Chapter 319: The Great Counteroffensive of the Japanese Army
"Yamasan-kun, the troops of Tokyo and Sendai have all been put in place."
At four o'clock in the morning, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers entered their defensive positions. Two miles to the opposite side of them was the Qin army's attack position, which stretched for more than four miles from north to south.
Nozu Michikan walked to the side of Yama Prefecture Aritomo and said respectfully.
"Yo Xi." Shan County Youpeng nodded. The gaze continued to stare at the Qin army position opposite, and the sculpture generally held a telescope to look east. The firelight on the Qin army's position in the night was like the most seductive beauty, attracting the attention of Youpeng in Shanxian County.
The Japanese are ready to counterattack!
Most of Sendai's military strength has entered Tokyo, and after a few days of rest, it is fully ready to enter the battle. After his troops combined the forces of Tokyo Zhentai and the Emperor's Guard, the number of Japanese troops had already exceeded the Qin army on the opposite side by a lot. Of course, Shan County has friends who want to fight back! It is not his style to be beaten and not to fight back, nor is it the style of the Japanese Army. Although the combat effectiveness of the Qin army is indeed very strong, in the offensive and defensive battles in the past few days, from Youpeng in Shan County down to the most ordinary Japanese soldiers, they have to admit this fact, but Shan County is still ready to teach Liu Xian an unforgettable lesson.
In the summer, the day dawns very early. At four o'clock in the morning, I already felt that the sky was slightly brighter.
In the Japanese sortie positions, there was no coughing or whispering, only the occasional slight collision of bayonets and rifles. The brigade of people crowded together, looking nervously at each other, silently tightening their shoelaces and cuff leggings. The officers did not dare to shout loudly and gather the troops, and two miles away was the position of the Qin army, and the Japanese army whispered the orders one by one to the rear in the way of passing forward and backward. Countless Japanese infantrymen gathered together, holding their breath. The officers and men of the vanguard unit wore long white cloth bands tied to their heads, looked at each other and shook hands silently.
And at this moment, on the position of the Qin army, if there is a night vision device, and it can fly high in the sky. From a bird's-eye view of the clothing, you can clearly see a large number of Qin soldiers gathered in the second-line position, and the soldiers on the first-line position are no more than a thousand in total.
The strength of the two brigades is just that, scattered on a front more than four miles long, it is simply peppering.
And the second-line position. Not only did it gather more than 5,000 troops, but there were hundreds of breech guns and mortars behind it, and there was also a ten-barreled Gatling gun that exuded a hideous appearance in the position.
It's a death trap. Forty heavy machine guns, hundreds of guns, five thousand rifles. Liu Xian will give the Japanese soldiers who have been culled a feast of blood and flesh with fireworks.
His only concern now is whether his early introduction of the heavy machine gun into the history of warfare will attract the attention of the European and American powers, and the heavy machine gun will be valued by the Western military circles decades earlier than in history.
Minutes and seconds passed. At 4:50 a.m., the sky had cleared.
The morning breeze blows, and the humidity of the night on the beach slowly dissipates by the dawn of the day, except for the thin layer of mist in Tokyo Bay. Occasionally, one or two seabirds chirped, but it made the morning seem even quieter.
And countless bayonets condensed with early morning moisture. Just flash on both sides of the battle line!
The commander of the Japanese artillery team violently ripped off the hat on his head, drew his saber, and slashed forward. "Fire!"
More than 30 artillery pieces spat out tongues of fire as they were pulled by the fire ropes!
Even the cast-iron breech smoothbore guns were moved out, and in order to raise artillery fire, the Japanese army could be regarded as turning out all the tatters in the warehouse of the War Ministry.
The 10 breech guns brought from Sendai played a major role, and a shiny shell filled the chamber and then spat out. The efficiency exceeds the front-loading gun too much. The Qin army's position on the opposite side was full of flowers. Plumes of smoke rose into the sky. The plume of smoke rose at first almost at the same time. Later, it was all gone. Clusters of clusters popped up in all directions.
The dust is flying, and you can vaguely see the human body lifting up into the sky. The earth and rocks were shaken down. Falling with a bang. At the same time, the entire artillery positions of the Japanese army were shrouded in blue-black smoke. The smell of gunpowder filled the battlefield. It's so choked that people can't breathe.
The shelling lasted only a quarter of an hour, and a total of thousands of shells were fired. Whether it's a new grenade, a flowering bomb, or an old-fashioned iron lump. Shortly before 10 p.m., the shelling came to an abrupt halt. The Japanese officers who led the assault straightened up, raised their sabers and moved forward, and the infantry behind them suddenly poured out!
On the frontline position of the Qin army, Chen Bo was squatting in the trench with his head in his hands, his face covered with dirt. As soon as the shelling stopped, Chen Bo jumped up and cursed at the Japanese position in the west, "Gua Wazi Di!" He also kicked a soldier who was still shrinking his head on the side: "Get up for Lao Tzu!" Fuck the little devil. ”
He was foaming at the dirt and rubbing his eyes to look at the other side. But the smoke was so thick that I couldn't see anything clearly. The only thing I could hear was the long and short whistling of people coming from the other side. All the Qin officers and soldiers who were hiding in the trenches got up and set up their rifles. The sea breeze quickly blew away a layer of smoke, and when they saw the opposite formation clearly, everyone gasped from Chen Bo down.
