On July 18, the atmosphere in the general headquarters of the Beiyang Army, which was attacking Qingdao, was so depressing that all the staff officers did not dare to speak a word. It didn't take long for a short time outside to hear the dull sound of cannons roaring in the sky, which was the sound that the General Headquarters of the Beiyang Army had become accustomed to in the past few days. Since the official attack on Qingdao on July 13, this is the most frequently heard voice. The sound of several huge cannons of the Qingdao defenders could be heard far away, and with the sound of the cannons came countless bad news.

On July 13, "the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the 6th Army suffered heavy casualties and could not continue the siege!" ”

On July 14, "the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of the 6th Army suffered heavy casualties and could not continue the siege!" ”

On July 16, "the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Division of the 6th Army suffered heavy casualties and could not continue the siege!" ”

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The onslaught launched by Beiyang failed again and again, and each failure resulted in heavy casualties. Jin Yunpeng urged the troops to attack every day, and the troops really attacked, and the war in which the Beiyang Army lost its combat effectiveness every day made Jin Yunpeng scold every day. After he finally beat the staff officer in a fit of rage, no staff officer was not extremely nervous when he entered the headquarters.

"Let people prepare, I want to go to the front line to see what kind of difficult way Qingdao is attacked? If the People's Party can capture Qingdao, we are so much worse than them? What kind of bullshit barbed wire can be used to stop our Beiyang Army! Jin Yunpeng shouted in a hoarse voice. The staff officers didn't care about the content of the scolding at all, but the fact that Jin Yunpeng could go to the front line made everyone in the headquarters feel relieved.

Jin Yunpeng didn't notice the reaction of the people around him at all, and the anger in his heart was indescribable. After several days of fierce fighting, the Beiyang Army did not even touch the walls of Qingdao, and it was reported that the People's Party had formed a front to firmly block the route of the Beiyang attack. Barbed wire, pillboxes, trenches, machine-gun arrays, the report is full of these words. The heavy artillery of the People's Party was described as a plague god, and each shot could inflict heavy casualties on the Beiyang Army. Jin Yunpeng entered the Beiyang Military Academy twice for further study, and then was selected to study in the first phase of the Armed Forces Academy of the Attached Artillery Corps, and stayed as a teacher after graduation. How could he not have known the real power of the shelling.

It must be those in front who are incompetent and come up with all sorts of excuses to coax the command. With a strong desire to make an example, Jin Yunpeng decided to go to the first-line Beiyang Army to see what was going on.

Under the close protection of the pro-soldiers and horses, Jin Yunpeng began to march to the front line more than 30 miles away. The scorching sun in July made Jin Yunpeng sweat on his forehead quickly, which doubled his anger. The horse team is full of good horses, and the cool breeze brought by letting go of the speed is not bad. However, the closer I got to Qingdao, the clearer the once distant cannon sound became. Not only that, but after entering the range where the sharp whistling sound of the cannonball cutting through the air could be heard, the huge shock wave from the cannonball landing made Jin Yunpeng's mount also begin to be disturbed.

The military hospital of the Beiyang Army was on the side of the road behind the attacking troops, and the first group of Beiyang Army that Jin Yunpeng saw was these people, and the wounded soldiers wrapped in white bandages wrapped around the wounded in various positions could be seen everywhere around the hospital camp. With a casual glance, Jin Yunpeng could roughly judge that there were two or three thousand of these people, to say the least. This can still be seen, and the tent should be filled with seriously wounded people who cannot move at all. There must have been at least 5,000 wounded soldiers in the entire camp. Although the wounded barracks were still some distance from the main road, there was a subtle howl among the windy sounds.

With so many wounded soldiers in just a few days, what kind of situation is the battlefield? Jin Yunpeng suddenly felt like falling into an ice cave in his heart. Although he has long known that there are victories and defeats in war, but such things as fighting a war require morale, and if he has the idea of defeat before the war, it will definitely be bad everywhere. Therefore, Jin Yunpeng has never considered the possibility of facing the defeat of the People's Party, he has already used all the forces in his hands, or he has to rely on the numerical advantage to capture Qingdao. As far as we can see in front of us, the Beiyang Army is not without large-scale operations, and if there is no large-scale operation, how can there be so many wounded soldiers? Suddenly, a feeling of uneasiness brought about by the idea of possible defeat that had been pressing in his heart made Jin Yunpeng feel a chill down his spine.

