"What a sin!" Looking at the empty Yokohama city in front of him, Jiang Guiti was stunned for a moment, and then let out a sad howl with trembling lips.
Last time, Song Qing's tribe in Sendai made more than one million taels. Even if they split it half and half with Yang Feng, there would still be at least 700,000 taels left. The 2,700 Yijun soldiers under him were crazy with joy. This time
When I heard that the attack was going to the Japanese capital, everyone screamed and rushed forward. Even Jiang Guiti, who was half blind in one eye due to poison gas, scrambled to get on the boat, and Ma Yukun couldn't pull him away.
Who would have thought that a group of bandits rushed into Yokohama and found it to be an empty city? The grief and anger are self-evident.
Of course, the Japanese would not be stupid enough to leave Yokohama to them. Although this city is in Tokyo Bay and Kamakura is in Sagami Bay, the two places are only a little more than ten kilometers apart. Build an observation post on the top of the mountain north of Kamakura.
, the Predator's 130 cannon could easily wipe out the entire Yokohama, so before the landing site of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces was determined, Ito Hirobumi very cleverly drove all the residents of this city into the Tokyo defense circle, and even
Even the foreigners ran to Tokyo together to avoid harming Chiyu.
The grieving and angry Yijun and mercenaries, or according to their current official status, the Ottoman Turkish soldiers, after a carpet search and confirming that the people of Yokohama took away everything they should take with them when they left, in order to vent their anger, they simply
Fire burned the city.
Just as the fire was burning in Yokohama, on the south bank of the Tsurumi River, Waldzer's more than 70 Krupp cannons also began to bombard the Japanese trenches on the north bank. Under the cloudy sky, they were lined up neatly.
The 75mm field artillery kept pouring shells four kilometers away, and the whistling sound that broke through the air was like the howls of countless demons. The air waves impacted by the dense explosions, and the scattered shrapnel rouled the Japanese crazily.
land.
The soldiers of the Japanese 7th Division guarding Tokyo's first line of defense, holding various old-fashioned rifles patched together, huddled in the shallow trenches with their heads in their hands, howling heart-breakingly.
δΈ. Waiting for the fateful decision, the whole earth above their heads is boiling, steel, gravel, and soil are rolling like tsunami waves, swallowing up every tiny body.
This kind of trench is too shallow. Of course, there is no way to do it. If you dig a trench one and a half meters deep, most Japanese soldiers will not be able to see the enemy, and the soil in the Guandong Plain is too soft. This kind of fertile soil will not be able to see the enemy.
The crops can be used, but it is a bit weak to stop the explosion of the artillery shells, even if the artillery shells are 75mm nitrocellulose shells that are too weak in Yang Feng's opinion.
The trenches that Ito Hirobumi had placed high hopes for were being leveled by the explosions of artillery shells. The bombed soil and fragmented Japanese bodies were leveled section by section. Countless soldiers were buried along the way. The recruits who had just put down their hoes, more and more
Because people couldn't stand this cruel battlefield environment, they crawled out of the trenches one by one howling and left this hell. Of course, the result was that they went to hell as quickly as possible.
The quality of the German artillery in this era can be said to be second to none, especially since they now not only have field artillery. They are also temporarily equipped with mortars purchased from the Hanyang Gun Factory. This kind of artillery that has been tested on the Asan battlefield has been
It has become the next priority equipment target for various countries. With precise shooting and crazy rate of fire, artillery has determined the outcome of this battle.
After almost fifteen minutes of preparations for artillery fire from more than a hundred cannons, four German infantry regiments charged toward the Japanese defense line at the same time. Behind them, dozens of Maxim machine guns sprayed flames, providing cover for their attack.
It is obvious that the German army has not yet learned true skirmishing.
More than 10,000 German soldiers lined up in a dense attack formation wading knee-deep in the river. While firing at the opposite bank with dense volleys of guns, they rushed to the river bank not far away under the command of an officer wielding a saber. Behind them,
There were even drummers nearby who kept beating the drums of attack.
What greeted them was the few shooting sounds from the opposite side, and the lead bullets whizzed out in the thick smoke from the black fire guns. One after another German soldiers fell down amid the splash of blood, and the muddy river water was bright red.
The bloodstains flowing downward looked particularly dazzling, but the well-trained and disciplined German soldiers did not care about the death around them. They held the committee rifles with bayonets and trudged through the river like robots.
This scene made the mercenaries who hurriedly rushed into Tokyo and robbed them were dumbfounded. Song Qing was still there educating his men: "Look at me, this is the real army. Look at you fighting again."
The charge was as chaotic as a herd of pigs chased by dogs."
Li Yuncong glanced at him speechlessly, and decided to find an opportunity to educate the admiral, who was more than twice his age, with facts.
