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The power of the naval guns allowed the wolf to escape. Then, more than 500 sailors were drawn from the twelve battleships of the entire fleet and firmly controlled the port.

The warships that had pursued the three escaped ships anchored in the harbor at dusk, and the Fukushi gunboat brought back a Japanese steamer, while the other Yasukai and Feiyun sank the Mikuni Maru, the latter failed to catch up with their prey.

It doesn't matter. If the news leaks, it will leak, and it would be better if the Japanese Navy raised the remaining main forces and came to take revenge.

Four days later, when Xixiang Congdao Tie had a blue face and tried to command the troops to guard the area around Guishan, a large number of Qin-Chu army troops finally crossed the sea and landed in Tainan.

"Saigo Congdo, Tanigan Castle, Sasa Kuma, Mizuno Tatsu, "Saigo Congdo, Tanigan Castle, Sasakuma, Zomathe, Mizuno Nori......" Liu Xian took the official interrogation of Japanese prisoners in the past few days, and obtained some information about the Japanese army from their mouths.

Each name is followed by a large number of backgrounds and achievements. It's a pity that except for a Xixiang Congdao, Liu Xian has not seen the name he is familiar with.

"Kayama Shiki-" The hand that flipped the booklet stopped suddenly, no one could see it, and at this moment Liu Xian's eyes were protruding.

Big fish, big fish! Caught a big fish. This is a name that excites him more than Saigo Congdao - Shikinori Kayama, the head of the Japanese Navy Command Department in the First Sino-Japanese War!

Because Saigo was an army, although he transferred to the navy early and served as the Minister of the Navy for twenty years, Saigo was always a big treasurer, he didn't know anything about naval warfare, and thought that his task was to ask the navy for money from within the government. At the time of the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, Shikinori Kayama, the Minister of Military Command, was the real number one commander in naval operations, and together with the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Sukehiro Ito, the three of them were all from the Satsuma Domain, and formed the three sets of carriages of the Japanese Navy in the First Sino-Japanese War.

Now two of these three sets of carriages are in Taiwan, in Hengchun Guishan, which they have to face. The excitement in Liu Xian's heart was by no means comparable to the generals of the Chu army such as Liu Dian and Wang Debang beside him. The hatred for Japan in his heart was far deeper than that of Britain, France, the United States, and Russia.

The virtual map has long been opened, and when he meets the little devil, Liu Xian is not distressed at all. At present, more than 4,800 Japanese soldiers and craftsmen have gathered in the vicinity of Kameyama. It is one hundred and thirty miles away from the Qin-Chu coalition army that landed in Donggang, Fengshan County.

The Qing Dynasty was not a later generation, and there were no smooth roads for the army. Most of this 130 miles of land is in the Shengfan area, and if the coalition forces are completely on foot, it will be good to be able to walk there in three days. Therefore, the Donggang side can only be regarded as a foothold, and the real landing place of the operation is still the port in Hengchun.

The combat strength of the Qin-Chu coalition army was close to 8,000 people, and Liu Xian and Liu Dian did not even burp, and the day after Hengchun landed, they led their troops straight to Guishan, which was four or five miles away. It is still the aborigines who work with the army to do coolies.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty stipulated that local officials should not set up administrative areas, it was clear that the indigenous leaders had to listen to the government's greetings. They will not listen to orders that are in great conflict with their own interests. However, the current army is doing a part of labor, and he still eats and drinks, so he is extremely happy to respond.

The more than 200 Wanwan natives recruited by the Japanese before and who have not yet dispersed, together with more than 500 people recruited by Fengshan County's announcement today, are a total of 800 people. Carrying the burden on their shoulders and pulling the oxen by men, they followed the army behind and transported cartloads of grain and military supplies to the foot of Turtle Mountain.

"Near-missed! Adjust the azimuth angle 5°21, the high and low angles 3°05! …… Ready, put! ”

"Boom!"

With a cannon shot, a 75 breech gun shell flew five miles away, accurately hitting the target, and a puff of black smoke rose into the air, completely obscuring the Mazu Temple, which was completely reinforced with wood, stones, and sandbags.

In this ghost place, there are not even a few Han people in ordinary times, and there is even a Mazu temple. The Japanese didn't believe this, so they directly used it to reinforce the outer fortification base of Kameyama.

The Japanese army took the Mazu Temple as the battlefield support point, and later Guishantou as the base point, and built the first line of defense on the battlefield, trenches, breastwork, and civil fortifications, and the Japanese army fell into the war but experienced the actual combat of Western-style battles, and many modern military defense facilities can be found on this line of defense, and since the port was lost, the Japanese army has been preparing for war for many days, and there are French and American officers in the army, and the deployment of many fortifications is completed under the guidance of French and American officers.

Therefore, no matter how anxious Liu Xian is in this battle, he will not be negligent. This is even more true on the Chu army's side.

The Zhou army crawled in a foxhole in the forward position, observed the impact point of the shells, put down the binoculars, and said to a person beside him who was actually a staff officer with the name of his entourage: "Pass my order, all the artillery in the headquarters should concentrate their firepower and bombard the Mazu Temple, and strive to completely destroy it!" But remember, don't waste ammo! ”

The staff officer wrote down the order in a small notebook and hurried to give the order, but as soon as he straightened up and ran a few steps, a shell fell not far from him, and the whole person stumbled and fell forward in the roaring explosion.

Without waiting for Zhou Jun to speak, someone next to him leaned over, turned around and shouted, 'The person is still alive', and quickly turned around and ran down.

While the allied artillery bombarded the Japanese defense line, some Japanese artillery was also fiercely returning fire. There was no heavy army artillery on either side, so the first day was evenly matched. However, the coalition forces are not in a hurry, there is no heavy artillery in the army units of the Qin-Chu coalition army, and they are in the naval forces. And there is no need to unload their own naval guns, and the Japanese warship Osaka, which was captured outside the port, was also a freighter converted by the Japanese army. Equipped with two 120mm naval guns, it can be unloaded to bombard the little devil soldiers. It's just not there yet!

Another round of shelling began, which lasted for a full five minutes, and the forward positions of the Qin army were shrouded in smoke from artillery fire, choking people out of breath. However, the Japanese army did not take the opportunity to attack, which made the Zhou army very regretful.

The little devil has the advantage of occupying a high position, and is obviously superior to the coalition forces in terms of observation. But that's what they have for a while. In the front line contact battle, after the Japanese army's resistance was transmitted to the rear headquarters, Liu Xian did not hesitate and immediately ordered the balloon to be launched.

This thing was first born in the French Great ** period, and was used by both sides in the Civil War in the United States, and continued to be used during the Franco-Prussian War later. Japan, as the closest eastern country 'near' to the West, has used a school-shot balloon Liu Xian I don't know, but in my Qing Dynasty, I am definitely the first here.

"Kegong, this is a school balloon. It is a hot air balloon elevation observation, the principle is like my country's Kong Ming lantern. It is very large, can easily carry two people, and rises thirty or fifty meters. (The novel "Crossing 1862" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be 100 lucky draw gifts for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )R1152