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The news that the Japanese army was punished by heaven at Dagukou spread that evening, because it was not yet curfew time, the streets were noisy, even if he was sitting in the Yin'an Palace, Yang Rui could hear the cheers outside. He was amused when he thought of it, it was extremely inspiring, more mythical than a myth, and people only thought that the Orientals were all wiped out and that they were going to surrender today.

In fact, in the report referred to above, because there are no corpses to be seen, it is not known how many Japanese soldiers were swept into the sea, but it is speculated that about two or three thousand Japanese soldiers who were unloading goods at the Dagukou wharf and on both sides of the coast and the Japanese soldiers who had just landed were killed. When the tsunami hit, more than a dozen merchant ships that were unloading were instantly sunk by the tsunami, and three of them washed ashore. As for the wharf, the wooden and iron trestles that were towed from Lushun earlier had sunk to the bottom of the sea, and together with the merchant ships that washed ashore and the debris left behind by the low tide, the wharf could not smoothly load and unload supplies without four or five days' work.

Yang Rui was not satisfied that an artificial tsunami could bring such losses to the Japanese, because the seal plan of the US military in World War II could destroy small coastal cities, but then I thought that the concession was not far from the mouth of Dagu, so I really wanted to make the tsunami bigger and flood the entire concession. Then those hairy people are going crazy again.

Yang Rui's side thinks that the results are small, and he is in the Japanese concession of Tianjin. Kuroki Weizhen, the Naoli dispatch army who urgently began to discuss in the middle of the night, trembled with anger when he heard the report of the chief of staff, Fujii, and he didn't care how many people died. What I care about is that the wharf cannot be used for several days, so that we cannot take advantage of the emptiness in the Guannai to capture Beijing, and once the army outside the Guannai retreats to the Guannai, it will be another bloody battle.

"How many divisions have landed?" Kuroki said, "How did the Shina people do this? ”

The commander asked two questions in a row, and Fujii Shigeta had to answer them one by one: "Four divisions got off the ship during the day, and six divisions could have gone ashore tomorrow, but now the trestle is damaged, and it is estimated that only two divisions can get off the ship." Soldiers may be able to wade ashore in shallow water. But trestles were needed for war materiel, especially artillery and shells. This tsunami is supposed to have been planted by the people of China in advance with a large amount of explosives planted under the water, and after it was detonated, it will have such an effect, and I think it is impossible to do it again after this tsunami, so the dock is still safe. ”

"The speed of the two divisions is too slow, we must find a way to speed it up!" Kuroki shook his head and said: "If you want to win the decisive battle, then you must attack Beijing as much as possible, the faster we attack, the weaker the resistance of Zhina." I ordered the 4th, 7th, 13th, and 14th Divisions to advance north at dawn tomorrow. It is necessary to attack Yang Village south of Wuqing as soon as possible; The 2nd Cavalry Brigade Nakajima Cao Daisa wanted to assemble and use the cavalry of the dispatch army, boldly interspersed, and detoured to the rear of the enemy army and even north of Langfang, so as to shake the defenders' will to defend. ”

The battle plan has been in place for a long time. But the commander is implementing it in advance now, which makes Fujii Shigeta a little strange, and the more than a dozen division commanders sitting next to him are also surprised. However, Kuroki Weizhen, who gave the order, explained: "We must attack the people of China immediately, otherwise yesterday's attack will only increase their morale." ”

"Hay!" The commander thought so. The eyes of the division commanders present were full of admiration.

"Also, can you think of a way to shoot down the airship of the people of China? With it in the sky, there is no way for our army to hide any secrets. Kuroki said again. The airships of the revival army did not appear frequently in Liaodong, and the two armies faced each other in the trenches, and there was no troop movement, but the Zhili Plain was outflanked, and it was difficult for the other side to win by surprise if the other side had airships.

"There were two planes brought this time, but they were both destroyed by the tsunami, and we have only machine guns to expel them at the moment." Shigeta Fujii said. "The Chinese airship is not filled with explosive hydrogen, but helium from the United States, and even if there is a plane, there is no way to shoot him down."

