At the temporary headquarters of the dock, Zhang Kui met with those strangely dressed people.

As soon as he entered, the diminutive man in the lead handed over a secret letter, and after carefully checking Qin Kai's unique hard pen calligraphy signature, Zhang Kui confirmed the identity of the person who came, and was lurking in the Ryukyus earlier as a Nanyang merchant

"Thanks, brother? The things assigned by Lord Qin ......"

"Tell General Zhang, below is Gao Heng, the special task force of the training camp, and the things assigned by Lord Qin have been completed," Gao Heng turned around and brought several men behind him to the front.

He came to Zhang Kui's side, first pointed to one of the scholars and began to introduce these men one by one, "General Zhang, this is Shangping, the king of Wu of the Ryukyu Kingdom, is the younger brother of the Ryukyu King Shangtai, after the Ryukyu King was taken captive, the king of Wu was incognito, secretly accumulating strength, and several of the people behind him were also the generals of the original Ryukyu Kingdom."

Zhang Kui looked at these people with a smile, this King Wu is only in his thirties, the scholar's face is a little weathered, he doesn't look like a mediocre person, the few men behind him have a bit of momentum, and he laughs in his heart, it seems that there is a play.

He hurriedly arched his hand, "His Royal Highness King Wu, please sit down and a few strong men please sit down."

"General Xie" Shang Ping arched his hand and sat down, they are the remnants of the Ryukyus, but the thorn in the eyes of the Japanese who occupy here, in the past few years, incognito, only to survive, when this Chinese businessman found him, he was startled, almost thought that this person was the bait of the Japanese, but the other party showed a letter printed by the Nanyang Navy Master of the Qing Dynasty, which slightly dispelled his doubts.

Under Gao Heng's planning, Shang Ping began to use the guise of doing business to covertly contact the former officials and soldiers hidden in various parts of the Ryukyus, fortunately, the country had just been destroyed, and the Japanese frantically plundered the private property of the Ryukyus and enslaved the people of the Ryukyus.

In just a few months, he has gathered more than 400 people who are willing to follow the resistance, the only thing lacking is weapons, a few days ago, these people began to gather in the nearby mountain villages, and the important officers have been arranged to enter a separate courtyard near the port, and the few who came here are the leaders of the army.

Zhang Kui turned his head and asked Gao Hengdao: "How can the situation in this Ryukyus change from before?" Why didn't the Japanese army in the port show up? ”

Gao Heng nodded, "General, that Japanese squadron has 500 people, it is commanded by a Japanese shozo named Suzuki Shin, it is said that this person has participated in many battles of the Japanese Restoration, and he should have some ability, the navy destroyed here is in charge of Captain Tanaka Jiro, and the port defense force is about 350 people, including the soldiers of the battery"

At this time, in the direction of the forts on both flanks, there was already a fierce exchange of fire, Zhang Kui stood up, asked his soldiers to hand Shang Ping a telescope, and watched the attack on the distant fort together, responsible for the attack here is the first battalion of the second association and the first battalion of the Ma Yun Division, this is a standard horsetail elite battalion, a small group of 10 people, equipped with at least three or more 80 submachine guns, and each group was also issued with 20 grenades this time.

The battalion also has an artillery team composed of 3 mortars, a 50-man Maxim machine gun team, equipped with 7 Maxim improved MG08 heavy machine guns, that is, an officer, plus 7 groups of 7 machine guns each, in fact, it is not easy to control a Maxim machine gun, and it is almost impossible without professional practice.

The working process of the Maxim machine gun is like a small internal combustion engine powered by bullets, and the principle of the short recoil of the barrel of the MG08 imitated by the Horsetail Gun Bureau is not complicated, but its working process is realized by a series of complex mechanical movements, which require precision manufacturing and fine adjustment, and must ensure frequent lubrication and cleaning.

In fact, it took at least a month for the engineers of the Gun Bureau to train the machine gunners and team members in the operation of the machine guns, and very little of that time was live-fire training, and most of the time the shooters were learning how to maintain and reload the mechanical monster, how to troubleshoot all kinds of possible problems, and so on.

What made Zhang Kui feel angry was that the complexity of this high-performance Makqin machine gun meant that training a machine gunner was far more complicated than training 50 80 submachine gunners, and what was even more serious was that after the casualties of the machine gun operators, those untrained soldiers could not effectively take over this extremely important weapon. ,

At this time, several machine guns had been dragged to the back of the battery using wheels mounted under the gun carriage, and began to provide fire support to the soldiers who were attacking the battery in front, and the sound of "Tata Tata" fire completely drowned out the sporadic exchange of fire between the soldiers on both sides.

