The rain became more and more sparse like the sound of gunfire, and a touch of fish white appeared on the horizon, and the Qingdao Campaign, which took 31 days from the declaration of war between Japan and Germany, reached the end.

Crater or crater. Big, small, deep and shallow! As far as the eye can see, the topography of many places in Qingdao has been changed, especially those shells of hundreds of kilograms have become veritable "landform modifiers". In addition to bomb craters and ruins, the road from Jingshan Fortress to Fushan is full of corpses at most, and there are corpses everywhere! As soon as two journalists from Shanghai, who had been allowed to enter the war zone, stepped out of the fortress, they could not hold back their tears: a worker from the former Qingdao sulfur factory in Germany, who was no longer able to work, sat in the mud and wept.

It is said that men bleed without tears, but when you step into this Shura field, everyone can't hold back their excitement and sadness. Chu Nan stepped on the bloody water, stopped in front of a corpse that had shredded his thighs by shrapnel, and slowly squatted down.

Zhang Yuqiu, commander of the 5th Battalion of the 503rd Regiment of the 4th Brigade.

The first to lead troops into Qingdao, the first to climb the No. 4 fortress, the first to lead troops to launch a night attack on Sifang Mountain, and the first to shout slogans to launch a counterattack. This meritorious company commander has been fighting since Hubei, and if he can hold out to the end, he may soon become a battalion commander or even a regiment commander. But now he was lying quietly in the mud, his face covered in mud, his body shattered, his eyes widening, and his fingers still on the trigger of his submachine gun.

Chu Nan pushed away the workers of the corpse collection team, took out a white towel from his pocket and gently wiped Zhang Yuqiu's face clean, and when he got up, tears had already crawled all over his cheeks, and he repeatedly cared for the corpse collection team: "Lighter and lighter." Be sure to mend the body and bury him in the ground. The corpse collection team nodded, in fact, there is no need to explain that these corpse collection team members who spontaneously rushed from various factories and local people in Qingdao will also be cautious, because these are their children, their soldiers, and national heroes!

A hundred steps further is the Japanese position led by Zhang Yuqiu to attack. A Type 38 heavy machine gun tilted its head, the trench had been filled with corpses, and the mud was covered with blood and minced flesh. Many soldiers mingled with the enemy, choking their necks and bayonets. A full reinforcement company of 131 people, all of them died on this position of less than 500 meters! Along the way, there are 7 companies and 2 battalions, and all members have died in battle, completely losing their numbers!!

The corpses of their own soldiers need to be cared for carefully, and more Japanese corpses are piled up like garbage on carts, and no one cares if it is immoral to do so, even reporters spit on them with thick phlegm after taking pictures with red eyes. The closer you get to the mountain, the more corpses there are, the mud is a terrible red, the whole mountain is full of craters left by the explosion, and a 240mm howitzer in the hilltop battery that was destroyed yesterday hangs its barrel, as if telling how badly it has been hit.

When you climb the mountain, you can see that only the village of Li is still fighting, and the navy that Japan is proud of has all been evacuated, and only two destroyers on the sea are still trying to tow the armored cruiser Iwate, which is almost flat on the deck. Kamio Mitsutomi had already taken off his ill-fitting military uniform, sat cross-legged, staring at the unsheathed saber in a daze with a grim face, he had already known that this would be his final fate since the surprise attack of the sea fleet last night.

The fortifications outside have all been destroyed by shells, and the thousands of Japanese troops in the trenches are all dead, although the navy still sent destroyers and a few transport ships to help after suffering heavy losses last night, but how can a few fleets take so many people, with the appearance of heavy artillery groups on the floating mountain, the road home has been completely cut off!

Machine guns are still raging, and wave after wave of Wehrmacht troops are still charging. But this has nothing to do with Kamio Mitsutomi, Wushan was cut off, Fushan was lost, all the troops who entered Qingdao were killed, and a wing of the 18th Division and the 6th Division was full of more than 26,000 elite soldiers who fought hard in Qingdao for 29 days, and only less than 4,000 people boarded the ship under the Navy adventure last night, and the rest were all lost in Qingdao, which originally thought that there was a fleet to support it! Coupled with the loss of Laiyang, more than half of the two and a half divisions that landed in Shandong have been lost, and 138 cannons of various types and countless baggage materials have been lost!

Ten years!

After the Russo-Japanese War cost 100,000 young lives and exhausted the country's strength and owed 2 billion foreign debts, it took the empire a full ten years to accumulate this family business, and the total losses since the beginning of the war have been close to three divisions! The Navy's Second Fleet suffered even more heavy losses, the Zhoufang sank, the Tsukuba sank, the Yakumo sank, the Iwami exploded and sank, and the Iwate didn't know if it could be repaired even if it was dragged back, and there were 5 destroyers lost! It will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild the Second Fleet alone! He knows better than anyone else the current situation in the country. After such a large loss was passed back, it was almost impossible for the top management to send troops to Shandong, and even a few wings of the 6th Division that had not yet arrived would not come, and it would be a great luck if the Guards Division and Shirakawa Yoshinoribu gathered in Longkou could be sent back to Lushun. As for Jinzhou Otani Kikuzo, who has been surrounded in an empty city, and the navy has suffered heavy losses, whether he can break through and return to Lushun can only depend on luck.

