Gao Jianguo smiled, then raised his hand and waved it gently. A group of Far Eastern troops standing behind him raised the Type 28 rifles in their hands one after another, aiming at the dozen or so daimyo lords of Kyushu.

At this time, even if those Kyushu daimyo think about it with their legs, they know what the Far East means, and this is a special way to kill them all. A group of Kyushu daimyo pointed at Gao Jianguo and scolded, pulled out their katana and rushed towards Gao Jianguo like crazy.

A dense burst of gunfire rang out, smashing a dozen daimyo who rushed towards them into a sieve. Shimazu Tadashi looked at this scene with a pale face, and the cold sweat on his back flowed down.

"Bang...... Bang ......"

A few more gunshots woke Shimazu from his confusion. It turned out that several Far Eastern soldiers were mending their guns next to the pile of corpses, and even if they died, they would shoot a few more times, and stab them with bayonets a few times.

Gao Jianguo picked up the flask and poured a full glass of wine for Shimazu Tadashi. Then he picked up his glass and said with a smile, "Shimazu-kun, I toast you." ”

Shimazu Tadashi hurriedly picked up the wine glass, but his hands kept shaking, and the wine in the wine glass spilled on the table.

"General...... No...... I don't know ......" he stumbled for a long time, but didn't say anything.

Gao Jianguo raised his head and poured the wine in the wine glass into his mouth, and then with a "bang", he was slammed on the table.

Then he smiled and said, "I promised you to help you Satsuma Domain eradicate all the daimyo lords in Japan." I have ordered my troops to sweep through Kyushu and Shikoku, and all the daimyo lords and their families, as well as their retainers and samurai, will be killed, leaving no one behind. Congratulations, there will be no daimyo lords in the Far East and Shikoku in the future. We in the Far East will help you in the future. Slaughter the daimyo lord of Honshu Island. ”

I don't know why, Shimazu Tadashi listened to Gao Jianguo's words, and even his palms were full of cold sweat. Far East killed all the daimyo of Kyushu in front of him, which was tantamount to knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger for him.

At this time, Lin Hua walked in from outside. nodded at Gao Jianguo, and said in a deep voice: "Commander, everything has been dealt with." ”

Shimazu Tadashi listened to Lin Hua's words, his eyes suddenly froze, he knew very well in his heart that those retainers and samurai of the Daimyo of Kyushu were also fierce and unlucky.

Gao Jianguo poured another glass of wine, and then said to Shimazu Tadashi with a smile: "If you want to achieve great things, don't stick to small things." Wait until we clean up Japan. From now on, the whole of Japan will be the domain of your Shimazu clan. ”

After listening to Gao Jianguo's words, it stands to reason that Shimazu Tadashi should be excited, but at this moment, he was more afraid, and an inexplicable uneasiness rose in his heart, as if he had a feeling of impending a catastrophe.

The next night, there was still more than a day before the time of the general attack, and the units in the Japanese theater were ready for battle. are quietly waiting for the arrival of the general attack.

Hu Guosheng, commander of the Southern Army, accompanied Gao Jianguo, Lin Hua and others to stand at the forefront. Gao Jianguo was using a Soviet-style artillery mirror to observe the defense line of the Tokugawa shogunate army in front.

The Military Commission of the Japanese campaign has mothballed the UAZ-469 jeep and UAZ-452 light off-road vehicles. and a large number of Soviet-style engineering vehicles, all of which were emptied, and the company's Kamath cars were also requisitioned. Together with the ten BTR-60 armored transport vehicles and 10 units, a mechanized cluster in the theater of operations was formed, which strengthened the ground assault forces of the various corps.

The artillery of the Japanese Theater Command was even more powerful, in order to maximize the lethality of artillery fire. The company reactivated the long-mothballed D-30 122-mm howitzers, 2b14-type 82-mm mortars and 2b11 120-mm mortars and equipped them with artillery units of various regiments.

The Air Force Department mobilized four brigades, nearly 60 Type 35 and Type 35A four-engine airships, and four squadrons of more than 40 delta-wing aircraft to participate in the Japanese campaign. Provide all-round air support for the various corps.

The southern army also had two attack directions, land and water, and the land attack direction was the Tokugawa shogunate's mountainous line in the Hyogo area between Bansu and Settsu, where the Tokugawa shogunate established a line of great depth, especially in the Hyogozu area, where tens of thousands of elites were gathered and a large number of civil fortifications were established.

The direction of the waterway attack is the coastal area near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka. In order to prevent the Far East from using the Yodogawa waterway to attack the city of Osaka, the Tokugawa shogunate blocked the Yodogawa waterway by means of shipwrecks and iron cables. And in the coastal areas, several deep defensive lines were established in an attempt to block the landing of the Far Eastern Army.

In fact, the reason why the Military Commission delayed the general attack for more than two months was that it hoped that the Tokugawa Shogunate would gather the elite in the area of Osaka and Kyoto, so that the Far Eastern Army could be wiped out in a centralized manner, and it would be too troublesome to scatter and look for them.

The Far Eastern Army allowed them to build fortifications on a large scale and ignored them because the Japanese civil engineering fortifications of this era were no different from paper paste in the face of the artillery fire of the Far Eastern Army. A large number of Tokugawa shogunate troops stayed in such civil fortifications, and the death rate of battle damage was much higher than that in the field.

Gao Jianguo left the artillery mirror, turned his head and said to Lin Hua and Hu Guosheng behind him: "To be honest, this defense line built by the Tokugawa shogunate, if it is based on the standards of this era, the ordinary army really can't break through. In the past few hundred years of the Warring States period of small Japan, the war has really not been fought in vain, and the defense line is still somewhat arranged. It took only a few months for the Tokugawa shogunate to build this line of defense, which was a miracle in this era.

It's a pity that they were unlucky and met us in the Far East. The Tokugawa shogunate deployed a large number of elite heavy troops in the Harima and Settsu lines, as well as in the coastal areas of Osaka Castle. In addition, according to the Japanese Ministry of Intelligence, they have also built the perimeter of Osaka Castle and Kyoto into an impregnable wall. Hehe...... More than 100,000 heavy soldiers, plus reinforcements sent by various daimyos, and mobilized Japanese civilians, a total of hundreds of thousands.

Lao Hu, you Southern Army must not be polite, you must do your best to kill and injure the living forces of the Tokugawa Shogunate Army to the greatest extent, and strive to keep them all on this defensive line. By the way, what's the wind like in Japan these days? ”

Hu Guosheng shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Japan belongs to the East Asian monsoon climate zone, and the northwest wind prevails in winter, according to the observation and calculation of these days, the wind direction has basically not changed much. ”

Gao Jianguo smiled and said: "Then expand the scale and scope of the launch, and throw special weapons into Osaka City, it's all at this time, what kind of humane ideas do you have to talk about with the little devils." (To be continued......)

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