"Go and take the high ground on the left!" Lieutenant Kumatoro, the squadron leader of the Kyushu Division, roared angrily at his subordinates. No matter how stupid the Japanese army is, they will not be so stupid as to directly brave the rain of bullets and bullets to carry out a large-scale landing battle with small boats. In addition to being extremely stupid in terms of tactics, what is more important is that the Japanese army simply does not have the technical means and corresponding equipment in this regard.

The Japanese marines landed at Longkou and Laoshan Yangkou, and planned to march and assemble in Qingdao on two routes. Then began to flank Qingdao with the fleet, as well as the frontal landing force. However, as soon as the Japanese vanguard landed, they were greeted with a rifle. Without even thinking about it, Squadron Leader Kumamoto immediately ordered his subordinates to seize the high ground near the landing site.

Watching the subordinates of a detachment (squad) shouting and rushing to the front, running and rapidly approaching the position of the Chinese troops, Lieutenant Kumamoto heard a dense and fierce burst of gunfire before he could relax. In a moment, the running subordinates fell to the ground crookedly. Lieutenant Kumamoto was surprised by the fact that a detachment was in the middle of the attack in an instant.

"Machine gun fire!" Lieutenant Kumamoto immediately ordered that the Japanese heavy machine guns had been moved to the coast, and the machine gunners quickly set up their machine guns, and when they heard the order, the heavy machine guns immediately began to roar.

The enemy on the opposite side of Lieutenant Kumamoto reacted extremely quickly, and out of nowhere, several shells flew out of nowhere, drawing an arc of great curvature and heading straight for the Japanese heavy machine gun position. One of them exploded more than two meters away from the heavy machine gun, and the roar of the heavy machine gun stopped instantly. The enemy's gunners had no intention of taking it when they saw it, and the shells came out one after another. Explosions kept on the Japanese positions. The Japanese were well-trained troops, after all, and they were all lying on the ground or hiding behind safe cover. The attack of the Chinese army on the opposite side came and went quickly. There was no sound in an instant.

Just as the Japanese troops gradually began to get up in a panic and form a group, several shells flew over. Two of them accurately concentrated a detachment (squad) of the Japanese army, and the sound of the explosion was mixed with the howl of ghosts and wolves. Sounded on the landing ground of the Japanese troops.

Not only was the Kumamoto squadron's attack frustrated, but several Japanese offensive sites were met head-on by the Chinese army. However, the Japanese offensive only stopped for less than an hour. After reorganizing the troops, the naval guns first bombarded several Chinese army positions in Fangcai, and the smoke of gunpowder had not yet cleared, and the Japanese army had regrouped its forces and began to attack.

This time the Japanese attack did not meet any resistance, and several Japanese units, including Kumamoto's squadron, easily occupied the positions of the Chinese troops. It's just that they didn't find any Chinese troops in the bombed-up mess. There were no bodies, no blood, and there were not even a few footprints to be seen because of the shelling, except for a few scattered bullet casings that could prove that the military had indeed fired here. The Chinese army also does not know when it has withdrawn.

Just when the Japanese army was puzzled, there was suddenly another muffled sound in the distance. With the screech of shells, the Japanese troops who rushed to the Chinese positions were fiercely attacked by a barrage of shells. This time, the shells were much more powerful than they were. In the rumbling explosion, some Japanese soldiers were simply blown up in the air.

Lieutenant Kumamoto couldn't bear such a loss at all, and his telescope could probably see the shadowy mountains on the opposite side, as well as the smoke of gunpowder everywhere. But there is no sign of the Chinese army. It was as if the enemies had emerged from the ground, and there was no sign of any soldier except for a few places of smoke in the distance.

The commander of the Japanese attack on Longkou soon ordered the naval guns to start firing at the enemy's artillery units, and the landing force first held the area that had been occupied. Not long after, two Japanese reconnaissance planes took off. Condescending, it is always possible to find the enemy's tracks. Not only reconnaissance aircraft, but also balloons from the army began to rise into the air.

