When Xu Bangdao won the first battle, Zhao Yi had already boarded the M1A2 main battle tank. According to the original battle plan www.biquge.info the tank he drove was to be the first echelon of the attack, and he led a group of infantry vehicles to intersperse with the rear of the Japanese army to encircle the Japanese army. The intention of the battle was not to annihilate the Japanese army, but to crush the Japanese army and force it to retreat with heavy firepower and baggage.

According to Zhao Yi's deduction, the retreating Japanese army could only retreat to Fuzhou at most, and it was necessary to reorganize the defensive line, otherwise the Japanese landing site at Huayuankou would be attacked.

Once the Japanese army loses the Huayuankou landing site, not only is Nogi Noshinori in danger of being encircled and annihilated, but the Japanese Second Army landing on the Liaodong Peninsula will face the threat of being cut off from the supply line. At that time, they would have to transport supplies through ferries along the Yalu River.

It would be a terrible disaster, winter is approaching, and the harsh cold climate and poor transportation conditions in northeast China can minimize the efficiency of supply transportation.

When the Qing army dragged the war to the stage of stalemate, the large deep forest through which the two-day supply line from the Yalu River to the Liaodong River Plain and the Liaodong Peninsula passed through would become a paradise for the Qing army to conduct harassment warfare (at this time there was no concept of guerrilla warfare).

By that time, the Japanese had to spend a lot of troops to supply supply lines and defend them along the way. The soldiers and horses who escorted the guards had to consume more supplies, adding to the already overwhelmed burden of supply transportation.

In fact, although it is the season of late autumn and early winter, the temperature in the northeast of China has reached below zero. According to the Japanese army of the First Army guarding Haicheng, many of the soldiers suffered from various diseases due to the lack of supplies. The non-combat attrition caused by the disease was far higher than the casualties of the Japanese troops who were killed in the battle against the Qing army.

If the Japanese landing site at Huayuankou on the Liaodong Peninsula is lost, and the Japanese army there still has to get supplies from the supply line at the mouth of the Yalu River, how will this already overwhelmed transportation line deal with it? That was the fact that the Japanese army's transportation capacity was completely unable to bear the task of supplying both the First Army and the Second Army at the same time.

Zhao Yi hit the idea that the Japanese army did not dare to retreat further, and cut your flesh with a blunt knife, you know that you can't benefit from holding each other on the front line of Fuzhou Avenue, but you don't dare to go. Dragged into the quagmire of a war of attrition by the traverser.

Due to the masterpiece of the "prop team", the entire area around the base has been cleared into an open and flat open field, and there is no shelter within a three-kilometer radius around it. Traversers cannot form a formation outside of the base in advance.

All of the combatants were crammed into the base, some had already boarded their vehicles, and some had waited by their vehicles.

The first offensive echelon consisted of one M1A2 main battle tank and one M2 infantry fighting vehicle, as well as five M1126icv armored personnel carriers. Their task was to break through directly from the Japanese formation, destroy the heavy firepower of the Japanese army along the way, penetrate into the rear of the Japanese army, and cooperate with the second echelon to form an encirclement of the Japanese army.

The second offensive echelon consisted of three LAV-25 'Piranha' infantry combat vehicles, two Humvees, two M-ATVMATV mine-resistant anti-ambush vehicles, three M35 trucks, one M1128MGS mobile gun truck and one M1127RV reconnaissance vehicle. The only M1133MEV field ambulance followed the second echelon.

The two echelons attacked with a total of 310 combat personnel, and the remaining personnel remained at the base except for two artillery squads operating mortars in the base. In case there is a routed Japanese army attacking the foundation in a roundabout way.

The North American Mustang fighters in the air were circling and monitoring the entire battlefield, and in fact, the Qing army's Shimenzi blocking position was less than fifteen kilometers away from the battlefield expected by the traverser. The North American Mustang OV-10D is equipped with advanced observation and communication equipment, which can easily control the situation on both battlefields.

