The flame on the cigarette butt was extinguished, the ash became very long, Terauchi Masaki's eyes looked blankly ahead, his brain was indeed spinning rapidly, he needed to give himself a few minutes to calm down first, and he needed more detailed information to support his next decision.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, the Ministry of War has sent a telegram again, and it has been confirmed that the information is accurate, and this is a telegram." The secretary also had a shocked face at this time.

Terauchi Masayi took the telegram and looked at it carefully, and the telegram reported in detail what happened, mainly saying that at about 5 o'clock this morning, the Imperial Combined Fleet outside the Yokosuka Naval Base was attacked, and the method was exactly the same as that of the Japanese Second Fleet, and the matter developed very quickly, and in just over an hour, the Combined Fleet was all wiped out by the enemy, and now the analysis believes that the enemy is the Huafu Fleet of the Nanhua Kingdom, and the telegraph communication was out of order at that time, and this information was when the Huafu Fleet began to attack the Yokosuka Military Port, The signal corps was sent to the 4th Division's station, and then the message came that the Yokosuka military port could not be saved due to the loss of the protection of the combined fleet, so it can now be considered that the Yokosuka military port has fallen into the hands of the Huafu army.

Although he was already mentally prepared, when he saw that the telegram said that the Imperial Combined Fleet had been completely wiped out, Terauchi Masatoshi still felt a throbbing pain in his heart, and he grabbed his chest and felt like he was about to lose his breath.

The secretary saw that Terauchi Zhengyi's face was pale, grabbed his chest, and felt uncomfortable, so he hurriedly stepped forward to support the crumbling Terauchi Zhengyi, and shouted in his mouth, "Your Excellency Prime Minister, Your Excellency Prime Minister, are you okay, I'll call a doctor for you." ”

After taking a few breaths to ease up, Terauchi Masaki waved his hand and said: "No need to call a doctor, you go and inform all the cabinet members, dare to convene a meeting, order the War Department, mobilize the Fourth Division to Yokosuka Naval Base, you must take the base back for me, and after notifying the First Division, gather all the troops, go to reinforce the Fourth Division as quickly as possible, be sure to take back the Yokosuka Naval Base, and drive those Chinese into the sea." ”

Terauchi Masatsuki came up with the best way to do it now, the main task now is not to dwell on the destruction of the Imperial Combined Fleet, but to keep Tokyo from being attacked by the enemy.

The original mission of the 4th Division was to protect the security of Tokyo, and the garrison in Kanagawa Prefecture was regarded as a protective layer between the port of Yokosuka and Tokyo, while the 1st Division was strictly a corps stationed in Tokyo and was responsible for the security of Kyoto, but the station was in the west of Tokyo, which was equivalent to a Tokyo Metropolitan across the Yokosuka Military Port, which was considered a protective layer on the west side of Tokyo.

The response of the Japanese military headquarters was not slow, and after receiving the order of Prime Minister Masashi Terauchi, it directly ordered the Imperial Fourth Division stationed in Kanagawa Prefecture to directly send troops to recapture the Yokosuka military port.

The commander of the Fourth Division, Taro Utsunomiya, carefully read the telegram in his hand again, and then handed it to the staff officers for archiving, and the chief of staff of the Fourth Division, Suzuki Shoroku, who was standing aside, said: "Your Excellency the division commander, the troops will be assembled in three minutes. ”

"Well, let's go." After saying that, Utsunomiya Taro picked up the hat and saber hanging on the wall and walked out of the office, followed by Suzuki Shoroku and a group of staff adjutants.

The Fourth Division is a type A division, with more than 28,000 people, and it is impossible for all of them to gather together, and the main ones who have come here are the cavalry regiment and the baggage battalion of the division headquarters, and the other combat units have been notified to meet with the division headquarters on the road.

Although the fourth division is the main force of the A division, the number is very strong, but as the army that is not valued in Japan, the lifting firepower is still sour, in addition to the rifle equipment, there are only 36 75 mm guns and 120 mm guns 12 guns, a brigade may have 4 to 6 Maxim machine guns, compared to the current Germany, even Britain and France and other countries, are very shabby.

You must know that this is a division of more than 20,000 people, and its firepower is compared with that of the Huafu Army, this is a group of people named Hanako, even if the firepower of a battalion of the Huafu Army is stronger than that of a Japanese division.

The 4th Division is about 30 kilometers away from Yokosuka, which is actually not far away, but it is already in the country, and the mainland has never been invaded by the enemy, so the troops are inevitably a little lax, and they need to prepare a lot of ammunition and materials, so it took an hour to assemble.

"The cavalry regiment mounted and set off." With an order, the cavalry regiment of the fourth division took the lead in the direction of Yokosuka military port, in this era, mechanization has not yet been popularized, cavalry is considered a high-level army, and its status in the divisions is still very high, only before World War II, when countries vigorously develop mechanized armored divisions, cavalry was gradually eliminated, reduced to a branch of troops that is tightly stronger than ordinary infantry.

