After being defeated by the counter-charge launched by the Japanese army, Liu Xingwang, a soldier of the Huai Army, ran in the direction of the coast with everyone, because they knew that their own warships were parked on the beach. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

From the moment they saw the steam warship of the shipmaster, the black and thick cannons on the ship became the last support in their hearts. Liu Xingwang ran towards the beach lifelessly, the bullet flew "whizzing" beside him, and he didn't run far before falling into a deep pit, and suddenly felt that there was a soft thing below to support him, and he didn't break his hands and feet.

The thing groaned suddenly.

Liu Xingwang, a recruit who had only just joined the army and ate food, was so frightened that his hair stood on end. Fortunately, he heard that this voice was very familiar, and it turned out to be their chief Ding Zonglei. Unfortunately, he was seriously injured by a bullet and had already lost blood and was in a coma, but Liu Xingwang kicked him up again when he fell.

Shi Chang's injuries were very serious, he was hit by bullets in his hands and feet, and he was also shot in the chest, and he couldn't stop bleeding. Seeing Shi Chang covered in blood, Liu Xingwang panicked.

Shi Changhe was still sober-minded, and he said weakly to Liu Xingwang, who was still a recruit: "You...... Come on...... Father...... No way! ”

"My lord, how can I leave you alone? I'm going to carry you to the boat! There is Lang Zhong's ...... on the boat," Liu Xingwang cried.

"That's it......," said Shi Chang, gasping, "Shoot me to death with one shot...... Give me a good ...... The Woko are coming...... We're both going to have to be dead......"

Hearing Ding Shichang's request, Liu Xingwang was frightened, who would dare to shoot at the chief? What's more, Ding Shi Chang is their hometown in Anhui, he is generous, and treats them like father and brother!

Ding Shi seemed to understand why Liu Xingwang was crying, and he also whimpered: "Don't ...... Leave me to the Wako, who will cut off my head...... Hanging on a tree......"

Liu Xingwang burst into tears, he picked up his rifle, pushed the bullet tremblingly, and then wanted to shoot at Ding Shichang, but his finger was on the trigger, and he just couldn't pull it.

Just as the two of them were in despair, suddenly, a strange sound rang out, followed by a heart-rending scream.

Ding Zonglei heard that this scream was not from his own people, but from the Japanese, and his originally gloomy eyes suddenly glowed.

"Did the Wokou get beaten......

"Yes! Be! Liu Xingwang put down his rifle and said overjoyed.

"Knock knock knock!"

Standing in the middle of the Japanese ranks, the commander of the infantry wing, who was brandishing his saber and directing everyone to charge, Obao Gong Shaozuo, suddenly heard a low, drum-like sound of shooting that he had never heard before.

He instinctively looked in the direction from which the voice came, and in an instant he saw a hellish scene!

The white smoke shot into the Japanese army that was rushing to the beach, and I saw that the body of a Japanese soldier who was holding the sun flag high and shouting and rushing forward instantly seemed to be broken, and the flesh and blood splashed, the sun flag flew up at once, and then fell to the ground, and on the flagpole, there was a bloody severed hand!

What is it?

Obao Gong suddenly felt an inexplicable fear.

An even more terrifying scene appeared, several Japanese soldiers who were charging, their upper bodies suddenly cracked one after another, and some of their entire upper bodies were gone! And their lower body, still running forward, ran five or six meters away, and then shook and fell!

Okubogong couldn't believe his eyes.

His eyes widened, he stopped, carefully searching for the direction where the white smoke came from, only to see that on a dirt slope covered by trees, two Qing soldiers were operating a weapon he had never seen before, shooting at the Japanese army!

Unlike those Qing soldiers who wore gray uniforms with their heads wrapped around their heads, these two Qing soldiers wore straw hats on their heads and fiery red uniforms, and from a distance, they looked like two flames were flashing.

And the weapon in their hands is like a turn-tube machine gun, similar to the Gatling machine gun that the Americans sold to Japan, but what they shoot is like an explosive shell!

