At this time, the pistol in the hand of Major General Horiuchi no longer knew where to fly, and when he saw the steel knife in the opponent's hand, his first reaction was to pull out the sword on his waist as a command knife.

The young man couldn't help but sneer contemptuously when he saw Major General Horiuchi's knife drawing, and the scar on his face twitched slightly, making this face stained with blood and smoke look extremely terrifying.

Major General Horiuchi raised his knife with both hands and slammed forward, and was about to swing the knife out, but the young man had already jumped to his side with lightning and stabbed him straight into the lower abdomen with his backhand.

The shiny tip of the knife peeked straight through the back of Major General Horiuchi, and Major General Horiuchi's body immediately bent up like that, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground.

As if to deliberately aggravate the other party's pain, the young killer looked at Major General Horiuchi staring blankly at his blood-covered hands, and smirked, twisting his wrist hard, and Major General Horiuchi's face immediately distorted, his eyes almost bulging out of his sockets, and blood began to spurt out of his mouth.

"Remember, Woko, my name is [***]."

As the young man spoke, he pulled out his knife sharply, and Major General Horiuchi's body fell heavily to the ground, gradually moving away.

He put away his knife, pulled out the dagger from the dead body and put it in its scabbard, picked up two pistols that the officer had dropped on the ground, and ran out of the house with light and agile steps.

[***] cautiously went around to the other side of the house, several soldiers with rifles were shouting and rushing towards the place of battle, [***] violently jumped out of the hiding place, holding two guns and bows left and right, and in one breath all the bullets of the two pistols were empty, and all the soldiers were stacked on the ground.

After killing the soldiers, [***] threw away his pistol, collected all the rifles and bullets of the soldiers, and turned and ran towards the heights.

After finding a hiding place where he could look down on the entire courtyard from a high vantage point, [***] picked up his rifle and aimed it at a distant officer who was directing the battle, and pulled the trigger sharply, and the officer immediately fell in response.

[***] moved the muzzle of the gun slightly, aimed it at one of the machine gunners, and pulled the trigger again, and the machine gunner's body shook violently, and suddenly fell on the heavy machine gun. His companion was startled, and before he could understand what was happening, [***] fired another shot, killing him in the machine-gun position.

"You can have a good time today." [***] said to himself, his eyes glowing with excitement, as if the prey running below was waiting to be slaughtered.

Qingdao, a temporary railway station in the suburbs.

"Our people are already moving."

Looking at the signal rocket that shot from the ground into the sky in the distance, Fu Xiaoan said to Yang Shuoming.

"Yes, Ben's artillery fire has obviously weakened." Yang Shuoming, who was sitting in the trunk, looked out the window and nodded, "The attacking troops are likely to have entered the fort." ”

"What I was most worried about was the fort built by the Germans." Fu Xiaoan followed and looked out the window at the place where the artillery was dense, and said, "These batteries are too strong, and the firepower is extremely strong, our army lacks heavy artillery that can destroy them, and has no experience in attacking fortified positions, once they attack rashly, the casualties are bound to be huge." He turned his head to look at Yang Shuoming, still with an incredible look in his eyes, "But I didn't expect that you would use this method to capture this fortified city." ”

"Because this time we not only want to capture Qingdao, but also defend it." Yang Shuoming said lightly, his gaze still did not leave the battlefield, "If these batteries are all destroyed, what will we do to deal with my own warships?" ”

"That's what you think." Fu Xiaoan suddenly realized, and couldn't help nodding again and again, "Yes, even with the great victory of Caofeidian, the strength of our Chinese Navy is still too far from that of myself, and if we want to keep Qingdao, it will not work without these forts." ”

Yang Shuoming smiled slightly and did not speak again.

"I don't know if you remember the expressions on Lao Zhang, Lao Cao, Lao Feng, and their faces when you proposed the plan to attack Qingdao." Fu Xiaoan said, "To be honest, not only do they not believe that they can take Qingdao, but I will sweat for you." ”

"Yes! Although it is clear that it is the first credit to defeat Qingdao, everyone is afraid of smashing it in their hands, and even Zhang Xun is a little withdrawn, and he is only willing to help us fight the periphery. Yang Shuoming smiled, turned his head and said to Fu Xiaoan, "But why did your old man still follow me?" There is also Brigadier General Zhang Xiao, I didn't expect him to help me fight Qingdao. ”

Fu Xiaoan smiled bitterly, "I don't know either." He shook his head, "I still don't understand how you got on your Yang Hanzhi's thief ship." ”

At this time, there was a roar in the sky, and the figure of a plane swept by, Fu Xiaoan looked up at the plane, and said to himself: "Maybe it's intuition." ”

Listening to Fu Xiao'an's answer, Yang Shuoming smiled loudly, and then turned his eyes to the window.

