The buzzing and killing army heard a roar in the distant sky, as if hundreds of millions of wasps were rushing at the same time. Before they could react, they heard the earth-shattering cheers of the Beiyang Army who were scattering and fleeing in front of them.

Although the brains of the army are rigid, it does not mean that they are stupid, and when they hear the movement of the Beiyang Army, they understand that the enemy must have reinforcements arriving.

When the army was still stunned, a group of planes drilled out of the clouds, and the V-shaped twelve-cylinder Eagle engine output strong power, which was transformed into the roar of aluminum alloy propellers, and from the belly and wing pylons, small five-pound aerial bombs swayed and fell from the sky, and small black spots that could not be seen clearly with the naked eye turned into iron bumps and spilled onto the beach.

The explosions were one after another, and the soldiers on the beach were dizzy, and many people did not understand what was going on until they died. It is not that I have never seen airplanes, and there are four French-made Falman seaplanes on the "Wakamiya Maru", but the kind of planes that go to the sky with a "boom" and then take six cents to subsidize the planes that often never come back, can only serve as reconnaissance missions, and have never seen them "lay eggs" from the sky.

The army has always regarded airplanes as a useless and expensive toy, and he never thought that this thing would kill people so powerfully!

Like the Beiyang Army just now, the Yue Army was also frightened by the way they had never seen before, and they either blindly shot at the sky with their rifles, or they ran away and waded waist-deep into the sea water to try to return to the warship. The pilots of the 1st Air Force Regiment found that the small bombs were not effective on the soft beaches, and that they could only turn up the sand and dirt but rarely kill people, so they swooped down to the low altitude like eagles, and the two air-cooled light Makqin under the wings began to wield.

The dignified Makqin's unique brass sound sounded, and a string of specially made heavy bullets licked like a poisonous snake's letter through the creatures on the ground, tearing the soldiers alive. The bullets entered the sand, burrowed small round holes, and stretched all the way to the sea.

Seeing the planes of the Jianghuai Army coming to help in the battle, the Beiyang Army, which had just now hated that its parents had lost two legs, suddenly had the courage, turned around one after another, searched for abandoned weapons, and used rifles and bayonets to attack the already collapsed army.

The situation on the battlefield has taken a huge turn in an instant!

The destroyers and torpedo boats on the coast noticed the change in form on the coast and bombarded the Beiyang Army with naval guns.

After the baptism of the 305-mm main guns on the battleship, the rapid-fire guns on the destroyer could no longer frighten the Beiyang Army. The shelling of the warships on the shallow sea also greatly reduced the lethality because of the soft sand on the shore, and the shore was filled with gunsmoke and dust, which seemed to be quite lively, but not many people were really killed.

The bombardment of the destroyers drew a blow from the air force, and the planes flew above the destroyers and torpedo boats with a huge roar, slowly passing through the air, dropping aerial bombs ranging from five pounds to one hundred pounds on these small warships. Most of them were thrown into the sea or bounced off by the armor of the warship, and occasionally a few small aerial bombs fell on the deck, causing a huge explosion.

A hapless destroyer, hit by a small twenty-pound aerial bomb, triggers a detonation of ammunition, and the Shimose gunpowder, which melts steel, turns the small six-hundred-ton warship into a floating steelmaking furnace. At the same time, the yellow poisonous smoke produced by the burning of Shimose gunpowder caused the sailors on the warship to suffocate and coma in an instant, and it was too late to jump into the sea to escape.

The small warships loaded with the army immediately headed for the deep sea when the situation was not good, but the waves in the shallow sea made them lose their high mobility that they should have. The only thing on the warship that can strike at air targets is the officer's pistol, which is acceptable for suicide, but it is absolutely impossible to hit an airplane.

At a speed of 150 kilometers per hour, the planes of the Jianghuai Army flew as slowly as possible over the warships in the shallow sea, and threw the ammunition loaded on the planes at these small warships with a displacement of no more than 1,000 tons.

It is a pity that the aerial bombs loaded by the planes are generally on the small side, with most of them being 5 to 20 pounds, and occasionally a few 100 pounds are thrown into the sea, and the fish, turtles, shrimps, and crabs are blown up and float to the surface of the sea.

Seeing the effect of the bombing, the pilots swooped over the sea and slaughtered the soldiers on the deck with machine guns, and those who did not hide in the lower cabins were beaten into a sieve by machine guns.

