Oshima Naoshige saw that only two people were slightly injured and one person died, but he didn't care. He ordered the troops to move forward. However, soon after, another landmine was stepped on, and then four or five landmines were hit by Japanese soldiers running around.
There was a sound of footsteps, and several Japanese soldiers were sent to the sky.
Although these mines were not very powerful and the casualties were within a tolerable range, the damage to morale was huge. These Japanese soldiers did not know whether their next step would be blown up into the sky, and they were so scared that they did not dare to move forward.
Oshima Nao Shige angrily whipped several soldiers who refused to move forward, but still could not get the troops to move. In the end, he had to form a death squad and use wooden sticks to explore the way ahead.
With the explosion of sporadic landmines, the Japanese 3rd Division finally reached the foot of Ryugyong Castle. Naoshima Oshima looked around and saw the dense trenches and barbed wire fences near Ryugyong Castle, which scared him to take a breath. Such a position
How could it be captured by his 20,000 men? He had no choice but to camp on the spot and at the same time ask the messengers to go back and report to the commander Shanxian Youpeng.
Yamagata Aritomo is an old soldier. After receiving the report from Oshima Naoshige, he felt that this battle was very difficult, but he believed that this must be the Hanping army gathering all the resistance forces here. As long as he can break through here, the Han Dynasty
Pingguo could no longer organize a decent resistance, so except for leaving a regiment of the 15th Division to defend Hanking, the entire army moved towards Liujing.
Arriving outside Ryugyong City, veteran soldiers like Shanxian Youto were also surprised, but he was still calm and immediately asked the 2nd Brigade of the 15th Division to launch a tentative attack. These Japanese soldiers
According to the linear attack array learned in the infantry drill, they slowly advanced forward in a neat array.
The defense forces hiding in the trenches did not fight back, but waited quietly. When the Japanese soldiers of the second brigade reached the barbed wire fence, they did not know how to climb over the stinging wires, so they had to start cutting with bayonets.
But the barbed wire fence is very hard and cannot be cut off at once.
At this moment, the soldiers of the 10th Brigade of the 4th Division of the 1st Defense Force stationed at the first line of defense received the firing order. They immediately picked up the newly replaced Type 91 rifles and played for the opponent.
The bell of death. The dense rain of bullets left the Japanese soldiers who were standing straight, loading and shooting with no way to hide. They were quickly defeated. These weak-willed reserve soldiers quickly began to flee after suffering heavy casualties.
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Yamagata Aritomo looked at the trenches where the dense rain of bullets was shooting out in astonishment. Common sense told him that it was very difficult to load a flintlock gun in such a small space as the trenches, not to mention such intensive firepower that tens of thousands of people would be shooting at the same time.
, at this time, he had already vaguely felt that the army on the opposite side did not look like the fat army of the Han Ping Kingdom.
Shanxian Yutomo did not launch another attack, but ordered all artillery to be concentrated, and at the same time ordered some soldiers to go to the woods to cut wood. The Japanese army did not have many artillery. The 100,000-strong army only had 50 artillery pieces in total, and these artillery pieces were all made of bronze.
The front-loaded cannon has a short range and low power, but it is much better than the defense force having no artillery at all. At least they will not suffer retaliatory shelling.
The Japanese artillery bombardment began quickly, and fifty artillery pieces fired at the forward positions of the Defense Forces at a very fast speed. The trenches of the Defense Forces were all designed by Fang Xiaoyu, who gathered the skills of various trenches in history.
Advantages: The designed trenches not only have drainage ditches, longitudinal traffic trenches, and anti-blast holes
, dressing station, and even reserved machine gun positions and anti-aircraft gun emplacements. Of course, these places are not used yet, but they are just familiar with in advance, so as not to be overwhelmed with new equipment in the future. Seeing the Japanese army start shelling, the Chinese leader defended
The soldiers of the army hid in the artillery holes, leaving only a few observers in the trenches.
The shelling lasted for a full three hours. Although the firing rate of the front-loaded artillery was not high, thousands of artillery shells had already fallen on the forward positions of the defense forces. Shanxian Youpeng looked at the silent position on the opposite side and clicked with satisfaction.
nod.
He waved to the division commanders behind him and said: "The Third Division and the Fifteenth Division charge together." Naoshima Oshima stood at attention and immediately went to make arrangements. The commander of the Fifteenth Division, Matsushima Hisahide, was timid.
asked: "Commander, is it possible to charge like this? How do we get past those spiked wires?"
Youpeng from Shanxian County said: "Didn't I have someone cut down a lot of wood? Bring all of you with you, spread the wood on the wire and let's pass?" Matsushima Jiuxiu's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked someone to move the wood.
Yamagata Yutomo looked at Matsushima Jiuhide's retreating back and sighed. These reservists were simply captured strong men. They had just learned how to shoot and had no military quality at all. Letting such people charge was no different than cannon fodder.
Shanxian Youpeng looked at the strict formation of the third division and nodded. This is a well-trained army. Unfortunately, there are only four divisions in the entire Japanese state. Moreover, the weapons of these troops cannot be replaced due to insufficient funds.
I heard that the Lanfang Empire's army has changed to breech-loading guns, but I don't know how powerful such weapons are.
Oshima Naoshige would not let his elite troops take the lead, so the soldiers of the 3rd Division were behind, and the soldiers of the 15th Division carrying wood were pushed in front. The charging team advanced cautiously, but
There was no attack in the trench on the opposite side, except
The mines that the Japanese soldiers occasionally stepped on made no sound on the entire battlefield. The soldiers of the 10th Brigade lay in the trenches, aiming at the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side, anxiously waiting for the order to shoot. Gao Quanfei, the commander of the 10th Brigade, chewed
A piece of grass root looked contemptuously at the Japanese soldiers who were getting closer and closer.
The Japanese soldiers had already approached the first barbed wire fence. The Japanese soldiers who came to the barbed wire fence began to put the wood on the barbed wire fence in a hurry. Gao Quanfei smiled and said: "These boys really have a way to come up with such a trick.
Idea." The calm Gao Quanfei still did not order to shoot. The Japanese soldiers of the 15th Division were surprised and climbed over the first barbed wire fence and moved forward, and then the 3rd Division also began to climb over.
However, a trench five meters wide and five meters deep appeared in front of the 15th Division. This sudden situation made the Japanese soldiers panic. While they were in a dilemma, Gao Quanfei waved his hand, and intensive gunfire rang out again.
The Japanese soldiers were in confusion, and many of them turned around and ran away, scattering most of the soldiers of the Third Division who had just climbed over the barbed wire fence behind them, making these well-trained soldiers temporarily lose their ability to resist. But when they returned
When they were in front of the barbed wire fence, they couldn't go back. The Japanese soldiers were busy pulling the wood over, laying it out, and then turning it back.