"Our army can walk day and night, avoiding the Chinese airship." The 2nd Cavalry Brigade Nakajima said Osa. "This is only a hundred kilometers away from Beijing, and no matter how we move to get close to Beijing, it will be a matter of three or four days, as long as we can break through to Beijing and pretend to attack the city, the front-line defenders of that branch of the government are likely to move indiscriminately and even collapse."

Kuroki Weizhen's order was to detour the enemy's flank, but Nakajima Cao was more daring, but he wanted to go straight to Beijing, as soon as he said this, Kuroki Weizhen said: "You can try, but you can't take risks." It is very likely that the decisive battle of Zhili will not be resolved quickly, so the direction of Qinhuangdao will also be the focus of our army's attack. Go back, gentlemen, and act as commanded tomorrow. ”

"Hay!" The commander stood up and adjourned the meeting, and the division commanders present also stood up to take their leave.

After everyone left, Kuroki Weizhen did not move, but looked at the map on the table and pondered. According to the intelligence of the British, the Chinese army had large-scale trenches on both sides of the railway on the Wuqing line in Yangcun, and also fortifications in Langfang, and finally stationed on the Yizhuang Tongzhou line on the outskirts of Beijing. In this way, the defenders are thinking about stationing at different levels, just waiting for themselves to attack, but is it really that simple?

According to the order of the headquarters, the divisions and regiments advanced to the north early the next morning, and as soon as the cavalry Dazuo Zhongdao left Tianjin, he found that the scene everywhere was different from that east of Tianjin. On both sides of the railway and official roads, he saw traces of clear walls and strong fields in Liaodong, where not a single house had a roof, wells were blocked, roads were demolished, and even crops that were originally in the fields were harvested. Liaodong is a mountainous area, and there are not many crops, but Zhili is a plain, is there no crops in the entire plain?

Nakajima rode anxiously on his horse, and when he learned that this was the case everywhere, he waved his horsewhip and scolded: "Damn Shina man, evil Yang Jingcheng!" Could it be that by doing so, they will be able to stop the iron cavalry of our Imperial Japanese Army? Why can they do it! Why are they doing it! Could it be that even if you burn a qiē, you will also be an enemy of Great Japan? ”

In the early summer, the sun is scorching, and the people who are directly exposed to the sun are impetuous, and Dazuo is alone on the bare plain. The staff officer and the wing commander next to him were not easy to dissuade, so they just waited to the side and watched. Nakajima Daisa vented for a long time before returning to normal, and he reined in and said to the generals: "Go north." All the way north, lure out the cavalry of the Chinese people, and we will fight them in a decisive battle! ”

Because the cavalry is used intensively, in addition to the 1st and 2nd brigades, plus the cavalry wings of various divisions and regiments, the cavalry of the entire Zhili Dispatch Army has a huge number of four or five thousand people, and this is only those who have already gone ashore. If calculated according to the establishment, each regular division and regiment has a cavalry wing, and the entire Japanese army has more than 30 cavalry wings. That is to say, if all the cavalry is concentrated, it will be more than 15,000 people, this force cannot be exerted in the mountainous area of Liaodong, and it is frequently shot by snipers, but on the Zhili Plain, it will be a formidable force.

The Japanese army was in action, and Major General Tao Dayong, who was in the Wuqing front front headquarters, had already received the news that the Japanese army was advancing northward, and there was nothing surprising about the Japanese army's move, but they didn't expect them to come in such a hurry.

"It's better to come quickly." Xu Dachun, chief of staff of the North China Theater, said. "Our troops are all recruits, the sooner they meet the enemy, the sooner they will settle down, if the Japanese don't come for a long time, then everyone will panic."

"yes!" Tao Dayong touched his head: "There are many recruits!" Fortunately, the officer non-commissioned officer is qualified. Otherwise, it will be destroyed as soon as it hits the enemy. Give orders to the front-line departments. Get ready for battle and block the Japanese in Yang Village. ”

The Beijing-Tianjin Railway began to turn west from Tianjin to Yangcun, and the defenders began to lay out the defense line from Yangcun, where the railway turned westward. More than ten miles of trenches on the left and right of Yangcun have been surrounding the entire Wuqing Dynasty, and ten divisions of the Second Army are stationed here. More than 120,000 people. Among these ten divisions, there are only two divisions under the 4th and 38th divisions of regular divisions. The others were newly formed reserve divisions, and three of the eight reserve divisions were called up for the third time.

