(Dear students, starting tomorrow, the tragic and bloody prologue is about to begin, and the Yamato nation will gradually go to hell, all the students who are psychologically dark and psychopathic, please cheer up with the prodigal son!) Let the storm come harder! ）

On the afternoon of February 23, 1884, a snowstorm raged in the sky.

The Japanese began artillery preparations, and hundreds of field guns and mountain guns, including several heavy howitzers, were intensively used. Within an hour, the Japanese army poured nearly 2,000 shells on the skyscraper, and the violent explosion even cut off the top of the mountain by more than a dozen centimeters.

Then Nogi Noshinori issued an attack order, tens of thousands of Japanese infantry divided into several roads, rushed up like a wave, and immediately made the most fierce response on the Sky Ridge, raining down ammunition all over the world, and the unsheltered Japanese flesh and blood flew sideways, and the corpses were lying all over the hillside.

Despite the casualties of the Japanese troops in front, the soldiers behind still shouted "onboard" and charged hard, while the Guards responded with more bullets, always pinning the Japanese in the middle of the mountain.

Nogi Noshinori ordered the battle to be supervised by machine guns, and ordered the soldiers to only move forward and not retreat, otherwise they would all be killed on the spot. The Japanese army could only advance frantically, stepping on the corpses all over the ground, until they reached the top of the mountain, ignoring the bamboo nails, iron thistles, and mines, and deer, all the way to the edge of the trench. The fire continued to open fire in the breastwork on the opposite side, and the Japanese soldiers who were killed fell into the deep ditch in a row, including Nogi Noshinori's eldest son, Nogi Katsunori, who also became dead bodies at the bottom of the ditch.

Until dusk, after 2,000 dead and wounded, the Japanese army finally failed to cross the trench of death, but it was not without gains. The Japanese had also dug a long parallel trench halfway up the mountain, in which they could hide and shoot at the top of the mountain.

As it got dark, Nogi learned of his eldest son's death, but he announced that he was proud of his son's sacrifice for the country. Subsequently, Nogi dispatched 1,000 strong soldiers overnight to form 4 death squads, and the right arm of the team members was wrapped with a white cloth as a symbol, called the "white squad", and prepared to launch a night attack on the top of the mountain.

Before leaving, Nogi Noshinori personally met with the team members and made a stern request: do not expect survival, you must fight to the death; There are those who escape, and they will not be forgiven. He also sent his second son, Nogi Honori, to the death squad.

In the middle of the night, under the cover of artillery, the death squad was dispatched, and by the light of the moon, they actually rushed all the way to the trench, and filled in several roads with haode sandbags prepared in advance, and rushed into the battery position in one fell swoop.

This was the first time since the birth of the Guards that they had come into contact with such a frenzied attack, and everyone understood that if they lost their positions, they would surely die, and the soldiers were enthusiastic and fought to the death against the Japanese army.

Liu Mingchuan used all his strength, he mobilized all reserves to fight the enemy hand-to-hand, and at the same time concentrated the machine guns, hit the rear of the Japanese army with crossfire, and blocked the enemy reinforcements with firepower. The fierce fighting continued until the early hours of the morning, and the Japanese death squads were almost completely wiped out, only a small part were forced to retreat, and more than 500 people were killed on the side of the Guards.

The position was desolate, not a single dead body was intact, and among the fragments of shells, broken guns, knives, there were fragments of limbs and heads everywhere.

Skyscraper Ridge still stands there.

In the early morning of the 24th, an astonishing piece of news reached the headquarters of the "Shandong Combat Army", like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the big mountain rock was blown up, and Prince Fushimi Miyaya Sadaai and others were dizzy and their brains were buzzing.

This news is an urgent report personally sent by Major General Kawamura Jingming, commander of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army on the North Road: In the area of Jianggezhuang and Beidianzi, twenty kilometers west of Weihaiwei, the Japanese flank covering troops were suddenly attacked by a large number of enemies!

The report repeatedly emphasizes the word "large numbers", and the mountains are all over the wilderness, and the iron stream is rushing, at least tens of thousands. Moreover, it is definitely China's elite troops, a wing of more than 1,000 Japanese troops, almost instantaneously rushed to the ground, and even the wing flag did not have time to burn, it was snatched by the Chinese, and its firepower was the first time in the lives of Japanese officers and soldiers.

In the report to Zuihou, Kawamura Keiaki demanded that the troops be withdrawn, because according to the distance, the Chinese army would be able to reach Weihaiwei today, and the 10th Division would be attacked on its back.

This news completely subverted the imagination of Dashanyan and others, and one of the most basic conclusions of the General Staff Headquarters is that China's elite troops only have a little more than five divisions, and their main force is in the northeast, and here is at best one division, but now several divisions have suddenly appeared, what does this mean?

