The great powers imagined that the Sino-Japanese War would be dragged into endless protracted wars and wars of attrition would be best to trigger an unprecedentedly fanatical invasion of Japan, and then a vigorous national fight with their support could be launched. With the usual madness of the Japanese, it may not necessarily lead to the out of control of the war.

There are only two possible results that can be caused by this. One is that China has consumed huge manpower, material resources and financial resources, and has achieved a tragic victory despite being seriously lagging behind the country's industrialization process. Then it has to face endless Japanese riots and resistance. The second is that it may be that it weighs the pros and cons of external warfare and internal unity, and China has no choice but to withdraw from Japan. This time, it has caused a great blow to the reputation of the revolutionary military government led by Yang Hao, and can be used to clamor for the counterattack of the gentry and bureaucratic class of China who are extremely dissatisfied with its revolution.

No matter which result is, as long as the Japanese firmly confront each other, the Chinese will inevitably be dragged into the whirlpool of war.

But this requires a prerequisite, that is, China's out of control over this war.

The foreigners played the game with a small plan, and Yang Hao didn't guess it thoroughly at the beginning, but he had the experience of a pioneer in the plane and learned an extremely practical move from it--"You hit yours, I hit mine."

He had sufficient reasons to initiate the Punishment War against Japan and used this reason to convince the vast majority of Chinese people. With the shameless response of the Japanese and the assassination of Li Hongzhang, the Chinese people's disgust and even hatred for the Japanese have reached a peak. In this case, few people have spoken out about sending troops to Japan.

In the formulation of specific strategies and tactics for Japanese operations, he clearly determined that he would hone the core purpose of the troops through actual combat. That is, on the basis of the controllable scale of war, he would pull the country's ever-expanding new military forces in batches and orderly to train them. All forces had practical experience. He had seen blood, killed people, heard the sound of gunfire, and the new recruits became veterans, and their spiritual and will combat experience was improved, but they would not panic due to sudden large-scale operations.

As for pulling the Northern Dynasty Volunteers as tutors, it was to effectively combine the relationship between the two sides through war and cultivate a firm and brainwashed servant army. The Beibangzi was completely tied to the Chinese chariot to ensure that the vassal supported by Yang Hao would not change his mind.

In this world, China paid a huge sacrifice to help Beibangzi save half of its territory. In the later decades, several generations of Golden Sun have always been vigilant and even hostile to China. This kind of thing must not happen again.

The battles carried out on this basis must be limited to protecting the Guanmen Strait as the core, using narrow regional strategic defense against the direction of Honshu, appropriate expansion of the Kyushu Island battlefield centered on Kitakyushu, and calmly advancing and retreating with the naval force.

The revolutionary army troops who came to fight were brought to Japan as a regiment after basic training in the new camp, reorganized and tempered the troops, entered the new district to suppress bandits, participated in land reform and received a complete transformation. After a series of hardships, they were brought to Japan as a regiment to participate in overseas operations.

The time for each regiment to participate in the war is limited to about half a year. At least six infantry regiments and two artillery regiments are invested in each batch. At the same time, at least one regiment or more old troops are guided and escorted from the side at any time. In addition, the Northern Dynasties Volunteers have 20,000 troops, and the entire combat force in Japan is limited to between 40,000 and 50,000.

Such a number of troops does not require too much domestic development forces. At most, the troops only take a little time to transfer inland. With the advancement of the revolutionary zone, the transfer of large troops is solved through newly built railways or water shipping, which is time-consuming and low-cost, and will not cause local disturbances.

All troops boarded the ship from the nearby port in batches, and the weapons supplies they needed could be collected directly from the dock warehouse. Among those who can use the special function of "Yanhuang Ding", most of the military supplies and even weapons and ammunition that were customized in advance in this world were thrown over time and space in advance, saving even transportation costs.

Of course, the foreigners could not have imagined that Yang Hao could cheat so much. They watched China more and more troops join the combat, and a large number of warships were restrained to patrol the waterways day and night, and they were very happy, as if the ideal result in the plan would soon appear.