As several grenades smashed into the back door of the fort, the violent explosion and more than 30 pieces of fragments even completely collapsed the heavy iron door When the first officer holding the Type 80 submachine gun took the lead in the battery, he remembered the overwhelming strafing sound of the Type 80 submachine gun, which was completely different from the crisp sound of the heavy machine gun

After a while, the prisoners were escorted out of the battery, and it was obvious that the first battalion had easily completed the attack task, and the attack of the third battalion of the right wing of Ma Desheng's division on the other battery was also an easy victory, after three rounds of mortar raids on the inside of the battery, the sharp men armed with submachine guns and several grenadiers cooperated to rush into the battery, and after a burst of grenades and strafing, they also easily occupied the battery.

Soon, a group of Japanese sailors and the remnants of the battery captured by the patrol soldiers were captured to the port, but the overall number was not large, this was mainly because of Zhang Kui's prisoner policy, for prisoners, he had an unwritten rule, those prisoners with retention value, such as physical health can become qualified coolies, then have the right to become prisoners, otherwise, they will be deprived of this right

Zhang Kui looked at the army that was cleaning the battlefield in the distance, and said to Shang Ping with a smile: "Your Royal Highness King Wu, the weapons and ammunition captured here are all taken over by you, in addition, we also provide another 100 Lin Mingden rifles, 50,000 rounds of ammunition, and the two field guns captured in the port are also allocated to you, our Lord Qin Kai hopes that King Wu can do his best to control Ryukyu."

When Shang Ping heard the news he wanted to hear the most, he was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly got up and saluted, "General Zhang, on behalf of the Ryukyu royal family, I sincerely thank Lord Qin, Minister of Nanyang, for his help, if we can regain control of Ryukyu, we are willing to follow Lord Qin before and after the saddle to make a modest effort."

Zhang Kui was also a little surprised to hear that Shang Ping was so knowledgeable, and looked this person up and down, this is a tiger wolf or a sheep, it is really difficult to make a conclusion, but all of them are judged by our instructor's cannon, whether it is reasonable or not, first tell the cannon, this Ryukyu is our own test field, we are going to decide

He laughed, "Your Royal Highness King Wu, your promise I will definitely convey to Lord Qin that you will have two days to reorganize the army, and you can come to me at any time if you need anything" Then he appointed two officers to temporarily serve as liaison officers for the new army of the Ryukyus, which is also a sign of mutual trust between the two sides

At this time, the battle here was going smoothly, so that Zhang Kui also felt quite satisfied, the crossings near the port were immediately dug fortifications, and the follow-up fleet unloaded soldiers and supplies unhurriedly, after half an hour of assembly, Zhang Kui got the news he needed.

Three miles away, next to the Shurita Road crossing, the old capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, a Japanese army camp was found, and the Japanese soldiers in the camp were frantically digging trenches and building fortifications......

"The first battalion took over the port defense, and the second and third battalions coordinated to try to attack the Japanese barracks" Zhang Kui quickly gave an order, he did not despise the difficulty of attacking the fortified positions, Gao Heng had already said just now, the Japanese squadron here was led by an experienced young officer, of course, it was the best policy.

The two battalions of Qi Fang and Ma Desheng combined have more than 1,200 people, besieging a camp of 500 people, the two of them are naturally full of confidence, and the fort just now is not easy to deal with

When the large group of people advanced to the camp of Little Japan, both of them were a little dumbfounded, the other party occupied a slope by the river, the other party relied on the riverside to build a brick and stone camp, and at the same time, outside the camp, it was actually criss-crossed and dug trenches, and they were still digging desperately, it seemed that the other party was going to defend desperately......

As soon as the two of them combined, the front of the opponent's camp was a large flat land, and there was no danger to defend when attacking, which was a troublesome thing to send a team to launch a tentative round of attack, but the team of 500 people on the opposite side was not vegetarian, and the bullets were like a storm, so that this group of soldiers could not advance at all.

At that time, there were more than a dozen casualties, which made the two battalion commanders almost bleed from their eyes, and they hurriedly transferred the machine gun battalion and the mortar squad ...... also moved up.

After this round of tentative attacks, both of them understood that this frontal little devil was not a good one, but in the exchange of fire just now, they also found some important information, the other party obviously did not have a powerful weapon such as a machine gun, and the other party's shots were all single-shot breech-loading rifles.

It is certain that the firepower of the other side is far inferior to his own, but in the confrontation just now, Qi Fang and Ma Desheng both found that although their soldiers used more advanced AK02 rifles, they did not have any advantage at all, and the other party just fired a few shots from the barracks, it is obvious that small Japan has one or two field guns, the caliber is about 50-60mm, and it can be regarded as a powerful army weapon.

"In non-essential circumstances, we must calmly give full play to our own advantages" This is one of the dogmas in the Mawei military textbook, and the two battalions quickly agreed on a strategy, and if small Japan can dig trenches, we can do it better

The soldiers began to calmly dig a pit in situ behind a bunker, and then connected the pit together, and a lot of pit became a trench, and when the moon was high on the mountain, around the Japanese military camp, the three trenches had been basically formed, and the Makqin machine gun was moved into the tunnel, and the excavated soil, piled up into a small plateau, became a natural firing platform for the Makqin machine gun.