Lieutenant Kumamoto breathed a sigh of relief, and with these lofty eyes, he was not afraid that he would not find a trace of the Chinese army. However, less than 10 minutes after the Japanese planes and balloons took off, there were several planes in the sky that were completely different in appearance from the Japanese planes. What's more, the planes, painted with red stars in the telescope, actually heard gunfire as they flew. Lieutenant Kumamoto had no idea what was going on, and he himself rarely saw reconnaissance planes, but because of the mechanical factory in his house, he was not completely unaware of the principle of the plane.

Lieutenant Kumamoto did not understand why there was a sound similar to a shot when the plane in the sky was flying. Until some planes fell from the sky in black smoke, Lieutenant Kumamoto didn't figure out what was going on. Even the Japanese reconnaissance balloon had a series of large holes in it, and the passengers screamed and accelerated to land with the balloon. The balloon's gondola smashed to pieces on the ground, and Lieutenant Kumamoto, who had never had a concept of air combat, did not realize that he had witnessed the first real air battle in his life.

Lieutenant Kumamoto could not understand, and the commander of the Japanese army could not have understood what was happening. After a short pause in the offensive, the various units received orders to fiercely attack the Chinese troops. The order called on each unit to send elite vanguard units to carry out power reconnaissance, and a fierce and brief battle ensued. Lieutenant Kumamoto soon discovered the tactical approach of the opposing Chinese army. These Chinese forces did not implement a focused defense at all, and they fought and retreated on the preset positions. In addition to rifles, the Chinese army used a strange machine gun to work with small units, using heavy fire to suppress Japanese fire.

In addition to rifles and machine guns, the Chinese army also used a type of artillery with a great curvature to fire at the Japanese army. This artillery is placed on artillery positions that are not visible at all, and at most it is possible to detect the artillery positions of the Chinese army by observing the smoke from the muzzle. But it was impossible to destroy it with direct fire.

Behind the Japanese army was the powerful firepower of the Japanese naval fleet, and a single shot of heavy artillery could knock rocks into the mountains and billowing smoke. Wherever the positions of the Chinese army were discovered, they would be fiercely attacked by these heavy artillery. It's just that these attacks didn't have any effect. The Chinese army is still retreating vigorously. Every time before retreating, the Japanese army will be inflicted a lot of casualties.

The battle lasted less than four hours, and the Kumamoto squadron had already produced more than 60 wounded and dead. Having captured the positions of the fourth Chinese army, Lieutenant Kumamoto had to order the troops to stop the offensive. He ordered his troops to deliver a message to the rear, "This squadron has suffered heavy casualties, and it is hoped that the offensive can be suspended." ”

Signal corps was dispatched, and Lieutenant Kumamoto had his men pause the attack. Several successive lessons gave Lieutenant Kumamoto a considerable impression. He ordered his men to stop and rest in a safer place. After observing the enemy himself, he also sat down behind a stone exhausted.

The battle situation in front of him not only did not disappoint Lieutenant Kumamoto, but aroused his urge to attack. Because the war is not only about the fate of the Imperial Kingdom, but also has a great impact on the fate of Lieutenant Kumamoto's family.

The mobilization of the Japanese army was rather hasty, and there was a rare temporary cooperation between the navy and the army. At least in terms of troop transport, the two sides have implemented a rare and efficient cooperation. That is, the Kyushu Division, to which the squadron leader Kumamoto belonged, waited in the port for only two days before the ships of the Navy arrived.

In these two days, the officers of the Kyushu Division realized that the target they were going to attack this time was Qingdao, China. And there is also a instruction before departure, Qingdao is an industrial port city of the Chinese People's Party, as far as possible not to damage the Qingdao industrial zone. As soon as Xiong heard that he could attack China's industrial cities, he immediately became motivated. Kumamoto's father, Kumamoto Ginji, was a former soldier who participated in the Eight-Nation Alliance, and even participated in the battle against Tianjin, China. After the war, Kumamoto Ginji figured out who owned the machinery of the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau that had been stolen by the Japanese army. After returning to Japan, Kumamoto Ginji purchased a considerable amount of equipment and set up a mining equipment parts processing factory. He is now also a small-medium-sized factory owner in Kyushu.

