"Although I am on the sick bed, I heard my brother's suggestion." If the war breaks out, the land will be divided into north and south, old and young, no matter who is responsible for defending the land and resisting the war, and everyone should be determined to sacrifice everything.

.", the words of the Five Thunder Initiation are thought-provoking and awakening... Yesterday, I heard that some army officers and soldiers wanted to defend the country with their own lives and went to Qingdao to volunteer. How can I stop these volunteers?

Of...the sound of praying for victory!

Brother Shikai"

After Zhang Yilin finished reading the telegram, Li Zicheng couldn't come to his senses for a long time.

Volunteer army?

Unexpectedly, even volunteers have come out now.

The so-called volunteers are actually the most urgently needed force to guard Jiao'ao now - fort soldiers!

Whether this is a true wish or a false one is not going to be investigated, but Yuan Shikai sent fort soldiers from Yantai, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Xiuying, and Zhennan to go to Jiaotong. This is true. Just before Yuan Shikai's telegram reached him,

The staff department over there received a secret telegram from the Navy Department.

Artillery is a technical job. It takes half a year to a year to train a land gunner, and it takes even longer to train a gunner for a coastal defense fortress that can attack moving targets at sea. In the past few days, Qingdao Fortress has been shooting against the Japanese fleet, but it is not cheap at all.

If occupied, the total cost would be to injure thousands of people. It can be said that the reason is because there are no qualified gunners.

But now Yuan Shikai has sent over the most urgently needed gunners to defend the Qingdao Fortress. This Yuan Shikai! He is indeed Yuan Shikai!

"By the way, two hours ago, the Red Cross donated 500,000 yuan to the Longhai Railway General Hospital!"

"The Governor's Office of Anhui Province donated 200,000 yuan to Jiangsu Province..."

"Shandong Province has donated 100,000 yuan to provide medical care to Jiao'ao refugees..."

Li Zicheng fell into silence as he listened to the news and tapped his fingers on the table. From the time he conceived the plan until he received the telegram, the thing he was most worried about was that Yuan Shikai would give him "little shoes to wear".

, but now, his behavior is completely different from what was described in history, more than different.

Yuan Shikai, who jumped from Huaihai to the center to take over Jiao'ao, kept silent, then pretended to be sick, and then started a real fight. The "volunteers", money, and even weapons were all his own. This Yuan Shikai really was in the history books.

Have you seen the "treacherous and slippery" Yuan Shikai on the internet?

Skipping the center and taking over Jiao'ao was equivalent to a slap in the face of Yuan Shikai, but he was not angry. He counterattacked the Japanese fleet in Qingdao. This was tantamount to starting a war between the two countries and was detrimental to the overall situation of the country. However, Yuan Shikai still had no energy. He released the money and provided support.

, he did everything he needed to do, and even sent such a telegram to reassure himself.

Yuan Shikai!

What kind of person are you?

Muttering in his heart, Li Zicheng looked up at Zhang Yilin.

"Our great president..."

"Can't see through!"

Zhang Yilin took over and said again.

"But the only one who can do this is President Yuan!"

When he spoke, Zhang Yilin's words were somewhat filled with respect.

"The president, after all, is our president of China!"

Li Zicheng, who had always been quite disgusted with Yuan Shikai, said such a sentence at this time. His words made Li Zicheng raise his head and look at everyone in the office.

Zhang Binglin, who was the "front guard" of the Office, now showed some admiration on his face.

Take heart!

Finally, the strange look on their faces made Li Zicheng understand Yuan Shikai's intention. He went to regain Jiao'ao with a patriotic heart of "caring about the country and the people" and won the hearts of the people all over the world. And now Yuan Shikai's behavior is not necessarily patriotic.

move!

He has gone through several "transcendences" of his own, and now that Yuan Shikai has achieved this, how could others not admire him, how could he not...

It’s really Yuan Shikai!

I sighed in my heart, even though I knew the purpose behind Yuan Shikai's intention, I still swallowed this intestinal poison, otherwise the one I had been carefully building... would be...

"No matter what, we have to thank the president,"

After taking the telegraph newspaper, Li Zicheng stood up.

"It turns out that the cause of justice is never lonely. Perhaps we are the beginning of loneliness. As our song goes, when people are no longer loyal, we still remain loyal, but in the end, our loyalty will

To awaken the loyalty of the entire nation to the country! We are the leaders of all this!"

On the horizon in the distance, many Japanese warships once again appeared. These were more than 60 warships of various types of the Japanese Second Fleet responsible for besieging the sea off Qingdao. On the flagship "Shu Fang" battleship, Commander Kato of the Second Fleet

Dingji stood in the bridge, using a telescope to search for the gun emplacements on the coast.

