Hearing the complaints from his officers, Yamanaki's face twitched. He thought that he was also a die-hard supporter of the "Three Kingdoms Non-aggression Treaty"! He was also a firm supporter of the national policy of going south, and he also supported the reduction of the army's costs to strengthen the navy. Now, it's better, shoot yourself in the foot, right? The number of cannons in his hand is much smaller than that of his opponent, the caliber is a circle smaller, and even the range is much shorter! How to fight this battle? Could it be that 100,000 imperial soldiers really fill the Chinese fire?

"How is the training level of the Chinese artillery? Can it be compared with the Imperial Army artillery?" Yamanashi thought for a while and asked again.

Now the top leaders of the Japanese Army have long known that the standards for Chinese infantry training are exactly the same as those of Japanese infantry. Even if they do not have much Bushido spirit, Yamanashi dare not be so arrogant that he thought a Japanese infantry could fight several Chinese infantry! According to the public calculations of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, the ratio of combat effectiveness of Japanese and Chinese infantry is about 1:2. However, the main combat mode of the Japanese Army is not to charge white soldiers to fight bayonets, but to coordinate artillery and artillery. If their artillery is silent, even the elite infantry will be just a pile of cannon fodder!

"The Chinese artillery was trained by French and American instructors, but it still cannot be compared with the Imperial Army's artillery." Kensuke Nagasaka, the commander of the Second Division, frowned and explained to Yamanaki Hansuke. "Their problem lies in the insufficient artillery observers... The Imperial Army's artillery observers are assigned to the brigade, and their artillery observers are assigned to the regiment at most, and they are strictly prohibited from approaching the frontier. However, their air force is stronger than the Imperial Army. Therefore, during the day when the weather is good, it is still very powerful to indicate the artillery group shooting through the artillery balloons."

Yamanaki nodded. He also knew that ordinary artillery could be trained. However, artillery observers could not just find someone to train for illiteracy. Because artillery observers' basic skills are mathematics, they need to do math problems on the battlefield! Without a certain math foundation, they can't do this job at all. Moreover, even if they have a considerable level of mathematics, they may not necessarily have the physical fitness of becoming artillery observers. Artillery observers also have to carry a lot of heavy observation tools to run around the battlefield, and even a thin nerd can't do it.

Therefore, the artillery observers in the China-** team have become rare species and need to be protected well. The result of artillery observers not daring to enter the front line is that the reaction speed and shooting accuracy of the Chinese artillery are greatly reduced. However, the air advantage they have can make up for this weakness to a certain extent. Therefore, in the daytime artillery battle, the Japanese artillery is always at a disadvantage. But at night, the advantage is undoubtedly back to the Japanese side. It seems that the way to deal with the China-** team is the Japanese army's best tactics, night attacks! Use night artillery step coordination, plus the Japanese army's most proud hand-to-hand combat to defeat the opposite China-** team! As long as they can cross the Ussuri River and surround the Hutou Fortress, the main force of the China-** team in Manchuria will definitely be "the chapter is updated the fastest" and will be attracted. This will create possibilities for the surprise attack of the First Army!

"It seems that there is only night attack." Yamasaki Hanzao turned around, sat cross-legged at the bottom of the trench, and waved to signal the chief officers of the army headquarters to sit down together with the division commander. A group of senior generals of the Japanese Second Army actually held a combat meeting in the trench on the front line! If a shell happened to fall, the fun would be great.

The leaders of several divisions all had this idea, but no one wanted to show timidity in front of the commander's lord, so they had to bite the bullet and start talking about military affairs.

"Not only do you need a night attack, but you should also consider the weather the next day. The weather forecast says it will rain all day on July 2. Why not start the attack on the night of July 1."

"The artillery should be strengthened. Now there are only four artillery corps that are not organized. Including the artillery of the infantry corps, there are only 184 artillery pieces in total, and there are not enough heavy artillery to suppress the Tigerhead Fortress!"

