In his previous life, Goxinga was very fond of weapons, but because of the national situation, he had seen very few real guys. If you remove the batch he made himself, as well as the batch that can be seen and touched in the museum, there will be few left. But there was one large weapon, which he had seen the real guy and experienced firsthand, and that was the T34-85 tank.

In a special period, fishermen on the coast of Liaoning used T34-85 tanks with disassembled weapon systems to drag fishing nets. After spending fifty yuan, Goxinga had the privilege of experiencing what it was like to be a tank. The T34-85 tank, which has achieved great success, is inexpensive, durable, and very easy to produce in large quantities, and is definitely the first choice of the army powers.

However, although the T34 is good, it also has its shortcomings, such as its low body and unsuitable for covering infantry. The Manchurian Army does not need to fight tank battles yet, they simply have no opponents in the field of combat vehicles. The main enemy of the tank is the infantry, and the main target of attack is also the trenches and enemy fortresses, and the main task is also to cover the infantry advance. These tactical tasks, the T34-85 can also be completed, but it doesn't seem to be so good, and the machine gun fire on the T34 seems to be a little less.

In addition to the T34, Goxinga also has a few acquaintances in the field of tanks, and the towering Tiger tank is not needed for the time being, and the all-rounder Sherman tank is very suitable. The main body of T34-85 does not move, but Sherman's bit of it should still be absorbed. After some hard work, Guo Xing'a made a T34 and Sherman hybrid child came out, which was not very good-looking, but the performance parameters were very good. After the test and production of 100 projects in North Manchuria, it was officially named the Northeast Tiger Type 1 Tank, and Mu Shun brought 42 of this Tiger Type 1 tank this time.

"Steel Behemoth, Move the Turret!" Enyuan and the others were so frightened by the tanks that drove onto the beach that they couldn't even speak, this thing looks very fun, but it's really scary to move around.

"How? This thing is shocking! "There was a man jumping out of the first tank, dressed as a tanker, but there were no fewer stars on the collar badge.

"General Zhang!" Enyuan and the others exclaimed, and the person who jumped down was Zhang Fuquan, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army of Guoxing'a.

"Hmmm! Thank you for your hard work! Attack early tomorrow morning, I'll take the lead! No one will rob me! "Fuquan is giggling, he has been engaged in weapon experiments recently, and it is difficult to breathe.

Fuquan wants to take the lead, naturally it is the meaning of the general Guo Xing'a, who eats too much will go to rob him. As soon as Fu Quan'er appeared, everything was understood. After Mu Shun returned to active duty, he did not lead the troops to fight, nor did he defend one side, but kept messing with his old partner Feng Sheng'a. Everyone thought that Guo Xing'a was not optimistic about Mu Shun's ability after all, but now he finally had an answer, Mu Shun would be in charge of the new type of troops in the future, and he had always been familiar with his future equipment. Fuquan has nothing to analyze, what new equipment there is in Northern Manchuria, it must be the first trial of the Guards Brigade, and Fuquan is here to experiment with new equipment. Guo Xing'a has to try and try the weapons he copied intact, and a hybrid like Tiger Yi has to experiment again and again, and actual combat is definitely the best way to test weapons.

The Manchurian army landed in a big way, and Saigo Takamori didn't have time to worry about any new equipment, he didn't know and wasn't interested. Saigo Takamori's most urgent thing now is to seize the time to let the Japanese army fortify, and the other is to ask Tokugawa Yoshiki and Sanjo Minomi and others to quickly persuade Emperor Meiji to move. The fall of Tokyo was only a matter of time, the Japanese army could only delay the Manchurian army, and it was impossible to defeat them.

Saigo Takamori did not have time to persuade Emperor Moji, who was to devote all his energy to the Edo defense line. Although Meiji is young, he is a stubborn guy to the extreme, and trying to convince Meiji is a very time-consuming matter, and Saigo Takamori must buy enough time for the nobles of Fumitomi. If the time goes back to a few years ago, Saigo Takamori has no confidence, but now he is still very confident, and the Manchurians do not have half a month, and they do not want to break through his defense.

Since the last defeat, Japan has been thrifty in food and clothing, and all the purpose is to reorganize the army and run the army. Not only did the navy buy four ironclad giants from the British, but the army also developed greatly. Today, Japan has a new army of 500,000 samurai, which is not only well-trained, but also equipped with the latest British guns and artillery. Today's Japanese army, even if it fights against the world's first-class strong army, has three points of confidence.

Saigo Takamori also knew that the upgrading of the Japanese army was still a bit inadequate in front of the Manchurian Army, and there was still a huge gap in weapons and tactics, but he still had a magic weapon to win. Saigo Takamori has always disapproved of the Japanese army's initiative to attack, because after studying the recent examples of wars in various countries around the world, he found that in modern wars, the attacking side often suffers a lot, while the defending side has a great advantage. Japan was still too weak in the face of North Manchuria, and attacking was definitely the way to death, and only defense was the best way to seek peace by war. And in the last war with the Manchurians, Saigo found an excellent weapon for defense - a trench.

