Nozu Michizuki, who was preparing to attack, had no idea what kind of terrifying firepower he was about to face. In fact, he was having a headache with his supply of supplies. It was not that he had nothing. Although the Japanese were not rich, they could supply two divisions.
The frontline combat can still be guaranteed, but the key is that it cannot be transported. Those Koreans are too difficult to deal with. Not only did they run into the mountains without helping him, they even attacked him along the way. It is simply outrageous. Don't they know that the imperial army is
To liberate them?
Because he could not catch the civilian husband, one of his logistics officers committed suicide out of guilt.
Therefore, before the attack at dawn, he could only give each of the soldiers a rice dumpling and a piece of salted fish, and then let them charge towards the Qing army's position under the leadership of their respective officers and with sporadic artillery cover.
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But looking at the Qing army's position in front of him, he suddenly felt at a loss. It seemed that he didn't see anyone. There were some low things like small mounds, and there seemed to be holes in front, and then there were some things less than a foot high.
It would be ridiculous if they just built such a high bunker due to the long stretch of low wall.
At the same time, on a mountain peak opposite him, Zhang Gaoyuan was holding a monocular and looking at the Japanese army below. Although it left a disgraceful record of losing Qingdao in history, in fact, this guy was a rare soldier in the later period of the Huai Army.
The fierce general, Liu Mingchuan's number one thug, whether he was resisting the French in Taiwan or suppressing the indigenous people, his hands were stained with blood. Even on the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, his Songwu Army was one of the few Qing troops who dared to fight against the Japanese.
Those who fight hand-to-hand, including him as a commander, otherwise he wouldn't have the name Zhang Liaozi.
However, when he fought against the Japanese army for the first time, he was still surprised by this army, because even in the French army, he had never seen such a neat attack. Of course, this was a good thing for him.
"Fire!" The guy turned around and shouted coldly. The messenger next to him immediately waved a small flag, and the twelve Krupp 75-line battalion guns and twenty 82-type mortars on the artillery position immediately headed toward the attack.
The Japanese army opened fire. These are the most high-end goods nowadays. The Krupp cannon is not good enough, and the Bofors 82 mortar is equipped with antimony and antimony. Besides, the artillery technology of the Qing army is not bad. In fact, their infantry is
The marksmanship on the training ground is not bad, but on the battlefield, under the hail of bullets, the bullets will fly without knowing where they will go if you tremble in your hand. Artillery does not have this problem.
With a frightening density, the shells that kept exploding among the attacking troops made Nozu Michizuki's lips twitch. Now he finally understood why Oshima Yoshimasa was defeated one after another. This was not a war, this was
Throw money at it, and in this thunderous cannon fire in the summer, the sound of the bronze cannons in his hands is simply shameful.
But what pleased him was that his soldiers were still very brave. Even though the shells kept exploding around them, even though pieces of their companions fell from time to time, and even though they hadn't seen where the enemy was yet, they were still carrying snow-white bodies.
Gloves, the officer holding a sharp saber led him to run forward in a daze. After leaving behind countless corpses, he finally reached a few hundred meters away from the low wall.
At this time, they still were not attacked.
"Come on, for the emperor, for the empire!" An officer raised his saber and roared excitedly. At this moment, the dull sound of cowhide war drums suddenly sounded. The officer was stunned. Almost at the same time, the small mound of soil in front of him
The same thing burst out with tongues of fire.
At that moment, the unlucky guy broke into two halves with flesh and blood flying everywhere.
The next moment, all the Japanese soldiers realized what hell was. On their frontal defense line, Zhang Gaoyuan deployed eight Maxim heavy machine guns, with four Gatling guns sandwiched in the middle, and two Haqi guns.
The Kaisi five-barreled cannon and dozens of small-caliber cannons, these killing machines hidden in the fortress, rained down bullets and shells like a violent storm into the middle of the Japanese army. They still lined up in a dense attack formation according to the offensive method of this era.
The Japanese soldiers were like sorghum fields being knocked down by bulldozers. The dead bodies fell to the ground one after another with a wave-like rhythm.
At this time, the Qing soldiers hiding in the trenches also opened fire. Although it was the first time I experienced such a battlefield, I was inevitably a little nervous, but I saw the enemy struggling in the blood and fire, but I only needed a little help.
Just raise your head and pull the trigger to gain a life. The tension immediately calmed down as quickly as possible. Their training skills began to show gradually, and more and more Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded under their guns.
Moreover, Zhang Gaoyuan's department is also equipped with Yang Feng's version of Lee Enfield. You don't need too many of these. When dozens of them are gathered together, the rate of fire is basically the same as that of a heavy machine gun. What's more, there are thousands of them here, plus
Lieutenant General Nozu Michizuki was terrified when he could see the intensity of firepower from those repeating-fire Mausers using tubular bomb bays from a distance.
