Northeast Front. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The war began again, and the Japanese seemed to be on the offensive in the area of Jiamusi, because their forward positions were located on the west bank of the Ussuri River, just ten miles east of the city of Jiamusi.

Opposite to the Japanese position, only 500 meters away, is the position of the Chinese National Defense Forces, both sides are deep trenches, the front line is laid with barbed wire, the position is centered on a machine gun, this defense is impregnable no matter how you look at it.

The Wehrmacht did not attack from the ground, but began heavy artillery bombardment, and the middle artillery group ten kilometers away from the rear began to roar, and the target was the Japanese position a few hundred meters away.

They are not afraid of being bombed by their own heavy artillery, but they know that if they open fire, the Japanese artillery will soon sound, this is the form of war, the artillery groups of both sides are in the rear, ten kilometers away from the front line bombardment, such a long distance, it is impossible to bombard each other, in fact, the main role of artillery is to abuse the infantry.

The same is true of the European battlefield, the German heavy artillery group is blowing up in Verdun at this time, and the British and French bombarded the German army on the front line of the Somme, in the battle of the Somme, the German army suffered 500,000 casualties, 54% of which were killed by the shelling, in fact, the intensive bombardment of heavy artillery is still very effective.

Sure enough, the Japanese artillery also sounded, but the Japanese artillery, both in number and caliber, was much worse than the artillery group of the Chinese Defense Forces, the Japanese long-range artillery group was dominated by 70 to 90 mm guns, and many were mountain artillery, and the main long-range artillery group of the Wehrmacht was dominated by 105 and 150 heavy guns. The largest caliber artillery of both sides, the Japanese mainly used 280 caliber siege guns, while the Wehrmacht artillery was equipped with thousands of 305 heavy guns.

Therefore, even if it is the abuse of the infantry, it is the Chinese Defense Forces that abuse it more ruthlessly.

It's just that the two sides have actually ceased fire for a long time, and there are even soldiers doing some small business on the border line, in fact, there is not only fighting and hatred in the war, especially in this long-term war of attrition, the soldier's mentality will slowly change from the initial frenzy to a kind of collapse, and the behavior will become elusive, maybe there is a crazy charge today, and the next day the two sides can join hands to celebrate the festival together.

On the European battlefield, soldiers on both sides cease fire at the same time at Christmas, and they can also light bonfires together to have a party.

On the battlefield in the northeast, during the Chinese New Year, when Chinese soldiers ate dumplings, there were also Japanese soldiers who were not afraid of death who secretly came to eat rice.

However, this situation, whether in the West or in the East, is expressly forbidden by the upper echelons.

Toshihide Nagano is such a Japanese soldier, he is from Osaka, and he is not as fanatical about the Meiji Restoration as people in other places, because Osaka was the largest commercial city in Japan during the shogunate era, but after the Restoration, Tokyo, Nagasaki and other places gradually developed and grew, although Osaka is not in decline, but the wealth transfer brought about by the reform has made the Nagano family decline.

During the Shogunate period, the Nagano family had close ties with the local daimyo and was considered a wealthy family in Osaka, but after the Meiji Restoration, the Nagano family lost its former advantages and went bankrupt with the bankruptcy of the daimyo family, and from the grandfather's generation, the Nagano family became a poor burgher.

When he arrived in the area of Nagano Toshihide, he couldn't even make a living, and after Nagano Toshihide went to junior high school, he studied in an engineering school for two years, entered a chaebol factory, and finally lived a worry-free life, but because of the Northeast War, the Japanese economy fell into a long-term downturn, followed by an economic crisis caused by China's economic boycott.

Toshihide Nagano is unemployed, he also has a younger brother and a younger sister to support, seeing that the government recruits young people who immigrate to the Northeast, promising that each family can get a hundred acres of land, in desperation, Toshihide Nagano took his younger brother and sister to the Northeast to beg for a living, the fertile black soil did make the Nagano family worry about food and clothing at the beginning, if it goes on like this, Toshihide Nagano is also willing to settle down.

But the war began again.

As an immigrant and young man, while receiving the land given by the government, Nagano Toshihide was also incorporated into the ranks of the Tuntian soldiers, participating in military training in peacetime and into combat units in wartime, the Japanese have not yet established a perfect reserve system, nor do they have a general mobilization mechanism, but they use the ancient way of military tun to maintain an army of 2 million in the northeast at low cost.

That's how Toshihide Nagano joined the army, he's been here for a long time, his sister is still young, but his younger brother can already do farm work, Toshihide Nagano isn't very worried, on the contrary, life on the front line was also very new before, Toshihide Nagano is a native of Osaka, and he was born to do business.

When he found that some soldiers in the Japanese army were secretly doing business with the Chinese, he was not only not surprised, but thought it was interesting, so he began to collect some things unique to Japan, buy some small Japanese items such as cigarettes and pens from the soldiers, and then quietly left the position and went to an abandoned village in the distance to trade with the Chinese soldiers.

He exchanged the Chinese for dried meat and local flatbread from the Mongolian steppe, and then took it back to the army to trade with rich soldiers and even officers.