The terrible sound of shooting increased again, and Obao Gong turned his head to look, and saw that in the other direction not far away, there was another similar position, and two Qing shooters were shooting at the Japanese with this weapon that was completely alien to the Japanese.

Soon, the sound of Gatling gun fire, which Obaogong was very familiar with, also rang out.

Looking at the Gatling guns that were spitting black smoke with dark red flames, Obaogong's hands and feet were cold for a moment.

The situation on the battlefield, at this moment, is completely reversed.

The Japanese army fell like a mowing grass, accompanied by flying pieces of flesh and stumps, and the sound of screams and wails everywhere, as if it was raining blood.

Ao Baogong suddenly let out a desperate roar, he desperately waved the saber in his hand, and rushed towards the Qing army's firing position, and his subordinates saw the commander's movements, and instinctively rushed over.

Some of the samurai of the Satsuma clan also understood and rushed towards the sudden appearance of the Qing army's firing position.

O'Baogong had only run a few steps when a cannonball flew in a whistling manner and exploded not far from O'Baogong's side.

Obao Gong felt a strong force lift his body up, and then fell heavily to the ground, his eyes went black, and a burst of Venus flashed, and he fainted.

The Huai army, which had retreated to the beach, was also stunned by this sudden scene, and unconsciously stopped and forgot to escape.

The sampan guns of the four shipmaster and sea soldiers also opened fire at this time, and one after another 80 mm shells fell from the sky and exploded in the dense crowd of Japanese troops, and the gunners of the ship master and sea men were obviously extremely powerful, and the shells always exploded in the places where the Japanese soldiers were gathered, and a few shells caused great casualties to the Japanese army.

"What are you doing? Dog Fight! ”

I don't know who shouted, and then a gunshot rang out, which brought the frightened Huai soldiers back to their senses. The soldiers of the Huai Army, who had been unable to form an army, spontaneously lined up one after another, raised their rifles in their hands, and shot at the Japanese army.

The Japanese army, which originally thought that it could drive the Qing army into the sea in one fell swoop, suddenly suffered an unexpected and terrible blow, and fell into a two-sided attack, with heavy casualties for a while, but the Japanese army did not collapse in an instant like the Huai army, but still insisted on fighting.

The terrible trumpet of the charge sounded repeatedly on the beach, the Japanese troops who were attacked from both sides desperately counterattacked, the artillery roared on the battlefield, the machine guns roared, and the Japanese troops collectively launched a charge against the positions of the shipmaster and the navy, and they launched this kind of attack heroically not because they were good at this "pig rush" tactic, but because they had no choice, because only a melee could confuse the sight of the Qing army and make it impossible for the Qing army to distinguish the target.

The war turned the beach into a slaughterhouse, and there were mountains of corpses everywhere, but in fact, the Chinese and Japanese armies had no way out, they were both standing on the edge of the cliff, and the only way out was to push their opponents into the abyss of defeat instead of themselves. Rear Admiral Norirashi Akamatsu, who was in command of the Japanese ranks, marched forward with a loud cry, and by this time all the burdens attached to him had been lifted, and when he and his soldiers braved the fire of the Qing artillery without hesitation, he had returned to a true samurai, and the samurai had nothing to do but win.

As a naval general, he was deeply aware of the power of the Gatling gun, and if the Japanese army could not break through the machine gun position of the Qing army, it would mean a catastrophe.

Akamatsu Norira wanted to charge with the team, but he couldn't open his eyes because of the flames and smoke burning everywhere, and he couldn't see the battle clearly, when a figure covered in blood rushed in front of him and reported to him loudly: "General! Death Squad...... Attacked! ”

The Satsuma samurai's death squad lived up to expectations and led their team members into the Qing army's position like sharp knives. The death squad tore through the enemy's defense line and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to attack the enemy's depth, but what these samurai didn't expect was that in front of them, a red wave suddenly appeared!