After a long distance from the wounded barracks, Jin Yunpeng's thoughts could not struggle out of this uneasiness. Until he saw a group of people wearing Beiyang generals' uniforms appear on the road in front of him. At this time, most of the anger in Jin Yunpeng's heart had been dissipated by the tragic situation of the wounded barracks, and he forcibly withdrew his thoughts and urged the horse to gallop towards the group of Beiyang generals who greeted him.

A few days can hit a group of people who were originally high-spirited to the point of depression and even death, if he could not see it with his own eyes, Jin Yunpeng would never believe it. The group of Beiyang Army officers in front of him opened Jin Yunpeng's eyes. Zhao Yuke, the commander of the Sixth Army, looked as if he was ten years older, and none of the officers around him looked normal, either dazed, confused, or frightened to death. In short, this group of Beiyang generals looked like frightened children at the moment, and they couldn't tell that they were the commanders of the 100,000-strong army at all.

Jin Yunpeng looked at the bear-like appearance of this group of people, and the anger in his heart that had already subsided burned even more vigorously, and he roared angrily on the horse, "Zhao Yuke, what kind of battle are you fighting?!" ”

With both hands on his sides, Zhao Yuke's body shook with a standing posture, and after a while, the man continued to tremble for a while, he suddenly raised his head, his eyes were red, and he shouted to Jin Yunpeng with a crying voice: "Mr. Jin, you go to a place with me!" ”

There were people preparing horses next to him, and Zhao Yuke didn't care how surprised Jin Yunpeng was behind him, he took the lead in galloping to the left. Seeing that Zhao Yuke's performance was so unexpected, Jin Yunpeng was not in a hurry to ask Zhao Yuke about his crimes. He followed Zhao Yuke to urge the horses.

Approaching a small hill, Jin Yunpeng smelled a bad smell, it was the smell after it began to rot, but Zhao Yuke continued to move forward as if he didn't feel it, Jin Yunpeng had already followed here, and there was no reason not to follow. As soon as he rounded the hill a little, Jin Yunpeng saw a small piece of Beiyang Army lying there on the ground.

In this big summer, the Beiyang Army lies down in the sun at noon and sleeps? Jin Yunpeng felt furious when he landed, but after a moment he understood that this was not a living person at all, and those people either had large black blood stains on their bodies after they had dried up. Either they are simply missing arms and legs, and all the dead Beiyang Army corpses are lying on the ground. The further he went, the wider Jin Yunpeng's field of vision became, and he saw countless corpses of the Beiyang Army piled up on the ground that was almost several miles out and dozens of meters wide. Some Beiyang military cloths covered their faces and searched the ground where the corpses were paved. After Jin Yunpeng galloped closer, he saw piles of dirty metal gadgets piled up behind these Beiyang Army, and when he looked closely, they turned out to be piles of silver dollars. The silver dollars were stained with blood, and only the parts that weren't stained reflected in the sunlight reflected in the metallic sheen.

At this time, Zhao Yuke had already reined in the horses, and when Jin Yunpeng arrived near him to restrain the horses, Zhao Yuke cried and said: "Mr. Jin, after three days of fighting, tens of thousands of people have died." It's not that I'm not in good command, it's not that I didn't pay everyone, it's really impossible to fight! ”

There are many flies in summer, and corpses attract flies even more. When the soldiers of the Beiyang Army who collected the relics of the war dead finished collecting a corpse and then moved on. It alarmed a group of green-headed flies around it, and the huge green-headed flies that were buzzing and flying wildly seemed to form a black storm in the air.

Jin Yunpeng also boasted that he was a good man, a good man who could kill a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood without blinking his eyes. But the corpse of the Beiyang Army, which was almost impossible to see in front of him, made Jin Yunpeng feel a twitch in his stomach, if it weren't for the news of the constant defeat in the past few days that he couldn't eat angrily, I was afraid that he would have begun to vomit at this time.

There must be thousands of corpses on the ground, to say the least, and there are several tall mounds of earth next to the place where the corpses were collected, and I think more corpses of the Beiyang Army have been buried underneath.

At this moment, a soldier who was collecting the relics on the body suddenly straightened up, tore off the face towel covering his face and howled hysterically, Jin Yunpeng saw that the Beiyang Army soldier first howled, and then jumped high, and began to cry and laugh. Then, the soldiers of the Beiyang Army jumped on the ground strewn with corpses and began to run, looking in the direction to escape from this hell. The man's pockets were bulging and heavy. The soldier felt the inconvenience of the weight, so he took a large amount of silver dollars from his pocket and threw them into the sky and smashed them at the ground. Large sums of silver dollars flew down on the large corpses and disappeared in a moment.

