The Manchurian Army was counterattacking with full firepower, but the Japanese army suddenly stopped in the rain of bullets, which was completely an act of seeking death. The soldiers on the front line understood why they stopped, but Saigo Takamori in the rear did not know, so he could only keep giving orders to urge the forward forward to advance and increase the strength of the charging troops. Saigo's heart felt that there were nothing more than some antlers, trenches and other obstacles ahead, and the soldiers would definitely be able to rush through them as long as they were brave enough, but unfortunately the soldiers were in front of them with something they had never seen before.

The Manchurian Army has a very large proportion of light and heavy chicken guns, not only is each platoon equipped with heavy chicken guns, each squad is equipped with light chicken guns, and each regiment also has an independent heavy gun company, and the firepower density even exceeds that of the German army during World War II in history. The Japanese soldiers charged in the face of such terrifying firepower, of course, no matter what was in front of them, they would cross over regardless of it. Although they had never seen barbed wire, they thought it was probably a deer antler or something, and instinctively wanted to climb over it.

However, when the palms of the Japanese soldiers grasped the barbed wire, most of them retracted their hands in pain, and the barbs were densely covered with barbs, and they were so nervous and forceful that they all punctured their palms. It was such a momentary pause that gave the Manchurian army in the opposite trench an opportunity to target them, and the fiery snake swept by, and they were instantly turned into corpses.

There were also a few people who had a firm grip on the barbed wire, but in the eyes of their companions, they became very strange. Instead of pulling or climbing over the barbed wire, these men gradually collapsed as if they had been drained of their strength. His companions, who did not know the reason, reached out and pulled them, but as soon as they touched them, they all touched them one by one, and then they gradually became paralyzed. The grassroots officers on the front line thought that these people were too frightened to move because of timidity, so they took it upon themselves to pull them, or ordered other soldiers to pull them, and then more people fell into it. There was even a situation where a squad, a squadron, was all glued together. The Manchurian Army did not leave them a chance to study, as long as the Japanese troops stood still, they were all beaten into pieces of meat by bullets like a torrential rain.

Li Zhenhe, Liao Xing'e, Wang Yaojiang, you can know their origins by looking at their names, these people from the old teaching team can be regarded as Guoxing's personal disciples. In the long educational life, Guo Xinga taught them a lot of knowledge, and when there were no classes to tell, Guo Xinga would tell them some stories from World War I and World War II. There is a lot of knowledge contained in these stories, and some things are even more precious than the courses of Lu University. It is for these reasons that when they go to war, they usually use something that is beyond the perception of the times.

The position constructed by Li Zhenhe and others was a standard World War I trench, and in terms of the arrangement of machine gun fire, many elements of the ancient Chinese formation were also incorporated. The firepower between the various positions is staggered, so that there are no dead ends, and with the advance of the Japanese army, the Japanese army can be attacked on all sides at any time. The same is true for the deployment of barbed wire, but they incorporate some technological elements, such as electricity, which the Japanese do not know very well. Because they had to prepare for a long-term hold, they brought small thermal power generation equipment from the mainland, which was used daily for water supply and drainage, lighting, and communications, and electrified the barbed wire fence during wartime. Of course, because this small boiler is not small but has limited power, they can't electrify all the barbed wire, only selectively connect some of them. However, in line with the soldiers' strategy of "the real is false, and the virtual is real", most of the barbed wire fences are fine, and some of them are touched, which makes it easier for the Japanese army to find their own death.

"Retreat, retreat!" Looking at the Japanese army in the telescope as if they were dying, Saigo hurriedly gave the order to retreat.

The Japanese army swarmed in like a tidal wave, and then retreated like a tidal wave, and the Manchurian army, with few casualties, only felt that it was an ordinary morning, but Saigo felt like he had spent the longest morning of his life. In just over half an hour of fighting, the Japanese army lost more than 8,000 casualties and more than 5,000 wounded.

"This is the power of the world's first-class powerhouse!" Saigo looked at the staggering troops and looked at the enemy in the distance, and let out a heartfelt sigh. Japan, which can only produce rice and silk cloth, is so weak that it is like a baby trying to challenge a sumo wrestler, and it is simply killing itself.

"Although the enemy's firepower is fierce, our army still has a great advantage in strength, and as long as we can get close to hand-to-hand combat, there is still hope to fulfill His Majesty's order." Yeli Qiutong, who had just personally commanded the front-line battle, returned to Xixiang's side with a body of dust.

"Why did it stop so close to the positions of the Manchurian Army?" Saigo didn't want to criticize his favorite general, the enemy was too strong, and he was not to blame for the defeat.

"The enemy has set up a large number of obstacles at a distance of about 30 to 200 meters from their position, some nets made of barbed wire, which are covered with barbs and are extremely difficult to climb." Yeli Qiutong deserves to be one of the people at the end of the shogunate, and as a major general, he not only went to the front line in person, but also rushed to the front and personally checked the situation of the barbed wire.

