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A cannonball with a strong smell of death, almost rubbed ** pills and fell into the water. Then a strong explosion shocked Ryojiro Kawashima's head, and the hull was also out of balance by the explosion. Kawashima Reijiro on the open-air command platform held the guardrail desperately, and the water column that soared into the sky fell down and splashed on him.

The Guishan Artillery Battalion began to bombard, and the battle began.

Kawashima Rejiro immediately stood firm with his strong quality, but there was a series of explosions in his ears. The bomb seemed to explode from his heart, and his face had been completely distorted. At this moment, Kawashima realized that they had been cheated by Li Xiang. Only from the first round of shelling, Reijiro Kawashima immediately judged the artillery firepower arranged on both sides of Hanshui, even the army group armed with 200,000 people was more than enough.

Ryojiro Kawashima and Sadao Matsumura thought that Li wanted to dare to fight against foreigners. He had already overestimated the courage of the Chinese people to the sky, so he came up with the idea of getting into the narrow Han River and appeared in an extremely unfavorable environment, in order to give the timid China strong courage. Now, it has completely become a desperate way to die. With the strength revealed by Li Xiang today, Kawashima Lingjiro is sure that Li Xiang has been planning to find the concession for a long time, and it is very likely that he had a plan before the Wuchang Uprising. There was a chill in Kawashima Ryojiro's heart. He was really a terrible opponent. Almost purely by intuition, he positioned Li Xiang as Japan's biggest enemy in the future.

Today's plan is to break through. The Japanese Empire only needs a reason to go to war with China, but it doesn't want to lose the interests of Hankou. What they need is a sufficient reason, enough to make it impossible for the Western world to object. It is precisely because the European war is imminent that the Western powers are extremely reluctant to see war in the Far East. War means a reshuffle and a redistribution of benefits. Because the powers trapped in the European war are unable to look around, they will miss this opportunity to redistribute their benefits. Therefore, the Western powers strongly oppose China's current revolution, the war in the Far East, and all the unstable factors in the Far East. But as long as Japan has an excuse for the Chinese to take the initiative to start a war, Japan will take the initiative in diplomacy with Western powers.

However, the current situation is completely beyond the budgets of Ryojiro Kawashima and Sadao Matsumura. On the pretext that they had found it, Li Xiang, the revolutionary military government, fired first as it wished. But Li Xiang thinks that the strength of the revolutionary army is far beyond their original budget, and the interests of the Hankou Concession will not be guaranteed. If you lose Japan's interests in Hankou because you find an excuse to go to war with China. Even if the Japanese Empire could get more benefits from China after the war, he could not escape the crime of his dereliction of duty by Ryojiro Kawashima and Sadao Matsumura.

The smoke of gunpowder on the Han water is everywhere, and all kinds of interests are scratched in Kawashima Ryojiro's mind like lightning. As a samurai, he is not afraid of sacrifice, and his life has long been prepared to be dedicated to the emperor. He was afraid of losing the interests of the Hankou Concession, which was the pearl in the hands of the emperor and the honor returned by the heroes of the Jiawu year with their lives. If he loses it in his hands, he will die. The only way to do this is to lead the joint fleet to rush out of the Han River and run to the vast Yangtze River waters. As long as they can escape from half of the warships and lean against each other with the concession, it is impossible for Li to take the Hankou concession in a short time. When the Beiyang army went south, they could also help the Beiyang army overthrow Li Xiang's regime in one fell swoop. The Beiyang army will go south in the next few days, because the people's lanes in the eastern suburbs of Beijing have put pressure on the Manchu Qing government, strongly asking Yuan to come forward to preside over the situation in China. Ryojiro Kawashima thought of Yuan, who was extremely arrogant in North Korea, and couldn't help sneering. Now he is really as good as a dog.

Ryojiro Kawashima immediately decisively ordered the transfer. He did not give up the intention of the warship to land on the Dragon King Temple, and his intention was to forcefully rush out of the Han River. Li Xiping did a very good job in secrecy this time, and the foreigners all over Hankou did not find that they were full of mines behind them.

Kawashima Reijiro's sweaty desperate command only made the situation more and more chaotic. When the 16 warships turned around, they stirred into a pot of porridge on the narrow Han water. The shells of the revolutionary army bombed them ruthlessly, and death has never been so great. Kawashima Rejiro, standing on the open-air command platform, was furious and scolded. The chaotic situation at this moment has nothing to do with the command of Ryojiro Kawashima. If the Japanese fleet is the same, maybe he may have commanded the fleet to rush out of Hanshui. At the beginning, the joint fleet of the five countries was neatly arranged together to show its magnificence. Nowadays, these miscellaneous warships do not belong to a country, and the formation of the joint fleet has not had a single exercise. What's more, on the narrow channel of Hanshui, no matter how high the quality of individual soldiers the fleet is, they can't cooperate.

