Chapter Ninety-Nine: A Rehearsal of the First World War

In fact, Yang Feng left only the west of the attack surface for the Japanese army, and the other attacks from the direction of the Arakawa River or the Tama River resulted only in the share of the naval guns roulin, and the power of large-caliber naval guns is obvious to all, dozens of naval guns of more than 200 mm caliber, a round of salvo fire, it is estimated that a large group of Japanese troops will be gone, and no matter how brave the soldiers are, they will not provoke them.

After some artillery preparations, 70,000 Japanese troops charged towards the enemy defense line 20 kilometers long in front, and the Japanese troops who had been honed in Asan would no longer be in a dense formation this time, including the 6th Division, which had been hastily trained before the attack, was in a straggler formation with rifles with bayonets on their waists, just like a black tide.

The cannonballs kept exploding among them, the huge fire masses rose densely, countless broken limbs were flying in the sky, and the heroic Japanese soldiers on the long front shouted in blood and fire with their hatred for the invaders, and this sound even drowned out the explosion of the shells.

"The mourning soldiers will win!" Prime Minister Ito, who was watching the battle from the rear, said with satisfaction that these elites who came down from the battlefield were different, and they looked really imposing.

"Your Excellency, the morale of attacking such a defensive line must be strong, the charge must be resolute, and there must be the spirit of fighting without whirlwind, whether it is shells or bullets, even if the flesh and blood around you are flying around, you must not hesitate, only in this way can..." Suddenly, a strange whistling sound interrupted him, and then a series of earth-shattering loud noises exploded among the attacking Japanese troops, and large specks immediately appeared in the black tide.

The soldiers of the Second Army, who had never encountered 130 naval guns on the Asan front, were suddenly blown up, and the crowd of people who charged quickly wavered.

"Attack! Swear to take home to the garden!" Da Shanyan hurriedly ran a few steps forward, brandishing his saber and shouting personally, and the commanders of the three divisions also rode forward on their war horses at the same time to personally supervise the battle, perhaps the devastated homeland in the distance stimulated the hatred of the Japanese army, under the leadership of the first division. With louder shouts, the Japanese continued their charge amid a dense explosion of thousands of shells falling every minute.

However, the artillery in the rear was not so lucky, in the mast of the Marauder, the observers quickly reported the position of the Japanese artillery, the muzzle of the 130 cannon with a range of 17 kilometers was raised, and the dense shells immediately whistled away, and the more sober-minded Dashan Yan did not hesitate to order the artillery to retreat, but even so, almost a third of the artillery was destroyed by the fire of the naval guns.

This news made Oyama Iwa sigh, it was clear that his opponent was very good at crafting his own turtle shell, and he could be said to use the advantages of the weapon to the extreme. From the very beginning, they pushed themselves into a battlefield that was most beneficial to them.

In the roulin of artillery fire, the Japanese army finally approached the coalition defense line, but at this time, both Oyama Iwa and Ito Hirobumi were nervous, because at this time, the machine gun on the opposite side rang out, and the battlefield became hell in an instant, and the Japanese army that was charging was like encountering a grinding wheel, which was worn away layer by layer from front to back, and the dead bodies began to pile up in an instant, and the density of machine guns less than 100 meters was almost up to the standard of the First World War. One can imagine what kind of blow the Japanese army suffered at this time.

In a short period of time, the entire front has been bloodied, especially in the area defended by the Huai army, those veterans of the Japanese army who have used this weapon for more than half a year are obviously more experienced in killing. The corpses of the Japanese soldiers fell in front of them all the time, and the scene of the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood was chilling.

The Japanese were still bravely and vainly charging against the bullets of the machine guns, and the elites who had learned to take the zigzag route were hunched forward as fast as they could, but unfortunately the density of machine guns here even exceeded that of Asan. The bravery or cleverness of an individual pales in the face of the amount of ammunition projected at more than 100,000 rounds per minute.

In the eyes of the shooter holding the grip of the machine gun, any heroic move in the open firing range looked like a pitiful joke, and the tongue-spitting killing machine only needed to move slightly. All efforts will come to an end, and life here will be as humble as a dog.

The surging black tide was like hitting a dam on the shore at this time, and it was rapidly becoming shattered, and the blood of the Japanese warriors stained the land of their homeland, and countless soldiers looked at the homeland behind the enemy without turning a blind eye. Some really smart Japanese soldiers had already begun to lie down behind the dead bodies of their comrades at this time, shooting forward under the cover of the corpses, but unfortunately they had single-shot rifles in their hands instead of machine guns, and sporadic fire could not suppress machine guns, not to mention that there were tens of thousands of infantry armed with repeating rifles opposite them.

The battle gradually changed from the Japanese charge to the two sides of the fire, this situation may not be very suitable for the German machine gunners, but the machine gunners of the Huai army are completely commonplace, every time the Japanese charge is blocked, the battle will change to this state, the crazy strafing quickly turned into accurate point fire, with a dozen or even a few bullets of short fire under the guidance of the infantry next to the Japanese army lying on the ground name.

