Chapter 199 scuffle

When Li Guoge stepped on the beach in the inner corner, the forward troops had advanced 20 miles. There was still thick smoke floating on the beach, scattered with Japanese broken bodies and bombed roadblocks.

This is Zhang Jun's first amphibious landing operation. Six months ago, Li Guoge led the Marines to land in Anping Port, but that is not a landing battle, let alone an amphibious landing battle.

In fact, the army of the Qing Dynasty did not understand what amphibious landing operations were.

Li Guoge, a top student at Tianjin Wubei School, also doesn't understand.

However, everything seems to be under the control of Zhou Charter.

Li Guoge only needs to follow the instructions of Zhou Charter.

Last night, Li Guoge led the marines on board the naval ship led by naval commander Cai Tinggan and secretly left the West Port.

This fleet, with only two cruisers and five old-fashioned gunboats, was photographed in the powerful Japanese southern fleet and has been huddled in the West Port. Now, they have taken all the coal and went to sea.

Under the guidance of several old Fujian fishermen, the fleet avoided the main waterway leading to Penghu Bay, made a big circle through a secret waterway in the northwest, and reached the sea east of Penghu at 4 o'clock this morning.

There, they merged with the main force of the Beiyang Marine Division led by Ding Ruchang.

After leaving Weihaiwei, Ding Ruchang's fleet went all the way south and drifted at sea for five days to reach Fujian waters. When their coal and drinking water were about to run out, a supply team of fishing boats came over and supplied them with coal and food drinking water in time.

This supply fleet is very mysterious. Ding Ruchang saw at a glance that the leader should be a general of the Qing army navy, but the general did not say a word, and the whole supply process was almost completed in silence.

However, Ding Ruchang still saw the clue that those "boaters" wore black wrist guards under their sleeves, which was the unique costume of Fujian sailors.

Ding Ruchang couldn't help laughing. He thought that he was the only one who had made the opposition of the Empress Dowager Buddha. Now it seems that Duanfang, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, is also secretly rebelled.

The supplemented Beiyang sailors cheered up and welcomed Cai Tinggan, the commander of the Zhang army's navy. When Ding Ruchang was an admiral in the Beiyang Navy, Cai Ting was still a small tube belt of a torpedo boat, not even the tube belt of a gunboat. When the two met, Cai Tinggan first said hi to Ding Ruchang as an old minister. After the request, he immediately changed his face. As the commander of the fleet, he took out Zhou Charter's personal letter of appointment and appointed Ding Ruchang as the deputy commander of the Zhangjun Navy.

Ding Ruchang was quite angry, but on second thought, since he left the Qing Dynasty and went to Taiwan, he had to accept his fate. Taiwan is the world of Zhou Charter. Ding Ruchang's accumulated qualifications and reputation in the Qing Dynasty will be invalidated in Taiwan. Everything has to be done by Zhou Charter.

Ding Ruchang obediently handed over the command of the fleet. Since then, Zhang's fleet has joined forces with the Beiyang Marine Division, which not only owns all the ships of the Beiyang Marine Division, but also has a marine of 4,000 people.

With the Marine Corps fleet, it is an offensive force. Warships can show off their power at sea, while marines can attack cities and pull out fortresses. The combination of infantry and warships was still a new concept in the world military framework in the late 19th century, and Zhang Jun has formed combat effectiveness.

Cai Tinggan immediately led all the warships and headed for Penghu.

And the Japanese army in Penghu was completely unaware of it. Zhang Jun's naval fleet hid in the northern waters of Penghu Island by the sea fog before dawn. The Japanese southern fleet anchored and entered Penghu Bay to the south and went to Xigang. After Cai Ting's order, the fleet rushed to Penghu Island. Three hours later, it arrived at Li Zhengjiao and immediately launched an amphibious landing battle.

The Zhang army fleet with eight cruisers and more than a dozen gunboats and torpedo boats launched a destructive bombardment on the Japanese position in Lizhengjiao. The 36cm naval guns in Dingyuan and Zhenyuan have played an irreplaceable role. The destructive power of this large-caliber artillery on civil fortifications is far beyond the imagination of the Japanese army. Even the Zhangjun naval officers and soldiers who control these cannons are stunned by such a bombardment effect. Because, before that, no one had thought of using naval guns to cover the landing of infantry. In their minds, naval guns are only used to deal with maritime targets.

The fierce artillery fire dealt a devastating blow to the Japanese fortifications. According to the plan drawn up in advance by Zhou Charter, half an hour after the bombardment, the naval gun extended to fire, and Li Guogeuk led the marines to rush to the beach.

There were no living Japanese troops on the beach, and the battle turned into a landing exercise.

The forward troops immediately advanced to Ma Miyagi. At noon, the Marines rushed to Ma Miyagi almost without firing a shot. Most of the Japanese troops stationed in Penghu met the King of hell at the Gongbei Fort and the Western Fort. In Ma Palace, there were only more than 200 Japanese troops, most of whom were logistics personnel.

