Chapter 587: Rigid Learning
Itagaki Resuke, Oyama Yasuke, Ijiji Masachi and others are all famous generals of the new government army. Although they still have a long way to go before they are truly famous, they are also people with the potential to be famous generals. They had already seen the ferocity of the mercenaries, and naturally knew what would happen if they stormed the mercenary defenses, so they made a little trick.
The Sanchun Domain, a close neighbor of the Nihonmatsu Domain, was very familiar with the geography of the Nihonmatsu Domain, and these guys who surrendered did not hesitate to sell their former teammates. Idiji Masachi and the others, from the mouth of the guide of the Sanchun Domain, learned some of the paths into Waiguo City, and he was already able to bypass the mouth of the middle and the big altar. However, the three quasi-famous generals did not choose to break into Waiguo City directly, and gave the mercenaries a surprise attack. Because they have roughly analyzed the mercenaries' mobility and will to fight through the summary of the previous battle, if they bypass the mercenaries and rush in, the mercenaries will definitely not give up, and will quickly divide their troops to help. The Japanese troops who entered the city were not allowed to make meritorious contributions, and they might be dumplings made by the mercenaries and lose all their old capital.
It is also a good option to divide the troops to break in, and then advance with the main force, and shake the mercenary defense line with internal and external attacks. However, the three of them all felt that the risk was a bit big, the mercenary's combat power was too strong, and the two-front battle might not fall into disadvantage. Once the battle is in a scorching position, the Japanese troops who break into the city are likely to collapse before the mercenaries due to lack of supplies. So the three of them formulated an uncharacteristic plan, first led by Itagaki Resuke to lead the main force to attack the mercenary defense line, and firmly contain the mercenaries in the position, so that they were unable to return to help. Then, led by Yasuke Oyama, the strange soldiers broke into the outer Guocheng through the small road, and when the main force of the mercenaries was unable to return to help, he broke through the two pine inner Guocheng in one fell swoop. When Nihonshonai Guocheng falls, even if the Japanese army still can't solve the mercenaries for a while, the mercenaries will lose their support and have to withdraw from the battle. With a strong enemy trailing, it is impossible for the mercenaries to have the spare strength to counterattack Neiguo Castle, and even if they really kill it back, Yasuke Oyama can burn Nihonmatsu Castle with one fire, so that the mercenaries can't grab anything back.
However, no one thought that the heavy artillery of Manchuria would have such a huge power, and a single artillery fire would abolish the main army of Itagaki retreating. Itagaki retreated's plan to contain the main force of the mercenaries completely turned into a beautiful dream for them, and there was no possibility of realizing it at all. However, Yasuke Oyama, who was walking the path, could only hear the rumbling cannons, but he could not see the tragic situation of Itagaki retreating at all, and he faithfully carried out the plan, and rushed into the enemy group like Toyama Zhao Zilong. Zhao Zilong is full of guts, but Yasuke Oyama has a black eye, he doesn't know what he is going to face.
After entering the streets of Waiguo City, Oyama Yasuke was also very happy, except for the defense line set up by the mercenaries at the entrance of the Great Altar and the mouth of the confession, there was no defensive deployment in the city. Except for the ordinary people who fled in a panic or knelt on the ground and begged for their lives, Yasuke Oyama didn't even encounter a single soldier of Nihonmatsu. Nihonmatsu's outer Guocheng is almost a flat river, and Yasuke Oyama excitedly led his troops straight to Nihonmatsu Inner Guocheng.
The capture of Nihonshonai Guocheng was imminent, and of course Yasuke Oyama had to play the role of the courage of the three armies, so he took the lead in standing at the front of the team. Yasuke Oyama had already seen the improvised line of defense hastily deployed by the mercenaries, and the mercenaries stationed in Naiguo Castle were loosely lined up and looked flustered, and Yasuke Oyama seemed to see the goddess of victory smiling and waving to him. Unfortunately, when Yasuke Oyama had just seen the goddess of victory smiling, he heard a piercing gunshot.
Without orders of their own, the Japanese army, still accustomed to fighting in a line of battle, would never open fire, and although these lowly fellows had been farmers before, Yasuke Oyama was confident that his soldiers were well trained. If your own people didn't fire, is it the enemy? There was only one gunshot, and it seemed that the enemy was already in disarray, they had lost their command, and they couldn't even fire a salvo, but why did their left ear hurt so much?
The cow hat is a good thing, it's not just a bluff, it's big enough, like a big-headed Buddha's hood on your head. The sniper hit the hat accurately, but he didn't find the location of Yasuke Oyama's head in the hat, and the bullet hit the cow's hat, but it didn't hit Yasuke Oyama's head. Yasuke Oyama, who was lucky, escaped the end of turning his head into a rotten watermelon, but he couldn't be unscathed. The high-powered bullet of the Chungsho II rifle took his left ear away, and Yasuke Oyama turned into one ear.
"Captain......" Yasuke Oyama's personal soldiers found the blood left in Yasuke Oyama's ear.
"No hindrance, attack, attack!" Yasuke Oyama covered his ears and insisted on directing the battle, the goddess of victory had not left him yet, he had to fight in one go.
