Chapter 143: Recovering Weihaiwei

"Bang!" Ren Chao slammed the information about Weihaiwei Fort on the table in his hand, "Such a strong fortress was captured by the Japanese army so lightly, and the Qing army guarding it was not even as good as a rice bucket." ”

"What's more troublesome is that the Japanese army captured Weihaiwei, and the Qing army did not destroy these batteries at all when it was defeated, so these Krupp cannons were basically completely received by the little devils, according to our latest information, after the little devils occupied Weihaiwei, they had fought for a large number of people to build fortifications, if Weihaiwei is probably stronger than before." Yang Jichang frowned and said with an embarrassed expression.

"No matter how strong we are, we must take this nail, so that we can attack the main force of the Japanese army inland with peace of mind." Ren Chao said resolutely.

"The only thing to be thankful for is that most of these Krupp cannons are arranged on sea and land batteries, and these cannons are all half-orbital, with limited firing ranges and difficult to take care of their own rear roads, so these cannons are actually not much of a threat to our infantry." Yang Jichang said with a wry smile.

"Krupp cannon, caliber 280 mm. The barrel is 11.2 meters long, weighs 44 tons, the elevation angle can reach 30 degrees, the effective range is 19,760 meters, the shell can penetrate 65.8 cm of steel plate within 3,000 meters, and can fire 1-2 shells per minute. It's powerful enough to threaten our fleet! Ren Chao couldn't help but sigh and said. Not to mention the 280-mm Krupp cannon, even the 240-mm cannon is not a small threat to the fleet. Ren Chao remembered that in history, when the Japanese army attacked Weihaiwei, the South Gang Fort and the North Gang Fort fell successively, and the Beiyang Naval Division was also heavily damaged, and its strength was greatly damaged. It was not until after the martyrdom of Ding Ruchang that Niu Changqi sent the instrument of surrender stamped with the seal of the Admiral of the Navy to the Matsushima, the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and then signed the "Treaty of Liugong Island" at Ito Yuheng, and Liugong Island was declared to have fallen.

It's a pity that when the Japanese army attacked Weihai in this time and space, the Beiyang Naval Division was not in Weihaiwei at all, and there was no Ding Ruchang on Liugong Island, but the army guarding Weihaiwei was equally ineffective.

"Looks like I'm going to have to work hard tonight!" Ren Chao walked back and forth a few times, and finally said with a sigh.

"Your Excellency means launching a night attack at night?" Yang Jichang asked tentatively.

"Yes, it is only at night that the power of the fort will be at its maximum, and the power of the fort will be limited on the Cheng dΓΉ." Ren Chao nodded and said.

"But with so many forts, it's hard for us to take them all down in one go, once the little devil is alarmed, the little devil will lose the meaning of sneak attack when he is on guard." Yang Jichang frowned and said worriedly.

"So I've had a busy night!" A smile appeared at the corner of Ren Chao's mouth.

That night, taking advantage of the night, Ren Chao personally led an elite ten-person team to quietly infiltrate the Japanese defense line and quietly came to the vicinity of the Motianling Fort.

Ren Chao and ten other people quietly crouched under a small dirt slope, looking at the Motianling Fort not far away, Ren Chao rubbed his fingers that had been frozen a little stiff, "150 infantry are equipped with 110 Mauser rifles and 5 Makqin heavy machine guns, all of which are teleported to the inside of the Motianling Fort, eliminate the Japanese troops in the fort, and occupy the Motianling Fort." Ren Chao quietly gave instructions to the elf.

"As you wish, dear user!" The elf's sweet voice sounded in Ren Chao's ears.

"Let's go, go to Yang Fengling Fort!" Ren Chao waved his hand and took the lead in running in the direction of Yang Fengling Fort, in order to facilitate his actions, Ren Chao and others deliberately changed into the clothes of the Japanese army, and it was with the help of this dog skin that Ren Chao and others could get in so easily. As soon as the ten people walked out of the distance, a dense burst of gunfire rang out on the Skyridge Fort.

In this way, Ren Chao quietly spent one night, Ren Chao visited all the forts of the Southern Gang, and sent a team of elite soldiers directly to the forts. At the same time, the main force of the Tiger Ben Army launched a full-scale attack on the Japanese army in the front, and under the combination of the inside and the outside, the Tiger Ben Army captured the Nanbang Fort in only one night, and completely annihilated more than 2,000 Japanese troops.

After the battle was basically over, Ren Chao immediately rushed to the front line of the Beibang Battery, and then ordered the troops to start an attack. Ren Chao followed the charging team, rushed directly to the front of the Japanese formation, and then directly put a thousand elite soldiers into the Japanese formation, the Tiger Ben Army was like a divine soldier descending from the sky, and suddenly disrupted the deployment of the Japanese army, the Tiger Ben Army broke through the Japanese army's outer defense line in one fell swoop, and then Ren Chao repeated the old trick, and put a team of elite soldiers directly on the battery, and quickly captured each battery, until the Tiger Ben Army completely occupied the North Gang Battery, the little devil still didn't figure out where these suddenly appeared Tiger Ben Army came from, They could only ask their Aunt Amaterasu with this question. The battle lasted until 10 a.m., and the North Gang Batteries were all recovered.

Because the Japanese troops on the battery were suddenly attacked, there was no time to destroy the artillery, so basically all the cannons on the battery were completely received by the Tiger Ben army.

Subsequently, Ren Chao ordered the South Gang Fort and the North Gang Fort to concentrate their firepower to bombard the Liugong Island and Ridao Fort that were still occupied by the Japanese army, and the rumbling cannon sounded for most of the day, and after a fierce artillery battle, many cannons such as Liugong Island and Ridao were destroyed, and the Japanese army on the island suffered heavy losses.

At the same time, the infantry successfully regained Weihai City by attacking from the north and south, and wiped out hundreds of defenders in the city. When the Tiger Army regained Weihai, there was such a small episode, the North and South Tiger Army broke through the city gate almost at the same time, and the two armies poured into the city like a tide, and the devil defenders in the city were gradually compressed to the middle of the city. When the residents of the city heard that the Tiger Army had returned, they spontaneously rushed out of their homes, picked up anything they could find that could be used as weapons, and rushed into the streets to fight with the little devils. The soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army had seen with their own eyes that more than a dozen little devils were torn to pieces by angry people in the street, and even the system soldiers with few emotional fluctuations turned their heads in that scene, and they couldn't bear to look at it more.

Afterwards, when Ren Chao heard about this, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "We're late!" The little devil must have done a lot of evil in Weihai, so he will arouse such a lot of public anger! "Ren Chao ordered people to investigate, and sure enough, after the Japanese army occupied Weihai, they immediately arrested all the young and middle-aged people in the city and nearby villages and towns, built fortifications for them, and started work day and night. After hearing this, Ren Chao couldn't help but swear again, "The day he sets foot in Tokyo is the time for revenge." ”