Chapter 11: The End of Naniwa

With a bang, the shell exploded about ten meters in front of the Naniwa bridge. Then columns of water formed a wall of water around Naniwa. The shells did not hit the waves in accordance with the law. But a cannonball was fired at the tail of a transport ship, which blew the tail of the merchant ship into the air and produced huge flames and smoke.

Heihachiro Togo saw a lot of Imperial soldiers with flames, desperately jumping into the sea.

I didn't love the cannonball in this round, it doesn't mean that there is no next round, Togo Heihachiro understands too well, the Qing army on the shore misses the first shot, and it will definitely correct the shot, and then the wave will not have this good luck

"Fast, increase the coal filling, increase the steam pressure, reverse. The main guns returned fire. The enraged Togo issued a series of orders.

Boom, Naniwa and Itsukushima Hashidate's main guns began to counterattack.

"Zhang Yi, what's the matter, why didn't you hit a shot." Liu Jun is running and shouting. He saw it just now, after a wall of water in the waves, it was like nothing, and he began to fight back with annoyance.

Zhang Yi didn't have time to take care of it now, and after the artillery was loaded, Zhang Yi took a break to adjust the angle and bearing.

Boom, after the thick smoke, the shells flew again two kilometers away.

"Okay, good fight." Liu Jun saw it in the telescope, Naniwa's tail seemed to have been shot, some broken wood and iron plates were lifted into the sky, not to mention, and smoke rose from the tail.

"Commander, what should I do now?" The chief of staff asked anxiously to Togo, who was standing on the bridge.

What else can be done at present, if the pressure does not come up, it will not work if the car is reversed, and the only way now is to desperately send the landing force up, so that there will be a first-line turnaround.

Itsukushima and Hashitachi did not turn off the pressure like Naniwa, so when the two sides were shelling, they were quickly reversing, trying to drive to the open sea to swing and shell with the shore artillery.

One of the troop carriers had already begun to sink under the blows of other batteries, but two Japanese troops of about 500 men were sent off the troop carriers and began to row their boats ashore with great difficulty.

Liu Jun has no command here, and his task is only to deal with the Japanese troops who have landed, without interfering with Zhang Yi's command.

Zhang Yi is worthy of growing up in the fort, and when he saw that the landing Japanese troops were starting to get too close to Lushun, he ordered the No. 4 and No. 5 gun positions to intercept the landing Japanese troops. Second, the other artillery positions are not inconvenient tasks, and the blow is fast.

Walls of water formed an encirclement among the Japanese troops, and many Japanese boats were overturned by the waves caused by artillery shells. In this way, the Japanese army was still swimming to the shore.

The remaining two troop carriers did not run away in the end, and the artillery of the No. 4 and No. 3 batteries had already destroyed the two troop carriers, and both ships were now slowly sinking with thick smoke.

The other batteries that were freed up all understood that they were taking advantage of your illness and wanted your life, and all the artillery began to concentrate on the slow reversing waves.

The Naniwa has now suffered at least six shells, and the most important one actually hit the main gun without being biased, not to mention the main gun being interrupted alive, and the flying shrapnel took the lives of more than a dozen officers and men.

Togo also hung up the color, a piece of shrapnel just now, cut his arm, and he is currently starting treatment with the help of the medical officer.

Seeing that the shells were getting denser and denser, Togo closed his eyes, he knew that Naniwa couldn't run away this time, and the Japanese just couldn't look at it with people, and Togo, who knew that he couldn't escape, actually ordered Naniwa to fight sideways on the spot, and use the rapid-fire guns on the side chord to buy time for the landing Japanese troops.

Liu Jun has been observing everything on the battlefield, although the battery intercepted the Japanese army, but there are still many Japanese troops who have rushed through the interception, and are quickly rowing to the beach, the artillery of the Lushun battery cannot be lowered at a lower angle, and everything else depends on whether Liu Jun's regiment can withstand the Japanese landing force.

The Japanese warships had already begun to fight back effectively, and the batteries were filled with a sea of fire and explosions.

In addition, Itsukushima and Hashidate saw that the flagship was humble, and they desperately fired shells at the No. 1 battery, so the pressure on the No. 1 battery began to multiply all of a sudden.

A 150-mm heavy gun was hit. The defenders inside the battery were blown up in a blur of flesh and blood. It also announced the end of a turret in its mission.

Liu Jun looked at the Japanese troops who were getting closer and closer, and knew that the time had come to test the army, so he gave an order, and he rushed out of the bunker first, and wiped out the position.

The conscience cannon is still there, but it has not yet been loaded, and now several Qing troops are carrying explosive bags and gunpowder from the bunker. Reload, which will be a secret weapon against the landed Japanese forces for a while.

"Don't the climb the ground, don't climb the ground, squat down, open your mouth." Seeing that many soldiers were lying on the ground, Liu Jun scolded as soon as he opened his mouth. This is not an ordinary artillery, it is a naval gun, which is as powerful as a cannon without conscience, and it is easy to shatter the internal organs.

