The Chinese reconnaissance plane, which had been shot at, pulled up sharply, and at this time, the two plus their own planes also caught up, and the pilots on the planes kept firing at the Chinese planes with their weapon, a modified machine gun, while shouting and cursing.

The Chinese plane seemed to be enraged by the "joint sea-air shooting" of the Yue himself, and suddenly circled around the sky, turned around and rushed towards the Yue Ben plane like lightning.

The pilots of the two planes did not understand what was happening, but they saw the nose of the Chinese plane instantly spit out two terrifying tongues of fire!

Standing on the bridge, Kato Dingyoshi and his staff officers looked at the scene in the sky and couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

At this time, a plane in the sky was already burning and falling towards the sea like a flaming kite. The other plane immediately turned around and fled, but the Chinese plane did not let it go at all, and pursued it closely, and Kato Dingyoshi watched as there seemed to be white smoke flying in the sky, and then the plane also caught fire, fell to the sea with black smoke, and fell to pieces.

Watching the Chinese planes easily shoot down the two seaplanes, all the people on the bridge were speechless in surprise.

When the army attacked Qingdao, in order to deal with the possible German planes, the navy specially brought a seaplane carrier "Wakamiya Maru" to it. In the skies over Qingdao, the only enemy encountered by the four seaplanes carried by the "Wakamiya Maru" was a German "pigeon" reconnaissance plane, and the two sides met more than once in the air, exchanging fire with pistols, rifles, and machine guns many times, but neither of them could hurt a single hair of the other side, until Qingdao was finally conquered, and the plane was not able to shoot down the Germans' reconnaissance plane, and the German plane finally successfully broke through to China with classified documents.

And now, his seaplane was easily shot down by a Chinese plane!

The matter was not over here, just when the people on the bridge were all stunned in the sky, the Chinese plane once again roared and dived towards the "Zhou Fang"!

Kato Dingyoshi and his staff officers looked at the oncoming Chinese plane, as if they sensed that something was wrong, and before they could dodge, a slender orange flame flashed from the nose of the Chinese plane, and white smoke accompanied by the piercing sound of bullets breaking through the air shot down from the air, sweeping across the face and bridge of the "Zhoufang".

The bullets fired by the Chinese planes hit the armor plates on the surface of the ship, and the armor plates bounced off in all directions and flew into the crowd.

Kato Dingyoshi watched a series of bullets fly up the bridge and sweep into the staff officers, several staff officers crossed their waists with their hands as if dancing, and put on a very strange posture, and then they fell, lying in a pool of blood and convulsing, a young staff officer was hit in the head by a bullet that bounced off the armor plate, and fell to Kato Dingyoshi's side at once.

Kato Dingji just wanted to reach out to support him, but suddenly there was a sharp pain in his waist, and then he lost consciousness, his body suddenly froze there, he involuntarily reached out and touched his waist, and felt that his hands seemed to be covered with hot things.

Kato Dingyoshi stared blankly at his bloody hands and let out a low roar, he tried to stand up, but his body involuntarily lay there.

The fallen Kato Dingyoshi's eyes were still looking at the sky, and at this time he saw that the Chinese plane was circling in the sky over the "Zhou Fang" in a bravaful manner, and then swaggered away.

The surroundings gradually became quieter, and the last thing Kato Dingyoshi saw was the bloody and anxious faces of his subordinates looking at him.

June 2, 1915, 10:22 a.m., Yanzhou, Shandong.

A cannonball whistled down from the sky and smashed into the group of pigtails who were running backwards, and with a flash of fire and a loud bang, several pigtails were swept away by the air wave generated by the explosion, and some of them were hit by shrapnel and fell to the ground screaming loudly.

Immediately after that, several more shells flew in the distance, falling into the crowd and exploding one after another, which further aggravated the panic of the pigtailed soldiers.

"Stop! Stop! You cowards! ”

Zhang Xun, who was riding on a horse, cursed loudly, but soon his scolding was drowned out by the explosion of cannonballs.

Seeing the defeated pigtailed soldiers running back without looking back, Zhang Xun took out his pistol and fired several shots at the defeated soldiers, trying to stop them from escaping, but a few shots in a row did not hit anyone, the pistol suddenly jammed, Zhang Xun was fiddling with his pistol in annoyance, a cannonball from the army hit far away, and exploded not too far away from him, the huge explosion shook Zhang Xun's ears "buzzing", and the war horse under his crotch was also frightened, and stood up with a long neigh, Immediately dismounted Zhang Xun, who was still struggling with the pistol.

Zhang Xun's heavy body fell heavily to the ground, he was dizzy for a while, and he didn't know where the pistol had fallen. Several guards and adjutants not far from him immediately rushed over and helped him to his feet.

Zhang Xun saw that the pants on his calf had completely turned black, and blood was constantly oozing from the torn and charred places, and he realized that he was injured, and his body immediately became weak and weak.

"Handsome! Hurry up! It's too late! An adjutant said to him with tears in his eyes.

