Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 25: Attack on Wugang (Part 2)

After cleaning up facilities that may bring danger to the fleet, the artillery fire began to focus on the care of factories, blast furnaces and shipyards that Japan is building.

An hour later, there were basically no very eye-catching targets on the shore. Seeing that the shelling was almost done, Zhang Yunfei ordered the shelling to stop and let the Marines land on and clean up.

I saw small boats being put down by various ships, and the Marine Corps soldiers were carried inside. Under the leadership of officers at all levels, they soon boarded the docking wharf of Wugang.

At this time, the rising sun had risen, and the warm sunshine tried to soothe the cold breath of Wugang. At this moment, the two battalions of Marines had already boarded the land of Wugang. Zhang Yunfei did not let them down for the other battalion and artillery battalion, and the consciousness was unnecessary. The raid was very effective, and there was no resistance on the land now. The second was to save time, after all, pulling teeth in the jackal's mouth.

The battalion officers of the two battalions were Zhao Gang and Li Jun. They divided the east and west ends to first surrounded the entire Wugang wharf dock, and then started a carpet-style search. When they encountered a living person, they were executed on the spot. This was also Zhang Yunfei's order.

The ground was filled with flames, fragments of houses after the explosion and Japanese corpses. These Marines originally wanted to search for some oil and water in the shipyard, but when they saw that the shipyard had turned into a pile of ruins, they not only had nothing left, but also had to be careful of falling objects to avoid being smashed.

I continued to search like this, and when I met someone who was still breathing, I went up to fill a bayonet. Although it was morning and summer, the corpses quickly smelled fishy, ​​which made these newly reorganized recruits who had not experienced the war experience the cruelty of the war for the first time. Several soldiers who had just killed the Japanese even vomited for a long time.

Soon, the Marine Corps searched the dock and found a large group of Japanese people wearing shorts. As soon as they saw Zhang Yunfei's Marine soldiers, they immediately started to riot! Fear! Yes, absolutely fear! They knew from the clothes of the people they came, the enemy of their own country, the Qing army!

It turned out that when the Nanyang Fleet was shelling, the group of shipyard workers could not run out, so they ran down the back door of the dock into the dock. Because the dock was very large and deep, the shells could not be hit. However, the huge cranes and the debris of the dock still caused many casualties, and only a few hundred people survived.

At this time, a Marine trooper walked to Zhao Gang and asked if it was done. Zhao Gang nodded, so the trooper returned to the dock, looked at the panicked and frightened boatman below, and raised his left hand fiercely. When the soldiers around him saw the trooper's gesture, they immediately pulled the bolt and aimed at the person below.

At this moment, a very awkward voice suddenly came to the ears of the whistleman.

"You can't do this. We are not soldiers. You cannot violate international conventions. We are protected by international conventions! I want to see your superiors!" a foreigner said in awkward Chinese. There were twenty or thirty foreigners next to him.

The sentry officer was named Li Xiaobao. He was originally an ordinary soldier of the Beiyang Huai Army. When Zhao Gang reorganized Li Dequan's Huai Army, he promoted him to become a sentry officer. His brother Li Dabao was a personal soldier of Zuo Baogui who was beaten to death by the Japanese army in Pyongyang, so he hated the Japanese very much at this moment, so he shouted: "Prepare!"

The foreigner was frightened when he saw that he was not buying it, so one of them shouted, "Don't kill us, we are British, we have very important information to tell your sir, please don't kill us, okay?"

Although it sounds ugly, Li Xiaobao still hesitated.

At this time, Zhao Gang and Li Jun rushed over and learned about the incident from Li Xiaobao. So Zhao Gang ordered people to pull these foreigners up with a rope (the passage had been blown up).

"Tell me, what's the matter? I'm the commander you are looking for!" Zhao Gang said.

"You are simply too savage. Slaughtering unarmed ship workers like this is a violation of international convention!"

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up, or you will be killed now!" Zhao Gang interrupted the foreigner's words, raised the Mauser pistol in his hand, and pointed it at the foreigner.

