Among the Japanese command, Kawamura Keiaki's face turned pale, in fact, he noticed it as soon as the artillery in the northwest appeared, and he never thought that the artillery in the northwest would even surpass the American artillery in terms of quality, which was almost impossible.

This time, the Americans spared no effort to support Japan, and the artillery they came out with was definitely the latest product, and they were all the most elite artillery, but they were still not opponents of the northwest, why is this.

He also thought about it before, will the northwest also place some 350 mm artillery in Texas, but that is completely meaningless, and not by the sea, 350 artillery needs to build a fixed artillery position, this point of Texas should not meet the conditions, in order to ensure the suddenness of the attack, the artillery slightly forward, but this forward leaning, so that they completely lost the artillery, looking at the fire from the artillery position, he knew very well that the artillery is finished, even if it can be rescued partially, the rest, It was not enough to provide much support for his attack, and his heart was gloomy for a while.

The failure of the division was a huge blow to morale, and in the midst of the glasses, the Japanese offensive was directly affected, and the Japanese army was attacking, and it was obviously panicked, and even some stagnated.

Kawamura Jingming knows very well that if it goes on like this, it will definitely suffer great damage, at this time, the only thing that can't be is to hesitate, if you don't advance, you will retreat, stay there, and die more ugly, he immediately dispelled these gloom, the war has begun, at least one and a half divisions of the Japanese army have already launched a charge forward, not only the front of the line, but also the defense line on both sides. Let them retreat at this time, it will cost them a lot. Although they lost fire support, they were Japanese soldiers. It is not only with the support of artillery that the enemy can be defeated, in the face of the Russian fortress, he also launched an attack without hesitation and occupied Lushun with blood and fire......

Kawamura Keiaki became firm, ordered the trumpet, the order to launch an attack, and when the trumpet sounded, the Japanese army was originally confused. The forward camp was quickly formed, and the speed of the charge became faster and faster.

Self-defeating, Zheng Chunyun, commander of the 2nd Division, said calmly, there are also military horns in the northwest, but they are rarely used, in today's popularization of radio and wired telephones, using sound as a command signal will expose a lot of problems, and it is easy to let the other party know your intentions. Or use this to stabilize.

Command orders were given over the radio and transmitted to every corner through a dense network of wired telephones, and all the front-line commanders were looking at their watches. After the matchup, there was 30 seconds of preparation time for the Japanese troops at the front. Already less than 550 meters, on the charge. It's very close, but that's the remaining 550 meters. It became a moat.

Thirty seconds later, with the orders of the front-line commanders, the machine guns began to fire. Da Da Da, relaxed, some like the sound of cloth tearing, but on behalf of the scythe of death, the northwest in the arrangement of firepower, did not choose the frontal arrangement, but on both sides of the cross distribution, such a distribution of machine guns, the penetration of firepower is more reasonable, the direction of both sides, bring stronger penetration, reasonable distribution of firepower, for the Japanese army who is still immersed in tactics during the Russo-Japanese War and maintains a group charge, it is a nightmare.

Japan's tactics have always lagged behind this era, in this situation where Britain and France have tried to change, and at some time still use such tactics, the most advanced tactics brought by the northwest from later generations, when they meet them, it is like cutting rice, and the dense crowd in front of them is as if they have been cut by the sickle of death, and they are knocked to the ground one by one, and the speed of killing is particularly fast.

Kawamura Jingming is a very flexible person, seeing that it is not good, he is about to order the charging troops in front of him to retreat, but unfortunately everything is too late, starting from the second-line position, according to the different distances, there are 60-120 mm mortars, 37 battle defense guns, 75 cannons, 108, 120 howitzers and 155 heavy howitzers, these guns are invariably aimed at the front, concentrating another division, more than 2500 guns, which is even more spectacular.

The sound of artillery sounded again, this time, not only the strategic artillery units of the military headquarters, but also the divisional artillery of the 2nd and 3rd divisions, 24 155 and 124 108, and several times 75 artillery and mortars, huge artillery, bringing a covering blow......

The 120 mm heavy mortar, perhaps in terms of range, cannot be compared with the same 100 mm howitzer, but as a close-range firepower, its rate of fire is much larger, when the sound of the heavy mortar sounds, the entire Japanese position, whether it is the front or the rear, is filled with an artillery explosion.

There was the sound of artillery everywhere, the sound of shells falling everywhere, Kawamura Jingming was also completely blinded by the sudden emergency firepower, he watched the soldiers being devoured one by one, even if the order to collect the troops had been issued, but thousands of artillery, large and small, poured countless steel every minute, the Japanese who were familiar with saving wars, how could they have seen such a luxurious scene, it was simply artillery fire without money, just fight casually.

