Xue Zilin whipped a horsewhip onto the poplar tree, tore off a large piece of bark, and scolded angrily: "I've never seen such a stubborn person!" Joking with the lives of soldiers, bastards! ”

The people around him knew that he was angry with Wu Peifu, and they didn't dare to persuade him. Only Yu Qiaqing, with his old qualifications, smiled bitterly and said: "Brigade Commander Xue doesn't have to be too angry, it's not easy for Wu Ziyu to dare to fight with him, so you don't have to blame everything!" ”

Xue Zilin said unceremoniously: "Is he fighting?" He's looking for death! ”

Yu Qiaqing said with a bitter face: "If you don't suffer a loss, he won't learn to be obedient, just resign yourself to fate!" ”

In the end, Wu Peifu did not accept the suggestion to withdraw the troops, but only accepted the materials sent by Yu Qiaqing and reinforced the trench with reinforced concrete.

Wu Peifu studied at the Baoding Army School and graduated from a crash course in surveying and mapping. The teaching methods of the Baoding Military Academy are almost completely copied from Germany and the Japanese students, and most of the instructors are from the German students.

The German offensive course was renovated in a variety of ways, with large-scale encirclement, small-scale intersperse, including night battles and sneak attacks, all of which were strictly disciplined and quite impressive, but as for the defense course, it really could not be mentioned, almost equal to none. Germany is in the center of Europe, and once it enters the defensive posture, it is basically finished, and it is said that it is an island country, and if someone cuts off sea communication and invades the island, it can also declare the country dead. Moreover, the founder of the University was Major Metzel, a disciple of the German famous old Maozi, who was himself a staunch attackist and despised defense. Under his influence, the rigid-minded Yue himself even regarded defense as cowardly and disgraceful, and it was precisely because of such national conditions that the military education of Ben and Germany was very contemptuous of defense, and it was naturally impossible for Russia's large-depth defense strategy to develop in a country with a narrow land area like Ben and Germany.

The Baoding Army School is also infected by this teaching concept, and its graduates generally despise strategic defense, advocate offense, and even if they are forced to defend, they must go toe-for-tat with their opponents and never retreat.

In Wu Peifu's heart, the idea that retreating is equivalent to escaping is deep-rooted, he would rather die on the beachhead with the whole regiment than take a step back to survive, besides, he really doesn't know the power of the naval artillery, and always holds on to luck, trying to withstand a round of artillery bombardment with the trenches, and then when the army lands, they will be wiped out on the beach.

Half-crossing, isn't that what the art of war says!

Xue Zilin lost his temper, Yu Qiaqing was originally escorting supplies to the labor army, and planned to pat his ass and leave after the matter was done. Xue Zilin had never seen what a warship looked like, and when he saw that Wu Peifu did not listen to persuasion, he withdrew his troops outside the fire of the ship's guns, and at the same time evacuated the nearby residents.

This mentality was broken at the very first moment of the war!

Twenty kilometers away, Xue Zilin heard the explosion, and then saw a faint smoke rise in front of him, and gradually found that the sky in the distance was illuminated by the flames and turned dark red.

"What's going on? Isn't there three days left before my ultimatum? Xue Zilin exclaimed.

Yu Qiaqing's heart also tightened, and she stomped her feet and said, "Can Xiao Yueben's words still be listened to?" That's a fart! The war has already begun! ”

??? Dividing line ???

The roar was like a train passing by the ear, a shell weighing half a ton fell from the sky, and the unfinished trench suddenly collapsed, and all the creatures at the center of the explosion were evaporated into gas by the high temperature at the same time. The damp earth was flipped into the air, and a circular crater of thirty and a half meters deep and ten meters deep appeared in front of me.

Wu Peifu, who was accustomed to seeing the army's French-made 75 mountain guns, never dreamed that the warship's naval guns would be so ferocious, and as soon as a shell hit, the reinforced concrete fortifications were lifted into the air, the artillery was blown into parts, the barrels were twisted together like twisted flowers, and the soldiers had no bones before they even had time to let out the best wail.

What a cannon!

Rows of shells poured down on the positions of the Beiyang Army, and the 305 and 280 mm guns on the battleships and battlecruisers of the Second Fleet smashed each shell weighing half a ton at the Beiyang Army on the beachhead.

After the shells landed, in addition to the violent explosions, a large fire was ignited, and a pungent yellow smoke spread through the entire battlefield with the wind.

The Shimose gunpowder filled with artillery shells caused a fire after the explosion, and the flames flowed like oil, burning the Beiyang soldiers in the trenches into charcoal, and wherever the flames went, the steel on the guns and artillery was melted, and the soldiers who were lucky enough to survive struggled to climb out of the trenches to try to escape, but were suffocated by the poisonous yellow smoke.

Less than three minutes after the battle began, Wu Peifu already understood his situation, this was no longer a war, but a one-sided slaughter!

"Retreat, retreat!" Wu Peifu roared like crazy.

