Immediately, on the turquoise sea, the eight Japanese warships divided into two linear units, and began to make a flat oval circle near and one far.

"The Japanese are going to attack, the Japanese are going to attack!"

Seeing this scene, the artillery groups in the north and south of Dagu were all shouting, and all the soldiers raised their muzzles under the shouts of the officers, took aim, and prepared to bombard.

"He's paralyzed!"

Wu Hongluo, who was standing on the top of the 'sea' fort of the Southern Artillery Group, saw that the Japanese fleet facing the Southern Artillery Group was actually cruising at such a long distance, and he couldn't help but curse angrily: "Try shooting a few cannons." ”

"Put!"

"Boom!"

With Wu Hongluo's order, the 'sea' character fort, more than 3,000 pounds of Qing Dynasty bronze cannons, 6 75 guns, 1 120mm 25 times the caliber cannon, the group of artillery roared in unison.

They threw shells into the sea.

"Boom-"

Hearing the cannon sound of the 'sea' fort, the 'wei' fort, the 'earthquake' fort, and the other 12 small forts, all of them were 'bang, bang, bang' cannon fire in unison, smashing a large number of projectiles into the sea.

Five or six of the shells failed to fly across the coastal ice belt, smashing the ice into holes of various sizes and splashing up columns of snow-white water.

Almost all of the remaining shells fell into the sea midway and hit the water column.

There were only 26 75 guns and 1 120 guns, and the shells smashed along the western elliptical line of the Japanese fleet, and 27 water columns appeared, but not even the hair of the Japanese ship group was rubbed.

"Sure enough, it's a bunch of recruits who don't understand anything."

Seeing this scene, Sameshima was immediately relieved, and ordered Captain Nakamura Shizuka, a staff officer beside him: "Since the Qing army is so unbearable, the empire can save some shells even more, and order to move 1 kilometer west around the central axis; Hmph, as long as they have this ability, let them bombard the Empire's ironclad ships! ”

Immediately, the Japanese 1st Guerrilla Fleet began to move westward, and it would circle an elliptical central axis at 4.3 km, 4.1 km at the westernmost point and 4.5 km at the easternmost point.

It has completely reached the coverage of 27 Krupp guns of the Dagu South Artillery Group, as well as 1 12,000 kg copper cannon and 4 10,000 kg copper cannons.

"The Japanese ship is moving closer, the Japanese ship is moving closer!"

The officers and men of the Hongzi Army of the Southern Artillery Group, who were extremely disappointed, all looked at the Dagu North Artillery Group with envy and the Japanese army's main ship group, and shouted one after another:

"If Lao Tzu is in the North Artillery Group, he won't be able to kill these grandsons with one shot!"

"It's all so close, why don't you fire guns from the north? Otherwise, let's fight for them, and the distance is proper anyway. ”

At this moment, the officers and men of the Hongzi Army saw that the Japanese First Guerrilla Group was suddenly moving westward, and they could not help but be stunned, and then cheered one after another.

"Okay, okay, these grandsons are really stupid with their heads dangling on the boat, see that their father doesn't blow up and let them feed the Sea King!"

"Load gunpowder, cannonballs, blow up his father!"

The gun commanders of each gun position of the southern artillery group all shouted excitedly, telling their subordinates to quickly load their ammunition and continue to bombard.

And Wu Hongluo and a group of subordinates who had experienced the Keelung naval battle with him back then all changed color with blood red.

The purpose of this move of the Japanese warships was to exchange distance for more accurate shooting, and when they could completely avoid bullets, the Japanese fleet still made this choice, which shows that they completely ignored the threat of battery artillery to them.

Although the good thing is that it can finally be beaten, this 'pop' slap in the face is really not an ordinary pain.

"Order all forts, even if you die, you must die on top of the forts, and if you escape, Lao Tzu will kill one, and if you escape a hundred, Lao Tzu will kill a hundred!"