"The deployment of artillery should also be adjusted. All artillery must be configured suddenly and should be in place the day before, that is, the night of June 30."

"The breakthrough location should be chosen to be on the north side of the Hutou Fortress, where the defense is relatively lax, and there are also large areas of woodland that can hide cannons and assault boats that are mobilized in place in advance."

The Japanese officers of this period were not very smart about strategic issues, but their tactical skills were not low! These people were all young military academies, army non-commissioned officers, army universities, and elites who had been studying in Europe. They were definitely not fools who only knew how to fight bayonets and fight hand-to-hand combat in TV series in a certain country in later generations who only knew how to win by bayonets! With the advice of this very professional army officer, the general combat plan was finalized.

The attack time was at 8 pm on July 1, 1923. As soon as the sky was dark, the main attack location was selected from Xiaomuhe, about 25 kilometers north of Hutou Fortress to Lijiadian. According to previous fire reconnaissance, the defense of the ** team in the area was quite weak, with only one regiment of defenders, and was far away from Hutou Fortress and could not get the support of the fortress artillery. The main attack was the Second Japanese Division, which was bombarded by more than 20 days on Xin'antu Line. It had been full of fire and was waiting to fight a good battle to relieve its hatred!

...

The First Army Command of the Chinese National Defense Forces was already established in the Hutou Fortress. However, what made Lieutenant General Xu Tingyao, the commander-in-chief of the First Army, was a little depressed that his troops had been reduced from 5 armies, 3 fortress brigades and 5 ** artillery regiments to 1 infantry army, 2 fortress brigades and 1 ** heavy artillery regiment, and several Heilongjiang Province security regiments. There were only more than 65,000 people in total, but they had to guard the 400-kilometer-long front, and their troops were really stretched.

"The Japanese army opposite him showed signs of a large increase in troops. The Air Force reconnaissance report said that every day, the Japanese marching column of the brigade drove from north to south to around Xin'antu. The troops who ventured across the river also found out the numbers of six Japanese Army divisions, including the First, Second, Third, Sixteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Divisions! Xu Tingyao and the commander of the Eighth Army Li Zongren have reached a consensus that the Japanese army is likely to launch a battle to force the crossing of the Ussuri River in the near future! But they cannot

It was determined where the Japanese army's main attack location would be. Therefore, we could only shrink our forces as much as possible to around the Hutou Fortress, and began to build circular fortifications around the Hutou Fortress. It was obvious that we had given up our plan to guard the long Ussuri River defense line and prepared to fight an offensive and defensive battle around the Hutou Fortress. However, on those positions that were about to be abandoned, we still deployed small troops as suspicious soldiers. They now used one army to support three armies, and the small Japanese on the other side could easily see the flaws.

Xu Tingyao took his chief of staff Gu Zhutong to walk in the position of the 71st Regiment of the 24th Division. This regiment was originally deployed on the defense line along the Ussuri River. He had fought with the Japanese army in front of him several times, which was quite familiar with the situation of the opponent. So Xu Tingyao and Gu Zhutong came to listen to how the front-line officers and soldiers who had fought with Japanese infantry evaluated their opponents.

"Hey! It's just a living person with two arms and one head. He still rolls all over the ground after being shot... They are more powerful in bayonets, but their firepower is not good. There are no submachine guns in the infantry squad, and bayonets are not as good as submachine guns in close combat!"

"But their night attack was quite powerful. On the 21st day, a small group of Japanese soldiers quietly crossed the river at night. They touched the positions we were guarding, and they quietly ended up with six brothers! It was still our platoon leader who was sharp-eyed and found that something was wrong. Both sides hit the trenches, black and yellow military uniforms. They didn't dare to use submachine guns to rush around, they could only fight for bayonets... In the end, reinforcements were sent inside to eliminate them! In this battle, our people were hung up, six were seriously injured, and 11 of them died! I think the Japanese must have the general attack at night!"

