The Shogunate troops had arrived at the front three days earlier in the afternoon, and they were the first to attack Medellín. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

And it was 5,000 people, and all of them went to the western outskirts of Medellín.

The battle began the day after they arrived, and had been going on for two full days, and the Spanish colonial army was no longer the original 5,000 Japanese shogunate troops, but a large force of more than 30,000.

Some of the newly arrived troops simply set up their tents, dug some fortifications, and hurriedly launched the attack. This kind of performance seems a bit impatient, but it also shows the strong confidence of the attacking troops. Anyway, there are mountains to rely on, camping on the back of the mountains, whether it is offensive or defensive, you can rely on the mountains and mountains as cover, which greatly saves the time of the new troops.

The artillery fire became more and more intense, from the dozen or so hexagonal guns at the beginning to the current fifty or sixty, and there were more than 100 smoothbore guns. It was not easy to pull these cannons from the seaside through the valleys of the mountains and all the way to Medellín. All the cannons were bombarding violently, and the Spaniards who were squatting in the pit were all gray and couldn't raise their heads.

Although the power of the hexagonal cannon is far inferior to that of rockets. But today's rockets also need to rely on hexagonal guns to exert their power, even if the current battlefield is mountainous and hilly.

I can't afford to hurt my short legs.

Now the battles of the war have long been dominated by hexagonal guns, supplemented by smoothbore guns, mixed rifled guns, and finally rockets.

After the rockets, there are rocket artillery, mortar artillery and small artillery, combined with grenades and a large number of rifled guns, from far to near, the firepower covers the entire 'battlefield', it can be said that there is no 'blank' place from 2,000 meters away to the front of the trenches.

"Banzai?! These hateful Japanese monkeys! Ignorant fools, Chinese substitutes for the dead! ”

Major General Osiwison was located quite close, on the north side of a hill behind the front line, and he wanted to 'go to the front line' to boost the morale of his soldiers. So much so that now he can clearly hear the shouts of the shogunate army.

In the sturdy and concealed observation post, Osivison had a mocking sneer on the corner of his mouth, holding a telescope and looking at the little Orientals in black military uniforms in the distance, what a short, such a little, hand-to-hand combat, Osivison felt that the Spanish soldiers could beat ten of them one by one!

As a newcomer who had just arrived in the Americas for less than two years, Osivelson had also heard of the fierceness of the Japanese soldiers, but that was only heard. Now that he saw the real person, Osivison could not believe that the short Japanese would be as fierce as the legend said. If only the Chinese were about the same!

But these Japanese are at least very brave and fearless, they can charge desperately in the face of bullets and bullets, and they are the most qualified cannon fodder for the Chinese.

"Poor Japanese, look like children. The Chinese are just using them as cannon fodder. Osivison said sympathetically and gloatingly.

"Your Excellency, the Japanese just look weak, but they are really fierce in actual battle." Osiweson's adjutant hesitated for a moment and whispered in Osivison's ear. Although the Japanese are very low, they are stout and muscular, with thick lower limbs, great strength, and excellent training. Whether it's a thrust or a block, there's a super explosiveness in the arms. In contrast, the tall Spaniards were a little clumsy and, more importantly, not fierce enough.

The adjutant did not really fight the Japanese, but he came into contact with many patriots who had been ripped from the north, and the latter spoke highly of the Japanese soldiers, no worse than the Chinese.

"To suppress a squad of Japanese soldiers, we need to put in at least one battalion!" This is the most common phrase used by patriots who fought brutal guerrilla warfare against the Chinese in the mountains of the north when evaluating Japanese soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.

Moreover, the fighting spirit and courage of the Spanish soldiers are not at all comparable to the Japanese soldiers in the Wehrmacht, or the Japanese soldiers who stand up.

Osiwison's adjutant said the exact opposite of what Osiwison thought, and the former felt that he was doing his duty, but this undoubtedly made Osiwison very unhappy. But it turned out that the latter was right.

When the shogunate soldiers in black uniforms rushed up the hill defended by the Spaniards, supported by strong fire from the rear, a brutal bayonet-to-bayonet hand-to-hand fight began. As a result, Osivelson was surprised to see that the hilltop position garrisoned by two companies of Spanish garrisons fell apart under the onslaught of a company's Japanese soldiers, and they only held out for twenty minutes, and before they could even do so, they fled with their heads in their hands.

It's been more than 30 years since the Stand Up Team.

In the early years of hand-to-hand combat, there were fewer Japanese soldiers who liked to wield katanas, and more Japanese began to practice 'marksmanship' from a young age, rather than slashing people with katana.

Yes, gunmanship. The Japanese called bayonet training 'marksmanship'. More and more Japanese samurai families abandoned the katana and practiced shooting and spearmanship, and this inheritance did not last long according to the development of science and technology in the world, but it really greatly increased the quality of the Japanese army in a short period of time.

"Banzai! The Great Emperor of China ......"

