The relationship between Samoto and the United States has always been strange and awkward, and during the Tokugawa shogunate, the United States knocked on the door of Samoto with a black ship in order to hunt whales in the waters of Samoto. After more than 200 years of seclusion, he had to open his eyes to the world. From then on, he embarked on the path of reform and reform, gradually becoming the most powerful country in Asia by defeating China and Russia, and gradually abolishing the unequal treaties signed between the great powers and the country. He did not hate the United States for bullying them, but instead made Commodore Perry's use of a black ship to force the founding of the country to be a festival.

The United States was friendly to the United States at the beginning, and Perry only asked the Americans to allow the Americans to hunt whals, saying that the poor resources and narrow market were the targets that the United States, which had just joined the ranks of imperialism, did not attach much importance to. Their attention is probably more focused on China, and even on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa than on the small country of Ben. With the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, the influence of Britain and France in the Waimoto became more and more significant. In the Far East, the United States is more concerned about opening up China, a huge country. A large country with a population of 450 million is even more important to the United States, which has huge production capacity and huge capital that needs to be exported. With the United States taking over Spain's colonial legacy in the Philippines, the relationship between the United States, which had always had Asian ambitions from the beginning, underwent a subtle change. But the relationship between the two sides is barely good.

During the Russo-Russian War, the United States bought a large number of war bonds issued by the United States to support them in fighting the war. The American Jewish organization, which hated the Russian massacre of Jews, even launched a campaign in the United States to purchase the bonds. Seaver, a wealthy Jewish businessman, even handed Ben a huge check of 20 million US dollars as a loan to support their attack on Russia. However, the Navy's terrifying performance in the Battle of Tsushima made the United States more vigilant. At that time, the United States had only a not-so-powerful fleet! For the United States, which regards the security of the two oceans as its own national security. The emergence of such a powerful naval force in the Pacific is a very uncomfortable thing. At least the maintenance of American interests in Southeast Asia and East Asia is a great challenge! In addition, the British alliance signed in 1902 was an alliance against Russia. But who knows if this alliance will be able to attack itself from both sides when the Old World and the New World become enemies in the future?

Since the Russo-Russian War, relations between the United States and the United States have rapidly cooled. The United States also believes that its domination of the Northeast has hindered its open-door policy throughout China. Therefore, various plans were also adopted to contain the development of Yuben's forces in the Far East. At that time, the railway king Harriman's world railway plan focused on building a railway in Manchuria to contain the control of the northeast through the South Manchurian railway. Originally, the Qing government axe at that time wanted to implement this plan very much, but it was forced to cancel under the coercion and intimidation of Yuben. For the first time, the United States could not wait to intervene in Manchuria, but it was completely blocked. The Harriman family was furious and repeatedly provoked Congress to demand sanctions against him. It was at this time that the Japanese demanded the abolition of the navy, and the Navy Ministers Gonbei Yamamoto, Saigo Norimichi, and others fabricated rumors that the United States was preparing to attack Tsubamoto in order to confront the Diet. Then spread the news everywhere, saying that the Russo-Russian War was a proxy war in which the Americans paid for it, defeating Russia and relieving Britain and the United States of the crisis, but the Ben did not receive a penny of reparations.

At the instigation of the military bigwigs, the Ronin and the mob attacked the British and American shops in the territory of the country, and the Bigu Burning Incident broke out that shocked the Western world. After the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, both the Chinese and Russian navies were crippled, and the navy had no choice but to look for imaginary enemies everywhere in order to defraud the Congress of funds. Germany must be counted as one, but the German navy in the Far East is very weak, and it is obviously difficult to cheat enough funds, and the French navy in the Far East is not strong enough, and the British Empire is a giant that cannot be imagined, so the US Navy is listed separately as the imaginary enemy of the Combined Fleet. And the United States also sees Ben as the biggest threat to the Far East.

In order to counter the British alliance, the United States decided to win over China. In 1908, the United States unilaterally announced that it would open China's foreign relations plan to the level of ambassador and invited the Qing government to send an envoy to the United States to sign the "Bethlehem Treaty" with the surname of the alliance.

The United States also passed the Immigration Act, which discriminated against the immigrants who were pouring into the United States at that time. This point immediately caused an uproar in Yueben, and it also greatly affected the direction of the political situation in Yueben at that time. Hatred of the United States is rampant.