"A wire net?" Saigo has really seen iron wire, but in this era when iron wire is not very popular, this thing is still very expensive. Saigo was very surprised, and at the same time he wondered why the Manchurian army was willing to spend a lot of money to get these barbed wire.

"Yes, these barbed wires are very difficult to climb over, and like thorny vines, they can get tangled up if you are not careful." Yeli Qiutong saw several soldiers climb over the first barbed wire, and then after landing on the ground, they were entangled, unable to break free in panic, and finally died under the guns of the Manchurian army.

"We have to find a way to cut these iron mesh!" Saigo is a smart person who thought of a way at once.

"Some of them are barbed wire and weird, if you touch them, they don't stick, and then people go limp and die, and if other people touch them, the same happens." On the way back, Yeli Qiutong had already asked the soldiers on the front line, and learned all kinds of situations on the front line.

"How is this good, is it feasible to blow up these iron nets with artillery?" Saigo didn't know what the Manchurian army had done, but he didn't bother and directly began to think of some ways not to touch the barbed wire.

"It's very difficult! One of the artillery of our army has a limited range, which cannot be compared with the enemy's artillery at all, without the cover of the charging soldiers, and if it gets close, it is likely to be destroyed by the enemy. Second, the density of these barbed wires is very large, and the dispersion is particularly wide, and it is not easy to blow them up with artillery alone. "Noli Qiutong calculated that if he wanted to blow up the barbed wire completely, he estimated that he would have to use all the shells in Japan.

"Is there no way?" Saigo did not believe that the positions of the Manchurian army were invulnerable.

Saigo did not know that in a sense, the positions of the Manchurian Army were really invulnerable. Because this positional deployment was not researched by the Manchurian Army itself, but copied by the golden finger of Guoxing Akai, it is a classic tempered by countless battles and the blood of millions of people on the European battlefield. The Manchurian Army also has an absolute advantage in firepower and equipment, and it is not easy for the Japanese army to gnaw this bone and a liberal arts student.

"There aren't many barbed wires that can cause strange phenomena, most of them are just ordinary barbed wire, and we should break through with infantry, even if we encounter some strange barbed wire, we just need to bypass them." Yeli Qiutong felt that there was still hope for a breakthrough, and their defeat this time was mainly because they were not prepared for barbed wire at all.

"After the offensive began, the artillery was given the opportunity to move forward, not to rush to bombard the enemy's positions, but to strike at these barbed wire first, and try to provide some help to the soldiers. At the same time, some iron plates and shields and the like were requisitioned to provide some portable cover for the front-line assault soldiers, so that they would not be beaten passively when they stopped in front of the barbed wire. Do your best to shoot at the enemy, suppress their firepower, and buy time to break through the barbed wire. "Saigo's deployment is very thorough, and he wants to use everything he can use.

"Also, our charging forces this time are too concentrated, and many soldiers standing behind them can't do anything but send them to death, so we can't let the soldiers die in vain. Therefore, the next time we attack, we must deploy troops in batches, and when the front-line troops break the barbed wire, the follow-up troops will try to lie down and hide in the rear to preserve their own strength. Yeli Qiutong received the order, and just about to leave, Saigo thought of some questions again. He is also a rare talent, and he came up with a way to arrange troops in echelons without a teacher.

Saigo's deployment was reasonable, but he had been delayed in preparing a lot of things, and the emperor in Tokyo couldn't wait. And because of the quarrel just now, coupled with the instigation of someone, the emperor began to think that Saigo was deliberately delaying the war and intending to blackmail the imperial court. Therefore, as soon as Saigo's preparations were completed, he received an edict from the emperor, asking him to return to the imperial palace to discuss the important tasks of military aircraft and hand over the command of the front line to Masajiro Omura. The instigator was none other than Masajiro Omura, the god of war of the Nagasu Domain.

According to the development of history, Omura Masamura should have been assassinated by the warriors of the Shi clan a year ago, but because of the powerful North Manchurian turmoil, Omura had a lot of affairs to worry about, so he actually hid and was still active in the Japanese military circles. The Changzhou Domain and the Satsuma Domain have always been feuding, and if it weren't for Sakamoto Ryoma to match, the two sides would not have come together at all. Although they have completed the great cause of the curtain together, the private struggle between the two sides has never stopped. Seeing that Saigo Takamori and Meiji had a conflict, Masajiro Omura seized the time to make up for Saigo, thus avoiding the command of the front-line troops.

Of course, Masajiro Omura, who took away Saigo, was eager to make contributions, but his god of war was not called in vain, he did not overturn Saigo's decision, but perfectly inherited the achievements left by Saigo. After listening to the relevant reports, Omura combined his previous experience with the Northern Manchurian Army and launched a new offensive.

"These Japanese are really dead-eyed! It's all like this, and it's still rushing, I'm really not afraid of death! Li Zhenhe looked at the Japanese army that was attacking again like a tide of water and sighed heartily.