Penghu Islands.

When the Qing army's counterattack in Fengbei failed and the troops were blown up, the Japanese army's landing operation on the main island of Penghu was basically coming to an end.

In the early morning of the 10th, Ito ordered the flagship to put out a signal of 'ready to depart'.

Because after completing the reconnaissance mission, the No. 9 Yoshino ship hit the reef on the right wall of the ship near the dog sand reef on the way back to Tseung Kwan O Island, so at this time, as the vanguard of the first guerrilla group, only the three ships Takachiho, Naniwa, and Akitsuzu set sail to participate in the battle.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, the four ships of the detachment, Matsushima, Hashidate, Itsukushima, and Chiyoda, followed by troop carriers.

At 9:20 a.m., the Naniwa, the temporary flagship of the First Guerrilla Force, hoisted the 'open war' flag on the top of the mast, and the three ships began to concentrate their fire and shell the Gongbei Battery, the largest on the main island of Penghu.

Suddenly, the Gongbei Fort position was filled with flames and wolf smoke, and the soaring metal shrapnel screamed and raged in the area of Gongbei Mountain.

The defenders of the fort, under the leadership of Song Shangjie, the artillery battalion officer, braved the rain of bullets to resist desperately and fired at the three Japanese ships on the sea.

At this time, the four ships of the Japanese army, which had already arrived, began to circle the main island of Penghu, Yuweng Island, and Baisha Island.

Attack Gongbei, Tiannan, Southeast, Xiyu East, Xiyu West, 5 Qing army batteries on the three islands in turn.

Zhou Zhenbang, the commander-in-chief of Penghu Town, Taiwan, and Zhu Shangpan, the alternate prefect, had already boarded the Tiannan and southeast forts to supervise the battle, and commanded the Qing army to fight back.

The east and west forts of Xiyu Island on Yuweng Island also opened artillery bombardment on the Japanese fleet under the order of Liu Zhongliang, the defender of Yuweng Island.

At 10:30 a.m., the Japanese warships and their long-range warships all concentrated at Lizheng Point and anchored near the coast, and the 'landing' flag was hoisted at Matsushima.

Immediately, the 1st Brigade of the 1st Wing of the Japanese Reserve Infantry, as the vanguard, began to land at Liangwen Port (Longmen Fishing Port) on the west side of Lizhengjiao.

The Gongbei Fort of the Qing army found that the Japanese army had released a large number of landing boats off the coast of Liangwen Port, and immediately adjusted the muzzle of the gun and began to shell the Japanese troop carriers and sea boats.

Seeing this, the Japanese army's main team, the first guerrilla unit, fired all guns in unison to suppress the Gongbei Fort with strong firepower.

Moments later, the soldiers of the Gongbei Artillery Battalion, who had suffered heavy casualties, had to temporarily evacuate the artillery positions covered by artillery fire to avoid ammunition under the orders of the battalion officer Song Shangjie.

At 1 p.m., the 1st Reserve Wing of the Japanese Army had all landed, and the 12th Reserve Wing had begun to land.

The reserve 1st Wing, which had already landed, under the order of Wing Commander Yoshiki Hishijima Osa, immediately marched in the direction of Jianshan, preparing to open the road to Gongbei Fort and Magongcheng.

During the whole process, Chen Buti, who was in charge of the 12th infantry battalion, the 2nd artillery battalion, and the 1st naval battalion, with a number of more than 5,000 people, stayed in Magong City.

Zhou Zhenbang, the commander-in-chief of Penghu Town, Taiwan, and Zhu Shangpan, the alternate prefect, also stayed in Tiannan and Southeast Fort to supervise the battle.

In this long and precious three-hour time, the Gongbei Artillery Battalion was left alone to fight against all the Japanese naval and land forces, without sending a battalion of reinforcements to help the battle.

At this point, although the battle of Penghu in the Qing Dynasty was about to start, the outcome was already clear and self-evident.

Langfang.

At this time, He Changying, the commander of the Han army in Lushun of the Qing Dynasty, was talking to Wang Wenjin, the left attendant of the military department, staring at the top cow with big eyes.

Because of the anti-Japanese army's radical preparations for war in Langfang City, it caused a huge panic among the people in Langfang City and surrounding villages and towns.