After all, the Combined Fleet was a well-trained unit, and it drove the warships away from the shallow sea with the bombardment on its head, and was able to evade the aerial bombs falling from the sky with a high degree of mobility. The people on deck basically hid in the cabins, and the machine-gun hits were no longer effective. The telegraph operator quickly compiled the battle situation in front into Morse code and sent it to the capital ships in the rear.

Seeing that the bombing of the warships was just a waste of ammunition, the pilots of the 1st Air Force Regiment pulled the planes back to the beach and pursued the fleeing army. Wu Peifu and the Beiyang Army also came back, and the two sides exchanged fire at close range, and soon became entangled together.

After this round of attacks, most of the fuel and ammunition had already been consumed, and some of the planes that were short of fuel were immediately pulled up and flew to an airstrip 30 kilometers away to replenish ammunition and fuel, and a few of them reluctantly continued to chase and annihilate the scattered Yue army.

Although the plane had gradually flown away, the army had already been frightened, and the ferocious beasts had turned into sheep, and the Beiyang Army had turned from sheep to wounded beasts. Wu Peifu held a foreign knife in one hand and a pistol in the other, and when he was far away he was hit with a gun, and when he was close he was stabbed with a foreign knife, no less than seven or eight of the soldiers died in his hands, and the soldiers of the Beiyang Army were all hideous, and they chased and killed the Yue Ben Army like crazy, and many of the Yue soldiers were forced into the sea by them and drowned alive.

A string of horses' hooves sounded, and a battalion of Jianghuai cavalry killed them in the sound of the charging horn, and the Beiyang Army got out of the way. In the face of a group of already frightened army, the cavalry didn't even bother to use a gun, put the rifle on the back, and cut off the dirty heads with a saber.

Wu Peifu finally took a breath, and then he realized that his body was soaked in blood, and he couldn't figure out whether it was his own injury or the blood of the enemy, and the bones all over his body seemed to be scattered.

"Brigadier Wu, injured?" A young voice came from behind.

Wu Peifu looked back and saw that it was Xue Zilin.

Wu Peifu smiled awkwardly, clasped his fists and said, "Thank you Brigade Commander Xue for your help, Wu and the Beiyang officers and soldiers are grateful!" ”

Xue Zilin suppressed the smugness in his heart, and pretended to be calm: "Please take a little rest for Brigade Commander Wu, and watch my Jianghuai Jian'er kill thieves!" ”

Although there was only one battalion of cavalry coming to reinforce them, there was almost no suspense in the face of the Yue army, which had been frightened by the first air raid in human history. The 16-millimeter camera in the hands of the photographer made a light stamping sound, the majesty of the Jianghuai Air Force, the majesty of the cavalry, the corpse of the Beiyang Army who was beheaded by the soldiers, and the soldiers who fought bloodily???? Everything on the battlefield is on celluloid film.

The cavalry of the Jianghuai Army chased and killed the army like chopping melons and vegetables, and many of them themselves also learned to be obedient, raising their weapons above their heads and kneeling on the ground. The cavalry of the Jianghuai Army turned a blind eye to these troops who had surrendered their guns, and rode their horses to chase and kill the fleeing ones, and the Beiyang Army was not polite??? Both sides of the battle chose the most brutal way, as long as the head was not taken prisoner.

The Beiyang Army beat the water dogs and killed all the soldiers who had surrendered, and the officers were also beheaded with foreign knives. The bloody heads were also full of fear in their eyes.

"Brigade Commander Xue, let the brothers withdraw first, the naval guns of this navy are powerful!" Wu Peifu learned the power of naval guns, and his heart palpitated.

Xue Zilin saw that there were still some stubborn resistances of the army, and said unwillingly: "Eliminate the evil, please withdraw Brigade Commander Wu first, and I will take the brothers to take care of the remnants of the enemy." ”

Wu Peifu tugged on his reins and said, "Brigade Commander Xue can't be careless, this is my own naval artillery is very tight!" ”

Xue Zilin hesitated for a moment and said, "The cooking will be finished in a moment and a half, and we are all cavalry walking fast." ”

Wu Peifu's defeated general didn't have anything to say, he collected the red-eyed Beiyang Army, and withdrew with the corpses of the wounded and robes, and many soldiers killed by naval guns had no bodies to collect, and the soldiers could only pick up a piece of rags on their uniforms and give them a thought to their families. A regiment of the Beiyang Army has suffered nearly half of the casualties in just one battle, and Wu Peifu's regiment has been crippled, so it is waiting to return to the rear for reorganization.

