In half a day, the soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Wing arrived one after another. Together with the two guns carried by the marines, a total of four 70mm field guns were pressed, and the Japanese army, with a total of nearly 1,000 men, launched its first fierce attack.

The blown up pontoon bridge was repaired again, and the strength of one squadron made a detour upstream, and the two sides responded to each other, fighting with great success. Most of the soldiers waded through the shallow river and had just jumped off the embankment when they were drowned by a barrage of bullets!

The most unknown of the bank fortifications of the Jili River is the machine gun!

The number of general-purpose machine guns in a light infantry battalion is as high as 45, and there are also 10 12.7mm large-caliber heavy machine guns! It's just that at the moment, because production can't keep up, and it is the relationship between local defense and operations, the pull-out is temporarily replaced by water-cooled Maxim.

That is, on the bank of the river, there were more than 55 of them just by machine gun fire!

This is not the Czech or Bren light machine gun that was equipped with a bad rope during World War II, and it is equipped with a PKM with a 100-round chain for each squad!

Correspondingly, the main armament of the infantry in each squad was the Mosinagan carbine, and the chief and deputy squad leaders used a Bobosha submachine gun.

This is also the benchmark for the first stage of infantry armament determined by Yang through guò actual combat verification. Do not rely on the rifles of recruits to shoot the enemy, use a sufficient number of machine guns to suppress the formation, in addition, with a battalion of up to 27 various guns and 18 rocket launchers, to achieve the crushing of all national armies in this era!

Kimura was so angry that he didn't think carefully about how Akiyama failed so quickly and so miserably. And he really didn't have any information to be sure. What kind of terrible machine gun did the other side handle.

So, when the Japanese troops attacking from both sides jumped into the river like dumplings, under the cover of the bombardment of four small guns. Shooting while rushing forward, it immediately turned into a tragedy!

Suddenly lifted the camouflage from behind, aimed at the water-cooled Makqin who fired wildly at them, and wantonly splashed bullets like iron brooms! In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of 7.62x54R bullets were intertwined into an impermeable fire net, killing piles of Japanese soldiers on the spot and turning them into dead fish!

The wind also seemed to be a bullet from the opposite side, leaving Kimura Yuheng dumbfounded! A series of terrible screams. A deep stinging of his sensitive nerves.

Fortunately, his mind cleared up relatively quickly, and he hurriedly ordered everyone to retreat, looking at the red-dyed river from behind the bunker. I didn't know what to do for a while.

"Nakasa! This kind of attack will not work, the bullets on the opposite side are too dense, and we must ask the navy to bombard the beachhead line with naval artillery! ”

The chief of staff ran over to remind him with his hat covered. Kimura Youheng nodded subconsciously: "Yes!" The Navy, it's time for their naval guns to play a little role. ”

The chief of staff immediately turned around and arranged for someone to give the order. In fact. He himself was terrified by the battle in front of him! This is not at all what I expected.

The navy escorting them to this side of the landing operation. It was the third partisan detachment. It's just that at this time, those warships can't care about coming over to help. The 10 X-series gunboats, which had rushed out yesterday evening, had been hiding in Jiaozhou Bay all night, and they came out early in the morning, and their troops suddenly advanced from the rear in two directions, launching a surprise attack on the Japanese guerrilla fleets escorting the two lines.

On the sea, about fifteen kilometers away from the land battle site, the five Japanese ships of the 3rd Guerrilla Detachment were struggling to dodge. But even the new "Maya" and "Atago" ships bought from Chile have a speed of 20 knots. But no matter how much they maneuvered, they couldn't avoid the 76mm grenades that were densely smashed from outside the range of their naval guns!

Five of a kind for five. The total tonnage of the X gunboat is only 1,000 tons, but five 76mm rapid-fire guns can fire 100 high-explosive grenades in one minute. And the accuracy and range are far from being comparable to Japanese ships.