Now the first offensive echelon is normally waiting for the report of aerial reconnaissance, waiting for the assembly of the Japanese army, and as long as the distance between the Japanese troops is close enough, they will launch a surprise attack.

This is also a last resort, and according to tactical common sense, it is most reasonable to launch a surprise attack when the enemy army is not assembled, and break the enemy troops individually. However, the troops of the traverser are very deformed, with few combat personnel, a high degree of mechanization, and a lot of heavy firepower.

If the Japanese army is attacked according to conventional tactics, after the Japanese army is hit by heavy firepower, other troops will retreat first, which is not conducive to the realization of the combat intention of the traverser.

And by allowing the Japanese army to assemble and the hedgehogs of all units gathered together, it is easier to maximize the damage of heavy firepower.

This unit of the Japanese army on the Fuju Avenue was the headquarters of the 1st Division, commanded by the division commander Motoji Yamagi and the chief of staff Oji Yasumi. After Koike Shunichi's rout yesterday, the division commander led the follow-up troops to catch up.

Shunichi Koike described yesterday's encounter as a long-planned ambush by the enemy. Of course, both Motoharu Yamachi and Yasumi Oji accepted his statement in official terms. His family's reputation was saved, but Koike Shunichi was sent back to the Hanazozonaguchi landing site to return to Japan on a troop carrier, where he was left for a semi-retirement in the reserves.

Although Koike Shunichi's reputation was upheld in various official reports, both the headquarters and the commander of the Second Army, Admiral Oyama Iwa, questioned the command ability of this gentleman.

Although they still accepted some of his claims, believing that the enemy on Fuzhou Avenue had rapid-fire weapons that were lighter than the Grimm guns, they analyzed that it was the kind of weapon that Maxim had been selling all over Europe all these years. They conducted a detailed analysis of the cars mentioned in Shunichi Koike's report and the use of repeating weapons on cars by the enemy. The officers, without exception, came to the conclusion that the weapon on the car was also a Maxim machine gun, and that Koike Shunichi had overpowered this weapon for some dishonorable reason. Obviously, the current level of knowledge of Japanese officers is not able to understand what a machine gun is.

Some Japanese officers with a background in Europe suggested that the current reliability of the car was very poor, and it was not enough to match the mobility of the cavalry in such poor field road conditions. The enemy's mounting of machine guns on cars somewhat increased the mobility of this rapid-fire weapon, but also weakened its concealment.

The Japanese were not very surprised that the enemy had more advanced weapons than them, and they quickly responded accordingly. The fact is that in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army lagged behind the Qing army in many armaments, and the Japanese army was mentally prepared for the new weapons that the enemy had emerged again. What the Japanese could not tolerate was his stupid and inflexible command ability, knowing that the opponent had a burst of fire, and that he was able to carry out a cavalry charge.

The Japanese responded by sending more cavalry squads to conduct all-round reconnaissance. And the artillery units also followed closely behind the large forces, and when they encountered the enemy's rapid-fire weapon positions, they bombarded them with artillery.

As a matter of fact, the staff officers of the Japanese army had already made a response plan based on the fact that the enemy was equipped with the most advanced weapons in the world at present, and how did they know that the enemy opposite them was using the most advanced weapons in a hundred years.

Yamachi Motoji used a telescope to observe the base of the traverser from a distance, and he looked at the fortifications made of blast walls and containers, and was curious about how the enemy had built these fortifications.

Since the base was surrounded by open land, Yamachi Genji didn't dare to get too close, and he couldn't see clearly which blast walls were made of what material, and those containers he estimated were made of wood.

"These Qing army fortifications are really getting worse and worse, and they actually use wooden planks to make up the numbers. Hmph, you can't win a war with advanced weapons alone. In a moment, our artillerymen would tell them that the improvised fortifications could not stop the artillery of the Empire of Japan, and that their rapid-fire weapons were useless. "Mountain Genji said arrogantly.

