With Chen Liang's order, the huge convoy suddenly accelerated, and the speed increased by at least 20%, without considering the continuity, just a state of rapid marching, the speed of the troops can also be gradually improved, this is the benefit of mechanized troops, even if the speed of the troops is improved, for the troops, it is only a little tired, and this fatigue is caused by the bumps caused by road conditions.

In the other direction, the speed of the Japanese army is slowing down, this is the difference between mechanization and manpower, manpower is poor and machinery is endless, in a short time, people can run quickly, but for a long time, it will not work, even if it is a strong People's Liberation Army, the daily marching speed is only 35 kilometers, the forced march is 50, and the rapid march at the critical moment has reached 14 hours and 72 kilometers, which is already the limit.

On the other hand, in the case of mechanized troops, as long as the machinery is not broken, there is fuel, and the road conditions are acceptable, the machinery can run almost all the time. Just like the U.S. military during the Cold War, the 24-hour global projection capability, in the era of cold weapons, is simply a miracle among miracles, which is impossible to accomplish, but it is a fact. The speed of the convoy has increased, coupled with the help of the airship, and the monitoring of the airship that can be avoided by any ambush, you must know that on the airship, there is not only an optical observation system, but even infrared and night vision, and these equipment of the nature of realization are only known to the military high-level.

The mechanized unit of the reconnaissance regiment, like a giant dragon, kicked up countless clouds of smoke and dust. At a speed of about 40 kilometers in less than 40 minutes. I walked a distance of almost 20 kilometers, and I was speeding along the way. Soon reached the vicinity of Heights 343.7, and then stopped.

343.7 Heights, which are relatively common small hills in Shandong, are gentle and have no waves, and it stands to reason that they are not suitable for laying positions, but next to him, more than 800 meters away, there is also a 253.6 Heights. The two heights echo each other, which is more suitable for setting up machine-gun positions, as for the rest, time is limited, and it is only possible to simply dig fortifications and let the artillery be laid.

On the other side, the Japanese army was already very close, and the airship did not approach the sky above the Japanese army, but observed the movements of the Japanese army from a distance of several kilometers. At this time, the Japanese army was still a horse pulling division, and it could not and could not be equipped with mechanized equipment such as automobiles, which was the mainstream of this era. Even Germany, an army power, began to gradually study motorized and automobile supply with the support of the northwest. Other countries have not yet started, and sex is against the horse. Cars are still fairly rudimentary, even on purpose-built roads. The failure rate is also too high, and the speed advantage of the improvement is almost no longer in the face of failure. However, the horses were sunk because of the logistics ships, and the few left, the dozens of temporary supporters, did not have much effect at all, and now they rely more on manpower.

Optical telescope plus 4000 meters at an altitude, if you don't pay attention, you can't see it at all, optical telescopes and other means of observation, basically the situation of the troops carried by Tachibana Koichiro is 7788, although Tachibana Koichiro is a temporary patchwork of half a division, but has 2 complete infantry wings and several brigades of logistics and other arms, the total number of more than 12000 people, is currently along the 3 kilometers wide, 7 kilometers long range, divided into 12 columns in the rapid advance, The whole march was relatively orderly, and the distance between each other was also within the range of support at any time.

Tachibana Koichiro is one of the representatives of the Japanese Army's Young Zhuang faction, after graduating from Lu Shi, his orthodox road to promotion, currently sitting in the position of major general brigade commander, this time is an opportunity to prove him, 12,000 people are almost half a division, because of the emergency departure, just carried some weapons and small-caliber artillery, not that he did not bring heavy firepower, the landing place, is a pristine beach, not to mention the road, even if it is flat land is very little, they do not carry livestock and other means of transport, can only rely on manpower, Of the 12,000 people, almost 3,000 were in charge of logistics and carrying artillery.

Looking at the distance between the two sides, almost about 3 kilometers, the airship in the air radioed Chen Liang and the Japanese army arrived, and briefly told Chen Liang the deployment and attachment of the other side's troops.

After listening to the telegram sent by the airship, Chen Liang was in a relatively calm mood, because of the relationship with the airship, his command headquarters did not choose to arrange it from a high place, and the hilly areas of Shandong, especially the part near the seaside, are not hidden, and it is already good to be able to arrange the machine gun team, and his command headquarters is arranged in the direction of the side and rear, and it is arranged together with the artillery unit.

"According to the plan, attack with all your might!"