On the defense line of the Yang family's army, this situation was easier to deal with, the mortars in the hands of the infantry were set up in the trenches, and the machine guns and rifles were being named at the same time, and the shells were flying towards the target one after another, and the poor Japanese soldiers opposite them did not dare to raise their heads at all, but could only huddle one by one in the pile of dead bodies of their companions, shivering, praying for escape.

The Germans, who saw the huge power of machine guns in defensive operations for the first time, were stunned, this was not a war, this was a pure tusha, and even a large number of German staff officers ran to the positions of Xu Bangdao and Jiang Zikang, holding notebooks and studying in the smoke of gunpowder.

This tusha lasted for half an hour, looking at the thickening corpses of the Japanese soldiers in front of them, neither Ito Hirobumi nor Oyama Iwa could hold on, such a battle had lost its meaning, they would not gain anything except sacrifice the lives of the soldiers in vain, and the Japanese troops struggling in hell began to retreat as the horn sounded. At this time, the gap between the Japanese army and the domestic army that had retreated from the battlefield immediately appeared, and when they heard the order to retreat, the soldiers of the Sixth Division couldn't wait to get up and turn around and run, and then fell one by one under the bullets fired from behind, but the veterans of the Second Army were much smarter, they were lying on the ground and crawling back, and from time to time they would shoot back at the opposite side, and they would not jump up and run as fast as possible until they were 500 meters away.

The first attack of the Japanese army ended like this, in just half an hour, they left nearly 7,000 corpses in front of the coalition army, of course, there were serious injuries who could not run, after the sound of guns and artillery stopped, only their desperate wails were left on the whole battlefield, in order to show mercy, the coalition command specially allowed the Japanese ambulance personnel to come forward and carry these wounded soldiers down, otherwise they would have a headache, you can imagine these companions who were originally as alive and vigorous as themselves, What kind of blow will it inflict on the morale of the Japanese army after being carried back in blood.

The Japanese army, who was unwilling to fail, launched a sneak attack at night, and Xu Bangdao and Jiang Zikang, who knew their methods well, had already reminded Yang Feng that under the light of a high-power searchlight, the Japanese army's sneak attack quickly turned into a rout. However, when the war in Tokyo was going well, there were also unpleasant things, just when the Eight-Nation Coalition and the Japanese army were fighting in Tokyo, the British took over city by city on Kyushu Island in the name of mediation, and in the name of protecting Japanese civilians from the flames of war.

This shameless behavior was once again extremely despised by Waldzer and Yang Feng, but his Tomorrow Daily never made any comment on it, so that the British were even more unscrupulous, they were afraid that this behavior would affect their friendship with Yang Feng, but the fact that Tomorrow Daily did not comment meant that Boss Yang did not mind this, but the German newspapers did their best to satirize it, and even caused a large-scale scolding between British and German newspapers.

For Boss Yang, as long as it is to carve up Japan, it really doesn't matter how many people come to carve up this, it doesn't matter if the British rob the entire island of Kyushu, anyway, as long as he keeps the islands south of Tanegashima, let alone them, even after Vladivostok thawed, he welcomed the Russians landing in Hokkaido, as for the Germans, isn't there still Honshu Island, Kagoshima can be rented if you can't get it, Kure Port, of course, if you really have to Kyushu Island, then William can go and rob his grandmother!

The war situation in Japan did not affect the Liaodong battlefield, and even in this case, Japan did not stop the supply of materials to Wonsan Port, and Yamayama Youtomo directly cut off the communication between the headquarters and the country, and transferred the main forces of the Japanese army in Pyongyang and Seoul to Liaodong, and the troops were divided into two routes and attacked Mukden without hesitation.

The Qing army opposite him was still defeated, Fengcheng and Xiuyan were lost one after another, although the north road was blocked in Motianling, but the south road was directly killed to Liaoyang, Cixi was anxious to send all the troops she could collect in the northeast to the front line, and countless good sons and daughters of Manchuria spilled their blood on the battlefield, but even this could not stop the footsteps of the Japanese army. In order to vent their hatred for the Chinese in Roulin, the Japanese army opened a large-scale killing ring in Liaodong, Fengcheng, Andong, Xiuyan and other places, especially the Japanese army has always flaunted the banner of anti-Manchu, so this kind of tusha is more targeted.

In this case, even Li Er's devil had to be careful, although even if the Japanese army captured Liaoyang, the possibility of attacking Lushun to the south was very small, but this guy still transferred 10,000 of his newly recruited men and horses to Lushun, on the one hand, he was optimistic about the lair of the Beiyang Naval Division, and on the other hand, he was also fooling the imperial court, so as not to urge him to send troops to Liaodong every day. (To be continued......)