Britain and France in the Four-Power Alliance are going to negotiate peace with the Han Kingdom, so what should be done?

Previously, the air force of the Han Kingdom bombed the airship formation five times on the mainland, and the industrial strength of the country was seriously damaged, and even the navy that had been developed for many years was gone. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the strength of the Four-Nation Alliance was too weak, and the weak Western countries did not take the Testament seriously, and even the British asked the Coalition to join the Four-Nation Alliance for the purpose of making the Coalition a cannon fodder.

Industrial strength is the criterion for evaluating whether a country is strong or not, and the steel output last year was less than 3,000 tons.

If you look at the slow development of the navy and the backward weapons equipped by the army, we will know how good the military strength is.

Britain and France did not even inform the Han side that they were directly engaged in peace talks with the Han Kingdom, and Britain and France were on the weaker side, which made Kenta Takeda, the ambassador to Germany, restless, and Kenta Takeda hurriedly conveyed this important news to the country, but Kenta Takeda was in Western Europe, and Kenta was far away in East Asia, so it was impossible for the top level to get the news in a short period of time.

What made Kenta Takeda even more unexpected was that the Han Kingdom had already sounded the clarion call for a counterattack.

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On 3 October, a total of 12 gunboats of the Yangtze River Fleet of the Han Kingdom entered the Yalu River, accompanied by more than 4,000 marines.

Xiao Yao, deputy commander of the Suzaku Legion and commander of the Eighth Division, had received an order from Yan Xueyi and the Military Department to lead the first section of the Suzaku Army and the Marines to recover Korea.

On 5 October, 12 gunboats of the Yangtze River Fleet shelled Japanese positions on the east bank of the Yalu River.

You must know that the main guns of the twelve gunboats of the Yangtze River Fleet are all naval guns converted from 120-mm cannons, and the 120-mm cannons have a firing range of 12 kilometers.

Prior to this, the longest-range 105-mm howitzer in Xiao Yao's hand was only seven kilometers, and the Japanese army on the east bank of the Yalu River was bombarded by 105-mm howitzers, and the main positions of the Japanese army were already outside the range of 105-mm howitzers, but this distance was within the range of 120-mm cannons.

Twelve gunboats, each with two 120-mm cannons, a round of bombardment was 24 shells falling on the Japanese position, each shell left a crater with a diameter of more than 10 meters on the Japanese position, of course, it also brought a lot of casualties to the Japanese army.

The 120-mm cannon bombarded the Japanese positions at an average rate of five shells per minute, and the Japanese casualties were increasing due to the rudimentary positions of the Japanese troops.

In the night battle on 19 August, there were only 28,000 Japanese troops stationed on the east bank of the Yalu River, and many of them were wounded in various ways, and only 25,000 Japanese troops were left who could continue to stay on the east bank of the Yalu River, and in the next two months, the number of Japanese troops in this force increased rapidly to 59,000 to nearly 60,000, and almost most of the Japanese troops stationed in Korea were concentrated in this area on the east bank of the Yalu River.

The Japanese had so many troops in this area, but under the bombardment of twelve gunboats and twenty-four 120 mm guns, the Japanese could only be beaten passively and could not make any resistance.

Joint Command of the Japanese Army

"It's too much of a deception." General Aritomo Yamagu, the commander of the Japanese army and commander of the First Army, heard the violent explosion of the shells outside and cursed hatefully, but could not do anything.

Youpeng in Shanxian knew that it was the warships and guns of the Han Kingdom that were shelling, and the Japanese army had received the news that the warships of the Han Kingdom had entered the Yalu River, but the Japanese army had no way to stop it, and once a large number of Japanese troops appeared within the range of the Han army's artillery, it would attract the Han army's artillery bombardment.

It is said that the old-fashioned breech-loading guns equipped by this army could not hit the battleships in the Yalu River at all.

"How good it would be if all the money used to develop the navy was used to develop the army, as long as the army could be equipped with advanced weapons, it would be able to defeat the enemy on the opposite side, but the hateful thing is that those damn mongrels accounted for most of the military spending, not to mention, and the whole army was wiped out before it could play a little role." It is a pity that the focus on developing the navy was unanimously decided by the top management, and as an island country, it must have a strong navy.

It's just that as the shells kept falling, Yamayama Youpeng and General Oyama Iwa, the deputy commander of the Japanese army and the commander of the Second Army, glanced at each other, and the two felt that something was wrong.

"The people of China are going to counterattack!" Yama County Youpeng and Dashan Yan said in unison, and there was a trace of excitement in their eyes, maybe this was an opportunity for the Japanese army to turn defeat into victory.

In the view of Youpeng and Dashanyan in Shanxian County, the Japanese army's weapons are indeed much worse than the Han army, but the quality of the Japanese army's individual soldiers is higher than that of the Han army, and the Han army has been in a defensive state before.

However, in this round of shell bombardment, the Japanese army's losses are not small, compared to the expensive navy, the army is very cheap, but no matter how cheap the army is, it can't be consumed at will, looking at the gradually increasing casualty figures, Yama County Youpeng and Dashan Yan decided to retreat, the current position has been bombed by artillery shells, it is better to build a new line of defense outside the range of naval guns.

The order of the Japanese joint command was issued, and under the command of the superior officer, the Japanese soldiers quickly retreated to the rear, but before the Japanese army was bombarded for nearly half an hour, the Japanese army died more than 1,000 people.

"The Japanese retreated." The scouts at the front brought Xiao Yao good news.

The Japanese army retreated, and the Han army could cross the river.

When Xiao Yao gave the order to cross the river, wooden pontoon bridges appeared on the Yalu River, and the Han soldiers easily came to the east bank of the Yalu River through the pontoon bridges.

The Han soldiers can easily reach the east bank of the Yalu River, but the heavy weapons of the Han army are a little troublesome, especially the 105 mm howitzers weighing one ton, no way, this thing can not go up the wooden pontoon bridge, can only be transported by boat, just carrying the Marine Corps troop carriers here, the Marines have entered the east bank of the Yalu River, these troop carriers can be used to transport 105 mm howitzers.

After wasting some effort, the rest of the Han army had all crossed the river to the east bank of the Yalu River, and the 105-mm howitzer regiment was the last to reach the east bank of the Yalu River.

Under the leadership of Xiao Yao, the Han army slowly approached the Japanese position more than ten kilometers ahead.

It's just that the number of the Vermilion Bird Legion led by Xiao Yao plus the number of marines is only 27,000, and the number of Japanese troops on the opposite side is still more than double that of the Han army, and the Japanese army has a very large advantage in strength.