The two sides were in a stalemate here for a year, and although there were occasional shelling and tentative attacks on each other, it was generally calm, and Toshihide Nagano showed his business talent to the fullest, and even went to 10,000 members, which made him overjoyed, and planned to continue working, and then save enough money to let his brother open a shop in Boli City, so that their Nagano family could make a fortune.

Unexpectedly, the battle started again, and a large number of small Japanese goods were pressed in his hands and he had not yet taken them off, and of course Toshihide Nagano was very unhappy.

"Damn the Chinese."

Nagano Toshihide cursed in his heart, quietly hid his goods, and then hid in the pit with the others.

The sound of artillery is still ringing, and the artillery of our own side has also responded, and the sound of artillery on the Chinese side has not stopped.

Hong―bao！

Basically, the sound of firing the cannon was like this, not one, but two, the cannon popped out of the muzzle, the landing exploded, listening to the cannon Nagano Toshihide suddenly felt that something was wrong, and keenly he heard the sound of the Chinese's cannon changed, became closer, and became farther.

It was as if the sound of the other party's cannon fire became closer, and the sound of explosions became farther away.

Wu Peifu watched through the binoculars that after the Japanese opened fire, the artillery groups hidden near the forward positions could begin to bombard the Japanese artillery positions, and these cannons were hidden here last night for the purpose of destroying the Japanese artillery positions.

Wu Peifu also saw in the telescope that the airships of the secret book had already set off, and they would completely destroy the Japanese artillery positions with heavy bombs, and of course they would also pay a heavy price and destroy several airships by the Japanese air defense weapons.

Things were much better than Wu Peifu had imagined, only three airships were damaged, and all of them returned safely.

It seems that the Japanese did not expect that the Chinese would give up the tacit understanding of abusing the infantry and turn the target into them as artillerymen, and the losses were quite heavy, first by the Chinese heavy artillery bombardment, and then by the bombardment of aerial bombs falling from the sky, the Japanese artillery was disabled for a while.

"Let the ironclad attack."

Wu Peifu ordered.

Yang Chao said that this kind of ironclad car is very useful for breaking through the defense, and the infantry follows the ironclad car, responsible for protecting the ironclad car, and the ironclad car also provides cover for the soldiers, so that the soldiers can successfully rush to the front of the opponent's trench, destroy the enemy, and occupy the trench.

But Wu Peifu didn't care about this, in his opinion, this kind of car is too ugly, and it creaks when it moves, making people worry that it will fall apart at any time.

The three-meter-high ironclad car is too coarse compared to the tanks of the later generations.

Seeing the ironclad cars in their trenches rushing out from behind the position, groups of soldiers followed the ironclad trucks to advance, and at the same time, the soldiers in the trenches carried out the mortars and began to throw shells at the Japanese trenches to suppress the Japanese counterattack and provide cover for the soldiers and the advancing ironclad vehicles.

At the same time, in Dalian in the south, the Chinese National Defense Forces also launched an offensive, and the attack here is much more difficult.

Obviously, the Japanese army in Dalian was much stronger than the Japanese army in Jiamusi, because the Japanese army here was the Dalian garrison army formed by Nogi Noshinori and the second army in the Russo-Japanese War, and the backbone officers and soldiers were elite veterans who participated in the Russo-Japanese War and the Northeast War.

The total strength of 7 divisions and regiments, with a total of 100,000 people, was led by Nogi Noshinori's chief of staff, Tomosuke Iji.

The Chinese National Defense Force mobilized 30 divisions with a total strength of 320,000 troops, led by Duan Qirui.

Duan Qirui sent airships to fight, but after more than 10 ships were knocked down, he knew that the opponent's position was stable and it was not so easy to capture, so he could only continue the artillery battle for the time being, and at the same time looked at the battle situation in the north, anyway, he was just containing, not allowing the Japanese army in Dalian to enter the northeast, and not allowing them to withdraw.

Duan Qirui of Dalian looked at the battle situation in Jiamusi in the north.

Cai Ye in Manchuria is also watching the battle situation in Jiamusi.

After Duan Qirui helped Cai Yi straighten out the control of the army, he was ordered to go to Dalian, and Cai Yi was left alone in Manchuria to be responsible for the northern operation.

It's just that Cai Ye is too calm here, and he is only ordered to attack when the Russians ask for it.

Moreover, the troops in his hands are not strong, and he doesn't want Dalian to have 320,000 people, and the Japanese army only has 100,000; There were 2 million troops in Jiamusi, and the Japanese army on the opposite side was only 1 million; He had less than 200,000 men in Manchuria, and the Japanese army on the opposite side was as high as 800,000.

Therefore, even if Cai Ye can attack, he can't actually defeat Chita, he can only wait for Jiamusi to determine where to divide the victory and defeat, and even have to wait for Wu Peifu's main force to clear the Japanese army in the area of Haisenwei after Boli and Hailan are cleared, and then he will send troops to strengthen his forces here.

Fortunately, the Russians were very strong and had launched a continuous fierce attack on the Japanese army, and he was very hopeful that the Russians would send the Japanese back to the Heilongjiang Valley, so that he would not have to stay in Manchuria.

However, the Russian attack was firmly blocked by the Japanese on the periphery of Chita, and it was difficult to advance an inch, and the losses were heavy! (To be continued.) )