Bitter! Unprecedented hard fighting!

Oyama Iwa demanded that the 10th Division retreat immediately, and also ordered Nogi Noshinori to quickly capture Motianling no matter what. Only by capturing Motianling can the Japanese army capture the Nanbang Battery, thereby threatening the Chinese fleet in the port, and achieving the strategic goal of the "Shandong Combat Army".

At the same time, Dashanyan also sent this terrible news to China urgently.

At this time, Nogi Noshinori was already on the verge of madness, and after paying the price of two sons and 3,000 dead and wounded, he still failed to capture Motianling, and there was still a dilapidated but majestic red dragon flag fluttering on it.

Nogi Noshinori's eyes were red, and he ordered a "kamikaze commando" of 500 people to carry out a suicide attack.

The so-called kamikaze comes from an ancient Japanese legend. The Yuan Dynasty's crusade against the Japanese fleet was wiped out by a typhoon, and the Japanese believed that this was the god who blessed the Yamato nation, so they called this gust of wind "kamikaze".

Now he hopes that this "kamikaze commando" will use his life to pray for the blessing of the gods again, so as to defeat the enemy. The 500 members were all the most die-hard "loyal men", who did not carry any guns, and had a large amount of explosives firmly strapped to their bodies, becoming mobile "suicide bombers" who rushed into the enemy positions and then detonated themselves.

In the afternoon, the offensive began again, and the Japanese artillery once again "baptized" the Ferris Ridge, and the "kamikaze commandos" did not wait for the artillery fire to cease and directly began to charge.

Everyone jumped and dodged as hard as they could, trying to get as close to the top of the mountain as possible. Most of the people were directly hit and exploded before they got close to the trench, and a few jumped into the trench to self-detonate, and the violent explosion blew the trench over, becoming a slope that could go up and down, and the "human bombs" behind rushed over, rushed directly to the fort and self-detonated, and the flesh became a puffy purple mist with the sound of the explosion.

The explosion not only caused a large number of casualties, but also collapsed many forts, leaving many gaps in the positions, and then the Japanese troops who followed continued to rush up.

The wind and snow have stopped at some point, and a round of winter sun hangs weakly in the west, and the remnant sun is like blood, reflecting the hellish human flesh slaughterhouse on the top of the mountain.

The Japanese army opened fire non-stop, completely ignoring the fact that there were their own troops on the top of the mountain, and the two sides fought to the death in the flying shells, many shells exploded in the air, and the smoke of gunpowder gradually dyed the remnants of the sun green, and dense gunshots and grenades mixed with the sound of explosions split the face, piercing and tearing human bodies, flesh and blood flying, and killing and wounding everywhere.

This is not a battle between people, but a fight between people and steel, burning flames, and explosives, zuihou becomes a battle of beasts, the two sides beat and bite like crazy demons, and there is only one thought in the brain: overwhelm each other! Kill each other! Turn each other into pate!

The corpses were so crowded that there was not even a gap for the feet, and it was a tunnel to hell. If you take the right foot, you will step on the dead comrade, if you take the left foot, you will step on the wounded comrade, if you move forward, you will be the corpse of the enemy, and if you retreat, you will be a river of blood.

The corpses of the Japanese soldiers were piled up in 4 or 5 layers, which had already filled the trenches around the fort, and Nogi Noshinori brandished his sword and personally rushed to the top of the mountain, and the Japanese army used suicide attacks to open the way for the group charge, which finally worked.

In the middle of the night, the Guards had lost nearly 3,000 men, and there were no wounded, only the dead, because all the wounded, as long as they still had a breath, fought to the death, sat on the ground with broken legs and shot, and threw themselves with broken hands and gnashed with their teeth.

At this time, Wang Debang came up with a regiment to reinforce and briefly rushed the Japanese army away, and Liu Mingchuan was already seriously injured, Zuihou he ordered on the stretcher: "Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood." ”

Subsequently, the remaining Guards finally abandoned Motianling and withdrew to the coastal defense battery.

By the time the east turned white, the Japanese finally took full control of Motianling, and the Japanese 7th and 9th Divisions suffered a total of 8,000 casualties in the entire battle, accounting for a third of the entire combatants.

Looking at the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood at his feet, Nogi Noshinori couldn't help but cry in the wind:

"The emperor's millions of prisoners were forcibly captured, and the field battle was a corpse and a mountain. I'm ashamed of how I can see my father, and a few people are still alive today. ”

But this Kai sang early, at this time, the "Southern Group Army" led by Feng Zicai had already arrived in Weihaiwei and assembled Zhang Gaoyuan's brigade, with a total strength of 46,000 people, and was sweeping from north to south with a overwhelming momentum.

At the same time, a larger, deadly crisis has also appeared at sea, and the new fleet commanded by Liu Buyun has arrived in the Yellow Sea!