On May 1, 1910, at 6:34 a.m., the fleet sailed for 25 hours and finally arrived at the scheduled landing site between Kaohsiung and Tainan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Wisps of black smoke gradually appeared on the sea, coming from the west, and the officers and men of the 71st Wing of the Japanese Army stationed here couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after seeing this scene, and the reinforcements that had been delayed for a few days finally came. As early as a week ago, they had received the news from above, and in a few days a wing of troops and a large amount of supplies would arrive at them.

So the Japanese army here mistakenly thought that the fleet on the sea was their reinforcement, but then the Japanese found a problem, if it was their reinforcement, then shouldn't it come from the northeast? How did it come from the west? The direction due west corresponds to Hong Kong, the mainland of the Chinese Empire.

The captain of the 71st Wing, Matsuyama Daige Osa, couldn't help frowning, the direction in which the fleet appeared seemed to be very different? Could it be that the fleet is deflecting? This also seems unlikely, the fleet should first arrive in the direction of Keelung, and then go south along the mainland shelf of Taiwan, if it arrives in Keelung, there is a possibility of yaw, but since it has arrived in Taiwan, then there is absolutely no possibility of yaw.

Could it be enemy forces? Matsuyama Daigeru couldn't help but be scared out of a cold sweat, and hurriedly gathered troops to enter the position to prepare for battle, whether it was his own reinforcements or not, at least the preparations that should be made should be done, if it was really the enemy, then they would not be caught off guard, although they were already caught off guard.

On the sea, on the watchtower of the Zhiyuan ship, through the quadruple telescope, the lookout soldier could vaguely see that the Japanese troops on the ground were hurriedly entering the defensive position, but so far, he still did not see where the Japanese shore artillery positions were?

The fleet had basically reached the final area, where the troop carriers would not be able to move forward if the Japanese shore guns were still not exposed, because if they were to be hit by a single shot, the fate would be very bad.

The fleet as a whole stopped, leaving only two frigates to continue to protect the fleet, the cruiser and the destroyer each placed about ten landing craft on the surface of the sea, and then drove at full speed towards the shore, where they were to enter the battlefield first, and then lure the Japanese shore artillery to open fire, and then destroy them, clearing the way for the landing of the marines.

Generally speaking, most of the shore guns are buried underground, leaving only a barrel and part of the gun body on it, and the defense is extremely strong, and a permanent shore gun position is still a little difficult to deal with by relying on the firepower of the cruiser alone. In addition, warships have no advantage over shore guns, so no one dares to attack rashly until shore guns are discovered.

However, the shore artillery on the opposite side is not a permanent fortification, because of the time relationship, coupled with the shortage of materials, the Japanese simply do not have extra materials to build permanent fortifications, and in addition to the restrictions of the terrain, their shore artillery only dug a deep pit in the ground as a gun position, and then the gun commander stood on it to observe the target and direct the shooting.

In this way, the shore artillery does not occupy any advantage in terms of firing or anything else, and these shore guns are actually army artillery, and they are left over from the Qing army in the past, and they were temporarily pulled to serve as shore artillery, and the power, range, and accuracy are all problems.

The formation of three warships led by the cruiser Zhiyuan sailed towards the shore in a mighty way, although the shore artillery positions on the shore could not be seen, but the defensive trenches of the infantry could indeed be seen, and the army soldiers who were moving inside could even be seen faintly.

The naval guns were no longer able to deal with these infantry, and the moment they left the fleet, the naval guns began to vent their dissatisfaction with the Japanese troops on the shore. From time to time, you can see the Japanese troops hiding in the trenches on the shore being blown into the sky, and there are explosions everywhere, and there are destroyed trenches everywhere.

At the same time that the fleet went to tease the Japanese troops on the shore, the fourteen landing craft began to approach those transport ships, although this is not the final landing site, but these troop carriers will not continue to move forward until the warships in front of them have completely solved those shore guns, and these landing craft need to be prepared at this time, and then just wait for the signal of the warships in front of them to come, and then they can drive towards the front landing field at full speed.

The landing craft had a displacement of only 20 tons, used two engines that had been decommissioned from tanks, was fully loaded at a speed of 11 knots, and could carry up to 30 people or 3 tons of supplies.

