Started as a security team, developed into a heavy armored synthesis division

As early as 1880, the Qing government invested in the construction of Lushun Port, and built military facilities such as docks, artillery batteries, docks, railways, and telegraph offices. It also deployed military agencies such as the mine camp, torpedo camp, and ordnance bureau, and used it as the base for the newly established Beiyang Navy.

The entire project took 10 years to complete and cost more than 430 million taels of silver. After its completion, the Lushun military port had a strategic location, secluded docks, and was never frozen all year round, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

It also has 29 artillery batteries including Laohuwei, Huangjinshan, Weiyuan, Songshushan, Erlongshan, Panlongshan, and Huangjinshan, equipped with more than 150 cannons, forming a fortress defense system combining the ocean in front and the land in the back.

At that time, it was the first fortress in the East and had the reputation of being one of the five largest naval ports in the world.

After the Japanese occupied this place, they also made use of these things. Relying on the 0.9-meter-thick fortress, combined with the internal bunkers, trenches, secret passages, artillery positions, central fortifications, outer tunnels, trench artillery positions, etc., they directly turned this place into a permanent fortress group with extremely strong defensive capabilities.

Of course, this 0.9-meter-thick fortress still cannot withstand the battleship's guns. After all, this fortress was not built with reinforced concrete, but with stones, cement and pebbles. It can be said that it will shatter at the slightest touch.

Therefore, the fortress is covered with 2-meter-thick sandbags to increase defense.

But, a thickness of just two meters is not enough!

I saw 18 406mm artillery shells flying in the sky towards Xijiguan Mountain, and smashing directly into the fortress on the mountain.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

One of the bullets hit the two-meter-thick sandbags directly above. The terrifying explosive force instantly blew away a large number of sandbags. The sand was blasted in all directions like shotgun shells and then hit the bodies of the Japanese.

The 0.9-meter-thick ceiling of the fortress under the sandbags also collapsed directly, creating a large hole. The horrific impact force generated by the explosion directly annihilated many Japanese soldiers inside. Many of them were killed by the shock wave before they could even react, bleeding from all seven orifices.

Some of the remaining shells hit the open ground, creating craters with a diameter of 10 meters. The broken shrapnel flew in all directions at an extremely fast speed several times the speed of sound, and the sharp sound cut through the space.

One of the Japanese soldiers who was on duty holding a Type 38 rifle was blown away dozens of meters. By the time he landed, his entire body was riddled with shrapnel.

One shell even directly hit a Type 105 mm field cannon on the turret. The huge energy of the shell falling from the sky alone was enough to flatten the cannon.

Then... with a bang, the shell exploded, and the artillery position collapsed directly due to the terrifying explosive force!

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

On a lookout tower, the Japanese observer began to scream, and the next second, with a "puff" sound, multiple shrapnel flew towards him and pierced directly through his chest.

It can only be said that this guy was unlucky. He was 300 meters away from the artillery position, but the fragments of the 406 shell seemed to have eyes and flew directly 300 meters away and hit him.

Well, the shells purchased from the system mall do have some emotions in them.

Of course, the fortress here is not an isolated fortress. It is a long fortress building with a total length of 146 meters and a width of 14.5 meters, which contains many bunkers and compartments.

At this moment, in a command room in the fortress, Major Takedalang of Gundam was awakened by the huge noise. There was nothing he could do as the noise was too loud.

"This... this, is this a battleship shell?"

Although he was a major in the army infantry, he still knew about battleships in this harbor fortress. Now when he heard the huge noise of the steel bomb, he knew that it was a battleship's naval gun attack.

"It's him, it's Xiao Dingfang, Xiao Dingfang is here!"

Gundam Wu Dalang's breathing became heavy, and his expression was somewhat frightened and excited!

Yes, this guy was still looking forward to the arrival of Xiao Dingfang's fleet. It was because of his confidence in the fortress.

Soon, a signalman came to report:

"Major, the target has been found. The enemy fleet is 30 kilometers away from us."

