Jia Fen, commander of the 6th Division under Ye Faguang, also saw the opponent's defensive position through the telescope.
This man can be regarded as a fierce general. After reading this, he was not too worried. Instead, he smiled and said: "The opponent's turtle shell is really thick. It will take some effort for us to crack him open this time."
Du Jie, commander of the 4th Division next to him, also spoke at this time, "Although the enemy is well-defended, it is not invincible. I think we should concentrate the artillery of our three divisions, and then add the heavy artillery of the army. There are so many
Artillery, I don't believe it, the opponent's position is really iron."
Du Jie's words resonated with another general. Now they are most proud of the number of artillery and the caliber of the cannon.
Ye Faguang listened to the discussion of his men. He nodded with satisfaction at first, and then became a little unhappy that these people underestimated the enemy too much.
"It is a taboo to underestimate the enemy before the battle. You are too optimistic."
The generals below saw Ye Faguang speak and hurriedly shut up, listening to Ye Faguang's lesson.
"I just looked at the enemy's position. With the bunkers as points and the trenches as lines, this area is completely connected. Even if the bunkers are destroyed, they can still rely on trenches to resist, and they are layered with several layers.
If we attack rashly, we may suffer heavy losses."
"What does the commander mean, what should we do?"
"I don't have any other good ideas. Let's blast him with cannons for a while and then we'll see what happens."
Early on the morning of the second day, behind the Second Army position, the artillery position a few kilometers away began to get busy early.
There are now hundreds of artillery pieces concentrated here, which can be said to be the essence of the Second Army.
As the cannons slowly raised their muzzles one after another, the soldiers behind also opened the cannon doors and stuffed various types of shells into the cannons.
The commander next to him waved his flag, and the cannons let out deafening roars one after another, and then a ball of fire erupted from the muzzle, flying like the Qing army's position in the distance.
After flying for several kilometers, these artillery shells quickly hit Yuan Shikai's position.
This turned Yuan Shikai's position upside down. The soldiers in the trenches did not expect that the enemy would launch an attack at this time. Therefore, they had just finished breakfast and were chatting lazily. Unexpectedly, they were hit by overwhelming artillery shells.
submerged.
Yuan Shikai's soldiers suffered like this for more than 20 minutes, and the bombardment finally ended.
At this time, the scouts observing on the top of the mountain were carefully judging the results of this shelling with binoculars.
After reading the results, the observer was a little surprised. It turned out that although the position had been beaten to pieces, many bunkers serving as fulcrums were still intact.
The news quickly reached Ye Faguang's headquarters.
Ye Faguang was also surprised after listening to the report. He only thought about the opponent. Although there were reinforced concrete bunkers, the number of heavy artillery on his side was very large. He should be able to break through the opponent's defense. He did not expect that the first round of shelling was so...
It was so violent that it still couldn't shake the opponent's fulcrum.
Ye Faguang thought for a while, immediately approved some clothes, and took his staff to the slope to personally observe the situation of the opponent's position.
This sight really surprised him. Sure enough, although the trenches in the position were messed up, the bunkers were still intact.
This made Ye Faguang a little unsure. The caliber of the artillery under his command had reached 155 mm, and it was still unable to break through the opponent's fortress. This made him a little at a loss.
At this time, Yuan Shikai, after the shelling on Ye Faguang's side stopped, immediately rushed to the forward position with his people. After this inspection, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that although part of the trenches had been destroyed, many of the bunkers were destroyed.
Safe and sound.
Seeing this situation, the advisor of the Will Country next to Yuan Shikai was finally satisfied.
"Yuan, how about our German design?"
What Yuan Shikai could say now was to keep nodding.
It turns out that the positions in Jinan this time were all designed and constructed by the Germans, and the steel bars and cement were imported from the German country.
Just because of this position, the Qing Dynasty could be said to have spent a lot of money. Even the Empress Dowager Cixi gritted her teeth and donated 50,000 taels of silver.
However, it seems that Yuan Shikai's effect is still very good now. The opponent's indiscriminate bombing did not fundamentally shake his position, which gave him the confidence to continue to compete with the enemy.
However, although the bunkers are fine, the trenches have suffered a lot of damage. It seems that after today's battle, we can't rest at night. We need to carry out emergency repairs on the trenches, otherwise there will be a big mess tomorrow just for the bunkers.
Besides, the bombardment on Ye Faguang's side did not achieve the intended effect. They returned to the headquarters to discuss for a while and decided to use infantry and artillery coordination to cover the infantry with fierce bombardment to quickly approach the enemy's fortress, break up these bunkers, and then attack them one by one from the rear.
Defeat these bunkers.
