Nakamura Satoru was very satisfied with the situation of Fukushima Yasumasa operating here in recent years, and the ammunition could support the consumption for more than a year, and in his opinion, the fortress of Lushunkou alone could make the Chinese army knock out a few big teeth. In the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians withstood the frenzied attack of the Japanese army at the mouth of Arthur for more than five months, so you can imagine the fortification of this fortress.

Nakamura Satoru suddenly thought of the situation of the Chinese army on the other side of the South Manchurian Railway, and asked, "What is the situation of the army on the other side of the South Manchurian Railway now?" What are their numbers and how many troops do they have? What about the specific establishment and armament? ”

Fukushima Yasumasa shook his head to his adjutant, signaling him to report the situation to these generals, the adjutant nodded, and said: "The Chinese army is very strict about the establishment and specific weapons equipped with weapons, until now, we only vaguely know a little, the Chinese army on the opposite side of the South Manchurian Railway is the second army and the fourth army, the commander of the second army is called Huang Yingjie, and the commander of the fourth army is called Yao Qinian, both of which are the starting troops of the Chinese President Xiao Zhenlei, and the strength is extremely strong, one army has three infantry divisions, Each division is fully staffed with 25,600 men, and there is also a heavy artillery brigade at the military headquarters; as for what caliber of artillery this heavy artillery brigade is, we have not yet made a clear investigation clearly; a division has a howitzer regiment and an infantry regiment has a mountain artillery battalion. Their troop establishment is three or three, that is, one division has three infantry regiments under its jurisdiction, other auxiliary arms are counted separately, and one infantry regiment has three infantry battalions under its jurisdiction, and so on. As far as I know, at the division level, in addition to the three infantry regiments under its jurisdiction, there is also a cavalry regiment.

Other than that. Basically, each of the Chinese soldiers was equipped with a rifle called Zhenhua 1910, which we have never seen. Huaguo has never been sold to the outside world, according to the news. This rifle is a single-shot rifle, but there is no need to pull the bolt to load after the loading and shooting, that is to say, it can continue to shoot single-shot, which is more advanced than our army's Type 38 rifle, and it saves time and is much faster! In addition, each soldier is equipped with five grenades, which our army also has, but only a few units are equipped with it. Now the 19th division here is not armed with grenades. Officers at and above the company level are each equipped with a Zhenhua 1909 pistol, which we have heard is fully automatic, but we have not seen it. As for the rest of the armament, we don't know very well! ”

Satoru Nakamura asked, "What about the number of machine guns?" At what level of the troops? ”

The adjutant said: "There should be company-level combat units, as for how many there are, it is unknown!" ”

Nakamura felt annoyed when he heard this, and couldn't help but say: "Yaga, what is your intelligence department doing, these enemies don't know the most basic situation, how can this battle be fought?" ”

The adjutant turned his head slightly and glanced at Yasumasa Fukushima. Hurriedly stood up and said: "Hi! ”

At this time, Fukushima Yasumasa said: "Nakamura-kun, it's not that the intelligence department is ineffective, but now it's not as good as before, and in the past, Qingguo didn't pay attention to intelligence at all. Our intelligence officers can operate at will within the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and they can get any information they want, but now it is different. After the establishment of the new government in China, great importance was attached to intelligence gathering and counter-espionage work. As a result, he suffered a big loss and lost a lot of intelligence officers. The intelligence personnel deployed in China for so many years have almost been lost, and in recent years, we have worked hard to install some, but the intelligence department of China has spared no effort to crack down on us, and during this time we have lost three intelligence officers in order to find out the situation of the army on the other side of the South Manchurian Railway, and even so, we can only know so much! ”

Nakamura Jue saw Fukushima Yasumasa talking, and it was not good to be angry about this matter again, after all, Fukushima Yasumasa was the one who was leaving, and there was no need to make trouble with him now, he waved his hand and said: "Forget it, I just want to know more about the situation, since we can't know more news, then we can only know from the war, from these situations just now, the equipment of the Chinese army should not be bad, at least not worse than our army, if the military quality of their soldiers is not inferior to our soldiers, then this battle will be difficult to fight, There are only six independent garrison battalions deployed on the South Manchurian Railway, plus the military police, how many people are there? ”

Yujiro Nakamura replied: "Eight hundred people per battalion, plus the military police unit, a total of five thousand people!" ”

"Where's the equipment?"

"All were armed with Type 38 rifles, one Taisho 3rd year (1914) 7.7 mm heavy machine gun for each battalion, and two 75 mm field guns."

Nakamura Jue frowned when he heard this: "Compared with the army of the Chinese people, the firepower of our army seems to be a little worse, and in terms of strength, there are 160,000 Chinese people, and your six independent garrison battalions are only 5,000 people, the difference in strength is too great, this is not something that can be made up for by testing weapons and martial arts at all!" ”

Speaking of this, Nakamura Satoru asked, "Can the 19th Division draw some people to join the defense of the South Manchurian railway line?" ”

Fukushima Yasumasa said: "I'm afraid I have to ask some General Tachibana Koichiro about this matter, but as far as I know, it should be feasible to transfer two brigades from the 19th Division!" ”

Tachibana Koichiro is now the 19th Division, and according to the regulations, the troops stationed in Kanto Prefecture will be drawn from the Japanese mainland for a period of two years, and after the two-year garrison period is up, another division will be drawn from the Japanese mainland to change the defense.

