"Boom, boom, boom, boom......" Dense shells flew out of the battleships on the sea and landed on Japanese soil, bursting out with tremendous destructive power. Six battleships and eight heavy cruisers have already aimed at their predetermined targets, and under the guidance of the special forces that landed in the early stage, all military targets in Mt. Omine, Mt. Abekura, Hayama Castle, Zushi Castle and other places were bombed accurately. When the main military targets were destroyed, the Qing artillery fire relentlessly shelled the Japanese troops and Japanese positions that were gathering or had been arrayed. All the large-caliber naval guns were firing non-stop, and the range of the Qing warship guns was filled with smoke and dust. The dense artillery firmly blocked the Japanese 5th Division, which was trying to reinforce the city, in the north of Zushi Castle, and could only watch as Zushi Castle was gradually covered by gunsmoke.

The rapid-fire guns on the small destroyers and landing ships kept spitting out tongues ......of fire, the houses in the Hayama pier were burning, the fortifications were destroyed, and all the Japanese soldiers were trying to find a place to escape the Qing army's artillery fire, but the entire dock seemed to be unsafe.

None of the entire deck of the landing ship were Marines preparing for a landing operation, except for one person who was operating weapons and equipment. Only because all the soldiers were on standby below the open deck. As long as the landing ship docks, they can rush directly to the dock to exchange fire with the enemy.

This is a way of differentiating from existing ones. The traditional landing method is that a cargo ship or warship transporting infantry and weapons first sails to the sea area where the landing is made, and then the infantry climbs down from the rope nets on both sides of the transport ship into the airboat or small boat docked below the transport ship, and then marches towards the landing site. This method of landing only requires more boats, but too far away from the landing place will require the infantry to resist the landing site for too long, during which time the infantry will have little resistance. However, if the transport ship is too close, it is easy to be hit by shore-based firepower, and it is also easy to lead to the situation of ship destruction and death. It's just that this was a loophole and a defect that was discovered later when the General Staff Headquarters conducted a sand table deduction exercise on the landing operation, but the original intention of the original request for the design of a special landing ship was that when the navy bastards carried out robbery throughout the South Seas, they thought that the landing process was too slow, which affected their speed of grabbing money.

Therefore, in order to be able to transport infantry and its weapons and equipment to land more quickly, the Admiralty requested that the current submarine support ship be imitated to design a sea-going vessel with as shallow draft as possible. So. The infantry can enter the airboat directly from the landing craft, and when the warship is as close to the coast as possible, the stern gate can be opened, so that the infantry who have already been seated in the airboat can rush to land in the shortest time. Therefore, the design of a small landing ship that required speed and could run fast was also handed over to the ship design department of the Academy of Sciences headed by McKinson. I didn't expect to wait for the design plan to come out. Wu Deren said no in one sentence: If you get to the dock, you can only rely on your ass to transport troops, no.

Therefore, in the naval construction design, at the height of the dock position on both sides of the landing craft, the hatch or the hatch turned down was added. In this case, the hatch was flipped over and placed on the dock. The infantry will be able to step directly onto the dock as soon as possible through the fallen hatch.

This plan was urgently stopped after Guangxu knew about it, not to mention this life, I had never heard of the landing ship opening the door on both sides of the ship in my previous life. But what Wu Deren said is good, once the landing ships are all docked, it must mean that the navy has an absolute firepower superiority on the other side of the shore, otherwise who will bring the daring landing ships to the dock. Guangxu also nodded after hearing this, what he said is this! Guangxu could only tell McKinson to pay attention to protection when designing the hatch, otherwise a small-caliber rapid-fire cannon hidden by the enemy on the shore would shoot a round into the hatch, which would be too big.

So after consideration, the ship opened two four-meter-wide gates, which were enough to pass the cargo vehicles being developed by Dongfeng Motor Plant. Four medium-sized hatches, two meters wide, were used to transport small artillery for rapid troop transport. Eight small doors, only 75 centimeters wide, accommodate the passage of infantry carrying small arms or mortar components in a single step, and there is a long curved corridor behind these eight small doors to prevent the enemy from firing shells into the hatches at close range. To this end, Guangxu asked the Admiralty to come up with strict combat regulations to ensure that no one would open the large hatch because of the need to quickly complete the landing, resulting in a large number of unnecessary casualties among soldiers. Therefore, the conditions drawn up by the Admiralty are that after the landing craft docks, the small door must be opened first, and after the infantry can quickly clear the threat at close range and consolidate the security of the dock, the large and medium-sized hatches will be opened according to the situation for the transportation of troops, weapons and materials.