Of course, all of that is just their delusion.

On the battlefield in the northern Xiaguan, two main infantry regiments, one artillery regiment and one Northern Dynasty Volunteer Army, formed a temporary mixed combat group along the Muwuchuan under the integration of a guidance regiment.

Lin Yongfang, who was born in the Second Division of the Revolutionary Army and the Sixth Regiment, and Li Guangyi, political commissar, served as the commander and political commissar of the North Wing Front Army. As the chief of staff of the General Command, Shi Jianfei also served as the essential commander-in-chief of the overseas combat troops. Yang Hao, the nominal commander-in-chief, was actually just remote control and would basically not go to the front line in person.

The front position of Baishan where the Japanese Third Division launched an attack was concentrated with a regiment of Northern Dynasties volunteers, and the front command of the guiding regiment was also set up here.

As soon as the cannon sounded, Lin Yongfang and others responded immediately and observed the situation of the Japanese attack from a high point. When they saw that the other party had launched an unprecedented fierce artillery attack, they couldn't help but be overjoyed - it seemed that warlike people were all this kind of virtue.

This time, with the support of the great powers, the Japanese army was really poor and turned into nouveau riche, and couldn't wait to show off. As many as forty or fifty artillery artillery pieces broke out from the mountain positions in the rear, and smashed hundreds of shells against the top of the mountain in front into the valley.

Lin Yongfang distinguished the ballistic curve and shouted in surprise: "It's not bad! The Japanese have suffered a loss and have experienced it. Their gun positions were placed on the diagonal valley and the back slope of the hilltop, gathering from three angles to the middle river valley, but they can avoid being hit from the front by our gunfire. Hehe, it's a bit interesting!"

Political Commissar Li Guangyi pinched the pen and made records, frowned and said, "It would be strange if we fought for three years. Judging from its shooting frequency and explosion power, it should be that the great powers have digested and absorbed our infantry artillery technology and introduced new things to the next level. There are at least a dozen heavy artillery more than 100mm fire here, which puts a lot of pressure on the frontier troops!"

Lin Yongfang waved his hand indifferently: "It's okay, as long as it's not a frontal cannon attack with attack shells, it's not enough to destroy our permanent fortifications. Besides, the recruits have been dragged to Japan from afar. If they don't ease with the baptism of violent artillery fire, how can they be tempered into steel? We have to thank the Japanese all over the world for their cooperation!"

Li Guangyi raised his eyebrows and remained cautiously optimistic about this. He could feel that this Japanese attack seemed to be more determined and brave than before. That means that the enemy must have sufficient preparations beyond the estimate and must be guarded.

After roughly recording, he immediately turned around and passed the results to various troops. He personally brought people to cheer for the recruits to calm the tension and panic.

The Japanese army's artillery attack this time was extremely successful! The dense shells fired from three angles formed dense explosion zones with extremely small scattered on the front of the position at a depth of one kilometer. Except for a few falling in the river and some of them were blocked by the hills along the road, most of the joint explosion points detonated more than half of the mines buried in the sand!

The roar of the grenade explosion echoed and mixed in a kilometer-wide valley, forming a continuous rumble of thunder and a roaring shock wave. The air wave burned the oxygen and caused a local sudden heat up. So much water vapor evaporated on the surface of the river!

The flames rose and the water vapor filled the water. The strong wind in the canyon swept, mixing into a disorderly and fierce explosion tide, rolling across the position along the direction of the explosion! Wherever it passed, the black and red soil mixed with countless Japanese flesh and blood were scorched, and the remaining plants were torn apart again, evaporated and burned, and then ignited, and then caught in a hurricane, spreading to the fortifications on the front of Baishan Mountain with a rumbling roar!

Lin Yongfang stood in the anti-cannon observation post on the top of the mountain, and his body was tilted backwards by the heat waves coming from his face. The turbid smoke in front of him made his eyes turn black. The camouflaged turf covered with thick sandbags in front was actually scorched a lot. A suffocation of severe hypoxia grabbed his breath!