"Yes, Your Excellency, Lieutenant General. Victory in the war ultimately depends on the person who uses the weapon. The weak Qing people are no match for the loyal soldiers of our Imperial Japan. Oji Yasumi echoed and said.

Next to the two of them, a squad of artillery was passing by, and the artillerymen were about to build an artillery position in front. According to the plan of the Japanese army, the artillery would first prepare the enemy's fortifications for artillery fire, and then the infantry would attack.

Motoji Yamagi thought that if there were rapid-fire weapons that survived the Japanese artillery preparations, then he might as well open their eyes and let them see what infantry artillery coordination was. Hmph, it's wishful thinking that those rapid-fire weapons can stop the iron hooves of the Great Japanese Empire.

While the Japanese artillery was nervously digging fortifications, Hao Dajian informed the command center on the plane that the Japanese army had entered the preset battlefield.

Zhao Yi was in the tank and tuned the radio to channel 1, which could be heard by all the troops.

"Pop the chrysanthemum, burst the chrysanthemum, repeat, burst the chrysanthemum!" Zhao Yi shouted into the microphone the code name of this evil action.

Immediately afterwards, a situation that was very contrary to the serious scene of the war appeared, and the officers of all the units in the base shouted loudly to their subordinates, "Burst chrysanthemum, burst chrysanthemum, repeat, burst chrysanthemum."

Bang, bang, bang, the two mortars in the base began to fire at the Japanese. One by one, high-explosive grenades flew in the direction marked with Zhu Yuan.

The Japanese artillerymen, who were busy digging artillery fortifications, heard a strange shrill whistling sound from the sky, and immediately after, the crowd exploded. Boom, boom, first the 81-mm mortar high-explosive grenade landed and exploded, and then the 120-mm mortar was a bigger fireball.

The 81mm mortar uses the principle of pressurization, in which the loader puts the shell into the barrel and waits for it to fall under its own weight to trigger the projectile. Therefore, there is a fast saying that "as fast as the hand can be stroked, the cannon will be fired as fast". The 120-mm mortar equipped with the Traverser is obviously much heavier than the 81-mm shell, and its rate of fire is slower than it.

Looking at it from a distance, there was a scene of several small fires sandwiched between a large fireball on the Japanese position, which was very beautiful.

But in the eyes of Yamachi Genji, this scene is not so beautiful. The Japanese soldiers had apparently not encountered such a strange shelling, and did not lie down to avoid the artillery fire at all. The initial explosion was caused by the mishandling of their own shells. The soldiers stood in a daze, and the lethality of the high-explosive grenade was maximized.

Is this the kind of straddle gun that Shunichi Koike mentioned? Motoji Yamagi looked at the mess on the front position.

Didn't you say that Shunichi Koike exaggerated the power of that cannon? Yamachi Genji was also confused. In fact, the mortars used by the traversers in yesterday's encounter were described in Koike's post-war report. And the staff officers of the 1st Division also made a serious analysis of the situation, and although the Japanese army was arrogant, it was not stupid.

The result of their analysis was that the enemy used a modified naval "mortar", which, unlike the old naval mortars, fired shells from flowering shells. The range and accuracy of the navy's mortar artillery are very limited, and as for the power of the Qing army's flowering shells, the Japanese army had learned it in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and its power was really not flattering.

The Japanese staff officers guessed the beginning correctly this time, but they did not expect the ending. The predecessor of the mortar was indeed a mortar for the navy. However, these two mortars, one large and one small, fired not the black powder flowering shells of the Qing army, but mixed aluminum high-explosive grenades.

Koike Shunichi also described the actual situation of the 60-mm mortar bombarding his cavalry, but the Japanese staff officers believed that he exaggerated the power of the mortar in order to shirk responsibility for the defeat.

But what the hell is this fire mass that is harvesting life in the Japanese army now? Obviously much more powerful than Koike Shunichi described.

Those Japanese staff officers would not have known that yesterday Koike Shunichi encountered a small smashing cannon like 60 guns. Now they are being tortured not only by 81 mm mortars, but also by 120 mm caliber such large bombardments.