The defense is always passive, even if there are many troops, they can not be divided into defenses, so the defense of the entire capital is concentrated along the Beijing-Tianjin railway, the main position of Langfang City, where the trench is the widest, Wuqing is only an outpost position, once the Japanese army increases the number of people here is to withdraw to Langfang, so that in Langfang will gather 15 divisions, more than 180,000 people, is the largest army on the entire Zhili Plain. In addition, the 8th Army of He Zhaoxian, who defended the first line of Qinhuangdao, had three divisions, and the remaining two divisions of the 2nd Army stationed in the capital, plus some internal guard police units in the capital, this was the strength of the entire Gyeonggi.

In fact, after 15 divisions were dispatched from North China to support the Northeast, five divisions were recruited for the third time to fill the current 20 divisions. These 20 divisions seem to be a lot, but the rifles are not enough, and in the end, the black powder rifles left over from the new army of the Huai Army in the Manchu Qing Dynasty were issued to basically solve the problem of one gun per person, although this old gun is difficult to shoot, but after reinforcement, it can still fight white-knuckle warfare, in fact, the peasant soldiers are best at white-knuckle warfare, which is caused by the poor training conditions in rural conditions.

The distance from Tianjin to Yangcun was more than 20 kilometers, and the Japanese army was not slow, but at three o'clock in the afternoon, the lookout soldiers on the wooden tower behind the trench shouted: "Here it is!" Here it comes! The Orientals are coming. ”

With his shouting, the officers along the line all took the binoculars to look over, only to see a yellow-clothed army coming from the south, the driver in front of the army holding a Japanese flag, although the soldiers were uneasy, but the queue was neat, full of murderous intent, the commander of the 38th Division, Qian Ding, looked at those Japanese soldiers and his eyes were only red, he glanced at the artillery regiment, and shouted: "Why don't you shoot artillery?" ”

The 38th Division came from the 13th Army in Lanzhou, formerly known as the 39th Association of the New Army during the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The three divisions of the 13th Army that went to Beijing this time could only draw one division over, and the task was grabbed by Qian Ding of the 38th Division, who was a veteran of Xinhai, and the troops were stationed in Xi'an, so they could only send the 38th Division to Beijing in terms of distance and meritorious service. Since it is an old team, the commander of the artillery regiment is also an old acquaintance, this person is called Zhang Fang, a native of Tiemen, Xin'an, Henan, graduated from Shaanxi Army Primary School in the early years, and then went to the Baoding Army Accelerated School to study in the artillery department, after the success of the revolution, after several trainings, finally sat on the post of head of the artillery regiment.

Except for the 10 divisions in Gyeonggi, which were regular troops, the remaining 10 divisions were all reserve divisions, especially the later five, who only understood the basic skills of peasants and soldiers, and did not do systematic training, and their combat effectiveness was very poor. For this reason, it is the unanimous opinion of the General Staff Headquarters, the North China Military Region Command, and even the front-line command to fight as much as possible in the early stage and train more troops. The troops had not yet begun, and it was a good time to attack.

Seeing that the division commander was in a hurry to attack. Zhang Fu glanced at him and said, "Man, what's the hurry." Now the artillery is in the hands of heaven. It's useless for me to give an order here. Is little Japan so stupid that it won't be wary of us firing at us? ”

"Heavenly?" Qian Ding looked at the airship floating in the air and said suspiciously. "How do you get to command from there?"

"Heavenly Command, of course!" Zhang Fu said, "You can rest in peace, the commander of the attack will come to order." ”

Zhang Fu looked at the airship as he spoke, thinking that he would be able to fly up and command that day. At this time, it was Major General Li Chengyuan, who had made a mistake in Yanzhou earlier, and after the early firing of the gun, he had another quarrel with Lin Wenqian, and finally had to be transferred from the East China Theater to the North China Theater, and now he is the commander of the artillery of the North China Theater.

