After destroying the Jonoshima Battery, the fleet at sea immediately aimed at the opposite Shusaki and Obo Cape Batteries, and as for the tactics, it was the same as before, the marauders harassed it with poison gas bombs, and the main fleet destroyed it with heavy artillery, and just as they began to bombard, the main force of the Eight-Nation Coalition also began to attack the Tama River defense line, where the Japanese army was heavily armed.

Under the cover of the heavy artillery group in the rear, groups of German soldiers lined up in neat marching columns, led by officers with white gloves, followed behind the standard-bearers, marching slowly to the rhythm of the marching drums, and the Yi Army and Yang Jiajun on both sides lined up in a loose line, looking like a group of migrant workers going to the construction site.

Song Qing, who was deeply humiliated, was still trying his best to get his subordinates out of the level of the German army, but it was obvious that no matter how the Yi army with a big head wrap went, the feeling of being dirty and scumbag was indispensable. As for the Yang family's army now, there is no queue at all, the 4,000 army is scattered more than the more than 10,000 German troops occupy the place, one by one with rifles without bayonets, in the withered and yellow fields in the early spring, like a flock of sheep running away, wandering in small clusters, seeing Waldzer frowned, of course, if it is not his soldiers, he doesn't need to care.

However, although he was very dissatisfied with the infantry of the Yang family's army, he was very appreciative of the Turkish army's artillery, and it was obvious that the artillery quality of this army was not inferior to that of the German army, especially the seven-five-barreled Bofors guns in their hands played a role even more than his more than seventy field guns.

This latest cannon has also been introduced in Germany, but Krupp has not really completed the imitation so far, and only ten test models have been produced, and at least next year will officially enter the German Army. But these artillery of the Yang family army were obviously used very skillfully, and one shell after another was stuffed into the barrel almost continuously. The cartridge case exited at a speed comparable to that of a rifle, and the barrel was in a short telescopic retraction. Muzzle flames erupted incessantly.

"Our artillery uses imported Bofors guns, and the fastest rate of fire can even exceed twenty-five rounds per minute, and according to their own words, the highest record reaches more than thirty rounds, which is twice the design speed." A staff officer next to him whispered.

"What's up with their mortars?" Waldzer nodded faintly, turned his gaze to those mortars and said suspiciously, the 82 mortars that the Germans imitated and imported from Bofors have a range of more than two kilometers, but Yang Feng's mortars are deployed on the same line as the German field artillery to shoot at the same target.

"That's in addition to a few designated armies of China and themselves. Not exported to anyone, it is said that using an expensive alloy steel, the range can reach more than four kilometers, and it is lighter. The staff officer said.

Waldzer nodded, and just as he was about to speak, he saw a series of explosive fire in the attacking team in front of him, and suddenly a series of explosive fire balls rose, and the counterattack of the Japanese artillery began. In the light of the explosion of one 70 shell after another, the coalition soldiers began to fall in pieces.

At this time, the difference in formation was immediately revealed, and although they were under almost half of the artillery fire, the number of casualties of the Yang family army advancing in the straggler formation was far less than that of the German army. Even the vast majority of shells were difficult to inflict losses, on the other hand, the Germans, who were lined up in a neat line, hit a single shell on target. If you can't get it, a bunch of people will be blown up.

"Oh yes, little Japan is eyeing us. Order the artillery to move quickly, and let them bombard like this, how many people will we have to die. Li Yuncong shouted angrily. The Japanese and Yang Feng have a sea of blood and sorrow, and now that they have such an opportunity for revenge, they can still miss it, even if they don't fight the Germans, they have to beat them first.

The herald next to him immediately waved the flag to the hidden artillery observer in the distance, and then the observer with the artillery mirror searched for the position of the Japanese artillery, and quickly reported the coordinates with the flag, and the thirty-six 75 guns on the artillery position immediately adjusted the muzzle, followed by one of the test firing, the artillery observer observed the landing point and then reported the new coordinates, the muzzle was adjusted again, and all the cannons roared at the same time, and after only two volleys, the Japanese artillery was dumb, and Waldze was dumbfounded by this scene.

"How did they do it?" This veteran soldier who participated in the Franco-Prussian War exclaimed, and the staff officer next to him was also stupid, at this time the artillerymen were still playing with direct sighting! How can there be those high-end goods of Yang Feng, his observer has an artillery mirror in his hand, and the rangefinder is fully equipped.

"This question must be asked after the battle." Waldzer said with a solemn face.

After solving the Japanese artillery, the attacking armies that were originally shelled soon reached the south bank of the Tama River, and now it is the dry season, and the water depth of this originally small river is not much different from that of the Tsurumi River, but what is surprising is that the soldiers of the Yang Family Army who arrived first did not rush to charge, but lay on the embankment one by one, waiting for the machine gunners and artillerymen behind.