Moreover, the soldiers of the anti-Japanese army, from 5 o'clock in the morning to 10 o'clock in the evening, were either singing, running, fighting, or crackling gun training, and from time to time stray bullets fell on the streets, courtyards, and roofs in the city, and smashed 'clanging' sounds.

The people in Langfang City were all tossed to death.

These days, there are less than 10,000 people left in the entire Langfang City, and the rest have fled out of the city to take refuge.

made all industries in the city depressed, and Langfang County made Hou Bolin miserable, and ran to Wang Wenjin every day to complain.

For this reason, Wang Wenjin, who was extremely dissatisfied, sent two groups of soldiers to Jinmen in a row to send a report to the imperial court for impeachment.

But they are all sunk in the sea, and there is no news.

Wang Wenjin has been suppressing the anger in his heart these days, he is waiting hard for the imperial court's reprimand will to arrive, and then he will use the topic to play a good 'pendulum, pendulum' this hairless young general.

However, before the will of the imperial court arrived, Wang Wenjin waited for the military exercise of the anti-Japanese army last night!

At three o'clock in the morning of the 10th, there was a sudden gunfire in Langfang City, and then there was a loud roar, and the firelight, the movement of the army crackling and shooting, shocked the entire city.

Frightened, Wang Wenjin hid under the bed to avoid the trouble.

Langfang County Linghou Bolin's family hid in the woods in the small garden, and the faces of the two pretty daughters and three aunts were covered with pot ashes.

And Wan Benhua guarded the 4 posts at the city gate, and they all hid at the city gate tremblingly, ready to go out of the city at any time to escape for their lives.

When the cavalry regiment was rushing through the south gate on horseback, the regiment commander Zhao Dabang's mallet suddenly wilted, and ordered the cavalry to carry out a feint attack on the south gate.

As a result, the Qing soldiers piled up under the city gate, looking at the 'crackling' bullets and sparks exploding on the city wall, as well as the army charging from the streets and alleys in the distance.

They all shouted, 'The anti-Japanese army has rebelled, the anti-Japanese army has rebelled!' He opened the city gate and fled in a hurry.

This performance went on until five o'clock in the morning, and in the morning, the remaining 10,000 people in Langfang City, except for one or two thousand 'dead bold' who really had no place to go, the rest ran out of Langfang City from the south gate.

Doing this all day long has made everyone worried and unstable, and they don't have to wait for the Japanese soldiers to come, they have been tossed to death by these soldiers!

It was almost noon, Wang Wenjin listened to the silence outside, and dared to send his own soldiers to secretly go out through the back door to listen, and finally figured out what was going on.

Angry that one Buddha was born, Wang Wenjin, who was born in the second Buddha, endured the hunger in his stomach and ran to He Changying's camp to find He Changying to settle accounts, but saw He Changying bare-haired and washing his fake braids with warm water.

He Changying quietly listened to Wang Wenjin's roar, and quietly wiped away the saliva sprayed on his face by the old man with a hot towel.

Then put the false braid by the charcoal brazier and hang it to dry.

"Why don't you justify? What about people,—— orderlies, so eyeless, they don't even have a bowl of tea! ”

Wang Wenjin's mouth was dry, and he yelled for tea to quench his thirst.

"There are no orderlies, and their own is to do it themselves; Except for cooking,—— we all eat everyone. ”

He Changying explained, picked up his wooden bowl, held the teapot by the charcoal fire, and poured a bowl of boiled water: "There is no tea, your veteran will drink a little." ”

Seeing this scene, Wang Wenjin couldn't help but be a little stunned, and only pulled over a chair to sit by the brazier, holding a wooden bowl, looking at the steaming bowl of water, thinking about something.

He Changying saw that the old man finally stopped jumping, so she sat by the brazier, handed Wang Wenjin a cigarette, and then lit the cigarette butt with charcoal herself.

Wang Wenjin saw that the hot water was colder, so he lowered his head to drink the water, while He Changying looked at the charcoal fire in front of him silently and smoked silently.

The room was quiet, only the sound of Wang Wenjin drinking water and the light explosion of charcoal fire.

Outside, Langfang City is also silent.