For a smooth observation, the engine of the airship has stopped. Inside the huge porthole, an artillery observation group was observing the Japanese ranks. The headquarters' plan was originally to launch a surprise attack while the Japanese army was still on a firm foothold and the artillery had not yet been deployed, but the divisions and regiments that marched in today were all regular divisions of the Japanese army with rich combat experience, and their infantry paused once seven kilometers away from their own trenches and waited for their own artillery positions to be set up before moving to the front line. This allows the artillery to deploy in advance, so that if something happens on the front line, the artillery can immediately provide fire support to the front line. With the effective range of 8 kilometers of today's 75mm field artillery, the artillery of the Revival Army deployed behind the position could not suppress the Japanese artillery, and such a result could only interfere with the Japanese army's digging of trenches. But a surprise attack on the Japanese could not be launched.

"Commander, let's give the order to disrupt the shooting, if the devil wants to dig a trench, then let him fill it with his life." Li Chengyuan was transferred to North China. After trying several times, he still wanted to dig up his former subordinate Chen Dashan to North China, but Lin Wenqian just didn't let him go, and this time he let go because of defending the capital. But after the battle, Chen Dashan had to be transferred back.

"It's boring!" Li Chengyuan has a flexible brain and is bold, which is also the reason why he and Lin Wenqian are at odds. This time, he was very upset when he saw that the Japanese were cautious and couldn't speak. "Send electricity to the front line, immediately move half of the artillery to a hundred meters behind the trench, I will lift the devil artillery!"

"Ahh Including Chen Dashan, everyone on the airship was in a trance, and Chen Dashan muttered: "Commander, this is a violation of the code of conduct, no matter how close the artillery is to the trench, it cannot be shorter than one kilometer. ”

"Bullshit! The Japanese calculated the distance of the drill, and our artillery must be placed one kilometer away behind the trench, so he placed the artillery seven kilometers away in front of the trench, adding up to at least eight kilometers, and we couldn't hit the artillery even if we opened fire. "Li Chengyuan is confident, his words are clear, and he has begun to make mistakes again." How can they be so cheap! Immediately ordered, half of the artillery immediately moved forward to a hundred meters behind the trench, and began to test fire after it was in place, and the infantry also greeted them, telling them to prepare the assault troops, once the devil artillery position was destroyed, they would rush and kill. ”

The more Li Chengyuan spoke, the happier he became, but after he finished speaking, everyone did not move, and he said angrily: "Look at what, I am responsible for what happened!" Hurry up and give the order, and the front-line mortars will also sound to interfere with the civil engineering operations of the Japanese army! ”

Li Chengyuan was determined to do a big vote, and everyone on the airship had no choice but to accompany him, after the radio waves were speeding, the front line 8060 mortars were all fired, this time it was a decisive battle, and many of the earlier restrictions could be relaxed, and the mortars were fired to a kilometer away, which made the Japanese soldiers who were digging trenches panic, and hurriedly lay down and speed up the excavation of the bunker.

The sound of mortars alerted the Japanese troops, especially the commander of the 4th Division, Lieutenant General Shomichi Shomichi. Lieutenant General Da Qiu was born as an artilleryman, and he was very taboo about the artillery of the Renaissance Army. Five months ago, as soon as the Chinese and Japanese armies in Liaodong clashed, he saw the advantages and disadvantages of the artillery tactics of the two armies, and immediately reported to Hei Mu Weizhen that the artillery of the Fuxing Army had adopted a large number of indirect aiming methods, which could enhance the survivability of the artillery more than direct aiming of his own side, and the Jianyi Army also used this method.

Kuroki Weizhen was deeply touched by his report, during the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian artillery used indirect aiming, but it was not a large-scale use, when the situation was fed back to the Japanese high-level, the senior generals thought that indirect aiming was more wasteful of ammunition than direct aiming, and did not conform to the spirit of bushido, so they did not ask the artillery to rectify it. Conservative minds, rigid systems, and outdated and backward tactics of the Japanese artillery were not until the artillery was in the mountainous area of Liaodong, where it could not be aimed directly and could only be aimed at intermittently, and suffered a big loss in the artillery battle with the Fuxing Army, the headquarters ordered the artillery to use indirect aiming to meet the enemy, but at this time most of the elite artillery had already gone.

