The reason why Utsunomiya Taro gave such an order was also because he did not know how many Chinese there were in the headquarters, and he had to make careful arrangements.

There are Chinese spies in the headquarters? Utsunomiya Taro has known about this for a long time. After all, not all of Japan's intelligence organizations eat dry food, but no one knows exactly which ones are and how many people there are...

And if the Chinese learn this information, then the entire campaign can basically be said to be in vain. So even Utsunomiya Taro had to be cautious.

Fortunately, one thing is still certain, that is, although there are certainly Chinese spies in the headquarters, these people basically only mixed in after the establishment of the national government, in other words, just beware of those who joined the Japanese army after 13 years.

On the other hand, the person who can enter this room is also the chief of staff of the division and regiment with the lowest rank (usually the rank of the chief of staff of the division and regiment is Dazuo), and the military rank of Dazuo is definitely not something that can be obtained in just a few years. In other words, the people in this room are all people that Utsunomiya Taro can trust...

But even so, Utsunomiya Taro still warned, after all, they are trustworthy, and it doesn't mean that everyone else is the same.

And the other people in the room were obviously aware of Utsunomiya Taro's concerns, so no one showed a dissatisfied expression.

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After finalizing the plan, the others walked out of the room one after another, leaving Utsunomiya Taro alone in the room.

Facing the information sent by Lu Xiangsheng. Utsunomiya Taro sensed the aura of opportunity, and even Lu Xiangsheng was grateful for sending this information―――――― of course, he didn't know. Just as he was discussing with his subordinates with this information, Lu Xiangsheng and his family had already been tied up with stones and thrown directly into the sea.

Of course, even if he knew, I'm afraid he wouldn't care much, after all, his so-called gratitude itself was not very sincere.

During this time, Utsunomiya Taro has been facing a mountain of pressure. The war was a long stalemate. The influence of Yan zhòng has reached the Japanese mainland, and the local Japanese side is naturally very anxious about this, exerting extremely great pressure on Utsunomiya Taro. Ask Utsunomiya Taro in the shortest possible time. To end this 'armed conflict' that consumed too many resources of Japan―――――― after the conflict, Britain and the United States gave some support, but this support was not gratuitous.

The Russo-Japanese War was also supported by Britain back then, but what was the result? Japan certainly won that war. But the price was that Japan was unable to repay its debts until World War I. All the benefits won since the First Sino-Japanese War. In that war, he almost lost everything. It was not until the end of World War I that Japan finally changed from a debtor country to a creditor country thanks to the benefits of the war...

In the same way, Japan should not be called the victor in that war at all, and the real victor should be Britain.

It is precisely because of this lesson that Japan is so wary of the good intentions of Britain and the United States, and it does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past. But then again, Japan's vigilance is not unfounded. Because Britain and the United States did intend to do so.

Why would Britain and the United States support Japan against China? It is because China is extremely threatening to the interests of the great powers in Asia. Compared with China, which has regained strength, Japan is a relatively easy player to deal with.

But on the other hand. For Britain and the United States, a yellow country like Japan is also a very unsightly character. If it weren't for World War I, it's hard to say what the Great Powers would have done to Japan in such an era when racism was strong.

Now, however, China has taken the place that Japan once was. For the sake of their own interests in Asia, the great powers must contain China. At this time, Japan, which also has a grudge against China, has become a very good target for exploitation. It would be better if Japan could defeat and even die with China.

However, considering the contrast in strength between the two countries, even Britain and the United States know very well that this is impossible, so their main purpose at present is to help Japan survive this difficulty first.

Naturally, it would be great if we could take this opportunity to take control of Japan's economy again, as we did during the Russo-Japanese War...

You know, after the end of the war, Japan took advantage of the opportunity of the war to change from a debtor country to a creditor country, but Britain was unhappy for a long time. Now that there is a rare opportunity, the British are naturally unlikely to let it go...

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The desire to end the war as soon as possible on the part of the homeland put a lot of pressure on Utsunomiya Taro.

End the war? It's simple, but the key is what happens after the war ends. This war, which lasted for nearly a year, has already brought great losses to China and Japan. After the end of the war, the first thing to talk about is certainly the issue of reparations. Utsunomiya Taro didn't know anything else, but one thing he knew was that neither China nor Japan could end the war without compensation.

In this way, if we want to recover the losses in this war, we must have the upper hand in this armed conflict. And it can't be an ordinary upper hand, it must be big, big enough for the Chinese to back down...

However, Utsunomiya Taro does not have much confidence in this.

After all, in the past nearly a year, the strength of the Chinese has been very clear to Utsunomiya Taro. After a few victories, maybe Utsunomiya Taro still has some confidence, but if they want to get what they want, it's definitely not that easy...

