In this world, in the war with a difference of 40 years, China's millions of troops gathered at the Songhu beachhead, facing the Japanese army advancing by land, sea and air in a fully equipped and weak manner.

At that time, there was little decent cover to be found in the long positions, and the defenders had to dig into the soft sand and mud to make rudimentary fortifications, trying to dare the landing enemy into the water.

However, with the cooperation of a fleet, the Japanese army launched a continuous and ferocious attack with the support of hundreds of naval guns, large and small!

Although the Japanese ships that participated in the war could only be regarded as the second-line force in the combined fleet at that time, and some of the ships were even old guys from their grandfathers, the naval guns they possessed were not fake. Even the guys from thirty years ago were unstoppable lethal force for the defenders with few heavy artillery available!

Take a look at the amazing firepower - the battleship "Haruna", four seats with eight 356mm main guns and 16 152mm secondary guns; The flagship of the Third Fleet, the Izumo, with four 203mm main guns and 14 152mm secondary guns; There are five heavy cruisers, and all of them are powerful forces for head-to-head combat! "Nazhi" 10 203mm guns; "Aoba" 6 203mm guns; "Kaohsiung" and "Maya" are also 10 203mm guns; "Tatsuda", "Ghost Fury", "Nako", "Yura" and others have an unsuitable number of 140mm main guns.

Wait on the shore attack firepower that these warships have, roughly counting more than 100% of the door!

It can be said that as long as the Japanese are willing to spend their money, these more than 100 naval guns, large and small, can deliver dozens of tons of ammunition to the coastline every minute! With its range, it is enough to easily cover the entire Songhu battlefield! If there is a good fire control command, it is not a problem to form a carpet covering bombing anywhere!

Rudimentary ground fortifications. A person who lies in it may not be able to cover up the whole life. A one-man shell smashed down. In the midst of the loud noise for dozens of miles to the east of the earthquake, the terrible killing area that swept across a basketball court at every turn, how long can the flesh and blood resist?

So we saw that in the narrow battlefield called the "flesh mill", a division of infantry thrown into it, in just three hours, more than half of the casualties! After five hours, two-thirds of the soldiers remained there forever!

In the end, the Chinese troops, who were superior in numbers but poorly trained, were poorly equipped. Unable to resist the enemy, who had superiority on land, sea and air, in the face of overwhelming bombardment, they could only drop the painful figure of hundreds of thousands of casualties and retreat in a hurry!

In the era of naval artillery, once the navy launched fire support on the opposite shore, the army infantry encountered could not have any other thoughts than despair!

Today, a tragic scene is playing out on Japanese soil. The difference was that the attacking and defending sides were in different places, and the Japanese defense force was pitiful. There are only 10,000 people. Even more unfortunate was that they were faced with two powerful battleships that had crossed time and space. And a heavy cruiser with ferocious firepower! (The previous text was mistakenly written as a light patrol, and it is hereby corrected and apologized!) ）

The 12th Division of the Japanese Army hurriedly went into battle, and the soldiers of the two brigades displayed on the beachhead first did not fire a single shot, and were blown into slag by fierce artillery fire!

Subsequently, the division commander, Lieutenant General Tamura Kanichi, rushed out of the mountain camp with the remnants of his troops, and faced Kokura Kita, which had turned into rubble and ruins, all of them with a colorless face and breathless.

After a brief pause in the roar of the sea, Kanichi Tamura encouraged his morale and threw most of his soldiers into building fortifications in the ruined city, trying to take advantage of the location to fight an encounter with the other side, and by the way, avoid the terrible naval fire.

As if all the thoughts were changing according to his thoughts, the dotted speedboats on the sea continued to transport the marines up, quickly dispersed into small forces and spread between the four or five kilometers wide beachhead, like a handful of sesame seeds sprinkled into the inlet, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Tamura Kanichi felt a trace of excitement in his heart, and said secretly: "Has the arrogant enemy finally revealed his flaws?" Dare to break through with only such a small number of troops, when the warriors of our Imperial Army are already dead?! Very well, let's teach these reckless guys a hard lesson! ”

Anyway, he still has thousands of living forces in his hands, and the hundreds of people who have rushed in are not captured?