There is no suspense in the siege. The Marines rushed into Mamiya City after only half an hour. Yuji Yamada, the Japanese consul in Penghu, committed suicide by caesarean section. More than 200 Japanese troops were killed, and more than 100 others were captured.

The fall of Magong City marks the change of hands on the Penghu Islands.

Half a year ago, it took the Japanese army a day to seize Penghu from the Qing army. Today, Zhang Jun only took half a day to recapture Penghu.

Zhang Jun cut off the contact between Japan and Taiwan, had a strong naval army, and turned the Taiwan Strait into his own inland sea.

Omoto knew that the southern fleet led by the Navy* arrived in Westport at noon that day and also launched an amphibious landing operation.

His attack was also smooth. In just one hour, the fourth mixed brigade occupied the port.

But he soon found that the situation was strange.

In the West Port, he did not find the cruiser Zhenyuan, which marked Zhang's fleet. The port was empty and there was not even a warship.

The fourth mixed brigade that landed in the battle did not suffer any resistance.

Westport is an empty city.

The fourth mixed brigade immediately advanced to Tainan to meet with Nomu Xidian.

However, they were hit head-on by Zhang Jun's main force in the Yanchao area north of Xigang. The mixed brigade not only failed to take a step forward, but was repulsed by Zhang Jun for 30 miles and retreated to the West Port.

The fourth mixed brigade with a total strength of 7,000 was besieged by more than 10,000 Zhangjuns in the place of Xigang projectiles, which was difficult to walk.

Iwasaki Yuki, the commander of the fourth mixed brigade, can't figure out where the powerful Zhang army on the opposite side came from. Naimu Xidian clearly told him that Zhang Jun in Taiwan was either defeated or besieged in Tainan City. Although there were also resistance forces in southern Tainan, Nomu Hidian insisted that the scattered troops of the Zhang army were making suicide attacks.

However, the enemy besieging the West Port cannot be seen as a remnant army in terms of equipment, quantity and tactical level.

This is an army that maintains a complete system, is fully equipped and has a strong combat effectiveness. Whether it is firepower or quantity, it has an absolute advantage.

Iwasaki found himself falling into a trap. The fourth mixed brigade can no longer go to Tainan.

However, a day later, a desperate news came that Penghu was lost! It was a more powerful fleet that captured Penghu, and all signs showed that it was the Beiyang Marine Division of the Qing Dynasty!

The fourth mixed brigade, together with the southern fleet of the Empire of Japan, became a homeless dog.

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The superstructure of the Chikan Tower has long been destroyed by artillery fire, leaving only a triple earth platform.

However, this platform, which was blackened by the war, looks taller and stronger.

A black wolf flag with thousands of holes, fluttering in the wind on the black platform, looks more and more gloomy and scary.

In the eyes of Japanese officers and soldiers, the wolf flag is like the eyes of death, emitting a chilling light. The downstairs is full of the bodies of the Japanese army, and they are all unfortunate people stared at by this eye!

And in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the whole city, the wolf flag with teeth and claws is the eyes of Zhou Charter! He made an unquestionable and majestic look and showed the officers and soldiers of the whole city that he firmly controlled Tainan and the whole of Taiwan!

Nogi no Kimi sent a telegram to the Japanese base camp to capture Tainan. In fact, this is not a lie.

The Japanese army has invaded Tainan and rushed into every street and block of Tainan. In this sense, the Japanese army did "occupy" Tainan.

However, Zhang Jun, like the Japanese, fought in every street and every block in Tainan.

The Japanese army and Zhangjun are completely mixed together. There are me and the enemy, and there is no front. The battle has changed from line and point to full bloom! Behind the Japanese army is Zhang Jun, and behind Zhang Jun is the Japanese army.

This is a city-wide war. Two divisions of the Japanese army, a division of the Zhang army and a brigade, with a total strength of 80,000 people, fought closely in the narrow city of Tainan.

Zhang Jun's cannons on the Doushan and Xunfang forts were dumb. The Japanese cannons set up at Jianshan and Dananmen were also dumb. The attack and defense of these places have not been transformed, but the cannons on both sides had to stop shooting. In Tainan City, there are no Japanese positions and Zhangjun positions in the strict sense.

Chikan Tower is the ultimate goal of Nogi Hidian. He believes that no matter how tenacious the enemies in the city are and how they bloom everywhere, as long as the Chikan Tower is captured, all resistance will stop abruptly.

Therefore, he ignored the fact that Kandoushan, Xunfang Fort and Dadongmen outside the city were still in the hands of Zhang Jun, and ordered the whole army to bypass several isolated Zhangjun strongholds such as Xunfang Fort, Kandoushan and Dadongmen and rushed into Tainan City. He even gave up the Japanese Jianshan defense line, which was the side of the Japanese army. Even when the reconnaissance troops reported that there was a large army of Zhangjun in the direction of Yizhu, Nomu Xidian was unmoved and urged the troops to launch waves of attacks on Chikan Tower.

Nomu Xidian wants to gamble! He doesn't want to retreat, just Zhou Charter!