From the outside, the Dongqing Railway Locomotive Factory is dark, and there is no light at all, but in the largest factory workshop in Dalian left by the Russians, it is brightly lit, and in dozens of workshops, more than 2,000 workers are working overtime to make weapons, or use light rail to process wire barriers.

In the machine shop, mortar shell shells cast in the foundry are being finished on lathes, and from the foundry workshop, thousands of grenade shells are constantly being pushed out by workers with carts, and these shells will be sent to dozens of temporarily mobilized "military factories" in the city to be made into grenades and mines.

Under the guidance of the ordnance technicians who came here from Ma'anshan, the air cylinders used for gas welding and cutting were changed by the workers into heavy mortars, more than 190 kilograms of heavy artillery shells, although they only fought for two days, but this kind of "cannon" filled with 120 kilograms of mining explosives, although the firing range was short and the rate of fire was slow, it successfully deterred the attacking army and the defending guards.

In a small office not far from the foundry workshop, Li Jiuze was holding a few iron shells, where he was assembling something, first a bullet was stuffed into a barrel-shaped casting shell, then he screwed a small steel pipe into this casting shell, and the last grenade with a casting pattern was pistonized into the shell.

"Sir, that's it!"

Putting such a kilogram of something on the table, Li Jiuze's wrinkled face showed some smiles, he came from the locomotive manufacturing institute of the Jiangnan Navy Manufacturing Bureau a month ago to guide those workers in making grenades and mines, and now the mines he fiddled with were the new mines he had just developed.

"This is Flying Thunder?"

The officer's face had a strange color.

"Why did this mine fly into the sky?"

"Sir, you see the mines are using grenades to hit nails on flaps. The flap safety clip on the side is buckled by the iron bucket, so it won't explode"

Li Jiuze explained that this kind of flap grenade is easier to build than a long-handled grenade, and although it is thrown closely, it is easiest to make this kind of grenade in Dalian.

"As soon as someone mixes in the mixing rope or pulls him apart, as soon as the ring is opened, the firing pin is released, and the bullet that the firing pin hits with the warhead removed, any bullet, ours, the Russian, or my own, all of which are completed, and the bullet will eject the warhead into the mine shell. After the flap firing mechanism was ejected from the thunder shell at the warhead, because it was no longer limited by the projectile body, the flap safety clip was opened, and the needle-pierced detonator was fired, and it exploded in the air. I've tried...... It's almost this area fried. ”

Li Jiuze gestured with his hand on his lower abdomen.

"Foreman Li, you want people to cut off their children and grandchildren!"

"Those dogs who come to spoil our places in China deserve to be cut off!"

Li Jiuze scolded hatefully.

"Hmmm! Choose to build hundreds of them, and if the effect is good, we can make them all! ”

The officer stationed in the factory naturally spoke, he never refused the invention and creation of these workers, just like the heavy artillery that was reweighted with gas cylinders, a caliber of 300 millimeters, a single shot can blow dozens into the sky, even the front line said that the power is too great, too close to use, one is afraid of blowing up the barbed wire, and the other is afraid of hurting his own people.

"If it works, I will personally report to the brigade commander and reward you with a bonus of 3,000 yuan!"

With the right incentives, people are always able to be more creative than they can imagine, whether they are workers or soldiers.

The curtain was thick, the machines in the Dongqing Railway Locomotive Factory were roaring, and the gunfire outside Dalian had stopped, which was perhaps the silence before dawn.

In the dense fog of the early morning, in the trench, a row of soldiers wearing steel helmets stood there, looking at the soldiers in front of them, Tang Lei walked in front of Liu Dongfeng and gave him a military salute first.

"Sergeant Liu, since you went on the expedition, you have been transferred to the war under the military flag, and now although you have been promoted to a sergeant, the empire hopes that you will work hard to serve the country loyally and bravely!"

After congratulating Liu Dongfeng, he turned his attention to his brothers in his platoon.

"Come to think of it, after the temptation, today it is said that Kou may launch a general attack on our defense line, I have been sleeping with you for more than half a year, although I can't bear to do anything else, I hope that you will work hard, use the flesh and blood of our guards to add color to the military flag, and live up to the high expectations of Your Majesty and the people!"

"Please rest assured, sir, we will fight bravely to kill the enemy and repay the country with death!"

Thirty-one soldiers saluted at the same time and replied.

