"Boom, boom, boom......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Outside Fukuoka Castle, the rumbling of cannon fire rang out again. How many times has this been the Fukuoka offensive and defensive battles? Fifth or sixth? Anyway, all of Fukuoka has been soaked in blood.

On this occasion of mortality, the gun is discarded, and the wounded are not allowed to go. The ditch was full of blood, and the dead bodies in the field were lined up. The mountain trees are full of bullet marks, like a beehive, and there are magazines left on the ground, and there are piles of hills. So that the abandonment of the dead body is shocking and miserable, and it has never been seen!

Fukuoka has long been known as 'Jigooka' by Japanese folklore.

The battles fought here between the army of the Southwest Domain and the government army were all based on the lives of countless Japanese.

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Government soldiers in black uniforms in the distance gradually appeared in the eyes of Muto Toshiro! Muto Toshiro shook the dust on his body and shook it off, and a cannonball just now fell a few meters behind the trench he was in, although the cannonball fell outside the trench, but the huge sound of the explosion still made Muto Toshiro have a feeling of buzzing in his ears, and his body was covered with a layer of dust kicked by the cannonball, as well as the blood that was stained with half of his upper body.

The herald who had just followed him for half a month couldn't escape the catastrophe, and his head was hit by a grenade projectile from the government army before, which was very unlucky, wasn't it?

This is also a direct reason for the soldiers to enter the anti-artillery holes, and another reason is the vibration of the shell explosion.

Muto Toshiro was half-crouching in the trench at this time, gulping in the air filled with the smell of gunsmoke, and his mind was a little blank, as if the whole world was only the sound of those rumbling cannons.

He was the captain of the three major teams of the 3rd Battalion of the Stand Up Team. He was one of the first Japanese to follow the Qin army to pan for gold.

Although he has been in the army for many years, Toshiro Muto is like many officers and soldiers who stand up for the team. It's the first time I've personally experienced a real big battle. The standing team is not the Qin army, and there are only people who can follow the Qin army to fight on the battlefield. This also includes those who serve as the remaining troops. There are not many people who really have experience with the Great War.

Muto Toshiro was the first to clean up the natives of Wanwan, and then he just fought bandits. Those bandits don't even have a few breech rifles, let alone artillery and the like, so the most difficult thing is how to find and tie the bandits' tails, and they can't experience the horrors of real war.

Toshiro Muto's impression of war in the past is very different from the real war!

When the large-scale artillery bombardment of the government forces on the opposite side began, the Muto Toshiro Brigade on the front line, although the soldiers quickly and accurately ran back to the anti-artillery holes, but the soldiers were really stunned by the fierce and dense artillery fire. Even the officer Muto Toshiro was a little stunned.

When the artillery began to thin out, he braved the artillery fire to patrol his battle line and boost morale, but his mind was a little blank since the herald who was not far away had his entire head smashed in front of his eyes and splashed his blood. I didn't dare to patrol the battle line anymore to boost morale, and I shrank at the bottom of the trench until now!

I don't know how long this shelling lasted, but the rumbling artillery subsided a lot. At this time, a squadron leader next to him bent over and trotted over: "Your Excellency." They're coming. ”

Muto Toshiro was still in a trance, but more of a retained the instinct of an officer, took out his binoculars, and cautiously poked his head out of the trench. From the binoculars, he could clearly see the black figures overlapping hundreds of meters away, and the government infantry was indeed about to attack.

And he also found that another part of the government forces was detouring to the northeast of its positions.

At this time. A soldier also trotted over: "Your Excellency, the enemy army of more than 300 people is about to bypass the northeast direction." Attack the positions of our squadron. ”

Toshiro Muto knew this soldier, who was the guard of the leader of the third squadron of his own brigade.

"So. Do you squadron leaders need support? ”

Toshiro Muto had already regained his composure, and he was very ashamed of what he had just done, although no one saw it and no one noticed it. But you can't deceive yourself!

Because of this, his temper is particularly violent at this time!

The young Koji Ito immediately straightened up, "Your Excellency Captain, our squadron leader doesn't need support, our squadron doesn't need support. ”

"Transfer two heavy machine guns to the front line, strengthen the flank defense, and do not order the transfer of troops without authorization." Muto Toshiro has an infantry squadron, a reinforced firepower detachment, a guard detachment and a baggage detachment, a reserve of nearly two hundred people, and there is no need to worry about the left and right flanks on the frontal battlefield.

"Hey!" Koji Ito saluted.

The battle began. The government forces on the opposite side should be a brigade. There were no Japanese troops on the other flank, and the number of Japanese troops on the front was only six or seven hundred.