The Beiyang Army withdrew to the rear, and the Jianghuai Army continued to pursue and kill the Yue Army. Although this battalion is all cavalry, its firepower is not weak, with one turntable light machine gun and two grenadiers for each squad. The army is already a frightened bird, and it has no ability to resist at all, almost stretching its neck and waiting for the Jianghuai army to cut it, and the heavy firepower is not used at all.

The rise of the cavalry battalion directly under the brigade headquarters, the war horses galloped repeatedly on the soft sand, the snowy sabers in the hands of the soldiers flashed, and a head was cut off, and the steel knives in the hands of the soldiers were cut for a long time without breaking or curling the blade. Guanghua Iron and Steel Company's advantages in special alloy smelting make the saber in the hands of every soldier like a divine weapon made of refined steel. The saber does not have to consider the problem of curling the edge, and can be kept as sharp as possible.

"Stop playing, settle the battle quickly!" Xue Zilin gave the order.

The huge craters on the beach also put a lot of pressure on his psyche, and it was certainly not fun to get one of these shells!

When the cavalry of the Jianghuai Army saw the small flag waved by the standard-bearer, they inserted the saber into the scabbard, took off the rifle and light machine gun, and the grenadier hid to the side to watch the excitement.

The first group of troops to land was a brigade of the Kumamoto Division, and the captain of the group was named Mitarai Jiro, and those who were familiar with the national conditions of the country knew that this person's background must be extremely lowly. Before the Meiji Restoration, it was said that only noble feudal lords had surnames, but after the Meiji Restoration, the political axe required everyone to give themselves a surname, so those who lived at the bottom of the mountain were surnamed Yamashita, and those who had a pine forest at the door were surnamed Matsuda. Mitarai Jiro's father was very lucky, and the door of the house was facing the toilet, so he had an unlucky surname - Mitarai.

According to the estimation of the army, one brigade of the army is enough. The seaplanes on the "Wakamiya Maru" had already made Wu Peifu's troops and firepower reconnaissance clear, and after a round of artillery attacks, he used a large group of troops to clear the battlefield and build a beachhead, and Mitarai Jiro already felt that it was a bit wasteful.

Unexpectedly, the Jianghuai Army launched an air attack, and the Kumamoto Division, known as the first elite of the company, had never seen such a never-before-seen means of warfare, and it was defeated at that time, and then it was the cavalry launched an attack.

To deal with cavalry, infantry must build strong fortifications and block the impact of cavalry with firepower, but once the cavalry breaks through the infantry camp, it is no different from chopping melons and vegetables. The Mitarai Brigade has long been defeated by air raids, where can it be organized for effective defense? I can only hold my neck and wait for the cavalry to be decapitated!

In front is the wolf-like Jianghuai cavalry, behind is the vast sea, the army is already a frightened bird, there is no combat effectiveness at all, the infantry can't escape when they encounter the cavalry, and the Mitarai brigade has no other way out except to close their eyes and wait for death!

No matter how elite the troops encounter weapons and methods of warfare that they have never seen before, they will panic and lose the courage to fight, especially when the Mitarai Brigade encounters the first air raid in human history, this kind of battle that can only be beaten and cannot fight back is the most frustrating and demoralizing.

The army of workers from Kumamoto Prefecture was so devastated by the airplane, a symbol of industrialization, that Mitarai Jiro committed suicide by disembowelment when he drew a foreign sword. But his luck was obviously not so good, and it was not a simple matter to die in glory, a cavalryman of the Jianghuai Army shot him in the shoulder, and the 7.92 mm standard bullet entered from the shoulder, and his arm immediately weakened, and then his head was hit hard by the war horse, and Mitarai Jiro fainted at that time.

When he woke up from the cold water, he was bound and stuck, and he was thrown on his horse, becoming the only prisoner of the battle.

"Alright, retreat!" Xue Zilin's right eyelid was always jumping, and he began to panic in his heart, and he finally gave the order to withdraw his troops.

