"The essence of defensive warfare lies in the massive killing and wounding of the opponent's living forces, and simply holding on does not mean victory in the war! And if you can inflict heavy damage on the opponent's personnel, then the defensive battle will definitely be won. ―Baron Schmidt

The Japanese artillery positions were able to survive until the official start of the battle not because the Germans could not reach it, nor did it mean that the German artillery skills were not enough to support long-distance artillery battles, and of course it could not be the mercy of Baron Schmidt, every Japanese had a bounty on their heads! No one is going to have trouble with money!

The fundamental reason is that Schmidt was afraid to scare the Japanese! HE HAD TO WAIT UNTIL THE JAPANESE ARMY LAUNCHED AN ATTACK TO DESTROY THE OPPONENT'S ARTILLERY POSITIONS IN AN INSTANT, AND THEN RELIED ON MACHINE GUNS AND MORTARS AT CLOSE RANGE, AND THE 75MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS AT LONG DISTANCES CLEANLY HARVESTED THE OPPONENT! So he needs to endure now!

The 12 field guns of the Japanese finally came into play, accompanied by an intermittent cannon sound, a few shells of sparse pulling from the air crossed, and then landed near the city wall, the Japanese field artillery still used maroon gunpowder, the muzzle velocity was low, and the rate of fire was too slow, in the face of the reinforced cannon nest power is very small, of course, this is still after the hit, as far as it is now, the Japanese can hardly hit these artillery nests deployed behind the raised part of the city wall, and the trajectory of the Japanese shells is still too peaceful.

The signal for the Japanese infantry to attack sounded the death knell of the artillery, and when the Japanese army launched an attack under the cover of artillery fire, the rapid-fire guns deployed near the city walls finally came into play! WITH A MUFFLED SOUND, AN ORANGE FLAME ERUPTED FROM THE MUZZLE, THE BARREL QUICKLY RETREATED, AND THEN QUICKLY RESET UNDER THE ACTION OF THE GUN MOUNT, THE TAIL OF THE GUN OPENED, A BRASS SHELL WAS THROWN, AND THEN A GUNNER FED A 75MM SHELL INTO THE CHAMBER, WHICH WAS THEN LOCKED AND FIRED!

There were only 6 guns, but the projection easily overwhelmed the Oshima brigade with 12 guns. Each gun had an average rate of fire of 8 rounds per minute in the first few minutes! Whistling shells swept through the air, and seconds later, the Japanese artillery positions in the distance were shrouded in flames and smoke. Violent explosions kept coming from the target area, because of the advance ranging, the accuracy of the first round of shooting was good, the shells were almost evenly scattered in the target area, and in a very short period of time, a large number of equipment and personnel were killed by scattered shrapnel and flames!

When the fire is dense to a certain extent, the time and ammunition required to destroy an unsheltered position can be completely calculated mathematically, and an artillery battery of the Blue Regiment tilted the deadly rain of bullets over the target's head as if it were a machine, and used the dense shrapnel to blow a cannon to pieces, sweeping the soldiers down in pieces. Flames and smoke that heralded death rose behind the position.

The flames and smoke of gunpowder on the rear position shrouded the hearts of the attacking Japanese troops like a dark cloud, and at this time, about half of the Japanese troops had already rushed to a position only 300 meters away from the target, which belonged to the kind of distance that could be rushed down with more strength! Under the coercion of the officers, surrounded by colleagues, the Japanese launched the first wave of impact on the position! A large number of soldiers began to sprint, while some of them picked up their rifles and began to shoot!

With a creak, a Japanese soldier felt as if he had stepped on something under his feet, and when he raised his foot in some surprise, the death sickle composed of hundreds of steel balls slashed under his feet, and in just an instant, the steel balls completely shattered the lower half of the poor guy's body! Then he flew through the soldier's broken body, thinking about the Japanese army who was caught off guard behind him!

In an instant, several huge gaps appeared in the Japanese front line that rushed forward like a wave, and the anti-infantry directional mines deployed at the front made the Japanese suffer at the first time! The rest of the men stepped on the mutilated severed limbs of their comrades on the ground, and they suppressed their fears with howls, and rushed towards their opponents like wild beasts, hoping to overwhelm them with their bayonets!

"The Japanese? They rushed into the hunters' traps like a herd of wild boars, and they tried to overwhelm the steel with their brute force, but they proved to be of no use except to pile up a pile of corpses in front of our positions and send us large sums of silver! After the war, a German soldier said of the Japanese army.

Japan was not as brave as it was when it first entered the battlefield! After being swept away by the sudden steel storm, morale has plummeted, and many people are ready to retreat. The rest of the men continued to attack, but in the face of the Japanese army, who had already been beaten and feared, the Germans did not even use machine guns, and at a distance of 200 meters, the powerful rate of fire of the new semi-automatic rifle easily overwhelmed the opponent!

The German shooter with the new KA92 semi-automatic rifle in his hand fired a rain of bullets from a rifle counter-fire of 200 meters was enough to block the opponent's attack, and with a large magazine of 20 rounds, the firepower of the KA92 rifle was almost as powerful as 6 single-shot rifles! As soon as many Japanese soldiers came out of the smoke of gunpowder, they were knocked to the ground by the dense fire net! One soldier even ran out of a large magazine in half a minute!

The first attack of the Japanese lasted only more than 20 minutes before being repulsed, and the speed of victory was beyond Schmidt's expectations, but the Japanese soldiers killed and wounded in this round of attacks were only more than 300 people, if it were not for the loss of 2 vital artillery batteries, for the Oshima Brigade, such losses were not too great!

"This. It's unimaginable! Looking at the artillery positions that had been plowed through by shells, Oshima Yoshimasa's face was gloomy, the morale and the pride of the soldiers accumulated from successive victories in the Korean War were beaten back to their original shape in an instant, and the Japanese, who thought they were good at fighting, were as powerless as children in front of the real first power of the army, and the sharpest fangs were removed by the opponent after only the first tentative attack, and without artillery, how could this battle be fought? Let the soldiers brave the opposing artillery charge?

And just when Oshima was a little undecided, the two Japanese armies in the middle and left flanks also arrived at Jiulian City, Katsura Taro faced Nie Shicheng, Liu Shengxiu and the Russian army in the north of Jiulian City, and the troops of Limi Shangwen and Oshima Yoshimasa faced the German army under Jiulian City, and the entire Japanese army was like a huge pincer clamping the walnut of Jiulian City! The real battle is about to begin!

"My artillery will be responsible for providing fire cover, but in order to avoid being destroyed by the opponent's artillery, we must put the artillery behind, and the key to really solving the opponent is the infantry! I believe that if you attack with the elite infantry of two brigades, you can always tear through the opponent's defense, right? After understanding the situation, Tsumi Naomi said to Oshima Yoshimasa that the two sides agreed that one brigade would have two brigades at a time, and then attack in turn!

"General Katsura Taro's third division will attack the Qing army, if nothing else, their flanks will soon collapse, and then cooperate with us to take Jiulian City!" And when he heard that Katsura Taro was already in place, Oshima Yoshimasa finally mustered up the courage and prepared to launch a decisive offensive against Jiulian City!

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