The Great Powers envisaged that the Sino-Japanese war would drag on into an endless protracted war, a war of attrition, and that it would be better to trigger an all-out invasion of Japan with unprecedented Chinese fervor, and then they could engage in a vigorous national struggle with their support. With the usual madness of the Japanese, it may not be impossible to cause the war situation to get out of control.

There are only two possible outcomes for this: one is that China has won a crushing victory while spending huge manpower, material and financial resources, and Yan zhòng is lagging behind the country's industrialization process, and then it will have to face endless Japanese uprisings. Second, China may have no choice but to withdraw from Japan after weighing the pros and cons of foreign warfare and internal reunification. This was a great blow to the prestige of the revolutionary junta headed by Yang Hao, and it could be used to encourage the gentry and bureaucracy in China, who were extremely dissatisfied with their revolution, to fight back.

Either way, as long as the Japanese firmly resist, the Chinese will inevitably be dragged into the vortex of war.

It's just that this requires a premise, and that is that China is out of control of this war.

The foreign devils played a wishful thinking, and Yang Hao didn't guess it at first, but he had the experience of being a forerunner in a plane, and learned an extremely practical trick from it - "You fight yours, I beat mine." ”

He had sufficient reasons for launching a punitive war against Japan, and he used this reason to convince the vast majority of his countrymen. With the shameless response of the Japanese and the assassination of Li Hongzhang, the disgust and even hatred of the Japanese people have been successfully pushed to a peak.

In formulating the specific strategy and tactics of the war against Japan, he clearly defined the core purpose of tempering the troops through actual combat. That is, on the basis of a controllable scale of the war. Bringing the country's ever-expanding new military forces. Pull over in batches and in an orderly manner to hone in rounds. Let every unit have real combat experience. Having seen blood, killed people, and heard the sound of guns, recruits have become veterans, and their spiritual will and combat experience have been improved, but they will not panic because of sudden large-scale battles.

As for pulling the Northern Korean volunteers over as domestic servants, it was to effectively reconcile the relationship between the two sides through the guò war and cultivate a brainwashed and determined servant army. Tie the northern stick to the Chinese war chariot completely to ensure that this vassal supported by Yang Hao will not change his mind.

In this world, China has paid a huge sacrifice to help Beibangzi save half of the country, but in the following decades, several generations of Golden Sun have always been wary and even hostile to China, and this kind of thing must not happen again.

The battle to be waged on this basis will inevitably be limited to the protection of the Kanmon Strait as the core, the strategic defense of a narrow area in the direction of Japan's main state, the appropriate expansion of the battlefield on the island of Kyushu centered on Kitakyushu, and the calm advance and retreat in coordination with the naval forces.

The revolutionary army units that came to fight were thoroughly transformed after undergoing basic training in the new barracks, being tempered by the reorganization of the troops, being trained in the new area to suppress bandits, and participating in the land reform. After a series of tempering, they were brought to Japan as a regiment to participate in overseas operations.

The participation time of each regiment is limited to about half a year. At least six infantry regiments and two artillery regiments were put into each batch. At the same time, at least one veteran unit above the regiment will guide and escort from the side at any time. With the addition of 20,000 volunteers from the Northern Dynasties, the size of the entire combat force in Japan was limited to between 40,000 and 50,000.

With such a large amount of troops, there is no need to involve too much domestic development force at all, and at most it will take a little time for the troops to move inland. With the pace of the advance of the revolutionary area, the transfer of large troops was solved by the new railway or water shipping in Guò, which was time-consuming and low-cost, and would not cause local disturbances.

All troops were embarkated in batches from the nearest port, and the weapons and supplies they needed could be picked up directly from the dock warehouse. There are people in Yang Hao's family who can use the special functions of "Yan Huang Ding", and most of the military materials and even weapons and ammunition that are customized and produced in advance in this world are thrown across time and space in advance, and even the transportation costs are saved.

Of course, the foreign devils couldn't imagine that Yang Hao could cheat to such a point. They watched more and more Chinese troops engaged in combat, and a large number of warships were pinned down to patrol the shipping lanes day and night, and their hearts were greatly happy, as if the ideal result of the plan would soon appear.