Basically, one landing craft can deliver three squads of fighters to land at once, while fourteen landing craft can deliver forty-two squads and five hundred troops at a time to land. According to the current distance between the fleet and the shore, excluding some other influencing factors, it will take about half an hour for the landing craft to come and go.

That is to say, at this distance, if the fleet is unable to move forward, they can only send 1,000 troops ashore in an hour, while there are nearly 10,000 enemies on the shore defending, although the combat effectiveness of those Taiwanese soldiers is negligible, but if they only have 500 people to resist the attack of so many people on the other side for half an hour, the pressure on their bodies is still obvious.

But there is no way, the number of landing craft is limited, and this is not the main landing ground, the main force will land in the north, and the size of the landing force there is dozens of times that of here, so it is naturally impossible to equip too many landing craft here, and fourteen landing craft are actually the limit.

At present, the Chinese Empire has a total of more than 300 landing craft, but only 120 landing craft have been allocated to Taiwan this time, and the remaining nearly 200 landing craft have been allocated to the north, where they will land on the Japanese mainland.

After the landing craft approached the troop carrier, a large net was lowered on the troop carrier, with some ropes underneath, and the officers and men on the troop carrier quickly tied the ropes to the landing craft, and after all the ropes were fixed, the marines on it moved down the big net little by little.

Chen Peng is an ordinary soldier, first subordinated to the Third Army, later incorporated into the First Army, and participated in the later Sino-Russian War, because his hometown is by the sea, so he was more familiar with water since childhood, after the end of the Sino-Russian War, he was transferred back and joined the newly formed Marine Corps.

Because of his strong arm strength and excellent shooting ability, after Chen Peng came to the Marine Corps, his weapon was also replaced with a Type 03 automatic rifle, which was responsible for the fire support of the team.

The Marine Corps has a lot in common with the infantry, but there are also many differences, for example, the Marine Corps requires everyone to know how to water, their training ground is also on the seaside, and the daily training is to swim with weights, swim two kilometers from the shore, and then swim back, the war on land has basically been eliminated from them, and it is more about beachhead combat.

Because of the different combat missions, the Marine Corps should also be different in terms of firepower allocation, and unlike the army's classic equipment configuration of one fast, one accurate, and ten stable, the Marine Corps' equipment configuration is two fast, one accurate, and nine stable. The two fast are two Type 03 automatic rifles, one is a sniper rifle, and the nine are nine Mauser 1898A rifles.

With the exception of the sniper, who can choose whether to equip himself with four grenades or six grenades, the standard equipment for all others is six grenades, two hundred rounds for rifles, four magazines for automatic rifles, and two hundred bullets, which are scattered in four cartridges, two hanging from the waist and two in tactical vests, for a total of 320 bullets.

But in war, automatic riflemen basically choose to bring more bullets, because the Type 03 automatic rifle is too bullet-intensive, and 320 bullets are simply not enough to fight. Therefore, under normal circumstances, automatic riflemen will choose to carry 370 bullets themselves, and then take 300 bullets and spread them over the body of the soldiers on the same class, so that they will not run out of ammunition at the end.

And this time they had to resist the beachhead for at least half an hour, and at the same time they had to face numerous enemy attacks, so this time everyone chose to bring more ammunition, in addition to the riflemen, two hundred ammunition was enough for them, and this time almost a squad of soldiers carried fifty bullets for automatic riflemen.

In addition to the squad firepower configuration, the Marine Corps is also equipped with a fire support group for every two squads, that is, a machine gun group composed of three people, equipped with the latest general-purpose machine guns, because the machine guns are lighter, so everyone is also full of ammunition, and there is also a five-person mortar fire support group, equipped with a 60 mm mortar, the reason why there are so many people is actually to carry shells.

And a platoon also has a fire support squad, this squad is equipped with two general-purpose machine guns and two mortars, in the hope of being able to support the landing force to the greatest extent, unlike the army, they are destined to face the situation of less to more from the beginning, so in terms of firepower, the above is still very hard.

A landing craft can just fit a combat group, that is, two squads and a support group, these three units form a combat group, and then many combat groups form a huge battle group, constantly consuming the enemy.

The battle was still hot ahead, but the order to leave came from the troop carrier, and the soldiers close to the side of the ship untied the ropes attached to the landing craft, and the landing craft swayed towards the shore.

Because they are all soldiers drawn from the front-line troops, they are not lacking in combat experience, and no one is nervous or afraid like a recruit at this time. (To be continued.) )