The German commander, who was originally preparing to charge, hurriedly asked the rear with a flag, and after receiving Waldzer's order, he immediately stopped advancing and watched curiously as the Yang soldiers set up a Makqin machine gun on the river embankment.

Yang Feng's 4,000 soldiers had at least 200 machine guns in their hands, and they were densely lined up on the river embankment, and when they saw them set up machine guns, they had just learned from the Germans, but Song Qing, who had been bombarded by Japanese artillery and killed more than 100 people, had learned to be obedient at this time, and they also put the machine guns on the rack in the same way.

However, Yang Jiajun set up not only machine guns, but also 60 mortars, these small cannons scattered in the infantry platoon were piled up with poison gas bombs, and as soon as they saw the skulls on the box, those infantrymen were busy putting gas masks on their heads, and some even put on gloves.

This scene made the Germans stupid, and it was then that Waldzer realized that these people had a well-developed set of offensive tactics, and not a rabble as they thought.

Those mercenaries are too lazy to care about other people's thoughts, their infantry offensive tactics are taught by Yang Feng himself, and the German army and the Yi army are completely incompatible, of course, there is no need to care how they play, after all the preparations are completed, first of all, the mortar began to release poison, one after another mustard gas shells whistled and exploded on the Japanese position, and soon the poisonous fog covered the Japanese defense line in front of the Yang army, and then the machine gun on the river embankment began to spray bullets on the opposite bank, and then suddenly the horn of the charge sounded, The 4,000 infantrymen wearing gas masks rushed into the river with their bows and waists, and the two armies of Deyi and Yi, who suddenly came to their senses, hurriedly followed and charged their respective fronts.

The sound of platoon guns fired by the Japanese troops on the opposite side immediately sounded, although there were no gas masks, but they were smoked more often, and the Japanese gradually understood that against poison gas, wet towels were still somewhat useful, of course, this was mainly the experience transmitted back from the 4th Division in Pyongyang. Therefore, despite the poisonous fog, the elite Japanese soldiers with wet towels on their noses still lay on their respective posts and insisted on firing at the invaders, but under the suppression of the dense machine-gun bullets on the opposite bank, their counterattack was very difficult, and many of them were beaten to pieces of flesh and blood almost as soon as they appeared.

"Shoot, tear the bodies of your enemies with your bullets, burn their souls with your fury, your back is Tokyo, your back is the Emperor, behind you are your own relatives, there is no way back, warriors, fight! Let the invaders tremble at your shouts of killing. At the rear of the battle line, Prince Komatsumiya brandished his saber and shouted hysterically, of course, his words were not heard by the warriors who were struggling with shells, bullets and poison gas in front of him, but this did not affect their courage to fight to the death against the enemy.

In fact, the soldiers of the Guards Division knew very well what was behind them, and despite the shells constantly exploding overhead, despite the flesh and limbs of their comrades falling beside them, despite the stormy bullets whistling in their ears, and despite the fact that their eyes were almost unable to open their eyes due to the poisonous gas, the loyal samurai under His Majesty the Emperor continued to pull the trigger on the invaders.

However, their bravery did not cause much damage to their most hated enemy, the machine gun fire on the opposite bank was too dense, and the Japanese troops who were struggling in the poisonous fog were so crushed that they could not raise their heads at all, even if they could raise their heads and their eyes were smoked and wept, they could not aim, which was fortunate to be the Guards Division, if it had been someone else, they would have run away by now.

But the Germans who were also charging were completely different, although they also suppressed them with machine guns, but the density of more than 40 was not enough to take care of more than 10,000 people, but fortunately, at this time, the Yi army, which had a surplus of machine guns, pulled them, otherwise the Germans would definitely suffer heavy losses.

Looking at the German soldiers who were crowded on the open river and were knocked to the ground by the bullets of the Japanese platoon guns on the opposite side, Waldzer said to the staff officer with a blank face: "Write it down, skirmishers, poison gas, a lot of machine guns, this is the future of war."

Just when the staff officer hurriedly took notes, the Yang Jiajun on the right flank had already rushed to the Japanese position, some of them began to take out the pliers that had been prepared for a long time to cut the barbed wire in front, and the other part took out grenades and threw them into the Japanese trenches one by one, but at this time they suffered some unexpected casualties, and the mines laid out by the Japanese army in the barbed wire array began to be trampled on.

"Madamn, why didn't the intelligence say that there were mines, those ghosts are just unreliable!" Li Yuncong scolded angrily, but he really wronged the spies in Tokyo on this point, and the Japanese army didn't have much in total, so these spies were directly ignored.

"Add to that the fact that there are a lot of mines in the barbed wire, and the infantry must be equipped with grenades." Waldzer said (to be continued......)