At this moment, I realized that they could quickly turn into flesh and blood corpses, just like the Chinese they had always looked down upon; Under the rain of bullets made of steel, they are also so fragile and so easy to die; In the face of a formidable enemy, they can be easily slaughtered.

After the plan was decided, the Chinese [***] team split up and started to act against the army. After preparing for the attack, the Beiyang Fifth Division launched an artillery bombardment at dusk on the positions of the Qingzhou Army. In order to support the offensive led by the infantry, Fu Xiao'an, the commander of the Fifth Division, mobilized most of the heavy artillery in his hands to be put into the front line for artillery bombardment, with a total of 50 150-mm heavy howitzers (all the artillery of the new heavy artillery brigade), 36 75-mm field guns, and 18 75-mm mountain guns, a total of 104 heavy guns, and for this operation, half of the division's stock of shells was specially used for this operation.

Xie Xun, commander of the artillery regiment of the Fifth Division, who served as the commander-in-chief of the artillery, was a high-achieving student who had studied artillery at the Army University in Berlin, Germany.

Due to the excessive contempt of the Qingzhou army for the Chinese [***] team and the carelessness brought by the previous victory, the fortifications built by the Chinese army in Qingzhou were very simple, the trenches were dug very shallowly, and the shelter was not strong enough, and in order to prepare for the upcoming night attack, the soldiers were all densely crowded in the trenches, and as a result, under the intensive artillery fire of the Chinese [***] team, they suffered heavy casualties and losses, and their severity was far beyond Fu Xiao'an's expectations in advance. In the first round of artillery shelling of the squadron, a number of officers, including the wing commander, were blown to pieces by a 150-millimeter heavy artillery shell that fell into the trenches, and the casualties among the officers and men of the officers and men who were squeezed into the forward trenches to prepare for a night attack were even more extremely heavy, and the entire 1st Brigade of the 29th Brigade and the 1st Brigade of the Shizuoka Wing lost more than half of their combat strength after the first round of shelling, and the 2nd Brigade of the Shizuoka Wing, which was assembled at the main attack point of the squadron, suffered more than two-thirds of the casualtiesThe situation of the first brigade of Hamamatsu United was slightly better, but almost a third of them were killed.

The frightened soldiers hid and waited for the second round of shelling by the [***] team, but to their surprise, the shelling of the [***] team suddenly stopped.

At this time, the officers and men of the Yue army were completely frightened by this stormy artillery bombardment, and no one paid any attention to the order to launch an attack, and the few pieces of artillery of the Yue army sounded like they were going crazy, and they let off their breath indiscriminately towards the position of the [***] squadron on the opposite side, and they were released for about half an hour before stopping.

The bold shelling of the artillery did not have the slightest effect, because at this time the attacking troops of the squadron did not enter the position and did not suffer losses at all. However, because the Yue army lost its supreme commander, it was impossible to judge the true intentions of the [***] team for a while, and their poor ammunition reserves prevented them from concentrating the fierce firepower like their opponents, so the Yue army had no choice but to stop the shelling, which just reduced the resistance to the night attack of the Beiyang Fifth Division.

At this time, most of the officers and men had withdrawn to a relatively safe rear, and even some of the alert troops had also taken refuge in the anti-artillery holes, and what he did not expect was that the 400 broadsword members led by Sun Yansong, the leader of the Shandong militia group, were armed with revolvers and broadswords, some of them bent down and bowed forward, and some were crawling on the ground to sneak towards the positions of the Yue army. At the risk of being accidentally injured by their own artillery fire, they had quietly touched a place less than 200 meters away from the front trench of the Japanese army.

Since the Yue army captured Qingdao and forcibly occupied the Jiaoji Railway, in the occupied area in the name of "military management", set up a military administration and a civil affairs office, to implement barbaric colonial rule against the local Chinese people, unwilling to be humiliated Shandong people to carry out fierce resistance, many local people automatically organized militia groups and Yue army confrontation, after Yueben declared war on China, this resistance turned from underground to open, when the Chinese [***] team entered Shandong, the local gentry and people in Shandong responded in groups, organized a large number of militia groups to support [***] The team fought against the army, and many militia groups simply joined the regular army to take command.

For Sun Yansong, a distance of 200 meters meant that his broadsword team could kill the army position within half a minute.

According to the battle plan, the task of Sun Yansong and the Dadao team was to tightly entangle the Yue army in the trenches and buy time for the main force less than 1,000 meters behind to cross the fire blockade line of the Yue army.

"Give the order to go down and tell everyone to stay still and wait for the shelling to end." Sun Yansong whispered to one of his subordinates, who slowly turned backwards and gave an order to a militia leader, who in turn turned to convey it to the others, and spread it throughout the broadsword team in turn.

