Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

The Qing army built four forts outside Mudantai. Fort No. 75 was destroyed by Japanese artillery during the Battle of Pyongyang. After the Qing army retreated, a part of the Japanese Ninth Mixed Brigade was stationed here.The Qing army built a fortress at Mudantai, with a height of five feet, complete gun mounts, and a solid cover. During the Battle of Pyongyang, the parapet of the fortress was destroyed. Later, after the Japanese army captured Pyongyang, it was repaired again in order to prevent the Qing army from counterattacking. There were as many as 18 heavy artillery pieces with a caliber of [-] mm in the fortress, and the Japanese army hoarded a lot of ammunition.

The Ninth Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army belongs to the Fifth Division. In the air strike on September 9, more than a dozen senior officers below the head of the Fifth Division were killed, including Oshima, the brigade of the Ninth Mixed Brigade. Major General Yichang, at this time, it is reasonable to say that the higher level should appoint a new brigade head, but the division head was also killed. In the Japanese army, divisions are directly under the command of the emperor, and the appointment of division heads must go through the emperor. However, the communication has been interrupted, and they cannot be contacted, so the highest rank among the Japanese troops stationed in Pyongyang is Yoshihiro Shibano, the commander of the Third Field Artillery Regiment.

One of the major functions of the military rank system is that when the organization is disrupted in wartime, it is convenient for command, and everyone just obeys the command of the highest-ranking officer.Although Yoshihiro Shibano was an artilleryman, he was unambiguous about infantry warfare. It has to be admitted that in the Sino-Japanese War, the military quality of Japanese commanders was generally higher than that of the Qing army.Therefore, Yoshihiro Shibano left a brigade of Japanese troops in the main fortress of Mudantai, with about 300 people.

A straight 25 on the Beijing ship carried 35 marines and flew to Mudantai by night. In the forest outside the main fortress, they dropped off Chen Fei and other marines. Chen Fei and the others sneaked to Outside the Peony Terrace, the gate of the fortress was not closed, because the Qing army had already retreated, and the rest were their own people.

There are only two defenders at the gate. The main granary of the Japanese army in Pyongyang has been destroyed by the carrier-based aircraft of the Beijing ship. The Japanese army guarding the platform only has a small amount of food every day, so the captain of the guard station ordered that anyone who can walk , They all went to the mountains to find food, and those who could get ten catties of meat would be given military merit once, resulting in less than one squadron of defenders in the fortress.

Of course, Fade and the others understand the situation. The secret department on the Beijing ship is not a vegetarian. These agents are no worse than keeping secrets when they do intelligence work.Fade Chen and the others were all equipped with mufflers for the purpose of sneaking in secretly.

Chen Fei and the others are hiding in an open space about 400 meters away from the gate of the fortress. The searchlights on the fortress wall are sweeping back and forth, and any disturbance cannot escape the eyes of the sentry. It has to be said that the quality of the Japanese army is higher than that of the Qing army. After a long time, even though I was hungry, the Japanese sentries were still waiting.

Fade Chen was holding a Type 03 sniper rifle with a muffler installed. As a family of 5.8mm guns, the Type 03 rifle is superior to the Type 95 rifle in that the tactical rail of the Type 03 rifle can be equipped with more components.Fade Chen stretched out his hand to measure the wind, the weather was beautiful, the wind was zero speed.

Compared with the enemy, the wind is the biggest enemy of the sniper. The so-called zero-speed wind is the wind that has no effect on the sniper. In this case, with a distance of 400 meters and a shooter like Chen Fei, the two sentries can't even make a sound. Before sending it out, he fell into a pool of blood.

Chen Fei and the others quickly entered the fortress. Chen Fei and the others sneaked into the gun emplacement, and soon the guards were cleaned up. The attackers were dumbfounded as soon as they entered the barracks. The people inside did not need to attack anymore. I was so hungry that our army had never had the habit of killing surrenders, so they just confiscated their weapons. A little soldier even gave a Japanese soldier a compressed biscuit seeing how hungry he was.

Fade Chen and the others were just the vanguard. They occupied the fortress and immediately sent out a signal. The helicopters on standby in the airspace not far outside immediately flew over. Most of them were prisoners of war from the Qing army, and most of them were artillerymen. Fade Chen looked at his watch and thought: In 15 minutes, the follow-up troops will arrive.

At this moment, drastic changes occurred!

A troop of more than 100 people walked up the hillside. Mudantai Fortress was surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and only the side facing Pyongyang City was a slope, so these people were spotted by sentries as soon as they came up.

These hundred or so people belonged to the No. [-] Squadron who went out to hunt. According to the past, the hunting troop should not come back at this time, but today the No. [-] Squadron killed seven or eight wild boars. He came back with someone, but never expected to hit the muzzle of the Marine Corps. I really don't know if it's good luck or bad luck.

Fade Chen signaled his subordinates not to shoot, and waited for his order. At 400 meters, the outlines of the people had appeared. At 300 meters, the figures of the people could be seen clearly. At 200 meters, their laughter could already be heard.

The squadron leader's clothes are the most eye-catching. Fade Chen put him in the scope. The average Japanese male is 160 centimeters tall. From the reticle of the scope, he calculated that the distance between himself and him was 185 meters. Looking at the military flag on the Japanese bayonet, the flag was blown up by the wind. The bottom edge of the flag and the bayonet formed an angle of about 45 degrees. He applied a formula in his mind, divided 45 by 4 and multiplied by 1.6 to calculate the wind speed. , and then calculated the windage that needs to be corrected. This series of calculations was completed in an instant in his mind.

Then he pulled the trigger with his finger, and the sound of the bullet being fired was mostly absorbed by the material used to absorb sound energy in the silencer, so there was only a "pop".

The squadron leader screamed, and sat down on the ground clutching his right leg. On the battlefield, it is more difficult to hit a person's legs than to hit the head and torso, because the legs are in motion all the time, and Fade Chen likes to hit people's legs. , because such a wounded person loses his ability to move, and the uninjured person has to work hard to take care of him.

If in a modern war, the rest of the people will definitely hide because they know they have encountered a sniper, but in this era, no one has heard of a sniper, so the Japanese army thought whose gun went off up.

Fade Chen gave an order: Hit!

Dozens of assault rifles fired at the same time, and the bullets flew towards the Japanese army as if they had eyes. Twenty of them fell to the ground in an instant. The rest of the Japanese army suddenly realized that the fortress was occupied by the Qing army, and they quickly raised their guns. Hiding around.

The Japanese army did not counterattack, and retreated to the forts in other directions after a while. Chen Fei knew the Japanese army's plan: to use the artillery in other forts to attack the fort they were in.

Fade Chen called for an air strike, and soon several J-24s were dispatched, and the other three fortresses were immediately engulfed in flames. The defenders in Pyongyang saw Mudantai was occupied, Shibano Yoshihiro hurriedly gathered troops to attack Mudantai, and soon There are thousands of troops gathered around Mudantai. Since these people are relatively scattered, air strikes are not cost-effective, but the Krupp cannons on Mudantai are more powerful.

Several helicopters landed in the fortress, and the soldiers of the Qing army got out of the helicopters and went up to the wall. They were experts in operating these Krupp cannons.

The officers and soldiers of the Qing army on the wall saw the Japanese army preparing to attack, and asked Fade Chen in fear: "Shangguan, are we surrounded? Is there still a battle to be fought?"