(95) Shells in the sky over Qingdao
Nakajima Haranosuke watched as the Chinese held his dagger high and stabbed the badly wounded Yumoto soldier in a flurry of disorder. The soldier screamed, and Nakahara Nosuke desperately tried to find a weapon to save the soldier, but never found it.
The Chinese saw that the wounded soldier of Yuben did not move, and gasped for breath in shock, and he just wanted to stand up, when he suddenly saw something in the mouth of the wounded soldier, and a trace of joy immediately flashed in his eyes. He pounced on it, pried open the mouth of the wounded soldier with a dagger, and began to pick at something inside.
Nakajima Haranosuke understood that it should be the greedy Chinese who discovered the gold tooth in the mouth of the wounded soldier of Yomoto.
The wounded soldier who had not yet completely lost his breath let out a low hissing of incomparably painful pain, accompanied by the clashing sound of daggers and teeth, which was terrifying, and Nakajima Haranosuke watched the movements of the Chinese with fearful eyes, continued to pull on the corpse, and finally found a bayonet covered with muddy water.
Nakajima Haranosuke was about to stand up and rush towards the Chinese who picked the gold teeth, probably because the screams of pain of the wounded soldier were too scary, and another tall Chinese jumped over in a few angry steps, pushed away the Chinese who picked the gold teeth, and shot the head of the wounded soldier with a dagger in his mouth with a pistol on it, and the body of the wounded soldier jumped sharply, and then did not move.
"It's so fucking stupid! Wouldn't that save you trouble? The Chinese put away the pistol, slapped the Chinese who had just picked the gold tooth on the head, and scolded, "Next time, I will cut off the breath!" Don't make it look like a ghost! ”
The gold-toothed Chinese smiled and stepped forward to continue his work.
Looking at this tragic and terrible scene, Nakajima Haranosuke hung his head in pain and couldn't help crying in a low voice.
I don't know how long later, the group of Chinese looking for belongings among the corpses all disappeared like ghosts, and Nakajima Haranosuke straightened up, found a rifle to use as a crutch, and limped to continue his journey.
It may be that the wound on his leg is infected, and Nakajima Haranosuke, who is moving forward, feels more and more unbearable that his leg injury is unbearable.
Finally getting out of the battlefield strewn with corpses, Nakajima Haranosuke was already tired and dizzy, he came to a fairly clean pond to wash, and then sat down next to a stone to rest, at this time, he suddenly felt as if someone was watching him.
Nakajima Haranosuke turned his head alarmedly, and sure enough, he saw a Chinese woman standing there looking at him not far away.
This is a young girl, not tall, wearing a stained typical Shandong woman's homespun cloth dress, carrying a burden in her hand, her face is also stained with mud, her hastily pulled hair is unkempt, she can't see her face clearly, but her eyes look very bright.
Nakajima Haranosuke, who has accumulated a wealth of experience in dealing with Chinese after years of espionage work, judged by his attire that this should be a rural girl hiding from the war. At this time, Nakajima Haranosuke knew that his body was very weak, and if there was no one to help, it would be difficult for him to return to Qingdao. He looked at the Chinese girl and suddenly thought about it.
"Big girl! Do yourself a favor! I'm going to shoot it! I can't stand up and grin......" Nakajima Haranosuke said with a pained expression on his face as he beckoned to the girl.
The girl heard his cry for help, hesitated, but walked over.
Nakajima Haranosuke was about to say a few more words in Shandong's dialect to deceive the girl's trust, but unexpectedly the girl spoke in standard Yanjing official dialect.
"The wound is suppurating." The girl said as she stared at the blood that was coming out of the bandage on his leg, and Nakajima Haranosuke noticed her nose twitch involuntarily.
"Oh, how does Nen know the ground?" Nakajima Haranosuke somewhat regretted why he had just talked to her in the Shanfang dialect, but now it was too late to change it, so he could only slip down the line of what he had just said.
"Big brother, where are you going?" The girl asked.
"I want to go home, my hometown is Lingshan Weidi." Nakajima Haranosuke said, "Where is the eldest sister Nen going?" ”
Nakajima Haranosuke was afraid that he would go to Qingdao to arouse the suspicion of the other party, so he said that he would go to Lingshanwei, which is very close to Qingdao.
"I ...... I'm going to Qingdao......" A hint of sorrow flashed in the girl's eyes somehow, and she sighed and didn't say any more.