"We have fought several times these days. I participated in the three-day battles on the 18th, 20th and 22th. They all started attacking at around 3 am. They first pressed them with cannons, and then our infantry rowed a boat across the river. They captured their frontier positions and retreated. Every time they could tie up three or five prisoners, they were all stunned by the cannons... The lively Japanese soldiers cannot be caught. Even the wounded soldiers are not allowed. As long as they have a breath, these Japanese soldiers will not surrender. Maybe they will pull grenades and die together with us! On the 20th, our platoon leader was blown off by a Japanese wounded soldier with grenades. He is still lying in the hospital! I guess he can only take a wheelchair for the rest of his life."

Listening to the discussions of these front-line soldiers, Xu Tingyao and Gu Zhutong had some basic understanding. It seems that the years of rigorous training and a lot of military expenditure have not been wasted in vain. "Iron Blooded Republic of China, No. 409, Cannon Fodder, 1". Now the gap between the individual combat power of the National Defense Force and the Japanese soldiers is no longer too obvious! If it is a fight during the day, with its powerful firepower, the National Defense Force is at a clear advantage. So if the Japanese devils want to attack, they will definitely attack at night!

On the way to the headquarters of the 71st Regiment, Xu Tingyao said to Gu Zhutong: "Mo San, it seems that the Japanese general attack must be at night! We have to be careful, now we can't be sure on which day they will take action."

Gu Zhutong smiled and said, "I don't know which day they take action, but we know which day we take action... If Suifenhe starts, the Japanese devils in Xin'antu will definitely not take action, so the most dangerous thing is the days in July. If you survive, the world will be peaceful."

Xu Tingyao turned his head to look at this junior who graduated from the sixth period of Baoding, frowned slightly, and said seriously: "What are you talking about? This battle is better! We are under more pressure here, and it is easy to make breakthroughs on the other end of Suifenhe! This tiger-headed fortress and our Eighth Army are hooks, and it is only reliable to hook into the Japanese flesh!"

"Commander, I understand!" Gu Zhutong said seriously. "Then in the next few days, let's keep the troops on guard every night."

Xu Tingyao nodded and sighed softly. "I just don't know where the Japanese will take action. The defense line is too long and the troops are too small. It's really hard to deal with."

"Commander, I guess the location where the little Japanese attacks will not be too close to the Tigerhead Fortress. It should be outside the range of the Type 2 cannon of the Tigerhead Fortress... It will probably be 20 kilometers north of the Tigerhead Fortress. It is our weakness, and the Japanese must have known it." Gu Zhutong paused and whispered to remind: "Or we would secretly move 12 7-inch cannons and 12 155mm cannons, and at the same time strengthen the defensive forces in the north..."

"Okay! Send a division to strengthen the defense of the northern line, Mo San. Can it be better to send to see whose troops?"

"You can send Chen Yizhi's 23rd Division."

...

Just as both sides dispatched troops and generals on the battlefield in the Far East Manchuria, each making a wishful thinking and preparing for an unprecedented decisive battle, the situation of the North Koreans in a refugee camp outside the city of Chenyang suddenly improved. The Ford truck with a military license plate and a flatbed truck pulled by mules and horses lined up on the road outside the refugee camp. A truck of rice, white flour, cloth and medicine were brought in. This was something I never dared to dream of in the past two years!

These North Korean refugees are almost the most miserable people in the bottom of the Northeast. This refugee camp is almost a cage, guarded by officers and soldiers of Chinese local security forces. "Iron Blood Republic" cannot leave casually! They can only engage in extremely hard physical labor in a company with a special background (controlled by the Tiexue Comrades Association), and the rewards are only one-fifth of the Chinese workers who are engaged in the same job! It is simply cruel exploitation, and all trade unions in the Northeast are deaf about their experiences... This fully demonstrates the hypocritical nature of the revisionist h-sex union.

Just when these North Korean refugees thought they were going to live such a hell-like life on earth for the rest of their lives, China and Japan fought without warning, and the value of the North Koreans seemed to be rising. Especially after the two mysterious guests visited, a large number of daily necessities began to be distributed to the North Korean people who were in a state of hunger and cold.