Tachibana Koichiro didn't expect that the reconnaissance group of the first division had already arranged its position and was waiting for his arrival in the distance, and the Japanese army was also considered to be persevering, and under the condition that it had received a large number of attacks and lost a large number of artillery and weapon supplies, it was still in the shortest possible time, and an elite force was organized and rushed to this side, but he was a little unfortunate that he happened to bump into the reconnaissance group of the first division. The open area, and there are no large trees to cover it, at most the machine gun positions on the high ground are hidden, and between the two high grounds, the two sides face each other head-on.

Tachibana Koichiro found that there may be less than one wing of troops on the opposite side, and immediately organized 6 brigades for assault, in his opinion, no matter what army is in front of him, the number is hard, even if it is 6 brigades, it is impossible to completely annihilate the enemy, and there are 6 brigades in the follow-up, and when the time comes, the other party will take care of one and lose the other, and the victory will be theirs.

Japan's tactics are still in the period of the Russo-Japanese War, the well-trained Japanese army, the pig tactics used, can be regarded as traditional, densely rushed up, the Japanese army with a fierce expression, looks very capable of bluffing, but it is just capable of bluffing, they are completely outdated compared to modern warfare.

The first to sound is the sniper rifle, the reconnaissance group, in the configuration of sharpshooters, far more than ordinary troops, more than 3,000 people, with 400 sniper rifles, they are all arranged in the direction of the rear position, 1200 meters of range, even far above the Japanese Makqin machine gun.

During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army enjoyed the benefits of Makqin, among the standing divisions, Makqin had a large amount of equipment, but the loss at the time of landing, so that the half of the division led by Tachibana Koichiro, the total number of Makqin was only 37, and even for the rapid march, the 12 artillery pieces carried, 4 70 infantry guns and 8 40 battle defense guns were basically still in a state of parts, and it took time to equip them together.

In this case, the sniper became the first to make a contribution, not a special forces, the pursuit of precision sniper rifles, but ordinary, almost with AK11 universal with a scope, increased barrel and accuracy of the sniper rifle, this can be equipped with 5 rounds of magazines, in the hands of professional sharpshooters, can ensure continuous shooting, the lookout next to is responsible for the lookout and logistics, with the help of a special loader, can be completed in a short time, to ensure that the marksman can continue to design.

The distance of 1200 meters, for sharpshooters, it is impossible to achieve 100 shots, plus the accuracy of ordinary sniper rifles is not enough, three or five shots hit one, it is normal, but there are too many people, the rate of fire is too fast, and the lethality is also huge, but the sudden cold gun, all of a sudden, made the Japanese army's pig tactics unable to continue, under a row of guns, dozens of people fell to the ground, and even more and more, giving these soldiers a great blow, they all lay on the ground, did not dare to raise their bodies, and could only crawl forward.

However, the training of the Japanese army is still quite in place, even if it is in a creeping state, it is still moving forward quickly, almost more than 300 meters away from the position of the reconnaissance group, countless soldiers got up suddenly, rushed towards the Northwest Army, this is the Russo-Japanese War period, the tactics of creating zào, relying on the spirit of not fearing death, crossed the area where the opponent's firepower was intensive, and then rushed into the enemy's camp to fight bayonets, which is also the only point that Tachibana Koichiro relied on, fighting bayonets was a Japanese soldier in childhood, It was with this that Japan was able to defeat Russia, which was a tall man.

The commander of the front line, watching the crazy rush up, may rush to this side of the position in half a minute at most, and immediately fired a signal flare, which had already been prepared in place, distributed on the position of less than 1 kilometer, more than 240 light and heavy machine guns, almost every five meters, there was a fixed point of fire, facing those Japanese soldiers began to shoot frantically, and the machine guns arranged diagonally, like cutting rice, shot at the opposing Japanese soldiers.

This is not the most desperate, on the two high ground next to it, at least 30 machine guns, under the condescending situation, caused more damage, heaven and earth, the Japanese army has no way to escape.

The powerful firepower stopped the Japanese charge, and when they lost almost one and a half brigades, almost 2,000 people, the Japanese army's tidal offensive retreated, but when it was 500 meters away, the machine guns stopped firing, but the cold guns rang out again, and for the Japanese troops who turned around and retreated, their goal was even greater.

After it was easy to retreat, Tachibana Koichiro counted the number of people, 6 brigades of more than 6,000 people attacked, and finally succeeded down, less than 3,000 people, that is to say, in less than 30 minutes, at least more than 3,000 people completely fell on the front position, and the other party exposed the personnel, and the full battle was only more than 2,000 people, this combat power is also a little too strong. (To be continued......)