Xijiguan Mountain is the main peak of Laohuwei Peninsula. It is 171 meters high, so you can see the sea 30 kilometers away.

When Gundam Wu Dalang heard this, his mouth twitched at first, and then he became excited. He ordered: "Type 150 mm heavy cannon combat accuracy, the battle begins!

"When the enemy fleet enters the cannon range, we will immediately launch a salvo to teach Xiao Dingfang a lesson!"

"Hi, Major!"

Yes, the turret on top of the fortress was equipped with the Type 105 4mm field cannon, but in that fortress, they also hid four Type 150 mm heavy cannons.

This cannon weighs a terrifying 24.3 tons, its projectile weighs 50.2 kilograms, and its maximum range can reach 26 kilometers, which is very close to the 155-kilometer range of the 27.5mm cannon in Xiao Dingfang's hand.

However, the Japanese did not have many of these guns, only 10 in total. Four were placed in Lushun, two were placed in the Bataan Fort west of Manila, and the remaining four were placed on Shenchong Island, which had been under bombardment in recent days, to guard the homeland.

Now they put this thing in the fortress of Xijiguan Mountain, and they want to use the 26-kilometer range to launch a sneak attack. After all, this thing is a secret weapon and they have never used it before.

However, the battleship formation commanded by Zhang Tianxiang had no intention of entering the 26-kilometer range at all. Instead, it bombarded Jiguana Mountain from a distance of 30 kilometers!

Are you kidding? You have a secret weapon, but we have a cheat.

Although this thing that can fire at a range of 26 kilometers has a small caliber and can cause basically no damage to battleships, destroyers cannot withstand it, so we have to guard against it.

"fire!"

Boom boom boom!

"fire!"

Boom boom boom!

One after another, 406 shells were thrown up, and one after another, 305 shells were fired at the fortress.

Although the number of shells hitting the fortress in each bombardment was small, and sometimes there was no shells at all, but wherever it hit, a big hole would appear there, and all the Japanese soldiers inside would die, without a single one surviving.

"More fuel means more fire. Why don't they move forward? You can't fire accurately at a distance of 30 kilometers. Can't you see that your shells are all off target?"

Gundam Wu Dalang is getting so anxious, come here, come here, if you come here I will bombard you with cannons!

Little did he know that while he was trying to lure the other party over here, the troops gathered in their fortress were dying one by one.

Then a more anxious guy came running over, only to see that the other guy was bleeding and crying:

"Tai San, we...our guns can't reach them!

And our artillery, our artillery is all hot!"

It turned out that in the previous shelling, the fortress where the Type 150 mm heavy cannon was stored was hit by a shell. Although there was no secondary explosion due to the protection of the fortress, all the artillerymen inside were killed.

There was no way. The fortress was small, and the power of the shock wave generated by the explosion increased exponentially. It was impossible for anyone to survive.

"Nani?"

……

The Japanese 150mm cannon in Lushun was silent, while here in Shanhaiguan, on the banks of Tanghe River 20 kilometers away from Shanhaiguan, the M1932 155mm cannon that had not been seen for a long time was roaring, and 24 cannons fired mercilessly at the Japanese soldiers in Shanhaiguan.

Not only here, but also in important checkpoints such as Yiyuankou, Lengkou, Xifengkou, and Gubeikou along the Great Wall defense line, planes were bombing from the sky and 105 field artillery on the ground were also firing mercilessly.

On the hundreds of kilometers of defense line leading into the Northeast, the various troops of the Northeastern Battle Group launched an all-out attack, pouring massive amounts of aerial bombs and artillery shells on the Japanese bunkers and positions.

For this battle, Xiao Dingfang prepared a huge amount of ammunition, especially a wall-mounted ammunition.

Of course, the news of Xiao Dingfang's attacks from the south and the north soon reached Hirohito.

It was predictable that Xiao Dingfang would march into the Northeast, but Hirohito was very straightforward about the intelligence of marching into Luzon Island:

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Xiao Dingfang is from Long Country, they are a country of etiquette, their army will not invade other countries!"