The Qing soldiers listened to Liu Jun's words, squatted on the ground, opened their mouths wide, blocked their ears with their hands, and waited for the arrival of the Japanese army.

The first Japanese soldiers had already begun to jump off the boat, and then ran quickly to the shore, and as soon as they ran to the shore, they climbed down and fought for the fort.

There were more and more Japanese troops, and the beachhead was crowded with people, and these Japanese soldiers were too cunning, hiding behind dark rocks and shooting non-stop.

Seeing that the number of attackers had been reached, the Japanese began to charge, and a team of about 200 men began to attack the battery like a tide.

The thing standing on the bridge of the Naniwa ship smiled, and the landing force went up, which meant that the battle would be spent in a short time, and now his Naniwa was seriously injured, and a shell hit the boiler room and exploded, boiling water sprayed out, and more than two dozen people in the boiler room were scalded to death on the spot. The speed was also reduced by several knots.

It had already entered the range of the conscienceless cannon, and Liu Jun ordered the cannon to be fired. The Qing army lit the fuse, and with a bang, a sound no less than the opening of the main cannon sounded in Dingyuan.

Dongxiang was startled by this sound and hurriedly grabbed the binoculars.

I saw that the charging Japanese soldiers were lifted into the sky by a mysterious shock wave, and then fell down heavily. The remaining Japanese troops began to crawl on the ground, dodging the shells.

The biggest mistake of the Japanese army was to crawl on the ground, the main role of the unconscionable cannon was not shrapnel, and there was no shrapnel in it, but the shock wave of the moment of the card explosion to shatter the internal organs, and the Japanese army would only increase casualties by doing so.

After the first round of explosions, there were already more than a hundred Japanese soldiers left who got up.

"Shoot, knock down these ****s." After Liu Jun finished speaking, he raised his gun and beat a Japanese soldier to the ground.

The Qing soldiers who had just picked up their rifles did not have accurate marksmanship, and only a few Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground. In addition, the Japanese troops behind had already landed on the beach, and the situation suddenly became tense.

The unconscionable cannon saved the fort at one time, and more than a dozen unconscionable cannons once again killed many Japanese soldiers.

Dongxiang is trembling all over now, what kind of cannon is this, why didn't the Intelligence Department mention it at all, he has seen the power of Dingyuan, but compared to the current one, Dingyuan is a small toy.

How did Dongxiang know that the sound of this cannon is very scary, but it is just a kind of earth cannon, but the caliber of this cannon cannot be described in millimeters, but in centimeters, sixty centimeters.

The artillery bombardment was still going on, and the two Japanese ships that had already run to the periphery began to run up and bombard the Qing army, and many Qing soldiers died under the blow of the naval guns.

Naniwa was completely hopeless, and a 210-mm shell hit an enemy rapid-fire cannon shell on its lower deck, causing an explosion in an instant. Togo, who was standing on the bridge, was thrown off the deck by a huge explosion. I was seriously injured in a fall.

A couple of salvos again. The Naniwa began to raise its head. Slowly. You can't live with this posture.

When the wave was over, the artillery began to turn the muzzle and began shelling Itsukushima and Hashidate in the distance. Cover the Qing army that was waiting for the green Japanese army.

The Japanese had already attacked to the mountainside. Liu Jun didn't have any way at this time, he pulled out his machete and rushed down at the Japanese army, and now the quality of the Japanese army is not much different from the quality of the Qing soldiers. So the two sides fought halfway up the mountain, and it was quite hot when it came.

The Qing soldiers had no way to retreat, and the Japanese army had no way to retreat, and the Qing soldiers wanted to drive the Japanese army into the sea, and the Japanese army wanted to capture the fort, and both sides used all their means to kill the other party. At sunset, the Qing army finally knocked the Japanese army down the mountainside and caught up with the beach.

The fort at night was pitch black, and neither side could see anyone, so the shelling was stopped during the war and the time to rest.

Liu Jun took advantage of this time to have the wounded who were injured today off the battery and transferred them to Lushun.

The county government in Lushun has now become a temporary hospital. The residents of Wu Datong and Lushun only heard the roaring sound of artillery in the direction of the fort from the afternoon, and everyone knew that the Qing army and the Japanese army had started a war. The sound of the cannon rang out for several hours, knowing that the night was gradually stopping, Wu Datong knew that as soon as the cannon stopped, the wounded would be brought in in a short time, and he told the spontaneously organized women and brothel ladies in the city to prepare for the wounded to come down in a while.

Wu Xiaoyan is the daughter of a businessman in Lushun, only nineteen years old this year, a few days Liu Jun's call, affected a lot of people, but also affected him, she ignored the opposition of her family, she ran to the county government with the maid, to work with everyone, rescue the wounded.

Hearing the arrangement of the county order, she also began to get busy, and began to call for water for backup under the guidance of a doctor.

After almost half an hour, the first batch of wounded had been transported to the county government by horse-drawn carriage, and were being carried to the county government under the handling of some Qing soldiers.