"Damn it! It's quite awesome!"

He cursed and shouted, and he took the soaked towel handed by the guard and applied it to his mouth and nose, closed his eyes and avoided the smoke from the smoke, and immediately ordered: "Immediately let the platoon leaders of each battalion command, everyone should wear gas masks. The Japanese are so unauthorized, I smell a little wrong!"

All revolutionary troops knew during training that chemical weapons would inevitably attack in future wars. The invisible terrible means of killing people is even more indefensible than real guns and live ammunition.

Although Japan in this era did not have the ability to make poison gas bombs and chlorine gas was invented for more than 100 years, there was no intelligence support for industrial production and application in war. However, Yang Hao was not afraid to guess the Japanese and foreigners with the most despicable ideas. They used all means to achieve their goals, shouting about civilization, and attacking them worse than anyone else! Once they thought of this thing, they might not be secretly applied to actual combat.

Therefore, it is necessary for each combat force to have a pig's mouth gas mask in front of you.

In this attack, the Japanese army had not used chemical weapons, but they received suggestions from British experts that in this specific battlefield environment, the release of a large amount of explosives at one time would burn clean oxygen in a short time, and at the same time create an extremely high temperature airflow to impact the mountain defense line. In this way, even if the defenders have good enough fortifications, they will definitely be seriously disturbed by breathing, vision, and weaken their combat effectiveness.

If it further causes a fire, it can cause greater damage. At least the rolling smoke will definitely hinder the defenders' sight for a long time, which will help the offensive troops to cross the dangerous buffer zone in time and break into the distance between short troops.

Lin Yongfang was experienced and thought of various possibilities. While ordering the frontier troops to use gas masks to ensure breathing, they also contacted the artillery in the rear: "Hurry up and find out the Japanese's artillery position and smash them all!"

The hot air balloon observation post floating in the sky behind had already responded, and the Japanese artillery position was judged by the rising smoke and dust to report it to the artillery regiment. Not long after, a sudden whistling sounded over Baishan, and 122mm and 152mm grenades flew past the low altitude and smashed hard towards the target!

A shocking loud noise erupted immediately! Between the narrow valleys, large swaths of smoke and clouds were like volcanoes rushing straight into the sky! The explosion of large-caliber artillery shells formed fireballs with a diameter of dozens of meters. The manic shock waves kept chopping down all vegetation, and countless broken rocks and trees rushed and sprinkled, turning the hill where the cannon position was located into a hell of death!

In the early morning, the sky was dim, and the light of these explosions was like the scorching sun. The surroundings shone brightly and shining. One explosion after another was like lightning breaking the dark side. The loud noise like muffled thunder made people tremble from the heart!

Colonel Sugimoto was amazed with lingering fear: "What a terrible artillery fire! This should be the army's cannon? It can even launch such a fierce attack. It is worthy of being the Chinese army that can defeat the great powers! Fortunately, our artillery was prepared for a long time, and such artillery should not be able to kill them!"

Staff Kobayashi couldn't hide his jealousy and said with a cold expression: "Aren't the Westerners trying their artillery tactics with our hands? Humph, they also suffered a great loss before."

Although the coalition forces attacked northern Jiangsu in China, although the Eight-Nation Alliance ended with the annihilation of the entire Eight-Nation Alliance, a few noble officers were eventually redeemed. Although the army of the great powers of this era was full of bribery and corruption. Most of the upper-class officers were born into a noble and had weeds, while middle- and lower-class officers spent money to buy positions and were mediocre, and some were always knowledgeable.

For example, after the integration and winning the Franco-Prussian War in the Bismarck era, the German army had unprecedentedly excellent quality and had a group of outstanding talents. They fully realized the strength of the Revolutionary Army from the war, and after returning, they carefully summarized and studied it, and really came up with some possible useful countermeasures.