There is a large area of black pressure, and the crowd is not surging, but dripping!
The Japanese soldiers wearing large-brimmed hats lined up in waves of dense arrays, and the Japanese officers stood at the head of the line, holding sabers to lead the soldiers forward, and the bayonets were bright and dazzling on the rows of rifles. The entire battlefield was almost crammed with Japanese soldiers! All kinds of heart-rending shouts, especially the Japanese commandos at the forefront of the front line, with strips of white cloth tied to their heads, stood out in the black tide.
The Japanese army seemed to have covered the open space in front of the Qin army's position, and they rushed over like ants!
Chen Bo looked at the qiē in front of him dumbfounded: "Turtle son, this plan is to use people to drown Lao Tzu..."
On a hill on the side of the battlefield, officers from Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries who watched the battle also saw the Japanese army rushing down like a tide, and their faces were full of brilliance.
This kind of crowd offensive is the mainstream mode of war in the Western world at present, that is, to fight bullets with human lives. As long as the density of people exceeds the density of the reduced firepower, then the defensive line can be broken. War is a math problem, a simple math problem!
On the artillery position of the Qin army, Roy [The pressure is great. Lowaiski's eyes were already wide, and they were full of frenzied light. Marquis Liu was indeed the first-class commander in the world, and he completely anticipated the enemy's actions.
The Japanese soldiers were valiant, the rate of surrender was much smaller than that of the Russians, and Roy was genuinely impressed by their fighting spirit. But in the face of Marquis Liu, by the way, what does China say in that sentence? Nothing to do? It's just a last resort! The bravery of the Japanese was completely useless. With so many artillery pieces waiting for the Japanese to embark on the death trap, and those forty heavy machine guns, the more troops the Japanese put in, the worse they will lose!
Roy's face was distorted with excitement, "Fire!" Fire! ”
Plumes of smoke suddenly rose from the dense ranks of the Japanese troops. It's like a black blanket covering the entire battlefield, and when the plume of smoke falls, there are small gaps on the black carpet, but the gaps are filled in an instant. The black carpet continued to surge forward at a speed of hundreds of meters a minute. Artillery fire ploughed from the front to the middle of the ranks, shrapnel whistling and flying in all directions, and each explosion freed up a mass of flesh. The command knives of the Japanese officers were still straight forward, and some officers and soldiers fell together, and someone quickly stepped forward to fill the gap.
"Heroic warriors, brave armies!"
Someone in the Western observer group on the hill on the side of the battlefield praised.
"Yes. The enthusiasm of the Japanese to defend the Motherland is amazing! ”
"I don't know what the level of the commander is, but in terms of training and courage, the Japanese army is already comparable to the second-rate in Europe."
As if a faucet had been turned on, the entire hill was filled with words of admiration for the Japanese army.
The military attaches of Britain, France, and Russia were also among the admiring crowds, but if anyone could pay attention to their eyes at the moment, they would be able to clearly discern the real differences and differences between the military attaches of these three great powers and the military attaches of the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, and other countries.
They were amazed by the Japanese army's appearance, and if it weren't for the difference in artillery fire strength and physical elements, it would not be impossible to classify the Japanese army into the world's first-class class.
The Japanese Army's performance is definitely not weaker than the second-rate in Europe, just like the armies of the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries, which may not be really stronger than the Japanese Army. And what about their opponents' table xiàn? The Chinese launched an attack the night before yesterday and cleanly broke the defense of a Japanese brigade of more than 5,000 people, and the Japanese lost nearly eighty percent of their troops. So what category should the Chinese army fall into?
Although the latter's firepower is far from being comparable to that of the armies of the European powers!
Three hundred meters away! When the Japanese troops approached a distance of 300 meters, "shoot-" Chen Bo's roar resounded from the Qin army's position.
Immediately, countless ignitions of light rang out on the Qin army's position!
The Japanese commandos who continued to rush forward under artillery fire shook and fell down as if they had been suddenly struck by lightning. The screams rang out uncontrollably, and there were people everywhere.
But even artillery fire can be endured, and rifle shooting devils can also endure. And one point to be made clear is that the Qin army's shooting was not a salvo.
Free scattering, the hit rate may be a little higher than the salvo. But in terms of deterrence, in the concept of war in the current era, it is really much weaker than a salvo.
The devils are also ruthless. As long as the officer does not fall, the saber is always pointed forward, and the order is loudly ordered for them to rush in!
The Qin army's bullets poured out, and the Japanese soldiers also fired back, and the white smoke soon filled the battlefield. At the same time, the Japanese soldiers did not stop for a moment.
The lines of the front were irrepressibly chaotic, and the formation became doubly dense. The speed of the Japanese charge also became faster. (To be continued) R580