Hearing the girl's answer, Nakajima Haranosuke was overjoyed, but he still said quietly on the surface, "Let's just stop by, can the eldest sister help me?" Just help me get home,......" he said, taking out a traditional Chinese gold ring from his bosom (which he had snatched from an old Chinese lady to make the fare) and handing it to the girl, "This tweezer, if the eldest sister likes it, take it." ”
When the girl saw the gold ring, her face did not show the surprised expression that Nakajima Haranosuke imagined, on the contrary, she took the gold ring and looked at it, but a trace of trance flashed in her eyes.
"Then let's go with us." The girl put away the gold ring, nodded, helped Nakajima Haranosuke up, and said, "I heard that the Jiangxi team that fought in Qingdao has an elixir there, which specializes in treating wounds and ulcers, but the medicine is very expensive, and this ring may be enough to heal your wounds." She seemed to remember some sad past, and there seemed to be tears in her eyes, "I can't afford this medicine......"
"Qingdao is fighting?" Nakajima Haranosuke listened to her words, couldn't help but be taken aback, and immediately asked.
"I also listen to other people." The girl replied softly.
"What kind of elixir did the eldest sister talk about, what kind of thing?" Nakajima Haranosuke remembered what she had just said about the medicine that could cure his leg injury, and he couldn't help but ask again.
"I can't say what it is, I only know that there is only one in the team from Jiangxi, and I just went to ask for medicine." The girl said.
The girl's vague answer piqued Nakajima's curiosity even more, and he realized that he might have a chance to get more important information, and he couldn't help but be secretly glad that he had met her.
At this time, Nakajima Haranosuke couldn't imagine what Qingdao, the destination he was going to at this time, had become, and he couldn't imagine what the fate awaited him was.
Qingdao, Bismarck Battery.
"Look! Signal rockets for the people of China! ”
At the artillery observation post, a soldier pointed to a red firework that flew straight into the sky from the ground and said to Ueno Yushin Shaosa.
Ueno Yushin looked at this signal rocket that looked a little abnormal, his face became solemn, he came to the artillery mirror, put his eyes together, and carefully observed the battlefield situation in the distance.
Soon after the main force of the Chinese army set out from Qingdao to attack the [***] team and tried to recapture the cities along the Jiaoji Railway, the Chinese [***] team entered the city of Qingdao and began to encircle QingdaoIn order to keep Qingdao, Kamio Mitsutomi contracted the front and used the main force to defend the fort fortress built by the German army, while constantly asking for help from the country.
On the first day of arriving at Qingdao City, the Chinese showed an aggressive posture, and the Chinese [***] team bombarded the Qingdao battery with large-caliber heavy artillery from time to time, and its firepower was completely beyond his imagination; on the first day of the Chinese [***] team's bombardment of Qingdao fortress, some of the fort's troops suffered a lot of casualties due to their carelessness and lack of familiarity with the fortress artillery that originally belonged to the German army.
In the following days, the Chinese [***] team will bombard the artillery of the Yue army from time to time, and the Yue army also used the fortress artillery left by the German army to return fire, the artillery battle between the two sides was very fierce for a while, because the Yue army had a defense, the losses caused by the shelling of the Chinese [***] team began to decrease, and the effect of the counterattack of the Yue army did not seem to be obvious.
Ueno was observing the situation on the battlefield, accompanied by the sound of thunderous artillery in the distance, and soon the whistling sound of large-caliber shells breaking through the sky was heard, followed by the sound of shells falling to the ground and exploding.
The shock wave generated by the huge explosion made Ueno Yushin feel his scalp tingle, and the ground began to tremble under his feet, and Ueno Yushin called the headquarters and reported that the [***] team had begun shelling again, and soon, the artillery of the Japanese army began to fire back.
The first to fire was the German-made 280-mm howitzer of the South Battery of Bismarck, which had a barrel length of 12 times the caliber and a maximum firing distance of 9,000 to 10,000 meters. A small rail rotating in the direction of an arc is installed under the chassis of the gun body, because it is limited by the arc of the small rail, the maximum horizontal firing range of this howitzer does not exceed 180 degrees, and the high and low firing range is about 40 degrees. This gun can fire grenades weighing up to 240 kg. Due to the huge size of the projectile, manpower could not carry it, and it was all lifted and loaded by a small sling frame located on the right side of the gun, which used a semicolon charge when firing, and fired at different distances according to the different elevation angles of the gun, so the rate of fire was very low. And it can only fire shrapnel and solid armor-piercing shells. In addition, the shell has a thick projectile skin and the reloading coefficient of the explosive is not large, so the projectile's ability to destroy the target is actually very limited.
(To be continued)