The last time the Japanese army attacked the trenches of the Manchurian Army, but they paid an extremely painful price, Saigo naturally realized the horror of the trenches. When occupying the Manchurian trenches, he instructed his students to carefully study the Manchurian trenches and make detailed records of all aspects. After the war, Saigo also made an analysis that even if the Manchurian army wanted to attack their own trenches, the difficulty would be very huge, and they would inevitably have to pay great casualties, and it would take a long time. After this war, Saigo Takamori rushed to the castle town of Tokyo without saying a word, moved the local people, and then led the soldiers to dig trenches and repair bunkers. Although the Edo trench defense line that Saigo Takamori painstakingly constructed was not comparable to the Manchurian trench in terms of materials, it was also quite impressive. Moreover, the combination of the trench and the building of the castle town made the defense line not only stable with the trench, but also with the complexity of street fighting, which was no worse than the Manchurian formation.

Saigo Takamori invested 150,000 troops in six divisions on the Edo defense line in order to buy time for Emperor Meiji to move. Saigo was confident that even if the Manchurian army had absolute superiority in equipment, his Edo defense line would be able to consume 30,000 Manchurian troops and delay them for more than fifteen days. Moreover, Saigo had a similar line of defense built in Kyoto as the last barrier against Japan, believing that if the Edo line hurt the Manchurians, the Kyoto line would keep Japan alive.

Saigo Takamori was busy on the defensive line for a day, and he knew that the Manchurian Army would not be delaying this time, and when the morning sun rose, the Manchurian Army would inevitably attack. Sure enough, when there was a red halo in the eastern sky, there were some abnormal noises in the sound of the waves. Saigo Takamori knew that what should have come was still coming, and that his Edo defense line had to face a real test today. Tokyo's castle town is bound to be red again with blood today, and Saigo Takamori hopes that this time it will no longer be just the blood of samurai.

When nothing could be seen in the "boom ......" telescope, the shells of the naval guns were already overwhelmingly exhaled. The intensive shelling of large-caliber naval guns lasted for an hour and a half, and the Japanese tried their best to hide themselves in bunkers, but the effect was still not very good. An hour and a half of heavy shelling destroyed half of the Japanese fortresses, and those who managed to hold on were also damaged. The trenches were also bombed beyond recognition, all the communication trenches were formed, and many places were buried in the rubble. Saigo's planned street fighting barrier combined with the trenches is now all reduced to rubble, and their most important role is to provide rubble for the burial of the trenches. The Japanese tried their best to rescue and brought back many wounded from the rubble, but the total casualties of the Japanese army still reached more than 35,000.

"Bastard!" Saigo's headquarters was also hit twice, and half of it was blown up, and although Saigo was not injured, he was also covered in dust, and he could only vent his dissatisfaction with cursing.

The Japanese army also imported a large number of artillery pieces from Britain, but the caliber and range were not on the table, and they were completely powerless to resist the naval guns of the Manchurian Army. Moreover, the infantry of the Manchurian Army had not yet come up, and Saigo Takamori did not dare to let these premature outcrops, once these artillery pieces were exposed, the infantry of the follow-up Japanese army would no longer have any support. Heavy firepower clashes do not exist, and the Japanese are in this round, and there is no chance to intervene at all.

"Enemy attack!" While rescuing the wounded, sorting out ammunition, and celebrating the rest of their lives, the Japanese army was preparing to welcome the arrival of the Manchurian Army. But the crowd once again resounded nervous shouts, most of the Japanese soldiers looked at the opposite side nervously and confusedly, and only a few looked up at the sky. This is also a habitual action of Manchurian artillery bombardment, and between two rounds of strikes, there will be a deliberate time for the enemy to relax.

"Air strike!" Someone finally shouted something that everyone could understand, but it was a little late. Seven formations of nearly 300 airships had already arrived at the top of the Edo Line, and they opened the hatch and poured more than 2,000 tons of ammunition of various types on the Japanese troops. Once again, the dust obscured everything, and the deafening explosions drowned out all the sounds, and too many Japanese soldiers had no time to return to the tunnels where they were hiding, and had to use their bodies to face the power of the bombs.

After the air raids, the Edo Defense Line, which had been in good shape, was completely in ruins, and there was no longer the momentum of a strong army. Although he lost no less than 30,000 men in the air raids, and lost a small half of his troops without even seeing the enemy, Saigo did not give up hope, and he believed that his line could still be held. But after waiting for a long time, when the earth was trembling a little, Saigo still did not find the figure of the Manchurian army charging.

Finally, some very unfamiliar roar came from the direction of the enemy, and dozens of mecha monsters that the Japanese had never seen before appeared in the morning sun, and the Manchurian army that Saigo had been waiting for for a long time was behind these giant beasts.