Now both sides regard each other's navy as imaginary enemies, and through several years of construction, the United States already has a powerful fleet, and the United States is almost like blowing up a balloon, building more than a dozen battleships in two years, and the extremely conspicuous paint is white, and when it sails around the world, it makes it stunned.

The war between China and China alarmed Yanjing City, and the embassies of various countries in the eastern suburbs of Minxiang were paying close attention to the matter, but they all unanimously remained silent, and only issued a few statements without pain, calling on both sides of the conflict to exercise restraint. The Great Powers' attention was focused on Europe and the Near East, especially in the Balkans and North Africa, and they were temporarily powerless in the Far East. Out of consideration of their own interests, they did not want to say that they would dominate Manchuria alone, but they also did not want to provoke Yue himself too much. Only the Russians expressed their deep concern about the problems of Manchuria. The United States, which has the closest relationship with Chai Dongliang, has never made any noise. Chai Dongliang's telegram to US Minister Luo Jiaheng has not received a response.

The contradiction between the United States is the only thing Chai Dongliang can take advantage of, and it is also the most certain, and it is not possible to count on the United States to send troops, but it can still be done by letting the United States intimidate him!

It's just that what conditions can you come up with to make the Americans tempted? This country has always been unprofitable!

At this time, only the better the front line, the heavier the weight of Chai Dongliang's words, the United States has never cared about abandoning an incompetent ally.

While Chai Dongliang was constantly making diplomatic efforts, the advance army was engaged in a tragic battle with the Kawamoto brigade.

Zhang Shuyang's vanguard battalion had been leading the Heben Brigade to the west, and gradually the army was getting farther and farther away from the mountain road. Although Kawamoto was rigidly educated by the instructors of Lu University, it does not mean that he is stupid. When he realized that something was wrong, he immediately decided that the whole brigade would continue to march west to reinforce Mukden. Seeing that the Kawamoto Brigade wanted to leave, Zhang Shuyang immediately ordered the whole battalion to follow and harass, and kept attacking and harassing from both flanks of the army.

The cavalry roared and galloped away, which made the Kawamoto brigade overwhelmed, and many people died under the cold guns, but there were also many cavalry of the vanguard battalion who were knocked off their horses by the army. From the time of its establishment, the army had extremely high requirements for accurate shooting, and almost every soldier was a sharpshooter, and as long as the cavalry of the vanguard battalion slowed down slightly, it would become their target. As soon as the cavalry formation of the pioneer battalion was slightly denser, the 75 mountain artillery of the Kawamoto brigade would open fire.

The pioneer battalion only had mortars and grenadiers, and the mountain artillery of the Chinese army was extremely accurate, and often the mortars would be covered by the artillery fire of the Japanese army as soon as they fired two shots, and the range of the grenadiers was too close, and it was difficult to bully them close to the distance at which they could be fired.

Zhang Shuyang had a thought, he must not let Yue himself enter the valley, he gritted his teeth and was ruthless: "Charge me, and shoot a volley of fire three hundred meters away from me!" ”

The trumpeters used their trumpets to carry orders to every corner of the battlefield, and the cavalry of the vanguard battalion could not help but feel a chill in their hearts. At a distance of 300 meters, it was difficult for the cavalry to get accurate on their horses, but the infantry lying on the ground already had a fairly accurate head.

However, not a single cavalryman had the slightest hesitation, and the Jianghuai Army's founding concept was a high degree of professional ethics and a sense of honor, and everyone regarded the honor of soldiers as higher than life. The cavalry formed a loose formation, and the wind swept across the open field, and the dust was stirred by the horses' hooves. When the distance between the two sides was still 600 meters, the machine guns of the Japanese army opened fire, and strings of bullets swept across the battlefield like whips, and many people were shot and fell off their horses. When the distance between the two sides was reduced to 400 meters, a dozen grenadiers jumped from their horses, and they did not have time to assume the grenadier barrel safely, but placed it directly on their knees, and after a simple gauge and visual inspection, they inflicted intensive blows on the machine guns of the Japanese army.

The four Hatch Chase machine guns of the Kawamoto Brigade were dumbfounded one after another, and the grenadiers became the focus of attention of the sharpshooters and artillerymen. The army's marksmanship is the benchmark, and the grenadier must fire within 400 meters. Half-crouching grenadiers often fired only three or five grenades, and were killed by the bullets of the army, and even their bones were blown up by 75-millimeter shells.