The front-line artillery rumbled, and Lieutenant General Da Qiang Shangdao looked at the telescope again and again, and after a while he was sure that it was the curved artillery of the revival army, he sighed with emotion: "The warp artillery of the revival army is really far away, and ours seems to be only more than 300 meters, right?" ”

Naomitsu Osako was one of the few division commanders who did not refer to the Reconstruction Army as the Shina Army, and it was not surprising that he said that the chief of staff of the division next to him, Masahiro Kimura, was that as a division commander from an artillery background, there was nothing wrong with respecting a powerful enemy.

"Your Excellency, mortars don't do much." Kimura Masaro comforted, "The real victory or defeat will depend on the brave charge of the infantry." The main forces of the Chinese army have been withdrawn from the pass, and now that the Lu army is moving south, even if they want to transfer their troops back, it will only be a few divisions, and it will be two weeks later. ”

"Without artillery, will the infantry dare to charge?" Da Qiang Shangdao said with a smile, although he is old, his brain is not rigid. "The warp cannon is very useful in trench warfare, it can send shells directly into the enemy's trenches and hit places where field artillery cannot strike; There is also the revival army's hand-held curved artillery, which just makes up for the fact that long-range curved guns cannot hit close places, and grenades cannot be thrown into the distance, field artillery, curved guns, hand-held curved guns, and grenades, so that from far to near, every inch of firepower within eight kilometers in front of the trench is not missed, and the artillery of the revival army is really amazing! ”

The division commander's unreserved praise for the enemy embarrassed the officers around him, but when it happened, they could only hold back. At the time of the great compulsion, on the artillery position that had already received Li Chengyuan's order, a shirtless and strong man held the crank rod used for diesel engine starting, shouted the trumpet of 'one, two, three', and soon started the diesel engine, and in the sound of the diesel engine of 'bang ......bang bang', half of the artillery and ammunition were hung up on the tractor and galloped to the front line, and at this time, the infantry in the trench also found out of the trench and began to build an artillery position 100 meters behind the rear under the command of the engineers.

After more than half an hour of intense labor, the improvised artillery position was hastily completed, and at this time, the artillery trenches hauled by diesel tractors from the rear had just arrived. The artillery is ready, then it depends on the infantry, under Tao Dayong's arrangement, the 4th and 38th divisions that are ready for assault have long been ready, but those reserve divisions that need to practice their courage in guò are not ready, they are novices after all, even if they are led by non-commissioned officers and officers, they are at a loss when they hear that they are going to attack.

"Check the bayonet!" In the trenches of the 142nd Division, the platoon commanders of the companies who finally brought the recruits from the rear trenches to the assault trenches shouted as they looked at the pale rookies under their subordinates.

"Check the bayonet!" The recruits responded, reaching for their bayonet mounts one by one, and retracting their hands after shaking them a few times as they had done in training, while the soldiers with problematic bayonets unloaded their bayonets and reloaded them until they were firmly securely fastened.

"Check the grenades!" The officers shouted again in a long tone, their order from head to toe.

"Check the grenades!" The recruits shouted again, their hands touching their waists, each with four grenades hanging from their waists, the usage of which had long been known, but when it came to the charge, everyone's minds went blank, and the officers had forgotten everything they had taught before.

"Check the leggings!" The officer shouted again, and the soldiers who could not keep up with the rhythm grew, and their voices became more and more harsh.

"Check the leggings!" The soldier shouted as before, touching both legs before giving up.

"Hidden!" The order came again, and the soldier followed the non-commissioned officer to bend down and hide in the cat's ear hole in the front of the trench.

In order not to be affected by the sound of artillery to convey the order, the reserve divisions rehearsed the shock procedure in advance before the shelling. When the soldiers were all hiding in the trenches, the order to be ready was transmitted to the front finger, and then to the airship Li Chengyuan, at this time, the attack officially began! (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)