"Iniquity!" Looking at the empty urban area of Yokohama in front of him, Jiang Gui was stunned for a moment, and then his lips trembled and let out a mournful howl.

Last time, he made more than one million taels in the Song Qing Department in Sendai, and even if he was half divided with Yang Feng, there were at least 700,000 taels left, and the 2,700 soldiers of the Yi Army under him were crazy with joy. Even Jiang Guidi, who was half-blind in one eye by poisonous gas, rushed to get on the ship, Ma Yukunla couldn't hold it, who knew that a gang of bandits rushed into Yokohama with their fists, and actually found that this was an empty city, and the grief and indignation were self-evident.

Of course, the Japanese will not be stupid enough to leave Yokohama to them to rob, although the city is in Tokyo Bay, and Kamakura is in Sagami Bay, but the distance between the two places is more than ten kilometers, and an observation post is built on the top of the hill north of Kamakura, and the Marauder's 130 cannon can easily wipe out the entire Yokohama, so before the landing site of the Eight-Nation Alliance was determined, Ito Hirobumi was very smart that all the residents of the city were driven to the Tokyo defense circle, and even those foreigners ran to Tokyo together in order to avoid harming the pond fish.

The grief-stricken rebels and mercenaries, or in their current official status, the Ottoman Turkish soldiers, after a carpet search to determine that the people of Yokohama had taken everything they should have taken with them, burned the city to the ground in order to vent their anger.

Just as the Yokohama sky-high fire was ignited, on the south bank of the Tsurumi River, Waldze's more than 70 Krupp cannons also began to bombard the Japanese trenches on the north bank. The cannonballs were pouring four kilometers away, and the whistling sound of breaking through the air was like the howls of countless demons. The sound of the explosions and the scattered shrapnel frantically rouled the Japanese land.

Soldiers of the Japanese 7th Division guarding the first line of defense in Tokyo. Holding all sorts of patchwork of old-fashioned rifles, one by one huddled in the shallow trenches with their heads in their hands, waiting for the choice of fate in the heart-rending howls, the whole earth boiling above their heads, steel, gravel, and dirt surging like the waves of a tsunami to swallow up a tiny body.

This kind of trench is too shallow, and of course there is no way to do it. Digging a trench one and a half meters deep I am afraid that the vast majority of Japanese soldiers will not be able to see the enemy, and the soil of the Kanto Plain is too soft, this kind of fertile soil can grow crops, and it is a little powerless to block the explosion of the shell, even if this kind of shell is a seven-five-millimeter nitrocellulose shell that Yang Feng thinks is too powerful.

The trenches that Ito Hirobumi had high hopes for were being blasted by shells, and the tossed dirt and fragmented Japanese bodies were razed piece by piece, burying countless soldiers and recruits who had just put down their hoes, and more and more people couldn't stand the cruel battlefield environment. One by one, they crawled out of the trenches and left this hell, and of course the result was that they went to hell as fast as they could.

The quality of German artillery in this era can be said to be second to none, especially now that they have not only field artillery. In addition, mortars purchased from the Hanyang Gun Factory have been temporarily equipped, and this kind of artillery, which has been tested on the Asan battlefield, has become the target of priority equipment for various countries in the next step. Accurate shooting, which can be called crazy rate of fire. The artillery has already decided the outcome of this battle......

After almost fifteen minutes of artillery preparation for more than 100 artillery pieces, four German infantry regiments simultaneously charged the Japanese lines. Behind them, dozens of Maxim machine guns spewed flames to provide cover for their attacks, but it was clear that the Germans had not yet learned to fight as a real skirmisher.

More than 10,000 German soldiers in a dense attacking formation waded through the knee-deep river, shooting at the opposite bank with a dense volley of guns, and at the same time, under the command of a sabre-wielding officer, rushed to the bank not far away, and there were even drummers beating the drums of the attack beside them.

They were greeted by the few shots on the opposite side, the heavy smoke of the black fire screamed one after another lead projectiles whistled, and one after another German soldiers fell in the blood splash, and the bright red blood stains in the muddled river water flowed down the river and looked extremely dazzling, but the well-trained and disciplined German soldiers, who did not care about the death around them, carried the bayonet board rifle and trudged through the river like robots.

This scene made the mercenaries who hurriedly came to prepare to follow into Tokyo to rob while the fire was burning, and Song Qing was still there to educate his subordinates: "Look at the people, this is called the real army, and then look at your battles, as soon as you charge, it will be chaotic like a herd of pigs with dogs."

Li Yuncong looked at him speechlessly, and decided to find an opportunity to educate this Admiral, who was more than twice his age, with facts.