Wu Hongluo viciously ordered Wu Xuejun, the captain of his own soldiers: "You take two hundred soldiers under your command, armed with broadswords and rifles, and divide them into five teams to set up cards everywhere to supervise patrols; is the sentry officer, the battalion leader, who dared to fight cowardly under the fort, and immediately chopped it up for Lao Tzu! ”

"Boom, boom—"

Just as Wu Hongluo was speaking, the artillery of the various batteries of the Southern Artillery Group was roaring again, adding a bit of slaughter to his words.

This time, all the batteries learned the lesson of the last time, carried out artillery screening, stopped all useless guns, and used Krupp artillery and more than 8,000 pounds of Daqing bronze cannons.

The effect of this bombardment was slightly more pretty, with several columns of water blowing up high near the Japanese warship.

"Chirp"

Wu Xuejun, the general manager, yelled at a neat half-knee knee, and then led seven or eight soldiers to stride down the 'sea' character fort.

"Boom!"

At this time, when the Japanese naval group sailed to about 4 kilometers away from the North Artillery Group at Dagukou, the artillery of the North Artillery Group finally began to sound.

A huge roar instantly drowned out all the sounds on the north side of the Haihe River, and the raging fog rose violently from the forts along the coast, completely enveloping the forts.

23 75 guns, 13 120 guns, roared and smashed huge warheads at the Japanese fleet.

"Boom, boom!"

At Matsushima, Hashidate, and around the four ships, a column of water was raised, and one of the 120 shells accurately smashed on the right deck of the Itsukushima.

"Boom!"

The projectile bounced violently and smashed into clumps of sparks, smashing an 8mm5-tube Nordenfeld cannon into twisted iron clay with oblique fire.

The machine cannon danced and flicked the chain of bullets, instantly smashing the two machine gunners standing on the side, splashing a large amount of blood.

"Oh!"

Although this bomb was too far away for the soldiers of the anti-Japanese army of the northern artillery group to see, the huge water columns that jumped high around the Japanese ship group still made all the anti-Japanese officers and soldiers very excited.

Beginning on 5 February, 14 days of round-the-clock bombardment training finally showed its effect today.

Just the first round of bombardment of each artillery position can achieve this effect, to be honest, it is quite rare.

Of course, this is also inseparable from the detailed division of labor of each gun position.

The honest and strong anti-Japanese army man is mainly to transport and load shells.

The soldiers with quick hands and feet are adjusted to the cannon body.

Soldiers who have gone to higher education, are deaf and quick-witted, and are responsible for artillery fire.

"Aim at the enemy ship and keep firing!"

Under Xiong Kaiyu's shout, the soldiers of the 'high' fort shouted and acted quickly.

"Boom!"

In the Dagu artillery group, all the artillery pieces with sufficient distance were spitting tongues of fire, pouring out large puffs of smoke to bombard the Japanese warships.

"Boom!"

As the distance continued to close, at 3.5 kilometers, the rhythm of the Japanese warships was rising, and in just a few minutes, the engine room of the Matsushima was also hit by a 75 shell, smashing a lot of instruments.

"This Daqing is really unrepentant, and it is still an armor-piercing bullet! Are they short of silver? However, the artillery of the northern artillery group is still somewhat accurate, and the southern artillery group is completely blind and loses artillery. ”

Ito Hensuke, who was on the Matsushima, shook his head again and again, and ordered the staff officers around him: "With 2.6 kilometers as the central axis, the short radius of the elliptical is 200 meters, and the long radius is 1,000 meters; ”

"Boom!"

At this time, the hull of the Yoshino, the flagship of the Japanese First Guerrilla Army, shook suddenly, and the huge smoke instantly covered half of the Yoshino.

With this roar, a 203mm Armstrong rapid-fire gun in the stern of the Yoshino exploded, smashing a huge high-explosive shell into the 'Wei' battery of the Qing army's Dagu South Artillery Group.

In this anti-artillery battle at the Dagu port, which was extremely uneven in strength, with the bombardment of Yoshino, the Japanese ship group finally kicked off the attack.