Of course, that qiē is just their wishful thinking.

In the Xiaguan North Battlefield, two main infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, and a Northern Korean Volunteer Army Brigade, under the integration of a guidance regiment, formed a temporary mixed combat group to top the Muya River line.

Lin Yongfang, who was born in the Second Division and the Sixth Regiment of the Revolutionary Army, and Li Guangyi, political commissar, served as the commander and political commissar of the Northern Wing Front. Shi Jianfei, as the chief of staff of the General Headquarters, is also the actual commander-in-chief of overseas combat units, and Yang Hao, the nominal commander-in-chief, is actually only remotely controlled, and basically will not be on the front line in person.

The frontal position of Baishan, where the Japanese 3rd Division launched the attack, concentrated a regiment of Northern Korean volunteers, and the former enemy headquarters of the guidance regiment was also set up here.

As soon as the cannon sounded, Lin Yongfang and others immediately responded, condescendingly observing the Japanese attack. When he saw that the other side had launched an unprecedentedly fierce artillery offensive, he could not help but be overjoyed -- it seemed that the warmongers were all of this virtue.

This time, with the support of the great powers, the Japanese army was really poor and became an upstart, and they couldn't wait to get up. As many as forty or fifty guns of large and small calibers fired in unison from the mountain positions in the rear, smashing hundreds of shells into the valley against the top of the hill ahead.

Lin Yongfang distinguished the ballistic curve and exclaimed in surprise: "Not bad! The little devils suffered a loss and learned from experience, their artillery positions were placed on the slope of the valley and the anticline of the hill, converging from three angles to the middle valley, but they could avoid being hit by our artillery fire from the front. Hey, that's interesting! ”

Political Commissar Li Guangyi pinched the pen while making notes, frowned and said: "After fighting with us for three years, it would be strange if we didn't grow a little." Judging from its firing frequency and explosive power, it should be that the great powers have digested and absorbed our infantry artillery technology and pushed through the old to a higher level. There are at least a dozen heavy guns over 100mm firing here, which is not a small pressure on the forward troops! ”

Lin Yongfang waved his hand indifferently: "It's okay, as long as it's not a frontal cannon with a tough artillery shell, it's not enough to destroy our permanent fortifications." Besides. The recruits traveled thousands of miles to Japan. did not undergo a fierce baptism of fire. How can it be made into steel? We also have to thank the big and small devils for such cooperation! ”

Li Guangyi raised his eyebrows, cautiously optimistic, he could feel that this time the Japanese attack seemed to be more resolute and brave than before. That means that the enemy must be well prepared beyond the estimates, and must be guarded against.

After a cursory record, he immediately turned back and relayed the results to the troops. and personally led people to cheer up the recruits and calm the tension and panic.

The Japanese artillery attack this time was extremely successful! The dense artillery shells fired from three angles were scattered in extremely small numbers at the front of the position at a depth of one kilometer, forming a dense explosion zone. Except for a very small number of mines that fell in the river and some of them were blocked by the hills along the ballistic road, most of the explosion points formed by the joint detonators detonated more than half of the mines scattered in the sand!

The roar of the grenade explosion echoed and mixed in the one-kilometer-wide valley, forming a continuous rumbling thunder, and the wanton roaring shock waves and air waves burned away the oxygen, causing a local sudden rise in temperature. So much so that a large amount of water vapor evaporates from the surface of the river!

Flames rise, and water vapor fills the air. The canyon was swept by a fierce wind, mixing into a disorderly and fierce burst tide, rolling along the direction of the explosion and rolling across the position! Everywhere he passed, the black-red soil mixed with the flesh and blood of countless Japanese soldiers was scorched, and the remaining plant branches and leaves were torn apart again, quickly dried and scorched, and after being ignited, they were caught in a hurricane, and the rumbling roar spread to the mountain fortifications in front of Baishan!

Lin Yongfang stood in the anti-artillery observation post on the top of the mountain, his body was involuntarily tilted back by the rushing heat wave, his eyes were black stimulated by a turbid smoke in front of him, and the camouflage turf covered by the thick sandbag wooden barrier in front of him was actually scorched a lot, and a suffocating feeling of lack of oxygen grabbed his breath!