At this time, the position of the Yue army was full of dazzling explosions, deafening sounds, and the screams of the soldiers. In the sound of the explosion, Sun Yansong, who was very familiar with the language, could even hear the loud scolding of the soldiers, who complained that the artillery fired indiscriminately and provoked the Chinese's shelling retaliation.

On the trembling earth, splashed earth and rocks fell from the sky from time to time, but the members of the broadsword team at this time were as steady as Mount Tai, and they lay on the ground one by one, waiting for the end of all this.

Although they were not regular soldiers, they had a much higher will to fight than the regular soldiers, although many of them had only received a short period of military training.

As the loud sound of the last cannonball died down, Sun Yansong stood up suddenly, raised the ring-headed broadsword with a red ribbon floating high, and shouted: "Brothers! Come on! ”

The 400 broadsword members jumped up almost at the same time, the snow-bright broadsword and the dark revolver shone with a terrifying light, and one by one the fierce figures swept across the land like a whirlwind, and after dozens of seconds, the forward position of the Japanese army had completely fallen into a shouting of killing.

Sun Yansong jumped into the trench first, and saw a soldier dragging a rifle from the anti-artillery hole in a panic, after the other party found him, he howled, stood there and raised his gun, and put on a standard shooting posture, but at such a distance, Sun Yansong did not give the opponent a chance to fire, he stepped forward, his hand raised the knife, and the big knife cut off half of the opponent's head at once, and then he ran into a Japanese officer, he did not wait for the other party to pull out the knife, He shot the opponent in the head from a distance of less than five steps.

Sun Yansong led more than ten guards all the way down, killing as many as 100 people one after another, until the main force arrived, and his left arm was pierced by a bullet, he was still wielding a big knife and fighting with the enemy!

Under the fierce attack of the squadron, the 29th Brigade of the Japanese Army felt terrible pressure on the whole line, and Major General Hayakawa, who had just acted as the brigade commander, panicked for a while, because he did not know what was happening, he did not know which direction to throw the reserves, and the news coming back from the front was always contradictory: after a while someone reported that the position of the 2nd Brigade had been infiltrated by enemy troops, but they still had the strength to hold on; A few minutes later, the 2nd Brigade reported that the position had been broken through and could not be supported, and a few minutes later the 1st Brigade reported that they were facing a collapse on the whole line and requested reinforcements; After a while, the 3rd Brigade reported that it had been subjected to a heavy onslaught from the enemy's regiment, and that they had abandoned their positions; Immediately after that, it was reported that contact with the 2nd Brigade had been lost, and Major General Hayakawa was so overwhelmed by this information that he did not know what to do.

Until Major General Hayakawa was forced to give the order to retreat, he was not able to give a single meaningful order in these most critical hours, and it was only a matter of time before the entire line of the 29th Brigade collapsed.

In less than three hours, the vanguard of the Beiyang Fifth Division broke through the left flank defense line of the Hamamatsu Wing of the 29th Brigade of the Yue Army, and after dawn they broke through to the depth of the Yue Army's ground, and together with the cavalry regiment of the Fifth Division that came to support, they repelled a cavalry of the Yue Army that counterattacked, and then together with the follow-up troops, they routed an artillery unit of the Yue Army in retreat and captured part of the Yue Army's artillery.

By the night of the next day, the front laid by the commander of the 29th Brigade of the Yue Army along the railway in Qingzhou had completely collapsed, and the Beiyang Fifth Division tore through the front line of the Yue Army from the center and the left flank respectively, and then crushed the defenders of the right flank of the Yue Army, annihilated more than 6,300 Yue troops in one day, and pressed the remnants of the Yue Army to Weixian.

For the army on the Shandong Peninsula, the situation began to take a sharp turn for the worse.

Qingdao, the German Governor's Palace.

"The Chinese [***] team has just captured Qingzhou." A Chinese dressed as a Ronin said to Lieutenant General Mitsutomi Kamio, "There is no doubt about it, Your Excellency. ”

"I haven't received any relevant reports, and the situation in Qingzhou is still to be verified." Kamio Mitsuchen looked at the Yuben Ronin in front of him with some annoyance, "The Chinese were also hit hard last time, they can't come so quickly!" ”

"But our people have already seen the [***] team enter Qingzhou! If you send someone over right away, you'll know what's going on! The ronin slammed the Chinese round hat on his head to the ground and shouted, "I really don't understand how the army's intelligence work is done!" ”

"It's not your turn to teach me how to do intelligence work!" Kamio Mitsutomi was also on fire, "Please pay attention to your identity!" ”

Listening to Kamio Mitsutomi's rebuke, the man who said Ben Ronin couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but soon remembered something, and a trace of embarrassment flashed on his face.

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