After Makarov left, Governor Alekseev found the office of Vladivostok City Defense Commander Willistov and said to him: "Willistov must already know that our navy in the port of Vladivostok has been defeated, and the wolves are overwhelmed by the bombs bombed by the newly appeared giant airships, and the Dingbei Army may soon re-attack the mountain fortifications on the periphery of Vladivostok, and will definitely send those giant airships to bomb the mountain fortifications, and our Vladivostok can be said to have reached the moment of life and death!" ”

At this time, Willistov's face no longer had the relaxed expression before the first attack of the Dingbei Army, and he said more solemnly: "Your Excellency the Governor, I need artillery for aerial shooting, otherwise the outer mountain fortifications will be bombarded by airships one by one, and many of the fortifications inside the mountains are only 1 or 2 meters below the surface of the mountain, and they are very likely to be destroyed by the giant bombs dropped by the airships." ”

Governor Alekseev frowned and said: "We only have a total of 6 balloon guns with a caliber of 47 mm caliber that can shoot in the air in Vladivostok, and 4 have been transferred to the naval fleet, and the other 2 have been pulled to the outer mountain fortifications of Vladivostok first. ”

Willistov's brow furrowed even deeper when he heard that only two 47-mm balloon guns had been allocated to him, and he had a feeling that the enemy's airships might be about to bombard the mountain fortifications on the outskirts of Vladivostok.

Willistov said with some concern: "Your Excellency the Governor, I am worried that Lin Daxin will not give us much time, the French Navy and our fleet from Europe seem to have ......."

Governor Alekseev nodded with a gloomy face and said: "Since airships can bombard the fleet in the port of Vladivostok. It is even more impossible for Lin Daxin of the United Fleet from Europe to let go, so we should not have any hope for the Combined Fleet! I have asked the Ordnance Mechanic in Vladivostok to rebuild anti-aircraft artillery overnight. May God give us more time! ”

It is a pity that God did not hear Alekseev's pleading, early the next morning. The airship unit of the Northeast Air Force took off from Russky Island and was divided into two routes, one route was the Hercules supership, the Mercury airship, the Venus airship, and the Mars airship to bomb the mountain fortifications on the outskirts of Vladivostok. One route was the Helios, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus airships to bomb the remnants of the Russian fleet in the port of Vladivostok.

Under the leadership of Zhang Guoxin, commander of the airship unit, the four airships that bombed the mountain fortifications on the outskirts of Vladivostok were all loaded with 800 kilograms of bombs. Just maintaining an altitude of 1000 meters, the loaded 800 kg bombs began to be dropped. This mountain fortification is the mountain fortification that the Dingbei Army tried to attack before, and the Dingbei Army has lost 1 battalion of infantry and 12 tanks here.

"Boom-boom-boom-" Huge bombs continued to fall on this hill, rubble and earth flew everywhere, and some of the pillboxes built by the Russian army on the surface of the mountain were the first to suffer, and they were torn apart by the giant bombs, and the Russian officers and soldiers guarding the pillboxes were blown up and their bones were gone.

Last night the Ordnance Mechanic in Vladivostok had remodeled 13 rapid-fire guns of 37 mm caliber overnight, converting them into gun mounts. It turned into an anti-aircraft gun that could fire at the air.

With the addition of two 47-mm anti-aircraft guns, it means that only 15 of the 36 mountain fortifications outside Vladivostok can shoot freely into the air. There was simply no way to deal with the airships that were bombarded indiscriminately at high altitudes, and other mountain fortifications with anti-aircraft guns were deployed nearby, because of the range of anti-aircraft guns. It's also powerless.

After the bombing of the four airships for some time, dozens of tons of bombs have been poured on this hill. At this time, an 800-kilogram bomb of the supership Hercules exploded more than 1 meter thick rock. And below is a fortification inside the Russian mountain.

This internal fortification is the main fortification of the entire fortification on this hill, with 2 152 mm howitzers, 4 75 mm field guns, 2 57 mm rapid-fire guns converted into flat-fire guns, 2 47-mm rapid-fire guns also converted into flat-fire guns, as well as 6 Makqin heavy machine guns, and more than 1,200 Russian defenders.

The shells of all calibers stored here were suddenly detonated by the power of the explosion of this 800-kilogram bomb, and after an earth-shattering explosion, all the artillery and heavy machine guns in the fortifications were blown up, and there were few more than 1,200 defenders left, and the Russian commander of the entire mountain fortification was also killed in this internal fortification.

After that, Zhang Guoxin, the commander of the airship unit, saw the bombing effect of the mountain fortifications below, and ordered the four airships to fly to the next mountain fortifications. This mountain fortification, which was bombed by the airship, has been blown up by the airship all the Russian fortifications that can be blown up, and as for the fortifications deeper below the surface of the mountain, even 800 kg of bombs can not be helped.

