Chapter 414: Will is invincible to absolute strength
In the face of tens of thousands of Japanese invaders, the firearms unit of the 19th Division of the People's Army stationed in Jiulian City counterattacked in an orderly manner.
Every five seconds or so, a wave of more than 700 buckshot was fired, colliding with the dense stormtroopers of the Wokos, bringing at least 600 attrition to the Wokos.
Franco's machine guns, howitzers, and tiger head guns were also constantly spitting shells at the pirates, and although the killing effect was far inferior to that of the two musket regiments, they also brought a lot of casualties to the pirates.
It is about more than 800 meters away from Jiulian City, Konishi Yukichang commanded the Japanese Pioneer Army to attack the city, according to the previous investigation, Konishi Yukichang knew that the number of enemies stationed in Jiulian City was far inferior to his own, originally Konishi Yukichang thought that the vanguard army could easily capture Jiulian City, but the battle only lasted for a short time, looking at the casualties of his own personnel, Konishi Yukichang felt that this siege battle was difficult to fight.
The Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front were less than 300 meters away from Jiulian City, but in this short distance of 100 meters, the number of casualties of the vanguard army may have exceeded 3,000, although the strength of the entire vanguard army is as many as 50,000 people, but it has not yet begun to attack the city, just on the way to charge so many troops, and when the siege begins, how many troops will be lost at that time.
Konishi Yukicho's brows were already furrowed deeply, his own side had an absolute superiority in strength, and he should be able to capture Jiulian City, but he didn't want to see too many casualties on his side.
You must know that the goal of the Wa State is to capture the entire land of China, the land of China is too big, the population of hundreds of millions of people, several times the population of the Wa State, and the number of troops is also several times that of the Wa State, just capturing a Jiulian City will lose too many troops, even if the Japanese army currently loses all its troops, it will not be able to capture much territory in the land of China, which is not what Konishi Yukicho wants to see.
"It may be that the enemy elite stationed in Jiulian City." Governor Konishi could only comfort himself like this.
The battle continued, the Japanese army continued to charge towards Jiulian City, and the firearms troops of the 19th Division of the People's Army also continued to counterattack, and the Japanese vanguard army finally entered within 100 meters of Jiulian City after paying a huge price in casualties.
There were also musketeers and archers in the Japanese army, and the Japanese army was equipped with bird guns with a maximum range of more than 150 meters, and the cold weapon troops continued to charge forward, and the musketeers stopped and prepared to reload the muskets and attack the KPA soldiers on the city wall.
However, the People's Army was condescending, and even equipped with binoculars, clearly seeing that the musketeers in the Japanese army were preparing for an attack, Duan Xiaolou immediately ordered his own musketeers to turn to fire at the Japanese musketeers.
Under the hard face of wave after wave of lead bullets, the Japanese army was getting closer and closer to Jiulian City, but the small number of musketeers in the Japanese army was heavily killed and wounded under the attack of the people's army musketeers, and the people's army did not give the Japanese musketeers a chance to exert their might at all.
In addition to the musketeers, the people who carried the ladder in the Japanese army were also the focus of the people's army musketeers, and the musketeers of the People's Army killed some of the Japanese soldiers carrying the ladder again and again, but more Japanese soldiers were not afraid of death to carry the ladder and continued to charge forward.
I have to say that the Japanese army that came out of the Warring States period was no worse than the elite of the Ming army that the People's Army once faced in terms of fighting will.
However, no matter how tenacious the Japanese army's fighting will is, under the attack of the People's Army, the Japanese army will pay thousands of casualties for every 100 meters of advance, and such heavy casualties make Konishi Yukicho feel heartbroken, and even have the idea of ordering the withdrawal of troops, but so many soldiers have been killed and wounded, and they retreat so easily, and the efforts made by thousands of dead and wounded soldiers have been wasted.
Now Governor Konishi has only one idea, attacking the city, as long as the Jiulian City is captured, the number of casualties is more acceptable, if he doesn't even capture the Jiulian City, and he doesn't even kill many enemies and withdraws his troops, and his own side has thousands of casualties, he can't accept this kind of defeat!
"Attack! Offensive! ”
Finally, after paying more than 7,000 casualties, the vanguard army finally rushed to the foot of Jiulian City, the ladder was about to be erected, and our sergeants were about to start climbing the city wall.
On the city wall, the musketeers who had been in the front had retreated to the rear and were replaced by the grenadiers of the 19th Division.
"Ignition! Throw! ”
The next moment, dozens or hundreds of grenades fell from the sky, and some unlucky Japanese soldiers were directly knocked down or even knocked unconscious by the grenades, but this was not the end, and the grenades that hit the ground exploded.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
In a series of explosions, the Japanese soldiers gathered under the city wall had all fallen in a pool of blood.
The order to retreat had not yet been given, and the Japanese soldiers continued to rush forward, and some Japanese soldiers tried to re-erect the ladder, but the grenades of the People's Army continued to be thrown outside the city walls, even as far as possible.
In a short period of time, thousands of grenades had been thrown by the grenadiers, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were already covered with nearly 20 meters outside the city wall.
This 20-meter distance is like a man-devouring monster to the Japanese soldiers, as long as they rush over, they will die, in this short distance of 20 meters, thousands of Japanese soldiers have fallen, but the grenades are still falling from the sky endlessly.
After experiencing the melee of the Warring States and the victory of the Goryeo and Haixi Jurchen wars, the self-confident and arrogant Japanese soldiers are finally afraid!
They don't dare to take a step forward, there is a place of death ahead, whoever enters will die, they don't want to die here in vain.
The changes on the battlefield were so fast that before Governor Konishi could react, his side had already suffered heavy casualties.
Besiege?
It was impossible to succeed, and the Japanese army did not even have the opportunity to climb the ladder, and they did not even dare to approach within 20 meters of the city wall.
Konishi Yuki's face was full of disbelief, the invincible Japanese army would actually run into a wall in this small Jiulian City, just such a short period of effort, how many Japanese soldiers have been killed and wounded, it seems that it has exceeded 10,000.
"Withdraw! Withdrawal! ”
Governor Konishi angrily and helplessly gave the order to retreat.
The order to retreat was given, the rear team turned to the front line, and the Japanese army began to retreat, but the People's Army would not let the Japanese army retreat so easily, on the city wall, the grenadiers retreated, the musketeers of the two regiments returned to their combat positions, and the artillerymen also stepped forward to control the artillery.
"Fire!"
A wave of lead bullets once again struck the retreating Japanese army, and more than 600 Japanese soldiers fell on the battlefield.
When the wave ended, a new wave arrived, and the soldiers and soldiers watched their comrades behind them continue to fall, and they finally panicked.
"Run!"
Under the attack of the musketeers of the People's Army, the orderly retreat of the Japanese army directly turned into a rout, and the Japanese soldiers who fell behind frantically fled forward.
As long as you can run faster than everyone else, you won't die here!