"Okay, brothers, say goodbye today, and hope that you will serve the country loyally and bravely! Come on! ”

This time, Tang Lei did not salute, but crossed his palms with his fingers and bowed deeply to his subordinates.

Soldiers always have a sense of preparedness!

A premonition of death!

When Tang Lei and his subordinates were saying goodbye, on the army position, hundreds of soldiers carrying explosives boxes on their backs rushed at the officers standing on the ammunition boxes with wine in their hands.

“…… Only tonight, although the water has become nectar, I hope that the monarchs will live up to the prestige of the imperial army and break the barbed wire net of the Chinese army with the body of a meat bullet! ”

After that, Mu Yue Angang raised his glass and saluted the soldiers of these "meat bullet" teams, meat bullets! It was the army that had conquered the fortress of Lushun with the courage of meat bullets, and Mu Yue Angang did not believe that Dalian, which was flat and undefendable, would be more difficult to conquer than Lushun.

No one spoke, no voice from the loyal Emperor Banzai or Banzai Yomoto, and the soldiers carrying a box of 10 kilograms of explosives just bowed to the division commander and walked towards the close-in trench under the leadership of the officers.

In the close trenches of the Yue army, the soldiers carrying Type 30 rifles were waiting for the final general attack order.

"Good luck!"

Oshima and the others, who were waiting for the general attack, whispered to the soldiers who were carrying explosives boxes.

"Whoosh......"

The sound of shells sounded, and the fighters in the trenches burrowed into the anti-artillery holes on the side walls of the trenches almost overhead, almost overhead, except for the fighters who had been on guard.

Unlike other countries, the Guards trench system, in addition to the firing trenches, communication trenches, and reserve trenches, also built a large number of small anti-artillery fortifications on the two sides of the trenches, communication trenches, and reserve trenches. The height is generally no more than 1.5 meters, the width is half a meter to 2 meters, and the depth is uncertain, which can be several meters or even more than ten meters deep.

This kind of anti-artillery hole can accommodate one or two people in a small one, and a large one can accommodate three or five people in a squad. Because of their small size, these small fortifications can be built very sturdy with less material. Not only can they be used for soldiers to effectively defend artillery, but also to store ammunition and supplies.

Due to the small size of the target and the deep position, it is difficult to kill even the enemy's heavy artillery, and it is difficult to hit it all. The bombardment only destroyed the exposed large and medium-sized fortifications, and did not inflict any damage on these huge small points, not to mention, thanks to the mountains of wood waiting to be exported in the harbor before the Russo-Russian War, and a large number of wooden beams were used on the roof of the anti-artillery cavern, and even reinforced with steel rails, it was almost impossible to be blown down.

The anti-artillery hole itself is built underground on both sides of the trench, and the entrance is narrow, and the shells fall exactly at the hole in the narrow trench, and the probability is still extremely low, so the soldiers in the anti-artillery hole do not need to consider being killed or injured at all.

The violent explosion rolled over the trench, steel fragments and dust flew horizontally inside and outside the trench, Liu Dongfeng, who was nested in the bulletproof hole, at the moment when the shell almost exploded overhead, the falling soil on the top of his head smashed on the steel helmet made his heart tighten, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke came to his face.

"Calm down! Wait a little bit and clean up those bastards! ”

During the shelling, Zheng Dongfeng, as the squad leader, did not forget to cheer up his brothers, especially the mobilized soldiers who were recruited on the spot.

Under the cover of dense fog and shelling, hundreds of soldiers left the trenches, some of whom were killed by mines while crawling, but many more were advancing between craters towards the wire network more than 100 meters away.

Compared to the fighters who are hiding from the shelling in the barbed wire holes, the guards behind the barbed wire are more dangerous, and they must provide alerts for the troops when the main force enters the bombardments.

"This soldier!"

As soon as a soldier at the guard post spotted the enemy troops approaching the barbed wire, he immediately set up a light machine gun and fired at those people, and although the guard posts set up every 200 meters had light machine guns, they could not stop those "meat bullets", and occasionally when the bullets hit the explosive box carried by the meat bullets, the violent explosions shook the earth.

The moment the meat bullet close to the barbed wire removed the explosive box from his back, he was hit by the bullet, and he struggled to strike matches, one, two, and the blood-soaked matches couldn't be struck at all, whoosh ...... A bullet that hit him ended his struggle.

