In July 1669, Zhu Ge was very happy to watch his army assemble in Osaka.

The old Seventh Field Brigade that he originally carried was now upgraded to the Seventh Field Division, although it was Gao Zhixiang under Kong Youde who led the Seventh Field Division, but now it is his own person.

The Seventh Field Division has 71 Field Brigade, 72 Field Brigade, 73 Field Brigade, artillery regiment directly under the division, cavalry regiment directly under the division, engineers, baggage regiment, guard battalion directly under the division, Gao Zhixiang's personal guard platoon, herald platoon, communications platoon, as well as 30 people from the division's staff headquarters, staff guard platoon, and communications platoon, with more than 23,000 people in the division.

The 17th Field Division, which is a field division formed in the later period, is based on the garrison regiment once led by Qin Mo, with 171 field brigades, 172 field brigades, artillery battalions directly under the division, cavalry battalions directly under the division, and engineering baggage regiments, and the others are similar to the Seventh Field Division, with a brigade of more than 5,000 troops missing, and the troops directly under it have been reduced to battalion level, with a strength of only more than 18,000 people.

The 19th Field Division commanded by Kong Youxing has the Xinlu Fu Garrison Brigade, the Siguofu Garrison Brigade, the China Island Garrison Brigade, and the Short-Route Area Garrison Brigade, all of which are 3,200 people, and the regiment is smaller, but more than 1,400 people, two regiments and one brigade, except for the Xinlu Province, which are all Han Chinese and the original Marine Corps veterans, the other garrison brigades only have officers who are Han, some Han veterans serve as grassroots officers, and the Siguo Mansion Garrison Brigade has some Marine veterans as soldiers. The garrison brigades on the island of China and in the short-distance areas are all naturalized Han Chinese indigenous people from Southeast Asia, or overseas Chinese Han people everywhere, which prove that they can only join the regular army after they have been completely naturalized as Han Chinese, otherwise they can only be servant troops.

Kong Youxing's field division and the 19th Field Division still used these previous establishments, and did not give them numerical establishments, because the Ministry of National Defense considered dismantling them in the future, so they were still called the Xinlu Garrison Brigade, the Siguofu Garrison Brigade, and so on.

The whole division has 15,000 troops.

In addition, the eighth punishment battalion of the Mahan Corps was transferred to the rear of China Island, expanding the camp, they only had 6,000 troops, their main task was to manage the servant army, watch the prisoners, and transfer them up when the war situation was urgent, many of them were actually naturalized prisoners, the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese, the indigenous people of Southeast Asia, and the Han criminals, the former Ming Dynasty was composed of captured soldiers, of course, the management of them are some retired veterans of the army, the highest rank is only the commander of the punishment battalion, the commander of the thousand households, now it is time for the rank, The military rank is Captain.

In the entire punishment battalion brigade, there are only about 30 people with military ranks and officers, all of whom are Han veterans, and the lowest one is a corporal.

A total of 56,000 soldiers and horses, plus 30,000 Southeast Asian servant soldiers and 50,000 Japanese servant soldiers, the total strength reached 140,000 soldiers and horses.

After the Japanese occupied Kyoto Prefecture, they had their most elite soldiers and horses, 100,000 veterans of the three-year war, and 100,000 newly recruited people.

Now the Japanese are poor, and there are only soldiers left.

The population has dropped from 50 million at the beginning to 6 million now, Zhu Ge and Zhao Hui, as well as the former Kong Youxing, and even said that the Lu State in the era of Hong Chengchou has consumed nearly 45 million people in Japan in recent years, and Japan is now a grasshopper after the autumn, and it can't jump up.

The number of Japanese people killed and injured in the era of Lu Guohong Chengchou alone reached as many as 10 million, and in the era of the eldest prince, they were also killed and wounded, and nearly 5 million were sold, and Feng Quan and they landed in Xinlu Mansion and consumed nearly 10 million people and soldiers and horses in the counterattack, and in the Zhao Hui era, they also killed 2 million Japanese people and killed nearly 300,000 Japanese soldiers.

It can be said that the Japanese and Southeast Asians and their captured Japanese soldiers are consuming each other, and the Huaxia Kingdom only lost a few 300-ton warships, nearly 1,500 naval soldiers, 2,500 marines, and 100,000 Han soldiers from the Qing Dynasty in Lu, 300,000 indigenous soldiers from Southeast Asia, 1 million indigenous naturalized people, and 3.5 million Japanese people.

At present, 89 percent of the Han people in Xinlu Province, 45 percent in Siguo Province, 15 percent in China Island, and 8 percent in the short-way areas are all Han Chinese people who have immigrated over, and the total number of naturalized people released from the prisoner camps by the indigenous people of Southeast Asia is 20 percent, which is about 1.3 million people.

The Japanese are still persisting in such heavy losses, and it seems that they really deserve to be Japanese.

But they won't last long.

In early August, Brother Zhu, who had already organized all the troops, asked Zhao Hui to lead the naval warships, mainly the old thousand-ton warships and warships, to dispatch more than 100 ships to blockade the strait and all parts of the islands, and then he took three divisions, plus 5,000 troops directly under the division headquarters, to form an encirclement of Kyoto Prefecture, and sent two garrison brigades, that is, Kong Youxing's troops, to prevent the Japanese from increasing troops from Nagoya.

Originally, in the first half of 68, they laid down Nagoya, but because they were all Japanese people, they were overshadowed, lost a garrison brigade of more than 3,000 people, and retreated to the Osaka line in a hurry, and also lost 30,000 Japanese servant soldiers.