Seeing his soldiers being shot mercilessly like dogs by the invisible enemies on the opposite side, his heart was bleeding, but he must not retreat at this time. The outcome of a war often comes at the last moment.
"Attack, attack, now is the time to show courage! For the sake of the emperor and the future of the empire, use your swords, your blood, and your lives to create an immortal era for your descendants for generations to come!" Nozu Michizuki
Waving his saber, he ran forward with a roar, ignoring the obstruction of the guards around him.
At such a long distance, it is estimated that the soldiers in front will not hear it, but fortunately the officers have not collapsed, and the obedience of the Japanese soldiers has also been reflected at this time, even though the bullets in front are whizzing, even though the companions beside them are firing one by one
They fell down, but they still held up their rifles with bayonets, struggling forward with the murderous desire stimulated by blood, and then without any suspense, they were torn apart by machine gun bullets one by one, attacking in a very short period of time.
In front of the Japanese army, a blood belt soaked with countless corpses appeared.
Zhang Gaoyuan's current firepower density can be used even in World War II, not to mention that the Japanese army has not yet learned skirmishing in the true sense, not to mention that they have no machine gun cover behind them, and his kind has no barbed wire.
Machine guns and trench tactics can now be said to be a meat grinder. Even he himself did not expect this.
As for the barbed wire, Li Hongzhang is actually buying it, but because it needs to be ordered from the United States, it will take some time to arrive. Now, as for the weapons engineer in Bofors, Li Erjie can basically follow his advice. Of course, he
What they didn’t know was that this weapons engineer was also an employee of Umbrella. Boss Yang had told them countless times when he was pretending to be a military strategist about this defensive tactic of barbed wire and machine guns, and his
The mission is to slowly teach this thing to the Huai army.
The tusha on the front ended quickly. Although the Japanese soldiers were obedient, they were not fools. When they understood that their attack would not yield anything except death, no one could continue to persist. They could not even reach the grenade.
The attack range receded like a tide. This made Zhang Gaoyuan a little unsatisfied. You must know that each of his soldiers still had at least ten grenades! When Li Hongzhang bought the machine gun, he also bought the Bo
A total of 100,000 grenades had just been shipped by Fox & Company, and the Beiyang Machinery Bureau had even begun to imitate these grenades, but the antimony and antimony were replaced by nitrocellulose.
Lieutenant General Nozu Michizuki sat on the ground in pain, leaning on his saber. In this battle, he had suffered more than a thousand casualties. Looking at the lost soldiers, he knew that these people were already afraid, and this fear would continue to grow.
As time goes by, as a general, he is not afraid of how many soldiers he will die. What he is really afraid of is that his soldiers will be destroyed by fear.
At the same time that his side's attack failed, the Japanese army that launched a diversionary attack from the southern front also failed. However, because it was not the main attack direction, they retreated relatively quickly, with only more than 200 losses.
In the direction of Chenghuanyi, Oshima Yishō didn't even dare to launch an attack. He was afraid of being beaten, and he was seriously short of ammunition because all the supplies that came with the Sixth Brigade were destroyed by the Beiyang Navy's shelling of Inchon.
Now let alone him, even the Japanese army in Seoul did not have enough ammunition. Before the supplies from Wonsan were transferred, his soldiers only had less than ten rounds of ammunition in their hands. Let alone attack, defense was on tenterhooks.
This also allowed him to avoid being involved in the meat grinder. You must know that Nie Shicheng, opposite him, had also modified his defense line in the same way, and the number of machine guns in his hands was no less than Zhang Gaoyuan.
When he learned that Tian'an Zhang Gaoyuan had defeated the Japanese army, Li Hongzhang was in Tianjin to welcome the Ryukyu prince who came to perform Hajj. Of course, he mainly visited the destroyer Flying Eagle. When the battleship carried him out of Takukou at a high speed of 36 knots,
, Li Ergui’s eyes almost popped out.
"Mr. Anderson, how much is such a warship worth?" He suppressed his excitement and asked Captain Anderson beside him.
"Your Majesty the Governor, this warship itself is not expensive. What is really valuable are the two diesel engines and the six steam gas torpedoes. According to the normal selling price of these things in Europe, they alone cost 140,000 pounds. Each diesel engine costs 4
Ten thousand, ten thousand torpedoes each," Anderson said.
Li Hongzhang gasped, this is more expensive than a cruiser.
"Of course, Mr. Governor, the price of this thing is just a word from Mr. Yang. If you have something suitable in exchange, it is possible to give it to you for free." Anderson said meaningfully.
"I wonder what Mr. Yang likes?" Li Hongzhang said.
"Then you'll have to ask him yourself," Anderson said with a shrug.