Kumamoto's older brother, Ichiro Kumamoto, attended a junior college in Japan (equivalent to a technical school) majoring in mechanical engineering, and after graduating, he helped his father run a factory in his hometown. But in the past two years, life in Japan has suddenly become difficult, and the demand for equipment parts in mine production is getting higher and higher, and the price is getting lower and lower. The machines snatched from China are German and of very good quality. But no matter how good the quality is, it's a machine that has been around for more than ten years, and if it weren't for the fact that his brother Kumamoto Ichiro relied on the technology he learned from school to maintain it as much as possible, the factory in the family would be barely supported.

Intelligence from the War Department showed that the Chinese People's Party had seized the Germans' territory in Qingdao, and that the People's Party's factories were full of new German machinery. If you can hug your father Kumamoto Ginji again, you can add a few more new machines to the family, and I think it can greatly alleviate the current dilemma.

Needless to say, the commander deliberately emphasized the significance of the battle against Qingdao to the "imperial country", Xiong Benlang already had unprecedented enthusiasm and a strong will to fight. However, war is war after all, and the Japanese army still has enough jealousy of the Chinese army, especially the army of the Chinese People's Party. After all, this army captured the Qingdao fortress from the Germans. The two Japanese forces capable of conscription, the Kyushu Division and the Sendai Division, assumed responsibility for the land attack. The Kyushu Division attacked Longkou, and the Sendai Division attacked Laoshan Yangkou.

Even though he had no intention of giving up, Lieutenant Kumamoto still felt a strong pressure. The tactics of this Chinese army in front of them are very different from any national tactics educated in Japanese military academies. The intensity of the battle was not low at all. The enemy relied on rapid movement and accurate fire strikes, constantly sucking the blood of Kumamoto's squadron.

If you can rely on the naval guns in the back and the artillery under the command of the division and regiment that can be transported to the landing site immediately, you can definitely deal a fatal blow to the enemy. But the enemy at the moment hit and ran, like a loach in a paddy field. But the enemy never left the battle, not even the front......

Lieutenant Kumamoto was thinking about the enemy's tactics, and as on the previous occasions, the Chinese troops suddenly began to bombard. These shells fired almost straight up and down into the assembly point of Kumamoto's squadron. It was as if the amulet carried by Lieutenant Kumamoto had worked, and a large amount of shrapnel did not even concentrate Lieutenant Kumamoto. But his subordinates were not so lucky, and the scattered shalnel caused many soldiers to scream.

Being beaten so passively was completely unexpected before the war. Lieutenant Kumamoto couldn't hold back any longer, he looked at the mountain beam, which was still quite a distance away from him, at the way below, and at the sun that had begun to fall below the horizon. Squadron Leader Xiong made up his mind, "Withdraw to the previous attack point first." ”

Kumamoto's squadron quickly began to retreat. Not long after he retreated, the entire front was already filled with the sound of slaughter, and the Chinese army began to attack under heavy artillery fire, blowing horns. As soon as Kumamoto's squadron retreated to the previous offensive point, it saw the Chinese troops rushing towards them in a formation that had never been seen before. It was an indescribable formation, dressed in colorful tattered uniforms and hats tied with grass and twigs on their heads. The Chinese troops rushed down in a formation that looked scattered and scattered everywhere. Their attack was accompanied by the fierce bombardment of that peculiar artillery.

"Shoot!" Squadron Leader Kumamoto and other officers of various squads (platoons) and detachments (squads) began to command his subordinates to fight back. It's just that the Japanese shooters feel extremely uncomfortable in the face of such a formation, the Chinese army is not the traditional kind of wave attack, if it is a wave attack, the Japanese army can effectively stop and kill the enemy with neat shooting. At least the Japanese were this well-organized wave attack.

The Chinese army on the opposite side attacked like undisciplined stragglers. However, it is difficult for rifles and machine guns to find their optimal targets. On the battlefield, everyone knows that if you can destroy an enemy with a single bullet, you can be invincible. However, what is most lacking on the battlefield is precisely this kind of "one bullet to destroy an enemy" shooting ability.