The narrow Tsurumi River could not really stop the Germans, and soon the advance of the attacking troops had already set foot on the riverbank, and as the intensity of the shelling weakened, the remnants of the Japanese soldiers in the trenches, driven by the belief in defending their homeland and country, began to regain their courage in the angry roars of the officers, and then tremblingly lay on the trenches with the ancient rifles in their hands, and began to shoot against the dense bullets flying from the opposite side.

These hastily recruited reservists are naturally impossible to compare with the elite of the German Army in terms of quality, and the number is too small to form a real suppressive firepower, and they are not very familiar with trench warfare, many people even stand in it to shoot as they usually train, and then they are covered one by one by a dense volley of guns and bullets, plus the original stretch of defense has long been shattered, so soon the Germans successfully rushed into the Japanese trenches.

The next thing should be the classic white-knuckle fighting, at this time, those Japanese recruits calmed down, and they could see that they had really practiced weekdays, plus they were out of Germany, although the number of people was absolutely disadvantaged, and the physical fitness could not be the same day, but it really created some trouble for the Germans, looking at the bloody bayonet fighting in front, Song Qing and these people were actually enthusiastic, it is estimated that they found the feeling of the year, looking at the expression, if it is not far away, it is estimated that they will pull out their waist knives and kill them at this time.

Of course, there was no suspense about the outcome of the bayonet hand-to-hand combat, and the remaining hundreds of Japanese soldiers were all stabbed to the ground within ten minutes.

In fact, the Japanese army only put a wing in total on this defense line, and all of them were old-fashioned breech guns and even iron cannons, to put it bluntly, they came to consume German ammunition, and at the same time test the opponent's combat effectiveness of cannon fodder, the real main force is all in the Tama River, that is the decisive battle line of the Japanese army, but such a group of garbage, after fifteen minutes of shelling, still let the Germans pay nearly 100 casualties.

This result made Waldzer very satisfied, since it was a war, it was normal for the dead to die, and a hundred dead and wounded wiped out thousands of Japanese troops, which could already be described as a victory, but the courage of the Japanese army also surprised him, in his opinion, these oriental nations should be crushed in front of the powerful German soldiers.

At the same time as he launched an attack, Tirpitz's fleet also began to attack the Japanese batteries on both sides of the Uraga waterway, which was a relatively difficult task, and the Japanese built a large number of batteries on both sides of the Uraga waterway, the Misaki, Kenzaki, and Jonoshima batteries at the tip of the Miura Peninsula, and the Shusaki and Obomisaki batteries on the Boso Peninsula across the sea. In the east bank Chiyozaki and Kanenzaki forts, the west bank and their finished glyph arrangement of Motoyama and Kanaya two forts, plus the first, second, and third sea forts that cross the small island at the entrance to Tokyo Bay, it can be said that a perfect defense system stretching for more than ten kilometers has been formed, and all of them are equipped with their own bronze 280 mm shore defense guns, and the firepower is not weak German battleships.

There is nothing to be done in this job, only to use naval guns to bombard them, and then clean them up one by one, even if it is Moltke's ground attack, it is mainly to harass and contain, his main target is the Japanese ammunition depot in the clothes, and now he has begun to exchange fire with the Japanese troops guarding there, but his side is a mountain battle, the progress will definitely not be too fast, and the real solution to these Japanese fortresses has to rely on battleships.

Under the command of Tirpitz, the allied fleet first began to bombard the three batteries of Jonoshima on the Miura Peninsula, and hundreds of cannons on more than 20 capital ships fired salvos with amazing power.

The other side's 280 and 240 cannons did not show weakness, in the flames of the shell explosion, one after another eye-catching muzzle flames gushed out, in the sound of the shells breaking the air, columns of water rose in the fleet, and even the fire that exploded when the battleship was hit, and the two sides started a large-scale artillery battle back and forth.

However, in the final analysis, the Japanese army is still weak, although the shore defense artillery certainly has an advantage over the naval gun, but the problem is that there is still a battleship in the fleet of the Eight-Nation Coalition that is hiding far outside their range, and specially uses poison gas bombs to greet these batteries, and the Marauder's current task is to harass them with poison gas bombs.

Although the sea breeze can quickly blow away these poisonous gases, but those soldiers on the open gun emplacement still can't stand it, and with a deadly poisonous fog blowing up from time to time next to them, it is simply impossible to let those soldiers fight normally, not to mention that they only have three batteries in total, and in the face of the fleet attacking from Sagami Bay, the batteries of Misaki and Cape Obo can only watch with their eyes, so this artillery battle lasted less than an hour, and the sound of the Japanese returning fire was dumb. (To be continued......)