The waves hit the beach, and the water turned slightly red. Floating corpses were pushed to the beach by the waves. The corpses were scattered on the beach. With every explosion, the corpses would always be blown into the sky.

A heavy artillery shell landed on the beach with a roar, and then there was a violent explosion. A body was blown to pieces. The plane flew dozens of meters into the air, then fell hard, and then was blown up again.

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The sound of gunfire and explosions echoed in Wanggezhuang Bay. The sound of gunfire was desolate, the sound of explosions was violent, but the battle seemed to have no end. The entire coast had been boiling for nearly three hours.

On the beach, a soldier who had just rushed onto the beach tried to leap forward, but the bullets raised pillars of sand in front of him. The next moment, the charging soldier staggered and fell down, and the blood spurted out was dyed with blood.

The beach turned red, but next to the corpse there were still people waving sabers, holding their hands forward and screaming.

"Tusi gives..."

Before he could finish speaking, the saber fell from the sergeant's hand, and the sergeant, whose head was half pulled away by the bullet, fell softly.

In the machine gun bunker, Liang Shi's expression was still gloomy. His face was covered with gunpowder dust that ejected from the shells when the machine gun fired. On the right side of the machine gun's tripod, there was a mountain-like pile of shells.

Still increasing.

"Wow..."

The ammunition hand in charge of loading kept shaking the loading machine. His left hand continued to take out handfuls of bullets from the magazine. With the help of the loading machine, the bullets were quickly loaded on the bullet chain. The bullet chain was just a moment away.

After loading, another person took it away, and the 25-round ammunition chain was quickly connected into a 250-round ammunition chain.

At this time, inside the machine gun bunker, apart from the sound of gunfire, there was a strong smell of gunpowder. The smell of gunpowder choked them so much that they could hardly breathe, but no one stopped what they were doing.

"11 o'clock position..."

"12 o'clock……"

Li Chengchao, who was holding a telescope, kept pointing out the target for Liang Shi. The tracer bullets dragged the trajectory in the air. Although it was not clear, it was enough to indicate the ballistic deviation. Liang Shi, who was operating the machine gun, would occasionally stop shooting for a moment, and then

Observe, then swing the machine gun, and suddenly press the firing lever again, and the machine gun screams happily again.

Bullets kept passing over the machine gun fort, and sometimes bullets would burrow into the parapet in front of him, but they could not stop his shooting at all.

On the beach, mutilated corpses wearing brown uniforms were scattered. They were corpses torn apart by shells. Not all the shelling at this time came from the sea.

In a fortification on a hill, artillery school shooters holding phones kept reading out the coordinates on a map. In the next moment, artillery shells would pass over their heads and land on the beach or on the sea.

Among the concentrated sampans, the field guns at the rear may not be as powerful as the Japanese naval guns, but they cause far more damage than the naval guns.

One after another, sampans were shattered by shells. The Japanese soldiers who luckily escaped the bombardment were dragged into the sea by their heavy equipment after falling into the water.

Looking at the scene in front of him through the telescope, Kamio Mitsuomi could hardly believe his eyes. For three hours, the 46th Regiment failed to even occupy the beachhead, and how many people the 46th Regiment lost.

"Sir, Captain Xiaohe reported that as of at least the sixth attack, the 46th Regiment has suffered 1,217 casualties and 786 wounded..."

The Forty-sixth Regiment is finished!

Kamio Mitsuomi subconsciously had such an idea in his mind. He looked towards the Shubo in the distance and thought of Kato Keiyoshi's previous advice. The damn navy must be watching a joke. From the beginning to the end, the Shubo was on board.

None of the ten-inch cannons fired, they only used small-caliber broadside cannons for bombardment. Their reason was simple "to save barrel life."

The officers and soldiers of the Second Fleet must be laughing at themselves now!

"I ordered Major General Horuchi to seize the stall at all costs!"

Looking at the coastline dyed red with blood, Kamio Mitsuomi fiercely spat out an order.

"Your Mightiness……"

Seeing that the commander had made this decision, Chief of Staff Jōhoji Goro spoke quickly.

"Now that the Chinese Army occupies a favorable terrain, if they continue to forcefully land at Wangegezhuang Bay, it will only increase casualties. I think that they should use Wangegezhuang Bay as a cover and send a regiment to land in the direction of the small tent, so as to make a roundabout way to

Enemy flank, cooperate with Wanggezhuang Bay..."

Johoji Goro's words calmed down Kamio Mitsuomi. He picked up the telescope and pointed in the direction of Xiaopeng. The hydrological data about Xiaopeng's arrival emerged in his mind. It may not be suitable for establishing a landing site there, but if he doesn't consider it,

There were absolutely no problems with the supply of logistical supplies, the construction of the field railway, and the landing from the direction of the small tent.

"Xinxi! Let's do it like this!"

When he nodded in agreement, Kamio Mitsuomi had completely put his personal emotions behind him.

"Order Horiuchi to continue the attack. Well, send a telegram to Commander Kato and ask him to fire fifty... no, thirty rounds of 10-inch grenades after receiving the telegram!"

