Because the German army concentrated its defensive forces on the outer positions and coastal forts in Qingdao city, the Japanese army's Khonai detachment did not resist during the landing in Laoshan Bay. However, on the Hedong cliff of Beijiu River in Laoshan, 15 pairs of eyes were watching the Japanese army's every move.

This team of German infantry belongs to the 1st Infantry Regiment of the German East Asian Expeditionary Force. Since Japan declared war on Germany, they have been stationed here as outpost troops. In those seemingly boring days, they built barbed wire, lukewarm and simple fortifications here. The main position is on the high ground on the east side. The mountain road leading there is not only rugged and difficult to walk, but also tightly blocked by the only heavy machine gun.

These brave sentries used transmitters to transmit the Japanese landing progress back to Qingdao. Based on these timely and valuable intelligence, the aviation troops stationed in Qingdao often came to drop bombs and strafuse after attacking the Japanese 2nd Fleet. While causing certain losses to the Japanese landing troops, they also severely damaged the morale of the Japanese army. Soon, the Japanese landing troops began to advance inland. They learned about the situation here from the local people, so they decided to remove the German outpost troops.

After the Russo-Japanese War, the European army had become a paper tiger with strong appearance but vulnerable appearance in the eyes of Japanese officers and soldiers. The backward equipment of the Russians made them think that they had the most advanced weapons. In the coup in 1909, which lasted only one day, the Japanese army lost many experienced and calm important generals. The current Japanese army has long been in the hands of a group of arrogant and frivolous young and powerful officers. Bayonets and cannons have become gods of war worshipped by the Japanese army. The machine guns that once played a huge role in the Russo-Japanese War were thrown into the corner.

Despite this, the huge scale and tenacious willpower still make the Japanese Army a force that cannot be underestimated, and the Japanese Navy is also developing rapidly. After the British Navy suffered a Waterloo, the Japanese Navy has actually become the third strongest navy in the world. It is only after the German Navy that just won a historic victory and the vibrant US Navy, and is stronger than the British lean camel and its French allies.

In Laoshan Bay, several small trestles have been built, several small ships are unloading supplies, and countless small boats are transporting the supplies from the large ships back and forth on the sea one by one to the beach. There are various materials piled up on the beach, and a large number of Japanese soldiers are reassembling. Everything is busy and orderly. There are only a few smoke craters and pools of blood that remind people that this place was hit by air strikes not long ago.

"Master Zuo Teng, the reconnaissance report of the Second Team!" On a flat ground far from the beach, a Japanese correspondent quickly walked to a young officer, lowered his head and bowed halfway, and held a piece of paper horizontally above his head with both hands.

The officer took the report expressionlessly, and soon issued an order loudly:

"Light-fitting ready!"

More than 400 Japanese soldiers threw down their backpacks, carrying only guns, ammunition and dry food, and soon arranged four neat rectangular queues on the flat ground.

"Set off!"

The young master had no unnecessary expression or language, and rode a war horse to take the lead in leaving. Japanese army soldiers wearing yellow military uniforms and flat military caps followed behind and marched silently.

This unit is an infantry squadron of the Japanese Detachment. One of the squads has already gone to reconnaissance of the German outpost in the Laoshan area. After learning that Hedongya was the most important outpost position of the German army in this area, Zuo Teng decided to lead his squadron to capture it first.

After reuniting with the team that went to reconnaissance, Zuo Teng ordered a team to search in front, and the main force of the squadron followed up about 300 meters behind. In the valley leading to Hedong Cliff, there were steep cliffs on both sides, and the valley was full of rocks, and the Japanese army's marching speed became very slow.

Just 3 kilometers away from Hedong Cliff, Zuo Teng's vanguard team stopped. Zuo Teng saw from the telescope that several pointed helmets appeared faintly in a shallow scattered trench on the hillside northeast of Hedong Cliff.

"The first team is launched immediately and shoot on the spot! The second team supports it from the right wing, and the third and fourth teams head towards the two wings, quickly surrounding the German army there!" Zuo Teng gave the order to attack after thinking for a moment.

The Japanese squad located on the front quickly began to shoot, and monotonous rifle sounded densely in the valley. The only heavy machine gun of the Japanese squad only pointed the muzzle at the hillside, but the machine gunners had no intention of shooting. In order to save ammunition, these machine gunners developed the habit of not seeing rabbits and not showing off their eagles. Instead, the German machine guns on the high ground on the east side fired at the Japanese troops on both sides from time to time.

Half an hour later, the troops sent by Zuo Teng to the two wings retreated one after another. Not only were the rocks everywhere and there were cliffs everywhere. With the German machine gun fire, the two teams could not rush to the top.

"Food bucket! Waste!" Zuo Teng's face was full of veins, and the horse whip blew hard on the two team leaders, "You guys, now you charge from the front! If you can't take the German position there, you don't have to come back to see me!"

The two team leaders glanced at the soldiers who were gasping, and drove them helplessly to launch a frontal attack on the hillside.

The Japanese soldiers held bayonets and screamed. They rushed to 400 meters ahead of the German machine guns. At this time, the soldiers who rushed in the front stopped to shoot, while the other Japanese soldiers took the opportunity to approach the German army step by step from their wings, and rushed to the German barbed wire before they were forced to stop. Until then, dozens of Japanese soldiers had already lie down on the hillside, and the soldiers behind continued to rush up, ignoring the wounded soldiers who were twitching in pain.

