The machine gun has not been eliminated by history from its birth to the later 21st century, and the history of more than 100 years has also proved the necessity of the existence of the machine gun, and from the initial high-level unit support firepower, breakthrough firepower has gradually changed to squad suppression firepower and support firepower. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this era, it is far unimaginable for an infantry squad to be equipped with a machine gun, even if the Chinese Empire is equipped with a large number of military trucks, but in the current situation, the army is continuing to distribute the machine gun firepower, and the troops on the front line have achieved the level of two squads equipped with one machine gun, but it is still a little difficult in terms of logistics.

It is not uncommon to see machine gun ammunition on the infantry, in peacetime marching, in order to ensure that the machine gun will not lack ammunition, basically every infantry needs to carry a machine gun bullet chain of 100 rounds, if it is not for the harsh weight-bearing training, it is difficult for their own materials to support, let alone add this machine gun ammunition chain.

At this time, even the German army, which had relatively developed industrial capacity, could only equip a platoon with one machine gun, and could not guarantee that the ammunition could be replenished at any time.

To engage in the tactics of World War II during World War I, or even the equipment ratio after World War II, it is absolutely impossible to do without that kind of determination and strength.

Of course, all this is not because of anything else, but to let everyone know that the dozens of Japanese civilians who were accidentally forced into the grove had absolutely no possibility of escaping under the oblique blockade of this machine gun.

But then again, if it's daytime, the phrase is absolute, but it's at night, and with the lack of lighting, anything is possible. Indeed, a large part of the dozens of Japanese soldiers fell into blood mold, were directly hit by machine gun bullets, and fell to the ground in pain, and lost their movement in a short time, and there were also two lucky guys who quietly escaped from the blockade scene under the cover of night.

When the infantry who followed them arrived at the scene, they only found dozens of Japanese civilians lying in a pool of blood, and they could no longer die, so they didn't care about the two Japanese civilians who had fled a few hundred meters away.

Because they didn't know it, they didn't arrange for anyone to pursue them, and there were no particularly obvious traces on the ground, and then the group of soldiers began to advance into the grove to search, and found no suspicious people, but found a large number of farm tools.

In the middle of the night, I came to this with farm tools, and it was definitely not for farming, and I thought of the destruction of the road before, so the purpose of these Japanese people also came to mind.

It took nearly two hours for the two Japanese who escaped to finally arrive near the first line of positions, but because the sky was too dark, they could not see clearly whether there were any enemy troops in the first line of positions, so they did not dare to act rashly, and planned to stay there until after dawn to see the situation clearly.

The 36th Division was only one of the three divisions that had supported Hokkaido in advance, and the reinforcements from Honshu Island had not stopped, and two wings had already arrived in Hakodate in the afternoon, but because of the fatigue of the journey and the unknown enemy situation, these two wings did not rush to the front line at the first time, but intended to act as ambushes.

It was not until night that the two wings made contact with the 36th Division with the strength of one of the newly arrived wings, but the battle did not fought.

After dawn on the 11th, the Japanese divisions that arrived in Hakodate had already reached the strength of two divisions, but because of the losses of the 36th Division yesterday, and because of the limited transportation capacity of the artillery and baggage units of the two divisions, the remaining Japanese troops in Hakodate were only about 30,000, but these 30,000 or so Japanese troops were purely combat units, and there were only a small number of civilian officers such as staff officers in the middle.

After dawn, the two Japanese civilians who survived from the grove last night hurriedly crossed the defense line after making sure that there was no enemy on the defense line, and these two lucky guys did not step on the mine, and what made people even more speechless was that at one time, these two guys were only less than ten centimeters away from the mine, as long as one step was a little bigger, the two of them were finished.

From these two Japanese civilians, Xiao Ji Chaoye got the latest move of the 371st Division, but at this moment, Xiao Ji Chao and Ye felt confused again.

Retreat ten kilometers to arrange a defensive line? What exactly do the Chinese want to do? The little government and the opposition can't figure it out, and they can't figure it out at all.

On the day of the 11th, the government and the opposition sent no less than 10 waves of scouts to reconnoiter the situation of the 371st Division, and the results were basically the same as those reported by the two Japanese civilians, and the 371st Division did stop there, and built improvised defenses, and had no intention of attacking at all.