Explosive grenades continued to fall around them and on the hull of the ship, and the Japanese soldiers were burned and bruised. If you want to chase, you can't catch up, you can't hide, you can't dodge! Want to get closer to your own team to join forces? Then they were stunned to find that the team was actually bombarded with five labors and seven injuries, not to mention the encirclement and suppression, and now even they are fleeing for their lives!

The second guerrilla detachment on the southern side of the sea was no better than them.

Because of the serious injuries of the team, the tactics of joint encirclement and suppression suddenly could not be played. The other five X-gunboats easily circled around, and when they were extremely fast to skim the coastline, they fired more than 200 shells in one breath in the direction of the camp where the Japanese had just landed, and blew up the second infantry wing, which had just gained a foothold, and fell on its back!

They then turned north, rushed to the left of the 2nd Guerrilla Detachment, and harassed them with naval guns from afar, giving them no chance to advance and support.

All of a sudden, the entire Japanese Navy was exhausted!

Ito Yuhiro and Oyama Iwa were so angry that their eyes turned green and they screamed angrily. But to no avail at all, they still looked back at Shijiu Harbor with trepidation, where the shore was still filled with gunsmoke, and the 305mm cannon was still lonely and slow, aiming at the target one by one, and kept chasing.

At ten kilometers, it opened fire. Eleven kilometers, it is still fighting, and by twelve kilometers, it is still fighting. Thirteen kilometers, keep fighting!

Although there is only one shell at a time, the more and more accurate landing points make Ito Yuhiro crazy!

What the hell is this cannon? When did the Krupp gun have such an amazing range? Even if it's a strong charge, the danger of blowing up the barrel of the gun is just once or twice, and you keep planning about what's going on?

And the trajectory was extremely stable, and the dispersion of the landing point became smaller and smaller, as if it had not reached the fixed point of the rest of the force at all.

The rest of the battleship was swayed by the wolf, and the terrible shells that could kill people when they fell did not begin to stabilize their positions until they ran fourteen kilometers away. At this point, none of them are in the mood to make any more bold statements.

Ito looked to both sides, the entire navy was fighting, and now the only hope could only be pinned on the landed infantry.

At this time, another force with high hopes was placed. The Marines led by Saburo Nagasaki and the bandit leader Mu Hong successfully wiped ashore from the beachhead downstream of the Jiakura Pass.

This route, Muhon they are all too familiar with. Although in recent months. Because the officers and soldiers strictly guarded the guard, they did not dare to show their faces openly. However, disguised as fishermen and foreign merchants, they were able to search the entire coast.

At least until noon yesterday, the crossing was not defended in any way.

On the shore, the spies sent out by Muhon went around separately, and they all came back and reported: "There is no army!" There were only a few patrolmen in the town, and the dog was dressed in black skin. With a stick pinned to his waist, he looks like a dog. I'll kill them later! ”

This group of bastards also ate a lot of their tolls that day, and later they were somehow subdued by the Yang family and became their lackeys. I don't even wear a single shirt anymore.

The pirates hate this kind of person to the core, and they can't wait for an opportunity to hack a bunch of bastards to death with a knife.

Saburo Nagasaki breathed a sigh of relief, there were no officers and troops stationed, and only some patrols could not be done at all. Even if there are some Qing soldiers here. He didn't care at all. Who doesn't know this place. The equipment of the Qing army is a mess, and the fighting spirit is not at all? I'm afraid that when the cannon goes off, it will be clean long ago, right?

However, he could not fully trust the pirates, and the Marine scouts rushed out after him, divided into several groups and ventured into the edge of the town, and carefully observed to make sure that the people inside had also withdrawn. A few patrolmen shrank their heads, looking like sparrows ready to steal food, and they can escape with a little movement!

Too much vigilance. There is no way to catch the prisoners.

After careful probing, the scout retreated. A few groups of people discussed it. Immediately take the town, and then break north to attack the artillery positions!

Hundreds of Japanese soldiers cheered out of the reeds, that is, when they had just emerged from the dock on the shore, the patrolmen in the distance immediately saw it, and they turned around and ran away without saying a word! It's okay just to run, this guy has a whistle in his mouth, squeaks, and the sharp movement can be heard clearly from hundreds of meters away!