Seeing his soldiers starting to work hard to demolish the German barbed wire, Master Zuo Teng finally showed a reluctant smile on his face. However, several grenades were thrown out of the German scattered trenches. After the barbed wire exploded, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers in the front fell to the ground, and the Japanese soldiers behind also lay on the ground and stopped moving forward.

"Bastard! Get up and keep moving forward!" Zuo Teng shouted at the top of his lungs, but hundreds of Japanese soldiers on the hillside were still suppressed and dared not get up. He was so angry that he roared and rushed towards the hillside, "Everyone rushed with me!"

Inspired by the sound of killing in the rear, the Japanese soldiers on the hillside finally got up again. However, a few people just stood up and covered their chests and fell down. The only machine gun of the German army had already exerted its power to the extreme...

Suddenly, the sound of the German machine guns stopped. After the last few grenades were thrown out from the German scattered trench, the German soldiers began to retreat. The Japanese soldiers took the opportunity to demolish the barbed wire and drilled over. When they rushed into the German scattered trench, there was nothing inside, and the Germans had long disappeared.

Zuo Teng stood on the hillside, looking at the wailing wounded soldiers on the ground, instead of ordering to pursue, but turned to alert on the spot. After counting the losses, he found that 32 soldiers were killed in more than an hour of battle, 43 were injured, and 16 of them completely lost the battle.

Not long after, the Japanese reconnaissance forces performed a report and the German soldiers retreated from Hedong Cliff to the Liushutai Resort Villa area. After merging with another German outpost there, the German army's troops reached more than 30.

"The 3rd Squad and the injured soldiers stayed to wait for support, and the rest of the troops marched towards Liushutai!" Zuo Teng gritted his teeth and issued an order.

Soon, the Japanese soldiers set out again, but compared to the high spirits when they left the beach, most of the Japanese soldiers at this time looked tired and their military uniforms were stained with mud.

Liushutai is located in the middle of Laoshan, west of the North Jiushui, and 4 kilometers east of Chaoyin Waterfall. It is the east edge of the German Jiaozhou Bay rental land. In the alpine canyon, there is a red-tiled villa dotted in a green bush, and a stream winds through it at the bottom of the canyon. Shortly after the Germans occupied Qingdao, they began to build a Western-style summer palace in this paradise-like place, and named it the McLeanburg Villa after the famous German summer resort. The building complex is built in green waters and green mountains, full of Western style, luxurious and beautiful. The villa complex is a special place for German officials or German soldiers in Qingdao to take vacation, recuperate, and summer vacation.

After the war broke out, the German army built simple positions and scattered trenches around Liushutai, preparing to block the Japanese vanguard troops here.

After a rush to march, Zuo Teng's troops arrived near Liushutai in the evening. In order to find out the situation of the German army in Liushutai, Zuo Teng sent more than a dozen soldiers to advance to the German army's formation for reconnaissance. When they were about to approach the German position about 1,000 meters, the machine guns on the German position suddenly spewed out orange-red flames, and several Japanese soldiers were shot and fell down on the spot. The remaining Japanese soldiers retreated in panic.

Seeing the German frontal defense firepower, Zuo Teng led his troops to detour from the west, but the German troops on the high ground on the west side were already on high ground. Just as the Japanese soldiers were about to advance quickly, the German bullets hit the head and faced, and Zuo Teng's soldiers were caught off guard.

Zuo Teng, whose eyes were red, decided to attack the high ground immediately, and at the same time, he sent a report to request the subsequent Japanese troops to come and reinforcements as soon as possible.

"Everyone, take out the spirit of warriors! Move forward! Those who retreat will die!"

Zuo Teng jumped off his war horse, pulled out his war knife and took the lead in rushing towards the German positions on the high ground. In this case, the fighting spirit of the Japanese soldiers was ignited again, and some even took off their shirts and started charging with bare shirts.

The German soldiers were not afraid of the barbarity and fearlessness of the Japanese army. On the contrary, they calmly shot bullets at the Japanese soldiers. In fact, they only had two machine guns on the Willow Platform, one on the front line of defense and the other on this high ground.

The Japanese soldiers gradually approached the German positions on the high ground with their undulating terrain and low trees. However, the German gunshots suddenly stopped again. When Zuo Teng covered his bloody left arm and led other Japanese soldiers to the German positions, there was already no one there, only in the distance, the retreating German soldiers were still shooting here sporadically.

When night fell, the Japanese troops supporting the army appeared one after another on the avenue of Liushutai. After all the Japanese troops gathered, they saw the ruins of German villas with only the blue smoke. Faced with these dark and collapsed buildings, they repeatedly shouted long live the emperor in the drizzle.

During the entire battle, more than 100 Japanese soldiers were killed or killed, and a rifle, several tents, some clothing and other objects were seized. No German soldiers were killed, only a few were slightly injured.

In order to prevent the Willow Taite Army summer villa from falling into the hands of the Japanese army, German soldiers set fire to the main buildings in the beautiful and luxurious Western building complex before retreating, and the war completely destroyed the beautiful Willow Tai Summer Palace.
Chapter completed!