Du Jie, commander of the 4th Division in the first round of the attack, looked at the bunkers on the opposite side through the telescope again, his brows furrowed like a mountain.
He participated in the war against the Japanese state. Compared with now, the defense of the Japanese state and the Qing army on the opposite side are simply incomparable.
He actually doesn't want the soldiers to charge now, because he knows that once he launches an attack, his side will suffer heavy losses, but the order from the military headquarters has come, and now he can't help it.
He Xingquan, the chief of staff of the 4th Division who was next to Du Jie, thought for a while and then suggested: "Master, according to the current situation, our frontal attack will cause heavy losses. It is better to feign a frontal attack and then make detours from both wings."
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Du Jie nodded after hearing this. This is also a way. "Order the 1st Regiment to feint attack from the front and ask the division's artillery to reinforce it to minimize the casualties of the 1st Regiment."
"Let the 2nd Regiment make a detour from the left flank. If it breaks through the enemy's position, it must quickly penetrate."
Following Du Jie's order, the Fourth Regiment immediately became busy. The 1st Regiment, as the main attacker, quickly entered the forward position and waited for the artillery to start shelling before launching the attack.
After several minutes of preparation, the artillery of the 4th Division finally aimed at Yuan Shikai's position and launched bursts of artillery fire.
As the artillery began to attack, the 1st Regiment also began to dispatch a battalion to conduct a tentative attack.
This force quickly approached Yuan Shikai's position in a skirmish line.
Yuan Shikai was not a vegetarian either. After knowing that the enemy's artillery could not do anything to his bunkers, they became bold.
After discovering that the enemy had begun to charge, the various machine guns in these bunkers began to fire violently.
At this time, the soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the 4th Division who launched the attack were so heavy with bullets that they could not even lift their heads, let alone attack forward.
Du Jie's face turned pale when he saw this situation behind the position.
According to the intelligence sent before, it is impossible for the Qing army to have such fierce firepower, but now looking at the machine guns on the position, there are at least hundreds of them.
With such fierce firepower, coupled with the defense of bunkers, not only one division, but two or three divisions on our side could not get close to the opponent's position.
The only hope now is that the 2nd Regiment detours from the flank. If it can get behind the enemy and carry out an assault and division at its rear, it may be possible to achieve some results.
But the reality made him very disappointed. When the 2nd Regiment launched an attack from the left wing, it was hit by fierce machine gun fire, which immediately stunned the 2nd Regiment.
In fact, it is Yuan Shikai who is ostensibly commanding the operations, but in fact, the person actually responsible for the defense of the position is Backhouse, the consultant of the Will.
This man had rich combat experience and soon discovered that the enemy might attack from the flank, so he immediately arranged for Duan Zhigui to lead a group of troops to ambush here, and as expected, the 2nd Regiment was caught off guard.
Immediately afterwards, the only artillery pieces in Yuan Shikai's army also began to bombard the 2nd Regiment.
Faced with this situation, Erdu also knew that if he attacked forcefully, he would not only be unable to break through the enemy's position, but would also suffer heavy losses, so he retreated resolutely after losing some people.
At this point, Du Jie's first attack was completely bankrupt.
After this test, Du Jie also knew that the defense on the other side was very strict. It was impossible for a division to break through the opponent's attack with her, so he stopped showing off and went directly to the army headquarters.
, reported the situation on the front line to their army commander Ye Faguang.
Ye Faguang also had a headache after getting the news. Although he could order the soldiers to attack desperately, he might be able to break through the opponent's reinforced concrete position with the advantage of numbers, but he would lose a lot of people in this way.
Shuai will never let him go.
Ye Faguang thought for a while and thought it would be better to report to Liu Zhi.
So that night, Ye Faguang took a few guards and rode horses to personally go to Liu Zhi's headquarters in the rear.
When he arrived at the headquarters, Liu Zhi was marking the positions of both sides on the big map, thinking about where to break through the enemy's defenses.
It turns out that Liu Zhi has not been idle these days. The news sent back by the scouts he sent gave Liu Zhi a bit of a headache.
The current perimeter of Jinan is no longer an ordinary defensive position. It is completely a fortress. If I break through forcefully, I will lose not a few people in the end.
It was at this time that Ye Faguang came to his headquarters and reported to him the situation on the front line in the past few days.
After Liu Zhi listened to Ye Faguang's report, he found that the situation was very similar to what he had learned during this period. It seemed that it was indeed difficult to make a head-on breakthrough.
If these generals in the Qing Dynasty encountered the opponent's fortress, they would have no choice but to attack it, but Liu Zhi is a cyborg! He has a broad vision that is not available in this era, and he will immediately attack it.
The battle has shifted from pure land attack to air-ground coordination.