In the eyes of Britain, France, Russia, and Yueben, the former Manchu Qing was a sovereign country and was recognized by them, but the current Han Kingdom was not recognized by them at all and was not a sovereign country, so the four countries did not even have a declaration of war, and directly started war against the Han Kingdom. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A group of young staff officers from the Military Department of the Han Kingdom discussed many times and came to a conclusion that the first to start a war with the Han Kingdom may be the French who suffered losses before, or it may be the behemoth Russia in the north, but what everyone didn't expect was that the first to attack the Han Kingdom was actually the small island country Yuben.

Before the war, on the other side of the Yalu River, in Korea, the Japanese army gathered two armies and four divisions, namely the First Army led by General Yama Aritomo and the Second Army led by General Daeshanyan.

The First Army was under the command of Lieutenant General Katsura Taro and the Fifth Division under Lieutenant General Michikan Nozu, and the Second Army was under the command of Lieutenant General Sakuma Zamata and the Sixth Division under Lieutenant General Kuroki Harizhen, with a total of more than 55,000 Japanese troops.

At the same time, the Han army opposite the Japanese army consisted of the Eighth Division led by Xiao Yao, the Second Brigade of the First Division led by Zhou Xingwu, the provisional Sixth Brigade led by Yuan Shikai, and a 105-mm howitzer regiment, totaling more than 23,000 people.

On 1 August, the battle was about to begin in earnest, and the Japanese First and Second Armies were preparing to attack the Han army in two directions, but the first thing the Japanese army had to face was not the artillery fire of the Han army, but the Yalu River.

At this time, it was the flood season, and if the Japanese army wanted to cross the Yalu River, there was only one way, and that was to use ships.

The Japanese army had to cross the Yalu River, which made the army very anxious, because the boats on the Yalu River were either on the side of the Han army, or they were sunk by the artillery fire of the Han army, and the Japanese army did not have ships at all.

The army originally wanted to let the navy support and let the navy's warships sail into the Yalu River, but the navy refused without hesitation, and the navy also said eloquently: "The enemy's Beiyang navy is stronger than ours, and our navy cannot fight." ”

Hearing the Navy's words, the Army was annoyed for a while, and your Navy is important, but our Army is not important.

From the day he occupied Korea, in order to prevent the situation of the navy not being able to occupy the bend because the navy was powerless, he spent a large amount of money every year to develop the navy, and even the emperor called on the whole country to develop the navy, and most of the military expenditure every year was spent on the navy, and the cost on the army was very small.

Although the number of the army has rapidly increased to 250,000, it can be seen from the weapons equipped with the army, such as the "single-handed" rifle and the old-fashioned breech guns, that the strength of the army has not improved much compared with the battle to seize Korea from the Manchus a few years ago, and it has basically stood still.

However, the navy could not be built in a day, and even if it developed rapidly for four or five years, it would not be able to catch up with the Beiyang Navy, so the navy did not dare to come out at all, for fear of being discovered and eliminated by the Beiyang Navy.

In the end, in desperation, the Japanese army could only make a batch of small wooden boats, which could carry seven or eight Japanese soldiers at a time, and could barely cross the Yalu River from a gentle place.

Later, a Japanese officer came up with a brilliant idea: these small wooden boats could be connected with ropes or iron locks to make a pontoon bridge over the Yalu River, so that the Japanese army could quickly cross the Yalu River.

So in just over a month, the Japanese army made a large number of inferior and ugly small wooden boats, but the Japanese army didn't care about this, as long as they could use it once or twice, let the Japanese army cross the Yalu River.

At 7:10 a.m., the Japanese army gathered more than 100 artillery pieces of various types on the upper and lower roads and prepared to fire at the Han army's positions on the other side of the river.

However, as soon as the Japanese artillery appeared, the "eye of heaven" of the Han army's position on the other side of the river clearly saw the Japanese artillery position.

The Han troops on the opposite side of the two Japanese armies each gathered more than 10 75-mm field guns and took the lead in firing at the Japanese artillery positions, which were more than five kilometers away, and the Japanese artillery positions were completely within the range of the 75-mm field guns.

The next moment, the Han artillery position was the first to let out an angry roar, and more than a dozen shells flew quickly towards the Japanese artillery position.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

In an instant, a symphony of iron and blood sounded from the Japanese artillery position, and the Japanese artillery was blown up, and the artillery also suffered many casualties.

Just when the Japanese artillery wanted to transfer the artillery position under the order of the commander, just a few seconds later, another round of shells struck, and the Japanese artillery who was about to transfer the artillery position was blown up.

"Eight Tooth Road!" The captain of the artillery wing, who was so angry that he was hiding aside, scolded, and he didn't know whether he was scolding his subordinates or the Han army on the other side.

However, the commander of the artillery wing did not play any role, and a few seconds later, a third round of shells hit and continued to crush the Japanese artillery positions.

Although the number of shells fired on the opposite side is very small, it can't stand up to the speed, and it can hit a round in a few seconds, and it can shoot eleven or two rounds in almost a minute, and the commander of the artillery wing has never seen an infantry gun with such a fast rate of fire.

Do you want a cannon or a man? The captain of the artillery wing was faced with a choice, and in the end, the captain of the artillery wing on the road and the lower road of the Japanese army chose to artillery, saying that he had a lot of them, but the artillery was gone, so what was the use of their artillery wing.

The captains of two artillery wings drove the Japanese artillery into the artillery positions and pulled the artillery away.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was not high, but the discipline was very good, the artillerymen obeyed the instructions of the commander, risked their lives into the artillery position, and pulled out the surviving artillery under the Han artillery fire, but under the continuous artillery bombardment of the Han army, in just five minutes, the Japanese army lost at least 700 people, a total of more than 200 old artillery, and also lost nearly half.

After that, the Han artillery also ceased firing, the rate of fire of the 75 mm field guns was fast, but it was too expensive to shoot shells, and thousands of shells were fired in five minutes.

However, the power of the Han army's artillery also made the Japanese army, which was confident that it could defeat the Han army, put down its pride and treat the Han army cautiously.

Since the range of the equipped artillery is not enough, it can only be beaten, then there is no need for artillery, as long as the imperial army of the empire can rush to the opposite bank, the Han army will definitely be frightened to throw down its weapons and flee, and the victory of the Japanese army is in sight. (To be continued.) )