Koichiro Tachibana joined the 6th term of the Rokushi in February 1881 and was awarded the rank of second lieutenant in December 1883. In December 1889, he graduated from the 5th class of the Army University with honors. He successively served as an instructor of Lu Shi, a member of the First Bureau of the General Staff Headquarters, and a staff officer of the 1st Army during the First Sino-Japanese War. He went to study in Austria-Hungary, served as a staff officer of the Qing garrison army, attached to the staff headquarters, served as a military adviser to Yuan Shikai, the head of the Reward Section of the Personnel Bureau of the Ministry of the Army, and the deputy chief of staff of the 4th Army during the Russo-Japanese War, and a staff officer of the base camp. Plenipotentiary Attaché at the Peace Conference at Portsmouth, Military Attaché at the U.S. Embassy, Senior Adjutant of the War Department, and promoted to Major General in August 1909. He successively served as the commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade, the commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade, the commander of the 1st Guards Infantry Brigade, the chief of staff of the Korean garrison army, the commander of the Korean military police stationed in the DPRK and the chief of police of the DPRK Governor-General's Office.

The 19th Division was formed a few months ago, and although it is a newly formed division, the combat effectiveness of this division is no worse than that of the previous permanent A division, because the soldiers of this division are all retired veterans, and although they have not fought for so many years, the tactical quality of these veterans is not much worse than that of the permanent division.

At this time, Japan's permanent divisions have about 18,000 soldiers, and the division headquarters has two infantry brigades, a heavy machine gun squadron, a cavalry wing, a field artillery wing, a field heavy artillery brigade, an engineer brigade, and a baggage brigade.

Among them, an infantry brigade has two infantry wings, an infantry wing has three infantry brigades, and an infantry brigade has four infantry squadrons. The heavy machine gun squadron has 16 heavy machine guns, and the whole division is these 16 heavy machine guns, which are assigned to various combat units when the battle is about to be fought (it can be seen that even in this period, countries still do not pay much attention to the firepower of heavy machine guns). The cavalry wing has two cavalry squadrons. The field artillery wing has three field artillery brigades, one field artillery brigade has three field artillery squadrons, and one field artillery has six field guns (less than 100 mm caliber). The field heavy artillery brigade has three squadrons, each with six 120 mm guns. The Engineer Brigade has two squadrons of engineers. There were 12 infantry brigades, 2 cavalry squadrons, 54 field artillery pieces, and 18 heavy artillery pieces.

In addition to the A division, Japan also had a B division at this time, and its wartime organization consisted of 12 infantry brigades, two cavalry squadrons, 48 field artillery pieces, and 6 heavy artillery pieces. Compared to the A division, the B division was comparable in infantry and cavalry numbers, but had 12 field guns and 12 heavy artillery pieces less.

There is also the C Division, which was organized into 12 infantry brigades, 2 cavalry squadrons, and 54 mountain artillery pieces during the war.

The reserve mixed brigade is organized into three reserve infantry wings in wartime, each with two infantry brigades under its jurisdiction, and each infantry brigade under three infantry squadrons. In addition, there is an artillery brigade with 3 artillery squadrons.

Tachibana Koichiro is still here, and Nakamura Satoru didn't mention the transfer of troops from the 19th Division, but this matter only needs to be ordered by the next order, and now he is the governor of the Kanto Metropolitan Governor's Office, the largest official on the Liaodong Peninsula, and a person who combines military and political power.

Nakamura Satoru frowned again and said, "Our army is still a little small!" ”

At this time, Kawashima Speed's eyes rolled a few times, got up and bowed to Nakamura Satoru, and said, "Your Excellency, General, I can find a way to raise some men and horses to help our imperial army fight."

"Oh? Where did Kawashima-kun get his troops? Satoru Nakamura asked suspiciously.

Kawashima Sulang hurriedly said: "Your Excellency General, in the past two years, I and the former Qing Prince Su Shanqi have organized a Zongshe Party in the Liaodong Peninsula, the main members are the former Su Prince Shanqi, the former Prince Gong Puwei, the former Shaanxi and Gansu Governor Shengyun, the former Mongolian nobles Babu Zabu, Fusheng'a, Toushan Man, Yamada Shu, Wakari Taro and I about 30 people, we network bandits in Dalian, Andong, Piziwo and other places, disguise the bandits as laborers, concentrate in Dalian, and establish the "Manchurian Special Force" Qinwang Army, about 3,000 people, divided into three regimentsTunzha in Dalian Siergou, Xiaosi Youfang and other places for training, appointed Japanese soldiers who participated in the "special task class" during the Russo-Japanese War and mainland ronin as the backbone, and at the same time encircled more than 3,000 people in the head of the Mongolian horse team Babu Zabu, now we have a total of more than 6,000 people, but there is a slight shortage of weapons and equipment, if they can be replenished, they can immediately form combat effectiveness! ”

Nakamura Jue was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said: "Yo Xi, you immediately gather these 6,000 people, and the Kanto Metropolitan Government is responsible for equipping them, and these people will be commanded by you to participate in the defense of the South Manchurian railway line!" ”

Kawashima stood up and said loudly, "Hi! (To be continued......)