Thus the strangest warships in the world appeared, landing ships with a displacement of 1,200 displacements, no longer bulging bulging bloms, but straight sides. The deck is higher than that of a regular cargo ship or a warship of the same class, and except for the bridge and crane, the bow and stern are equipped with a twin 75 mm rapid-fire gun pack. Both sides of the ship were occupied by a large number of 50 or 37 mm rapid-fire guns and machine guns, which were used as infantry support weapons. The armor is only able to withstand 75 mm of artillery attack, and the top speed of 14 knots is not much faster than that of an ordinary cargo ship.

Wu Deren was not satisfied with this, and in his opinion, the entire shipboard should be opened into a gate. It's all on the dock, and the enemy still has a fart resistance. As a matter of fact, the ultimate purpose of the Admiralty's request to build landing ships is not to transport troops to land, but to ship goods and goods on land. It's just that what the Admiralty didn't expect was that the first use of the landing ship was a real landing operation.

The port of Hayama is so rudimentary that the only pier can only accommodate four landing ships at the same time. Thirty-two small hatches were lowered, and the first Marines to land rushed out of the hatches with rifles and other light weapons. Quickly attack the depths of the docks. Ten minutes later, other large and medium-sized hatches were opened, machine guns, mortars and other weapons were transported out of the landing craft, and they launched an attack deep inland under the cover of naval guns of various calibers.

Under the guidance of the special forces radio, the Qing artillery fire almost accurately destroyed all the organized resistance forces around the entire Yeshan County, and only the Japanese soldiers who resisted sporadically could not resist the attack of the elite Qing marines except for a small number of casualties of the Qing army. Within a day, Mt. Omine, Mt. Abekura, Hayama Castle, and Zushi Castle fell, and the reinforcements of the Japanese 5th Division were stopped and stopped by Qing artillery fire. The port of Hayama was only 7 kilometers away from Yokosuka in a straight line, and the four strange warships of the Qing Dynasty, all with 152 mm guns, were able to accurately destroy the temporary outer defensive positions of Yokosuka from a distance of 5 kilometers by land. By the time it got dark, the vanguard of the Qing army was less than two kilometers from the port of Yokosuka. The Qing army even hit the Kongo parked in the port of Yokosuka across the entire peninsula, and although only one hit and caused only minor injuries, it caused chaos throughout the port of Yokosuka.

Yamaguchi Susen, the commander of the Japanese Fifth Division, frowned as he watched the dense artillery fired by the Kiyo Yankuai ship. Numerous telegrams were sent from the base camp asking him to immediately drive the Qing army to the sea. The wording of the last few letters even reached the point of forcing him to cut his stomach, but he still did not give the order to attack. It's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he can't, no matter how heroic the imperial warriors are. Flesh-and-blood bodies could no match for 305mm shells. The Qing army was very ghostly, their troops never ran out of the range of the ship's guns, but as soon as their troops came into range of the Qing army, they would be attacked by artillery. As a result, the rear troops could not go up, and the front troops were all annihilated by the Qing army with superior forces. For this, the 21st Infantry Wing lost more than half.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander. Yokosuka is the last naval foundation of the Japanese Empire, and we must not afford to lose it. Please allow the 11th Wing to lead the 11th Wing along the Inland Sea to bypass the Qing army and reinforce Yokosuka. Konosuke Nohara, who is an intelligence officer at the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters and is now the commander of the 11th Wing of the 5th Division, is trying to persuade the division commander to adopt his advice.

Yamaguchi Suchen really didn't want the soldiers to die in vain, but he couldn't withstand Nohara's constant persuasion and the repeated strict orders of the base camp, so he had to agree. Between the words, Yamaguchi Suchen repeatedly stared at Nohara to do what he could. Nohara hilariously went back to the team to prepare, Yamaguchi Suchen still hesitated, he didn't know if he was right to promise Nohara. How did he know that Nohara was full of contempt for him.

