The Rise of the Empire

"The essence of a defensive war is to kill and injure the opponent's vital forces in large quantities. Simply defending does not mean victory in the war! But if the opponent's personnel can be seriously injured, then the defensive war must be victorious." - Baron Schmidt

The artillery positions of the Japanese can survive until the official start of the battle is not because the German army is out of reach, nor does it mean that the German artillery skills are not enough to support long-distance artillery battles. Of course, it is even more impossible to be the kindness of Baron Schmidt. Every Japanese has a reward on his head. Woolen cloth! No one will have trouble with money!

The fundamental reason is that Schmidt is afraid of scaring the Japanese! He had to wait until the Japanese army launched an attack to instantly destroy the opponent's artillery position, and then rely on short-range machine guns and mortars, and long-range 75MM rapid-fire guns to cleanly harvest the opponent! So he needs to endure now!

The 12 Japanese field cannons finally showed their power. Accompanied by intermittent cannons, a few sparse shells passed through the air, and then fell near the city wall. The Japanese field cannons still used maroon gunpowder. It is low, and the rate of fire is too slow. It is very weak against the reinforced gun nests. Of course, this is after the hit. From the current point of view, Japan can hardly hit these gun nests deployed behind the raised part of the city wall. However, the trajectory of the Japanese shells is still too flat.

The signal of the Japanese infantry's attack sounded the death knell of the artillery. When the Japanese army attacked under the cover of artillery fire like a tide, the rapid-fire guns deployed near the city wall finally showed their power! Accompanied by a muffled sound, an orange flame spewed out from the muzzle, the barrel quickly retreated, and then quickly reset under the action of the gun mount, the tail of the gun opened, and a brass shell case was thrown out, and then a gunner put A 75MM shell is fed into the barrel, then locked and activated!

There are only 6 artillery pieces, but the projection volume easily overwhelms the Oshima Brigade with 12 artillery pieces. In the first few minutes of each artillery, the average rate of fire reached 8 rounds per minute! The howling shells streaked across the air, and a few seconds later, the Japanese artillery positions in the distance were shrouded in flames and smoke. Violent explosions continued to come from the target area. Because of the distance measurement in advance, the accuracy of the first round of shooting was good. The shells were almost evenly scattered in the target area, and a large number of equipment and personnel were scattered in a very short period of time. Shrapnel and fire kills!

When the firepower reaches a certain level, the time and ammunition needed to destroy a position that lacks shelter can be calculated mathematically. An artillery battery of the Blue Legion will tilt the deadly bullet rain on the target like a machine. Above the head, the cannons were blown to pieces with dense shrapnel, and the soldiers were swept down in pieces. Flames and gunpowder smoke, heralding death, rose behind the positions.

Flames and gunpowder smoke on the rear position shrouded the minds of the attacking Japanese army like a cloud. At this time, about half of the Japanese army had rushed to a position less than 300 meters away from the target. Under the coercion of the officers and surrounded by their colleagues, the Japanese launched the first wave of shock to the battlefield! A large number of soldiers began to sprint, while some soldiers picked up their rifles and started shooting!

With a creak, a Japanese soldier felt as if he had stepped on something under his feet, and when he raised his foot in surprise, a death scythe composed of hundreds of steel balls passed under his feet. The poor guy's lower body was completely shattered! Then passed through the broken body of the soldier, thinking about the Japanese army who was caught off guard and flew away!

In an instant, several huge gaps appeared in the front of the Japanese army that was rushing forward like waves, and the anti-infantry directional mines deployed at the front caused the Japanese to suffer in the first place! The remaining people stepped on the incomplete limbs of their comrades on the ground and continued to advance. They howled to suppress the fear in their hearts, and rushed towards the opponent like wild beasts, hoping to overwhelm the opponent with the bayonet in their hands!

"The Japanese? They rushed like a herd of wild boars into the hunter's trap, they tried to overwhelm the steel with their valor,

But it turns out that they are useless except to pile up a pile of corpses in front of our position and send us a large amount of silver! "After the war, a German soldier commented on the Japanese army.

Japan, who first entered the battlefield, was not as brave as later generations! After being swept away by the sudden steel storm, morale was greatly reduced, and many people were ready to retreat. The rest of the people continued to attack, but facing the beaten Japanese army, the Germans didn't even use machine guns. At a distance of 200 meters, the powerful rate of fire of the new semi-automatic rifle easily overwhelmed the opponent!

The German shooter with the new KA92 semi-automatic rifle in his hand can shoot enough bullets in the 200-meter rifle confrontation to block the opponent's attack. With 20 rounds of large magazines, the firepower of the KA92 rifle can almost match 6 single Send a rifle! Many Japanese soldiers were knocked down by the dense fire net just as they sprang out of the gunpowder smoke in disgrace! One soldier even emptied a large clip in half a minute!

The Japanese's first attack lasted only 20 minutes before being repelled. The speed of victory exceeded Schmidt's expectations. However, this round of attack killed only more than 300 Japanese troops. For the important artillery company, such a loss is not too great for the Oshima Brigade!

"This... is simply unimaginable!" Looking at the artillery positions that had been plowed by shells, Yoshima Oshima's face was gloomy. The morale and pride of soldiers accumulated in successive victories in the Korean War, He was beaten back to his original form in an instant, and the Japanese, who thought they were good at fighting, were as powerless as children in front of the real number one military power. The sharpest fangs were removed by the opponent after only the first tentative attack, and they were gone. Artillery, how can we fight this battle? Let the soldiers charge against the opponent's artillery?

And just when Oshima was a little hesitant, the two Japanese troops from the center and the left also arrived at Jiulian City. Gui Taro faced Nie Shicheng, Liu Shengxiu and the Russian army in the north of Jiulian City, while Lijian Shangwen and Oshima Yoshima's troops faced each other. For the German army under Jiulian City, the entire Japanese army was like a huge pliers, clamping the walnut of Jiulian City! The real battle is about to begin!

"My artillery will be responsible for providing fire cover, but in order to prevent being destroyed by the opponent's artillery, we must put the artillery behind. The key to really solving the opponent is the infantry! I believe that if we attack with two brigades of elite infantry, we can always Let's tear apart the opponent's line of defense?" Lijian Shangwen said to Oshima Yoshimasa after learning about the situation, the two sides agreed that one brigade would have two brigades at a time, and then they would attack in turn!

"General Guitaro's third division will attack the Qing army. If there is no accident, their flanks will collapse soon, and then cooperate with us to take Jiulian City!" When he heard that Guitaro was in place, Yoshimasa Oshima finally Gather up your courage and prepare to launch a decisive offensive against Jiulian City!

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