The advantage of cavalry fighting infantry is that they can fight if they can't pass, and then they will follow from a distance, and then attack again with cold chills, so that the infantry's nerves have been highly tense until they collapse. However, Zhang Shuyang's vanguard battalion could not walk, so it could only launch attacks round by round, each time approaching to a distance of only 300 meters from the army, and then shooting a row of cold guns horizontally, and then withdrawing from the battlefield from both sides, and the cycle repeatedly.

At this distance, the down-to-earth infantry had a huge advantage, and Zhang Shuyang's tactical literacy also shocked Zhang Shuyang. Under normal circumstances, when the infantry sees hundreds of war horses rushing towards their side, even if they throw away their weapons and turn around and run away without being frightened, at least they will cause deformation of their technical actions because of the psychological shock. However, the guns of the Yue army were extremely accurate, and the formation did not waver in the slightest. It's still a sparse skirmish, and the coordination of firepower is quite reasonable.

Zhang Shuyang was a veteran of the Jianghuai Army, the first soldier of the Wuhu Regiment, one of the one hundred and eight cavalrymen who participated in the overnight attack on Anqing City. He has fought the Qing army, fought the Huaishang army, exterminated the bandits in Anhui who don't know how many chaotic bandits, and fought the horse bandits of Wutai in Mongolia, every time he won easily, the equipment and training level of the Jianghuai army made him feel that fighting a war was simply a game.

But the army in front of him made him dare not be careless, as long as the speed on the horse dropped slightly, he would immediately become the target of several army sharpshooters. Of the more than 200 cavalrymen in the vanguard battalion, more than 40 were lost almost at the beginning of the battle, and more than a dozen of them were extremely valuable grenadiers, which made Zhang Shuyang's heart ache with blood. The grenadier is a very evil weapon, a well-trained veteran can hit every 100 shots at a distance of 400 meters, and a rookie can also do it without a single shot.

These grenadiers are all good hands who have undergone rigorous training and have been trained with countless rounds of live ammunition and training bullets, and they hardly need a ruler within 400 meters, and they can achieve the first hit when they look up, and then they can also provide fire support to ordinary infantry with an ultra-high rate of fire of 20 rounds per minute. There were only about twenty grenadiers in the entire pioneer battalion, but now more than half of them were killed or wounded!

Zhang Shuyang endured the pain of losing his comrades, and kept giving orders to continue to attack the Yue army, and at the same time ordered the two remaining mortars to shoot at the Yue army.

Mortar gunners quickly comprehended the technical requirements of many instructors on the battlefield, and they also became slippery, firing three or five guns in one place, and immediately carrying the gun carriage and moving to other places, no longer dizzy and endless. The smoke and dust raised by the cavalry on the dry ground became the best cover, and they shifted their positions every few shells they fired. However, the smoke and dust also blocked their vision, and they could only rely on their general direction and shoot aimlessly. It is not so much killing and injuring the army as it is harassing.

In order to drag down the Kawamoto brigade, all the pioneer battalion can do is use itself as bait to catch this greedy pike!

Kawamoto is also annoyed by this endless harassment, and at the same time he is weighing the pros and cons. The fall of Fujimoto's squadron, is this a consequence that he can bear? Now is not the First Sino-Japanese War, nor is it the Russo-Japanese War, in a sense, it is still peacetime, a squadron of more than 200 people has been completely annihilated, if this cavalry unit cannot be eliminated, it is difficult to say what the angry governor of Kwantung Prefecture will do with himself, even if he assists Mukden according to the order, I am afraid that he will not be able to avoid the end of suicide by disembowelment.

What is the purpose of the unfatal assault of the cavalry on the opposite side, which has paid so many casualties?

As soon as this question came to mind, he was rushed without a trace by the fixed thinking formed by Lu Da's education, "discover the enemy, surround the enemy, and annihilate the enemy", this is the concept that Lu Da instilled in him, as for how many enemies there are, the enemy's strategic and tactical intentions, there is no need to consider.

Considering the enemy's situation and formulating tactics for the enemy's sake is a sign of loss of courage, and the emperor [***] has never had an enemy in his eyes, but only as a prey.

The Russians, who are famous for their bravery and good fighting, are no match for the Emperor [***] team, let alone the Chinese army!

Surround them, annihilate them!

Kawamoto Daisa made up his mind to annihilate the opposite cavalry unit before supporting Mukden, avenge the Fujimoto squadron, and at the same time, save his own head!

(To be continued)