Sixteen warships of the five-nation joint fleet were hit in the first round of shelling by the revolutionary army. At this moment, six warships with thick smoke stopped in the river. The foreigners who escaped urgently on the deck were like ants being burned, just like the current situation at the Dragon King Temple Pier. The six stopped warships blocked several waterways on the Han River, making it more difficult for Ryojiro Kawashima to dispatch. The artillery fire of the revolutionary army did not give the foreigners any chance to breathe, which forced Kawashima Reijiro to turn the gun and sink the blocked warship.

Due to the obstruction of the channel, the retreat of the five-nation joint fleet was slow, and Ryojiro Kawashima began an organized counterattack. What made Kawashima Ryojiro crazy again was that the artillery battalions of the revolutionary army were extremely scattered, showing the extremely high military quality of the revolutionary army generals. As a result, the five-nation joint fleet could only carry out an area fire counterattack, so the half-hour-long shelling effect was very small, while the five-nation joint fleet squeezed in the narrow Hanshui was severely hit by the revolutionary army's artillery fire.

Reijiro Kawashima grabbed the guardrail of the open-air command platform of the bridge with both hands, and a pair of legs were forged and stood firmly. His face was murderous, his eyes were gloomy, and he stared at the missiles roaring on the south bank.

The three- or four-mile-long coast was full of artillery arrays of the revolutionary army. The missiles roared across the sky with long flame tails, and a fan gathered together in the direction of Hanshui, where the five-nation joint fleet was located. Every time the revolutionary army fires, the joint fleet of the five countries will be shot by warships and people will die. The sound of concentrated gunfire was deafening, and more shells fell into the water, and the water was boiling, setting off the splash of water all over the sky like a pouring rain.

The five-nation allied fleet also counterattacked, and the sound of artillery on the warship had never stopped. It had been hit by the pre-emptive revolutionary army, and it still fought back desperately to suppress the artillery of the revolutionary army. The shell rushed away from the plane and fell to the extremely scattered revolutionary artillery array, causing extremely limited lethality, and the revolutionary artillery array was extremely affected.

Zhang Zheng clenched the command knife on his waist with his left hand, and the cannonball of the foreigner's counterattack sounded behind him. His joystick stood straight, did not make any dodge action, and his eyes did not blink. Hao had no scrupt hesitate to have short-sighted shrapnel to kill him. The bomb raised gravel, dust, and fell on his big-brimmed hat like a rain. He still swaggered through the artillery array and kept shouting, "Brick me hard. I don't know when will hit foreigners next time."

Zhang Zheng couldn't stand it and ran to the nearest artillery line to the combined foreign fleet. As long as he stands on the ammunition box, he can see the rouge plaster flag of Xiao Dongyang without a telescope. Zhang Zheng was really excited. He couldn't wait to be a cannonball and let the soldiers hit him on the foreigner's warship. Zhang Zheng walked around under the mouth of foreigners in such a swagger. He was not looking for death, but sending death spies to foreigners.

The soldiers of the artillery array were as excited as Zhang Zheng. When the combined foreign warship passed through this passage, they should retreat to avoid the enemy's firepower and temporarily hand over the attack task to the next echelon. But when the foreigner combined warship retreated here, none of them thought of retreating.

The foreigners bombarded them. It was not that they suffered minimal damage, but that they didn't care about these casualties at all. This is exactly what they need. At this moment, they really realize their life and youth, which is closely linked to the fate of this country. They are not afraid of death. They are willing to exchange their lives and youth for the fate of the country. They will no longer make amends, no longer be bullied by foreigners, and no longer be sick men of the East. Take back the territory that belongs to the Chinese people, the sovereignty that belongs to the Chinese people, and the dignity that belongs to the Chinese people. Completely drive the foreigners out of Hankou and sink all the foreign warships.

Ringjiro Kawashima was soaked all over, the river was full of water and sweat, and his legs began to tremble slightly. Standing high at the open-air command platform of the bridge, he clearly saw the position of the revolutionary artillery battalion on the shore. The revolutionary army has been arrogant to a heinous level, and now the artillery battalion of the revolutionary army has fired face to face with the combined fleet of the five countries. Commanders who are close to both sides can see each other's faces clearly. Almost all the guns on both sides were flat on the horizon, and the gunshots rumbled to the other party. The hit rate of shells on both sides has almost risen in a straight line, and the casualties have also risen in a straight line.

Ryojiro Kawashima shouted for a strong enemy in his heart, and the fighting will of the Japanese soldiers armed with the spirit of Bushido is nothing more than that. Li Wei's revolutionary army will definitely become the most dangerous enemy of the Empire of Japan.

The overwhelming shells of the revolutionary army have not stopped, and the counterattack of foreigners has not stopped. Every time it explodes, life wither. Foreigners are also afraid, especially face-to-face shooting like now. The extremely cruel and bloody picture is not enough to describe. Westerners are shouting in their hearts that the Chinese people opposite are crazy. They have never experienced such crazy battles.