"Mr. Major, Liu Shengxiu's Ming Army has expressed its willingness to fight alongside us." When Schmidt made the final adjustments to the combat deployment in the command, Mackensen finally brought good news. The first good news in the next few days!

"There wasn't a fire, did you?" Schmidt looked at Mackensen and said with some concern. Before Nie Shicheng went to suppress Liu Shengxiu, Mackensen strongly asked himself to go too. With Schmidt's consent, Mackensen led a group of his comrades from the Death Hussar Regiment to suppress it. Schmidt was also worried about the two sides fighting, but things seemed to be going well, at least not a few gunshots were heard during the night!

"You think too highly of them, Liu Shengxiu is a coward, we can easily control him, after promising him to act with us, this guy decisively gave the battle order. Then we controlled the horses and grain again, and they wanted to go almost no different from looking for death, and Nie Shicheng still had some prestige. Finally subdued these guys. "I have to say that Mackensen's means are still good, he knows that it is not good to be hard, he knows to control the top level first, and leave him a way back, Liu Shengxiu is more concerned about his own safety to put it bluntly, as for his troops, they have to line up behind!

"The Russians' reinforcements will soon return, if you simply count the strength, we will not suffer at all, the Qing army has 8,000 people, even if it is calculated according to the combat effectiveness, two folds, count the combat effectiveness of 2,000 people, plus a regiment of the Russian army and the cavalry of 1,500 people assigned to us, at least about 4,000 people, plus us, it is enough to fight with the Japanese army!" Mackensen is still very confident in this battle, although the infantry regiment of the Russian army has not yet come.

"This." When Oshima Yoshimasa arrived outside the Nine Cities, the trenches located outside the city walls made Oshima Yoshimasa's head bigger! It's not that he hasn't seen a trench, but the one in front of him is completely different from what he saw, extending in all directions like a huge spider web with Jiulian City as the center of the rapid unfolding, the Qing army generally refuses to defend the city, and the German army in front of him seems to be out of common sense, and the depth of the entire defense line has been expanding outward by more than 800 meters! The pressure on the infantry to charge suddenly becomes greater!

"Or, let's do it once according to the script! Let's blast the artillery at the head of the city first! "Although the Japanese Army began to learn from France, it still understood that as a brigade, although it was only a part, it could concentrate 12 artillery pieces. According to his idea, a 2,000-strong army does not have independent artillery, at most 4 to 6 guns, and the number of its own artillery is doubled, even if the opponent occupies a favorable position and can fight farther, he can win, right? Moreover, the artillery at that time was all direct fire, and there was very little research on curved shooting, and everyone used artillery as a large rifle. The effective range is like that!

So, the whole two companies, about 12 guns of artillery in front of the Germans, they orderly under the German gaze to untie the artillery from the carriage, and then arrange the artillery positions, put the artillery to the gun position, the artillery crew members from the ammunition truck to remove the ammunition, the commander began to measure the range to prepare for the shelling, the Japanese training is still good, the whole process lasted only about 15 minutes!

"Well, let's fire! Hurry up! Looking at the Japanese artillery being prepared outside the city, Schmidt said with a little pity. In order to defend the city, Schmidt cleared a radius of several kilometers of everything that could affect the firing range, and all terrain was used as a reference for the bombardment. As long as you stand at the head of the city and see the Japanese army, the German artillery can clearly know the distance and direction of the other side! You can even save on school shooting!

What can I say in this era, on the eve of the complete domination of firepower on the battlefield, although there are high-explosive shells, smokeless gunpowder and various artillery, and some early machine guns, but because the theory of long-range heavy artillery and indirect fire has not yet been fully formed. There were no large numbers of machine guns and submachine guns, so in some cases the war could be solved by infantry, especially in the Far East, a relatively backward battlefield.

The tactics of the Japanese are not complicated, that is, artillery and infantry onboard, at most add some flank detour tactics, in the face of the Qing army that runs more times than the number of fights during the battle, Japan can win seventy percent of the reason is that the opponent is too weak, the quality and tactics of the Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War are indeed more powerful, but now, it can only be described as hehe!

"The details are too poor, not as good as His Royal Highness the Prince." If Ruprecht were here, Baron Schmidt would not dare say that! The prince's tactical level at that time was a bit too much, but some ideas were really good. After learning Ruprecht's advanced combat posture, Schmidt felt that the tactics of the Japanese Army were too rough! To put it bluntly, it is the rhythm of a cannon fire, and then a reckless wave.

Infantry charges have a distance, and running a thousand meters and then hitting is obviously a rhythm. The key is to keep the impact distance as short as possible. However, in the current situation, the city of Jiulian is very exposed, and it is not easy to find shelter. What's more, the Japanese think that they have superior firepower, and according to past experience, under normal circumstances, they are ready to harvest as soon as the cannon sounds, and in the second case, they hit another nail on the flank, and then the cannon goes off and waits for the harvest.

To say that the Japanese still play in a dense formation and line up to shoot them is to wronged them, but to say that it is impossible to pull out a few clever skirmish lines, three or three groups or something, and the earthwork is even more limited, at least not like the Germans, each with a sapper shovel.

The Japanese artillery was being prepared, and the infantry began to gradually approach the German line, in addition to the artillery and rifles, the machine guns were simply less than the pandas, and eighty percent were still similar to the hand-cranked Gatling. Therefore, in addition to artillery, there are almost no weapons in this era that can threaten the enemy 400 meters away, and the rifle that can hit the target 400 meters away is a special shooter, and there is no sufficiently advanced optical sight in this era, not to mention the wind deviation or something, the distance is all up to guess!

The Japanese began to construct the proposed starting positions, the forward troops began to move, and the troops began to take position one by one, waiting for the artillery to be ready to begin the shelling. According to past experience, since it is a siege, let's smash the city wall first, and then look at the situation in a reckless wave.

While the Japanese were busy, the Blue Army was also making final preparations for battle. The 4 75MM rapid-fire guns on the head of the city are not to be mentioned, they are naturally suppressed from a distance. The remaining machine guns and mortars have been deployed to the pre-positioned machine gun nests and artillery nests, and the troops are deployed in machine gun and mortar positions. Although the number of people is small, but the firepower is really strong, relying on nearly half of the semi-automatic rifles, the Germans' melee firepower is not comparable to the Japanese's single-loading rifles.

And in order to make up for the lack of troops, some Russian cavalry was also converted into infantry, defending part of the position under the leadership of the Russian corps. A big war is about to break out, and there is an atmosphere of slaughter on the entire battlefield!

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