At 9 o'clock in the morning on 7 October, the vanguard regiment of the Han army came to a thousand meters in front of the Japanese position, and the Japanese troops stationed here also found the vanguard regiment, and the Japanese commander saw the vanguard regiment of only more than 1,400 people, and thought that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he led more than 2,000 Japanese troops to rush out of the position and kill the vanguard regiment of the Han army, which had not yet gained a firm foothold. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As soon as the Han army's heavy machine guns fired, the charging Japanese troops were swept down one by one like harvested wheat.

Although the Japanese army retreated quickly, there were still more than 500 Japanese corpses left on the battlefield, and the casualties of the Han army's vanguard regiment were only dozens, even if it was only such a small casualty number, it also made the commander of the vanguard regiment scold.

The vanguard regiment continued to build positions, and soon, a large army of Han troops also arrived, and the 27,000 men of the Han army and the more than 57,000 Japanese troops faced each other on the line from Yongjiang to Jieshan in Korea.

In the temporary headquarters of the Han army, Xiao Yao issued various orders in an orderly manner, and the battle plan was formulated before the Han army crossed the river to the east bank of the Yalu River.

More than 57,000 Japanese troops against 27,000 Han troops, the Japanese army has a considerable advantage in strength, this is the first advantage of the Japanese army, the second advantage is the offensive and defensive position, this time the Japanese army is the defending side, the Han army is the attacking side, once the Han army rushes to the Japanese position, the two sides enter the close battle, and the Han army's firepower advantage is gone.

Faced with this situation, Xiao Yao prepared a battle plan, and the theme of this battle plan was "saturation bombardment", with the aim of destroying the main force of the Japanese army in front of him as much as possible.

"Saturation bombardment" and "carpet bombing" mean the same, except that the latter uses aircraft or missiles, while the latter uses artillery, but it carries out a covering strike on the intended target, does not let go of any place of the intended target, and effectively kills the target.

Of course, the Han army can also carry out "carpet bombing", the Han army does not have planes and missiles, but there are airships, airships are absolutely big killers in this era, they can throw 250 kg or 500 kg bombs directly to the ground from the sky, and the bomb load of the airship is very high, and it can definitely give the enemy very much damage.

But Xiao Yao does not have this condition now, not to mention that Xiao Yao does not have the right to mobilize the air force, that is, he can mobilize the air force, and the air force does not have enough bombs to carpet bomb the Japanese positions, so Xiao Yao uses a large number of artillery equipped by the Han army to carry out saturation bombardment of the Japanese positions.

How many artillery pieces did the 27,000 Han army led by Xiao Yao equip with?

First of all, a 105-mm howitzer regiment, a total of 36 guns, then 75-mm field guns belonging to each brigade of the Han army, a total of 182, and 60-mm mortars belonging to each battalion of the Han army, a total of 378 guns, a total of 596 guns of three kinds of artillery, nearly 600 artillery pieces, these are still excluding the provisional sixth brigade led by Yuan Shikai, because the artillery model of the provisional sixth brigade is different from other Han troops, and it cannot be replenished, so it has been thrown down.

Xiao Yao has nearly 600 artillery pieces in his hands, even if the 60-mm mortar has a relatively close range, but it is also 1,300 meters, which is enough to cover the Japanese positions in front, and a little further will rely on 75-mm field guns and 105-mm howitzers.

Compared with the 105mm howitzer, the power of the 60mm mortar and the 75mm field artillery shell is slightly weaker, but the rate of fire of these two guns is absolutely amazing, especially the 60mm mortar, the maximum rate of fire is 25 rounds per minute, and it feels terrible to think that the 60mm mortar is pouring shells on the Japanese positions at such a fast speed.

The Han army pressed up, built a position six or seven hundred meters in front of the Japanese position, and more importantly, built an artillery position.

The distance between the Han army and the Japanese army was so far that although the bullets of the Japanese soldiers could reach the positions of the Han army, they were beyond the effective range of the Japanese army's "single-hit" rifles, and the bullets did not know where to fly, and the officers of the Japanese army did not allow the soldiers to waste bullets so much.

The Han army is different, the Han army's Zhonghua Type 1 rifle has a range of 800 meters, even if ordinary Han soldiers can't hit the Japanese army opposite, but there are sharpshooters in the Han army, the sharpshooter's sniper rifle is equipped with an optical scope, and the sharpshooter can easily kill the officers in the Japanese position.

How many Japanese officers who died in the head made no officer in the Japanese position dare to come forward, and after that, even ordinary Japanese soldiers did not dare to take the lead.

It was not that the Japanese army did not want to fight back against the Han army, but the Japanese army's "single-one" rifle was too bad.

As for artillery, the Japanese army tried to bombard the Han army's positions several times, during the day, just after the artillery positions were constructed, they were discovered by the Han army's "eye in the sky" and directly destroyed by the Han army's artillery fire.

After a few times, the Japanese army no longer dared to make small moves, let alone have a night battle with the Han army, the last night battle was still fresh in the memory of the Japanese army, and the dark night was turned into day by the Han army did not know what means to use.

In addition, in order to prepare for the artillery bombardment of the Han army, the Japanese soldiers dug deep trenches when building their positions to reduce the casualties caused by the Han artillery bombardment to the Japanese army.

On October 8th, the wind and the sun were beautiful.

In the positions of the Han army and the Japanese army, which were only six or seven hundred meters apart, the soldiers of the two armies were already on standby, but the soldiers of the Han army were gearing up and their morale was high, while the Japanese soldiers were preoccupied, and many Japanese soldiers prayed to Amaterasu in their hearts to bless themselves for survival.

The Japanese army headquarters Zhongshan County Youpeng and Dashan Yan were also full of doubts, it stands to reason that yesterday the Han army should have carried out non-stop artillery bombardment of the Japanese position, why a day has passed, the Han army's artillery only opened fire when the Japanese artillery appeared, and the rest of the time was quiet.

"Could it be that there are not many shells in the Han army?" Oyama Rock guessed.

Shan County Youpeng nodded and replied: "There is indeed this possibility, but the possibility is not high, I hope that the warriors of the Great Imperial Empire can hold on to the artillery fire of the Han army, as long as the Han Army rushes to the position of our army, it will be the moment when the Imperial Army of our Great Emperor will turn defeat into victory!" ”

On the side of the Han army, the various artillery positions are undergoing final inspections, and there are even mountains of shell boxes next to the artillery array.

"Five base shells, how long do you have to hit this?" A Han artilleryman muttered as he picked up a box of shells.

"Lao Tzu is still too little, it's better to blow up all the robbers on the other side." His companion laughed.

(Note: The base number of Han artillery shells is 60 rounds)