"Kill—"

A Japanese soldier stepped out of the trench, and the command knife on his waist was drawn out in the midst of a shout, and he swung forward. Behind him, five large groups of Japanese soldiers stepped out of the deep trench like him.

"Fluffy ......"

Behind them, it was the sound of a cannon ejection. Countless shells exploded one after another on the positions of the feudal army on the opposite side, and the smoke of gunpowder spread over the battlefield. Even the shells fired from time to time deviated from the landing point into a small river in the southeast of the battlefield, and each shell burst the ice on the surface of the river, blowing up a column of water more than 10 meters high.

At the same time, more than 20 heavy machine guns were all swinging on the Japanese position, and the earth-shattering sound of 'tom tom' shook people's ears. A stream of fire pointed directly at the opposite position, completely suppressing the front line of the feudal army.

The main forces of five brigades and one brigade were engaged in today's attack. The government forces also took out all the artillery of the Fukuoka battlefield and formed a cluster to cover it. Just because Tokyo got the news, the main force of the feudal army, which had retreated to Kumamoto for recuperation, was about to complete the renovation.

The government forces in Fukuoka received an order from Tokyo to defeat and defeat the seven or eight thousand feudal forces of the Fukuoka Domain, which consisted of two battalions of newly arrived troops, before the main force of the Kumamoto Domain's army arrived at Fukuoka.

Gentaro Kodama has been holding a telescope and staring at the other side, as the chief of staff of the Fukuoka government army, as the chief planner of this government army operation, today's pressure has made his whole person almost suffocated. Because Kodama Gentaro knew very well that the Japanese army's artillery skills did not meet the requirements of his battle plan, the reason why the plan was still implemented was because he would rather lose a thousand by mistake.

Gentaro Kodama is not yet thirty years old. He is not yet the 'No. 1 Wise General of the Meiji Era' in the original time and space. The number of 'accidental injuries' weighed on his shoulders like a mountain.

After twenty minutes of artillery bombardment, the bombardment line began to stretch towards the positions of the feudal army. As a result, the shells became more scattered. The artillery commander of the government army, who has poor tactics, simply cannot make the artillery of different calibers in his hands form a powerful Xu Jin barrage!

Gentaro Kodama shook his head slightly. I sighed heavily in my heart. The distance between the front and back of the shell landing point was a full 200 to 300 meters, but his own request was that the troops should not be more than 200 meters away from the center of the shell landing point. When the current distance continues to extend vertically, the scatter of shells will naturally expand, and so on...... The situation is worrying.

"Long live the Emperor!"

The soldiers of the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division rushed to the vassal positions without hesitation amid the frantic drumming. The formation of the Japanese army at the moment can be described as completely scattered. They were told long before they advanced that they might be accidentally injured by their own shells, which inadvertently made the Japanese ranks even more fragmented.

But the formation was scattered, and the morale of the Japanese army was not at all and became fragmented.

Gentaro Kodama clenched his hand in the binoculars, looked at the scene of wolf smoke in front of him, and prayed in his heart: precision! Precision!

If it was true, the Japanese attacking troops were wiped out by their own artillery fire, seven or eight hundred. He will not forgive himself.

Gunfire was heard, but the sight was obscured by gunsmoke and dust, and the specific situation could not be seen clearly on the Japanese position.

Kodama Gentaro's eyes were moist, and he kept muttering, "The Imperial Army is mighty!" Long live the Emperor! ”

The 5,000 Japanese troops were completely submerged in the smoke and dust, and the heavy machine guns of the feudal army still did not fire. Japanese artillery fire was firing into the depths.

It worked! It definitely worked!

Gentaro Kodama feels light and fluttering, and he succeeded! Absolutely successful. The 9th Brigade successfully captured the front-line positions of the feudal army, opening a gap in the entire battlefield.

"Kodama-kun, it's been a hard work."

Commander Miyoshi Shigetomi faced Gentaro Kodama and solemnly bowed. This is what Gentaro Kodama deserves.

The brigade commander of the 9th Brigade is Miura Oriro. He seemed to have been watching the battlefield quietly, but the excitement in his heart was really only known to him.

The previous group of troops only had 5,000 people, which was a large force in Japan, but it did not seem to change the disadvantage of the southwestern feudal army. Because they are facing the Tokyo government, which has a basic force of 100,000 troops. Now the Tokyo government has demobilized former veterans. Two new divisions were formed, and the total strength of the army has reached 130,000. And this amount is not the entire reserve of the Tokyo government.

However, the two battalions showed far more combat effectiveness on the battlefield than their own numbers. In the first battle, it was directly faced with the attack of two Japanese divisions. After eleven days of fighting, he calmly retreated. The casualty ratio on both sides was as high as 7:1. In the ensuing seventeen-day Battle of Takase, the retreating force defeated two Japanese brigades head-on. The battle line was firmly nailed to Takase and nailed to the north bank of the Kikuchi River.

The Standing Team became famous in Japan and was known as Japan's 'No. 1 Elite'!

