The Rise of the Empire

"Mr. Major, Liu Shengxiu's Ming Army has expressed its willingness to fight side by side with us." When Schmidt made the final adjustments to the combat deployment in the headquarters, Mackensen finally brought good news. The first good news these days!

"There was no fire, right?" Schmidt looked at Mackensen and said with some concern. Before Nie Shicheng went to suppress Liu Shengxiu, Mackensen strongly urged himself to go too. After Schmidt agreed, Mackensen took a group of colleagues from the Death Hussars to suppress. Schmidt was still worried that the two sides would fight, but things seemed to be going well, at least not a few gunshots were heard overnight!

"You think too highly of them. Liu Shengxiu is a coward. We easily controlled him. After promising him to act with us, this guy decisively gave the order to fight. Then we controlled the horses and food. They want Going away is almost the same as courting death, and Nie Shicheng still has some prestige. Finally, he overwhelmed these guys.” I have to say that Mackensen’s methods are still good, knowing that it’s not enough to just force it, and know to control the high-level first and leave him behind. To put it bluntly, Liu Shengxiu cared more about his own safety, and as for his troops, he had to wait in the back!

"The Russian reinforcements will come back soon. If we simply count the strength of the troops, we will not suffer at all. The Qing army has 8,000 people. Even if it is calculated in terms of combat power, it will be doubled. Let's count the combat power of 2,000 people. A regiment of the army and 1,500 cavalry assigned to us, there are at least 4,000 people, plus us, it is enough to fight the Japanese army!" Mackensen is still very confident in this battle, although the Russian army is now The infantry regiment has not come yet....

"This..." When Da Dao Yichang arrived outside Jiulian City, the trenches outside the city wall made Da Dao Yichang's head dizzy! It's not that he has never seen trenches before, but the one in front of him is completely different from what he saw. It spreads out in all directions like a huge spider web centered on Jiulian City. The Qing army usually resists the city, but the one in front of him The German army didn't seem to play their cards according to common sense, and the depth of the entire defense line has been extended outward by more than 800 meters! This immediately increases the pressure on the infantry to charge!

"Or, let's do it according to the script! Let's blast the artillery at the top of the city first!" Although the Japanese army began to learn from France, they still knew how to concentrate their firepower. As a brigade, although it was only a part, it could still concentrate 12 Cannon. According to his thinking, a 2,000-man army does not have independent artillery, at most it is 4 to 6 artillery pieces, and the number of artillery pieces is doubled. Even if the opponent occupies a favorable location and can fight farther, he can win Bar? Moreover, the artillery at that time was all direct fire, and there were very few studies on curved fire. Everyone used artillery as a large rifle. The effective range is the same!

As a result, two full companies with about 12 artillery pieces were launched in front of the Germans. They untied the artillery from the carriage step by step under the watchful eyes of the Germans, and then arranged the artillery positions and placed the artillery in the gun positions. The artillery crew removed the ammunition from the ammunition vehicle, and the commander began to measure the range to prepare for the shelling. The training in Japan was good, and the whole process only lasted about 15 minutes!

"Well, let's fire! Hurry up!" Seeing the Japanese artillery preparing outside the city, Schmidt said with a little pity. In order to defend the city, Schmidt removed all things within a few kilometers that might affect the shooting range, and all terrain was also used as a reference for shelling. As long as they stand at the top of the city and see the Japanese army, the German artillery can clearly know the distance and direction of the opponent! Even school shooting can be saved!

How should I put it in this era, on the eve of the complete dominance of firepower on the battlefield, although there are various types of artillery such as high-explosive bombs, smokeless powder, and some early machine guns, the theory of long-range heavy artillery and indirect shooting has not yet been fully formed. There are not a large number of machine guns and submachine guns, so in some cases in the war, it can be solved by infantry, especially in the relatively backward battlefield of the Far East.

The tactics of the Japanese are not complicated, that is, artillery plus infantry on board, and at most add some flanking tactics. Facing the Qing army, which ran more times than fought, Japan was able to win 70% because the opponent was too weak. , The quality and tactics of the Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War were indeed relatively strong, but now, it can only be described as hehe!

"The details are too bad. It's not as good as His Royal Highness." If Ruprecht was here, Baron Schmidt would not dare to say that! The prince's tactical level at that time was a little bit over the top, but some ideas were really good. After learning Ruprecht's advanced combat posture, Schmidt felt that the Japanese Army's tactics were too rough! To put it bluntly, it is the sound of the artillery, and then the rhythm of the wave....

There is a distance for the infantry to charge, and it is obviously a nonsense rhythm to run for a thousand meters and then fight. The key is to shorten the impact distance as much as possible. But under the current situation, Jiulian City is very exposed, and it is not easy to find shelter. What's more, the Japanese think that they have superior firepower. According to past experience, under normal circumstances, they are ready to harvest as soon as the cannon fires. Under normal circumstances, another nail is driven on the flank, and then the cannon fires to wait for the harvest..... ..

It would be unfair to say that the Japanese still line up and shoot in dense formations, but it is impossible to say how many clever skirmish lines, three-three groups, etc., and the soil work is even more limited, at least not Like the Germans, each person is equipped with an engineer shovel...  

The Japanese artillery is preparing, and the infantry is gradually approaching the German defense line. In this era, besides artillery, there are rifles. There are fewer machine guns than giant pandas, and 80% of them are similar to hand-cranked Gatlings.... So, except for artillery, there are almost no weapons in this era that can threaten the enemy 400 meters away. A rifle that can hit a target 400 meters away is a special shooter, and there is no advanced enough optical sight in this era, let alone The wind is off or something, the distance is all guesswork!

The Japanese began to build the proposed starting position, the forward troops also began to move, and the troops began to be in place one by one, and they waited for the artillery to be ready to start shelling. According to past experience, since it is a siege, let's smash down the city wall first, and then take a look at the situation.

And while the Japanese were busy, the Blue Army was also making final battle preparations. Not to mention the four 75MM rapid-fire guns on the top of the city, they are naturally suppressed from a long distance. The remaining machine guns and mortars have been deployed to the pre-installed machine gun nests and gun nests, and the troops are deployed in machine gun and mortar positions. Although there are not many people, the firepower is indeed strong. Relying on nearly half of the semi-automatic rifles, the melee firepower of the Germans is not comparable to that of the single-loaded rifles of the Japanese.

And in order to make up for the lack of troops, some Russian cavalry were also transferred to infantry, defending some positions under the leadership of the Russian Legion. A big battle is about to break out, and the whole battlefield is filled with a chilling atmosphere!

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