In the early morning of the second day, as soon as it got light, Lu Chun ordered the artillery to start shelling.
On the other side, the Rakshasa soldiers were eating, and a cannonball came right in front of them, adding another dish to them.
Immediately blow up these Rakshasa people and turn them into disgrace.
On the side of the Hunan Army, the soldiers were in the trenches carrying meals sent from the rear. While eating, they watched the Rakshasa soldiers in front scurrying around amid the artillery fire.
After the artillery fire ended, the soldiers of the Japanese Second Division had been waiting at the front for a long time.
Lu Chun did not rush to launch an attack. Instead, after the 2nd Division entered war preparations, he transferred 200 individual cloud explosive bombs from the warehouse.
Since the last time Liu Hai attacked the Japanese country and used cloud explosive bombs for individual soldiers, this weapon has been rapidly popularized among Liu Hai's army.
Because all the generals fell in love with this powerful and lightweight weapon.
Currently, Lu Chun's army has 2,000 such cloud explosive bombs.
However, Lu Chun was still very stingy. He had kept these cloud explosion bombs in his hand for such a long time of fighting.
But today, Lu Chun decided to break through several enemy lines of defense in one fell swoop, so he gritted his teeth and transferred 300 cloud explosive bombs from the warehouse.
As these three hundred cloud bombs were delivered to the hands of the Japanese army, the Japanese soldiers who had suffered from these cloud bombs were very surprised.
Because they have personal experience with cloud bombs, it is also a joy for these soldiers who have been devastated by cloud bombs to be able to overweight this weapon to cause harm to their enemies.
After making preparations for the attack, according to the procedure, Lu Chun still spoke first with the artillery.
Just like yesterday, hundreds of large-caliber artillery pieces, mixed with light artillery, began to launch a fierce bombardment on the second line of defense of the Rakshasa Kingdom.
As the bombardment became more and more fierce, the various fortresses and bunkers in the second line of defense of the Rakshasa Kingdom were destroyed one by one, and the trenches were also beaten to pieces.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Lu Chun immediately ordered someone to blow the charge horn.
Yamaguchi Soomi had received the order, and he immediately raised his sword and shouted: "Warriors of the Japanese Empire, it's time for you to serve the commander-in-chief. As long as you conquer the fortress in front, you will have a lot of land."
The soldiers of the 2nd Division were encouraged by Yamaguchi Motoomi, and their morale immediately soared.
These Japanese soldiers were all civilians, and their families were very poor. If they could get a piece of land during the battle, they would be able to maintain food and clothing for their families for decades. For these lower-class Japanese soldiers, it would be like nothing.
Therefore, they saw that the Rakshasa soldiers in front of them were not human beings at all, but individual military achievements and pieces of land.
Then Yamaguchi Motoomi led the soldiers to jump out of the trench and quickly charged towards the second line of defense.
On the opposite side, the soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom saw the Qing soldiers on the opposite side launching a charge, and the officers sensed this and began firing forward with all kinds of weapons in front of their positions.
However, their shooting revealed their target.
The Hunan Army artillery behind the position began to cover and bombard the attacking Japanese soldiers.
Therefore, these Rakshasa soldiers who had just emerged were hit by cannons and suffered heavy losses.
This is also the consequence of losing artillery resources in a land war.
Therefore, by the time the Japanese soldiers rushed one or two hundred meters in front of the second line of defense, the Rakshasa soldiers on the opposite side had already lost about several thousand people.
At this point, the Japanese soldiers were also on their knees, holding rifles and shooting at each other.
It wasn't that the Japanese soldiers didn't continue the attack, but that Yamaguchi Soomi had already had the idea that this distance was exactly the best attack distance for individual cloud bombs.
Therefore, at this distance, Yamaguchi Motoomi ordered the soldiers to temporarily stop advancing, and immediately 50 soldiers equipped with individual cloud bombs crawled to the front. After taking aim, they pulled the trigger and headed towards the Rakshasa Kingdom.
A cloud bomb was fired.
People here in the Rakshasa Kingdom didn't understand the horror of this weapon at all. When they heard the whistling sound, they thought it was just an ordinary artillery shell, so many people just lay down in the trenches to avoid the bullets.
As a result, what fell on the position was not a violent explosion, but a very dull rumble.
Then a mushroom cloud rose, and the shock wave spread in all directions. Then, uh, the air within a few hundred meters was suddenly evacuated.
The Rakshasa soldiers within this range immediately felt that they could not breathe smoothly. Each one of them grabbed their necks with their hands and opened their mouths wide, desperately trying to take a breath of air.
But their idea was too extravagant, and now there was no air for them to breathe.
Therefore, large numbers of Rakshasa soldiers suffocated to death in front of their positions.
For two malicious minutes after the cloud bomb exploded, the Japanese soldiers lay there, staring closely at the Russian position to observe what was going on.