As soon as he remembered the sound of the retreating military trumpet, he heard a muffled sound in the air that tore through the air, Xue Zilin was stunned for a moment, and then he felt that someone had thrown himself down and fell headlong on the sandy ground.

"Brigadier Commander, be careful!" The two guards threw him down without saying anything, and his body was on top of him.

Bang!

With an earth-shattering explosion, the air wave swept Xue Zilin and the two guards on his body out of the way and threw them heavily on the ground.

When Xue Zilin finally came to his senses, he felt that his ears were buzzing non-stop, and he couldn't hear anything outside, and this time he understood that it was the warship that fired.

Not far from him, a guard's head had been cut in half by fragments of a shell, and his brain and blood stained the sand beneath him.

Three hundred meters away from him, a huge crater suddenly appeared, and the corpses of soldiers and war horses were scattered around, both Jianghuai and Yuejun.

"Retreat, retreat!"

The power of the warship's main guns was far beyond Xue Zilin's imagination, and he roared hoarsely, but he couldn't hear his own sound.

A flurry of artillery bombardment followed, and the Second Fleet's main guns fired a salvo, and heavy guns ranging from 160 mm to 305 mm were pouring shells onto the beachhead.

The soldiers did not wait for the order, but also beat their horses and whipped down, many Jianghuai army horses were frightened to kneel on the ground, feces and urine, let the cavalry whip just can't get up, the cavalry had to change to infantry, and run away. Xue Zilin's war horse was still quite angry, he ran over and arched his body with his head, licking his face with his tongue, Xue Zilin didn't care much, he rode on the horse and ran, shouting with all his strength while running: "Retreat, retreat!" ”

The artillery of the Yue Army extended its fire, covering the shelling without distinguishing between the enemy and us, and the density of firepower in this shelling far exceeded that of the initial attack on the Beiyang Army.

Fortunately, Xue Zilin brought cavalry this time, although some of the horses were paralyzed, but the Jianghuai army never had the habit of discarding their robes, and the soldiers who lost their horses were pulled on their horses by their comrades, and the two of them fled quickly with one horse.

But Xue Zilin created the first inglorious record since the founding of the Jianghuai Army, and did not collect the corpse of the robe when he retreated!

This can't be blamed on him, in the face of this overwhelming artillery fire, in the face of the indestructible power of the main guns of warships, human beings are too small, and every life is fragile and insignificant in the face of iron and fire.

Finally escaped from this beach of death, Xue Zilin picked up some soldiers, a cavalry battalion of four hundred people, less than a hundred, and thirty or forty wounded, more than half of the casualties!

In a few minutes of shelling, half of the soldiers were lost, and the probability of casualties was unprecedented in the Jianghuai army. Since the formation of the Jianghuai Army, it has won almost every hundred battles, and has never suffered such a big loss, and it is not without fighting with Yue himself, whether it is facing the Fourth Railway Garrison Brigade or the elite Hiroshima Division in Mukden, the Jianghuai Army has won a complete victory, and even has the record of completely annihilating one squadron of the other side.

It is this kind of record that makes the Jianghuai army permeated with an air of arrogance, and always feels that the army is nothing more than that, especially the Fourth Army of the Jianghuai Army under the command of Gu Nanshan, the governor of Fengtian.

Xue Zilin was full of chagrin, he couldn't wait to give himself a hundred big mouths, the first time he led the troops to fight alone, he suffered heavy losses, how could he be worthy of Gu Dudu's trust?

The cavalry of the Jianghuai Army soon caught up with the retreating Beiyang Army, and the Beiyang soldiers who were holding the wounded robes saw that the Jianghuai Army was also beaten to ashes, and their mood suddenly improved a lot. It seems to be a gambler who has lost everything, but when he finds that there are still people running out of the casino with his bare buttocks, his emotions are suddenly high.

Wu Peifu saw that Xue Zilin's war horse and body were covered with blood, and hurriedly asked, "Brigade Commander Xue is injured?" ”

Xue Zilin couldn't wait to put his head in his crotch, and said with a face full of shame: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter!" Then he looked in the direction of the coast and said viciously: "If you don't take revenge, you will be in vain!" ”

Wu Peifu looked at his distant back, shook his head and sighed: "Lesson, bloody lesson!" ”

(To be continued)