In the first year of the First Wu Dynasty, Nohara Konosuke saw with his own eyes that the brave and enterprising Japanese Emperor Yankuai team was beaten and scattered, and he saw the division commander Nozu Michiguan rushing towards the Qing army. Since he escaped from the Qing army's roundup and returned home, he has always been determined to defeat the Qing in land battles, so he went from the staff headquarters to the fifth division as a wing commander. is to have the intention of competing with the Qing State. When the mighty Combined Fleet returned home, he also dreamed of setting foot on the mainland again. I never thought that it was just a war, and the imperial navy was in a slump, and now it was attacked by the Qing state, burned, killed and looted. As an imperial soldier, he couldn't get used to Yamaguchi Suchen's practice of always thinking about preserving his strength. He was determined to be disgraced, and he wanted to drive all the Qing troops into the sea.

The Western Route Army of the Qing Dynasty attacking Japan was composed entirely of Chinese. Except for the 11th Division, they were all elite troops that had gone through the war, and the Qing army's attack once again blinded Japan. With the landing of the Qing Army. In the face of the possible attack of the Japanese 3rd and 5th Divisions, the Qing army put on a defensive posture, and the main force did not immediately move towards Tokyo, but aimed its guns at Yokosuka. The fire of the 1st Artillery Division covered the 3rd and 8th Divisions to launch an attack on Yokosuka. Yokosuka, which had only garrison troops, fell in just one day, and six Japanese warships, which had run out of shells, ran to the port of Tokyo and hid. Unfortunately, the mine distribution map of the Uraga waterway has not been found. That is, the Qing Navy still could not enter the Gulf of Tonkin.

"Report, Japan's latest war report." In the command room of the General Staff Headquarters of the Qing Dynasty, the telegraph operator handed a telegram upwards from the telegraph room: "The 11th Division stationed in the Liupu area has been attacked by the 11th Infantry Wing of the Japanese 5th Division. The 11th Division was defeated. "At the same time. The location of Rokuura on the map in the command room, the staff officer took down the blue flag representing the Great Qing Dynasty and replaced it with the red flag representing Japan.

"A Japanese wing is equivalent to a regiment in our country. Although the 11th Division was composed of three regiments of the B Division, it had only been formed for a short time and had insufficient training. However, with three times the enemy's strength, and still being defeated with superior fire support, it is necessary to understand the reason. ”

Since the emperor had already spoken, Wang Shizhen didn't say more, and asked the people below to send a telegram to Feng Guozhang, the commander of the Western Route Army. Even in the first year of the First Wu Dynasty, starting from the Liao River, as long as the generals with the troops did not abandon their troops and fled, even if they were defeated, there would not be a rout, what was the reason for the rout of the entire division. He was also curious about this.

will be subject to the king's order outside. In ancient times, under the condition of extremely poor communication conditions, it was impossible for the emperor sitting in the central imperial city to get the battlefield to change every moment, and the news came and went far and even for a month, at that time, no matter what kind of combat order the central government issued, and when the order arrived in the hands of the leading general, the battlefield was no longer what it was at the beginning. Now that the telegraph was available, especially the Qing Dynasty, the war situation in Japan could be delivered to the headquarters in the capital in the shortest possible time. Even so, Guangxu still asked the staff officers and generals in the command headquarters not to ask about the specific tactical arrangements on the battlefield. The confrontation between the two armies is the vision and courage of the generals, and the changes in the battlefield determine when to attack, and every move on the battlefield cannot be understood by the staff headquarters in the capital. However, it is impossible for the front-line generals to know the changes in the entire battle situation in detail, so the main work of the General Staff Headquarters in wartime is to coordinate the various units.

The emperor does not interfere in the specific command of the war. Although the emperor is by his side, Wang Shizhen doesn't need to ask the emperor for his will. After a brief discussion with Ouyang Zhenhua, he telegraphed Feng Guozhang in the name of the General Staff Headquarters to make every effort to collect the remnants of the 11th Division, mobilize the necessary troops, and ensure that the 21st Infantry Wing dared to attack was completely annihilated. to shock the military might.

Konosuke Nohara is both proud and complacent, and since the Qing army landed in Japan, the Great Japanese Emperor Yankuai team has been defeated all the way without a single victory. From the emperor to the soldiers, there was an inexplicable fear of the Qing army, and Nohara knew that this fear came from Japan's fear of China's always powerful Central Plains Dynasty.