Four airships flew to another hill fortification and began to drop bombs, while the troops of the 1 regiment of the 4th Division, which had already been ready to attack, began to quickly advance in a skirmish line towards this bombed hill fortification, preparing to take advantage of the opportunity to occupy this place.

Although the Russian army in other mountain fortifications had nothing to do with the airships in the sky, when the infantry of the Dingbei Army launched an attack, the fierce artillery fire fell directly on the heads of the officers and soldiers of the Dingbei Regiment of this regiment, which made the regiment suffer very large losses, which made the commanders of the Dingbei Army who observed the battle situation in the back all frowned.

Nearly one-third of the assault regiment with casualties finally rushed through the bombardment of other Russian mountain fortifications and rushed to the mountain fortifications in front of the spur, fortunately, the internal fortifications of the mountain in front of the spur were all 1 or 2 meters below the surface, and they were all blown up by the bombs of the airships, not to mention the pillboxes and trenches on the surface of the mountain, which had been blown up by 800 kilograms and could not see the original appearance, and even the reserve of the anti-slope of the mountain was bombed almost destructively, and the entire mountain fortifications originally added up to more than 4,000 Russian defenders, now there may be less than 100 people who can breathe, so the officers and men of Dingbei of this regiment easily wiped out the remnants of the Russian army and occupied the first mountain fortification on the outskirts of Vladivostok.

However, then the artillery on the mountain fortifications of other Russian troops carried out a covered artillery bombardment of the mountain fortifications just occupied by the Dingbei Army, so that the 1 regiment with only two-thirds of the officers and soldiers left was almost blown up by the formation, which made the several Dingbei Army division commanders who observed the battle situation in the back frowned even tighter, and the division commander of the second division, Wang Hongjun, said: "This kind of attack is not good, although after a mountain fortification is bombed by an airship, there is no strength to resist the attack of our Dingbei Army, but the artillery in dozens of other mountain fortifications, It is still possible to carry out a covered artillery bombardment of the attacking troops! ”

Jiang Yu, the commander of the Fourth Division, nodded and said: "It seems that we don't need to rush to send a small force to capture the mountain fortifications that have been bombed, and when the airship troops blow up all these 36 mountain fortifications, our divisions will attack again!" ”

Duan Qirui, the commander of the 11th Division, also nodded and said: "As long as the airship blows up all the fortifications on the mountain, even if the Russian army sends troops to these ruined mountains, it will be ten times easier for us to attack!" I think we can wait for the airship troops to blow up all 36 mountain fortifications, and then we will send troops to attack. ”

Chen Ergou, commander of the Guards Division, Lu Liang, commander of the 24th Division, and Zou Ye, commander of the 25th Division, also agreed to postpone sending troops to seize the Russian army's mountain fortifications, so the troops of the Dingbei Army on the periphery of Vladivostok stopped the action of seizing the mountain fortifications after the airship bombarded a mountain fortification, and more completely abandoned the mountain fortifications that had occupied the front of the assault, and let the regiment of the Fourth Division, with less than 400 officers and men, withdraw from the hill that was still under Russian artillery fire.

At the same time, Wang Hongjun, who was the temporary commander of the front line, immediately reported the situation to Lin Daxin on Russian Island by telegram.

Lin Daxin was wandering around the captured French and Russian warships with great interest at this time, followed by the three fleet commanders of the Northeast Navy, and the adjutant of the Governor's Mansion handed over Wang Hongjun's telegram to Lin Daxin. ”

Sun Xitao, the commander of the First Fleet, asked, "Dashuai, what's wrong?" ”

Lin Daxin handed the telegram to Sun Xitao, and after reading it, Sun Xitao gave the telegram to the other two fleet commanders, Jiang Chen and Jiang Hui.

Sun Xitao said: "Marshal, as long as the airship blows up all 36 mountain fortifications, the army will definitely be able to capture the entire Russian fortifications on the periphery of Vladivostok!" ”

Lin Daxin sighed and said, "I hope for a qiē shun lì!" By the way, most of these captured French and Russian warships were wounded, and they sent people to Dalian to let our shipyard repair them, and then replenish them to the ranks of our Northeast Navy. The warships of your three fleets, which were seriously injured, also returned to the Dalian shipyard for overhaul. ”

When the three fleet commanders heard Lin Daxin say that these captured French and Russian warships would join the ranks of the Northeast Navy after repair, they couldn't help but show excited expressions, knowing that in yesterday's battle, only the captured main warships included 8 all-steel battleships, 4 large fast armored cruisers, and 3 ironclad battleships, a total of 15 warships.

In addition, there were four protective cruisers, eight destroyers, and six torpedo boats, and the number of captured warships would increase if the Fourth and Fifth Fleets intercepted some of the escaped warships of the two countries.

After these captured French and Russian warships join the Northeast Navy, the strength of the entire Northeast Navy will be raised to a new level, and the number of warships of several main fleets will inevitably increase. (To be continued......) R1292