"Officers and men of the Third Division of the Imperial Japanese Army, you rush with me to avenge General Nogi Noshinori!" A Japanese wing commander shouted.

"Rush!" "Long live the Emperor!" ……

Soon, the soldiers of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, under the orders of the division commander Katsura Taro, began to charge forward. And they wanted to break through quickly while Chen Liyan's second division was not firmly established, because Wang Guorui's army was digging trenches too fast, and if it went on like this, the Japanese army might have an unfavorable situation, so they also had to risk charging.

"Artillery regiment, fire at me!" Chen Liyan shouted.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

The shells fell like hailstones, and when they hit the ground, they began to explode, and many Japanese soldiers were blown into the sky. And then the Japanese army continued to charge, and did not collapse and retreat due to the impact of the shells. However, their casualties began to skyrocket, and then they continued to charge, apparently hoping to break through the gap between the two armies, and then rush into the trenches of the Kingdom Swiss soldiers to fight, and then destroy Wang Guorui's army.

"The regimental mortar battalion is ready!"

Soon, the mortars of those subordinate regiments also began to be aimed, and these mortars were just equipped for use. And the use of these mortars made the soldiers feel very good. This mortar has a long range, reaching about 500 meters, and is more powerful than a grenadier. Of course, the biggest advantage is that it is easier to aim than a grenadier, after all, there is a formula for aiming a mortar, unlike a grenadier that can rely on the feeling of a soldier. So it's a lot easier to use.

"Da! Da! Da! Da! ……”

Mortar shells were fired one by one, again forming a dense area of fire coverage at 500 to 100 meters. And when the Japanese army came out of the trenches, they had to accept the artillery bombardment of the Swiss soldiers of the kingdom. Then rushed to about five hundred meters to be subjected to mortar bombardment.

"Emperor's warriors, don't retreat, keep charging me!" The commander of the Japanese wing shouted.

"Rush!" The Japanese again charged hard.

But every time the Japanese army took a step forward, it had to pay a huge price. They had just advanced the battlefield five hundred meters, and they had already lost almost a thousand people, and the two wings that went out this time. It's only more than 8,000 people, and their casualties have already reached one-eighth, but they can only grit their teeth to support. After all, military law above is not a casual nonsense.

"The Japanese army has rushed to three hundred meters, machine guns are ready!"

"Dada......"

Maxine heavy machine guns began to spray tongues of fire like whips, and then constantly whipped the Japanese soldiers. And the Japanese army was still strafed and knocked down like wheat harvesting. And the Japanese rushed to a distance of about three hundred meters. Their losses were still increasing violently, and in just a few minutes, they lost almost five hundred men. This number is almost unimaginable when they fought against the Qing army in Liaodong, and now they have to suffer such huge casualties, so they must also conquer this position.

"Riflemen ready, grenades ready!"

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

In the end, the riflemen finally opened fire, and these riflemen were responsible for some of the last bits and pieces at best. Because to be able to break through this enemy within 200 meters, it is simply rare. They were able to break through. They were all shot to death by rifle men one by one, and in the end they were all able to fall less than 150 meters from the position of the 2nd Division. And in the last 150 meters, they seem to be very close, but they can't break through this position, which makes them very painful.

"Division commander, let's quickly let the soldiers retreat, it's a senseless sacrifice to go on like this!" said the chief of staff of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army.

And Katsura Taro looked at the situation in front of him, then sighed and said, "Retreat!" ”

Katsura Taro also understood that with the capabilities of the Japanese army, he would not be able to break through the formation here. Therefore, everyone also felt the strength of these Wang Guorui's armies, and the firepower was too fierce. As soon as they came out of the trench, they had to suffer from the blow of artillery, and then Wang Guorui's mortars, machine guns and other weapons were used along the way, and they couldn't overcome them at all. And they suffered heavy losses, but they were not able to have any effect, so the morale fell again.

"Division commander, we lost about three thousand people in this attack. And the losses of our opponent's Chinese army...... "The staff officer was a little embarrassed to say, obviously the losses they caused to Wang Guorui's army were almost equal to nothing. And this kind of thing is naturally difficult to say, if you say it directly, it will be a slap in the face of the division commander Katsura Taro.