"Nope! I will not withdraw! Zhang Xun shouted angrily, "Give me a gun!" Give me a gun! ”

"Handsome! We can't beat me! Let's withdraw! A pro-soldier pointed to the corpses of pigtailed soldiers everywhere in the distance and cried, "I have more cannons than ours, we can't touch them with our brains!" ”

"Where's our cannon?! Why didn't our cannon go off?! Zhang Xun easily gasped and stood up and asked loudly.

After listening to Zhang Xun's question, the adjutant and the soldiers all looked at each other with a blank expression.

Born out of the Qing Army's Wuwei Army, its weapons and equipment are not worse than the old Beiyang Six Towns, the soldiers use not only the new fast guns, but also a large number of artillery, and the Beiyang Six Towns, the Wuwei Front Army's subordinate artillery is also 54, including 36 German Krupp 75 mm 30 times the diameter of the tube retreat marine artillery and 18 75 mm 14 times the radial velocity fire mountain artillery, in addition, Zhang Xun's Wuwei Army also has 4 powerful 105 mm Krupp field guns, these 4 cannons have always been his weapon to defeat the enemy, The last time they attacked the Yuan army, these cannons played an important role in the battle, and in one fell swoop, they bombarded the camp of the Yuan army.

It was because of his confidence in the combat effectiveness of his "pigtail soldiers" that Zhang Xun dared to take the initiative to lead the army to meet the army, but what he didn't expect was that in the face of the small number of people, the front army of Wuwei would be defeated so quickly.

A new round of artillery bombardment began, and the sound of the artillery was faintly mixed with the terrible roar of heavy machine guns.

Seeing that Zhang Xun still refused to leave, several personal soldiers lifted him up with a leg injury and could not walk, put him on horseback, and then ran to the rear with him in their arms. Although Zhang Xun on horseback kept shouting and scolding, no one listened to him even if he shouted out his throat.

Just as Zhang Xun was shouting and scolding on horseback, the sunset-like light suddenly flashed in the gray sky in the distance, and then in the direction where the army was located, there were suddenly bursts of thunderous explosions!

Lying on horseback, Zhang Xun looked at this sudden and spectacular scene, and stopped scolding for a while, he stared at this scene in amazement, as if he couldn't believe it was true.

After this round of artillery bombardment, the artillery fire fired by the Yue army at the front of the Wuwei army was obviously weakened, and at this moment, Hongxia flashed again, and a more violent salvo began to shoot at the Yue army, and the position of the Yue army continued to rise huge pillars of smoke, and soon it was completely shrouded in thick smoke.

The soldiers of the former army of Wuwei who fled were also stunned by this scene, probably realizing the arrival of reinforcements, they stopped one after another, and stood there to watch, and the artillery fire fired by the army just now seemed to have become less terrifying.

It may have been instantly crushed by the artillery fire of this devastating surname, and the artillery fire fired by the army towards the front army of Wuwei stopped, Zhang Xun looked at the dead silence of the army position behind him, and was about to order everyone to go back, at this time, there was a strange roar in the sky.

Zhang Xun raised his head on horseback with great difficulty, and saw the figure of a plane passing by in the sky covered with gunsmoke.

"What just passed?" One of the soldiers asked, looking up to the sky.

"The plane ......," replied another pro-soldier.

"Airplanes? Say my own? ”

"No, it's our Chinese ......"

"Our Chinese planes? How do you know? ”

"I see the dragon on it......"

At about the same time, Major General Yamada, commander of the 24th Brigade of the Chinese Army, also heard a similar sound overhead.

Major General Yamada lifted the bodies of the two charred guards lying on top of him, stood up with his saber, raised his head and looked at the sky, and sure enough, he saw a plane hovering over the battlefield.

Major General Yamada looked at this plane, which was very good but obviously did not belong to him, and a trace of surprise and confusion flashed in his eyes.

Judging by the striking livery on the fuselage, it is clear that this is a ...... The plane of the Chinese that he had always despised was despised by the China!

In his own eyes, how could the people of China, who have always been barbaric and ignorant, have such a good plane?

Seeing this advanced plane and thinking of the hellish artillery fire he had just encountered, Major General Yamada's heart couldn't help but tighten.

Major General Yamada's gaze turned to the battlefield and landed on the corpses lying on the ground in patches.

These soldiers, who were still alive on the battlefield just now, have become charred and mutilated corpses at this time.

Looking at this purgatory-like scene, Major General Yamada couldn't help but cry bitterly.

The 24th Brigade led by him was once a meritorious unit in the capture of Qingdao, but now, in the fierce artillery fire that suddenly appeared by the Chinese, it was wiped out!

Major General Yamada's gaze turned to the side and fell on Ito, the guard who had just pounced on him to cover him.

