138 Waiting for an opportunity
In mid-November, Wang Tingjiao led his troops to attack, and 25,000 men attacked the Japanese positions defended by 30,000 men. Before this battle, there were special forces suddenly attacked the Japanese artillery positions, and the Japanese artillery was all destroyed, although the Japanese army already had cement positions, but the 400mm armor-piercing shells were still powerful, and one-third of the cement pillboxes were blown up in one morning. Later, when Wang Tingjiao boldly surrounded on three sides and opened the way with artillery, the Japanese army had no choice but to launch a decisive charge against the attack of the airship's Maxine machine guns and artillery, delaying the retreat of the main force.
But Wang Tingjiao had expected that the Japanese army's final charge battle did play a certain role in eliminating at least 10,000 troops of the new army, but it was still defeated under the general trend!
The New Army lost 10,000 casualties, more than 5,000 lightly or seriously wounded, while the Japanese lost more than 20,000 casualties, and in addition to the 3,000 wounded and captured, about 6,000 others escaped with the help of nearby Japanese troops. There were almost no prisoners in this battle, and the 3,000 wounded and captured Japanese soldiers were also captured after they were exhausted in their desperate efforts. The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army completely shocked Wang Tingjiao and others.
There are only about 15,000 men left in the new army. In order to prevent the Japanese army from suffering the same crushing defeat again, the troops resolutely implemented the method of dispersing troops, such as the method of mercury pouring into the land, burning and looting all parts of Jilin.
Jilin Province is in an emergency. Wang Tingjiao had no choice but to divide his troops into five places, except for Wang Tingjiao's headquarters to sit in the Chinese army, the other four troops and horses were scattered to suppress the Japanese army. After several battles, the four armies suffered heavy losses, and the Japanese army began to learn the methods of guerrilla warfare, because the Japanese army knew very well that the new army with airships to help them in positional warfare was definitely not something that the current Japanese army could compete with. Therefore, after they dispersed, once they found the lone soldiers and horses, they immediately echoed each other, and after reorganizing the troops, they killed all the lone soldiers and horses. This is deeply in line with the principle of division and annihilation in the art of war, and Wang Tingjiao made the same mistake as Hong Chengchou and was broken all the way.
The new army was more advanced than the Japanese army in that every branch was connected by wireless transmitters, and as long as a unit held out after encountering the enemy, there would be troops and airships that received telegrams to come to support, so that the Japanese army could not achieve complete success. But the Forces nouvelles also lost almost three thousand people.
Wang Tingjiao retreated to Changchun, and the area south and east of Changchun was lost! At the same time, the Japanese army also began to stop attacking. Because peace talks have begun.
When Hu Xiaoyan got the Japanese army to stop attacking, he also knew that the commander of the Japanese army was Dashan Yan! It is said to be the result of the recommendation of Komura Shoutaro and others.
No wonder Wang Tingjiao is not an opponent. Hu Xiaoyan can only smile bitterly at this, Dashan Yan is known as a military god-like figure in Japan, no matter how much he belittles him, it can't change the fact that he is a master of the army, and in today's China, I am afraid that only Li Hongzhang is the only one who can fight him, Zuo Zhongtang and Liu Mingchuan have died. Li Hongzhang is both civil and military, when he fought against the Shanghai Xiaodao Society in the first battle, he succeeded in the first battle, and then suppressed the uprising of the Twist Army, almost no one could stop him.
At that time, Zeng Guofan besieged the Tianjing City (Nanjing) of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for three years without success, and the imperial court issued three holy decrees requiring Li Hongzhang to lead troops to the south of the Yangtze River; Li Hongzhang shirked for various reasons, and asked someone to bring the holy decree to Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guofan's pressure increased greatly, and finally captured Tianjing City regardless of casualties, after the war, Zeng Guofan said to his younger brother Zeng Guoquan: Today's merit is all thanks to Li Hongzhang.
Li Hongzhang is both civil and military, tactical strategy is not under Zuo Zhongtang, Zeng Guofan is very powerful in being a man and an official, especially the final success of retiring to protect the family, so that future generations admire, but really speaking, Zeng Guofan's contribution to the country is far less than Li Hongzhang!
With Li Hongzhang's knowledge, would he not know that the Great Qing Kingdom was almost over? He knows. Therefore, he did not learn from Zeng Guofan to return to the field, but tried to return to heaven with manpower like Zhuge Liang. The Qing Dynasty did not perish thanks to Li Hongzhang's efforts. Without Li Hongzhang, the Qing Dynasty did not survive even ten years. In the past ten years, Zhang Zhidong has been trying to turn the tide.
It is a pity that Li Hongzhang, as the prime minister of a country, cannot personally lead the troops, nor can he lead the troops to fight a war like he did back then, he is already 70 years old. Not seventeen.
Dashan Yan is now the generalissimo of the Japanese army, and generally speaking, he is not needed to play in this invasion of Jilin. Because there was really no one in China at that time who was his opponent, but he was very shocked by the information that Komura Shoutaro and Hashimoto brought back at the end, and he would not be willing to learn about the airship as a weapon that he had never seen or understood.