However, in the face of the threat of the opponent's artillery, Qi Fang did not plan to put the well-trained Makqin machine gun firing team on it to eat shells, and the six mortars and firing teams of the two battalions were arranged in several shallow tunnels to fully prepare for the upcoming attack, while some soldiers were lying behind the bunkers and firing boring fire

Soon, the sky darkened, and after a day of fierce fighting, the earth seemed to be restored calmly, and Suzuki Shinshosa, who was defending the barracks position, obviously also discovered the other party's attempt to trap him, and yesterday's exchange of fire surprised him greatly, and the opposing soldiers continued to crawl forward without fear of death under the fire of their own dense fire points.

Although their own counterattack was very powerful, but the astonishing firepower displayed by the other side afterwards caused heavy losses to the Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard, under the strafing of more than a dozen Makqin machine guns, and a salvo of a strange curved artillery of the opponent, the loss of more than 40 soldiers in the front line of trenches......

He summoned several lieutenant captains in the bunker to discuss countermeasures, and Jiro Tanaka, who had escaped from the port earlier in the day, also joined their team with dozens of escaped sailors......

"Suzuki-kun, this Qing team is very advanced in weaponry, I noticed that their rifles can shoot multiple times, compared to our single-shot rear-loading guns, the firepower is much more fierce," said an officer with a bandage on his head, grinning his teeth, this is the leader of a small team Murai who commanded a counterattack on the front line today, and was slightly injured in the last fierce fire.

"Yes, I see that the equipment of the Qing army on the other side is very good, not that the Qing army is very outdated, and the military training is also very backward, where did I hear the wrong news from the military department?"

"Well, I also found out that the other side still has fierce machine gun and artillery support" Suzuki Nobu was still thinking about the fierce battle in the afternoon, and he also thought that there was a huge fleet behind the other side, and it was likely that the intensity of this artillery fire would continue to increase, and this Ryukyu Island, as a strategic depth of the place is really very few, if the current defense point is lost, there is no better terrain behind it that can be used for defense

At this time, Jiro Tanaka next to him said loudly: "Suzuki Shaosa, the artillery owned by the other side is far more than the artillery of the empire, and the passive defense is unable to resist the opponent's artillery.

Suzuki Shin squinted at Tanaka Jiro, these incompetent navies have consumed the most huge financial resources of the empire, but they have never achieved any due victory, and the gunboats piloted by this guy are nearly 100,000 yen (in this era (one tael of silver is equivalent to 1.5 yen) purchased from the United Kingdom, and they were sunk by Qing warships so lightly.

But fortunately, the occupation of the land will always need to be completed by a strong army, since the navy has failed, let the other side understand the powerful combat power of the Japanese army, this guy is a mess in the naval battle, but the idea of this night attack is with himself. ,

He is a professional soldier who studied at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and in the teaching of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, the huge empire of the Qing Dynasty has always been described as an imaginary enemy, and the analysis of the surrounding countries, especially the Qing Army, is a compulsory subject in the military school.

The huge Qing Empire, with a population base 10 times larger than Japan's, still maintained the old bureaucratic system, but the huge standing army of more than one million can make people maddening, and for Japan, it is simply unable to support a modern army of more than 200,000 people.

However, the German instructors and the local officers all had a common understanding of the Qing army, that it was a soulless army, and their willpower to fight was very weak, even if there were some elite troops, but after their core strength was defeated, it would be completely scattered

Therefore, the training requirements of army officers were all aimed at annihilating twice as many Qing troops as a brigade and regiment, but this goal was not achieved in the Taiwan War six years ago, and the bureaucratic army of the Qing Dynasty was in a situation of defeat and defeat

Suzuki Shin's eyes swept over the officers around him, "Tanaka-kun's mention is very good, now is the time to show the strength of our Japanese army, those Qing soldiers who surrounded us are just some soldiers who have no fighting spirit and faith, tonight, we will use them to test the strength of our fourth brigade and fourth wing."

"Shaozo, our first squad is willing to serve as an attack team"

"Our second squad is the strongest main force in the squadron, and we are required to be the first to go out in this night attack."

“……”

Hearing Suzuki's order, these Japanese professional officers immediately showed their arrogant nature, and the captains of several squads began to compete for the order of this formation......

"The first and fourth squads, Second Lieutenant Sakata and Lieutenant Matsui, your two squads launched a night attack from the left flank, remember, all bayonet, don't be afraid of bloody contact battles"

"Second and Seventh Squads, Lieutenant Murakami, Lieutenant Yamashita ......"

The battle order was issued in an orderly manner, and Suzuki Shin's smug smile had long been put away, replaced by Yan Sù's expression, this battle was for the emperor.

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