When the horn of the charge sounded, the first officer of the 5th Battalion of the 1st Detachment of the 1st Corps [5,000 Japanese soldiers] in the south, Itakura Katsuaki, was the first to jump out of the trench, and then pointed the katana in his hand straight ahead. Then I saw sixty or seventy small soldiers in black uniforms coming out of the trenches, each with a rifle with a bayonet loaded, shouting and following behind Itakura Katsuhide, under the cover of the cannons, to start a new charge.

At this time, Itakura Katsuaki was no longer the grandson of Katsucho Kura, the main board of the Fukushima Domain, he was just a low-level officer with no weight in the army.

There were many officers in the 5,000-strong Japanese army who came from the Japanese mainland by clipper, because many of the officers in the Advance Brigade and the Security Army were reluctant to return to Japan, the former was likely to have obtained Chinese nationality, and the latter had at least obtained the yellow book. They can fight for China without their lives, but they can't fight for China under the Japanese flag.

Therefore, the Japanese shogunate formed a group of local officers as quickly as possible and sent them to the Americas with bumpy flying scissors warships. Itakura Katsuaki was one of them, and many of them were children of Japanese nobility, including some of the Tokugawa clan.

Itakura Katsuaki's team has already rushed twice today, captured a trench of the Spanish colonial army, and fought two white-knives with the Spaniards twice, which shows that the Spaniards are going to fail. Before, the Japanese could not fill the Spanish defensive positions, but now they can rush forward every time they attack.

Itakura's Katsuaki killed more than 50 Spanish officers and soldiers, 14 of them killed and 20 wounded. But now the third charge is still full of momentum!

"Oh God! How can these damn Japanese fight so well! Why are they so loyal to the Chinese? Osivison finally knew the horror of the Japanese soldiers at this time, and he didn't understand why the Japanese army would fight for the Chinese so hard? He had no idea how strongly the land of Africa had for Japan.

In the past, Japan only threw its own people into India as mercenaries, and they were all grateful to Dade for their permission in this way. And now China wants to find a piece of land in black Africa for them, so that they can be completely free to dominate it. The whole of Japan is boiling.

Therefore, after half an hour of wanton and indiscriminate bombardment, the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and the black brigade of Japanese soldiers poured up like a tide. The hand of the Spanish army major general who watched it was almost out of the water. These Japanese soldiers are completely different from the Indians in his cognition, don't look at them are all yellow, and they are not tall, but the Japanese are so brave, and the brave ones are a little unusual.

Attack after attack, braving ferocious artillery fire, braving dense bullets, and charging tirelessly again and again. They dare to pull a grenade and die with their enemies when they are wounded, which is really crazy to the extreme!

Moreover, their individual quality is also high, whether it is shooting or stabbing, they are much better than regular Spanish soldiers, and those colonial troops are not opponents.

The most terrible thing is that these people actually dared to charge when their own artillery fired shells, and the artillery would not stop firing until they rushed to a distance of 100 meters in front of the Spanish position, and it seemed that they did not care about accidental injuries at all. As soon as the artillery stopped, their firing and the rockets they carried during the charge rained down, so that the Spanish could not even lift their heads.

"Boom, boom, boom......" The Spaniards' rockets were also returning fire with all their might. Thick gunpowder smoke continued to rise from the battlefield.

But the Spaniards' positions continued to be lost, their lines were constantly retreating, and the result lasted for a long time, that is, the entire defense line outside the city collapsed.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Major General, get out of here and move to Medellín."

The adjutant who was not liked by Osivison suggested it. And at this time, a major also ran up to Osivison out of breath. Shouted loudly to evacuate. It's no longer safe here, and the entire outer city defense line is about to collapse.

In less than three days, they had lost more than one and a half thousand men, and the defensive line outside the city, especially on the western flank, could no longer continue.

"What? Can't hold it so soon? Osiveson was shocked, sweat streaming down his forehead.

Know that Medellín is a valley city, it is located in the Aburra Valley, in the western foothills of the Central Cordillera, on the banks of the Medellín River. The whole city is because of the topography - the valley area, the hills and hills outside, if a shell, the valley plain inside, narrow from east to west, long from north to south. The Medellín River crosses from the center of the city.

Chinese troops landed from the west coast and appeared directly on the west side of Medellín, if this western suburb defense line with several hills as a cover can only last three days, then how many days can Medellín City be held without this shell?

Knowing that the depth of things in Medellín City is really short, Osiveson intuitively feels unreliable.

After the Chinese gained the strategic initiative on the western side, they could go south along the edge of Medellín City, and once the Medellín River was cut off by the Chinese and Medellín City could no longer hold it, he could only retreat to the border fortress to the north with the remnants of the army. This is self-defeating!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

There was another sound of rocket explosions, mixed with thrilling grenade throwing contests, whether it was the defenders on the hilltop or the attacking troops under the mountainside, fireballs continued to rise......