Now Saigo Takamori has asked for 5,000 troops from Liu Xianam, and this team of Tokyo government is under great pressure on Fukuoka. This is also the most direct trigger for Kodama Gentaro to make this radical battle plan.

How did these Japanese know that although the total number of the first and second battalions that returned to Japan only accounted for 20 percent of the standing team, they included more than 80 percent of the elite of the standing team. Those are veterans who have gone through China's large-scale wars, especially the Battle of Beijing and Tianjin and the Battle of Northern Jin.

The current 5,000 detachments are simply not comparable to the combat effectiveness of their predecessors. Although each of them is the same, they are not afraid of death. Liu Xian has arranged all the back roads for them, and the family has no worries, and these people have no reason not to fight to the death.

The shogunate had just fallen, and in the samurai class, the Confucian idea of 'loyalty' and the Japanese spirit of bushido were very thorough.

"The casualties of the warriors will not be small. But for the sake of the Emperor, for the pride of the Great Japanese Army, their sacrifices and dedication are worth it! With them, what else could the Imperial Kingdom of Great Japan not do!? Be proud of yourself, Miura-kun! It is an honor for you, me, and Kodama to command such a resilient and willing army to die. ”

"Yes!" Miura Wulou bowed.

Another shout of 'Long live the Emperor' resounded in the smoke and fog. The joy revealed in that voice stunned and overwhelmed the members of the European and American military observer missions who came to watch the battle.

How dare the Japanese fight so hard? Aren't the people who were blown to pieces by their own shells, stumps and broken arms?

Also shocked was Chen Jing in the position of the feudal army! He and Li Tao were the leaders and deputy leaders of the second batch of the return to Japan team, and the first batch did not set up such a position. Because Liu Xian didn't expect that the feudal army that had received so much funding from himself would face the Tokyo government, and after a year of war, not only did he fail to gain the upper hand and take the entire Kyushu, but he also asked for help twice!

This made Liu Xian have a trace of distrust in the command ability of the officers of the feudal army. That's why Chen Jing and Li Tao appeared.

Chen Jing looked at the waves of black people who continued to swarm towards the second line of defense with a heavy face.

It was really the force he expected.

Can you fight? Perhaps. Tough-willed, maybe. But it is true that he is dedicated, sees death as his home, and is not afraid of death.

"To be ruthless to yourself is to be really ruthless!"

Chen Jing didn't think he remembered such a sentence in his mind. I think so. Little Japan is really a ruthless nation!

"Tanaka-kun, sue Sù Ozawa, it's time to do it."

"Hey!" Tanaka Gohara immediately ordered someone to go to Ozawa to convey the order.

I saw a grizzled Ozawa Ichiro in an anti-artillery hole, and after receiving the order, there was a hideous and cheerful smile on his face, and he squeezed out a word from between his teeth: "The first wave, bomb!" ”

One of the sappers immediately connected the wire in his hand, and the other shook the small hand-cranked generator, and a trace of blue electric light 'squeaked' flashed in the hand of the sapper.

In an instant, countless explosive points shining with red and white fire suddenly bloomed in the front-line position, and a strong vibration was transmitted from hundreds of meters away, and Ozawa Ichiro could clearly feel the tremor on the surface. The countless explosions sounded at the same time, gathering into a loud bang, like a thunderbolt descending on the world!

The stump is broken, and the flesh is flying.

A hell on earth!

The black figures that poured in like a tide were shattered, swept away, and torn apart, and the high-ranking Japanese officers in the rear were stunned by the sudden thunder, and they completely forgot that 'the imperial army will win', and would never shout 'Long live the Emperor' again!

This is Chen Jing's trump card!

"Second wave, bomb!" Ozawa Ichiro's heart was extremely hard, hearing the roar of the explosion, feeling the ground shaking under his feet, he imagined the tragic situation of the government army after the bombing, and he really didn't know how happy it was in his heart.

But this is also thanks to the gelatinous explosives and medicine provided by Qin Jun. The bullet didn't explode even if it hit, which was completely beyond his cognition. Therefore, under the bombardment of government artillery, the explosives planted were not hindered at all. This kind of storage zài, which was called a safety explosive by the Qin army, is really safe.

"The third wave, bomb!"

……

Li Tao ordered the troops, a large group of soldiers in the forward team, holding up their rifles with bayonets attached, and slowly touched the government troops.

Before and after the front-line positions, the muddy water that was blown into the sky fell like raindrops at this time, and the flesh and blood of the government troops fell with a clatter. Flesh and earth fused together, and the smell of the earth mixed with the smell of blood and gunpowder, and a strange vomiting smell permeated.

There were corpses everywhere, stumps and broken arms, and broken weapons, and many of the soldiers of the advance team vomited, but none of them turned back, and resolutely walked towards the front-line position they had just abandoned.

A large group of remnants of the Japanese army rolled back to the government positions.

In the Japanese position, Kodama Gentaro's eyes were no longer alive, and Miyoshi Shige and Miura Wulou were pale and trembling and gritted their teeth and cursed...... (To be continued......)