"! It's pretty good! ”

Cursing and screaming in his mouth, he casually took the water-soaked towel handed by the guard and put it on his mouth and nose, closed his eyes to avoid the smoke and roasting, and then ordered: "Immediately let the platoon commanders of each battalion and company order to go down, everyone wear gas masks, the special little devil is not authentic, I smell a little wrong!" ”

All revolutionary armies knew in their training that chemical weapons attacks would inevitably occur in future wars. That kind of terrible means of killing people invisibly is even more unguardable than real guns.

Although Japan at this time did not have the ability to manufacture poison gas bombs, and chlorine gas was invented more than 100 years ago, there was no intelligence support for the industrial production and application of chlorine in warfare. However, Yang Hao did not hesitate to guess the Japanese and foreign devils with the most despicable ideas, they did whatever it took to achieve their goals, shouting civilization in their mouths, and their hands were darker than anyone else! Once you think of this thing, it may not be secretly applied to actual combat.

Therefore, it is necessary for each of the troops to go out to fight with a pig's mouth gas mask.

In this attack, the Japanese army had not yet used chemical weapons, but it was suggested by British experts, who believed that in this specific battlefield environment, dropping a large amount of explosives at one time would burn clean oxygen in a short period of time, and at the same time create extremely high temperatures to hit the mountain defense line. In this way, even if the defenders have good enough fortifications, they will definitely be disturbed by the strict zhòng's breathing and vision, and the combat effectiveness will be weakened.

If it caused further fires, it would have caused even more damage, and at least the billowing smoke would have obstructed the defenders' view for a long time, allowing the attacking troops to cross the dangerous buffer zone in time and break into the distance of close combat.

Lin Yongfang has a lot of experience, and in a blink of an eye, he thought of all kinds of possibilities, and while ordering the forward troops to use gas masks to ensure breathing, he also contacted the rear artillery: "Hurry up and find the artillery positions of the little devils and smash them all!" ”

The hot-air balloon observation post floating in the sky behind had already responded, and the smoke and dust rose to determine the location of the Japanese artillery position and reported it to the artillery regiment. It didn't take long for a sharp whistling sound to sound in the sky above Baishan, and pieces of 122mm and 152mm grenades swept through the low altitude and smashed into the target!

An earth-shattering bang erupted! Between the narrow valleys, large clouds of smoke soar into the sky like volcanoes! The explosion of large-caliber artillery shells formed fireballs with a diameter of tens of meters, the frenzied shock wave kept chopping all the vegetation, and countless broken mountains and rocks and trees were rushing and flying, turning the mountain where the artillery position was located into a hell of death!

In the wee hours of the morning, the sky was dim, and the light of these explosions was like the rising sun. The surroundings that shine brightly and shiningly shine. One explosion after another was like lightning bolts splitting the black curtain. The loud thunderous sound makes people shiver from the inside!

Sugimoto Daisaku exclaimed with palpitations: "What a terrible artillery fire!" This is supposed to be an army artillery, right? It can also deliver such a fierce blow, it is worthy of the Chinese army that can defeat the great powers! But fortunately, our artillery has been prepared for a long time, and there should be no way to kill them with such an artillery bombardment! ”

Staff Officer Kobayashi couldn't hide the jealousy in his heart, and said with a cold expression: "Isn't that the Westerners borrowing our hands to test their artillery tactics?" Hmph, they've suffered a lot before. ”

Although the allied forces attacked northern Jiangsu in China, although the Eight-Nation Coalition Army was completely annihilated, a small number of aristocratic officers were eventually ransomed back with money. Don't look at the great powers of this era, the armies are full of bribery and corruption. Most of the upper-level officers were born in the aristocracy and weeds, and the middle- and lower-ranking officers spent money to buy mediocre positions, and there were always some who were knowledgeable.

For example, the Germans, after the integration of the Bismarck era and the victory of the Franco-Prussian War, the German Army was unprecedentedly excellent, and it produced a group of talents with outstanding vision. They fully realized the strength of the revolutionary army from the battle, and after returning home, they carefully summed up and studied it, and really came up with some countermeasures that might be useful.