As a high-ranking army officer of this era, Lieutenant General Tamura still did not get rid of his usual style, and he liked to be on the front line in positional warfare, just like the infantry artillery pushed flat behind the infantry, and the distance between the lines of fire was at best one or two kilometers. Sometimes, they even go to the front of the trenches.

It looks very brave, but it is also true that the combat command system of this era is very backward, there is no telephone, no wireless telegraphy, there is not enough machine guns and coordinated artillery fire, and it all relies on courage to break through from the front.

Therefore, the division headquarters of Tamura Kanichi, under the protection of a large group of soldiers, overlooked most of the battlefield at the bottom of the mountain.

The smoke of gunpowder was filled, the flames were rising, and it was difficult to see the situation clearly in the shadowy field of vision. Lieutenant General Tamura could only vaguely see the small rubber boats coming and going, seemingly messily rushing up to and from the unguarded beachhead, and then turned back.

He guessed in his mind where the enemy might gather, and hurriedly ordered the infantry in large groups to go to those places to encircle and suppress.

In his mind, the other party must have thought that the fierce artillery fire would flatten the living forces on the shore, so he dared to advance lightly. Then when the absolute superiority of the local soldiers suddenly pounced, they would definitely be able to surround and divide them and destroy them fiercely!

In this era, whether it is naval naval warfare, naval land attack operations, beach landing battles, or defensive counterattacks, and other tactics, they are not complete. The tactics of the navy and the army are still exploring and familiarizing themselves with the use of artillery, not to mention the tactics of infantry and artillery coordination, sea and land coordination, and so on.

Of course, Kanichi Tamura didn't understand, so he took it for granted, and as a result, it was miserable!

At most, one platoon of marines who rushed ashore on the beach gathered together, and the distance between each platoon was several hundred meters, and the company formed a zigzag continuous inverted triangular search formation in front and rear, ensuring that any top soldier could rush over to help in just a few minutes when he found the enemy.

Each platoon has a portable radio station, which is directly connected to the fleet command center, and their position is also synchronized on the regional tactical sand table, so that the commander can accurately find the coordinates of each combat unit.

It is basically impossible to apply such elaborate and excessively deployed tactics to large-scale operations. And it is simply used to carry out special sabotage operations. Concentrate forces on the means of opening up combat channels. I want to achieve such a precise deployment operation. At the top, there must be a veteran professional soldier like Yang Haiwei from the 21st century in charge, and at the bottom, there must be an outstanding soldier who has been carefully selected from hundreds of thousands of people after two years of accumulation of actual combat experience.

More importantly, it is necessary to have unimpeded means of real-time communication, so that the sea can accurately judge their location, so that when they fire, they will not drop shells on their heads!

This was almost the pinnacle tactic of the twentieth century, used until the end of the nineteenth century. It's like a knife to kill a chicken!

Yang Haiwei originally wanted to use the Japanese army to sharpen his sword and train his troops, so he dared to let go and toss casually, but he achieved a wonderful effect that was unexpected!

Soon, the oncoming Japanese brigade collided with the top marines who quickly touched it. Between the smoke, the vision of both sides is not good enough, and when they find each other, the distance is not more than 100 meters, and some are even only as close as a few tens of meters.

Most of the Marines were wielding automatic weapons, and when they saw the figure in a black uniform shaking, they swept over without saying a word!

The crisp sound of gunfire was like a fuse. provoked a fierce response from behind, whether it was a squad or a platoon of soldiers. In the next second, they all hit the ground!

Bullets surged forward like a torrential rain, putting down the stunned Japanese soldiers coldly! The rest hurriedly found cover to hide, but it was too late! The next Marine Corps, which had better tactical coordination, had a large number of grenades hit it, and the rumbling explosion immediately set off a rolling wave of fire among the Japanese troops, creating a lot of casualties!

As soon as the gunfire rang out, friendly troops on both flanks of the Marine Corps immediately responded, quickly outflanked them from the side, and soon exchanged fire with the Japanese troops one after another. After a few strokes, he quickly demarcated the enemy's defensive boundary, and then reported Zhu Yuan to the command center.