"Humph!" Katsura Taro snorted, obviously very upset.

At Wang Guorui's general headquarters, Wang Guorui, as the supreme leader, began to explain this trench warfare to those middle-level officers.

"Did you see it, the Japanese army attacked the position in charge of Division Commander Chen Liyan just now. In our trenches and the trenches of the Japanese army, the open space in the middle can be called no man's land. No man's land is a flat land, and it is almost impossible for both sides to survive in this area alive. Because of the heavy artillery fire, as well as the use of automatic weapons such as machine guns that fire continuously, our firepower reached its peak. And under this kind of fierce firepower, it is impossible to break through this no-man's land by relying on human flesh and blood alone. As long as it was a person, it would not be able to withstand such heavy artillery fire. ”

"And the best way is to find a place to cover in the no-man's land, but the biggest problem is that the other side also knows this. A suitable bunker will be constantly bombarded as the focus of the battle between the two sides. As you have all seen just now, our Taipei belongs to a basin, and there are relatively few protruding bunkers here, so it cannot be well covered. So we have to be able to build a bunker on it, and if we can have a bunker, then we can cover the advance of the soldiers. ”

Wang Guorui talked about this, and someone immediately asked: "Then can't we break the game?" Now if we want to break through the opponent's position, we must withstand the huge firepower of the opponent. And under this fierce firepower, we were simply unable to effectively break through the opponent's position, and the war reached this point, that is, it entered a state of attrition. It is easy for both sides to be unable to break through, and then both sides are unable to move forward and continue the attack, and in the end they can only fight for which of the two sides has more resources. But isn't there a way to break this situation? ”

"Lord Wang, you just said that if you can have a bunker, it will be much safer. Can we move the bunker so that we can charge with the soldiers, so that the soldiers can hide behind the bunkers, so that our soldiers can charge into the enemy's trenches with relative safety, and then rush into the trenches to fight the enemy? Someone asked.

When Wang Guorui saw that it was a battalion-level officer, he immediately asked curiously: "What's your name?" ”

"Lord Wang, my name is Song Yang!" The battalion officer said.

"You're right, you can break through the opponent's position, but how can you get cover moving? First of all, the cover must be large enough and hard enough to be able to block enemy bullets and cover itself. But how do you make this idea a reality? Can you use human power to push this heavy thing? Wang Guorui asked.

"This ......" Song Yang had nothing to say.

Wang Guorui still agrees with this Song Yang's "whimsy", because this "moving bunker" is actually the idea of a tank. Later, the British invented the tank in trench warfare during World War I, which was actually based on the idea of moving bunkers. They loaded engines in iron boxes and took machine guns to cover the charge of the soldiers. And the tank can crush the barbed wire, which can open a passage for the soldiers to rush into. Tanks can also cover each other with soldiers, with tanks using their large and hardy bodies to cover infantry, while infantry need to avoid "death squads" who blow up tanks. Later, the tank was also responsible for using tank guns to smash those points of fire and clear the way for soldiers to advance.

Of course, this Song Yang's current idea is still unlikely to be realized. Because tanks need diesel engines, but if the diesel engine is based on history, it will take next year to be invented. If a steam engine is used to make a tank, this will not work at all, because the huge size of the steam engine cannot be used on the tank. Therefore, although this Song Yang's idea is very good and has the value of further development, it is not feasible at present.

"I already have a way to break the general. However, it is necessary to let the soldiers receive newer training, which is very targeted. And now Miss Tanya is training soldiers, and then you can learn more new tactics, which is one of the ways to crack this trench warfare. Wang Guorui said.

Wang Guorui also began to teach some students, so that he could form a so-called "teacher-student friendship" with those young officers. Of course, Wang Guorui also wants to set up a military academy at present, but the conditions are not ripe now. First of all, the officers had to fight at the front, and there were no superfluous officers as military school instructors. And those front-line officers are not very comfortable with the new tactics, and the people who are familiar with the new tactics are Wang Guorui, Tanya, and Natasha. And these people will be Wang Guorui's students, and they can gradually get better promotions in the future. (To be continued......)