"Hey!"

Kuroda yelled with excitement on his face.

The commander of the county county relied so heavily on the imperial artillery, how could he not make him, as the minister of artillery, excited?

"Aoki, immediately convey the order; The 3rd and 5th Wings, the mountain artillery suspended the attack, and the field artillery raised the elevation angle to bombard the main city area of Shanhaiguan; ”

Kuroda Hissataka ordered the staff officer of the military headquarters on standby, Artillery Captain Aoki Nobujun: "Each wing will only conduct one corrective shot, and then concentrate the fire and shoot out!" ”

The 5th Artillery Wing of the Japanese Army in Shahezi, located one and a half miles to the rear right of Nanshuijing, and the 3rd Artillery Wing of the Japanese Army on Yaoshanpo, one mile to the rear left, are roughly less than four miles away from the North Wing City in a straight line.

It is close to seven miles away from the main city of Shanhaiguan.

The Japanese army's 75mm copper-bodied steel-bore mountain gun has a maximum firing range of 6 miles;

The 75mm copper-bodied steel-bore field gun has a maximum firing range of 10 miles.

In the defense lines of Asan, Pyongyang, and Yalu River, as well as the subsequent conquest of the hinterland of Liaodong, the First Army successively captured a large number of Qing artillery.

There are 37mm, 47mm and 57mm small-caliber guns made by the Qing Army Beiyang and Jiangnan Ordnance Bureau, as well as 87mm old Krupp guns purchased from Germany.

However, because the caliber of the shells was not the same as the Japanese army, and the Japanese army really didn't look down on the shells of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to 7 37mm guns, they were brought to Shanhaiguan by the Japanese army.

The rest of the artillery of various calibers were scattered everywhere.

At 8:11 a.m., after receiving an order from Yama County Youpeng, the 21 mountain guns of the two artillery wings immediately stopped shelling. The remaining 30 or so field guns began to raise the elevation angle of the artillery and carry out extended bombardment, bombarding the main city of Shanhaiguan and its two wings.

"Boom-"

Suddenly, the entire area around the main city of Shanhaiguan was filled with artillery fire.

"Ahh

"It hurts me!"

"Help——!

"Get down!"

This sudden and dense bombardment caused a howl inside and outside the main city of Shanhaiguan.

Because of the dense houses in the main city of Shanhaiguan, when Nie Shicheng was in charge of the Shanhaiguan defense area, he forcibly built a lot of anti-artillery walls.

Therefore, the banner soldiers of Bai Ji in the main city, the Jiangnan soldiers of Liu Kunyi, and the thunder army of Tang Renlian, when the Japanese army shelled the three cities outside the pass, they were afraid of harming the pond fish, and they had already rushed into the anti-artillery wall to avoid artillery fire.

Except for some unlucky ghosts in the city, the vast majority of the Qing army were afraid to hide in the anti-artillery wall.

Chen Fenglou's 3rd Battalion Ming Army Horse Team was stationed in Song Zhanbiao's original artillery position.

Wei Guangtao's 6 battalions and 3 sentinels Wuwei Army, and Li Guangjiu's 5 battalions of Lao Xiang Army, were stationed in Huanxiling, south of the Laolongtou Great Wall.

Chen Xiang's 10th battalion of the Fushou Army was stationed in the eastern slope of the Jiaoshan Great Wall.

The 1st Battalion of Tan Biaozhong's Protector Army was stationed in the South Wing City.

Because these camps were far away from the coverage of the Japanese army's artillery fire, the Qing soldiers were all lucky, looking at the human purgatory outside Shanhai City with a cold face.

On both sides of the main city and in the open area behind it, Wu Fengzhu's 5th battalion of infantry horses, Liu Shuyuan's 6th battalion of the Hunan army, Wu Yuankai's 4th battalion of the Chu army artillery team, and Xiao Ligang's Krupp 80mm Krupp new tube annealing artillery camp.

It was directly exposed to the sudden and fierce fire of the Japanese army, and there was no cover to avoid the artillery.

"Boom-"

A succession of shells exploded above the heads of the Qing soldiers outside the city, and the soldiers who had nowhere to hide were screamed by the dense iron ball shrapnel and fell to the ground, causing a rain of blood.

All kinds of pre-death howls, mixed with the pouring down cannonballs, filled the rest of the world.