The vanguard of the Japanese army was startled and hurriedly retracted. But after waiting for a while, there was no expected large group of people rushing out to surround it!

How did they know that the whistle of the patrol guards was blown to the regular army guards and the people of the intelligence post left in the town!

The left-behind personnel hidden in the houses were immediately alarmed, and they ran out one after another, climbed to a high place to take a look, and determined that a large number of Japanese troops were approaching, and immediately turned around and called the command center directly with walkie-talkies or telephones!

Yang Haiwei received the news, glanced at the map, and immediately ordered the six 85 cannons in the right flank artillery position to turn around and aim at the estuary and beachhead to cover the fire.

A few minutes later, the Japanese soldiers who had just rushed up heard a sharp howl overhead, countless shells smashed down, and a loud rumbling sound suddenly filled their ears! To be on the safe side, they pulled away, but they were giving the scattered shells a chance to split up!

A small group of Japanese troops dragging behind was caught off guard, and the bones of the corpses bombarded by more than a dozen high-explosive bombs in succession were gone!

The group that ran to the dock had just dispersed and hid under the warehouse when they were enveloped by cannonballs thrown from their pockets.

The high-velocity shells swept through the air, and the fragile walls could not be stopped, easily tearing through the houses and pouring them into the ground, and the fierce explosion not only shattered the buildings, but also scattered countless fragments of bricks and stones across the surroundings. The Japanese troops hiding nearby could not avoid it, and they swept away wave after wave of air, blowing up and tearing it apart!

Saburo Kanesaki, who bravely rushed to the front, but survived because of this, was almost stupid with fright, muttering: "How can they do this? It's all Chinese's own houses there, and it's so unreasonable to blow them up at will! ”

Mu Hong and the other pirates' faces turned pale! At this time, they all understood that there was no loophole that could be sneaked over. The defense here is no longer what they remember.

The whistle sounded, and then the cannon came in. It's become an impenetrable net, just waiting for their fools to drill in!

No one dared to run back, and even the surrounding houses were not safe. No one knows when the shells will fall, and it seems that the tiny port town could be torn to shreds at any moment!

The captain of the Marine Corps, who was fooled up, grabbed Saburo Kanesaki's neck with both hands and scolded angrily: "Bastard! Didn't you say that a qiē is no problem? Why do the shells hit so fast and so accurately? My troops are all killed! ”

Saburo Kanesaki also had nothing to say. Obviously, this place is a few kilometers away from the artillery position, and the messenger can't run so fast, and they don't see anything like the warning wolf smoke, how do they know?

Looking left and right in a hurry, he suddenly stared at Mu Hong and said sharply: "Damn guy, it's all your fault!" If you hadn't said that the enemy army was defenseless, how could we have suffered such a loss? ”

The captain of the navy had long seen that these so-called rebel pirates were not pleasing to the eye, twisted his eyebrows and pulled out his sword, forced him step by step, and stabbed Mu Hong in the belly!

Mu Hong stared coldly at his every movement, and when the tip of the knife was less than three inches away, he dodged and gave way! One hand slashed at the captain's wrist like a knife, and with a hook of his fingers, he snatched the knife over, and slashed upwards to cut the captain's throat!

Almost at the same time, the remaining dozen or so pirates swooped down on the Japanese soldiers closest to them, flashing their swords, and slashed down a few more on the spot!

But the rest of the Japanese troops reacted, and they also had the intention of killing them just now, and immediately blocked with rifles, and the two sides fought dog-eat-dog.

At this moment, countless armed regiments suddenly rushed into the streets and alleys, and they all rushed from the outer trenches according to the orders after hearing the sound of cannons.

Hundreds of guns surrounded the infighting bandits and Japanese troops, led by Li Yingjiu, who was angry and angry, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Traitors and traitors, there is more than innocent death!" (To be continued......)