Chapter 013 Attack on the Golden Mountain

On the Golden Mountain and Baiwang Mountain, Zhang's small-caliber artillery began to bombard the Japanese landing troops. A shell exploded on the sea, and from time to time, the cannon of the landing craft was torn apart. The bodies of the Japanese army and the fragments of the landing craft floated in the sea and pushed to the shore by the waves.

More Japanese troops broke through the artillery fire, crossed the sea and rushed to the beach.

The gunfire on the beach is more fierce. Zhangjun's mountain cannons and wild cannons laid on Baiwang Mountain concentrated on bombarding the coast. The mountain cannons and wild cannons are not as powerful as long-range artillery, but the firing speed is fast, the gunfire is dense, and the accuracy is high, which quickly covered the Japanese front, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army.

However, the Japanese army's offensive will was extremely tenacious. After paying a huge price, they finally rushed to the coast and gained a firm foothold on the coast. Then he launched a charge to the Golden Mountain Fort.

At the same time, the Japanese troops stationed on the Pearl Reef Fort and Dapo Mountain Fort also attacked the Golden Mountain Fort from the northeast and northwest.

There is a squadron of Japanese troops on the Pearl Reef Fort and Dapashan Fort.

The Pearl Reef Fort is a coastal defense fort, which was originally the auxiliary fort of the Golden Mountain Fort. In the northeast corner of the Golden Mountain Fort, there are two 20cm coastal defense cannons on it. After the loss of the Golden Mountain Fort, the Japanese troops of the Pearl Reef Fort are insufficient, and the coastal defense guns cannot turn around, so they have been afraid to act rashly. Now Seeing the reinforcements arrive, the Japanese army on the fort immediately joined the attack on the Golden Mountain Fort.

Daposhan Fort is a land battery, located in the northwest of the Golden Mountain Fort, equipped with small-caliber short-range artillery. You can bombard the Golden Mountain directly. The artillery on the Dapo Mountain Fort began to bombard the Golden Mountain and cooperated with the landing of the Japanese army from the rear.

The Golden Mountain Fort fell into the three-sided attack of the Japanese army.

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At dusk, the sky was even more gloomy. It snowed heavily all day, dyeing the mountains and rivers of Lushun white.

However, the Golden Mountain is dark.

The overwhelming gunfire melted the snow and dried the soil.

A mortar position and a cannon position have been hit by Japanese artillery fire, and the artillery on the position, together with more than 30 gunners and auxiliary personnel, were blown into the sky.

However, the two Armstrong cannons still roared like thunder.

Hannagan squatted on the Armstrong artillery position on the side of the artillery Taipei and issued a series of orders in fluent Chinese. His forehead was wrapped with bandages and blood all over, and two Zhang Jun's bodies lay beside him.

Just ten minutes ago, the position was hit by a 26cm naval gun shell. When the shell crossed the sky with a sharp beep, the two Zhang soldiers pounced on him at the same time.

The explosive shrapnel crossed Hannagan's forehead and inserted into the chest of the two soldiers.

These are two native Chinese farmers. In the Qing Dynasty, the people have always been hostile to Westerners.

The decline of the Qing Dynasty formed a sharp contrast with the prosperity of Westerners, which deepened the illusion of the people and even the rulers that the decline of the Qing Dynasty was unreasonably imposed by Westerners on the Qing Dynasty! All walks of life in the Qing Dynasty generally believed that as long as the Westerners were driven away, the Qing Dynasty could be prosperous and enter a peaceful and prosperous era.

Based on this understanding, people hate Westerners from the bottom of their hearts, although many times, they have to show an almost numb obedience to Westerners.

Hannagan, who has lived in China for nearly 20 years, knows this well. He knows that his position in the Qing Dynasty is extremely embarrassing. The court gave him the supreme honor, but in the eyes of the court and the people, he is still the enemy!

However, today, two ordinary soldiers from farmers in Golden Mountain exchanged their lives for their lives!

When they did this, they did not hesitate at all.

This proves that they don't regard Hannagan as an enemy at all! On the contrary, they regard him as their brother. According to the Chinese, it is a fateful friendship!

Hannagan's blue eyes shed hot tears.

However, ironically, his tears attracted the onlookers of the soldiers.

"Come and have a look. The foreign devils will also cry."

The soldiers pointed to Hannagan from afar like a group of tourists in the zoo.

The foreign devils in the minds of the people of the Qing Dynasty are alienated. The customs of the foreign devils are different from the Chinese people, which was originally a matter of cultural customs. However, in the 19th century, in the Qing Dynasty, the people used biology to explain the difference in this custom. For example, the knees of the foreign devils will not twist, so they can't kneel down. Worship.

In a word, the people of the Qing Dynasty regarded foreign devils as animals, not human beings.

So, when Hannagan cried, the soldiers were full of curiosity - this foreign devil would cry just like the Chinese. After curiosity, the soldiers found it funny.

A shell exploded not far away, and a soldier pointing at Hannagan with a smile was blown up without a trace.

"Foreigners are also human beings!" Hannagan shouted angrily, "You son of a bitch, go back to the gun position!"

The grief of the death of a friend was easily resolved.