Free fire will make the hit rate drop rapidly, and concentrated shooting can certainly improve efficiency, but the Chinese army on the opposite side is in a duck-like formation, and the shooting efficiency is even lower.

It was the Chinese army, who was shot alone, and had no effect on the attack of the soldiers behind. Moreover, the performance of the wounded was amazing, as long as they did not lose their combat effectiveness, the wounded actually stopped to shoot at the Japanese army. The same was true of the unwounded Chinese soldiers, who watched as they rushed as ducks, and the formation was as loose as that of ducks. However, there were always troops with two or three men who would take advantage of the terrain to stop and shoot at the Japanese during the attack. The fire was not fierce enough, but there were many firing points. The accumulation of small amounts made the Japanese army feel extremely uncomfortable.

The impact was fast, and the Chinese army was not without losses, at least the troops that rushed to twenty or thirty meters away from the Japanese were already quite sparse. At this time, the Chinese troops who rushed to the front paused slightly, but not out of fear, the soldiers behind the Chinese army drew their grenades and threw them at the Japanese position. In the midst of the roaring explosions, the Japanese army immediately suffered unprecedented losses. Squadron Leader Kumamoto could no longer endure such a continuous blow, "Get on the bayonet, charge!" He yelled.

In the face of the Chinese army, the Japanese army may not always be able to gain an advantage by relying on guns and artillery. In fact, the Japanese troops who attacked fiercely were often stopped by the heavy rain of bullets from the Chinese army. At this time, the only thing that can break the stalemate is the bayonet charge. The Japanese troops mounted their bayonets one after another, and bravely advanced under the leadership of officers and soldiers. It was only at this time that Lieutenant Kumamoto suddenly realized something, the cold light of bayonets flashed on the rifles of the charging Chinese army in front of him.

Almost at the same time, the last platoon of guns was fired at each other, and the Kumamoto squadron and the Chinese army rushed together with bayonets.

At the same time that the bayonets of the two armies began to collide with each other, Lieutenant Kumamoto discovered something that surprised him greatly. A small group of Chinese soldiers actually pulled their pistols out of their waists. In this way, at a very close distance, he began to shoot Japanese officers and soldiers with pistols. Melee combat is so brutal, whether it is a bayonet or a pistol, it is all fought at a very close distance. Even if it is a blink of an eye, a life is fully confessed, or at least half of it.

In a matter of moments, half of the Chinese and Japanese soldiers who were fighting together fell. Among them, Japanese soldiers accounted for nearly seventy percent. Squadron Leader Kumamoto saw that the number of Chinese troops was constantly increasing. He could no longer hold on, and if he fought in this way, it would not be long before the army would be completely destroyed. He made a quick decision and began to retreat with the troops that had not yet been put into battle.

The sun's afterglow didn't last long, and although the sky was still shining, the ground was already dark. The remnants of Kumamoto's squadron were defeated all the way to the first line of positions they had captured before holding their ground. The night also prevented the Japanese artillery reinforcements, and in this dark night, if you want to accurately concentrate the Chinese army and effectively kill the Chinese army, you have to rely on good luck. Not to mention, the Chinese army may not be stupid enough to leave a large number of troops in positions waiting to be shelled by the Japanese army.

Despite losing nearly two-thirds of its troops, Kumamoto's squadron was able to withdraw. Fearing that he would be severely reprimanded, Lieutenant Kumamoto sought out a staff officer he knew in the brigade to get some information from him. The news did get it. It's hard to say whether it's good or bad.

Nearly two battalions were engaged in the attack, and the number of Japanese troops withdrawn was less than two squadrons. All the troops were met with a strong counterattack by the Chinese army at sunset, and more than seventy percent of the Japanese troops were surrendered to this mountainous area. Four of these squadrons were wiped out. Although the Kumamoto squadron was defeated, it was still a lot of people left. If Lieutenant Kumamoto had been severely punished in the past, the current strength in the wing has been greatly damaged, and Lieutenant Kumamoto has never been punished too harshly for the time being.

By the time I got the news, it was completely dark. Looking at the high ground hidden in the night in the distance, Lieutenant Kumamoto felt a chill in his heart. This is the Chinese army he is going to face, this is the army of the People's Party.