Some of the flesh bullets were killed, but some of the internal bullets approached the barbed wire, struck a match to ignite the explosives box, and threw them between the wire nets with all their strength, and some people were injured by bullets when throwing the explosives boxes, and the burning explosive bombs fell on their hiding places, and for a time there was a series of violent explosions between the barbed wire and in front of the barbed wire.

"Tus give it!"

The soldiers and officers drew their Meiji 30-style sabers and pointed diagonally at the sky, and thousands of soldiers in navy blue military uniforms charged towards the first line of defense outside Dalian.

The artillery bombardment continued, and they seemed to be preparing to use the artillery bombardment to crush the officers and men of the Guards in the trenches and not raise their heads, while the Guards, who did not have long-range artillery, carried out suppressive fire.

"Enemy forces enter the fifth calibration area!"

When the infantry of the Yue army charged in a line formation, the soldiers in the guard post picked up the phone and informed the rear of the position of the army.

On the mortar position in front of the second line of defense, the gunners, who had been silent for a long time, quickly got busy, because the firing angle had already been determined, almost at the moment of receiving the call, the two loaders next to the muzzle of the gun opened their bows left and right to fire mortar shells one after another, in just a dozen seconds, hundreds of shells fell in the calibrated area, the original eye-catching blue lines on the land, instantly shrouded by gunpowder smoke and cast iron and cast steel fragments, several times the speed of sound steel fragments tore the bodies of the soldiers.

"Keep going!"

During the artillery bombardment, the charging soldiers did not even lie down, but instead quickened their pace and rushed towards the barbed wire fence that had been blown open dozens of meters away.

“……”

With the screaming colleagues, Oshima almost stepped on the corpse and rushed through the grid barbed wire, in front of him, from time to time there was the sound of explosions, most of the meat bombs carrying explosives chose to die with the snake-bellied barbed wire, although there were mines on the ground, but from time to time there were wounded soldiers on the ground with their bodies to blow up those mines, although the Chinese machine gun fire was not fierce, but the barbed wire was full of scattered flesh and blood, there were flesh bullets, there were soldiers with rolling thunder, and there were injured by shells.

In the attack position of the army, Mu Yue Angang, who was holding a telescope, stared at the dozens of narrow breakthroughs, and he did not notice the deaths and injuries of the soldiers, and all he was concerned about at this time was whether he could break through the defense line of the Chinese army and occupy Dalian.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, our army is about to break through the defense line of the Chinese army! Stop shelling or not! ”

"No, keep shooting! It is necessary to press the Chinese army in the trenches, and only if they can't raise their heads, we will have a chance to break through! ”

Kikoshi Yasuzuna refused without hesitation, his breakthrough was to learn from Lushun's experience, but a momentary mistake was exchanged for a breakthrough in the enemy's position.

"Ah......h

After rushing through the three-layer snake-bellied barbed wire, the first time he saw the flat land, he took a step forward for the first time, but just ran two or three steps, he was tripped and fell to the ground, and at the moment of tripping over the low barbed wire, Oshima could clearly see some palm-high bamboo sticks inserted in the wheat field, and a sharp pain of the bamboo sticks pierced his body, and he lost his life when he felt that someone was constantly stepping on his body and rushing forward, he lost consciousness, and the low wire tripwire tripping net hidden in the wheat seedlings, The soldiers who kept tripping and breaking through the barbed wire fence, and the bamboo sticks in the field took their lives one after another.

At the same time, in the undamaged machine gun fortifications, the machine gunners drove their machine guns and joined the friendly machine gunners to form a deadly crossfire at those breaches, and a dense rain of bullets flew sideways between the breaches, burrowing into the enemy's body, dragging out a piece of flesh and blood, and a cloud of blood mist and black gunpowder smoke filled the front of the position.

The originally confident Kikoshi Anzuna and the officers of the army on the sortie position were stunned by the scene in front of them, and they watched in disbelief at the troops that were stagnant at the breakthrough, not that they were stagnant, but that the corpses were resting layer after layer between the breakthroughs, and although the soldiers struggled forward, their flesh and blood could not break through the line of fire composed of the "da-da-......" machine gun sound.

Finally, the sound of gunfire and cannons, accompanied by the fall of the last group of soldiers, stopped, and the once boiling battlefield fell into silence again, in this silence, the groans of the wounded soldiers were constantly heard, looking at the stacks of corpses, the fear in the hearts of the soldiers in the trenches was spreading, and a thought rose in everyone's hearts almost at this moment.

"This ...... This is something that cannot be broken through! ”

(To be continued)