The Chinese army's strategy of surprise attack by sea was completely undetected by the Allies, and two hours after the Second Army landed in Qingdao, the transport ships of the 1st Marine Division arrived at Qinhuangdao.

The landing site selected by the General Staff was Tianjin, where there were relatively complete port facilities, which could allow the troops to complete the landing and load and unload supplies as soon as possible. Another advantage is that it is close to the Allied command center, which can achieve the effect of smashing the Yellow Dragon directly.

The disadvantage is also obvious, the Allied forces are heavily defended in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and nearly 200,000 people of the Second Army of the Beiyang Army are stationed here, including more than 60,000 in the Tianjin area, and once the Chinese army lands here, the Beiyang Army can be immediately reinforced. In the case of insufficient troops, the Chinese army is very likely to fall into a bitter battle and fail to achieve the results of the campaign.

The reason for choosing Qinhuangdao is that this is an area where the Allied defense is extremely weak, and according to reconnaissance, only one battalion of Japanese troops is stationed in the Shanhaiguan area nearby, and one battalion of Russian troops is stationed in the urban area of Qinhuangdao, and they are all rear guard troops, and there is a Russian cavalry regiment stationed in Tangshan, but the distance is too far to pose a threat to the Chinese army during the landing.

After capturing Qinhuangdao and capturing the Chengde and Chifeng areas to the north, the retreat of the Allied forces could be completely cut off, unless the Japanese and Russian armies chose to retreat from the vast steppe, and it was estimated that they would collapse on the way due to logistical reasons.

The disadvantage is that Qinhuangdao does not have perfect port facilities at present, and after it was opened up as a commercial port by the Qing government in 1898, it mainly transports Kailuan coal, mainly to Japan. After 1905, the traffic here dropped sharply, and finally became a shipless dilemma, which was also related to the international situation and the economic situation in the North. As a result, the wharves used to transport coal mines became sluggish and dock workers were scarce, and the logistics department of the Chinese army had to undergo some repairs to meet the throughput requirements.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon of the 17th, the escort warship released the seaplane, after the intelligence department had found out the military camps and material transit areas of the Russian army in Qinhuangdao, and the seaplanes were to arrive everywhere to provide guidance for the battleship artillery.

The Russian military camp is located along the Tang River, west of Qinhuangdao. It is surrounded by a storage place for supplies, but it is all grain looted by the Russian army from all over the country. The task of the infantry battalion was to collect supplies and escort them to Beijing, and the battalion commander, Major Boris, could never have dreamed that the Chinese would attack from here.

Boris had just returned to the barracks with his troops, and this time he was out to replenish the livestock transporting supplies, and luckily they had collected more than forty pack horses in a small town. The owner, the owner of a trading house and more than a dozen of his subordinates were killed, and the pack horse was the lifeblood of the trading house.

After arriving at the barracks, Boris arranged it, and then he couldn't wait to return to the officer's quarters, and the two subordinates had already sent the snatched Oriental beauty back to the room, although Boris couldn't appreciate the beauty of the Oriental woman, but it was always a woman. You can still satisfy the **** of burning.

The humming of the treetops in front of the house caught the attention of Major Boris, whose curiosity overrode the idea of having fun, and he and his soldiers gathered in the middle of the barracks to watch the planes circling in the sky. Then a shell fell on a barracks, and the explosion reminded Boris that the war had begun!

After the first shell was test-fired, the pilots informed the fleet to fine-tune the bearing, and then a succession of shells covered the entire barracks. The ships of the escort flotilla carried out fifteen minutes of fire, which did not stop until the pilots reminded that the target had been completely destroyed.

Ten landing craft arrived at the pier first. After the two hundred soldiers reconnoitred and sent a signal to the fleet that they could land, Jiang Fangzhen, who personally led the soldiers ashore to reconnoitre, ordered a platoon of soldiers to stand guard in the harbor and lead the rest of the troops to the position of the Russian barracks.

Boris escaped by jumping into the Tang River next to the barracks in time, and was pulled out by the soldiers after the shelling, and the statistics were dismal, leaving only more than fifty soldiers intact. More than 120 soldiers were wounded and hors de combat. In addition, the heavy fire of the infantry battalion - three heavy machine guns - was completely destroyed, the looted pack horses fled in fright, and the grain warehouses were reduced to flying ashes.

Never before had he seen such a dense bombardment, at least two hundred pieces of artillery to produce such an effect, Boris felt that his judgment was absolutely correct. As a veteran who has experienced many large-scale wars, he suspects that it was a unit of the Chinese army. In this case, it is better to surrender directly, but I didn't expect it to be bombarded by naval artillery.

When Jiang Fangzhen led the soldiers to rush over, Boris slowly walked out of the barracks with a white flag and weapons held high, and said in a stumbling Northeast dialect: "We surrender!" The soldiers behind him threw their weapons on the ground.

