There is a mountain called Mt. Fuji outside the city of Tokyo, and if you look down from the top of the mountain, you can see the whole of Tokyo, and if you put the heavy artillery brought by Feng Zicai on the top of the mountain, then Tokyo will be at your fingertips

And Japan also placed a reinforced division of 30,000 troops at this important strategic point on Mt. Fuji, which was even more than the troops in the city

That night, Feng Zicai came to the assault position

At this time, Xu Bangdao, the commander of the fourth brigade beside him, said: "Division commander, the little devils are well arranged, and the firepower ladder is clear, it seems that we can only use a surprise attack."

Feng Zicai nodded and looked at the sky, it was about to get dark After dark, it was pitch black in this deep valley, and it was a good time to raid the Japanese position

The moon is dark and the stars are scarce, the sky is lonely, and even the Heavenly Princes seem to be biased towards the Qing army at this time

Chen Shanyuan, commander of the 12th Regiment of the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division, looked at the formation of more than 2,000 sons under his command, and his heart was full of pride, and they would charge the forward position of the Japanese army on Mount Fuji as the first wave attack echelon, but these veterans who had experienced the Sino-British Burma War only had composure in their eyes, and did not have the slightest fear

On such a night, launching a large-scale group raid, the Japanese army on the position will not be able to ensure high design accuracy because of the visibility, and once the two armies are close to a level, the role of artillery will also be greatly reduced, in the era of no automatic weapons, such a charge is difficult to be stopped, in the history of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army is a fierce night attack charge to defeat the Russian army that lacks machine guns

Of course, such a charge is not without drawbacks, because of the suddenness of the launch, generally the first wave of attacks can easily approach the enemy's position, so that the artillery will not cause much damage to it, but the artillery will soon extend its rear design, making it difficult for his follow-up troops to reinforce it, which requires that the troops of the first wave of impact must be very strong, to be able to occupy the enemy's first-line position in a short time, and form a defense, before the reinforcements come up, withstand the enemy's charge

With such tactics, even the victorious side will suffer heavy casualties, which is almost an inherently hurtful method

Feng Zicai dared to do this in addition to believing in the combat effectiveness of the second division, but also a little selfish, the first division defeated the Japanese in Chao Xian, everyone in the country knew about it, Luo Ming also became famous in one battle, the second division and the first division are the first of the top ten ace main divisions, he also wants to take this opportunity to prove to the world that it is also a head-to-head confrontation, and the second division is not afraid of anyone

Chen Shanyuan walked up to the first row of soldiers at this time, arranged the hand grenades hanging on their collars and chests for them one by one, and then said a few words to the soldiers or patted them on the shoulder, which was what his political commissar often did, but in the last Yokohama landing, he fell in a pool of blood, and the weak scholar he despised was shot in the chest for himself, and he lay on the beach in Yokohama forever, and since then he has inherited these habits

In the end, Chen Shanyuan picked up a pottery bowl and said: "Brothers, brother, I am usually strict with you, sometimes I kick you with my feet, sometimes I whip you, I hope you don't hold a grudge against the devil tonight, brother borrowed a bowl of water and wine for you, no matter what you can't live with, everyone laughs and grudges"

"Regiment Commander, everyone understands in their hearts that you are all hating iron and steel, if you can survive tonight, you will follow the regiment commander to fight devils in the future"

Chen Shanyuan's eyes moistened when he heard this, and he suddenly became arrogant: "Okay, tonight we will see if our bone can break the front teeth of the Japanese devil, everyone do it."

All the soldiers held their bayonet rifles in one hand, poured wine into their mouths with the other, and the burning alcohol in their mouths stabbed the soldiers' eyes red, and a murderous aura filled the entire starting position

The attack officially began, on the artillery positions that were urgently constructed, hundreds of 57mm Grusen mountain guns were lined up in two rows to make a violent sound, although the firing range and tube strength were slightly worse than the Krupp guns, but the much cheaper erection artillery was used as the first generation of standard artillery equipment and the Qing divisions, and more than 200 mortars also bombarded the Japanese army's first-line positions on Mount Fuji at the same time

Rows of artillery shells whistled out of the chamber, and then exploded on the Japanese position, and the Japanese soldiers in the fortification only felt that the ground was shaking, and the orange fire shone brightly, and the Japanese artillery staff officer holding the Chase artillery mirror on the hillside was dazzled for a while, and quickly rubbed his eyes and corrected the design error

The night was illuminated by clusters of fire, revealing strange shapes of smoke columns of shelling for twenty minutes, and oblique fire began to escort the assault team forward

There was a sound of pulling the bolt in the trench, and more than 2,000 brothers, under Chen Shanyuan's vigorous wave of his hand, jumped out of the starting position together Chen Shanyuan bit his cheekbone tightly, holding the command knife in his hand, and now in his eyes, there is only the opposite position