Because the shelling at sea has temporarily stopped, the Chinese fortress guns on the coast have also stopped firing. The sea and land are silent. On the distant coast, you can see the Huiqian Cape Fort, and you can vaguely see those who were deformed by the shells.

The artillery battle off the coast of Qingdao lasted for two days. In the past two days, the Second Fleet fired tens of thousands of artillery shells at the fortress of Qingdao, but failed to stop the opponent's bombardment or even destroy their fortress.

.

Suddenly, several flashes of light and slightly visible smoke emitted from the front of Huiqianjiao Fort. The smoke quickly dissipated. Twenty seconds later, several destroyers and lightning strike ships of the Ninth Destroyer Fleet, which were closest to Qingdao, landed near

Five water columns.

"It seems to be the 150 fortress guns of the Chinese Army!"

Kato Nobuyoshi frowned. In the history of the world's navy, no navy has ever taken advantage of a battle with shore defense artillery. In the past two days, the Second Fleet has suffered almost no losses, probably because of the Chinese artillery.

Most of them are newbies, so...

"Jun Zuo, look at the Japanese warships. You will definitely receive a gift from our Yantai Fort!"

Fu Qingguo, who was wearing a navy uniform, looked at Han Wu beside him with some pride. He and his brothers rushed to Qingdao from Yantai Fort according to the secret order of the Navy Ministry. For the 280 kilometers and 240 kilometers of Qingdao Fortress,

They are no strangers to the 150mm and 120mm Krupp coastal defense guns. The guns used by the Yantai Fort are the same type.

"Um!"

When Han Wu responded, he turned his telescope to the Japanese warship and immediately saw several water columns rising around the warship in front, but no black smoke was erupted from the ship.

This round is a test shot!

Apart from being grateful for the fortress gunners who came from Yanyun to support Qingdao, Han Wu was more excited because he knew that from the moment Fu Qingguo came to Qingdao with more than 300 gunners, Jiangsu

The army was no longer fighting alone. This group of artillery soldiers also brought a total of 5,000 coastal defense artillery shells that Qingdao urgently needed.

Suddenly, accompanied by the sound of artillery, several violent gunshots were heard in the shelter, and some dim shelters were lit up. The 240mm coastal defense guns on the fort that had been silent for a long time roared again. This time, five coastal defense guns and

A salvo of five mobile fortress guns.

In the telescope, seven or eight columns of water exploded around the Japanese warship. Suddenly, a huge black smoke column rose in the middle of the warship!

"Okay, one hit!"

Holding the telescope, Han Wu shouted excitedly. While he was shouting, he saw a cloud of smoke rising from the middle of the warship again, and the warship ignited with fierce flames.

"It must be a 24-centimeter gun! This destroyer is finished..."

Perhaps it was as if to verify Fu Qingguo's words. The destroyer, billowing with black smoke, was tilting rapidly and sinking underwater. From the telescope, it was even clear that Japanese sailors were jumping off the warship.

"Who directed the bombardment!"

"Jun seat, this is Major Fang Tianming!"

Fu Qingguo quickly replied.

"Is it the black face?"

Han Wu's mind flashed to the taciturn black-faced man he saw when he greeted them at the train station.

"His cannons are really accurate!"

"Jin Zuo, Fang Hei Lian is the old fort commander of Liugong Island. In the past twenty years, he has been working on the fort all day long, trying every possible means to improve the artillery and sighting tables. Several forts in Yantai,

His cannon is the most accurate!"

The cannon fired again. At this time, Han Wu truly realized how big the gap was between his gunners and these old gunners. Before they came, this fort only fired one salvo every minute, but now, the same cannon,

People can play a round in half a minute.

"Junzuo, another row of cannons!"

Different from the previous shooting at nearby targets, this time the volley of artillery fired at the main force of the Japanese Second Fleet that seemed to be piled up in a pile ten kilometers away. Several shells landed close to the Japanese warship, and several more formed a formation.

Near misses, one of the shells landed on a cruiser.

"Withdraw the fighting distance!"

The Chitose was hit on the stern of the ship, and the reality of two salvos in half a minute forced Kato Sadayoshi to make a decision. Now the shooting level of the Chinese gunners has improved a lot.

"The days of quietly shooting at fortresses are over!"

After sighing, Kato Sadayoshi put down the telescope.

Although the artillery of the Qingdao Fortress is old, most of them are old-style retractable guns from more than 20 years ago, and their range is limited. However, although the naval guns of the Second Fleet are tube retractable cannons, their inclination angle is limited and their range does not have any advantage. Now

Now that the opponent has "learned" how to attack targets at sea, then firing at the fortress cannon is undoubtedly a recipe for death. Compared with naval guns that are affected by wind and waves at sea, the fortress cannon is more accurate. The previous salvo hit the target.

This has been proven.
To be continued...