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"It can't be!" Dasamov threw away the commander of the 1st regiment, Colonel Lyunansky, threw himself in front of the map on the table, poked a few times on the map with trembling hands, and suddenly threw the map to the ground. He jerked out the short gun in his waist, turned his head to stare at Colonel Lyunansky, waved it twice, and then threw himself to the door, looking at the dark sky, with a dreamlike moan in his mouth, "How can it be ......"

"Your Excellency Commander, fight back, Nagushan can't be lost?" Colonel Lyunansky looked at the commander who was almost insane, and his voice trembled a little.

"Fight back?" Dasamov seemed to sober up a little, turned his head sharply, pointed the short gun in his hand at Lyunansky, and shouted hysterically, "Such a good day, such a good terrain, you can't hold it, and now it's dark, do you expect your damn pigs to fight back at this time?" ”

Lyunansky held his hands in front of his chest, and with the commander's muzzle swinging, he dodged his head in a panic, lest the commander was not careful, and his head would be pierced by the same irrational bullet, "That...... That ......"

"Bombard with cannons and blow up Naigushan for me!" Dasamov swung his gun vigorously to the west, staring at Lyunansky's eyes on fire, "Your regiment is ready for a qiē, no matter what the price, you must recover it tomorrow morning!" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." Colonel Lyunansky agreed, and ran out without looking back.

In the heavy rain, Barushka on Liugong Island had just transferred a battalion of the Marine Regiment to the Lujiaozui Battery, and the tension around the Weihai Acropolis forced him to rethink the military deployment of the entire Weihai.

At sea, within fifty nautical miles, although there was no sign of an enemy fleet, on land, the offensive of the Taiping Red Army was unstoppable. Now, he has long lost the optimism that he had when he first came to China, and if he went to fight against the Taiping Red Army, which was as common as eating, with the rabble under his command who lacked training and had no actual combat experience, he would feel that there was a lot of bad luck.

Barushka even thought of running. He didn't understand that even if the peace talks were successful, even if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government agreed to keep the land of Weihai to Russia, but, according to the current development, if the surrounding area was the sphere of influence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, what was the use of occupying this lonely place? If we take advantage of the current calm on the sea, withdraw the main force of Weihai to Tianjin or Lushunkou in time and preserve our strength, wouldn't it be better than carrying it here?

In the evening, Barushka received a telegram from the headquarters of the dispatch army transferred from Tianjin, in which in order to commend him and Dasamov for their outstanding contributions in Weihai, the headquarters first awarded him and Dasamov the rank of major general. Later, he clearly told him that the Taiping Red Army in front of him was only one army of the Red Tenth Army, with more than 20,000 people. In the end, the headquarters claimed that on the 20th, the representatives of the Tsarist Russian peace talks would arrive in Jinan and lodge a strong protest against the clash between the two armies in Weihai. Therefore, it is hoped that he and his subordinates, at such a critical moment, will carry forward the noble spirit and long-standing traditions of the tsarist soldiers, and must deal a head-on blow to the Taiping Red Army, show the majesty of the tsarist soldiers, and create more favorable conditions for the smooth progress of the peace talks in the future.

There is nothing more to say about Barushka. He understood that the battle of Weihai, for the warring parties, was no longer a matter of fighting for a single place, but represented the highest honor of the armies of the two sides, and at the same time was an important bargaining chip in future peace talks. No one can lose, no one can afford to lose, and until the last resort, they can only carry it hard.

Fighting this kind of thing, I'm afraid that Wang Ba will eat the scales and be iron-hearted. When Barushka had no way out, his determination to fight to the death suddenly rose. After receiving an urgent report from Dasamov about the loss of Mount Naigu, he almost did not think about it, and immediately began to transfer the other two battalions of the Marine Regiment on Liugong Island ashore to reinforce Weihaiwei, and at the same time to transfer the sailors of various ships of the navy to put together a battalion to strengthen the land defense force of the north fort of the Weihai Acropolis. At this time, the only thing he regretted was that when he built the coastal fort, he didn't care about building the land defense system of the fort.

Of course, he did not forget the three regiments from Rongcheng Mountain to Wendeng Jinghaiwei, he sent a ship to quickly notify the Rongcheng garrison, and ordered all departments to immediately send troops to rescue Weihaiwei, and attack the Taiping Army from behind the Taiping Red Army.

In fact, the reason why Barushka still dared to grit his teeth and fight hard, and he didn't feel the coming of "last resort" until the end, that is, Tan Shaoguang always gave him some illusions in time at the most critical moments, or a little fantasy.

The passage from Weihaiwei to the south bank was completely cut off, and there was a fierce battle for the ancient mountains in the west of the city, and at this time, Tan Shaoguang was wrong and ordered Chen Tingxiang to delay the time of the attack, and the south bank has not been fighting for this reason, which also made Barushka convinced that the reliable information given to him by his headquarters that the Red Army of the Celestial Empire was indeed insufficient to launch a large-scale offensive on the north and south fronts at the same time.

