"The military headquarters has ordered the first division to march here to support our attack, should we wait for the first division to bring it and attack together?" Chief of Staff Shoroku Suzuki proposed a building yì.

Utsunomiya Taro only pondered for a moment before vetoing this proposal, "We are less than an hour away from the battle site, and it will take at least half a day for the first division to rush over, we have no reason to wait where we are, if that happens, if the enemy does not attack us, we will be sent directly to the military court, the order of the military headquarters is to retake Yokosuka at any cost, we must carry it out unconditionally, okay, Suzuki-kun, let the troops move on." ”

As a professional soldier, Utsunomiya Taro's quality is still very high, although the enemy is terrible, but he can't disobey the orders of the military department, not to mention that he can't afford that kind of result.

More than an hour later, the 4th Division came to the valley mouth area where the cavalry division was ambushed, although there was still some distance, but the telescope could already see the situation in the distance, a large number of cavalry soldiers were still piled up on the road, and now there was a thin layer of school covering it, covering the blood on the ground.

But even if it is so far away, you can already smell a smell of blood in the air, and it can be spread so far on a snowy day, you can see how much blood there is.

The nearby terrain is hilly, and there is only one road leading to guò, so Utsunomiya Taro's face becomes very ugly.

"Tell me to go down, let the artillery find favorable terrain, set up artillery, and I will blow up those peaks." Utsunomiya Taro commanded loudly to his subordinates.

At this time, the Huafu army on the mountain also saw the Japanese army in the distance, almost three or four miles away, and at this time, the commander of the 118th Regiment, Zhu Mingyuan, and his chief of staff, Li Ming, were also holding binoculars and looking into the distance, "Regiment commander, it seems that little Japan is going to set up artillery." Chief of Staff Li Ming looked into the distance and said.

"See, do you think there is no one in our army, get a few small miscellaneous guns and come here to show off your might, let's give you a ruthless one, don't say that we bullied you." Zhu Mingyuan put down the binoculars and turned his head to the combat staff officer and shouted: "Use the laser ranging sight to locate the artillery position of the little devil, pass the positioning coordinates to the artillery regiment, tell them that they are the artillery position of the little devil, and let them cover it directly with firepower." ”

After speaking, Zhu Mingyuan said to Li Ming with a smile: "Let's just wait and watch the play, this is much more interesting than setting off fireworks during the New Year." ”

"It's not interesting, it's all money, the little devil's cannon costs money, and our cannonballs also cost money." Chief of Staff Li Ming also said with a smile.

The artillery regiment of the Japanese Fourth Division has 36 75 mm guns, and at present, although it cannot be compared with Germany, Britain and the United States, it is still very strong in Asian countries, after all, in the current Republic of China, heavy artillery is strictly restricted from importing, and it has no ability to produce it, and 75 guns are considered heavy artillery.

Of course, the 4th Division also had four 120-mm heavy guns, but the weight of four or five tons made it difficult to march, and this time it was required to move quickly, so it was not brought, of course, even if it was brought, in front of the heavy artillery of the Huafu Army, it would not be enough to see.

The heavy artillery of the Huafu Army is all 155 mm howitzers and cannons, even self-propelled guns are thicker than the Japanese cannons, and in the Huafu Army, 75 mm field guns are really just a joke.

At this time, the Japanese artillery brigade had set up nearly half of the artillery, and the other half was still erecting artillery on the flat land, and the artillerymen were also adjusting the firing angle and preparing for the shelling.

Utsunomiya Taro felt that the enemy army had come from afar, and they were coming by ship at sea, even if there was a close-range gun such as a mortar, it was unlikely that they would carry heavy artillery, so he was ready to use the advantage in firepower to suppress the firepower of the Huafu army.

However, Utsunomiya Taro miscalculated, these mountain artillery he brought, the maximum range is only 6000 meters, the power of the cannonball is limited, and it is okay to deal with ordinary soldiers, but the artillery of the Huafu Army is a real heavy artillery, 155 caliber cannons, howitzers, the range is twenty or thirty kilometers away, covering a wide area and huge power, it is definitely a battlefield killer.

"Woo... There was a noise in the sky, and then a muffled sound of slapping was heard in the distance.

"It's not good, shelling, hurry up and dodge." With a shout, the soldiers on the Japanese artillery positions also realized that something was wrong.

However, without giving people a chance to react, one bomb after another exploded on the artillery position, and the power of the huge high-explosive shell was beyond imagination, and a single shell could blow up a deep pit several meters in size, and the power of the single piece and the shock wave was even greater, and for a time the sound of explosions on the Japanese artillery position was everywhere.

Full coverage, it was definitely a full-coverage bombardment of the position, and those small guns on the Japanese artillery positions were blown to pieces, and they all became parts, and they couldn't be saved.

The soldiers were not spared, such a huge explosion power, even if they hid in the fortifications, they would be shocked to death, not to mention that now the Japanese army has not prepared fortifications at all.