The strength of the Japanese army was generally about 1,000 people, which was twice the strength of the Qin army. But now is the era of 'tunnel defense warfare', and in such a mode of warfare, it is difficult to defeat the enemy's position with twice the strength of the enemy's army. It's just a tentative offense!

Not far away, two 60-millimeter mortars quickly aimed at the government troops who were charging towards the position, and launched a fierce and rapid fire, and in less than a minute, nearly 30 60-millimeter mortar shells fell from a distance of only a few tens of meters, and the field was obscured by the smoke after the explosion of the mortar shells.

Two mortar groups were quickly transferred.

Over the years, the mastery of mortar tactics by the Advance Team was almost nil, because mortars were a unique weapon unique to the Qin army in the beginning. Compared with the old mortar, the mortar is not too cheap and has a performance advantage.

At first, because of Liu Xian's 'vigilance' of the standing team, he did not let the standing team come into contact with heavy machine guns and mortars at all, and the artillery was even more impossible. It's just a pure infantry use with a standing team. It was not until the eve of the outbreak of the Japanese Civil War, when the detachment gathered, began to receive systematic training in mortars and heavy machine guns, as well as a part of artillery knowledge.

Nowadays, the Qin army's tactical positioning of mortars and the importance of mortars of various calibers have been changing. In the early days, the Qin army believed in the light 60 mortar, believing that the gun could effectively serve as a support artillery at the brigade level to supplement the lack of artillery. Of course, there are also technical limitations. The 80 caliber and 120 caliber mortars are not something that can be made if you want to, that requires special artillery steel. Liu Xian wanted a mature and practical mortar, not a cripple that would be finished with a hundred or ten shots.

And when the mortar was already familiar to the Qing army, the disadvantages of the 60 mortar were revealed - the power was too small.

Even for some civil forts, a few shots from the 60 mortar did not matter. So the Qin army switched to the production of 80 mortars of a larger caliber. As a medium mortar, the 80 artillery was enough for civil fortifications. But what about the Qing army that learned to fight in the tunnels? If you want to kill and injure the Qing soldiers in the tunnel, the 80 cannon is not very useful at all. As a result, the tactical importance of the 120 large-caliber heavy mortar has been greatly enhanced.

In the case of trench warfare, a heavy mortar of one hundred and twenty mm had quite good results. On the one hand, the curved trajectory allows these heavy mortars to move to a close distance from the target, while also effectively protecting their own safety, and most importantly, this 120mm mortar shell is so powerful that even if the fragments of the explosion do not directly hit the enemy, the huge shock wave generated after the explosion can give the enemy great damage.

The production of 120 large-caliber mortars in the previous period was more of a subjective kind of Liu Xian, as well as preparation for cement fortifications that might appear on the battlefield, and its initial positioning was by no means applied to tunnel warfare.

With the gradual change of the battlefield, the three types of mortars can be regarded as having their own uses.

Of course, in the final analysis, this is still the strength of the Qin army, and China's transportation problem is an unsolvable existence. Think about the heavy artillery of World War I in the original plane? Isn't it because small and medium-caliber artillery is very ineffective against the enemy in the trenches, and more than 120 mm, especially 150 mm heavy artillery shells, even if they do not hit directly, the shock wave can give the enemy enough damage. A shell can even collapse the anti-artillery hole.

The strength of the Qin army was far from being comparable to that of the great armies of that era. Trench defense is also only relative.

Today, after several years of development, the mortar unit of the Qin army has been initially perfected, its tactical positioning is clear, and the caliber is multi-layered, forming a 60-mm mortar as a squadron-level support firepower to attack the enemy's assault force, front-line heavy machine gun fire points, and simple civil fortifications; The 80-mm mortar acts as the artillery support fire of the battalion and regimental units at the brigade level, supplementing the problem of insufficient fire density of traditional artillery; The one hundred and twenty mm heavy mortars acted as large-caliber artillery that was lacking in the Qin army, destroying the enemy's strong defensive lines with high-powered heavy shells.

And when this standard arrives at the Japanese Stand Up Team, it will drop a notch by one foot. At the brigade level, there were only 60 mortars, and there were only six in total, two fire detachments, one for each of the four infantry squadrons, and heavy machine guns, which were the fire teams of each infantry squadron. Compared with the regular Qin army, it is much weaker, but the standard of such armament is very high-end compared to the southwest domain army of the same period.

Now Muto Toshiro commands these two 60 mortars, which are the direct artillery support that his brigade can obtain. The coverage of the two 60 mortars was rapid, and after hitting the maximum combat rate of fire of the mortar, it was a short time to make the field where the shells landed become vast and vain.

Although the government troops who had just rushed up expected to be counterattacked by the feudal army, they did not expect to be bombarded by more than 30 shells in a short period of time. (To be continued......)