The four destroyers wandering in the bay quickly obtained new coordinate instructions, each adjusted their twin 127mm guns, aimed at the predetermined position on the shore and fired several test shots, and after observing and correcting the scouts and forward infantry who seized the high ground, they immediately launched a continuous bombardment for several minutes!

Don't look at the twin small cannons with only three seats per battleship, that's compared to the big guys of other battleships!

For the army, a turret capable of firing forty or fifty rounds of 24.6kg high-explosive shells per minute is equivalent to the ferociousness of a 122 howitzer battalion! Three turrets for a battleship are comparable to the projection capabilities of an artillery regiment! Four battleships were in front of him, and the Japanese army in this era did not have such fierce artillery fire!

The most terrible thing is that this kind of high-level dual-purpose gun, which is the best in World War II, has a very high accuracy, and it can be guaranteed that the shells will never fall more than 100 meters away from a distance of less than 7 kilometers! With the help of modern observation and fire control, I dare not say that the target is as accurate, but in the face of the carpet bombing of the Japanese army, it can play the maximum accurate coverage!

One can imagine how miserable the Japanese army could be in the face of such a terrible means of attack!

The four destroyers, each responsible for supporting an area, gave an order, and after the twin guns were aimed into the distance, they kept spitting fireworks.

A few seconds later, I saw a large area of fireworks rising rapidly from the disorganized Kokura North position, and the shells fired out in rapid-fire mode sprinkled more than 100 shells on the ground of less than one square kilometer in one minute, and the explosion points were connected together, almost forming an impenetrable steel storm, sweeping everywhere it went!

Most of the Japanese buildings of this era were made of wood, and most of them had been swept away by the previous bombings. Now the remaining ruins and broken walls are far from enough to cover the Japanese army's line of hiding, so the flying fragments, the wanton flames, and the staggered shock waves have become the crazy murderers who killed them!

Tamura Kuan watched with a single eye, and the large groups of soldiers he sent out had just gathered in the area of the firefight, and a large area of fireworks rose in the cold area, and the continuous and dense explosions were like lit firecrackers, completely engulfing a large area of land in an instant!

Rapid screams sounded one after another from inside, and the sudden impact wave swept away the smoke cloud that blocked his vision, allowing him to clearly see that a large number of corpse fragments flew up, throwing helplessly back and forth in the boiling explosion rage, and finally shattered into slag, I don't know which pile of rags it mixed into!

Kanichi Tamura felt as if his heart was being clutched by an invisible hand, and the pain was so painful that he couldn't breathe. The supply of blood is insufficient. The brain goes blank!

The chief of staff, who was watching dumbfounded, subconsciously wanted him to give an order. But I heard His Excellency the lieutenant general's distracted groan: "No...... No way! How can there be such a terrible artillery cooperation in the world! Did they use demon magic? ”

The chief of staff said in his heart what a mess! Obviously, the enemy's warships were accurate enough, as for why they were able to seize the opportunity to smash such a dense number of shells on the heads of their own troops...... I guess there must be other ways to explain this, right? In short, it can't be the power of ghosts and gods.

It's just that they're really scared!

The battlefield was covered with clouds and mountains, and it was not clear what was going on from the sea. How long did it take for the landed infantry to exchange fire? It's too late to send the letter back, right? Even if they could send flags or something from the nearby hills, it would be too fast!

In any case, their planned tactic of quickly blending with the enemy in the exchange of fire and fighting in the ruins was completely unworkable.

Tamura Kanichi panicked and ordered a postponement of the battle. If they continue like this, they will not have enough people to bombard the ship.

In this way, the Marines had quickly cleared the front of the position, and then spread out to the two wings, wiping the high ground on the mountain. With the support of naval guns, they easily blasted through the messy rout of the Japanese army's defenses and successfully established a monitoring line overlooking the entire Kitakyushu.

Later, more soldiers began to unload and swarm to land, which was the North Korean volunteers who had previously shown their skills in the Philippines.

