Nozu Michikan, who was preparing to attack, did not know what kind of terrifying firepower he was going to face, in fact, he was having a headache for his material supply, not that there was nothing to do, although the Japanese were not rich, but the supply of two divisions and regiments to the front line was still guaranteed, the key was that it could not be transported, those Koreans were too difficult to handle, not only ran into the mountains and did not help him, but even attacked him along the way, it was simply outrageous, didn't they know that the imperial army was here to liberate them?

Because he couldn't catch the people, one of his logistics officers actually committed suicide by seppuku in guilt.

Therefore, before the attack at dawn, he could only give the soldiers a rice ball and a piece of salted fish for each of them, and then let them charge towards the Qing army's position under the leadership of their respective officers and under the cover of sporadic artillery fire.

But looking at the Qing army position in front of him, he suddenly felt dazed, as if he didn't see anyone? There were some low, mounds of dirt, and there seemed to be holes in front of them, and then there were some stretches of low walls less than a foot high, and it would be ridiculous that they wouldn't just build such high bunkers.

At the same time, on a mountain peak opposite him, Zhang Gaoyuan was holding a monocular and looking at the Japanese army below, although he left a disgraceful record of losing Qingdao in history, but in fact this guy is a rare fierce general in the later period of the Huai Army, Liu Mingchuan's number one thug, whether it is in Taiwan to resist the French or Zhen to suppress the natives, it is all bloody with his hands, even on the battlefield of the First Sino-Japanese War, his Songwu Army is also a rare Qing army in the Qing army who dares to fight hand-to-hand with the Japanese army, including him as a commander, otherwise there would not be a name of Zhang Yuanzi.

However, the first time he fought the Japanese, he was still surprised by this army, because even in the French, he had never seen such a neat attack, and of course, this was a good thing for him.

"Fire!" The cargo turned his head and shouted coldly, and the herald beside him immediately waved a small flag, and the twelve Krupp 75 guns and 20 82 mortars on the artillery position immediately opened fire on the attacking Japanese troops. This is the most high-end goods now, the Krupp cannon is still almost, the Bofors 82 mortar is equipped with antimony, and the artillery technology of the Qing army is not bad, in fact, their infantry is not bad in marksmanship on the training ground, but when you want to go to the battlefield, you don't know where to fly when the bullets are shivering in the rain of bullets, and the artillery does not have this problem.

With a frightening density, the shells that kept exploding in the attacking troops made the corners of Nozu Michikan's mouth twitch, and he now finally understood why Oshima Yoshimasa had suffered a series of defeats, this was not a war, this was to smash with money, and in this shelling sound like summer thunder, the sound of those bronze cannons in his hands was simply ashamed.

However, to his relief, his soldiers were still very brave, although the shells around them kept exploding, although the fragments of their companions fell from time to time, although they had not seen where the enemy was until now, they were still wearing snow-white gloves, holding a snow-bright saber under the leadership of the commander running forward in a daze, after leaving behind an unknown number of corpses, finally ran to a position a few hundred meters away from the low wall.

At this time, they were still not attacked.

"Rush, for the sake of the Emperor, for the sake of the Empire!" An officer raised his saber and roared excitedly, and at that moment the dull sound of a cowhide war drum suddenly sounded, and the officer was stunned, and almost at the same time tongues of fire erupted from the small mound in front of him.

At that moment, the hapless creature broke in half as flesh flew around.

The next moment, all the Japanese soldiers realized what hell was, on the defensive line in front of them, Zhang Gaoyuan arranged eight Makqin heavy machine guns, and four Green guns in the middle, in addition to two Haqikaisi five-barreled guns and dozens of small-caliber guns, these killing machines hidden in the fortress smashed bullets and shells like a storm in the middle of the Japanese army, still according to the offensive mode of this era, the Japanese troops lined up in a dense attack formation, just like the sorghum field that was knocked down by a bulldozer, The corpses fell to the ground one by one in a wave-like rhythm.

And at this time, those Qing soldiers hiding in the trenches also fired, although the first time to experience such a battlefield, the mood was inevitably a little nervous, but seeing that the enemy was struggling in blood and fire, and he only needed to raise his head slightly, and then pull the trigger to harvest a life, the tension immediately calmed down as quickly as possible, and the level of training began to gradually play, and the number of dead and wounded Japanese soldiers under their guns began to gradually increase.

And Zhang Gaoyuanbu is also equipped with Yang Feng's version of Li Enfield, this thing is not needed, dozens of them are concentrated, and the rate of fire is basically about the same as a heavy machine gun, not to mention that there are thousands of them here, plus those continuous hair Mars who use tubular bomb bays, and the fire density can be seen in the distance.