Before he could give the order, the Beiyang Army had already collapsed, like a flock of frightened sheep, dropping their weapons and hugging their heads. Wu Peifu built the fortifications for half a month, but only lasted three minutes.

Wu Peifu got on the war horse with the support of the two personal soldiers, and fled back among the soldiers who were crying wolf, but he obviously didn't intend to let them go like this. The artillery of the Combined Fleet extended its fire, and the violent explosions wantonly slaughtered the group of dejected soldiers, and the overcrowded Beiyang Army was like an earth-gray carpet, on which a yellow flower bloomed with each shell, and then there were broken corpses and blood in the sky.

The confidence built up in the Fengtian Railway Garrison Brigade disappeared from Wu Peifu in an instant, and the war was no longer what he imagined.

He finally understood why the cannons' bunkers were constructed of reinforced concrete more than three meters thick on the ruins of the Dagukou Fort??? The guns of this warship are terrible!

Not to mention those mountain guns and field guns of 75 calibers, the 100-5mm heavy guns of the German Krupp, which the Beiyang Army regarded as treasures, are just toys in front of the main guns of warships. It is said that the warships of the Combined Fleet launched an artillery attack 10 kilometers away from the coastline, and the Beiyang Army had no choice but to be beaten, and the beating was too severe.

The seaplanes on the "Wakamiya Maru" had already reported the deployment of the Beiyang Army to the commander of the Second Fleet, Yuzaburo Kato, and the battlecruisers and battleships of the Second Fleet only needed to fire according to the already calibrated firing Zhuyuan.

Wu Peifu regretted why he didn't follow Xue Zilin's advice and put his thousands of brothers to death!

Wu Peifu sat on the horse, looking at the frightened soldiers and corpses all over the ground, listening to the heart-rending wails of the soldiers wrapped in the flames, all thoughts were disillusioned for a while, the corners of his mouth picked out a wry smile, and took out a pistol from his waist and put it on his temple.

"Brigadier Commander, no!" Two soldiers grabbed his arm and grabbed him tightly.

"Let me down, bastard, let me go!" Wu Peifu struggled and kept scolding.

"Brigade commander, listen, the cannon is gone!" The soldiers shouted in surprise.

Wu Peifu was in good spirits, and sure enough, no more shells fell, but he immediately hung his head, the troops were already depressed, and the soldiers were scattered and fled, how easy was it to reunite them?

After the naval artillery bombardment, it must be the army that lands on the shore, but Wu Peifu can no longer command anyone except for the two personal soldiers around him, what else can he do except watch him occupy the beachhead?

The destroyers with a displacement of only five or six hundred tons sailed to the shore full of soldiers, and the army waded their rifles ashore with their rifles on their heads, roaring like beasts, and many people began to shoot before they could go ashore.

Wu Peifu never thought that the elite he had personally trained for many years was so vulnerable, when he was fighting the railway garrison brigade in Fengtian, a regiment of soldiers braved artillery fire under the command of the snare drum to attack his own position, at that time they were so heroic, a platoon of soldiers was knocked down by the machine guns of the army, and their comrades stepped on their corpses and continued to advance, going forward and going forward until victory!

And now they are like sheep chased by wolves, and they don't even have the courage to look back. is also commanded by Wu Peifu, and it is also a regiment that he has trained for many years, but the performance is so different.

It's not that the soldiers are not brave, but they have never seen such ferocious artillery fire, and without the protection of batteries and shore defense guns, how can the army fight against the huge cannons of warships?

Because of his arrogance and stubbornness, he made thousands of well-trained soldiers under his command sheep under the butcher's knife of the enemy???" One will be incompetent and exhaust the three armies! Wu Peifu's heart was full of remorse and self-blame.

Fear spread like a plague, and the rout of the Beiyang army even blocked the path of their own people, the cavalry unceremoniously swung their sabers at the robes, and the war horses trampled the infantry blocking the road into flesh. The more you rush to escape, the more congested the road becomes, and the people accumulate into pimples, and the speed becomes extremely slow.

The ugliness of the surname is vividly displayed at the moment of life and death, and the robes that once lived and died together are now slashing and killing each other like killing their father's enemies.

The destroyers, torpedo boats, and sampans of the Yue army landed with soldiers, artillery, and machine guns, and after they came ashore, they immediately set up mountain artillery positions and bombarded the fleeing Chinese soldiers with artillery fire. Seeing that there was no hope of escaping, many soldiers of the Beiyang Army knelt on the ground and raised their hands above their heads, and the infantry of the army howled and laughed, killing the Beiyang Army that had fled and had surrendered one by one.

Wu Peifu looked up to the sky and shouted: "God, save China!" ”

As more and more soldiers landed on the shore, the sound of gunfire became more intensive, more Beiyang troops were killed, and many soldiers who had surrendered were beheaded with foreign knives by the officers.

The heads of the dead soldiers were staring with frightened eyes, and the soldiers kicked aside the corpses that stood in the way like a ball, and some even kicked the bloody heads on the ground for fun.

Dagukou, blood flows like a river!

(To be continued)