At this time, Ito was lying on the ground, his two feet were gone, the stubble of his calf was exposed, and the military uniform on his body was shattered into pieces, and some places had been burned black, and the flesh on his body was glued together, and it seemed that he was still smoking, Ito's eyes were wide, and the whites of his eyes had been exposed, and he seemed to refuse to believe that he would be killed by such an explosion.

Rear Admiral Yamada endured the grief in his heart, leaned down, and closed the eyelids of Ito and Kusai, another guard who had died covering himself, with his hands.

By this time, the Chinese artillery had stopped firing, and only the plane was left hovering over the battlefield, as if to observe the effect of the shelling, Major General Yamada waved his fist at the sky in annoyance and began to search for the surviving soldiers.

Yamada dragged the wounded soldiers out of the pile of corpses one by one, and some of the soldiers who had been lucky enough to escape the shelling also left their hiding places little by little and gathered around him.

Yamada easily gathered about a hundred subordinates, and he realized how difficult it was for him to survive the heavy artillery fire of the Chinese just now, and also realized that the squadron he was facing might be very different from the previous military department's understanding, and just as he was about to send someone to report the battle situation back, he saw a large figure in the distance.

Yamada immediately ordered to prepare for battle, and the remaining soldiers crouched next to the corpses of their comrades who were still emitting the smoke of gunpowder, and set up their rifles with trembling hands, and the two machine gunners also found a Maxim heavy machine gun that had not been damaged, and hurriedly set it up, pointing in the direction in which the figure appeared.

Major General Yamada raised the binoculars in his hand, and he immediately saw the figures of Chinese soldiers marching briskly with rifle bows.

Seeing that the other party was surging up like a tide, and soon entered the firing range, Yamada looked at his subordinates who were less than 100 people around him, gritted his teeth and raised his battle knife, sending out the signal of battle.

The soldiers opened fire with their rifles, and the Makqin heavy machine gun roared desperately.

Perhaps he had not yet recovered from the horror caused by the terrible shelling just now, but the fierce salvo of rifles carried out by the soldiers was like a mud cow into the sea, and did not cause any harm to the Chinese soldiers at all, but the Maxim heavy machine gun achieved great results, and several Chinese soldiers who rushed to the front were knocked to the ground in an instant, and Major General Yamada raised his binoculars and saw a Chinese soldier who had been shot in the leg lying on the ground screaming loudly, while his companions behind him fell to the ground like cowards, Seeing this scene, Yamada couldn't help but feel a hint of revenge in his heart.

Wait a minute...... What are the Chinese doing?

Major General Yamada noticed a mid-[***] officer lying on the ground brandishing a pistol in his hand, as if urging his men, and soon he saw two Chinese soldiers crawling to the front, one of whom had untied a cylinder with a harness from his back and erected it on the ground at a near-vertical angle.

Major General Yamada was completely attracted by the strange actions of the Chinese and seemed to forget that he and his men were in danger. He stared intently at the movements of the Chinese, bent on figuring out what they were doing.

The Chinese soldier who erected the cylinder seemed to adjust the angle, and soon, holding the cylinder still, he nodded to his companion, who took out a slender cannonball-like object from his backpack, lifted it to the cylinder with both hands, and placed it inside. Major General Yamada immediately saw that something seemed to fly out of the mouth of the cylinder.

Before Yamada could understand what was happening, there was a sudden low sound of shells breaking through the air overhead, followed by a loud bang from the heavy machine gun position.

The sound of the explosion knocked the telescope off Yamada's hand, and he turned his head in surprise, the heavy machine gun position was already submerged in flames.

Shocked, Yamada turned his head and raised the binoculars again, and he found that more Chinese soldiers had set up those cylinders, put cannonballs into the cylinders, and then heard the same whistling sound overhead.

At this time, Major General Yamada finally understood that the Chinese were firing at themselves with a special light artillery.

Without bothering to warn his subordinates, Yamada jerked his head and crouched down, followed by one crisp explosion after another from his side.

I don't know how long later, the Chinese shelling stopped, and Major General Yamada carefully straightened up and raised his head.

At this time, his shooting had completely stopped, and Major General Yamada couldn't help but be filled with despair when he saw that almost all of his men had been killed.

Ignoring the Chinese soldiers who had approached, Yamada got up and walked over to the flag, which had fallen to the ground, and solemnly rolled it up and placed it in a pile of burning wreckage.

The flag was lit by flames, emitting a bright glow, and then quickly dimmed, and Major General Yamada let out a long breath as he watched the flag turn to ashes little by little, as if he had accomplished an important task.

Looking at the Chinese soldiers who had rushed to the front, Major General Yamada roared and rushed towards them with his war knife held high, and the two Chinese soldiers saw Yamada rushing over, instinctively raised the rifle in their hand and pulled the trigger.

With two piercing gunshots, the two bullets hit Yamada accurately, and Yamada felt the bullets burrowing into his body, his legs went limp, and he involuntarily knelt down.

"When did the Chinese start to get so accurate with their marksmanship?" Yamada, who fell to the ground, had this question flashing in his mind before he lost his breath.

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