was no more than a mile long and less than 300 meters wide, had a small river that ran eastward to Dalian Bay.

To do this, they spent about fifteen minutes more traveling.

Of course, at this time, Maruyama Ding didn't care at all about arriving at the beach of Dalian Bay fifteen minutes earlier or fifteen minutes later.

At this time, he hadn't realized what these fifteen minutes meant.

At 9:11, receiving the latest order from the headquarters, Tamura Yoshiichi ordered the 2nd Engineer Squadron to be responsible for clearing the hidden mines in the snow outside the city.

And he personally led more than 350 sappers from the first, three and two squadrons to enter the East Gate Chunhe Gate.

As far as the eye could see, the city was in shambles, empty and there was not even a shadow of a ghost.

The houses in the city are in ruins, and there are traces of artillery bombardment and man-made burning.

Although it was covered by a thick layer of snow, the large blood stains on the walls of the streets along the way still made the Japanese sappers who entered the city easily guess the many evils that had happened in the city.

The snow on the streets of the city was shallow and hard, and the bottom was paved with long stones, and it was obviously impossible to bury stupid and large dry mines, so Tamura Yoshiichi asked the sappers to search and clean up in preparation for the headquarters to enter Jinzhou City tonight.

"Report to the captain, and find an intact, very peculiar courtyard."

Looking at the dilapidated houses along the way, Tamura Yoshiichi was having a headache about how to arrange the accommodation of the generals, and a squad leader under him ran over to report with a strange face.

"A very peculiar yard?"

Yoshiichi Tamura was actually more interested in the word 'intact', and when he heard the report, he couldn't help but perk: "Let's go, let's see." ”

Soon, Tamura and his entourage came to a dilapidated and refreshing courtyard and walked in.

The locust trees are forested, the ancient well is secluded, and the snow in the yard is swept clean.

What is shocking is that there are ten new tombs densely packed inside.

Yoshiichi Tamura's scalp was fried, his back was 'swishing' and cold, and the blood in his whole body was almost coagulated and frozen.

Paper money was scattered on the ground, thick paper ashes were piled up in front of the grave, and wreaths that had not been burned clean.

At this moment, the seven or eight Japanese sappers and officers who entered the courtyard were all stunned and frightened.

"Qu's Well!"

After a long time, Yoshiichi Tamura, who was fluent in Chinese, his voice trembled, and his throat dried up and slowly read out the inscription by the well in Japanese.

"Qu's well, clear and deep, sparkling and cold in the heart. Ten people in a family died in a well, and Qianqiu died without sinking his reputation. ――”

Yoshiichi Tamura hissed his voice, and after reading this memorial with difficulty, he felt that his spiritual energy had been drained.

"Five women, five--children!"

Tamura's face was distorted, as if crying and laughing.

The mountain of depression in this dilapidated courtyard made him almost go crazy.

"Poof—"

Yoshiichi Tamura spurted out a stream of blood, staggered over to the tombs, and knelt down heavily.

I repent, I am guilty!

Seeing the captain kneeling down and confessing, the other six pale sapper soldiers and officers in the courtyard also suddenly weakened their legs and involuntarily knelt down.

"Woo-"

Suddenly, there was a terrifying scream in the sky that made people palpitate, and Yoshiichi Tamura and the others knelt on the ground, all looking up in dazed shock.

I saw that the sky was blue and bright, without a trace of clouds, and the golden sunlight shone fiercely on the mountains and rivers.

Above the sky, dozens of extremely fine black particles swept through a large area of airspace and pounced on Jinzhou City.

"Lie down!"

"Boom-"

With Tanaka Yoshiichi's roar, the entire Golden State City exploded, and the ground shook violently like a ship in a river.

In an instant, the entire Golden State City was covered with wolf smoke, and the explosion of high-explosive bombs and the helpless howls of dead soldiers were everywhere.

"Woo-"

"Boom-"

This round of explosions has not completely subsided, and the next blow is coming.

The city is full of fires, yellow fog and black smoke soaring into the sky!

"Woo-"

"Boom!"

The second round of blows had just passed, and the third round of bombardment came again with ferocity.

Wenjiajiao, Shimenzi, Sanli Village, Chenjiatun, --

In the horrified eyes of the soldiers of the Second Army of the Japanese Army, the inside and outside of Jinzhou City were completely shrouded in smoke and dust in the sound of explosions.

It's like a ghost field, which makes people feel frightened.

"Such a fast rate of fire, such a violent explosion, such a big flame, such a yellow smoke, and it is not fired in advance; The Qing Dynasty doesn't—"

Daji Ancun was dumbfounded, and he didn't know how to say the following words.

"The Qing Dynasty doesn't have this kind of high-explosive shell made of Shimose gunpowder, let alone such accurate artillery technology!"

At this moment, Dashan Yanqi wanted to vomit blood, and he took every precaution, but the result was still calculated.

I don't know how many sappers will be able to escape from the artillery fire this time, that's a whole sapper brigade, five or six hundred people!

Moreover, without Golden State City, this winter will definitely be even more difficult.

These Qing troops are really very cunning and treacherous, and they are impossible to guard against!

"Retreat, run retreat!"

The soldiers of the 2nd Wing of the Japanese Army in Tokyo, who had just marched to the Chenjiatun Heights, turned pale with fright, turned around and fled towards the Shimenzi area in a panic.

"It's really dangerous, it's not that I have a loose stomach, if I had come ten minutes earlier, at least one squadron of soldiers would have been fed artillery fire!"

Riding on a horse, Ise Chiyoshi felt that his whole body was sore, and his stomach was so frightened that his stomach was 'growling', and the was about to squirt out.

And in his heart, he was even more shocked.

- How can the Qing army have such sharp artillery fire!

"Ahh

In the yellow smoke and fire of Dongcheng, several Japanese sappers rushed out.

One of the soldiers, covered in flames, howled out of the smoke before sinking headlong into the snow and not moving.

Let the fire burn in the body.

This salvo of the Japanese Combined Fleet was set to 'receive' because it was afraid that it would hit too far forward and the stray bullets would accidentally hit the Japanese army position.

About a third of the shells fired smashed into the city of Golden State.

Most of the rest are in the surrounding areas of the West City, the South City, and the North City.

There were only about thirty or forty of them that fell outside the eastern city, but they easily killed most of the sappers in charge of the minesweeping in the eastern city.

The bombardment lasted about seven minutes, and then the sky fell silent, and there was no more of the terrifying 'Boom' scream.

Only the smoke and flames in the Golden State City were billowing and monstrous.