"Haha, it's finally our turn. That guy Horiuchi is really disappointing!"

In Washu Marujo, Colonel Masayoshi Matsuda, who had just received the tour leader of the 24th brigade that landed in the direction of Xiaopeng, looked at the blood-stained Neptune Gosho Bay and said to Chief of Staff Machida Shoroku.

Although he and Bunjiro Horiuchi were friends from the same period, in fact, his relationship with Horiuchi had always been at odds with each other. At this time, he didn't mind seeing Horiuchi make a fool of himself.

"Well! Now it's our 24th Brigade's turn!"

Masayoshi Matsuda responded, and then looked at the guard guard Kihira next to him.

"Captain Ji Ping, we must occupy the small tent and come to the beach!"

"Hi!"

Ji Ping's guard quickly stood at attention and bowed his head.

"This Kamio..."

Kato Nobuyoshi on the Shufang sighed helplessly and handed the telegram to others.

"Does he think I'm not willing to help him? Really, no matter how much conflict there is between the navy and the army, it won't affect their cooperation on the battlefield! He's really not a good guy!"

As the commander of the Second Fleet, Kato Sadayoshi knows better than anyone that the current strength of the Second Fleet is that the entire fleet only has the flagship Shubo, the battleship Iwami, and the battleship Tango; and the heavy cruisers Iwate, Yakumo, and Joban.

; Chitose light cruiser; Takachiho, cruiser Tone; Mishima, Okishima, Shirakumo, Asashio destroyers; Kagero, Shiranui, Asagiri, Ariake, Shiromyo, Shiroro, Ura

Wave, Yugure, Yudachi, Uji, Saga gunboats, etc. The fleet may seem huge, but the battleships are all salvaged warships from the Anti-Japanese War. Like the cruisers, they are more than ten or even twenty years old.

An old warship from a few years ago.

Because of the sudden outbreak of the war, these warships did not replace their barrels before the war. In the past training and exercises, most of their barrel life had been consumed. In the exchange of fire with the Qingdao Fortress, most of their barrel life had been exhausted.

Exhausted, it is for this reason that secondary fire bombardment is used to save the life of the barrel.

"Reply the telegram to that Kamio guy. Well, after receiving the signal, the battleships of the Second Fleet will fire 50 grenades each!"

Although he was very dissatisfied with Kamio in his heart, Kato Sadaikichi not only accepted his request, but even went beyond it.

"But, Your Excellency..."

Upon hearing this, Captain Maruhashi Hikosaburo, the captain of the Shufang, said hurriedly.

"If you fire fifty rounds, the life of the main gun barrel of the Second Fleet will be exhausted. By then..."

"The Chinese defenders do not have a navy! As for the German navy in the South China Sea, they have already moved away..."

Turning his head to look at Colonel Hikosaburo Marubashi, Kato Nobuyoshi had a wry smile on his face.

"Colonel Maruhashi, since the Siemens incident, the Navy has been in a storm. If we cannot meet Kamio Mitsuomi's request today, then..."

The sight turned to Wanggezhuang Bay.

"If this Qingdao attack fails, then the Army will pass all responsibilities to the Navy, and the Navy will be even more vulnerable. By then, the entire Navy..."

Thinking of the impact of the Siemens incident on the Navy, Kato Sadayoshi felt helpless. A few corrupt elements had almost destroyed the entire Navy.

Nine months ago, when the telegram of kickbacks from Siemens to naval officials was published in Japan, there was an earthquake. The Congress was in chaos. The media was hyping it up, and the Army was behind it. Angry people flocked to Congress.

Even the Navy Ministry and the 4,000 police officers were unable to maintain order. In the end, the Army dispatched a brigade from the Third Regiment to help maintain order and the situation was finally calmed down.

The result was that Yamamoto Gonbei, who had just assumed the throne of Prime Minister, and his cabinet resigned en masse in April. The navy's "88th Fleet" plan had lost some of its glory, and the Siemens incident had just shaken the Japanese domestic political scene.

The Japanese navy, which had risen in the past, continued to fight. The navy, which had lost its face and credibility, could no longer propose a military expansion plan. The impact of the Siemens incident on the navy cannot be overestimated.

The commander's explanation made Colonel Maruhashi Hikosaburo immediately understand what the commander meant.

"When I think of the Navy, I think of Yamamoto Gonbei, and when I think of Yamamoto, I think of kickbacks!"

The reputation of the Navy has been completely ruined. At this time, the Navy must not become a target for the Army again, especially a target that shirks responsibility. If, as the commander said, the Army failed, the responsibility should be placed on the Navy.

When the Navy's reputation has been completely ruined, who will believe the Navy's explanation? Who will believe that the life of the barrel is exhausted and that the life of the barrel is saved for emergencies? By then, the Army's failure will not only be entirely the Navy's responsibility.

, even in the eyes of the people, it was the navy's "inaction" that led to the lives of thousands or even tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers. By then, the earthquake might have completely destroyed the entire navy.

"Then, if the second fleet's body tube life is exhausted, how will we..."
Chapter completed!