However, just when Utsunomiya Taro was having a headache by a telegram from home, the opportunity came...

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By this time, everyone else in the room had already left, and slowly walked to the map. Looking at this map detailing the areas on both sides of the Yalu River, Utsunomiya Taro's expression was unusually stern, and his fingers slid lightly across the map.

"If. If you can eat all this part of the army in one go, or surround it, even the Chinese will probably have to bow their heads..."

Thinking so, a smile appeared on Utsunomiya Taro's face.

Because until today, he finally saw a glimmer of victory...

Over the course of more than a week, Utsunomiya Taro and his men began to refine this new strategy. At the same time, a group of troops was brought back from the front and the rear for deployment.

On the other hand, after quite some intense preparations. The supplies needed for the Wehrmacht offensive were almost ready. The winter in North Korea is very cold, although the climate is taken into account during this war. There were quite a few officers and men from the northeast who fought. But fighting in the snow and ice is not an easy task after all. Therefore, the Ministry of Defense has prepared a lot of supplies, especially military uniforms for winter, etc., in addition to some windproof tents...

Just when the weather had begun to gradually turn colder, the Wehrmacht Army, which had been assembled in Jiangjie, finally began to move.

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A large number of shells fell on the position, turning the entire position into a sea of fire.

In the position, Japanese soldiers wearing tea-green military uniforms hid in trenches. Endured shelling. It's just that even though the Japanese have built the fortifications very strongly, this round of shelling still brought great casualties to the Japanese army. Those 75mm caliber mountain artillery and field artillery are also counted, unless they hit directly, it is difficult to bring any serious casualties to the Japanese army.

However, those heavy guns with a caliber of more than 150mm, even if they did not hit directly, the power of the explosion was enough to directly shock the Japanese troops within a certain range, even if they were hiding in strong fortifications...

This time, in order to attack Shun Lì, Feng Guozhang used a total of more than 500 artillery pieces, of which more than 100 guns with a caliber of 105mm or more were larger. This may not be a big deal in Europe, but it's a lot in Asia...

What's more, the use of these artillery does not mean that Feng Guozhang only has these in his hands, but other battlefields also need the support of artillery firepower after all. What's more, even if the attacking troops are equipped with more artillery, it will be difficult to bring them in, after all, this time they are planning to go on a long journey, and the equipment should be simpler...

The shelling continued, and Japanese soldiers were killed under fire almost every moment. I don't know how long, maybe an hour, maybe two hours, or longer, while the Japanese soldiers were hiding in the fortifications, enduring this hellish ordeal, the shelling was finally about to stop...

"That's it!"

Standing in the rear headquarters, looking at the Japanese position that was already a mess in the distance, Gao Wenshan, who was holding a telescope in his hand, nodded slightly.

"It's already been hit, let's save some shells for the country..."After speaking, Gao Wenshan looked at the officer on the side. Let the troops that have been arranged in advance attack..."

"Yes!" Hearing Gao Wenshan's words, the officer saluted, and then turned around to convey Gao Wenshan's order, and Gao Wenshan himself continued to look at the Japanese position opposite.

As the lieutenant general of the 17th Army, Gao Wenshan did not participate in the expeditionary force, let alone the European expedition that year. However, as a participant in the Shandong Campaign that year, Gao Wenshan's experience in the battle was relatively rich, which also enabled him to become the commander of the 17th Army, and in such an environment against the Japanese, his 17th Army also took the lead in launching an offensive as the vanguard...

Gao Wenshan was naturally very proud of this, because it represented the recognition of his and his troops' abilities. However, he also knew that the greater the expectations on his body, if he failed, the worse he would fall, so Gao Wenshan could not dare to relax his vigilance at all along the way, for fear that something would go wrong.

Fortunately, as provided by the intelligence, this nameless place that is not very far from Longlin is not very strong, and its own defense force is not very strong.

"If it's just this kind of process, maybe it will only take two days, no. You can even break through here with less effort..."Thinking of this, Gao Wenshan's eyes flashed.

Although he is already a lieutenant general, it can be said that he has reached a height that ordinary soldiers cannot imagine. But the eldest husband was born into the world. It should have been looking forward. He doesn't think that a lieutenant general can be satisfied by himself, although the marshal or something, Gao Wenshan feels that his hope is very slim, but if he is just a general, it is not that there are not many opportunities...

At least at the moment, the number of soldiers with the rank of general in the Wehrmacht is not small, if we can seize this opportunity. If you make a few big contributions, I can't say...

Just when Gao Wenshan was thinking this, countless Wehrmacht troops were already moving quickly towards the Japanese army's position. And this time the Wehrmacht artillery fire. But it still hasn't stopped...