"Brother Tycoon. All the things you want have been delivered, but they are worth millions. If you buy three hundred lives of millions of dollars, it is a sky-high price? Are everyone ready?"

The person who spoke was a pretty beautiful woman wearing a tailored and high-slit Chinese cheongsam. She was Chang Ruiqing's little wife Zhao Sanmei. She sat side by side with her. There was also a lieutenant general of the Chinese National Defense Forces, Ren Yijiang, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau. They came to the North Korean refugee camp with this batch of supplies, and now they are sitting in the only house that looks decent in the refugee camp.

Sitting opposite them were three leaders of the North Korean ** movement, Chi Tycoon, Kim Jo-jin and Seung-man Rhee. However, Zhao Sanmei only recognized Chi Tycoon, so she regarded him as the target of the transaction. This Korean rebel who was born in Japanese mainland scholar was flattered. He has already taken this lady's route!

"Three sisters...Three Lady." Chi Dakong smiled all over his face, not looking like a tycoon at all, but he looked a little obedient. "The three hundred dead soldiers have been selected. They all have a deep feud with the Japanese devils! It is guaranteed that there will be no bad things, but this mission..."

"Of course this mission is a life-and-death situation! Why? Are you reluctant to let it go?" Zhao Sanmei smiled, and it seemed that she did not take 300 lives seriously.

Chi tycoon shook his head stiffly. "How could he be? They all die for the sake of their lives and die for the sake of their lives!"

"Yes." Zhao Sanmei smiled without complaint and turned her head to look at Ren Yijiang. Ren Yijiang said: "The commission means that the leader of North Korea will be General Chi Tycoon in the future." He looked at the other two leaders of the North Korean ** movement. "Do you have any opinions?"

"No objection, no objection...We all support General Chi!"

"That's good, that's good." Zhao Sanmei said with a smile. "In addition to those 300 dead soldiers, you can also start organizing the army, up to 3 months," "The National Defense Forces can invade North Korea, and the North Korean army will also follow you."

The three Koreans looked at each other, and their faces were filled with uncontrollable expressions of joy. Zhao Sanmei continued, "Brother Tycoon, your 300 dead soldiers are always the leader, right? Can you call me and Brother Yichen to see it?"

"No problem, he's waiting outside." Chi Daheng raised his voice and shouted. "Cui Yongjian, is Cui Yongjian there?"

"Here!" someone outside responded in Chinese, and then someone pushed the door and walked into the conference room. The person who came was a tall young North Korean with a face similar to that of Zhao Sanmei.

"Cui Yongjianjun?" Ren Yijiang looked at the young man and asked with a stern face: "Do you know what kind of task you will undertake this time?"

"I know! It's a mortal task!" Cui Yongjian replied loudly, but there was no trace of fear in his tone.

Ren Yijiang nodded. "Very good, not afraid of death, he is a good man! Are there anyone else in the family?"

"My mother is still there, and there is still a pair of brothers and sisters."

"Okay, we will take care of you." Ren Yijiang said coldly. "We will take care of all the families of North Korean patriots who participated in this operation!"

Cui Yongjian was a little stunned. He knew that the other party had taken his family as hostage. However, he still focused his attention. "Thank you."

Zhao Sanmei said to Cui Yongjian with a smile: "Brother Cui, let me tell you clearly. This mission is not a mortal task...but there is a high chance of surviving. However, before taking action, your people need to lurk in Japan for a few days. These days they are most afraid of traitors. Do you understand?"

Cui Yongjian shook his head slightly. "General Chi told me that this mission is bound to death, so I am ready to die!"

Zhao Sanmei giggled. "Since that's the case, then go home and explain your funeral, and then follow us with your brothers."

Cui Yongjian looked at Chi Tycoon, saw that the other party nodded, then stood attentively, saluted several people in the room, and then turned around and left. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!