"Oh, God! You are such a barbaric and uncivilized country!" Seeing Zhao Gang glaring again, the foreigner quickly changed his words and said, "I told you to ensure my safety and let my companions leave this ghost place!"

"No problem! Tell me!" Zhao Gang said.

"That's right. We are engineers from the British Armstrong Shipyard. We came here to help a new warship of the Japanese Navy install cannons. Their warships were in a secret dock in the harbor on the other side of the mountain. They said and pointed to a hill to the east. I can take you there! Without us, you wouldn't be able to find the other side, because there is only a very hidden road there to pass!" said the British engineer.

After discussing with Li Jun, Zhao Gang and Li Jun both thought that the new warship among the foreigners should be destroyed. So Zhao Gang ordered people to take the 31 engineers to Zhang Yunfei's ship and handed them over to Zhang Yunfei for treatment.

After these foreigners left, Zhao Gang gave Li Xiaobao a look. Li Xiaobao understood, so after a row of guns, hundreds of ship workers in the dock were beaten into sieves. Then, Li Jun opened the water injection and drainage pipes of the dock and washed the corpse inside clean.

After searching again, he confirmed that there were no living people, he exploded several equipment that had not been blown up by the docks. Several were large dock cranes. Because there was not enough amount of zha medicine, they could not be blown up. So Li Jun asked the naval guns to bomb again. After confirming that they were destroyed, all the Marines returned to their respective warships.

Zhang Yunfei, who was sitting in the command room, looked at the results of the battle outside and was very happy. This was a victory in the first battle. Whether it was morale or psychology, all the officers and soldiers would have greatly improved.

At this time, Zhao Gang and Li Jun suppressed a group of foreigners and boarded the warship. Zhao Gang ordered other foreigners to be taken to the cabin and locked them up, and then brought a foreigner to Zhang Yunfei in person.

"Sir, good news. I just found this foreigner. He was a British man. I heard that he was an engineer from Wolf Company. I knew that there was a new warship in Japan being built nearby and wanted to take us there!" Zhao Gang said.

"Oh!" Zhang Yunfei immediately became interested when he heard that a new warship was being built in Japan.

So, looking at the British man next to him, he saw him wearing a pair of reading glasses, looking in his 50s, and wearing a very embarrassed body. It was probably because he didn't have time to avoid the shelling just now. So Zhang Yunfei asked in English.

"Tell me where that warship is? And your name, I can consider letting you go!"

When the British engineer heard that the other party could speak English, he must be a high-ranking official, because he knew that in the Qing Dynasty, those who could speak English were all high-ranking officials. So he said:

"I can tell you the location of the warship, but you must ensure that the lives of me and my companions are safe! You can call me Anderson."

"Okay, Anderson, listen, I only guarantee your safety. Others must come up with conditions that compare with their lives before I can let them go!" Zhang Yunfei said.

"Then just wait, I won't tell you even if I die!" Anderson said angrily.

At this time, Zhao Gang said: "Sir, he just said that the warship is on the east side of the mountain, and there is only one road to pass! If it really doesn't work, I will just take my brothers to climb the mountain!"

"You mean it's on the other end of the mountain!" Zhang Yunfei said, pointing to the mountain to the east.

"Yes! This foreign devil said that at the beginning!" Zhao Gang must answer.

"Okay, I know where it is. Zhao Gang, please take this stubborn old man down!" Zhang Yunfei said with a smile.

"Really, sir, aren't that great!" So Zhao Gang pulled Anderson with disbelief and walked out.

"Impossible, how can you, an outsider, know that passage? That was what I just asked the Japanese government to dig it open!" Anderson said disbelief.

Zhang Yunfei thought to himself: ‘No, it turns out that secret channel was dug by you? What a coincidence!’ It turned out that when Zhang Yunfei heard that it was a harbor behind the mountain in the east, he knew how to pass. He walked south from Wugang to the Grand Canyon between Guanyin Mountain and Xiushan. It was the closest road, otherwise he would have to go around and get lost.

So Zhang Yunfei said, "Why let's make a bet! If I go wrong, I will let you and your companions leave. What if I win? Just work for me for three years, and you have to persuade your companions to work for me for three years. How about it?"
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next