The artillery regiment of the Huafu Army came up with a ten-minute full firepower covering bombardment, and after the smoke cleared, the Japanese artillery battlefield had become a ruin, no, it was even more terrible than the ruins, the land was ploughed like a plough, and there were huge craters more than one meter deep and several meters in a radius everywhere, even if it was hard frozen soil, it was turned up and exposed to the wind and snow.

"Yaga, Yaga." At this time, Utsunomiya Taro woke up from the shock, stood on the spot and jumped to his feet and scolded, but this place was still three or four miles away from the Huafu army's position, who could hear it.

Utsunomiya Taro now almost has a feeling of vomiting blood, he has just lost his beloved cavalry regiment, and now the artillery regiment has been directly destroyed by the enemy, he is now not only distressed, angry, but also afraid.

The enemy is too strong, according to the power and number of enemy artillery just now, the opponent's artillery is definitely a heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 130 mm, such heavy artillery is rare even in the Empire, only the artillery units directly under the Empire are prepared, and looking at the density of artillery attacks, the number of opponent's artillery is still quite a lot, and it should be able to reach or exceed the number of artillery of an artillery regiment.

It's terrifying, what kind of enemy is this?

"Daimon Goro Osa, Nishie He Osa." Utsunomiya Taro suppressed his fears and called in two of his brigade commanders.

"Hey, what do you command?" The two hurriedly stepped forward to answer.

"You lead your troops and go up the hill from both sides to outflank the attack, and I want you to take the enemy's position." Utsunomiya Taro gave the order.

"Hey" and the two took the order.

Utsunomiya Taro must now choose to attack, only by taking the hill and seizing the position, can he continue to fight with the enemy, their current position is not conducive to the attack, the enemy's top-down attack occupies too much geographical advantage, he no longer has the luxury of suppressing the enemy in firepower, because he can see that the enemy's firepower is stronger than theirs.

What he wants to do most now is to get close to the enemy, and use his superior forces to kill and injure the enemy's living forces, fight a war of attrition with the other side, and hold back the enemy's footsteps, so as to create time for the follow-up troops of the Empire.

But he didn't know that the Huafu army had no intention of attacking in the direction of Tokyo, waiting here, attracting the enemy to automatically send them to the door, using the advantageous terrain and powerful firepower, and teaching these little Japan a good lesson is what they have to do now.

Utsunomiya Taro was very distressed, the order of the Imperial Military Department was to destroy the enemy as much as possible and recapture the Yokosuka Military Port, to put it mildly, he could indeed bypass this road leading to the Yokosuka Military Port and lead the troops to the mountain road, although in that case his army would not be able to bring heavy equipment, only Guò infantry, and he would need to walk more than a day on the mountain road, but did he dare to bypass it, he really didn't dare.

Guo Yu was right, they absolutely did not want the Yokosuka military port to fall into the hands of the enemy, but they did not dare to let the enemy run directly to Tokyo, if the enemy's army ran to Tokyo, it would be a disaster, and no one could afford to pay this responsibility.

If the enemy has 10,000 soldiers armed with weapons into Tokyo, burning, killing and looting, Tokyo will be destroyed by them, and even if he recaptures Yokosuka, he will not be able to escape the judgment of the empire, so he would rather block the road here and fight the enemy to the death than move a single step.

The two brigades began to attack, the Japanese brigade level was about 5,600, the heavy firepower was mortars and heavy machine guns, and the weapons used by ordinary soldiers were Type 38 rifles.

The soldiers in cotton uniforms looked a little bloated, but they were not slow, and they spread out and ran forward quickly to lower the enemy's striking surface.

"Commander, the enemy has begun to attack our positions." Chief of Staff Li Ming said.

"Let our boys prepare to fight, the little devils are ready to fill in with their lives, I'll see if they have more people or if we have more bullets." Zhu Mingyuan said with a malicious smile.

"Looks like the guy in our hands is going to open meat again." Li Ming said.

After approaching the position, the Japanese army bowed their heads and walked forward with their guns, trying to find potholes and rocky places to cover their bodies, but there was no vegetation on these mountains, and the vegetation withered in winter, so it was very troublesome to hide.

"Hit," with an order, the machine gunner opened the receiver and began to strafe downward, the bullets tilted outward like a rainstorm, and multiple fire points on the position formed crossfire, so that the bullet belts formed a network of firepower, harvesting the lives of Japanese soldiers.

"Get down, get down." The Japanese soldier Cao shouted loudly, letting his soldiers hide, but on the bare mountain, there is no good place to hide, and it is lucky to find a protruding stone.

The Japanese soldiers under the pressure of the powerful fire could not raise their heads, and the rifles in their hands were now like a burning stick, which did not play any role at all, and for a while, the Japanese soldiers were shot and fell to the ground, suffering heavy casualties. R1152