The plane circled in the sky for a while, dropped a shiny thing, and then flew away, about ten minutes later, a cavalry came on horseback, rushed to the train box parked next to the tracks, and handed the messenger that the reconnaissance plane had just dropped to one of Yang Shuoming's adjutants, and after the adjutant took the cylinder and opened it, he took out the paper roll inside, came to the train box, and handed the paper roll to Yang Shuoming.

Yang Shuoming took the paper scroll and opened it, and quickly glanced at it, and the expression on his face became solemn.

"What's the situation? Hanzhi? Fu Xiaoan immediately asked.

"The fleet is here and is supporting their army." Yang Shuoming sneered and replied.

Qingdao, North Fort of Mount Iltis.

"Report! All gun emplacements have been cleared! ”

Xie Xun, the commander of the artillery regiment directly under the Beiyang Fifth Division, who received the report, nodded, and his eyes fell on the German-made 88-mm field cannon in front of him again.

He is no stranger to this kind of artillery, who once studied in Germany. It's just that he was a little surprised to find these well-preserved guns here.

Mount Iltis is located in the southeast of Qingdao City, bordering the sea on the south side and Bismarck Mountain and Moltke Mountain on the north side. It is one of the important hilltop batteries of the German army in Qingdao. Mount Iltis is composed of several mountains, which can be divided into five mountains: east, west, south, north and middle. Among them, the main peak of the central mountain is the highest peak. The Germans built numerous hilltop batteries here. It is mainly based on Dongshan and Nanshan.

The Germans were equipped with 6 wheeled 120-mm field cannons at the North Battery of Mount Irtis (Lowland Battery of Mount Iltis), and 3 artillery groups were built at the South Hill Battery, each equipped with 6 wheeled 90-mm field cannons; 2 88-mm field cannons; 3 85-mm field cannons; At the West Hill Battery, it was equipped with 3 wheeled 88-mm field cannons; At the Dongshan battery (Irtis Hill Highland Battery) was equipped with 2 stationary 105-mm cannons with a hemispherical steel plate shield. In addition, at the foot of the hill 300 meters northeast of the Dongshan Battery, the Germans built the Eastern Battery (No. 2 Intermediate Strafing Battery) of the Dongshan Battery of Iltis, where it was equipped with 2 wheeled 77-mm field cannons; The Germans also equipped 4 wheeled 60-mm field cannons in the middle battery of Mount Irtis; On the coast on the south side of Mount Irtis there was also a northern fort on the headland of Irtis, equipped with 2 light 50-mm guns; On the headland of the coast was built the Cape Iltiz battery (No. 1 intermediate strafing battery), armed with 2 wheeled 88-mm field cannons. In addition, the Germans built a large Irtis barracks on the southwest side of the mountain, which served mainly as a camp for German artillery units.

In addition, the Germans also built light artillery positions and large shelters and command posts on the central peaks of Mount Iltis. There are also complete machine-gun bunkers on the road to the top of the mountain, and the firing range is wide enough to block the entire main road up the mountain. The Germans also built several of the same machine-gun bunkers around them, all of which were connected to the top of the hill through underpasses. There is also a small shelter on the mountainside about 80 meters northwest of the summit. The shelter was used as an artillery command and observation post for the German army. There is also an artillery observation port on the west side of the roof. The shelter is made of stone cement masonry, which is very strong and sturdy, and there is a trapezoidal stone wall in front of the shelter to cover the entire shelter. At the top of the hill, the Germans also had machine-gun bunkers with firing ports facing southwest, also of concrete stone. In addition, about 100 meters below the machine-gun bunkers, there were light artillery positions of the German troops. The firing port faces southeast, and the area along the beach is blocked. This battery was set up as a coastal defense artillery position.

Because the Germans built a very strong fort here, and equipped with a large number of relatively advanced artillery, during the attack on Qingdao, despite the strong fire support from the naval guns, the Yue army was still unable to capture for a long time, and after paying a considerable price and adopting a detour tactic, the Yue army finally conquered here.

In addition to the attacking troops adopting the same detour tactics in the back, the main benefit was the infiltration of the special forces, and the inside and outside should be combined to capture the battery in one fell swoop.

Seeing the well-preserved and numerous German-made artillery pieces here, Xie Xun somehow had a feeling of going home to see his relatives.

Xie Xun retracted his thoughts and began to set out to let the officers and soldiers of the artillery regiment under him quickly pick up the fort, but at this moment, several faint pillars of smoke suddenly appeared on the sea in the distance.

"Not good! The fleet of the Wokos is coming! Xie Xun raised the binoculars, observed them carefully, and ordered in a deep voice, "Prepare for battle immediately!" Fast! ”

(To be continued)