After 20 years of rejuvenation, Japan's strength is not weak, but it has not yet reached the situation after the signing of the original historical Xinchou Treaty. The Treaty of Xincho brought Japan a large amount of reparations and provided a large amount of money for Japan's rise. In later generations, all countries in the world returned the compensation of the Xinchou Treaty, but Japan did not return it, and all the victorious countries in World War II received the compensation from the Japanese army, but China did not collect it. But the ambitions of the Japanese wolf still do not change. Why is that? Because China is too benevolent! The limitations of history made the rulers at that time not realize the truth of the inner and outer kings.
How can the side of the so-called couch allow others to snore? China's benevolence towards Japan is an alternative massacre of its own people. If Taizu dares to fight the Korean War with the United States and fights with Russia, will he be afraid of making enemies with Japan? At that time, a large number of Japanese students made "great efforts" in this process, and these people believed that China did not ask Japan for compensation, and Japan would definitely be grateful to Dade. Mr. Clinker's story will be re-enacted. Japan's post-war aggression against the cultural and material aspects of the Chinese folk never stopped. It's a pity that almost no one is aware of the seriousness. Just like many people are watching American dramas now, but who knows how seriously the release of humanity and individual heroism in American dramas will have on young people in China?
Dashan Yan saw the problem very accurately, he saw the limitations of the airship for the first time, that is, the airship does not have GPS, so it will become very difficult to attack everywhere, and the supply of the airship is not easy, to fight a guerrilla war, it is impossible to use bombs to blow up hundreds of people, right? Not only is it not cost-effective, but it is also inaccurate. It can only be strafed with a Maxin machine gun, but Maxine is not a precision weapon after all, and how difficult is it to use it to strafe hundreds or thousands of people at an altitude of 800 meters? Later, during World War II, Japanese planes could fly very low, but what were the results of using airplanes to fight guerrillas? What about the United States sending new fighters to Afghanistan, Iraq and IS in the 21st century? It wasn't just a few stingers before they were stinged!!
No matter how strong the airship's attack is, it is only suitable for positional warfare, not guerrilla warfare.
Dashan Yan immediately breathed a sigh of relief after seeing through this. and then formed a confrontation with Wang Tingjiao. A situation of stalemate between the two armies with Changchun as the boundary was formed. He didn't fight.
It's not that Dashanyan doesn't want to fight, but he's afraid. He was very afraid that Hu Xiaoyan would send an airship to bomb Tokyo at all costs! He didn't know that Hu Xiaoyan had really moved this idea.
Dashan Yan is waiting, depending on the situation of the peace talks, it will be decided whether to attack or not! Japan's economic situation is actually not good, and Japan needs this compensation for the Gengzi incident. Hu Xiaoyan also waited any longer, he was waiting for the situation of the peace talks to decide whether to bomb the Japanese mainland, or even Tokyo.
Russia's stupid bear doesn't care, it will be difficult to make Russia admit defeat, but as long as Russia is willing to withdraw from Heilongjiang, he can laugh and settle his grudge, because Hu Xiaoyan needs time to develop his new territory. And Russia has only 20,000 people in Heilongjiang, and it is impossible to attack Heilongjiang.
Britain, France, Germany and other countries are the same, it is impossible for them to send other armies to fight the Second Eight-Nation Coalition War, they cannot afford to lose, and Hu Xiaoyan has a very close relationship with them, and they have common interests. So war is not necessary.
Finally, Japan! Japan needs new money. Don't you see that Japan has continuously invited Chinese businessmen to Japan to auction China's national treasures more than 30 years ago? These artifacts are good things, don't the Japanese like them? Why Auction? It's simple, Japan has no money! How big is Japan? How much food is produced in a year? Hu Xiaoyan can smash 20 million silver at one time and throw it into the water to bubble. Can Japan do it? Can't do it! Japan is very short of money, and Japan's industrial development is based on the national industry, and when did Japan start to develop industry? It was the country that was opened by people with artillery, for which Japan paid a large amount of compensation! Does Japan still have the money to develop its national industry? No! Thirty years later, Japan's domestic capital was close to drying up, and they simply had no money to continue to develop industry. Therefore, only national treasures can be auctioned. Therefore, Japan had to wage war frantically again and again, hoping to promote the development of national science and technology through war dividends.
Without the indemnity of the First Sino-Japanese War and the indemnity of the Xincho Treaty, Japan would not have been able to develop!
Therefore, if you want to control the peace talks in your own hands, you must let Japan bow its head! Not only that, Hu Xiaoyan hopes to get compensation from Japan! Let the Japanese economy collapse completely! So he's waiting for his time! Wait for a sufficiently sufficient reason for him to bomb Tokyo, Japan! Bomb until Japan bows its head!
Japan bows its head, and Hu Xiaoyan can gain endless national prestige! In this way, Hu Xiaoyan can obtain the same status as Li Hongzhang, and be able to sit on an equal footing with Dou Nale and others, rather than being inferior to William II and others! The second aspect is that he can get enough time to develop his own territory, and the third reason is the most important! Japan can't defeat China, and it can't afford to pay reparations, so it will brazenly launch a crazy war.
Naturally, the object of the war is only Russia! This is also the reason why Hu Xiaoyan did not move the Russian army in Heilongjiang. Russia is too far from China, and nothing good will be gained by beating him! Airships don't necessarily fly across the Urals.
When Japan and Russia fought, Hu Xiaoyan could laugh at the situation. So he was waiting for an opportunity, even if Wang Tingjiao fought out all the army units, he would have to wait.
Hu Xiaoyan believes that Oyama Iwa and Komura Shoutaro will not let him down. Because Japan can't afford to lose.