The pouring of artillery lasted a total of 12 minutes, and for one and a half divisions responsible for the attack, it was devastated, and in 12 minutes, a total of 500,000 artillery rounds were fired, dozens of tons of steel were poured, and it was also an astonishing blow, close to 40,000 people, and less than half of them survived in the end.

The first batch of 4 directions, 6 wings of Japanese troops, under the attack of artillery, received a devastating blow, and even the rescue did not have time to rescue, Kawamura Keiaki was still a little unwilling, and continued to detour from the side, wanting to attack the other two northwest salients.

In itself, these two places, the distance from Texas, is too far away, should not have become the focus of the attack, but when the frontal attack is blocked, and the Japanese army behind squeezes up and becomes a group, these two parts become extremely terrifying, and Kawamura Jingming also clearly feels that once the other party is outflanked from the roundabout, at least 6-7 divisions rushing up may be completely surrounded.

Although from the rear, the Northwest Army did not build a position, but the Northwest Army left a deep impression on Kawamura Jingming, at least in terms of defensive capabilities. To the east and west, each sent two divisions and more than 50,000 troops, and began to violently attack the salient of the Northwest Army on both sides.

I have to say that Kawamura Keiaki's opportunity was very early, at this time, if the whole army retreated, as long as the cannon sounded, plus the elite troops on both sides were outflanked and cut off, at least 4 divisions and regiments would be lost, but judging from the results after the war, such an approach did not seem to be appropriate.

Northwest in the vicinity of Texas, the construction of positions, has been more than 4 months, 4 months, a huge building complex has been built, not only in the front, the construction of a huge fortification group, more than half a meter of reinforced concrete structure, almost with the permanent national defense line, with the help of a large number of personnel and construction machinery relationship, built 12 huge tunnels, and the location of the Japanese is exactly located in the middle of the 4 tunnels, if the Japanese did not press on the whole line, did not attack both sides, the tunnel exit can not be seenNow the farthest tunnel exit, from the Japanese army, there is a distance of about 900 meters, and near the exit of the tunnel, it seems to be a naturally formed terrain, but it is arranged in the northwest, which peels off a part of the surface soil layer and plants, is the permanent fortifications, dozens of permanent fortifications are connected together, as long as a little processing, can form a solid line of defense.

The second and third divisions never thought that they were just blocking the Japanese army, they always thought that how to annihilate the Japanese army as much as possible, this tunnel and encirclement was just for the Japanese, and now, everything is going well.

The three regiments, urgently from the rear, in the other direction of Dezhou City, entered the tunnel, and then passed through the tunnel, quickly to the rear of the Japanese army, almost 5 kilometers, with the speed of their rapid armed march, less than 30 minutes, can be interspersed.

When coming out of the tunnel mouth, it is the most dangerous time, and there is no way to use the permanent fortifications, so it is necessary to remove the soil and plants on the surface of the sappers and shovels, and dig out the shooting ports and observation ports, and the soldiers in charge of this are not protected.

The fierce battle, the crazy impact, attracted the attention of the Japanese, the two sides were relatively weak, and because of the position, it could not be equipped with artillery, at most it was the artillery support in the rear, and the Japanese artillery that could be dogged on the dog, only 155, 48 guns 155, divided into two directions, aimed at the Japanese troops in both directions, but the crazy Japanese did not pay attention to the artillery at all.

Concentrated artillery has a great effect on dense artillery positions, but the role of the army that disperses the charge is not as great as imagined, that is, relying on strong positions and the machine gun mortars of the northwestern defenders to resist these attacks.

One charge, two charges, three charges, it seems, it was the crazy attack of the Japanese, it had an effect, and even occupied the first layer of the trench, but before the Japanese army continued to rush forward from the trench, the fire and the sound of explosions sounded, and the Japanese army who captured the first section of the trench was annihilated by the bombs and oil in the trench, more than 9 percent, plus the previous losses, in just one hour, the 9 divisions mastered by Kawamura Keiaki were filled in at least 3, and there were a large number of wounded soldiers, and the results that could be obtained, It's just two trenches.

The huge damage and gain were disproportionate, and after occupying the first layer of trenches, Kawamura Keiaki realized that the seemingly weak defense on both sides was at least 10 layers of positions, and it was not enough to capture them, and on the premise that the other side took the initiative to retreat, all the Japanese would fill in.

Kawamura Jingming was in a dilemma, what to do, he asked himself, but there was no answer, everyone in the command looked at him, under his dazedness, every minute, every second there were Japanese soldiers dying, and time was waiting for no one. (To be continued.) )