Infantry artillery synergy...

Infantry artillery synergy has been produced since the advent of artillery, and it is the earliest surviving synergy of production. During the Shandong Campaign of that year, the Wehrmacht was simply not capable of carrying out infantry and artillery coordinated operations, and the reason was very simple. At that time, the training of the Wehrmacht was still very poor. It was simply impossible to carry out such operations, especially the artillery units at that time, and their capabilities in this area were even worse to the extreme, and if one of them was not done well, it was even possible to drop shells on their own heads, and the results could be imagined...

But now, after years of training, something like infantry and artillery coordination. The Wehrmacht is already able to master it easily...

On the positions belonging to the Japanese army, although the Wehrmacht had already launched an offensive, it was not unknown to no one. But no Japanese dared to stand up at the risk of Wehrmacht fire. As a result, when the Wehrmacht artillery fire stopped and the Japanese could finally emerge from the fortifications, the Wehrmacht officers and soldiers outside were so close to the Japanese defense line that the Japanese troops inside the defense line were almost unable to react...

Looking at the Wehrmacht approaching closer, the Japanese officer in the position hurriedly drew his command knife and ordered the other soldiers to immediately prepare for battle and repel these inferior Chinese...

However, not long after the gunfire of the Japanese soldiers on the position rang out, the Wehrmacht outside had already rushed forward with shouts.

Accompanied by a vigorous posture, the charging Wehrmacht jumped into the Japanese positions one after another, and the bright bayonets accompanied by a shout pierced into the bodies of the Japanese soldiers who had not yet reacted...

On the other hand, the Japanese troops in the positions were in a hurry to meet the battle, and by the time they reorganized into order, the Wehrmacht had already gained a certain upper hand in the positions...

Bayonets, submachine guns, light machine guns, shotguns...

All kinds of weapons brought great advantages to Gao Wenshan's troops. However, as I have said, the Japanese Army at this time was different from the army in history, which did not pay much attention to equipment, or more precisely, could not share too many resources, and although the equipment of the troops could not be compared with the Wehrmacht, it was far superior compared with the same period in history.

With this part, coupled with the relatively strong combat capability of the Japanese army, Gao Wenshan thought that it was an attack that he was determined to win, but he actually let the Japanese fight back.

However, Gao Wenshan didn't feel much surprised by this, after all, if these Japanese in front of them were really so easy to solve, then they would not have the two great shames of the First Sino-Japanese War and Japan and Russia, not to mention...

"The stronger the opponent, the more fun it is, but unfortunately, I guess that's all there is to it..."

By this time, the Wehrmacht had begun to prepare for a second round of offensives.

This time, Gao Wenshan's troops alone had more than 100,000 troops, and there were two more armies of troops following behind. On the opposite position, the Japanese army had only one wing at most.

A wing, according to the establishment of the Chinese side, is the strength of a regiment.

Seriously speaking, the strength of a wing is not small, in the Chinese battlefield of Yan Shao's era, a wing of Japanese troops can already defeat a division of China at that time, and under special circumstances, it can even chase a military run...

Similarly, with relatively strong fortifications, the Japanese troops in the positions should not have much problem resisting a division of the Wehrmacht. Even if it can't be stopped in the end, I'm afraid that the troops who seized this position will have to pay a lot of price...

However, at this moment, the Japanese troops on the opposite side were facing three divisions of Wehrmacht and more than 500 artillery pieces. If necessary, Gao Wenshan could even call in air support and put the two tank regiments that Feng Guozhang had transferred into battle.

So just like Gao Wenshan said, the Japanese soldiers on the other side could only surprise him at most.

After some preparations, the IDF launched a second offensive. At the same time, the Japanese appeared to have recovered from the confusion and, despite the heavy casualties suffered from previous shelling and attacks, quickly regrouped for battle.

When the attacking Wehrmacht entered the range of the Japanese soldiers in the position, the well-preserved Hazikaith machine guns on the position opened fire, and immediately swept away the Wehrmacht officers and soldiers who rushed to the front, but soon the Japanese machine gun positions were covered by a field of artillery fire.

This time it was not the artillery units in the rear that opened fire, but the mortar units that followed behind the attacking units.

From 60mm, 80mm to 120mm, hundreds of mortars inflicted huge casualties on the Japanese troops in the positions. And the Wehrmacht, which had been suppressed by the Japanese army, took advantage of this opportunity to launch a charge again...

With the fire support of the artillery, accompanied by shouts, the Wehrmacht that launched the charge once again rushed into the Japanese position, and launched an extremely fierce battle with the Japanese troops in the position. (To be continued......)