In the first year of the first year, the Central Plains Dynasty took advantage of the laziness of the Central Plains Dynasty to beat the former Heavenly Empire all over the ground, and the Japanese people were so proud of it. But by the Liao River. When the lazy Central Plains Dynasty mustered up the last shred of courage, when the Qing Emperor personally led the two divisions of the new army he trained to the Liao River, the Qing army, which had been defeated all the way, suddenly broke out with powerful combat power. And that was the only time Japan had a chance to defeat the Qing State, but it was still ten meters away from victory. When the Combined Fleet of the Great Japanese Empire was once again defeated by the Qing State, when the Great Japanese Empire was attacked by the Qing State, the Japanese archipelago, which had never been attacked by the enemy, was now groaning under the artillery fire of the Qing State. If the military victory of the Qing State cannot be achieved now, there will be no hope for the whole of Japan.

Nohara Konosuke never thought that the martial arts of the Great Japanese Empire were inferior to the Qing people, and the reason why the Qing people were more proud was that they once led the world, but they were just a little worse in the past few years. Now the Qing Emperor has taken the opportunity to defeat the Japanese again and again to prove to the people that the Qing State is still a strong country, which makes the Qing people start to be proud again. The Japanese, on the other hand, were once again in fear of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Konosuke Nohara attacked the 11th Division in the face of the dense artillery fire of the Qing army regardless of the retreat, just to tell all the Japanese: as long as they dare to fight, in fact, the Qing people are not terrible at all. Yes, tactically he succeeded. The Taiwanese, who were still participating in the war for the first time, had never seen such a desperate enemy, so they were scared and defeated. Konosuke Nohara managed to break into the port of Yokosuka, only to see a devastated and empty port.

There was a burst of gunfire outside Yokosuka Port, and the command room where Konosuke Nohara was located was shaken by the explosion of the Qing army's large-caliber artillery shells. Junior officers have repeatedly reported to him the movements of the Qing army, hoping that he will lead them to break out of the encirclement of the Qing army. However, the 11th Infantry Wing, which had once rushed through the Qing army's defense line, was now less than a brigade of troops, and it was surrounded by Qing troops. Even if you can break out of this encirclement, you can't return to the division headquarters. It's not that he doesn't know that he is actually bringing the United to death, he just hopes that the Japanese people will understand through his actions that as long as you dare to fight, there is hope for winning.

"Qingguo is not terrible, the most terrible thing is the fear in my heart." Konosuke Nohara said something that no one else understood and walked out of the command room. He pointed his command knife firmly ahead: "Kill and give-" Then he was like the first commander of the Fifth Division, Nozu Michikan. Rushed into the Qing army.

"Smack." A human head was thrown on Feng Guozhang's case.

"The head of the 11th Infantry Wing of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, Konoyusuke Nohara, is here, and the entire wing has been killed." Ning Yaru, the commander of the 11th Division, walked to Feng Guozhang with a limp but stood straight: "Now my 11th Division has used the entire annihilation of the 11th Infantry Wing to prove to the military headquarters that the defeat of Liupu is only due to the lack of experience in major battles before, not the incompetence that the commander said." ”

"The ferocity of the 11th Infantry Wing of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army has never been seen in history. If all the Japanese troops fought with our army like the 11th Wing, our army would have won a crushing victory even if it finally won. As a result of the war, our Qing Dynasty has gained enough advantages, and the next war ministers think that there is no need to sacrifice more soldiers. Wang Shizhen put down the telegram and played to the emperor: "The Lidao Air Force has been prepared. Please show me. ”

Seeing Ouyang Zhenhua's attitude of seconding the proposal, Guangxu smiled: "It is a blessing for soldiers to have generals who cherish the lives of soldiers." But the Japanese have just defeated our Qing Dynasty once, and our Qing army has stopped, is this appropriate? As soon as our air force attacks, Japan will not be able to counteract our air force, nor will it be beaten passively endlessly, and it is inevitable that Japan will ask for peace talks. But in this way, the Japanese will only think that the Qing Dynasty will not dare to fight with them, and will only use odds to win, and they will not be able to do it. You don't know the Japanese race, and they will only be truly obedient if they are beaten to the point where they are completely unable to fight back. Chuan Zhen's will: Feng Guozhang must be ordered to annihilate the main force of the Japanese army of at least two divisions head-on. After this battle, I wanted the Japanese to tremble when they heard the Chinese army, and I wanted to plant a seed of fear in the hearts of the Japanese. ”

Before the emperor's words fell, Wang Shizhen and others saw a river of blood in Japan. (To be continued.) )xh118