The Rise of the Empire

After rushing out of the blockade area of ​​​​the artillery, they prepared the whole team to attack under the organization of low-level officers!

But at this moment, bursts of slightly long voices came from the air. The speed of these shells was very slow. As long as people looked up, they could see the "strength of the two brigades" falling in the air. It's enough to smooth Jiulian City, right?" Lijian Shangwen said looking at the small city in the distance. Under the cover of a small number of artillery and hand-cranked Gatling machine guns, the two brigades launched a series of attacks, and the personnel in each attack were in two brigades, about 1,500 people!

The six 75MM rapid-fire guns at the rear are constantly spewing bullets, but unlike Mackensen who directly uses the artillery for direct-pointing operations, Schmidt's artillery is deployed at the rear, and then by controlling the delay of the fuze, the shells are in the air. Explosion, this earliest "air bomb" shell is naturally not as powerful as the VT fuze bomb of later generations, but relying on its relatively curved trajectory and super high rate of fire, it still caused great damage to the attacking Japanese army!

Due to terrain constraints, the Japanese army's attack front was relatively narrow. Within a range of about 600 meters close to the position, the attack surface was quickly narrowed, and all artillery locked the strike area here! A round of shells exploded in the air several to tens of meters above the ground, and countless steel balls fell from the air like raindrops. These steel balls formed an oval killing area on the ground. In this area, whether you are standing or Hidden will be pierced by hundreds of steel balls per second!

Looking from a high place, the dense artillery shells raged back and forth in the attack area like a rolling flame storm. Pieces of Japanese troops were swept down in pieces as soon as they entered the starting position, and turned into a pile of minced meat under the violent blow .

The remaining Japanese artillery really wanted to cover their infantry and tried to suppress the artillery at the top of the city, but the super slow rate of fire and the disadvantages of the terrain made their attack futile. position, and then compare the calibrated map to easily measure the distance and the elevation angle of the artillery. After just a few minutes of rapid fire, the opponent's artillery was either destroyed or forced to evacuate!

From the assembly of the Japanese army to the launch of the attack, they will move forward under the rain of bullets every step they take. Once they are driven to the battlefield, they will be attacked no matter whether they advance or retreat. In this case, the survival instinct of the Japanese makes them Forget about the fear for a moment, when most people drop shells, but these guns seem to fire faster than rapid-fire guns! A round of shells soon exploded next to the newly assembled Japanese army. The fragments formed by the forged cast iron projectiles are no less lethal than steel balls. These cheap shrapnel easily blow up half of the Japanese soldiers in a squad, while the rest of the people lie on the ground trembling and let the chief yell and punch. Are not standing up!

But even so, the Japanese attack was still steadily advancing step by step, and the continuous reinforcements from the rear rushed to the opponent's position with the front team engulfed. At a distance of 200 meters to 300 meters, the Japanese army encountered the most severe test!

If Katsura Katsura's troops on the flank encountered sporadic machine gun fire blockade, then in the frontal attack, the Japanese troops of the two brigades faced a compound fire attack from machine guns, mortars and grenades! The ferocious firepower of more than a dozen machine guns caused bloody sprays in the charging Japanese army. Eight 80MM mortars and dozens of grenade projectiles sent a large amount of shrapnel to the top of the Japanese army every minute!

The grouped Japanese troops were firstly taken care of. After a series of grenades fell, a platoon of Japanese troops quickly disappeared into the smoke and flames. Perhaps the number of shrapnel was relatively small, but the impact caused by the super-large charge of mortar grenades was even stronger than that of shrapnel shells. The steel ball is even more terrifying!

The flames and high-pressure air with a breath of death shot at the unprepared Japanese army like an invisible wall. The simple shock wave can penetrate through the clothes and skin and seriously damage the internal organs, while the high-temperature air and picric acid in the smoke burn The poisonous gas after that completely destroyed the lungs of the remaining soldiers! Many Japanese troops were not directly hit by shrapnel.

Even under the impact of the air waves, they still lost their fighting power. They tore their throats frantically, trying to inhale more air, and the scorching air made their lungs hurt even more! Finally fell on foreign land.

When the Japanese army rushed to the last 150 meters distance. Firepower poured in from all directions like a tide, completely blocking the Japanese army, which was about to succeed, in front of the trenches! The dense rain of bullets from all kinds of side attacks and reverse positions easily harvested life, and the semi-automatic rifles fired continuously at the same time. Although they were not as easy to use as submachine guns, these semi-automatic rifles were still sharp weapons in close combat!

Often 3 semi-automatic riflemen can block 2 squads of Japanese soldiers from rushing! The 3 soldiers took turns to shoot, and quickly fired the bullets in the clips. A series of gunshots like popping beans made the last hope of the Japanese army come to naught! Even if some nimble, or lucky enough guys can use bayonets to deal with their opponents, they are quickly sieved by the bullets flying from around them.

"The number of Germans is very small, and the layout of the multi-layer defense line further reduces the density of troops! But their firepower makes up for the disadvantage of numbers! Their firepower in one squad can easily suppress one of our platoons! The bravery and bayonets of the imperial soldiers It is useless under a rifle that can shoot continuously! It is useless except being knocked down by dense bullets. Let the corpses outside the trench pile up higher and higher! The frontal German army invested no more than a thousand troops, but they blocked us Four large-scale attacks by two brigades!"

Lijian Shangwen smelled the strong bloody smell mixed in the gunpowder smoke, looked at the corpses lying on the ground in the distance, and those weapons that were still breathing out flames. He gave in completely! There is no way to fight this battle! If the fight continues, what if the Japanese troops of the two brigades can capture this place? How can a division whose skeleton is directly broken continue to fight? You know, crossing the Yalu River is only the first step! There are many battles ahead!

When it was 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese attack finally stopped, and the blue army as the defender was exhausted from the battle of the day. Baron Schmidt admitted that if he hadn't guarded a supply station, he would have almost With the ammunition wireless hook up, the Japanese army can at least push down the two outer layers of defense, and then launch an attack on the city! During this day, the Blue Army killed and injured more than 300 people, including more than 100 people killed in battle. The casualties paid by the Japanese army on the opposite side were at least 7 times that number!

"At least one brigade of the Japanese army was beaten badly! And tomorrow, we will get a regiment of Russian support! As long as we can hold on for one night, the Japanese army will have no chance!" That night, Mackensen returned to the Headquarters, discuss with Baron Schmidt about the next battle plan.

"Up to 2 days! We must evacuate!" Schmidt's opinion shocked Mackensen and others. Although their own losses were not small, most of them were Qing and Russian troops. Today's battle has collapsed If you lost a Japanese tooth, why did you leave?

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