In support of the Japanese operation, Krupp specialists and staff officers and artillery officers of the German Army participated in the whole process, transporting and assembling the cannons from the mountains to the mountains. to the construction and deployment of artillery positions, anti-artillery camouflage and masking. Rapid transfer and re-placement in battle, etc. A series of subjects must rely on the combat sacrifices of the Japanese troops in front to achieve their purpose of verifying and learning and summarizing, as well as testing new army artillery.

Although Sugimoto Osa understood, he was even more helpless. Who made Japan a weak country? If you want to become a member of the great powers, you have to endure the necessary sacrifices, and this process may be extremely painful, but this pain is the necessary price to go to civilization!

The new Krupp Mountain Gun was based on its original 77mm field gun, combined with the Chinese spring gun mount, and was named the 1896 75mm field gun/mountain gun. It has a 27-fold barrel, fires a 6.5kg projectile, weighs 860kg, and has a maximum range of 7,600 meters.

The biggest advantage of this gun is that it can be disassembled into several large pieces of barrels, gun carriages and wheels, which can be transported by vehicles or pack horses, and can be assembled and put into battle very quickly on the battlefield. German finishing ensures that the overall performance is stable and superior. The most amazing thing is the rate of fire, which actually reached 12 rounds per minute!

If the Germans hadn't known that China had more advanced army light artillery, they would have hid it as a secret weapon until the next war.

The second heavy weapon was the 105mm light howitzer of 1896. Although it is only 16 times the body tube, the high and low firing range can reach -10 degrees ~ +40 degrees, with the new gun carriage to bring a surge of fire, firing the old 15.8kg sub-loading warhead, it can still reach the maximum range of 7000 meters. And the total weight of the gun itself is only a ton of high.

Of course, the Germans still have a larger-caliber gun with a longer barrel, higher muzzle velocity, and a longer firing range in the design, and of course it is impossible to bring Japan to the countries to visit, which will be their secret weapon to win over Europe and dominate the world!

Just these two main artillery pieces have already opened the eyes of the observers of the great powers! Military attachés of various countries did not hesitate to risk their lives to join the forward artillery positions and personally observe the effects of the use of the new artillery.

Under the command of the German artillery operation, after they finished the first round of shells, they dragged the artillery to the next position as quickly as possible, and it didn't take long for the retaliatory artillery fire to come out of the air! Fierce explosions erupted violently between the nearby hills, stone walls, canyons, and trees, and large balls of fire swept wantonly with tens of millions of tons of impact! Although the position was cleverly chosen, and few shells actually hit the artillery position, the shattered stones and raging shrapnel covered the area countless times!

German artillerymen and observers almost scared their souls away! Thanks to their speed, if they were so careless, they thought that if there was a hill on the side to block it, they would not be blown up, and the result might be so bad!

They were even more helpless to find that the shells fired from the opposite side were more dense, larger in caliber, and more lethal. If they go head-to-head, they don't have a chance of winning at all!

But that's enough. For the first time in the months since the start of the war, the Japanese have received large-scale artillery support, and even more beautifully, they have cleared the dangerous positions ahead. Just when the Chinese retaliatory artillery fire began, the swimmers of the 6th Wing of the Japanese Army had also successfully crossed the Muya River, more than a dozen small boats rushed to the shore crookedly, and the exhausted soldiers gritted their teeth and lifted the heavy 47mm mortars, stumbling through the craters all over the ground, and rushing towards the front of the smoke and dust!

Around them, hundreds of infantrymen were wet, their shoes rustling with muddy water, but they were unusually determined to tear the tarpaulin wrapped in their guns and run along the crater with their eyes shining! They don't have to worry about stepping on a mine, they don't have to worry about the ubiquitous cold gun hunt in front of them, as long as they cross the middle ground as fast as possible and reach the foot of the mountain, it is the glorious moment for them to fight the enemy head-on!

On the frontal position of Baishan, countless Chinese and North Korean soldiers poured out of the cave and sprinkled into the position, wearing gas masks, and the whole row of assault rifles and light machine guns covered the mottled trenches like a dense forest! (To be continued......) R1292