The cavalry regiment of the fourth division has 4,800 people, it is now the ace regiment, the commander of the regiment Jianchuan Miji rode on his mount, some high-spirited feeling, he felt that the time for his achievements had come, his cavalry regiment raided the naval soldiers, and they could be caught off guard, and when they were entangled with the enemy, the opponent's battleships and guns would not work, and they could not even blow up their own people, so their own cavalry regiment was very advantageous.

His cavalry brigade is fast and has a strong ability to raid, as long as he enters Yokosuka first, even if he loses some soldiers, as long as he persists until the arrival of the large force of the Fourth Division, his mission will be successfully completed, and he will be the first unit to break into the enemy's interior, he will definitely be rewarded after the war, and even promoted, there has been no war in the country for a long time, this is a good opportunity, and he must seize it.

When the cavalry marches, it is not a sprint, at most let the horses stand on tiptoe and trot, but the speed is much faster than the infantry, and the soldiers also save their bodies, but the disadvantage is that they can't bring any heavy weapons, even if it is a Makqin heavy machine gun, it weighs more than 50 pounds, plus accessories, it is very difficult to transport, and it still needs to be assembled when it arrives at the position, which is very inconvenient for the cavalry to be practical, so the cavalry troops are not equipped with heavy weapons now, all they have are rifles, sabers and blood.

The road leading to the Yokosuka military port is relatively wide, mainly built to facilitate the transportation of supplies and large machinery to the military port, but it is also the only road due to the eventful hills and mountains on both sides.

Although the speed of the march was not slow, it did not relax its vigilance, and a cavalry squad of about 100 people walked in front of the large force, playing the role of opening the way to reconnoiter and lure the enemy, and the distance from the main cavalry regiment was about 1,000 meters.

"Regiment commander, if we can't fight this squad, the enemy's cavalry squad will pass over soon." The chief of staff of the 118th regiment, who was ambushed in the first line of defense, asked his regimental commander.

"Don't fight, the division commander said, our combat missions in the past few days will be very heavy, the big head is still behind, these little shrimps are scouts, let's ignore them, wait for their big troops to come, let's have a good time." Zhu Mingyuan, head of the 118th regiment, said.

After finishing speaking, he picked up the binoculars and looked into the distance, where there were large cavalry neatly lined up here, although the road was wide, but it could only allow five or six horses to advance at the same time, so the line was a little long.

On both sides are small hills that are raised, and it is winter, and there has just been a light snowfall, which makes the mountains on both sides look very desolate, and the cavalry commander Kenkawa Miji Daisa is riding on his own horse, looking at the peaks on both sides, and constantly observing the terrain.

He was in the center of the group, and this road had been walked by their cavalry regiment before, but today it always felt terrifying, could it be that he was a little suspicious.

Zhu Mingyuan saw that the enemy's cavalry brigade had entered the attack range, picked up the communicator and said, "Attention all troops, first greet them with mortars and give them some color." ”

With Zhu Mingyuan's order, the mortars that had already been erected began to exert their might under the operation of the gunners, and one after another 60-mm mortar shells were fired and flew towards the ranks of the Japanese cavalry brigade.

In this kind of terrain, the use of mortars for close ambushes is too good part-time, and in a mid-mountainous environment, it is more practical than heavy fire artillery.

The assembly of mortars in the Huafu Army is very huge, basically each platoon has its own mortar crew, and the Huafu Army is based on the company-level unit as the main station unit, and the action is relatively independent, so the required firepower is correspondingly much higher, that is, Guo Yu can provide such powerful firepower, and now the army of any country in the world cannot do it.

Therefore, the number of mortars is very huge in the Huafu army, Zhu Mingyuan gave an order, and the mortars opened fire, and the falling shells were as dense as raindrops, and the shells fell to the ground and began to explode violently.

All of a sudden, the cavalry unit was blown up on their backs, and the corpses of men and the stumps and severed arms of the horses were mixed everywhere.

The cavalry brigade was blown up at that time, such a dense cannonball, they really hadn't encountered it, although Jianchuan Miji was lucky not to be bombed, but his war horse was frightened, and he fell off the horse directly, and then fled by himself.

Jianchuan Miji hurriedly got up, otherwise he would be trampled to death by the frightened war horse, looking at the chaotic cavalry brigade after being shelled, he pulled a cavalryman, pulled it off the horse and rode it himself, and at the same time drew his war knife, and shouted loudly: "Don't mess up, take out your rifles and give me a counterattack, rush forward, rush over and we will win." Then he began to take the lead and rush forward.

What the cavalry is most afraid of, is to be blocked by the enemy, the way to victory for the cavalry is to move forward bravely, defeat the enemy with speed, after breaking through the enemy's defense line, cut off the enemy's head with a sword, and overwhelm the enemy with momentum, and now it is blocked on the road can only be attacked by the enemy non-stop, and there is no power to fight back.

Jianchuan Miji's strategy is right, at least in the usual battle, it must be used in this way, but now, encountering such a powerful Huafu army can only be a nightmare for the cavalry. R1152