This assault was a feint attack of the whole division, only the 12th Regiment of their Fourth Brigade was the main attack, and it had been reconnoitred clearly during the day, and the position of 500 meters opposite them was the junction of the enemy's two regiments, at most there was a battalion of troops, and he could achieve a breakthrough very quickly, and he was already thinking about how to build fortifications to take the first-line position

The soldier let out a heart-rending cry and stumbled forward with the officer, but soon saw the difference between the soldier and the veteran, the soldier only knew to bury his head in the rain of bullets, and forgot it even if he had been trained before, while the veteran still remembered to maintain the formation of the charge and maintain the fire of the stragglers

The Japanese artillery reacted quickly, and when the whole line was attacking, it also found the direction of the main attack of the Qing army, and the fire of the mountain artillery and field artillery suddenly hit the mountain and the valley should be before the 12th regiment rushed into the blind spot of shooting, the shells exploded in the charging queue, and dozens of figures fell down in an instant

However, this was also the last bit of help made by the Japanese artillery, and the 12th Regiment soon rushed into the forward position of the Japanese army, and the Japanese artillery could only extend to the rear of the 12th Regiment for fear of accidental injury

At this time, the Mauser rifles in the hands of the soldiers of the 12th Regiment also began to fire, and they wanted to suppress the remaining Japanese infantry in the front-line position, and the crisp sound of the Mauser rifles rang out

And the Japanese troops on the opposite side did seem to be suppressed, and none of them fought back, and it seemed that the next thing to do was to rush into the trenches and use bayonets, rifle butts, or sapper shovels to deal with the Japanese devils

However, at this moment, when the soldiers of the 12th Regiment entered the open field in front of the Japanese position, the Japanese firepower hiding in the darkness seemed to be revived instantly, and more than a dozen Field machine guns formed a crossfire, coupled with the unique canopy crackling sound of the Green machine gun, knocked down the slightly dense crowd in front of the position, and countless people struggled to rush forward, but the distance of less than two hundred meters seemed to become an insurmountable moat. Before reaching the target, they fell on the cold ground, and the junior officers who led the team rushed to the front and were also killed and wounded in the front, and many of them waved their sabers in their hands to beckon the soldiers to charge forward, and when they turned around, they fell headlong

Feng Zicai looked at the battle in the night with a pale face, holding the binoculars and trembling slightly, the Japanese arranged on the front-line position, and it turned out that it was not an ordinary infantry company but a machine gun company, this change caught the veteran of the battlefield off guard

In this era, the machine gun was not yet the kind of infantry support weapon that was deployed to the combat unit at the squad level, it was mostly used as a kind of fire suppression, just like artillery, four to eight heavy machine guns formed a machine gun company, and three to four machine gun companies formed a fire group or machine gun battalion was used in a centralized manner

I didn't expect the Japanese army to use machine guns like this, and look at the number, the Japanese army should have pulled out a division's machine guns and arranged them on the front line, they had expected that we would launch a night attack, with these extremely fast machine guns, the Japanese army was made up for the disadvantage of low shooting accuracy in the night, coupled with the wide firing range of Mount Fuji, which was convenient for the opponent to carry out firepower, this impact simply became a massacre, and at this time, the Japanese artillery had formed a barrage of shooting behind them, and it was impossible for them to retreat, Feng Zicai clenched his fists, The nails are embedded in the flesh

If this battle is not brilliant, the two of them will lose face and go home, the Japanese who are fighting in the DPRK have no power to fight back, and Zhang Xun, who also came back from Germany, is also shining in Japan, and now it is their turn to fight Tokyo, can you not let this veteran worry?

And in the command headquarters on the other side of the battlefield, Nakamura Value, the commander of the Tokyo Guard Division of the Royal Japanese Army, also appreciated with satisfaction that all this was no longer the era of cold weapons, and it was a foolish act to win by simple superiority in troops, in his opinion, if the officer commanding this Qing army had a little military common sense, he should temporarily stop the attack, and then look for the weak part of the Japanese defense line to attack, but if he did that, his artillery would add some casualties to them

However, as the battle progressed, Nakamura Valueya's face gradually changed a little, and his original relaxed expression was replaced by solemnity

The reason is that the Qing army not only did not choose to retreat, but crashed into the front of the Japanese army with the most firepower again and again, and saw with his own eyes from the artillery mirror that those Qing soldiers chanted slogans that resounded through the sky, and continued to charge, the wounded crawled on the ground, and used their hands to grab the Japanese machine guns that were red with both hands, and occasionally a soldier rushed into the trench, and in the blink of an eye, there was a loud noise, it should have been killed with a hand grenade and the soldiers in the trench, and he even saw a Qing soldier jump up from the ground and block a machine gun that was spitting bullets with his chest

As a result, the first thing the soldiers on the forward position did when they saw a Qing soldier rushing up was not to kill them with the machine gun in their hands, but to turn around and flee to the second-line position, and it was really terrible to fight with such a unit, and he gradually understood that his comrades were defeated by such a unit in the DPRK, and their soldiers' fighting will even had a tendency to catch up with the Japanese soldiers