“…… In an instant, the battle between the enemy sailors and our army began, the enemy sailors were all dressed in red, wearing straw hats, numbering about 2,000 (actually 1,500 people), armed with rifles with bayonets, white blades like a forest, shouting forward, extremely arrogant, everyone seemed to have the determination to die...... Our army originally wanted to seize its machine gun position, but the enemy sailors swarmed up and engaged our army in a white-knuckle battle,...... After a long period of fierce fighting, the scene was very terrifying, and there were lying everywhere the corpses of the dead of both sides of the enemy, and some of them were wounded soldiers of our army who sat together and committed collective suicide. Due to the loss of contact with the follow-up troops, too few of our troops followed, and many of the team members were wounded. At this time, the enemy re-attacked, plugged the gap in the position, and the death squad that rushed into the position was cut off from retreat, and finally all of them died heroically......"

Everywhere there was gunsmoke, the originally clear sky became dark, and there were battles everywhere on the coast, and the Japanese in chaos could never have dreamed that such a fierce Qing army would await them.

The Japanese charge eventually collapsed under the heavy fire of the Habekais machine guns and Lin's machine guns of the shipmaster and marines.

As the time passed, although the Satsuma samurai did their best to follow one another, they were outnumbered and outnumbered, and were stopped by the fierce fire of the Qing army. When a touch of golden sunlight gradually reflected the battlefield through the smoke clouds, the Japanese troops who attacked the Qing army's position had been wiped out by the superior naval soldiers, and Akamatsu Norira, who had been wounded and fell to the ground, saw one of the samurai in the team shoot the last bullet at the Qing army, and then tragically pulled out the katana at his waist, preparing for the final hand-to-hand combat. At this time, he saw that among the death squad members he was familiar with, there were only a few people left who could stand up straight and prepare for hand-to-hand combat.

The last of the samurai howled and rushed towards a reloading Qing machine-gun position, and a group of shipmasters and sailors rushed towards them with rifles loaded with bayonets. Norira Akamatsu saw the katana slash the shoulder of an enemy sailor, and the samurai who made the sword was pierced through the chest with a shiny bayonet at the same time......

Soon, the samurai all fell, and the shipmaster sailors, who had already killed the red-eyed, still stabbed downward with their bayonets, splashing blood and splashing the angry faces with angry eyes......

The situation on the battlefield was completely reversed, and the initiative was completely in the hands of the Qing army.

Inspired by the courage of the shipmaster and navy soldiers, the Huai army, which had been defeated, rushed forward with a swarm of momentum, and the Japanese army fell into an unprecedentedly fierce bitter battle, and it was gradually difficult to hold out in the face of the onslaught of the Qing army.

The onslaught of the Qing army had completely shaken the Japanese front, some Japanese soldiers had already run out of bullets, and the officers began to give the order of "jade shattering", burn the military flag, and then launch a suicidal charge at the enemy.

War correspondent Ginka Kishida, who was also slightly wounded, took up a gun and went into battle like all Japanese soldiers. Originally, he thought that this time he could drive the Qing army into the sea in one go, but what he did not expect was that the new enemy who suddenly appeared was extremely fierce, and every bullet they fired was like an eye, inflicting extremely terrible casualties on the Japanese army. As countless sharp bayonets cut through the morning air, flickering with a deadly chill in the golden sunlight, the soldiers roared menacingly like beasts, bullets useless to both sides of hand-to-hand combat. Heavy butts whirred, shattered skulls splattered, blood covered the battlefield like a rainbow, and the gasps of fighting, cursing and screams of the wounded continued. The beach was filled with a strong and fresh pungent smell of blood.

The war correspondent killed a Qing soldier with his own hands, but was also shot by a bullet from the Qing army and fell.

The battle is over, and the war correspondent, who is already on the verge of death, looks at the battlefield with distracted eyes. He saw that the battlefield was full of solidifying corpses, and many angry and unyielding soldiers on both sides had different expressions and lifelike, still maintaining the fighting posture of the last moment of their lives......

In this battle, more than 2,000 Japanese troops who attacked the beach were wiped out, and more than 20 officers, including Rear Admiral Akamatsu Norirashi, were killed, and among the victims was the famous Japanese journalist Kishida Ginka.

Although the main force of the Japanese army was annihilated, the Qing army also paid a heavy price, and according to statistics, the 13th battalion of the Huai Army was killed a total of 2,682 people and 1,257 wounded, and 72 people were killed and 115 people were wounded.