About more than 10,000 were captured, more than 10,000 were killed, and then the Japanese concentrated their forces and turned to put these captured servant troops in front to attack Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture's 3,000 Southeast Asian indigenous troops, a battalion of garrison troops could not hold Kyoto Prefecture under the siege of tens of thousands of enemy troops with the cooperation of the Japanese people, so Kyoto Prefecture was also lost.

This is the most humiliating battle since Brother Zhu became a senior general of the Huaxia Army, and no one else has ever lost two places and two mansions in such a row, so today Brother Zhu is a shame before blood.

In the morning, the artillery bombardment, nearly 500 cannons continued to shell the enemy's forward positions, the Japanese used the trenches quite well, and there were Mongolian cavalry of the Qing Dynasty in the city as a response and assault force, so Zhu Ge was very cautious in fighting, and the battlefield was the best place to learn to fight.

First, more than 500 rounds of solid bullets, and when the Japanese adapted to this rhythm, after three rounds, suddenly it was a flowering bullet, although the Japanese had been prepared, but from the observation of the telescope, the Japanese forward trenches still suffered heavy losses, at least more than 1,000 troops were killed, more than 2,000 wounded, the enemy was braving the fire to transport the wounded, Zhu Ge ordered the Southeast Asian natives to assault, and the Japanese servant army of 10,000 people was postponed.

So 20,000 people began to attack the north gate of Kyoto Prefecture, two kilometers away, when they reached a distance of 500 meters, the Japanese artillery fire had already been fired seven rounds, so there were about 3,000 dead and wounded here, those trenches and positions were established by the Huaxia army, and the Huaxia army suffered a lot.

So Brother Zhu asked people to give orders, stick to the spot, and dig trenches.

So the morning passed like this, shelling, less than 20,000 Japanese soldiers and Southeast Asian indigenous soldiers began to dig trenches and build fortifications at a distance of 500 meters from the enemy, and at noon the fortifications were completed, and the second wave of 20,000 troops went up to take over the defense, and the troops attacking in front withdrew.

The two sides used three-pounder guns and six-pounder guns to kill and wound each other at a distance of 500 meters, and here Zhu Ge asked 20,000 Japanese reserve troops to attack, dig trenches and communication trenches, and build fortifications, which were located at a distance of 1,000 meters.

It was repaired at about three o'clock in the afternoon, and the artillery of both sides fired shells at each other, but they were replaced by solid shells, and the artillery on this side shelled the enemy's city gate, the second position, the city wall, and the other side shelled the positions guarded by the Japanese and Southeast Asians at a distance of 500 meters.

When everything was ready, the last 10,000 Japanese advanced forward and reached 1,000 meters, he ordered 20,000 troops on the front line to start attacking, 10,000 Japanese back troops to advance to the trench at 500 meters, and Kong Youxing's two brigades to go up to defend the trench at 1,000 meters.

Most of the casualties in the artillery bombardment on both sides were around 5,000, but the Japanese soldiers were more, and because there were more artillery on the Huaxia side, the performance and range were higher than the enemy's, and the key was that there were flowering shells, so the number of dead and wounded had just reached 5,000.

At a distance of 500 meters, there were already more than 2,000 casualties and more than 2,000 mixed servant soldiers and horses, and more than 1,000 casualties were left behind, and rushed to a distance of 100 meters in front of the enemy, and the two sides shot at each other at a distance of 100 meters.

But he had to charge, because there was a garrison brigade behind him to supervise the battle.

The garrison brigade is holding a flintlock pistol for rearloading singles, and what they hold in their hands is a front-loading Jingai 2 arquebus, although it is a generation more advanced than the Japanese Jingai 1 arquebus, but after all, people are in the trenches, they are outside, there is no cover, the Huaxia Army has Zhang Qiang's guidance, and when they dug fortifications before, they did not consider that they would attack such a self-dug position, although they were transformed by the Japanese, but it still made people unable to start, and the surrounding three hundred meters were empty white ground, how to cover it, There wasn't even a single stone that could hide people, but fortunately the artillery of both sides had made a lot of craters here.

Can only crouch, but also more friendly than other battles without cover.

When there were more than 3,000 dead and wounded, some of them threw their weapons and ran back, but the Japanese compatriots behind them could not do it, and there was a crackling of guns, and those who fled fell, at least a thousand.

The Japanese servant army squatting in the trench didn't want to, but they didn't want to, five hundred meters behind, but the Huaxia army was squatting, and if they didn't shoot to stop the people in front from running away, then the artillery in the rear would cover here, and they had no place to run, so they could only be sorry for the compatriots in front, as for the natives of Southeast Asia, I'm sorry, it's you who fight.

Therefore, the 10,000 Southeast Asian indigenous soldiers who participated in the attack in front are now less than 3,000 people, because there are many Japanese soldiers, and the opposite side is beating them, and the rear are also beating them, and they have many dead and wounded, and they want to cry without tears.

The battle lasted until dark, and the remaining 11,000 servant troops were still suppressed, and they only eliminated 2,000 Japanese soldiers, not even the number of people eliminated by artillery fire, which was really too embarrassing.

Brother Zhu put down the binoculars and said to the herald soldiers beside him: "Let the attack be withdrawn, the Japanese soldiers at 500 meters will defend, and the enemy will not be allowed to break through the defense line, and send the first wave of damaged Southeast Asian natives and horses to the two flanks, surround the Japanese soldiers in the trenches of 500 meters, and if they dare to surrender to the enemy, directly attack where they are, and kill them all." Today, the Japanese soldiers fought the indigenous soldiers of Southeast Asia during the day, and I believe that they will watch the Japanese soldiers on the front line for us at night. ”

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