Looking at his soldiers, being shot mercilessly like dogs by those invisible enemies on the opposite side, his heart is dripping blood, but at this time he must not retreat, the victory or defeat of the war is often at the last moment.

"Attack, attack, now is the moment to show courage! For the sake of the Emperor, for the future of the Empire, with your sword, with your blood, with your lives, for your children and grandchildren, create an immortal era!" Nozu Michikan brandished his saber and ran forward with a roar, despite the guards around him.

At such a distance, it is estimated that the soldiers in front will not hear it, but fortunately, those officers have not collapsed, and the obedience of the Japanese soldiers is also reflected at this time, although the bullets in front of them are whistling, although the companions next to them are falling one by one, they still stand up to the rifle of the bayonet, and struggle forward with the killing ** that is stimulated by blood, and then one by one is torn apart by the bullets of the machine gun without any suspense, and in a very short period of time, in front of the attacking Japanese army, there is a blood belt soaked in countless corpses.

Zhang Gaoyuan's current firepower density can be used even if he gets World War II, not to mention that the Japanese army has not yet learned to fight skirmishers in the real sense, not to mention that there is no machine gun cover behind them, and his machine gun and trench tactics without barbed wire can now be said to be a meat grinder, which even he didn't expect.

As for the barbed wire, Li Hongzhang is really buying this thing, but because it needs to be ordered from the United States, it will take a while to ship, and now for the words of the weapons engineer in Bofors, Li Er can basically say what he says, of course, what he doesn't know is that this weapon engineer is also an employee of Ambrera Company, this set of barbed wire and machine gun defensive tactics, when Boss Yang pretended to be a military strategist, he didn't know how many times he told them, and his mission was to slowly teach this thing to Huaijun.

The tusha on the front was soon over, and the Japanese soldiers, although obedient, were not fools, and when they understood that their attack would not gain anything but death, no one could continue to hold on, and they could not even rush to the distance of the grenade attack and retreated like a tide. This made Zhang Gaoyuan a little unsatisfied, you must know that in the hands of his soldiers, each of them still has at least ten grenades! At the same time as buying the machine gun, Li Hongzhang also bought the entire 100,000 grenades that Bofors had just shipped, and even started to let the Beiyang Machinery Bureau copy this kind of thing, but replaced the antimony with nitrocellulose.

Lieutenant General Nozu Michikani sat on the ground with his saber in pain, his casualties in this battle have exceeded a thousand, looking at those soldiers who lost their souls, he knew that these people were already afraid, and this fear would ferment over time, as a general, he was not afraid of how many soldiers he died, what he was really afraid of was that his soldiers were destroyed by fear.

At the same time as the attack on his side failed, the Japanese army, which launched a diversion attack from the southern front, also failed, but because it was not the main direction of attack, they retreated relatively quickly, and the loss was only more than 200 people.

In the direction of Chenghuanyi, Oshima Yoshimasa did not even dare to attack, he was scared, and the ammunition in his hand was strictly lacking, because all the materials that came with the Sixth Brigade were destroyed by the shelling of Inchon by the Beiyang Naval Division, now let alone him, even the ammunition of the Japanese army in Seoul was not enough, before the materials in Wonsan were delivered, his soldiers had less than ten bullets per person, not to mention the attack, and the defense was fearful.

This also allowed him to avoid being involved in the meat grinder in the same way, you must know that Nie Shicheng opposite him has also reformed the defense line in the same way, and the number of machine guns in his hand is no less than that of Zhang Gaoyuan.

When he learned the news of Tiananzhang Gaoyuan's defeat of the Japanese army, Li Hongzhang was in Tianjin to welcome the Ryukyu prince who had come to the Hajj, of course, mainly to visit the destroyer Flying Eagle.

"Mr. Anderson, how much is such a warship worth?" He pressed his excitement and asked Captain Anderson beside him.

"Your Excellency the Governor, this warship itself is not expensive, but what is really worth it are two diesel engines and those six steam gas torpedoes, which, according to the normal price of these things in Europe, cost 140,000 pounds alone, 40,000 diesels each, and 10,000 torpedoes each." Anderson said.

Li Hongzhang gasped, this is more expensive than a cruiser.

"Of course, Lord Governor, how much this thing sells for is just Mr. Yang's words, if you have the right thing to exchange, it is possible to give it to you for free." Anderson said meaningfully.

"I don't know what Lord Yang likes?" Li Hongzhang said.

"Then you'll have to ask him himself." Anderson said with a shrug.