The narrow Tsurumi River could not really stop the German army. Soon the forwards of the attacking troops had stepped onto the river bank. At this time, as the density of shelling weakened, the remaining Japanese soldiers in the trenches, driven by the belief of defending their homeland and country, also began to attack.
The officers regained their courage amid the angry roars, then tremblingly lay down on the trench with the ancient rifles in their hands, and started shooting against the dense bullets flying from the opposite side.
The quality of these hastily recruited reservists cannot be compared with the elites of the German Army. Moreover, the number is too small to form real suppressive firepower. Moreover, they are not very familiar with trench warfare. Many of them are even as trained as they are on weekdays.
Standing inside and shooting, his head was hit one by one by dense volleys of bullets. In addition, the originally long defense line had long been fragmented, so the Germans quickly successfully rushed into the Japanese trenches.
Next came the classic hand-to-hand combat. At this time, the Japanese recruits calmed down. It was obvious that they had really practiced hard. In addition, they were trained in Germany. Although they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers and physical fitness,
It's not the same as before, but it really caused some trouble for the Germans. Looking at the bloody bayonet fight in front of them, people like Song Qing were so excited that they probably found the feeling they had back then. If it weren't for the distance on their expressions, they would probably be like this.
After a while, he drew his sword and went to kill him.
Of course, there was no suspense about the outcome of the bayonet fight. All the remaining hundreds of Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground within ten minutes.
In fact, the Japanese army only placed a total of one regiment on this line of defense, and they were all equipped with old-fashioned muzzle-loading guns and even iron cannons. To put it bluntly, they were just cannon fodder to consume German ammunition and test the opponent's combat effectiveness. They were the real main force.
It was all on the Tama River, which was the decisive line of defense for the Japanese army, but just such a bunch of garbage, after being bombarded for fifteen minutes, still cost the Germans nearly a hundred casualties.
This result made Waldzer very satisfied. Since it was a war, it was normal for people to die. One hundred casualties wiped out thousands of Japanese troops. This can be described as a victory. However, the courage of the Japanese troops also surprised him.
In his opinion, these Eastern peoples should collapse in front of the powerful German soldiers.
At the same time as he launched the attack, the fleet led by Tirpitz also began to attack the Japanese forts on both sides of the Uraga Waterway. This was a relatively difficult task. The Japanese army built a large number of forts on both sides of the Uraga Waterway.
The forts include the Misaki, Kenzaki, and Jonoshima forts at the tip of the Miura Peninsula, and the Shuzaki and Obosaki forts on the Boso Peninsula across the sea from them. Inward are the Chiyozaki and Kannonzaki forts on the east coast, and the west coast and them.
The two major forts of Wonsan and Kanaya arranged in a finished glyph, together with the first, second and third sea forts on the small island at the entrance to Tokyo Bay, can be said to have formed a complete defense system stretching for more than ten kilometers, and are all equipped with
With their self-produced bronze 280mm coastal defense guns, their firepower is not inferior to that of German battleships.
There is no trick in this job. You can only use naval guns to blast them, and then clean them out one by one. Even Xiao Maoqi's ground attack is mainly to harass and contain. His main target is Kinugasa.
The Japanese ammunition depot has now begun to exchange fire with the Japanese troops guarding it. However, the battle there is in a mountainous area, and the progress will definitely not be too fast. The real solution to these Japanese fortresses will depend on warships.
Under the command of Tirpitz, the allied fleet first began bombarding the three forts on the Miura Peninsula's Castle Island. Hundreds of cannons from more than 20 battleships fired with astonishing power. For a while, thunder rolled on the sea and smoke filled the sea.
, the shells roared, and the pressure impact of the large-caliber cannons ejected from the chambers rushed out huge semicircles on the sea. Yang Feng, who was watching the battle from a distance, was excited.
The opponent's 280 and 240 cannons did not show any weakness. In the flames of the explosion of the shells, eye-catching muzzle flames spurted out. Amidst the sound of the shells breaking through the air, water columns rose in the fleet, and even
There was also the explosion of fire when the battleship was hit, and the two sides started a large-scale artillery battle back and forth.
But in the final analysis, the Japanese army is still weak. Although coastal defense guns definitely have advantages over naval guns, the problem is that there is a warship in the Eight-Nation Allied Forces fleet that is far away from their range and uses poison gas bombs to attack these forts.
The Predator's current mission is to harass with poison gas bombs.
Although the sea breeze can quickly blow away the poisonous gas, the soldiers on the open-air gun positions still can't stand it. With a deadly poisonous mist exploding around them from time to time, it is simply impossible for those soldiers to fight normally.
What's more, they only had three forts in total. Facing the fleet attacking from Sagami Bay, the forts at Shuzaki and Obosaki could only watch helplessly. Therefore, the artillery battle lasted less than an hour, and the Japanese army's voice of counterattack was muted.