"Liu Kunyi, this bastard, and these treacherous Japanese soldiers! Immediately retreat, evacuate, evacuate! ”

When the Japanese artillery first started to bombard the three cities outside the Guanwai, Xiao Ligang, who had seen the artillery battle of Jinzhou and the artillery battle of Dalian Bay, felt that the Japanese artillery might carry out extended attacks later.

However, he guessed that the shelling should have followed the bombardment of the three cities outside the Guan, so that the Japanese could use artillery fire to block the reinforcements of the Qing army in the three cities outside the Guanwai.

At that time, the situation was urgent, and Xiao Li had no time to send troops out of the city to report, so he loudly ordered each platoon to mount 13 artillery pieces on mules and horses, and prepare to withdraw from the camp by the Shihe River at any time.

Since the artillery battalion position was in the pass, without Liu Kunyi's nod, and without the Japanese artillery fire to cover it, Xiao Ligang did not dare to move the artillery out of the position without authorization.

As a result, the two corrective shooting shells of the Japanese army were mistaken by Xiao Ligang for the shells fired by the Japanese army, and it was not until a large number of projectiles poured down that they really woke up.

"Boom-"

"Lie down!"

A grenade exploded in the sky above a gun to be withdrawn from the position, and the dense projectiles 'swished' into the sky, hitting the glowing steel cannon body below, splashing fluffy sparks.

The two mules and horses pulling the gun carriage, who did not know what it meant to be 'lying down', were suddenly pierced by the iron beads and were bloodied, and they fell to the ground with a neighing of 'Yu, Yu-'.

"Change horses immediately, carry the wounded away, and speed up!"

In the rumbling cannonball, Xiao Ligang saw five or six soldiers lying on the ground covered in blood and howling, and the corners of his eyes were jumping violently, shouting loudly: "This is just a grenade bomb, and there is a high-explosive bomb behind it!" ”

"The anti-Japanese army has fled! The anti-Japanese army fled! ”

"Paralyzed, run!"

"Lao Tzu fights! - Run! ”

Seeing the artillery battalion of the anti-Japanese army on the side, the artillery truck fled towards Guannan quickly, and the Fengzi army next to it who was blown unconscious woke up.

- It may be safer to lie on the ground than to stand stupidly, but if you don't risk your life to escape from this hellish place, this round of shells will come over, and it is estimated that the nineteenth will hang sooner or later!

So the soldiers of the Fengzi battalion shouted one after another, braving the artillery fire that would explode at any time in the sky overhead, those with horses rode horses, and those without horses leaned on their two legs, desperately running towards the south and fleeing.

At this time, in a short period of time, Shanhaiguan City, which was densely built and crowded with grass huts, had already burned into a sea of fire, although it had escaped the huge damage of the artillery bombardment.

On the 6th day of the first month of the Western calendar, the artillery bombardment of the Japanese heavy artillery wing ignited a large number of thatched houses in the three cities outside the Guanwai, thus causing a lot of trouble to the three cities outside the Guanwai.

After the battle, He Changying learned his lesson and ordered the demolition of all remaining thatched huts.

And use coal and charcoal instead of firewood for cooking and heating.

Not only did a large number of thatched huts not be demolished, but the soldiers in the city cut down a large amount of firewood in the surrounding mountains and forests in order to cook and keep warm, and piled up and stored it in the streets and alleys.

The generals of Guancheng agreed that since the Japanese wanted to conquer the three cities outside the gate first, no matter how much they bombarded it, they would attack the three cities outside the gate first.

There is no reason to waste the cannonballs on the main city of Shanhaiguan directly behind the three cities before the three cities have been defeated.

The thatched house can't be demolished, and the biting cold wind of this cold winter moon is demolished, where are the Jiangnan soldiers, the thunder army, and the flag soldiers?

The anti-Japanese army relied on some big rich people in Nanyang, so the high-quality white coal, Wugang oak charcoal, and truckloads were pulled outside the pass.

The army is not as rich as the anti-Japanese army, and now the imperial court is tight, and there is no need for firewood to cook and keep warm, how can there be silver to buy white coal, charcoal and other precious things?

Even if you really want to demolish these thatched houses, you have to wait until He Changying can't stand it anymore and loses the three cities outside the Guan, and then it's not too late to demolish them.