Westerners could never understand the attitude of the Chinese army towards capture and surrender, and after confirming the surrender of the Russian army, Cai Songpo ordered the soldiers to inspect the barracks, and found fifteen local young women who had survived the artillery fire.

"Order the Russian prisoners and wounded soldiers to gather, burn and loot, and send a telegram to the General Staff!"

Fifteen minutes later, Jiang Fangzhen threw the telegram sent by the General Staff to the ground: "Lao Tzu's compatriots were bullied by the Russian Lao Maozi, and he said that he would be sent back to the military court for trial!" Is there any heavenly reason? Is there any royal law? Lao Tzu is going to preside over this justice today and execute the execution! ”

The adjutant hurried to keep the angry division commander, if he was punished for violating the military order, it would be more than worth the loss, he became the division commander at a young age, and he had a bright future, so he couldn't make mistakes!

In fact, Jiang Fangzhen did not understand the intentions of the General Staff Headquarters, and the execution of military law by the troops on the spot and the return to the military court for public trial were two different things, and no one knew about the execution on the spot, and there was only one sentence for those prisoners and wounded soldiers in the military court, that is, the death penalty. The difference is that the trial of the military tribunal is open to all, and all members of the media can watch the execution. In this way, Lu Liang wanted to show the anger of the Chinese people, and Lu Liang had never hesitated to use the most vicious way to retaliate against the enemies of China. What is there to hide from the execution of the enemy? The so-called civilization is only the privilege of the strong.

After taking control of the port and the urban area of Qinhuangdao, the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Marine Division captured Shanhaiguan in the east, the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 4th Infantry Regiment marched to Chengde in the north, and the 2nd and 5th Infantry Regiments advanced like Chifeng. The task of the 1st Marine Division was to cut off the retreat of the Allied forces, and the mountainous terrain in the north was not conducive to the advance of the First Army's mechanized equipment, and the task could only be entrusted to the Marine Corps.

However, Chiang's concern about the lack of troops would be resolved in a week, when the convoy would send troops from two mountain brigades to reinforce Chengde and Chifeng to ensure that the defensive line would not be breached.

The soldiers and supplies of the 1st Marine Division were unloaded at night, and the units that received the task rushed to the predetermined targets overnight, and the logistics department had to repair the port facilities that night to ensure the unloading of the 1st Army. It is estimated that it will take five days for the huge number of vehicles, machinery, heavy artillery, ammunition, etc. to be unloaded. In addition, the transport ship will also carry a squadron of combat/reconnaissance aircraft aircraft, fuel parts and other logistical supplies, pilots, and will also be stationed at the field airfield after it is completed.

Before the First Army landed in its entirety, the defense of Qinhuangdao was entrusted to the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division, a lightly armed force that had to advance 30 kilometers to the west without mobile tools and heavy artillery, set up fortifications on the Changli line, and expand the depth of the landing ground.

Before the surrender, Major Boris did not forget to let the two of them ride the only two horses left in the barracks to Tangshan to ventilate the news, more than 120 kilometers of the two surviving Russian soldiers took a day and a half to arrive, halfway on the two horses foaming at the mouth, fortunately the fierce face of the old Maozi, the deterrent power of the guns in the military uniform is not small, plus a small landlord is timid and afraid, so that the two soldiers grabbed two thin horses to replace the tired horses.

Colonel Ivan was sad that he couldn't go to the front to fight, this time he frowned and didn't want to speak, and the soldiers of the cavalry regiment were all similar, as the most elite Cossack cavalry in the Russian Empire, they were actually placed in the rear, didn't that fool Pajerov know that we couldn't win the battle without us?

"Colonel, we even found good things, a wine-making workshop in the city has thousands of catties of good wine, we tasted it, it is made of sorghum, it is really fucking strong, not much worse than vodka!"

"Really? Hurry up and pull it back, let all the brothers taste it, this time can suffocate Lao Tzu, I really miss the taste of vodka! "Colonel Ivan is cloudy and sunny, and he wants to go up and down, but in fact, how can Lao Maozi's shoddy alcohol be compared to the wine made by the Chinese people who take "eating and drinking" as their most sacred mission?

The hot and spicy taste made Ivan addicted, and if he were in the south, Ivan would not have found alcohol of this degree. As the president who hates alcohol the most, Lu Liang almost issued a ban on alcohol, and later compromised and stipulated that it was forbidden to brew or drink liquor with a degree of more than 15 degrees, which made rice wine and rice wine in the south popular, and many wine gentlemen had to switch to smoking to relieve the boredom in their hearts. (It is said that the author Jun drinks a small sip of liquor, and his stomach will turn upside down, but he thinks that smoking is the most long pleasure in life, and he has to have some fun in life)

The fierce Cossack cavalry drank very fiercely, and when the two tired soldiers arrived in Tangshan, they found that the whole barracks were filled with the smell of alcohol. Although he also likes to drink, he is down to business, and after finding the regiment commander, Colonel Ivan, he gritted his teeth and kicked it fiercely, so that Ivan regained a little consciousness. (To be continued.) )