This is war. There is no need for dead brothers to grieve, because sad people will not live long, and it won't take long to follow in the footsteps of their friends.

It was a shell from the northwest. The Japanese army of Dapo Mountain Fort fired artillery.

Hannagan wiped away his tears and issued instructions: "Two mortars turned the muzzle and bombarded the Dapo Mountain Fort. Two cannons bombarded the Pearl Reef Fort. The rest of the cannon hit the Japanese warships.

The Golden Mountain Fort has 18 coastal defense guns. Up to now, there are only 13 cannons left that can be used. Three cannons were damaged when Zhang Jun captured the fort, and two cannons were destroyed by the Japanese naval guns.

Among them, Armstrong's cannon can't turn around at all. The rest of mortars and cannons can turn around, but it takes a long time. After more than half a day of hard work, the two mortars finally turned their muzzle and aimed at the Dapo Mountain Fort, while the cannons could only turn around to bombard the bead reef fort in the northeast.

However, Hannagan can't transfer all the cannons to the direction of the Pearl Reef Fort. On the front sea, the guns of the three Japanese ships are still strong.

On the sea, the cruiser Naniwa and the gunboat Tsukushi have been shot and caught fire. The hull of the Zhuzi was tilted, and only two of the six guns on the ship were still firing tenaciously. And all the guns on the Wave Speed were firing. In addition, after the frigate Chicheng lowered its landing troops, it also joined the battle of shelling the Golden Mountain.

The Japanese army shelled the Golden Mountain Fort from three directions: the sea, the Pearl Reef Fort and the Dapo Mountain Fort. The artillery on the Golden Mountain Fort had to attack the enemy in three directions, and the artillery dispersed.

Under the cover of artillery fire, more than 2,000 Japanese troops have rushed across the beach and rushed to the Golden Mountain Fort. They have crossed the bombardment range of large-caliber artillery.

Fortunately, the artillery stationed in Baiwang Mountain provided fire support to the Golden Mountain Fort in time, and ten mountain cannons and wild guns formed a gunfire coverage area directly in front of the Golden Mountain Fort, causing heavy casualties to attack the Japanese army.

On the hillside, the black Japanese army braved the rain of bullets and launched a fierce and tenacious attack on the Golden Mountain Fort.

Zhang's officers and soldiers guarded the chest wall of the fort and fought back with two Maxim heavy machine guns as the main force.

Zhang Jun's three Maxim heavy machine guns, one stayed in the Erlong Mountain Fort, and the other two were transferred from Baiwang Mountain to the Golden Mountain Fort.

Markin's heavy machine gun spit out a tongue of fire, forming a dense fire net, and the Japanese soldiers who hit the fire net were beaten to death. On the hillside, the bodies of the Japanese army were scattered.

The Japanese naval gun found Maxim's heavy machine gun and began to mobilize artillery fire to bombard the heavy machine gun positions. However, under Zhou Charter's personal command, Mark Qin's heavy machine gun constantly changed positions, causing enemy artillery to fail again and again.

After paying a heavy price, the Japanese landing troops finally stopped their attack and retreated to the foot of the Golden Mountain to build fortifications on the spot. The Japanese offensive troops of the Pearl Reef Fort and Daposhan Fort also retreated to their own forts.

The Japanese fortifications build reefs beside the beach, which happens to be a blind area for long-range artillery and short-range artillery. The coastal defense guns on the Golden Mountain are too far away, and the mountain cannons and wild cannons on the White King Mountain are not enough here.

The sky gradually turned dark, and the shouts of the Japanese charge gradually subsided, while the roar of warships and artillery was higher than the waves.

Obviously, the Japanese landing force is waiting for dark under the cover of naval artillery fire.

They have realized that the firepower of the Golden Mountain Fort is far better than that of attacking the Japanese army, and with strong fortifications, the chance for the Japanese army to break through the Golden Mountain Fort during the day is slim.

And night battle is a good show for the Japanese army.

Even if the night battle is not successful, you can wait for reinforcements on the spot.

The headquarters of the Second Army in Shandong has received accurate information that the Golden Mountain Fort has been lost, and the commander of the First Division has ruled 3,000 officers and soldiers.

The Second Army Command urgently ordered the Japanese army stationed in Jinzhou to quickly move closer to Lushun. At the same time, it ordered the Second Brigade of Xikuan Erlang, which was rushing to Haicheng, to stop the battle plan and return to Lushun. The Naimu Xidian Brigade, which was stationed in the camp, gave up the Shanhaiguan battle plan and returned to Haicheng to guard Song Qing in the direction of the Yalu River. In case the Qing army took the opportunity to counterattack Liaodong.

So far, the Japanese army had to give up the iron pliers plan to attack the Qing Dynasty from Shandong and Shanhaiguan, and one end of the iron pliers had to shrink back.

Judging from the situation of the entire Qing-Japanese War, there was a turning point in favor of the Qing Dynasty.

However, in Liaodong, Zhou Charter's situation is even more dangerous.

He was in the north-south attack of the Japanese army.

Moreover, Lushun is the lifeline of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army will never give up!

This means that the Japanese army will retake the Golden Mountain and eliminate the Zhou Charter at all costs!