This time, experts from Krupp Company, staff officers of the German Army, artillery officers participated throughout the process, from the mountain transportation and assembly of artillery positions to the construction and deployment of artillery positions, anti-aircraft camouflage and cover, rapid transfer and re-dispersion in combat, etc., a series of subjects must rely on the combat sacrifices of the Japanese army in the front to achieve their verification and learning summary and test new army artillery.

Although Colonel Sugimoto understood, he was even more helpless. Who made Japan a weak country? If you want to become a member of the great powers, you have to bear the necessary efforts. This process may be greatly painful, but this pain is the necessary price to move towards civilization!

The brand new Krupp mountain cannon was transformed on the basis of its original 77mm field cannon and combined with Chinese spring cannon stands. It is named the 1896 75mm field cannon/mountain cannon. It has 27 times the body tube, fires 6.5kg heavy projectiles, and the cannon weighs 860kg maximum range is 7,600 meters.

The biggest advantage of this artillery is that it can disassemble the barrel, gun mount and wheel into several large pieces, transported through vehicles or pack horses, and assemble and put into battle very quickly when it comes to the battlefield. German finishing is ensured to ensure stable and superior overall performance. The most amazing thing is that the rate of fire actually reaches twelve rounds per minute!

If the Germans hadn't known that China had more advanced army light guns, they would have hidden as secret weapons until the next war broke out.

The second heavy weapon is the 105mm light howitzer in 1896. Although it only has 16 times the body tube, the high and low firing range can reach -10 degrees to +40 degrees. With the new gun mount, it has increased the rate of fire and fires the old 15.8kg sub-packed warhead, which can still reach the maximum range of 7,000 meters. The total weight of the gun is only one ton.

Of course, the Germans also have large caliber guns with longer caliber tubes, higher initial speeds and longer ranges. In the design, it is of course impossible to bring Japan to visit the countries. That will be their secret weapon to win Europe and dominate the whole world!

Just these two main artillery has opened the eyes of observers of the great powers! Military officers from various countries risked their lives to join the frontier artillery positions and personally observed the use of new artillery.

Under the operation and command of the German artillery, after they finished the first round of shells, they dragged the artillery to the next position as quickly as possible. Not long after, revenge artillery fire came in the sky! A fierce explosion broke out violently between the stone walls and canyons of the nearby hills, and large groups of flames carried tens of millions of tons of impact and swept across the area unstoppable! Although the position was cleverly selected, few shells really hit the cannon position, but the shattered stones and stormy shrapnel covered that area countless times!

The German artillery and observers from various countries almost scared their souls! Fortunately, they ran fast. If they were careless, they felt that there was a hillside block on the side and they would not be bombed. The result might be so bad!

They were even more helpless to find that the shells fired from the opposite side were denser, with a larger caliber, and stronger lethality. If they faced the attack head-on, they would have no chance of winning at all!

But this is enough. In the first few months since the war started, Japan has obtained support from large-scale artillery fire. What is even more wonderful is that it has cleared the dangerous positions in front of them. Just as China retaliated against the artillery fire, the Japanese 6th Regiment's swim soldiers had successfully crossed the Muya River. More than a dozen small boats rushed to the shore in a crooked manner. The exhausted soldiers gritted their teeth and lifted the heavy 47mm mortar, stumbled through the craters all over the ground, and advanced toward the front with smoke and dust!

Around them, hundreds of infantry soldiers were wet, and the muddy and water in their shoes kept ringing, but they were extremely determined to tear the oil cloth wrapped in the guns, while their eyes shining brightly along the crater! They don’t have to worry about stepping on landmines, or worry about the ubiquitous cold gun hunting in front. As long as they cross the middle area as fast as possible and reach the foot of the mountain, they will be the glorious moment of their head-on battle with the enemy!

On the front position of Baishan, countless Chinese and Korean soldiers rushed out of caves like tides and scattered into the position, wearing gas masks, and the entire row of assault rifles and light machine guns were covered with mottled trenches like dense forests! (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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