Time is going by little by little, the strength of the Japanese army is also increasing little by little, on the night of the 13th, the three divisions planned have all arrived in Hakodate, and the logistics troops behind them have also taken the opportunity to cross the sea before the troops on the Kyushu side have not arrived, but their combat ability is not strong, so they just selectively came over a group of people, and the rest of them still stayed on Honshu Island.

The three divisions have a total strength of 45,000 troops, including 40,000 combat troops, and in terms of strength, they have surpassed the 371st Division on the opposite side, but they still do not have any confidence in firepower.

And at this time, the commanders of the three divisions of the Japanese army made a difficult mistake at night, to fight or not to fight? The task that asked them to come over was not to squat in Hakodate, and the later the battle began, the more Chinese troops would be, and the more unfavorable it would be to Japan.

But how to fight? The other side has heavy artillery, infantry artillery, a large number of mortars, not to mention this artillery weapon, the Japanese have no way to compare, the other side also has a large number of machine guns, automatic rifles, shotguns and other weapons and equipment, although on the surface they have three divisions of troops, but to be honest, even with the strength of these three divisions, they do not have the confidence to break through the enemy's defensive line.

Just when Xiao Ji Chaoye and others were entangled, the incident suddenly ushered in a turnaround, although this news may not be good news for the whole war, but it is an excellent good news for Xiao Ji Chao and others, at least they don't have to worry about this matter anymore.

Japanese Army General Yoshimasa Oshima led the troops of the 3rd Division and the 4th Division, boarding and departing from Kyushu Island, and finally arrived at Hakodate after a day's sailing, and Oshima Yoshimasa was the highest-ranking general in Hakodate, and did not concurrently serve as the division commander.

As soon as Yoshimasa Oshima came, he naturally took over the command of all armies.

Yoshimasa Oshima is also a veteran general with rich command experience, and has participated in several major wars, although the later wars have been defeated, but this experience is still there.

As soon as Oshima Yoshimasa came ashore, he called the commanders of the three divisions who had arrived in Hakodate in advance to inquire about the situation, and the commanders of the three divisions did not hide anything and directly told Oshima Yoshimasa the truth.

Although the enemy has only one division, its firepower is not weak, and with the support of heavy artillery, it is difficult to defeat them by relying only on the strength of three divisions, and the losses of the 36th division have proven everything, and in the face of heavy artillery, they simply do not have any capital to block.

However, now there are two more divisions in hand, and the third division is a unit with an extremely strong combat style, and the third division has participated in all the wars that Japan has participated in since its formation, and its combat experience is also particularly rich.

If Japan wants to stabilize the situation, it must send some experienced troops to the front line. And because of the sudden rise of the Chinese Empire and the Russo-Japanese War in later generations, some of the glorious history of the Fourth Division has not yet had time to happen, but the nature of the Fourth Division is still there.

As a native of Osaka, the dog's day will be cannon fodder for the emperor, and I want to ask who in the whole of Japan is most opposed to war? Of course, the strange Fourth Division, yes, an old army is the most against war, and this thing sounds a little ridiculous.

But this is the fact, Osaka's commerce is relatively developed, Osaka is different from other places, it is precisely because of the development of the commercial economy, Osaka people have a little less respect for the emperor and the magnates, but for the problems around the harsh miscellaneous taxes, Osaka people are even more than a hundred years like a day, constantly fighting wits and courage with the princes, bargaining, the so-called loyalty is not at all.

What the? You tell me about war?

Well, the people of Osaka are indeed bewitched by the theory of militarism, but the people of Osaka who enter the barracks are not stupid, they can go to the battlefield and fight, but the people of Osaka will not be in a hurry to send them to death like other armies, and the Fourth Division led by the people of Osaka is based on the principle of not dying if it can when fighting, and the officers from Osaka are also accustomed to bargaining and calculating for the orders of their superiors.

The most speechless thing is that the Fourth Division has even formulated the principle of 'three don'ts' separately, that is, do not pay for unnecessary sacrifices, do not participate in unreasonable battles, and do not pursue enemy troops who are desperate.

Well, anyway, the 4th Division finally came to Hokkaido, but this time the 4th Division did not resist the order, but happily followed Oshima Yoshimasa.

Why? Because the connection between the Fourth Division and the Chinese Empire has not been interrupted since the Second Sino-Japanese Korean War, they are businessmen, for the sake of profit, as long as they do not fight, they can do anything, the Fourth Division even privately signed a non-aggression pact with the Chinese Empire, of course, as a fairness of the treaty, the Fourth Division is to provide intelligence to the Chinese Empire. (To be continued.) )