After almost simultaneously moving to a new position, the heavy machine guns, which were provided by the officers and soldiers for fire cover, opened fire first. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But it didn't take long for the six mortars of the Liaodong Army to fire, although a field artillery battalion of the officers and soldiers continued to fire shells at the changing artillery positions behind the blocking positions.

As soon as the mortars were fired, the heavy machine-gun fire of the officers and soldiers stopped.

More than 300 attacking troops, which rushed to 50 or 60 meters in front of the formation, once again became the key targets of the defenders.

Because the S-shot distance is getting closer and closer, whether it is a light or heavy machine gun or a rifle, the accuracy is better.

Therefore, after a round of striking, the losses of the officers and soldiers were directly close to one hundred and fifty people.

Coupled with the sporadic losses in the back, the leading officer and barracks management department found very painfully that there were less than 200 people in one battalion who could still move.

If this amount of troops wants to rush to the position of the Liaodong Army, they will have to withstand at least one round of fire from the opponent, and this does not take into account the grenades equipped by the Liaodong Army. After all of them were taken into account, the little troops around them would be killed before they rushed to the position of the Liaodong Army.

Thinking of this, the battalion management band subconsciously thought of retreating.

That's all he did to survive. After the heavy machine gun behind him, which provided fire cover for himself, fired again, the pipe band immediately gave the order to retreat.

Although they were again hit by a round of fire from the defenders on the way back, as they were getting farther and farther away from the defenders' lines, seventy or eighty men managed to escape back.

The offensive failed, but the officers and troops did not gain nothing.

Whether it is the co-commander who commands the battle in the front or the commander who sits in the back, they all understand one thing, the Liaodong Army is really as difficult to fight as the imperial court announced, even if it has the advantage of strength and firepower.

Since this is the case, he can only give up the idea of breaking through the defense line of the Liaodong Army here and making a great contribution.

Even if he was unwilling, the commander could only order the co-commander to suspend this kind of strong attack that barely made much sense, and instead make a feint, dragging the Liaodong Army that was blocking in front of him here.

For the senior officers in the army, they knew that it was a feint. But for the sake of secrecy, the plan was not revealed to low-ranking officers and ordinary rations.

This meant that they did not know that the troops were feinting, and that's when a problem arose.

The troops continuously attacked the positions of the Liaodong Army, and they could not be attacked for a long time, and there were continuous casualties. After a long time, it is definitely a very big blow to the morale of the troops.

Kang Jie took advantage of the four garrison regiments that had just joined the main force to take turns to go into battle, and little by little he wore down the strength and morale of the officers and soldiers.

The Beiyang Naval Division, which was protecting more than 20,000 new troops, had already rushed to the sea less than 20 miles from Yingkou.

Because of the influence of the fog, the Liaodong Army defending the Yingkou wharf did not see this huge fleet.

It was not until the warship acting as cover rushed to the sea ten miles outside the dock that the piercing sirens sounded.

Although the main force of the Yingkou line retreated, only one main regiment that had not yet been expanded into a division was left to be deployed on the coastline that stretched for hundreds of miles. However, as the only wharf controlled by the Liaodong Army, Yang Xingguo specially strengthened a coastal defense artillery regiment here and strengthened the garrison regiment one by one.

In particular, the coastal defense artillery regiment was armed not only with six heavy siege guns captured from the Japanese a year earlier, but also with twelve field guns and twelve howitzers, which in terms of power was no less than a heavy artillery regiment.

The strength of the garrison regiment is not much different from that of other garrison regiments, but in order to ensure the safety of Yingkou, Yang Xingguo specially added a heavy machine gun company and a mortar company to the Yingkou garrison regiment.

As soon as the piercing alarm sounded at the pier, the shore defense artillery regiments arranged on several hills around the pier moved.

Nearly 1,000 officers and men quickly rushed into their own gun emplacements, arsoned their guns, and prepared to open fire.

More than a minute later, the dull sound of artillery sounded one after another in various artillery positions.

Although none of the first thirty shells hit the target, dozens of thick columns of water were fired in front of the fleet.

The officers and men of the naval division, who were taken aback, reacted quickly, and the ships of the C column dodged the shells that might continue to fly. Of course, the gunners on the fleet were not idle, and immediately the guns of the C column counterattacked.

At this time, the second round of shells from the shore defense artillery regiment came, and the ships had already begun to make some evasive actions. But the huge ships, still under the action of inertia, rushed into the area covered by artillery fire.

This time, five or six shells hit the target directly, and one more siege artillery shell was among them.

The shells exploded, and the ship's deck immediately rose into a fireball mixed with a large amount of black smoke. Many officers and men were killed and injured in the explosion, especially a ship that was hit by a siege artillery shell, the gun turret of the former main ship was directly blown up, and a large hole was blown out of the deck, which was particularly frightening.

Although the captain of the ship was very unwilling, in order to avoid becoming the target of the shore defense artillery, he had to withdraw from the battle with unwillingness and command the ship to withdraw from the shore defense gun little by little.

At this time, the ship also sent out the first round of counterattack shells.

The number of shells is not much different from the number of shells fired by the shore defense artillery regiment, but because the officers and soldiers fired artillery to counterattack, it was the ship's main ship gun. The calibers are at least 150 mm, and the largest are 300 mm, and the power of an explosion of a shell is too great.

In the first round alone, the coastal defense artillery regiment lost four or five guns.

Looking at the artillery that was directly blown into parts and the gunners who were blown to pieces not far away, the regiment commander realized that he had encountered a hard stubble today, and if one was not good, it was possible that the entire coastal defense artillery regiment would be wiped out here.

Immediately after ordering the artillery regiment to fire out the third round of shells, he asked the chief of staff: "Haven't you figured out who our opponent is?" ”

As soon as the chief of staff put down the binoculars, he frowned and replied: "It's clear, it's the imperial court, and the imperial court has sent the Beiyang Naval Division." Regiment commander, the power of the warship guns is simply too great, and we are not opponents at all. If we continue to fight like this, we will be wiped out in ten minutes. ”

"I can see it!" The regiment commander replied with a frown.

"One of the operational ideas that the commander has always instilled in us is to use our own strengths to overcome the enemy's shortcomings, and now we are completely reversed. This kind of play, even if our whole army is annihilated, it will not make any sense! ”

The chief of staff hurriedly asked: "Then what should we do, should we send a telegram to the commander immediately and ask the commander what to do?" ”

"It's too late!" The head of the regiment vetoed without thinking about it.

Then a firm expression appeared on his face, and he ordered to the chief of staff: "Inform the troops, abandon the position, retreat immediately, I can't let my brothers die here in vain, the brothers of the coastal defense artillery regiment are the most elite gunners in the whole army." ”

"Go and give the order immediately, I'll take care of it. Let the troops retreat to the docks, and cover the dock garrisons to retreat as well. We don't have seawater, and if we fight with the sailors of the court, we will definitely lose. Only by luring them to the shore can we have the possibility of winning the victory against the imperial court. (To be continued.) )