Yamaguchi Soomi saw that the time was almost up, waved his hand, and the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground jumped up one by one with a roar, and charged towards the Rakshasa Kingdom's position.
As a result, they arrived at the Rakshasa Kingdom's position and did not receive any counterattack. What came into the sight of the Japanese soldiers were the corpses of Russian soldiers with ferocious expressions.
The Japanese soldiers did not have any sympathy for these people. They pounced on the corpses one by one. It was not that they had any problem with corpse abuse.
But it had been announced before the war that all the seizures this time would belong to individuals, so these Japanese soldiers were looking forward to making a fortune from the Russians.
However, just as these Japanese people indulged themselves, Yamaguchi Soomi came up from behind the position.
When Yamaguchi Motoomi saw that his soldiers were in a mess, he immediately became angry. He drew his pistol and shot a soldier who was fighting for the spoils to death.
"Baga, stop it. Do you still have the dignity of a Japanese soldier? I will keep these things until the war is over and they will be distributed by the division and regiment headquarters."
It can be said that the Japanese people do have a strong sense of team spirit. They were just blinded by finances just now. Now that they have received an order from above, they immediately dropped what they were holding and picked up their rifles again.
After the chaos ended, soldiers from the 4th Division behind them also caught up and began to cooperate with the 2nd Division to clear the second line of defense.
But then they encountered a difficult situation.
Although the power of individual soldier's cloud explosive bombs is amazing, it still cannot completely cover the defensive position of more than ten kilometers.
In places that were not hit by cloud bombs, many Rakshasa soldiers survived.
When these Rakshasa soldiers faced a desperate situation, they showed amazing fighting power.
They even used a small number but a large number to beat the veterans of the Fourth Division into panic.
Yamaguchi Motoomi was really helpless when he saw how incompetent the people of the 4th Division were.
The 4th Division can be considered the main force, and the weapons they are equipped with are no worse than those of the 2nd Division.
Even this division was financially supported by big businessmen, who used a large amount of money to purchase some 155mm howitzers from Liu Hai to supplement them.
This was the only division in the Japanese army equipped with this new type of large-caliber artillery.
It stands to reason that their combat effectiveness should be second to none, but as a result, their secrets were exposed once they started fighting, and they couldn't even defeat the defeated Rakshasa Kingdom's remnants.
In the end, Yamaguchi Motoomi had no choice but to wipe the butt of these people.
With the reinforcement of soldiers from the Second Division, the battle line was finally stabilized. In the brutal trench warfare, soldiers from both sides fought repeatedly.
The Rakshasa people also began to launch a counterattack, preparing to retake the second line of defense.
However, there are now more than 40,000 Japanese people on the second line of defense.
Although the soldiers of the Fourth Division were ineffective offensively, they were still competent defensively.
With excellent weapons and intensive artillery fire, the soldiers of the Fourth Division, as the main force of defense, actually blocked three Russian counterattacks.
During this period of time, the 2nd Division led by Yamaguchi Motoomi barely managed to clear the entire second line of defense.
General Dmitry watched the second line of defense fall behind his position, and it can be said that he was very anxious.
Because the admiral knew that he had no way out.
Because the scouts had returned this morning and reported that no traces of fighting had been found within a distance of nearly 100 kilometers north of Changchun.
This shows that it was not the troops transporting supplies that were attacked halfway, but that Harbin may have been captured by the enemy.
Although General Dmitry did not know how Harbin was lost as the rear, he knew that his 200,000 troops were already in the most danger.
Now in front of this general, the only way out is to fight to the death, severely damage the Qing troops in front of him, and then look for an opportunity to retreat north.
Therefore, after several counterattacks failed, General Dmitry also pulled up 50 75mm howitzers that were very well hidden.
With the continuous bombardment of artillery fire, the soldiers of the Japanese 4th Division on the second line of defense finally wavered.
It's okay for these people to fight against the wind, but if they are allowed to work hard, they will have too many tricks.
Lu Chun had stayed in Japan for several years. He knew the situation of each division in Japan very well. When the 4th Division faced such a fierce bombardment, he knew that if reinforcements were not sent, the 4th Division might be destroyed.
About to collapse.
However, judging from the current situation, Lu Chun did not want to send out his direct troops yet, so he could only use artillery fire to bombard the Rakshasa Kingdom's artillery positions.
Facing the 155mm caliber heavy artillery, the 75mm caliber howitzer is far behind in terms of range and power.
Therefore, the last 50 75mm-caliber howitzers of the Rakshasa Kingdom had just fired seven or eight rounds of shells when they were targeted by Lu Chun's artillery.
With the roar of the 155mm-caliber heavy artillery, one shell after another went straight to the Russian artillery position as if it had eyes.
It was too late for the Rakshasa State's artillery to move. These soldiers and their cannons soon disappeared in the flames and explosions.