Although the development of the war situation was very smooth, in the military headquarters of the Red First Army, Tan Shaoguang, Tan Tiyuan and others were not easy. In the face of the Tsarist Russian units around Weihaiwei, they had to fight, but they could not fight too hard, before the Red Navy appeared on the battlefield, they fought hard, they were afraid that the Tsarist Russia's maritime power would fall off and flee. The fight is not ruthless, and as soon as the land and sea encirclement begins, he is afraid of a miss. It can be said that at all times, the nerves of Tan Shaoguang and others are tense, and they dare not make the slightest mistake.

As Tan Shaoguang himself said later: ...... This battle is the most tiring battle in my life, like flying a kite, I am afraid that the string will be broken. Alas, after all, my hand can't reach into the sea, otherwise ......

The battle of Naigu Mountain to the west of Weihaiwei ended, and the battle for Motianling on the south bank began to enter the prelude again.

The Motianling Fort is not a coastal fort, just like the Lianziding defensive position of the Gongwei Longmiaozui Fort in its northwest, it is a land defensive position temporarily built in the previous stage of Tsarist Russia's preparations.

The Ferris Ridge Fort, located on the flat top of the Ferris Ridge, is surrounded by a round wall with a mound of earth, and a battlement is provided every ten steps for infantry and gunners to aim and shoot. There is an exit directly north of the wall. Around the Ferris Ridge Fort, there is also a ditch around it, and deer are piled up outside the ditch. In the fort, in addition to a dozen cannons, the defenders were also strengthened from a battalion at the beginning to a battalion and a half, of course, this half battalion is the Tsarist who fled here from Gushan.

At the beginning, after Li Hongzhang visited the newly built Weihaiwei Military Port and Fort, he once praised it in front of the foreign people, "The Weihaiwei Naval Base can be fought if you advance, and you can defend it when you retreat." And at that time, he expressed his nostalgia, "The craftsmanship is invincible, and the ingenuity is extremely overwhelming." "It's a pity that neither he nor his foreign master has thought of the most critical problem, or the defect of heavy dà, that is, the back roads of their inland north and south forts are empty and abnormal, and there is no guarantee at all.

Just like the Ferris Ridge in front of you, the importance of the Ferris Ridge is precisely because it is the commanding heights of the rear road of the fort group on the south bank of Weihai. Once this commanding heights are occupied, you can directly control the entire southern bank of the batteries, and then the entire defense system of Tsarist Russia in the southern bank batteries will tend to collapse.

Taking advantage of the daylight hours, Chen Tingxiang, Liu Mingyuan, and the generals of their regiments and battalions, under the guidance of the local people, conscientiously and carefully checked the main attack points. At the same time, they not only sent small reconnaissance teams to familiarize themselves with the paths along the way, but also mobilized a group of guides accompanying the team.

As night fell, after resting, the officers and men of the teaching brigade were refreshed and refreshed, and in the drizzling rain, they entered the forward position in front of the Ferris Ridge.

Soon, the cannon fire that shook the mountain rumbled.

At the foot of the mountain, the teaching brigade concentrated dozens of mortars of the whole brigade and began to bombard the main peak of Motianling. At the same time, the artillery fire of the Tsarist Russian Motianling position began to return fire fiercely, and the Yangfengling Tsarist position behind the Motianling also began to provide artillery support to the Motianling.

"That gun hits, it's almost impossible to tell the number, the fire is sky-high, much more powerful than the firecrackers used to be set off during the festival, even if we stand on Nanshan and watch the lively people, we can feel the soles of our feet swaying, and our hearts are panicking." At that time, many people who climbed the mountain to watch the battle still remember that night, "I can't see clearly how our people are attacking the mountain, but I can only hear our trumpet, even in such a powerful gunfire, it is very loud." ”

"Everyone understands that as long as our horns don't stop, those damned Russian ghosts will still be on the mountain, and our people will have to attack. However, in the middle of the night, the horn sounded and stopped, and the sound stopped, and it was constant, and everyone was in a hurry, how many people would we have to die if it went on like this! ”

In less than a day, the training brigade was able to call the people around the garrison and unanimously call them "our people." Behind this, everyone can imagine what the soldiers have paid for themselves.

"The brothers who went to fight the Tsarist Russia on the Motianling Ridge lived around our village during the day. There were many people, few houses, and many brothers were drenched in the rain all the time, but they did not forget to help the families with leaky roofs to tidy up their houses. That scene is poignant to watch. Later, the president of the Gushan Peasant Association said, "The battle started, and my mother's leg was not good, but she couldn't stay in the house, so she asked me to take her on my back and go outside to see." But after going out to see it for a while, she was going back again, and she didn't dare to look at it. In the house, my mother asked for a while, the trumpet has stopped blowing, right? Stopped, right? When I asked this, my mother kept wiping her eyes. I know that my mother is distressed about the Red Army dolls who went out of my house, they are not very old, and a white doll is only eighteen, but they can speak. He told my mother about the beautiful world of Datong, and how happy and happy the poor family in the south who had already divided the land was. It was on that day that I learned what the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was and what the Communist League was. My mother looked at the doll and liked it in her heart, and recognized a godson alive. Alas, it's a pity, after that battle, he never came back, and he didn't leave anything, only his surname was Ji. My mother has been talking about him, when she passed away last year, I told me to put a small wooden stool that I had kept at home in her coffin, that was where he sat that day, and my mother never asked others to sit in the future, and when she was fine, she held it in her arms, and she didn't know what to mumble in her mouth. ”

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