"Gentlemen." Kamio Mitsutomi picked up the saber, looked back at the several flag guards gathered behind him, and suddenly said in a high-pitched voice: "Jade shattered, I hope my soul can return to Japan!" In his last howl, thousands of Japanese troops gathered in Li Village came to the end, and rushed straight out of the trenches to launch a death charge against the Wehrmacht, not to mention how much physical strength there was after a night of fierce fighting to carry out this kind of jade sprint, just the concentration of more than two divisions of hundreds of light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers was enough to tear them all to shreds from exhaustion.

When the 47 mortars deployed on the floating mountain burst out at the same time with a final roar, Yang Qiu stepped on the Qingdao Signal Mountain under the protection of the soldiers. In front of him is the Dietrich stele with the German eagle emblem, and the first and second steles are inscribed von Dietrich on November 14, 1897. Dietrich's exploits in the occupation of Jiaozhou, the third monument, which was regarded as a sovereignty by Germany, is engraved with a line in German. "Here he acquired this land for the Emperor and the Empire, and the rock was named after him the Dietrich Monument." In the parallel world, nearly half of these three tablets were destroyed by the war, and after the Japanese occupied Qingdao, they engraved a description of the Japanese occupation next to the German text, but now the three tablets have been preserved intact.

Seeing Yang Qiu staring at the Dietrich monument for a long time and not taking his eyes off it, Zhang Xiaozhun thought that he was dissatisfied with why he didn't shovel it early, and said: "Some time ago, the army was tense in battle, and it has not been blown up. ”

"Blow it up?" Yang Qiu raised his eyebrows and shook his head: "Why explosives?" This is history! Not only should it not be blown up, but it should also be well protected. History is history, not only can it not be whitewashed and tampered with, but it should also be actively opened up for everyone to understand! In the future, when the world is peaceful, the history that has been tampered with by the Manchu Qing Dynasty will have to be revised back! At the very least, we must tell the people what kind of people we are, where we come from, and our nation has lived on this land for 5,000 years! Organize someone to build a better monument on the side now! We must record the whole process of our recapture of this place in detail, and engrave the name of every soldier who died! Let our children and grandchildren know what kind of road we have taken, and how many soldiers have sacrificed their lives here for the struggle for national and national independence and freedom. ”

The heavy words made the officers not know how to speak, Yang Du coughed lightly twice to break the solemn atmosphere, and said: "What the vice president said is right, I don't know how much history has been tampered with after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and it is time to let them be revealed to the world, so as not to take the wrong path for our children and grandchildren in the future." ”

Yang Qiu also noticed the big victory and said that these heavy things were not good, and at this time, the former Austro-Hungarian Queen Elizabeth, who had been cowering in the bay for more than a month, slowly sailed towards the mouth of the bay with several gunboats, and asked, "What are they going to do?" ”

"The remaining fleet of the Japanese Navy has retreated to Weihai, and they are going to meet the submarines." Cai Ye took a deep breath and said: "After the second detachment succeeded last night, the No. 6 boat has never floated. As if to cooperate with his words, large bubbles suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea, and a moment later, two waves of great feats surfaced. The sailors did not have much joy, and climbed onto the deck and shouted loudly, even if the results were brilliant, they still could not make up for the heartache after losing their comrades.

"Report!"

Li Zongren walked up the cliff quickly and handed over the preliminary statistical report: "The Qingdao Campaign is all over, this is the preliminary statistical report. Since the beginning of the battle at the beginning of the month, our army has suffered more than 11,000 casualties, and 6,100 died last night alone. In total, more than 25,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, more than 8,000 prisoners were captured, and 37,000 guns of various types and 107 cannons were captured. 4 enemy capital ships were sunk, 1 was seriously wounded, 1 was lightly damaged, 5 destroyers were also sunk, 3 were damaged, 1 troop carrier was damaged, and the rest of the captured materials and ammunition are being counted. In addition, the soldiers had already discovered Mitsutomi Kamio, who had committed suicide after burning the flag with several flag guards. ”

In Li Zongren's swift words, a singing voice suddenly came out from among the exhausted soldiers.

"The wolf smoke rises, and the rivers and mountains look north. The dragon rolls, the horse neighses, the swords and guns reflect blood, and the heart is like iron gall and tears. Han Jialang draws his sword and breaks through, who can resist! Mountains and rivers blood, eternal battlefields, how many siblings are loyal to their souls buried in other places, what a pity to die to serve the family and country!. One soldier staggered to his feet to the song, the second soldier stood up, and the third and fourth more and more soldiers got up and looked at the sea and sang the Wehrmacht anthem, and in their hoarse voices, a crack suddenly opened in the gloomy sky.

Brilliant and dazzling!

"Who will be next for Germany and Japan?" Yang Qiu silently stared at the Dietrich Monument, and after silently reciting it a few times in his heart, he suddenly straightened up.

"Clear code, the whole country is electrified! At 11 o'clock on September 1, 1914, our national defense forces regained the land of Qingdao and won a great victory! ”