Yasuke Oyama is persistent, and the snipers on the lookout are even more persistent. After the gunshot, the sniper knew that he had missed, and the guy with the big black cow hat did not respond, which was really a shame for him as a sniper. The sniper quickly pushed and pulled the bolt and fired his second bullet, and when he pulled the trigger this time, he knew he was about to miss again. After Yasuke Oyama was wounded, his own soldiers suddenly pulled him back two steps, and the sniper did not expect Yasuke Oyama to move suddenly.
"Brute!" Yasuke Oyama was shot anyway, and he took two steps back to give way to his chest, but the bullet still hit him in the thigh. Yasuke Oyama, who was shot in the thigh, couldn't stand still, although he still wanted to insist, but the bullet pierced his thigh, no matter how much he wanted to insist, he could only helplessly retreat with the help of his own soldiers.
Yasuke Oyama was wounded, and the Japanese army was inevitably panicked, and the only one in the martial arts who almost smashed it hurriedly took advantage of this good opportunity to sort out his own defense line. As soon as the martial arts made a little appearance, the Japanese army had already restored order and pressed up in a neat line. The Japanese army's offensive strategy was very obvious, they were to concentrate their forces and storm the gates of Neiguo City. The only martial artist with limited artillery support, looking at the dense Japanese army, his heart was all kinds of bottomless. But when the Japanese army set up a position, Wulin almost didn't laugh out loud.
The military reforms of the southwestern feudal domains were all inherited from the British, and they studied them very thoroughly, almost like a yellow British army wearing Japanese uniforms. It's a pity that the Japanese are too rigid, they don't know what it means to take the essence from the dross, and they have learned everything that should not be learned. Therefore, the only Japanese army in front of Wulin, like the British army one or two decades ago, lined up in a neat phalanx, and adhered to the principle that the British army did not take the lead in firing, and slowly approached the only line of defense in Wulin like a moving forest. The British army, which pursues accurate shooting, always likes to get closer to the enemy, and the Japanese army, a good student, is the same, no matter how they approach the only line of defense in the martial arts, they are about to stick their big faces.
When the Japanese fought with the soldiers of various domains, they would generally advance to 50 to 100 meters before firing, and the two rows of soldiers in the front and rear would shoot alternately. The British are still using this style of play, but the Japanese have clearly failed to grasp the essence of it. The British would only use this style of play when facing weak enemies such as African natives armed with spears, and they would not use this method of fighting to death when facing the heavily equipped Manchurian Army. When the Japanese army bullied the soldiers of the Northeast Domain, there was nothing wrong with fighting like this, but in the face of mercenaries, they still fought like this, which was death.
"Let's fight! Machine guns and * launchers focus on greeting, rifles shoot freely, * you don't have to be polite if you have enough brains, try to say hello! "The only thing in Wulin is that he won't let the Japanese army stick his face over, so when the Japanese army was still two hundred meters away from him, he decisively gave the order to open fire.
Ever since Goxinga cheated and got a heavy machine gun, fighting in array is looking for death. The reason why the British still maintain the method of fighting in the hollow phalanx is completely to bully the natives around the world to save bullets, and they have long known that the array war is outdated. The British Royal Guards have been simulating and practicing Manchurian-style skirmishers, and are trying to improve their tactics according to their own equipment, but unfortunately they forgot to tell the Japanese. The Japanese had only seen the line tactics of the British, and the British military instructors they hired were all second-line personnel who had never fought against the Manchurians, so naturally they could not learn the most advanced tactics in the world.
In the face of the mercenary's machine-gun fire, the Japanese commanders and soldiers will not be able to play anymore, they are used to fighting a wave by themselves, and the enemy is fighting back a wave, which is not like this at all. The dense houses in Waiguo City saved the lives of some Japanese soldiers and also some Japanese soldiers. The small space between the streets gave the leading Japanese soldiers no room to dodge, and they could only fall to the ground one by one. However, the follow-up troops survived because of this, and used their comrades in front of them to block bullets with their bodies, and they fled into the courtyard of the house in embarrassment, temporarily escaping with their lives.
"* Launcher out of the way, rifle cover, top up, * hello!" Wulin is the only one who has followed Shanyu and has also mixed in Temple Street, although the mercenaries have few hands, but they are no strangers to street fighting, how to sweep away the stubborn enemies in the courtyard, they are very experienced.
*Launcher and* This kind of street fighting weapon, the Japanese army has never seen it, and they don't know that there is such a way of fighting. All they thought about was relying on the courtyard wall to hold on, using the courtyard wall and the shelter of the house to shoot rifles at the mercenaries. It's a pity that before they could climb the courtyard wall, a small silent cannonball flew into the courtyard and blew them up with a bang. Before their ears could recover from the roar of the explosion, more smoking hammers were thrown against the wall, and then they had their final moments.
Yasuke Oyama, who was injured in the leg, was carried out of Guocheng outside Erhonmatsu in embarrassment, and his 1,000-strong army was only 200 remnants. Yasuke Oyama can be described as anxious, but there is a person in Changchun who has a headache than him.