What makes people feel emotional is that some Japanese soldiers knew that they could not be spared and died by disembowelment, and almost none of the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the position of the Chinese sailors escaped,...... The entire coast is littered with corpses. Some Japanese soldiers were driven into the sea, shot by Chinese soldiers, most of them were killed, and the wounded drowned in the sea. …… The sea water of the entire coast has completely turned red, and it looks as beautiful as Shu brocade. A French officer watching the battle wrote.

Deng Tianbao, who later became a member of the Shipmaster Marine Corps, recalled:

“…… When the Japanese came, the village patriarch called a meeting of the people overnight. The clan lord will unanimously decide to salute the Japanese before the soldiers, neither humble nor arrogant, not strong, not weak, if the well water does not interfere with the river water, then the two sides will be fine; If there is any violation, we will meet each other with arms. So the men began to wipe their weapons while preparing farm tools: ancestral crossbows, spears, ****, muskets and only son guns used to protect the village, made in France, etc., once the Japanese are not good at invading the village, we will rise up to defend our land and hometown, and fight to the death with the enemy. ”

According to local customs, a grand ancestor worship ceremony was held before, the Deng clan ancestral hall was surrounded by cigarette smoke and fluttering flags, and the offering table was full of offerings, and the descendants of the Deng family bowed three times and bowed nine times with piety, praying for the ancestors to bless the peace of the people in the wind and rain in the heavens. But a strange thing happened when worshipping ancestors this year, a whirlwind blew on the ground, and the everlasting lamp in the ancestral hall was blown out. The clansmen were shocked, regarded as a bad omen, so the clan master made an urgent decision to sing a big drama for three days in a row to suppress the shock and dispel evil for the ancestors. …… Later, my father repeatedly told people this story with a fateful meaning, and the most nagging sentence of his old man was that my ancestors were waking up to future generations and letting me run for my life! But I ...... Why don't you open your mind? ”

"After the three-day drama was sung, the Japanese sun flags were also planted on the head of Checheng City one after another, and the smoke of war weighed heavily on the hearts of my people like dark clouds surging from the sky. But for the peasants who have depended on the land for generations, the land here is all the reason and hope for them to continue to live, so no matter what changes and major events happen in this world, including the arrival of war, we cannot stop our firm determination to defend our homeland. ”

"But no one expected that the Japanese would come so quickly and so violently."

"At the beginning, we thought that the Japanese would only fight the Hanmin and would not touch the Hanmin here, but we didn't expect that they would even kill the Hanmin together. On the first day, I heard that there was a battle on the beach, and the Penghu Naval Division Battalion was completely wiped out by the Japanese Navy, and the village was so frightened after getting the news that the officers and soldiers couldn't beat them, let alone us? ”

"My father took me to hide in the mountains, but I was curious and wanted to see the battle, and that day I heard the sound of gunfire so badly that I followed the sound. When I came to the beach, I happened to see that the fight was strong. For a time, the sound of artillery and killing was everywhere, and the officers and men rushed to be the first to fight with the enemy, shouting in unison and launching a brave charge against the Japanese. ”

"The Japanese originally defeated the Huai army, and pursued them to the beach, but suddenly encountered an ambush by the shipmaster and navy, and the weapons of the shipmaster and navy were called a ruthless, first a five-barreled machine gun, then a machine gun, and there was also artillery support, and the Japanese were beaten to the point of flesh and blood, I saw that some Japanese soldiers were hit by machine gun shells, and half of their bodies were knocked off, and they could run for a while before falling! Do you think it's scary? …… The Japanese understood that they had fallen into an ambush, but they did not flee, they desperately launched a charge, trying to seize the machine guns of the marines, but the marines were so powerful that they killed all the Japanese who rushed up...... At that time, I saw the sailors and the Japanese fighting knives, the Japanese used long knives, very sharp, one knife can cut off people's heads, the navy soldiers used spears, even more powerful, these Japanese were stabbed to death, I saw a Japanese who picked out the intestines with the bayonet......"