Looking at the crazy Beiyang Army, listening to the howl of Zhao Yuke next to him, breathing the air full of the smell of decay, from time to time there were big green-headed flies hitting Jin Yunpeng's face, leaving a painful feeling on Jin Yunpeng's skin. In this field of death and madness, under the scorching sun, Jin Yunpeng suddenly couldn't tell whether he was in the world or in hell.

More than two hours later, Jin Yunpeng, who was pale, finally arrived in front of the People's Party's position, in front of the line of defense that was said to have devoured the lives of countless Beiyang Army. There are no impressive peaks, and there are no dangerous terrains that are too rugged to pass. It's a somewhat undulating flat land. Not only that, but this place can only be described as desolate, and I don't know whether to describe it as soil mixed with stones, or gravel covered with soil, and there are few grasses.

Impressive are the four barbed wire fences supported by wooden stakes, which are old and thick, and I don't know how deep they are buried. Parallel barbed wires were densely wound on it, and there were several oblique lines on these parallel wires at intervals, as if they were a sparse net. Behind these barbed wire fences are the bunkers that occupy a great deal of space in the report. There weren't a lot of round things, they looked like stones, but they didn't see any cracks in the stone, and they didn't show much of the ground, that is, two or three feet high. On the side of the Beiyang Army, three black holes were opened, and even with a telescope, you couldn't see what was inside.

In addition to this, there are also BJP trenches behind the barbed wire, but now there is nothing to be seen except for a few dirt lines. If it weren't for the strange barbed wire, the strange bunkers, and the black marks left by the massive artillery fire near the first row of broken barbed wire. As well as the various stumps that were faintly visible, Jin Yunpeng couldn't believe that there had been a large number of people devouring the lives of the Beiyang Army here.

This was the most convenient place to attack Qingdao, and the rest of the area was mostly mountainous, and the People's Party built more difficult defensive positions on it. Only this avenue is the most convenient, as long as you can break through here, you can go straight to Qingdao. But this place has just become a place of death, and the Beiyang Army has lost tens of thousands of people and cannot take a step beyond the thunder pool.

After Jin Yunpeng finished observing the battlefield, he couldn't figure out how powerful this simple thing was, and when he returned to the headquarters, Jin Yunpeng ordered that the Third Division of the Sixth Army send a regiment to attack here in the afternoon. He wanted to see how a few wooden stakes could stand up to tens of thousands of troops on this desolate flat land.

When the commander of the Third Division heard the order, his face turned pale. However, under Jin Yunpeng's murderous gaze, he still hurried to give the order. In the afternoon, the offensive battle really began.

Before the war, there would definitely be no lack of links to send the ocean, but Jin Yunpeng was worried about whether there was a deduction of this charge fee, so he went to see it in person, but he didn't see the slightest sign of this. After rushing over, how to talk to Xu Qian and Xu Guan's shouting, the Beiyang Army is very familiar with it, and it is extremely smooth. The various departments of the Beiyang Army are not allowed to talk to each other, and those who whisper in the army are killed, this is an order that Beiyang can still insist on. If you hear that other troops have lost a battle, rumors often discourage them more than fighting. Therefore, the morale of the troops of this regiment is like a rainbow, and they do not pay attention to the things they are facing at all.

After more than an hour, the troops had already reached the offensive position, and first a round of artillery bombardment, the shells fell on this open field, and the sky was full of rubble and clods of earth. For a while, the tremors on the ground made people's blood boil.

"Brothers, rush me! If you cut down those stakes and rush across this flat land, you will have a heavy reward, fifty oceans for one person! In the midst of such shouts, the Beiyang Army, led by a junior officer, rushed out. This is flat land, there is nothing to hide at all, behind the charging army, the military band suddenly played the song "The Beiyang Army is Advancing", the murderous music with thousands of people side by side charging the infantry line, but there is really a feeling of overwhelming the mountains.

The first line of barbed wire was already in tatters and could easily be washed through, and the second was still slightly intact, and the Beiyang Army either tried to cut the barbed wire in front with a sapper shovel, or ran towards the nearby barbed wire gap, trying to get around it as quickly as possible.

Up to this point, the People's Party's position was silent except for the knee-jerk shouts and howls of the Beiyang Army, and there was not even a single gunshot.