After a not fierce beach-grabbing and landing battle, they have made a lot of progress after repairing and summing up these days. As soon as I heard that I was going to attack the Japanese mainland. Deng Shi was excited. Japan and North Korea have had a feud for many years, and the Japanese have always bullied them. They no longer cried to the Chinese court for help. Today, it is feng shui in turn, and it's time for them to take revenge!

More than 10,000 Korean volunteers poured out of the ships behind them and sent them to the beachhead in Kitakyushu in less than a day. After a little repair, under the leadership of the marines, they quickly occupied the entire city of Kitakyushu inside and out.

The previous exchanges of fire between the two armies basically avoided densely populated urban areas, and the Japanese did not have time to move. In addition, the Japanese government also has the intention to let the local people cooperate with the army to fight against each other, and is asking them to help.

Unexpectedly, more than 10,000 wolf-like volunteers came in, which was really like a wolf entering a flock, and suddenly made a lot of tragic sins!

It must be said that in terms of the level of ferocity, the stick army is definitely not under the Japanese army. In World War II, they were recruited 110,000 men to participate in the Japanese army's many operations in the Pacific theater. Later, in the Vietnamese-led war led by the United States, Nan Bangzi dispatched as many as 300,000 infantry to help, shooting and killing more than 40,000 civilians and soldiers, and his reputation was quite bad.

In order to avenge the shame, they can cut their little fingers, and now they are on the mainland of Japan, and they can release the humiliation and violence that have been suppressed in their hearts for thousands of years.

Yang Haiwei hated both extremely much, but as the supreme commander, he couldn't be rash. On the one hand, he ordered part of the Marines to lead the stick army to continue to pursue the remnants of Tamura Kanichi's Japanese army, and the rest defended on the spot, making a gesture of occupying Kitakyushu forever.

In addition, the navy cooperated with them to drag rubber boats from land into the Seto Inland Sea, and then coordinated from the inner end of the Kanmon Strait to attack the Shimonoseki Battery!

The incident happened suddenly, and the Japanese were never able to organize effective resistance, especially not long after the city of Shimonoseki was built, and the population and garrison were pitifully small. Once the fort was captured, it immediately became an island. Since then, the entire Guanmen Strait has completely fallen under the control of the Chinese Navy, and it has watched a heavy cruiser and four destroyers sail into the Seto Inland Sea in a big way!

When the Japanese government received this news, it almost went crazy! They don't have a navy now, which means they can't support them from the island. Relying on the strength of Kyushu Island alone, how difficult it is to regain that deadly pass from the Chinese!

At this moment, a group of old armored cruisers and frigates that were supposed to follow the two ships of Dingzhen to visit the United States suddenly drove from the waters off the coast of Japan and cut into the waters between Kyushu and Shikoku, completing the division and outflanking, and isolating all the forces that could cause variables!

The situation was unprecedentedly severe, and the Japanese government sent a telegram to the Kyushu army, hoping that they would gather with great determination and launch a decisive attack on the occupation forces in Kitakyushu. At any cost, we must take it back!

In addition, Mutsu Somitsu led the diplomats to the great powers again, kneeling down and crying and crying, hoping that all countries could pull their brothers at this critical moment, even if they could not concentrate on driving the Chinese out, at least they could make a decent threat to their homeland and force their navy back?

Sa Daoyi thought about it, but after contacting the country, he could only helplessly spread his hands: "We have no choice." Now the power of the countries in the Far East has been greatly weakened, and the mainland is not completely sure to clean up those two terrible battleships! Therefore, we can only try to exert diplomatic pressure to make the Chinese retreat. ”

At the beginning of December 1896, exactly one year after the great powers joined forces to attack the Chinese navy, Western diplomatic envoys gathered in Tianjin to find a solution to the Far East problem.

Yang Hao personally approached a group of bandit heads dressed in the guise of diplomats at the headquarters of the revolutionary army, and faced the foreign devils who either threatened or knocked on the side, or made hypocritical and kind faces, and there was no room for them to maneuver, so he asked bluntly: "If you want us to withdraw our troops, yes, what price can countries pay?" (To be continued......) R1292